Chapter 286: Red Ginseng Case (III)

After all, she persuaded the emperor to drink the medicine. Queen Ma returned to the medicine room tiredly with an empty bowl. The decoction on the stove still had a warmth. She waved her hand and said to the two eunuchs who decoctioned medicine: "Today the emperor has already drunk the medicine, please collect them all!"

"yes!"

The two eunuchs quickly took away the medicine jar. Queen Ma locked the red ginseng that had been cut into slices into the cabinet, and then left the medicine room. As soon as she left, a gray-clothed eunuch flashed in. He moved extremely quickly and took out a pack of medicine from a drawer and stuffed it into his arms. He also wanted to open the cabinet containing the red ginseng, but the cabinet was locked very tightly. At this time, a voice suddenly came from outside the medicine room. The eunuch was so scared that he crawled into the table.

"Our emperor is suffering from a heart disease. Everyone knows, why don't the Queen know?"

"The Queen should know, but she can't do anything, hey!"

The voice gradually faded away, and the eunuch slowly emerged from the table. He tiptoed out of the door, looked into the corridor, and saw that there was no one on both sides, so he quickly left the room and disappeared at the end of the corridor.

In the afternoon, several eunuchs went out to purchase ingredients as usual. After leaving Xi'an Gate, they went to do their own business after crossing Xuanjin Bridge. A eunuch responsible for purchasing vegetables and fruits got on a carriage. The carriage quickly drove north and almost circled around the city. The carriage arrived at the back house of Xu Shouhui's mansion. The eunuch got off the carriage and saw that there was no one on the left and right, so he quickly walked up the steps and knocked on the door. The door opened a crack. He flashed into the door.

There were several people sitting in Xu Shouhui's secret room at this time, one was Xu Shouhui and the other was Li Jinglong. The third person was not Doctor Jia, but Yao Guangxiao, who had just arrived in the capital. It was of great importance. He personally came to direct the operation. Behind him was Ji Gang, the intelligence leader of the King of Yan in the capital.

"Two sirs, what's the reason for you to look worried?"

Xu Shouhui sighed and took out a newspaper to Yao Guangxiao and said, "Today I bought a copy of "The World", which revealed that the court's military expenditure was too large and he was preparing to cut off the army in Guangdong and Fujian, with a total of 200,000 people, and ordered them to return to the land. However, these soldiers were the troops recruited just now. Before they started training, they were cut off by Li Weizheng in the name of the court. This person is not vague in military power at all!"

Li Jinglong next to him also said angrily: "This is a traitor. On the one hand, he wins over the court officials and discusses everything in the Political Affairs Hall. He seems to be not interested in power, but in fact he holds the military power firmly in his hands. When the time is right, this person will usurp the country of Ming and the country."

Yao Guangxiao was very interested in this newspaper. He took the newspaper and asked in surprise: "Do you dare to publish such confidential news?"

"What's the matter that I dare not publish? Then Li Weizheng set the rule of 'not being guilty for words'. Except for not being allowed to humiliate the emperor, everything else can be reported and commented at will. However, military and national affairs will not be released by the government. For example, if this news of disarmament is published today, the Ministry of War will definitely issue a statement to deny the matter tomorrow, so the news in the newspaper is credible, but it cannot be fully trusted."

Yao Guangxiao frowned. Wouldn't the world be in chaos when people made remarks without restraint? He flipped through the newspapers again, and suddenly, he found that a list of the property of the new Yangzhou prefect Lu Hongjian was published in a corner: his hometown, Shanyang County, has an ancestral home, covering an area of ​​three acres and 60 acres of land, 160 taels of silver in the family, 14 stones of grain, 14 pieces of jewelry from his wife, and 7 pieces of gold and silver... Even the father and brother of his wife and concubines listed one by one, and there was also his guarantee letter below. If he had to take office, he would pay ten times the property for his family.

Yao Guangxiao couldn't help but be stunned, "What are you doing?"

Xu Shouhui smiled helplessly and said, "This is his anti-corruption method. He said that Taizu's murder is too cruel and undesirable, but letting the people supervise officials is a good idea. So, he asked all officials to publish their property in the newspaper and let the people all over the world supervise. My property was also announced. Jing Long did not have an official position, so he did not need to publish it. Although I hate this person to the core, I have to admit that his move is indeed cruel. It is published once a year. If you want to hide it, you can't hide it. The eyes of those bad people are poisonous!"

"What about him? Did he announce it too?" Yao Guangxiao asked.

"Military advisor, he also announced it." Ji Gang, who was behind him, said: "I have seen it, it was in the Kyoto Daily ten days ago. It was very detailed. I have preserved it. I will take it back and I will show it to the military advisor."

Yao Guangxiao had never heard of this anti-corruption method. After a long time, he sighed and said, "It seems that His Highness of the King of Yan is right. You can't delay it anymore. If you drag it on, the Ming Dynasty will really change."

At this time, a report from a close friend came from outside the door, "Master, Wang Minglu is here."

Xu Shouhui was excited and hurriedly said to Yao Guangxiao: "Master, Wang Minglu probably brought the prescription."

"Come in and invite Mr. Wuyou together."

After a moment, the eunuch was taken into the room and Doctor Jia was also invited. The eunuch named Wang Minglu was a small leader in the palace and was responsible for the procurement of ingredients. Ji Gang pulled him to the king of Yan. He didn't know Yao Guangxiao. Just as Ji Gang was about to introduce him, Yao Guangxiao wined him over, meaning that he would not reveal his identity. Ji Gang woke up and said nothing more.

Wang Minglu contacted Xu Shouhui. He took out a pack of crushed medicine from his arms and placed it on the table and said, "The prescription is locked, I can't get it, but this is the medicine the emperor wants to drink every day, I got one."

Doctor Jia next to him smiled and said, "It's enough to have these medicines. Within half a day, I can re-model that red ginseng so that His Highness Yan can get what he wants."

At this time, Yao Guangxiao suddenly asked, "Did he start taking medicine without red ginseng as a medicine guide?"

Seeing Yao Guangxiao sitting in the first place, Wang Minglu didn't dare to underestimate him, and quickly replied: "The Empress has already obtained one this morning. My subordinates saw the Empress cut it into many slices, lock it in a jade box, and she kept the key by herself."

Things were unexpected. Yao Guangxiao walked a few steps in the room with his hands behind his back. He asked Doctor Jia again: "Sir, check this prescription, if a piece of red ginseng is enough."

"Master, wait." Doctor Jia opened the medicine bag, carefully identified it for a moment, and then smiled: "Don't talk about one, I'm afraid three are not enough. Two red ginseng can only be enough for five or six days at most."

"That's good." Yao Guangxiao said to Wang Minglu again: "You will come out tomorrow and buy this red ginseng in Yansi Pharmacy. Do you understand?"

"I understand! Then I will say goodbye first."

Yao Guangxiao smiled at Xu Shouhui and said, "Mr. Xu, Eunuch Wang has made great contributions this time, you can reward him with a thousand taels of silver."

"Thank you sir! Thank you sir!"

Wang Minglu went with Xu Shouhui thankfully. Yao Guangxiao waited for him to leave. Then he snorted coldly and said to Ji Gang: "This person must kill him in time, and there is also the shopkeeper of Yansi Pharmacy. He will be transferred to him later and cannot be left in the capital."

"Subsidiary obeys the order!"

A quarter of an hour later, Wang Minglu came out of Xu Shouhui's mansion with a heavy package. He was overjoyed. At this moment, he had 200 taels of gold in his hand. As well as his savings, it was enough for him to retire in the second half of his life. After he decided to do this, he begged the Empress to let him go home, buy land and house, and spend the rest of his life comfortably...

Of course, Wang Minglu would not return to the palace with so much gold. He wanted to find a silver shop to store it. The silver shop was also a new thing that only emerged in the past two years. In the past, in the past, the people of the world were strictly prohibited from using silver. People were trading with piles of waste paper banknotes, but in fact, they had already used silver. The underground silver shop was born. After Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, he allowed the world to use silver, and the silver shop came to the forefront...

It is not yet the stage of issuing bank notes, mainly using copper coins to exchange gold and silver, or deposit gold and silver. Wang Minglu excitedly came to the largest Baoyuan Silver House in the capital, but he didn't know that there was a person behind him all the time.

He came to the counter to store the gold, got a deposit ticket, and made a code statement. In fact, this deposit ticket is the prototype of the banknote. This deposit ticket can be exchanged for cash silver in Baoyuan Silver House in Beijing, Wuchang Prefecture, Chengdu Prefecture and Liaodong.

After saving the gold, Wang Minglu was about to return to the palace. He was about to leave, suddenly, someone patted him heavily on his shoulder. Wang Minglu was shocked and turned around and saw that there were two burly men, one left and one right, blocking his way.

"What are you going to do?"

A big man shook his lips and said, "Sir, we are the guards of Baoyuan Yinzhuang. News came out of it just now that you have a problem with your gold. Please follow us in and check the quality."

"Have you checked it all on the counter just now?" Wang Minglu said angrily: "I just said there is a problem now. How do I know if you have replaced it?"

"We are just doing things on orders. If you have any problems, you can tell us the shopkeeper."

The two big men were half persuading and half a fight, almost dragging him into the inner room of the silver shop. As soon as they entered the room, Wang Minglu's face changed drastically. He saw more than 20 big men standing in the room, each of them fierce. A young man sat on the Grand Master's chair in the middle. When he saw Wang Minglu come in, he smiled faintly and said, "Eunuch Wang, do you know that these two hundred taels of gold are actually your life-buying money."

In the past few days, Li Wei has been busy with the officials' announcement of property. This is something he has been preparing for for a long time. He was originally going to do it first in Liaodong, but the situation changed drastically. Before he could implement it in Liaodong, he went to Beijing to control the government affairs.

Li Weizheng knew that it was feasible to implement the disclosure of officials' property in the early Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang laid a good foundation. Zhu Yuanzhang promoted integrity with a cruel means, and even embezzled a pair of socks would be beheaded. It was precisely because of his cruel administration that officials in the early Ming Dynasty were unprecedentedly honest, so it was very easy to implement and there was almost no resistance.

But Li Weizheng also knew very well that after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, darkness and corruption in the officialdom had become a normal state. This did not mean that Zhu Yuanzhang's laws were abolished and not abolished, but just became a piece of empty text. He knew that the main dynasties in history, such as the Han, Tang, Song and Ming Dynasty, were full of vitality at the beginning, and the economy and society had great development. However, in the middle of the period, they gradually became corrupt and finally perished, just like life, old age, sickness and death, as if a law that could not be escaped.

But Li Weizheng knew that this was not the case. There were many honest governments in later generations. The key here was the system. Of course, this system did not refer to the simplest of the openness of property, but rather the issue of rule of man and rule of law.

In fact, there were pioneers more than a thousand years ago. Qin ruled the world with the legalists, but died in the second lifetime. The reason was that the law was not as good as the doctor. Therefore, the system that Li Weizheng promoted was a law doctor, even himself, a new system that took the Tang system as the bone, the Song system as the flesh and blood, and the legal system as the soul.

This is not a simple thing. It takes decades to gradually establish and improve it, laying a solid foundation for a constitutional monarchy in the early Ming Dynasty. At this time, the Renaissance began to emerge in Europe, with great tides flowing, and the tide of capitalism began to hit the long shore of the Mediterranean.

And the Ming Dynasty, under his rule, also started in the East.

At this time, the report outside the door interrupted Li Weizheng's contemplation.
Chapter completed!