Wanli Xinming

Chapter 95
The two queen mothers finished playing mahjong, and after lunch, they enjoyed singing and dancing for a while. The Double Ninth Festival was over, and Zhu Yijun served the queen mothers and returned to the inner palace.

The courtiers sent the emperor, and in twos and threes went down the mountain and left the palace.The enthusiasm of the two new counts has not dissipated, and there is still a circle of people around them, all kinds of appointments and relationships.

Zhang Juzheng walked to the group of people surrounding Li Chengliang and said loudly, "Ning Yuanbo is here with this old man."

Although the earl is already super-quality, but Zhang Juzheng calls out, and the people around him are not different.Li Chengliang listened, quickly agreed with a smile on his face, and followed Zhang Juzheng down the mountain.

Zhang Juzheng led him into Wenyuan Pavilion and asked him to sit in the reception room and wait for him for a while.

Li Chengliang was admiring the calligraphy on the wall in the reception room when a book from the cabinet came in, made tea for him, and put a newspaper on the side of the teacup.He secretly said in his heart, "You will slowly understand this learning time."

Li Chengliang waited left and right, circling the room.The newspapers were all torn, and Zhang Juzheng did not appear.Seeing that it was dusk, he walked to the door and looked around, and saw that Yuan Fu's signing room was still full of people coming and going, all of whom came to deliver documents or make errands, but Zhang Juzheng never meant to show up.

Li Chengliang went to Beijing before, and he often went to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household to fight money and grain lawsuits. He had encountered all kinds of civil officials.But because of his broad hands and familiar face, he had never sat on a cold bench for such a long time, and he did not expect to be left here by Zhang Juzheng today.

He was a little annoyed at first, thinking that when I went to your house to give gifts, you Zhang Jiangling didn't act like that.Now that I'm an earl, are you going to embarrass me?
In the midst of the slander, the nerves that had been disturbed by the knighthood for a few days suddenly came together.Li Chengliang took a deep breath and completely calmed down from the state of excitement he had been in.When I recalled how flamboyant I had been these days, beads of sweat broke out from my forehead.

He calmed down, walked back to the chair and sat down, drinking the cold tea as well.With his hands on his knees, he sat upright like a student, his eyes were slightly closed, and he was quiet and restful.

After waiting for less than a stick of incense, Zhongshu came in and changed him a cup of tea.Li Chengliang thanked him, and when he was about to drink it, there was a hearty laugh at the door. Zhang Juzheng came in and said, "I made Bo Ning Yuan wait for a long time. It's not a sin, please forgive me!"

Li Chengliang already knew the severity at this time, so he hurriedly straightened the earl's pheasant-tail beam crown, lifted the front of the unicorn patchwork uniform, and threw a plop on the ground: "Liaodong Chief Soldier, Li Chengliang pays homage to the Prime Minister!" He bent down and was about to kowtow.

Zhang Juzheng took a step forward and stopped him and said, "Ning Yuanbo is not good enough, please get up, you can't mess with the national etiquette." Although his arms were hard, Li Chengliang's head was still firmly on the ground.

Zhang Juzheng tugged again, and Li Chengliang took advantage of his strength to get up.Zhang Juzheng asked him to sit in the first place, but Li Chengliang didn't dare, and finally Zhang Juzheng suggested that things should be seated in Zhao Mu.Li Chengliang didn't even dare to sit on the east side, so he let Zhang Juzheng sit on the east side.

Seeing that he finally knew what to do, Zhang Juzheng said in his heart that it was worth my hand to pull you, otherwise who would care about your life and death.

After a few polite words, Zhang Juzheng asked, "Why didn't Ning Yuanbo say what happened to Hezhe's Jurchen in the morning?"

Li Chengliang listened and pleaded guilty: "This is the fault of Liang's negligence. Because Hezhe's division is far away from Liaodong, and there are Jurchen divisions such as Haixi in the middle, Chengliang did not pay attention to it before, and did not report it to the court, please forgive Yuan Fu. crime."

Zhang Juzheng listened, and said coldly: "However, you played back to the emperor, saying 'the emperor's words pointed directly to the core of Liao's affairs', can this be explained by a 'negligence'? Then you deceived the emperor with big words, your thoughts Can I ask now?"

Li Chengliang talked to Zhang Juzheng before, and Zhang Juzheng encouraged him a lot.When he received his New Year's gift, he was even more gentle and approachable.

Li Chengliang never expected that Zhang Juzheng used a few words today to reveal his hidden thoughts to the outside world, and it was only at this time that he learned his words.

Hearing Zhang Juzheng's stern question, sweat dripped down his face.He stammered: "Xiang Ye sees it. Cheng Liang does have some selfishness, or he prides himself on his own affairs in Tongliao, and his selfishness is just to protect his family. But he has no second thoughts about the court! No second thoughts!"

Zhang Juzheng let out a laugh and said, "If you have the heart of being disobedient, or even do something to support pirates, your whole family has already met in the underworld at this time. You haven't seen the leaders of Li Huan, Yang Bing and others. Are they high? They are all the Marquis and Earls who are living with the country, how is Ning Yuan compared to them?"

When Li Chengliang heard it, how could he still sit still, seeing no one in the house, he knelt down and said, "Chengliang regrets so much! I just don't know how the Sacred Heart is now? If the emperor is annoyed, please ask Xiangye to save Chengliang. A life! You will be rewarded with a ring of grass!"

Although Zhang Juzheng reprimanded Li Chengliang, he would never let him kneel and tell others the truth.Seeing that he was so frightened, he still asked him to get up and sit on the original chair.

Li Chengliang really regretted at this time.He was floating in the clouds these days, always feeling that he was an indispensable pillar of the imperial court in Liaodong.The matter of the Hezhe Department was not as serious as he said, but in order to consolidate the Li family's position in Liaodong, his words were really exaggerated.

Now that Zhang Juzheng has pointed it out, Li Chengliang knows his little abacus, and the superiors are like watching the fire.Rather than annoy Liu Yingjie, Zhang Juzheng and others, what he was more afraid of at this moment was that the emperor had an opinion on him.

He heard the emperor say "Liaodong has been in business for many years" today, but it didn't sound like a compliment to military generals and honorable officials.

Now, compared with Zhang Juzheng's words, is it possible for him to be regarded by the emperor as a general figure?

If the emperor really thinks so, Li Chengliang can only hang himself at this moment, or he can save the Li family.But in my heart I didn't dare to think about it and guess, I still had luck, so I asked Zhang Juzheng, "How is the Sacred Heart?"

Zhang Juzheng's tone changed when he heard him being so frightened, that he couldn't say enough.He then comforted him warmly: "Uncle Ning Yuan doesn't have to be so frightened. Before that, the emperor had talked to Bugu about the method of selecting talents, saying, 'The first is filial piety, the first is filial piety, the heart does not matter, and there is no filial son in the world; No matter what you say about your heart, no one is perfect in the world.'”

"As ministers, of course, we are loyal to the emperor. However, we are all loyal, so why are there still people who have been convicted? Before the emperor imposes thunder, he doesn't look at what you say, but what you do. Uncle Ning Yuan can understand this. already?"

Li Chengliang let out a long sigh of relief and nodded to show his understanding.

Zhang Juzheng continued: "Today, the emperor's intention to change Liaodong's territory and return to the current state has been made clear. Uncle Ning Yuan will make Liaodong's soldiers the focus of Liaodong's economic strategy. Your great deeds and contributions are still behind, if the emperor and the court If I don’t believe you, how can I give you a chance? The emperor’s words implied that he was just beating you for fear of making mistakes.”

Li Chengliang listened, and this heart was put into his stomach.Zhang Juzheng said again: "Although the emperor's kindness does not ask your thoughts, Bugu has to wake up to you. One is to keep a wise and brave general for the court; the two also want you - take you out statement."

Li Chengliang listened, wiped his sweat and said, "Despite the orders from the prime minister, Chengliang can't do anything."

Zhang Juzheng said: "Nanyuan Martial Arts School is about to start, why didn't your son come to sign up to report? This is one of them."

Li Chengliang listened and wanted to pat his thigh in annoyance.His eldest son, Li Rusong, took the credit for blocking Wang Gao's army and killing the fierce Tartar generals; his second son, Li Rubai, took the credit for capturing Wang Gao's main force and leading the army to encircle him.

These two credits were not promoted by more than two levels, so the Li family did not take this grace into consideration after graduating from martial arts.

Moreover, Li Chengliang, the general military mansion in Liaodong, has important positions in relatives or relatives. Li Rusong is like a prince. He has his own team. If he goes to two years, Li Chengliang is also afraid of other changes.

He never thought that the emperor's martial arts had another purpose, which was to use martial arts to disperse the generals and disrupt the use of the main forces of the generals.To put it mildly, Li Rusong and Li Rubai should have come to Beijing to report long ago and thought they were hostages!
But the Li family has never seen this.Instead, they all stayed in Liaodong and continued to be around Li Chengliang.If Zhang Juzheng didn't wake up today, his Li family's disaster would really be between his heels.

Li Chengliang has long since left the excitement of being named an earl outside the Java country, and his heart is already full of enthusiasm for Zhang Juzheng.After Zhuang Zhong made his two sons come to Beijing immediately, he asked Zhang Juzheng what else he needed to do.

Zhang Juzheng saw him on the road, and suggested: "Before Liaodong's business affairs, your family accounted for most of it. After Liaodong's land reform and return to work, the military and horses' salaries and silver will definitely be guaranteed by the imperial court, and you don't have to bear this stigma - tomorrow you Go to Zhang Jing and hand over all these business matters."

"Besides, reforming the land and returning to the stream requires land, land reclamation, seed farming, cattle, etc., and it also requires old farmers to teach Jurchen to engage in farming. You also have a lot of these - you don't have to donate them all, but you shouldn't leave too much more than the earl's family in Beijing. ."

"The emperor will be delighted to do such a few things. The World Pass does not necessarily come from the first level of merit on the battlefield. Sometimes, in cooperation with the emperor's grand plan, it is not difficult to get the Holy Family. This World Pass is not difficult. It's been a while? Why did I join you in the knighthood? - With your cleverness, there is no need for the old man to be verbose."

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