Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 150
Wang Daoqiu suddenly slapped the table like this, which startled Yu Maojian. What's even worse is that after Wang Daoqiu said such a meaningless sentence, he slammed the door and walked out without even giving him a chance to ask a question. Yu Maojian stayed.

Facing the back of Wang Daoqiu walking away quickly, Yu Maojian asked Gao Gong with a confused face: "Suqing, what's wrong with Liangzhen?"

What's the matter?Who knows what happened to Wang Liangzhen?Gao Gong was so confused in his heart, but he still answered politely on the surface: "The king of Nalu, Zhu Guan, was so lawless, and even had the audacity to kill three Shandong censors in a row. It is really so lawless. Liangzhen's young mind must have been angry, so he lost his composure like this. But since Wang Liangzhen, a young genius, was so angry at Nalu King Zhu Guan, it is estimated that after the death of Nalu King Zhu Guanli, he would not Far."

"Really? That's lucky for Shandong!"

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While Yu Maojian and Gao Gong were talking about Wang Daoqiu behind their backs, Wang Daoqiu had already arrived at the old Tao Zhongwen.It has been a common practice in Zhonghua for thousands of years that a major disaster must be followed by a major epidemic. Wang Daoqiu wanted to break this convention, so he needed Taoist medical skills.Moreover, when Taoist priests go to disaster-stricken areas to preach, they actually also play the role of psychologists, who can basically stabilize the emotions of the people in the disaster-stricken areas.

With the old Taoist Tao Zhongwen, Wang Daoqiu suppressed the anger that Yu Maojian had just raised. After friendly negotiations with the old Taoist Tao Zhongwen, Tao Zhongwen agreed to convene all Taoist temples across the country and send a thousand Taoist priests to the disaster area to deliver medicine and medicine as volunteers. Before Qiu left, Tao Zhongwen gave Wang Daoqiu ten 1 taels of silver notes from the Ming Dynasty Royal Bank.

After leaving the old Tao Zhongwen's place, Wang Daoqiu went to the Ministry of Revenue's duty room in Xiyuan again to exchange opinions with Wang Gao, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, on the issue of disaster relief grain and grass dispatching. Then he left Xiyuan and went home.

Today he was on duty early, and the father-in-law Sun in the sky had just turned into a big red face.When he entered the house and came to the middle courtyard, his mother and mother-in-law were there, receiving etiquette training from the officials of Honglu Temple and the palace maids. Shen Xiangning stood watching with a big belly.

Seeing Wang Daoqiu coming, the official of Honghe Temple hurriedly came over to salute. Seeing the crane patch on Wang Daoqiu's official uniform, the official of Honghe Temple was startled.

However, as someone who works in the officialdom of the capital and is responsible for etiquette, this Honglu Temple official still has basic psychological qualities.So he calmed down his emotions, walked over to Wang Daoqiu and saluted with clasped fists, and said: "Li Zhengrong, the right prime minister of Honglu Temple, has met Mr. Wang. Congratulations to Mr. Wang on his promotion."

High promotion!The Right Chancellor of Honghe Temple, Li Zhengrong, yelled these two words very loudly.When the three women Wang Daoqiu's mother, mother-in-law and wife Shen Xiangning heard the word "Gaosheng", they came over with joy, took Wang Daoqiu's arm and asked.

After spending some time explaining his promotion, Wang Daoqiu bid farewell to his mother, mother-in-law and wife Shen Xiangning, and went back to his room to write his disaster relief plan.

At dusk, there was a knock on the door of Wang Daoqiu's house. He ran to open the door and saw that it was his father Wang Zhaowen and his father-in-law Shen Yishi.

As soon as he saw Wang Daoqiu, Wang Zhaowen asked excitedly: "My son, my father heard that you were promoted to cabinet bachelor?"

"It's not my father, it's not a cabinet bachelor, but a co-organizer. In addition, the emperor rewarded his son with the title of a young teacher."

"Hey, it turns out that my son is really a first-class official now! I just heard your mother and the others talk about this. I thought they were women and didn't know what to say! After all, since the founding of our country, there have been no children from poor families. First-rank official residence?"

"Hahahaha, Brother Zhaowen, since the founding of our dynasty nearly 200 years ago, it's not that there are no children from poor families who are in the first-rank official position, but there are no children from poor families who are in the seventh-rank official position or above! But Liangzhen, he..., Hahahaha, Brother Zhaowen, neither you nor I have any official luck, but Liangzhen has a prosperous official career! Less than half a year after joining the imperial examination, he was promoted to the first rank. No matter how you put it, it feels a bit like being in the imperial examination. It’s a dream! Hahahaha!”

"Hey, dear brother, please don't..."

......... After confirming that Wang Daoqiu had indeed been promoted to the first level, Wang Zhaowen and Shen Yishi were overjoyed.However, one of them is Wang Daoqiu's biological father, and the other is Wang Daoqiu's father-in-law. They have different identities, and naturally the words they say are also different.

As the father-in-law, Shen Yishi can praise his son-in-law unabashedly.As Wang Daoqiu's father, Wang Zhaowen faced Wang Daoqiu's official position. No matter how happy he was in his heart, he still focused on criticism and education.

So the two in-laws and gay friends started arguing in Wang Daoqiu's room about whether Wang Daoqiu was excellent.

Seeing the two ancient uncles arguing in front of each other over something that everyone agreed on, Wang Daoqiu was speechless at the false modesty of his father Wang Zhaowen.

So after listening for a while, Wang Daoqiu interrupted the dispute between his two fathers and told them about the breach of the Yellow River in Shandong.Although Wang Zhaowen has been a scholar for half his life, he just became a cadre this year with a similar background as a Jinshi and a political outlook.But he has always longed for national affairs and being able to contribute to the country and guide the country.So as soon as Wang Daoqiu talked about important national affairs, Wang Zhaowen immediately looked forward to it and sat there quietly to listen.

When Wang Daoqiu put forward the two proposals he proposed in front of the imperial court today, they had been officially formulated as Ming Dynasty national policies.Wang Zhaowen patted his thigh and praised Wang Daoqiu as the pillar of the country, completely forgetting that he had just argued with his good friend Shen Yishi, saying that his son Wang Daoqiu was not that good.

Wang Zhaowen was proud of his son and showed off his son there, while Wang Daoqiu's old father-in-law Shen Yishi began to think about what Wang Daoqiu had just said from a businessman's perspective.

Shen Yishi waited for Wang Zhaowen to finish showing off his son and sat there silently. Then he opened his mouth and asked Wang Daoqiu: "Liangzhen, you just said that in order to raise money for this disaster relief, the court has agreed to lease the canal and water to private merchants." The right to operate Caoguan Wharf on the Yangtze River?”

"Yes, Lao Taishan, this time the court will not only lease the canal and the Caoguan Wharf on the Yangtze River, but also transfer the mining rights within a hundred miles along the Shandong section of the canal."

"Hey, Liangzhen, please forgive me for speaking frankly! Don't think about the money in Shandong. Whether it is the operating rights of Caoguan Wharf in the Shandong section of the canal or the mining rights along both sides of the canal, they can only be owned by Shandong. The king's. In Shandong, King Lu is the king's law. To be honest with Liangzhen, our Shen family's fleet going to Beijing also has to pay 1 taels of silver to the Prince of Lu's Mansion every year. Otherwise, if our fleet enters Shandong, then we will not be able to do it. I want to come out again. Not only my Shen family, but any fleet of any trading company that enters Shandong will have to pay tribute to Prince Lu's Mansion. So Liangzhen, don't think about the money in Shandong."

"There is also the right to operate Caoguan Wharf on the Yangtze River. The Yingtian side must belong to the Xu family of Wei Guogong, and Huguang and Sichuan must only belong to the lords along the coast. Only in Jiangxi, since the death of Prince Ning in the Zhengde Dynasty, Jiangxi Yangtze River The control of the coast is now in the hands of the imperial court. Liangzhen! Although the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were greatly deprived of their power after the Jingnan, they are still existences that no government can afford to offend locally. In their case In their own fiefdom, most of the land and business there belong to them, and most of the people there are their domestic slaves. Among the local vassal kings, they are all rich and powerful, and no one dares to offend them."

"What's more important is that once they are sealed wherever they are, they will be there for generations. They are authentic local snakes. As for the local officials in the imperial court who serve in these vassal fiefdoms, they are all from other provinces, not to mention that the local officials are in They only serve there for three to five years, and then they will be transferred. Therefore, most local officials will turn a blind eye to the lord's lawlessness. They only serve there for three to five years anyway, so why bother themselves? Are you looking for trouble? Besides, even if those local officials want to take down the vassal king, they basically can't do it."

"After all, the yamen servants and subordinate officials in the yamen are all locals. They have to live with the local vassal king for the rest of their lives, while they only get along with a prefect or county magistrate for three or five years. Therefore, those yamen servants and subordinate officials are not as important as local officials. When there is a conflict with the local vassal king, they would be conscientious if they do not help the vassal king to harm the local officials. But it is simply impossible for them to help the local officials to offend the vassal king. Therefore, if those local officials start a conflict with the local vassal king Conflicts, they can't even move a servant in their own yamen. This is why my Daming vassal king is lawless."

The problem of the vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the fundamental reason for the change of dynasties in the Ming Dynasty. They also brutalized the people in the local areas and were lawless. As a result, the people of the Ming Dynasty no longer believed in any nonsense royal laws and hated the Zhu Ming regime.

So when Li Zicheng and others started to make trouble, the common people followed suit. After the Manchus entered the country, most of them chose to accept the reality instead of serving the Zhu Ming regime.

After listening to his father-in-law's words, Wang Daoqiu knew that he had thought of things too simply.But at this time, he had such an intuitive understanding of these Ming vassal kings, and he also made up his mind. Since if your old Zhu family lives, the people of the Ming Dynasty can only be used as cattle, then I will first invite your Zhu family to go on the road. Bar!Zhu Yuanyong, don’t blame me, Wang Daoqiu, for being ruthless. These descendants of yours are not worthy of living in this world.I, King Daoqiu, will kill your entire Zhu family in this life.

(End of this chapter)