Ming Dynasty fake eunuch

Chapter 283 On Politics
In the capital of Daming in May, the weather has not yet warmed up, but the atmosphere is unusually lively.

According to Huang Zunsu's idea, Zhu Youxiao gave Ye Xun a decree, ordering Ye Xun to send troops to aid the dynasty, without any conditions or room for negotiation.

Huang Zunsu's proposal can be described as sinister. If Ye Xun sends troops, the Liaodong army may be dragged on the Korean battlefield, and the good situation that Liaodong has worked so hard to build before may be destroyed.

And if Ye Xun does not send troops, then the problem will be serious. Everyone knows the concept of disobedience and disobedience in this era, and Ye Xun will be criticized by thousands of people, and will be cast aside by all scholars who follow Confucianism. The public enemy of the world.

And another advantage of doing this is that we have an explanation to North Korea. You see, it’s not that we don’t help you. As for whether to send troops or not, that’s Ye Xun’s business. Give Ye Xun a hand.

When the decree was sent to Liaodong, Ye Xun was still in Jinzhou. Ye Xun didn't take this little trick seriously at all. In front of the eunuch who passed the decree, he expressed absolute obedience to His Majesty's order and saved the Korean people from suffering. middle.

Not only that, Ye Xun also issued orders to the Liaodong armies to enter the DPRK and participate in the war in front of the eunuch who passed the decree and the Korean envoys.

Then the eunuch who delivered the decree left disappointedly, and the North Korean envoy was also fooled away by Ye Xun, and then Ye Xun threw the imperial decree into the fire, doing whatever he had to do.

Of course, it was not only this incident that made the capital of Ming Dynasty lively, but also the impeachment memorial of Tao Lang, Governor of Denglai.

The content of the memorial is that Ye Xun violated the ancestral system, formed a fleet without authorization, and at the same time recruited sailors without authorization.

The appearance of this memorial once again set off new waves for the lifeless court.

This time Zhu Youxiao didn't discuss with anyone at all, and directly sent someone to Jinzhou for a thorough investigation. It wasn't because he was so anxious to confirm the matter, it was because Ye Xun was so mad.

It has been almost a month since Ye Xun sent troops to aid North Korea, but until now, not a single soldier has entered North Korea.

The North Korean envoys went to look for Ye Xun, but they couldn't find Ye Xun anymore. The court sent people to look for Ye Xun, but Ye Xun didn't hide, but just vomited bitterly in front of the court envoys. , There are all kinds of reasons for why the soldiers are disobedient, the army is gathering, there are Korean soldiers making trouble, etc. In short, they just don’t send troops.

After all this nonsense, a month passed quickly, and when Zhu Youxiao was thinking about whether to announce to the world and designate Ye Xun as a traitor, Tao Lang's impeachment memorial arrived.

It can be said that this memorial came too timely. If evidence of Ye Xun's violation of the ancestral system is caught, there is no need to wait until Zhu Youxiao's wedding to clean up Ye Xun. Get it and kill it.

As soon as the imperial censor sent to investigate Ye Xun left, the Ming Morning Post, which has always been popular in the capital, once again published a new article on the pros and cons of the Forbidden Sea.

On the busiest section of the capital, a restaurant that is said to be a British company behind the scenes reopened after renovation.

The decoration of the restaurant is novel, bright but not luxurious, even ordinary people can afford it, and the most attractive thing here is that there are always some scholars who are full of trains talking here, criticizing the current situation.

Forbidden sea is an ancestral system, and now Governor Denglai's memorial to impeach Ye Xun has been widely circulated in the capital, coupled with the news from the Ming Morning Post, it has immediately become a hot topic among scholars.

At noon, when the restaurant was full of customers, among the noisy voices, the conversations of the scholars at the table by the window quickly attracted everyone's attention.

"Ye Xun, the country is also a thief. My Ming Dynasty is rich in products. Why do I need those strange skills overseas? My Emperor Taizu took a long-term view and implemented the policy of banning the sea to prevent my Chinese people from being confused by those overseas countries. Now Ye Thief actually He is not a national traitor, who can deserve this title?"

Every time before a topic is discussed, there will always be a person who throws bricks and attracts jade, and then everyone will continue to debate on this topic.

As soon as the voice on this side fell, another voice continued: "Brother, what you said is wrong. Let's not talk about whether Eunuch Ye has actually built ships and recruited sailors. As far as I know, this Governor Tao is in Denglai How can such an official be trusted for corrupting the law and being extremely harsh to the local people? If my predictions are correct, he must have failed to blackmail Eunuch Ye, so he would find such an outrageous reason to impeach Eunuch Ye.”

Another person said: "Hearing what you two brothers said, I also remembered that my Celestial Dynasty has been established for more than [-] years, and I have always followed the ancestral system of banning the sea, but is this sea really banned? In the south of the Yangtze River, the government and businessmen have colluded with each other, and have long regarded the imperial court’s ban on sea transportation as a dead letter, and secretly earned large sums of silver through sea transportation. Officials or businessmen who come to benefit, I would like to ask my brother, what kind of behavior is this?"

The scholars who can study in the capital are almost all the sons of officials or wealthy businessmen. These people have a lot of knowledge and experience, so they naturally know what the imperial court's ban on sea is like in the south of the Yangtze River.

After a brief silence, a scholar said: "Jiangnan is the country's wealth center. If the revenue from shipping can be included in the national treasury, that is the real way to enrich the country!"

"Huh! Opening the sea and making the country rich? Thanks to your thinking, could it be that the Emperor Taizu didn't understand such a simple truth? Wasn't the Great Song Dynasty rich enough in the past? How about it! Isn't it still destroyed by Mongolia in the end, so following the ancestral system will not error"

While the scholars were discussing, no one noticed that on a table not far from them, there were a few men with dark faces, who had written down their words verbatim, and then walked away quietly taking advantage of the crowd up.

After Xu Xianchun's accident, Cui Yingyuan took over his position as he wished, and this guy has been completely regarded as Wei Zhongxian's loyal lackey. In order to win the favor of his master, Cui Yingyuan sent a large number of Jinyi guards to disguise themselves as ordinary people, wandering around all day long. On the street, as long as there are any unfavorable remarks against Wei Zhongxian, they will be locked up immediately.

It was Cui Yingyuan's subordinates who recorded the conversation of those scholars in the restaurant just now.

Because the topic of these scholars involved Ye Xun, these people found a place after they came out, sorted out what they had heard, and then sent it to Cui Yingyuan.

But he didn't think that Cui Yingyuan was not in the capital at this time, but went out of the city to pick up people. It must be unusual for the Commander of Jin Yiwei to pick him up in person.

Indeed, the person Cui Yingyuan wants to pick up is really very famous. He is Huang Taiji's special envoy, Tong Yangxing.
(End of this chapter)