Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 338 The Prime Minister
Shaking his head, Li Jing sighed and said to Ni Yuanlu: "This time the emperor will go to Pingyang Mansion during his inspection tour in Shanxi. Brother, let's go with him. Go to Pingyang Mansion to see your mentor and show respect to his old man."

"Yes! Yuan Lu takes orders." Ni Yuanlu said hastily.

Li Jing waved his hand and continued: "Senior brother sees the problem straight to the point. It can be seen that Mr. did not misunderstand you. As the senior brother said, it will indeed cost a lot of money to rebuild the Imperial College, but no matter how much money is spent, we must do it well. thing."

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "I know you are worried about the emptiness of the national treasury, and that you will not be able to pay for it. I have my own sense of proportion. I am going to implement a new tax system in Daming. I have already ordered people to start clearing the treasury The country's land, no matter who he is, as long as it is cultivated on my Daming's land, it must pay taxes to the court. In Daming, there is no such thing as a gentry who does not pay taxes.

There are also those merchants, all of whom are very rich, but still try their best not to pay taxes. This time, I not only want them to make up all the previous arrears, but also severely fine them. "

Seeing Li Jing's sudden murderous look, everyone was shocked.

Shaking his head, Li Jing smiled and said, "I won't go into details about the new tax system today. The content has already been formulated by Mr. Shen and will be released soon. You all have to take a closer look at it then."

"Yes!" The crowd responded in unison.

He raised his eyes to look at the sky, and counted that Qian Qianyi had waited for a long time. Li Jing looked at Zhu Youjian and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I think we should jump if Qian Qianyi doesn't see us again. Let's go now." Meet them."

"Hehe, I really want to see what he looks like when he jumps." Zhu Youjian laughed.

Speaking of which, Zhu Youjian stood up with a smile, and said to the officials and supervisors of the Imperial College: "Although I don't care about government affairs, I hope you can remember that everything Master Li has done is for the revival of the Ming Dynasty, so you must Keep in mind Master Li's teachings, study hard, and strive to contribute to the country as soon as possible."

"Yes! Your Majesty!" Everyone hurriedly said.

Zhu Youjian waved his hand, and took Li Jing's hand out of the hall together.

After walking a few steps, Zhu Youjian looked at the officials accompanying him, and suddenly said with a smile to Li Jing: "How about leaving Qian Qianyi and those people to me to deal with?"

Hearing this, Li Jing smiled lightly: "Okay, the emperor has this interest, why did the minister go against the emperor's elegance."

Zhu Youjian was overjoyed, and suddenly cupped his hands at Li Jinggong and said, "Thank you, Brother Li."

Li Jing's courage can be described as great, but he was still taken aback by Zhu Youjian's action, and hurriedly grabbed Zhu Youjian's hand and said: "How can the emperor give courtesy to his courtiers, I dare not be a humble minister."

Zhu Youjian held Li Jing's hand backhand and said, "Brother Li, don't panic, I did this gift to you from the bottom of my heart."

Sighing, Zhu Youjian continued: "To be honest, I'm lonely! My two brothers have never enjoyed brotherhood, let alone talked with anyone from the bottom of their hearts. During this time, I see you every day When dealing with government affairs, I am really envious of all the officials in various ministries who call me brothers and talk freely.

It's a pity that I don't have any brothers or friends, and I can't talk about friendship with others.

Now besides my wife and children, you are my closest family member.We are in-laws, and you are older than me in terms of age, so I will call you Brother Li from now on. "

Hearing that Zhu Youjian had even changed his name, Li Jing was silent for a long time, then lightly patted Zhu Youjian's hand.

Li Jing could hear the sincerity in Zhu Youjian's words, but he wanted to impress Li Jing based on his sincerity, making Li Jing believe that Zhu Youjian was completely convinced, and it was a little bit close.

Li Jing knew very well that in order to seize power, brotherhood and father-son relationship are bullshit. Calling brothers face to face, but stabbing each other behind the back, such things are not common in history books.

But now Zhu Youjian wants to call Li Jing brother, no matter what the purpose is, Li Jing can't refuse.

The so-called killing is nothing more than a nod. During this period of time, Zhu Youjian, no matter whether it was true or false, always obeyed Li Jing and did whatever he was asked to do.Now people want to talk to you about a brother and you don't agree, that's too unreasonable.

But Li Jing also knew that even if he agreed, he couldn't agree directly, otherwise the history books of later generations might write about him!Therefore, Li Jing could only be noncommittal and keep silent for him.

But the movements of Li Jing's hands conveyed his own meaning, patting Zhu Youjian's hand lightly, meaning that I completely understand your mood.

Zhu Youjian felt the temperature of Li Jing's palm, but secretly sighed in his heart.

This Li Jing is so impeccable, it seems that he should stop playing games with Li Jing in the future.

To be honest, Zhu Youjian is very conflicted in his heart now. He wants to enjoy his current life, but also wants to regain his lost power.

Zhu Youjian's current life is very leisurely, he can go wherever he wants, go shopping if he wants to go shopping, accompany his wife and children if he wants to accompany his wife and children, and go to Li Jing's office if he wants to see Li Jing handle official business.

In fact, Zhu Youjian spent most of his time in Li Jing's office, or in his former office.

Therefore, although Zhu Youjian no longer has power, he basically saw all the important affairs of Daming.

Zhu Youjian was standing next to Li Jing watching government orders issued by the central government and spread to all parts of the country.

Sometimes, Zhu Youjian admired Li Jing's handling of government affairs from the bottom of his heart, seeing that Li Jing easily solved problems that were impossible to solve in his own eyes, Zhu Youjian really admired him.

In particular, Li Jing was decisive in killing and attacking corrupt officials. When he punished corrupt officials, he followed the policy of being strict and serious. Seeing the crossed names in the memorial, Zhu Youjian felt shuddering.

Sometimes Zhu Youjian secretly compared Li Jing with Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, wanting to see who was more ruthless between the two.

After comparison, Zhu Youjian found that in terms of the means of killing, Li Jingyuan was not as cruel as Zhu Yuanzhang, but in terms of the number of killings, Li Jing was probably even worse than Zhu Yuanzhang.

Li Jing has only been in power for less than three months, and hundreds of corrupt officials have died in his hands (including generals, but excluding members of Jinyiwei and Dongchang), and the dismissed officials are even more countless.Zhu Youjian was very suspicious. According to Li Jing's method, how many officials could be left in Ming Dynasty.

But Li Jing is obviously more methodical than Zhu Yuanzhang, so there is no need to worry about having no officials available, because Li Jing also sent a group of officials to these places while disposing of them, but the number was not as many as those killed or dismissed.

You don't need to ask Zhu Youjian to know that these officials have been trained by Li Jing over the years, that is to say, Li Jing has already started planning for today a few years ago.

Compared with this, Zhu Yuanzhang was much worse. Zhu Yuanzhang did not prepare backup talents at all and started to kill the Quartet. In the end, there were no officials available, so he had to let criminal officials wait for crimes to work.

Seeing Li Jing exercising power so freely, Zhu Youjian felt both relaxed and envious. He said that he was relaxed because he no longer had to worry about these troublesome things, and he said that he was envious because Zhu Youjian felt that his emperor these years was useless. Done.

Every time he thinks of this, Zhu Youjian wants to regain power and fight hard. Every time this time comes, Zhu Youjian is extremely eager to get back his own power.

But when he saw new problems emerging, he felt that it was better not to have this power.

Feeling that Zhu Youjian's hand was clenched and relaxed for a while, Li Jing patted the back of Zhu Youjian's hand lightly and said: "Your Majesty, don't think too much. I have prepared all the money, food and supplies, and the relatives sent by Gao Qi The guards will come to the capital tomorrow, and you can leave for Shanxi in two days. Take a look and listen to the road, and when you come back, I think your mood will change a lot."

Zhu Youjian nodded slightly when he heard the words.

Seeing a group of people waiting anxiously in the square from a distance, Li Jing smiled and gestured to Xiao Wu.

When Xiao Wu saw this, he opened his mouth and shouted loudly: "Fengtian Chengyun Ming Emperor Zhu Youjian has arrived, and the Prime Minister of the Cabinet and the Governor of the Five Armies Li Jing has arrived. You are still waiting on your knees."

Xiao Wu's voice was so abrupt that the accompanying people, including Zhu Youjian, were startled, but this was not over yet, as Xiao Wu's voice fell, all the soldiers drank again in unison.

Hearing what the crowd shouted, Li Jing glanced at Xiao Wu, frowned slightly, and thought, "This Xiao Wu is really messing around, and even changed his own words."

It turned out that Li Jing told Xiao Wu to shout this sentence in advance, but Li Jing told Xiao Wu to shout only the sentence "His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty is here".I don't want Xiao Wu to change it, and Li Jing's official position is the deputy prime minister of the cabinet, so Xiao Wu deleted the adverb in a daze.

Li Jing knew that Xiaowu was upset that he only called the emperor, so he added Li Jing's name after that, and because he wanted to call Li Jing's name, he called Zhu Youjian's name again.

Li Jing can understand Xiao Wu's thoughts, but Xiao Wu obviously doesn't understand why Li Jing wants to carry Zhu Youjian out.

Xiao Wu didn't know how powerful literati formed cliques at all, so he thought it would be a good job to meet these people.

In particular, these Donglin party members used to seize other people's excuses and lift themselves up to the emperor. Isn't that just looking for trouble for themselves?

Sure enough, as soon as the guards finished speaking, they saw a person standing in front of them, pointing at the guards and shouting: "How dare you call your majesty's name directly, and put Li Jing's name alongside your majesty's. It’s really a crime worthy of death.”

Seeing the person's behavior, Li Jing suddenly smiled, although Li Jing had never met Qian Qianyi, but judging from the person's demeanor, Li Jing knew that it was undoubtedly Qian Qianyi.

Naturally, Li Jing didn't think that Qian Qianyi himself was funny, but because of Qian Qianyi's actions.

There is nothing wrong with Qian Qianyi's words, the problem is all in his actions.

You must know that Zhu Youjian and Li Jing are walking in front, and the ministers are behind, and the soldiers are guarding both sides of Zhu Youjian and Li Jing. check on the body.

With a sneer, Li Jing took a step forward and shouted: "Who are you? You don't kneel or say anything when you see the emperor, and you dare to point fingers at the emperor. Are you planning to rebel?"

Qian Qianyi was taken aback for a moment, and then remembered that he was too angry just now, and even forgot to salute to the emperor, and even pointed fingers in front of the emperor, which was extremely rude.

(End of this chapter)