The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 14

In the face of Queen Zhou's pretentious generosity, Zhang Yan's promotion, the girls' eager anticipation.

Li Yunze picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp, then got up and saluted Zhang Yan, then turned and left without saying a word.

The girls were surprised and didn't understand what this meant.

In the end, Empress Zhou said with some uncertainty, "Couldn't Long Live be angry?"

As soon as these words came out, the girls suddenly panicked and had all kinds of wild thoughts.

In fact, Li Yunze was just sticking to his three no's principles.

He only accepts this kind of thing, but he will never take the initiative.

For Li Yunze, he is more enthusiastic about his work than hanging out with his fans.

What men love most is to wake up and take over the power of the world, and Li Yunze is no exception.

When they came to the imperial study room, Wang Chengen sent over a bunch of memorials.

"The government will be closed for a holiday soon, and there are so many things to do." Li Yunze picked up the tea bowl, "What are they all about?"

"My lord, Chen Liangxun and others from the official department gave a report, saying that the people in the south of the Yangtze River are troubled by business and slavery, and the people are in dire straits. Please stop the weaving in Suzhou and Hangzhou."

Casually leaving the expensive tea bowl on the table, Li Yunze breathed out the fragrance.

"Beep beep!"

"Suhang weaving is a royal business. How can it affect the lives of the people and make people miserable?"

He slapped the table and stood up, Li Yunze breathed fire with his hands behind his back, "Do you think I'm a fool who doesn't know anything? Don't you just want to drive away the guarding eunuchs, so that you can control the Jiangnan silk market and sell silk goods to those foreign devils to make money."

At the end of Ming Dynasty, overseas trade was very developed.

Daming's silk fabrics, tea, pottery, etc. are all sought-after goods.

When ships from Europe come over, no matter how much goods they buy, as long as they can be shipped back, they will at least double their profits.

This has led to European countries crazily vying for business. The goods are as much as they want, and the price is negotiable.Even in order to obtain the source of goods, they did not hesitate to go to war directly.

"Is Chen Liangxun a member of the Donglin Party?"

"Yes."

"Hey." Li Yunze smiled, "The spokesman for the silk business in Jiangnan is really hardworking."

"Decree to order Chen Liangxun to be the magistrate of Mizhi, and he will take office immediately without delay."

A few months later, the great rebel Zhang Xianzhong attacked Mizhi County.

Since Chen Liangxun is so keen on being the spokesperson for the big businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River, let's try whether Zhang Xianzhong's butcher knife is sharp and see if he will end up being shot.

Zhang Xianzhong is different from Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng was forced by the local gentry to ruin his family and lose his job as a postman, but he didn't immediately follow the thief, but chose to be a frontier guard.

When he was a frontier soldier, he couldn’t get his salary due to starvation and cold, and he was chased into the barracks by the gentry from his hometown. With nowhere to go, he became a rebel.

Zhang Xianzhong, who was born in the frontier army, was dismissed because he violated the military law, and immediately became the king of the mountain for the bandits.

When the rebels in Shaanxi swarmed, he naturally changed from the king of the mountain to the rebels.

Before Sun Chuanting left Beijing, Li Yunze once asked him to pay off all the bandits in Yan'an Mansion.

It's just that there are copycat bandits everywhere, and I don't know if Sun Chuanting can do it.

Going back to the chair and sitting down, Li Yunze told Wang Chengen, "Let Cao Huachun send someone to Suzhou and Hangzhou to strictly investigate the local silk weaving affairs."

"According to the order."

"What else is there?"

Wang Chengen stepped forward, took away a thick pile of memorials that were cheering for the merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, and picked up the memorial below and handed it over, "My lord, the masters of the Yushitai please order to destroy Wei Ni's various ancestral halls."

Li Yunze nodded, "Yes. What else?"

"Ministry of Rites Zhou Shangshu has played, please ask the emperor to determine the year."

Previously, the Ministry of Rites recommended that the reign name be changed to Chongzhen next year. Li Yunze was a little entangled and dragged it on until now.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and I really can't drag it on.

"Reply to the Ministry of Rites, and use the reign name of Chongzhen!"

Li Yunze also thought about it, he would do what Zhu Youjian didn't do well.

If he did a good job, then the title of Chongzhen is glory, not Shenzhou Luchen!
"Any more?"

"Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, Master Xu Ge, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, is here. The mausoleum of the late emperor has been completed, please send the late emperor to the mausoleum respectfully."

"Brother Huang." Li Yunze sighed with emotion, "Okay, let's just take two days, and send Brother Huang to be buried before the New Year's Eve."

On the last day before the New Year's Day, the civil and military nobles in the capital sent the coffin of Emperor Tianqi into the mausoleum crying.

But after returning, all the yamen immediately sealed the yamen, and the big guys went home to celebrate the New Year with a smile on their faces.

The era that belonged to Emperor Tianqi came to an end.

Turning over the New Year is the brand new Chongzhen Year.

On March [-]th of the first year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong, a giant bandit from Shaanxi, attacked Mizhi.

The thieves sneak into the city, and the civil and military officials in the city are unprepared.That night the city gate was opened and Mizhi City was broken.

The new county magistrate Chen Liangxun tried to escape with makeup, but was caught at the gate of the city, and was later executed by Zhang Xianzhong with a tiger crouching cannon.

On April [-]th of the first year of Chongzhen, Cao Bianjiao, who personally led two battalions of new Longxiang troops to the south after the New Year's Eve, defeated the bandits attacking the county outside Anyuan County in Nangan, beheading the bandits and seizing the king of heaven.Suddenly became famous.

At the same time, Li Yunze's traveling team had already left the capital.

With the previous trip to Tianjin Wei, the resistance encountered when going out of Beijing again this time is much smaller.

In fact, Li Yunze was able to easily break the centuries-old rules of Ming Dynasty and leave Beijing without any resistance. The main reason was that no one stopped him.

Among the elders in the Forbidden City, there is only one good-natured sister-in-law.

She adheres to the principle of not interfering in politics, and will never say a word on this kind of matter.

In the court hall, the former bosses were basically killed and maimed by Jiuqiantui.

If Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others were still alive, they would stop at the gate of the city and would rather die than give way.

After that, Li Yunze used the opportunity of Nine Thousand Years' downfall to clean up the big bosses after that.

Sun Chengzong and others were sent to other places, and the memorials they sent to persuade Li Yunze were all directly 'retained', as if they hadn't seen it.

The rest of Wen Tiren and others were either wise to protect themselves or flattery, who would dare to take the lead to stop the emperor?
Without the leadership of the big boss organization, the actions of the little fish and shrimp can be ignored.

Xu Guangqi and Li Guopu stayed in the cabinet to handle state affairs.

Cao Huachun and Luo Sigong stayed in the capital to inspect the illegal activities.

Zhao led the teaching, and Lu Xiangsheng led the five battalions of Huben to guard the capital.

Unless Huang Taiji called immediately, everything inside and outside would be safe.

Cao Wenzhao, the leader of the Longxiang Army, led the remaining three battalions to escort him southward.

This time, Li Yunze's destination was Jiangnan.

Unlike a braided emperor who went to Jiangnan just for show and fun, Li Yunze went to Jiangnan for the sake of the people in Jiangnan.

Historically, in July, Jiangnan was hit by a typhoon.Numerous buildings were damaged, tens of thousands of people were killed and injured, and the aftermath of the disaster led to large-scale plague and chaos.

Li Yunze came to rescue the disaster, and he also wanted to take advantage of the situation to rectify Jiangnan.

Because there were no concubines, maids, eunuchs or anything, the marching speed was very fast.

Depart from Chaoyangmen in the morning and arrive in Tongzhou before dinner.

In the afternoon of the second day, I came to Wuqing.

Wuqing, also known as Hexiwu, is one of the seven gates on the Grand Canal.

The Grand Canal is the most important trunk line for the exchange of goods in the Ming Dynasty. Every day, all kinds of ships going south and north are like crucian carp crossing the river.

There is no doubt that this is a big river flowing with silver.

There are a total of eight cash gates in the Ming Dynasty. Except for Jiujiang Pass, the other seven gates are all on the Grand Canal.

Arriving at Wuqing, Li Yunze immediately rode his horse and led people to Chaoguan.

He didn't wear a dragon robe, and he didn't play a big banner.When they came to Chaoguan, the eunuch guarding the pass thought it was some general who had come to Beijing to report on his duties.

"One tael per person above the general, and two tael per person below the general, and the goods are not counted."

He raised his horsewhip to stop Wang Chengen, who wanted to reprimand him, and then asked, "How is the clearance price of Wuqing Chaoguan calculated?"

The eunuch guarding the officer sat on a chair, lazily looking at Li Yunze with a tea bowl in his hand, "What rank military officer are you?"

"At the capital of the third battalion of the Xialong Xiang Army." Li Yunze made up his identity casually. "From what you said, military officers have to pay, but civil servants don't have to?"

"If you are Cao Zongbing of the Longxiang Army, then you don't need to pay any money, you can buy as many goods as you want, as long as you give our family some kindness."

The eunuch chewed the tea in his mouth, and then spit it out on the ground, "But you are a small capital, so you need two taels of silver and a penny per person. As for the civil servants, the gentlemen are all tax-free. Hurry up Pay the money, and I will go back to the house to enjoy it."

Du Si Nai Yingguan is already a middle-rank general of the fourth rank.

But in the mouth of the eunuch, he is not much better than those generals.

"I see."

Li Yunze, who was all smiles on his face, signaled to Wang Chengen who was already trembling with anger, "Let him eat that tea bowl."

Wang Cheng'en is now the eunuch of Bingbi, the supervisor of rites, and this is the ancestor of all the eunuchs in the world.

Having lost such a big face in front of the emperor, Wang Chengen immediately got off his horse and ran over, raised his hand like a big fan and fanned him over, "Little bastard, I'm tired of you!"

The eunuch was stupefied, covering his face and looking at Wang Chengen in a daze.

During Wei Zhongxian's period, he spent money to find a way out and put it in Wuqing Chaoguan, and he didn't even know Wang Cheng'en who had been working in the Xinwang Mansion.

The eunuchs and tax collectors who were guarding the banknotes hurriedly surrounded them, and Cao Wenzhao and others who accompanied him immediately drew their swords and rushed forward.

The power of hundreds of cavalrymen drawing their swords and surrounding them frightened everyone at Chaoguan at a loss.

That's not all, following Cao Wenzhao's order, hundreds of cavalry rushed out of the small woods not far away, and rushed to block the banknotes.

Everyone in Chaoguan was heartbroken, they knew that something big happened today!

Wang Chengen, who had pumped more than a dozen big dicks in one breath, yelled bitterly, "You're blind! The emperor is here!"

With a calm face, Li Yunze directly rode his horse into the cash gate, "Bring over all the account books."

After the large group of people entered the customs, Wang Chengen grabbed the tea bowl on the table, "It's unlucky for you, little bastard, don't say that the ancestors didn't take care of you, just ate the tea bowl by yourself, don't implicate your family."

"Grandfather, you, you are"

"Wang Chengen!"

(End of this chapter)