Chapter 86 The Way to Make Money

The Chunfang lecturer Huang Zicheng's mansion.

There are four ministers in the court gathered today, all of whom are close friends with Huang Zicheng. They are all wearing regular clothes, sitting in the inner hall with a calm expression, drinking tea and chatting slowly.

If anyone familiar sees them, he will definitely be surprised, because among these four ministers, there are the Minister of Personnel Zhang Jue, the Minister of Revenue Yu Xin, the Right Censor Yan Zhen, and Huang Guan, who was demoted to the Censor...

This can be called a small court meeting.

Today's gathering was nominally a practice of the twentieth ritual for Huang Zicheng's son Huang Yan. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang hated his ministers' private gangs and formations, not to mention the gathering of ministers of such a ministerial level, so he had to find a name that was reasonable in the scene.

And everyone knew very well that such gatherings would definitely not be available in the future. The ministers had no privacy from then on the restoration of the Jinyiwei. At that time, the Jinyi secret spies were all over the homes of every minister. Zhu Yuanzhang could even know which minister had eaten a few bowls of rice on one day. Such a minister's actions in private communication would definitely be a serious crime of beheading.

The atmosphere in the inner hall was quite sad.

Huang Zicheng stood weakly facing the door of the inner hall. Yesterday's ten court sticks made him feel extremely painful, but he still straightened his back unyieldingly, like a straight javelin, and like a fighting fighter, emitting a stubborn and persistent atmosphere.

He slowly stroked his beard, and his turbid eyes slowly swept across his silent colleagues in the court. After a long time, he said hoarsely: "You guys, the saint's will has been decided. As a minister, we are powerless to turn things around. It's a pity, it's a pity!"

Huang Zicheng's expression became much more depressed, and then his face became tranquil, and he showed a strong fighting spirit: "I said yesterday that the restoration of the Embroidered Uniform Guard was a tyranny. Today, in front of all colleagues, I dare to say this. If the Embroidered Uniform Guard is reopened, the Ming Dynasty will never have peace! Your Majesty's move will make the hearts of the people of the world!"

"I am worthy of the heavens and do not be ashamed of the earth. No matter who faces anyone, I can say with integrity that I am a loyal subject to Your Majesty! What I said to you today is a taboo, but as a minister, I must say what I should say, even if I sacrifice my life, I will do whatever I want!"

At this time, Huang Guan stood up, laughed aloud, and said, "Huang Hanlin is willing to sacrifice his life, why not add another official? You, Huang Hanlin, are a loyal minister who is not afraid of the power of heaven, how can you make you beautiful in front of you?"

Huang Zicheng's expression suddenly became relieved and he smiled and said, "Shang Bin knows me, but I am not alone."

Then Huang Zicheng looked solemn and said in a deep voice: "All the kings, we are all loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor has made mistakes. As a minister, we must point it out, otherwise we will be ashamed of the official and salary, and the teachings of the saints. Now your Majesty does not accept our advice and insists on reinstating the Jinyiwei. The Ming Dynasty has been established for thirty years. The disaster of Jinyiwei will be a disaster for the world. Its infamous prosperity can shock ghosts and gods, and it can also make children stop crying. How can such a strategy to harm the country and the people be restored?"

"Donalds, why did the Jinyiwei make the world look disgusted? Because the Jinyiwei's severe punishment is too strong, the cruel laws are cruel, and the evil deeds of frame-up and forced confessions, many innocent ministers and people have lost their hands. If the Jinyiwei is restored, even if our ministers are innocent, they can still create our crimes. At that time, all the clans will be punished, and after death, they will bear the bad reputation of a rebel minister. How can we bear the love? Everyone, how can we bear the love!"

When Huang Zicheng said this, he was crying and crying, and the ministers present also looked sad.

They knew the most about how cruel the Jinyiwei's methods were. What Huang Zicheng said was very likely to happen. Since the power of Jinyiwei changed and he began to take charge of arrests, the day when the power of the Jinyiwei began to be in charge of the power of the criminal prison, their positions with the court officials became hostile. Under the intentional or unintentional indulgence of the emperor, the battle between Jinyiwei and the court officials became a battle of great power disparity. In this battle, more than 40,000 people in the Hu Lan Prison case were lost to the hands of Jinyiwei, most of which were officials and their families in the court, and they were killed all their families at every turn. The officials lived a nervous life, but Zhu Yuanzhang was red in his eyes. It was not until he thought that all the heroes and generals who should be killed in the world were almost the same, that he put down his butcher knife and abolished Jinyiwei.

Now that the Jinyiwei is about to recover, who will become the first group of unlucky people to sacrifice their swords?

Then do you need to ask? Of course, it was the assassination of the imperial grandson as a fuse that made Zhu Yuanzhang murderous intent on the court officials. He believed that the person who should be killed had not been killed yet, so the Jinyiwei recovered. In the days to come, it will become a sharp steel knife in the hands of the emperor. It will mercilessly eliminate all those who dare to shake and subvert Zhu Ming's country - those who are suspected are also included.

The words were already so clear, and the ministers certainly understood that the truth about the loss of lips and teeth was cold. Now it was time to hold everyone in a group.

The ministers exchanged glances with each other until they showed a look of enlightenment in each other's eyes.

The inner hall was quiet again.

After a long time, Huang Zicheng said lightly: "Shangshu Yu, the emperor wants to restore the Jinyiwei, but he doesn't know how much money he has allocated?"

Yu Xin, Minister of Revenue, said: "Last year, the tuition was exhausted, the national treasury was not much left, and the spring tax was not collected, so the emperor temporarily allocated only 80,000 taels of silver to rebuild the Jinyiwei's expenses..."

The Minister of Personnel Zhang Ju looked at the ground with his eyelids drooping, his head hanging down seemed to be careless and said: "Eighty thousand taels... Haha, you can do a lot of things."

Everyone immediately turned their eyes to Yu Xin, and the meaning in the eyes was very complicated and difficult to distinguish.

Yu Xin trembled all over, his face suddenly turned pale, and his hands and feet trembled unconsciously. How could he not understand the meaning of these adults' eyes?

But... deceiving the king is a serious crime to kill the nine clans!

After hesitating for a while, Yu Xin sighed in his heart. If the Jinyiwei recovers successfully, how many days can he live? The emperor clearly felt worried about the court officials and wanted to use the Jinyiwei's hand to replace the ministers! Can the replacement of the people will survive? The Hu Lan case implicated more than 40,000 people and killed the court almost empty. It was a bloody fact. How could there be a complete egg when the nest was destroyed?

After gritting his teeth, Yu Xin said tremblingly: "Last year, the Ministry of Revenue spent a lot of money, including military affairs, river workers, agriculture and sericulture, disaster relief, etc., and consumed countless silver and grain. Now the national treasury is empty. I am afraid that the money paid to the Jinyiwei will be... I am afraid it will take some time."

This sentence is half the truth and half the lies. It depends on how to understand it.

The treasury was indeed empty, but Yu Xin was the chief steward of the Ming Dynasty. How could it be impossible to relocate the 80,000 taels? But... If the chief steward is unwilling to relocate, then even if the treasury is full, he still has a way to make every money go, and every place is urgent and urgent, and it is necessary to spend it, but it is not as much as the Jinyiwei. Even if the emperor asks the blame, he can be justified, because the treasury is tight and the country needs too many places to use money.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this.

Zhang Yu's expression remained unchanged, and he sighed as regretful: "It's such a coincidence."

Several ministers nodded and sighed, but their eyes clearly flashed with a little smile.

Huang Zicheng also nodded lightly. It depends on the intention of the deceiving the king. He insisted that he was a loyal and upright minister and had no different intentions towards Your Majesty. Even if the loyal minister committed the crime of deceiving the king, he would have no guilt. - Loyal ministers are always just, and deceiving the king is also loyal to the king.

If the rebuilding of the Jinyiwei is not smooth, and these ministers will cause some trouble in the middle, Your Majesty will definitely blame the new Jinyiwei officials for their ineffective work. At that time, these loyal ministers can give advice again and ask Your Majesty to take back the fate of restoring the Jinyiwei.

What they have to do now is to strangle the Jinyiwei in the cradle and make the country of Ming Dynasty, and will have no complaints even if they die.

Jinyiwei Town Fushiyamen.

Two days after the imperial edict of the Jinyiwei was issued, the yamen was already popular.

Everyone coming and going were wearing brand new flying fish suits, with golden phoenix belts with whiskers at both ends of the waist, and embroidered spring swords covered with shark skin sheaths hung beside them, with majestic and murderous aura.

The selection of personnel of the Jinyiwei is very strict. Generally, Kong Wu is selected from the people with strong strength, and good people who have no bad records are included. Official schools are selected from military households. Their personal background and political components are very innocent to ensure their loyalty to the emperor.

Within two days, the prototype of the Jinyiwei was established. Zhu Yuanzhang appointed Li Jinglong as the commander-in-chief and Xiao Fan as the commander-in-chief. He also selected two assistant ranks and two politicians from the former army governor's office and the Central Army governor's office. The power structure of the senior executives of the Jinyiwei has been established. The remaining meticulous work, such as laying branches across the country, recruiting military households to recharge, establishing fourteen Jinyiwei Thousand Households, and appointing thousands of households of each thousand household, etc., these very tedious things take time to do slowly.

Li Jinglong sat in the Fushi Office, with a sad face and sighing.

After handing over the post of the Zuojun Governor's Office, his workplace was set here.

He has been very annoyed lately.

The playboy also has to go to work. It is impossible for him to carry a bird cage and thugs all over the streets to bully men and women. His uncle Zhu Yuanzhang sent him a seemingly glorious servant to be the leader of the Jinyiwei.

When he was appointed, Li Jinglong was ecstatic. What is the Jinyiwei? Those were a group of tigers that were rampant and unscrupulous! As the leader of these tigers, their glory was not comparable to that of a small Left Army governor before? In the future, all civil and military officials in the court were not allowed to nod and bow when they saw him. He would arrest anyone he wanted to arrest. He would be charged with any crime. It would be a crime to be awe-inspiring to the extent that everyone in the court was awe-inspiring ministers. It was really the highest level of a playboy's life...

Before he could come back to his senses, Li Jinglong was hit by the ruthless and cruel blow of reality.

Zhu Yuanzhang temporarily allocated 80,000 taels of silver to reopen the Jinyiwei. He went to the Ministry of Revenue several times, but he couldn't get it any longer. Shangshu Yu of the Ministry of Revenue told him in a dilemma that the decision to reopen the Jinyiwei was too sudden and the Ministry of Revenue had no time to prepare. Qiusui's taxes were put into the national treasury, and every penny and every grain of rice was arranged in advance. Moreover, these arrangements were urgent and could not be delayed for a moment.

For example, if the emperor wants to build the Huagai Palace, do you dare to stop it? The earthquake in Shu was in the middle of the earthquake, and 100,000 victims were hungry. If you don’t quickly allocate food and grass, the victims might become chaotic people. Do you dare to stop it? There are also military pay from thousands of households in various places that have been delayed for a winter. If you don’t send it over quickly, there might be mutiny in various places. Do you dare to stop it?

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There are many reasons. In short, Shangshu Yu made it very clear that they naturally dared not to obey the emperor's will, but they could not take out the money allocated to the Jinyiwei for the time being. You have to give the Ministry of Revenue some time, and at least you have to wait for the spring tax this year to enter the national treasury.

Li Jinglong ran into the Ministry of Revenue and was furious, but he was unable to get angry. The other party was full of laughter and amiable attitude. He was full of bitterness when talking about difficulties. He was reasonable and lawful, and could not find any mistakes. Li Jinglong was hit by a soft nail every time and returned in disappointment.

The reality is cruel, there is no money, and you can build a nonsense Jinyiwei!

This matter cannot be told to the emperor that the Ministry of Revenue has a lot of legitimate reasons to wait for him. Even if it comes to Zhu Yuanzhang, it will probably be fruitless, and it may make Zhu Yuanzhang feel badly that he is incompetent in doing things. It is true that Li Jinglong is a playboy, but he is not a fool. He is not stupid enough to run to Zhu Yuanzhang to make himself uncomfortable.

The work of rebuilding the Jinyiwei was frozen because of the lack of silver.

"Oh--" Li Jinglong sighed again.

The first romantic young man in this dynasty is now so worried that he is like an old man, and his sighs are so heartbroken that he sighs with all his heart and sadness.

"Why did the commander sigh?" Xiao Fan was wearing a crimson fifth-rank official robe and smiled kindly.

In recent days, Li Jinglong has been coming and going in a hurry. He was originally entangled in asking him to teach kung fu, but he never mentioned it. Xiao Fan thought about it and felt that he could not make the relationship with his superiors too stiff. That kung fu was not a peerless magical skill. Since Li Jinglong wanted to learn, he would just teach him. It was also a very awesome to accept a commander of the Jinyiwei as his apprentice.

Li Jinglong looked up and said listlessly: "It turned out to be Gao Tongzhi..."

"...Xiao Tongzhi!" Xiao Fan gritted his teeth.

"Xiao Tongzhi, our Jinyiwei is not as glorious as outsiders. I have fallen into the fire pit..." Li Jinglong was deeply sad and resentful.

"What does this mean by sir?"

Li Jinglong sighed and told him about his unfair experiences over the past few days. In the end, Li Jinglong's eyes were red and his voice was choked. Poor child, he had never encountered such annoying and helpless thing since the day he inherited the title of Duke Cao, and this time he was helpless.

Xiao Fan heard the general meaning from his remarks and said, "The lord's meaning is just two words: Is there no money? Isn't it wrong?"

Li Jinglong nodded and sighed: "That's right, it's just that I don't have money."

Xiao Fan smiled relaxedly and said, "Why did I think it's just money? It's too simple..."

When Li Jinglong was so excited that he stood up suddenly, grabbed Xiao Fan's neck and shouted: "Gao Tongzhi, do you have a way? Do you have a way? Tell me quickly, tell me quickly!"

Xiao Fan's face was purplish and his hands were struggling, and he said with difficulty: "Save it! Let it go! If you pinch it again... not only do you have no money, but you also have to pay me the coffin money!"

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After calming down, Li Jinglong still grabbed Xiao Fan's arm anxiously and asked, "Brother Xiao, brother, can you solve the problem of money?"

Xiao Fan tidied up his clothes and smiled indifferently, "Have you ever heard a saying that it is better to begging for others than to ask for others?"

"Please beg yourself?" Li Jinglong looked confused and murmured for a while. Suddenly his eyes lit up and he said happily: "I understand!"

Xiao Fan said with relief: "It seems that the adults have figured it out and their understanding is not ordinary..."

Li Jinglong said enthusiastically: "If the Ministry of Revenue does not give money, I won't give it to him. I won't pee his pot! Who are we? The Jinyiwei! We will go to the capital to slaughter the ministers' homes, and we don't believe that we can't kill a few fat sheep!"

Xiao Fan's face changed suddenly, and with the understanding of this commander, the commander, was to rob the houses all over the streets...

"My lord must not! The Jinyiwei was first established, so it is not advisable to have a feud with all the civil and military officials of the court at this time, otherwise we will inevitably have difficulty in the future, and it is not easy for His Majesty to explain, so the emperor may be punished."

"What should I do? Without money, the Jinyiwei cannot be built, and Your Majesty will also blame me. I cannot be left or left, and I cannot be advanced or retreat. This bullshit command made me too frustrated!" Li Jinglong said with a crying voice.

"Sir, the official has a way to make money, and it makes money reasonably and legally..."

"What method?"

Xiao Fan looked up at the sky, his expression became solemn and solemn. He met Li Jinglong's anticipated gaze. After a long time, Xiao Fan said firmly and powerfully: "...I borrow three hundred urban management and I am willing to wipe out the capital for you!"

"ah?"

Hundreds of Jinyiwei Captains, led by their respective households, took to the streets in a fierce manner.
To be continued...