Wanli Youming

Chapter 182 Hai Rui Affirms Zhang Juzheng

Chapter 182 Hai Rui Affirms Zhang Juzheng

If Hai Rui had any weakness, it was that he had no children.

This era is different from later generations.

In this era, what is emphasized is that there are three types of unfilial piety, and the greatest thing is to have no descendants.

If Hai Rui, who has no heirs, wants to continue the incense, he has to rely on the clan to adopt one for him.

And this means that he needs to compromise something with the clan.

Personally, Hai Rui might be willing to betray the entire landlord class and stand on the side of the common people because of the sage principles that he has believed in.

But the entire Hai clan will not.

After all, the clan is a derivative of the landlord class, and the meaning of the clan's existence is to maintain the interests of the landlord class.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun was curious about whether Hai Rui had improved his relationship with his clansmen after returning to Ding You, and thus obtained a stepson.

In any case, even though the public opinion against Zhang Juzheng was raging, it still failed to prevent the implementation of the policy of officials and gentry paying food and errands together.

When the time came to May in the ninth year of Wanli.

All the officers and soldiers of the Jinwu Zuowei, who are pro-army and the six guards, were temporarily incorporated into the National Taxation Department by order to be responsible for tax collection, and they have officially set off to the south.

Because the first tax supervision place after the implementation of the official and gentry payment of food and errands was selected in Nanzhili, where there are the most officials and gentry.

After all, as long as Nanzhili successfully implements the integration of officials and gentry to pay food and errands, other places will not be a problem.

Zhu Yijun had already mentioned Hai Rui's intention to recover, so Zhang Juzheng had already written to ask him to come to Beijing to wait for news of his recovery.

Now, he is already in the capital, and soon received the emperor's order for him to be the governor of the world's taxation.

"Please inform Your Majesty that I have no stepchildren!"

However, after Hai Rui received the decree, Zhang Juzheng also asked him a question about his adoptive heir on behalf of the emperor, and Hai Rui answered truthfully after a moment of gloomy expression.

"Is it because the people of the Duke's family will not think for the Duke, or did the Duke refuse?"

Zhang Juzheng asked because of this.

"The subordinate refused."

"The subordinates only took out all the remaining one thousand taels of silver from the reward silver that the former governor received in the southeast, and bought public land as family property, so as to support those who could not rely on themselves and those who had no land because of the increasing number of children in the family. arable."

Hai Rui replied.

Zhang Juzheng nodded after hearing this, and said: "The servant and the public are both obsessed with one heart, and they are sorry for their parents. It is really high mountains and rivers, and my way is not alone!"

After speaking, Zhang Juzheng got up and bowed to Hai Rui.

Hai Rui hastily replied: "My subordinates have already learned about Yuanfu's matter, please don't be too sad about Yuanfu, and I also admire Yuanfu's choice! The subordinates never flatter anyone, including the emperor, But Yuanfu is a sage, and the subordinates also admire him very much, and no matter how far Yuanfu is misunderstood in the future, the subordinates will never remain silent and dare not speak up for Yuanfu!"

Zhang Juzheng smiled and said, "I am very relieved to have you say this! You are the only one who won't complain to you because you didn't really intend to use him. You really have the style of an ancient minister!"

"Yuan Fu's praise! Hai Rui is not the only one who knows Yuan Fu. Your Majesty knows it. People who understand things and understand things in the world know it. People who understand the Spring and Autumn Period also know it!"

Hai Rui said with a smile.

……

"What a Hai Gangfeng, he didn't choose his stepchildren, he knew that I wanted to use him!"

After receiving Zhang Juzheng's secret disclosure and knowing that Hai Rui had no stepchildren, Zhu Yijun spoke up and sighed.

"Give sir an official reply on the Secret Disclosure, saying that since Hai Rui is no more than an heir in the successor family, if he still has no heir after his death in the future, I will choose an orphan in the world as his heir to carry on the incense for Hai Rui, and even Received his kindness, let the stepson feel grateful for his kindness, and dare not deny him as an ancestor."

"Therefore, Mr. Let make an edict to set up the Ancestral Hall of the Loyalty and the Royal Nursing Home, and add a department of ceremonial supervisors and eunuchs to take care of the Ancestral Hall of the Loyalty and the Royal Nursing Home."

"Every year, the internal and external treasury allocate money to worship the loyal people who died for the country and made great contributions to the survival of our Han family in the past dynasties, and adopted orphans from all over the world. How long is the Ming Dynasty, and how long will these loyal sacrifices be sacrificed! "

"In the future, if there are loyal and martyrs who have no children because of the death of the country, or who are old and have no children, and want to pass on the incense but do not want to rely on the clan, they can ask the grace of the emperor to choose an orphan from the Royal Nursing Home as their son, and get their son. Grace."

Because of Hai Rui's childlessness, Zhu Yijun had long thought of a way to motivate Hai Rui if he didn't have a stepchild from the clan, so he took the opportunity to issue such an order at this time.

For Zhu Yijun, anyway, he wanted to increase the scale of adopting orphans, so as to increase the size of the emperor's private group.

After all, when Zhang Juzheng is gone in the future, he will have to face most of the reactionaries in the entire bureaucracy alone. If he wants to carry out more in-depth reforms, it is impossible to rely only on the part of the civil servants who reformed with Zhang Juzheng, the so-called Zhang Party.

What's more, these reformers in Zhang's party will grow old sooner or later due to the prolongation of the years, so he has to take advantage of the fact that there are still many reformers in the party, and raise his imperial party team in advance.

Then, Zhu Yijun ordered: "Remember to give Hai Rui some of my instructions on urging tax payment, so that he can refer to it."

Zhang Jing, who was on duty, said yes.

After Zhu Yijun issued such an order, he asked Zhang Jing again: "How is the investigation on the Jiangling side going? What are the reports from the Huguang local officials and Jin Yiwei?"

"Huguang local officials have just delivered the initial copy, and the report said that the night before the accident, Zhang's family slave who was guarding the mausoleum in Taihui Mountain was tied up because he encountered hundreds of thugs who sneaked into the mountain. Get up, and those thugs are all covered, so they can't recognize their faces; after checking their footprints, they found that they fled from all directions, east, west, north, south. It is difficult to find out the real culprit for a while, so we can only send officials to investigate secretly."

"The Jinyiwei in Jiangling reported that after this incident, the Jingzhou government quickly publicized that the tomb of Zhang Taigong was excavated by Tianlei and dissected the coffin. To."

After Zhu Yijun heard this, he laughed: "The local officials in Huguang are sensible. They know that the imperial court will not believe them, so they dare not report that the wrath of heaven led to the digging of Mr.'s ancestral grave. I know, someone has already spread such rumors in Jingzhou Mansion."

Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Jing again in a deep voice, "Aside from these, Jin Yiwei didn't find anything?"

"Returning to the emperor, according to reports, the Jinyiwei who was placed among the guards of the Zhang family's mausoleum revealed that not all of those thuggish people cannot be investigated. In fact, the Zhang family has long been prepared for someone to rob the tomb. It is extremely hidden, so unless there are thieves inside, they will not easily enter the mountain to find Zhang's ancestral grave, even if a woodcutter enters by mistake, it will trigger the mechanism that hurts the feet; "

"However, with so many thugs pouring in, there is no trace of wounded blood. It can be seen that there are internal thieves, and Jin Yiwei has begun to secretly search for Zhang family members or slaves who suddenly spend a lot of money, and have focused on a few good gamblers or Visiting brothels, but it still takes time to find out who the insider is. Once the insider is found out, the whereabouts of these thugs will be known, and the mastermind behind the scenes will be known."

Zhang Jing replied.

"Continue to investigate, let Beizhen Fusi select backbones from all over the country to form a special case imperial envoy, and go to Jiangling to investigate the case! Once the real culprit behind the scenes is found out, they will be rewarded according to the major case rewards I mentioned earlier. And to avenge Mr. Save face for the royal family!"

Zhu Yijun ordered at this time.

Zhang Jing bowed his hands and said yes.

"If you can't figure it out all the time, don't be the admiral of the East Factory, and replace it with a powerful person."

Zhu Yijun suddenly said another sentence.

Zhang Jing couldn't help trembling, and quickly knelt down and said, "If this old slave doesn't find out, I will kill myself and thank you, my lord!"

Zhu Yijun waved his hand.

Zhang Jing retreated.

With tears in his eyes, Hai Rui, who was about to take the official boat out of Beijing, read the edict about the martyr's shrine and raising orphans to continue the incense for the martyrs without heirs in the "Di Bao" with tears in his eyes. He glanced at the scenery on both sides of the strait and said to himself Said: "The king's kindness is so great, how dare the courtiers not be dedicated!"

Saying so, Hai Rui picked up Zhu Yijun's handbook and prepared to read it carefully, but because he caught a glimpse of the hard-working trackers on the shore, he thought of what the emperor said in the imperial decree about how much tax he would increase when he collected taxes, and how much money the court would add to relief The words of the poor, and he couldn't help but hurriedly ordered the accompanying officials:

"Let Hu Tishuai go directly to Yangzhou and wait for the church! We will start tax supervision directly from Yangzhou, without stopping along the way!"

(End of this chapter)