"You guys, are you really going to treat people like fools?"
After Chu Ze left Lingyun Pavilion, he came to the house given to him by Hu Weiyong as promised.
As expected, this time, there were many treasures placed in the entire front hall.
And compared to the last time, the things displayed this time are all small in size, but extremely valuable.
Chu Ze even saw a luminous pearl the size of a fist.
Even if you have money, you may not be able to get this kind of thing.
There is no doubt that these are what Hu Weiyong is preparing to give to Chu Ze, so that he can use them to take care of the things belonging to Qin King Zhu Ping.
Faced with these rare things, Chu Ze just looked at them and then threw them away.
The temptation of money is that once you have money, you can enjoy all kinds of colorful things in the world.
You can experience the supreme enjoyment that ordinary people cannot imagine in their lifetime!
It is precisely because of this that money is full of temptations for people.
Because money equals supreme enjoyment.
But
For a person of later generations, the only thing in this era that can move Chu Ze is probably listening to music.
After all, Chu Ze has no interest in riding horses and hunting.
In Chu Ze's opinion, BMW is really not as good as BMW.
A luxurious carriage is still not as good as a BMW.
Delicacies from the mountains and seas, if he wanted, he could eat at will now.
Even if he was sitting in prison and wearing a beast, no one would say anything even if he was being eaten.
And apart from these, is there anything else in this era that can tempt him?
Killing for fun?
He, Chu Ze, is not a psychopath.
Looking for excitement?
What could be more exciting than being a behind-the-scenes pusher after traveling through time?
This is promoting an era and a period of history!
Isn't this exciting enough?
Therefore, in Chu Ze's eyes, money is not as important as future generations.
Because his status at this time is no longer the same.
These things are just a need for Chu Ze.
Dividing the stolen goods into two parts, Chu Ze took the part that was easy to cash in or could simply be used directly.
He put all the other parts on the carriage and immediately put on a swaggering disguise.
He took him to the palace.
When Zhu Biao saw these things brought by Chu Ze, he didn't even know what to say for a while.
In just three days, this guy Chu Ze received courtesy from Hu Weiyong twice.
Moreover, these two salutes did not seem to be light.
This guy is so unscrupulous that he is already lawless!
"These are used to bribe King Qin. I have left the part that can be easily converted into cash or can be spent directly. The rest is here."
"This side accounts for the majority, so I earn the errand fees."
"The King of Qin is still guilty, so I won't give it to him. I'll just send it to you here to confiscate it."
Facing Zhu Biao, who had an increasingly weird expression on his face as he was counting his belongings, Chu Ze didn't feel there was anything wrong with what he was doing.
Zhu Biao took his cronies to hand-pick the finances, while Chu Ze sat at the table where he usually handled government affairs, drinking tea leisurely.
He recounted the fact that he had withheld a portion with a nonchalant expression.
"Haha... If the second brother knew about this, I think he would thank you very much."
After the financial inventory was almost completed, Zhu Biao turned back and looked at Chu Ze.
However, as soon as he turned around, Chu Ze handed him a cup of tea.
"Hey, just don't tell him about this!"
"Tell me, what did he want to do by bribing the second son?"
After Zhu Biao took the teacup handed over by Chu Ze, he reached out and patted him on the shoulder, driving him off his table.
Taking advantage of the situation, he flattened the memorial that was wrinkled by Chu Ze.
Then he sat back down.
"What else can he do? He just wants his second brother to get that greedy guy from the Ministry of Finance out of the imperial edict."
"It is estimated that the person is in prison. They can't do anything, and they can't find out the information. Once they find out, there is a high probability that they will be silenced."
In response to Zhu Biao's inquiry, Chu Ze had no intention of covering up and directly told what he knew.
And by the way, I mentioned it to Zhu Biao.
"I really didn't know before that this Zhu Yong was actually a relative of Zhu Liangzu. It was only when Hu Weiyong came to me this time that he mentioned it."
"Yongjia Marquis Zhu Liangzu?"
When Zhu Biao heard Chu Ze mention Zhu Liangzu's name, his brows suddenly frowned, and then he spoke with some confusion to confirm.
And Chu Ze also nodded.
"Yes, that's the unlucky guy."
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Zhu Biao, who was just mentioning it in passing, heard Chu Ze call him this name.
The corner of his mouth suddenly twitched.
Then, he put down the tea cup, stood up, grabbed Chu Ze, and prepared to leave.
But just after taking two steps, he seemed to have thought of something again. After turning back, he picked up a memorial on the table and threw it into Chu Ze's hand.
"You take a look at this first. Come on, follow me to see my father."
"Hey...what are you showing me about your memorial? Let me put down the teacup first."
In the palace, in the backyard.
Now Zhu Yuanzhang has put himself in a state of semi-retirement. Apart from walking around all day long, his biggest hobby is to chat with Queen Ma and tease his grandchildren.
The cowpox experiment has entered its third step.
It will take another half a month at most to have complete results. By then, Lao Zhu's worries will be temporarily settled.
And once the cowpox incident comes to a conclusion, the next step will be the matter of Japan.
Lao Zhu has repeatedly confirmed to Chu Ze many times that the silver content of the Japanese country, even if it is fully exploited, is enough for the Ming Dynasty to mine it for hundreds of years.
As long as we can capture the Japanese country and successfully mine silver.
The problem of treasure banknotes in Ming Dynasty can be solved naturally.
After the war, Zhu Yuanzhang did not want to worry about how to resettle the Japanese country for the time being.
He planned to leave all these matters to Zhu Biao.
Since we need to delegate power, we need to train Zhu Biao.
Then it can't just be internal problems, but also external things. He has to let Zhu Biao try to deal with them.
Of course, he would give some suggestions on the side, but the final decision was left to Zhu Biao, who could make his own decision from the emperor's perspective.
"Chongba, you seem to have a lot more smiles on your face recently. What, did you think of something happy again?"
In the pavilion in the center of the lake, Queen Ma, who was instructing Zhu Xiongying on his homework and studying with Zhu Xiongying, suddenly raised her head and saw Zhu Yuanzhang staring at her with a smile on his face and giggling.
Queen Ma then remembered that she had not spoken to Lao Zhu for a long time.
So after touching Zhu Xiongying's little head, she stood up and sat next to Zhu Yuanzhang.
"Sister! We are thinking that we are almost retired now. What do you think? How about we have another child?"
"You are so old. How old am I? You know nonsense all the time."
Empress Ma, who originally wanted to talk to Zhu Yuanzhang, raised her hand angrily and slapped him hard on the shoulder after hearing what he said.
Lao Zhu, who had been slapped, looked at Queen Ma who was smiling a bit shyly. He was just joking, but now he became inexplicably interested.
This retirement life is boring anyway. If you can really have children in old age, wouldn't it be a great thing in life?
But when Lao Zhu approached and wanted to tease him again, a cough suddenly sounded from behind the two elders.
"Ahem...my son, Zhu Biao, pays homage to his father, and pays homage to his mother!"
"Well, Chu Ze pays homage to His Majesty, and pays homage to Godmother!"
The sudden appearance of Zhu Biao and Chu Ze caused a huge embarrassment to Queen Ma, who was already a little embarrassed by what Lao Zhu said.
After getting away from Lao Zhu in a slight panic, the more she thought about it, the more she felt a little embarrassed. When Zhu Biao and Chu Ze were out of sight, she raised her foot and kicked Lao Zhu's calf directly.
At this moment, Lao Zhu grinned in pain.
"Oh my god"
"Father, are you okay?"
"It's okay. I've just had a fever and toothache in the past two days."
Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang who was obviously reaching out to touch his calf, but still said that he had a toothache with a straight face.
After Zhu Biao and Chu Ze looked at each other, they both just smiled, assuming they had seen through it without saying anything.
After the pain in his leg gradually eased, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Chu Ze and Zhu Biao.
As Zhu Yuanzhang gradually delegated power, Zhu Biao had to do many things personally.
Although it is not tiring, it is very time consuming.
Not to mention Chu Ze, he was very busy all day long.
The two of them deliberately came to the harem to find him today. They didn't come here to exchange feelings.
"You two can be considered as visiting the Three Treasures Palace now. Tell me what you are going to do today?"
When Zhu Yuanzhang said this, there was a hint of disgust in his tone.
He was really not used to it at the beginning of his retirement life.
Having nothing to do every day seems extremely boring.
But after gradually getting used to it, Lao Zhu also discovered that it was actually quite good to have nothing to do every day.
Especially when he was accompanying Queen Ma to amuse his grandson, Lao Zhu least wanted anyone to disturb him.
"Father, my main reason for coming here today is to let you see this."
Zhu Biao could naturally hear the dislike in his father's words.
However, for today's matter, it would be impossible for him not to come to Zhu Yuanzhang.
After all, the matter was so important that he, the prince, could not handle it completely for the time being.
While talking, Zhu Biao took the memorial from Chu Ze.
Then he handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw what they were doing, he frowned slightly.
Obviously, Zhu Biao was somewhat uncomfortable with showing the memorial to Chu Ze.
It is the emperor's business to read the memorial.
How can this be shown to anyone casually?
But then Zhu Yuanzhang was relieved.
Anyway, it doesn’t make much difference whether you show it to Chu Ze or not.
This kid knows a lot of things and doesn't care about this little bit.
When Zhu Yuanzhang received the memorial, the more he looked at the contents, the deeper his frown deepened.
"Colluded with Japanese pirates, looted the coast, and then pretended to wipe out the Japanese pirates. They were paid by the army before, and then they were paid by the people along the coast! Damn it for colluding with foreign bandits! This is our prime minister, and these are our proud soldiers and generals!"
After Zhu Yuanzhang read the memorial in his hand, he threw it to the ground.
When he spoke, the sinister look on his face made Chu Ze beside him feel a chill down his back.
Zhu Biao also showed him the memorial just now on the way here.
The general meaning is that Hu Weiyong's party members colluded with the Japanese pirates along the coast, and after providing these Japanese pirates with detailed deployment of troops along the coast, they allowed these Japanese pirates to specialize in weak defensive areas.
Once captured, they started burning, killing and looting.
After some looting, the people on the shore began to dispatch soldiers on the grounds that they were attacked by Japanese pirates.
When soldiers move, as long as they set off, every step is money.
These people can make huge profits from it.
Then, they were given a share of the money plundered by the Japanese pirates.
And after the coastal defense changes, they once again gave the Japanese pirates troop deployment details, allowing these maritime bandits to attack weak points again.
Thus plundering again.
Under this kind of internal and external coordination, not only wasting money and wasting people, but also fattening foreign thieves and harming the own people.
Such an unconscionable thing, now Zhu Yuanzhang learned that his own prime minister was behind it.
How could Zhu Yuanzhang not be angry?
How can you not be angry!
"How do you plan to handle this matter?"
After reading this memorial, Zhu Yuanzhang really couldn't bear it anymore.
It can be said that the Hu Weiyong faction is rotten to the core.
Now that Zhu Yuanzhang has given up his plan to abolish the prime minister system, under this situation, it becomes urgent to deal with Hu Weiyong.
The longer you delay, the more serious the problem will be!
"Father, what I mean is that the cross-sea battle is imminent. At this time, the best situation is to stabilize Hu Weiyong rather than move him immediately."
"When fighting across the sea, troop deployment will naturally move towards the coast."
"At that time, if we find a loophole and attract Japanese pirates to attack the weak points of our coastal garrison, we can kill a large number of these pirates at once."
"And take advantage of this situation to directly capture Hu Weiyong's faction. While attacking the outside, secure the inside!"
"All the people involved in the incident will have their homes raided by the nine clans, their land and finances confiscated, and they will be executed and then those who are not deeply involved will be selected. The vassal kings will plead for mercy and take them to develop overseas."
Facing Zhu Yuanzhang's inquiry, Zhu Biao was not ambiguous at all, and his eyes were also full of murderous intent.
What Hu Weiyong's faction has done has exceeded the limit of what he can tolerate.
Collude with foreign enemies to slaughter the people of their own country.
This is no longer a matter of disregarding human life, it is a crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason.
The crime deserves death!
Zhu Biao's answer can be said to have comforted Zhu Yuanzhang's originally restless heart.
Zhu Biao can be cruel, which is what Zhu Yuanzhang is most happy to see.
"What about you? Did your kid bring me bad news this time, or good news? If it's bad news, I suggest you stop telling me. We are actually in a good mood today."
After asking Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang also looked at Chu Ze who was aside.
And when he opened his mouth, Chu Ze was immediately confused.
There is no news from him today!
"Father, you have misunderstood. It was my son who brought Chu Ze here this time, and it was about Marquis Yongjia. I think that Chu Ze should have something to say."
"What did I say? I said it."
"Just say it. You've already spoken, do you still need me to say it?"
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Please give me a monthly pass! Guys, I want to exceed 2,000 monthly tickets this month!
(End of chapter)
