Seeing Zhang Juzheng's serious face, Emperor Wanli was a little scared! However, he kept encouraging himself in his heart, telling himself that he was already married and an adult, and he could no longer be afraid of his teacher! So he hesitated and said: "Mr. Zhang, but I have already said that this matter is the navy's own business, and even the food and salary are raised by the navy itself. How can we not do it?"
At this time Wang Xijue spoke before Zhang Juzheng, because Zhang Juzheng was their chief assistant and it was impossible for him to rush to the front. So he held up his hands and said: "Your Majesty, you must know that as the saying goes, the war is fierce and dangerous, how can you decide to conquer a country so hastily! What's more, it is a country that Taizu has decided not to conquer!"
Emperor Wanli still had some psychological advantages over Wang Xijue. He straightened his body and said, "Old Wangge, there is no need to mention the so-called country without conquest! When the Japanese pirates ravaged the Ming Dynasty, this country without conquest was over! And just yesterday Gu Ninghou gave me a memorial, which detailed the plan on how to fight. I thought what he wrote was very reasonable, so I agreed to his request!"
Zhang Siwei said loudly: "Your Majesty, a warrior like him who has never fought in a war knows what strategy is? Can he send troops just by writing a memorial?"
Emperor Wanli glanced at him and said: "The memorial is really well written! And it is clearly written in the memorial that this dispatch of troops is not aimed at the entire Japanese country, but only against a local name under the Japanese country! So this is not It’s not about destroying the country, it’s about punishing and shocking!”
In this way, several pavilion elders took turns to attack, but Emperor Wanli mustered up the courage to stop them! His main reason is that the Royal Navy is directly under the royal jurisdiction, and whether the navy is dispatched or not is naturally decided by the royal family!
Zhang Juzheng saw that several people could not convince Emperor Wanli no matter what, so he directly handed over his hand and said: "Your Majesty, in this case, we will ask to see the Queen Mother and ask the Queen Mother to uphold justice!"
In Zhang Juzheng's impression, Empress Dowager Li was the trump card against Emperor Wanli! As long as Empress Dowager Li is sacrificed, Emperor Wanli will follow her in all her ways! But unexpectedly, Emperor Wanli, who was still a little panicked, became calm after hearing this, and said calmly: "Mr. Zhang, do you know why I just announced your audience? It's because the queen mother is sick, and I was attending to her illness just now! "
As soon as Zhang Juzheng and others heard this, they knew that Empress Dowager Li was also on Emperor Wanli's side in this matter! I just don’t know how he persuaded Queen Mother Li! Moreover, since Empress Dowager Li claimed that she was ill, they could not force her to see her. After all, this was against the rule of a minister!
Seeing this, Zhang Juzheng closed his eyes helplessly, but then he opened his eyes and said, "I wonder how the Queen Mother's condition is?"
Emperor Wanli said, "Mr. Zhang, I'd like to ask you about it! The imperial doctor said that I just feel cold occasionally, so I just need to rest!"
Zhang Juzheng said: "In that case, I will take my leave. But if the Queen Mother's health recovers, I would like to express my gratitude to you, Your Majesty!"
Emperor Wanli was so surprised when he heard Zhang Juzheng said he was leaving. He nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, okay! If my mother's condition improves, I will definitely inform Mr. Zhang!"
After everyone left the imperial study, Zhang Juzheng called a eunuch and said, "Go and tell Zhang Daban that I want to see you!"
Unexpectedly, the eunuch immediately bowed and said, "Haojiao, Chief Assistant, learned that after the Queen Mother was ill, our ancestors were very anxious and became ill too!"
Zhang Juzheng said calmly after hearing this: "I see! If you see Zhang Daban, tell me that I am very worried about him and hope that he will recover as soon as possible!"
The eunuch continued to bow and said, "I will definitely bring you the message!"
After everyone left the eunuch and walked for a while, Zhang Siwei said: "Chief Assistant, can this matter just be left to the emperor to continue messing around with? This Feng Bao is not reliable, and he will be invisible at the critical moment!"
Zhang Juzheng snorted and said: "Of course not! When you get back to the duty room, everyone will give orders. When the navy prepares supplies, no one is allowed to provide convenience! The army will need countless things. It depends on how he collects them. come out!"
When all the pavilion elders heard this, they all looked happy and immediately rushed back to the check-in room to give orders to all the department personnel under their respective control. They were determined not to let Liu Haojia collect military supplies. And as their orders were issued, the entire civil service system slowly began to operate, cutting off
The possibility of various materials at the head of Liu Haojia.
All the civil servants are waiting to see Liu Haojia's joke! But what they didn't know was that Liu Haojia had started preparing a directly affiliated logistics system a long time ago and had signed purchase agreements with many merchants. Especially after the nobles started doing business, many purchase contracts have been transferred to shops under their names, so their blockade is doomed to fail!
When the news that the navy was about to be dispatched reached the nobles, it also caused quite a stir among the nobles! Since it was Liu Haojia who sent them the notice saying that this was a fundraiser and there was no mention of stock raising at all, this made the nobles very unhappy! They thought this was Emperor Wanli and Liu Haojia working together to squeeze their advantage!
Although the letter stated a voluntary donation, according to the rules of the officialdom, the word "voluntary" contained a lot of fuss! Maybe if you really stop donating voluntarily, the emperor will get angry when he sees you, and God knows what he will do!
But what relieved them was that there were four words after this "voluntary", namely "no limit to the number", which gave the honorable nobles room to operate!
So many people wrote an enthusiastic letter, in which they highly praised Emperor Wanli and Liu Haojia for their support in punishing the Japanese, but then the conversation changed and they started crying! It is said that even though I have made a lot of money this year following Liu Haojia, the cost is too high and I have not made any money this year, so I can only donate less! Some people even suggested that Liu Haojia waive their rent for the next year, so that they would have money to donate!
So just like this, hundreds of thousands of taels of donations were delivered piecemeal to Liu Haojia, and the amounts were quite consistent. It seemed that they had been negotiated in private! All the earls had one thousand taels, and the marquis all had two thousand taels, so they were able to scrape together a lot of money in a short time!
Just when everyone was sending the money, in the garden of Duke Dingguo's mansion, Duke Dingguo was walking in front with his hands behind his back, followed by the scholar Xu Xigao. Moreover, Xu Xigao's face was obviously not very good, because he had just been scolded by Duke Dingguo! The reason is that he hasn't practiced martial arts with his generals for four days in a row!
In fact, the education of a long-established noble family like Ding Guogong is quite good for their nephews, and they are not as unbearable as the outside world said. It's just that the civil servants were so powerful that they treated them like pigs, which led to the current situation. After all, no matter how good you practice, you will never make real progress until you go to the battlefield. Over time, you will really turn into a pig!
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