I'm really not the carpenter emperor

"Lord of Yao and Shun!"

"The current emperor is really the Lord of Yao and Shun!"

Such scenes were all seen by the eunuch of the "Beijing News" who was accompanying the army, and they were written down vigorously. In just a few days, they will be published in the Beijing News to let the people of the whole country know.

……

That night, in a dark alley in the city.

The solitary lamp flickered, and a person was quietly walking towards the scholar's lamp. The dim light did not have the effect of illuminating, but made the visitor more mysterious in the scholar's eyes.

The scholar who had been waiting for a long time naturally knew who was coming, so he hurried forward to meet him, smiled obsequiously, and asked casually:

"Come here, but Marshal Chen Ce?"

At that time, the night was dark, the sky and the earth were lonely, there was no sound of sound around, let alone half a ghost, the visitor was attracted by the scholar's words, raised his head and looked at him quietly for a while.

Just as the scholar felt something was wrong, a sharp knife was deeply inserted into his belly, and he was stirred a few more times. The scholar only felt the piercing pain, taking away the last bit of his strength.

The visitor gave a sinister smile and said:

"The person you're waiting for won't come."

Chapter 229 Tang's Inuzi

"Man, what's the matter?"

That night, looking in front of him, Chen Ce imitated Emperor Tianqi in his hands, holding a copy of "Three Kingdoms" in a decent manner, without raising his head, he asked calmly.

The person in night clothes in front of him slowly took off his coat, but it was his most trusted servant.

The servant looked outside the house vigilantly, and then clasped his fists and said:

"General, that scholar surnamed Zheng will never see the sun of tomorrow."

"Okay, well done." Chen Ce nodded quietly, and snorted coldly, "These generals from Yulin, relying on their ancestors' meritorious service, are used to running amok in the local area!"

"The emperor has long intended to eradicate the generals of Yulin in one fell swoop. However, this gang of rats acted like a show. There is no major crime. We can't kill them all."

"After eradicating the Yulin generals, the generals from all over the country will be more honest..."

With that said, Chen Ce flipped through an article of the Three Kingdoms in his hand, and said while reading:

"This time, the news should be spread in advance. Send people to spread the word more. After the news reaches Zhili, send people to fly horses to report to the capital."

"Let's say Yulin generals, under the instigation of the general soldier Dai Qin, intended to rebel against the imperial court and plot rebellion. This commander took over from Sun Chuanting to clean up Yulin's military equipment. As a last resort, he had no choice but to put down them himself."

"I shouldn't need to teach you this kind of thing."

This Ding family was adopted by Chen Ce since he was a child, and his basic necessities, food, housing and transportation, as well as his saber and armor are all the best, so he is naturally extremely loyal and can say anything.

The servant also gave a sinister smile, and replied:

"Don't worry, general, the villain will do it now."

"Go, this Yulin, there are still many things to deal with. I have to stabilize Yulin for the emperor." Chen Ce waved his hand after finishing speaking.

"There is also a candidate for the next Yulin General Soldier, and there must be a solution..."

The servant seemed to understand something, but without saying a word, he just bent over and bowed, and carefully exited the house, not forgetting to close the door behind him.

……

"The rebel army broke through the Yamen of Fucheng the day before yesterday, took all the treasury from the government, and then split their way to capture Qiantang and went straight to Yuhang." Niu Chenghu said with a frown.

When it was more than [-] miles away from Hangzhou Fucheng, less than a day's journey, the Qin army suddenly stopped. Sun Chuanting summoned all the generals to analyze and make decisions on the news just sent.

"Can't wait any longer..."

Sun Chuanting frowned and said:

"The supplies from the imperial court can't wait any longer. After all, Zhili is far away. When their rations arrive, I'm afraid that the rebels will mess up the entire Hangzhou government."

"Then...what does Bingbei mean?" Niu Chenghu was stunned and asked.

Since Sun Chuanting has not yet formally assumed office, his current official status is still Bingbei, and the generals will still call him Bingbei to avoid unnecessary troubles caused by presumptuous titles.

Sun Chuanting glanced at him and pressed his palm on the map.

"Same as in Yulin, get food locally!"

……

A wealthy grain merchant in Hangzhou Prefecture, his surname is Cai and his name is Hou.

Today is Mr. Cai's [-]th birthday, and all the famous people in the whole Hangzhou mansion have come.

The same is true of Mr. Cai himself, all his teeth have fallen out, but he is also wearing a purple silk robe, with a lot of money, and he grinned and toasted to drink.

At this time, the cold wind in Liaodi was howling, and the swords and soldiers were still there. Every moment, soldiers of the frontier army fell under the swords of the Jurchens.

Even Zhu Youxiao, Emperor Tianqi who was in the capital, stood outside Xinuang Pavilion with his hands behind his back, looking at the frosty Forbidden City and sighing.

The south of the Yangtze River is still as green as summer, with rippling waves. Master Cai's mansion is also the most affluent place in Hangzhou. The wedding banquet for his [-]th birthday was chosen from a pavilion in the middle of the lake.

The pavilion is surrounded by water on all sides, connected to the shore by four pontoon bridges, and the word "Lin'an" is written on the plaque, which is full of nobility.

There are servants rowing boats on the lake, and officials and scholars stand on it, and they are all arty, reciting poems and composing Fu.

On the shore, there are Qinhuai singing girls invited by the Cai Mansion at a high price to indulge in their sensuality, and their graceful dancing posture is the place where the eyes of the old men are most lingering.

Mr. Cai and the four most famous people of Hangzhou Mansion sit in the Huxin Pavilion. From left to right, they are tea merchant Shen Yiguan, Yuhang prefect He Shibai, Lingbi marquis Tang Guozuo, and silk merchant Xu Wancai.

Of these four people, the Shen family is a wealthy man in Huzhou, and has close ties with the Huzhou government's tribute department. Shen Yiguan has been in charge of the tribute tea offered to Beijing by the Huzhou government for five consecutive years.

Even Zhu Youxiao might have drunk Shen's tea by accident.

Xu Wancai is the shopkeeper of Shaoxing silk and satin business. His family wealth is in the whole Jiangnan, not to mention the top five, but he can also be ranked seventh or eighth. Among the merchants, he has a very high prestige.

Tang Guozuo, Marquis of Lingbi, has a bigger background.

This person is the ninth grandson of Tang He, the famous founding general of the Ming Dynasty. He inherited the title of Marquis of Lingbi in the 40th year of Wanli.

However, at the end of the first year of Tianqi, due to Tang Guozuo's failure to control the water thieves in the canal, a batch of Huzhou tribute tea was looted, and Yang Sichang, who was then the Huaibei Rating Department, was severely impeached with a memorandum.

The pleadings of the ministers were ignored by Zhu Youxiao, who insisted that he had seen it, and ordered Tang Guozuo to be punished.

Of course, the disposal was not very serious. Zhu Youxiao deprived Tang Guozuo of his position as a Nanjing garrison officer, but he retained his post as the post of Nanjing Army Governor's Mansion.

Zhu Youxiao's original intention was to give some face to Tang He, the famous founder of the country, and hoped that his descendant would change his past mistakes and do some practical things in Nanjing.

After all, although this product has been cleared in history, it is the end of the world after all.

In the current situation, with such a high background, and the obvious opportunity of being the emperor himself, can this Tang Guozuo still be the same as in history, be a minister who doesn't distinguish between right and wrong, and has no use for farts?

Facts have proved that Zhu Youxiao two years ago really thought too highly of this descendant of the Tang family.

Tang Guozuo didn't understand Emperor Tianqi's good intentions of "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools", but cares about it.

Tang Guozuo once said something in private, my ancestor of the Tang family followed Emperor Taizu to conquer the Daming Dynasty, and for more than two hundred years, he has been one of the garrison ministers in Nanjing. How dare he, Zhu Youxiao, a mere descendant Turn a blind eye to such words.

It doesn't matter how Zhu Youxiao knew about it, but even if he knew about it, he didn't deal with it immediately. Old Wei had guessed about this matter before, but it was probably close to ten.

Who is Lao Wei? In terms of guessing, he said that he is the second. No one dares to be the first. This is why Zhu Youxiao trusts him in everything.

If you are competent in handling things, if you look at him, he may understand everything, and afterward, he can often draw inferences from one instance and do everything clearly.

Although the eunuchs want to eat something for themselves, but your emperor eats meat, can't you let others drink soup?

After the secret investigation by the Jiaoshifu, Wei Zhongxian really reassured Zhu Youxiao that he was always greedy for money and divided the accounts according to the thirty-seven.

The emperor Zhu Youxiao will always benefit the most from the affairs of the eunuch party, and Wei Zhongxian will be the one who will bear the blame in the end.

After all, no one in the world knows that Emperor Tianqi was seriously deceived by Wei Zhongxian.

When Wei Zhongxian looked at the emperor and heard Tang Guozuo say these words, but still kept him, he immediately thought of a wonderful possibility.

When Tang Guozuo's words were reported to the emperor by Dongchang, the news of the Hangzhou Mutiny arrived just around the same time as the news of the Hangzhou mutiny.

It is very likely that this product is being kept for Sun Chuanting's leveling.

Chapter 2 Thirty

"What is your last name?"

On the way to the Huxin Pavilion, a fat man dressed in gold and silver, who looked like a wealthy businessman, stopped a man who was looking around.

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting looked up and down at the fat man who blocked his way, he was amused, but he also smiled and cupped his hands and said:

"Surname is Sun."

"Hiss... Could it be that he is the son of the Sun family in Suzhou Mansion?"

The fat man racked his brains and didn't expect that there was any big family named Sun in the area, but in order to show that he didn't know nothing about it, he made a nonsense.

Sun Chuanting didn't realize that he made it up, and he wasn't from Jiangnan in the first place, and he wasn't very familiar with the big families in the area, let alone Mr. Sun from Suzhou Mansion.

However, after leading the army for a long time, Sun Chuanting has a kind of self-confidence that can be seen at a glance when he walks among the big families.

Perhaps, this fat man felt that Sun Chuanting was not an idler based on this, so he came to strike up a conversation!

"There are some origins..."

Sun Chuanting chuckled, he didn't intend to waste time on this fat man, he came here today not for a banquet, but to collect debts!

Thinking of this, Sun Chuanting dropped the fat man and walked forward on his own.

Sun Chuanting's attitude made the fat businessman feel that he had guessed that he was close to ten. Maybe this person surnamed Sun was really a son of a big family in Suzhou Prefecture.

Otherwise, if you see yourself, it is impossible to have this unreasonable attitude!

He hurried forward a few steps, stopped Sun Chuanting, smiled and said:

"Don't go in a hurry!"

"Mr. Sun, I dare to ask what kind of business your family is doing. My surname is Chu Mingwei. The family does not say that it has a wealth of [-] Guan, but it still has a small capital."

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting stopped in his tracks and asked:

"Oh--?"

"May I ask what kind of business does Master Chu's house do?"

Hearing this, Chu Wei chuckled, drank the wine in the glass, but coughed a few times, looked at the Huxin Pavilion, and said:

"Like him, in this catastrophic year, resell food from all over the disaster area!"

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting's eyes tightened, his face remained motionless, but in his heart he had already scolded these profiteers who made a lot of money for the country and had no sense of family or country in their hearts.

"Nowadays, reselling grain is the most profitable thing, right?" Sun Chuanting sneered.

"Ah!" Chu Wei didn't pay attention to the sarcasm in Sun Chuanting's tone just now, and said with a sigh:

"I'm just reselling grain to the disaster area, taking the opportunity to make a small fortune, Mr. Sun, tell me, is this human nature?"

"As a businessman, if we don't do it for our own pockets, we will starve to death."

"But this person surnamed Cai is more than that. He sells food outside the pass, and the surname Cai contributed a lot to the famine of Jianlu in the Liao region last year."

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting secretly clenched his fists and became murderous.

Since the end of Wanli years, various earthquakes and famines have emerged all over the country. No matter how fast the imperial court moves, it still cannot beat the sky.

The imperial court was able to deal with a major earthquake in three provinces, but before you recovered from such a major disaster, in a blink of an eye, the Shandong earthquake, the Shaanxi earthquake, and the Shanxi earthquake followed one after another.

The manpower and supplies of the imperial court are limited. After the consumption of the three major levies in the Wanli year, it is close to the end of the river. Who knows if the disasters in various places have just begun?

If in the future, such natural and man-made disasters do not change, but intensify, Sun Chuanting estimates that within five years at most, there will be starvation everywhere in the Central Plains and crowds of hungry people.

The imperial court is now tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall!

Liaodong continued to fight, and the annual loss was immeasurable. Every few months in the Central Plains, there would be another natural and man-made disaster.

If this continues, the government and army will be exhausted, and sooner or later they will disintegrate, and the government governments in various places will become in name only, and they will not be able to restrain the localities at all.

Once it reaches that point, the common people will gather together to rebel!

Compared with these traitors who sent money, food, horsemen and soldiers outside the customs, businessmen like Chu Wei who increased prices to transport grain still had a trace of conscience, and did not touch the last bottom line.

The so-called comparison, just know what's in front of you.

Now Sun Chuanting, looking at the chubby Chu Wei, is much more pleasing to the eye.

Seeing Sun Chuanting leaving on his own, Chu Wei stretched out his hand and called out, "Hey, Mr. Sun, you haven't told me what business your family does?"