"You may become more loyal to your Majesty after reading the book."
"But after reading the book, I may not pay attention to you anymore, but always feel that I am Wen Quxing and that I am the master of this world."
As the counselor of Fengyang Chief Secretary, Chen Jiuzhu understood the bureaucrats better than Ye Agui, so he answered Ye Agui's question at this time.
Ye Agui said nothing after hearing this.
Relying on Chen Jiuzhu's relationship, he has become a major paper dealer in Huai'an City, so he also has a group of water transport caravans familiar with water under his name, led by his cousin Wang Cheng.
At this time, Ye Agui called his cousin who was following him and muttered a few words.
Chen Jiuzhu saw this and asked Ye Agui: "What are you going to do?!"
Ye Agui smiled lightly and said, "I plan to teach these people a lesson to prevent them from getting too proud!"
"Don't mess around. It's not a joke to take someone's life."
Chen Jiuzhu said.
Ye Agui said: "No, I have already made arrangements. When the time comes, I will just let them scholars drink a few sips of water, so that they will not only laugh at the emperor for being afraid of water! Everyone in front of us told us to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic, but we ended up But I tried my best to ridicule the emperor behind his back and prevent them from suffering, which makes me feel uncomfortable."
Chen Jiuzhu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "If you want to be comfortable in everything in this world, it is harder than reaching heaven."
"No matter how difficult it is, you have to feel comfortable. People still work so hard to earn money in order to feel comfortable. Now, for such a good emperor, they don't even have a nice word in their mouths. They are just white-eyed wolves, which makes people very uncomfortable."
As soon as Ye Agui finished speaking, he heard Ren Jiadeng on the opposite boat shouting loudly: "Brother Yu, our ship, our ship seems to be sinking!"
"It's sinking. What's going on?!"
Yu Liangting shouted loudly.
At this time, a young man next to Ren Jiadeng ran over: "Second Master, it's not good, there is a big hole in our boat and it is leaking!"
As soon as the boy finished speaking, the water had already spread to the deck, and the entire ship began to tilt.
"Brother Ren, we are going to fall into the water, we are going to fall into the water!"
Yu Liangting also shouted anxiously at this time.
thump!
thump!
Soon, Ren Jiadeng, Yu Liangting and others fell into the pea-green river water, and then started drinking the water crazily.
Seeing this, Ye Agui smiled at Chen Jiuzhu and immediately shouted: "Save people quickly. Who knows the nature of water? Why don't you go down and save people quickly? After saving these gentlemen, are you still afraid that they will not reward you?"
Ye Agui said, "If the water falls on this day, please don't freeze these masters and ministers Wenquxing!"
At this time, Ye Agui's cousin Wang Cheng and others had already jumped into the water, and they quickly rescued Ren Jiadeng, Yu Liangting and other people who fell into the water, one step faster than the rushing government navy troops.
Despite this, because it was a cold October day and the water was as cold as ice, Ren Jiadeng and Yu Liangting were still trembling when they were rescued, and their faces turned purple from the cold.
"It turns out that my husband and I are also afraid of falling into the water, and they are also landlubbers! I thought Wenquxing was not afraid of this."
Suddenly, Ye Agui arrived on the shore and came to the place where Ren Jiadeng and others were rescued. He deliberately talked to Chen Jiuzhu and others.
Many of the businessmen who came with Ye Agui had a good relationship with Ye Agui, and they were all dissatisfied with the shady behavior of these gentlemen and princes all day long, so they all joined in with the imperial ministers.
"I said, why are you trying to save me? My husband is the reincarnation of Wenquxing, so we are not afraid of falling into the water!"
"Huan Wenquxing, look at how embarrassed he is. It turns out that he is still afraid of water even after drinking a lot of ink."
"Stop talking, stop talking, be careful when people go back and use their pens to accuse you of being unruly and ignorant, disrespectful to scholars. Instead, they want to ask the emperor to restore you to your corvee service, saying that it is not appropriate for you to be too comfortable. Once you are too comfortable, you will easily become stubborn. Disobeying discipline.”
…
These words were bombarded in the ears of Ren Jiadeng and Yu Liangting like a barrage. Some of the scholars who came here from other ships as their friends were very angry after hearing this. For a moment, they just wanted to order their slaves to beat these people, but instead And because he saw that there were so many people on the other side, he had to endure it.
Only a scholar named Zhao Wanchun secretly complained:
"The world is really in decline, people's hearts are not as old as they used to be, and etiquette, music, respect, and inferiority are in chaos! During the reign of the late Emperor, how could a gentle man like me be ridiculed by unruly people and not be able to beat him!"
Zhao Wanchun and others really want to fight but don't dare to fight now.
After all, the middle class among ordinary people is growing, and they no longer dare to act recklessly by relying on their government connections.
Because middle class people like Ye Agui have the financial resources and energy to fight with you. Even in terms of government relations, they have some connections.
Therefore, traditional scholar-bureaucrats such as Zhao Wanchun had to be really tolerant to the common people and pay attention to the gentleman's tolerant demeanor.
Zhu Yijun soon learned about this in Huai'an City, and couldn't help but smile and said: "I am still popular among the people. I will pass the decree and award silver rewards to those who bravely save others."
"Your Majesty naturally wins the hearts of the people. It's just that some people don't want your Majesty to win the hearts of the people. But those who don't want your Majesty to win the hearts of the people have no choice but to do anything. After all, no matter how clever they are, they can't turn white into black."
Li Chengliang replied at this time.
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this, and then he looked at the misty autumn scenery outside Huai'an City. He couldn't help but take a deep breath and said to Li Chengliang: "Is this your first time in the south?"
"Your Majesty, yes."
"Thanks to your majesty's great blessing, I can also come and see the rivers and mountains of our southern kingdom of the Ming Dynasty."
Li Chengliang replied.
Zhu Yijun said: "Although the southern country is beautiful, it can easily make people weak!"
Li Chengliang nodded: "That's why the temple requires the emperor to guard the country's gates, but it's not okay if your majesty doesn't come to this gentle and wealthy hometown, otherwise the people here may really only know the master and the father-in-law, but not the emperor's ministers."
"That's what you said."
After Zhu Yijun finished speaking, he pointed to the endless pavilions and pavilions outside and said: "Look at these beautiful gardens. They are as numerous as stars. Huai'an is even like this. I wonder if the southern capital of Suzhou and Hangzhou are even worse than those in southern Suzhou." I really didn’t know there were so many rich and noble families in this dynasty.”
"This is also the result of Your Majesty's hard work. Otherwise, how could the world be so wealthy?"
Wang Xijue replied with a smile.
Zhu Yijun suddenly asked Li Chengliang: "I heard that many wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River have begun to actively marry children of military families? Half of the military families who marry are actually marrying wealthy businessmen in Nanzhi?"
"Your Majesty, yes, there are many cases where wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River marry military families."
"For this reason, the Privy Council is discussing whether to ban military households from marrying outsiders, but when you think about the fact that even the royal family has always married civilian women as concubines, why can't military households."
Li Chengliang replied at this time.
"It needs to be discussed."
Zhu Yijun said nothing more after saying this.
As the Ming Dynasty improved the political status of military households, more and more wealthy merchants liked to marry military households. After all, it was much easier to obtain greater political rights than relying on meritorious service.
And this is actually unavoidable. Wealth and power have always attracted each other.
However, as a ruler, one thing that needs to be considered is that the country cannot be completely controlled by the consortium.
Because this will lead to abnormal development of the national economy, that is, although the country is becoming more and more prosperous, that is, the cake is getting bigger, but due to the increasingly imbalanced distribution, the increased cake and the original cake will be occupied by the powerful and bureaucrats. There are more, but the common people occupy less, and are still only allowed to maintain a basic survival line, and the way to achieve wealth accumulation and class crossing is blocked, making the common people start to lie down because they have lost hope, which in turn affects the entire social structure. Because the bottom layer loses the motivation to make progress and becomes unbalanced.
To know.
If the foundation of a building is damaged, it will easily collapse and be difficult to repair. If the top floor is damaged, it can only be replaced. If that doesn't work, it can be rebuilt on the original foundation.
But if the foundation is damaged and cannot be rebuilt, then civilization will be completely extinct.
As the supreme ruler, Zhu Yijun naturally had the responsibility to ensure that the foundation of Chinese civilization would not be completely destroyed by the erosion of moths.
Nowadays, wealthy businessmen and merchants take the initiative to marry military households, which are military nobles recognized by the imperial court, and they are gradually becoming new worms in the Ming Dynasty.
Perhaps, these wealthy businessmen themselves do not have this awareness, but are just based on the human instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. They only feel that they should marry someone who is worthy of their marriage. For them, if they do not marry someone with the same wealth level as themselves, , you can only get married with someone who is politically superior to yourself, and you must pay attention to the right match no matter what.
It is precisely because it is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so moths will appear all the time. Even if a batch is eliminated, new ones will appear, so we can only wipe them away frequently.
but.
For today's Wanli Dynasty, this phenomenon is not yet obvious. The more than two hundred years of discrimination against military households cannot be eradicated overnight, and wealthy merchants who marry military households will not appear in large numbers all at once. In the early days, Maybe they haven't had any destructive power on society, and they even came together because of their recognition of the New Deal.
However, Zhu Yijun and other politicians have begun to be wary of this phenomenon.
Being vigilant, Zhu Yijun did not want to deal with it drastically now. That would appear too impatient and could easily not be understood or even misunderstood.
Many times, the emperor has to go with the flow and wait until the storm is really bad and make most people uneasy before he can exercise his power. Otherwise, no matter how correct his starting point is, he will not be the supreme emperor. , will also be regarded as an alien.
This is just like what Lao Tzu said, governing a big country is like cooking small delicacies, that is, when you are in power, you cannot stir it up at will. It is appropriate to stir it when the heat is really right.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun is only vigilant but has not taken immediate measures. Now that he has arrived in Huai'an, he is more concerned about the Yellow River floods and salt management.
Despite the prosperity of Huaiyang, the problem of flooding has always been serious, and the problem of salt loss has also been serious.
(End of chapter)
