The Ming Dynasty took an unconventional approach

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Pan Yue: "Wang Zhen?"

Yin Song said meaningfully: "More than that."

"Lord Pan and Lord Xue want justice, but Wang Zhen and the cabinet are engaged in a factional struggle, and His Majesty is also involved," Yin Song said, "Judging from what Lord Pan and Lord Xue want, your enemy is not only Wang Zhen, but also the officials from Jiangnan who are caught up in this incident, and..."

Yin Song looked up at Pan Yue and said word by word: "Your Majesty."

Pan Yu opened his eyes wide and looked at his brother with his mouth open.

Pan Yue didn't seem surprised, he just remained silent.

Pan Yu couldn't help but yelled, "Brother!"

Pan Yue gave him a soothing look and asked Yin Song, "What should we do then? Can I, my father, and Lord Xue survive this time?"

Yin Song: “It’s hard to predict.”

Xue Shao: "Okay."

The three of them looked at Xue Shao together.

Xue Shao paused and said, "Your Majesty has reviewed the Yue and He cases himself and is aware of the injustice done to my uncle and Lord Pan. He values ​​friendship and loyalty and will not kill them, but..."

Pan Yue said coldly: "But in order to accomplish something, my father and Lord Xue will also bear some charges and pay a price that they should not pay."

Xue Shao asked him: "Are you angry?"

Pan Yue said expressionlessly: "I'm not angry. He is an emperor. It is impossible for an emperor to be completely free of hypocrisy. I am just weighing the pros and cons. As long as my father can keep his life, that's enough."

Yin Song glanced at Xue Shao and smiled gently.

Yin Qingjun saw it when he came out with the food.

When Xue Shao and the others went to wash their hands and prepare to eat, Yin Qingjun asked, "Master, why are you laughing so contemptuously?"

"Nonsense, I was clearly smiling with relief."

Yin Qingjun looked incredulous: "Is that a smile of relief?"

"Yes, I laugh at them for still being naive at their age. Isn't this comforting?" Yin Song scolded him, "How can you be so different from me? You act like an adult at such a young age. You should act more like an adult. Don't you see that your junior uncle's two brothers are wearing thin clothes? Go find two sets of clothes that fit them. They will need them for bathing later."

Yin Qingjun complained in his heart: That's clearly mocking their naivety, and they call it relief, so shameless.

At the dinner table, Yin Song enthusiastically served them food and earnestly warned them: "The political situation is complicated and undercurrents are surging. You and I are just small leaves, so we should not act rashly and just wait for the right opportunity."

Pan Yu: "Just wait? What we value on the battlefield is to take the initiative to attack."

Yin Song asked: "So after you took the initiative, did you eliminate the trouble forever?"

Pan Yu choked: "There are so many captives in the north, and we are just a small team. Even if we win, it's only a one-time victory. How can we eliminate the trouble forever? Unless we have a big war and attack the Tatars directly."

"Can you fight a war whenever you want?" Yin Song saw him frowning, so he said, "That's a question, not a mocking one."

Pan Yu shook his head: "No, I'm just a small soldier and I have no right to decide the war."

Yin Song: "Under the circumstances, the war broke out as you wished. With your current status, can you take charge of the overall situation and decide the direction of the war?"

Pan Yu glanced at his brother and shook his head.

Yin Song said, "This case is the same now. The war has already begun. You and I are just soldiers. We have no right to preside over the overall situation and decide the direction of the war."

Pan Yue seemed to be thinking: "What we can do is to manage ourselves well and focus on defense. As long as there is an enemy, we will defend and attack, and fight for the territory we can get bit by bit." Yin Song nodded approvingly: "Not bad."

Xue Shao also curled his lips and smiled happily.

Pan Yue pointed at him and asked Yin Song, "What can Master Xue do in this war?"

"What he is doing now is the same as what Junior Sister did, influencing the emperor's feelings and thoughts indirectly."

Pan Yue nodded: "That is indeed much more important than us."

Pan Yu's focus was different: "My little sister is so powerful that she can influence the emperor's feelings and thoughts?"

Yin Song: "That's quite impressive. Although she has gone to Yunnan, she is still having an impact."

Pan Yun was indeed influencing the emperor.

The emperor released Wang Zhen with the intention of using him to compete with the civil servants in Jiangnan, but news from Runing Prefecture and Quanzhou came in like snowflakes.

The refugees and disaster victims in Runing Prefecture and Quanzhou Prefecture were all properly arranged.

The refugees from Runing Prefecture who had fled returned in large numbers after they had money and food. In addition, the emperor required the prefectures, counties and cities to resettle the refugees and distribute land and exempt taxes. As a result, more people in the Central Plains began to sing praises to the emperor.

The Embroidered Uniform Guard reported that within the past half month, due to the resettlement of refugees, two groups of rioters dispersed, and the refugee riot that was expected to occur at the end of the month was prevented without incident.

The Jinyiwei and the inspectors of Quanzhou were even more straightforward, reporting directly to the emperor. Because the people who moved inland from Quanzhou were given money and food, the county magistrates of various places also took the initiative to send officials from the Sino-Agricultural Temple to the countryside to teach the fishermen how to farm.

Some county magistrates even went to the fields themselves to encourage people to engage in farming, providing all-round guidance on everything from seed selection and breeding to cultivation, in order to calm the unstable public sentiment in Quanzhou. This year, the number of people who went out to sea privately to act as pirates has decreased by 73 percent compared to the same period last year.

This is a huge amount of data, and it is also a data that directly hits the emperor's heart.

This made him realize how wonderful Ming would be if the treasury had money that could be effectively used for the people;
It also let him know how important the money that Wang Zhen embezzled was.

From the Yue case and the He case, the emperor had a vague realization that what he had always thought were just data, were actually human lives and families to the people of the world.

So when no one knew, the gap between the emperor and Wang Zhen grew bigger and bigger.

Therefore, after Wang Zhen was released, he did not use him immediately and still used Cao Jixiang.

After using him for a while, the emperor got used to him. Although he was not as considerate as Wang Zhen, he was more loyal and honest, so... it was okay.

The emperor was tentatively relying on Cao Jixiang to fight against the civil officials, so he had ignored Wang Zhen recently.

The court is not that noble. It is filled with a large group of people who are very good at reading people's expressions and deciding how to deal with them. As a result, the powerful Wang Zhen faction has been having a hard time recently, while the civil servants who are against Wang Zhen's faction have become arrogant.

However, the civil servants were not all united. The officials headed by Lord Zhuo of the Ministry of Justice insisted on releasing Xue Xuan and Pan Hong first, believing that the Yue and He cases had been redressed, so the charges that Xue Xuan and Pan Hong had accepted bribes and deliberately framed people did not exist.

To the surprise of the cabinet and a group of civil servants, the noble Chang family, like the Duke of Qian in Yunnan, insisted on releasing Xue Xuan and Pan Hong first.

It's understandable that the Duke of Qian did this, but why are you, the Chang family, joining in on the fun?
Have you forgotten that your home is not as good as it used to be?

But what they didn't expect was that members of the royal family also got involved, and King Zhou of Kaifeng also submitted a memorial to plead for Xue Xuan and Pan Hong.

He was truly pleading for mercy and did not argue with anyone about whether Xue Xuan and Pan Hong were just or not. Instead, he was persuading the emperor from another perspective.

It is understandable that there are occasional mistakes in work. Xue Xuan and Pan Hong are such good people. They have noble character and are conscientious. Even if they have no merits, they have worked hard. So, Your Majesty, please show mercy and let them go.

Thus, what was originally a struggle between two factions gradually split into three factions.

(End of this chapter)