General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 144 Don't forget the living people
"Brother Ning, just listen to me, this south of the Yangtze River is a den of tigers and wolves, you really can't go there!"

"Su Qing, bring those pens to me. Things in Jiangnan are too expensive, and those in this province should be spent." Ning Jue carried a few stacks of books and put them into the cage.

Ning Jue didn't bring too many things with him when he went to Henan earlier, that is, on a short business trip. This time, he didn't know how long it would take to go to Jiangnan, but fortunately, Ning Jue brought everything he could bring with him.

Zhang Juzheng was still chattering on the sidelines.

"Brother Ning! Su Qing! Don't clean up!"

Gao Gong was carrying two quilts by himself and looked at Zhang Juzheng in a daze.

"I, shall I put it back?"

Zhang Juzheng pulled Ning Jue over.

"Brother Ning, do you know how many gentry in the south of the Yangtze River want to take Brother Ning's head after Zidanding enters the mother's discussion?"

Ning Jue was startled when he heard this.

"There are really so many people who want to take my head?"

"Really!"

"Su Qing! Hurry up, don't let people wait in a hurry!"

"Hey."

Hearing this, Zhang Juzheng almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

"Brother Ning! If there is something wrong with you, what should we do with this new law?"

"There are still you in the new law! If I die in the south of the Yangtze River, wouldn't the prince just have a reason to sweep up Liting? Tens of thousands of soldiers were dispatched to flatten the south of the Yangtze River. Let's see who dares to obstruct the new law?!"

"Brother Ning, I'm afraid you don't know how powerful the scholars in Jiangnan are. The princes in Jiangnan have exercised historical power for a long time, and they can kill people with hair cones! Brother Ning is brave and not afraid of death, so don't you even care about the reputation behind you?"

Seeing that Zhang Juzheng couldn't scare Ning Jue, he could only use Qingming to intimidate him.

Ning Jue pondered for a moment.

"Then he kills people with hair cones, doesn't he have to wait after I die?"

"That's right, Brother Ning will be speechless at that time, wouldn't it be up to them to decide?"

"Then let them say what they say." Ning Jue looked at Zhang Juzheng helplessly and continued: "Someone in the south of the Yangtze River has to go this time. You can't go, the crown prince can't go, I can only go, others go, just those clansmen of Ming Dynasty, do you really think those clansmen of Yifu can beat the gentry? It's nothing more than a few reckless men."

Zhang Juzheng looked at Gao Gong at a loss.

"Suqing, don't just clean up, you should persuade me."

"Okay, Kezhong, the south of the Yangtze River is dangerous, so let me go." Gao Gong looked at Ning Jue sincerely.

Gao Gong is almost extremely pragmatic. He is well aware of the troubles of the Ming Dynasty. The troubles are in the southeast, and he has long thought of going to the south of the Yangtze River.

Ning Jue directly interrupted Gao Gong: "You think beautifully! Your Majesty let me go, give me the quilt."

Zhang Juzheng looked at Gao Gong in front of him speechlessly.

"Su Qing, is there anyone who persuades people like this?"

"But that's what I thought!"

Zhang Juzheng was speechless.

After packing the bags, Ning Jue led the two of them towards the forbidden area.

Since Zhu Zaiyu was crowned, he assisted in government affairs in the Wuyi Hall in the morning and evening, and went to the Wenhua Hall in the afternoon to catch up on sleep. Ning Jue counted and took the two of them directly to the Wuyi Hall.

"Your Highness, I have come to say goodbye."

Ning Jue stepped into the Wuyi Hall, and handed a playbook to the servant.

Hearing Ning Jue's voice, Zhu Zaishun raised his head.

"Master Ning, we are going to the south of the Yangtze River. The mountains are high and the road is obstructed. I'm afraid we won't be able to see each other for a year or so. I'm alone...Master Ning, can you stop laughing? I'm almost out of words."

Ning Jue continued to laugh and said, "Your Highness, the new law is nothing more than a whipping law, which can be distributed to the family, and the rest are trivial matters. As long as the customs and the whipping law are clarified, the affairs of the world will not be difficult."

Only then did Zhu Zaixun stand up and said: "I remember Master Ning's teachings, and I hope Master Ning will have a smooth sailing."

"Don't worry, Your Highness, I'm going now."

That's a lot of money!

The real event of digging the graves of the gentry.

Maybe as soon as I left the capital, someone chiselled a boat and threw it into the river to feed shrimps.

Who can resist this!

Zhang Juzheng looked at Zhu Zaixun in disbelief.

"Your Highness, why did you let Brother Ning go?"

"Otherwise, what else can we do? Master Ning himself wants to go with the imperial father's decree. Besides, Jiangnan really needs someone to watch over."

"Can……"

Zhu Zaisheng winked at Zhang Juzheng.

"Don't worry, Mr. Zhang, Gu has other arrangements."

Seeing what Zhu Zaizhen said, Zhang Juzheng had no choice but to give up.

After Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong left, Jiajing's voice sounded from behind Wuyi Hall.

"Okay, what Xu Pengju has done recently is really not decent."

"I have approved the memorabilia of Cheng Guogong moving the town to Nanjing."

"My son thanked my father."

The arrangement Zhu Zaixun made for Ning Jue was Cheng Guogong Zhu Xizhong.

"You know why I sent Ning Ke to the south of the Yangtze River?"

Zhu Zaiyu bowed his head and remained silent when he heard the words.

He knows, but he doesn't want to say it.

Seeing Zhu Zaiyu's appearance, Jiajing's face was slightly displeased.

"This Ning Jue, although I don't know what he is planning, but he can use it after all. It's just that he has no relatives and no reason, so it is difficult to control. After he returns from Jinling, even if he does not marry a wife and have children, he will have a group of enemies among the people. This sword can be regarded as sharpened."

"But Master Ning has no shortage of enemies in the court."

Zhu Zaiyu looked at Jiajing with some puzzlement.

Jiajing shook his head.

"Xu Jie? Yan Song? That's a real enemy, someone buried up to his neck in loess."

"If this new law fails, you don't need them to kill Ning Jue."

"If the new law is implemented, Ning Kezhong's current enemies in the court will no longer be in the court."

"At that time, Ning Ke will finally claim to be the first to reform the law. How can you control it? If you are not careful, you will be slandered."

"The children of Jiangdong are so talented..." Before finishing the poem, Jiajing felt a little unlucky and stopped reading.

When the new party becomes the old party, the imperial court will need a new new party to check and balance the old party.

In short, Jiajing needs Ning Jue to offend some people who are not currently in the court, but will appear in the court in the future.

But to achieve this, Ning Jue had to be released.

Zhu Zaiyu bowed his head and remained silent, and after pondering for a long time, he said in a low voice: "Even if I have reached that point, Master Ning will retire at that time, or be awarded a title and honor, I think it is reasonable."

Jiajing said meaningfully: "Whether you want to kill or not is one thing."

"Whether it can be killed, whether it can be killed cleanly, is another matter."

Zhu Zaiyu looked at Jiajing with some doubts.

"But, if such a person is allowed to enter the court again, wouldn't it mean that the new law has failed?"

"There are not only those famous families and poor families in the world. The court wants newcomers, not saints. The newcomers can't clean their buttocks. Ning Ke will end up going to the south of the Yangtze River, and he will inevitably offend them."

"The newcomer that the emperor said is...?"

"A few days ago there were changes in Beijing, didn't you already see it?"

Zhu Zaiyu said in astonishment: "Father is talking about businessmen? Since ancient times, people have emphasized farming and studying while neglecting merchants. If a businessman enters the house, wouldn't it be putting the cart before the horse?"

The capital made such a fuss, and Jiajing also noticed the potential of the businessman.

This group of people can make money, they are very similar to scholars, and they are also willing to enter the game. Jiajing can feel that these people are likely to be the upstarts after the new law.

"Those who have always rebelled are farmers. I have never heard of a businessman being able to fall out."

"The fields in the world are limited, but the breeding of human beings is infinite. There will always be someone to plant the fields. What the imperial court needs to worry about now is what those people who have no fields to plant will do in the future."

"During the time of Wen Jing, there were also restrictions on opening and closing beams and relaxing Shanze. Besides, my Ming Dynasty can't count on Ning Ke to live forever."

Wang Mang's reform and Wang Anshi's reform could not be due to the large number of people and the lack of land.

Mergers have existed since ancient times.

Compared with Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Jiajing did not treat merchants with the same contempt as the former emperor.

The most important thing is, even if Ning Jue really doesn't care about fame and wealth, and is dedicated to serving the country, how many people are there in the past and present?

Old foxes like Yan Song and Xu Jie are indeed cunning, but such people are valuable because they are inexhaustible.

"But in this way, isn't this reform just like overthrowing a group of famous families and then creating a new group of famous families?"

Listening to Zhu Zaiyu's doubts, Jiajing pondered for a long time, and after a long time, Jiajing's voice sounded again.

"At least, stronger than now."

After saying that, Jiajing walked towards the Abode,
Looking at Jiajing's back, this time Zhu Zaishun didn't feel too much trouble in his heart.

The more the cabinet's memorials were read, the more Zhu Zaixun felt that the "ruling the world with the great way" in the mouth of the sage was farther away.

Jiajing just punctured the last little fantasy left in his heart.

The former Jiajing was also a young emperor. He had been in power for 30 years, and Jiajing also saw it through.

Even if the new law turns into flowers, at best it will save the people from hunger and cold.

If it weren't for the fact that the country had been accumulating abuses to a certain extent and many things were half done, Jiajing wouldn't be bothered to make such a fuss.

Zhu Zaiyu returned to the imperial case with a complicated mood, and only then looked at the last memorial written by Ning Jue before his departure.

After unfolding the mounted playbook, I found that there were only four words written on the playbook.

"Don't forget the living people."

Looking at these four words, Zhu Zaiyu's mood calmed down a little.

Better than you are now, and better than doing nothing.
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On the Grand Canal.

The willows on both sides of the bank are lingering, and the river is calm.

One after another, the tank boats traveled from north to south, going south and down the river.

On a slightly ostentatious tank boat, the flag with the word "Zhu" fluttered in the wind. Around this boat, there were five hundred soldiers selected and trained by Zhu Xizhong.

And above the cabin, Duke Cheng of the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Xizhong, the defender of Nanjing, were laughing loudly with their arms around the shoulders of the new Imperial Procuratorate's right-hand officer, Shi Ningjue.

"Brother Ning Xian, that bastard Ding Rukui almost scared me to death earlier."

"It was said that His Majesty wanted me to stay in Master Zhou Haosheng to study military affairs. I was so scared that I had nightmares all night long."

"As soon as this order is issued, guard Jinling! Hahaha, I'm still walking with you!"

"I told you a long time ago that you are my nobleman, don't you believe me? My family has an old house in Jinling, which was given by Emperor Wen during the Yongle period. Don't worry, brother Ning Xian, when you arrive in Jinling, I will arrange everything properly for you!"

this moment.

Ning Jue's silence was deafening.

(End of this chapter)