Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 167: Breaking up without a meal
After escaping from Xiyuan in embarrassment, Wang Daoqiu returned home. His mother, Mrs. Xu, had not seen her son for more than two months, and now she was extremely happy to see Wang Daoqiu back.He grabbed Wang Daoqiu and looked him up and down, and said that Wang Daoqiu had lost weight due to hunger in the past two months.When she learned that Wang Daoqiu hadn't eaten yet, she hurried to the kitchen and said she wanted to get some meat for Wang Daoqiu, who was hungry and thin.

Mrs. Xu went to the kitchen to prepare meat for Wang Daoqiu.Wang Daoqiu and his father, Wang Zhaowen, sat on the main seat in his living room with a high air and reprimanded him with a father's majesty: "Evil son, how do you teach me as a father? What are you doing now? ? The emperor and the court have decreed that you should be kind and help those Shandong villagers who have made mistakes to correct their mistakes and let them become good people again. But how did you do it? I heard that you were The number of prisoners killed and captured in Shandong alone was no less than [-]."

"The bodies of those prisoners who were killed with their hands tied have blocked the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The water in the Shandong section of the canal is red. And along the coast of Denglai, Shandong, I heard that you ordered those Qiu Ba not to accept those rioters. They surrendered and drove all the rebels into the sea and drowned them alive. Now every time the tide rises there, hundreds of bodies will be washed up on the tidal flats. The local fishermen now dare not go out to sea. What a sin! What a sin! How could you be so cruel, you scoundrel?"

Thinking about the recent rumors on the street that Wang Daoqiu was ruthless in Shandong, Wang Zhaowen was heartbroken.Wang Zhaowen couldn't figure it out. How could his always well-behaved little son, whom he had watched since childhood, change to be so cruel and ruthless?Therefore, Wang Zhaowen is in great pain in his heart.

Seeing how painful his father was now, Wang Daoqiu couldn't bear it, so he said half-truthfully: "Father, things are not like the rumors. As for those troubled people, those who can be saved by my son will definitely be saved." Try your best to save it. For example, Yanzhou has been controlled by bandits for more than a month. All the prefectures and counties within the territory are in the hands of the bandits. All the men over the age of 16 and under the age of 50 are also forced to join the bandits. If children are like people in the market As the rumors say, the bandits were massacred, so are there any men in Yanzhou now?"

"Furthermore, father, the emperor and the imperial court's clear edict to my son is indeed to only punish the culprits, and to educate the followers. But your majesty's secret edict to my son is to tell my son not to be merciful or to act expediently towards the bandits. The same goes for you, father. Scholars with a reputation as a scholar, you don’t understand what His Majesty means when he asks you not to be merciful and do things expediently, right?”

"This, this, this..." Wang Zhaowen didn't know what to say when he heard Wang Daoqiu say that the secret order given to him by Emperor Jiajing was to not be merciful to the bandits or act expediently.

After all, thanks to the propaganda of the literati at this time, Emperor Jiajing was regarded by the people, especially the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, as a cowardly tyrant.Therefore, Wang Zhaowen believed Wang Daoqiu's statement that Emperor Jiajing had given him a secret order, implying that he would kill the rebellious people.

Since it was the emperor who hinted at murder, Wang Zhaowen had nothing to say, so he lowered his head and was extremely frustrated.

Seeing his father's appearance, Wang Daoqiu continued to defend himself: "The emperor not only gave such a secret order to his son this time, I believe he also gave it to the army generals here through Jinyiwei and Dongchang who were responsible for supervising the army. In addition, where the bandits went, they looted and looted a lot, and the government army killed all the bandits. The gold and silver that the bandits robbed were so soft that they were unaware of them. Has it reached the hands of the army?"

"So father, there were too many people killed in the Shandong rebellion this time. Both the emperor and the army wanted to do that. As a civil servant, the son's main focus is on the post-disaster reconstruction in the local area. Like Yanzhou, it is under his nose. Save some. But like Qingzhou and Laizhou later, the government and army refused to accept the surrender, and forced tens of thousands of rioters into the sea to drown. At that time, because the rioters had previously invaded Jinan City, the Shandong Provincial Level [-] The officials, and the officials of the Jinan government office, were all slaughtered, and the son had to be in Jinan City to preside over the government affairs there. So at that time, the son never went to the front lines of Qingzhou and Laizhou. Everything that happened there was caused by those leaders. General of the army, make up your own mind." For the peace of mind of his father, Wang Zhaowen, Wang Daoqiu had no choice but to shirk all responsibilities, and against his will, he molded himself into a good boy.After Wang Zhaowen heard what Wang Daoqiu said, he also believed it.After all, Wang Daoqiu's original owner had been an honest and good boy since he was a child.

After Wang Daoqiu's deception, Wang Zhaowen felt that he had wronged his son, and that all the killings had nothing to do with his son. It was because the emperor and those soldiers were too cruel, and his son was still the good boy.Thinking of this, Wang Zhaowen couldn't help but reveal a happy smile.

Seeing his father smile, he knew that his knot was relieved.So Wang Daoqiu changed the subject and said: "Father, I just went to see the emperor. When the emperor was chatting with me, he mentioned that he heard that you failed the provincial examination seven times. Although you were poor, you didn't take a copper plate from me, Lao Taishan. For this reason, the emperor highly praised your character and rewarded you with a favor, allowing you to serve as the seventh-rank head of the Ministry of Household Affairs."

"What? Son, being a father is also an official of the court."

"Yes, father, the emperor thinks that you have good conduct and regard money as dung. It is good for you to go to the Ministry of Household Affairs to protect the country's wealth, so he rewarded you with the seventh rank of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The emperor just asked his son, me, to take you to the Ministry of Personnel tomorrow. To go through the formalities. But my son thinks that I am a son, but as a Shangguan, I take your father to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to go through the formalities. In this way, you and I, father and son, may be laughed at in the future. So you and Brother Gao Yi will go to the Civil Affairs Bureau together tomorrow. , let him, the Civil Service Examination Department, help you go through the entry procedures for the Ministry of Household Affairs."

Wang Daoqiu asked Wang Zhaowen to go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs with Gao Yi tomorrow morning. When Gao Yi was mentioned, Wang Zhaowen thought of something.So he said to his son Wang Daoqiu: "My son, you have been away from home for more than two months. You may not understand some things at home. After you left, Yin Zhengmao and Yuan Hongyu took the lead in moving out. They are both now The duty of the Procuratorate to supervise the censor is to supervise all officials. The country's supervisory officials are renting in the home of the person they supervise. This is a disgrace. So they moved away. "

"There is also Gaoyi. He was promoted to the Ministry of Civil Service and Merit Examination Department, and his salary was much higher. Moreover, the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty has a policy after the Beijing inspection, that is, if any officials retained after the Beijing inspection want to buy a house in the capital, then They can all borrow money from the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty at a low interest rate of [-]% without any mortgage. Therefore, after the Beijing inspection, Gao Yi Xiandi and Zhang Juzheng from Huguang all borrowed money from the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty, bought their own houses, and moved out of our house. Oh! By the way, you missed their housewarming celebration. They said they would treat you to another meal after you come back."

Gao Yi, Yuan Hongyu, Zhang Juzheng, and Yin Zhengmao have all moved away. This is so sad!Having said that, Wang Daoqiu was in an unusually sad mood, and at this moment, he unconsciously remembered the little things he had with them.

(End of this chapter)