eldest son of Ming dynasty

Chapter 41 How much is your life?
In real history, Hongzhi never thought of killing Li Guang. He always trusted Li Guang, even if the Empress Dowager said, "Today Li Guang, tomorrow Li Guang, something really happened".

Li Guang later committed suicide in fear of crime.

Even so, the emperor held a grand funeral for Li Guang under the opposition of his officials.

Because of such trust, Li Guang also became a eunuch who caused more disasters in Hongzhi's dynasty.

In particular, the emperor opened his mouth on the two aspects of salt and land, and eunuchs and relatives frequently asked for rewards.

As soon as the emperor allowed it, the thousand-mile embankment was breached, and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of salts from the Huaihe River and Zhejiang Province flowed into the pockets of these people every year.Li Guang is one of the best.
To a certain extent, this exacerbated the corruption of the 'open salt law'.

The Kaizhong Salt Law is a system established by Zhu Yuanzhang. Its connotation is only one sentence: the Central Plains and the south of the Yangtze River are rich and have food.The border areas are barren, and under heavy military pressure, there is a shortage of food.Therefore, the imperial court used Yanyin as a medium to ask salt merchants to transport grain to the border and obtain Yanyin, so that they can do salt business for you.Salt is big business.

This has been maintained for a hundred years, until the Hongzhi Dynasty, it was abolished, and the salt merchants only had to hand over the silver to the capital to get the salt, so who would transport the grain to the border again?
There are many reasons, and there must have been many long-standing disadvantages in the past century.It's not that Hongzhi once made it like this.

However, Hongzhi gave too much rewards to Yanyin, which led to the "inflation of Yanyin", if not the root cause, it is also one of the reasons.

The salt merchants' hard work in transporting grain in exchange for salt is not as good as bribing foreign relatives and eunuchs in the court. When this phenomenon occurs, do you still have it?

Furthermore, even if there is salt, it does not necessarily have salt.

Because the output of salt is fixed, Yanyin is printed out in a rush.Moreover, all the eunuchs and masters in front were queuing up to fetch salt, and the general salt merchants naturally stayed behind. This section gave the power another opportunity to seek rent.

Originally thought that such a change would allow the imperial court to receive the money from the salt, and then allocate money and food to the border gates when they had money.

But this is an ideal, and everyone knows the reality. This thing is to dial up one floor, and one floor is missing, which will eventually lead to the lack of food for the frontier army.

While the frontier army had no food, the court also had no money.

What a bunch of fucking geniuses.The dead are enraged.

And at this pass, another hero who ruled the world like Dayan Khan appeared in the north, and sometimes Zhu Houzhao, a person from another dimension, was anxious for them.This should be placed in the Republic. There are already millions of soldiers in the north, so how could there be a shortage of food.

Looking back and thinking about it, the overall productivity of the Ming Dynasty did not increase or decrease significantly. Whose pockets did the money and food go to?

Counting on the fingers, there must be no wrong vested interests. These are some officials in charge of salt transportation, salt merchants who have gone through the officialdom, eunuchs in charge, and even some eunuchs in the palace, relatives, and princes of the clan.

So they are all Zhu Houzhao's enemies.

Since they are enemies, it doesn't matter whether their surname is Zhu or not.

Hongzhi allowed them to gouge out the flesh of the Ming Dynasty to mend their own sores, but he would not allow it.

What happened today is just the beginning.

Li Guang's profits are definitely quite a lot.Rumor has it that there are tens of millions of taels.

But Zhu Houzhao reckoned that he should not dare to take them all out, otherwise it would cause a 'shock', and he deserved to die if he didn't die.

In the evening, the Yuxiu Pavilion in the palace leaked water, which gave the civil servants an excellent excuse.

Although it was already night, Zhu Houzhao could imagine that the foreign ministers must have started to move, and the waves were turbulent—the emperor must be asked to get rid of this great harm no matter what.

Even the Empress Dowager Zhou said that the emperor trusted Li Guang too much.This is called an opportunity not to be missed!
In the evening, all the virtuous people in Li Dongyang's mansion arrived,

Xie Qian, Wang Jia, Wu Kuan, Wang Hua... are all listed.Li Dongyang sat in the main seat, next to him was Xie Qian, and the rest of the people lined up on both sides. There could be seven or eight people down there, all of them in high spirits.

This is the critical time, sleep or something is not important anymore.

What to talk about is actually not important anymore, it is nothing more than eight words: the festival of righteousness and death is today!

It's just about the crown prince... Some people think they need to be notified, while others think it's unnecessary.

But Wang Jia still said what he should say: "Li Guang is very trusted by His Majesty. It is by no means an easy task to kill this official. Although the opportunity is rare, it is not impossible if there is any change. .Your Highness is of the same heart as us, and with His Highness as the leader, we will naturally be even more imposing."

"I don't know if what His Highness said in Qianqing Palace today was intentional or unintentional. Li Guang couldn't explain what he said in two consecutive sentences." Everyone felt very happy when they mentioned this verse!
So I feel that the crown prince is just like them.

Besides, people have heard of the prince's reputation of being honest and filial in the past few days, so he is naturally a virtuous king.

Of course, some people objected to the fact that the crown prince left the palace in disguise and wanted to set up a school.

"It should be intentional." Li Dongyang said at this time, "However, I don't agree, let the crown prince take the lead in this matter."

Wang Jia was quite surprised. He quickly glanced at Xie Qian and found that he was there, and he didn't seem surprised.

Li Dongyang continued to explain the reason: "It is enough for the prince and I to be of the same mind. After all, Li Guang is still the emperor's man, and the emperor also trusts Li Guang very much. Is it disadvantageous for the prince if we involve the prince?"

"But what if this doesn't happen?"

"Didn't the prince help us?" Li Dongyang asked back.

That's right, it's like this in Qianqing Palace today.

"I believe that the crown prince will give a boost at the critical moment, maybe just a word, and that's all. If it still fails, it means that the emperor is determined not to kill Li Guang, so we still can't succeed if we hold the crown prince, so why bother?" Prince...take this risk?"

This is the standard of the elders.

After many times, the higher-ups must know his handling style and ability, so they naturally like him and are willing to use him.

Thinking about it this way, Wang Jia also felt that what Li Ge said was old-fashioned.

"There are many things, think about failure before you succeed, and think about retreat before you make progress."

If it doesn't work, what will you do?Don't take everything into it.

This is the truth.

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At the same time, Li Guang didn't sit still,

He really wanted to be able to fall asleep this night, not to mention sleeping, even if there were three young virgins prepared for him on the bed, he would not be able to lie down.

At this time, who will save him?The question can be reduced to who else is he valuable to?
This is an almost no-brainer answer.

So once the fire in Yuxiu Pavilion was extinguished and it was dark, he entered the East Palace.

Strange to say, he was able to get to Xiefang Hall relatively smoothly without any inquiries or obstacles along the way.

The candles in the Xiefang Palace are very bright,

Seeing this scene, Li Guang understood. He was both happy and worried.
The happy thing is that His Highness seems to be waiting for him. If so, there is still a glimmer of life. The worry is that this life may not come easily.

Li Guang lifted his robe and stepped over the threshold. When he was about to enter the hall, he glanced at Liu Jin standing at the gate of Xiefang Hall!

Wasn't he... severely punished by the crown prince? !Why is it still he who is alone with the prince late at night?

So Donggong was very angry at the beginning, but now he forgives easily?
"Eunuch Li," Liu Jin also greeted him.

"you……"

Liu Jin raised her hand and pressed it, signaling him not to say more, "Everything in the world is unclear, and each has its own destiny. Today is you, don't you know that tomorrow will be me? Here, you and I will have such a day. If we still If you feel puzzled, just come back and find me. Let’s talk about it after passing today’s test.”

Li Guang clenched his fist, he was cheated by this guy back then!

"Eunuch Liu's words seem to have seen through life and death. I hope you really do."

Liu Jin laughed but didn't answer this sentence. The matter between him and Li Guang is really not the point tonight.

"Eunuch Li, go in. Your Highness has been waiting for a long time. But before you go in, Your Highness asked me to ask Eunuch Li." Liu Jin raised her lowered eyelids and stared at Li Guang: "How much is your life worth?" money?"

(End of this chapter)