Chapter 90 Give Mr. Yuan Fu a little scientific shock
Zhang Cheng went on a business trip to Nanya and then went to Yuegang to wait for Hai Rui to return to the court. He brought back a magnifying glass for burning ants from Nanya and turned the thing into a A small convex lens, and after the two pieces were combined, he could see further, which scared Zhang Cheng and thought he had opened his eyes.
Then a telescope placed in Wuying Tower was born. Although it could not see thousands of miles away, it could see several miles away.
Many eunuchs believed that Zhang Cheng was able to go to Songjiang Prefecture to supervise Xu Jie's return to the fields because he presented auspicious treasures, because the young eunuch began to tinker with glass. In order to burn the glass, it really took a lot of effort. thought.
Finally, there was this darkroom, located in the side hall of the Wenhua Hall. It was covered with heavy curtains and was completely dark, with only a small hole that could reveal the light.
Today, Zhu Yijun came to the darkroom. Although it was very dark, he could still see each other's outlines clearly.
When Zhang Juzheng walked into the darkroom, he saw a beam of white sunlight hitting a piece of triangular prism glass. The white light passing through the triangular prism glass was dispersed into seven colors and hit the on a piece of white paper.
"This!" Zhang Juzheng looked at the scene in front of him in great surprise. The rainy day formed a rainbow, and the sun behind him sprayed water, forming a rainbow shape. There was water in it. The triangular prism of glass was Created by the fire and flames, a rainbow actually appeared!
Although Zhang Juzheng was very shocked by the scene in front of him, his expression changed drastically and he said loudly: "Your Majesty, "Shang Shu·Tai Oath" said: "Perform strange skills and obscene skills for pleasure." "Book of Rites" says: Obscene sounds, strange clothes, strange skills, and strange weapons will lead to suspicion and kill!"
"It is not easy to be too obsessed with strange skills and juggling!
"If there is a machine, there must be something, and if there is something, there must be a mind. If the mind is in the heart, it will be pure and unprepared. If pure and unprepared, the spirit will be uncertain. If the spirit is uncertain, the Tao will not contain it."
The last sentence is what Confucius said.
It is said that when Zigong arrived in Hanyin, he saw an old man holding an earthen pot and watering the ground. Zigong asked the old man why he didn't use a tool like a hoe to fetch water, but used an earthen pot?
The old man said: With machinery, ingenuity will arise, and with ingenuity, ingenuity will arise. When opportunism arises in the heart, it destroys the simple natural quality.
Once the pure and simple quality of the heart is polluted by scheming, they will think about how to take advantage of opportunities and strive for fame and profit. In this way, the mind will be unstable, and people who are unstable cannot be in harmony with the Tao. Eventually abandoned.
After hearing this, Zigong looked ashamed and could not answer.
The father-in-law is Zhuangzi, and Zhuangzi’s words of teasing Zigong were Confucius’s original words.
Zhuangzi is mocking the Confucians who would rather use earthen pots to fetch water than use machinery, which is laborious and has little effect.
However, if there is a machine, there must be something, and if there is something, there must be an intention. This sentence has become a saying of Feng Ruoguiyin in later generations of Confucianism, and has become a solid and heavy ideological seal. It struck a chord in the minds of scholars of all generations in the Central Plains Dynasty. Although occasionally some people were extremely interested in craftsmanship, a scientific system had never been formed.
Science is a process of using the practical spear to break through the inherent cognitive barriers.
Even Zhang Juzheng, who has mastered the theory of contradiction, when faced with strange skills and tricks, his first reaction is: make obscene sounds, strange clothes, strange skills, and strange weapons to make people suspicious, kill him!
Feng Bao was immediately angry. How could this be a magic trick? It was clearly auspicious. As long as the scholar-bureaucrats used various visions of heaven and earth as interpretations of auspiciousness or bad omen, the eunuchs were throwing around some gadgets. Why should he die for entertaining the emperor?
Zhu Yijun walked forward with a smile, picked up a prism, and blocked the colorful light pillar. After the prism was combined, the colorful light pillars magically merged into one color!
White.
Zhu Yijun turned the prism in his hand, scattering the light in all directions, and then slowly stopped, turning the seven-color light into white. Zhu Yijun said in a slightly distant voice: "Master said: Scheming lies in In the chest, pure white is not prepared, and pure white is unprepared, and the spirit is uncertain."
"The Master also said, haste makes waste."
"But pure white light is. Seven-colored light, seven-colored light is pure white light, what do you think, sir? "
The little emperor is using pure white light to satirize the master's metaphysical pure white quality, pure and simple, as clean as white.
But this pure white light is not pure white at all, but is composed of seven colors of light. Pure white sunlight can be divided into seven colors by a prism, and then the seven colors can be turned into pure white by the prism.
Zhu Yijun knew very well that Zhang Juzheng must understand what he was talking about. As the chief minister of the empire, as a follower, as a scholar, as a scholar with rich knowledge and quick thinking, as a person who has mastered the theory of contradiction and used dialectics Zhang Juzheng, who thinks about problems with his own mind, can understand.
The little emperor turned into that indescribable thing again, rounded the sledgehammer, and hit the stamp of Zhang Juzheng's thoughts hard, breaking Zhang Juzheng's ingrained and unconfused cognitive world into pieces.
Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Mr. Yuan Fu, come and try?"
Zhang Juzheng walked over, picked up a prism, and stretched it over. As expected, the colorful beam of light shot from the prism changed. Became white light.
The Chief Assistant of the Ming Dynasty moved and put the prism away without saying a word, and played like this for a long time.
Zhu Yijun said softly: "This is a practical lesson. Pure white light can be divided into seven colors, or the seven colors can be combined into pure white. Light is just light."
Zhang Juzheng was silent. After a long time, he said: "Chen...Rong Chen thinks slowly."
Zhu Yijun was not in a hurry, playing with the prism in his hand and admiring the wonder of this world. In fact, he had originally planned to bring Zhang Juzheng over to see his new Toys, but since Zhang Juzheng pollutes the pure white heart with scheming, he cannot be in harmony with the Tao. When talking about strange skills and tricks, Zhu Yijun used pure white light to be divided into seven colors, and the seven-color light was combined into one color. .
Since Zhang Juzheng came to the door, he naturally had to swing the sledgehammer and hit it to see the result.
Zhu Yijun was not in a hurry. He removed the prism, replaced it with a bronze mirror, and said: "Sir, the Military War Bureau has made another telescope. The telescope can see extremely far away, so I gave it to Sir."
"Sir, look at this, the incidence and reflection of light will change."
The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.
When Zhu Yijun rotates the bronze mirror, the incident angle of light changes, and the reflection angle also changes. In the darkroom, the performance is extremely clear.
"I figured it out." After thinking for a long time, Zhang Juzheng finally figured it out and said solemnly: "Before, almost everyone thought that white light passing through colored glass would be polluted. For the light of different colors, the master saw the same thing, and naturally understood from it that the clever heart polluted the pure white heart. The master was not wrong. Only the opportunistic heart naturally cannot be in harmony with the Tao. "
"But white light itself has seven colors, and light is just light."
"The truth is not wrong. What the Master opposes is opportunism. This is personal cultivation."
"White light has seven colors. Light, seven-color light is white light, and there is nothing wrong with it. White light is just white light."
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "I never said that Master was wrong. I just brought Mr. Yuan Fu to see the rainbow. . ”
“Confucius said: If you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening. The infinite truth of all things must be unknown and must be heard. If you want to know it, you must tirelessly explore the unknown. People will not learn it. You must not know that if you want to pursue the infinite truth of all things, how can you not put learning as your first priority? This is what Mr. Yuan Fu told me. "
"You don't talk about strange power and chaos. These days, I have been trying to figure out why the telescope in Wuying Tower can see clearly several miles away. Isn't this a pursuit of the truth of all things? "How can it be called a miraculous skill?" The emperor put away his sledgehammer and became particularly peaceful. He was attacking his shield with his spear.
He is using the words of Confucius to refute the so-called conspiracy theory.
Before there was the weapon of dialectical contradiction, the reality of making little effort but achieving much, and the metaphysical opportunism were chaotic but affirmative, opposite but unified phenomena;
In the long run, In the long history of China, Confucian scholars held the books of sages and completely denied and absolutely criticized the theory of mechanical uselessness. As a result, the development of machinery in the Central Plains Dynasty was never able to systematically summarize the experience;
And machinery The theory of "little power but much merit" is a weapon that can effectively improve productivity, enrich products, and promote the continuous progress of society. It is the faithfulness of concrete facts;
But for thousands of years, it has never been able to complete the yin and yang. The harmony of integration and comprehensive compromise is a harmonious and stable state.
Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty is wise, this is not a strange skill."
Zhu Yijun suddenly felt boring. According to his idea, Zhang Juzheng should struggle for a while, and then Zhu Yijun picked up the swing again. A sledgehammer should smash Zhang Juzheng's ideological stamp to pieces. As a result, Mr. Yuan Fu surrendered after just a few words.
Only the superior knowledge and inferior ignorance remain unchanged.
A person who has a thorough understanding of the principles of all things is an unswerving person. No difficulty can make him change. This requires courage.
Zhang Juzheng is undoubtedly a wise man. For such a wise man, there is also great terror, which is the unknown, and there is also great progress, which is also unknown.
The unknown is fear and the original driving force of progress. Zhang Juzheng is not a coward. He can face the unknown and explore it.
Zhang Juzheng's surrender was not a sign of weakness, but a great courage to face the unknown.
Zhu Yijun discovered that his husband was really a brave man.
Zhu Yijun signaled Feng Bao to remove the prism, then picked up a magnifying glass and fixed it on a shelf. On a slanted shelf, he smiled and said: "Sir, I want to know why the telescope can see To see things in the distance, I started to explore. When I moved the magnifying glass up and down, I was surprised to find that the light would be refracted through the lens and then concentrated on a point."
"So, the magnifying glass can burn. Dead ants."
Zhu Yijun moved the magnifying glass in his hand. The sunlight emitted from the hole was refracted by the magnifying glass and turned. As the magnifying glass moved, the light was refracted at different angles, but Always pass a point. If it is not in a dark room, this magnifying glass will focus the sunlight to a point and burn the ants directly to ashes.
"This point is the focus." Zhu Yijun changed a magnifying glass and began to pan up and down. It can be found that the position of the focus has changed. Zhu Yijun continued: "I am still thinking about the distance between this focus and the magnifying glass, and Nothing to do with it."
Zhu Yijun had already prepared the sledgehammer, but seeing that Zhang Juzheng was not going to resist or continue smashing, he and Zhang Juzheng left the side hall and went to the main hall to hold a banquet.
At the end of the lecture, Zhang Juzheng received a telescope, prisms, convex lenses and concave lenses as a reward from the emperor.
Zhang Juzheng stood under the sunshine of the Mengdong Moon, looking at several small square boxes of sandalwood in his hand, filled with velvet, containing those things that he regarded as miraculous tricks in the past.
The infinite principles of all things are endless mysteries.
After the assassination of the king, the little emperor finally changed his previous lazy habits. At that time, Zhang Juzheng saw a bright and clear sky. The sky of the Ming Dynasty was clear and clear, with only two small dark clouds. These two dark clouds were nothing but It's just Ming's little doubt.
One of these two dark clouds is that the little emperor is not doing his job properly. The second dark cloud is that the little emperor is studying very well.
Now the two dark clouds are slowly expanding, gradually revealing their true colors, looking particularly ferocious.
“Fortunately.” Zhang Juzheng cherished the sandalwood box he had put away very much. He planned to go back and build a darkroom in the Quanchu Guild Hall, and then find someone to grind a few prisms, convex lenses and concave mirrors himself.
If the experimental results are the same as those in the darkroom in the side hall of Wenhua Palace, it means that no one is deceiving the little emperor.
When Chen Shigong was on duty at the Jiefuan, he had a lot more materials in his hands, mainly the spies caught by the Jinyi guards. These spies were spying on a lot of information about the Ming Dynasty, including those from the North and the Jurchens. , there are even Japanese people, and of course there are Ming people who are Yinjielu people.
These spies were usually caught and killed. Now, the Tiqimen of Fusi Yamen in Beizhen cleaned these spies inside and out and sent them to the prison. The harvest was finished in the courtyard.
Cut it with one knife, isn’t that a waste?
The most troublesome thing for Chen Shigong is that he recently had an additional patient, Tan Lun and Tan Sima, ministers of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty.
Tan Lun is open-minded, specifically, he does not care about his own immediate interests when it comes to state affairs, he puts state affairs first, he pays very little attention to official position, fame and fortune, he is filial to his friends at home, he is dignified, and he can speak like a corporal. , There is no city government with others, sincerity is enough to conquer the world, and integrity is enough to conquer the world.
Chen Shigong was under a lot of pressure. Tan Lun was the leader of the Zhejiang Party, the Grand Sima of the DPRK, and a minister of the Ming Dynasty. Tan Lun was ill. If he couldn't treat the disease well, the Emperor would not spare him, and neither would the Zhejiang Party. Can't reach him.
Chen Shigong took Tan Lun's pulse and said sincerely: "I am still young and tired of military service. Some may not eat in the sun, some may wear armor even in court, some may not be able to sleep on the bed for several months, or Are you waiting for the end of the day, or walking hundreds of miles in a day, or walking thousands of miles in a month, without any dry clothes, hanging on your breath, and worrying about life and death? Yu Weimang, who can ask about his net worth?"
"Tan Gong is a minister of the country, and this disease also fell on this minister."
Chen Shigong had two words for Tan Lun. , I admire that Tan Lun did not take his own life seriously during the war, and this was the root cause of the disease, so that in his fifties, his body functions began to decline.
Tan Lun said with a smile: "At that time, the situation in the southeast was like thin ice about to break, and urgent like sparks. It was just a trivial matter." The trivial matter Tan Lun mentioned was not trivial. Jiajing Thirty-Eighth Years III, In April, Tan Lun rushed to aid in the battle of Taozhu, Taizhou, and trudged across mountains and rivers in the pouring rain, with only persimmons and dates to satisfy his hunger. The team he led encountered Japanese pirates several times on the way, and won consecutive battles.
I marched more than 300 miles in two days and three nights, fought in more than 20 battle formations, fought all the way, and marched all the way. Before and after, there was always a fighting urgency, and Tan Lun was needed Disposal.
Chen Shigong flipped through the medical records and said helplessly: "In August of the fifth year of Longqing, Tang Bao and the Tatars joined forces with the Northern Barbarians to move south in a large scale. After Tan announced the troops and horses of the Beijing camp, he went to Miyun and Changping in person. We gathered the elites from both places and headed to Huanghua Town at the foot of the Great Wall without stopping for seven days."
"If Mr. Tan still doesn't take his life seriously, it will be difficult for gods to save him and it will be difficult for him to be cured by medicine or stone."
The urgent report from the border in the fifth year of Longqing was a false report. The Tatars did not go south, but it caused Tan Lun a lot of trouble. On August 22, the fifth year of Longqing, Tan Lun returned to the capital from Huanghua Town. That night After eating pepper, the next day, the left side of his face suddenly became swollen, his mouth and eyes were crooked, and his eating and speech became less clear, so he took medicine for treatment.
This is Tan Lun's diagnosis and treatment record at Tai Hospital in the fifth year of Longqing.
It was Fang Fengshi's lie about the military that caused Tan Lun to suffer from the symptoms of a stroke. Tan Lun is old and no longer young. If he keeps going as hard as he did when he was young, something big is bound to happen.
Tan Lun was stunned when he heard that, he showed a playful smile, looked at Chen Shigong and asked jokingly: "Doctor Chen mean that my disease can still be cured? Eh! I thought it would be better in a few days. It’s alive.”
What words, what words are these!
Tan Lun’s words mean as if his life is not his life!
Chen Shigong bowed his head and said: "Then Mr. Tan has to save himself. If Mr. Tan still doesn't take his life seriously, even if Hua Tuo is alive, I don't have the ability. I will invite the former imperial physician Li Shizhen back. The capital has come to nurse Tan Gong.”
"You still need activities every day, but you must warm up. If you want to dance with a sword, don't be impatient, otherwise problems may easily occur."
When Tan Lun heard this, he immediately became excited. He said: "You mean, I can still wield a sword?"
"I can't go into battle to fight!" Chen Shigong immediately said loudly: "It's about practicing the skill of wielding a sword, not going into battle to kill the enemy. , that is, Mr. Tan’s body is strong, but if it had been someone else, he would have been paralyzed.”
"You must never go into battle again."
Chen Shigong issued a solemn warning. Tan Lun's disease is a chronic disease. If he pays attention to his treatment, nothing serious will happen. But if he has to go into battle, he may not die soon. That’s it.
"It's boring." When Tan Lun heard that he couldn't fight, his expression turned gloomy. He actually didn't like the court very much. It was full of evil spirits and intrigues. It would be better to fight quickly. The enemy is the enemy. Pao Ze is Pao Ze, kill the enemy and win, simple and clear.
Tan Lun doesn't like this court, and it's a bit boring to pretend to be insincere.
But after fighting all his life, he can no longer go to the battlefield to conquer.
Tan Lun thought that Jiegeyuan would allow him to go into battle to kill the enemy again, but it turned out that Jiegeyuan could not do it. He stood up and planned to leave.
Chen Shigong hurriedly stood up to see him off. While seeing him off, he said, "I will ask Li Shizhen to return to the court to prepare Tan's medicine."
"Thank you, Imperial Physician Chen." Tan Lun Looking around the inside and outside of the Jiecuyuan, everyone said that this was the Palace of the King of Hell on earth, eerie and terrifying, but Tan Lun looked around and didn't think there was anything scary here.
When a person is killed, he is really dead.
If there really are ghosts and the like, Tan Lun killed so many Japanese pirates, why didn't he see the Japanese pirates turn into ghosts and come to his door?
"Send Mr. Tan off."
"Mr. Chen stays." Tan Lun strode away from the gate of the Xiangyuan Courtyard. Mi Lane in the eastern suburbs was originally very prosperous, but now not even a single person could be seen. He was left and right. After looking at it, he headed towards the Ministry of War Yamen.
Chen Shigong petitioned Li Shizhen to return to Beijing. The reason was that he wanted to treat Tan Lun's stroke.
After hearing the news, Zhu Yijun immediately issued an order to Wenyuan Pavilion, asking Zhang Juzheng to use whatever method to capture Li Shizhen, the Ming Dynasty's miracle doctor, and give Tan Gong a good treatment.
Wu Baipeng had already arrived at Xuanfu. After reviewing the Datong section of the Great Wall in Xuanfu, he wrote a memorial.
Speaking of Dishui Cliff, from Diao E Fort, Longmen Guards, to Liutaizi Pier, there are some strange things that are 18,760 feet long. They were trampled by the captives and half collapsed. The court discussed and built this For one period, a total of 8,813 taels of food, 6,179 taels of salt, vegetables, food, and silver were required. 190,000 soldiers were used every year. We may consider buffering the reduction of 10,000 people, and gradually carry out the period. Complete the report within three years.
These passes are the caves that Wang Chonggu wanted to block when he went to Datong, Xuanfu.
The eight thousand stone grains and six thousand silver were intended by the imperial court. The most important thing is that it can be completed in one year with 190,000 soldiers every year, but Wu Baipeng forced it to be completed for him. More than 10,000 people completed it in three years.
Wu Baipeng was cutting meat with a dull knife.
Wang Chonggu, as the governor of Xuanda University, wrote a memorial stating that it would be completed in one year in less than three years! As for the 190,000 soldiers needed, the imperial court still provided 10,000, and Wang Chonggu would find a way for the rest.
Zhang Siwei was in a hurry to return to the court. It was already very late in the year.
"Wang Chonggu is really anxious. He is actually willing to give free money to the poor. What a sin. He really tried his best to return Zhang Siwei to the court." Zhu Yijun picked up the Wanli Treasure. Printed above and below Wang Chonggu's memorial.
Ge Shouli did not help Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei speak to each other in the court, and if he did not get Zhang Siwei back to the court, the Jin Party would have a big problem.
Wang Chonggu’s method was to give money to the Chief Secretary of Shanxi, who would recruit landless tenants and wandering people to the border to build the Great Wall. The money Wang Chonggu gave to the Chief Secretary was Shanxi’s hard-working silver this year. .
The big head is about the construction of the Bian Fang Ding. Each force will be given three taels of silver every year, and rice, flour, coats, shoes and other items can be converted into seven taels of silver. In other words, within a year, Wang Chonggu will have to spend at least nearly Two million silver were spent to plug up the hole.
The supervision is carried out by Wu Baipeng of the Zhejiang Party, Li Le of the Zhang Party, Zhang Jing of the Eunuch Party and others, rather than by the Jin Party.
Zhang Hong said with a smile: "It was Mr. Yuan Fu who beat Jin Dang so hard that he was willing to fight for it like this. Otherwise, how could he spit it out if he had eaten it in his stomach?"
Zhu Yijun put down Wang Chonggu's memorial. This matter will be discussed in the next chapter of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The Ministry of Household Affairs will discuss the Shanxi Chief Secretary. After the spring plowing next year, he will move the tenant farmers and wandering people to the border to build Dingding. He shook his head and said: "How can that be done? It's not that cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei hate Yuan Fu even more. But in this case, they embezzled the imperial government's special funds and enslaved the border soldiers. Now this kind of redress is justified. It's something."
Zhu Yijun picked up another memorial, "Eunuch Yin Ping discusses the expenses in the palace."
The little emperor is no longer a householder. In the past, the palace expenses were all given to Queen Mother Li. This is the first time Zhu Yijun saw the accounts in the palace. There are only four words: unable to make ends meet.
"I don't have enough for the year, and I want to add 54,000 kilograms of natural yellow and white wax to my old forehead, which is converted into 75,841 silver. The price of yellow wax is two yuan per kilogram, and the price is four yuan and two yuan per kilogram." , the silver is folded by Zhejiang's method, and all the money is transferred to the internal transportation warehouse." Zhu Yijun read the memorial of Yin Ping, the internal money eunuch.
Huang Baiwa was just an excuse. There was no money in the palace and there was a deficit. He cleverly set up a name to ask the outer court for it, but Wang Guoguang, the household department of the outer court, refused to obey and refused to pay more than 70,000 taels of silver.
Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Hong with the memorandum in his hand and asked, "Is there any way? Can the palace seize the 70,000 taels of silver from Wang Shangshu?"
"No. "Zhang Hong said with certainty: "During the Jiajing period, the World Temple asked for two million silver, and the Ministry of Household Affairs did not have any money, so they refused to give it. Later, a warlock named Duan Chaoyong was so bold that he dared to deceive the Lord of the World Temple. He said that he could turn stone into gold, and he could make gold and get the elixir of death. "
" After a year or two, Lu Bing and Lu Ti Shuai exposed it. The temple was furious and killed him with a stick. Look at Duan. "Is there an immortal golden body?"
When Zhu Yijun heard this past event, he thought of Zhang Juzheng's expression that changed dramatically when he looked at the prism to scatter sunlight into colorful light.
Zhang Juzheng was also afraid that the little emperor, under the bewitchment of the little eunuch, would come into contact with those heretical alchemy, and do something about turning stones into gold or refining elixir, so he had such a big reaction. After all, white light scatters seven rainbows, which is very bright. Like alchemy means.
But the emperor was wise and wise, and it was not when he was practicing alchemy that Zhang Juzheng naturally stopped blocking him.
Play, there is nothing that you cannot play, play with confidence and boldness, as long as you are not practicing heretical magic, Zhang Juzheng is still happy for the little emperor to be more cheerful.
Emperor Jiajing was obsessed with the art of immortality, which greatly damaged the emperor's majesty.
Duan Chaoyong is a cripple. If he had magical powers, wouldn't he be able to heal his own legs? He is just a charlatan, and he actually deceived him into the palace, defrauded the head of the Ninth Five-Year Master, and he also succeeded in defrauding him. He not only got the Taoist title of 'Gaoshi', but also got the position of a fifth-rank official.
In the end, Lu Bing exposed the half-hidden matter because he was extremely close to the emperor. The joke about the charlatan deceiving the emperor lasted for more than two years, otherwise the joke would still be there. How could the courtiers respect the emperor if it lasted?
Zhang Juzheng was relieved when he found out that Fang Shu was not a liar.
"Seventy thousand taels of silver, where can we make up for this shortfall? There is no money." Zhu Yijun took the memorial in his hand and approved the next chapter of Wenyuan Pavilion's court meeting.
Zhang Juzheng left a blank float on this float. This was a palace matter and he had no control over it. The matter involved the inner court and it was difficult for Zhang Juzheng to express his position.
The next morning, it was raining continuously, with autumn rain and cold weather. The weather had turned cold, and the atmosphere in the Wenhua Hall was not harmonious.
Feng Bao took out the memorial from Yin Ping, the internal money eunuch, and asked the outer court for money. Zhang Juzheng said nothing and Wang Guoguang refused to comply. The atmosphere was awkward for a while.
More than seventy-five thousand taels of silver is not a small amount. It can support the Quan Chu Guild Hall for seventy-five years, that is, it can support the Quan Chu Guild Hall until the second year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty.
The inner court asked for money, but the outer court refused to give it. It was stuck for a while. Ge Shouli, who obeyed the authority of the Lord, was also silent. He did not have so much money to fill this hole.
"This is simply ridiculous. My lords, Wang Chonggu had to use at least two million taels of food and salary to block the holes in the border area. When it was the palace's turn to use 70,000 taels of silver, you just hesitated and said nothing. Don't you want to express it?" Feng Bao's anger comes from his heart, and his evil comes from his courage. It's really too much.
Silence is also a kind of resistance.
No matter how Feng Bao loses his temper, it is useless. The country's financial losses have been reflected in the supreme imperial power.
Wang Jiaping, a scholar from Zuo Chunfang, said tentatively: "Hearing that the palace was suffering from losses, Zhang Siwei, a court official, was shocked. He came to me and said that he could use this money to subsidize the palace. "It's worth it."
Feng Bao frowned, looked at Wang Jiaping and said, "What are the conditions?"
Wang Jiaping said with a smile: "There are no conditions, just loyalty. With a filial piety, Zhang Siwei felt that the country was in dire straits and was willing to use his private money to subsidize the official affairs. He did so out of sincerity and had no other private requests. Feng Daban misunderstood that Zhang Siwei was implicated by the Xuanfu and the Datong Great Wall Dingjian and could not return to the court. The Great Wall Dingjian The matter has not yet been settled, and he does not dare to threaten the imperial court with such a thing."
This idea was a suggestion given to Wang Chonggu by Wu Dui, the governor of Xuanfu.
Wu Dui squatted in the sky prison for more than half a month, but he was still afraid. If he lied about the military situation, it would be better to come out with real money and silver to please the palace, and not be in a hurry. If it is a hole built in the Great Wall Blocked, Wang Chonggu, Zhang Siwei, Wu Dui and others are relying on the stability of the border areas and the payment of tribute. Are they still afraid that they will not have their own position in the court?
Zhang Siwei also specifically told Wang Jiaping: He must make it clear that he cannot return to the court now without conditions. He is really anxious, but he has no intention of bribing the palace in order to get back on his feet. He is loyal and filial. , The construction of the Great Wall will definitely be done well, and he will come back to Beijing after it is done.
The last incident of forging Tongbao has caused a lot of trouble, and we can no longer irritate the palace.
Ge Shouli’s face was complicated when he heard that. Although he was the leader of the Jin Party, he only controlled the officials, officials, and officials, not the money, food, and soldiers. Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei wanted money, money, and people. No, The emperor was short of money, so he immediately came over to flatter him.
Wang Guoguang looked unkind. He looked at Zhang Juzheng and asked, "What do you think Yuan Fu?"
Before Zhang Juzheng could speak, the little emperor on the stage suddenly said: "I don't want Zhang Siwei's money, Gong." If you don’t have any money, you can use less and be more frugal. He can keep his money for himself!”
Zhu Yijun made no secret of his disgust for Zhang Siwei and refused to even take his money.
The money is just money, and no one’s name is written on it, so why is it disgusting? But Zhang Siwei’s money is just disgusting!
(End of this chapter)