Liu Jin was not thinking about the happiness of the two little girls of the Mei family, he was thinking about himself. Speaking of which, the emperor has not been good at anything since he became the prince. If he has anything, he is a capable minister.
But what does these people have to do with him? If a person is strong in ability, his relationship with the emperor will be in the future.
Zhang Yong recommended Wu Junchuan, and he also went on the expedition this time. It is still unknown what the outcome will be. And in terms of time, it has been several years, and the man named Wu probably hasn't made any noise.
To put it bluntly, how can it be so easy to find ministers like Wang Yue and Yang Tinghe that the emperor likes?
So Liu Jin has been looking for a way out, there is nothing he can do!
However, in the past few days, I saw that the emperor was getting older, and his little idea began to play again. It is human nature for a man to love a woman. The young emperor is a romantic man in the world. People like them without roots have no idea. But the emperor is still Can it be without?
Moreover, eunuchs don't have the moral pressure of flattery like civil servants, especially Liu Jin. He doesn't care about anything. As long as he can please the emperor, he will do everything from abducting two women to killing people.
Liu Jin also knew about the rumors in Mei Mansion. In fact, no one in the capital knew that Mei Mansion was rich and noble, and it was true that merchants were not allowed to take concubines, but they couldn't resist the fact that they had money and bought so many beautiful women.
Liu Jin wandered around the room for a while, and he suddenly thought of one more thing. When working for His Majesty, he must be foolproof, and there must be no oversight.
But who has seen Mei Huaigu’s two sisters?
If it's a fake, wouldn't it be a waste of effort?
So after thinking about it, he decided to bring Gu Dayong over for discussion.
The two eunuchs hid in the room and spoke these secret words attentively, but as soon as Liu Jin began to speak, Gu Dayong began to feel guilty.
"Brother Liu, can this be done? His Majesty's temperament, if he knew that a few of us were playing tricks, he would probably make Long Yan furious, right?"
Liu Jin clicked his tongue and nodded his head, "You really mean it when you say you don't want to use your brain. As long as His Majesty likes it, it's not too late to be happy, so how can you blame us? He will only think of us slaves. It's obviously a good thing to be willing to put in the effort to please him."
Yeah? Gu Dayong was not sure. He hesitated for a while and shook his head like a rattle. "No, no, no, no, your majesty said that we should be honest when we are on duty. We should not say anything for fun. Especially..."
Especially this His Majesty, who was born with the blessing of his ancestors. He has a delicate mind and thinks about everything more clearly than them. He can hide it from others, but you have to hide things from him. Do you feel a lot of pressure?
To put it exaggeratedly, if a person who has nothing to worry about really tries to act cunning in front of the emperor, he may not be able to sleep at night. He is clever but ruthless in his methods. Once exposed, every layer of his skin will fall off.
Seeing him like this, Liu Jin felt a little resentful, "Dayong, are you really out of your mind? I don't know your majesty's temper as well as you do? Think about it carefully, your majesty is so good at this kind of thing." Do you want to open your mouth? His Majesty is determined to become a wise king, and he would say such things to you and me? But as your Majesty grows older, he also has seven emotions and six desires, and he thinks to himself, if we can't do it well, what use are we?" ….
Eunuch Liu almost burst out with emoticons.
Moreover, what he said was so explicit that Gu Dayong could not argue with it for a moment, and even felt that it made some sense.
"Then let's do it, I listen to Brother Liu."
"Hey, I wish I could have done it this way." Liu Jin moved the candle away and buried his head deeper, "The problem now is that our family only has one word from Mei Huaigu, and we haven't seen what his two sisters are like. Get over it!"
Gu Dayong was able to tell the truth now, "This matter is simple. Didn't I save two girls and send them to medical school? You can ask them to take a look first. It's just a matter of words."
That's what Liu Jin meant. He didn't have the heart to do such a thing as saving people.
"Then I'll bother you and leave the palace tomorrow. Mei Huaigu is in a hurry and will probably go see Dr. Tan early tomorrow morning."
Gu Dayong asked again: "We keep things so secret, even if it turns out to be true in the end,
If it is accomplished, how does Your Majesty know that it is our credit? "
"Don't worry about that, I have a clever plan."
That's what he said, but he stopped talking about it after he came up with a clever plan, which made Gu Dayong feel a little worried.
Wasn't this because he was being taken advantage of and deceived?
You talk so much when you want him to work, but when it comes to the really critical moment, you don’t talk about anything anymore. You just say you have a clever plan. Damn it, what kind of clever plan do you have?
In this way, in the end, it would be Liu Jin who would take the credit quietly, without even knowing when he took it. How did your majesty know that Gu Dayong was also contributing?
However, Liu Jin was a senior official after all, so Gu Dayong did not dare to say anything more, so he could only follow the order and go back first.
Just when I walked out the door, my eyes were twitching and I rolled my eyes a little.
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After morning court the next day, Zhu Houzhao was not in a good mood.
The cause of this incident lies in the remaining 1.6 million taels of silver. On that day, in order to send troops to the northwest, the emperor gave up his words. This time, all military supplies would not be spent from the treasury.
It was also because the burden on the national treasury was not increased, so things went relatively smoothly. Otherwise, if there was no money, the minister would be forced to death. Who can do anything to make a living without rice?
With all the silver, grain and grass prepared, the Beijing camp could set off so quickly.
But the time in February slowly passed, and there was not much sound in the northwest. After people gradually stabilized, the money in the emperor's hand attracted attention.
The current situation of the Ming Dynasty was like this. The people were poor, disasters hit some places every year, and the treasury was always short of money. Now that the emperor had money, he naturally had to apply for some.
Zhang Fuhua had previously reported that there were disaster victims in Jiangxi and Sichuan. He was sent by the emperor to Nanzhili to borrow grain. After borrowing for a long time, he had no food at all. He only went to the capital to ask for money from the emperor.
Ding Zuping, the governor of Yingtian in Nanzhili, also came to check and said that he had no food to borrow, so the emperor just missed it.
Moreover, the impact of the war has gradually emerged. The price of food in the capital has risen slowly but significantly, but it is not known how it is in other places.
How could Zhu Houzhao be happy in such a situation?
Once the emperor was unhappy, a group of important ministers did not even think about going back to the court to rest, and they were all summoned to Qianqing Palace.
The reason why he was unhappy was not that he had to spend money again, but that he had a feeling that the people below didn't want to work or use their brains, so they just knew how to talk to him and hand it over if they had any difficulties. How many of them really wanted to? To share his worries and solve his problems? Which leader would be happy if something like this happened? ….
So he felt like he was working so hard every day, but the people below him were holding him back.
There are no three divisions in Southern Zhili, only two governors, namely Governor Yingtian and Governor Fengyang. Governor Yingtian is stationed in Nanjing (after Wanli, he was stationed in Suzhou), and Governor Fengyang is stationed in Huai'an. Not to mention Governor Fengyang, Governor Yingtian manages the richest and most heavily taxed area in the country.
For example, Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture had very heavy taxes during the Ming Dynasty.
Now Governor Yingtian has said in a memorial that there is no food to borrow. Do you think my emperor is a fool?
So upon arriving at the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Houzhao asked directly: "Who is this Yingtian Governor Ding Zuping?"
Wang Jiao, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, replied, "Ding Zuping was a second-class Jinshi in Ji Chou Branch in the fifth year of Chenghua. He successively served as the head of the Ministry of Justice, censor of Shanxi Dao, and political counselor of Shandong Zuo. In the sixteenth year of Hongzhi, he was transferred from Guangxi Youbu to Yingtian. Governor."
Governor Yingtian is a high official of the second rank.
It sounds like your resume is good, but Zhu Houzhao doesn't look at the appearance but the results. No matter how awesome you are and don't want to solve the emperor's problems, what use are you?
"How old are you?"
How old are you...
Wang Hao didn't remember it for a while.
It was Han Wen who replied, "I have met him once. I am eighty-eight years old this year."
Zhu Houzhao thought that he was already sixty-eight years old, how much contribution could he be expected to make? And most people will wait for a moment to say a few nice words in front of you, but Korean didn't say anything, which is actually a bad word.
"Fire him from his post and let him return to his hometown to retire!" The emperor spoke loudly, "The cabinet will prepare a decree immediately."
Liu Jian and the emperor still had an unsettled account. At this time, I didn’t want to say anything for Ding Zuping.
"According to the order."
Such an outburst made the atmosphere in Qianqing Palace very serious.
"He Jian, the chief envoy of Sichuan, is transferred to be the governor of Yingtian. I remember that when Wang Shu was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, He Jian ranked first in the assessment of political performance. South Zhili is a tax-rich area of the imperial court, and not just anyone can be the governor of Yingtian."
This is quite serious.
Xie Qian wanted to explain the atmosphere, so he said: "He Shiguang (He Jianzi) is suitable. This man had great ambitions when he was young. He once said, 'If you are not loyal to the emperor when you go out, and if you are not filial to your relatives when you enter, wouldn't you be ashamed of the world? I am ashamed of my seven-foot body."
Zhu Houzhao didn't know these stories, but he still sounded like a man.
Of course, as the emperor, he didn't care what these people said, what mattered was what he did. He Jian did a pretty good job as the chief envoy in Sichuan. He opened water canals, promoted education, and patiently led people to farm mulberry trees. He was considered a conscientious official. Because of these, he was allowed to go to Jiangnan.
"In addition, I issued an order to reprimand Zhang Fuhua. When Jiangxi was hit by a disaster, I ordered him to go to Nanzhili to borrow food. Even though Nanzhili was short of food, he, the Zuodu censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and one of the nine ministers of the imperial court, came to Let’s not talk about the abundance of places. It’s possible to borrow 30,000 to 50,000 dan of grain to help with emergencies, right? As a result, he didn’t borrow even a grain of grain. What does this mean? Or he was acting erratically and not seriously thinking about it. The only way is to ask me; or there is something wrong with his ability, and he has no ability to do things at all! No matter which one it is, I will cause trouble for him!"
Zhu Houzhao had seen too many things in his previous life. For subordinates, even if you can't complete the tasks assigned by the leader, you still have to make some noise, even if it's just pretending, you have to pretend that you have tried hard. ….
In the case of Zhang Fuhua, he should have at least borrowed some, and then reported the difficulty to his superiors: 1, 2, and 3 o'clock, I really can't borrow any food, please forgive me.
This is called a thing.
If we don’t have any grain, we can just ask the emperor to allocate money. What is this called? This is like the kind of veteran in later generations of work units where the leader immediately opens his mouth and says, "I don't know how to do it" after assigning some work.
Then why should I keep you?
"Why don't you say anything? Do you think I'm a bit pushy?" Zhu Houzhao snorted and sneered, "Don't think that I don't know that if Jiu Qing from Beijing goes down, even if he bribes him, he can afford ten thousand shi of food! As a result! I borrowed it to provide disaster relief to the court, but I couldn't borrow a single one! I have said long ago that I will use them even if they are thinking about the court officials even 50%. However, there are some officials who are thinking about themselves so much that they don't even worry about the court. , What’s the use of me keeping it?!”
The emperor pointed to Fengxi beside him, "Just write down what I said exactly and ask Zhang Fuhua to read it! I don't believe it. I can't borrow any food from Zuodu Yushi's face! The strict decree is clear , told him to complete it! What kind of work in the imperial court is not difficult? If you always say that you can't do it, wouldn't my imperial edict be like child's play? "
The emperor was so angry that the important officials did not dare to speak. But Zhang Fuhua, the old man probably won't be able to sleep again.
"Everyone, please go down." Seeing that they were annoyed by this, the emperor let them go first.
But he himself stayed in the Qianqing Palace for a while, and still issued a decree, "Xuan Mao Yuwen entered the palace."
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