Chapter 36 After the Chaos (seeking a monthly ticket)
But it was said that the king was not until Tianjin that he saw that all the sea ships were driven off the shore for several miles, and they were out of reach. He fell off the fort in anger. Fortunately, the generals continued to protect him and it was fine.
At this time, there was only a Haicang Boat left on the empty dock. Xu Weixue thought that it was probably the other party deliberately left behind, so he sent Wang Qingxi to drive the Haicang Boat to Huibiluo to negotiate with the main general.
Xin Ruzhai volunteered and said, "Why wait for me to go there." He wanted to send Wang Zhi to this place and he wanted to take the opportunity to get out.
Unexpectedly, Wang Zhi woke up slowly, but called him and said, "No! Xin Ruzhai, you defected from Li San's hands. He hated you to the core! If you go, I'm afraid you won't come back!" Wang Zhi actually loved Xin Ruzhai, so he was not allowed to go, but he didn't know that Xin Ruzhai was secretly complaining in his heart but had no choice.
The main general on Hui Biluo was Zhang Yue. When Wang Qingxi saw him, he wanted to scold him for being betrayal, but he still endured it. He thought that Zhang Yue was Li Yanzhi's direct descendant, unlike Xu Yuanliang and Hong Dizhen, who should be even more jealous of the emperor, so he threatened Jiajing and said, "Young Master Li San really ignores the emperor's life and death so much, be careful to be disloyal in the future!"
Zhang Yue thought to himself that if we were threatened, Jiang Yifan and Feng Qi would not blackmail you. Do you really think that the one who made the decision ahead would be Hong Dizhen and Xu Yuanliang? But he laughed and said, "Zhengzhu Wang, I, Zhang A-shuai, are a businessman, I don't know what loyal or unfaithful!"
Wang Qingxi was furious and shouted: "You don't understand loyalty or not, you always understand righteousness or unrighteousness! When everyone handed over all the ships to you, that means you can trust you! Now you have occupied all the ships, cut off everyone's retreat, and want to cheat tens of thousands of men in the East China Sea to die here? Zhang A Shuai! If you commit such a sin, be careful of retribution in the future!"
The men at sea may not pay attention to loyalty and filial piety, but pay attention to taboos. Zhang Yue was not very happy when he heard this and said, "Master Wang, why do you have to say so badly? We are each responsible for their own masters. Why do you need to curse me? Besides, I didn't say that you would cut off your retreat."
This sentence made Wang Qingxi have a big accident: "You don't?"
"Of course not." Zhang Yue smiled and said, "I, Zhang A-shuai, are a businessman. What should I do if I have no benefits?"
Seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, Wang Qingxi couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Okay! Manager Zhang, if you are willing to return our ship to us! Let us return to the East China Sea, then you will save our tens of thousands of lives! Today I have your great kindness. No matter what happens in the future, even if the two armies are fighting against the enemy, everyone will remember today's love!"
When Zhang Yue heard this, he laughed: "Master Wang, are you pedantic again? You are talking about loyalty and filial piety to me later, and then about love and friendship to me later! Hehe, I have already said it just now! I, Zhang Yue, are a businessman! Since I don't love fame, I don't talk about loyalty and righteousness! If you want to talk, talk about business!"
Wang Qingxi's face turned a little ugly: "Business?"
"Yes, business." Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Actually, I can sell the boat to you too. Not only the boat, but also the food on the boat to you. As for the price, it's easy to discuss."
When Wang Qingxi asked about the price, his face was like a cooked red pig head. It turned out that according to the price that Wang Qingxi had sold, the East China Sea pirates had to spit out all the remaining gold, silver and jewelry in their hands if they wanted to buy enough ships to return to the southeast! Wang Qingxi was about to have an attack, but he couldn't. It took a long time to say: "Zhang A Shuai, you... you slaughter people too hard!"
"Don't say it's so ugly," Zhang Yue laughed: "This is business, business."
Wang Qingxi was so angry that he almost went crazy. After finally calming down, he thought of an idea, hoping to keep half of it, and said: "Emperor, King Jing and the Prime Minister of the Cabinet are still at our hands! If Zhang A-shuai, you are willing to give up your hands, maybe we can send one or two of them back after going to sea."
When Zhang Yue heard this, he couldn't help but sneer: "Emperor, Prime Minister, Prince, what do I want them to do? You can't be used as food! I'm not a human trafficker! Why do you want two old men and one boy?"
Seeing that he did not care about the life and death of the emperor and prime minister at all, Wang Qingxi knew that he had no bargaining chips that could impress him anymore, so he had no choice but to return to the shore and say Zhang Yue's request. Wang Zhi was already exhausted at this time. The thieves thought of spitting out all the fat meat they had in their mouths. Who would be willing to bear it? But no matter how reluctant he was, he had to save his life first!
Xu Weixue sighed: "Save your life here and take revenge in the future!"
The thieves took out most of the remaining gold, silver and treasures and piled them on Haicang Boat and transported them over. Of course, many people still hid and put away some of them. Although Zhang Yue guessed something, he was not too much.
According to the agreement, Wang Zhi and others also withdrew from Dagu while paying the money and handed over the ship to the sea south of Dagukou. Zhang Yue took over Dagu.
After the group of thieves got on the boat, they became more courageous and had to fight back. However, more than 20,000 infantry and cavalry arrived in a row and camped around Dagu. Another river boat was flowing downstream, transporting artillery and other weapons into Gukou!
Wang Zhi, Xu Weixue and others saw that they knew it was difficult to win, so they had to retreat sadly. When they headed north, they had more than 57,000 troops and 572 ships of all sizes. When they went back, there were only less than 30,000 people left, and only 200 ships of all sizes were left. Because Zhang Yue asked for a high price, Wang Zhi was reluctant to buy it. Looking back on the ambitiousness when he went north, looking at the bleak situation in front of him, I really don’t know what he was doing this time! All this anger was sent to Jiajing, Yan Song and the others.
Mao Haifeng suggested that the emperor be soaked to death and vent his anger, but Wang Zhi still couldn't do it.
At this time, the thieves were in panic and did not dare to stay in the Bohai Sea. They had to take advantage of the wind to turn south to their nests. They just hoped to return to their hometown as soon as possible, and directly drove out of the Bohai Sea and return to Zhejiang District via the East China Sea. However, they did not know that this mentality was also calculated. Nearly one-third of these two hundred ships had been tampered and tampered, and it was not very good in the first two days. However, if they arrived on the black water ocean of the East China Sea, the wind and waves were stormed, and these ships that had tampered with the storm would sink! And because they could not stop and repair the ships during the voyage, the number of ships in this fleet was relatively tight. If something happened to one ship, the adjacent ship could not be rescued. This was a vicious plan to kill!
If Wang Zhi suffered this difficulty again, not only would his strength be greatly reduced, but his reputation would also fall sharply. Even if he returned to the East China Sea, it would be difficult to break through Penghu in terms of combat power. As a senior official, even if he could still command the East China Sea, he would definitely be a weak leader and would not pose a fundamental threat to Li Yanzhi's entire strategic layout in a short period of time.
Pressing Wang Zhi, Xu Weixue returned to the east and refused to show his opinion, but said that Zhang Yue let Wang Zhi go, but reported to Beijing that "thieves were holding the imperial chariot into the sea, and the generals might accidentally hurt the lord and dare not intercept it."
At this time, Li Yanzhi had recovered Beijing and led the governor Yu to the city, stabilizing the situation in the capital. Xu Jie was a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and had a large group of Jinshi students under his command. He was also a local official and a senior official in the capital. He knew everything from the Ming Empire to the Ming Empire! When Yan Song was still alive, he was already the second most powerful faction in the cabinet. At this time, Yan Song was gone. The emperor was not there, the governor was weak, and the general in charge of the army was his student. Such a majesty was really unprecedented! A word was expressed, and the Shilin responded thousands of times.
Fortunately, Wang Zhi did not massacre the gentry in the capital. After Xu Jie entered the city, he released his words and all the yamen were back on track. When the governors and governors of various provinces heard the news, they attached a quotation to show their loyalty. Shi Lin Qingliu praised Xu Jie, believing that his merit was not inferior to humility, and Yan Dang ran away from his door, which was because he wanted to climb another high point when he saw Yan Song was not good.
Xu Jie responded to Qingliu with humility and comforted Yan Party with unchanging stability. A person is like having three heads and eight arms, and is easy to handle everywhere. Beijing, a "waste" at Wang Zhi's hands, came, and in a blink of an eye, became the most powerful machine in the world!
Wang Zhi didn't stay for a long time when he entered the city this time, and except for the last day, he was quite restrained. Therefore, the inner and outer cities of the capital were not damaged much, but the inner palace was looted by pirates, and the eunuchs and palace maids were hungry.
After King Yu entered the palace, he hugged his biological mother, Concubine Du, and cried bitterly. Xu Jie, as a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet and the Minister of Rites, submitted a letter to him, requesting Concubine Du to be the queen and to rule the six palaces.
Empress Du was a sick person. Fortunately, she was supported by Princess Yu, Li. The two of them knew that the situation was difficult, so they asked the state to supervise the country. The cabinet reduced the number of eunuchs and palace maids. Only three were left out of ten stops, so the cabinet naturally agreed.
Li Yanzhi summoned the rice merchants in the capital who had taken advantage of him into the military camp. When these profiteers saw him, they were all uneasy. Li Yan sighed: "Now the six palaces are hungry and the city is short of food. If you can help, you will not blame the past for the past."
When the merchants heard this, they all said, "As long as the young people do their best, they will do their best." They pledged and donated, donated five hundred stones of grain and five thousand taels of silver.
Li Yanzhi was furious and sneered: "I only know what it means to have money but not life!"
At this time, his status was already high and it was difficult to do it by himself, so he handed over the matter to Yin Zhengmao!
Yin Zhengmao was not polite. Those profiteers thought they wanted to pledge their donations again, so they came here. However, Yin Zhengmao did not ask about their rice and shouted in the hall: "I heard that when the king and thieves entered the capital, they heard that they had helped raise military rations, so they gained a foothold. I wonder if this happened?"
The rice merchants were so scared that they were scattered! They hurriedly shouted for injustice, and Yin Zhengmao sneered: "Unjust? People and physical evidence are there, why are you calling for injustice!"
The rice merchants hurriedly asked: "Where is the physical evidence?"
Yin Zhengmao smiled and said, "The king's thieves came to Beijing, but they didn't bring dry food into the city. After entering the city, they were not hungry. They must buy rice. Who should I buy rice? They can't find you? They didn't starve to death, so they must have bought your rice! If they buy rice, they have to give you money - the money in your family is all physical evidence! Not only physical evidence, but also robbery!"
The rice merchants were dizzy when they heard this and asked again: "What is that person's certificate?"
Yin Zhengmao laughed: "If you want someone to testify? That's not simple?"
Although the security in the capital was initially stabilized, there were still more than 100,000 troops waiting to be reorganized in the nine gates, and there were all kinds of people inside! Yin Zhengmao received Li Yanzhi's permission and went to the camp to pick up 180 people, including soldiers, thieves, thieves, thieves, and thieves, and scoundrels. They said whatever Yin Zhengmao asked them to say. This was really "conclusive"! The Mi Shangs complained that they were wronged, but who else could listen to them at this time?
Yin Zhengmao threw down the signing order and confiscated all the rice merchants' families. The rice was confiscated, and half was transported to the palace for the palace maids of the six palaces, and half was distributed to civil and military officials. As for those wealth, Yin Zhengmao stopped 40% of them, 30% was given to Li Yanzhi, 20% was given to Xu Jie, and the remaining 10% was handed over to the official.
Li Yan didn't accept this dirty money, but Xu Jie didn't accept it. Yin Zhengmao thought of a solution, so he sent someone to buy the fields and houses in Youxi and Huating counties, and gave them to Li Gang and Xu Fan. Li Gang took it in a daze, and Xu Fan reluctantly took it. As for other big and small things, Yin Zhengmao would do it. But these are later things.
In one day, dozens of households were crying in the capital and thousands of households were happy. Xu, Li, and Yin became fat.
These rice merchants can make their business so big on the ground in the capital, and they are supported by the Dukes, Marquises, Generals and Ministers behind them. If it were in peacetime, Yin Zhengmao would not be able to move them! But at this time, the chain of interests in Beijing was disrupted. Xu Jie was the most cruel in the officialdom, Li Zhe was the most powerful among the warriors, and the emperor was still in the hands of pirates. King Yu of the Supervisor listened to them in everything. Yin Zhengmao had the support of him, so who dared to stand up and seek death?
After hearing about this, Jiang Yifan said to Feng Qi: "This is not a good trend!" Although he has been a juren, he represents the interests of southern merchants.
During the Jiajing period, the merchants had various forces, and they all had their own sects. Wang Zhi's faction was a bandit in the business, using private troops to protect the business route and robbery to subsidize business. However, these rice merchants were officials in the business, and they were able to achieve such greatness by relying on the protection of the power system. The business group behind Li Yanzhi, Jiang Yifan and others was another kind of atmosphere. Although they supported Li Yanzhi and others to enter the center to seek power, they did not like this kind of brutal interference with the wealth and life of merchants. Because the knife of power can kill others today, it can kill themselves tomorrow! This is called: rabbits die and foxes are sad, and things hurt their species.
Therefore, although the Li family made a profit in the Yin Zhengmao incident, Jiang Yifan thought from the long run that this would not be worth the loss.
Feng Qi has been in the officialdom for a long time and is deeply immersed in it. At this time, he shouted and said, "This is the case in the capital, there is no way." (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in. There are more chapters, support the author and support genuine reading!) (To be continued)
Chapter completed!