Wanli Youming

Chapter 255 I am the one who protects Daming

Chapter 255 I am the one who protects Daming

Hao Rusong's face darkened after hearing this, and he had no choice but to put on his official hat: "Let's go, continue to Zhang's residence to express condolences."

After Hao Rusong came to the Zhang residence, when he saw Zhang Juzheng's mourning hall, he had to howl again: "Yuanfu! Why did you leave like this, woohoo! If you are gone, who else in this world can assist the emperor?" Ah, woo hoo!"

After Hao Rusong cried for a while, he also saw that the tablet of Zhang Juzheng had been replaced with the words "Zhang Wenzheng Gong, Marquis of Jingzhou". Get up and condolences to the Zhang clan.

"If you are an official, you should learn from Mr. Zhang Wenzheng in your hometown. For the country and the people, you may be born a grand master and chase Wenzheng to the death!"

The young Xiong Tingbi seemed to have developed a bad mouth problem later in history, so he insisted on saying this while standing next to Hao Rusong when the Zhang family came to express his condolences.

Hao Rusong glanced back, wanting to ask who was mocking him for a while.

At this time, another scholar, Huang Yanshi, echoed at this time and said: "You should imitate Wen Zhenggong, and dare to fight against the powerful and powerful in order to serve the king to Yao and Shun!"

Hao Rusong saw that scholars like Huang Yanshi and Xiong Tingbi were very young, so he couldn't blame them too much.

Moreover, this is in the Zhang Mansion, not the government office, and there are many people from the same village who come to express their condolences. Even because the emperor exempted Jiangling from taxes, he also granted the grace of doubling the admission of county students for three years, which made many people in Zhang Juzheng Township feel relieved. Complaints about Zhang Juzheng's restructuring came to Zhang's house to mourn Zhang Juzheng, and began to praise Zhang Juzheng.

Therefore, Hao Rusong didn't want to say anything, just smiled.

However, Zhang Juzheng's posthumous posthumous posthumous title was Wenzheng and he was granted the title of Marquis, which played a guiding role in the world of scholars in Shilin. greatly affected.

At this moment, after Li Zhi also came to offer incense to Zhang Juzheng, he said to Geng Dingli: "Suddenly, I am not so desperate for this world, and I still want to continue to be an official."

Historically, Li Zhi, who had decided to retire from the prefect of Yao'an to become a monk, and later committed suicide by cutting his neck out of disappointment with the world, had the idea of ​​becoming an official again.

"It's more suitable for you to study."

Geng Tingli laughed and said, "It's better for my brother to inherit Jiangling's ambition."

When Hao Rusong heard what Li Zhi and the others said, he wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh for a moment, so he just pushed back to the government office by saying that there was still business to be done in the office to the few officials who accosted him.

It was only after returning to the government office that Hao Rusong pulled his face down and complained to his confidants in the backyard study: "This official can't do anything! You send someone to Beijing to ask what's going on, why the settlement hasn't been settled yet? Do we have to wait for morale to follow suit and everyone advocates system reform, to the point where we start to feel that the three deficiencies are justified?!"

"Yes!"

……

The news of Zhang Juzheng's death has begun to spread among the people through various channels such as "Di Bao".

There are celebrants, there are also those who are sad, and there are even those who lament the end of an era.

At this time, Wang Changgeng walked quickly to Liu Quexian's residence with a smile, and was going to tell Liu Quexian the news and see Liu Quexian's sad look.

However, Liu Quexian had already learned about Zhang Juzheng's death through other channels at this time.

Therefore, when Laidi appeared, Liu Quexian hugged her directly and burst into tears.

Laidi couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

"Mr. Zhang, the Grand Master, has passed away."

Liu Quexian choked up.

Laidi was a little dazed when she heard this, but soon she understood that she knew that Zhang Ju was someone Liu Quexian admired, so she could only rub her hands on his back.

And Liu Quexian stopped crying soon, and suddenly said: "Call all the hired workers in the mansion, regardless of gender, to the lobby, and set the tablet of Grand Master Zhang Wenzheng in front of the hall, and burn incense and paper."

"it is good!"

Laidi agreed.

Soon after, Zhang Juzheng's memorial tablet, various sacrifices, and incense burner paper money were placed in the Liu's lobby.

The hired workers from Liu's major workshops also came here, filling the lobby and the entire outer courtyard.

Liu Quexian stood in front of Zhang Juzheng's memorial tablet, facing the hired workers, and said solemnly: "You all say that I am a living Bodhisattva, and I gave you food and clothing, so that you can all live like individuals, but The real living Bodhisattva is not me, but the person on this tablet, Grand Master Zhang Wenzheng, the recently deceased Taiyue Marquis of Jingzhou!"

After hearing this, the employees all stared at the tablet and the portrait of Zhang Juzheng, which Liu Quexian begged for at a high price, hung behind the tablet.

Some of these people knew about Zhang Juzheng, and some didn't, but at the moment they were all curious about Zhang Juzheng.

Liu Quexian continued: "My lord, I can have the current family business, now I can become a filial piety, I can be rich and prosperous, I can make you no longer be slaves, and even let some of you marry wives and have children. I can also support Gaotang, and I can also provide for my children to study, these are not because of my master, I am really a Wenqu star, nor is it because of my personal ability, but because of him, Grand Master Zhang!"

"He brought good governance."

"It can be said that he made me and rescued you. Otherwise, I would have starved to death in the prison, and you are still the slaves of a certain family. The greatest fortune is to be an aunt or a steward. .”

Liu Quexian choked up when he said this: "But now he is old."

For a moment, everyone's eyes showed disappointment.

"There may no longer be such Grand Master Zhang in the world."

"Our good days are probably coming to an end."

Liu Quexian suddenly said something very sad, and then said with a sad smile: "So, you all kneel down and kowtow to him, he is the real Bodhisattva! Let him see in the spirit of heaven, there are people in the world who are grateful to him .”

The hired workers, both men and women, fell to their knees.

The emotional ones even started to sob and wipe away their tears.

"Since I said that, I have to kowtow. He saved me. If it wasn't for the Grand Master, I wouldn't be able to meet Brother Xian again."

As Laidi said, she knelt down holding her own child, and kowtowed with red eyes.

Then, Laidi looked at the two Liu Quexian cousins ​​who were following her, and said with a smile: "Little sisters, you should kowtow too, if it wasn't for him, you would have already been in the tower by now."

The so-called tower is the drowning tower.

In this era, poor families in the south often drowned female infants.

And because of the Wanli New Deal, the poverty of Dasu Xiaomin, the incident of drowning infants was greatly reduced, so Liu Quexian's two cousins ​​survived.

"Zijing! Tell you something that will make you sad."

Wang Changgeng came over at this time, and seeing Liu Quexian talking to his hired workers, he stopped and listened outside.

For a while, when he heard Laidi say to the two girls from the Liu family that without Zhang Juzheng's reforms, the two girls might have gone to the pagoda, he couldn't help restraining his expression, walked over to pay respects to Zhang Juzheng, and went up Zhu Xiang: "That's right, since he didn't let more tragedies of destroying human relations occur, I also respect him."

Seeing that Wang Changgeng was coming, Liu Quexian asked the hired workers to disperse, took him to the study in the backyard, and asked, "Why are you here?"

Wang Changgeng grinned and said, "Of course I came here to drink with you."

Liu Quexian said: "When Jiangling gets old, the current situation is likely to change drastically. Merchants like you and me who are not high-ranking officials in the court, it is best to stop expanding the industry, take back the money, and hide it in the cellar. , and don’t show it to attract people’s attention, so as not to be guilty of being pregnant, it’s better to start your career seriously.”

Wang Changgeng also nodded after hearing this: "That's right, maybe the tenth year of Wanli is the best year in the next ten years, unless we can get the first place, but it is not easy for a carp to leap over the dragon's gate. It is better to stop expanding the industry first, people. I also want to stop recruiting, and let those refugees who have not been hired be left to fend for themselves or continue to be slaves of big families."

Although the people of the Ming Dynasty did not learn any financial knowledge of later generations, as the Han people in a country with an ancient civilization of thousands of years, they have long understood that politics and economy will have a great relationship.

After all, the ancients knew the way of working for relief as early as Guan Zhong's time to solve the economic crisis. Therefore, the death of Zhang Juzheng, a reformer, also made many smart gentry and businessmen in the folk quickly change their production and lifestyle.

Some began to reduce consumption;

Some began to reduce production and bury money and grain;

Some thought that the haze of their big bureaucrats and big landlords was about to end and they began to need a large number of slaves, preparing to steal and plunder.

The private commodity economy is therefore not as active as before.

It was as if after the Bodhisattva Zhang Juzheng left, Daming would really enter the sinful world.

……

"I am the true Bodhisattva of Daming, the one who can truly protect Daming, and let the people of the world continue to see hope."

Zhu Yijun also learned about this folk situation through Jinyiwei, so he looked at the names of the reformist officials on the screen and muttered to himself.

(End of this chapter)