Chapter 502 Mud can’t hold up the wall

Zeng Cheng made a sullen face and said in a strange tone: "Your Majesty, I am quite greedy, but I am greedy for reputation rather than money. If you ask me if I have saved enough money, I really haven't."

Save enough, even if you send Jin Yiwei to check, you still haven’t saved enough."

Emperor Zhu immediately laughed angrily: "No, you, Mr. Zengge, have not saved any money for nearly thirty years. How glorious are you?"

Zeng Cheng scratched his head and said matter-of-factly: "Isn't it glorious?"

Liu Heming and others standing next to Zeng Cheng were immediately dumbfounded. Liu Huaiwen even looked at Zeng Cheng as if he were a fool - Emperor Zhu asked you if you have saved enough money, just answer honestly, yes.

If you have money, you will say you have money. If you don't have money, you will say you have no money. Why do you have to criticize the emperor? If Emperor Zhu gets angry, wouldn't it be you, Mr. Zengge, who is unlucky?

However, Emperor Zhu ignored Zeng Cheng at all, and instead looked directly at Liu Heming, Liu Huaiwen and others: "Looking at this, you guys probably haven't saved any money?"

Now it is the turn of Liu Heming, Liu Huaiwen and other big guys to be in trouble.

Is the salary and treatment provided by Emperor Zhu high?

It is indeed very high. Not to mention Zeng Cheng, who is an old man in the court, the salary of any ninth-grade sesame official is enough to support a family of five, and even save a large sum of money.

The key is that the emperor asked you whether you have saved any money. This question is too fatal.

Say you have no money like Zeng Cheng?

The consequences of doing this will only make Emperor Zhu and others angry like Zeng Cheng.

Said that he had saved a lot of money?

So how much is too much? Why do you, a court boss, save so much money?

All in all, Emperor Zhu's question is very deceptive. If you are not careful, it is easy for yellow mud to fall down on your crotch, which is either feces or feces.

Just when Liu Huaiwen, Liu Heming and other big guys were thinking about how to answer Emperor Zhu's question, Emperor Zhu's face was already three points darker than the bottom of the pot.

Emperor Zhu pointed at Zeng Cheng, then at Liu Heming and other big men, and said angrily: "Don't tell us that you haven't saved any money?"

Liu Heming chuckled and asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, I am waiting... I really haven't saved any money, but I don't know what your Majesty wants to do by asking this? If there is any tension in the treasury, then I will

I still have some money at home, if..."

Liu Heming didn't finish the second half of his sentence, but the other big guys had already understood what Liu Heming meant - it's okay to ask for money, but you have to make it clear, at least let us know what you want the money for.

Emperor Zhu snorted coldly and said: "What's the matter, have you forgotten everything we said before? I have told you a long time ago that I will sell some overseas sites to you in the future.

Everyone has the opportunity to go to sea and become a loner - now tell us, are you rich or not?"

However, after Emperor Zhu finished speaking, Zeng Cheng replied directly without thinking: "Your Majesty, I still have no money!"

Liu Heming quietly looked at Liu Huaiwen, then lowered his head and replied, "I don't have any money either."

Emperor Zhu was stunned immediately.

No money?

Emperor Zhu didn't doubt that other officials didn't have enough money to buy fiefdoms, but to say that Zeng Cheng, Liu Heming and Liu Huaiwen in front of him couldn't afford it was just nonsense.

Calf.

Emperor Zhu is not Zhu Chongba!

Everyone in the world says that Zhu Chongba’s salary to those officials was low, so the officials in the Ming Dynasty were greedy for their lives. However, the actual situation is that Zhu Chongba’s salary to the officials was not low. It’s just that

Most of the gifts were in kind, and the real money and silver were really small, and the officials needed to spend real money to hire people, so it turned into Zhu Chongba being stingy.

In order not to follow the truth in this regard, Emperor Zhu's salary was all real money and silver without any real objects.

Anyway, the prices of goods in the Ming Dynasty are low enough now, and the salary given by Emperor Zhu to the officials is high enough. The salary of any ninth-grade official can be enough to support a dozen people, let alone those like Zeng Cheng and Liu Heming who are first- and second-grade officials.

The boss of the product.

Then, these big guys say they have no money?

Emperor Zhu said with a dark face: "Where did the salary we gave you go? I will tell you clearly today. Either you give us an explanation today, or I will ask Jin Yiwei to investigate and give you an explanation."

Explain!"

When Emperor Zhu said this, Zeng Cheng, Liu Heming, Liu Huaiwen and other big bosses immediately became paralyzed.

Emperor Zhu had indeed told Zeng Cheng, Liu Heming and other big bosses long ago that he would allow them to purchase overseas fiefdoms in the future, giving them the opportunity to go to sea to build a country and become a lonely country.

The question is, has Emperor Zhu considered whether we are willing?

Is it because the local food in Ming Dynasty is not delicious? Or is the local scenery in Ming Dynasty not beautiful? Or is the life in Ming Dynasty not enjoyable enough?

Look at Zhu Erdan and Zhu Sanshun, who have already gone to sea to found the country. The two brothers sent people to the Ming Dynasty every two days. They talked a lot of nonsense, but the core meaning was only one: I don’t want the fiefdom anymore, you Emperor Zhu.

Just send a governor or something to take it over, we all want to go back to Ming Dynasty!

Well, the dignified Prince of Ming Dynasty always wanted to run back when he went overseas, so wouldn’t it be equally uncomfortable for us people when we go overseas?

So, if you, Emperor Zhu, say how empty the Ming dynasty's treasury is now, and there happens to be some special money that needs to be borrowed, then of course everything will be easy, and we can get it for you first, no matter how much money we have at home.

Come out, if you really can't, even if you sell your property, I have to help you get through the difficulties first. Who makes us and the Ming Dynasty one and the same?

But if you, Emperor Zhu, want us to buy overseas fiefdoms? Then we have no money! No money at all!

Now that you, Emperor Zhu, cannot bring trouble to your own son, you still want to trick us into going to sea and founding our country?

Ouch! The dogs won’t even go!

Seeing Zeng Cheng, Liu Heming and other big guys winking at each other, Emperor Zhu suddenly felt even more unhappy. He simply pointed at Liu Heming angrily and asked: "Come on, tell us first, do you have any

Save money? Don’t you want to go overseas and become a loner?”

What Emperor Zhu didn't expect was that Liu Heming actually said after holding it in for a long time: "Your Majesty, I...I don't have great ambitions. I can't hold up the wall with mud. I just want to die in the Ming Dynasty."

From now on, I will be pulled down as soon as I bury him in Ningyang County. I really don’t want to go overseas and become a loner."

When Liu Heming's words fell, Zeng Cheng, Liu Huaiwen and other big guys standing next to him also looked concerned, especially Liu Huaiwen who said simply and neatly: "Your Majesty,

I'm not too young now, and I don't have many good years to live. Why would I want to go overseas and claim to be a loner at this time? It's better to stay in our Ming Dynasty down-to-earth."

Emperor Zhu suddenly became even more confused.

Well, these are the top bosses in the Ming Dynasty. They would rather admit that they have no ambitions and are useless people who cannot hold up the wall. They are not willing to go overseas and claim to be independent!

Emperor Zhu looked angrily at Zeng Cheng, then at Liu Heming and others, but in the end he could only sigh helplessly: "You guys, you really can't hold up the wall with mud!"

Liu Heming muttered indifferently: "What are you doing on the wall? It's great like this now!"

Emperor Zhu glared at Liu Heming fiercely, but did not continue to talk about letting them go to sea to found a country.

If these guys are determined to be scum, then there is really no way to help them - except for Zeng Cheng, who is about to step down from the position of chief assistant, the other scumbags still have a deadline to step down.

very long.

What makes Emperor Zhu even more troubled is that these guys who have reached the top of their official career are so willing to be like dirt, so the remaining officials must be worse than them?

After angrily driving away Zeng Cheng, Liu Heming and others, Emperor Zhu couldn't help but snorted coldly: "Tell me, why are these guys so resistant to going to sea to claim vassal status? Could it be that they are so lonely facing the south?

Isn’t the temptation enough? Damn it, this is so close to home that you can’t leave home!”

Zhang Dequan, who stood behind Emperor Zhu like a wooden man, couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and then asked with some curiosity: "Your Majesty, I should not say something - why do you have to think about letting Mr. Zeng Ge and Governor Liu

They go to sea to establish a vassal state? Now the princes are almost older, shouldn't this fiefdom be reserved for the princes? "

When Emperor Zhu heard this, he just snorted coldly and said: "How many sons do we have? Unless we can give birth to a hundred sons like King Wen of Zhou, otherwise this will be a situation where there is too much land and few princes."

Speaking of this, Emperor Zhu couldn't help but sigh again: "We know that you are thinking about us and our sons, but let me ask you, from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the present, what is the longest-lasting inheritance in all dynasties?

Which day?"

Zhang Dequan thought carefully and replied: "In my opinion, it is the Han Dynasty. From the founding of the Han Dynasty to the fall of the Shu ancestors, it took almost four to five hundred years to inherit?"

However, Emperor Zhu hummed and said: "Yes, the Han Dynasty has been inherited for more than four hundred years, which is the longest inherited dynasty after the Qin and Han Dynasties. The rest are only three hundred years old, but before the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Zhou Dynasty inherited

It's been eight hundred years, why do you think this is because? It can't really be just because King Wen of Zhou carried Jiang Ziya for eight hundred steps, right?"

According to folklore, Jiang Ziya caught King Wen of Zhou by fishing with a straight hook. When King Wen of Zhou asked him to come out of the mountain, he specifically put forward a condition, that is, King Wen of Zhou would carry him on his back. In order to show his reputation as a virtuous corporal, King Wen of Zhou really

He carried Jiang Ziya on his back for eight hundred steps, and then there was a saying that King Wen of Zhou carried Jiang Ziya on his back for eight hundred steps, and Jiang Ziya protected the Zhou Dynasty for eight hundred years.

Of course, this statement is pure nonsense - King Wen of Zhou colluded with a group of princes to fight against business. Jiang Ziya even ate the food of Dashang and smashed his bowl. These two guys colluded to the point of

The whole thing was just a conspiracy, and Jiang Ziya was just sealed in Qi Di later on. His talk of protecting the Zhou Dynasty for 800 years is even more nonsense.

Emperor Zhu shook his head slightly and drove these messy thoughts out of his mind before continuing: "The reason why the Zhou royal family has been passed down for eight hundred years is the enfeoffment system. This system was even feasible in the Ming Dynasty - from the capital to

How far is the Ottomans? How far is it to Europe and even England? Now the Ming Dynasty has such a vast territory that the court alone cannot fully control it. The only way is to enfeoff all those remote places."

In fact, there is another hidden benefit of the enfeoffment system, which is the family, state, and world system hidden under the enfeoffment system.

In the family system of Tianxia, ​​with the Central Plains as the center, it expands outwards infinitely until the entire universe - yes, the four directions above and below are called Yu, and throughout the ages are called Universe, and the entire universe is called Tianxia.

There is only one world, and the scope extends to infinity. There is only one master of the world, that is, the emperor. The so-called "under the whole world" is not the royal land, which means that all the land in the world belongs to the emperor; the shore of the land is not the royal ministers, which means that all the people in the world are.

The emperor's subjects.

In this system, there is no so-called country, only "vassal state". The emperor will not recognize the existence of other "states". The property rights of the vassal state still belong to the emperor. The vassal king only has the right to use the vassal state. The emperor only has the right to use the vassal state.

It has the right to "cut down the vassal state" at any time. The kind of "state" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period no longer exists.

In the final analysis, the family-state-tianxia model governs the entire world as one big family and does not allow "family separation" at all.
To be continued...