I am a director in Ark. If I am not banned, I will be considered successful.

But in front of Jiajing, everyone was as obedient as a pet. Although they would act recklessly when their master was not around, they were all trembling with fear when in front of their master.

The premise of all this is that Jiajing is smarter than all of their ministers. Although the king does not have to be stronger than his ministers in all aspects, in fact, all kings hope to be smarter than their ministers, because this way they can consolidate their power as much as possible and realize their own ambitions.

This knowledge will become public content one year later, when Chen Qi finishes filming the drama. Then these ministers and officials will slowly learn it themselves. What they have to do is to seize this year, learn as much as possible from Emperor Jiajing, and find ways to consolidate their power.

For example, in the scene before these kings now, Yan Shifan was severely criticized by Jiajing, and it was also clearly stated that Jiajing himself did not want to bear the blame, so Yan Song and Yan Shifan had to bear the blame.

Although Yan Shifan agreed to this, he felt a little indignant in his heart; Yan Song was also angry, but he was even more angry because of the people his daughter had randomly arranged for him, which eventually led to such consequences.

He knew that the Yan Party was sliding into the abyss, but his daughter was completely unaware of this and even said that she was "trying to protect him from the wind and rain."

This sentence completely angered Yan Song, played by the Rat King. In the heavy rain, Yan Song, who always loved his daughter dearly, knocked over the umbrella his daughter held for him for the first time and yelled at Yan Shifan, played by Lin Yuxia:

"I tell you, there is only one person in the Great Yan Dynasty who can call the wind and rain, and that is the emperor!"

"There is only one person who can protect me from the wind and rain, and that's me! Not you!"

"You and the people you employ can't protect me... can't protect me from the wind and rain! You're just asking for trouble!"

"I have been shielding you from the storms that the Emperor summoned for twenty years... No one can shield you from the storms that you have provoked!"

"Even in foreign countries, even if they commit such heinous crimes, their entire family would be executed! But in our Great Yan, we can exterminate all ten clans!"

"He's afraid." Now, Theresa looked at Yan Song's expression in the play and quickly analyzed his current emotions. In fact, he was more panicked and afraid. Seeing this, Theresa continued:

"He is afraid that his daughter's behavior will cause him to commit a crime that he cannot bear even if he dies. His daughter has not yet seen the situation clearly, so he is so panicked."

"——In the final analysis, Yan Shifan still hasn't figured it out at all." And Tracys also nodded, and immediately responded to his sister, saying:

"Yan Shifan has always believed that Jiajing and Dayan cannot do without their Yan Party just because they can make money. In fact, Yan Song has seen through it very clearly. Their Yan Party has always existed, but Jiajing needs them to exist, to make money, to balance the Qingliu, and to take the blame."

"The emperor regards the Yan Party as a tool, but makes the tool feel that the master cannot do without him... Should we say it is sad?"

However, this move seemed to be able to be used on Wang Ting? Tracys narrowed his eyes slightly and watched this scene, but he had another idea in his mind.

Today, the power of the kings of the Royal Court is indeed an indispensable force for Kazdel. For Tresis, the Royal Court is more important than the Yan Party. They hold most of Kazdel's living forces, which are the last bloodline that will rush to the front line in the future restoration of the country.

However, the power of the Royal Court has become a big problem after Kazdel's restoration. The power in the hands of the kings of the Royal Court is too great, and they now listen to him because his decisions can help the Sarkaz regain their dignity.

Now that Kazdel is restoring his country, everything is ready to go. The kings of the royal court have obviously noticed this and have also begun to show their own "weight". They have begun to find various reasons to reject and prevaricate many of Tracys' plans and strategies after the restoration of the country.

"But I didn't expect that the one who chose to stand firmly with us in the end was actually the Blood Demon Lord who I thought was the most stubborn at the beginning..."

When he thought of this, Tracys felt that fate was playing tricks on him. The Blood Demon Lord was willing to come to Londinium because he was a staunch "Sarkaz Supremacist" and conservative representative, and he came to supervise Tracys and others' progress in Londinium, but by some strange coincidence, the Blood Demon Lord actually became one of the royal courts supporting Tracys.

No, it is better to say that he chose to support Tresis in order to ensure the status and power of his own court. Although the Blood Demon Lord was still conservative, this gave Tresis a new idea.

"Can I... also try to split the royal court into two, let the kings of the royal court restrain each other, and let them fight among themselves?"

"Perhaps, it is difficult to turn all the kings of the royal court into people who support me at once, but I can do it step by step and slowly divide them internally first. After all, the kings of the royal court are not of the same mind."

"——Don't shake the kings too quickly. Now is not the time to think about internal strife." Theresa also heard her brother's mumbling. Now, his "recovery" in everyone's eyes is already quite good. She can now stay awake for about one-third of the day.

"But even if we don't want to fight among ourselves, we must be prepared to prevent our power from being hollowed out." Theresa slowly added that sentence, and Theresis smiled quietly and immediately replied:

"It seems that we have to let Lord Blood Demon test the attitudes of other kings in the royal court for us..."

Back to the drama, now, the Yan Party has confirmed that the incident of the weaving bureau in Zhejiang City purchasing the land of disaster victims was not caused by someone's mischief, but was the actions of Zheng and He themselves. Everything they did was to speed up the conversion of rice to mulberry, hoping to "cover up a hundred ugliness with one beauty."

However, they did not expect that the emperor wanted money, but he wanted face more. Their presumptuous behavior of throwing dirty water would definitely not be allowed.

"If anyone really wants to buy farmland under the name of the Weaving Bureau, we will catch him if he comes."

"Also, we can't buy all the land from the disaster victims. We need to buy land from counties that were not affected by the disaster. The price of land can't be too low. If it's too low, it will easily provoke civil unrest."

At this point, Yan Song also understood that they had to give up the plan to make a fortune from converting rice to mulberry. Money could be made, but the money from being beheaded was absolutely not to be touched.

So, after so many twists and turns, everyone actually followed Hu Zongxian's proposal, which was to put the people first from the beginning. However, if they had considered the people from the beginning, the people of Zhejiang City would not have suffered so many unnecessary disasters.

"What if those big buyers are unwilling to pay such a high price?"

"——Then let the government step in to suppress it."

At this moment, Yan Song finally revealed his experience and the choices he made at key decisions. He was afraid of forcing the people to rebel, but he was never afraid of forcing the merchants to rebel.

"Those who have ever rebelled have always been farmers. I have never heard of merchants causing chaos."

However, all this is just as Yan Song said. In Zhejiang City, Hai Rui, played by Chen Huijie, finally confronted Shen Yishi, played by the emperor. Hai Rui was determined to take down Shen Yishi, who came to buy land under the name of the Weaving Bureau. He must not let these people ruin the reputation of the court and the emperor, and he must not let them lower the price and buy the land of the victims.

When faced with Shen Yishi, who had a sixth-rank official uniform but was not wearing it but was dressed in gorgeous silk, Hai Rui, played by Chen Huijie, was so impressed by Shen Yishi's remarks based solely on his clothes that he was at a loss for words.

"Da Yan's ancestral precepts stipulate that merchants are not allowed to wear Jura silk."

"If you are an official, put on your official uniform immediately. If you are a businessman, put on your plain clothes immediately."

"You are selling the land of the disaster victims at a low price under the name of the Weaving Bureau and the name of the palace. You are slandering the court in an attempt to stir up a civil uprising! If you put on official clothes, I will file a petition to accuse the Weaving Bureau; if you change into plain clothes, then you are using business to disrupt the government! I will send people to arrest you immediately!"

However, what Hai Rui and everyone outside the screen didn't expect was that just when Hai Rui was arguing and trying to end this drama of throwing mud at the court, he saw the emperor smile contemptuously and then said:

"So it's because of this... Someone, put down the post under the lantern."

As the emperor finished speaking, suddenly, under the lantern with the words "Weaving Bureau" hung on it, two pieces of paper slowly fell down, with four large characters written on them - "Disaster Relief by Imperial Order"!

In an instant, everyone was dumbfounded. No one could have imagined that the court's original plot of selling disaster-stricken farmland at a low price had suddenly turned into disaster relief. And the grain used to buy the farmland also became disaster relief grain.

This time, there was no more throwing dirty water on the emperor's face, and instead it became an act of flattering the emperor.

In the play, Hai Rui, played by Chen Huijie, was stunned for the first time. The leaders of various countries who saw this scene were also stunned. They never thought that such a foregone conclusion could be reversed! And the reversal was so unexpected.

"——He wants to survive in the face of death. He wants to spend money to avoid disaster."

At this moment, after a moment of confusion, Tracy immediately understood Shen Yishi's intention in the play, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised at the cunning of this small businessman in the play.

"Sure enough, Director Chen Qi is right... No one in this drama is a fool." Theresa couldn't help but smile when she heard it, staring at the screen intently, and after a long time she continued:

"Everyone here is doing their best to survive. We have to thank him for telling us the cruelest side of politics. We can be mentally prepared in the future."

What kind of psychological preparation? After Kazdel's restoration, they will compete with the kings of the royal court for power, and everyone will be prepared to do everything they can to ensure that their power is not taken away.

As for Theresa and Theresis, neither of them intended to lose. Their split in the past divided the kings into two teams, and now there are still two teams, but this pair of brother and sister have united together to deal with everyone in the royal court.

PS: Today is the third chapter! (I woke up and found it was almost half past eight. Woohoo, I’m so sleepy, Kurushi, but I have to write right after waking up... paralyzed)

Volume 306: Chapter : If we cannot plunder the people, we must plunder the merchants. The ending of Shen Yishi

"It's a good idea to spend money to avoid disaster... It's a pity that if it was the prosperous Yan Dynasty, he might have been able to escape the disaster, but it happened that the treasury was empty. I'm afraid he will be charged with the crime of disrupting the government as a businessman."

However, the situation on Tracy's side was always a step behind Chen Qi's. They thought that Shen Yishi, played by the Great Emperor, could escape the ascension in this way, but now in the filming of the plot on Chen Qi's side, Shen Yishi was already doomed to die.

The reason was just as Wei Yanwu said. He had just finished a play in which Emperor Jiajing got Shen Yishi's "openly slaughtering the people in an official capacity" and changed it to "disaster relief by imperial order". Instead of any gratitude, he was furious.

The reason was simple. So many civil and military officials in the Great Yan Dynasty were fooled by a businessman, and even Jiajing was fooled. A low-level businessman dared to fool the emperor. He was really courting death.

More importantly, Shen Yishi had used all the grain he had originally bought from the disaster-stricken fields to provide disaster relief, which meant that the imperial court's policy of replacing rice with mulberry trees could no longer be implemented. And now the national treasury needed money to support Hu Zongxian's suppression of the Deep Sea Church and Hai Si in the East Country, which was naturally urgent.

On this point, Jiajing and Yan Song had the same idea: "If we can't plunder the people, we must plunder the merchants." Now the national treasury desperately needed money to support the front line, and the victims had been temporarily appeased, so the only option was to target the wealthy merchants.

So who is the first choice? Of course, it is Shen Yishi. Who makes him have the conditions to "use business to disrupt politics"?

In the play, Jiajing immediately called a meeting with all the people in the cabinet and the Imperial Household Department. After criticizing Prince Yu, Yan Song, and Lv Fang one by one, Lv Fang, played by Lao Li, was the first to react and immediately expressed his opinion:

"Anyone who uses the name of the imperial court to engage in business for personal gain is using business to disrupt politics, and has nothing to do with the Textile Bureau!"

"The cabinet should identify this person and arrest him immediately! This year, we must sell 500,000 pieces of silk to Western countries to raise military pay and supply the front in time. If this delays Hu Zongxian's war in Gouwu and Haisi, the Imperial Household Department and the cabinet will bear the blame together!"

Well, Jiajing got a satisfactory answer and left contentedly. When Jiajing returned to the temple to continue his practice, Yan Song, played by the Rat King, also made a decision immediately:

"Send it to Zhejiang City immediately at an express speed of 600 miles. Raid the house of Shen Yishi! Raise food and recruit soldiers for Hu Zongxian!"

At this point, the confiscation of Shen Yishi's property and the use of it as military pay has become a foregone conclusion. The next scene is the last scene of Shen Yishi, played by the emperor.

"So, Your Majesty, are you ready? This is your final scene, you have to perform better." Chen Qi was also prepared for the final scene of the Emperor. As the first important character to die in the whole play, Shen Yishi's influence affected the whole situation even after his death, so naturally he had to be played to his full potential.

"Be ready. It's just a death, right? It's not the first time I've died." The emperor's voice came immediately. After Chen Qi got the response, he confirmed the status of each leading actor one by one, and then started shooting this scene, which is one of the most complicated scenes in the whole play.

The chain reaction of the previous dozen episodes mobilized almost all the important characters in Zhejiang City. However, one thing led to another, and most people had no idea what was going on. However, in this episode, the conversation between Shen Yishi, played by Dadi, and Yang Jinshui, played by Wu You, can be said to have helped everyone figure out the ins and outs of everything that happened in Zhejiang City.

Yang Jinshui, played by Wu You, also questioned why Shen Yishi had concealed the truth from him and discussed with Zheng He about so many outrageous things such as the beauty trap, collusion with Hai Si, and official purchase of land. At this moment, Shen Yishi, played by the Great Emperor, finally expressed his true feelings.

"So that we can get out of this unscathed."

At this time, Yang Jinshui was already outside the screen and everyone realized that Shen Yishi had already guessed the chaos in the court. As Yan Shifan's man, Gao Hanwen should have helped them buy the disaster-stricken land at a low price, but he ended up standing on the side of Prince Yu.

Zheng and He lost their only helper, and they joined forces with him to set up a beauty trap and colluded with the Deep Sea Church. Just for their own self-protection, they pushed the three people recommended by the young cabinet minister and Prince Yu to the forefront of the incident, and even dragged the Weaving Bureau into it.

"That way, they can hide behind it, and even if the sky falls one day, it won't hit them."

"Since Gao Hanwen has been dealt with by you, why can't the policy of replacing rice with mulberry trees be implemented?" Yang Jinshui, played by Wu You, gradually figured out the current situation. He was surprised to find that he, as a businessman, had not seen the situation as clearly as he did, and his hostility was reduced a little.

When faced with Wu You's question, the emperor couldn't help but sigh and said, "Because the people on Prince Yu's side are more powerful."

"I don't know where they got this guy named Hai Rui from. He showed up with a life-threatening attitude. In court, he suddenly stood up for Gao Hanwen and even brought up the incident of dike destruction and flooding of farmland. Every move he made was bloody, leaving Zheng Michang and He Maocai helpless."

"——So, they made up a conspiracy with the Deep Sea Church and forced Hai Rui to take the lead? Then they asked you to buy land under the name of the Weaving Bureau and forced the Weaving Bureau to take the lead as well?"

Now, Yang Jinshui, played by Wu You, and everyone else completely understand why all this has become more and more serious. In the final analysis, Zheng and He can only implicate the matter in the palace and the emperor in order to protect themselves.

After all, the court and the emperor would never admit to the stigma of officially taking the lead in exploiting the people. Even Hai Rui's threesome knew that they could not let the court be tainted with this stigma. Therefore, only by dragging the court into it and creating a situation where no one dared to go against the court could they protect themselves by "doing business impartially".

As for why he hid it from Yang Jinshui and turned the grain he bought from the land into disaster relief, the answer from Shen Yishi, played by the Great Emperor, was: "I did this to let the court know that all their actions were done without the knowledge of Lord Yang."

"Think about it carefully. In order to change rice to mulberry, they first destroyed the dikes and flooded the fields, and then they created a major case of collusion with the Deep Sea Church. With things getting to this point, the two factions in the court will have a fight to the death sooner or later."

"By then, whoever understands more will be more involved."

As for Yang Jinshui himself, he had previously reported to the emperor the news that Shen Yishi had bought land under the name of the Weaving Bureau. Now the grain from the purchased land had become disaster relief, and Yang Jinshui's report this time sent a wrong message to the emperor.

Although the wrong information would cause Yang Jinshui to be reprimanded, it would prove that he was unaware of all this. As long as he was unaware, in the eyes of the emperor, Yang Jinshui would not be involved in so many bad things.

Shen Yishi, played by the Great Emperor, explained all his actions. All the behaviors that no one understood and thought were strange were now clear to everyone.

"I didn't expect... a businessman could see the situation most clearly?" Tallulah, who was sitting with everyone, was completely stunned. Although she had read the script and participated in the entire filming process, she still felt confused as to why so many things happened.

Tallulah's feelings at this moment were also the first reaction of many people in the crew. In their opinion, they had no idea why the matter was getting bigger and bigger. They only saw the two characters played by Liang Xun and Ning Ci Qiu constantly plotting and persecuting Gao Hanwen, Hai Rui and others, as if they could get rid of them and everything would be easy.

"I originally thought that he just wanted to spend money to avoid disaster because he saw that the situation was hopeless... I didn't expect that he even helped Yang Jinshui. But why did he do that? Just so that Yang Jinshui could save his life at the critical moment?"

Chen Huijie didn't expect that Shen Yishi would think so much, but her new question was quickly answered.

Shen Yishi helped Yang Jinshui not only to save his own life, but also to save another person - Yunniang.

In the plot, the character of Yunniang is a geisha who was redeemed by Shen Yishi and given to Yang Jinshui as a servant. She also plays the role of the beauty who lures Gao Hanwen into the trap.

By the way, the beautiful woman who played "Yun Niang" was not from Chen Qi's crew, nor was she from the palace. She was a woman specially found by Zuo Xuanliao, and Zuo Le knew this woman.

It sounds quite cliché, but this woman was rescued by Zuo Le when he was passing through the village and faced robbers. She was a person who obviously had a "suspension bridge effect" liking for Zuo Le, and Zuo Le therefore refused to regard this matter as a relationship between a man and a woman.

Now, Zuo Xuanliao heard about this matter from somewhere and brought the woman here to play the important role of "Yun Niang".

In the play, Shen Yishi wants to protect Yunniang by asking Yang Jinshui to recognize her as his goddaughter. If that doesn't work, he will prepare a dowry and let her live with Gao Hanwen, played by Zuo Le.

"Yunniang is a proud person. She feels aggrieved after she followed me." This is how Shen Yishi, played by the Great Emperor, explained why he gave the woman he bought to someone else. Obviously, he also knew that his time was coming, and saving Yunniang was the last thing he could do for himself.

"Okay! We've passed this one - now, Xi, please transport everyone into the scroll world and then set that house on fire. Emperor, prepare your last shot!"

After this scene, Chen Qi immediately gave an order, and with Xi's actions, the emperor was soon teleported into the scroll world, and the official uniform he was wearing at this moment suddenly changed from an official uniform to a white robe.

Behind the emperor was a mansion with a raging fire, and in front of him was a drum, the only drum that Shen Yishi could use to vent all his emotions at this moment.

Slowly, in front of the camera, the emperor raised the drumstick in his hand and began to beat the drum. Along with the rhythm, everyone could hear a momentum like a howling storm trying to tear a pine or cypress apart.

The emperor can understand the grief and indignation in the heart of Shen Yishi, played by him. Although he is a genius, he can only be a businessman used at will by officials. Even if he can see all the situations in the court clearly, he still cannot escape the fate of having his property confiscated.

The only thing he could do was to throw himself into the sea of ​​fire and use the raging fire to prove his resistance. He wanted to burn his last bit of conscience to denounce those corrupt officials who treated human life as dust.

After that, what he will leave behind will be his final curse on those corrupt officials and his last poem.

"The marquis is no longer a marquis, the king is no longer a king, thousands of chariots and horses have returned to Mount Mang. The cunning rabbit has died, the good bow has been hidden, after me, you are injured again. I will play a piece of Guangling San again for Yunniang."

"…This is a curse on those greedy officials and Jiajing himself, and also a lament for the fate of this 'cunning rabbit'."

At this moment, Wei Yanwu watched the emperor walk towards the sea of ​​fire. With the end of this scene, all the scenes of the emperor came to an end. While Wei Yanwu was sighing, he couldn't help but ask Chen Qi who was not far away:

"Boy, what do you think is the last curse left by Shen Yishi?"

"——It's the account book." At this moment, Chen Qi, who had completely finished filming this scene, finally revealed Shen Yishi's last trick and added to Wei Yanwu:

"A book that records his assets, all the bribes he received, and detailed accounts of his financial resources. Once it is made public, all those involved will be doomed."

"...But, once these things fall into the hands of Zheng and He, wouldn't it be very easy for them to destroy the evidence that is unfavorable to them?" Chen Huijie was more or less influenced by "The Great Yan Dynasty" and was used to thinking about things in the worst way. He raised his doubts at the moment.

"But what if there are huge doubts, so that even if the account books are burned, it will definitely not fool Jiajing?"

However, Chen Qi's words made Wei Yanwu and others confused. Seeing that no one could imagine what huge doubts could not be concealed even by burning the account books, he smiled and said slowly:

"What if Shen Yishi, the richest man in Zhejiang City, actually has very little assets?"