Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 317
Thinking of what Shen Ying and Zhu Huiyu said, Shen Zheng suddenly realized something, and immediately smiled and said: "I don't know what the commander-in-chief intends. I pay respects to the emperor, I pay respects to the emperor."

Zhou Hengchen and the others nodded silently when they heard the words, and after a while, Yang Liufeng suddenly clapped his hands and said, "I understand, the commander-in-chief is not trying to test us, he is really asking us to meet the emperor."

"How do you say that?" Fang asked.

Yang Liufeng said solemnly: "You don't know how careful our commander is. The commander has just entered the center, and the emperor needs to cooperate in some places, so that the commander's actions will be more convenient. I guess, the commander is for Show the dignity of the emperor and let the emperor feel at ease, so let us go to see the emperor."

Zhou Hengchen and others nodded repeatedly when they heard the words.

After a pause, Yang Liufeng continued: "But after we pay our respects to the emperor, we have to pay respects to the commander-in-chief according to the etiquette of visiting the emperor, but we must not let the commander-in-chief choose our courtesy."

Everyone stretched out their thumbs when they heard the words, and praised Yang Liufeng for his clever move.

Everyone's plan has been decided, immediately speed up the pace and rush to Qianqing Palace with the soldiers.

When they arrived in the palace, they saw Li Jing and a young man sitting opposite each other. The young man was dressed in bright yellow, and they immediately knew that this man was the current emperor.

Shen Zheng and the others looked at each other, and Qi Qi stood in front of the young man, knelt down on the ground and said: "I pay homage to the emperor."

After finishing speaking, everyone kneeled down three times and kowtowed nine times respectfully.

Zhu Youjian nodded, and said lightly: "Everyone loves you."

Shen Zheng and others hurriedly said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

However, he didn't get up, but turned to Li Jing, kneeled down three times and kowtowed nine times respectfully, and said: "I will see the commander in chief."

Seeing that these people understood his thoughts, Li Jing was very happy in his heart, but these people actually kneeled down and kowtowed to him three times and nine times, his face suddenly changed.

Immediately said in a deep voice: "Who asked you to salute me? And you still do such a big salute?"

Shen Zheng and the others didn't expect that Li Jing didn't ask them to get up, but asked with a downcast face, his heart was beating wildly, and he secretly screamed in his heart.

Fortunately, Shen Zheng reacted quickly, and relying on himself as Li Jing's father-in-law, he hurriedly said boldly: "Commander, I respect him in my heart, so I salute him. Wait for your own disposal."

Li Jing shook his head, pointed at Shen Zheng and the others and said, "Have you forgotten the rules I made before?"

When Shen Zheng and others heard this, they realized why Li Jing was angry. It turned out that they had broken Li Jing's etiquette system just now by saluting Li Jing.

Shen Zheng and the others got up in a hurry, bowed to Li Jing and said, "I have broken the system established by the commander in chief, please punish him by the commander in chief."

Seeing that these people were so terrified in front of Li Jing, Zhu Youjian couldn't help secretly admiring Li Jing's methods, wondering how Li Jing managed to deal with these people submissively.At the same time, it felt unbelievable. I don't know what mistake these people made to make Li Jing angry.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Youjian looked at Li Jing and said, "Li Aiqing, I don't know what rules you set, why don't you allow people to salute you?"

Seeing Zhu Youjian's inquiry, Li Jing clasped his fists at Zhu Youjian and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know anything. I made a rule in Pingyang Mansion. From now on, except for heaven, earth, ancestors, parents, and teachers, everyone else is not allowed to kneel and worship. "

"Why is that?" Zhu Youjian wondered.

Li Jing said solemnly: "If a person kneels too much, his spine will not be straight, and he will gradually lose his blood. I abolished kneeling and worshiping, just to awaken the backbone and blood of a big man. Today they met the emperor for the first time. Fearing that the emperor might misunderstand, it is right to kneel down to the emperor, but kneeling down to me would break the system."

Turning his head to look at Shen Zheng and the others, Li Jing stretched out his hand and nodded to everyone: "I know exactly what you are thinking, but the system cannot be broken. Tell yourself what punishment you should accept."

"Remember it once, and you will be fined for three months without reward." Shen Zheng said with a bow.

Li Jingjing nodded, looked at Yu Leting and said, "You are in charge of the inspection, and you are the first to disobey the rules. You will be demerited once, you will not be promoted for a year, and you will not be rewarded for half a year. You will record it in your examination book when you go back."

Yu Leting hurriedly said, "Yes! Commander."

Li Jingjing nodded, and said to Wang Cheng'en next to him, "Grandpa Wang, please ask someone to bring some stools over. I have something to tell everyone, and you should come and listen."

Wang Chengen was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered someone to move the stool.

After a while, several young eunuchs moved the stools in, and Li Jing waved his hand to signal everyone to sit down.

Seeing that Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Youjian with some hesitation, Li Jing smiled and said: "Eunuch Wang, sit down, although today's incident seems to be that you are disloyal to the emperor, but I know that there is no second person like you in Daming." You are so loyal to the emperor. For the safety of the emperor, you can even sacrifice your life. From now on, you will be responsible for the safety of the emperor. I will send you a team of personal guards to protect the safety of the emperor and you."

Wang Chengen didn't expect that Li Jing would take the initiative to explain to him, and even considered his safety, so he couldn't help feeling grateful.

Turning his head to look at Zhu Youjian, Li Jing smiled and said: "The emperor may not take what I said just now, thinking that if Wang Chengen hadn't opened the palace gate, I would not have entered the palace easily. How could Wang Chengen be loyal?"

Zhu Youjian listened silently, he really thought so in his heart.

Smiling, Li Jing pointed to the outside of the palace: "Your Majesty, do you think that if I want to enter the palace, the soldiers in the city and the guards in the palace can stop me? I'm not bragging to you. Although the defense of the capital is Yan, but if I want to attack the city, I can enter the city within an hour at most. But if that happens, the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed, and even the emperor and the princes and concubines in the harem may be hurt. I am not The one who came to seize the Ming Dynasty was not to compete with the emperor for the emperor's position. I would never do this unless it was absolutely necessary. That's why I found Wang Gonggong and told him what is good or bad. Wang Gonggong is out of the safety of the emperor. After thinking about it, I agreed to let me go into the city."

Seeing that Zhu Youjian still had some disbelief, Li Jing smiled and said: "When the emperor personally marches and sees how we defeated the Qing army, you should believe it. I will explain to you now that you will not believe it no matter what."

Waving his hand, Li Jing smiled and said, "Okay, let's not talk about that, let's talk about the business first."

Turning his head and glanced at everyone, Li Jing looked at Zhou Hengchen: "Hengchen, you are the chief official of the official department. How to appoint an official should immediately come up with a charter. Continue to keep them, and they will be promoted appropriately if they do a good job. All those who bend the law for personal gain will be punished by me, and those who are not doing business all day will be sent home. I will give you half a month, and you will give the officials of the official department I'll sort it out, and then let the officials get on the right track."

Zhou Hengchen got up and cupped his hands, "Don't worry, Commander, I will live up to the Commander's trust."

Li Jing stretched out his hand to press, signaling Zhou Hengchen to sit down, and then looked at Shen Zheng: "Father-in-law, there are more troublesome things in the household department, and the treasury of Ming Dynasty is already empty, and I don't know how many old accounts have been accumulated.

In this way, you first clear the military pay owed by the Ministry of War, and don’t worry about the vacancy, and send all the military pay for the past year.As for those who eat the empty quota, I will go back and deal with them. I will kill anyone who dares to drink the blood of soldiers.

In addition, to mobilize 50 shi of grain, Shaanxi will allocate 20 shi, Shanxi will allocate 20 shi, and Henan will allocate [-] shi. These three provinces have been in chaos these years. First, stabilize these three provinces. If you need it urgently, ask Second Uncle and Jixian to raise food nearby, and deal with the emergency first. After you have dealt with the affairs of the above three provinces, you can focus on the other provinces.

After solving the above urgent tasks, start to send people to clear the grain fields and land in the whole country, and collect taxes according to the land in the future.At the same time, the provinces are ordered to inspect all the shops and businesses. These businessmen are making the most profits, but they only pay very little tax to the country. Don’t think about such a good thing in the future.”

Shen Zheng nodded, hesitated for a moment and said: "Marshal, I'm getting old, and I'm afraid I can't do so many things by myself, so arrange a helper for me!"

Li Jing pondered for a while, then nodded slightly: "Then transfer Zhang Ao here! Zhang Ao is serious in his work. He used to be your deputy, and let him be your deputy this time. Zhang Ao has been wronged all these years and has been holding back In the old village, I'm afraid they will blame me a lot."

Shen Zheng smiled and said: "The commander-in-chief hasn't had time to go back to the old village these years, but I have gone back to see Zhang Ao several times. Zhang Ao didn't complain, but complained that he hadn't seen the commander-in-chief in these years, and he remembered you in his heart." .”

Recalling Zhang Ao and other old brothers who built Hongshanling back then, Li Jing was in a daze for a while, then sighed softly and said: "Oh! It's just that I have too many things here, and the old village can't do without him. You tell Zhang Ao, when he comes to Beijing, I will buy him a drink and apologize to him."

Shen Zheng nodded, and then sighed: "Zhang Ao knows that the commander-in-chief also misses him, so he may not be happy in his heart."

Yang Liufeng and the others all knew that Li Jing was nostalgic for the old days. Seeing Li Jing's true feelings revealed at this time, their hearts were agitated for a while, and they all felt that they had followed the wrong person.

After being silent for a while, Li Jing came back to his senses, turned his head to look at Yang Liufeng and Yu Leting and said, "You two are in charge of the Ministry of Punishment and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. I will give you three tasks. First, tell the world about the new Great Ming law. Second, thoroughly investigate all corrupt officials, find out one by one, and deal with them one by one. Third, investigate the old cases of the past, and correct those unjust and wrong cases for me.”

Yang Liufeng and Yu Leting hurriedly stood up and said, "I would like to obey the Commander's order."

Li Jing waved his hand, motioned the two to sit down, and then said to Yuan Shu: "Your matter is more troublesome. I want you to lead someone to investigate the properties of all the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty. Each prince is only allowed to own a maximum of three thousand acres of land, and the county king is only allowed to own land. For [-] mu of land, those below the king of the county are only allowed to own [-] mu of land, and the rest of the land that is occupied by multiple circles will be taken back by me.

At the same time, tell them that their thrones will no longer be hereditary in the future, and their titles will be lowered every generation, and their titles will be canceled after three generations.

You tell them that our Ming's national strength is declining day by day, and we can't afford to feed the moths who are waiting to die, relying on the status of the emperor's relatives to eat the country's food for free, and take the country's salary, don't think about such a good thing in the future.

This is true of the royal relatives, as well as those dukes and dukes, and these people will cancel their titles after this generation.

This matter is of great importance, do you have the confidence and courage to handle this matter for me? "

(End of this chapter)