Wanli Youming

Chapter 165

Chapter 165

"absurd!"

Fang Fengshi cursed directly at this time.

Because I didn't expect that he, a dignified young teacher, minister of the Ministry of official affairs, Privy Council envoy of the Privy Council of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, a minister of the censor and governor of the Tongzhi, a minister of the political affairs hall, and the minister of the ruling privy, would be asked to be grateful by several small officials. Gratitude is that they brought themselves the current power and status.

After Fang Fengshi scolded, he asked Gu Xiancheng, Wei Yunzhong, and Li Sancai to step aside.

Gu Xiancheng and the others did not step aside, and Gu Xiancheng continued to say: "The current position of power and authority of the Prime Minister is already the same as that of the Shou Kui. If the Western Mansion of Song Dynasty is in power, why bother to look at his cabinet's face and continue to be a dog for the cabinet?"

"Presumptuous! Who allowed you to criticize the administration so much!"

Fang Fengshi asked directly.

"Is not it?"

"If it's not, you can directly talk about it right now, how will the Prime Minister prepare a thank-you for the emperor's ticket to remonstrate and refute the imperial edict?!"

Wei Yunzhong asked aggressively.

Li Sancai also sneered, and said: "Private Prime Minister will not even plan to draft this matter, but also hide it from us, so that we don't know about it?"

"But the Prime Minister knows that now Xie Jijian knows that he may disobey the powerful officials, and he is sitting at home waiting to hang himself! It is only because I persuaded him that he didn't hang himself, because we said that the Prime Minister is a pity for talents. People, would like to come to the Privy Council to intercede with the Prime Minister on his behalf, so that he can believe that he is willing to wait for the Privy Councilor to save him, but he promised to wait only for today; "

"Unless the Prime Minister really would rather sit back and watch Xie give advice and die because of it, and only obey Jiang Ling's will and not dare to make his own decisions, then he refuses to wait for me for an answer at this time."

"Are you threatening this court?"

Fang Fengshi asked in a deep voice.

"No! I just want to let the world know that the prime minister is not a running dog of Jiangling!"

Gu Xiancheng replied at this time.

Fang Fengshi had to calm down, and asked: "When the country's funds are abundant, the emperor is not extravagant, and the dignitaries dare not ask for gifts, what's wrong with increasing troops and strengthening the army? Don't you worry about the Gengxu Incident and the large-scale Japanese invasion?" Is it going to happen again?"

"The Hulu will go away immediately, but it will only damage some people and property. If you become bigger with the warriors, the emperor will have the ability to make great conquests. I don't know which one is more important?"

Gu Xiancheng asked.

Li Sancai also said: "That's right, the Prime Minister can't tell the difference?"

Fang Fengshi asked again: "As a result, the Hu captives became bigger and gradually became sitting captives, and even raised tens of thousands of elite soldiers, as well as civil servants and advisers, and a peasant and soldier system, and even have the ability to destroy China, so what should we do? At that time, what should we do? How can the Son of Heaven have no soldiers?"

"We can gather tens of thousands of general soldiers in each town, enough to destroy the captives, and we can keep them safe!"

"So, the emperor has no soldiers, and it doesn't affect the country!"

Gu Xiancheng said.

Fang Fengshi sneered: "The chief soldiers of each town have servants, but the emperor has no soldiers, how can the court control them?"

"Is the Prime Minister confused?"

Li Sancai asked with a smile, and then replied: "Naturally, it will be paid for!"

"As long as they don't increase their food and salary like now, with the meager income from the land harvest and border trade in the towns on the nine sides, it is still not enough to support the clansman. If the imperial court does not give a lot of food and salary, the family members can only support thousands of people at most. How can things be done?"

"And because the towns belong to different native places, they can also check and balance each other, so that one imperial decree can make one of the generals return to the capital to lead him to death!"

Li Sancai went on to talk again, and then said: "And this is equivalent to letting the generals of the towns on the Nine Sides and a small number of servants guard the Nine Sides for the court, or occasionally helping to wipe out some rogues. And if you ask for it, you can protect the country for a hundred years!"

"The key is that it can save a lot of money for raising troops and avoid the situation of redundant troops and wasted money;"

"In addition to this, it can also prevent the emperor from resorting to military violence because of his military strength and horses, and can also save expenses. In this way, business taxes can be reduced and exempted to benefit the people, so that the people will be rich and the country will be safe!"

Li Sancai asked Fang Fengshi as he spoke: "Don't you understand the sage's truth that the fortune of the country can only be prosperous if you don't talk about military affairs lightly?"

"According to what you said, the towns on the nine sides are only allowed to raise a small number of servants to maintain the stability of the nine sides, and it is best to abolish the recruited generals of the southern soldiers; Because they do not belong to each other and they have the heart to preserve their strength, so that they fight on their own during the war, and even collude with the Hulu to harm the friendly army, so that the court is defeated and the country is in danger of subjugation, what should we do?"

Fang Fengshi then asked again.

None of the three answered for a moment.

Fang Fengshi sneered: "I have never served as a frontier minister, but I dare to talk about military affairs!"

"It's really that far, but it's not easy."

As soon as Li Sancai said his words, Gu Xiancheng stopped him, and just cupped his hands and said: "What the Prime Minister said is that we are not knowledgeable enough. Thank you for admonishing there, we will continue to dissuade you."

After finishing speaking, Gu Xiancheng stepped aside.

Li Sancai had no choice but to retreat to the side.

Wei Yunzhong also stepped aside.

Fang Fengshi snorted and left in the sedan chair.

"Why didn't Uncle Shi let me say 'change of master'? Could it be that Fang Jiayu really regards himself as a servant of the Heavenly Family and doesn't know how to be loyal to the emperor?"

After Fang Fengshi left, Li Sancai asked Gu Xiancheng a little bit unconvinced.

Gu Xiancheng said: "Although what you said is reasonable, you can't say it out loud. Be careful not to get angry!"

"After all, not all scholar-bureaucrats feel that dynasty change has nothing to do with scholar-bureaucrats, and there are also scholar-bureaucrats who will try their best not to let dynasty change occur for the sake of the so-called peace of the country."

"What's more, it is impossible for us to really say that we are willing to betray the monarch of this dynasty and welcome a new one in the future. Once we say this, we will be completely immoral!"

"Because the destiny is still the Zhu family, it is impossible to violate the destiny and be disloyal to the emperor at this time."

Li Sancai nodded after hearing this, and hurriedly cupped his hands to Gu Xiancheng, "Fortunately, uncle reminded me."

Then, Li Sancai said: "But is this the end of the matter? Do we really want to see the Son of Heaven being harmed by Zhang Juzheng so that he becomes an only husband and cannot be a sage and virtuous monarch?"

After pondering for a moment, Gu Xiancheng gritted his teeth and said, "Then let the emperor know in the future that Zhang Jiangling is an unpopular traitor, his evil is worse than strict division, and he is the most deceitful!"

"Uncle Shi, you are right. The Son of Heaven is born in the deep palace, and it is difficult to distinguish right from wrong, but Zhang Jiangling has already usurped the imperial power, and there are words like 'I am not a phase, but I am photographed' as evidence. In the future, the Son of Heaven will believe it. If you don’t get rid of the Zhang Party, you won’t be a sage, if you don’t abolish your own army and guards, you won’t be a lord, it shouldn’t be difficult!”

Wei Yunzhong agreed at this time.

Li Sancai also nodded: "This is the only way to do it now! As long as the emperor is willing to turn his back on him and cut off his arm, everything is possible."

……

"Uncle, there is a brat who wants to manipulate the court."

After Fang Fengshi returned to the mansion, he did come to see Zhang Juzheng, and after Zhang Juzheng also returned to the mansion, he stopped him and chatted with him.

Zhang Juzheng smiled slightly after hearing this: "Don't underestimate these brats, they may be the ones who will destroy our Daming Society in the future."

"How dare I underestimate it!"

"It can be said that I am trying to persuade you, but people don't listen!"

"Almost said that the subjugation of the country is nothing more than a change of owner!"

"In their eyes, the ups and downs of the world seem to have nothing to do with him. At most, it is like a business workshop changing owners, and has nothing to do with us bureaucrats who are equivalent to managing affairs."

Fang Fengshi told Zhang Juzheng how he met Gu Xiancheng, Li Sancai, and Wei Yunzhong when he said that.

After Zhang Juzheng pondered for a while, he said: "It all depends on Your Majesty!"

As he said that, Zhang Juzheng asked Fang Fengshi: "Private Minister came to see the servant, is it because the matter of reorganizing the six guards of the pro-army was blocked?"

"Forecasting things like a god, it's still Uncle Ni."

Fang Fengshi said something with a smile, and then said: "I still want to hear what you mean."

"Let's wait until the Wenhua Hall faces the Holy Spirit tomorrow, and then the servant will convey the Holy Will to the Prime Minister."

Zhang Juzheng replied, and left Fang Fengshi's place, and returned to his chief assistant mansion.

But Fang Fengshi also bid farewell.

"This Fang Jiayu is indeed Jiangling's lackey! He has great power but does not use it, even to deal with a speech officer, he will be ordered to order Jiangling's life!"

Zhang Sijiao, the great salt merchant who is also Zhang Siwei's younger brother, saw Fang Fengshi talking with Zhang Juzheng at Zhang Siwei's second assistant mansion, and he started talking to Zhang Siwei.

Although he couldn't hear what Fang Fengshi said, but based on the news he inquired and his understanding of the current situation, he could guess what Fang Fengshi was talking to Zhang Juzheng.

"You said, could it be done on purpose for us to see?"

Zhang Siwei asked at this time.

Zhang Sijiao couldn't help being taken aback after hearing this: "What do you mean, brother?"

(End of this chapter)