Jingming

Chapter 194 Zhejiang Says It's All Right
Last time, it was only a royal study that traveled to Guangdong, and the entire army above the third rank in Guangdong and Guangxi was wiped out.

This time, it was the chief accompanying bachelor of the Imperial Study who went south to Zhejiang.

Yan Song didn't rush over.

Even when the news was about to be sent back to Zhejiang, he hadn't left yet.

It's not what it used to be, and he has a lot of people to meet.

Because Yan Song has been dormant for so many years, besides the Chief Accompanying Bachelor of the Yushufang, this year he got an important achievement: the chief examiner of the examination.

In the second year of Jiajing's Jinshi period, all of them were his students.

The reason is simple: since His Majesty wants to support the New Party and try to enrich the country first, the examiner for this subject must be a member of the New Party.

There are only a few who are qualified to be the chief examiner.Yang Tinghe could not take the position, because his second son also had to take this exam.

Shi Yan, Jiang Mian, and Mao Ji have all participated in the main examination before, so it is not suitable for them to be consecutive.

And the emperor didn't seem to want to choose a person who was completely new party or imperial party. In the end, this good job fell on Yan Song.

Now, as Yan Song is about to leave the center, there are two vacancies: the chief of the imperial study room and another accompanying student in the imperial study room.

One can participate in national policy meetings, and the other can see the emperor from time to time.

The chief of the imperial study would probably be ranked first by Zhang Bi. He is a fellow of the emperor, and the emperor will definitely choose him first.

Then it would be nice to have a fellow student in the Royal Study Room!

Taking advantage of the opportunity of Yan Song's going to the place where he was going to take office, many people went to see him off, but the purpose of many people was very clear.

However, the emperor's decision came down quickly: Fei Hong's nephew Fei Maozhong!
After compiling the history for two years, Fei Maozhong became the most junior accompanying bachelor since the establishment of the Imperial Study Room.Yan Song, Yang Shen, Wang Shouren, Zhang Bi, Gu Dingchen, which of them were not young and had served as officials for many years?

Yan Song set off south with the secret box amidst the suspicions of the officials in the capital, and at this time the decision in Beijing was also spread to Zhejiang.

In the past month, Ouzhu has worked hard, running around, inspecting Ningbo and Shaoxing.

He went to every disaster-stricken village and damaged family in Ningbo, bringing along representatives of officials and gentry to help orphans.

When an official can do this, watching him express with great indignation that he will definitely go to the imperial court to punish corrupt officials, the emotions of the common people will gradually pass.

After all, death cannot be brought back to life. Although the government failed to arrest the Japanese pirates this time, it was a surprise that they actually provided silver and food relief.

When the news received from the Hangzhou government came to Ningbo urgently, Ouzhu returned to the Ningbo government office with a terribly gloomy expression.

"Ou Xunguan, what should we do now?" Lv Hongwu, the prefect of Ningbo, panicked, "Such a trivial matter has already been dealt with, so why send the governor of Zhejiang?"

Ouzhu was upset.

Why send Zhejiang governor?Judging from the secret letter sent by Sun Xiu, this is only the result of Yang Tinghe's compromise!His original intention was to use the expedition as an excuse to completely take over the military administration in the southeast, and to plow the southeast officials, gentry and rich households first!
The good news is that there are new conflicts between the new party and the imperial party.

The bad news is: Zhejiang Shipping Department is definitely going to be abolished.

Xie Changjie, Ryan, Zheng Shoujie and others will all be sent to Beijing for interrogation. Yang Tinghe can't run the whole southeast, so can he use this matter to run Zhejiang first?
When he arrived at the Shibosi Yamen, Ryan's face was ashen, his lips were trembling when he spoke, and he couldn't even hold the teacup steadily in his hand.

He thought of Fu Lun, the eunuch guarding Guangdong before, and Dong Wenzhong, the eunuch guarding Ganzhou.

But he dared not kill himself.

Xie Changjie's face was ashen, and his mouth was full of bitterness: He felt that His Majesty might as well be happy.

"Ou Xunyan, didn't you say that the imperial court will not punish severely? The Shibo Division has been abolished, this..." Zheng Shoujie was terrified, "The Japanese thief is so bold, and our Shibo Division has no soldiers, how can we be punished for our crimes? ?”

"It's not that you are guilty, but it's the strife between the DPRK and China that hurts Zhejiang!" Ou Zhu said with some grief and indignation, "I've been rushing around to provide compensation for the past few days, but it's all in vain! I will speak honestly, the Shibo Company cannot be dismissed!"

"Can things be turned around now?" Ryan had a glimmer of hope.

"Xieqiandu!" Ouzhu bowed to Xie Changjie, "Now that Mr. Yang Ge is practicing the new law, he is too domineering in the court. He is too careless! First let Xieqiandu be in the land of Qingzhang in Guangdong, and then Yang Yongxiu visited the gentry in Guangdong to ask for advice. Juan, Yang Ge is used to radical change and admiration! However, Zhejiang is a tax-heavy place, how can you behave in the same way? Zhejiang's annual income is inseparable from the profits of the Municipal Shipping Department. Thousands of people depend on food and clothing. After you enter the capital, report directly to His Majesty!"

Xie Changjie looked at him silently: So what should I do to find a turning point for you who are desperate to jump over the wall?

If they are all sent to Beijing for interrogation, how can I participate in the Zhejiang bureau?
The last sentence is a bit interesting, why do you mention that I am the former minister of Qiandi?
"Xieqiandu, you are the secretary of the municipal bureau, you must speak for our municipal bureau!" Ryan cried and begged him, "Guangdong implements the new law, and the municipal bureau has not been abolished. Should we abolish it first?"

Ou Zhu stared at him: "Xie Qian Capital, since the imperial court has ordered to send you all to Beijing, why not follow me to Hangzhou Mansion first!"

The news has spread like wildfire. On the surface, everything is normal in the Hangzhou mansion, but the owners of many well-known people's homes have already exploded emotionally.

"The Shibo Department is going to be abolished, so what about the silk that the Weaving Bureau wants? What about the porcelain that the Shibo Department wants? The goods that have been saved for three years are just for this year!"

In the past ten years or so, the Japanese missions have come every three years, and many people have become accustomed to this rhythm.

"That's right, Mr. Liu, didn't you say that Sidao Kanhe would definitely be traded as usual? According to your old instructions, I have rushed to buy more looms, hired people, and collected a lot of raw silk!"

In the south, there are three weaving bureaus in Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou.At this time, Liu Zhong of the Hangzhou Manufacturing Bureau looked very impatient: "Why is it so urgent? Last year, the goods that your majesty asked you to prepare for the wedding, did you lose money? How can those Dongyang barbarians be separated from our heavenly treasures? This time, Xu Wo If you mess up the matter and flee back, maybe in the second half of the year, you will be tied up and sent back to plead guilty, and then it will be the same as usual? The cloth will not rot if you keep it in your hand!"

"Eunuch Liu, I'm afraid it will be abolished in the future!"

Liu Zhong raised his voice: "Even if the Shibo Department is abolished, the palace and the imperial court still ask for goods every year? Don't all come to our house to make trouble! Our family is doing things according to the order of the palace. How much does the Ministry of Rites ask for? As much as the palace wants, our family will prepare as much! Why, you still want our family to be your majesty and the master of the court? Get out of our family! The noise makes our family upset!"

After blasting away these people, Liu Zhongcai showed real concern.

If you want to punish Shi Bosi, won't that fellow Ryan talk nonsense?

Liu Zhong paced back and forth in the room, and then called out to his godson, "Go to the lord's yamen!"

In the chief envoy's yamen, Sun Xiuxiu, who was about to change from number one in Zhejiang to number two, was looking at a letter.

This letter came from Sichuan, and Sun Xiu read it very seriously.

So the news of Liu Zhong's meeting came in, and he only ordered him to sit down for a while and go over immediately.

But after putting down the letter, he still hasn't left.

After Sun Xiu frowned and pondered for a while, he even picked up the letter and read it again carefully. Then he took the letter paper and lit it. After it was almost burnt out, he put it into the brush washer at the side.

It wasn't until he went to the side to wash his face and wipe his hands that he opened his arms and asked someone to tidy up his official uniform and sideburns.

Putting on his official hat and walking to the outside room where the subordinates were summoned, he smiled and said to Liu Zhong: "Boss Liu, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Although Liu Zhong had a special status, he would not neglect Sun Xiu: "Don't dare. Fantai, Beijing is going to send a governor to Zhejiang. What I heard is not quite right."

From the directness of his speech, one could tell that the two had a good relationship before.

Sun Xiu sighed: "It is natural for His Majesty to be furious when such a incident happened in Zhejiang."

"...Your Majesty wants to abolish the Shibo Department. My Weaving Bureau has ordered them to prepare silk as usual, and now they are all running to the Weaving Bureau to make trouble with me." He looked at Sun Xiu and asked meaningfully, "What's the matter?" What can I do next?"

Sun Xiu smiled: "There is no need to worry about the future, but the past..."

Hearing these words, Liu Zhong's heart skipped a beat.

Everyone has a share in the past.That's why Liu Zhong was worried, whether this governor would be another Zhang Fujing, and whether this Zhejiang would be another Guangdong.

But Sun Xiu laughed there again.

"Hey, Fantai, don't be a fool."

Liu Zhong scolded for a while, and Sun Xiu felt a little terrified.

"Director Liu, please be safe and don't be impatient. After all, the governor has not arrived yet, and Yanfutai is very pleasant in Jiangxi. I heard that this time I have to make a trip back to Jiangxi before coming here. There is no rush."

Liu Zhong thought about the meaning of his words, and then gave up: "Fantai, do you mean that there is still time to make some preparations?"

"Preparation needs to be done." Sun Xiu coped with him, "After all, Zhejiang doesn't even have a governor's office, so we have to choose a place to renovate and set up. Director Liu, why don't you ask who is willing to help? two."

Liu Zhong looked at him strangely: At this moment, you are still asking those wealthy households to send donations?
But Sun Xiu just said: "Yan Futai is not in a hurry to go to Zhejiang, it depends on whether Zhejiang is considerate of the imperial court. Zhejiang is no better than Guangdong. In the past year, they could only hand over 40 stone grain and one hundred thousand taels of silver. Now the imperial court Money is needed everywhere, and Zhejiang cannot be messed up easily. Looking at Yanfutai’s itinerary, I’m afraid you can’t go to Zhejiang until the harvest.”

"……I still do not get it."

There was no other expression on Sun Xiu's face, so he could only say in a low voice: "Director Liu, I have some things that I can't say, you might as well ask Eunuch Liang for advice."

So Liu Zhong had no choice but to go to the guard eunuch Liang Yao.

And Sun Xiu shook his head after waiting for him to go out, and then ordered solemnly: "Go and ask Hu Jietai to come over!"

……

Yan Song was indeed heading south leisurely.

As for him wanting to take a short detour back to his hometown, Yang Tinghe couldn't say anything.

Han Chuang has studied hard for so many years, and today he finally became a member of the party. What's the matter with returning home?
He was thinking on the way.

Wang Shouren's father died of illness in March last year, and Ding You had to wait until July of next year to resume his official career.

Yan Song returned to Jiangxi because he knew that the tax situation in Jiangxi was no worse than that in Nanzhili and Zhejiang.

Because Jiangxi is also a major province of imperial examinations.

After so many years, how many families of officials and gentry have accumulated in Jiangxi?

Now that he has become a governor through the springboard of the imperial study, when he returns to the capital, there will probably only be a certain minister and cabinet minister left.

Up to three steps.

Yang Tinghe and the others were unwilling to be forced to become a new party. Everyone knew how difficult the barrier in the fifth year of Jiajing was.

But Yan Song knew very well how determined the emperor was to reform and seek prosperity. In order to survive the monstrous waves, Yan Song couldn't just stay in the imperial study and be a close minister.

Going back to Jiangxi, first pave the way for Wang Shouren.When we arrived in Zhejiang, we had to look for Wang Shouren more.

Perhaps, His Majesty's three principles of heaven, things, and people will be one of the keys to breaking the situation.

After he traveled to South Zhili, there was another delay in passing through Nanjing City.

It was already late July, and there were four major happy events in the capital.

The first one was popular among the common people, the Zhang brothers were beheaded.As for how many honorable relatives and conservative gentry talked about His Majesty using a knife to the Queen Mother Zhang's brother, that is another matter.What's more, it was because His Majesty intended to spare their lives that Yang Tinghe insisted on forcing the emperor to raise the butcher's knife.

The second thing is that both the new party and the imperial party like to hear it. The queen empress is also pregnant, and her majesty's son can be expected.

The third happy event was the wedding of the eldest princess of the current dynasty. The new party was very happy, and the emperor and the party leader had an in-law relationship.

The fourth happy event, then everyone is happy to hear: Guangdong offers prisoners to Beijing.

The long line of prison carts is full of strange-looking Westerners. The cannons pulled by horses are thick and long on the carts, and there are carts and carts of boxes that seem to be full of treasures.

The Ministry of Rites arranged a grand ceremony for this, and also dedicated Jietai Temple.

The onlookers watched the excitement, but they were not very polite.

"Let me say that in the future, if you capture the leader of the Tartars, it will be worth such a big deal. There is really nothing to brag about defeating these small countries that look like savages."

"...Hush! What nonsense? I think their cannons are pretty powerful."

"What's so great? Last time I went to Liangxiang and Jingying to test the cannon, it almost made me pee in my crotch from twenty miles away."

"...Are you bragging or burying yourself?"

Alfonso felt very humiliated. His neck was stuck on the prison car, and he could see the disdain and ridicule in the eyes of these Orientals.

Cunning Orientals!To be so impolite, to spend so much money and energy preparing banquets and tricking them!
In the palace, Wen Suyun is now favored.

"You want to see, what do you think? You don't come to the harem, and you still want to go to the front court?" Zhu Houcong was dressing in the backyard of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, "You are concubine Shu, Shu!"

"Isn't it possible for the Hall of Mental Cultivation?" Wen Suyun whispered, "No, I'll hide behind the screen and take a peek, just one glance!"

Zhu Houcong looked at her expectant look and shook his head: "Is it because the queen has no one to take care of you now, so you have to make progress? Then go back to your Changle Palace today."

"...The concubine knew it was wrong."

Zhu Houcong glanced at her angrily.

I like her mischievousness and vitality a little bit, but also feel that she is a bit troublesome after getting to know her well.

Zhu Houcong sent her back to Changle Palace and began to head out.

In addition to Yang Ting and them wanting to highlight the achievements of the "new law", Zhu Houcong was more interested in Alfonso, a higher-ranking Portuguese general in the East, as well as many craftsmen and Western creations sent to Beijing by Zhang Fujing.

I heard that there is a small clock. I wonder if craftsmen can try to improve it into a smaller mechanical pocket watch later.

According to Zhu Houcong's own understanding, sophisticated mechanical instruments represent the research and utilization of many scientific principles, as well as technological progress.

Just as he has already participated in the improvement of guns in the Military Bureau and the Weapons Bureau under his own "inspiration" and requirements.

And the desk clock seems to use the pendulum principle of gravity, right?
The new law has already been taken care of by Yang Ting and them. Zhu Houcong needs to have some powerful tools that are convincing enough to be used as an opportunity to formally propose the three principles of heaven, things, and people.

In the most imposing Fengtian Hall, Alfonso was escorted up and forced to kneel in front of the Eastern Emperor.

Zhu Houcong smiled as soon as he opened his mouth: "I heard that you brought your wife and daughter with you. There are only [-] ships, so you are so confident to open the gate of the Ming Dynasty and reoccupy Tuen Mun Island?"

(End of this chapter)