Daming reckless man

Chapter 410 Lu Ben's Heartfelt Words
Chapter 410

When Jiajing heard Zhang Hao's words, he was also very moved. He originally wanted to let Lu Benan enjoy his old age, but he didn't expect that in the end, Lu Ben would actually do such a foolish thing, which made Jiajing very embarrassed.

Since he ascended the throne, none of the chief ministers of the cabinet seemed to have a good result. Zhang Cong, Xia Yan and other ministers of the cabinet all ended miserably.
I also don't want to give those ministers a heartless and ungrateful person. Those people before were helpful to the stability of the Ming Dynasty. Although Lu Ben's credit is not outstanding, he has also worked hard for decades. Now, he has participated in the assassination In Zhang Hao's case, and in the case of King Jin, he was against himself.

"Your Majesty, you are the master of everything. He is a person who wants to go home to take care of himself. I don't care if he dies or not!" Zhang Hao looked at Jiajing and said, Jiajing nodded when he heard it, and then sat there thinking,

Soon, Lu Fang came over to Zhang Hao's meal, and Zhang Hao sat there and began to eat.

"You go back to the mansion in the afternoon and ask those feudal lords to send money. Now the matter has been decided. If you still send money, you can go and deal with them!" Jiajing sat there and said to Zhang Hao.

When Zhang Hao heard this, his eyes lit up immediately, he looked at Jiajing and asked, "Your Majesty, can I beat them to death?"

"You still beat them to death, you want to make my Daming mess up?" Jiajing heard it, glared at Zhang Hao and said,
Zhang Hao heard it and laughed. Soon, Zhang Hao finished eating, wiped his mouth, left, and went home to stay.
But Jiajing asked Lu Fang to send someone to call Lu Ben over. After receiving the order, Lu Ben rushed to the alchemy room. When he was outside the alchemy room, Jiajing let him in.

"Chen Lu Ben kowtows to the emperor!" Lu Ben came to the tea table and kowtowed to Jiajing.

"Get up, sit down, let us monarchs and ministers drink tea and chat today!" Jiajing said to Lu Ben,

When Lu Ben heard this, he quickly kowtowed, then stood up and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Well, you've worked hard too. In the past few years in the cabinet, you have also made contributions to Daming. Now you have written a memorial to your appointment, and I have approved it, but it needs to be given to you a few days later. You are here these days. The cabinet also needs to be on the last day of work, and you are still my chief assistant!" Jiajing sat there and poured tea for Lu Ben.

"Yes, thank you, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I am ashamed!" Lu Ben stood there and saluted Jiajing.

"Sit down, it's just the two of us, not so much etiquette!" Jiajing said to Lu Ben, and he also started to drink tea. After drinking, he said to Lu Ben: "You can drink tea too, it's okay Yes, there is nothing to do today!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, thank you Your Majesty!" Lu Ben sat down a little confused, and didn't know what kind of medicine Jiajing sold, and when did Jiajing get along so well?

"When Zhishi returned home, it's good to have a baby at home and play with grandchildren, so you don't have to worry about the affairs of the world every day. You have worked hard when you are old. Even if you have no credit for the past few decades, you have worked hard. I will remember it!" Jiajing He made tea there and said, but Lu Ben still looked at Jiajing incomprehensibly, not knowing what Jiajing was going to do.

"Let's take a look at this!" Jiajing said and handed over the file Zhang Hao gave him to Lu Ben.

Lu Ben took it over and looked at Jiajing puzzled, but he still opened the bag and took out the information inside. The first page of the information was written with his name and all his resumes after becoming a Jinshi, including Nanjing served as the Guozijian to sacrifice wine, etc., and things after entering the cabinet,
In the first few pages, the writing was good, but after he became a cabinet minister, things started to happen, including the benefits he received from those officials, and the degree of his participation in specific matters. For the matter of the king, the king of Chu received 20 taels,

In addition, during the assassination of Zhang Hao this time, the King of Chu also visited Lu Fang, and the details of what he talked about have been recorded above. Forgive me, Your Majesty, forgive me!"

"Get up!" Jiajing sighed, then stretched out his hand, Lu Ben immediately gave the information to Jiajing, and Jiajing put it away.

"I originally thought that you would not be the same as those ministers, and you would change in the end, but I didn't expect that you would still follow the old path of those ministers. I want to know why? Tell me!" Jiajing asked Lu Ben .

"Your Majesty, hey, I'm confused!" Lu Ben stood up and said shamefully to Jiajing.

"It's hard to justify being confused. Xia Yan is like this, Mr. Zhang is like this, and so are you, and Yan Song, I don't say anything, you also know that although Xu Jie hasn't found any serious problems now, it will be hard to say in a few years.
But Xu Jie probably didn't dare, and wouldn't do it, Zhang Hao was there, he didn't dare, he was afraid that Zhang Hao would take care of him, and his son-in-law would take care of him, it would be bad, but you, I want to know, why you want to be with them, Come to object to King Jin. In addition, Wei Hao wanted to assassinate Zhang Hao. Was it really because of money?

In fact, you still have a lot of money. Those gifts given to you during the holidays, after you discount them, you also have a lot of family property. Why are you not guaranteed at the end of the festival? " Jiajing saw that Lu Ben continued to question him.

"Your majesty, minister, minister!" Lu Ben didn't know what to say.

"Sit down. Just now, Zhang Hao told me that you are going to retire and go home. Whether you die or not is not that important. As for me, I can also tell you now that you will be spared the death penalty, and I don't intend to punish you. But I want to know why this is so, is it really my fault? Is it that I am harsh to you? Is it that I really don’t deserve your help?” Jiajing said to Lu Ben that he would be spared the death penalty, and also Not going to pursue it, but asked several questions in a row.

"Your Majesty, I am ashamed, I, I, my Majesty!" Lu Ben knelt down at this moment, crying bitterly, and kowtowed in disobedience.

"I've said it all, I spared you the death penalty, why did you do this, get up, and talk to me, this afternoon, just the two of us, let's talk about it, and I will see how many problems I have. In addition, you also Tell me, what do you think about the future of the Ming Dynasty!" Jiajing still said calmly to Lu Ben.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, I am ashamed!" Lu Ben said to Jiajing, still wiping away his tears.

"Sit down and talk, it doesn't matter that much, we are a monarch and minister, you are leaving, but I want to hear what is in your heart, what is in your heart, and what is in your heart!" Jiajing continued to speak to Lu Ben said, and drank the tea after he finished speaking.

"Yes, then, the minister will dare to talk about it, and I still have to thank the emperor for his innocence!" Lu Ben nodded and said to Jiajing.

"Well, good!" Jiajing nodded.

"Mr. Jin, in fact, it is not a matter of whether or not to save King Jin. It is because Zhang Hao's investigation of King Jin will involve many ministers in the court. Some ministers are close to him. I know that King Jin deserves to die. I also know that the king of Chu and the others are wrong,
However, the existence of Zhang Hao threatened those civil servants. Seriously speaking, it threatened the dignity of our civil servants. Therefore, regarding this matter, I did not say that Zhang Hao must be removed. He would say that he participated in it, but just watched silently, and after they killed Zhang Hao, I will take care of the following matters.
In fact, these are all selfish motives. I have no personal enmity with Zhang Hao. I even said that I still admire Zhang Hao very much. I appreciate Zhang Hao's killing of corrupt officials.

However, when the minister is in this position, there are many officials under him. Regardless of whether those officials are good officials or corrupt officials, they say to the outside world that they are all ministers. Therefore, the minister has no choice but to stand up and fight against Zhang Hao.

But Zhang Hao is right. Daming needs officials like Zhang Hao, and he needs to kill them. If they don’t stop, Daming will be finished. Maybe this generation won’t be finished, but the accumulated conflicts will explode one day.
Moreover, it's not that I haven't paid attention to what Zhang Hao did in Shuntian Mansion. It's really good. The reason why those assassins were arrested was because Zhang Hao was kind to those people. Zhang Hao, the people in the world need Zhang Hao, Zhang Hao can't just disappear like this, it's God's will! " Lu Ben sat there and said to Jiajing,

Jiajing nodded and motioned him to drink tea. After Lu Ben finished drinking the tea, Jiajing continued to pour it for him.

"Your majesty, why don't you ask me why I don't want to keep it in the evening? In fact, I didn't intend to ask for the 20 taels, but I can't do it if I don't want it. Those vassal kings actually control many ministers. If the ministers don't accept it, those ministers will then Listen to the vassal king's words, attack the minister, the minister can only accept,
They didn't dare to go to Xu Jie, because Xu Jie was Zhang Hao's father-in-law, and they didn't dare to go to Yan Song, because Yan Song listened to the emperor, so they went to the minister, who couldn't sleep for several nights after receiving so much money. Seeing that nothing happened later, I didn't take it seriously, but I couldn't control what happened to King Chu later. "Luben continued.

"Well, you really can't control this!" Jiajing nodded and said in agreement.

"Your Majesty just said that why every one of the cabinet ministers who served as the first and auxiliary ministers did not get well. In fact, the key point is that the cabinet ministers have too much power, especially the first and auxiliary ministers. Although everything needs to be reported to the emperor, there are many things. The cabinet is done, and the opinions of the cabinet are the opinions of the emperor.

The ministers below dare not not listen, so many ministers want to curry favor with the chief minister of the cabinet, everyone knows this,

In fact, the cabinet needs to increase the number of people, and it is best to increase it from three to seven. At the same time, there will be no chief minister of the cabinet. Any matter needs to be signed by more than four ministers, and then it can be implemented. If it cannot be resolved, it will be reported Your Majesty, let the Emperor make a decision. This is actually better, and it also greatly weakens the power of the cabinet ministers! " Lu Ben continued to talk about his thoughts to Jiajing.

(End of this chapter)