Sheng Shi Merciful Light

After Mu Ci inspected the Julu base, the craftsmen were more enthusiastic about their work, and the night guards all over the world were also mobilized to find talents and mines.But Mu Ci had a very long-term vision, and he asked Mou Yu: "Brother, we don't have much else, we just have a lot of money, right?"

Mou Yu: "..." This sounded awkward, but he could only nod his head. It's a fact that Mu Ci has a lot of money.Moreover, Mu Ci persuaded Emperor Deguang to take a stake in the establishment of the Daxing Royal Bank, and even got the Jianqian Supervisor.

As a prince who can mint money, he does have a lot... a lot... a lot of money.

Mu Ci smiled and said: "Then let's buy, buy, buy... the mineral deposits we find, mark them on the map, and don't mine them for now. Let's go overseas to buy mines."

Mou Yu: "...why do you want to look far away?"

"The earth's strength is exhausted, and if I run out of my own, it will be gone." Mu Ci said.

Mou Yu: "..." It makes sense, but, "Where can I buy it? How can I buy it?"

"Good question! You really win my heart." Mu Ci's smile widened, her beautiful eyes curved into small crescents, "Let's do business with Mei Sanlang and ask him to transport ore from overseas, and I'll buy it at the market price..."

There are many benefits to doing this. Mei Sanlang buys tea, porcelain and silk every time and ships them out. He rarely brings any money, so he doesn't have to worry about the outflow of gold, silver and copper.Moreover, merchants are profit-seeking. In order to carry more goods, the minerals will be initially purified locally, so that the quality can not be wrong, and manpower is also saved.

Mou Yu nodded again: "No matter what business you do with Mei Sanlang, he will agree."

Sometimes Mou Yu can't figure out the relationship between these two people... Mei Sanlang is impressed by Mu Ci's personality charm, which is understandable; but Mu Ci envoy calls Mei Sanlang, how can he be so righteous and not polite?

Could it be that something unspeakable happened in the only meeting between them?

He Qiujun took care of the huge base and was familiar with business, said: "His Royal Highness never lets people lose money, but although Mei Saburo makes a profit in this business, the profit is much thinner, the things are heavy, and the risk increases, which is very disadvantageous. "

Indeed, the value is not as good as transporting a ship of jeweled ivory, and the minerals are heavy, the draft is heavy, the speed is slow, and every day at sea is an extra day of risk.

"I know, it is to compensate one or two." Mu Ci asked He Qiujun, "What kind of mines are needed in the base, and how much is the demand, you can make a table." He also ordered Le Shu, "You write a memorial, and let the Three Ports Maritime Department reduce the exemption Collect customs duties on all iron, copper and other minerals entering Hong Kong. How to reduce or exempt depends on the requirements of Maoshi’s list.”

He Qiujun and Le Shu, who were named, looked at each other and agreed together.

Mu Ci asked Wu Zhiyang to take someone to study hydraulic machinery, horse-drawn plows, etc., and then set off for Tianjing City.Still going by water, this time going up against the current, the number of boatmen doubled and it took a day and a half before the group returned to the city slowly.

As soon as he got home, Mu Ci was soaked in the hot spring. Mou Yu rubbed and massaged him, and Le Jing prepared medicine, but Mu Ci was still in poor health and fell ill.Fortunately, it's not serious, it's just the wind and cold caused by exhaustion, and I'll be fine after two days of rest.

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Emperor Deguang in the palace knew that Mu Ci was ill again after going out to "play", so he rewarded a lot of precious medicinal materials like flowing water, and sent an envoy from the new imperial hospital in the palace to see for a doctor. Emperor Guang was relieved.

Emperor Deguang was having a hard time these few days. Although the truth about the Taihelou case came to light, Zhao Zhen, the former minister of Honglu Temple, was dismissed from his post and sentenced to death, and has already been executed.But the aftermath was not over, and the censor still insisted on the matter.

Meng Zhi, the doctor of imperial history, bites the son of Chang University scholar who is not up to date, saying that he deceived officials and prostitutes to private places, causing death, which is an intentional homicide, disrespectful to the country's filial piety, and the two felonies of treason and exile are not enough to clarify the canon Punishment, but also rebellion and beheading.

But Yushi Zhongcheng Su Yan bit the Prince of Anshun to death, enumerating his many serious crimes.It is disrespectful to say that other countries wantonly feast and have fun during the filial piety period; it is disrespectful to disrespect the sacred decree; it is disrespectful to gather guards to resist the imperial forest army; There are some old cases such as the king of Anshun County occupying other people's land, slavery and murder.

What Su Yan did, everyone thought it was ordered by the King of Chu.In fact, this is not the case. Su Yan, as a guy who has no friends, is considered tough by everyone. Seeing that the King of Anshun is so shameless, it is absolutely impossible for him to act as ignorant.At most, when Su Yan impeached Anshun County King, Ye Xingwei helped him collect some evidence without leaving a trace.

Emperor Deguang was not easy to deal with the son of the Chang University scholar, because the Chang University scholar defended the ninth brother. He didn't know the attitude of the ninth brother. What if he wanted to protect it?As for the Prince of Anshun... that was his own brother, and Concubine Xie really fell ill because of this, this time it wasn't a faking.Emperor Deguang couldn't bear to make his mother's illness worse, which was unfilial.

So Emperor Deguang wanted to ask Mu Ci for his opinion, but Mu Ci had been out of Beijing for several days and could not find anyone.When he came back and fell ill again, Emperor Deguang felt distressed and it was too late, so it was not easy for Mu Ci to drag his sick body into the palace.

How to do it?can only drag...

One delay and two delays, and it dragged on for several days.

After Mu Ci recovered from his illness, he woke up refreshed early in the morning, postponed his morning schedule, and went to court.

Generally speaking, the King of Chu doesn't care about the affairs of the country, and the state affairs are handled by Emperor Deguang and his courtiers. The King of Chu doesn't ask questions, doesn't interfere, and doesn't comment.The most wonderful thing is that King Chu rarely even goes to court. Although it is mainly due to physical reasons, he is sick and lazy, but it really reduces everyone's pressure.

The two brothers of the Tian family actually had a good relationship, which relieved the watching courtiers—there was no need to stand in line, look at the expressions on both sides, or guess whose position was, and just get things done honestly.

but!

However, every time the king of Chu goes to court, he must make a big move, which is recognized.

Some courtiers who rushed to the imperial palace to attend the court meeting, saw King Chu’s star chasing car heading towards the palace at this time, their first reaction was to quickly take out the court meeting agenda—to study where the king of Chu made his big move?How to deal with it.

But... there is nothing special on the agenda of today's court meeting!

It is impossible for the king of Chu to work hard... Don't laugh, the last court was indeed hard work for the king of Chu.Therefore, it is impossible for the king of Chu to work so hard to make soy sauce, right?

Look again!

Only two items on the agenda are related to the King of Chu. One is to discuss the preparation of the Confucian Temple and Martial Temple; the other is the case of Taihe Building.The courtiers thought about the position of the King of Chu... Ever since, the military officer was overjoyed, and the civil servant wanted to cry.

Mou Yu stood guard as usual, and Bai Lin led two generals to meet the King of Chu and enter the palace together.The generals of the Sixth Army guarding the army are now on shifts. Every day, one or two of them go up to the court to represent them. The others are training in the Xishan camp and supervising the military reform.

Emperor Deguang got the news that his ninth younger brother was going to court early in the morning. Before the court meeting came, he rushed into the Zichen Hall excitedly, came down from the imperial steps, grabbed Mu Ci's hand and looked at him all the time. He turned into an old lady and said that Mu Ci didn't know how to raise him. body, always getting sick makes him worry.

All the ministers: ...What about the taciturn, thick and steady emperor in everyone's impression?

Mu Ci didn't explain, and listened quietly to him how to take care of his body... When the court meeting began, Mu Ci patted Emperor Deguang's hand and said, "Hey, go do your serious business!"

Ministers:  …

However, Emperor Deguang who was "patted" was not only not annoyed, but also smiled, and obediently sat on the dragon chair.

All the ministers: ...he said he didn't want to say anything...

These days, the wind is sunny, the world is peaceful, the border news is frequent, and there is no disaster or disaster. It is a rare period of national stability.In fact, there is nothing important to talk about. If there is anything important, it is about the preparation for the construction of the Confucian Temple and the Martial Ancestral Hall.

In this matter, Emperor Deguang and the king of Chu were of one mind, King Qinghe agreed, and even King Ding, who was recovering from illness, expressed his support, not to mention King Changshan, the murderous god.No one objected any more.

Since ancient times, whoever has the biggest fist is right.

Just because no one objects, doesn't mean things are going well.In the past two months, due to nothing important, the officials had too much energy. They fought fiercely over all kinds of cumbersome etiquette disputes.

Because civil servants finally came to their senses, they refused to go hand in hand with military officials, and insisted on being taller everywhere, for example, the gates had to be bigger, the halls had to be higher, and the standards of sacrifices had to be higher... But military generals don’t do it, the head As soon as they feel proud, they naturally stick to their positions, saying that they fought to the death for the country, and more people died, and they had to be three or four levels higher than the civil officials to let them go, and they refused to let the civil officials overwhelm them.

There are so many different things.

Today everyone maintained restraint, stated their views, did not stage a full martial arts, and secretly watched the expression of the king of Chu...the expression was indifferent, without clues.

These words have been said thousands of times, and they all said that they were right, and they couldn't stand a stalemate, and Emperor Deguang couldn't make a judgment, so he asked: "Ninth brother, what do you think?"

Civil officials think the emperor is a teammate of pigs, military generals think he is a god assist... Ask the king of Chu, doesn't that clearly support the generals?

No matter how turbulent the undercurrent was, everyone's eyes were on King Chu.

Mu Ci was not in a hurry to express his position, and leaned lazily on the soft king chair, calmly under the eyes of hundreds of people, and asked an irrelevant question unhurriedly: "Does anyone know whether to cook first, or eat first?"

Do you still want to answer this question?

Mu Ci said: "The rice is not even in the pot, and everyone is arguing over what bowl to use, what kind of food to put, and where to put it... Aren't you afraid of night long dreams?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.One word wakes up the dreamer, everyone is really afraid that the protracted wrangling will lead to chicken and egg fighting. It is not uncommon in history that national government orders are issued overnight.

Mu Ci said: "It's better to let Qin Tianjian choose a good site first, let's hold a foundation laying ceremony, dig the foundation, make cooked rice with uncooked rice, and then slowly discuss how to eat it."

That's right, after successfully laying the foundations of the two temples under the attention of the world, if someone wants to overthrow the previous law, it will not be so easy.Therefore, the civil and military forces quickly reached an agreement, and set the foundation stone for the two temples on November [-], an auspicious day.

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This matter came to an end, and then came the case of Taihe Building. The two censors refused to back down and insisted on severely punishing the suspect.

This matter has something to do with the King of Chu, but Emperor Deguang didn't want to ask his opinion in court, for fear that if he wanted to save the son of the Chang University scholar... this would have to be done in private.

But Muci is "everything you can't tell others", and said directly at the court: "No matter who commits a felony, the punishment should be decided by the third division according to the law. The decision will be made in autumn."

Mu Ci once again emphasized: "The laws of the country are above, the feelings are under the law, and the king is also under the law."

With the keynote of "the law is above, and the love is under the law", the son of the Chang University scholar was sentenced to beheaded and imprisoned, that is, he was detained first, and the autumn trial and the court trial were held in the autumn of the next year, and then it was decided whether to execute the death sentence.Equivalent to reprieve.

Similarly, with the tone of "the law is above, and the king is under the law", the king of Anshun County is also out of luck.Although he pushed all the major crimes mentioned by Su Yan to his subordinates, and he only pretended that he didn't know, but he couldn't completely escape the responsibilities, anyway, he was accused of not being strict with his subordinates, not being effective in supervision, and being a slave to murder.Besides, the feasts during the mourning period in other countries, the armed resistance to the imperial decree and the Imperial Forest Army are a certainty, so many eyes can see it, and it cannot be denied.

No one asked the king of Chu for his opinion. Everyone knew what was going on in the Taihelou case. If the sentence was light, I would be sorry for the king of Chu, but if the sentence was severe, it would hurt Emperor Deguang's face.

However, Mu Ci's refusal to express opinions does not mean that no one dares to speak out.As King Qinghe of Zongzheng Temple who is in charge of the clan, how to deal with King Anshun is his job.Seeing the stalemate in the scene, King Qinghe knew that it was time for him to speak up.

King Qinghe has a high seniority, high prestige, and a strong sacred heart. He is not afraid of offending people when he does errands, and there is no pressure to offend the King of Anshun.King Qinghe then said: "It is a fact that the king of Anshun County has misbehaved. Whether it is according to the laws of the country or the laws of the ancestors, it cannot be regarded as nothing has happened. But what he was involved in did not hurt too many innocent people. There is no conclusive proof, so it is not considered a serious crime. According to the law, you will be demoted to a title, and you will be fined three years.

The general royal family cannot rectify the Fa, but those who make mistakes cannot be ignored. Women are sent to Jingye Temple to clean up and pray for the royal family and country; while the way to imprison men is to send them to the imperial tomb. Royal face.

Emperor Deguang saw that his ninth younger brother did not object, and this also saved the life of King Anshun, so he nodded in agreement.

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Daxing three ports are located in:

South Xuzhou, Cuikou Port

Southeast Yangzhou, Penglai Port

Eastern Weizhou, Tianze Port