☆·51 Forget it, I'd better go to Jiangnan.
The Empress Dowager suggested that I go to Jiangnan for a walk, and ask me to check the corruption situation in various places in Jiangnan.By the way, the Empress Dowager also gave me a briefing, saying a few key counties to check.
Daqi is rich and prosperous in the south of the Yangtze River, and the power of the aristocratic family is also in the south of the Yangtze River.Merchants and aristocratic families are intertwined in the south of the Yangtze River, and the relationship between the two is more complicated than in the capital.
After the imperial court officials passed away, they were often upright and clean for a few years before they would be corrupted by money and gradually become filthy.If there is an official with a noble character, he will either not be noticed by the central government and become a victim of the struggle of the Jiangnan family, or he will be noticed by the emperor and transferred to the central government for protection.
For example, Wang Jin.
Royal Censor Wang Jin was an official in the south of the Yangtze River in his early years, and his life was very difficult. Later, my father transferred him to Yushitai, and then he became a Censor step by step.
In the place of Jiangnan, the emperor went to Jiangnan with great fanfare and was assassinated. According to the empress dowager, it was obvious that he wanted me to make an unannounced visit.After thinking about it, I resolutely rejected the Queen Mother's proposal.
"The mountains are high and the roads are far away, so it is bound to be dangerous."
Am I the kind of person who goes out casually?Although I am locked in the palace every day, and I still yearn for the simple life of ordinary people outside, but in fact, my farthest goal is to go to the suburbs of Beijing for an outing.
After all, this is a feudal society with low productivity. If you go out casually, if you get sick, you will die.Are there still few famous emperors in history who died on tour?Oh, don’t count the ones who got caught by sharks while on patrol, but how few people died of diseases while on patrol?
This is a feudal society where a cold or a cold can kill you. Of course, I will not take risks because I am not Qi Feng.
But I don't want to go to Jiangnan, I just think Jiangnan Road is too far away, and the weather is about to enter summer, so I feel that the road is too hot to think about it.If I were in Beijing, I would have ice-cold honeydew melons, have palace people fan the wind, and even go to the palace to escape the heat, but if I went to Jiangnan.
I don't think my ambitions are that big.
After dealing with the empress dowager, I sat back on the soft bed, and Qi Feng suddenly appeared in front of me without a sound. Obviously, Qi Feng had something to say.
I just sent Yu Lejin away, and I have to deal with the Empress Dowager. I feel a little tired, and I don't want to play guessing games with Qi Feng, so I asked him directly, a little coldly: "What's the matter?"
"Didn't Your Majesty say that you want to protect the people of Daqi?" Qi Feng was talking about the content of the exchange between Yu Lejin and Yu Lejin, but now that he asks it, of course he is questioning me——
Obviously His Majesty said that he would protect the people of Daqi, but now he is unwilling to even go to the south of the Yangtze River.
Qi Feng really never forgets his head iron at any time, and he dares to speak out when questioning the emperor face to face.But it means that the person Qi Feng is facing is me, if it is someone else.
Oh, if it was Yue Siluan who said this to my father, my father probably wouldn't care about it.
Speaking of which, where is the leader of the imperial grandfather's secret guard?I tried my best to think about it, and suddenly realized that I am not familiar with this former dark guard at all.
Qi Feng saw that I didn't answer for a long time, and asked again: "If your majesty goes to Jiangnan in person, he will be able to sort out the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River and restore Daqi to a peaceful and prosperous world. I will definitely protect your majesty's safety."
Seeing that Qi Feng asked seriously, I couldn't help becoming serious, and said to Qi Feng: "The emperor can do many things, but I only have one person. If I leave Beijing, the Jiangnan affairs can be resolved smoothly, but what about other matters? You have to do everything yourself, what are so many courtiers doing?"
Qi Feng didn't understand this matter a little bit, but Qi Feng is a person who will ask questions for a long time, so I don't need to guess his mind.
"However, if His Majesty delegates power in this way, the people below will deceive the emperor and deceive the superior and subordinates, and the imperial power will be emptied." After Qi Feng finished speaking, the worry on his face was beyond words.
Obviously Qi Feng is very worried about my situation, worried that I will be killed by the people below.Qi Feng never worried about this matter before, but since Murong Xin was injured, Qi Feng began to think about whether many things are safe or not.
Engaging in objects makes people progress.
I stuffed Qi Feng with an orange and said to him: "It's not the time yet. Liu Bingyao's letter has not been answered yet."
Whether it is to decide whether to go to Jiangnan, or to accept the right to accept the head, it is not yet time.
Qi Feng took the orange, peeled it and ate it himself, he seemed to understand what I meant, but he didn't seem to understand.
But this is not important, I feel that many things will have a time to make a decision this year.For example, after a few days, I received Liu Bingyao's reply letter, but he didn't mention anything about Wang Jin, as if the note I gave him didn't exist.
And at this time, Uncle Yi Huang also appeared just right, and said to me: "A man who has ambitions everywhere, if he has never been anywhere, I am afraid that he will become that Emperor Hui who doesn't eat minced meat."
I:"……"
How can I have such a stupid behavior of not eating minced meat.
I can't argue with Uncle Yi Huang, but it's obvious that both the Empress Dowager and Uncle Yi want me to leave the palace. During the court, Uncle Yi's subordinates tried their best to fight with the Empress Dowager.
One side said: "Liu Bingyao was corrupt, daring and murdered Wang Jin."
He was a good imperial doctor, but he didn't answer the memorial for a while, so he became a victim of corruption in their mouths.
Fortunately, the Wang family is not very promising, so they dare not open their mouths to make trouble with me at this time.
The other side said: "They spouted blood, fabricated it out of thin air, and begged His Majesty to judge."
Let my holy judge, that is, send someone to check it, no, when I said that I want someone to investigate, the people from the empress dowager's party said: "The thirteen princes deceived the upper and lower, and formed a party in the court for personal gain. People can be trusted."
The other side retorted: "You are not afraid of the shadow if you are upright. No matter who checks, Liu Bingyao will be fine."
Listening to their quarrel, I sit on the top and complain, are you all determined to want me to go to the south of the Yangtze River?
However, no one in the court directly made it clear that the matter of encouraging me to go to the south of the Yangtze River was told to me by Uncle Yihuang afterwards.
Uncle Yihuang came over today, and I was eating cold belly shreds here. Uncle Yihuang saw that I was eating deliciously, so he asked Wang Xifu to add a pair of chopsticks to him without asking. After eating, Uncle Yi opened his eyes wide and said it was delicious, and then Only then did I ask what it was.
I told him it was pork belly.
Uncle Yihuang's expression can be said to be very exciting.
Obviously, I was still worrying about "why not eat minced meat" before, but when I came to Uncle Yihuang, I felt that the food that is put into the water is not something that nobles eat——
Later, I will ask Yuchu to make you pickled pepper chicken offal.
Let you have a good experience of what is the food of ordinary people.
Uncle Yihuang is shocked here, he never delays what should be done, he still persuades me to go to Jiangnan.My original plan was that after Liu Bingyao wrote back, if nothing about Wang Jin was mentioned, I would consider going to see it.After all, for the construction of the canal in the south of the Yangtze River, millions of taels of silver were paid back and forth. According to the memorials of those small county magistrates in the south of the Yangtze River, Liu Bingyao was actually greedy for [-]%.
In fact, I don't have too many government affairs to deal with on a daily basis. Uncle Yihuang approved most of the papers on his behalf. After I left for a month or two, the normal operation of the court is not a big problem.
But now that Uncle Yihuang insists on letting me go, I feel a little rebellious, and I don't want to go, so I hold my breath and fight Uncle Yihuang.When the Queen Mother found out that I was fighting with Uncle Yihuang, she didn't seem to force me to go or not, but she dealt with me very skillfully, and hit the point.
The empress dowager recruited the wives who were going to the palace to learn the rules to her dormitory, and then recruited me here, and asked me to be with these women every day and listen to her lectures.
By the way, let me take a look at the Daqi Palace Embroidery Room run by the Empress Dowager.
It is also interesting to say that the empress dowager recruited these wives, and together with the dowagers in the palace, arranged for them to spin and weave cloth, raise silkworms and reel silk every day, and then sell their embroidery.
The name is 'Gongfei Produced'.
Those sold in the capital are very popular. After all, no matter how many dignitaries and dignitaries there are in the capital, the concubines who can be detained by the empress dowager are also a minority. Now there are places in the capital that sell embroidery woven by the concubines themselves. Just think about it and you can see how many people want to buy it.
So why are these wives so obedient?Of course it's because the empress dowager's means are very bad.Oh, from my point of view, it is very clever.
For example, Yang Chen, she was caught as a model, and everyone stared at her and Yang Xiyan.After Yang Chen entered the palace, she could not go out. If she worked a little slower in the palace, she would be reprimanded by the mothers in the palace.
Yang Chen wanted to say she was sick and lazy, but the queen mother told her to go to the Tai Hospital and gave her several extremely bitter prescriptions.Every time the medicine was boiled, it was a big bowl, and he stared at her to drink it eight times a day.That's it, let alone candied fruit to soothe the throat, I have never even seen sweet soup.
Yang Chen stayed up for a few days, but couldn't bear it any longer, and said she was fine.
Then the empress dowager calculated her expenses in the palace with Yang Chenshi, saying that she owed money to the palace, and now she had to do work to pay back.
When the empress dowager calculated, she had a particularly sinful face of the exploiting class and refused to let the Yang family take money to redeem people.
The words are also beautiful, the matter of Yang Chen's entering the palace to learn the rules, Yang Wenbo nodded in response, and the matter of teaching the daughter to be helpless was also said by Yang Chen himself.So there is nothing wrong with the palace giving her the rules.
The matter of the Yang Chen family was known to all the female family members, and the Empress Dowager would be honest if she wanted to call anyone into the palace.
Of course, this is a good thing for me, after all, it is a good thing to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.But the empress dowager is now letting me stay with these concubines, that is purely torturing me.At the beginning, the wives didn't dare to talk to me, but then they probably figured out my temper, and someone even started to introduce her daughter to me.
Whisper in my ear every day.
I:"……"
I am still a baby!How are you guys able to do it? Wow.
Forget it, let me go to Jiangnan.
They think that if they go to the palace, they can't suffer at all, right?
The matter was settled like this, the Empress Dowager looked satisfied, and said to me: "I let you listen to Ai's family earlier, why bother."
I am still dissatisfied.
"Mother, why do you want me to go to the south of the Yangtze River?" There must be a reason, otherwise why would the Empress Dowager give up the great opportunity to fight against Uncle Yihuang for no reason and come to torment me?
The empress dowager thought for a while, and said to me: "The Ai family has long known about the Wu family's trading of gunpowder with the prairie people."
I:"?"
"Don't look at the Ai family that way. The Wu family has been in business for several years, and the aristocratic family is not a single piece of iron. But they have manpower in almost all the business channels in Daqi. If they have the courage to do this, they are not afraid of being exposed. I think we There is nothing he can do about it. Jiangnan is where they produce gunpowder, but the exact location has not been found."
"We happened to go to the warehouse that day. If it wasn't for the help of Ai's family, how could we not be discovered? Xiao Nizi still thinks she is good at martial arts."
"The Wu family is familiar with the Ai family and Gao Yi's staff, but the secret guards have never met them. So this time when you go to Jiangnan, you should investigate corruption openly, but the main purpose behind the scenes is to find out about gunpowder. .”
The Empress Dowager explained to me very carefully what they found out in the past few years. I heard mixed feelings, mixed feelings, and scratched my heart.
"Mother, you and Uncle Yi Huang, you have a good relationship." I couldn't help asking.
"Hey, how could the Ai family have a good relationship with Gao Yi." The queen mother was a little annoyed when I asked this question, she drove me outside, and told me by the way that tomorrow she will arrange someone to help me pretend to be sick.
I seem to know something, but I don't dare to say it.
The author has something to say: the first update √.
Gao Analysis: I seem to know something?
Queen Mother: No, you don't know.
Thanks to the little angel: Winter Lovely cast 1 landmine; kiss.
Thank you little angel: 10 bottles of Caribbean Sea Blue Irrigation Nutrient Solution; mua~
The Empress Dowager suggested that I go to Jiangnan for a walk, and ask me to check the corruption situation in various places in Jiangnan.By the way, the Empress Dowager also gave me a briefing, saying a few key counties to check.
Daqi is rich and prosperous in the south of the Yangtze River, and the power of the aristocratic family is also in the south of the Yangtze River.Merchants and aristocratic families are intertwined in the south of the Yangtze River, and the relationship between the two is more complicated than in the capital.
After the imperial court officials passed away, they were often upright and clean for a few years before they would be corrupted by money and gradually become filthy.If there is an official with a noble character, he will either not be noticed by the central government and become a victim of the struggle of the Jiangnan family, or he will be noticed by the emperor and transferred to the central government for protection.
For example, Wang Jin.
Royal Censor Wang Jin was an official in the south of the Yangtze River in his early years, and his life was very difficult. Later, my father transferred him to Yushitai, and then he became a Censor step by step.
In the place of Jiangnan, the emperor went to Jiangnan with great fanfare and was assassinated. According to the empress dowager, it was obvious that he wanted me to make an unannounced visit.After thinking about it, I resolutely rejected the Queen Mother's proposal.
"The mountains are high and the roads are far away, so it is bound to be dangerous."
Am I the kind of person who goes out casually?Although I am locked in the palace every day, and I still yearn for the simple life of ordinary people outside, but in fact, my farthest goal is to go to the suburbs of Beijing for an outing.
After all, this is a feudal society with low productivity. If you go out casually, if you get sick, you will die.Are there still few famous emperors in history who died on tour?Oh, don’t count the ones who got caught by sharks while on patrol, but how few people died of diseases while on patrol?
This is a feudal society where a cold or a cold can kill you. Of course, I will not take risks because I am not Qi Feng.
But I don't want to go to Jiangnan, I just think Jiangnan Road is too far away, and the weather is about to enter summer, so I feel that the road is too hot to think about it.If I were in Beijing, I would have ice-cold honeydew melons, have palace people fan the wind, and even go to the palace to escape the heat, but if I went to Jiangnan.
I don't think my ambitions are that big.
After dealing with the empress dowager, I sat back on the soft bed, and Qi Feng suddenly appeared in front of me without a sound. Obviously, Qi Feng had something to say.
I just sent Yu Lejin away, and I have to deal with the Empress Dowager. I feel a little tired, and I don't want to play guessing games with Qi Feng, so I asked him directly, a little coldly: "What's the matter?"
"Didn't Your Majesty say that you want to protect the people of Daqi?" Qi Feng was talking about the content of the exchange between Yu Lejin and Yu Lejin, but now that he asks it, of course he is questioning me——
Obviously His Majesty said that he would protect the people of Daqi, but now he is unwilling to even go to the south of the Yangtze River.
Qi Feng really never forgets his head iron at any time, and he dares to speak out when questioning the emperor face to face.But it means that the person Qi Feng is facing is me, if it is someone else.
Oh, if it was Yue Siluan who said this to my father, my father probably wouldn't care about it.
Speaking of which, where is the leader of the imperial grandfather's secret guard?I tried my best to think about it, and suddenly realized that I am not familiar with this former dark guard at all.
Qi Feng saw that I didn't answer for a long time, and asked again: "If your majesty goes to Jiangnan in person, he will be able to sort out the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River and restore Daqi to a peaceful and prosperous world. I will definitely protect your majesty's safety."
Seeing that Qi Feng asked seriously, I couldn't help becoming serious, and said to Qi Feng: "The emperor can do many things, but I only have one person. If I leave Beijing, the Jiangnan affairs can be resolved smoothly, but what about other matters? You have to do everything yourself, what are so many courtiers doing?"
Qi Feng didn't understand this matter a little bit, but Qi Feng is a person who will ask questions for a long time, so I don't need to guess his mind.
"However, if His Majesty delegates power in this way, the people below will deceive the emperor and deceive the superior and subordinates, and the imperial power will be emptied." After Qi Feng finished speaking, the worry on his face was beyond words.
Obviously Qi Feng is very worried about my situation, worried that I will be killed by the people below.Qi Feng never worried about this matter before, but since Murong Xin was injured, Qi Feng began to think about whether many things are safe or not.
Engaging in objects makes people progress.
I stuffed Qi Feng with an orange and said to him: "It's not the time yet. Liu Bingyao's letter has not been answered yet."
Whether it is to decide whether to go to Jiangnan, or to accept the right to accept the head, it is not yet time.
Qi Feng took the orange, peeled it and ate it himself, he seemed to understand what I meant, but he didn't seem to understand.
But this is not important, I feel that many things will have a time to make a decision this year.For example, after a few days, I received Liu Bingyao's reply letter, but he didn't mention anything about Wang Jin, as if the note I gave him didn't exist.
And at this time, Uncle Yi Huang also appeared just right, and said to me: "A man who has ambitions everywhere, if he has never been anywhere, I am afraid that he will become that Emperor Hui who doesn't eat minced meat."
I:"……"
How can I have such a stupid behavior of not eating minced meat.
I can't argue with Uncle Yi Huang, but it's obvious that both the Empress Dowager and Uncle Yi want me to leave the palace. During the court, Uncle Yi's subordinates tried their best to fight with the Empress Dowager.
One side said: "Liu Bingyao was corrupt, daring and murdered Wang Jin."
He was a good imperial doctor, but he didn't answer the memorial for a while, so he became a victim of corruption in their mouths.
Fortunately, the Wang family is not very promising, so they dare not open their mouths to make trouble with me at this time.
The other side said: "They spouted blood, fabricated it out of thin air, and begged His Majesty to judge."
Let my holy judge, that is, send someone to check it, no, when I said that I want someone to investigate, the people from the empress dowager's party said: "The thirteen princes deceived the upper and lower, and formed a party in the court for personal gain. People can be trusted."
The other side retorted: "You are not afraid of the shadow if you are upright. No matter who checks, Liu Bingyao will be fine."
Listening to their quarrel, I sit on the top and complain, are you all determined to want me to go to the south of the Yangtze River?
However, no one in the court directly made it clear that the matter of encouraging me to go to the south of the Yangtze River was told to me by Uncle Yihuang afterwards.
Uncle Yihuang came over today, and I was eating cold belly shreds here. Uncle Yihuang saw that I was eating deliciously, so he asked Wang Xifu to add a pair of chopsticks to him without asking. After eating, Uncle Yi opened his eyes wide and said it was delicious, and then Only then did I ask what it was.
I told him it was pork belly.
Uncle Yihuang's expression can be said to be very exciting.
Obviously, I was still worrying about "why not eat minced meat" before, but when I came to Uncle Yihuang, I felt that the food that is put into the water is not something that nobles eat——
Later, I will ask Yuchu to make you pickled pepper chicken offal.
Let you have a good experience of what is the food of ordinary people.
Uncle Yihuang is shocked here, he never delays what should be done, he still persuades me to go to Jiangnan.My original plan was that after Liu Bingyao wrote back, if nothing about Wang Jin was mentioned, I would consider going to see it.After all, for the construction of the canal in the south of the Yangtze River, millions of taels of silver were paid back and forth. According to the memorials of those small county magistrates in the south of the Yangtze River, Liu Bingyao was actually greedy for [-]%.
In fact, I don't have too many government affairs to deal with on a daily basis. Uncle Yihuang approved most of the papers on his behalf. After I left for a month or two, the normal operation of the court is not a big problem.
But now that Uncle Yihuang insists on letting me go, I feel a little rebellious, and I don't want to go, so I hold my breath and fight Uncle Yihuang.When the Queen Mother found out that I was fighting with Uncle Yihuang, she didn't seem to force me to go or not, but she dealt with me very skillfully, and hit the point.
The empress dowager recruited the wives who were going to the palace to learn the rules to her dormitory, and then recruited me here, and asked me to be with these women every day and listen to her lectures.
By the way, let me take a look at the Daqi Palace Embroidery Room run by the Empress Dowager.
It is also interesting to say that the empress dowager recruited these wives, and together with the dowagers in the palace, arranged for them to spin and weave cloth, raise silkworms and reel silk every day, and then sell their embroidery.
The name is 'Gongfei Produced'.
Those sold in the capital are very popular. After all, no matter how many dignitaries and dignitaries there are in the capital, the concubines who can be detained by the empress dowager are also a minority. Now there are places in the capital that sell embroidery woven by the concubines themselves. Just think about it and you can see how many people want to buy it.
So why are these wives so obedient?Of course it's because the empress dowager's means are very bad.Oh, from my point of view, it is very clever.
For example, Yang Chen, she was caught as a model, and everyone stared at her and Yang Xiyan.After Yang Chen entered the palace, she could not go out. If she worked a little slower in the palace, she would be reprimanded by the mothers in the palace.
Yang Chen wanted to say she was sick and lazy, but the queen mother told her to go to the Tai Hospital and gave her several extremely bitter prescriptions.Every time the medicine was boiled, it was a big bowl, and he stared at her to drink it eight times a day.That's it, let alone candied fruit to soothe the throat, I have never even seen sweet soup.
Yang Chen stayed up for a few days, but couldn't bear it any longer, and said she was fine.
Then the empress dowager calculated her expenses in the palace with Yang Chenshi, saying that she owed money to the palace, and now she had to do work to pay back.
When the empress dowager calculated, she had a particularly sinful face of the exploiting class and refused to let the Yang family take money to redeem people.
The words are also beautiful, the matter of Yang Chen's entering the palace to learn the rules, Yang Wenbo nodded in response, and the matter of teaching the daughter to be helpless was also said by Yang Chen himself.So there is nothing wrong with the palace giving her the rules.
The matter of the Yang Chen family was known to all the female family members, and the Empress Dowager would be honest if she wanted to call anyone into the palace.
Of course, this is a good thing for me, after all, it is a good thing to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.But the empress dowager is now letting me stay with these concubines, that is purely torturing me.At the beginning, the wives didn't dare to talk to me, but then they probably figured out my temper, and someone even started to introduce her daughter to me.
Whisper in my ear every day.
I:"……"
I am still a baby!How are you guys able to do it? Wow.
Forget it, let me go to Jiangnan.
They think that if they go to the palace, they can't suffer at all, right?
The matter was settled like this, the Empress Dowager looked satisfied, and said to me: "I let you listen to Ai's family earlier, why bother."
I am still dissatisfied.
"Mother, why do you want me to go to the south of the Yangtze River?" There must be a reason, otherwise why would the Empress Dowager give up the great opportunity to fight against Uncle Yihuang for no reason and come to torment me?
The empress dowager thought for a while, and said to me: "The Ai family has long known about the Wu family's trading of gunpowder with the prairie people."
I:"?"
"Don't look at the Ai family that way. The Wu family has been in business for several years, and the aristocratic family is not a single piece of iron. But they have manpower in almost all the business channels in Daqi. If they have the courage to do this, they are not afraid of being exposed. I think we There is nothing he can do about it. Jiangnan is where they produce gunpowder, but the exact location has not been found."
"We happened to go to the warehouse that day. If it wasn't for the help of Ai's family, how could we not be discovered? Xiao Nizi still thinks she is good at martial arts."
"The Wu family is familiar with the Ai family and Gao Yi's staff, but the secret guards have never met them. So this time when you go to Jiangnan, you should investigate corruption openly, but the main purpose behind the scenes is to find out about gunpowder. .”
The Empress Dowager explained to me very carefully what they found out in the past few years. I heard mixed feelings, mixed feelings, and scratched my heart.
"Mother, you and Uncle Yi Huang, you have a good relationship." I couldn't help asking.
"Hey, how could the Ai family have a good relationship with Gao Yi." The queen mother was a little annoyed when I asked this question, she drove me outside, and told me by the way that tomorrow she will arrange someone to help me pretend to be sick.
I seem to know something, but I don't dare to say it.
The author has something to say: the first update √.
Gao Analysis: I seem to know something?
Queen Mother: No, you don't know.
Thanks to the little angel: Winter Lovely cast 1 landmine; kiss.
Thank you little angel: 10 bottles of Caribbean Sea Blue Irrigation Nutrient Solution; mua~
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