423. Zhoushan Island will not give you [1/2]
Zheng Zhifeng's ideal is beautiful, but the fact is tragic. Since she met King Jiashan that day, she has been idle with a large group of maids. She has nothing to do and no one will take them to see King Jiashan again. She and these maids dress up carefully every day and want to make a career. Unfortunately, they don't even have the chance to show up. What's the use of dressing up beautifully?
The fleet sailed northward day by day. After a few days, the huge fleet finally returned to the Shanghai Oasis.
Zheng Zhifeng lay on the window, looking at the giant oasis city that was completely unfamiliar to her for the first time. She saw that Wusong Port was full of merchant ships, and merchants from all over the world were walking around, and large boxes of goods were dragged back and forth, a prosperous scene.
Many people stood on the dock to welcome the return of King Jiashan. According to the usual practice, there were An Jing, An Qian, Shui Miao, Li Chengyu, Ruan Mu Xing, Yan Wanwan, Cai Rou and others. A large group of women surrounded King Jiashan and chattered, which made Zheng Zhifeng feel aired. The prince is so shameless. He can marry so many princesses. Ordinary civilians have the ability to do this?
Then someone came to greet the maids and got off the boat. Zheng Zhifeng followed the maids out of the cabin and walked onto the land of the Green Oasis. The Imperial Army, the servants, the Shenji Camp and other soldiers were clearing the way in front. King Jiashan hurried and walked behind him, and a large group of maids and servants followed him. Zheng Zhifeng found that there were more than 30 maids and servants following the fleet, and there were many, many maids, at least four or five hundred maids and at least thousands of servants. No wonder King Jiashan didn't see them for more than ten consecutive days. It turned out that he was summoning other maids and servants. It seemed that he had promoted his profession to other maids and servants.
Thinking of this, Zheng Zhifeng couldn't help but feel depressed. She wanted to stand out from so many maids and get promoted by King Jiashan. What a difficult thing it would be. It's so deceiving.
She followed the team with a large number of maids and servants. Not long after, she finally arrived at the Shanghai Palace. A large fortress that combines Chinese and Western styles appeared in front of her. There were many people standing in front of the house, standing in a neat line in several square formations. These people were men and women, dressed in tatters. They all seemed to be poor. A beggar woman with an exaggerated smile stood in front of these teams.
Zheng Zhifeng tried hard to stretch her ears to listen. Only then did she hear King Jiashan laugh at the beggar woman and said, "Taishi Xiaohua, are you here to sell people for me again?"
This beggar woman is the leader of the Beggar Sect? Zheng Zhifeng was shocked. Although Fengyun Shibazhi was in the sea, she also knew a little about the forces on the land. How could she not know the great gang like the Beggar Sect that is the most famous in the world? When she heard that the other party was the leader of the Beggar Sect, she immediately became respectful.
Taishi Xiaohua smiled and said to Yi Yun: "I am very active in buying and selling people and doing human traffickers. I heard that you came back from the South China Sea, so I bought 500 maids and 1,000 servants quickly brought them over. I'm waiting for you to come back to receive the goods. Okay, I'll pay the money and deliver the goods with the other. Don't let me delay here for too long."
"Okay!" Yi Yun reached into his arms, touched a few silver notes and stuffed them into Taishi Xiaohua's hands. Her eyes and eyebrows were full of smiles. It seemed that she was very happy to have made a deal with human traffickers. After laughing strangely, she left hummed a song.
She was happy, but Zheng Zhifeng was unhappy. When she saw that five hundred new maids had arrived, her heart was so cold. Oh my God, the number of competitors has increased. Isn’t it even more difficult for King Jiashan to choose me from so many maids to promote his career?
Soon, these newly bought maids and servants mingled with Zheng Zhifeng and others, and followed the crowd into the Shanghai Prince's Mansion, standing on the training playground in the Prince's Mansion.
Yi Yun gathered them together, then stood on the parade in front, and shouted: "Well, every time a new person joins, I will say a few words as usual... From today on, you will be my maids and servants. As long as you do your work for me faithfully, I will give you benefits... If you betray me, the benefits will be taken back..."
This is the second time that Zheng Zhifeng has heard these words, and she is no longer surprised. The new maids and servants are confused, not knowing what welfare is?
But they soon found out that Yi Yun pointed casually in the group of servants and selected an ugly male servant who looked ugly, and smiled and said, "I just like ugly men... Come on, I'll give you a benefit."
Brush! The red light flew up, and the servant instantly turned into a second-level "gun soldier".
"I cheated my father... I pointed it casually again, and a rare profession was sent out." Zheng Zhifeng couldn't help but curse in her heart: "Why don't you point me?"
The ugly man who was promoted had not reported it for a long time and was stunned. Yi Yun waved his hand and said, "Come on, take this gun soldier out, and organize him into the Ding army. We will train him to fight with muskets from tomorrow."
This ugly man transformed from a slave into a warrior in an instant, and the servants who were also sold nearby were jealous.
Just as Zheng Zhifeng was crazy jealous and Yi Yun was in the stage, she suddenly ran in outside, ran to Yi Yun and reported: "The prince... the court's cabinet masters have agreed on the distribution results of Zhoushan Island..."
"Oh?" Yi Yun raised his eyebrows and said, "What's the result?"
I have to introduce it here. After Yi Yun killed the Japanese pirates Wang Zhi and his gang, he moved all the Japanese pirates on Zhoushan Island to Shanghai Oasis, and Zhoushan Island became an uninhabited island and needed to find a new owner. According to the provisions of the "Da Meng Law", if the prince expands his territory, the new territory will automatically become the prince's fiefdom.
However, Zhoushan Island was originally the land of the Dameng Kingdom. Yi Yun was considered to regain lost land and could not be considered to expand territory. Therefore, Zhoushan Island could not become his possession. If he wanted to gain control of Zhoushan Island, he had to go through the official appointment of the court.
Yi Yun didn't think it was difficult. Anyway, the emperor was in his hands, and Zhoushan was also brought back. Without further ado, he just took the matter behind his head and asked his subordinates to help him apply to the court to ask for the management rights of Zhoushan Island.
By the way, the emperors are all around Yi Yun, how does Dameng Kingdom operate? This is actually very simple. Dameng Kingdom is not the emperor who is in charge of affairs. The real power organization is called the cabinet, and the officials in the cabinet are called the cabinet. At the beginning of the establishment of the cabinet, the original intention was to help the emperor deal with some miscellaneous things that could not be handled. However, because the emperors of Dameng Kingdom were strangers from generation to generation and did not care about affairs, they ended up handing over all the matters to the cabinet to handle. The cabinet's power became increasingly greater and could gradually fight against the imperial power.
Sometimes the emperor decided something, and the cabinet refused to sign and execute it, but the emperor had no choice but to do it. But the cabinet agreed to the emperor and signed it very happily, because the emperor was all stupid. In this way, it was obvious who had the final say between the emperor and the cabinet.
If this matter is considered by later people, it can be understood as "the primary stage of the parliamentary system" and "the early stage of the constitutional monarchy". However, in this era, everyone still does not understand this, and they all understand the cabinet as a real power institution.
In short, although the emperor followed Yi Yun and was ignorant of the ministers, the Dameng Kingdom was not affected at all. Under the leadership of the cabinet, the entire empire was still running towards the sunset, waving the sweat of youth.
If Yi Yun wanted Zhoushan Island as his fiefdom, he needed a formal appointment document issued by the cabinet and appointed him as the King of Zhoushan.
Okay, after the introduction, back to the story, Yi Yun said to the Thirty-two Father-in-law: "Tell me, what is the result of the cabinet agreement?"
"Uh... the situation is not good... the parents think that Zhoushan Island can no longer be a fief of the prince. They plan to distribute Zhoushan Island to another prince... Which one is still arguing, it's not you anyway." The 32nd father-in-law was sweating profusely.
"**!" Yi Yun jumped up: "I drove away the Japanese pirates on Zhoushan, and I took back the territory. Why don't I give it to me?"
"This..." The thirty-two father-in-law also worked in the court for decades and knew everything in the court well. He whispered: "The biggest possibility is that the cabinet masters think that your fiefdom is too large and threatens their status..."
"Huh?" Yi Yun frowned slightly, "What can I threaten them? Even if I want to be an emperor, it is only my emperor cousin. What does it have to do with them?"
The 32nd father-in-law heard Yi Yun say such ruthless words, but he didn't say anything on his face, and just whispered: "Your Majesty... You also know that the current emperor is not in charge, and the cabinet can control the government affairs at will. How cool is this for them? If the emperor is replaced by a wise and powerful lord of Zhongxing, will it be the cabinet turn to criticize him?"
"I understand!" Yi Yun understood as soon as he heard it: "The cabinet believes that if I occupy King Jiashan, King Hu, and King Zhoushan, I will be too strong and threaten their power, right?"
"That's right!" The 32nd father-in-law laughed twice and said, "Most of the cabinet masters in the cabinet are corrupt scholars of the Donglin Party. Since Zheng Shuliang, a Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion, they know that the influence of the Donglin Party on the emperor has declined, but you have a great influence on the emperor. The emperor went to play hide-and-seek, and no one in the world can find her, but you can find it. They often take out the imperial edicts she stamped... This is a very unpleasant thing for the cabinet. I guess, the people of the Donglin Party will find an opportunity to criticize you."
"Those turtles dare to come and swear, I won't squeeze their eggs!" Yi Yun couldn't help but swear.
Chapter completed!