"Thank you." Tang Bohu thanked him with clasped fists.
"The dangers and dangers are not in my heart, how are they different from the floating clouds passing through the space. The night is still and the sea is thirty thousand miles away, and the moon is shining and the sky is windy." Wang Yuan suddenly started to recite a poem. After he finished reciting, he asked: "How do you like this poem?"
Tang Bohu praised: "He is bold and elegant, his emotions are broad-minded, Mr. Wang has a great mind!"
Wang Yuan shook his head and said: "It was not written by me, but by my mentor Yangming Gong."
"Farewell!" Tang Bohu stood up and left.
"I'm not humiliating you," Wang Yuan said. "At that time, the eunuchs were in power, and my mentor was beaten by the imperial cane and sent to prison. His wife had a miscarriage, and was demoted to Guizhou as a messenger. On the way, he was intercepted by the Jin Yiwei and was killed by diving.
He pretended to be dead and escaped, but when he returned to his hometown, he encountered a typhoon at sea and almost died in the belly of a fish. His mentor's lung disease relapsed, and he supported his illness along the way. He also accepted apprentices and gave lectures along the way. He wrote this poem on the way to relegation."
Tang Bohu turned around and sat down again: "Your Majesty is indeed worthy of admiration, but even if he is demoted to Yi Cheng, there is still hope for him to return to the court. But I, Tang Yin, have been deprived of my fame and will have no hope of an official career in this life."
Wang Yuan asked: "Which is more terrifying, losing your fame or losing your life?"
Tang Bohu said: "It's hard to judge."
Wang Yuan said: "My mentor is in Guizhou. He lives in a cave and has to cultivate his own food. All his neighbors are people who eat raw hair and drink blood. What would you do if it were you?"
Tang Bohu remained silent.
With his character, he would never go to Guizhou to take up his post. He would just resign and go back to his hometown to drink.
Wang Yuan said: "My mentor was not discouraged. He realized Taoism on Longgang Mountain and taught the barbarian children to read and practice calligraphy. When he left Guizhou, he had dozens of disciples and hundreds of friends and scholars!"
Tang Bohu sighed and said: "I might as well. Let's finish what Mr. Wang wants to say. I just come to Hangzhou for sightseeing."
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "If it were anyone else, I wouldn't bother talking nonsense. I say all this because I want you to put away your cynicism. Since you are here to apply for the shogunate, don't feel that everyone in the world has failed you. Otherwise, how can I?
Do you dare to accept you as a staff member? My master has something to say, and I want to give it to you."
After hearing the explanation, Tang Bohu calmed down his resentment slightly: "Please speak."
Wang Yuan said: "A serious illness in life is just the word pride."
Tang Bohu smiled dejectedly: "I understand this too, but I just can't do it. How are humans different from dogs if they don't have arrogance?"
Wang Yuan shook his head and said: "People should be proud, not arrogant. A few years ago, I was very proud, so my mentor gave me this sentence. In fact, my mentor was also very proud. When he was an official in the court, he would not accept it.
I don’t know how many people I’ve offended if I don’t give anyone a penny.”
Wang Yangming and Tang Bohu's hometowns are less than 500 miles apart, and they participated in the joint examination in the same year.
They may have never met each other, but they must have heard of each other.
Tang Bohu sighed: "President Wang, don't worry about me relying on my talents. In Prince Ning's mansion, I can eat shit and drink urine. How can I put on airs with you?"
Wang Yuan asked in surprise: "Have you had any contact with Prince Ning?"
Tang Bohu said: "Two years ago, King Ning paid a lot of money to hire me as an aide."
Wang Yuan smiled and asked: "Is he planning to rebel?"
This time it was Tang Bohu who was surprised: "How did Mr. Wang know?"
Wang Yuan said: "How can a person with a bright mind not see clearly? In recent years, King Ning sent people to bribe officials everywhere in the capital, colluded with eunuchs, royal guards and border generals, bribed cabinet ministers, and restored the bodyguards to the minister. If he hadn't wanted
Conspiracy, what else can you want to do?"
"If this is the case, all the courtiers know it, why not bring him to justice?" Tang Bohu asked.
Wang Yuan said: "Because the whole court accepts bribes, the words of a few people are useless."
Tang Bohu sighed: "Oh, Xiao Xiaoying is still the same as before."
Wang Yuan said: "If you are willing to stay, you can write correspondence for me in the future and give me advice. Maybe I can return your honor to you."
"Really?" Tang Bohu's eyes suddenly brightened, as if his whole body was reborn.
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "What can't your Majesty do now? Returning your fame is just a trivial matter."
Making suggestions or anything like that is pure nonsense.
Wang Yuan was in need of a literary official who could write brilliantly, so Tang Bohu was very suitable.
Suddenly, Yuan Da walked in and whispered a few words in Wang Yuan's ear.
Wang Yuan stood up and said, "Mr. Ziwei, let's go and see how I work as an official."
Tang Bohu immediately followed, and Yuan Da lent him the horse to ride on.
But they saw Wang Yuan summoning more than a dozen subordinates (disciples) dressed as scholars, and leading hundreds of soldiers out of the camp, and went around the city wall to kill Beiguan.
Tang Bohu asked: "President Wang is going to suppress the bandits?"
Wang Yuan laughed loudly: "It's enough to suppress the bandits and lead troops. I also bring so many disciples? Do you want to bring them to write epitaphs for the bandits?"
Tang Bohu was amused by these words and smiled.
Everyone went straight to Beiguan, and they were so frightened that they were all jumping up and down. They secretly monitored Wang Yuan's helper, and hurriedly ran to report to their master.
Wang Yuan only asked the emperor for the position in Nanguan, but deliberately left Beiguan, which was more lucrative, untouched. There was naturally a reason.
The Five Hundred Shenji Battalion surrounded Chaoguan on three sides, leaving only the side near the river. Soon, the side near the river was also taken over, and all the Chaoguan clerks had muskets pointed at their heads.
Yu Zhi, a Hucao in Zhejiang and the chief of Chao Pass, hurriedly ran out and asked: "General Wang Zhi, why did he lead troops to surround Chao Pass?"
Wang Yuan said: "Check the accounts! I was ordered by the emperor to be the governor of Zhejiang. Before leaving, I was entrusted by the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Duke Bangxiu (Shi Jie), to check the Beiguan of Zhejiang!"
"Check...check, check, check the account?" Yu Zhi's legs became weak and he sat down directly on the ground.
Yu Zhi was a Jinshi in the 9th year of Zhengde. Including the years of Guanzheng (internship), he had only been an official for two years. In fact, there was too much money in Beiguan, Zhejiang, so he only used Jinshi Jinshi to take charge, and he changed it every year. Even so.
, and it cannot stop corruption.
Not being greedy is not enough. When Yu Zhi took office, he also wanted to be an upright official. However, he was dragged into the water just one month after taking office. It was really too stressful to be an upright official, and there was too much to gain from being a corrupt official!
This guy, who was the imperial envoy from Shangguan to right deputy in history, was caught by Wang Yuan when he was still a novice.
"Mr. Wang, thank you for your work!" Wang Yuan cupped his fists and said to Wang Wensu.
Although Wang Wensu is a disciple of Wang Yuan, he is not a true disciple. He is a human calculator, and with more than a dozen top students in mathematics, he can definitely investigate the accounts of Zhejiang Beiguan.
On the merchant ship waiting for customs clearance, the deck was full of people.
Wang Yuan said to Yuan Da: "Tell those merchants that this matter has nothing to do with them. How to pass the customs or how to pass the customs!"
Having said that, under the threat of muskets, the customs and inspection officers all cheered up and showed an unprecedented sense of responsibility among civil servants.
It didn't take long for a commotion to break out because an official ship was stopped.
A guy who looked like an official shouted: "Nonsense, this is an official ship, how can you be allowed to wait for a search?"
The customs inspector said: "Official ships must be searched to prevent officials from carrying private goods!"
Because official ships are tax-free, there are often officials who carry private goods or help merchants carry goods. This behavior is illegal and can range from demotion to loss of official status.
The official got off the boat and ran to Wang Yuan and begged: "President Wang, please put down your official horse. I only brought a few hundred pieces of cloth."
"What is your current position?" Wang Yuan asked.
The official said: "I have just moved to Yuyao County and am about to take up my post."
Wang Yuan sighed: "It's a pity that he is not the magistrate of Dinghai County."
"Ah?" The official didn't understand.
Dinghai County is the hardest hit area for maritime smuggling in Zhejiang. The smuggling seaports there account for two-thirds of the entire Zhejiang.
Well, it would be fine to be the county magistrate of Yuyao, because there are also smuggling activities in Yuyao.
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Remember this person, seize the cargo on the ship, and have him sign the customs inspection documents."
"President Wang, please give me a way to survive!" the official wailed.
Wang Yuan patted the other party's shoulder: "Don't worry, I will only record it, including Cao Beishan, and will not expose it immediately. As long as you cooperate well with Kaihai, we will naturally be able to live in peace."
Tang Bohu watched from the side, thoughtfully, thinking that officials are really not good people.
Chaoguan was in a state of panic due to Wang Yuan, and the officials in the city were also panicked. From the Third Division of Zhejiang Province to the prefect of Hangzhou, everyone was as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and quickly gathered together to discuss countermeasures.
Isn’t this Wang Er opening the sea?
Why did you come to the bank to check the accounts? Why did you suddenly lead troops to surround you, and didn't even give you a chance to set fire to it?
The news that Governor Wang was inspecting the accounts at the Bank of China instantly spread throughout Hangzhou.
In an inn, Zhang Cong heard the news and burst into laughter: "Mr. Wang is an amazing man in making fruit. He was the first to dare to audit accounts in Beiguan, Zhejiang more than a hundred years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty!"