General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 200
Inside the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Hai Rui was holding stacks of ledgers, reading in front of Ning Jue.

"..."

"Qian Xian should know that there are a total of 260 seven villages in Xishan, and 45 villages are currently vacating their fields. These are all villages that want to replant kapok."

"The lower official thinks he is stupid and doesn't know the profound meaning of the new law, so he can only work hard."

"If they continue to make trouble like this, maybe one or two years, there will still be old grains from previous years on the market to support them. Over time, these tenant farmers who have entered the city will starve to death."

"This time I come to Ning, I have no choice but to ask Qian Xian and Hai to jointly write to the imperial court to save the people in the southeast."

After finishing speaking, Hai Rui took out the playbook he had prepared.

Ning Jue pushed aside the memorabilia handed over by Hai Rui.

"Hai Xianzun, I can co-sign this memorial with you, but I want to hear Hai Xianzun's answer."

Hai Rui was obviously taken aback.

"I also ask Qian Xian to make it clear."

"Sacrificing one person to save the world and sacrificing the world to save one person."

"How do you choose Haixian Zun?"

Hai Rui said without any hesitation, "If there is someone in the Dead Sea who can save the world, even a certain person in the sea can die even if he dies..."

"The one who is going to die is not you."

Hai Rui was momentarily at a loss for words.

"Then what is the official position of this person, and all kinds of past events..."

Before Hai Rui could finish speaking, Ning Jue interrupted: "Hai Xianzun, do you think it matters who he is when he is facing the world?"

"Among the people in the world, there must be someone who is more evil than him, and there must be someone who is more kind than him."

"It's one person and the world, how does Haixian Zun choose?"

Hai Rui pondered for a moment and then said, "The world."

Just when Hai Rui said these two words.

Ning Jue pushed back Hai Rui's memorial.

Hai Rui looked at Ning Jue in astonishment.

"What does Qian Xian mean?"

"Hai Xianzun, you have chosen the world."

"But aren't the people of Xishan the common people in the world?"

"But compared with Qianqiu Wanshi, the living people in the two capitals and 13 provinces here are all that one person!"

"Compared with you and me in Xishan, the people of Xishan are the common people in the world."

"Compared with Xishan and Nanji, the people of Nanji are the common people in the world."

"Compared with Nanji and the 13 provinces in the two capitals, the 13 provinces in the two capitals are the common people in the world."

"Compared to Qianqiu Wanshi, you and I, Daming, are all alone."

Regard the ancients and descendants as the present.

For Hai Rui, it was not difficult to understand.

The mighty 5000-year history books allow the people on this land to transcend the constraints of time.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate was silent for a long time, and Hai Rui finally spoke after some time.

"If the imperial court does not change this law, will future generations remember us?"

"No, because this thunder is destined not to be blown up in Daming's hands, and everything will be experienced by the princes and generals of the next dynasty, maybe Beilu, or another Taizu Emperor Gao."

Hai Rui lowered his head and said, "Is that all?"

"Of course not."

"Obligations must be paid back. Those who are left behind by Ming Dynasty and later generations will be repaid by the descendants of later generations!"

Hai Rui gritted his teeth and continued in a low voice, "How can you tell?"

"Is this not enough?" Ning Jue took out a small shuttle with a copper wire spring from his sleeve.

"This is Xishan's flying shuttle, Haixian Zun should have seen it."

"Yes."

Ning Jue smashed the shuttle on the desk, the shuttle bounced up and fell to the ground.

"But this is copper that weighs less than half a penny, embedded in a piece of wood!"

"Anyone with a brain can think of it!"

"The water-turning spinning wheel that existed in the Southern Song Dynasty, something that more than ten generations of people have not thought of in 300 years, was forced out by a few merchants!"

"There are not only merchants in Ming Dynasty in the whole world, but what merchants can force out is not just one or two shuttles and spinning wheels."

"After they have so many things, what will they do?"

Hai Rui murmured subconsciously, "My son carried money into the busy market."

Only then did Hai Rui look up.

"But the people are already suffering enough, no matter how the reforms are changed, they still have to suffer the people in the end."

Sitting in the hall, Ning Jue had no choice but to say perfunctorily: "Some sufferings are for one's own selfish desires, which will not benefit future generations, and will only benefit one's own selfishness."

"But do the people deserve to starve to death? They can't even make ends meet!"

Hearing this, Ning Jue looked at Hai Rui.

"That's why I asked Hai Xianzun just now, whether to save one person or save the world."

"So this is just a choice, there is no right or wrong, no matter how Haixian Zun chooses Haixian Zun, it is Hai Qingtian in the eyes of the people."

"How to choose Haixian Zun, and how to do Ning."

After finishing speaking, Ning Jue reopened Hai Rui's memorial, and signed his name at the end of the memorial.

"It's still early, Hai Xianzun can think about it slowly."

What was sweating in his hands was the memorabilia that Hai Rui begged for at the risk of being dismissed from office.

Outside the Tianjie Street, there were crowds of people and people bustling with each other, but in Hai Rui's eyes, the people on the street changed their appearance.

In addition to the common people wearing Ming Dynasty clothes, there were also people wearing Han and Tang clothes, and some people straddling horses and holding whips, just like the former Yuan Dynasty, and some wore clothes of unknown dynasty.

Hai Rui was looking at them, and they were also looking at Hai Rui.

It is they who make the decision, but it is the people who have to pay the price.

Only then did Hai Rui understand why Ning Jue didn't want to see him.
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Xiyuan, Wuyi Hall.

Xu Jie, who had been on leave, suddenly appeared.

Yan Song, who was sitting in the value hut, saw Xu Jie's expression, but seemed to have guessed something.

"Zisheng, go and come back again, I'm afraid there is something important to discuss."

Xu Jie nodded slightly.

"Old Yan Ge, this junior has worked with you for many years, and I have offended you a lot before, and Xu hereby apologizes to you."

Hearing Xu Jie's words, Yan Song's heart sank, and he blurted out: "I'll go with you."

Xu Jie was taken aback for a moment and then calmed down again.

"Our monarchs and ministers have been talking for so many years, it's time to confess our hearts." Yan Song continued.

The two each explained a lot about the affairs of the cabinet.

Then they walked towards Jiajing's palace in tandem.

In the palace pavilion, cigarettes are curling up, and the copper coins that were originally placed in the palace have long since disappeared.

Jiajing seemed to have returned to his previous self-absorbed self-cultivation.

"Minister Yan Song/Xu Jie, pay homage to Your Majesty."

Huang Jin came forward and said, "You two elders, Your Majesty is in retreat..."

Don't wait for Huang Jin to finish speaking.

Jiajing's voice had already sounded in the hall.

"Everyone else stepped back, Elder Yan Ge and Elder Xu Ge entered the palace and gave them seats."

Huang Jin stopped making a sound, and sang to himself, leading Xu Jie and Yan Song towards the inside of the monastery.

It was only when Yan Song and Xu Jie saw Jiajing.

Only then did I realize that Jiajing was obviously much older.

As soon as Fang saw Jiajing, Xu Jie and Yan Song did not sit down, but simply knelt down in front of Jiajing.

"The minister is guilty."

In the face of the general trend, power tactics can only be delayed for a while, and cannot cover up much.

This is destined to be the most heart-to-heart discussion between the three of them in their lives.

"How much money did Yan Shifan and Xu Fan borrow?"

"The son went to Zhejiang a few days ago, with a loan of 100 million taels of silver and more than [-] guan of copper coins. The old minister has no way to teach his son." Yan Song knocked himself down and said, "I don't want to live, but I only hope that my father can leave a ray of incense for Yan's family."

Xu Jie also bowed his head and kowtowed.

"Xu Fan, the rebellious son of the criminal minister, in the name of the criminal minister, snatched a million taels of silver. The criminal minister will die to repay the king's kindness, and he knows the death penalty."

The two old foxes didn't even make a detour, and they came to have a showdown with Jiajing today.

Obviously the situation is much more serious than Jiajing thought.

"You two elders, do you have any advice?"

Xu Jie and Yan Song were silent.

"Say!" Jiajing forced the word out between his teeth.

Yan Song and Xu Jie fell to the ground and said in unison: "Abolish the new law!"

Hearing what the two said, Jiajing's face darkened.

Xu Jie even kowtowed his head and said, "I am willing to do my best for His Majesty, and I am willing to lead the elite soldiers from the nine sides to sweep south of the Yangtze River with Zhen Lubo!"

Jiajing was very clear in his heart.

The root of everything lies in the whipping method.

The whip method holds money and silver in the hands of the emperor, no matter how godlike a person is, he is still a human being after all.

Only at the moment when Bayi danced in the court, was Jiajing truly in control of the power like the sun at the top of the sky, and after the sun is at the top of the sky, it is destined that the sun will fall at noon, and everything will be reversed.

At that time, Jiajing was blinded by money, and he even forgot the Tao Te Ching on his body.

It wasn't until Jin Yiwei reported that Xu Fan risked his beheading and changed the Xu family's field to kapok, Jiajing realized that as long as the new law was still implemented, such incidents in Jiangnan were inevitable.

There is no Xu Jie and Yan Song, but there are Yan Jie and Xu Song.

The sky is full of silver and copper coins, and you need to find a place to take refuge. The only way to break this situation is to abolish the new law, or permanently anchor the whip method on copper coins or silver, and turn the silver into a whip for the disabled.

If only that's the case.

The money and silver were all borrowed and spent.

If you change it back hastily, Jiangnan must use swords and soldiers to give up.

After a long time, Jiajing said in despair, "Wanfang is guilty, and I am the one who is guilty."

"All criminals shall die."

"I, Yong Jun."

"Your Majesty is talented, wise and knowledgeable, and is definitely not a mediocre master. It is all the fault of your ministers." Yan Song and Xu Jie bowed down.

Jiajing knew far more than Xu Jie and Yan Song.

The Xu family and the Yan family were not the only ones doing this.

In a certain sense, Jiangnan is getting out of control, and there is no other way but to transfer troops.

In Jiajing's vision, Jiajing used the whip method to exercise the power of wealth and wealth, and held the power of the emperor to rule the world.

Jiajing thought that he could hold both money and power firmly.

It's just that history happily gave Jiajing a big ear.

History has come to this stage.

In the face of new things, the originally loose feudal dynasty organizational structure full of holes is destined to be eroded and infiltrated.

The feudal dynasty is based on people controlling people. As long as people are people, they must have selfishness. The so-called emperor's edict is just a piece of paper. When it comes to counties and counties, people still need to implement it.

in the original history.

The old man Shiquan who succeeded to the throne with a golden key in his mouth became the most emperor in the 2000 years of the imperial system. He was keenly aware that money and power had to be chosen, and he chose power without hesitation, because he had never been poor. , since he was born, he was raised as a prince.

But Jiajing was not the case. He was born in a small city in Huguang, and in that city, several vassal kings had been extinct before Xingfu.

As soon as Fang succeeded to the throne, what he saw was the annual deficit of 300 million taels left by the aggressive Yang Tinghe and his cousin Zhu Houzhao.

As a smart person, Jiajing is definitely the smartest emperor in thousands of years, not even one of them.

But as the emperor and the master of Chinese materials, he is also worthy of the name.

Because in the first 15 years of his life, the officials of the palace only taught him how to be a vassal king with all his heart, and even Huang Jin, the most confidant companion, was originally the Dongchang spy sent by his cousin to monitor him.

In the end, Jiajing's eyes were already bloodshot, and he gritted his teeth and stared at Xu Jie and Yan Song in a low voice:

"I can be Jie and Zhou, but the crown prince must be that Yao and Shun, you two elders, do you understand?"

"Sir, you understand."

After Xu Jie and Yan Song left, Jiajing leaned physically and mentally exhausted on the futon of the jingshe.

"Huang Jin, tell Uncle Zhen, let's go all out first."

"Here."

When you are not sure whether you will execute your order, the first thing to do is to shut up.

Hold on to the cards you can control.

It's better to have a layer of window paper behind it than nothing.

Even at this time, Jiajing, as the Son of Heaven, still has a chance to go back. The tyrants in the south of the Yangtze River have no room to fight back in front of millions of elite soldiers, but the Qianyan like a deep well is still affecting his judgment.

Because Daming has indeed become rich and powerful because of this, if the new law that he personally facilitated is overthrown, Jiajing will be the biggest laughing stock in the past 3000 years.
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Hai Rui in Nanjing also made his own choice.

He didn't believe that Daming had only these two options.

Between these two roads, there must be a smooth road.

(End of this chapter)