Chapter 207: Between the choices

The words of King Zhu Di of Yan regarding choices and trade-offs did indeed have a huge impact in Ye Tianming's mind. If the moon is full, it will lose, and the water will overflow. Ye Tianming also knows this truth well. The king has a way to rule, and the minister has a way to rule. If the king walks on his way to rule, the country will be destroyed. On the contrary, if the minister walks on his way to rule, it will be a scout of his family and annihilation. Zhu Di reminded him that he should not go astray.

In the past few months, Ye Tianming has been a little proud. He is the Minister of Revenue. He has served for less than a year. He has served as the Minister of Personnel and the Censor of the Left Chief Censor. He has combined the financial power, personnel power and supervision power of the entire Ming Dynasty. He has never had the glory of halo. Even Ye Tianming himself was surprised where he had made his way and his career suddenly became wider. However, the words of Mrs. Ye exposed all this: "If you hadn't your son-in-law, you would have been tortured to death by that "stained from the ashes".

Ye Tianming suddenly realized that yes, the fundamental turning point of his career was that after he was recommended by Li Weizheng to the former crown prince Zhu Biao, and then suggested that he recommend the crown prince. It was this move that made him regarded as the supporter of the crown prince by Zhu Yuanzhang and gained promotion step by step. However, the meaning of the King of Yan today is very obvious, that is, he has the power inside and the army outside. If he does not know how to restrain himself, he will die like Hu Weiyong and Zhan Hui.

But how can he restrain himself? Do you want him to resign from the Minister of Revenue or the Minister of Personnel? How could the Eastern Palace agree when he was in a state of confusion? Could it be that the King of Yan wanted to break off the relationship between him and Li Weizheng?

Ye Tianming is already the highest official in the court, and his mind is no longer the former governor Ye. He immediately figured out the true intention of King Yan, and he wanted to cut off his relationship with Li Weizheng, and it was not that simple. The relationship was not easy to break. He wanted to make himself and Li Weizheng turn against each other, that is, let himself say bad things about Li Weizheng in front of Zhu Yunwen, so that Zhu Yunwen would not care about the possibility of collusion with Li Weizheng. In fact, after all, it was to make Zhu Yunwen and Li Weizheng turn against each other.

Ye Tianming had to sigh inwardly that the King of Yan was always using the knife, and if he was not careful, he would fall into his trap.

In fact, Ye Tianming asked his son to give wine to Zhu Di was also a test of his. He was testing Zhu Di tolerate himself. Judging from the current situation, Zhu Yunwen would not care about his high position and power, so Zhu Di cared very much.

Ye Tianming couldn't help but look at the night sky and smiled coldly, "Your Highness, King Yan, you may not know yet, your destiny is in my hands."

Winter is here. In November, Liaodong has been covered with snow, with silvery mountains and wax figures, and the ice on the branches is crystal clear. There is only endless white in the wilderness. Although it is a cold winter, Liaodong is not lacking in liveliness. The 200,000 immigrants from the mainland have been repaired by the method of labor-for-relief. The official road runs through the north and south. The official road is 100,500,000 along the east coast, and is 100,500,000 immigrants live near it. This pipeline involves the vital interests of most people. It also makes tens of thousands of road construction soldiers and civilians devote great enthusiasm and hard work. It took only eight months to complete this avenue of happiness.

The road repair brought great changes to Liaodong. Due to the successful expedition of the Ming army in Japan in the east, there would be no Japanese pirates to attack within at least twenty years. Li Weizheng left many Han people who had originally planned to immigrate to the Jurchen area on the Liaodong Peninsula, which suddenly increased the population of the Liaodong Peninsula from thousands of households to more than 20,000 to nearly 400,000. Cities appeared one by one, and large areas of wasteland turned into farmland, but agriculture alone could not support such a population. After returning to Liaodong in September, Li Weizheng officially opened a factory. He had enough funds to support his development, mining, smelting, casting, processing, textile, papermaking, shipbuilding, etc. On the one hand, he sent people to North Korea to temporarily purchase materials. On the other hand, he looked for craftsmen from the 200,000 immigrants and recruited a large number of workers. In just two months, his first factory, the paper mill, was successfully built.

It was also a coincidence that the migration of immigrants had a family who opened a paper mill in Dengzhou. They went to the government to apply and wanted to open a paper mill again in Liaodong. This happened to allow the worried Liaodong officials to catch them and hire them to host the official paper mill with high salaries.

Li Weizheng has been busy running the Liaodong Peninsula in the past few months. He recruited a large number of scholars from immigration to the government office to serve as officials, run factories, run schools, lead the people to reclaim wasteland, build cities, help the elderly and ask about wicked people, help the poor, investigate cases, mediate disputes, establish order, etc., and quickly turned Liaodong, which was originally stationed in the army, into a situation where the army and local governments coexist, but there was no sloppy. There were no magistrates in Liaodong, and only the inspection departments affiliated with the Liaodong Metropolitan Division. The inspection departments were actually a changed name local government government, and the inspections were county magistrates and chief clerks. Among them, there were clerks and inspectors in each room. The Liaodong military and civilians, both military households and households were under their jurisdiction. In fact, Li Weizheng had abolished the military household system in disguise in Liaodong.

In November, news came from the Liaohe Defense Office that the imperial edicts of the court had arrived in Liaodong and were waiting at the Liaohe Defense Office. Li Weizheng immediately ordered the express edicts to be sent to the Lushun Port by using a fast ship.

The official Xuanzhi was the ambassador of the Ministry of Rites, named Qian Lun, and the other was Yang Zhiyi, deputy envoy of the Ministry of Rites. The two set out in October, took land, crossed the Liaoxi Corridor, and trekked for more than a month before they arrived in Liaodong. However, they stayed in the Liaohe Defense Station for ten days before finally boarding the sea boat heading to Lushun Port.

The Bohai Sea is calm and has not frozen yet. The white seagulls are hovering above their heads, making sharp screams. The north wind is strong, and the wind is shooting the fast ship south like an arrow.

"Thank you brother, I always feel that General Li seems to be hiding something from us. He first bound us to the Liaohe Defense Center and prevented us from coming, and then took us to Lushun with a sea boat. Isn't this the place in Liaodong we didn't see at all?" Qian Lun stared at the sea with concern and said.

"I feel the same way. In the Liaoxi Corridor, no matter who we ask, we don't know the situation in Liaodong. It's as if Liaodong was sealed by an iron barrel. This is very strange!"

"Could it be..." The two of them looked at each other and said in unison.

The boat was quiet, and the two stood on the bow of the boat in a heavy mood, and no one spoke. They began to realize the difficulties of this trip to Liaodong. Is Li Wei really willing to accept this imperial edict?

At this time, Li Weizheng had been in Lushun Port for a long time, and he realized that he would face the biggest challenge in his life. No matter what he did or did not do in Liaodong, Zhu Yuanzhang would not tolerate him. This was not just because Sun Ji sent a secret report. He saw Zhu Yuanzhang's determination from the rounds of purge cases. Zhu Yuanzhang would not let him survive anyone who could challenge Zhu Ming's world. Lan Yu's independence in Guizhou made his determination stronger. As he guessed at the beginning of the year, if Zhu Yuanzhang really made up his mind to kill him, no matter where he was, no matter how sick he was, he would never spare himself.

And what should he do? Li Weizheng knew that as long as he did not follow the order to return to Beijing, he would be the second Lan Yu. Unless Zhu Yuanzhang changed his mind, he was not unable to do so. The key was to seize the opportunity.

At this time, a cannon sound came from the viewing platform, and then a red smoke rose, which was a signal that a ship entered the port.

"Sir, they are here!" a soldier shouted at the distant sea.

Li Wei was raising Qianli's eyes and looking at the sea. It was originally a small black dot. In Qianli's eyes, the small black dot magnified. He had already seen the two prosecutors on the bow of the ship. "It's finally here!" he said to himself.

The boat rushed over like an arrow and soon landed. Qian Lun and Yang Zhiyi walked ashore one after another. They had all seen Li Weizheng. Seeing him coming to greet him in person, they hurriedly bowed and said, "General Luo Li is a big steward, and the officials cannot afford to take care of him."

Li Weizheng replied with a tribute: "You are the officials who proclaim the emperor, representing the emperor's will. How dare I neglect it?"

Qian Lun saw that Li Wei was wearing an official uniform and followed by a group of officials. He looked solemn, took out a volume of imperial edict from the letter of seal, and raised it in his hand and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor has an order, and the Liaodong General Li Wei is receiving the order!"

Li Weizheng immediately knelt down, and a group of officials behind him also knelt down one after another. Two Qian Lun's entourage immediately set up incense tables and burned incense to prepare. In the curling green smoke, Qian Lun launched an imperial edict and said loudly: "In accordance with the heavens, the emperor's edict said: Li Weizheng, the general of Liaodong, went east to attack Jiuzhou, and wiped out the Japanese pirates, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty were protected from the Japanese pirates. He made contributions to the country. He specially appointed him as the Marquis of Dingliao and rewarded 5,000 taels of silver. Now Guizhou has something to do. When he is employed, I promoted Li Weizheng to the commander-in-chief of Sichuan, General of the Cavalry, General of the Northern Army, and returned to Beijing to report on his duties and serve as a new person. I am honoring this!"

Li Weizheng kowtowed three respectfully and said, "My decree Li Weizheng obeys the order, thank His Majesty the Emperor for his priest's kindness!"

When Qian Lun saw that he had accepted the order, he was overjoyed. The thing they were most worried about did not happen. They were worried that Li Wei would be rebelling in Liaodong, but now it seemed that it was a misunderstanding. He quickly smiled and said, "I wonder when General Li will return to Beijing?"

"Now the road is closed with heavy snow, and many immigrants are trapped in the mountains. I am about to solve this matter and go to Beijing to report on my work."

Qian Lun was stunned. At this time, he was so active. If he couldn't save him in a winter, wouldn't it be next spring? He was very anxious. Just as he was about to say something again, Li Weizheng waved his hand to stop him, "I also know that Guizhou is in urgent need. I know that it is urgent. Please report directly to the emperor. Unless there is something more important than Guizhou Lanyu, I will never delay it."
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