Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 496

Emperor Longwu was the most special one among the Nanming emperors. His rough experience in his early years, including being imprisoned twice, forged his tenacious personality and made him an ambitious and unyielding king.

The current impeachment is more like a farce, and it is impossible to overthrow a minister with real power, and Emperor Longwu's wisdom can naturally see it.

This time the impeachment was obviously insufficiently prepared and hastily acted. The most important thing was that a stunned youth was sent to lead the charge, overturning a boatload of people with one blow and making too many enemies.

But for Long Wu, Wang Yan really needed to be suppressed. Seeing Su Guansheng's demeanor, he knew that this matter was not organized by him, so who was going to deal with Wang Yan?

Emperor Longwu glanced at the audience, this is actually not important, success or not is not important, what is important is that he can see the situation in the court and those who oppose Wang Yan through this matter, so as to support and form checks and balances in the future.

But the result made him a little disappointed, because Liu Xiangke's impeachment was really bad. If he didn't want to see if his accomplice could move back to Yicheng, Long Wu would have killed him already.

At this time, the first person to stand up and scold Liu Xiangke was none other than Zuo Maodi. He was an old man who assisted the Chongzhen and Hongguang dynasties. He experienced the demise of the two dynasties. A national treasure.

Party struggle is the culprit of the country's subjugation. If the party struggle is not eliminated, it is impossible to win the victory. Zuo Mao was the first to go all the way, and he knew that the demise of the two dynasties was due to the party struggle.

When the parties fight together, the ministers will inevitably stand in line. In the end, you will fight each other in the court, which greatly consumes the national power, and it has become the situation in the Hongguang period. Domineering and domineering, or like the Donglin Party, they regard themselves as high-minded, have high-sightedness and low-handedness, and just enjoy their mouths.

After the establishment of the Longwu court, it was committed to eliminating party disputes, and the effect has been very good. Although Zuo Maodi saw that Wang Yan also had selfish intentions, who can truly be selfless?
At present, Zuo Maodi is very satisfied with the situation where Wang Yan is in charge of the outside world and the Wenchen Group is in charge of the inside. He does not want this state to be destroyed.

He has experienced the defeat of two imperial courts, and he has seen too much about attacking political enemies. He is very familiar with many methods. For the gentry group, it is basically useless to fight against the forces of Xunzhen. During the war, how could the gentry make a fortune in the back and enjoy the benefits brought by trade.

This is obviously a third-party force who wants to muddy the water and profit from it. If this is done according to the normal procedure and the case is filed for investigation and evidence collection, it will definitely chill the hearts of Wang Yan's faction. If he hesitates a little, people will expand the situation. That will arouse the suspicion between Xunzhen and the civil servants, resulting in civil and military disputes.

Zuo Maodi suddenly came out to scold, which woke up many civil servants like a dream. After hearing the impeachment, they were wondering which cabinet elder initiated the incident, and whether they should come out to support and echo, the chief assistant Zuo Maodi expressed his position , the civil servants all understood.

Seeing this, Pang Tianshou beat his chest and stamped his feet inwardly, and cursed inwardly, why did Yuan Pengnian find such an idiot? It depends on Xunzhen to fight the war.

In the main hall, Jin Bao, who had just stretched out half a step, wanted to confuse the matter, and expanded the situation, seeing this, quickly took back his steps, his face was a little unnatural, and cold sweat broke out from behind.

As the chief assistant, Zuo Maodi usually has a gentle appearance, and basically does not conflict with anyone, like an old matchmaker mediating the interests of various forces, basically does not envy others, seems to have no majesty, not as good as Su Guansheng's existence However, as soon as the elders of the three dynasties stood up, their prestige immediately overwhelmed the audience.

After Liu Xiangke released his ult, the task was completed. We will see how Jin Bao and others messed up the matter later. He was proud of himself, but Zuo Mao yelled at him angrily for the first time. It was originally agreed that he would take the lead and then come up to support All the allies shrank back, and he panicked all at once.

This is to sell friends?
Liu Xiangke glanced back, and several censors all bowed their heads and remained silent, and suddenly became angry, but Zuo Maodi wanted the emperor to kill him, so he could only bite the bullet and die just to the end, "Your Majesty, Duke Chu of Chu! From Zhao Yingyuan, a thief, he was introduced by the Zuoge Department and recruited into the army. The two have a close relationship. I suspect that the two have colluded with each other and have wrong intentions. Your Majesty, please investigate clearly!"

Zuo Maodi wanted to kill him with a stick, Liu Xiangke immediately bit back, but Longwu was very disappointed when he heard this, and Pang Tianshou beside him was even more heartbroken.

No wonder this person is not reused, neither the Civil Service Group nor Xun Town accepts this person. It turns out that he is not only a layman in foreign wars, but also not good at internal fighting.

Liu Xiangke offended Xun Zhen at first, and now he offended the civil servants. He is no longer tolerated by the court, and everyone else will step on him. Facing such naive opponents in politics, Zuo Maodi finally fought in person, but it was like an adult beating a child. No challenge.

"It is said that Chu Guogong and Benfu's intentions are not in harmony, then please Liu Yushi think about it, if there is no Chu Guogong's southern and northern wars, the court can settle down in Guangjing, I am afraid that Liu Yushi is still fleeing in the mountains of Bamin , the imperial court even wants to float on the sea." Zuo Maodi said lightly.

Liu Xiangke snorted coldly, there was indeed no argument.

Zuo Maodi smiled slightly, "Chu Guogong set up a military weapon supervision, built a gun workshop, standardized the manufacture of firearms, made Hongyi cannons that can bomb four miles, and built two thousand warships in Qiongzhou. There are such sharp artillery. And big ships, our navy will be invincible at sea, and even blocking the Yangtze River is no problem."

But Liu Xiangke said sadly, "It's just a trick."

Seeing this, Pang Tianshou knew that there was no chance of turning things around, so he immediately winked at Jin Bao as a cunning old man.

Zuo Maodi was not angry when he heard this, and turned to Su Guansheng: "Mr. Su Ge, may I ask how much the annual tax in Guangdong was before Chu Guogong came to town?"

Su Guansheng was almost tricked by this Liu Xiangke. A misunderstanding between him and Wang Yan almost led to a civil and military dispute. At this time, he naturally stood up and stated his position, "In the first year of Hongguang, the tax in the province of Guangdong was 120 taels, now after reforms to develop maritime trade and encourage commerce, it reached 300 million taels last year, this year the Lingqu Canal is dredged, Hunan and Jiangxi can also be connected by water, various materials are transported to trade, taxation in Guangdong is at least a breakthrough 400 million! This is the result of the commercial tax reform implemented by the court under the suggestion of Duke Chu."

"Liu Yushi, can you hear me clearly?" Zuo Maodi said sarcastically.

"Traitor, treacherous minister~" Liu Xiangke suddenly beat his chest and stomped his feet, "Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and industry and commerce, give up the basics and seek the end, and destroy the law of my ancestors. This is a traitorous minister in power, and the Ming Dynasty is in danger."

No need for Zuo Maodi to say anything more, but Jin Bao jumped out and cursed out of righteous indignation: "The princes in the palace can receive their salaries on time every month, and the imperial army can make a large-scale expedition to the east, all because of the imperial court's commercial tax reform! Your Majesty , This thief questioned the imperial government's state policy, slandered the minister, and spread rumors to cause trouble, so he can be killed directly."

"Your Majesty, I seconded the proposal to kill you in court!"

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