The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Immediately, he nodded again and again, like a chicken pecking at rice.

Yan Song also handed over two volumes on sea power that he had written to Limadou, and asked him to help promote them.Immediately, he agreed without hesitation. After flipping it twice, his eyes were full of little stars: "My lord, your writing is excellent, even better than the "Journey to the East" written by the great navigator Marco Polo in my hometown. I will definitely use it. A missionary opportunity to spread your ideas widely."

"Yeah." Yan Song nodded, and didn't expect that Li Ma, who has a funny head, uses idioms indiscriminately, and has advanced rectal cancer, can do anything.However, it was later proved that he used the move of "Theory of Sea Power" to be promoted immediately, which was absolutely a clever move, which won him great reputation for "Theory of Sea Power". Translated into dozens of languages, popular in the world.

However, that's all for later.

Not to mention that Yan Song was in Hangzhou, thinking hard about how to publicize his theory of sea power, and preparing for public opinion to activate the wisdom of the people, open his eyes to see the time, and reopen the sea ban. In the official circles of Hangzhou, he was also nervously preparing for the emperor's southern tour.

Lin De, the right chief envoy of Zhejiang, was walking anxiously in the signing room.

He is a member of the Zhejiang Party. He is usually very clean on the surface.Taking advantage of his status as the right minister, what he likes to do most is to collect money, confer officials, sell officials to sell titles, and clearly mark the price.For those who dare not take bribes, or those who expose his integrity, all kinds of conspiracies and plots will be made to injure others.

Therefore, although the things he did were all kinds of grievances, his reputation was still very good. In addition, he formed a clique for personal gain, had close contacts with several leaders of the Zhejiang Party, and was trained by the Zhejiang Party as a confidant core.

But now, Linde is a little anxious.

Beside him, stood his Master Shaoxing Wen, with a pair of mouse beards and a sly gleam in his eyes.

This pair of official masters and servants can be called a golden partner. Usually, when they are corrupt and bribed, they even fall on the black pig, and they are so black.

"Master 080, this Yan Song accompanied the emperor on his southern tour. I heard that the visitors were not kind. Many officials were dismissed along the way." Lin De was worried, and sighed: "We usually do a lot of things. If the emperor and Yan Song I know, I'm afraid the future is worrying."

"My master, don't worry." Master Wen was also calm: "We usually stretch our hands very long, but we do it very cleanly. The emperor Yan Song can't easily find us."

"I'm not afraid of ten thousand, just in case." Linde said viciously, "I'm always afraid that someone will sue me."

His worries were not groundless.

He made a lot of money. In order to expand his garden, he bought and sold by force, demolished hundreds of houses around him at a very low price. The West Garden he built covers hundreds of acres of land, with various carved beams and painted buildings, which are extremely exquisite. , The scale alone is better than the East Garden of Emperor Jiajing.

Of course, the hundreds of people who were forcibly demolished by him also became homeless. With only a little compensation money, they could not afford to buy a house. They could only live on the streets, begging for a living, and some even sold their children and daughters to He directly bought them back and used them as slaves, and some beautiful wives and daughters were directly occupied by him lawlessly.

For this reason, countless families were destroyed. .

Chapter 278 Jiajing's death spot is auspicious luck! 【5】

In addition, he took advantage of his power to solicit "offering land" on a large scale.The so-called "offering land" means that officials with high reputations, taking advantage of the privilege of not paying grain and taxes, solicit small landlords and farmers who need to pay taxes, and put the land under their names.Enriching one's own wallet with the country's taxation, and after these farmers handed over the land, there is no proof of ownership, and he wantonly embezzled it, and countless families were destroyed.

"Then we might as well strike first!" Master Wen said with a sinister smile, "Attack on the initiative!"

"Could it be that the master has some clever tricks?" Lin De looked surprised, and suddenly sat up and looked at Master Wen.He knew that although Master Wen was only a scholar, he was a native of Shaoxing. Master Shaoxing's name was the best in the world.Almost every official has to spend a lot of money to hire a Shaoxing master.So that Shaoxing has become synonymous with the industry of Shiye.

And Master Shaoxing is indeed not in vain.They are divided into two categories: Xingming Master and Qianliang Master. They are all ancestral crafts, which are passed on from son to daughter, not from inside to outside.If you are not related to them, even if you are willing to pay a thousand dollars, they will not tell you the tricks of the officialdom.

But in addition to the two major categories of Xingming Shiye and Qianliang Shiye, there is also a more powerful type of Shiye, even among Shaoxing Shiye, they belong to an extremely rare minority of professionals.

That is the official master.

Official masters are different from ordinary colleagues who deal with criminal names, money and grain. They are masters who specialize in researching officialdom, managing bosses, and seeking promotion for their employers!

Don't underestimate the power of the official master.

Lin De has always been good at both black and white, and he has never been caught as a pigtail, and he has been able to rise to the top, step by step, and it is all thanks to the master Wen's advice and suggestions.Even the bureaucrats of Zhili in the north and south, the master of literature with great powers, can find connections and make connections.He was able to do such a fat job as the right minister of Zhejiang Province, because Master Wen exchanged the 30 silver he gave.Therefore, he clearly knew that Master Wen had taken bribes behind his back, which can be called a huge amount, so he turned a blind eye to it.

Now, Master Wen has another trick?

He hurriedly laughed and asked Master Wen to sit down: "Please enlighten me, sir, and listen carefully."

Master Wen was very satisfied, his beard twitched, he chuckled and said, "Boss, do you know where the dead spot is today?"

"The emperor's Achilles' heel?" Linde mused, "Cultivating the Tao? A skinny horse?"

"That's right." Mr. Wen smiled treacherously: "Master, you have extraordinary knowledge, and you still know the two major hobbies of the emperor. Do you know why Yan Song, the elder of the Yan Pavilion, can sit firmly on the Diaoyutai, occupy the position of chief assistant, and is always favored by the emperor? Listen to what he says. Whoever he wants to be unlucky will be unlucky?"

When Yan Song was mentioned, Lin De said with a helpless expression, "Yan Song is extremely treacherous, and he can always do what he likes to the emperor. My Zhejiang Party has been messed up by him. That's why I'm so worried."

Master Wen said leisurely: "That's right! But why can't you take the initiative to make the emperor happy and make Yan Song dare not touch you?"

"Is there any way?" Linde's eyes lit up.

Master Wen lowered his voice: "Let's treat him in the same way, and use Yan Song's best method to please the emperor, maybe the emperor will appreciate and favor you, and then promote you. "

Linde looked forward to it even more: "What's the best move? Say it quickly! Say it!"

Master Wen lowered his voice and said, "Xiangrui!"

"Ah?" Linde looked surprised: "Xiangrui?"

Master Wen was very proud, and the mouse beard was shaking wildly: "That's right! Auspicious! Then Yan Song used this trick so well that he deceived the emperor around. Let's just have a bigger auspiciousness, which will make the emperor overjoyed."

"But I haven't had any auspiciousness in Zhejiang recently?" Linde frowned.

Master Wen laughed and said: "In this world, where is there any auspiciousness? It is the emperor who is obsessed with immortality, so he is convinced and has been tricked repeatedly. Looking at the history books, how can there be any auspiciousness?"

"Where did the auspicious signs in the history books come from?"

"It's all made!" Master Wen said with a sly smile: "How bold a person is, how auspicious he is!"

"Ah?" Linde frowned, "How to do it?"

Master Wen took the time to spare: "According to my Great Ming's regulations, auspiciousness is divided into five classes. The first class is the five gods and beasts of dragon, phoenix, white tiger, basalt, unicorn, and the second class is all kinds of immortals descending to the earth. The third class is all kinds of auspicious celestial phenomena. The fourth class is White Deer and White Rhinoceros, and the fifth class is Ganoderma Lucidum Nine Spikes."

Linde came to his senses: "'‖I happen to have someone honoring a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum in the storeroom, and it's good to take it up and present it to the emperor."

Master Wen curled his lips in disdain: "Boss, has the thousand-year-old ganoderma lucidum that you can have, has the emperor seen it? In his royal warehouse, there are so many of them that they can be fed to pigs."

Linde faltered: "But other auspicious things, where can I get them?"