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Volume One, Border Town at Night, Chapter 738: Walking Thousands of Miles

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    Nanjing city is hotter than Beijing city.  The city of Beijing is sizzling and scorching hot; the city of Nanjing is sultry and humid; water can squeeze out even if you take off your close-fitting clothes and twist them.  A young man in soap clothes stood up and said: "Mr. En, news came from the palace. His Majesty summoned Fang Yizhi, Chen Zilong and Feng Qin to Qianqing Palace for a long talk for nearly an hour." "Three people? Feng Qin is also going.  "Yes?" "Exactly." Zong Mao's fair hands clenched into fists, and there was an evil look in his brows.  "Chen Zilong is relying on his old age. As he is the father-in-law of the prince, he should not get involved in the court. Is Fengqin out of his mind?" Zong Mao's nervousness and anger were obvious, which surprised the guards in front of him.  Ever since he came to work for the Prime Minister, he has never seen the Prime Minister behave like this.  "Have you found out who reported to your majesty about the labor slaves in Jiangnan?" The guard arrived: "Not yet, I don't know if it was Jinyiwei or Dongchang." Zongmao pondered for a moment and said sternly: "Jinyiwei is not open to the outside world, but Dongchang who dares to do it behind his back?  "I am so domineering. This is his usual attitude. "Didn't you find out the content of His Majesty's conversation with the three of them?" "No, but the chamberlain said that after the three of them left, His Majesty checked the resumes of the two people.  Zhang Ying, governor of Huguang, and Yu Chenglong, governor of Shaanxi, were stunned. He was silent for a long time and waved his hands: "Go ahead." "A person who has been prime minister for fifteen years has more power than one person."  Power, of course, can quickly detect the crisis in the court.  Some of the emperor's five chamberlains were willing to join the Prime Minister's Palace.  That means endless wealth. You don't need to take money from the prime minister, there will be countless merchants and workshops willing to send money to your door.  "Zhang Ying and Yu Chenglong?" Zong Mao's face was clouded, and the storm was about to come.  For the first time in fifteen years, he felt that a crisis was looming over him.  When the three founding ministers met with His Majesty, he just passed it by in his mind and did not take it seriously.  Because no one can grasp His Majesty's thoughts more accurately than him, not even Liu Suifeng.  "Your Majesty may seem lazy, but in fact he has a heart to create a prosperous age in the Great Zhou Dynasty.  In the past fifteen years, countless people have come to the emperor to remonstrate with him about his faults, and more than once someone even tried to remonstrate with his own life, but all to no avail.  Because, Your Majesty cannot live without him.  But this time it was different, from when he was forcibly sent to Nanzhili to clean up the mess, to when three important ministers met with His Majesty when he left the capital, to when Your Majesty reviewed the resumes of these two governors.  Everything is different.  There are dozens of governors in the Great Zhou Dynasty, including the Western Region Protectorate, Liaodong Protectorate, Mobei Protectorate outside the Great Wall, and the Nanhai Protectorate in Nanyang. The identities of these two governors are too special.  "These two literati were not members of his prime minister's family, and they had never called him Enxiang.  His Majesty only asked one person. The two people he summoned were people he didn¡¯t deal with very well.  Zhang Ying, Zhang Bingyin and Fang Yizhi are from the Tongcheng faction and are close to the remnants of Donglin.  Yu Chenglong, on the other hand, was a poor man. When he took office as governor of Henan, he once arrested the servants working in the Prime Minister's Mansion and threw them into prison.  "Your Majesty doesn't trust me?" Zong Mao felt a trace of panic in his heart.  Back then, he forced Zhang Mingzhen to death and promoted His Majesty to the position of general, but he was ruthlessly demoted to Ningbo to think about his mistakes behind closed doors.  For a whole year, he took the "Diamond Sutra" that His Majesty threw to him and panicked for a whole year, thinking that His Majesty did not believe him.  How could someone like him understand the Diamond Sutra?  "I want to return to the capital as soon as possible" Zongmao made an instant decision.  He didn't care about the people in Nanzhili, so he just went on a killing spree to obey His Majesty's wishes.  The situation of labor slaves in Southern Zhili is indeed very serious.  There are 30,000 to 40,000 Kunlun slaves working in the mines, and the mines only provide food and no pay.  Once these black people were caught escaping, they would be killed with sticks and buried deep in the mountains.  In the eyes of the owners, Kunlun slaves are not human beings, but livestock they bought.  In the past two years, some bold workshop owners have treated Han Chinese equally. Now there is no workshop without hundreds of well-equipped guards.  "Here comes someone" Zong Mao greeted outside.  "Here" "Call Wang Yuekui over to me" "Yes" In less than a cup of tea, Wang Yuekui ran in from the gate of the mansion panting: "Enxiang, are you summoning my subordinates?" He came so quickly, Zong Mao  Very surprised.  Since he came to Nanjing, has the Governor of Southern Zhili done nothing and just waited for the call? "The Li family in Yiwu, the Cai family in Suzhou, and the two Xia families in Songjiang," Zong Mao thought for a while  , "There is also the peaceful Ding family,That's all, take all the heads of the five families into custody.  " "Ah" Wang Yuekui opened his mouth with a look of shock on his face. Zong Mao didn't look down at him. He shook his head and said: "No, well, put these whole families in prison."  " "Enxiang" Wang Yuekui knelt down with a plop, "Enxiang, you must not do this." "Get up" Zong Mao was furious and kicked Wang Yuekui on the shoulder: "Why not?"  Can't the truth still touch these people?  "Wang Yuekui knelt on the ground and didn't dare to move. Zong Mao figured it out instantly: "How much did you charge them?  "Wang Yuekui didn't dare to speak directly. He just kowtowed and said: "As soon as these people are arrested, Jiangnan will be in chaos. Two to three hundred thousand young men will have nowhere to go. Moreover, those few people are not good people. They are all hiding.  Official shortcomings.  " "Trash" Zong Mao kicked him hard again, "As a second-rank official of the imperial court, it is really embarrassing to be caught by several bosses.  "Wang Yuekui gritted his teeth and accepted it. For more than ten years, the prime minister had taken good care of his subordinates, but once the matter got to the emperor and he couldn't cover it up, it was the favored prime minister who was the most ruthless. He knew that the emperor's training was the reason why the prime minister went south this time.  Therefore, he has been restless these days. Once the cover of the labor slaves is uncovered, he will be dead.  In fact, those people can't be called people.  The people in Jiangnan were forced to work as slaves, and the officials ordered the families to resolve it as soon as possible, even if they were given some compensation.  "    "compensate?  Zong Mao sneered: "Some people have killed several people, can they ask for compensation?"  " Wang Yuekui was stunned for a moment and said: "There are not many people like this, so we can just solve it directly.  "It's a matter of thousands of lives and deaths," he said easily, "and we settled the matter on the grounds of labor slave riots."  "Zong Mao really regrets why he found such an idiot disciple: "You have shit in your head. Your Majesty asked me to come to Jiangnan to see how I can deceive him?  He said coldly: "This matter is not negotiable. If you really can't escape, I will save your life." "Enxiang" Wang Yuekui often collapsed and wanted to cry without tears.  Zong Mao has made up his mind and will not change it: "Okay, you have settled the matter in the past few days. If anyone dares to resist the imperial court, you can ask the governor Jiang Rou to send troops. Wang Yuekui resigned. With Zong Mao as prime minister, local governments will handle matters more efficiently  There was no choice. Five days later, Prime Minister Zhou left the panicked Jiangnan and embarked on the ship back north. This was the safest way. He just wanted to put the blame on Wang Yuekui.  Whatever he wanted to do, no one could do it better than him. This was the secret of his standing in power for fifteen years. He had just returned to the capital, and before he had time to enter the palace to see the emperor, news came from the inner palace: "Your Majesty has summoned him."  Shaanxi Governor Yu Chenglong came to Beijing and took up the post of Dali Temple Minister. This was really a blow. The Dali Temple Minister was in charge of the world's prisons, which was Zong Mao's Achilles' heel.  If Yu Chenglong, a stubborn person who doesn't know how to advance or retreat, is allowed to become the Minister of Dali Temple, he will not only have no peace from now on, but also have so many old cases from the past.  Your Majesty, what does this mean?  Zong Mao hid in the Prime Minister's Mansion and did not go out for two days in a row because of illness. He did not go to the Chancellery or enter the palace.  Before Yu Chenglong entered Beijing, the tone of Beijing changed.  The sensitivity of the ministers in the DPRK is not bad. After the emperor forced the prime minister to go south, a series of actions made many sharks smell the smell of blood.  Only the academy remains the same as before.  Huang Zongxi was saying: "The harm to the world lies with you." He saw Fang Yizhi's figure outside the door.  ¡°That¡¯s all for today.¡± He waved his hand and ordered his disciples to retreat.  Fang Yizhi walked in, swinging a folding fan: "You have scolded His Majesty for so many years, but you haven't scolded him enough." Huang Zongxi said with a straight face: "Is there anything more enjoyable in the world than scolding the emperor? It can be used as a side dish."  "No matter how delicious the food is, don't you get tired of it after eating too much?" The two walked into the back room side by side.  "I'm here today to tell you that I'm resigning," Fang Yizhi said sadly, "Your Majesty asked the Prime Minister to give a speech, so the academy no longer needs me." "You want to leave? Where are you going?"  "Since the translation of "Elements of Geometry", I have been friends with Tang Ruowang for more than ten years. He often talks to me about Europa. I have always wanted to go to Europa. "Huang Zongxi seemed to be struck by a lightning, and his appearance was like a thunderbolt.  Jiao Linen: ¡°Europa?  Why do you want to go to that kind of barbarian land?  " Fang Yizhi said seriously: "The place where the book "Elements of Geometry" could be left thousands of years ago was not a barbarian land.  " Huang Zongxi was anxious: "At your age, you still have to cross the ocean.Afraid of dying in a foreign country?  " Fang Yizhi looked out the window and said leisurely: "Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles.  When I was young, my heart was just a little smaller than your Majesty's. I wanted to compile a book for the world and leave my name for eternity. Now I realize that I was arrogant and ignorant back then, but I could only do a few things well in my lifetime. This is what I can do for myself.  The last thing.  " Huang Zongxi was silent, unable to say any words of dissuasion. He suddenly found that he had known Fang Yizhi for decades and had never really understood this good friend. " He must have been protecting him for so many years.  Without Fang Yizhi's mediation, how could Zong Mao tolerate his nonsense? "Have you really thought about it?  " "I have thought about it a long time ago," Fang Yizhi raised his eyebrows, "His Majesty called Yu Chenglong to the capital to give the Zong Prime Minister a step up. The person who will be the Prime Minister again will most likely be Zhang Ying. He will only take care of the academy, not the academy.  I will cause trouble for you. Am I staying here just to suppress Zhang Ying?  "He laughed easily.
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