Chapter 99 Jumping into the Sea
Forbidden City, the West Garden is worth a hut.
This is an inconspicuous small house, especially in the Forbidden City with many temples, but it was once the place where the imperial court was prominent. During the reign of Emperor Jiajing, the tutelage became the place where the cabinet ministers were on duty because of refining alchemy in the West Garden, but no one has used it now.
Since Emperor Jiajing passed away, Emperor Longqing went to court again, and cabinet members returned to Wenyuan Pavilion to do business.
But today, Shilu welcomed two old acquaintances.
Gao Gong wiped the dust from the desk and shook his head and sighed: "It's only been a few years since the internal officials have been hastily cleaned up. He doesn't care about the dust on the desk. The eunuch is a smart person and knows that there is no need here."
Another person in the Lu Lu was much more elegant than Gao Gong. This time, Zhang Juzheng, assisted Zhang Juzheng, nodded and sighed: "The Lu Lu was small, and four or five people seemed crowded. They were not ventilated from east to west and were sunny all day long, but the cabinet ministers did not feel sad at that time."
"Why aren't it sad?" Gao Gong turned his head in surprise and said, "Did Taiyue forget that Gao came back from the evening and was on duty for the Lu Dianmao?"
Zhang Juzheng chuckled and said, "Brother Suqing moved his family to Xi'an Gate because he was afraid of sunlight. He was busy with romance."
"It wasn't that time when I came out of the day and returned home in the evening, so how could I see now?"
Gao Xinzheng is old and has a son and is proud of his youth.
If Chen Mu was here, he would probably stare. It turned out that when Gao Gong was a cabinet minister, he not only skipped work, but also skipped work to have children. In order to skip work, he moved his family outside Xihua Gate!
I am afraid that compared with Mr. Gao, General Chen is extremely serious.
"What's wrong with the old master taking his servant to visit the house today?"
After talking and laughing, Zhang Juzheng felt a little relaxed in the atmosphere, so he asked Gao Gong. In fact, he knew what was going on in his heart, and he could guess it even if he guessed it.
Sure enough, when talking about the serious matter, Gao Gong immediately looked solemn and said to Zhang Juzheng: "Which is still in the middle of the house and is already unemployed, why should Mr. Xu come out to serve as the chief of the Wushan Mountain? Does he understand military affairs? It's just a constraint on Mr. Chen!"
Zhang Ju sighed and suddenly smiled, "The martial arts lecture hall must have a mountain chief. Master Xu is worth a lot of weight and it is impossible to enter the cabinet again. Why should Master Gaoge be afraid of him?"
"I'm afraid of him wherever I'm afraid of him!"
"I'll ask you Xu Jie's son, where is Xu Fan now? Did you let him go? He was a fish and the people harmed the people." Gao Xinzheng was anxious as soon as he said that, and his palm slapped the table and stirred up dust. He was very loud and said, "Some people say that Zhang Juzheng collected 30,000 taels of gold!"
"You said you want to join forces with me to enrich the country and strengthen the army. Now your second-level cabinet is gold. Do you help him do things? The late emperor asked me to take care of my life, and you and Xu Jie tamper with the will; I sentence Xu Fan to be assigned to be appointed as the army, and you change him to be appointed as the garrison in his original place; I asked Chen Mujian to build a martial arts lecture hall, and you send a message to ask him to give way to Xu Jie to come out!"
"Your Majesty's dragon body is getting worse and worse, and the cabinet's government orders are not unified. If one day Taishan falls, how can the ten-year-old prince govern the world? You and I want to assist the prince in adulthood, but how can you let me join forces with you to govern the country!"
Gao Gong pointed at Zhang Juzheng quickly, and he was extremely rude. He shouted loudly. Zhang Juzheng kept looking at him until he said 'Taishan Qing', and then he quickly stopped him: "Brother Suqing, be careful, you have the important task of governing the country, why bother so impatient!"
Gao Gong's anger was like a heavy punch hitting cotton, making him angry, and Zhang Juzheng's face was still dull.
"Old Xu Ge is my teacher. One day, if Gao Ge did something wrong, Governor Wu can kill you? In today's Zhengde, the internal and external difficulties left by the Jiajing dynasty need to be eliminated. The teacher has more conservativeness and inadequate reform. It was the servant's activity to drive him out of the cabinet. His nephew had to do something wrong, so he asked Hai Rui to go to Songjiang. But how many people did the teacher offend him during his reign? The elder asked Xu Fan to be sent to the frontier to use a knife to kill people and kill the grass."
"Chen Shuai's elbow is so wide that Xu Ge Lao can't control his elbow. He is too young. You and I can suppress more than a dozen memorials from impeachment in the cabinet in January, and then make him the mountain chief. Wouldn't he use him as a target and let someone beat him? The master of the cabinet is good at using it. Do you have to watch the fire pit and let him jump in..."
"He's just a fuck!"
When Zhang Juzheng talked about Xu Jie's family affairs, Gao Gong blushed and didn't say anything, and he couldn't say anything, because he really wanted to eradicate the root cause, but when Zhang Juzheng talked about Chen Mu, Gao Xinzheng could finally speak!
"The censors in the court are all blind. Why do you say that Chen Zhenshuo fights to win people's hearts and sets up other martial arts and plans to make bad things? They know nothing! That's a passerby in the northern border. Xiao Zhenshuo always thinks about filling the holes in the northern border and jumping into the sea. Will he jump into the fire pit?"
"Jump...jump the sea?"
Even though Zhang Juzheng was extremely smart, he was stunned when he heard this. He said, why is Gao Gong not normal today?
"Brother Suqing, Chen Zhenshuo, what have you done?"
Gao Gong was not very jealous, and could not be called a broad-minded person. He didn't have big eyes. There were not many people who could be seen by him. However, he undoubtedly said to Zhang Juzheng, who was broad-minded and could look up high. He shouted and felt relieved, and waved his hand and said, "What else can you do? Do you know that Chen Zhenshuo has saved hundreds of thousands of taels of gold and silver?"
Zhang Juzheng nodded. This is not new news. Chen Mu has money and is recognized by the cabinet. On this point, Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong agreed that it is not a problem for those who can do things to be greedy for some money, let alone Chen Mu just tried to find a way to win the money for the court while not forgetting himself.
This is harmless.
"Then you know, why is he saving money and not buying land?"
Gao Gong sneered, took out the letter from his sleeve and handed it to Zhang Juzheng, and closed his sleeves and said angrily: "He is going to the sea to open up territory for the Ming Dynasty. This is a person like you!"
What else can be found in the letter? It is a letter sent by Wu Dui, which is deafening when reading it.
All the world is the king's land, even through the sea, it is the king's land.
What a stubborn silly child?
But soon, Zhang Juzheng suddenly looked up and looked at Gao Gong with a letter in disbelief. Gao Gong knew what was surprised, smiled bitterly, nodded, raised his index finger and shook his body, and said, "He said he would save one million taels of silver for the court. The southern expedition would not cost the court one tael of silver. He also said that he would send Yu Dayou and Tang Kekuan to sea, and he could transport 500,000 taels a year and make a return of money in two years."
Being naive!
Zhang Juzheng shook his head and turned to look at the dazzling sunlight outside the house at the end of summer. It was only 500,000 taels, hoping to impress the court's southern expedition. What should he say about Chen Zhenshuo?
Chen Mu made money well, but he never thought that something deeper was that the Southern Expedition mobilized at least 50,000 troops to collect supplies and transport capacity for them, and the shocks of the people brought by opening the sea, a series of deductions and the risks needed to be taken.
Can it be made up for millions of taels of useless silver?
Gao Gong said: "He is right, the court needs this money."
Zhang Juzheng refused to comment and said, "Is it good to say that the king's land in the world? He can jump into the sea, but he can't jump together with the Ming Dynasty."
"Just to my wish."
Gao Gong smiled. This time, he and Zhang Juzheng reached an agreement.
Chapter completed!