Chapter 809: Crocodile's Tears (Part II)

Zheng Lang smiled and said, "Deng Neishi, haven't you read the loyalty and forgiveness I wrote?" ”

Deng Baoji, Ren Shouzhong and other eunuchs are Zhao Shu's henchmen, but they have nothing to do with Zheng Lang. But Zheng Lang's personality is generally gentle, and he has always spoken very politely. This point was also recognized by the eunuchs in the palace.

Gannei could not answer.

Of course, I have seen it, this time Zheng Lang cultivated Confucianism, which caused a sensation in the world, not only almost all the scholars are watching, but the emperor is also watching, and I heard that the little emperors of Liao and Western Xia are also watching. It is not easy to stay in the palace to survive, but also to be knowledgeable, the great eunuchs also often read, as for Zheng Lang's benevolence and moderation this time, or etiquette, filial piety, loyalty, forgiveness, and wisdom, Gan Nei Shi not only saw it, but also read it several times.

Zheng Lang still smiled.

At this time, things have changed, at this time, Gao Taotao is putting the truth aside, there is no evidence, not many people may believe it, on the contrary, people will think that Zhao Shu and his wife have teamed up to frame themselves.

But there is no need to break the net with Gao Taoyu.

Zheng Lang said again: "You come with me." ”

Deng Baoji was taken out of the mourning shed and to the south of the academy, where there were also countless workshops, several tall buildings, and several tall concrete blast furnaces made of invented cement and smelted steel bars.

Zheng Lang said: "These workshops don't have any products, just for research and development. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been invested before and after, countless labor, and the hard work of me and the students of the academy. Without him, it is for the sake of the country. In the past, when Zhang Fangping was the third envoy, he asked me if I had a method similar to the Ping'an Prison to collect money, and I said no. Later, due to the country's financial difficulties, he wanted to go out of the bank. Then Pang Ji asked me if there was anything like a bank to collect money, and I said no. Yes, it's just hard to figure it out. ”

"yes, how can this be casual," Deng Baoji said.

To put it simply, if the state is not big. 100 million yuan a year is enough to spend, this Zheng Xianggong when he was in the Chinese book, once controlled the state expenses to only 110 million yuan a year, if there are four or five similar banks as supervisors, does the state do not need to levy taxes, to meet the state expenses? There are no taxes. Yao Shunyu soup probably can't be done. But it can't be. A safe prison and a bank is already a miracle.

But Zheng Lang's following words surprised him a little, Zheng Lang said: "If the dozens of projects are successfully researched, it will not only bring huge wealth to the people, but it will also become the second safety prison, although it is not as good as the bank prison, but it may bring more than 10 million yuan of income to the country in a year." ”

"Really?"

"Gan Nei, others may say falsehood, but I don't like it."

"Yes. Yes, Gong Zheng has always promised a thousand dollars, and I will go back to report to Your Majesty. ”

"Don't worry, think about it, how many years has an artillery been studied? I haven't succeeded yet, and if I succeed, I'll hand it over to the state. But that's what I want to say. Where does the cost of these studies come from? They are the ones I allocated from the workshop properties of several princesses, and now fifty percent of the proceeds have been used for national research and development, and half of the remaining fifty percent of the proceeds are used for charity. Several highnesses only received more than 20% of them. Why? Is this for Your Majesty, for Your Majesty's country. You say that I am loyal to the first emperor, have I been loyal to His Majesty? If you are only loyal to the first emperor. Why bother to hand them over to the imperial court, can't they be classified as the property of several princesses? Could it be that if I crossed it, the court would not allow it? ”

Gan Neisquer could not answer.

"This is one of them, the queen is suspicious. But it's because of my sanity, right? Zheng Lang stepped on the small ridge covered with grass, and returned to the spiritual shed with Gannei, as he spoke.

At this point, Confucianism was basically constructed, and what was not composed was only its specific practicality.

Shengzhi was a little vague because he was secretive.

The general idea, everyone can still see, the main thing is about the monarch and the minister, the first look at the virtue of the courtier, the second look at the talent, the talent of the official. In the past, Zheng Lang was puzzled by one thing, Jiaqing killed He Kun and copied out a staggering amount of stolen money, but then the country's economy gradually collapsed. So how to position Hekun? He is certainly not a good person, but this person almost single-handedly supported the country's tight finances when Qianlong was in power in his later years.

After a long time, Zheng Lang thought of a truth, if there were no these Hekun, would the Qianlong Dynasty go into decline? Will Jiaqing inherit a corrupt country?

Therefore, Hekun has the merit of accumulating money, but the disadvantages are greater.

After thinking about it, he finally positioned the officials, the ministers of the wise, the ministers of forgiveness, and there are certain requirements for moral exercises.

And then there is Jun, in the past, the sky and the earth were big, and the emperor Lao Tzu was the biggest, or he was restrained by the ethereal way of heaven, but when he met a lord like Zhao Shu, God was not afraid, so what should he do? Therefore, the ancestral family law of the Zhao Kuangyin brothers was carried forward, and it was proposed that the rights of the king should also be subject to some constraints.

The king is still a saint, but he has to learn to be virtuous internally, and he has to be subject to some constraints and constraints from the ministers outside, and forcibly let the emperor become a master.

This kind of rhetoric may not work in other dynasties, but in the Song dynasty, scholars will also welcome it.

This is what everyone can see, but in fact it is far from the case, and the saints are demoted to the level of sainthood and wisdom, so that the saints step down from the altar. If you do a good job, you can also be saints, they are just some strange people who have reached the top of their knowledge and morality, and future generations will dare to surpass, and the ideological world will bloom with it.

In addition, when the Holy Wisdom stepped down from the altar, it indirectly destroyed the privileged idea of the innate nobility of the class, and the common people would become less and less "peaceful". In fact, this restlessness is the awakening of the mind. It turned out that governing the country was a policy of fooling the people, but the Song Dynasty was a little better, canceling the trilogy system, and gradually paying attention to the treatment of civilians, but there were still some foolish thoughts. If the people are foolish, they will be easy to manage. Really? Thinking that the people are stupid, the officials dare to do whatever they want, and when they reach a certain point, it will be like a flood control, and the whole country will inevitably collapse.

If the minds of the people as a whole are awakened, they will not be willing to be willing to do unscrupulous acts by officials, and the rulers will at least act like a strong public opinion and impose sanctions on lawless officials. The social crisis has also declined. Of course, if even strong public opinion is ignored, the country is coming to an end.

Moreover, the awakening of the entire people and the nation's thinking will bring countless variables, which even Zheng Lang can't imagine.

Then the Chinese dynasties will not enter a dead circle, the country is established, knowing that the previous generation is corrupt, and the great rule begins to accumulate. tried to prosper, compromise after unsuccessful, and eventually perished, and come again, so Zheng Lang used eight characters to describe China's history, which must be divided for a long time. A long time must be together. What else could there be?

But these two. Zheng Lang didn't dare to write it clearly.

Not to mention, he continued: "In the dispute over Puyi, Your Majesty listened to the slanderous rumors of five or six courtiers. At the court meeting, I said that His Majesty's name was the first emperor, and if he denied the first emperor, his name would be incorrect. It's just one of them. There are no two days in the sky, there are no two kings on the earth, even though it is an imperial examination, there can be no two imperial examinations. The imperial court and imperial power are maintained by the law of etiquette, and the law of etiquette is destroyed. The descendants are imitated, and the legacy is endless. I said some truths, not for me, let alone for the first emperor. There were only four princesses, and their descendants also fell because of the branches. It's getting worse and worse. The country wants to exist for a long time, there are no rules, and there is no square circle, but what does it have to do with the descendants of the first emperor? Deng Neishi, you said that I admonished, is it for the good of the first emperor, or for the good of His Majesty? ”

Deng Baoji frowned and pondered. Finally, he said: "Zheng Gong is reasonable. ”

He didn't go back immediately, but asked the guards to write a note and take it to the inner palace.

Gao Tao took a sip after looking at it, and the ghost believed it, but he had to admit that Zheng Lang had no bad intentions towards this country. Let the guards bring a question: "Your Majesty is the king after all, as you wrote." Now that Your Majesty is unwilling to make concessions on Pu Yi, why can't you come up with the best of both worlds and resolve it for Your Majesty? ”

What Zhongyong says is mainly about regulation. and wrote a special book to Zhongda in Lili, so you are loyal to the emperor and come to the middle school for the emperor.

Zheng Lang smiled again, it seems that it will be interesting in the future.

He replied, "When I was a teenager, I used to say the degree of law, and the law cannot be changed, and what is regulated is only degree. The matter of Pu Yi is not only related to the name of the monarch and minister, but also filial piety and etiquette, which is impossible to adjust, but the queen is worried about the country and loves the people, and the minister can say a word. When Yan Rong was a bank supervisor, he was conscientious, but Zhongshu tried to put his hand into the bank prison several times. He also tampered with the edict of the first emperor, which caused the uneasiness of the various share deeds, and only then did the current change occur. Although the imperial court issued an order to reinstate Yan Rong, the edict was finally written by Han Qi, and Yan Rong still felt uneasy. Why didn't His Majesty write a letter of instruction himself, so Yan Rong didn't abide by it, it would be treacherous. ”

Don't blame Yan Rong, you can't blame me, Yan Rong is loyal to the emperor, not Han Qi, and I didn't interfere.

Gao sneered.

knew that Zheng Lang couldn't put his husband's position above his uncle, but he didn't blame it. Let's take our time, we must first resolve the current crisis of the country.

So Zhao Shu wrote the book himself.

Yan Rong reluctantly returned to the bank prison, and he was in a mess, and in less than two months, Chenguang actually let Sun Sigong move away more than 16 million dollars. Yan Rong is an honest man, and he was so angry that he scolded his mother in the bank prison.

Bigger controversy came out.

It's hot, and another crisis is quietly surfacing, drought!

At first, everyone didn't pay attention.

But the drought is becoming more and more common, so everyone thinks of a question, the sentence that Zheng Lang said.

The ministers were once again agitated and went to impeach.

Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu felt very distressed, is there still any end? The crisis is like waves on the sea, one wave has not subsided, and another wave has arisen. In fact, at this time, both of them regretted a little in their hearts, not that they wanted to be bad officials, but asked themselves if they had not put a child in their pockets since they entered politics.

The main thing is that the emperor has all kinds of rebellious things, and he has let himself go to the sea.

At this point, regret is useless. There is no such thing as regret medicine in the world. Ouyang Xiu is erudite and talented, and once read Zheng Lang's Gewuxue, and in the face of the impeachment of the ministers, Ouyang Xiu used Zheng Lang's Gewuxue to fight back.

Heaven is ruthless, what does it have to do with humanity? Then explain the causes of rain and snow drought. actually made him half right. Zheng Lang has studied Gewuxue, so he knows about this year's drought and deliberately uses it to hit Zhongshu.

He watched, and others were also watching, such as Zeng Gongliang.

After March in history, the Puyi dispute slowly subsided, and Zeng Gongliang continued to be a good man, but because of Zheng Lang's intentional or unintentional promotion, not only did it not subside at this time, but it has been intensifying. Zeng Gongliang was also tired of this years-long dispute, and in frustration, he stood up to refute it.

Ouyang Xiu made sense, but when Zheng Lang was writing about Gewuxue, he was afraid that people would think it was a monster and was afraid of trouble, so he used some specious words and sentences in Confucianism to make annotations, let alone deny the existence of gods. In desperation, I only remembered some of the things I had learned, such as the theory of the atomic bomb, which I had already learned, could it be done? It's something that can be done. With the backward industrial base of the Song Dynasty, can it be made? You have to push it slowly, even after a few hundred years, everyone just thinks that they are a character like Leonardo da Vinci, and they don't think much else.

There is a heavenly way, there is a god. To the supreme emperor. It is also a constraint, otherwise the sky is not afraid of the earth, and it is not sure how many Emperor Yang of Sui will be produced in the future.

Ouyang Xiu studied it, Zeng Gongliang studied it very carefully, that is, he was listed as the prime minister, and he also cared about the ordnance superintendent, and even offered some useful help.

As for whether Zheng Lang can predict the weather in the future, in fact, this is very understandable, at this time, the legendary astronomical officer is proficient to a certain extent. can predict the weather. Zeng Gongliang also asked about this, and Zheng Lang answered vaguely, after all, he had been a weather forecaster several times, and he didn't say that he didn't understand, nor did he say that he understood, but only said that he was the same as an astronomical officer. I can speculate, but I don't dare to say that my guess must be accurate, otherwise it is not knowledge, but a monster. I remember that Zeng Gongliang laughed at this time.

However, regardless of whether you understand it or not, the country has developed to this day, and the two governments will definitely fail, including themselves.

The two phases are arguing. Then Zeng Gongliang said, I lost the court, and I didn't do well in the middle book, Your Majesty. Please let me go. Ouyang Xiu saw that it was not good, and automatically closed his mouth. This kid started to fight back, let's not fight with him.

He didn't win, and the problem came. And this time it was different, with the outbreak of bank supervision, more people realized that the state finances were in serious trouble. Yan Rong returned to the bank prison, and the more than 10 million yuan could never be moved back, and many powerful people were close to each other.

The emperor is only in his thirties, and the country's finances are corrupted to a certain extent, and they still have the idea of fighting the bank, and there is even a safety prison, as well as a sleep prison, and a sugar supervisor, which is the role of letting private individuals hold half of the shares. The scale is so huge, and countless powerful people are tightly tied to the country. When the country is glorious, they are glorious, and if the country humiliates them, they will be humiliated. One by one, they spontaneously defend the interests of the country.

It certainly can't go on like this.

If you want to solve the problem, it is not difficult, replace a few prime ministers, and introduce one person, and there will be no problems.

So they wrote books one after another, or used various channels to make comments. Your Majesty, what do you think, that is, Zheng Lang is loyal to the first emperor, this is a virtue, why don't you use him?

It is hard to hear in private, saying that Zhao Shu is a faint monarch, and he is rebellious, not only does not repay Zhao Zhen's nurturing kindness, but also takes revenge, not only to retaliate and suppress Zhao Zhen's concubines and children, but even to some loyal ministers that Zhao Zhen once used.

Ouyang Xiu had no choice but to find Jiang Zhiqi and ask him to take Yanchen to admonish and attack the bad situation in front of him.

Not only is it not good, but it is also very bad, next, he and Han Qi dare not go down, no, the following officials questioned themselves and Han Qi together, some officials in the Chinese book implemented the decree, and some officials did not take it seriously at all, each doing their own thing.

If you send someone to reprimand, you can answer, what will I do, better than you, it's a big deal to see that I don't like me, change an official to come, or change a cronie, anyway, the Song Dynasty is not surnamed Zhao, half surnamed Han, half surnamed Ouyang.

You can't just dismiss all the officials together.

The fact is that there are many officials who have asked for resignation in order to sell their names.

The more this develops, the more chaotic the country's politics will be, and the greater the financial crisis.

Jiang Zhiqi was in a state of mind for most of the day, and finally said, "Okay." ”

The ministers brainwashed Peng Siyong every day, Peng Siyong brainwashed him every day, he originally respected Ouyang Xiu very much, but now he gradually became estranged spontaneously. It's just that Ouyang Xiu doesn't know.

Ouyang Xiu came to find him, and he had no choice but to write a book, but it was not light or light, and it had no effect.

Zhao Shu was worried inside and outside, and finally fell ill, and his health deteriorated.

The ministers still don't understand one by one, God knows if you're really sick or fake? It's a coincidence again, it just so happens that the country is in crisis, and you are sick again. The discussion reached the palace, and Zhao Shu snorted angrily. Gao Tao looked a little anxious.

The husband pretended to be sick, but most of them were really sick, and he was often sick when he was in Xingqing Palace, but he covered up the news himself. She fed medicine in front of the bed, and said: "The official family, the current plan, if Zheng Lang is not invited to Beijing, the national crisis cannot be resolved." ”

Zhao Shu opened his eyes.

Gao Tao said again: "Official, you have always been talented, don't you really know the severity?" ”

"Taotao, you don't understand, this son may not be used by me, although he has been worried for 100 days, and Wu Niang died, he can win love, but he will not go to Beijing, I don't believe it. I'll make a bet with you. "Zhao Shu's head is very sober.

didn't say that Zheng Lang was bad, this minister could do some things for his uncle overnight, can he understand?

"If you don't try, how do you know?"

"If you try, it's up to you."

So a holy decree was issued in the palace. Lust. With Zheng Lang as the Taifu Minister, Shangshu Lu Guogong Zhaowenguan University Scholar Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi supervised the revision of the history of the country, and quickly came to the capital to work. But I was afraid that in case, in addition to the lieutenant envoy Deng Baoji, Sima Guang was sent as the lieutenant envoy, and if Zheng Lang did not agree, he would persuade the imperial court.

The two lieutenant envoys came to Zhengjiazhuang.

announced the holy decree, and sure enough, Zheng Lang disagreed, and he had also been robbed of his love, which was already a year earlier. It's about grabbing love. It will take a year to win the love, cultivate Confucianism by himself, and pay tribute to the next day, only after a hundred days, he will go to the capital for a rich and noble official position. What did that become?

This is an excuse, just unwilling.

Deng Baoji then announced his surging secret decree, but still asked, and asked two questions: "You said that you are loyal to the country and the official family, why don't you come to Beijing at this time when the country is in crisis?" It is the dispute of Puyi. Your Majesty also honors his parents, and the grace of birth and nurturing must be reciprocated. It's you, why are you still worried about the second mother, the third mother, the fourth mother, and the fifth mother? ”

Speak of people's hearts. than your own heart, this is also the words that you have written in your loyalty.

Everyone, be reasonable, and besides, you are close to the saints, so you should be reasonable.

Zheng Lang didn't speak, but took the two of them to the ancestral grave of the Zheng family, pointed to a pile of new graves and said, "Look, this is the grave of the eldest mother, where is she, this is the grave of the second mother, the third mother, the fourth mother, and the fifth mother, and where is it?" ”

They are all buried with Zheng Lang's father, who has never met, but the eldest mother is on the main grave, leaning on Zheng Lang's father's cemetery, and the other mothers are behind, lined up, including Siniang, with the word concubine clearly written on it.

This is the answer to the second question.

Needless to say, the cemetery gave the best answer, and came back quickly, Zheng Lang looked at the sky, it was August, and it was the darkest hour, but the dawn was quietly descending on the world, but few people knew.

He also said to Deng Baoji: "Although I can't go to Beijing to take up my post immediately, since there is something wrong with the country, I can't ignore it, I am the minister of the Great Song Dynasty, and my duty is entrusted by the first emperor, so it is impossible to ignore it." After you go back, you replied to Your Majesty, the first is that the government decree is not smooth, and the reason for this is that the Chinese book is treacherous, the ministers are not satisfied, Han Qi is not talented, and there is no Lu Yijian's skill to resolve it, forming a more serious crisis. But there is a solution. Secondly, His Majesty is sick and has to rely on the two governments, but the rulers of the two governments either take power and dance for personal gain, or do not act, and now the plan is to order the two governments to act, reopen the way of speech, and the road of speech is smooth, and the two governments will not dare not act or dance privately. The Buddha said that one thought becomes a Buddha, one thought becomes benevolence, in fact, no matter Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu are also famous ministers, but His Majesty's protection and connivance made the two of them go to today's road. However, His Majesty can make them become demons, and he can also make them become Buddhas, all in His Majesty's thoughts. Therefore, Yu scribes and used in the Sui Dynasty are Meichen, and used in Tang Taizong is a loyal minister. The third is that I have also carefully observed that the main body of the state is the people, and although the people have been slightly injured due to the corruption of the government, it is too late to make up for it, and if it continues like this, it may become worse and worse. I don't know how much the country will have a deficit, but it's only three years, and it won't be a deficit of 100 million dollars. It doesn't matter, if I am full of sorrows, I will pay off the debts for the court in three years. But now that the debts are increasing, the imperial court is secretive and does not want to make it public, and even officials from all over the country take the opportunity to enrich their pockets. Many wealthy families feared that the debts were huge and that the imperial court would not repay them. You can issue a clear edict to entrust the debts of the imperial court and local governments to the three divisions, and specify the time limit for repayment, then the people's will will be at peace, and the political situation will be smoothly transitioned. Don't worry, can you still lose a river worker? ”

Medium also!

But no one believes it. Deng Baoji smiled and asked, "How to resolve the first one?" ”

"It's not difficult, Your Majesty mourns his biological father's kindness, and the minister can understand. But the priority must be orderly, according to the minister's opinion, since the Puwang cemetery has been repaired, there is no need to change. The gift number is the imperial examination, which is really incredible. The ministers are not against Your Majesty, this is what everyone wants to do for the good of the Great Song Dynasty, and the society is safe, if it really comes to the time when the ministers do not admonish, sit back and watch Your Majesty listen to slander and do all kinds of bad things, my Song Dynasty is in danger. The matter has come to this, the queen has asked you to ask the minister to think of a solution, and the minister has also thought about it for a long time. The imperial examination is not good, this is not allowed by the etiquette law, but some changes can be made. How about posthumously gifting a Monkey King? ”

After speaking, I couldn't cry or laugh in my heart, a dead Zhao Yunrang, no less than the Monkey King, the Monkey King, turned the entire Song Dynasty upside down.