Daming: I can’t kill such a greedy prince-in-law?

Chapter 549: Cultivating the Young Generation! (Subscribe please!!)

"My method is to discover the talents within our Huaixi Party!"

"According to the current situation, our Huaixi Party can no longer quickly eliminate Ouyang Lun and the Prince Consort Party. What will happen next will most likely be a long-term party struggle. Therefore, the decisive point between the Huaixi Party and the Prince Consort Party is not us, but in the future!"

"What is the future? The future is talent!"

"As long as our Huaixi Party can produce more capable people, even people who can compete with Ouyang Lun, we still have a chance of winning!"

Li Shanchang spoke slowly.

“Educate the younger generation!”

When Lan Yu, Feng Sheng and others heard Li Shanchang's proposal, they were all shocked and seemed a little surprised.

However, after they thought about it carefully, they suddenly felt that Li Shanchang was right.

"What the elder said makes sense!"

"In terms of power alone, our Huaixi Party has deep roots in the Ming Dynasty. Even the current Prince Consort Party cannot compare to us. However, the younger generation is relatively powerful and has rarely emerged."

"Except for Ouyang Lun, there are not many young people in the Prince Consort's Party!"

"But most of the officials of the Prince Consort Party are relatively young. It is estimated that a younger generation will emerge in a while, so we must make plans early."

"We all support this idea, Lord!"

Li Shanchang nodded, "With your support, I feel more confident!"

"I'm old now, and every day I live is a blessing. The affairs of the Huaixi Party will eventually be handed over to Lan Yu and the rest of you, but you will all get old one day, so you must find a successor as soon as possible!"

"Look, Your Majesty. He has trained the Crown Prince for so many years, but now he can abdicate early, while we can only continue to work!"

"Can you all tell me if there are any outstanding young talents among our Huaixi disciples?"

After hearing what Li Shanchang said, Lan Yu and others lowered their heads and began to think.

After a moment of silence in the hall, Duke of Song Feng Sheng spoke first, "To be honest with you, I can think of someone who is a good young talent in our Huaixi Party!"

"Who?" Li Shanchang asked hurriedly.

Lan Yu, Fu Youde and others also set their sights on Feng Sheng.

"The man I'm talking about is called Qi Tai, formerly known as De, with the courtesy name Shangli and the nickname Nantang. He is from the southern part of Nanjing, Jiangsu, and belongs to Yingtian Prefecture. Six years ago, he ranked first in the Yingtian County Examination, and the following year he passed the imperial examination. He was appointed as the Director of the Ministry of Rites, and now he is the Director of the Ministry of War. He can be said to be the only one among the younger generation who is second only to Ouyang Lun. If it weren't for Ouyang Lun's status as a royal consort, he probably wouldn't be as powerful as Qi Tai!"

"I think this boy can be trained well, and he will definitely be able to compete with Ouyang Lun in the court in the future!"

"And Qi Tai is particularly valued by the Emperor. His original name was Qi De, and the character Tai was given to him by the Emperor himself as a reward for Qi Tai's ability to do things steadily and without making mistakes!"

Hearing this, Li Shanchang nodded and said, "I have also heard of this old man Qi Tai. He is indeed a good candidate. He has become the head of the Ministry of War at such a young age. This is extremely rare even within our Huaixi Party."

"We can list him as a key training target and allocate more resources to him in the future!"

After saying that, Li Shanchang turned his gaze to the others, "What about you? Do you have any outstanding talents to recommend? We need to find more people and we must not put our hopes on one person. We have a large number of Huaixi disciples, so we should be able to select a few good ones."

After hearing what Li Shanchang said, Lan Yu and others started thinking again.

However, after thinking for a long time, no one could think of a suitable candidate. Are there young people in the Huaixi Party? Of course there are, but these young people either rely on the influence of their fathers to do evil things, or have already lived the life of a rich man early, or are too young to be entrusted with important tasks.

Looking at Lan Yu and others standing there scratching their heads and unable to think of a candidate, Li Shanchang frowned.

"Forget it. It's my fault that I suddenly told you this today. You didn't pay much attention to these things on weekdays!" Li Shanchang shook his head and continued, "In addition to Qi Tai, I have another candidate."

When they heard that Li Shanchang had been selected, Feng Sheng, Lan Yu and others immediately cast expectant glances.

"Anyone who is favored by the elder must be a man of extraordinary talent!" Feng Sheng said with a smile.

"I wonder which young man will be favored by the elder. It seems that our Huaixi Party has hope!" Fu Youde said expectantly.

"Sir, please speak quickly. Our Huaixi Party really needs a young and capable civil servant now!" Lan Yu spoke hurriedly.

"Well, you also know the person I'm talking about. He is Huang Zicheng, the Shaoqing of the Imperial Academy!" Li Shanchang opened his mouth slowly and continued, "What a coincidence. Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai both became Jinshi in the same year. Huang Zicheng studied the Book of Changes with Ouyang Zhen since he was young, studied the Book of History with Zhou Yuxue, and studied the Spring and Autumn Annals with Liang Yin. Huang Zicheng was famous for his literary talent and virtue. In the 17th year of Hongwu, he entered the Imperial Academy as a tribute student. In the 18th year of Hongwu, he took part in the joint examination and ranked first, and then took part in the palace examination and ranked third, becoming the third place. He served as an editor and compiler in the Hanlin Academy."

"More importantly, Huang Zicheng has always been one of the companions of the Eastern Palace, lecturing and answering questions for His Majesty the Emperor and the princes of the Eastern Palace!"

"He is also a person trusted by His Majesty the Emperor!"

"The person the minister was talking about turns out to be Huang Zicheng! He is indeed a man of remarkable talent. In terms of knowledge alone, there are few people in the court and even in the Ming Dynasty who can surpass him. His ability to govern the country is also very strong! He is enough to carry the banner of our Huaixi Party in the future!" Feng Sheng immediately gave a high evaluation.

The rest of Lan Yu and the others also nodded slowly.

"Since you have no objection, then my Huaixi Party will focus on training Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai. In the future, they will be the civil officials, and Lan Yu and the others will be the military generals. They will be the base of my Huaixi Party!"

"We must firmly establish our foothold and let Ouyang Lun do whatever he wants. We will remain unmoved. As long as we plan well, we will have a chance to deal with Ouyang Lun and his party!"

"It's a pity that I'm old now, and I probably won't be able to see it anymore!"

Li Shanchang said helplessly.

The speed at which Ouyang Lun's ability and strength improved far exceeded Li Shanchang's expectations. Now that Ouyang Lun and the Prince Consort's party have become powerful, the two sides have entered a long-term confrontation stage. There is only one word left - endure!

Now Zhu Yuanzhang has abdicated and become the emperor emeritus.

Many veteran generals and old officials will gradually retreat to the second line or even pass away.

Ouyang Lun will gradually gain more advantages with his age, so at this time we need to cultivate younger talents to compete with Ouyang Lun.

In Li Shanchang's view, Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai are both talented. Their abilities are no worse than Ouyang Lun, and they are younger than Ouyang Lun. As long as these two can show their talents, they will be able to compete with Ouyang Lun in the future.

Endure - whoever endures to the end wins!
"Please rest assured, with us here, Ouyang Lun will never be able to defeat our Huaixi Party!"

"Humph! Unless we are all dead, Ouyang Lun will never be able to comfortably control the court!"

"Even if we all die, we still have Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai!"

"That's right, Ouyang Lun will also grow old one day!" Lan Yu and others spoke excitedly.

"Yes." Li Shanchang nodded. "In addition to the full training of Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai, you should also pay more attention to young talents after you go down. We can't lose to Ouyang Lun!"

"Yes!"

Li Shanchang knew very well that he could not wait any longer. People of their generation were generally over 60 years old, and might be gone tomorrow.

Besides, Zhu Yuanzhang has now abdicated and become the emperor emeritus, and the new emperor Zhu Biao has ascended the throne. Although Zhu Biao is still quite good to the Huaixi Party at the moment, after all, a new emperor chooses new ministers. Judging from the current situation, Zhu Biao values ​​Ouyang Lun and Lan Yu more. It's time for this old man to step down and make way for the young people.

Of course, not just anyone can be found to replace him. The leader of the Huaixi Party can be handed over to Lan Yu. Now Lan Yu is already the general of the military cabinet. He has enough power and status. The only thing is that his prestige is a little less. However, there are not many people whose prestige is higher than Lan Yu.

But when Li Shanchang looked around at the civil officials, he saw that people like Lan Yu, Feng Sheng, and Fu Youde were all military generals!

Therefore, Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai must be trained as soon as possible.

After Li Shanchang and others discussed some details, they dispersed. However, the Huaixi Party became busy afterwards.

Many officials of the younger generation were called in for talks by several bigwigs of the Huaixi Party. Although no one knew what these bigwigs of the Huaixi Party said to the young officials, when these young officials came out of the mansions of the bigwigs, they had expressions of excitement, joy and anticipation on their faces.

Just as the Huaixi Party began to prepare to train new people due to the strong pressure from Ouyang Lun and the Prince Consort Party, some changes were also taking place in the entire Ming Dynasty.

All major silver counters in the Ming Dynasty have fully opened loan services to ordinary people!

This news was published in major newspapers and magazines in the Ming Dynasty and caused a lot of heated discussion in a very short period of time.

Bashu, Wanzhou.

In the teahouse.

A middle-aged man was drinking tea and reading a newspaper. When he saw the content in the newspaper, his eyes lit up.

This person's name is Hong Tieniu.

He was originally a farmer in Shanxi Province, but he didn't like doing farm work since he was a child. When he heard that Northern Zhili was recruiting workers, he signed up and went to Northern Zhili to work. He earned a lot of money and renovated his house.

Later, he responded to the call of the court and came to the west to participate in construction, so he came to Bashu to participate in the construction of roads, bridges, etc.!

This has been going on for many years.

The environment in Bashu was already good, and as the roads were repaired, various aspects gradually developed. After discussing with my family, I thought about settling down in Bashu. Besides, the imperial court has been uniformly planning the construction of housing communities, etc. in recent years.

Hong Tieniu has participated in all of these projects and knows how comfortable the new housing estates that have been renovated are.

Hong Tieniu was naturally very tempted, but the price was a bit expensive. Even if he took out all his money, it would not be enough to buy a small house. What's more, he had a big family with quite a lot of people, and a small house would not be able to accommodate them all!

But after reading the content in the newspaper, Hong Tieniu immediately felt hopeful again.

loan!

The imperial court has opened up loans to ordinary people, which means that you can borrow money from the imperial court!
Just as Hong Tieniu was thinking, he heard the sound of other people discussing the loan matter around him.

"Loans? Will the imperial court lend money?"

"Is the imperial court trying to force all of us ordinary people to death?"

"Those people who lend money to people are all evil people who eat people without leaving any bones. Now the imperial court is here too. They are going to leave us no way to survive!"

People were talking about it and expressing their opinions on the issue of "loans".

Many people look unhappy when they see the idea of ​​taking out a loan.

This is indeed the case. The people who lend money are basically local tyrants, who often cause families to be ruined or even destroyed, so they have a very bad reputation among the people, and the act of lending itself is also hated by the people.

So most of them are complaining about the imperial court.

As these dissatisfied voices increased, and even were secretly guided by people with ulterior motives, the people's voices against "imperial loans" became louder and louder.

Not only in Wanzhou, Bashu, but also in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, except for northern Zhili, there were obvious voices of opposition.

This development of the situation gave hope to many forces that had already opposed this matter, and they joined the trend of opposition. Soon, people gathered to express their protest against this matter!

"What is the court doing?"

"The new emperor ascended the throne, but instead of thinking about how to improve the welfare of our people, he was thinking about how to squeeze money from us!"

"They said they would lighten our burden, but don't they mean we don't have to pay back the money?"

"We have suffered enough from the scams of loan sharks over the years! If we borrow this money, our lives will be ruined!"

"In the past, local tyrants bullied us, but now even the imperial court has begun to bully and exploit us!"

"Bah! I thought the new emperor was a good emperor, but I didn't expect him to implement such vicious policies right after he came to power."

"I heard that this idea was proposed by Prince Consort Ouyang Lun."

"I've already said that Ouyang Lun is not a good guy!"

"Some people said Ouyang Lun was a traitor before, and I didn't quite believe it. Now it seems that he is really a traitor."

"Now this treacherous minister has become the Prime Minister of the Cabinet!"

"Ah - our hard times are coming!"

The people became increasingly dissatisfied, and with some people secretly adding fuel to the fire, the voices of opposition grew louder and louder.

Although the voices of public opposition were growing louder and louder, the Ming court was calm, as if it had directly isolated these voices.

Li Shanchang and others naturally knew about this matter, and some of their people even added fuel to the fire behind the scenes. However, the Huaixi Party did not take any action in the court. Not to mention submitting a memorial to impeach Ouyang Lun, not even one person filed a complaint against Ouyang Lun!
The main reason for this is that the Huaixi Party has already devoted more energy and resources to cultivating the younger generation, and therefore does not want to confront Ouyang Lun head-on for the time being.

Naturally, the bigger the matter, the better, but the Huaixi Party will not be the first to take action!

(End of this chapter)