It wasn't until he saw Mr. Zhu that Yun Zheng remembered that this person's origin was something he had seen some time ago when he was specifically looking up information in order to understand the situation in the imperial court. However, what Yun Zheng looked up was collected through Beige and his mother Ning Wanting herself.
There are many secrets in the Yun family's secret files compiled, so Yun Zheng's name can be regarded as "like a thunderbolt"
This man's name is Zhu Mian, also named Lizhi, and his ancestral home is Suzhou. However, his father Zhu Chong sold his ancestral property and moved to Luoyang in his early years. Therefore, although he was born in Suzhou, he grew up in Luoyang. Zhu Mian's father, Zhu Chong, was a cunning man who deceived him.
His family was originally very humble and poor, and he was employed by others. However, he had a strong and fierce character, and was whipped for committing crimes. Once, he went to a neighboring county to beg for a loan. He unexpectedly met an expert and got a sum of money and medicine books.
After returning home, he set up a shop and started selling medicine. The patients took the medicine and saw immediate effects. Because the medicine he sold was effective, buyers flocked to it, and he was good at management. Later, he actually made a fortune. As a businessman, Zhu Chong knew how to do business.
He also knew how to opportunistically change his own image in society, so on the one hand, he renovated the garden, entertained guests and gave gifts, made connections with dignitaries, and improved his social status; on the other hand, he also pretended to be philanthropic, helping the poor and buying bribes.
As a result, Zhu Chong became slightly famous in the local area. Later, by chance, Zhu Chongba met Gu Deng, the right minister at the time, and from then on he took his sons to the officialdom. At the beginning, Gu Heng's father Gu Deng
In his later years, he was sick and afraid of colds, so he moved to Qiantang and passed through Suzhou. He wanted to build a loft for a Buddhist temple, which required a lot of money. The monk said that if he wanted to make this project successful, he had to go to Zhu Chong, so he entrusted the matter to the prefect of Suzhou.
The prefect called Zhu Chong to meet Mr. Gu. Mr. Gu told him the cause of the matter. Zhu Chong expressed his willingness to bear the cost of building the pavilion alone. A few days later, Zhu Chong invited Mr. Gu to the temple to inspect the site of the pavilion.
As soon as Mr. Gu arrived, he saw thousands of giant trees piled under the court. The old prime minister was very surprised and secretly valued Zhu Chong's ability. The next year, Mr. Gu's health improved slightly, and the emperor issued an order
After summoning him back to Luoyang, the old prime minister took Zhu Chong's son Zhu Mian back to Beijing with him. He also asked his son Gu Heng, who was then the Minister of War, to add the names of the Zhu family and his son to the military register and grant them official positions.
The father and son of the Zhu family were promoted successively by Gu Heng because of their good flattery. He even personally accepted Zhu Mian as his disciple, and asked the newly ascended Emperor Wanchang to grant Zhu Chong the title of lieutenant of the auxiliary state (a low-level title, converted into "Prince, Duke, Bozinan").
", this is similar to a viscount). Because of this, the Zhu family and his son were able to change their names. Because of the recommendation of the two prime ministers, Zhu Chong's son Zhu Mian was able to meet the new emperor Wanchang because he was "young and promising".
Emperor Wanchang's machinations and imperial scheming are not bad, but as a young emperor, he has a shortcoming, that is, he attaches great importance to literary talents and likes to collect calligraphy, paintings, flowers and stones. Years ago, when he saw Yunzheng exporting a couplet, he couldn't help but confront several of them in person.
Duizi is one of the manifestations of paying attention to literary talent. When talking about the hobby of collecting flowers and stones, we cannot but mention Zhu Chong’s son Zhu Mian.
Zhu Mian went to see the emperor. He knew that the emperor would look down on other gold, silver and jewelry, so he only brought a stone bonsai. This stone was naturally natural and had not been artificially carved at all. He found it from his hometown of Suzhou.
A strange stone that combines "thin, transparent, leaky, wrinkled" and other rare features. Once this thing was presented, Emperor Wanchang, who had no good impression of Zhu Mian at first, immediately made him his confidant. Zhu Mian took the opportunity to say that there were many such things in the south of the Yangtze River.
He also encouraged the emperor to build a royal garden to relieve the heat in the summer, and to sing plum blossoms and enjoy the snow in winter. The emperor immediately approved it, and established the Jiangnan Yingfeng Bureau that year, and sent Zhu Mian as the governor to be responsible for the "Yingfeng" affairs. In fact, Yingfeng
Before the establishment of the bureau, there were thousands of craftsmen in Suzhou and Hangzhou specializing in making carvings or embroideries of ivory, horn, gold, silver, bamboo and rattan for the emperor and the royal family to appreciate. Wanchang had been a prince for more than ten years, and he had long been tired of these.
So his hobbies changed, and he especially liked strange rocks. The appearance of Zhu Mian and the establishment of Ying Feng Bureau finally satisfied his hobbies.
Zhu Mian openly plundered the people's wealth under the banner of offering sacrifices to the emperor, and he did everything he could to search for rocks or pick out crops. He had a group of officials under his command specifically to take care of this matter.
The officer brought soldiers into the house and put a yellow seal on it. It was regarded as a tribute to the emperor. The people were required to take good care of it. If there was any damage, they would be charged with "disrespect" and be fined lightly or severely.
Some families who were imprisoned were imprisoned because the flowers and trees that were confiscated were too tall to be moved, so the soldiers demolished the house and destroyed the walls. The officers took the opportunity to extort money, and the families whose flowers and stones were confiscated were often troubled.
Their families went bankrupt, and some families sold their sons and daughters and fled everywhere. A family in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, was demolished because Zhu Mian tried to remove a few stones from his house. There were several cypress trees growing among tombs somewhere in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
Zhu Mian ordered the excavation to be carried out, and he did not stop digging until the coffin was reached. In some places, the burden of contributing flowers and stones was evenly distributed to the local people, so that some of those who participated in this effort were ruined, and some lost their wives.
Selling them to meet their own needs. If something is slightly different from the local people, they will regard it as an ominous thing. They are afraid that it will go away quickly and cause fire. This makes Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas fearful like tigers, chickens and dogs are restless, and people are boiling with resentment.
After the flowers and stones were collected, they had to be transported thousands of miles to Luoyang through the canal. Ten ships were organized into a group, called a gang. In order to ensure the transportation of the "Hua Shi Gang", Zhu Mian ignored the grain transportation that was related to the national economy and people's livelihood and allocated a large number of newly built ships.
They also forced many merchant ships to transport flowers and stones, and even transferred the commander of the Fourth Guards of Jiangning, who was in charge of transporting grain at that time, and his troops to serve on the Huashi Gang ship.
The officials greeted him, and even the pole workers and the helmsman on the boat relied on his power to dominate Wanchang. For fifteen years, Zhu Mian plundered a huge Taihu stone, four feet high, and carried it on a specially built ship. The fiber optic man used it.
It took several months for thousands of people to be transported to Luoyang. Along the way, they demolished water gates, destroyed bridges, and dug city walls to facilitate passage. They acted tyrannically and spent an unknown amount of money. Emperor Wanchang's Privy Council did not even report this to him, so he completely
He didn't know that such a big stone was not as "good as mine and free of effort" as he thought. When he saw the stone, he was so happy that he personally mentioned it and named it "Shen Lun Zhao Gong Stone" and also sealed it.
This stone was called "Panguhou" and was erected in the newly built royal garden "Xinyuan". Zhu Mian was promoted to a noble rank and was given the title of minister of the Ministry of Works.
The strange flowers and rocks collected by Zhu Mian were generally gathered in Yanfu Palace, Jinglongjiang and other palaces and gardens for Wanchang to enjoy alone. The large-scale and more magnificent Xinyuan was also a reason for the initial tribute.
Zhu Mian made a bad start and spread the poison. Not to be outdone, bureaucrats from all over the country followed suit and led Fujian longans, lychees, olives, Nanhai coconuts, Denglai Wenshi, Hunan Asparagus bamboo, Sichuan fruit trees, etc. to cross the sea.
Rivers and rivers came one after another, so that the battle of Huashi became popular all over the country, straitening people's power, wasting money and money, and the world was in a state of uproar, with no peace left.
In order to win Wanchang's favor, Zhu Mian did not hesitate to flatter him with his brocade robe. It is said that Emperor Wanchang once touched it with his hand, so Zhu Mian specially embroidered a slap and carried it on his shoulder. Once Zhu Mian attended a palace banquet.
, during the banquet, Emperor Wanchang personally held his arm, so he wrapped it with yellow silk, and then bowed to others, but his arm deliberately remained motionless.
Zhu Mian used Hua Shi Gang to win the favor of Wanchang, and he was suddenly promoted from a common man in the market to a high official in the border areas. He was a villain who was extremely arrogant, corrupt and perverted the law, and committed many evil deeds. When he first took charge of the Ying Feng Bureau, he lived in his hometown in Suzhou for more than a year.
At that time, there was a private house living by the Sunlao Bridge for a day. Suddenly, according to the imperial decree, all the houses on the east and west sides of the bridge were bought and given to him. The hundreds of people who lived in the surroundings were all moved out within five days. The local officials were in trouble.
, forcibly expelled, the people suffered from this disaster, crying on the road, shouting for heaven and earth, and it was so miserable that Zhu Mian also built a huge garden inside Suzhou Panmen, with winding paths leading to secluded areas, pavilions dotted around, and many plants planted.
Thousands of peonies were covered with curtains made of colorful silk and satin, and each flower was labeled with a gold medal. They were more than a mile away. His family owned more than 300,000 acres of land, and even his residence was considered a palace ban. His food was imitated by the royal family, and he was extremely extravagant.
Do whatever you can
Zhu Mian's reputation was so high that he had so much power that he actually recruited thousands of soldiers to protect him. To the outside world, he only called himself a servant. He pointed at state and county officials and looked at them like slaves.
The second term was supposed to be the seat of Feng Feng Bureau in Hangzhou. There were many officials in Hangzhou (he recommended him to the post). Zhu Mian's son Zhu Xian - the one who caused trouble just now - could not recognize a few characters and was actually recommended as the observation envoy to Hangzhou.
, is responsible for supervising the customs of Hangzhou. With such an adult supervising the customs of Hangzhou, it is self-evident how the situation is. Not only his sons and nephews have become high-level officials, but also some of his servants have become some low-ranking officials.
But for an official with great responsibilities, one person can achieve the right goal, and the chickens and dogs can ascend to heaven.
According to the Yun family's secret files seen by Yun Zheng, Zhu Mian also embezzled public funds wantonly. For more than ten years, the director of Ying Feng Bureau often withdrew money from the treasury in the name of purchasing flowers and stones, each time paying hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.
There are thousands of plans, but in fact all the flowers and stones were taken by force from the people, and the hair was not paid back. The money was filled and fell into their own pockets.
Zhu Mian also sold his official positions, recommending and impeaching officials at will according to his own likes and dislikes. Local officials Xu Zhu, Wang Zhonghong and others were reused because they donated tens of millions of state and county public funds to him.
After Zhu Chong's funeral, he was promoted to bachelor of Longtuge, and people at that time called him "the bachelor of disobedience"...
After all, Ning Pengxuan is the young owner of Tingshui Villa, and there are many people who know him officially. Yun Zheng asked him to find out whether Mr. Zhu, who holds the title of Minister of the Ministry of Industry, is in Suzhou this time.
What's coming? Ning Pengxuan came back after a while and told Yun Zheng: "The emperor has newly appointed the Liangjiang Shipping Envoy to take charge of Jiangsu. The new laws of Zhejiang and Zhejiang will be implemented. He is above the governor and below the six ministers."
Yun Zheng was stunned at that time, and sighed after a long time: "Jiangnan... is in danger."
----------Dividing line----------My throat has improved a lot, but my nose has become more and more blocked. I dripped "Nasijijing" before going to bed last night. In the early morning
At 5 o'clock, both noses were blocked. I woke up from holding it in. After another dose of medicine, I fell asleep and it still hasn't improved significantly. How pitiful.
