Chapter 753: Yuzhi Altar (Part 2)
.On the one hand, the emperor was trapped in a pathological and fanatical state, and on the other hand, the people who were about to be homeless, they remembered a song in silence and said, "Either left or right, it's embarrassing himself." In helplessness, he could only use this trick to use the slightly scoundrel "Use the other's spear to attack the other's shield." Since you said Feng Shui is the best here, then I will say there is a problem. Anyway, Feng Shui, the one who always says the one who has reason, and the one who is right, but there is a little silence that can be confirmed. As long as there is a dispute, no matter how stupid the emperor is, he will never agree to start construction. Because people in this era are the most concerned about geomancers, especially the dragon veins that are related to the country's destiny, Feng Shui and other things are the top priority that overwhelms everything.
It is a taboo to start a groundbreaking in Beijing, so I believe silently that even if I talk nonsense, it will cause many people to be uneasy and make this matter change. What's more, as the successor of Tang Shunzhi's torch, I have a lot of attainments in the left cries of silently crying at the left, at least it is enough to be misled.
However, he would never talk here. Facing Wang Jin's questioning, he said silently and seriously: "The real person is joking. There are so many people here, why is it a secret place?"
Wang Jin still refused to give up and said, "Then let's talk about it alone."
"No need." Chen Si smiled faintly and said, "After I go back, I will immediately explain this matter to the emperor. If you decide afterwards, you will follow the sages of the Holy Decision. Real people don't have to worry."
Wang Jin then realized that this gentle Lord Shen was more difficult to deal with than the sharp-tongued Hai Rui. In their hometown dialect, it was just a slutty and bad thing that would make your good things go bad and make you unable to get angry.
Now, no one dares to start work again before the conclusion is made. Seeing that it is getting dark, the officials and officials have all stepped back. Wang Siqi whispered to Wang Jin: "Immortal Master, this is all right now. Let's make a fool of yourself after reporting to the emperor tomorrow?"
Wang Jinxin was unwilling to accept it, but he knew that things were not done. He shook the whisk in depression and bowed to the silent and said, "Mr. Shen, we will not change the green mountains and the green water will flow forever. I will ask you for your skills in front of the saint another day..."
"Accompany at any time..." said silently and smiled.
"Zhao..." Wang Jin turned around and walked towards the sedan chair in anger. It was dark at this time and there were rubble on the ground. Wang Siqi and Zhou Defu quickly reminded him: "Immortal Master..." Before Yu could say it, he saw Wang Jin step on a tiles and fall to the ground.
Wang Zhou and the other two, along with the little Taoist priests, hurried forward and helped the immortal master Wang who was so upset that he was screaming. He stuffed him into the sedan chair and slipped away in a dusty state.
"Bah!" Hai Rui spat fiercely in the direction of Yangshe's departure: "A bunch of charming girls!"
"Brother Xingfeng calmed down." Chen Si said softly: "In this capital, such dirty things are endless. Why don't you be angry to death if you are angry?"
Hai Rui wanted to say something, but when he saw the residents in the alley rushing over, he stopped talking.
"If it weren't for the two adults' ride..." The old white-haired man who went to ask for help stepped forward and bowed deeply: "We will really be destroyed today..." The people behind him were all over. Although they couldn't see the expression clearly during the darkness, they thought silently, and they must have been full of grief and anger.
"The poor family has nothing to thank the adults," the old man knelt on the ground tremblingly and kowtowed, "Let's kowtow to the two adults..."
"It cannot be used, it cannot be used..." Hai Rui hurried to help the old man, but he could not stop the other people from kneeling down.
"Everyone get up quickly." I felt a fever on my face in silence. I wanted to avoid it, but there were people kneeling down from all directions. It was useless for him to turn anywhere, so I had to blush and say: "We can't bear it when you kneel down. It was because the court did not do the job well, so I was causing you to suffer this disaster. It should be because we apologized to you on behalf of the court." He said deeply and said: "If I don't get up, I will kneel down too." He really acted to kneel.
The old man hurriedly said, "Everyone should get up, you can't let the adults kneel down." Then everyone stood up and spoke.
Please rest assured when you are silent. I will always pay attention to this matter. Whether it was to demolish it in the end or not, they would not suffer any losses. After receiving Lord Shen’s promise, everyone felt much more at ease, and realized that it was past mealtime and invited him to have dinner at home.
"No, no," silently declined, "There is already cooking at home, and I'm waiting for me to go back and eat."
Everyone still insisted, but the old man came out and said, "Okay, okay, the house is full of cold pots and stoves. I don't know how long it will take for me to be hungry. I don't want our meal, so I'll just have this intention..."
"Yes." Silently nodded and smiled, "The old man said it was so great." Then he said to Hai Rui, "Brother Gangfeng, let's go." Hai Rui nodded, and the two of them said goodbye to everyone. Before leaving, the old man asked in a low voice, "Will they take revenge for us and the demon path?"
"Revenge?" Hai Rui said with a blank expression: "I haven't finished counting with them..."
Seeing the old man's face was stunned, he smiled silently, "The general comes to block the water and the soil, so don't worry, evil cannot defeat the right one."
The old man nodded vigorously and said, "Yes, evil cannot defeat righteousness!" As he said, he sighed with emotion: "Old man, I have seen Liu Jin and Yan Shifan. Haven't they all fallen? But they all harmed the people...." But he said in a low voice: "I hope I can see this demonic way this time, one by one."
"I won't wait too long." Chen Si smiled slightly and said confidently: "Believe what I said, this time they are rabbit tails that cannot grow."
"Of course I believe it." The old man Zhan Yan smiled and said, "I'm waiting for that day. At that time, the two adults will come to our place to have a glass of celebration wine!"
"Sure, certain." Chen Yu bowed with Hai Rui, made an agreement with the old man, and waved his hand.
When he returned to the street, the moon was already on the willows, and the lights were just beginning to bloom. The two walked side by side for a while. Hai Rui worried, "Sir, should you go to the saint quickly, so as not to complain first."
Chen Si shook his head and smiled, "I'm confused, you're not. The palace gate has been locked at this moment. Unless Wang Dazhenren can do the trick of passing through the wall, he will have to wait until tomorrow at the earliest."
"So that's it." Officials at Hai Rui's level had nothing to do with the palace, and he had just entered Beijing, so he naturally didn't understand the rules in the palace.
"Then, sir, go early tomorrow morning, don't let him dig it out first." Hai Rui clasped his fists and said, "The Xiaguan family is right in front. The alley is too narrow and the sedan can't be carried in. There is no place to sit down, so I won't invite sir to go in and sit down."
"Oh, I passed by your house and didn't enter." Chen Mo shook his head and said, "The old lady will blame me." He said, "I happened to have some tonics here, so I happened to go to visit the old lady." Those things were filial to the eunuchs, but Chen Mo probably would have to throw them away if he said that.
Hearing him say this, Hai Rui had no choice but to say, "Sir."
The two of them stepped deep and shallowly into the alley. The penultimate door was Hai Rui's house. The courtyard gate was closed in a faint way. Hai Rui pushed the door and went in and shouted: "Mother, Lord Shen is here to see you."
Seeing that the yard was very small, he silently told the guards not to follow up and waited in the alley. He walked in quickly. Before he could walk two steps, he walked through the yard and came to the front of the house.
At this time, the old lady Hui came out of the gate. When she saw that she was silent, she couldn't help but laugh and said, "Which gust of wind blows the adults?"
He smiled silently and said, "It's Nanfeng, I blow my nephew back to Beijing. When I land, I come to pay my respects to the old lady."
"Quickly please come in." The old lady was still suffocated, with clear eyes and bright eyes, and said happily: "I said why do you always hear the magpies screaming? It turns out that a noble man has arrived."
After entering the house, Chen Mo asked Mrs. Hai to sit down and then retreated to the hall to kowtow to her. This was the routine, so the old lady was not humble, but she still asked Hai Rui to repay the gift for her and kowtowed to Chen Mo.
Hai Rui asked the wife to come out to see her again, and Chen Si hurriedly saluted to his sister-in-law's wife. Mrs. Hai laughed and said, "I also want to thank Dr. Li, the Lord, for allowing my Hai family to continue the incense...." It turned out that after three years of careful care, Hai Rui's wife finally became pregnant.
"Mom, it's not necessarily a man or a woman." Hai Rui couldn't help but whisper when he saw his wife blushing.
"Tell me what are you afraid of?" Mrs. Hai said indifferently: "The doctors who have seen it said that this child must be a boy." Seeing that her daughter-in-law's head was about to hang to her chest, she waved her hand and said: "Let your wife go down. She is now a hero, so we have to be careful." Hai Rui responded and helped his wife go down.
Chen Jing said that the old lady was very kind-hearted, but she was just unforgivable. But of course she was not easy to interrupt the family affairs of others, and just congratulate her. She made Mrs. Hai smile. When Hai Rui came out, the old lady ordered: "You are here to talk to the adults. I will go to the kitchen to heat up the food, cut some cured sauce, and stir-fry eggs. Lord Shen is not an outsider, so I know that our family only has this food.
"The old lady knows me," said silently, "It's just a bite of simple food and a whole table of delicacies, I can't enjoy it."
"I almost forgot that adults like to eat the old-fashioned vegetable cakes." Mrs. Hai was coaxed and stood up with a smile and said, "I'll do it now after a while."
"Don't bother." Chen Si said quickly.
"No trouble, no trouble." Mrs. Hai said happily: "I am so happy that I can come to eat." After that, I went to the kitchen to cook.
As soon as the old lady went out, the room suddenly became quiet. Hai Rui squatted beside the stove to boil water. When he was silent, he looked at the main house. He saw that the furnishings inside were extremely simple. There was a chair on the left of the stove and a few chairs on the right. There was nothing else except that. There was no decoration on the wall, and the wall skin was falling off very well.
Seeing the silence looking around, Hai Rui said softly: "April received the appointment and went to Beijing in June. It has been August since I found this house. I originally wanted to paint the wall and hang a few more pictures, but when I thought it would be winter soon, it was still important to keep warm, so I will wait until the spring next year."
"How much does this house cost per year?" asked silently: "Is it difficult to live in Beijing?" He estimated that Hai Rui's clean style was originally living in an official office, and his family could still live. Now that he has to spend money to rent a house by himself, he will definitely be unable to bear it.
"Eight taels of silver a year, it took me a long time to find it." Hai Rui said with a deep head: "As soon as I entered Beijing, I felt sad. My fifth-rank official's annual salary is thirty taels. But the court always sends some banknotes, and it only takes two taels in his hand every month. Apart from the rent, it is not enough to eat, I have to rely on my mother and nguai spinning wheel to subsidize the household income. Although I never said it, he actually regarded silence as a friend, otherwise he would never say this.
"It is said that the Qing magistrate has been 100,000 snowflakes in three years." Chen Si shook his head and said, "You are so good. After being a parent for eight years, he still lives like this."
"I don't have the neck of unrighteousness." Hai Rui said lightly: "You can't be fattened just because others rely on corruption. I think corruption is right, right?"
"You can't beat a boat of people in one go." Silent smiled awkwardly, "There are still many people who are well-off and don't necessarily get rich by greed."
"I don't deny that there are exceptions like adults." Hai Rui said: "But the wealthy official may not be greedy, and he is even more greedy." He sighed and said: "There are always one or two white crows, but it does not affect the blackness of the world."
"Oh," Silence couldn't get rid of him, and sighed, "Corruption is the disaster of the country's destruction. I really don't know how to solve it."
"It has to be harsh and severe punishment!" Under the fire, Hai Rui's expression was a bit ferocious. He gritted his teeth and said, "If you want me to say that the punishment for corrupt officials is too loose now, it is even a waste of power! All officials in the Ming Dynasty are greedy, which is already known to everyone, but how many officials are investigated for corruption every year?" As he said that, he angrily pounded his knees and said, "Nothing in a thousand! Such a relaxed environment certainly makes people greedy, bold greed, timid greed, and the good Ming Dynasty will let these borers eat up!"
"You are the one who uses heavy punishments in troubled times." Hai Rui Dachan continued: "To successfully fight corruption, you must regain the severe punishments and laws of Taizu. Corruption of 60 or 70 taels of silver can be sentenced to death. 20% of the confiscated property will be reported to the whistleblower, and the corruption offender will be stripped and filled in the county government. Let's see which one has the courage to try!"
Silence this sweat. Although Hai Rui said that he was an exception, he still felt the air conditioner coming in from behind. He thought that if he really wanted to do this, all the civil and military officials in the court would become scarecrows. He couldn't help but laugh dryly, "This method is a little impatient."
"There is priority." Hai Rui said seriously: "My Ming Dynasty is now in the most dangerous situation. If we do not impose heavy punishments, lenient punishment and simplify administration to save people's hearts, we may really want the country to lose its country." He said with a gloomy face: "But these are just my thoughts when I was in the local area. Since I became a Beijing official, my views have gradually changed."
"That's good, that's good..." Chen Si said in secret, thinking that it would be great to give up this dangerous idea. Unexpectedly, he was too happy, and heard Hai Rui's voice like gold and stone: "Now I understand where the root of chaos in the world is. If the root of disaster is not cured first, the corrupt officials in the world will be one after another, and they will not be killed."
The silent heart was almost stopped beating. He could vaguely guess what Hai Rui was targeting. Although he had never been afraid of that person and even had a lot of resentment, he never dared to show any of it to others. He believed that not only himself, but also knew people in the world, there was no one who did not resent that person, but no one dared to say it out loud. Instead, he had to praise him and please him, and did not dare to criticize him at all.
But now, Hai Rui pointed out the crux of the world without hesitation and said: "As the saying goes, if the upper part is not right, the lower part is crooked, there is a radish on top, and the lower part is fart. It is precisely because there is an emperor who does not do the right job, does not care about the sufferings of the people, and only knows how to cultivate the mysterious and enjoy the people, and favors the treacherous ministers of the Ming Dynasty are in power, and they are effective from the upper part. No one is ashamed of plundering the people, and they are all proud of not doing the right job; a group of Taoist priests and slanders......... It makes the court smoky and tigers and wolves all over the ground. Even the central government is so important, the local area will naturally be even more unbearable!" As he said that, he looked at the bright eyes and said silently: "I believe that the lords must understand this principle; all the officials and ministers of the court must also understand it!"
Silence was so panicked that he was almost completely unavailable. He only felt his heartbeat faster, sweat beads oozing from his forehead, and his throat was burning like fire, and he couldn't say a word.
"If you don't deny it, you're admitting it." Hai Rui said aggressively: "Why don't the ministers and ministers in the court give their loyal advice and don't let the emperor repent!"
Chen Si came to his senses, touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and smiled bitterly, "Who dares to say it? Is it still fatal?" He sighed, "The current emperor is determined and has a decisive attitude. In the past two years, it has been unpredictable. Who dares to disobey a little? At the least, Tingdu is sixty, and the heavy responsibility is to be exiled. More than a dozen officials have been troubled this year. Don't blame everyone for not saying anything."
Hai Rui was dissatisfied and said, "I have heard the folk songs of the people: Jiajing, Jiajing, every household is clean." The people complained so much, how can we officials be alone?" He sighed heavily and said, "Is it true that in order to protect our lives, Qian does not care about the sufferings of the people, and allows the king and father to make mistakes again and again? Is this what the ministers and parents should do?"
After saying something silent, he blushed. He has been teaching others for many years, but today he has been slandering Hai Rui and has no temper yet.
Only then did he realize that a person's confidence in speaking came not only from his official position, but also from his thoughts and morals. At least in front of Hai Rui, he was completely defeated. . . . . .
Chapter completed!