Chapter 1307 - Nosy (Third Update)
During the Spring Festival of the tenth year of orthodoxy, Li Yuntian spent time with Liu Zhen and Hongluan in the Hancheng Office of Jiangwutang, and even Li Yuntian couldn't remember how many times he had spent the New Year outside for official business.
It is worth mentioning that the orthodox emperor did not forget Li Yuntian, who was busy in Korea, and specially sent a reward a year ago, and there were too few important ministers of the court like Li Yuntian who were willing to run around for the benefit of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that Li Yuntian was still an extremely noble prince.
In addition, the orthodox emperor did not forget to complain to Li Yuntian, and complained very much in the letter to Li Yuntian, and the struggle between the inner court and the civil official group in the capital made him very annoying.
When Li Yuntian received the letter from the Orthodox Emperor, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile, it seems that the Orthodox Emperor is still too young, just a young man who sits on the Ming Empire, and when he grows up and has the prestige of the monarch, he will not write to him to complain.
At the same time, Li Yuntian was also very happy in his heart, the Orthodox Emperor was able to tell him about the bitterness in his heart, which meant that the Orthodox Emperor trusted him and regarded him as a person like a teacher rather than a courtier of the Ming Dynasty.
Since the state of Korea, it is the first time that such a distinguished minister of the Ming Dynasty as Li Yuntian has spent the New Year in Seoul, so early in the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the officials who are ranked in the official circles of Seoul invariably rushed to the Hancheng Office of the Lecture Hall to pay New Year's greetings to Li Yuntian.
Not only the officials of Seoul, but even the great monarchs all went to the Seoul Secretariat, which was naturally headed by the Lord of Shouyang.
Li Yuntian only saw Li Ji, Huang Xi and Liu Shangmin and a few monarchs, and the rest let Yun Na deal with it, although he was easy to treat people but he was always the prince of the Ming Dynasty, so there were very few people in the Korean country who could see him, which involved the hierarchy and etiquette in the officialdom.
Since Li Ji and Li Ji and others are here, then Li Yuntian naturally wants to do his best to be a landlord, and by the way, to get closer to the relationship between the two sides, Li Yuntian's reform in the Korean State secretly needs the support of Li Ji and others, so that the resistance can be minimized.
After Li Ji, Li Ji and others left, Li Yuntian put on a black mink velvet and went to the Ming army's garrison in Seoul to visit the Ming soldiers.
Li Yuntian's arrival immediately made the festive atmosphere in the station reach its peak, and the soldiers broke out into a tsunami-like cheer, and now Li Yuntian is a god-like existence in the eyes of the Ming soldiers, invincible and invincible.
Accompanied by the generals stationed there, Li Yuntian inspected the food and living conditions of the soldiers stationed there, and was very satisfied with the standard of food and lodging carried out by the station; these soldiers who went abroad to carry out tasks enjoyed the highest level of treatment in the Xiaowu Army, and the same standard as the level of treatment in wartime, which was equivalent to going abroad to fight.
Li Yuntian naturally wanted to solve the soldiers' worries, so that they could stay abroad to carry out tasks with peace of mind, and at the same time ensure that they had sufficient physical strength to deal with emergencies.
It is precisely because of Li Yuntian's meticulous care for the soldiers that the soldiers have great respect for him, and they are willing to serve the country and fight desperately on the battlefield.
When Li Yuntian left the Ming army garrison, it was already dark at night, and he returned to the Hancheng office of the Jiangwutang under the support of a large number of guards.
Due to the two assassinations in Seoul one after another, Li Yuntian will bring a lot of guards to protect him when he travels now, and God knows if anyone wants to secretly calculate him.
"Don't go, this is the only little money left in the family, and if you take the children, you're going to be hungry!" Suddenly, a voice in front of him caught Li Yuntian's attention, so he opened his eyes and lifted the curtains.
I saw that in front of an ordinary resident's house on the street ahead, a woman was clutching a man's clothes and not letting the man go.
"What do you know about a woman, Lao Tzu will be lucky today and will definitely be able to turn over the book and win back what he lost." The man couldn't get rid of the woman after a few flicks, so he pushed her to the ground and ran away.
"How can this live!" The woman looked at the man who ran away, sat on the ground and cried bitterly.
"Mother!" At this time, several children ran out of the yard and surrounded the woman, and the woman took them in her arms and cried loudly, and several children also cried with Wawa.
"Tell all the gambling houses in the city that they will be closed from today, and when they will open, wait for the king's notice." Seeing this, Li Yuntian immediately understood what was going on, the man seemed to be taking the family's money to gamble in the gambling house, and glanced at the woman who was crying sadly, Li Yuntian groaned for a while and then ordered Yun Na to follow the car window on a horse.
Li Yuntian is very clear that there are usually nine out of ten bets and nine losses in the casino, and nine out of ten bets are cheating, if the people in the casino don't do anything when gambling, then they won't be drinking the northwest wind, how can they make so much money.
Therefore, the woman's husband will definitely lose all his money when he goes to the gambling house this time, and he will owe a large amount of loan sharks.
To be honest, Li Yuntian didn't want to watch a well-behaved family ruined because of gambling, so he was ready to take care of this matter.
Of course, it is impossible for Li Yuntian to close the gambling house, this is not realistic, there were few entertainment programs in ancient times, and the gambling house is a good place for people to have a pastime, even if he seals the gambling houses in Seoul, he can't ban gambling.
In this case, there is only another way to deal with this kind of thing, Li Yuntian is ready to standardize the operation of the gambling house, issue business licenses like the shops of the Ming Dynasty, make them accept the supervision of the yamen, and do his best to reduce the occurrence of this kind of human tragedy.
Li Yuntian wanted to leave after telling Yun Na, but when he saw the mother and son crying sadly, he got out of the carriage after a deep groan, and walked over to the mother and son surrounded by Yun Na and others.
"This lady is freezing cold, and it's not good to freeze the child." Because the woman was crying too sadly, she didn't notice the arrival of Li Yuntian and the others, Li Yuntian stepped forward and said to her with a smile.
"Are you ......" The crying woman couldn't help but raise her head when she heard this, wiped the tears on her face, and looked at Li Yuntian suspiciously, secretly guessing who this richly dressed son with many subordinates was.
"This is our loyal prince." Hearing this, Yun Na stepped forward and introduced Li Yuntian's identity to the woman.
"Loyalty...... Loyal to the prince! The woman was stunned when she heard this, and looked at Li Yuntian with a surprised face, never expecting that she would meet the most honorable person in Seoul.
"Quick, kowtow to the prince." Soon, the woman reacted, and hurriedly pulled a few children to kowtow to Li Yuntian.
"No courtesy." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he saw this, and the void lifted up, so Yun Na stepped forward to help the woman up.
"This lady, it's the Spring Festival now, why is the lady crying here?" After the woman stood up, Li Yuntian asked quietly.
"Lord Wang, my man is addicted to gambling and has sold all the valuable things in the family, he just took away the last bit of money in the family, and tomorrow our mother and son will be hungry." When the woman heard this, tears rolled down her cheeks again.
"That's just how undeserved." Li Yuntian's brows furrowed, and he looked at the woman with a serious expression and said, "This king hates this kind of person who abandons his wife and children the most, and he will definitely teach him a lesson." ”
"Come on, find all the owners of the gambling houses in the city." As he spoke, Li Yuntian turned his head and ordered the guards on the side, and the guards immediately hurried forward to pass on.
"This lady, don't mind if this king goes in and sits." Due to the cold weather, Li Yuntian wrapped himself in a big coat and said to the woman.
"If you don't dislike it, please sit in the house." The woman didn't expect Li Yuntian to make such a suggestion, and after being stunned for a moment, she hurriedly bowed down and made a gesture of please, and invited Li Yuntian in uneasily, she was not qualified to refuse at all.
Because the courtyard of the woman's house was relatively small, Yun Na led a few guards to follow in, and the rest of the people guarded outside the courtyard gate, which immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding residents, who came out to watch the excitement, gathered in groups to discuss, and did not know what was going on.
The woman's family background belongs to the ordinary civilian class in Seoul, and although it seems that life is a little hard, it is still much better than the people in the slums.
Like other large cities, the residential areas of Seoul can be divided into three parts, namely the slums, the plebeian area, and the noble area, where officials like the two classes of nobles usually lived.
Li Yuntian's arrival made the woman feel very cramped, and wiped a chair with a towel before letting Li Yuntian sit, for fear of soiling Li Yuntian's clothes.
Seeing that the children looked emaciated, Li Yuntian knew that they were malnourished at a glance, so he asked Yun Na to bring a few pastries with him, opened them and distributed them to the children, and the children immediately devoured them, they had never eaten such delicious pastries when they were so old.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Yuntian chatted with the woman, knowing that the woman's husband was a carpenter, and he had recently made a lot of money because many Ming businessmen had come to Seoul to do business.
It stands to reason that this will improve the life of the woman's family, but unfortunately her husband somehow became addicted to gambling, and as a result, the money earned was thrown into the casino, so the husband who gambled red just took the last bit of money from the family and was ready to turn it over, and then the quarrel between the two was witnessed by Li Yuntian.
Li Yuntian couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart when he heard this, although the arrival of the Ming army and the arrival of Ming merchants made the market in Seoul gradually become prosperous, providing many employment opportunities for the people of Seoul, but some people lost themselves because of this, so that they went to prostitution and gambling, wasting those hard-earned money in vain, which is really embarrassing.