After leaving the shop, Liu Che and his men got on the carriage and left the market.
"Your Majesty, this slave is guilty!" Wang Dao knelt down with a plop as soon as he got into the car.
Liu Che smiled and did not answer.
He just said to Ju Meng who was driving outside: "Captain Fengche, the minister of the car is tired, please send someone to take him back to Weiyang Palace..."
When Wang Dao heard this, he immediately kowtowed repeatedly.
He knew very well what this decision meant.
It means that he is worthless from now on!
There have been too many similar precedents in the court.
As a eunuch, losing the emperor's trust is almost equivalent to annihilating yourself from the world.
But Liu Che was determined this time.
"Why don't you go back to the palace quickly?" Liu Che looked at him coldly: "Do you have to be embarrassed here?"
Therefore, Wang Dao had no choice but to kowtow heavily, then stepped out of the carriage in tears, and then, escorted by two attendants, set foot on the road back to the palace.
This road is definitely not that easy for him.
"I have long said, don't be greedy, don't take, let alone try to play tricks behind my back!" After Wang Dao left, Liu Che seemed to be saying to the ceiling: "But there are always some people who can't listen!"
"If you can't keep up with me, I won't wait for him!"
This sentence was obviously meant for Bo Shi and Ju Meng to hear.
Why don't the two of them understand?
"Isn't it true that the late emperor still lacks a eunuch to serve him?" Liu Che ordered: "Tell Taichang to let Wang Dao go and serve the late emperor!"
"No!" A eunuch immediately accepted the order happily.
The fall of Wang Dao means that a new giant will rise.
Everyone has a chance!
As for whether Wang Dao will be revived?
This possibility is approximately zero.
The reason is very simple. Throughout history, none of the eunuchs who were punished by the emperor for serving the late emperor's clothes could recover.
They were forever bound in the tombs and temples of the late emperor, and died in loneliness and obscurity.
"Your Majesty, isn't this a bit much..." Ju Meng is a man of loyalty after all. When he saw Wang Dao's fate, he felt inexplicably sad.
In the eyes of the outside world, he and Wang Dao are the same type of people.
He is a lucky minister, and Wang Dao is a eunuch.
They are all groups that are not tolerated by the scholar-bureaucrats and despised by public opinion.
Wang Dao's fate was so miserable today, and he might end up like this tomorrow.
"I don't love anyone to thank the world!" Liu Che lightly interrupted Ju Meng's persuasion: "I am not Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty, he is kingly, nor is I Gao Lishi!"
Bo Shi and Ju Meng bowed their heads when they heard this, not daring to say any more.
Who are Tang Minghuang and Gao Lishi?
They don't know.
But they knew that the emperor's intention and attitude were already obvious.
Anyone who dares to do something small behind his back will never be forgiven!
"It seems that I will have to come out every now and then to take a look..." Liu Che said, "If I don't come out to take a look, I don't know how many things will be hidden from others!"
Eunuchs and bureaucrats worked together to block certain news and erase some information from the emperor.
It has been commonplace throughout history.
The most typical one is that Zhao Gao deceived Qin II and made him think that the world was peaceful and that there was no peasant uprising at all, but just bandits.
When Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were in catastrophe, Qin II discovered: What's going on with me, Cao?
But the peasant rebel army had already approached Guanzhong at that time...
Therefore, the unofficial historian said that Zhao Gao was out for revenge, which is not groundless.
In the history of the Han Dynasty, there were also incidents where eunuchs teamed up to block intelligence.
That time, the prince Liu Zhi, who had been trained by Emperor Wu for decades, committed suicide. This caused numerous witchcraft disasters, and the Han Empire was almost destroyed because of this.
With these two stories, how could Liu Che tolerate it, and Wang Dao actually blocked news and intelligence from him?
"Get out of the city!" Liu Che didn't want to mention this matter anymore. He told Ju Meng: "Go to the workshops outside the city and have a look... Don't tell me, you don't know where these merchants' workshops are!"
"No!" Ju Meng certainly knew it.
Liu Che couldn't wait to see what kind of power caused his confidant Wang Dao to dare to hide it from him, and Xiuyiwei, who was his eyes and ears, did not report it. You must know that in the system design of Xiuyiwei,
Liu Che established a system called Zhizhuo: If a commander of the Xiuyi Guard felt that the matter was important, but his report was not approved, then he could apply for Zhizhuo in front of the emperor at any time.
If the commander of the Xiuyi Guards applied for a direct performance, even if Liu Che was on the woman's belly at the time, he would be received immediately.
However, none of the eight commanders of the Xiuyi Guards, including the three responsible for supervising Chang'an, applied for direct examination.
what does that mean?
Liu Che knew very well that some people didn't want him, the emperor, to know what they were doing!
Moreover, this person has great hands and eyes, and he can actually open up connections, and he really buried this matter!
This is the scariest thing!
As an emperor, there are two most important things.
First: Within two steps, everyone must be your own people, everyone must be loyal to yourself, and have no second thoughts.
Second: having sharp ears and eyes, being able to grasp the dynamics and information of the world, and knowing what has happened and what has appeared.
In other words, everything is under control.
However, now someone has destroyed these two basic rights of Liu Che.
It actually made him as if he were blind and deaf.
This matter is certainly not simple!
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Two hours later, Liu Che and his carriage team arrived at a river outside Chang'an City, about thirty miles away from Hongguyuan.
The Wei River rushes down.
On the plain in the distance, the farmland that was once a vast expanse of land has disappeared.
Here, it has become a huge workshop operation center.
Liu Che just looked up and saw at least a hundred workshops, large and small, standing here.
Countless sewage and waste are discharged into the Wei River.
Inside the river, it was turbid.
Many dead fish, exuding a rancid smell, were accumulated together.
In the distant mountains and forests, there was even thick smoke rising, and the towering chimneys made Liu Che sneer.
"This is what they are hiding from me..." Liu Che only took one look and understood what was going on.
To be honest, today's papermaking and textiles are both handicraft industries.
Handicraft industry means that pollution is small and controllable.
but……
Looking at this place, Liu Che felt that these guys must be doing more than just handicrafts.
At least it's an intensive sweatshop!
"What can I see?" Liu Che asked others around him: "Indentured labor? Slave labor? Child labor? Or something else?"
No one dares to answer this question.
"Do the nine ministers know?" Liu Che asked again.
"Do the Prime Minister and the Imperial Censor know?"
Still no one dared to answer.
But he didn't dare to answer, which illustrates the problem.
"How long has this place existed?" Liu Che asked again.
"It's been more than a year..." Finally someone dared to answer this question.
"More than a year..." Liu Che laughed.
Inexplicably, Liu Che remembered a drama he once watched, "Yes, Prime Minister".
A famous saying came to his mind: hide something from others, never hide it from others.
Now, it seems that all the senior officials (three public officials and nine ministers), including him, have been kept in the dark about this situation.
Liu Che could understand why he had to hide it.
We can also understand why these people want to hide this from the Sangong and Jiuqing.
Who the hell dares to submit this intelligence report?
Take a look at this section of the Weihe River!
There are so many pollutants and garbage in this water that it can make people sick.
The water here is no longer drinkable!
If this matter were brought to court, how many heads would be lost?
Anyway, Liu Che himself couldn’t count them clearly.
but……
How long can they hide it?
Paper cannot contain fire!
"These fools!" Liu Che scolded: "This is self-destruction!"
However, this is exactly the nature of capital.
For profit, they can personally sell the rope to hang themselves.
However, Liu Che had to help them clean up this mess.
Want to develop industry, especially large industry.
Pollution is essential.
It can even be said that pollution is industrialization and industrialization is pollution!
They want development and the environment.
That's a dream!
Before nuclear fusion, human beings wanted pure green and pollution-free. This was either retarded or brain-dead.
However, the situation in front of me, apart from other things, the situation in this section of the river cannot be brought to the court.
Once you poke it up, your head will not only fall off in a circle.
It will also set off a trend of anti-industry and anti-technology.
The Confucians and the Huang Lao School will definitely take up the banner of "mechanical decoration" and madly attack the new technologies and new equipment introduced by the Mohists and Shaofu.
What’s even more frightening is that Nanyang’s heavy industrial base is even bigger than Smecta.
China's scholar-bureaucrats and traditional ideological and public opinion will definitely not accept any industrialization that will destroy their own environment and may harm future generations. (~^~)
