The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Yan Song pointed at Yu Chenglong and cursed: "The emperor has always followed the imperial decree, strictly handled affairs, and never received any favors from the local government to show filial piety. Now you are openly giving gifts to the emperor with cattail vegetables, tea stalls, and tied pig's feet. It's ruining the emperor's holy name! You Yu Chenglong is an upright official, do you think the emperor is a foolish emperor? What do you mean by sending these? This is bribery, please! I want to impeach you!"

Yu Chenglong's face turned petrified.

sister's.

According to what you said, I have feelings for Jackie Chan, and I am the most corrupt of all the officials along the way to present these cattail vegetables, tea bowls, and tied pig's trotters?

Jiajing was supported by Yan Song, so he had more face, and felt that he had finally made a southern tour, and he had never committed any crimes during the trip, and he didn't even get off the boat once, but now he was presented with cattail vegetables, tea stalls, and bundles by Jackie Chan. Pig's trotters, pointing at mulberry and scolding Huai, pointing at nose and scolding himself for being a fool, a burst of grievance!

"It's still Yan Aiqing, who understands my heart." Jiajing was very moved, and then held his head high, exuding a (pretentious) light like a sage emperor: "I haven't got off the boat for a day, and I haven't played any games. One place. You are an upright official like Jackie Chan, so is it possible that I am a foolish king?!"

He suddenly stood up, and said coldly to Jackie Chan: "You can go and inquire, but I am disturbing the people at all?"

(Yan Song: That's me fooling around, so I don't want you to disturb the people.)

Jiajing was wronged, but he was very happy to be praised by Yan Song.

This is also a good story in history.

Although not fun, but the reputation is good.

Looking at the historian next to him, who was immersed in recording this historical moment, Jiajing already thought that in the next few hundred years, Jiajing would become a role model for countless emperors!

Yu Chenglong felt very embarrassed, his feelings were wrong, he couldn't help but knelt on the ground, kowtowed in various ways, and burst into tears: "My lord! It's my mistake, I thought that my lord must be on the way, extravagant and debauched. , but did not know that the emperor did not disembark at all. I used the heart of a villain to save the belly of a gentleman. The minister is guilty!"

The emperor finally vented his anger, being made light-hearted by Yu Chenglong was more enjoyable than how many women he played with and how much money he spent.

Jiajing's sage, vain, was greatly satisfied, and waved his hand generously: "It's good to know that you are wrong. I am magnanimous. I forgive you for your innocence. You can go down."

Yan Song smiled proudly.

Huang Jin, the supervisor of ceremonies, had never seen such a good-tempered Jiajing.

It's still Yan Ge's old man, Gao!It's really high!

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Chapter 204 The Conspiracy of the Rich Merchants in Yangzhou [1]

Yangzhou.

Yangzhou is located in the central part of Jiangsu, where the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal meet. State, Moon City.

The life dream of the people of the Ming Dynasty is to be born in Yangzhou and die in Beimang. Such a place full of fireworks is definitely a paradise for enjoyment.

It can be seen from this that the prosperity of Yangzhou City is not weaker than that of Suzhou.

Moreover, there is an ancient quatrain in Yangzhou, "Fireworks go to Yangzhou in March", so Yangzhou has become one of the places that Jiajing's southern tour must pass.

But at this time, just before the arrival of Jiajing, those big families in Yangzhou gathered in one of the mansions.

Cloth merchants, salt merchants, tea merchants, grain merchants... Among the people who came today, they included the richest "300" big merchants in Yangzhou, and each of them had assets of no less than [-] million taels of silver.

The richest of them is undoubtedly the Zhang family, a collection of grain merchants and salt merchants, and the owner is Zhang Fuqiang.

"Brother Zhang, as a representative of Yangzhou merchants, please send a message, the Emperor Jiajing is here, what should we do?"

"Yeah, Brother Zhang, this Jiajing is a greedy person. I heard from people in the capital that some kind of business tax reform is going to be implemented, and our business tax rate will be increased by [-] to [-]. If Jiajing sees our Yangzhou Wealthy, I'm afraid they will take Yangzhou directly."

"That's right, and Yan Song, I heard that he took so many bribes along the way, he was so greedy..."

"And this Yan Song has always been very dissatisfied with us in Jiangnan. Many merchants in Suzhou have been blackmailed by him. I am afraid that he will make a fuss about us in Yangzhou."

"Brother Zhang, please think of a way~"

"Brother Zhang, the fate of our Yangzhou rests on your shoulders."

Zhang Fuqiang sat in the upper seat, squinted his eyes, and knocked rhythmically on the chair.He was able to lead the major wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou, not only with his wealth, but also with his wisdom.

And everyone looked at him together, expecting him to come up with a good solution.

After a long time, Zhang Fuqiang opened his eyes: "Now, there is only one way."

"any solution?"

"Brother Zhang!"

Zhang Fu stood up fiercely: "Everyone, Yangzhou has reached this critical moment, do you dare to fight?"

Everyone: "Brother Zhang, please tell me!"

Zhang Fuqiang said: "Then why did Jiajing come to Yangzhou? Isn't it to see the beautiful scenery of our Yangzhou? To see the prosperity of our Yangzhou? Then let him see our dilapidated Yangzhou."

Everyone: "How to do it? Brother Zhang please give instructions!"

Zhang Fuqiang looked around for a week: "There are still four or five days before the arrival of Jiajing, and we have to plan ahead. We will repair all the prosperous places in Yangzhou within three days. Not only will they not be repaired, but they will be repaired worse! Let Yangzhou look A little more dilapidated!"

Everyone's eyes lit up.

"This plan is great!"

"Brother Zhang is still wise!"

There was a sound of flattery.

A salt merchant stood up at this time: "However, we still need to inform the magistrate."

Zhang Fuqiang nodded: "I'll just take care of this matter. Ye Daji, the prefect of Yangzhou, has benefited so much from us over the years, and he can't escape at this time."