I'm really not doing business

Chapter 438: Time flies by, and the past is no longer the same

Zhang Juzheng was busy in Wenyuan Pavilion. The officials of the General Affairs Department handed a series of memorials to the hands of his assistant ministers. These memorials were all enclosed, with the main content written in a few short sentences and some unimportant ones. For example, in greetings, a blank floating ticket will be affixed at this step.

The counselors on the left and right wrote on the tape: Lin Shizhang, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, once again went to the court to beg for sin.

Wang Guoguang picked up the memorial and was about to write his own opinions on the floating ticket. Lin Shizhang was trying to retreat, and Wan Shihe was a flatterer. During the incident, Liu Chao said that he could not correct the mistakes of the ministry, and that he had also passed private taxes. Lin Shizhang accused him and begged to give up. If your majesty agreed, he would go through the official ministry process, and if he did not, he would continue to stay in office.

Lin Shizhang's charge of private taxation is not a criticism, but it is true. He himself is a member of the Jin Party. Before joining the imperial court as the right minister, he served as governor of Datong in the Xuanfu. The business in Gongshi was all yellow mud. Crotch, I can't even tell. Lin Shizhang had already gone to the police to explain the situation last time.

But Ke Daoyan still refused to give up. He was just using the tribute business to cut off Wan Shihe's wings.

Wang Guoguang affixed a sentence on the floating ticket: Taking advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble, the officials are honest and sincere, and the impeachment of officials and ministers is based on hearsay, so it is appropriate to order them to continue serving.

Whether the crime of Tongfan private tax is justified is a very debatable matter. At that time, the Ming Dynasty and the Beilu were negotiating peace, so some transactions were not considered Tongfan. But now that the Ming Dynasty and the Beibei are at war, those transactions are Tongfan. The direction of the wind is changing, and many The nature of things is also changing.

Wang Guoguang wrote the floating ticket, and after Zhang Juzheng read it, he didn't change a word. Although he was attacking the Jin Party, he had no intention of taking action. If he really took action, why would he need to compete with Wang Chonggu in acting? There was a war going on in the front and party strife broke out in the rear, so he no longer had to serve as the chief assistant.

Zhang Juzheng handed the memorial to Zuo Tongzheng. After Zuo Tongzheng reviewed it, he sealed the complaint and sent it to half of the room of the Secretary of Ceremonies to wait for approval. Then it was sent to the imperial study of Tonghe Palace, where His Majesty would read it and seal it.

Those who want Tuman Khan to die are not only the radicals of the Ming Dynasty, but also the grassland people.

These two people, Wang Guangguang, knew each other. They had just won Jinshi. At that time, they were high-spirited and spoke eloquently, hoping to use their righteousness and righteousness to rectify the injustices in the world. Today, they have become corrupt officials, and they are on the list of happy steles outside Chaoyang Gate.

The opinion of the General Secretary of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Hai Rui, was just to be dismissed and returned to his hometown. Hai Rui could not tolerate disdain in his eyes, but his opinions were milder than Zhang Juzheng's. The reason why Zhang Juzheng was more serious was that they comprehensively considered their concerns. Pass the test result.

Zhang Juzheng, who was sitting in Wenyuan Pavilion, suddenly picked up a memorial and his eyes became sharp. After reading the entire memorial, he picked up the floating ticket and thought deeply for a moment before writing: The king of captives is invincible. The capital camp is sharp, so it attracts the wind. This type of memorial should be checked to see if it is possible to transfer silver.

Seventy thousand taels of silver, in the early days of the People's Republic of China, was enough to remove the skin of more than 30,000 people. Today, it is different. As a local governor in Shaanxi, this corruption figure is actually within the tolerance of the court.

Anda Khan could not defeat Qi Jiguang on the battlefield. Whether it was the test of the Beijing camp vanguard or the defense line of Datong, Anda Khan suffered losses. The Ming Dynasty's advance was not hasty, but Anda Khan could not find an opportunity, so he decided against it. When he arrived at the court, he tried to stop the Ming army's advance from within.

Wang Guoguang looked at these two names with mixed feelings in his heart, feeling that people's hearts are fickle.

Judging from various clues, the arson this time was done by the Beibei people. At this time, Tuman Khan died in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, which was most beneficial to Anda Khan. The Ming Dynasty accepted Tuman Khan's surrender, and the suzerain Khan But he died in the capital. Anda Khan only needed to raise the banner of revenge for the sect leader, the Great Khan, to win over people's hearts, to make the grassland people twist into a rope, and to set the Ming Dynasty's backyard on fire.

"Let the Shuntian Prefecture investigate the spies strictly." Zhang Juzheng ordered a rigorous investigation. Even if he knew that nothing would be found, he still had to investigate because he wanted to find spies from Beilu. Zhang Juzheng wrote a floating ticket and asked Tuman Khan to His son Bao Yan (Buyan, the eldest son of Tuman Khan, renamed Bao Yan) went to Kaiping Guard to calm people's hearts.

There was a fire in the palace of Prince Huaiyi. King Huaiyi was not in the palace. The palace was still being decorated. There were too many people coming and going, so it was not safe. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty and the Northern Barbarians were at war. Tuman Khan, the sect leader, was placed extremely well by Zhu Yijun.

Shaanxi Supervisory Censor Zhang Dingsi impeached Shaanxi Chief Minister Wang Yu and his second official Xue Lun for extorting bribes and allowing rape. This was reported by Shaanxi Governor Shi Maohua in December last year. This matter is indeed true. Wang Yu and Xue Lun were involved in corruption. He received 70,000 taels of silver, of which 40,000 taels were obtained from the Lanzhou Woolen Official Factory.

Part of the decision-making power on the general affairs of the empire lies in the hands of the cabinet and the Supervisor of Ceremonies, but the emperor has the final decision-making power. If the emperor is not satisfied, he can review and come up with his own opinions. After the cabinet reads it, if it disagrees, it will reject it, and if it agrees, it will act.

Zhang Juzheng took the memorial and said calmly: "Conquests are very expensive and expensive. When the state is busy, the great Situ should think about the country."

The Ming Dynasty had a very low degree of kingship over Tuman Khan's territory. Once Tuman Khan died, there would probably be quite a commotion in these ruled areas.

"Yuan Fu, something happened in Prince Huaiyi's Mansion." Wang Guoguang stood up and walked from his square table to Zhang Juzheng.

In the twenty-third year of Jiajing reign, Wang Guoguang won the Jinshi. That year, his stepmother Cao passed away. Wang Guoguang could only rush back to his hometown Dingyou. During the twenty-seven months of Dingyou, his wife Zhang had already passed away for several years. After Dingyou ended, , he wanted to find a stepmother, cultivate his family, rule the country, and bring peace to the world. Not even having his family in order was a disadvantage and he could not make progress. Wang Guoguang wanted to make progress.

His Majesty goes to that place every month, so it is extremely well-guarded and no one can enter. Furthermore, he hides there secretly at night, so very few people know about it.

Now, Wang Guoguang is leaving.

Wang Guoguang wrote: The two of them rarely had great ambitions and now they have gone astray. Overcoming the final difficulties, they went to Beijing to ask questions, and after being dismissed, they returned home to listen to their opinions.

Zhang Juzheng read the memorial and flipped through the records of official examination results. The two of them had been in the middle and lower grades for three years. Zhang Juzheng added a sentence on the floating ticket: deprivation of official status.

He is greedy and unable to do anything.

Wang Guoguang took a deep breath, looked around at the busy people in Wenyuan Pavilion, and said, "This is my official memorial."

The Secretary of General Affairs passed the memorial, the assistant ministers floated the notes, the chief minister reviewed it, sealed it and sent it to the Secretary of Ceremony, and the Secretary of Ceremony approved it and sent it to the emperor in red. After being stamped, it was sent back to the cabinet, and the next chapter of the cabinet was carried out by various ministries. The flow of government affairs in the Ming Dynasty was extremely fast. In particular, His Majesty the Emperor has been very diligent in these years and never leaves a note to stay overnight in the palace, which greatly speeds up the efficiency.

Shanxi Inspector Qiao Bixing impeached Wang Guoguang for an old incident, raping a daughter of the people.

The power of the General Affairs Department came entirely from the administrative affairs of the thoroughfares. To mention only eight things, the power was greatly restricted. Gradually, the power of the General Affairs Department was vested in the cabinet. The cabinet bachelor, who was originally just the emperor's secretary, gradually It became the actual center of power of the Ming Dynasty.

There are many types of corruption. Zhang Juzheng is a corrupt official. Many times he cannot get things done without being corrupt. Zhang Juzheng can understand the difficulties of the people below. When the general environment is corrupt, if you are not corrupt, you are an outlier, but if you are corrupt, you still cannot get things done. Well, you can't blame Zhang Juzheng for being ruthless.

It was a time when state affairs were heavy, and he didn't say he was sick, let alone lack of energy. However, people have to be responsible for what they have done. Wang Guoguang was under a lot of pressure during this time.

During the reign of Hongwu, Yongle and Xuande, the general affairs envoy had a very high status. Whenever he met the Chang Dynasty, the General Affairs Secretary would report any number of things. That is to say, in the Chang Dynasty, the general affairs envoy was often the one who presided over the meeting. In the early years of Zhengtong, Yingzong ascended the throne as a young man. Yang Rong, the elder of the Three Pavilions, and others were worried that the holy body would easily get tired. Due to the innovative system, they were only allowed to say eight things every morning in the morning.

As soon as these words came out, the entire Wenyuan Pavilion suddenly became quiet. After Lu Tiaoyang became seriously ill and became an official and lived in Xitucheng, Wang Chonggu became the second assistant. Wang Chonggu, the second assistant, did not work in Wenyuan Pavilion, so the actual second assistant was Kingdom Light.

The General Affairs Department was originally an extremely important department of the empire. Since Taizu established it, all the saints of Taizu would come to court, and they would not skip the imperial meal every solstice, just to achieve the public opinion in the world. The General Affairs Department was established after Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed the prime minister. The institutions established are designed to provide access to government affairs.

Wang Guoguang hesitated to speak. Wang Yi'e said in the memorial that no one lived in the palace, so there were no casualties. Wang Guoguang originally planned to ask King Huaiyi where Tuman Khan was, but after thinking about it for a while, it had nothing to do with him. Why do so many people, so I simply didn’t ask.

At this time, Tuman Khan was in the uncle's mansion in Yicheng, Xishan, where Zhang Juzheng lived when Ding You was a minister.

"Is there anything else?" Zhang Juzheng looked at Wang Guangguang and asked.

This is the power of the exam, which completely affects the rise and fall of a bureaucrat. The disadvantages of the exam are also here. All officials are tortured by the exam and are miserable.

Wang Guoguang has been criticized recently, but the empire's second-in-command did not submit a petition. Now Wang Guoguang has made a choice.

In most cases, the emperor only needs to follow the approval and approval of the cabinet and the Supervisor of Ceremonies to maintain the operation of the empire and slow its decline. Before the memorial reaches the imperial court, the outcome of the fight between the inner and outer courts has been reached.

However, if they are deprived of their official status, they will have no chance at all. This is a very severe punishment, which denies the first half of their lives, and the ten years of hardship are like a dream.

"It's not that I'm tired. It's really shameful to impeach an official." Wang Guoguang shook his head. This was a position he had worked hard for his whole life to reach. Wanli Accounting Records hadn't been completed yet, so how could he be willing to do so!

When Xu Xing entered the capital, he asked questions about where the corruption proceeds from torture were used. To recover the stolen money, it was said to be torture, but in fact it was an interrogation.

Zhang Juzheng opened the memorial, and the Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture, Yi Ou, reported an incident. There was a fire in the palace of Prince Huaiyi. Arsonist was a means of doing evil with minimal consequences, because under the fire, all the sins were burned away.

This was the largest official to fall in the ninth year of Wanli, and he was charged with asking for bribes and allowing rape. This was disgraceful and unjust. After his fall, he was despised by thousands of people.

Baixiangli in Yangcheng County is Wang Guoguang's hometown. He met a beautiful lady named Li during his stay in Dingyou. This lady was beautiful and known throughout Yangcheng. Her father was a big local businessman. For a person who won the Jinshi For Wang Guoguang, it was Li's destiny to seek to marry him.

There is a beautiful person, clear and graceful. We meet each other by chance, just as I wish.

The only trouble is that Li Qingwan is a widow.

Li Qingwan first married Bai Haoli in Baixiang. Unfortunately, Bai Haoli died, and Li Qingwan became a widow. They lived very close to each other. After going back and forth, they fell in love with each other in the fields of melons and plums. Wang Guoguang entrusted the local villagers, Xiantian Dashou, etc. A man acted as a matchmaker and went to the White Mansion to propose marriage to Li Qingwan.

These days, married women throw water away. After Li Qingwan lost her husband, she still lived in Bai Mansion. For weddings and funerals, she naturally had to get permission from her father-in-law and mother-in-law. Bai Haoli's father and Li Qingwan's father-in-law Bai Qi wrote not to allow it and strictly stated Let Li Qingwan keep the integrity for her husband.

Li's father-in-law Bai Qishu's idea was not to offend Wang Guoguang and not allow his daughter-in-law Li to get married, but Bai Qishu also had a daughter. If Wang Guangguang married the girl who was waiting to be named in Bai's boudoir, Li Qingwan could be a matchmaker and become a daughter-in-law. Wang Guoguang's concubine.

If Wang Guoguang doesn't agree, then let Li Qingwan set up a chastity arch to observe the chastity.

At that time, Wang Guoguang's future was uncertain. He had just become a Jinshi in China and returned to his hometown Dingyou. When he returned to the capital, the day lily changed tables.

Wang Guoguang initially refused to agree, but seeing that he was about to return to Beijing, he finally agreed. At this point, the Bai family got a Jinshi son-in-law, which was also rare in Yangcheng County. Wang Guoguang got a stepmother and a concubine. Although Shi was not from a well-known family, he read poetry and books thoroughly, while his concubine Li Qingwan was Wang Guoguang's admirer.

Unfortunately, when the White Mansion was busy preparing for the wedding, Li Qingwan died and committed suicide.

It was indeed suicide, but no one knew why he committed suicide. Wang Guoguang didn't know what happened. This was a family matter, but Li Qingwan died, so the marriage could not be completed. Although Bai Qishu of the Bai family repeatedly persuaded Wang Guangguang to marry Miss Baifu, Wang Guangguang finally Still not married, after Ding You ended, he married another girl from Yangcheng County and returned to Beijing.

After so many years, Wang Guoguang has become an assistant minister and a chief situ. He has established a court in his prime. He has been a court minister for eighteen years and an assistant minister for five years. This matter has been revealed again.

The whole incident turned out to be: Wang Guoguang seduced Mrs. Li as a concubine, the rich and powerful Baifu could not tolerate lewdness and refused, Wang Guoguang was gracious and powerful and used coercion and inducement, Mrs. Li refused to obey her husband's moral integrity, Wang Guoguang found another way to marry a wife and take a concubine, Mrs. Li's heart was like this He killed himself with a knife.

Ever since Shanxi Inspector Qiao Bixing presented the impeachment report, Wang Guoguang had been scolded by officials. The scoldings were so unpleasant that even Young Master Zhang Xueyan looked at Wang Guoguang with some scrutiny. The Imperial Chief Situ, whom he had always respected, When you were young, you were so arrogant and domineering? In order to get this Li Qingwan, she actually forced her to commit suicide!

Wang Guoguang's family was at best a rural gentry, and the Li family was a prominent family in Yangcheng. At that time, Wang Guangguang, who had just passed the Jinshi examination, how could he coerce and lure the Bai family?
In everyone's mind, Wang Guoguang is the current chief situ of the empire. He controls the economic lifeline of the Ming Dynasty. He has millions of silver in his pocket. When the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty wants to expedition to the north, Wang Guoguang is able to raise armaments without affecting the government's expenditure.

In the hands of Wang Guoguang, the Ministry of Hubu could be said to be the most prosperous of the common people. The Ministry of Hubu was proud and proud, reaching the highest status in history. It even overpowered the officials. The ministers of the Ministry of official affairs had to ask Wang Guoguang to get money to do things.

"It's not a big deal. This marriage is easy to talk about and discuss. Look at what you've done. You've pushed too hard and pushed too hard, and you've created hidden dangers. Leave this matter to me. You don't have to pay attention to these officials. Criticize." Zhang Juzheng finished reading the memorial, thought about it, and decided to play it safe.

Wang Guoguang could not leave at this time, and the cannon fired ten thousand taels of gold. At this time, Wang Guoguang needed to continue to raise military supplies. In order to win, Zhang Juzheng decided to resist this thunder for Wang Guoguang.

"I didn't!" Wang Guoguang was a little annoyed. He was anxious here. He said that when he was young, there was no coercion or inducement from the White House because he didn't have the ability, but no one believed it, not even Zhang Juzheng. Wang Guoguang was a member of the Jin Dynasty. A direct descendant of the party, although he was in Ding You at the time, there was someone in his court. If a letter came to Yangcheng, the little Li family in Yangcheng would immediately be worse than life or death.

It's probably like: "Because I'm too strong now, I asked for help in the past, but no one believed it."

Yang Bo is very accurate in judging people. He said that Ge Shouli is naive and accepts death, Wang Chonggu is irritable, Zhang Siwei is not a subject of others, and Wang Guangguang is a gentleman and independent person. Be willing to do things according to your heart.

At that time, Wang Guoguang never thought of using his background, nor did he feel that he had any background. For so many years, it was not clear how Li died.

"Whoever did not do something ridiculous when he was young is not a big deal." Zhang Juzheng took over this unanswered case for Wang Guangguang. It was not a big deal. Wang Guoguang neither killed nor robbed. Hearing about it caused the minister to If you leave, then who will still work for the empire?

Only an hour later, the memorial was returned to Wenyuan Pavilion. Lin Shizhang, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Yu, the chief envoy of Shaanxi, and Xue Lun, the second assistant official, were not allowed to ask for bribes and tolerate adultery. The crimes were not pardonable. They were allowed to enter the capital to ask questions and were deprived of their official status. In order to gain fame, he ordered Bao Yan to go to Kaiping Guards and convene a meeting with the chiefs of various tribes.

As for Wang Guoguang becoming an official, in addition to not allowing it, His Majesty also gave an additional reply: Who has not been young and frivolous, but the years have been wasted and the past will never be restored.

Obviously, the Ming Emperor took advantage of Wang Guoguang, the empire's finance minister.

Zhang Juzheng Chen Wushi Shu, asked the emperor to approve all the memorials, and not to leave the memorials unpublished unless there were special circumstances. Zhu Yijun never let the memorials stay overnight for several years. Zhu Yijun also liked this matter very much, just like the royal family listened to the government. The courtiers were quarreling and watching the excitement, and these memorials were all big melons.

"Alas." Wang Guoguang took the memorial and thought about it for a while. Finally, he put it aside and continued to deal with the memorial. As His Majesty said, the past will never be the same.

Zhu Yijun left Tonghe Palace and went to Yanxing Building with a long list of tails. Today is the day of the monthly Yanxing real estate accounting. Zhu Yijun wants to determine the transaction volume of ship tickets this month, and then prepare for the next Prepare for the subscription share of three-masted and five-masted ships within three months.

The ship ticket business, which is an opportunity for everyone to become a ship owner, has been launched for a year and a half. Generally speaking, the supply is still in short supply. The transactions at Yanxinglou Trading House are still price-free.

"Short-sighted! Ship tickets are a pile of waste paper, and the free money has been replaced by waste paper. Only short-term operations can make a fortune! These landlords have all their money in their hands! What's the difference between burying money in a pig pen? Two things! How much is the dividend? I don’t even understand the leeks, they are a bunch of useless things." Zhu Yijun finished reading the accounts angrily and banged the table.

The logic is very clear. If these guys hold positions and refuse to trade, Zhu Yijun will not receive the tax. It feels too uncomfortable to watch the money flowing through his fingertips.

There are still too few ship tickets, and they are still not enough to support transactions. This Yanxinglou trading house only becomes popular during the few days when the funds are pledged. On weekdays, there are only a few people.

"Isn't it because His Majesty refuses to allow it?" Feng Bao handed His Majesty a cup of tea and said with a smile on his face: "The domestic and national funds are not short of this three thousandths tax."

Zhu Yijun exhaled and said fiercely: "No shortage? Not a cent of silver in my internal funds is superfluous! Not a cent of silver!"

It's really Zhu Yijun's fault. He didn't give up the power to the powerful people. The powerful people can only get the dividends. The base price of this ship ticket is five taels of silver. To enter the Ming Dynasty's Family, you have to save for several years. For money, Shi Yaoyou repeatedly proposed that the five-tael silver notes should be divided into 100 cents and five cents each, so that middle-class families and even poor coolies could claim the money.

It seemed like a good idea, but Zhu Yijun was confused. Because of the poor information, middle-class families and poor coolies would have no choice but to live like leeks.

Therefore, we can’t blame the powerful rightists for only taking the dividends, since the dividends are already huge.

Zhu Yijun closed the accounts, and Zhu approved the subscription for next month, seven five-masted ships and seventy-two three-masted plywood ships.

The business model of the Ming Dynasty has changed from the monopoly of official ships during the Yongle and Xuande years to the proliferation of private ships after the Orthodox period, to the current model of a combination of public and private, and the private here is not private, but regional. The entire business gang and trading house were the prototype of later companies.

Daming Shipyard, today's three-masted ships, especially five-masted ships, are still only four government-run shipyards that can build them; and everyone plans to be a shipowner, and the shipowners in Yanxinglou provide a steady stream of funds for the shipyard. The huge production capacity has been eaten up by the shipowners. With the terrifying production capacity of the current Daming Shipyard, it is simply not something that the so-called thousand-year-old family can absorb one by one. It will even suffocate him to death.

The five major ocean-going trading houses established under the leadership of the imperial court were responsible for the deployment of goods, ship operation, ship repair, etc.

The Ming Dynasty is moving forward to open the sea. It is completely impossible to rely solely on the Ming Dynasty courtiers. The inherent rigidity and bloat of the official factory determines that the official factory is not omnipotent. Therefore, with the efforts of thousands of people, only the world can be invincible and the sea can be opened. The achievements belong to the entire Ming Dynasty.

"Has our prince had a drink? If he is not drunk yet, let him come over." After Zhu Yijun finished today's affairs and checked the accounts, he thought of Wang Qian. This guy returned to the capital and returned to his old ways. , wandering around brothels all day long, unable to extricate himself, turned into a dandy.

I have to say that Zhu Yijun still envies Wang Qian's luxurious life.

"I pay homage to your Majesty, long live your Majesty, long live your Majesty." Wang Qian quickly arrived and saluted respectfully. He didn't even smell of wine or rouge and gouache. He knew that this was the monthly accounting day, and he didn't even smell it. He didn't drink, he didn't even look for a girl, he was out of character before the emperor, and he let those old scholars know that it was another round of impeachment.

"Without courtesy, sit down and talk. What is my fourth-grade officer busy with recently?" Zhu Yijun asked curiously.

Wang Qian said with a really painful look on his face: "Half a month ago, dad gave me a hard job and asked me to check the old things from forty years ago, forty years! Your Majesty, dad really knows how to do it. Problems arise.”

"Have you found out?" Zhu Yijun immediately thought of Wang Guoguang and Li Qingwan, a pair of mandarin ducks separated by yin and yang.

"It's been found out." Wang Qian looked around and whispered: "I can really find out the reason for the recent criticism of Da Situ. There was another reason for Li Qingwan's death. It was considered a scandal. , very few people know about it, I just found out about it by chance."

"Oh? Why did you die? Tell me in detail." Zhu Yijun asked with interest.

"Li Qingwan's husband Bai Haoli had a younger brother named Bai Zhili who was extremely lecherous. After his brother died, Bai Zhili set his sights on his sister-in-law. She wanted to marry another woman. Bai Zhili would not stop doing anything and would do something forcibly. Li Qingwan refused, so he committed suicide." Wang Qian told the old story with a sigh on his face.

Forty years is not a long time, nor is it a short time. There must be a brave man under the heavy reward. Wang Qian has no one else and a lot of money. Only after he found an old man in the mansion, he finally figured out the whole thing. , and there is also the matter of Miss Bai's family.

According to the idea of ​​the Bai family, the stepmother Wang Guoguang wants to marry is a young lady from the Bai family, but the one he likes most is Li Qingwan. Naturally, the young lady from the Bai family is not happy about it. It just so happens that her younger brother Bai Zhili has evil thoughts, and this young lady from the Bai family helps Bai Zhili to trick her. Li Qingwan, Li Qingwan was unable to survive alone and committed suicide in despair.

Zhu Yijun said fiercely: "This Bai Zhili is really not a thing. If a man wants a concubine, he has to interfere with his parents' orders and the matchmaker's words!"

"you do not say."

"This Miss Bai family is also stupid. If she refuses, she won't marry. It will cause trouble for nothing. She is his wife and Li Qingwan is his concubine. How can she make Li Qingwan upset? After all, it is not her that Da Situ wants. , in the end, Li Qingwan died, and she did not become Da Situ's wife, harming others but not benefiting herself."

"How about as the old saying goes, harming others will ultimately harm you?"

"What happened to Miss Bai's family?"

"I married the Wei family in Yangcheng, but turned out to be a gambler. Within a few years, my family was ruined, and I died in depression."

"What about Bai Zhili? Is he still alive now?"

"Alive, Tongfan."

"Tongfan?" Zhu Yijun's eyes became cold and stern, and he looked at Wang Qian and said, "How did Bai Zhili get through it? But what about the border trade after the peace negotiation?"

Wang Qian sat up straight and said quite accurately: "Isn't my father afraid that the city gate will catch fire and affect the fish in the pond? He asked me to keep an eye on the movements of the merchants in Zezhou Prefecture. Bai Zhili prepared 20,000 kilograms of saltpeter and prepared to put it in In the salt bag, it was sent outside the customs, but I found it. The 20,000 kilograms of saltpeter have been intercepted, and Shanxi Inspector Qiao Bixing personally inspected it."

"Your Majesty, if Qiao Bixing failed to report truthfully and even allowed this batch of saltpeter to flow into the grassland, then his purpose of criticizing Da Situ will be obvious."

"Isn't Qiao Bixing a member of your Jin Party?" Zhu Yijun said with a strange expression.

Wang Qian bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, the Jin Party is first and foremost the Jin Party of the Ming Dynasty."

It doesn't matter if you want to die, just don't involve the old Wang family.

(End of this chapter)