"Haha, I can be considered a wise man in making money. I used half of my savings to buy the imperial war bonds, and now I am rich because of it!"
Zhang Dai pointed to his box full of silver coins wrapped in red paper and talked to his relatives and friends.
His friend Zhao Jiechen also laughed and said: "If I had known it, I would have bought more, but that's fine, I also made some money. As expected, as Yuan Fu said in the communiqué, now the court wants to govern the country with sincerity, and now it really abides by it." I promised to share the benefits of capturing the fertile land in the Ganges Plain with us, the investors of the imperial court, but Brother Xiao, I wonder if he regrets it."
With that said, Zhao Jiechen and a group of people who got rich by buying war bonds looked at Xiao Yuwei.
Xiao Yuwei was a little embarrassed and said: "This is ill-gotten wealth! What's so easy to earn! He Bi Zichuan said that he governs the country with sincerity, but in fact he is shameless. He wants to manipulate the court to gain the benefits of the world, and ignores etiquette. That’s it! He uses some petty profits to bribe the scholars and the people, so that all the simple and stupid people in the world are deceived by him, and he even praises him as a capable minister in governing the world! I think if he were in troubled times, he would be a hero!"
"You don't care whether he is a capable minister or a tyrant. Since he is the chief auxiliary of the Ming Dynasty, he should naturally make profits for the Ming Dynasty so that we can make money and not become poorer and poorer, so that we don't even have money to listen to the show and fight cocks! Does he want to do it for the Ming Dynasty? The Mughals are making profits? But he is not the chief assistant of the Mughals!"
Zhang Dai replied.
"That's it! That's it!"
Zhao Jiechen and other scholars responded to Zhang Dai's words and felt that what Zhang Dai said was reasonable. If the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty does not make profits for the Ming Dynasty, can he be regarded as the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty?
"Incredibly stupid! Incomprehensible!"
Xiao Yuwei had to turn around and replied in a bad tone, then fanned himself desperately with a fan, pretending that everyone was drunk and I was alone.
It is human nature to be jealous or inferior to relatives and friends who have become rich and powerful but not themselves.
It's just that those who are generous will suppress this nature and accept it calmly.
Xiao Yuwei could not be calm, but stubbornly wanted to maintain his integrity and dignity, and said: "Don't say that the imperial court's coupons have only increased several times, even if they have increased ten times, I will not buy it, it is unfair. Wealth!"
"Okay, you are noble and worthy of being the queen of Xiao Hanlin!"
Zhang Dai replied, and then said: "To celebrate my eldest son, Zhang, who has made my Zhang family the richest man in Shaoxing, I will have a big banquet for guests and friends the day after tomorrow! Everyone will come to enjoy the honor! This time I specially spent a lot of money to invite people from Suzhou. Theater troupe!”
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"Xiao Juqian, why are you doing this? When I raise troops to the Mughals, the Political Hall does not object, the Privy Council does not object, and the people of the world do not object. Even North Korea and Japan respond positively! You are the only one who is eating the imperial salary and doing something for the imperial court. The idle official who was working on the compilation of books came out to object, saying that the Japanese were not doing human affairs in the Mughals, and asked me to stop using troops against the Mughals. I refused, and still knelt here and refused to leave. Do you think my temper has changed over the years? Okay, so it’s easy to bully?”
Zhu Youxiao impatiently asked Xiao Juqian, the Hanlin official who was called into the Qinzheng Hall because he was kneeling outside his Daming Garden to remonstrate.
Xiao Juqian cried directly: "Your Majesty! In many newspapers and periodicals, many knowledgeable people said that the court's move was unjust! They even instigated Japanese pirates to commit such crimes! Under the banner of promoting Confucian civilization , but since ancient times Confucianism has been pursuing benevolence, not hegemony! Your Majesty, please order the withdrawal of troops and depose Bi Ziyan, who is greedy and immoderate! Your Majesty!"
Zhu Youxiao asked: "Bi Aiqing is greedy for ink? Do you have any evidence?"
"Bi has become extremely wealthy by investing in government-run industries. Now he even buys a large number of war bonds issued by the imperial court in advance. He is already as rich as the country! Naturally, there is no need to be greedy and violate the ban, but his greed is unusual. His greed is unbenevolent greed, coercing the country and the people to seize foreign wealth without restraint, without hesitation to provoke the wrath of heaven and the resentment of people!"
Xiao Juqian replied.
"Ordinary greed? Unbenevolent greed? Ordinary greed is greed for the wealth of the people of the country. Is this in line with benevolence?"
Zhu Youxiao asked.
After Xiao Juqian thought for a while, he replied: "Of course it is not consistent, but Your Majesty, his greed is also unethical greed! Your Majesty, you are the lord of the world, and it is your duty to save the world! You are great The emperor makes the country prosperous and the people rich, you should save the people of the world from fire and water!"
"Stop hating me! I have never been a savior! I never thought about saving the world. I might as well tell you the truth. Although I also have a heart of fraternity, I never thought about saving anyone from the beginning. , I just wanted to save myself first at the beginning, everything I did was to think about myself first, then China, and finally humanity!"
Zhu Youxiao replied bluntly.
"Although some people say that you are a tyrant, I don't believe it. Your Majesty, I know that you are the most benevolent king. Please don't be deceived by traitors like Bi Zichuan! The Mughal natives, their families, their My relatives are being slaughtered because of the greed of the traitor Bi Zichuan! Your Majesty! Do you really want to ignore the miserable plight of these people?!"
Xiao Juqian burst into tears and cried.
Zhu Youxiao said solemnly: "I am not a benevolent king, I am a tyrant! Many people scold me like this, but in fact they are not wrong. You don't have to think about whitewashing me to achieve your own goals! And therefore you can control me!" "
"Your Majesty, you are the lord of the world, so you should extend your kindness to the whole world, not just to China!"
Xiao Juqian replied.
"I am not the lord of the world yet, but I am working hard to become the lord of the world!"
Zhu Youxiao replied.
Seeing this, Xiao Juqian could only threaten: "If Your Majesty really wants to let Bi Zichuan and his treacherous officials destroy Confucianism and Taoism, then I can only kowtow in front of Your Majesty and pray for death. I can only knead out all the blood and cleanse our country." The evil that civilization has done because of Bi Zichuan! What kind of people are the Japanese? They are extremely despicable people! They ignore their own and other people's lives, take pleasure in ending life, and take pride in bullying the weak! They are like jackals! He Bi Zichuan did it for Li, it is a shame for China to associate with such a wolf! Please stop him from doing this in Bi Zichuan."
Boom!
With that said, Xiao Juqian hit the ground head first.
Boom!
Boom!
The gold bricks made a sound when they were hit.
Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but shout: "Xiao Juqian!"
Then, Zhu Youxiao stood up and pointed at him: "I can understand why I say different things because my butt is sitting in a different position, but don't think of me as a fool! Don't think that I don't know, Your family has business with the Mughals, so you don’t want the Mughals to be destroyed! You are so full of righteousness and have all mankind in your heart, but only for humanity, you are either stupid or bad! If you are stupid, you are stupid because you think that everyone in the world But there is no point in fighting. As the saying goes, until the saint dies, the thieves will continue. You can't let me betray the interests of most people of the Ming Dynasty for the life and dignity of the Mughal natives. Then which country am I the emperor? ?! The bad thing is that they use universal morality to cover up their own purposes! Fortunately, the people are like me, not so great, otherwise they would all be used like fools! I will tell you the last thing, I am a tyrant , I have always liked to be a tyrant. I used to like to treat the scholar-bureaucrats cruelly, then I liked to treat the Tartars cruelly, and now I just like to treat the barbarians cruelly! I don’t like to be a benevolent king!"
With that said, Zhu Youxiao ordered Xiao Juqian who had stopped kowtowing: "Get out of here! You have bad intentions! Since you are so kind, go to the southwest. The Miao and Tujia people there contributed to the Ming Dynasty's annihilation of the Donglu and the suppression of the rebellion, but they also They are all ignorant and backward, and they rule their own tribe very cruelly. I really can’t be too cruel to them, so you go and persuade them to be kind!”
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