Chapter 208 In the name of the Emperor of Heaven, I will sentence you to death
Liu Qiniang’s new life has begun. She is very unfamiliar with her new life. She needs to get used to the days without servants.
At the beginning, the business model of Yanxing Tower was based on teaching workshops. However, as the times changed, this behavior of investing officials and their families in teaching workshops was criticized by literati and writers, and the court was divided. Even if everyone is killed and exiled, it is better than throwing them into the church and becoming official prostitutes. During the Zhengtong years, even a large number of royal properties were sold. From that time on, the court was ashamed of talking about profit.
During the Yongle and Xuande years, the Ming Dynasty made a total of seven voyages to the West. While promoting its military power, it also conducted a large number of official ships and official trade to gain wealth. Popular opinions began to form, such as reading history, promoting literature and martial arts, being superior to the three generations of law, being ashamed of speech and profit, amassing profits and becoming treacherous ministers, seizing love to retaliate against injustice, and civilian officials killing military generals.
Later, Yanxing Tower became a place where old madams brought prostitutes to make a living. If they refused to accept customers, they would starve. They would simply be locked up in the woodshed and starved. This was enough to force people to submit. .
Hitting is usually not done. They are in the business of skin and meat. If the skin and meat are damaged, they will not be able to accept customers.
But the terror of hunger is enough to make anyone choose to surrender.
Once I started receiving customers, I no longer had so many scruples. I walked among dignitaries all day long, as if I was also a dignitary, sinking and degenerating in the world of fireworks.
Liu Qiniang is new to a new life, and her emotions include fear, curiosity, confusion and a little disdain.
The main source of fear is not that she can survive on her own without servants to take care of her. Her fear is the fear of the unknown. After walking out of that huge restaurant, she was faced with the hot and bright sunshine. Feeling afraid, she was even more afraid of being laughed at.
But no, because no one knew what kind of person she was before she came.
She stretched out her hand out of curiosity and let the autumn sun shine on her hand. This was a new experience.
This disdain came from the fact that she saw these weavers, all of whom did not apply powder or makeup, but soon her disdain turned into envy. She has lived in the building most of her life. Most of them live in the shadows, just like cockroaches and mosquitoes in the corner. Who cares about her life and death?
These weavers can live in the sun without applying makeup.
Liu Qiniang began to be busy. She put the spun wool from the spinning factory on the loom and started weaving. Liu Qiniang could weave, which was nothing to her. It was difficult. Soon, she didn't have as much emotion as time, because Yongshenghao Woolen Factory was very busy.
He was busy working, and there was no time for random thoughts. After he finished his work, he had to eat, and after finishing his work, he continued to work. In the evening, when the longitude and latitude lines could no longer be seen clearly, Liu Qiniang had some free time. Then he got his own bedding. Because he had the palace badge, the agents in the factory didn't dare to neglect her. They all thought that this clever lady was someone who came out of the palace.
When someone comes out of the palace, for the people in the palace, it is like falling from the sky to the ground, but for the people on the ground, it is like falling from the sky. If you neglect the palace easily and come down, then It's not enough to communicate in just a few sentences.
The most important thing is that Liu Qiniang still holds the palace badge.
Liu Qiniang fell into a busy life and quickly adapted to this kind of life. Busy and fulfilling, she felt that it would be good to live like this in her life. She planned to go to the nursing home to adopt a child after saving enough money. , she is already sterile, and the madam doesn't know what she did to Gong Han. Anyway, she won't be able to get pregnant in this life, and she won't be able to get married if she can't get pregnant. But these days, she lacks everything except orphans.
Liu Qiniang received her first salary on the seventh day, one silver coin and eighteen copper coins. This was her reward for seven days. It was indeed incomparable to that in Yanxing Tower, but in the official factory The expenses here are also small, there is almost nothing to buy, and the money seems to be a lot.
There is a lot of money spent in Yanxing Tower. The guests seem to be spending a lot of money, but in fact, all they have is hard-earned money in their hands.
The Yanxing Tower, the old bustard, and the tortoises who solicited customers all had to take some of it. The money that fell into Liu Qiniang's hands was not much to begin with, and they had to compete for beauty. This competition for beauty also requires money. of.
Rouge gouache costs money, raising a family requires money, incense costs money, and preparing various snacks also costs money. There are also some customers who like to be arty. Accompanying guests in a refined way also costs money, let alone money. How much has it fallen?
Prostitution, a profession that has existed since ancient times, is now an extremely mature industry, with dirty blood flowing from beginning to end.
As Mr. Xu said, he doesn’t earn much from working in a woolen factory, but he keeps a lot, which saves money and makes his life much more stable.
In these days, a stable life is a rare luxury. Emperor Tianhuang, a noble man, was first assassinated and then his house was ordered to be stolen. The whole place was full of uproar. On the day of the murder, Even the water of the Jinshui River was dyed red. There were more than 700 heads, and the executioners could not find that many. They were all executed by the Tiqimen themselves.
Liu Qiniang counted her money again and immediately became happy. She started crying with joy. Her tears kept flowing down but she didn't make a sound.
When I was in the building, I had to cry behind someone's back, and I absolutely couldn't cry out. The person who was eating people showed a little bit of weakness, that is, no bones were left after being eaten.
Liu Qiniang is used to crying like this.
She knew that the world was getting better, because the dignitaries who used to spend all day in the building were so busy that they had no time to go to Yanxing Building to listen to Qingyin and singing. Most of them came here. They were talking about something, and after finishing the conversation, they left in a hurry. They came in a hurry and left in a hurry.
The girls' business changed from being an official in Jingtang to being a supervisor in the Imperial College. It didn't take long before the supervisors stopped coming.
On the one hand, the supervisors have also become busy. The Emperor Tian Master has become fond of arithmetic for some reason. I'm not going to lie, it's really very difficult. Last month there was an outcry about a prison student who couldn't learn how to jump into a river, but he was rescued and had to continue learning.
There are monthly exams every month. If you do not do well in the exam, your name will be posted on the door of Donghua. You will be embarrassed, and your whole family will be embarrassed. Zu Chongzhi and Zu Xun were ancient people more than a thousand years ago. Even a child of Your Majesty can understand those few words, but the Confucian scholars who claim to be dragons and phoenixes among men, with their hands tied to the blue dragon, still can't understand it.
Business has been getting worse in recent times. The emperor, Tian Laoye, suddenly built a happy forest of steles outside Chaoyang Gate and asked Hai Rui to lead the important task of killing corruption. All of a sudden, fewer officials and gentry came. To be targeted by Hai Rui and to be engraved into the forest of happy monuments as an indicator of how to become a legal practitioner would not only be humiliating, but would be infamy for eternity.
Yanxing Tower is a gold-selling cave. People who come to a place like this are worth a lot of money. Hai Rui must carefully examine where the official's money comes from.
There are fewer customers, but there are still so many fairies. The business in Yanxing Tower has become deserted, and we have to find every way to please the customers. People like Liu Qiniang, when business is deserted, they still There are very few guests like Sun Jigao who are recommended to others.
The water in the spring river is warm and the duck is a prophet, and the wind and clouds are treacherous and the prostitute sings at dawn.
Liu Qiniang put away her money, lay down to sleep happily, and prepared to go to work the next day.
“I want to go to work, why am I not allowed to go to work?” Liu Qiniang didn’t understand the rules, so she asked Zhi Niang’s head in confusion.
"You can't work after seven days. You have to take two days off." Da Baotou is also a weaver. Liu Qiniang thought that Da Baotou was a nanny, but what Da Baotou said was not that of a nanny. words.
Da Baotou couldn't understand this law very much. She also shook her head and said: "You can't tell me the rules set by Da Sikou himself. I have to rest for seven days. You can go to the Guanchang School to take a look. You can go and sit in. It would be nice to know some words.”
Liu Qiniang failed to go to work on the second day. After working for seven days, she had to take two days off and couldn’t go to work. This was the instructions from the supervisor of the wool official factory and the court. The rules set by the big bosses.
The reason why Da Si Kou made this rule is that the design of the labor remuneration system in the official factory has been based on quantity from the very beginning. The more you work, the more you will get, the less you will get, the less you will get, and the less you work, the less you will get, and not the time.
People need to combine work and rest in order not to affect the production speed. Wang Chonggu’s past experience told him that fishing from the marsh is not as sustainable as fishing from the marsh. Everything is like this. Taking a break can actually increase the production speed. .
This experience is extremely broad.
For example, you want to farm the land and plant two crops. In the first crop, you plant grain, and in the second crop, you have to plant beans. There is a saying in "Spring and Autumn": This is a beautiful crop, here is a beautiful wheat, you Without crop rotation, the soil will not be fertile enough, and bugs that specialize in eating wheat will thrive, so crops must be rotated and left fallow.
For example, fishing should be closed, because if the fish in the river are not allowed to reproduce, there will be less and less fish caught. By then there will be no fish in the river, so what else can we catch?
For example, the training of the sergeants of the Jingying Camp also requires one or two days of rest. The Ming Dynasty Jingying squadron returned to Beijing, and the former Yongping Guard sergeants took over the defense area. The Ming Dynasty Jingying Camp had enough rest and had to go out to fight. .
People who work for a long time and with high intensity will inevitably suffer from fatigue. Taking a break will actually help the production speed.
Even for Zhang Juzheng’s New Deal, this year is the time to retract the punches and gather strength after striking hard.
Practice has also proved that Xiu Mu is a virtuous circle. In order to make money, Wang Chonggu has really done his best.
Liu Qiniang has always been cautious in her life. She is afraid that her past will be known. She is a low-life and has no intention of getting married. It will harm others. What she is most worried about is that her past experiences will be completely exposed. Look, as a piece of paper was handed over to her, which was her national origin and hometown, she completely broke away from the humble business and became a person.
Liu Qiniang was crying secretly in the corner again. She still didn't dare to cry out for fear of others hearing her.
While Liu Qiniang was immersed in her new life in the official factory, miscellaneous newspapers from the capital of the Ming Dynasty were surging, and there were more and more discussions about the labor diagram. In order to refute the labor diagram, a whole set of "Supply and Demand Diagram" was established 》, this set of supply and demand diagrams can well explain the phenomenon of rising and falling prices of items.
Many Confucian scholars can discuss "Illustrated Theory of Labor" and "Illustrated Theory of Supply and Demand", and soon Zhu Zhongxing wrote a magnificent article that closely combined the two to explain the material situation and commodity value.
This time in "The Theory of Things", the value given to labor, time and intensity determine the use value of items, while supply and demand determine the exchange value, the analysis is very clear.
This time, Zhu Zhongxing analyzed the Yanyin of the Ming Dynasty.
With the advent of "The Theory of Things", the academic style of learning from hundreds of schools of thought and being tolerant was accepted by most people for a time. The concept of contradiction, opposition and unity gradually became Be accepted.
This article was jointly written by Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng was thinking about the relationship between supply and demand when he tossed silver coins. It is difficult to explain some problems using labor diagrams and supply and demand diagrams alone.
For example, in the supply and demand diagram, price fluctuations are entirely attributed to the imbalance of supply and demand. However, assuming that in an extreme case, the total supply and total demand happen to balance, then what is the price of the item? Decide? The labor diagram theory cannot explain some strange phenomena, such as the inexplicable price increase of some magical things beyond everyone's expectations.
For example, during the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, the price of pearls rose to a sky-high price due to the purchase of jewelry in the palace. If Song Renzong had not banned the purchase of jewelry in the palace in time, the price of pearls would have continued to rise.
The consumption in the palace is not that much, but knowing that the palace wants to buy big and good pearls, they are all chased by the price. You are chasing after me, which ultimately leads to this situation.
Zhang Juzheng and Zhu Yijun, two people who understand the theory of contradictions at the highest level, under the pseudonym Zhu Zhongxing, completed this negation of negation and completely perfected the concept of material conditions and commodity value. definition.
Just when everyone thought that the war of words ended in a state of conflict, another article written by Yu Yu came out of nowhere.
Qi Jiguang felt offended by the content published in the newspaper. For the first time, Qian Anbo, a good old man, used his real name to criticize the article "Ping Japanese" under his real name and published it. Above all Jin, Chu, Zhejiang miscellaneous newspapers and Di newspapers.
The article written by Qi Jiguang is called "Shit Bu Tong Ping Japanese Records".
This Yu Jieyu’s story about the fight against the Japanese is from the perspective of a mother from Taiping County, Taizhou, describing the content of the guest soldiers’ fight against the Japanese in Taizhou.
The content inside is unsightly.
The Japanese pirates created in this "Ping Japanese Records" are teachers of benevolence and righteousness. Their purpose of joining the Japanese pirates is to save the people who are caught in the harsh punishment of the court. It depicts a lot of the people's welcome to the Japanese pirates. Prosperous scenes include the Japanese pirates teaching the people to farm, building water conservancy for the people, suppressing bandits and settling the place for the people, and in order to save the people's cattle, a Japanese pirate was washed away by the flood.
But as Qi Jiguang led the Nan soldiers to defeat the Japanese, the scene began to turn sharply. The mother was raped by a Xiaoqi (ten-man captain) under Qi Jiguang's tent. The mother's eldest son heard the news and wanted to kill the Xiaoqi, but Xiaoqi killed him in the name of interfering with the Japanese. The mother swallowed her humiliation and made concessions, but she still could not satisfy Xiao Qi's selfish desires. Her daughter was soon brutally murdered, and most of the women in this small village in Taiping County were murdered by guest soldiers.
That’s not all. If Xiaoqi has the word crucian carp in his name, he will not prepare the villagers to catch crucian carp. There are countless such evil deeds.
I wonder if people still think Qi Jiguang is the Japanese pirate.
Qi Jiguang refuted from many aspects such as army construction, Japanese pirate atrocities, military achievements in quelling the Japanese, and support from the people.
"Have everyone been ordered?" Zhu Yijun had already prepared his robes and was fully clothed. He stood in front of the Chengtian Gate and asked Zhao Mengyou if he had ordered his troops.
Zhao Mengyou looked at the slightly ferocious nine-pound cannon and asked quite solemnly: "Your Majesty, everyone is here, but even if it is a book club, there is no need for artillery."
"If you don't need it, you have to pull it over." Zhu Yijun did not mount his horse, but took to the street with the horsemen with bright armor.
He is not Qi Jiguang, he is not a good old man, he is angry.
Qi Jiguang could still patiently refute all of them, while Zhu Yijun directly asked Jin Yiwei to supervise the matter.
When he went out, he asked Wang Chonggu to give him a driving ticket. This was not a yellow paper case or a white paper case, but an iron case. Zhu Yijun was a very rule-abiding person.
Zhao Mengyou has already found out the origin of the demon book, and Zhu Yijun personally leads the team to deal with it. He is young and still has the qualifications to play nonsense. If he is older, it will be difficult to do things like killing Confucian scholars.
Zhu Yijun came to this book club, blocked the nine-pound artillery at the gate, and Tiqi surrounded the entire book club.
"Go and shout. If you don't open the door after counting to three, then fire." Zhu Yijun's tone was cold. He signaled Luo Sigong to go and shout. Luo Sigong took three steps forward and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty said, don't open the door after counting to three." , just fire!”
“Three!”
“Two!”
Luo Sigong didn’t shout that one after all. Because the door opened from the inside, a large group of people fell to their knees.
Zhu Yijun walked into the bookstore carrying the Qijia waist knife. There were seven people in the bookstore, and they were all pressed to the ground. Zhu Yijun found the pen editor named Chen Youren, who wrote Ping Japanese Records.
"Your Majesty, the common people are stupid and do not know the details. They are talking nonsense. Your Majesty, please spare your life!" Chen Youren saw the knife and finally realized that he was afraid. The emperor personally came to deal with it, which Chen Youren never expected. .
During this period, various miscellaneous newspapers appeared in endlessly, and fierce debates began around the labor illustrations. The reason why Chen Youren wrote such a book about Ping Japanese was based on the relationship between Rouyuan people and Xing Wenxiwu. Two major premises are the starting point.
The main purpose of what he wrote in "Ping Japanese Records" is to portray that Japanese pirates are also human beings, not all Japanese are bad people, and not all Ming soldiers are good people. By the way, they exaggerate the harm of guest soldiers. These guest soldiers only know Kill people and do all kinds of bad things.
This kind of nonsense that ignores the facts has been going on for more than a hundred years in the Ming Dynasty. How can we achieve the goal of promoting culture and military affairs without rendering the warriors as heinous people?
Chen Youren is just making a fool of himself and making outrageous remarks to gain attention. Miscellaneous newspapers also need sales, otherwise it will be difficult to maintain them.
But this provoked a thunderous blow from the emperor.
“No, no, no, it’s not that you don’t understand, on the contrary, you understand it very well. You just made a precise exchange between what Qi Shuai did and what the Japanese pirates did. It’s not that you don’t understand, but you understand it very well. , you did it on purpose." Zhu Yijun waved his hands repeatedly.
Zhu Yijun pulled out his sword and said very solemnly: "Since ancient times, only Qi Shuai has been called to report to the emperor and save the head of Guizhou. Only Qi Shuai can have a cow washed away by the flood for the sake of the people. "Isn't it just to make people speak?"
"Isn't it just to make people speak?" , can we only praise virtues but not criticize them?
Zhu Yijun said calmly: "Let me talk, don't talk nonsense, you don't understand at all. In the first year of Longqing's invasion of the capital, the capital was shocked. Less than ten years have passed. It's not that Qi Shuai was in Jizhou. Do you think Beilu will be so easy to talk to? Once you have lived in peace, you will forget your fear and put down the business of scolding your mother. Only you bunch of cheap scholars can say it with peace of mind."
Qi Jiguang led. The slogan "Southern soldiers, save the head of Guizhou" was shouted out again three hundred and fifty years later, and the humble Confucians had no idea what it meant.
Zhu Yijun knew it very well. He solemnly said: "In the name of the Son of Heaven, I will sentence you to death."
When Zhang Juzheng heard that the emperor and his Tiqi suddenly left the palace, he knew something was wrong! The little emperor must be doing something big, so he immediately rushed from Wenyuan Pavilion to the book club in the outer city.
When he first arrived, he heard Zhu Yijun judging someone to be executed.
"Sir, are you here?" Zhu Yijun saw Zhang Juzheng and smiled, took out the bone prying knife, accurately inserted it into Chen Youren's neck, twisted it hard, and the fourth cervical vertebra was pried open. It's dead and can't die anymore.
He picked up the waist knife, raised it high, and cut off Chen Youren's head cleanly with one stroke.
Beheading is not an easy task. Zhu Yijun's knife was fast and accurate, and his manpower was very strong, so he completed this action.
Blood spattered three feet, and the head rolled to Zhang Juzheng's feet.
"Huh!" Zhu Yijun held the waist knife in his hand. Martial arts training is useful, except when parading the army and horses, so that the soldiers know that their king is not a coward who cannot endure hardships. In addition, you can do some venting of anger by yourself.
"See Your Majesty." Zhang Juzheng ran a little hastily, and then he caught his breath and saw the head.
"Sir, do you want me to be unruly? Do you want to admonish me for mercy?" Zhu Yijun wiped the knife clean on Chen Youren's body and asked calmly.
Zhang Juzheng hurriedly said: "No, no, no, your Majesty, I have no intention of doing this. This person does deserve to die, but he should also pass the official document of the Ministry of Punishment. This yellow paper case can easily cause trouble for Qi Shuai and Ti Shuai."
Zhao Mengyou took out the driving notice and said: "There is an official driving notice from the Ministry of Punishment. It was given by the chief minister before coming."
A bunch of courtiers came running behind Zhang Juzheng. They all came after receiving the news. Seeing the emperor's action of sheathing the knife, and then looking at the scene of blood all over the ground, he couldn't help but shudder.
"Yuan Fu, this is indeed the driving letter from the Ministry of Justice. I just didn't expect His Majesty to be so quick." Wang Chonggu replied blankly, proving the authenticity of the driving letter. Your Majesty, he really, He actually knows how to respond when he loses his temper!
In this way, this is a case recognized by the foreign court, but it is handled urgently, and the person who takes action is the emperor himself.
Wan Shihe, the mildest official minister, looked at his head on the ground, then looked at the bone pryer placed aside, and said with emotion: "Your Majesty is really kind. Before he died, , I even pried his bones.”
“What Wan Dazai said is that at my young age, I can’t cut off the head without prying the bones.” Zhu Yijun wiped the waist knife and the bone prying knife clean. said.
"Good, good! Good kill!" Tan Lun clapped his hands and spat fiercely, without caring about the scholar's gentleness.
Tan Lun highly praised His Majesty's behavior of using swords with his hands. Qi Jiguang can defeat all foreign enemies, but Qi Jiguang, who does not turn his sword inwards, cannot do the behavior of cutting down Confucianism with his hands.
But your Majesty can, because the emperor is supreme and the incarnation of the rule of law, and does not need to abide by so many rules. However, your Majesty still abides by the rules. Before doing things, he got the driving certificate from the Ministry of Punishment, and there is no need to do so. What's the problem.
Some things must be done urgently, and we cannot tolerate it for a moment.
After Zhu Yijun killed Chen Youren, the depression in his heart dissipated and he felt much refreshed.
He has been having trouble sleeping during the past two days. If Qi Jiguang really looked like the bastard described in Chen Youren's works, how could he defeat the Japanese bandits?
When Qi Jiguang arrived, he looked at the mess and looked a little helpless. He knew that things would be like this.
He is the emperor's martial arts teacher. He knows the emperor's temper very well. The emperor is not unwilling to make compromises. In the assassination of the king and the murder of the driver, the emperor tolerated it in exchange for the stability of the court, but he encountered some principled problems. If the problem arises, the emperor will change from a sunny and cheerful boy to an indescribable monster.
"I thank your Majesty for your kindness." Qi Jiguang said very solemnly. The emperor did this to protect Qi Jiguang's reputation.
"It's over here. I'll go back to the palace first. Are you going to deal with the aftermath of Da Sikou?" Zhu Yijun just came out to kill people. After the killing, he planned to go back and continue studying.
"It is my honor to send it to Your Majesty." Wang Chonggu quickly agreed. It was a great honor to wash the floor for Your Majesty personally.
Zhu Yijun smiled and returned to the palace with a long string of tails.
The courtiers stood in this book club, you looked at me, I looked at you, Ge Shouli suddenly said: "Yuan Fu has worked hard, Yuan Fu will continue to work hard."
This It's not that the emperor is moody, but there is a thread there. As long as he doesn't touch it, His Majesty is still a very talkative and cheerful person.
"When Yuan Fu is in charge of the country, he must do his duty. The court officials must work together sincerely so that Yuan Fu can stay in this position of power for a long time." Wang Chonggu said with sadness.
You have to seal the little emperor!
After Zhu Yijun returned to the palace, he had been waiting for someone to reprimand him. After all, killing someone himself was indeed a bit deviant.
"Didn't the Queen Mother come over? Didn't Sir, Sir, write the Notes on Sinners?" At night, before Zhu Yijun went to bed, he did not receive any admonishment. The Queen Mother of the two palaces ignored him and did not even send Zhang Juzheng a message to send him off. Come.
Zhu Yijun thought he would fall into public opinion, but with the cooperation of his courtiers, the chief minister Wang Chonggu chose to deal with it strictly coldly and suppressed the matter without any news, which was very clear. major.
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