Wanli Youming

Chapter 503 How did Zhang Juzheng teach the emperor to be so smart? !

Chapter 503 How did Zhang Juzheng teach the emperor to be so smart? !

Wanli 15 years, spring.

As soon as noon arrived in the rainy capital city, Shi Xing, the right servant of the Ministry of War, came out from the yamen of the Ministry of War with an elephant wat.

And when he came out, he frowned.

Because the street was wet after the rain, he couldn't bear to step on his new shoes.

It wasn't until the servant who brought the carriage to pick him up hurriedly came over and prostrated himself on the ground, that he stepped down the steps and stepped on the back of the servant to get directly into his carriage.

Bang!

But as soon as he boarded the carriage, he saw Jin Yiwei approaching, so he stepped on his feet and fell on the watery ground. The wat board also fell on the ground and became two pieces.

However, these Jin Yiwei just patrolled past and ignored Shi Xing.

Shi Xing's expression softened a little, and then he asked the servant to help him into the sedan chair, and helplessly frowned and asked the servant outside the sedan chair, "Have you returned yet?"

The house slave outside replied, "I'm back."

After hearing this, Shi Xing didn't say anything, just closed his eyes and rested his mind, but the smell of horse dung on his body made him really unable to calm down.

So after a while, he involuntarily looked at Jin Yiwei outside the sedan chair.

Since the brothers Zhang Jingxiu and Zhang Maoxiu entered the Jinyiwei, the Jinyiwei has made civil and military officials even more afraid.

To know.

Although the former Jinyiwei had the right to monitor the officials, basically because the officials of the Jinyiwei were afraid of offending others and wanted to be safe, they took the initiative to turn a blind eye to the officials.

What's more, if this is the case, the foreign minister will turn a blind eye to Jin Yiwei.

But after brothers Zhang Jingxiu and Zhang Maoxiu entered Jinyiwei, they strictly rectified Jinyiwei. The internal promotion of Jinyiwei was only based on ability, regardless of relationship background.

Therefore, today's Jinyiwei makes civil and military officials feel that Jinyiwei has returned to Lu Bing's era.

It seems that Jin Yiwei did not torture anyone easily, and did not take people easily, but in fact, the surveillance was stricter and everywhere, and the investigation was not concealed, which made civil and military officials feel intimidated, especially After some officials did something wrong, they would always feel that the Jin Yiwei on the street were staring at them.

Many officials couldn't bear it because of this, and instigated the officials to impeach the Zhang brothers. For example, the two had embezzled and accepted millions of dollars in bribes, and they even started a nest of prostitution and gambling in the imperial prison.

But Zhu Yijun didn't listen.

Therefore, all the officials could only endure it, and secretly hated Zhang Juzheng for teaching the emperor the way of respecting the teacher, and even the teacher's son trusted him very much.

As for the Wanli reform, since the core purpose of "enriching the country and benefiting the people" was carried out, the world has prospered to the point where the people are becoming richer and more prosperous.

Therefore, in the spring of the 15th year of Wanli, the Gyeonggi region, which is the most affluent in the north, is full of beautiful flowers and colorful flowers.

The entire Shuntian Prefecture did not have a large number of hungry people who went to the city to beg for food because of the spring famine, but a large number of young children who spent money like water.

The Chongwenmenwai Street that Shi Xing passed by in a sedan chair is even more colorful and full of goods.

And because this street has gradually developed into selling documents and books because of the growing domestic demand market.

And the number of people who are willing to consume is indeed increasing.

Especially after the price of horses and silver in the capital was reduced a lot, many scholars began to sell books and literature to the common people actively and with a smile in order to earn money from the common people.

Nowadays, books such as "Records of the King of Chu's Rebellion" are popularly sold by book sellers to the common people.

Also.

Under the secret guidance of Jin Yiwei, in order to earn money from the people, these book sellers have begun to instill in the people that buying this book can prevent them from losing their land and family property in a daze. He was interested in the incident, and began to say that the rebellion of the king of Chu was caused by the powerful gentry who attempted to annex their industries.

Shi Xing couldn't take it anymore after hearing a few words by chance when he was passing by in a sedan chair, so he lowered his face, secretly hating these humble literati who were willing to degrade themselves for the sake of profit, and even talked about political tricks with ordinary people.

Shi Xing wanted to stop it, but when he saw Jin Yiwei appearing, he resolutely gave up this idea and became even more anxious.

He was afraid that Jin Yiwei would notice his expression just now and report it as an important matter, which would make the emperor dissatisfied with him!

After Shi Xing got off the sedan chair at the Chuihua Gate of his home, he couldn't help but look back to see if Jin Yiwei had followed.

After stopping to watch for a while, and seeing no Jin Yiwei coming, he breathed a sigh of relief. He called his son-in-law, Ma Wenqing, to his side in his own courtyard, and asked:

"How about it?"

Ma Wenqing lowered her head: "I missed Zhao Mengbai!"

After hearing this, Shi Xing suddenly turned his head and glanced at Ma Wenqing.

Ma Wenqing couldn't help but lower his head: "He went out suddenly, and our people had no time to give up!"

"I think Zhao Mengbai is a gentleman, and he will not confess anyone without evidence."

"But it's unpredictable."

At this time, Shi Xing slandered a few words in his heart, and then looked at Ma Wenqing:

"Go to the south immediately, tell Mr. Donglin about Zhao Mengbai's situation, and let them find a way to get Jin Yiwei to release Zhao Mengbai in the name of saving Zhao Mengbai. After he comes out of the imperial prison, he can make a fuss!"

Ma Wenqing asked: "Why bother, it's better to just bribe Jin Yiwei and let him die violently in the imperial prison."

"Confused!"

Shi Xing whispered: "You can think of it, but the Zhang family brothers can't think of it? Don't even think about who is actually in charge of Jinyiwei now!"

Ma Wenqing said: "What Yue Weng said is true!"

……

Although the emperor of Ming Dynasty was in the capital, the country's economic lifeline was in the south.

Suzhou, Songjiang, and Yangzhou were all the industrial centers of the Ming Dynasty in this era, and it can even be said without exaggeration that they were also the industrial centers of the world.

The silver mined from the Americas, Japan and other places will gather in these places, and the goods exchanged here will be shipped out and sold to Japan, Luzon, Mughal, Europe and other places.

Simultaneously.

The domestic trade of the Ming Dynasty was basically purchased by merchants from these places, and then sold to the northern capital and the Nine Borders through the canal, where they were consumed by the powerful bureaucrats and rich merchants of the Capital, the officials of the Nine Borders, and the barbarians outside the Nine Borders.

In addition, there are also merchants who purchase goods from these places and transport them to Huguang and Sichuan through the Yangtze River to Huguang and Sichuan. They are eventually consumed by Southwest Tusi or go north to Hexi via the Shu Road, and then sell them to Hexi.

In short, most of the goods carried by these trade lines, whether international or domestic, came from the important towns in the south of Ming Dynasty.

And this naturally means that there are huge economic benefits.

And Zhu Yijun can take away a lot of benefits from the new policy of silver dollars and transfer them to the imperial court. What's more, he also controlled the trading rights of several important trading points in Nagasaki, Hirado, and Haojing in the hands of the imperial court. .

Therefore, the old forces are always unwilling to be reconciled to having their monopoly interests taken away.

But they can't clearly stop the trend of centralization, and they can't change the reality that the power to divide the interests of the world will inevitably be dominated by the Ming Emperor, so they can only struggle behind the scenes and do something, even if it is to change the master.

However, after the last attempt to get the emperor into the water failed, they had to be more cautious and did not dare to attack the emperor directly. They were afraid that the emperor would go fishing, so they could only think of picking a few easy-to-bait princes to fight against the court.

But after the king of Chu was chosen by them and succeeded in rebelling, he lost quickly.

It still disappoints them.

"Chu Wangqing's side was not successful, and the efforts made by Wang Bihe to restore the preferential exemption of officials and gentry, return the power to the six departments, and return punishment and reward to public opinion still came to naught."

Wu Hongji, who was about to enter Beijing to serve as the censor, watched the mighty blue waves on a cruise ship on Wuxi Lake this day, and told his friend Gu Xiancheng.

Gu Xiancheng couldn't hide his disappointment and said: "Since Hu Runing's impeachment of Lord Luo and Wu Daohe's collusion with the king of Chu, this matter is doomed to fail. Jing is hard to succeed, it is very difficult! After all, this is not the emperor alone refusing to follow the public opinion, but a bunch of mercenary villains and a large number of fools are attached to him, treating the emperor as a saint!"

Gu Xiancheng said: "However, what I have to admit is that today's people are too shrewd. After knowing that the King of Chu intends to collude with the gentry and plot rebellion, they will directly disclose your conspiracy to the public!"

"This forced all civil servants in the world to draw a clear line with the King of Chu, denying that he was involved in the rebellion of the King of Chu, and I don't know whether Zhang Juzheng taught him so well, or someone else taught him so well?"

Just as Gu Xiancheng was talking, he saw Ma Wenqing coming by boat under the leadership of his younger brother Gu Yuncheng.

After they came, Gu Xiancheng asked Gu Yuncheng: "The business of the capital is over?"

"No! Zhao Mengbai is still alive!"

"It happened so suddenly, we didn't expect it."

Ma Wenqing couldn't wait to answer before Gu Yuncheng.

(End of this chapter)