When Zhang Cheng went on a business trip to Nanya and then to Yuegang to wait for Hai Rui to return to the court, he brought back a magnifying glass that burned ants from Nanya and made it smaller. After combining the two convex mirrors, he could see farther, which frightened Zhang Cheng. Cheng thought he had opened his eyes.
Then a telescope placed in Wuying Tower was born. Although it could not see thousands of miles away, it could see several miles away.
Many eunuchs believed that Zhang Cheng was able to go to Songjiang Mansion to supervise Xu Jie's return to the fields because he offered auspicious treasures, because the young eunuch began to tinker with glass and spent a lot of effort to burn the glass.
Finally, there was this darkroom, which was located in the side hall of Wenhua Hall. It was covered with heavy curtains and was completely dark, except for a small hole that could reveal light.
Today, Zhu Yijun came to the dark room. Although it was very dark, he could still see each other's outlines clearly.
When Zhang Juzheng walked into the darkroom, he saw a beam of white sunlight hitting a piece of triangular prism glass. The white light passing through the triangular prism glass was dispersed into seven colors and hit a piece of white paper. .
"This!" Zhang Juzheng looked at the scene in front of him in great surprise. The rainy day formed a rainbow, and the sun behind him sprayed water, forming a rainbow shape. There was water in all of them. The glass of this triangular prism was made of fire and flames. It was unexpectedly There really was a rainbow!
Although Zhang Juzheng was very shocked by the scene in front of him, his expression changed drastically and he said loudly: "Your Majesty, "Shang Shu·Tai Oath" says: Make strange skills and obscene skills for pleasure. "Book of Rites" says: Make obscene sounds, strange clothes, strange clothes Use skills and strange weapons to distrust everyone and kill them!"
"It's not easy to get too obsessed with juggling and juggling!"
"If there is a machine, there must be something there, and if there is something there, there must be a mind. If the mind is in the heart, it will be pure and unprepared. If it is pure and unprepared, the spirit will be uncertain. If the spirit is uncertain, the Tao will not contain it."
The last sentence is what Confucius said.
It is said that when Zigong arrived in Hanyin, he saw an old man holding an earthen pot and watering the ground. Zigong asked the old man why he didn't use a tool like a hoe to fetch water, but used an earthen pot.
The old man said: With machinery, ingenuity will arise; with ingenuity, ingenuity will arise. When opportunism arises in the heart, it destroys the simple natural quality.
Once the pure and simple quality of the heart is polluted by scheming, they will think about opportunistic ways and strive for fame and gain. In this way, the mind will be unstable. People who are unstable will not be able to follow the Tao and will eventually be abandoned.
After Zigong heard this, he looked ashamed and could not answer.
The old man is Zhuangzi, and Zhuangzi’s words of teasing Zigong are Confucius’s original words.
Zhuangzi was mocking Confucians who would rather use earthen pots to fetch water than use machinery, which is laborious and has little effect.
However, if there is a machine, there must be something, and if there is something, there must be an intention. This sentence has become the words of Feng Ruoguiyin in later generations of Confucianism, and has become a solid and heavy ideological seal, firmly stamped on the history of the Central Plains Dynasty. In the minds of scholars, although occasionally some people are extremely interested in craftsmanship, a scientific system has never been formed.
Science is a process of using the practical spear to break through the inherent cognitive barriers.
Even Zhang Juzheng, who has mastered the theory of contradiction, when faced with strange skills and tricks, his first reaction is: make obscene sounds, strange clothes, strange skills, and strange weapons to make people suspicious, kill him!
Feng Bao was immediately angry. How could this be a strange skill? It was clearly auspicious. As long as the scholar-bureaucrats used various visions of heaven and earth as interpretations of auspiciousness or bad omens, the eunuchs gave the emperor some gadgets to entertain him. Why? Just die!
Zhu Yijun walked forward with a smile, picked up a prism, and blocked the colorful light pillar. After the prism was combined, the colorful light pillars magically merged into one color!
White.
Zhu Yijun turned the prism in his hand, scattering the light in all directions, and then slowly stopped, turning the seven-color light into white. Zhu Yijun's voice was slightly distant and said: "The Master said: If the mind is in the chest, it will not be pure white. Be prepared, Pure White is not prepared, then the divine life will be uncertain.”
"Master also said, haste makes waste."
"But pure white light is seven-color light, and seven-color light is pure white light. What do you think, sir?"
The little emperor is using pure white light to satirize the master's metaphysical quality of pure white, pure and simple, as clean as white.
But this pure white light is not pure white at all, but is composed of seven colors of light. Pure white sunlight can be divided into seven colors by a prism, and then the seven colors can be turned into pure white by a prism.
Zhu Yijun knew very well that Zhang Juzheng must understand what he was talking about. As the chief minister of the empire, as a follower, as a scholar, as a bachelor with rich knowledge and quick thinking, as Zhang Juzheng who has mastered the theory of contradiction and uses dialectical thinking to think about problems. , you can understand.
The little emperor turned into that indescribable thing again, rounded the sledgehammer, and hit the stamp of Zhang Juzheng's thoughts hard, breaking Zhang Juzheng's ingrained and unconfused cognitive world into pieces.
Zhu Yijun smiled and said, "Mr. Yuan Fu, come and give it a try?"
Zhang Juzheng walked over, picked up a prism, stretched it over, and the colorful light beam shot out of the prism turned into white light.
The chief minister of the Ming Dynasty moved and put the prism away without saying a word, and played like this for a long time.
Zhu Yijun said softly: "This is a practical example. Pure white light can be divided into seven colors, and the seven colors can also determine what pure white is. Light is just light."
Zhang Juzheng was silent for a long time before saying: "Chen... let Chen think slowly."
Zhu Yijun was not in a hurry, playing with the prism in his hand and admiring the wonders of this world. He actually planned to bring Zhang Juzheng over to see his new toy, but since Zhang Juzheng polluted his pure heart with his scheming, he couldn't be harmonious. Come on. When discussing miraculous skills and obscene skills, Zhu Yijun used the practice of dividing pure white light into seven colors and combining the seven colors into one color to discuss miraculous skills and obscene skills.
Since Zhang Juzheng came to the door, he naturally had to swing the sledgehammer and hit it to see the result.
Zhu Yijun was not in a hurry, so he removed the prism, replaced it with a bronze mirror, and said, "Sir, the Military War Bureau has made another telescope. The telescope can see very far away, so I gave one to you sir."
"Sir, look at this, the incidence and reflection of light will change."
The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.
When Zhu Yijun rotates the bronze mirror, the incident angle of light changes, and the reflection angle also changes. In the darkroom, the performance is extremely clear.
"I figured it out." After thinking for a long time, Zhang Juzheng finally figured it out and said solemnly: "Previously, almost everyone thought that white light passed through colored glass and was polluted into lights of different colors. The master saw the same thing, and he naturally understood from it that the cunning heart polluted the pure heart. The master was not wrong. Only the opportunistic heart naturally cannot be in harmony with the Tao."
"But white light itself is seven colors, light is just light."
"There is nothing wrong with the truth. What Master is against is opportunism. This is personal cultivation."
"White light is seven-color light, and seven-color light is white light. There is nothing wrong with that. White light is just white light."
Zhu Yijun showed a smile and said: "I never said Master was wrong, I just brought Mr. Yuan Fu to see the rainbow."
"Confucius said: If you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening. The infinite principles of all things must be unknown and must be heard. If you want to know, you must tirelessly explore the unknown. If you don't learn, you will definitely not know. If you want to pursue all things With the infinite principle, how can we not take studying as the first priority? This is what Mr. Yuanfu told me."
"Zi Buyu has strange powers and chaos. A few days ago, I have been trying to figure out why the telescope in Wuying Tower can see clearly several miles away with two small lenses. Isn't this pursuing the principle of all things? How can I say that? It's a miraculous skill." The little emperor put away his sledgehammer and became extraordinarily calm. He was attacking his shield with his spear.
He is using the words of Confucius to refute the so-called conspiracy theory.
Before there was the weapon of dialectical contradiction, the reality of making little effort but achieving much, and the metaphysical opportunism were chaotic but affirmative, opposite but unified phenomena;
In the long history, Confucian scholars, holding the books of sages, completely denied and absolutely criticized the theory of mechanical futility. As a result, the mechanical development of the Central Plains Dynasty was never able to systematically summarize the experience;
The mechanical power of "little power but a lot of merit" is a sharp tool for improving productivity, enriching products, and promoting continuous social progress, and it is the faithfulness of concrete facts;
However, for thousands of years, it has never been able to achieve the harmony of yin and yang and comprehensive compromise, that is, a harmonious and stable state.
Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty is wise, this is not a miraculous skill."
Zhu Yijun suddenly felt uninterested. According to his assumption, Zhang Juzheng should struggle for a while, and then Zhu Yijun would pick up the sledgehammer and smash Zhang Juzheng's ideological stamp to pieces. As a result, after just a few words, Mr. Yuan Fu surrendered directly. .
Only superior knowledge and inferior ignorance remain unchanged.
A person who has a thorough understanding of the principles of all things is an unswerving person. No difficulties can make him change. This requires courage.
There is no doubt that Zhang Juzheng is a supreme knower. For such a supreme knower, there is also great terror, which is the unknown, and there is also great progress, which is also unknown.
The unknown is fear and the source of progress. Zhang Juzheng is not a coward. He can face the unknown and explore it.
Zhang Juzheng's surrender was not a sign of weakness, but a great courage to face the unknown.
Zhu Yijun found that his husband was really a brave man.
Zhu Yijun signaled Feng Bao to remove the prism, then picked up a magnifying glass and fixed it on a slanted shelf. He smiled and said: "Sir, I want to know why a telescope can see things in the distance. So I started to explore, and when I moved the magnifying glass up and down, I was surprised to find that the light would be refracted through the lens and then concentrated on a point."
"So, a magnifying glass can burn ants to death."
Zhu Yijun moved the magnifying glass in his hand. The sunlight emitted from the hole was refracted by the magnifying glass and then turned. As the magnifying glass moved, the light was refracted to different angles, but it always passed through one point, unless it was in a dark room. , this magnifying glass will focus the sunlight to a point that will directly burn the ants to ashes.
"This point is the focus." Zhu Yijun changed a magnifying glass and began to pan up and down. It can be seen that the position of the focus has changed. Zhu Yijun continued: "I am still thinking about the distance between this focus and the magnifying glass and what it has to do with it."
Zhu Yijun had already prepared the sledgehammer, but seeing that Zhang Juzheng was not going to resist or continue smashing, he and Zhang Juzheng left the side hall and went to the main hall to hold a banquet.
At the end of the lecture, Zhang Juzheng received a telescope, prisms, convex lenses and concave lenses as a reward from the emperor.
Zhang Juzheng stood under the sunshine of Mengdong's moon, looking at several small square boxes of sandalwood in his hand, filled with velvet, containing those things that he used to regard as miraculous and obscene things.
The infinite principles of all things are endless in mysteries.
After the assassination of the king, the little emperor finally changed his previous lazy habits. At that time, Zhang Juzheng saw a bright and clear sky. The sky of the Ming Dynasty was clear and clear, with only two small dark clouds. These two dark clouds were nothing but It's just Ming's little doubt.
One of these two dark clouds is that the little emperor is not doing his job properly. The second dark cloud is that the little emperor is studying very well.
Now the two dark clouds are slowly expanding, gradually revealing their true colors, looking particularly ferocious.
"Fortunately." Zhang Juzheng cherished the sandalwood box he had put away very much. He planned to go back and build a darkroom in the Quanchu Guild Hall, and then find someone to grind some prisms, convex lenses and concave mirrors.
If the experimental results are the same as those in the darkroom of the side hall of Wenhua Palace, it means that no one is deceiving the little emperor.
When Chen Shigong was on duty at the Jieguyuan, he had a lot more materials in his hands, mainly the spies captured by the Jinyi Guards. These spies were spying on a lot of information about the Ming Dynasty, including those from the North, Jurchens, and even the Japanese. , of course, there are also Ming people who are Yinjielu people.
These spies were usually caught and killed. Now, the Tiqimen of the Fusi Yamen in Beizhen cleaned these spies inside and out and sent them to the Jiejiyuan for execution. .
Cut it off with a knife, isn't that a waste?
The most troublesome thing for Chen Shigong is that he recently had an additional patient, Tan Lun and Tan Sima, ministers of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty.
Tan Lun's open-mindedness, specifically, means that when it comes to state affairs, he does not care about his own personal interests, puts state affairs first, pays very little attention to official position, fame and fortune, is filial to his friends at home, is dignified in body and mind, is polite and corporal, and does not set up a palace with others. , Sincerity is enough to conquer the world, and integrity is enough to conquer the world.
Chen Shigong was under a lot of pressure. Tan Lun was the leader of the Zhejiang Party, the Grand Sima of the DPRK, and a minister of the Ming Dynasty. Tan Lun was ill. If he couldn't treat the disease well, the Emperor would not spare him, nor would anyone in the Zhejiang Party. Can't reach him.
After Chen Shigong took Tan Lun's pulse, he said sincerely: "Young man is still young and tired of military service. He may not eat until the sun goes out, or he may wear armor even if he goes to court, or he may not be able to sleep on the bed for several months, or he may go to the horse and wait for the day. , or walk hundreds of miles in one day, or travel thousands of miles in one month, no matter how windy, rainy, frosty, or dew, with no dry clothes. Your life depends on your breathing, and you have no time to think about life and death? Risking a stone in the dim sky, who can ask This net worth?"
"Tan Gong is a minister of the country, and this disease also fell on this minister."
Chen Shigong had nothing but admiration for Tan Lun. Tan Lun didn't take his own life seriously during the war, and this was the root cause of the disease, so that in his fifties, his body functions began to decline.
Tan Lun said with a smile: "At that time, the situation in the southeast was like a thin ice about to break, and it was as urgent as a spark. It was just a trivial matter."
The trivial things Tan Lun mentioned are not trivial. In March and April of the 38th year of the Jiajing reign, Tan Lun rushed to aid in the Taozhu battle in Taizhou. He traveled through mountains and rivers in the pouring rain and only had persimmons and dates to satisfy his hunger. The team he led encountered Japanese pirates several times on the way. , consecutive battles and victories.
He traveled more than 300 miles in a hurry for two days and three nights, fought in more than 20 formations, large and small, fought and marched all the way. Before and after, there were always battle emergencies that required Tan Lun to deal with.
Chen Shigong flipped through the medical records and said helplessly: "In August of the fifth year of Longqing, Tang Bao and the Tatars joined forces with the Northern Barbarians to move south in a large scale. After Tan announced the troops and horses of the Beijing camp, he went to Miyun and Changping in person, gathered the elites from the two places, and headed for In Huanghua Town at the foot of the Great Wall, we haven’t stopped for seven days.”
"If Mr. Tan still doesn't take his own life seriously, it will be difficult for gods to save him, and it will be difficult for him to be cured by medicine or stone."
The urgent report from the border in the fifth year of Longqing was a false report. The Tatars did not go south, but it gave Tan Lun a lot of trouble. On August 22, the fifth year of Longqing, Tan Lun returned to the capital from Huanghua Town. He ate pepper that night and arrived. The next day, the left side of his face was suddenly swollen, his mouth and eyes were crooked, and he was less clear about eating and drinking, so he took medicine for treatment.
This is Tan Lun's diagnosis and treatment record at Tai Hospital in the fifth year of Longqing.
It was Fang Fengshi's lie about the military that caused Tan Lun to suffer from the symptoms of a stroke. Tan Lun was old and no longer young. If he was as troubled as he was when he was young, something big would happen.
Tan Lun was stunned when he heard that, and showed a playful smile. He looked at Chen Shigong and asked jokingly: "Doctor Chen mean that my disease can still be cured? Hey! I thought I would be alive in a few days."
What words, what words are these!
Tan Lun's words meant as if his life was not his life!
Chen Shigong bowed his head and said: "Then Mr. Tan has to save himself. If Mr. Tan still doesn't take his life seriously, even if Hua Tuo is alive, I don't have the ability. I will invite the former imperial doctor Li Shizhen back to the capital to serve Mr. Tan." Fix it up."
"Mr. Tan must rest before Haishi in the future. He can no longer light a lamp to boil oil. Then where is the oil to boil? It will be Mr. Tan's life!"
"You still need to do daily activities, but you must warm up. If you want to dance with a sword, don't be impatient, otherwise problems may easily occur."
When Tan Lun heard this, he immediately said with excitement: "You mean, I can still wield a sword?"
"We can't go into battle to fight!" Chen Shigong immediately said loudly: "It's just for recuperation from dancing with the sword, not for going into battle to kill the enemy. In other words, Mr. Tan's body is very strong. If it had been anyone else, he would have been paralyzed long ago!"
"You must never go into battle again."
Chen Shigong issued a solemn warning. Tan Lun's disease is a chronic disease. If he pays attention to his treatment, nothing serious will happen. But if he has to go into battle, he may not be dead soon.
"It's boring." When Tan Lun heard that he couldn't fight, his expression turned gloomy. He actually didn't like the court very much. It was full of evil spirits and conspiracies. It would be better to fight quickly. The enemy is the enemy, and Pao Ze is Pao Ze. Killing Enemy, win, plain and simple.
Tan Lun didn't like it in this court, and it was a bit boring to pretend to be insincere.
But after fighting all his life, he could no longer go to the battlefield to conquer.
Tan Lun thought Jiegeyuan would allow him to go into battle to kill the enemy again, but it turned out that Jiegeyuan couldn't do it either. He stood up and planned to leave.
Chen Shigong hurriedly stood up to see him off. While seeing him off, he said, "I will go to the meeting and ask Li Shizhen to come back to the court to prepare Tan's medicine."
"Thank you, Doctor Chen." Tan Lun looked around the inside and outside of the Jiecu Hospital. They all said that this was the palace of the King of Hell on earth, which was gloomy and terrifying. However, Tan Lun looked around and didn't think there was anything scary here.
When a person is killed, he is truly dead.
If there really are ghosts and the like, Tan Lun killed so many Japanese pirates, why didn't he see the Japanese pirates turn into evil spirits and come to his door?
"Send it to Mr. Tan."
"Mr. Chen, stay here." Tan Lun strode away from the gate of the hospital. Mi Lane in the eastern suburbs was originally very prosperous, but now there was not even a single person in sight. He looked around and headed towards the Yamen of the Ministry of War.
Chen Shigong petitioned Li Shizhen to return to Beijing because he wanted to treat Tan Lun's stroke.
Upon hearing the news, Zhu Yijun immediately issued an order to Wenyuan Pavilion, asking Zhang Juzheng to capture Li Shizhen, the Ming Dynasty's miracle doctor, no matter what method he used, and give Tan Gong a good treatment.
Wu Baipeng had already arrived at Xuanfu. After reviewing the Datong section of the Great Wall in Xuanfu, he wrote a memorial.
Speaking of Dishui Cliff, from Diao E Fort, Longmen Guards, to Liutaizi Pier, there are all 18,760 feet of strange things, which were trampled by the captives and half collapsed. The court discussed that a total of grain would be used to build this section. 8,813 shi, salt, vegetables, labor and food, and 6,179 taels of silver. 190,000 soldiers will be employed every year, and a reduction of 10,000 people will be considered. This will be carried out gradually, and the report will be completed within three years.
These passes are the caves that Wang Chonggu wanted to block when he went to Datong, Xuanfu.
These 8,000 stone grains and 6,000 silver were the intention of the imperial court. The most important thing was that they could be completed in one year with 190,000 soldiers every year. However, Wu Baipeng forcibly reduced it to more than 10,000 soldiers in three years. Completed.
Wu Baipeng was cutting the meat with a dull knife.
Wang Chonggu, as the governor of Xuanda University, wrote a memorial saying that it would not take three years, but could be completed in one year! As for the 190,000 soldiers needed, the imperial court still provided 10,000, and Wang Chonggu would find a way for the rest.
Zhang Siwei was in a hurry to return to the court. It was already very late in the year.
"Wang Chonggu is really anxious. He is actually willing to give free money to the poor. What a sin. He really tried his best to return Zhang Siwei to the court." Zhu Yijun picked up the treasure of Wanli and printed on Wang Chonggu's memorial. .
Ge Shouli didn't help Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei speak to each other in court, and if he didn't get Zhang Siwei back to court, the Jin Party would have big problems.
Wang Chonggu's method was to give the money to the Chief Secretary of Shanxi, who would recruit landless tenants and wandering people to the border to build the Great Wall. The money Wang Chonggu gave to the Chief Secretary was Shanxi's hard labor silver this year.
The bulk of the work was related to the construction of the Bianfang Ding. Each soldier was given three taels of silver per year, and rice, flour, coats, shoes and other items were converted into seven taels of silver. In other words, within a year, Wang Chonggu had to spend at least nearly two million silver to build this. The hole is blocked.
Supervision is carried out by Wu Baipeng of the Zhejiang Party, Li Le of the Zhang Party, Zhang Jing of the Eunuch Party and others, rather than by the Jin Party.
Zhang Hong said with a smile: "It was Mr. Yuan Fu who beat Jin Dang so hard that he was willing to fight for it like this. Otherwise, how could he spit it out if he had eaten it in his stomach?"
Zhu Yijun put down Wang Chonggu's memorial. This matter will be discussed in the next chapter of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The Ministry of Household Affairs will discuss the Shanxi Chief Secretary. After the spring plowing next year, the tenant farmers and wandering people will be invited to build a tripod in Bianfang. He shook his head and said: "Doesn't that mean, Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei hated Yuan Fu even more. But in the end, they had embezzled the imperial court's special funds and enslaved the border soldiers. Now this kind of redress is a matter of course. "
Zhu Yijun picked up another memorial, "Yin Ping, the internal money eunuch, discusses the expenses in the palace."
The little emperor is no longer a householder. In the past, the palace expenses were all given to Queen Mother Li. This was the first time Zhu Yijun saw the palace accounts. There were only four words: "the expenses are beyond the means."
"I don't have enough for the year, and I want to add 54,000 kilograms of natural yellow and white wax to my old forehead, which is converted into 75,841 silver dollars. The price of yellow wax is two coins per catty, and the price is four coins and two coins per catty." , the silver is converted into a silver from Zhejiang, and all are transferred to the internal transportation warehouse." Zhu Yijun finished reading the memorial of Yin Ping, the internal money eunuch in his hand.
The yellow and white wax was just an excuse. There was no money in the palace and there was a deficit. They cleverly set up a name and asked the outer court for it. However, Wang Guangguang, the household department of the outer court, refused to comply and refused to pay more than 70,000 taels of silver.
Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Hong with the memorial in his hand and asked, "Is there any way? Can the palace seize the 70,000 taels of silver from Wang Shangshu?"
"No." Zhang Hong said with certainty: "During the Jiajing period, the Shimiao asked for two million silver, and the Ministry of Revenue didn't have any money, so they refused to give it. Later, a warlock named Duan Chaoyong was so bold that he dared to deceive the Shimiao. My Lord, he said that if you can turn stone into gold, you can turn gold into gold and obtain the elixir of death."
"After one or two years of this, Marshal Lu Bing and Lu Ti exposed him. The temple was furious and killed him with a stick to see if Duan Chaoyong had an immortal golden body. If he died, he would not have a golden body."
When Zhu Yijun heard about this past event, he thought of Zhang Juzheng's expression that changed dramatically when he looked at a prism to scatter sunlight into colorful light.
Zhang Juzheng was also afraid that the little emperor, under the bewitchment of the little eunuch, would come into contact with those heretical alchemy techniques and do something like turning stones into gold or refining elixir of life, so he had such a big reaction. After all, white light scattering rainbows is very similar to the method of alchemy.
But the emperor was wise and wise, so Zhang Juzheng naturally stopped blocking him when he was not practicing alchemy.
There is nothing that cannot be played, so play with confidence and boldness. As long as you are not practicing heretical magic, Zhang Juzheng is still happy for the little emperor to be more cheerful.
Emperor Jiajing was obsessed with the art of immortality, which greatly damaged the emperor's majesty.
Duan Chaoyong is a cripple. If he had magical powers, wouldn't he be able to heal his own legs? He is just a charlatan, and he actually deceived him into the palace, defrauded the head of the Ninth Five-Year Master, and he also succeeded in defrauding him. He not only got the Taoist title of 'Gaoshi', but also got the position of a fifth-rank official.
In the end, Lu Bing exposed the half-hidden matter because he was extremely close to the emperor. The joke about the charlatan deceiving the emperor lasted for more than two years. Otherwise, the joke would have continued. The courtiers How can one respect the emperor?
Zhang Juzheng was relieved when he found out that Fang Shu was not a liar.
"Seventy thousand taels of silver, where can I make up for this shortfall? I have no money." Zhu Yijun took the memorial in his hand and approved the next chapter of Wenyuan Pavilion's court meeting.
Zhang Juzheng left a blank ticket on this floating ticket. This was a palace matter and he had no control over it. The matter involved the inner court and it was difficult for Zhang Juzheng to express his position.
In the early morning of the next day, it was rainy, autumn rain and cold. The weather had turned cold, and the atmosphere in the Wenhua Hall was not harmonious.
Feng Bao took out the memorial from Yin Ping, the internal money eunuch, and asked the outer court for money. Zhang Juzheng said nothing, and Wang Guangguang refused to comply. The atmosphere was awkward for a while.
More than 75,000 taels of silver is not a small amount. It can support the Quan Chu Guild Hall for seventy-five years, that is, it can support the Quan Chu Guild Hall until the second year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty.
The inner court asked for money, but the outer court refused to give it. For a while, the card was stuck. Ge Shouli, who obeyed the authority of the Lord, was silent. He did not have so much money to fill this hole.
"It's absolutely ridiculous. My dear friends, Wang Chonggu spent at least two million taels of food and salary to block the holes in the border area. When it's the palace's turn to spend 70,000 taels of silver, you just hesitate and say nothing?" Feng Bao Anger arises from the heart and evil arises from the courage. This is too much.
Silence is also a kind of resistance.
No matter how Feng Bao loses his temper, it's useless. The country's financial losses have been reflected in the supreme imperial power.
Wang Jiaping, a scholar from Zuo Chunfang, said tentatively: "Hearing that the palace was suffering from a loss of money, Zhang Siwei, a court official, was shocked. He came to me and said that he could use this money to subsidize the palace's expenses."
Feng Bao frowned, looked at Wang Jiaping and said, "What are the conditions?"
Wang Jiaping said with a smile: "There are no conditions, just loyalty and filial piety. Zhang Siwei feels that the country's affairs are difficult and is willing to use his private money to subsidize the office. It is out of sincerity and has no other private requests. Feng Daban misunderstood, and Zhang Siwei accepted it." The Xuan Mansion and the construction of the Great Wall in Datong are implicated, so he cannot return to the court. The construction of the Great Wall is not yet completed, and he does not dare to use this kind of thing to intimidate the imperial court."
This idea was a suggestion given to Wang Chonggu by Wu Dui, the governor of Xuanfu.
Wu Dui had been squatting in the sky prison for more than half a month, but he was still afraid. If he lied about the military situation, it would be better to come out with real money and silver to please the palace, and he was not in a hurry. If the holes in the Great Wall were blocked, Wang Chonggu, Zhang Siwei, Wu Dui and others, relying on the efforts to stabilize the border areas and pay tribute to me, are still afraid that they will not have their own place in the court?
Zhang Siwei also specifically told Wang Jiaping: He must make it clear that he cannot return to the court now without conditions. He is really in a hurry, but he has no intention of bribing the palace in order to get back on his feet. It is all about loyalty and filial piety, and the construction of the Great Wall. Son, it will be done, and he will come back to Beijing after it is done.
The forgery of the Tang newspaper last time had already caused a lot of trouble in the palace, so we could no longer irritate the palace.
Ge Shouli's face was complicated when he heard that. Although he was the leader of the Jin Party, he only controlled the officials, officials, and officials, not the money, food, and soldiers. Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei wanted money and people. No, the emperor was short of money, so he immediately Come up and flatter me.
Wang Guoguang looked unkind. He looked at Zhang Juzheng and asked, "What do you think Yuan Fu does?"
Before Zhang Juzheng could speak, the little emperor on the stage suddenly said: "I don't want Zhang Siwei's money. If there is no money in the palace, I can use it less and be more frugal. He can keep his money for himself!"
Zhu Yijun made no secret of his disgust for Zhang Siwei and refused to even take his money.
The money is just money, and no one's name is written on it, so why is it disgusting? But Zhang Siwei’s money is just disgusting!
(End of chapter)
