In exchange for Li Xiang's corpse impeachment, Yang Tinghe was given the title of Taibao, who was given the privilege of serving as a court official in the palace, and was not worshiped when he entered the imperial court.
The new arrangement subsequently decided at the national policy meeting was: Wu Dinghou Guo Xun guarded Nanjing, and "handed over" the Shenji Battalion, which had been trained the longest among the three major battalions after the reset, and replaced it with just a man who had assisted Zhang Zilin in suppressing bandits on the Yangtze River. Li Quanli, the uncle of Xiangcheng, was inferior to Qiu Luan, the Marquis of Xianning.
The most important thing is that Zhang Yong started to supervise the three major battalions again!
With the Count in charge of the Shenji Camp, the Marquis guarding Nanjing, and the Royal Horse Supervisor taking the lead again.
Guo Xun's speech even just went through the court process like ordinary officials entering and leaving Beijing, and the emperor didn't say anything else.
Guo Xun left Beijing with a few servants in the first month of the year. Later, Guo Xun, who was recommended by Guo Xun as a camp officer in the Shenji Camp, dispersed all five generals and sent them to Huguang, Jiangxi, and Nanzhi. The Dusi system in Li, Zhejiang and other places.
The military power near the capital began to be attacked. Although everything came from the emperor's orders, the officials in the capital were even more afraid of Yang Tinghe.
The impeachment of Li Xiang instead became a case, and Wang Qiong began to investigate.
But he is the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and he is only supervising according to orders. The person who actually investigated the case was Li Chongsi, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, who was recommended by the New Party cadre Zhang Zilin.
There is also a very sensitive point. Fei Hong's nephew Fei Maoxian had been promoted by the emperor to be the accompanying bachelor in the imperial study. But as soon as this incident came out, he was sent to any prefecture in the new law base camp in Guangdong to report to the same officials.
The power of the first living three princes of the Ming Dynasty was already overwhelming.
He is not a lucky minister, but a leader of civil servants who has been in the court for many years. Nowadays, under the banner of new knowledge and new laws, not only the counselors but also the emperor have to be "cautious in their words and deeds." The selection and dismissal of officials all over the world depend on his face. Now, he has colluded with Zhang Yong, the eunuch who is in charge of military power and palace access control.
The huge wave that Li Xiang was supposed to set off was easily suppressed.
[...I was born in the countryside of Anlu and am well aware of the sufferings of the people. Since the change of Yuan Dynasty, at the request of Yang Taibao, I have ordered the Ministry of Industry to conduct an inventory of floods and water conservancy in the world. Now, as requested by Yang Taibao, we will restore water conservancy throughout the world to benefit all people. 】
[All the people in the world are my subjects. How can I bear to let my subjects worry about floods and droughts? Two million taels of silver were specially transferred from the internal transportation treasury, and the National Policy Council was ordered to select 14 supervisory censors who would inspect water conservancy and go to other provinces outside Guangdong and North Zhili and South Zhili to inspect and reorganize water conservancy matters. 】
[This is good governance and national policy that benefits the people and the country! All the clansmen, distinguished relatives, officials, gentry, and common people in the world must observe the rules and abide by them, and do not obstruct them for selfish reasons! Rebuilding water conservancy around the world may take five or ten years to achieve initial results, but the success lies in the present and will benefit the future! If all the fertile fields in the world are benefited from water conservancy, then the Ming Dynasty will be prosperous and the people will live and work in peace and contentment. I can comfort the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty! 】
【Appreciate this! 】
An edict was then issued, and fourteen water patrol censors rushed to various places except Guangdong.
Should we overhaul water conservancy? That is of course good governance, as it should be.
But what the imperial edict was talking about was clearly not those large-scale water conservancy projects, but just the renovation of small irrigation rivers and ditches scattered throughout the country.
To put it more clearly, changing the waterways that princes, gentry, and powerful people changed in the past in order to better irrigate their fertile fields should be changed into a way that is beneficial to the people.
It was still money taken out of the emperor's inner treasury!
"Meet Yang Ting and Tu Qiong!"
In the palace of the King of Chu in Wuchang Prefecture, Huguang, General Zhu Rongchan, the younger brother of the sixth Chu King Zhu Rong, said angrily: "When the late emperor passed away, your majesty ordered all the vassals in the world to stay in the palace to mourn the late emperor for twenty-seven months. It seems that now it is not the case." That’s Yang Tinghe’s intention! Brother Wang, there are frequent floods in Huguang, and the fields granted to us by the Chu vassal have failed to harvest year after year! The salary has been in arrears for a long time, and now it is difficult to even get together for weddings and funerals.”
"Please submit an advance payment of 17,000 taels of silver from the Treasurer of the Government of Huguang, and then use the salary from the feudal government to offset it. The court will not allow it, and also wants Brother Wang to lecture my clan members of the Chu vassal. Is this really your Majesty's intention?" Zhu Rongchan The more he spoke, the angrier he became, "If Your Majesty is so wary of the vassals, how could you adopt your young son to the late emperor and establish a vassal state in Jiangxi? Yang Ting and the old thief are now using the name of world water conservancy to harm the clan's interests to win over the people. What's next? It’s an act of disobedience to usurp a high position just because of your prestige!”
Zhu Rong's 19-year-old son Zhu Xianrong also said: "Father, because of mourning, my son's wedding has been delayed! I finally managed the wedding without losing the dignity of the palace. Then next year, if Yang Tinghe becomes famous under the new law in Guangdong, Are we going to implement the provinces? According to the ancestral system, I, Chu Fan, am in charge of the Tax Division! But in recent years, has the Tax Division turned over the income to the palace again? Father, I really can't be so weak and be bullied by him. !”
When the first Chu king established Wuchang, Zhu Yuanzhang gave the Wuchang Prefecture Tax Department to Chu King Zhu Zhen to take charge.
Wuchang is a thoroughfare for nine provinces, and the tax department collects a lot of money every year from merchants, slaughterhouses, market taxes, and the purchase and sale of land and houses.
Zhu Rong has a soft personality, and now he only has a sad look on his face.
Because of the son's wedding, the Prince of Chu's Mansion boldly tried to ask for the seventeen thousand taels.
"My ancestor, King Zhao, originally gave it to the Tax Department of Wuchang Prefecture. Today, for the fifth time, it has been invaded by Yousi. I begged to change it and give it a seal, and assigned it to my government as a legacy."
Zhang Zilin, who was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, naturally sternly rejected it.
Zhu Rongchan continued: "Guangdong has a special tax department, which stands side by side with the vassal department, the capital department, the punishment department, the public security department, and the capital inspection department! If the new law is implemented in Huguang, can the ancestral business of the tax department return to the palace? Brother Wang, This is the great favor that Taizu bestowed upon the Chu vassal! Yang Ting and the national thieves have hijacked His Majesty first and invited the people of the world to the last. Their intention to usurp the throne has become clear! Brother Wang, it’s time to do something!”
"Have you forgotten to obey the Pan Dynasty before you slandered your father and asked for the removal of the Chu vassal from the palace? Fortunately, Your Majesty Ming Dynasty has done nothing! This Pan Dynasty is a person sent by the Ministry of Rites!"
Zhu Xianrong was as anxious as Zhu Rongchan. He is the eldest son of the King of Chu. Zhu Rong has no legitimate son. He, Zhu Xianrong, is now the person closest to the position of the King of Chu.
If Chu Fan was removed, what else would he have?
After several generations of reproduction, Chu Fan has become a behemoth. There are many county kings, generals of the country, generals of the country, generals of the country, lieutenants of the country, lieutenants of the country, and lieutenants of Fengguo. There are so many princesses, county lords, village lords...the many Chu vassal clansmen. If anything happens, let the King of Chu, the lord of the Chu vassal, come forward.
But Zhu Rong could only say: "This matter is serious, please allow me to think about it again..."
Zhu Xianrong and his uncle looked at each other with different thoughts.
On the way out of Zhu Rong's palace, Zhu Xianrong just said gloomily: "Fourth uncle, now that the late emperor's mourning period has passed, it is inconvenient for me to stay out. You can think of something to do while guarding the palace officials."
"Know!"
Zhu Rongchan didn't have any extra thoughts. But now that the emperor is under control, he can only rely on his relatives and clan.
There is also the old party.
If he makes a great contribution, at least the arrears of the Chu vassal salary and the Wuchang Prefecture Tax Department can be safely obtained!
These were only the vassal kings granted during the Taizu period, and they were far away from the throne. What are Zhu Jianshen's descendants thinking at this moment?
After the news reached Chengdu Mansion, Fei Hong invited several people to his house, but also stayed away.
Then his face darkened: "Did any of you have a wrong idea? What kind of stupid idea did you think of!"
"Fei Gong, how can we be moved by our thoughts? I can only say that there are many brave people in the world!"
"Corpse impeachment! All it takes is a few bullets to gradually build up momentum. Being so violent will only do bad things!" Fei Hong said with an expression of hatred, "I also visited the New Party more beforehand. Such pretentiousness would only give the New Party an excuse! It's better now, through the reorganization With water conservancy all over the world, the new party will definitely find a group of people to take action!"
"This is really strange. Mr. Fei, why don't you think it was the New Party that did it?" Someone said, "Even Zhang Yong is colluding with Yang Ting and Hang. With Zhang Yong taking care of them, they can really get rid of Li Xiang, the fake Impeached as a corpse."
"Handwriting, time!" Fei Hong glanced at him, "Dengwen Drum is outside the palace wall, next to the Five Mansion! In front of the Wangri Dynasty meeting, under the eyes of the Imperial Guard, Yang Ting and Ruo Ruo are so domineering, what else do they need to worry about? "
"People's hearts! Prestige!" the man said decisively, "And it's also a test! To test His Majesty's will and to test the world's reaction! Mr. Fei, this is a country that is in danger of falling. If we really let the New Party use water conservancy all day long to get things done, , praised by all the people in the world, Yang Tinghe will be successful!"
"No matter what, we respect the teachings of the sages. Morally speaking, this is good governance! How to stop it?" Fei Hong gritted his teeth and said, "What a conspiracy! If we say that the teachings of the sages cannot be forgotten, but act without caring about the people, then what? How to refute that Praxis is a heretical theory?"
"But if the Yang Ting peace is achieved, your majesty will be in danger! Fei Gong, your majesty has great hopes in ordering you to be the governor of Sichuan!" The man choked up as he spoke, "I can't bear to think of how frightened your majesty is now! King Anhua, Ning The king's rebellion is ahead, and now everyone in the clan is in danger. Fei Gong, the only one your Majesty can entrust to you is me, who can act as a liaison and support the orthodoxy!"
"...This is a serious matter." Fei Hong was silent for a while before staring at them, "In any case, if what happened to Li Xiang is really your fault, then you might as well think about how to deal with the pursuit of the Three Law Departments first! Don't underestimate Yang Tinghe! Other matters, Let me think about it carefully!"
After talking for a while and sending them away, Fei Hong waited quietly in the study.
After a while, the housekeeper came over and Fei Hong asked, "Has the person who entered Huangba been here?"
The housekeeper was a little surprised: "Master, do you want to eat today?"
"I'm upset, and I want to eat something sweet to calm things down." Fei Hong nodded.
Unlike later generations, Sichuan cuisine at this time and before was mainly sweet. "Sichuan Guangji" says that people in Shu like to cook honey to enhance the taste. After Fei Hong came to Sichuan, he fell in love with Huangba, which was popular in Sichuan at that time.
Although there are many shops making rice cakes, there is one small shop that Fei Hong loves the most.
Of course, Fei Hong has been in Sichuan for more than a year, and the store is showing signs of development.
After the housekeeper went and came back, he finally brought another food box.
Putting one of the plates of yellow rice cakes sprinkled with icing sugar on the table in Fei Hong's study, he made another cup of tea, and the butler left and closed the door.
Fei Hong then picked up the chopsticks with a solemn expression and opened the rice cakes one by one until he finally found a small bamboo tube inside one of them, and then found three more.
He breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this drastic change had not really affected him yet.
The person who runs that small shop is definitely not the leader of the inner factory in Sichuan, or the unknown Jin Yiwei walking in Sichuan.
Fei Hong is the leader of the old party. In this scene, apart from the secret box in the past, the only connection between him and the center of the court is this line.
But the situation must have changed now, and Fei Hong had not yet had time to pass the secret box and submit it to the emperor to ask questions. If Yang Tinghe tries his best to get through it next time, he may never come back.
After the critical impeachment and the addition of Taibao, Fei Hong couldn't imagine what the situation was like now.
Fortunately, the news has come.
After blowing on the bamboo tube to cool it, he carefully opened it and took out a piece of paper filled with small words.
Every piece of paper like this is made after the yellow cake is steamed, and then put back in again by skillful hands to restore it to its original appearance.
The methods used by the inner factory are also a bit unimaginable.
Initially, this method was used to convey some special news to Fei Hong, and I'm afraid it also meant to beat Fei Hong.
For small shops or other existences like this, what kind of network has Ming Dynasty spread out?
Fei Hong concentrated his attention and carefully recognized the small handwriting on it.
