Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 599
Liu Lishun pondered for a while and said, "It's just that it's not appropriate for the local officials to control the military, right? There are many disadvantages in this move, and it is easy to form a trend that cannot be lost. In fact, from the point of view of the following officials, the military chief should not interfere with government affairs, because Once this person has ambitions, the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty is a lesson from the past.

Of course, the lower officials did not doubt Mrs. Chen and Mr. Liu. It is well known that the two lords are loyal to the Marshal. The lower officials are just discussing the matter. Some things, if the rules are not established as soon as possible, it will be difficult to handle in the future. "

Li Jingwen said with a smile: "I know, it's just that there are too few people available in the imperial court, so I have no choice but to do it. Well, don't talk about this matter anymore, and don't mention it in the future. Just do what you have to do. Well... after you arrive in Jiangsu, first help Chen Dahu prepare the food and grass needed for the army to send troops to Luzon this time. This matter is of great importance and is the top priority."

"Yes, I will keep in mind the order of the commander in chief." Liu Lishun said hurriedly.

At this time, Wang Cheng'en walked into the hall and said: "Your Majesty, Duke of the State, my lords, the meal is ready."

Li Jing smiled and waved to everyone: "Let's go, eat first. Cheng En, is there any wine ready? I have to toast two glasses of wine to the emperor in a while."

"The Duke and the Emperor are dining together, how can there be no wine?" Wang Chengen said with a smile.

Zhu Youjian shook his head and said with a smile: "You are borrowing flowers to present Buddha. You are using my wine to honor me. I don't accept this kind of favor."

Li Jing smiled and said: "It's a different matter, I will invite you alone later."

Zhu Youjian smiled and said, "That's about the same."

While joking, everyone came to the side hall.

After sitting separately, Li Jing asked Wang Chengen to pour wine for everyone, then raised his glass and said, "This glass of wine is for me to apologize to the emperor. I am sitting side by side with the emperor today. I am disrespectful to the emperor, and I hope the emperor will take care of it."

Zhu Youjian shook his head again and again when he heard the words: "Brother Li, what you said is meaningless. We both agreed in advance. If you still mention this, I won't drink this wine."

Li Jing said with a smile: "The two of us agreed, but others don't know. That's why I apologize to you in front of everyone."

Zhu Youjian shook his head and said: "Just now you have already apologized, and everyone knows the reason. Now you mention it again, it's not like Brother Li's character to be so verbose."

Li Jing shook his head and said solemnly: "The emperor is the lord of a country, and this position can never be changed. As the head of all ministers, I should set an example. However, if I don't behave properly today, I will apologize to the emperor. How to set an example for all the ministers? Therefore, this glass of wine must be respected by the emperor."

Zhu Youjian sighed softly and said: "Many people say that Brother Li is a traitor and a powerful minister, but in my opinion, Brother Li is a powerful minister, but he is absolutely loyal to Daming. If you talk about loyalty to Daming , No one can compare to Brother Li. I drank this glass of wine, and I hope that Brother Li will rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible and conquer Yunei."

Li Jing smiled and said: "Hehe, without the support of the emperor, the things I did would not be so smooth. Therefore, the emperor also deserves the credit for Zhongxing Daming. When people mention Chongzhen Emperor in the future, they should also praise the emperor as the master of Zhongxing. Come on, do it." After drinking this glass of wine, may you and my monarch and ministers join hands to revive the prestige of Ming Dynasty."

After all, Li Jing raised his glass and drank it down.

After Zhu Youjian drank all the wine, Li Jing picked up the jug and filled Zhu Youjian's wine glass, then filled his own wine glass, then raised his wine glass and said, "This second glass of wine is for the emperor at the court meeting." It was a stroke of genius, because the emperor took the lead in funding the military expenses, all the ministers donated one after another, raising millions of taels of silver for the country in one day."

Zhu Youjian said with a smile: "Hehe, I didn't think too much about it at the time. I just thought that as the emperor of Ming Dynasty, I should have some money anyway. I can't let Brother Li bear this huge military expenditure alone. If you want to say that it was a stroke of genius, It should be Gao Qi and Ma Wu, and it was they who followed the donation, which led to the officials to donate together. Therefore, for this glass of wine, you can't toast me alone, you have to toast Gao Qi and Ma Wu."

"Wait, the emperor said that you didn't discuss with the commander in advance about donating money?" Gao Qi was surprised.

Zhu Youjian wondered: "What did I discuss with Brother Li for subsidizing military expenses? Huh? You don't think this is a double reed performed by me and Brother Li, do you?"

Gao Qi smiled wryly and said: "I really think so. I thought the Emperor had discussed with the Marshal in advance to show everyone the show, so I didn't think much about it and called out 5 taels of silver. If I knew that the Marshal was going to pay the money myself , I will pay 10 taels."

"10 taels? You can't pass?" Zhu Youjian said in surprise.

Gao Qi shook his head and sighed: "Gao Qi was originally a penniless person. If he hadn't met the commander in chief, how could Gao Qi be where he is today? The commander has good intentions, and he is afraid that when my old brother becomes a high-ranking official, he will not be able to control himself and become corrupt." Accepting bribes, so he distributed his property in Beijing to everyone.

In fact, what we live in now is all from the imperial court, so what kind of money do we need to spend?Even if the family needs spending, my yearly salary is thousands of taels, plus the marshal and his wife give tens of thousands of taels a year, so this much money is enough for the family to spend, why do I need those properties?Now that we have to use troops abroad, and the treasury is in trouble, it is time to sell off the property and subsidize the country. "

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian sighed and said: "The pillars of the country, the pillars of the country! Brother Li and you old brothers are the pillars of the country. Why can't the Ming Dynasty be rejuvenated with virtuous ministers like you! Come, let me toast you with this glass of wine .”

Hearing Zhu Youjian calling himself me in front of Gao Qi, Li Jing smiled slightly, raised his glass and drank it down.

The result of today's court meeting was obviously beyond Li Jing's expectations, and the effect was far beyond Li Jing's expectations. Li Jing and Zhu Youjian sang red faces and the other bad faces. .

In particular, Zhu Youjian made a temporary donation of military funds, which had a miraculous effect when Gao Qi, Ma Wu and others would make a mistake.

And I apologized to Zhu Youjian in public, which not only gave Zhu Youjian enough face, but also incited Zhu Youjian's emotions. Presumably Zhu Youjian would not have other ideas for a long time.

As for Shen Zheng and the others, Li Jing didn't have anything special to say when he called them to the apse. No matter how confused these people were, they didn't dare to stop the transfer of supplies before he ordered the withdrawal of troops.

The purpose of letting them eat with him and the emperor is to appease them and tell them that they are still his right-hand men.Of course, it is inevitable to beat and beat them by supporting Liu Lishun.

Promoting Liu Lishun was not Li Jing's impromptu idea. Liu Lishun was Yuan Keli's favorite student, and Yuan Keli had often mentioned him in front of Li Jing before.

And Liu Lishun's character is also very commendable. When Yuan Keli passed away, Liu Lishun went to Pingyang Mansion to pay his respects. He also accompanied Yuan Shu to support the coffin in Sui County, and personally supervised the construction of Yuan Taishi's Dashifang.

At the end of the project, Li Jingqian and Liu Lishun became the doctor of the household department.

The rank of the doctor is the fifth grade. In terms of rank, Liu Lishun has not been greatly improved, but after Li Jing came to power, the status of the household department has been greatly improved. Two cabinet members are from the household department, and a few from the household department The departments are all very powerful, and the chief officials are Li Jing's most powerful subordinates.

Letting Liu Lishun serve as the doctor of the household department made it clear that he wanted to support Liu Lishun.

The only pity is that Liu Lishun is already 57 years old this year. Compared with Yang Liufeng, Zhang Ao and others, he is too old, so he cannot be trained to succeed Shen Zheng's class.

However, Liu Lishun's physical condition is very good. If he can maintain his current condition, it is not impossible for him to work in the local area for five or six years. After being transferred back to Beijing, he can serve another term as a minister, and it is not impossible to enter the cabinet as a deputy prime minister.

Shen Zheng, Yang Liufeng and others are extremely shrewd, and they must be able to hear their intentions to support Liu Lishun.

After two glasses of wine, Li Jing ordered Wang Chengen to remove the wine glasses.

Sometimes, it's enough to get the meaning, and then the nature of drinking will change.Besides, Li Jing and the others still have a lot of things to deal with in the afternoon, so they can't delay their business because of drinking.

After dinner, Shen Zheng, Gao Qi, Yang Liufeng, Fang Fang and Liu Lishun resigned first, and Ma Wu wanted to leave, but Li Jing stayed behind.

After everyone left, Li Jing took Ma Wu to Dongnuan Pavilion, and Zhu Youjian was free, so he followed him to Dongnuan Pavilion to watch Li Jing handle government affairs.

When he arrived at Dongnuan Pavilion, Li Jing wrote a letter to Chen Dahu and explained it carefully.Then he beckoned to Su Heng, Su Heng understood, and handed over the donation list to Li Jing.

Li Jing took it and looked it over carefully, took a pen and wrote a few names, and handed it to Ma Wu: "Fifth brother, check these people."

Ma Wu took the list and looked at it and said, "Do you want to take it?"

Li Jing waved his hand: "Don't deliberately invent charges, you just need to conduct a secret investigation. After finding out the results, submit the illegal ones to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Dali Temple will punish them according to the law. If there are no illegal ones, don't alarm them."

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian wondered, "Is there anything wrong with these people?"

Li Jing smiled: "I don't know if there is any problem yet, but these people must be useless."

"Brother Li, how can you tell that these people are useless? Is it because they donate less money?" Zhu Youjian wondered.

Li Jing shook his head and said with a smile: "How much money to donate depends on your wealth. If you don't have money, you want them to donate more and they won't be able to donate more. How can I blame others for not donating too much?

But these few people are different. These people are all rich and wealthy, each family has at least 6 to 1000 taels of silver, but each of them donated less than [-] taels of silver, which is a problem.

What's the problem?This shows that they only care about their own family and do not care about the country.If it is an ordinary wealthy family, we can't blame them if they don't want to donate money, but these people are the imperial court's order officials.

As an official of the imperial court, I don't want to serve the country when the country is in trouble, and only care about personal interests. Naturally, I will not reuse such officials. "

Zhu Youjian nodded: "If there is no truth, how can Mao attach it? They don't even understand such a simple truth, and it is really useless."

Zhu Youjian didn't ask Li Jing how he knew the family property of these officials. If he asked such a question, Zhu Youjian would be too stupid.

At that time, the first major thing that Li Jing did after he entered Beijing was to investigate all the officials in the court and take down a large number of corrupt officials. Up to now, there are still some job vacancies.Li Jing knew exactly how much money the officials in the imperial court had.

(End of this chapter)