I am the king of the dead

"Everyone knows that His Majesty hates Xu Youzhen very much, but Xu Youzhen has made great achievements in water control. Now there are shrines everywhere in the north and south of the river, and His Majesty has never issued an order to destroy the prostitute. Maybe after a hundred years of Xu Youzhen, His Majesty will seal him Dragon King of Two Rivers."

"Actually, think about it, if there are too many people, the land will be planted, the mines will be mined, there will be no shortage of craftsmen in the workshops, and there will be no shortage of trackers at the docks. People who only want to collect rent, right? Is it easier to receive more rent?"

Hu Wei put away the three memorials in his hand, and he only showed two memorials. Zhu Zhanqian looked at the third memorial with some curiosity. No more, Hu Yan didn't show up.

"Hu Shangshu, what is written in the third memorial?" Zhu Zhanqian asked very curiously. This was obviously Hu Shangshu's trump card, but Hu Shangshu didn't use it.

This question immediately attracted everyone's attention, and all of them turned to Hu Yi's third memorial, which was not very heavy.

Hu Mei clapped the memorabilia in his hand and said: "His Royal Highness, I thought that everyone would not agree with this never-to-be-rewarded matter, so I prepared some content in advance, which is not worth mentioning."

"Not worth mentioning."

Zhu Zhanqian hesitated for a while, then asked: "What's on it?"

Hu Yan smiled and said: "It's nothing, since His Highness asked, I'll take it out and show it to everyone."

"During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, there was a country called Nanhan in Guangzhou Prefecture. It experienced four emperors for a total of 54 years. Compared with other small countries in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Southern Han Dynasty had nothing special about it."

"The only thing that is special is that the entire court of the Southern Han Dynasty is full of eunuchs."

"Why are they all eunuchs?"

"It is Liu Yu, the post-lord of the Southern Han Dynasty, who believed that all courtiers had families, and they would refuse to be loyal in order to take care of their children and grandchildren. For the sake of the family, they would go up and down. Therefore, they only trusted eunuchs, and ministers had to come from the palace to be employed. For promotion, In the Southern Han Dynasty, all the bureaucrats were eunuchs."

"Just an anecdote, no big deal."

This is one of the most typical characteristics of bureaucratic bureaucrats, being responsible to their superiors.

In order to please Liu Yu, the Empress of the Southern Han Dynasty, and in order to get promoted, it doesn't matter if she even eunuchs herself.

The generals and officials of the Wenhua Palace only feel cold in their crotch, which is nothing at all!Do not!have!interest!

Hu Wei's meaning is very clear. In this large-scale social experiment in the Southern Han Dynasty, what kind of situation would the courtiers go to in order to become officials, for advancement, and for promotion.

Once this memorial is delivered to His Majesty, if His Majesty chooses to overturn the table, there will be another way.

If there is something good on the top, it will be great on the bottom.

"Hu Shangshu, has this memorial been delivered to His Majesty?" Wang Wen asked through gritted teeth.

Hu Yan shook his head and said, "No."

Wang Wen thought for a while, and said quite earnestly: "Hu Shangshu also saw that the decree was beneficial to Ming Dynasty, and no one in the court opposed it. It can be seen that all the ministers of the Ming Dynasty are loyal to the monarch and the country, which is beneficial to the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. , and to do it well, don’t submit Hu Shangshu’s memorial.”

Hu Wei also said quite sincerely: "Isn't this not going to be needed? If it's not going to be used, naturally I won't submit it."

Wang Wen nodded in agreement and said, "Ah, yes, yes, it's no longer needed, it's no longer needed."

Zhu Zhanqian almost laughed out loud, but he could only say that Hu Shangshu was indeed immoral, and he threatened such a destructive move in such an open manner.

At this time, everyone looked at He Zhang with one hand. In the past, although Hu Wei did things repeatedly, he still had some rules. More and more carefree!

What Hu Wei said, if it is not needed, it will not be submitted, but if it is needed?Will it be submitted again?

Hu Wei stood up holding his crutches, and said with a smile: "I am old, and you are pushing you. I will take the memorial to the Jiulong Water Horse Station and send it to Guangzhou Mansion to tell your majesty the good news. By the way, I will draw up the imperial decree." And send it to Guangzhou Mansion for His Majesty to use the seal."

"Send Hu Shangshu." Zhu Zhanqian said with a smile to Luo Bingzhong.

Ting push is still going on, and the armaments of the county Annan are being transported to Nanya. There are many things that need to be pushed by the court, but Zhu Zhanqian is fully capable of handling the rest, so there is no need to invite Hu Wei to sit in charge.

Hu Wei is the prince's young teacher, and he is from the first grade.

Until sunset, Shang Ren, who was studying history at the Imperial Academy, was suddenly invited to the Ministry of Rites.

Shang Ren shuddered suddenly when he heard that Hu Yan had invited him, with goose bumps all over his body, and he felt a cold in his crotch. Obviously, Hu Yan was still not dim-sighted, and he saw Shang Ren's hesitation when he signed the seal .

Shang Ren came to the Ministry of Rites anxiously, and saw Hu Wei sitting on a deck chair basking in the sun. Hu Wei was sitting on a deck chair covered with a blanket.

"I met Hu Shangshu." Shang Ren bowed his head in salute.

Hu Wei opened his eyes and said to Liu Ji: "Sit down, Liu Ji, go and have a good cup of tea."

"Scholar of business is an outstanding person, three yuan and the first, it is said in the public that the bachelor of business is upright, generous, tolerant, decisive in dealing with affairs, and famous both internally and externally. I invite the bachelor of business to rely on the old to sell the old. I ask the bachelor of business to help me. "

Put on a tall hat and ask for help.

Shang Ren didn't expect Hu Wei to be so polite when meeting in private. Hu Shangshu, the veteran of the Six Dynasties, used to ask for help when he came up. He thought he would be called to give a lecture, so he hurriedly said: "Ah? Hu Shangshu is polite, if Where there is power, nature is omnipotent.”

Another meaning of this sentence is, what is powerless?Then it won't help.

Hu Wei half-turned his body and said: "This breeder will never add a gift. Someone will definitely go to the Imperial Academy, the Imperial College, the Lecture Hall, the Lecture Hall, the Lecture Hall, the Maritime Hall, and the Heroine Hall to make noise for the students. Lin Zhong has always been famous, please think about it, and don't let the students make a fuss."

"National affairs have no shirkable responsibility!" Shang Ren thought that Hu Yan was going to arrange for his second son to enter the Imperial Academy or other private matters, but when he heard that it was a state matter, he naturally agreed immediately.

Your Majesty's three lines cannot be touched.

Hu Yi looked at Shang Ren again, showed a kind smile and said, "Then thank you to the Bachelor of Commerce. After all, I took over this matter, and I have a Bachelor of Commerce."

"For matters of duty, Hu Shangshu is polite." Shang Ren said hastily.

This is indeed a matter of duty. If he is not restrained well, His Majesty will be the first to pick off his head when he returns to Beijing.

"Recently, the record of King Jili, did the revision go well?" Hu Wei chose to reciprocate, asked Shang Ren about the most troublesome thing, and offered help.

"It's not just that it's not going well, it's just that it's hard to move an inch." Shang Ren showed bitterness, he sometimes practiced and practiced, and wanted to be an official!

The Record of King Jili must be completed, and it must be completed, which is really too difficult.

"Where did you encounter difficulties, let me tell you." Of course Hu Wei knew that Shang Ren had encountered difficulties.

There were too many difficulties, and I didn't know how to talk about it for a while.

"The most troublesome thing right now is Wang Zhen." Shang Ren said helplessly.

Chapter 772 The vain money was given to the poor, what a crime!

Was Shang Ren talking about Wang Zhen?

Of course not, in fact he is still King Ji Lie.

Shang Ren was silent for a moment, and talked about a case in the ninth year of Zhengtong. In the ninth year of Zhengtong, Yang Shiqi passed away at the age of eighty. The dark clouds hovering over the Ming Dynasty Hall seemed to have dissipated. Bringing new dark clouds.

There is a case that was sentenced in September of the ninth year of Zhengtong, and King Jili's orthodox treasure was printed.

It is about Liu Yu from Dantu, Jiangsu. This person is a well-known luxury household in Dantu. When Liu Yu was young, because of his wealth, he didn’t care about imperial examinations. , rhythm are involved.

Liu Yu dabbled in so much, absolutely, never should have touched the word disaster relief.

In the ninth year of Zhengtong, Liu Yu traveled to Datong Mansion. Oirats harassed Datong Mansion and besieged the city for three months. The catastrophe suddenly arose. People left without money and stayed without food.In Datong Mansion, the men fled, the women committed suicide, and the corpses were scattered all over the place. Some of them closed the gates and their families starved to death.

Liu Yu's family is rich, of course he will not go hungry, but the people of Datong Mansion were hungry, Liu Dashan moved his heart to help the victims, his money was used up soon, Liu Dashan used his own The title deed was exchanged for 5000 taels of silver and continued to give relief.

After there was no food in the city, Liu Yu borrowed 5 taels of silver from the bank with all the land deeds in his hand, and left the city.

What are you doing out of town?

Ask the Wala people to buy food.

At that time, the Oirats broke through several granaries and had a lot of surplus grain in their hands, but the Oirats could not take away too much grain. Liu Yu bought nearly 5 shi of white grain from the Oirats with [-] taels of silver. Shipped back to Datong Mansion.

In Datong Mansion, there are no fewer than tens of thousands of civilian men and women who live in their homes to receive food every day, which is quite crowded.

A person from Suzhou, who was doing relief work in the Xingdu Division of Shanxi Province, still spent all his family's wealth on relief, seeking skins from tigers to go to the Wala people to buy food. This is indeed a great kind person who can't see the suffering of the people.

The Oirats are like the wind on the prairie, they come and go, and eventually leave.

Once the Oirats left and no longer fortified the walls and cleared the wilderness, the Datong people finally had a life, and most of them survived.

The local people are very grateful to Liu Yu, and want to establish a ancestral hall for Liu Yu. Although Liu Yu did not take the imperial examination, he has a lot of friends, and he knows the taboos of the imperial court. Let the people live a good life, so they are ready to go home and inherit the family business .

Tossing this time in Datong Mansion, not only spent all the travel budget, but also owed a buttock of debts, and if he didn't go home to inherit the family business, Liu Yu couldn't afford to pay back the shortfall of 5 taels.

Liu Yu wanted to leave, but couldn't.

Hu Wan, the magistrate of Datong Prefecture, arrested Liu Yu on the grounds that he was in collusion with thieves and colluded with Wala.

This matter was quickly spread to everyone in the Datong Mansion, and then the common people spontaneously organized themselves, instead of sending salaries, water, food, and vegetables to the government office, they just wanted to know why Liu Yu was arrested.

Later, the common people came back to it!

When Wala besieged Datong Mansion, the local gentry in Datong drove up the price of grain, which rose three times a day. Not only did Liu Yu not raise the price, but he also gave relief to the people for free!

This way of cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. When Wala left, the local gentry would naturally not let Liu Yu go. It was really a crime to give the poor money for nothing like this!

Liu Yu, as a wealthy family of Dantuzhe in Suzhou, is naturally not an unknown person, and he can't be said to be directly heard, but he is also a person with all-hands and eyes.

Not to mention the relationship with Chaoli, it was in Datong Mansion. The first person he visited in Datong Mansion was Shi Heng, the commander-in-chief of Datong Mansion. As soon as he met, he gave Shi Heng a pair of emerald jade and phoenix beakers.

As the commander-in-chief of the Datong Mansion, Shi Heng naturally has his own face. When he heard that Liu Yu was arrested, he talked to Hu Wan, and finally agreed that Liu Yu would compensate the local gentry for the loss, a total of 3 taels of silver. Liu Yu did not Baiyin, but he had salt, and he immediately took out [-] salt to settle the matter.

Datong Mansion was besieged, and Yanyin was worthless, but the value of Yanyin was restored when the Wala people left. Liu Yu settled the compensation with Yanyin, and the local gentry were satisfied.

At this point, the matter was supposed to be over.

But the incident happened just the day before Liu Yu came out. The people were so excited that they besieged the government office. Soothed down.

There was no civil uprising in the first place, and Liu Yu was released after everyone negotiated the conditions under the table, but there was a civil uprising, so he had to report it and send it to the court.

Soon, the imperial decree to criticize the red came to Datong Mansion, and Liu Yuli colluded with the bandits, colluded with Oala, and killed him.

Liu Yu was completely panicked. This time, he didn't have much time to ask for help. He hurriedly wrote a letter to ask for help. Finally, through his father's relationship, he went through the door of the second-rank official of Chaozhongzheng and sent 5 yuan to Wang Zhen. Only two silver dollars saved his life, and he returned to Suzhou in a state of embarrassment.

But here comes the problem. Xing'an found out a book of the old eunuch Guo Jing from the palace, found the 5 taels of silver, and finally gave 4 taels to King Jili.

"Hu Shangshu, how should I write this case?" Shang Ren bowed his head and asked after explaining the whole story of the case in detail.

Write it down?

The Ming royal family, the face of the old Zhu family, do you want it!

Putting everything on Wang Zhen is in line with the usual practice of being a taboo for the venerable. As for the account book that Xing'an dug out, everyone should pretend that they don't know.

However, the question arises again, is King Jili a venerable?

According to the Taimiao trial of King Jili by the current emperor of Ming Dynasty, it obviously does not meet the definition of a venerable, so it must be recorded according to the facts.

Shang Ren feels that compiling this history book is really something that is difficult to write without scratching your bald head.

Shang Ren didn't care about the dog fighting in court, he only cared about whether he could finish writing the history alive.

After listening to Shang Ren's story, Hu Wei clearly remembered the case, and his scalp was numb. He thought for a while and said: "There are no itches if there are too many lice, and no worries about debts. Seek truth from facts, and just do whatever you want. , His Majesty should not make things difficult for you."

should?

Shang Ren and Hu Wei looked at each other, and there was helplessness in each other's eyes, which is really hard to write.

Hu Wei thought for a while and said, "For this case, you can add a detail. Sending money is my way. Liu Yu's father asked someone to find me."

"Ah? This..." Shang Ren finally understood who the ambiguous person was in the whole case.

This is what Hu Yan did so covertly that almost no one knew that he saved Liu Yu's life. The evergreen tree in the court is not old, and he does things extremely carefully. How can he easily reveal his secrets?

Hu Wei didn't say anything, this matter is a case without a head, after all, Wang Zhen is also dead.

When Hu Wei settled the old accounts in the first year of Jingtai, he once handed over a sum of money to his nephew, which was the money Hu Wei collected for helping others in those years. Part of this money was given by Liu Yu to thank Hu Wei for his life-saving grace. reward.

Hu Yan smiled and said, "There's nothing to be surprised about, just write it down as it is, wait for me, and I'll find you the letter from Liu Yu's father back then."

Hu Wei sent someone back to the mansion to take a box from the attic in the backyard. There were many letters in it. Hu Wei found the letters and handed them to Shang Ren.

Shang Ren finished reading the letter in surprise, and salivated at Hu Wei's box. There was a thick stack of such letters inside.

For those who study history, what this box means is self-evident.

Hu Wei put the box away, and said with a smile: "Writing history, posterity will look at it with [-] pairs of eyes. If you are nine true and one false, or hide the spring and autumn brushwork for the venerable, later generations can also find other historical books for you to confirm it." , it’s better to just write it clearly, and the descendants of the province will take the exam.”

For example, nine truths and one falsehood cannot deceive people. How many literati and inkmen will flip through history books?For example, the historian has tried his best to cover it up, but Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty concealed his younger brother Liu Chang, Li Wang of Huainan, so he was passed the examination?

Hu Wei concluded in conclusion: "Your Majesty killed King Jili. He was upright, frank, and just. There is no need to write a song. When the time comes, I will present it to Your Majesty."

"Thank you, Hu Shangshu!" The stone in Shang Ren's heart fell to the ground at once, and Hu Wei presented it for him, which means that after he finished writing, he was corrected by Hu Shangshu, so after the accident, it was Hu Wei who was responsible up.

Hu Wei shook his head and said, "A handful of old bones, if you can do anything else, do it."

Shang Ren left, and Hu Wei told him to seek truth from facts, and even topped the pot, then this history book would not be so difficult to write.

As for what Hu Wei explained, it is the business's job to be optimistic about the students and prevent them from being put on fire.

Can Merchant do well?

He is a scholar, and he is the top three-yuan scholar. Shang Ren is very good at things like scholars fighting among themselves.

In this way, the imperial decree of the Ming Dynasty that the breeding population will never be added, at the end of July, along with the horseshoes of the riders, was sent to the prefectures and counties.

It was also delivered to the commanding officers rooted in the farm. The commanding officers took the imperial decree and explained His Majesty's decree to the fathers and villagers word by word.