The emperor is embarrassed

Lin Yongshang and Governor Xue Chunhong hosted a banquet in honor of the salt merchants. After the banquet, the host and guest had a good time, and each said goodbye and left.

Fan Wei, Feng Zhi and Lin Yongshang also drank a lot and went back to the hospital to rest.

Lin Yongshang smiled, "This time, it's thanks to Mr. Fan's move from the bottom of the pan."

"It's just at the command of your lord." Fan Wei said humbly.

Feng Zhi smiled, "You two, don't be overly modest. It's rare for these salt merchants to cooperate. Let's settle the accounts quickly."

The fact that salt merchants are so knowledgeable about current affairs naturally has something to do with public opinion.Furthermore, the three of them had discussed it earlier, and Fan Wei had quietly visited Cheng Yaozhi, one of the top salt merchants in Yangzhou City.

Today, among the salt merchants in Yangzhou City, Cheng and Shen are evenly matched.

Cheng Yaozhi, the head of the Cheng family, and Shen Taiping, the head of the Shen family, are both important people in the salt merchants.

Shen Taiping is the biological father of Shen Dongshu, governor of Huguang.

Ever since Shen Dongshu was promoted step by step, the Shen family has grown from an inconspicuous family of salt merchants to a big family among salt merchants.It was almost on the same level as the Cheng family of the old brand, and even the top leader was three points more prosperous than the Cheng family.

The Cheng family's status came from the fact that when Feng Jingqian first came to the throne, he donated one hundred thousand yuan in food and salaries to the Northwest counter-insurgency army, and since then Fengjinggan has favored him.In the end, once Fengjing worked, the Cheng family went smoothly, and the money they earned went to sea.

Unexpectedly, the Shen family produced a Shen Dongshu, Shen Dongshu is talented, and the Shen family is rich.The Shen family used their wealth to pave the way for Shen Dongshu, and now they have received excess returns.

Both Cheng and Shen are important figures in the salt merchants, and Shen Taiping has repeatedly shaken Cheng Yaozhi's position as the president of the Salt Chamber of Commerce. There is a lot of filth between the two of them.

This time, Lin Yongshang had done his homework before calling the salt merchants to call for the reform of the salt class.

When two tigers fight, one will be injured.

Lin Yongshang seized this opportunity and sent Fan Wei to visit Cheng's family secretly. First, he talked with Cheng Yaozhi in detail about the favorable conditions for all families to get involved in shipping after the reform of the salt department, and of course about the emperor's favor.The purpose is to let Cheng Yaozhi take the lead in cooperating with the reform of the salt class and play the role of "childcare".

For Cheng Yaozhi, this is really a big pie in the sky.

His family had several generations of salt merchants, but now the reform of the salt department is imperative.He had ordered people to go to Yunnan and Guizhou to inquire about the details, and now he can not only get compensation from the court.Of course, what made him even more gratified was that the officials asked him to be the "sitter" instead of Shen Taiping.

What does this mean?

Naturally, some of the Cheng family's children were officials in the court, but none of them were as talented as Shen Dongshu, and he was a first-rank governor.

Cheng Yaozhi naturally wanted to seize this opportunity, it was an extremely rare opportunity to obtain the Sacred Heart of the new emperor that he had dreamed of.

Cheng Yaozhi couldn't ask for more.

Regarding the reasons why Lin Yongshang did not choose Shen Taiping as this "caretaker", Lin Yongshang believes that, first, the Shen family is not as deep-rooted as the Cheng family, which is a historical reason.

Furthermore, from the fact that the Cheng family funded the Northwest military when the Supreme Emperor was in power, it can be seen that this family is very good at political investment.Moreover, it can make money for political investment.

The Shen family relied on the promotion of the children of the clan to get their status today, and the Shen family invested more in the children of the clan.

Therefore, Lin Yongshang abandoned the Shen family and chose the Cheng family.

Of course, he didn't expect the Shen family to cooperate so eagerly with the reform of the salt class.

However, in Fan Wei's eyes, there may be another relationship between Lin Yongshang's selection of the Cheng family.

Lin Yongshang is not the only young upstart in the court.

Another person is Shen Dongshu, who is now the governor of Huguang. Even when the Supreme Emperor was in power, Shen Dongshu was promoted faster than Lin Yongshang.

When Lin Yongshang was the censor of Zuodu, Shen Dongshu had been with him all year round.

Now that Shen Dongshu has been released as the governor of the first grade, if he returns to the court, apart from the position of the six ministers, he will be a cabinet minister.

At this time, Lin Yongshang had another thought about not letting the Shen family stand out.

After all, compared with Shen Dongshu, Lin Yongshang's biggest disadvantage is that he doesn't have a family to rely on.

A reform of the salt class has seen surging trends.

What Fan Wei thought of, I don't know if Ming Zhan would think of it.

However, even if Ming Zhan knew about it, it wouldn't hurt.In Ming Zhan's words: These are all leftovers from the young master's play.

Furthermore, as an emperor, he would not be happy to see his courtiers as a family.

Ming Zhan is now facing another dispute.

Since the Wu Wan incident, Ming Zhan put forward the theory that "women are not humble", and the men in the imperial capital felt the danger of their instincts.

Moralists even think that people's hearts are not ancient, the world is declining, morality is corrupt, and evildoers are in power, and life is simply impossible.It was hard for them to understand that there was such a monster as Wu Wan in the world, and what was even more chilling was that this dissolute and evil woman had won the favor of the emperor and queen mother, and even attracted the secret admiration of many young people.

Living in such an environment every day, moralists feel that even the air is unbearably evil.

Finally, the heavens have eyes, and in the imperial capital, a moral specimen that they can praise and be regarded as a moral model has appeared.

In this world, the same rice feeds all kinds of people.

There are women like Wu Wan who are strong and tenacious in surviving death, and there are naturally women who regard fame and integrity as life and follow the three rules and the four virtues.

The incident happened in the home of a Hanlin during Emperor Renzong's time. The Hanlin's surname was Yu, Yu Liangsheng.

Yu Liangsheng has an eighteen-year-old daughter, who was promised to his colleague Zhong Hanlin's son.Not wanting Mr. Zhong's life to be short, after three days of marriage, he died.

Miss Yu finished keeping her husband's filial piety, so she wore plain clothes and made plain clothes, determined to keep the festival for Mr. Zhong.

In the blink of an eye, 30 years later, Ms. Yu's adoptive heir has become an official in the court. While asking for an imperial order for his mother, he also mentioned his mother's chastity and virtue. Yu's good name, bestow chastity memorial archway.

Ming Zhan was terrified when he heard the word "Zhenjie Archway".

If you just look at the storybook novels, chastity archway or just a name, you can just glance at it.But in reality, when Ming Zhan saw a living person Kongshou changing such a stone workshop for 30 years, he got up from the dragon chair directly, speechless in shock.

Ming Zhan's expression was definitely not happy.

However, for the first time, he saw the power of the officials.Everyone had a distorted understanding of Ming Zhan's actions, knelt down and shouted, "Your Majesty is wise, Your Majesty is wise."

Ming Zhan didn't say a word, and the matter was smashed into reality.

too frightening.

Ming Zhan stood at the highest point of Zhaode Hall, with a red carpet woven with gold silk under his feet, and he was wearing a black five-clawed dragon robe. As far as he could see, there was a cloud of darkness above his head, and officials knelt down at his feet.

This is the first time Ming Zhan has experienced what is meant by "lonely family"?

He slowly sat back on the dragon chair, and had to reconsider that the soldiers and horses of the imperial capital were under the control of Marquis Yongning, so he was safe.

"Loves are on par." If Ming Zhan was a little weak, or had a weak heart, or had a violent temper, he would not be able to sit on the throne.

Of course Ming Zhan was annoyed, of course he was angry, but even though he was the Son of Heaven, he had to endure it now.

It's a matter of fact.

These four words are easy to say, but really painful to do.

At first, Ming Zhan wanted to welcome the Empress Dowager Wei into the palace, although most of the courtiers objected, it was not so fierce after all.

It can also be seen that Ming Zhan's protection of Wu Wan and the improvement of women's status have fundamentally angered these bureaucratic literati.

Although Ming Zhan said that women are wives, daughters, and mothers.The emperor's words are naturally useful, but even the emperor can't change the ideology of male superiority and female inferiority for thousands of years.

Even though women are wives, daughters, and mothers, men must never accept that women have the same rights and status as them.

Not to mention wives, daughters, and mothers, even the heavenly king Lao Tzu, if they want to seize power and position from them, they will fight with their lives.

Just as Ming Zhan can't really understand the human beings of this era, people of this era also can't understand their own king, who is obviously a man, why does he stand up for women again and again!

The generation gap has always existed, but it is the first time that Ming Zhan and the officials are so brightly placed in front of them!

Anger cannot solve the problem, and Ming Zhan also sympathizes with what happened to Zhong Hanlin's mother Yu Shi.

Yu is certainly a poor and pathetic woman, and even respectable in a way.For such a woman, Ming Zhan sincerely hopes that she can have a stable old age.

However, if Yu's chastity archway is awarded, it will push Wu Wan to a dead end, and even Ming Zhan's proposal to re-legislate for women will be shelved indefinitely.All, everything that Ming Zhan did before has become a big joke!

Ming Zhan watched the officials stand up slowly, and unconsciously put his left hand on the armrest of the dragon chair.The royal family respects the dragon, even the gold-plated armrest is carved with a vivid dragon head, perhaps because it has been touched by the emperors of the past, the dragon head is covered with a layer of grease, and it is very smooth.

"Zhong Aiqing asks for a seal for my mother, out of filial piety, I agree." Ming Zhan's voice was gentle and majestic, "The matter of the chastity archway is temporarily put on hold. I want to see Mrs. Yu and talk about it again."

Ouyang Ke, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, said, "Your Majesty, Yu's chastity and virtue are rare in the world. She should be a model for women in the world, and she should be commended. What's more, Yu's husband and widow for 30 years are admirable, and she should be given a chaste memorial archway." , to honor it.”

The rest joined in.

Ming Zhan said softly, "Since there is such a strange woman, isn't it too much for me to meet?"

Ouyang Ke lifted the skirt of his clothes, plopped down on the ground, and said sadly, "Your Majesty, the old minister is over seventy years old now. Since His Majesty ascended the throne, the country has been in good weather, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Your Majesty is also a genius, a generation of British lord. Veteran I have stood here for more than forty years, with red blood and loyalty, and now I see the evil in the world, and there are countless words in my chest, I can't express it, please listen to the old minister's words."

Ming Zhan has faced countless difficulties and dangers in the short ten years, but this is the first time he has encountered resistance from his officials. He is not a character who retreats when he knows difficulties, so he calmly said, "Please tell me!"