In real history, Hongzhi did not have any thoughts of killing Li Guang. He always trusted Li Guang, even if the Empress Dowager said, "Today Li Guang, tomorrow Li Guang, something will happen."
Li Guang later committed suicide out of fear of crime.
Even so, the emperor held a relatively grand funeral for Li Guang despite the opposition of the officials.
Because of this trust, Li Guang also became the eunuch who caused the most trouble in Hongzhi's reign.
Especially when the emperor opened his mouth on salt and land, eunuchs and relatives frequently petitioned for rewards.
As soon as the emperor gave permission, the Thousand Miles Embankment would burst, and tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of salt from Huaihe and Zhejiang would flow into the pockets of these people every year. Li Guang is one of the best,
To a certain extent, this exacerbated the erosion of the 'Kai Zhong Salt Method'.
The Kaizhong Salt Law is a system established by Zhu Yuanzhang, and its connotation is only one sentence: the Central Plains and Jiangnan are rich and full of grain. The border areas are barren and under heavy military pressure, food is scarce. Therefore, the imperial court uses salt as a medium and requires salt merchants to transport grain to the border and obtain salt, so that they can do salt business for you. Salt is big business.
This has been maintained for hundreds of years until the Hongzhi Dynasty, when it was canceled and the salt merchants only had to hand over the money to the capital to obtain salt. Who would transport grain to the border again?
There are many reasons, and many evils must have occurred over the past century. It's not like Hongzhi made this happen.
However, the Hongzhi Dynasty gave too many rewards to Yanyin, which led to the "inflation of Yanyin", if not the root cause, but it was one of the reasons.
The salt merchants earn from their hard work transporting grain is not as good as bribing the eunuchs who are relatives in the imperial court. What if this happens?
Furthermore, even if there is salt, there may not be salt.
Because the output of salt is fixed, the salt production is printed out loudly. Moreover, all the eunuchs and marquises in the front were queuing up to get salt, so the ordinary salt merchants naturally stayed behind. This section gave the power an opportunity to seek rent.
I originally thought that this change would allow the court to receive the money from the salt, and then allocate money and food to the border with the money. Thinking about it, it was quite good.
But this is an ideal. Everyone knows the reality. This thing is to remove one layer and lose one layer, which will eventually lead to the border troops having no food.
While the border troops were without food, the imperial court was also without money.
What a bunch of fucking geniuses. The dead were brought to life.
At this pass, another ruler like Dayan Khan appeared in the north. Sometimes Zhu Houzhao, a person from another dimension, was anxious for them. If we were to put this in the Republic, there would already be millions of troops in the north, so how could there still be a shortage of food?
Looking back and thinking about it carefully, the overall productivity of the Ming Dynasty did not increase or decrease significantly. Whose pocket did the money and grain go to?
Counting on your fingers, there will definitely be no wrong vested interests. They are some of the officials responsible for salt transportation, salt merchants who have taken the official path, the eunuchs who guarded the palace, and even some eunuchs in the palace, relatives, and princes of the clan.
So they are all Zhu Houzhao's enemies.
Since they are enemies, it doesn't matter whether their surname is Zhu or not.
Hongzhi allowed them to cut out Ming Dynasty's flesh to mend their own sores, but he would not allow it.
What happened today is just the beginning.
Li Guang's profits were definitely considerable. Rumor has it that it’s tens of millions taels.
But Zhu Houzhao guessed that he should not dare to take them all out, otherwise it would cause a "shock" and he would die if he didn't die.
The incident at Yuxiu Pavilion in the palace in the evening gave the civil servants an excellent excuse.
Although it was already evening, Zhu Houzhao could imagine that the foreign ministers must have started to move and the waves were turbulent - they wanted to ask the emperor to get rid of this big harm no matter what.
Even the Empress Dowager Zhou said that the emperor trusted Li Guang too much. This is an opportunity not to be missed and will never come again!
In the evening, all the talented people arrived at Li Dongyang's house.
Xie Qian, Wang Hao, Wu Kuan, Wang Hua... are all listed. Li Dongyang sat in the main seat, with Xie Qian next to him, and the others lined up on both sides. There could be seven or eight people at the bottom, all of whom were in high spirits.
This is the critical time, sleep is no longer important.
It doesn’t matter what discussion you have to say, it’s just eight words: Today is the day of justice and sacrifice!
It's just about the prince's part... Some people feel that they need to be informed, while others feel that it is not necessary.
But Wang Hao still said what he should say: "Li Guang is very trusted by His Majesty. It is not that simple and easy to kill this official. Although the opportunity is rare, it is not impossible if there are any changes. . His Highness and I are of the same mind, and with His Highness as our leader, our momentum will naturally be even greater."
"I don't know whether His Highness's words in Qianqing Palace today were intentional or unintentional. He said two consecutive sentences that Li Guang couldn't argue with." Everyone felt very happy when they mentioned this section!
Therefore, I felt that the crown prince was just like them.
Besides, people have heard about the prince's reputation for loyalty and filial piety in recent days, so he is naturally a good king.
Of course, some people were opposed to the crown prince leaving the palace incognito and the establishment of a school palace.
"It should be intentional." Li Dongyang said at this time, "However, I don't agree. Let the prince take the lead in this matter."
Wang Hao was quite surprised. He quickly glanced at Xie Qian and found that his old god was there. He didn't seem surprised.
Li Dongyang continued to explain the reason: "It is enough that the prince and I are of the same mind. After all, Li Guang is still the emperor's man, and the emperor also trusts Li Guang very much. If we involve the prince, will it be disadvantageous to the prince?"
"But what if this doesn't work out?"
"Didn't the prince help us?" Li Dongyang asked.
Yes, this is the case today in Qianqing Palace.
"I believe that at the critical moment, the prince will give him a boost, maybe just a word, and that will be enough. If it still fails, it means that the emperor is determined not to kill Li Guang, then we still can't do it by holding the prince up, so why bother giving in? The prince...takes this risk?"
This is the level of Mr. Ge.
The more times he does it, the higher ups will definitely know his work style and ability, and they will naturally like him and be willing to use him.
When Wang Hao thought about it, he also felt that what Mr. Li Ge said was that the old minister was seeking the country.
“There are many things that need to be considered before failure, and before progress is made, consider retreat.”
What will you do if it doesn't work? Don't put everything into it.
That's the truth.
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At the same time, Li Guang is not sitting still and waiting for death.
He was really desperate to fall asleep this night. Not to mention sleeping, even if there were three young virgins prepared for him on the bed, he wouldn't be able to lie down.
Who will save him at this time? The question can be simplified to who else is he valuable to?
This is an almost no-brainer answer.
So as soon as the fire in Yuxiu Pavilion was extinguished and it got dark, he entered the East Palace.
Strangely enough, there were no inquiries or obstacles along the way, and he was able to reach the Jie Fang Hall relatively smoothly.
The candles in the Jie Fang Hall are very bright.
Seeing this scene, Li Guang understood. He felt happy and worried at the same time.
The good news is that His Highness seems to be waiting for him. In this case, there is still a glimmer of hope. The sad thing is that this hope may not be easy to come by.
Li Guang picked up his robe and crossed the threshold. When he was about to enter the palace, he took a quick look and saw Liu Jin standing at the door of Xie Fang Palace!
Wasn't he... severely punished by the prince? ! Why is it that he is still the one accompanying the prince alone late at night?
So Dong Gong was very angry at first, but now he forgives easily?
"Eunuch Li," Liu Jin also greeted him.
"you……"
Liu Jin raised his hand and pressed it softly, signaling him not to say any more, "It's hard to explain things in this world. Everyone has his own destiny. Today is you, don't you know that tomorrow will be me? We are here, you and I will have such a day. If it still happens If you feel uncomfortable, just come back to me. Let’s pass this test today first and then talk about it later.”
Li Guang clenched his fists. He was deceived by this guy back then!
"Eunuch Liu seems to have seen through life and death with his words. I hope you really do."
Liu Jin smiled and did not answer this sentence. The matter between him and Li Guang was really not the focus tonight.
"Eunuch Li, please go in. His Highness has been waiting for a long time. But before going in, His Highness asked me to ask Eunuch Li." After speaking, Liu Jin raised her lowered eyelids and stared at Li Guang: "How much is your life worth?" money?"
