Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 354 Second Class Ping Beibo

When the soldiers walked in front of him, Li Jing took a wine jar, filled the wine glass in front of him, and then raised his glass and said: "Everyone here is the elite of my Ming Dynasty, and shoulders the future of Ming Dynasty. For the sake of Ming Dynasty, Li Jing respects everyone A glass."

After finishing speaking, Li Jing raised his glass and drank it down.

After drinking, Li Jing filled the wine glass and said: "Everyone has come from afar, but Li Jing has never greeted you from afar. For this crime, I will punish you with a glass of wine as an apology."

After speaking, he drank the wine in the glass again.

Then Li Jing poured another glass, raised his glass and said: "I neglected you just now, this is the second crime, I will punish you with another glass, and I will make amends to you all."

Seeing that Li Jing raised his glass to drink, one of them said: "Wait a minute, Commander. I will drink this cup with you. The Commander has worked so hard for the revival of the Ming Dynasty. Everyone can see it. How can we miss the Commander's business because we came to Beijing?" , Marshal blames himself for us, how can we feel at ease, please let us toast to Marshal together."

"Yes, yes." The people in the dream echoed after hearing what the man said.

As they spoke, everyone poured wine one after another, and then raised their glasses.

Seeing this, Li Jing smiled lightly, raised his wine glass and said, "Then let's respect Daming with this glass, and hope that Daming will recover soon and regain its former glory. Do it!"

"Do it!" Everyone responded in unison.

Then everyone toasted and drank together.

Li Jing hadn't been to Dongnuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace for more than two months.

But Zhu Youjian came back, so Li Jing had to move the office here again.

Zhu Youjian returned to the capital with Cao Wenzhao. Cao Wenzhao met Zhu Youjian who had returned from a tour of Shanxi in Xuanfu on the way back to Beijing with his class teacher, and then returned to the capital with Zhu Youjian.

"Hehe, what do you think about your Majesty's trip to Shanxi?" Seeing Zhu Youjian's excited expression, Li Jing asked with a smile.

Zhu Youjian heard the words, the excited expression on his face quickly disappeared, he sighed softly, and said sadly: "Brother Li, I used to listen to the reports below, and I never went to see them. It is a lot of emotion. Shanxi is poor, and it is much poorer than I imagined.

Do you know what I thought when I saw the scene in Shanxi?At that time, I really wanted to kill all those local officials. These bastards never told me the truth of the local area, including the spies I sent down.

I didn’t know what it means to starve and die everywhere before, but this time I visited Shanxi, and I finally understood what this sentence meant. Not only was the land barren, but there were no leaves or weeds left. They were all eaten up. I asked Over the local people, at the worst time they even ate people.

When I heard these words at the time, I couldn't even lift my head up. I didn't even know that such a horrible thing as cannibalism happened in Daming, I was not worthy to be the emperor of Daming at all.

Those common people also said that if the imperial court had not allocated 20 shi of grain to relieve the victims, they did not know what would have happened there. "

Seeing that Zhu Youjian was choked up while speaking, Li Jing patted Zhu Youjian's hand lightly and said, "Your Majesty, don't blame yourself, it's not all your responsibility."

Zhu Youjian shook his head: "Brother Li, you prepared 100 shi of grain and [-] million taels of silver for me this time, and I used up all the way, but there are too many victims, and the money and grain can only last until the beginning of spring at most. What will you do next year? Brother Li, you have to think of a way!"

Li Jing nodded lightly: "Your Majesty, we cannot avoid natural disasters, but we can avoid man-made disasters. As long as there are no man-made disasters, then we can survive natural disasters. I have already asked Shen Zheng and Zhang Ao to start preparing for the next year's spring plowing. , The Ministry of Officials has selected many talents who are proficient in water conservancy. I am going to solve the water conservancy problems in Shanxi and Shaanxi first. As long as there is water, we can guarantee spring plowing. In this way, we only need to help the common people survive the spring and summer next year. It will be easy when the grain is harvested in autumn."

"Brother Li, will Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces be exempted from the grain tax in the coming year? I'm afraid that the common people will still not be able to afford it if they collect grain in the coming year." Zhu Youjian pondered for a while and said.

Li Jingjing nodded and said: "Small households will definitely not accept it, but those big households still have to accept it. After all, there are still many farmers without land in these two provinces. The food collection is used to relieve those without land. Farmer."

Then Li Jing sighed and said, "Many of our officials actually don't know what taxes are used for. Taxes are the lifeblood of the country and the people. There is no taxation in the country, so when there is a natural disaster, what will be used to help the victims? When? Our Ming officials really understand the usefulness of taxation, then our officials are truly qualified."

Shaking his head, Li Jing smiled and said: "Forget it, let's not talk about it, let's talk about something happy. Did the emperor see the princess in Pingyang Mansion? How is it? Has it grown taller?"

Zhu Youjian really showed his face and smiled when he heard the words: "Hehe, I see, she is much taller and lively than before, but there is one thing, Aimee doesn't know me as a father anymore. I coaxed her for a long time before she was willing to call me." My dad."

"Hahaha, the princess must know me, you, this father is incompetent." Li Jing laughed loudly after hearing this.

Zhu Youjian smiled and said: "That's not necessarily true. I have time in the future, but you don't. Let's see who she calls dad."

Li Jingwen was silent when he heard this, he hadn't seen his children for half a year, the two young ones probably really didn't know him as a father.

After being silent for a while, Li Jing asked, "Your Majesty, have you seen Mr. Yuan? How is the old man?"

Zhu Youjian pondered for a while, and finally said: "Mr. Jiehuan's health is not very good. When I went to see him, he was very weak. I asked the imperial doctor to check the pulse of Mr. Jiehuan. The imperial doctor said that Mr. Yuan's energy Exhausted, I'm afraid time is running out. I originally wanted to take this opportunity of returning to Beijing to bring Mr. Yuan and Brother Li's family back to Beijing, but the imperial doctor said that Mr. Yuan's body can no longer withstand the torment."

"What? Why did my body suddenly become like this? I was still in good health when I left, and letters from Pingyang Mansion during this period, even when Mr. Zixian came to Beijing, said that he was in good health. Why did he suddenly lose his health? " Li Jing got up suddenly after hearing the words.

After a while, Li Jing suddenly sat down. Yuan Keli's health had actually started to deteriorate half a year ago, and he had to be supported when he walked.As for the two wives and Xu Guangqi not telling themselves, Mr. Yuan must have asked them to say so, for fear that they would be distracted and miss important national affairs.

After sitting blankly for a while, Li Jing suddenly burst into tears.

Just when Li Jing was in a daze, Yuan Shu suddenly said: "Marshal, I want to resign and go home to serve my father."

Hearing this, Li Jing suddenly raised his head, looked at Yuan Shu for a while, finally nodded lightly and said: "Alright, you go home and take good care of your husband, if you see him, you will say that Jimin is not filial, and you can't go back to serve his old man."

"I understand, Father knows that the commander-in-chief is filial, and he also knows that the commander-in-chief doesn't have time to visit him now." Yuan Shu said hastily.

"Marshal, Lord Yuan is gone, who cares about his affairs?" Yang Liufeng asked hurriedly after hearing the words.

Li Jing shook his head and said: "I only asked Bo Ying to go home to serve Mr., but I didn't agree with him to resign. He can still handle official duties in Pingyang Mansion. Bo Ying, you should work hard, don't delay the official duties."

"Is this... afraid that Yu etiquette is not suitable?" Yuan Shu hesitated for a while and said.

Li Jing waved his hand: "What's wrong with etiquette? Is it not etiquette for you to go home and serve your father? Can't you handle official duties while serving your father? How can there be such a reason in the world? It is right for us to pay attention to filial piety, but there is no need to be horny. Now the country is in urgent need of employing people. There is still a shortage of manpower, you are responsible for two matters, how can you let go of it?"

"Okay then," Yuan Shu thought for a while and said.

Yuan Shu knew that Li Jing was very filial, but at the same time he also knew that Li Jing could not understand the etiquette laws formulated by the predecessors.

Li Jing has long wanted to change the etiquette system formulated by the predecessors, but he has never freed up. This time he went home to serve his father who was seriously ill. But what kind of attitude is it not to resign.If the reaction is not violent, then Li Jing can proceed to the next step.

Yuan Shu was concerned about his father's illness, seeing that Li Jing agreed with him to go home to take care of his father, he did not hesitate immediately, greeted everyone, and went back to pack his things.

Taking Yuan Shu away, Li Jing sighed softly, and after a while, turned his head to look at Cao Wenzhao and said, "Brother Wenzhao, you have made great contributions this time, and the Ministry of Officials has already made a regulation, and you are going to be promoted The second class Ping Beibo."

In fact, Cao Wenzhao knew the news that he was going to be knighted for a long time. Hearing Li Jing mention it, he hurriedly got up and said, "Commander, Wenzhao really dare not accept this knighthood. Although we won the battle against Mongolia this time, it is not my fault." In addition, the spies of the Jinyiwei are indispensable. Without them to inquire about the news and find out the details of the various ministries of Mongolia, how could Wenzhao have such a victory? Moreover, this battle was planned by the commander in advance. Wen Zhao is just running around, if the commander-in-chief wants to reward, Wen Zhao implores the commander-in-chief to reward those spies and soldiers."

Li Jingwen said with a smile: "The spies want rewards, and the soldiers also want rewards, but Brother Wenzhao wants rewards even more. The so-called clear rewards and punishments, the soldiers can use their lives in battle. In the spring, we have to use troops against the eastern captives. Soldiers They have made such a great contribution, so naturally they should be rewarded to boost morale."

Cao Wenzhao said with a smile: "Commander, you dare to accept any reward and edict, but you can never accept the edict to be a knight. If you are considerate of the edict, please take it back."

Li Jing shook his head and said with a smile: "Hehe, brother Wenzhao, you are overthinking. You think that I have not been knighted, so you dare not accept this title. To be honest, it's not that I don't want to be knighted, but it's a pity that I don't have that credit. I led the troops to win a big battle, do you want me to be knighted?"

Cao Wenzhao laughed and said, "It's not easy for the commander-in-chief to confer a title. In the coming year, you will use troops against the Eastern captives. You will go out in person, and my brothers and I will help you. When the Eastern captives are eliminated, we will ask the emperor to make you a duke."

Li Jing waved his hands and said with a smile: "You can just talk nonsense. I want to personally lead the troops to destroy Donglu. Unfortunately, I don't have the time, so Donglu has to be dealt with by you. As for me, I just need to ensure your logistics supply."

(End of this chapter)