jdhmnovel Chapter 443 Zhu Biao: I, your nephew, have arranged for my brother-in-law to marry you.
Chapter 443 Zhu Biao: I, your nephew, have arranged for my brother-in-law to marry you.
Zhu Biao could not believe what he was seeing.
What exactly did I do wrong?
If there is any violation of the laws of the Ming Dynasty, I can make corrections.
Why did you make me see and hear my parents discussing how to go to Ningyang County, how to go to Dengzhou, and how to leave me behind to look after the family in Kunning Palace?
So, my son was actually just an accident, right?
Also, can anyone tell me what I should do if my father doesn't want to be emperor anymore?
If he doesn't become emperor, those troublesome court affairs will become the problems I have to face.
My brother-in-law and Zhou Jingxin's memorials will be delivered to me.
Will those trolls in the Censorate keep targeting me?
Then think about how Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen's hair is getting whiter and whiter.
Zhu Biao suddenly felt a pang of sadness in his heart.
Fortunately, there are still the second and third children.
The second son seems quite interested in road construction; he can be left to worry about all the mess at the Ministry of Works.
Well, the third brother isn't very useful, so let him handle things like land reclamation and wasteland clearing.
It just benefited the fourth and fifth sons.
However, the problem isn't too serious.
In the capital, there are Li Qi, the Chang brothers, the Xu brothers, and Tang Ding and Liu Lian. If all else fails, we can just conscript their able-bodied men.
All we need to do is keep them under control.
Using junior nobles to control senior nobles?
Hmm, when is my brother-in-law going to have a son?
I bestowed an official title upon my nephew, and it was a hereditary title.
Just as Zhu Biao was figuring out how to subcontract the project and, incidentally, how to use his nephew to influence his brother-in-law, Emperor Zhu finally discovered that there was another son in the Kunning Palace.
"When did you come?"
"Never mind, you heard it anyway."
"Since there's nothing much going on in the court, you can stay here and oversee the country for us and your mother."
"When you encounter problems, consult with Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen."
"If you can decide, then use your seal yourself."
If you really can't decide, just send it to Dengzhou by fast horse.
"Your mother and I will stay in Ningyang and Dengzhou Prefecture for a while."
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Just as Emperor Zhu and Empress Ma were arranging for Zhu Biao to oversee the country, Yang Shaofeng was plotting how to trick Emperor Zhu in the government office of Dengzhou Prefecture.
Unfortunately, the situation in Dengzhou Prefecture is a bit complicated right now.
First, several county magistrates were transferred away.
This is easy to understand.
Zhu Chongba, that old tyrant, had long disliked the officials of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, the officials in the Ming Dynasty were really a bit too much of a rip-off.
It's one thing to embezzle some money and grain, but the key issue is that those officials are both greedy and lazy.
Even if Emperor Zhu killed one batch and replaced them with another, it was just a change in name only, with very limited effect.
Furthermore, it was a fact that both the Ming court and local government offices lacked officials, so even if Emperor Zhu was very unhappy, he could only force himself to endure it.
But with the establishment of Ningyang County and Dengzhou Prefecture, things changed.
In just one year, Zhu Chongba, that old man, had already transferred four county magistrates and six county assistants from Dengzhou Prefecture.
The four county magistrates were considered lateral transfers, while the six county assistants were genuine promotions.
According to Zhu Chongba's old friend Deng, the manpower in Dengzhou Prefecture was more suitable.
Aside from being unsuitable for serving as a servant in the imperial court, it has virtually no other drawbacks.
Then, Emperor Zhu transferred four county magistrates and six county assistants from Jiangnan.
This made Yang Shaofeng very uncomfortable.
How many will be selected each year? How many will be selected each year? Is Dengzhou Prefecture your Zhu Chongba's talent training base?
Secondly, there was the salt production industry in Dengzhou Prefecture.
The salt field industry in Dengzhou Prefecture developed much faster than Yang Shaofeng had predicted.
Because some bolder people have already tried to cultivate salt fields themselves.
Once the salt fields opened up by the people successfully produced salt and met the acceptance standards of the Dengzhou Salt Tax Office and the Salt Market Office, thus earning their first fortune through the salt market, the trend of people opening up salt fields intensified.
For the people of Dengzhou Prefecture, using salt fields to produce salt was a way to make money.
But for Yang Shaofeng, the people opening up salt fields meant more trouble.
For example, people would fight over salt fields.
For example, the management and taxation of salt fields owned by ordinary people.
For example, as the people of Dengzhou Prefecture become wealthier, more and more problems will arise.
Besides these two points, there were also many other miscellaneous issues in Dengzhou Prefecture, such as roads, tree planting, resettlement of people who migrated from Shanxi, how to develop the fruit tree economy for people in mountainous areas, and replicating canneries in Dengzhou.
The more he thought about it, the more his head ached. Yang Shaofeng simply tossed the official document from Zhaoyuan County aside and spat angrily, saying, "That bastard Liu Jin has gone bad too."
Jin'er put down her needlework, picked up the kettle on the small stove and filled Yang Shaofeng's teacup with water, and said with a smile, "It's probably because my husband isn't a good person that the ten magistrates of Dengzhou Prefecture have followed suit and become bad."
Upon hearing Jin'er's words, Yang Shaofeng was immediately displeased.
What does it mean that my husband is not a good person?
Heaven and earth conscience.
What a pity.
In the entire officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, is there any official better than me?
Furthermore, have I been too lenient with you, Zhu Meijin, that you dare to say that your husband is not a good person?
Yang Shaofeng snorted and said, "My wife says I'm not a good person, so I'm not a good person either."
Jin'er picked up her needlework again and said with a smile, "My husband probably doesn't know, but recently there's been a lot of talk in the capital saying that your memorials have harmed countless people."
Yang Shaofeng was furious and shouted, "How dare they slander someone's innocence out of thin air?"
"Which of the memorials I wrote was not beneficial to the country and its people?"
"By the way, does my wife know who's spreading these rumors? Is it the Six Ministries? The Secretariat? The Censorate? Or some other government agency?"
Then, after a moment's thought, Yang Shaofeng looked at Jin'er and asked, "How did you hear that, my wife? Could it be that you made it up to deceive me?"
Jin'er smiled and said, "It was said in the letter by the Xu family and the Chang family."
The Xu family's daughter and the Chang family's daughter?
That's normal.
The Xu family girl that Jin'er mentioned should be Xu Miaoyun, Zhu Laosi's future wife.
As for Chang's daughter, there's no need to say more; she is Zhu Biao's future wife.
Jin'er continued, "This time, the news started from the Ministry of Revenue."
"In addition, the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Academy are also spreading the word."
"And then there's the Northern School lineage."
"There are also some rumors circulating among the other prisons and temples."
Yang Shaofeng was dumbfounded.
Unbeknownst to me, I have already offended so many people.
If Jin'er is right, then wouldn't that mean that all the government offices in the entire Ming Dynasty are cursing me?
No, what have I done to offend you?
How dare you slander me like this?
It seems the work I assigned you was a bit too light.
So, which of the following ministries should be involved this time: the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of War?