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Cao Yuan sat very upright in the front hall of Liang Mansion, with a simple and honest smile on his fat face, which made people involuntarily have the illusion that even if they stepped on his face hard, he would not be angry. .
Liang Chu Leng looked at Cao Yuan. He knew very well that the kind and honest fat man in front of him was by no means a kind person. Over the years, he had been obsessed with pursuing his career. After hugging Liu Jin's lap, he became even more aggressive. After gaining power, the villain's face could be seen at a glance. Many people who had been with him had There have been ministers who have been exiled and harmed, and even such serious matters as being on the wrong side of the court, he can win in defeat and seize the slightest chance of survival. He is as stable as a rock and will not fall. This guy is not only an evergreen tree in the court, It is simply a roly-poly.
After taking a sip of tea, Liang Chu pretended to be a great scholar, glanced at Cao Yuan lightly, and said, "Master Cao"
Cao Yuan hurriedly said: "Liang Gong can directly call the official to express his sincerity."
Liang Chu glanced at him again, his eyes mocking and disdainful.
People in the officialdom call each other by names to show intimacy and show their seniority, but strictly speaking, Cao Yuan is no better than Qin Kan. Liang Chu has no intention of being too friendly to him, and everyone is not familiar with him at all. Moreover, Liang Chu didn't want to get too familiar with him at all, so it was better to maintain a pure relationship as colleagues.
Ignoring Cao Yuan's overtures, Liang Chu still stubbornly adopted a very careless address: "Master Cao, I don't want to go around in circles with you. Yesterday, Qin Kan was assassinated in the downtown area, but was it your instigation?"
Cao Yuan was stunned and hurriedly swore to the sky: "Duke Liang has unjustly accused me of lowering my official position. How can a minister of the Ministry of War in Xianguan District have the courage to assassinate the Duke of the dynasty? No matter how much he hates Qin Kan, he would do something so disrespectful of the king's law." The official would definitely not dare to do it.¡±
Liang Chu sneered: "You don't dare to do it, but those people behind you don't dare to do it either? Although I am old, I am not blind or deaf. I am targeting Qin Kan to eliminate thieves for the country and bring justice to the world. Do you dare to pat your chest and say that you have the same purpose as me? Three years ago, Zhejiang Chief Executive was pushed down by Qin Kan due to the Shaoxing weaver case. The new Zhejiang Chief Executive Gu Tan was promoted by you behind the scenes, right? In addition, there are Liu Qingsong, the chief envoy of Fujian, the prefect of Ningbo, the commander of the Ningbo Guard, the prefect of Taizhou, the prefect of Quanzhou, the commander of the Funing Guard"
Looking at Cao Yuan who was dripping with cold sweat, the smile on Liang Chu's face became even colder: "These seaside cities and guardhouses in our Ming Dynasty have been penetrated to the bone by you and others. No wonder those merchants along the coast ignored the laws of the Ming Dynasty and built ships. There are no taboos on sailing, private trade with the vassal state, with the escort of these yamen and garrison troops, and with you and other second- and third-grade Beijing officials echoing from afar, I guess you and others are already full of money, and you are as rich as the enemy, right?"
"Now there is an extra Qin Kan who wants to grab the huge profits from shipping. It's okay for Qin Kan to grab this huge profits by himself. After all, he is a popular man in front of His Majesty and he is also in charge of the royal guards. However, Qin Kan is ignorant and not only separates the two The nobles of Beijing are tied together, and it is more likely that we will open a hundred-year sea ban in the Ming Dynasty. Once the sea ban is lifted, all people can go to sea. You can no longer be the only one, so you can't bear it anymore, so you are claiming that it violates the ancestral system. The flag is trying to get rid of him quickly, Mr. Cao, I am old and dim-sighted, are you making unreasonable assumptions about this?"
After hearing these words, Cao Yuan's fat old face changed color suddenly, cold sweat rolled down more and more, but he could not say a word.
How should he respond to this? Liang Chu seemed to have seen through all the intentions of him and the faction behind him. Going out to sea for trade in private was taboo and could not be mentioned even half a word, but Liang Chu revealed it in a very unceremonious way. Cao Yuan died. He couldn't admit it, otherwise not only would the official's dignity be completely lost, but everything he had done to Qin Kan before would be a slap in his face.
The atmosphere in the front hall was very awkward. The honest smile on Cao Yuan's face was uglier than crying. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at Liang Chu's expression of sadness and joy uneasily. Cao Yuan gritted his teeth and finally said : "Gong Liang, as we say, we all reach the same goal through different paths, the most important thing now is to eradicate Qin Kan. Although Qin Kan is young, his methods are vicious and his temper is treacherous. Now, under the protection of your majesty, he has gradually become a traitor. From the time when he killed Li Gao of Liaodong, he From the beginning, to training 500 young soldiers, mass-producing Fran cannons, and now advocating for the establishment of a maritime ban, it is clear that this son has lofty ideals and often acts deviant. Liang Gong, deviant and treacherous people can be forgiven, but he will be punished. National policy, treason is the way to destroy the country, the lower officials secretly thought that the disaster of Qin and Kan was far away from Liu Jin"
Liang Chu¡¯s expression changed slightly, he stroked his beard and closed his eyes without saying a word.
Seeing that Liang Chu's expression seemed to be moved, Cao Yuan struck while the iron was hot and said: "Mr. Liang, let alone Qin Kan, his move to build a ship privately and go to sea this time seems to be for his own benefit and that of His Majesty's inner treasury, but in fact it is not. To lay the groundwork for the establishment of a sea ban, the Ming Dynasty has thousands of miles of sea territory. It doesn't hurt to have a few more people making money, but if someone sneaks in who deliberately messes with the rules, if the rules are broken,?How do you deal with yourself? "
"What's more Qin Kan also tied the nobles of the two capitals together this time. Mr. Liang, this is not a good sign. In the future, the nobles will have the same interests, and their advancement and retreat will be twisted into a rope. The power formed in the court It should not be underestimated. For more than a hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor and the civil servants have ruled the world. If Qin Kan succeeds this time and the nobles gain power, in the future, our Majesty, eunuchs, and civil servants will be in charge of the Ming Dynasty. , military commanders, and these distinguished nobles, will anyone be able to hear what I and other civil servants say at that time?"
After hearing these words, Liang Chu, who had always looked calm, his gray eyebrows jumped slightly, and his expression finally changed.
Liang Chu was an upright official. He had never participated in colluding with businessmen to go to sea to make profits. However, he was also a civil official, and a civil official must stand on the standpoint of a civil official.
The front hall was silent again, Liang Chu lowered his head and sipped the tea, staring at the mist-shrouded tea cup in trance without saying a word.
After Cao Yuan finished saying what he should say, his fat face finally showed a familiar honest smile, like a harmless, environmentally friendly and pesticide-free white radish, he sat quietly at the bottom, squinting and looking at the tea cup in his hand. , as if admiring a peerless work of art.
It was so quiet in the front hall that you could hear a pindrop
I don¡¯t know how long it took, but Liang Chu¡¯s cheek suddenly twitched twice, and his withered old face burst into the first smile after Cao Yuan entered the door.
"Yizhen, try the tea from my house. This is this year's Qingming bird's tongue. Your Majesty sent someone to reward it last month. It is fresh and sweet in the mouth, making you feel relaxed and happy"
Cao Yuan was overjoyed and hurriedly stood up and bowed: "Liang Gong's tea must be extremely sweet and fragrant. If you can taste this tea, you will be lucky for the rest of your life!"
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Regardless of factions or character, the two powerful civil service forces finally formed an alliance.
The fourth day after Zhu Houzhao left the court was the first day of the Lunar New Year. The palace bells and drums were ringing. All officials of the fourth rank and above in the capital and princes and nobles entered the palace wearing Liang Guanchao and went to the Ancestral Temple with the emperor to worship their ancestors and pray to heaven.
An array of ceremonial flags and flags were spread out around the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Zhu Houzhao, dressed in a golden dragon robe and a gold-wired dragon crown, knelt in front of the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Nearly a thousand officials below him knelt three times and worshiped nine times, with a pious expression. Zhang Sheng, the Minister of Rites, was halfway through a long and gorgeous memorial to heaven when the ceremony suddenly changed.
A guard from the inner palace hurried to the square in front of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and, knowingly or unknowingly, loudly announced a message in front of all the civil and military officials.
Tianjin government official Wang Zhengde opposed the shipbuilding of Donggang in Tianjin, which wasted people's lives and only increased people's burden. He had several quarrels with the prefect Yan Song. Before the end of the year, Wang Zhengde saw that the shipbuilding craftsmen of Donggang were still working hard and got angry and whipped the steward of Donggang in public. Officials, unexpectedly, on New Year's Eve, Wang Zhengde died suddenly at home for no reason.
Zhu Houzhao and all the civil and military officials were paying homage to their ancestors. On such a solemn occasion, a guard appeared out of nowhere and told such shocking news. I don¡¯t know how the guard ran into the heavily guarded Taimiao Square, but he happened to say it at this moment. Such shocking news.
The expressions of Zhu Houzhao and the ministers all changed.
The Ming Dynasty had tens of thousands of officials. If a small official died, he would not be qualified to go to Heaven to hear it. It was even less likely to be revealed at the moment of worshiping ancestors and suing Heaven. There was undoubtedly a pair of invisible hands silently pushing behind this matter. Control.
There were no trivial matters before the Ancestral Temple. What was said in front of the ancestors must not be exposed lightly. Zhu Houzhao was not qualified to suppress it.
There was a frightening silence in the square. Zhu Houzhao stood in front of the Ancestral Temple gate in a daze, feeling his hands and feet were cold. However, the ministers below said nothing and stared at Zhu Houzhao's back in silence. A murderous intention that had been suppressed for a long time and was about to explode spread around the square. linger.
In silence, the civil servants finally took action.
Tu Yu, the censor of Youdu, suddenly stood up and faced the cold wind whistling in the square. He looked directly at Zhu Houzhao's back and shouted sternly: "Your Majesty, building ships to go to sea is against my ancestors' rules. Now people have lost their lives. All our ancestors have died." Your Majesty, are you still unwilling to repent?"
Boom!
Hundreds of civil servants knelt down to Zhu Houzhao in one move and said in unison: "I ask your Majesty to punish the culprit, dismiss the craftsmen, destroy the ship and withdraw the company, and safeguard the ancestral system!"
"Zheng He's seven voyages to the Western Seas in the Yongle year only cost more than 100 million people and did not benefit the country at all. The lesson learned a hundred years ago, will your Majesty not be infamous in the annals of history?"
"Qin Kan, a traitor to the country, was arrogant because of his favor. He actually gave flattery to mislead the emperor and ruined our Ming Dynasty for a hundred years. The disaster was serious. Liu Jin is far away. If he is not punished, how can the world survive?"
The shouts with strong murderous intent echoed endlessly in Taimiao Square.
Zhu Houzhao's face turned pale, and his eyes quickly scanned the crowd for help, and finally landed on Qin Kan.
Qin Kan stood expressionless in the courtroom, listening to the shouts of killing all around him, but he lowered his head and said nothing, his eyes becoming colder and colder.
Seeing that Zhu Houzhao was silent, Tu Jian took another step forward and shouted coldly: "Your Majesty, please make a decision quickly!"
The ministers all echoed in unison: "Your Majesty, please make a decision quickly!"
Zhu Houzhao trembled all over, couldn't help but take a step back, and said in a panic: "I, I"
As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao suddenly rolled his eyes and started to feel a familiar twitching all over his body. Before he could put on a disgusting look with crooked eyes and slanted mouth, Tu Fu suddenly shouted: "Your Majesty, please stop doing such childish behavior. Please do it quickly." Decide not to let the centuries-old foundation of our ancestors and ancestors be destroyed by the hands of sycophants!" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)bsp; Qin Kan stood in the courtroom expressionlessly, listening to the shouts of killing all around him, but he lowered his head and said nothing, his eyes becoming colder and colder.
Seeing that Zhu Houzhao was silent, Tu Jian took another step forward and shouted coldly: "Your Majesty, please make a decision quickly!"
The ministers all echoed in unison: "Your Majesty, please make a decision quickly!"
Zhu Houzhao trembled all over, couldn't help but take a step back, and said in a panic: "I, I"
As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao suddenly rolled his eyes and started to feel a familiar twitching all over his body. Before he could put on a disgusting look with crooked eyes and slanted mouth, Tu Fu suddenly shouted: "Your Majesty, please stop doing such childish behavior. Please do it quickly." Decide not to let the centuries-old foundation of our ancestors and ancestors be destroyed by the hands of sycophants!" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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