Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 404 The Lantern Festival
After drinking tea, Li Jing continued: "Master Lin, Bo Ying is currently serving Mr. Yuan at home, and has no energy and time to take care of the affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs has nothing to do for the time being, so we only put up a sign. There are not many members, I plan to leave this piece to you, you can choose the candidates yourself, I can trust your character."

Lin Yuji nodded when he heard the words and said, "Don't worry, my lord, the officials will never use their power for personal gain and arrange some innocent people to enter the hall."

Li Jingjing nodded, thought for a while, took out the list he had just sorted out, and handed it to Lin Yuji, saying: "Master Lin, you have been an official for many years, and you know a little about the people here, help me to see who is here Available, who is not available."

Lin Yuji took the list and read it carefully. After reading it, he hesitated and said, "My lord, most of them are capable of doing things, but these people have made mistakes, and some of them were taken down by the lord's order." , I really dare not speak nonsense."

Li Jing waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter if you make a mistake, can you still use it if you change it? As for you saying that some people were taken down by my order, and I'm not a saint, wouldn't I do wrong things? If I made a mistake, wouldn't it still be necessary?" One mistake to the end? Bury these talents forever? If that is the case, how can I have the face to sit here and talk nonsense about rejuvenating Daming? Tell the truth, who do you think are useful and where should they be used, and save me from wasting energy on researching these things? people."

Lin Yuji cupped his fists at Li Jing when he heard the words: "Master Guo, with your kindness in mind, Daming will definitely be rejuvenated in your hands."

Li Jing shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't need to say good things. If I want to hear it, I can hear it every day, and I promise to say it better than you."

Lin Yuji smiled and said, "Your officer is telling the truth. I misunderstood you before."

Li Jingwen sighed and said: "I didn't think carefully about some things, and it's normal for you to misunderstand. To be honest, it's hard for me to hear voices that differ from mine now. This is by no means a good thing. I hope you will give more I give my opinion, and then everyone brainstorms, even if what I say is wrong, it doesn’t matter, I will not offend anyone for my words.”

Lin Yuji nodded silently when he heard the words, no matter whether Li Jing's words are true or not, it is not easy to say these words.

After thinking about it, Lin Yuji smiled and said: "The Duke of the State is so capable of governing the country that he has never seen in his life. I think only Mr. Taiyue (Zhang Juzheng) can compare with the Duke of the State. The subordinates only need to follow the rules of the Duke of the State. As for giving advice to the Duke, how can the subordinates have that kind of vision!"

Hearing this, Li Jing stared at Lin Yuji for a while, then sighed dejectedly.

Li Jing knew that Lin Yuji would never believe what he said just now, but Li Jing also knew that Lin Yuji was no wonder. As far as he was promoted, how could he listen to the wind and rain, and immediately give himself advice?In that case, Lin Yuji would be too stupid to be an official.

Shaking his head, Li Jing pointed to the list and said: "Which people here you think are useful, you can report to Hengchen, and then use it at your own discretion. In addition, there are still some people waiting to be selected in the official department. Officials, take your pick of what's available.

The envoys of the Donglu were temporarily placed in Shanhaiguan by Cao Wenzhao to wait for my instructions. No matter what, we can't do the detaining of the envoys. Therefore, you must make preparations as soon as possible. I can only give you half a dollar at most. months of preparation time. "

Lin Yuji nodded, re-examined the list and said: "The people here all have experience in managing the local area, and they are a bit inferior under my hands. I don't want these people. As for the personnel under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Duke of Guo does not need them." Don’t worry, I’ll just pick a few people from the Imperial Academy.”

Li Jing smiled, this Lin Yuji is a sensible person, knowing that these officials cannot be used by him.

Moreover, Lin Yuji knew that the tone of the peace talks had been set for him by himself, so he only needed to bring people to add some additional clauses according to the tone he had set. In this way, he needed someone with a good pen, and the people in the Imperial Academy happened to be all pens.

"That's all right, you can choose and employ people yourself, and if you have any difficulties, tell the adults such as Hengchen and Shen Zheng, and I will ask them to help you with all their strength." Li Jing said with a smile.

"Thank you, Lord Guo, then I will take my leave." Lin Yuji got up and cupped his hands.

Li Jingjing nodded, knowing that time was running out, and Lin Yuji had to seize the time to select people, and at the same time, he had to inform these people of the purpose of the peace talks and draw up the terms of the plan.

After Lin Yuji left, Li Jing pondered for a while, then turned to Xiao Wu and said, "Send someone to deliver a letter to Cao Wenzhao, saying that I have agreed to the peace talks, and let him let the envoys from the Eastern Captives enter Beijing. In addition, tell Cao Wenzhao , let him pay close attention to Donglu's movements and prepare for the attack."

"Marshal, I guess Uncle Cao is waiting for your order." Xiao Wu smiled.

Li Jing shook his head and said with a smile: "Do I still need to give orders? Huang Taiji intends to use troops against North Korea during the peace talks with us. Although he will not dispatch all the troops to attack North Korea, he only needs to mobilize half of them, and this attack will be successful." It's much easier, and Uncle Cao will definitely not miss such a good opportunity."

Xiao Wu nodded, and went to arrange for someone to deliver a letter to Cao Wenzhao.

Seeing that there was no one in the room, Zhu Youjian sighed and said to Li Jing: "Finally, we are going to attack Donglu. Counting it, it has been more than [-] years since our ancestor Donglu rebelled against me in his later years. During this period, I can be said to be full." Being bullied by Donglu, if Donglu can be dealt with during my reign, then I will have the face to meet my ancestors after my death."

Li Jingwen said with a smile: "Your Majesty, since the death of Mr. Taiyue, the situation in Daming has gone from bad to worse. By the time your Majesty takes the throne, Daming is already riddled with holes.

Now we are not only able to deal with the Donglu, but in a few years, Daming will be revitalized again.

In my opinion, it's not that you have no face to see your ancestors, but that your ancestors have no face to see you. "

Zhu Youjian smiled and said, "That's also your credit, and it has nothing to do with me."

Li Jing shook his head and smiled, "Your Majesty's words are wrong. Am I not your subject? If it wasn't for the Emperor's support, how could I push the administrative order so smoothly?"

Zhu Youjian shook his head: "It's ashamed to say that you have always treated me like an emperor, but I didn't do anything to help you, and you also issued administrative orders in my name. But from now on, I will fully cooperate You implement the New Deal."

Li Jing smiled and said: "If this is the case, then many things will be much simpler. The biggest headache for me now is those vassal kings and those royal relatives. Because of your face, I really don't want to kill them, Your Majesty." If they can come forward, these people will be easy to deal with.”

Zhu Youjian nodded, knowing that what Li Jing said was the truth. The biggest obstacle for Li Jing to push the administrative order was the emperor's relatives, especially the local vassals.

It's just that Li Jing's main energy is now focused on the North Zhili area, as well as several grain producing areas in South Zhili and Jiangxi, and he has no time to take care of other places for the time being.

Even now, Li Jing has actually already attacked the royal relatives in some places, such as Nanzhili and Jiangxi, Zhu Youjian heard the wind, and Liu Erlen and Chen Dahu had already started to clean up those royal relatives And the vassal.

And when Li Jing completely freed his hand, if those vassal kings were still acting like they were now, Li Jing would not be merciful anymore.

In fact, in order to make the vassal princes and relatives of the emperor obedient, firstly, Li Jing used strong methods, and secondly, Zhu Youjian came forward to show his interests to these people.

Compared with these two methods, it is the best solution for Zhu Youjian to lobby these people. If Li Jing uses strong means to deal with these people, it will inevitably arouse fierce opposition from the feudal lords.

Daming is already chaotic enough, if these vassal kings start making trouble again, I don't know what kind of chaos it will be.It would be best if the problem could be resolved peacefully.

And Zhu Youjian agreed to cooperate with Li Jing to carry out the New Deal, in fact, he agreed to let him solve those vassal kings.

In this way, Daming will save a lot of trouble, and will not have to involve Li Jing's energy.

Zhu Youjian raised his eyes to look at the sky, and before he knew it, it had already darkened.

Smiling, Zhu Youjian said: "Brother Li, today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and your family members are not in Beijing. We are in-laws. I think you can celebrate the festival with me."

Li Jing shook his head: "The empress and all the princes and princesses are waiting for you to watch the lanterns after dinner, so I will not interfere with your business, lest people say that I am unreasonable."

Zhu Youjian laughed and said, "They look at theirs, we look at ours, they have nothing to do with each other."

Li Jing waved his hand and said, "Don't interfere with your family reunion because of me, I'll go back home to have a drink with Xiao Wu."

Zhu Youjian shook his head and said: "You were alone on the New Year's Day. I heard that Ma Wu, Shen Zheng and Zhang Ao ran to you in the middle of the night to spend the New Year with you. Today, I can't let you be lonely again. Now, you will stay in the palace and spend the holiday with me.

In addition, today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, so there are many things that you don't need to avoid. Hehe, the queen has heard about you a lot, but she has never seen you. It just so happens that you meet your mother-in-law during this festival. "

Li Jingwen felt ashamed for a while, wondering how Empress Zhou felt when she heard Zhu Youjian call her his mother-in-law.

Seeing Zhu Youjian's sincere invitation, Li Jing pondered for a while and nodded slightly.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, the emperors of all dynasties in the Ming Dynasty have attached great importance to the Lantern Festival and are extremely fond of lantern festivals. It can be said that the lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Eight, a full ten days.

However, during the reign of Chongzhen, the treasury was empty, and it was no longer possible to make such a big show like the previous emperors. When Li Jing came to power, he would not spend so much money wasting money.

During the Lantern Festival in the [-]th year of Chongzhen, Li Jing ordered that only three days of lanterns be allowed, and at the same time, too many fireworks were not allowed, so as not to cause a fire.Because there was no special fire brigade in the Ming Dynasty, once a fire broke out, it would often cause great losses.

(End of this chapter)