Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

Chapter 533 New Year

On the occasion of the New Year, the capital is already full of New Year's joy, with roaring firecrackers, decorated with lanterns, and children wearing new clothes, playing around in the streets and alleys.

People who have been busy for a year are also rare to rest, especially recently, as the north has gradually stabilized, the canal grain transfer is no longer as busy as before.

There are more and more merchant ships from the north and the south on the canal, and the reconstruction of Qianmen Street has been completed, so there are more and more rare things in the north and south of the river in this capital.

The turmoil between the government and the opposition did not affect the prosperity of the capital at all. On the contrary, it was because the martial arts generals from all over the country led their families to the capital one after another, which made the capital more prosperous.

At the foot of the imperial city, on the famous Lord Street in the capital, it was even more festive.

The unique festiveness of the New Year hangs on the tall gates of each Lord's Mansion, but in the Yasukuni Mansion, it is even more noisy.

On the occasion of the New Year, the Duke of Yasukuni hosted a banquet for the nobles. It should have been a rare and festive time, but under the storm at the end of the year, the Duke of Yasukuni's mansion today seemed quite serious.

The banquet has already been set up, and all the military generals have also taken their seats. In the past, at this moment, they must have been drinking and chatting, and there was a lot of hustle and bustle.

But at this time, the audience was completely silent, all the martial arts were sitting behind the table, the food and drinks hadn't been touched, and all the maids of the Yasukuni Mansion present were also trembling and startled, not daring to vent their breath.

"Why, don't you eat?"

After a long time, Xu Feng, Duke of Yasukuni, appeared in the sight of all the martial artists.

All Wu Xun were silent.

"Are you all dumb?"

Xu Feng's face darkened, and his voice was a little cold.

"My lord, we came back and wanted to ask Hu Wei what crime they committed!"

"Yes, my lord, no matter how much you don't interrogate, you will be executed directly."

"Brothers are panicking now, what's going on, you have to let us know!"

All the warriors made their voices out one after another, shouting at each other.

"What crime did you commit? The Military Law Department has notified you. Do you need to run back to the capital one by one?"

"Why, are you worried about the unfairness of the Military Law Department?"

Speaking of this, Xu Feng looked around at Zhu Wuxun: "I'm still worried that the shit under your butt will be exposed?"

All the Wu Xun's expressions froze for a moment, and each of them dared not say much.

"How tolerant Your Majesty is to us brothers!"

"Do you really think that His Majesty will not know what you have done?"

"You don't need to investigate, the impeachment of those people in the Inspectorate alone is enough to wipe out your dirty things!"

"Stupid! Stupid as hell!"

Xu Feng scolded, then took a deep breath, and then said slowly: "Don't you want to know what those idiots did?"

"Okay, the governor will tell you!"

"He is Hu Wei, Lord Daheng, who sits in Chengdu, is trusted by the emperor, and governs most of Sichuan. But what did he do? Form cliques, make peace with gentry from all over Sichuan, obstruct reforms, threaten officials from all over the country, and conceal the truth Underreporting the land, embezzling disaster relief money and food, assassinating the director of the Chengdu Military Justice Department!"

"You tell Ben Du, what does Hu Wei want to do?"

"There is also Wu Bing, the governor of Kaifeng, who was greedy for disaster relief money and food. Tanmo arbitrarily collected corvee in Kaifeng, built the governor's mansion for him, and occupied more than 3 mu of Kaifeng's land under the tyranny!"

"I want that..."

One word at a time, one sound of scolding sounded in the mansion of the Duke of Yasukuni, and the dozens of military generals in the hall were also speechless.

Daheng, after all, is different from the previous dynasties. In the previous dynasties, the founding generals mostly conquered the four directions, helping the founding emperor to conquer the country!

In Daheng, although the dynasty was changed, but in every battle, although they were also generals of various ministries, except for a few dukes, or even a few dukes, most of the time, they never escaped from the glory of the emperor. The real leader of the conquest has achieved decisive results.

Most of the time, it was like the Marquis of Zhenbei, the Duke of Qin, and even the emperor himself. Under the direct command and mobilization, they were a part of the division, where they directed and fought, and gained military exploits.

One helps to fight the world, and the other follows to fight the world. The meaning is very different.

From the current Daheng, apart from the Dukes of the Four Kingdoms, there are very few others, even marquises, who can have hereditary honor.

It can be clearly seen that whether Wu Xun is prosperous or strong does not depend on Wu Xun himself, but on the emperor.

Self-knowledge, there are still many generals present, there are still some.

"There are many, and the governor will not say much. It is important for people to have self-knowledge. What things can be done and what things cannot be done, you must be clear."

"This year, live it well, and when it's over, go back wherever you should, do things well, don't do what you shouldn't do, don't take what you shouldn't, I assure you, the big turmoil has absolutely nothing to do with you !"

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The mansion of Yasukuni was noisy, and it was also quite lively in the mansion of the chief minister of the cabinet.

Lai Zongdao has already reached the age of seventy, and he was once an important minister of the former Ming Dynasty. Naturally, there are often times when the guests are full. , under the situation where the sky is tilted, coming to the mansion has become a place that people hate.

It's just that, following the great victories, the return of the emperor's royal conquest, and the gradual stabilization of the world, the capital's mansion, naturally, once again became the mansion of the Gaomen, and it was even more noisy and lively during the New Year.

The world is hot and cold, and people's hearts are warm and cold, which is vividly displayed.

However, in this Daheng Dynasty, especially with the rise of the big tax case at the beginning, most of the officials in the court did not dare to gather and talk freely as before. , at least on the bright side, most of them are sweeping the snow before their own doors, and dare not have too much intersection.

And on this day, in the capital's auxiliary mansion, it was extremely rare for several cabinet ministers to gather together in private.

"Duke Yasukuni is so courageous!"

Lai Zongdao took a sip of hot tea at the gazebo in the garden of Fuzhong, looking at the snowy scenery in the garden, he couldn't help but sigh.

Chen Qiyu frowned: "Shoufu, what do you mean, this is not His Majesty's intention?"

Liu Qiyuan shook his head: "If His Majesty wishes, it will not only implicate these people."

He has been with the current emperor for the longest time, and he is also the most familiar, so how can he not be clear about the emperor's temperament.

There is tolerance, and the limit of tolerance is still very large. As long as you have meritorious service, do not violate taboos, and are still doing things, basically nothing will be done to you.

Once it really wants to do something to you, it is definitely not a matter of a certain person or a certain group of people.

That must be to use the momentum of thunder to cut the weeds and eradicate the roots, and directly erase the problem from the root!

It's not a small fight like this time.

Yang Sichang nodded: "From the looks of it, the dukes must have been ventilated. This is self-protection!"

Lai Zongdao shook his head: "There may be self-protection, but Benfu feels that there may be another meaning."

"What does the chief assistant mean by this?"

"Recently, Guochao has launched a series of big projects one after another. With the current tax revenue of Guochao, even if the tax revenue in the coming year will skyrocket due to reforms, it may not be able to support it."

"Even though there are a lot of internal funds in this big tax case, no matter how much it is, it is still water without roots."

Speaking of this, Lai Zongdao pondered for a while, then looked at the three cabinet ministers, and said slowly: "Your Majesty may want to calm Jiangnan."

"Shoufu, what do you mean, the princes of the state know what His Majesty thinks, and this is stabilizing the army?"

"Probably!"

Lai Zongdao nodded.

Hearing this, several cabinet ministers couldn't help but glance in the direction of Jiangnan.

Together with the war, they can almost predict that the endless blood in the south of the Yangtze River will be full of people!

Jiangnan will inevitably carry out reforms, and if reforms are to be made, the bloody blood in the north will inevitably repeat itself. Even, with the situation in Jiangnan, the blood will only be more intense than in the north!

For the sake of reform and stability, His Majesty will never compromise, nor will he be gentle. As long as one order is issued, there will be boundless blood and countless heads!

As for whether the war can be won and whether Jiangnan can be recovered, this is completely out of the consideration of several cabinet ministers.

Victory is inevitable.

Defeat... a wild night story!

Chapter 534 Forever Treating the Symptoms, Not the Root Cause

"Sell biscuits!"

"Candied haws! Candied haws!"

"The best Jiangnan silk in this shop..."

The sound of hustle and bustle is endless, and in the field of vision, under the joy, there is an endless stream of people on the street.

The Son of Heaven sat on the second floor of the inn, watching the New Year's scene on Qianmen Street after the renovation. Wang Wu stood on one side, bowing and reporting:

"A total of 22 Wuxun people have entered Beijing from other places, and they are still gathered at the Yasukuni Mansion."

"The four ministers of the cabinet also gathered at the capital's mansion today..."

Until Wang Wu's voice fell, the emperor did not change his expression, and still stared at the New Year's scene on the street indifferently.

Obviously, because of the concrete road, this Qianmen Street is several times more bustling and noisy than in previous years.

Watching the scene on the street, the emperor seemed to be in a daze. As for Wang Wu's report, the emperor didn't care about anything. In Daheng, whether it's politics or the army, nothing can be done without his nodding.

After a long time, the emperor looked back, picked up the hot wine on the table, took a sip, but didn't say much.

Seeing this, Wang Wu didn't dare to say any more, and stood aside respectfully.

The Son of Heaven got up slowly, stood in front of the window, turned his gaze a little, and could clearly see the majestic palace city at the end of the street, with flickering fires, hanging lanterns, and standing arms.

The Son of Heaven took a deep breath, his eyes flickered, and his thoughts fluttered along with it.

The majestic and solemn Miyagi represents the symbol of imperial power, but it is not a cage that restrains imperial power.

The Holy Son of Heaven ruled with his bow!

Just this one sentence clearly explains the boundary between ministerial power and imperial power.

If you cross the boundary of the arch and rule, then you are not the Holy Son of Heaven.

He has ignored this boundary, and he can also ignore this cage.

But the princes of later generations, who were born in the deep palace, grew up in the deep palace, or even for a lifetime, may not be able to leave the deep palace.

In this way, if Mingjun can be revealed, that would be a great surprise!

His thoughts flowed, but the emperor shook his head secretly. He always thinks too much. He can complete the things he wants to do for several generations in his generation, and then arrange for the next generation. The emperor's career is already complete.

After that, no matter how much he thought about it, it was useless.

To expect a system to be permanent for thousands of years is undoubtedly a fantasy.

After all, the affairs of the future generations can only depend on the people of the future generations.

"Over there at the cement factory, can someone come to inquire?"

I don't know when, the emperor suddenly made a sound.

Wang Wu was taken aback for a moment, and then couldn't hide his doubts, not knowing what the emperor meant by this.

In the end, Wang Wu also bit the bullet and asked: "Your Majesty is referring to..."

The Son of Heaven waved his hand, staring at the concrete streets with people coming and going, but he didn't explain anything.

Cement, as an important weapon of the country, naturally needs to be kept strictly confidential. Now, the inner court firm is responsible for building the factory and supplying the necessary supplies, which is also for the sake of confidentiality.

But in a sense, the emperor didn't really want to let the commercial firms under the jurisdiction of the inner court continue to grow.

When he first founded the bank, what he thought was to use the bank to collect money and then use the money to create a commercial bank, so that he could have enough influence on food, salt, iron, these lifelines of the country.

But nowadays, money houses are all over the world, which is a good thing.

But the commercial banks, at the beginning he only wanted to influence the salt, iron and grain, are now almost completely controlled by various "state-owned commercial firms".

Those so-called salt merchants, private salt dealers, and private mines in the previous Ming Dynasty were already like rats crossing the street under the leadership of commercial firms, the clampdown of policies, and the iron fist of the military and government. In today's Daheng, it is already difficult to see them again.

Of course, if it's just that, it's a good thing in this era.

But the state-owned commercial firms that the public power relies on are greedy. With the pre-Ming and the troubled times after Daheng established the country, and he, the emperor, also needs the existence of these commercial firms to control the whole world.

Therefore, the commercial firm affiliated to the inner court is like a big net, covering all aspects of Daheng.

Private firms, small in size, can still survive in the cracks, but large-scale firms like Shanxi merchants in the past hardly exist in Daheng.

Just like the commercial tax revenue of Zhaowu in Liaodong for three years, according to statistics, 90.00% came from commercial banks affiliated to the inner court.

Obviously, such a business ecology is obviously extremely unhealthy, extremely abnormal, and even deformed.

The existence of many commercial firms in the inner court is a sharp weapon to stabilize the country when the country is in turmoil. However, with the stability of the country, the existence of the inner court commercial firms that are too strong will hinder the development of the country.

If the inner court business is allowed to continue to develop, it will not only be too big to lose, but if it needs to be solved, it will undoubtedly be a huge change.