Chapter 197: In the Name of the Son of Heaven of Great Ming, I Sentence You to Immediate Execution

Liu Qiniang's brand-new life had already begun. She was extremely unfamiliar with her new life. She needed to get used to days without servants to serve her.

The business model of Yanxing Tower was mainly based on the Jiaofang (Music Bureau) at the beginning, but with the changes of the times, this behavior of throwing the families of officials into the Jiaofang was criticized by scholars and writers, and the court was in conflict. Even if all the people were killed or exiled, it was better than throwing them into the Jiaofang to be official prostitutes. During the Zhengtong era, a large number of royal industries were also sold, and it was from that time that the imperial court was ashamed to speak of profit.

During the Yongle and Xuande eras, Great Ming went to the Western Ocean seven times. While promoting military power, it also obtained wealth through a large number of official ships and official trade. This was gathering wealth and promoting profit. But by the Zhengtong era, the public opinion of restoring the past, not reading history, promoting literature and suppressing martial arts, following the ways of the Three Dynasties, being ashamed to speak of profit, considering gathering wealth and promoting profit as treacherous officials, being unrighteous in retaining officials, and civil officials arbitrarily killing military generals began to form.

Later, Yanxing Tower became old madams bringing prostitutes to make a living in Yanxing Tower. If they refused to receive guests, they would starve. Simply locking them in the woodshed and starving them was enough to force people to submit.

Beating, generally, was not done. They were in the flesh business; if the skin and flesh were beaten, they could not receive guests.

But the terror of hunger was enough to make anyone choose to surrender.

Once they started receiving guests, there were not so many scruples. Wandering among the dignitaries all day, it seemed as if they were also dignitaries, sinking and falling in the fireworks world.

Liu Qiniang was unfamiliar with her brand-new life. Her emotions carried fear, curiosity, mixed with doubt and a little disdain.

The main source of fear was not that there were no servants to serve her; she could still live on her own. Her fear was the fear of the unknown. After walking out of that huge restaurant, she felt fear of the hot and bright sunshine, and she was even more afraid of being ridiculed.

But there was none, because no one knew what kind of person she was before she came.

She stretched out her hand full of curiosity, letting the autumn sun shine on her hand. This was a brand-new experience.

This disdain was her looking at these weavers, none of whom applied powder or makeup, nor did they paint. But soon her disdain turned into envy. She had lived in the building for most of her life, living in the shadows for most of the time, just like cockroaches and mosquitoes in the corner. Who would care if she lived or died?

These weavers did not apply powder or makeup but could live in the sunshine.

Liu Qiniang began to be busy and tense. She put the spun wool pushed from the spinning factory onto the loom and began to weave cloth. Liu Qiniang knew how to weave cloth. This was not a difficult thing for her. Soon, she had no time for so many emotions, because the Yongsheng Woolen Mill was very busy.

Work chased work, and there was no time for any wild thoughts. When she was busy, she ate, and when she finished eating, she continued to work. In the evening, when she couldn't see the warp and weft lines clearly, Liu Qiniang was free. Then she received her bedding. Because she had a waist tag from the palace, the agent in the factory did not dare to neglect her, all thinking that this clever woman was someone sent down from the palace.

Being sent down from the palace was falling from heaven to earth for palace people, but for people on earth, this was falling from heaven. If they neglected her easily and the palace asked for accountability, it would not be something that could be explained in two or three sentences.

The most important thing was that Liu Qiniang also held a waist tag from the palace.

Liu Qiniang fell into busyness and soon adapted to this life, busy and fulfilling. She felt that it would be good for her to be like this for the rest of her life. She planned to save enough money and go to the nursing home to adopt a child. She could no longer give birth. The old madam didn't know what method she used to cause coldness in the palace, anyway, she couldn't get pregnant in this life. If she couldn't get pregnant, she couldn't marry. But in this day and age, everything was lacking, except for orphans.

Liu Qiniang received her first salary on the seventh day, one silver coin and eighteen copper coins. This was her reward for seven days. It was indeed incomparable to Yanxing Tower, but the expenses in the official factory were also small, and there was almost nothing to buy. This money looked like a lot.

Expenses in Yanxing Tower were very large. Those guests seemed to be throwing money like dirt, but in their hands, it was actually just hard-earned money.

Yanxing Tower, old madams, and the turtles who solicited guests all had to take a part. The silver and money that fell into Liu Qiniang's hands were not much to begin with, and she had to compete for beauty. This competition for beauty also required silver to feed.

Rouge and powder cost money, raising servants cost money, incense cost money, preparing all kinds of snacks also cost money, and some guests liked to pretend to be elegant. Accompanying guests to be elegant also cost money, so there was not much left.

Prostitution, this profession since ancient times, was extremely mature in the current industry, and dirty blood flowed from beginning to end.

Just as Master Xu said, the work in this woolen mill did not earn much, but it left a lot. Instead, it could save silver, and life was much more stable.

In this day and age, a stable life is a rare luxury. The Emperor was of noble birth, first assassinated, then his house was set on fire, causing a scene. On the day of the killing, even the water of the Jinshui River was dyed red. There were more than seven hundred heads, and the executioner could not find so many. All were personally handled by the Embroidered Uniform Guards.

Liu Qiniang counted her silver again and was directly happy. As she was happy, she cried, tears flowing down continuously, but she didn't make a sound.

When she was in the building, she had to cry behind people's backs and absolutely could not make a sound. In that place where people ate people, showing a little weakness meant being eaten until not even bones were left.

Liu Qiniang was used to crying like this.

She knew that the world was getting better, because those dignitaries who spent all day in the building were all busy. How could they have time to go to Yanxing Tower to listen to singing and playing? Most of them came to talk about things, and after talking, they hurried away, coming in a hurry and leaving in a hurry.

The business of the girls changed from the officials of the capital to the students of the Imperial Academy. Not long after, the students didn't come either.

On one hand, the students became busy. The Emperor didn't know what kind of madness he had, but he fell in love with mathematics. It wasn't enough for him to like it, he also wanted the students of Great Ming to like it together. Mathematics is something that doesn't lie, it's really difficult. Last month, a student who couldn't learn it jumped into the river, but was saved, and still had to continue learning.

Every month there is a monthly exam. If the exam is not good, the name is posted on the Donghua Gate. It is shameful for oneself, shameful for the whole family. Zu Chongzhi and Zu Geng were ancient people from more than a thousand years ago. Just those few words, the Emperor, a child, could understand. The Confucian scholars who prided themselves on being dragons and phoenixes among people and binding the blue dragon with their hands could not understand it.

Recently, business has been even worse. The Emperor didn't know what kind of madness he had, and suddenly set up a Happy Forest of Steles outside the Zhaoyang Gate, and asked Hence Hai Rui to supervise the major event of killing the atmosphere of corruption. Suddenly, the officials and gentry came even less. Being targeted by Hence Hai Rui and engraved into the Happy Forest of Steles as an indicator of the Examination Law was not just shame, it was infamy for ten thousand years.

Yanxing Tower is a place of gold consumption. People who come to this place to play have a lot of money, so Hence Hai Rui has to carefully check where the silver of these officials comes from.

There are fewer guests, but there are still so many fairies. The business of Yanxing Tower has become deserted, and they have to try every means to please the guests. Like Liu Qiniang, when business is deserted, there are very few who push away guests like Sun Jiegao.

The ducks know the warmth of the spring river first, and the prostitutes sing in the wind and clouds.

Liu Qiniang put away her silver, lay down to sleep beautifully, and prepared to go to work the next day.

"I want to go to work, why don't you let me go to work?" Liu Qiniang didn't understand the rules and asked the head weaver in confusion.

"You can't go to work after seven full days, you have to rest for two days." The head weaver was also a weaver. Liu Qiniang thought this head weaver was a madam, but the head weaver's words were not what a madam would say.

The head weaver could not understand this law very much. She also shook her head and said, "The rules set by the Minister of Justice himself, you don't have to tell me. I have to rest after seven days. You can go to the official factory school to look around, you can go to listen, it's good to know some characters."

Liu Qiniang failed to go to work successfully the next day. After seven full days, she had to rest for two days. Even if she wanted to go to work, she couldn't. This was the rule set by the supervisor of the wool official factory and the Minister of Justice in the court.

The reason why the Minister of Justice set this rule was that the labor remuneration system of the official factory was based on quantity from the beginning, more work more pay, less work less pay, no work no pay, not based on time.

People must combine work and rest so as not to affect the speed of production. Wang Chonggu's past experience told him that fishing in a dried-up pond is not as good as sustainable fishing in a dried-up pond. Everything is like this, and you have to rest for a while, which can instead increase the speed of production.

This experience is extremely widespread.

For example, if you want to farm, you plant two crops. The first crop you plant grain, the second crop, you have to plant beans. The "Spring and Autumn" says: This year's beautiful grain, next year's beautiful wheat. If you don't rotate crops, the fertility in the soil is not enough. There are also insects that specifically eat wheat to multiply, so you have to rotate crops and fallow.

For example, fishing, you also have to rest the fishing, because if you don't let the fish in the river multiply, you will catch less and less. When the time comes, there will be no fish in the river. What will you catch?

For example, the training of the Beijing camp soldiers also requires one to two days of rest. The Great Ming Beijing camp returned to the capital, and the soldiers of the original Yongping Guard replaced the defense area. The Great Ming Beijing camp rested enough, and then went out of the fortress to fight.

People will inevitably produce fatigue after long-term high-intensity labor. Resting for a while will instead help the speed of production.

Even Zhang Juzheng's new policy is to withdraw the fist and save energy after a heavy blow this year.

Practice has also proved that rest is a virtuous cycle. In order to make money, Wang Chonggu has really done his best.

Liu Qiniang's life has always been cautious. She is afraid that her past will be known. She is a low-class person, and she does not intend to marry. That is to harm others. What she worries about most is that her past experience will be completely uncovered. As the head weaver gave her a piece of paper, which was her civil registration, she completely broke away from the base profession and became a human being.

Liu Qiniang secretly cried in the corner again. She still didn't dare to cry out, afraid that others would hear.

While Liu Qiniang was immersed in the new life of the official factory, the miscellaneous reports in the capital of Great Ming were surging. There were more and more discussions about labor diagrams. In order to refute the labor diagrams, a whole set of "Supply and Demand Diagrams" was established. This set of supply and demand diagrams could well explain the phenomenon of price fluctuations of goods.

Many Confucian scholars could discuss the "Labor Diagrams" and "Supply and Demand Diagrams". Soon, Zhu Zhongxing's magnificent article closely combined the two to explain the situation of things and the value of commodities.

This time, this "Theory of the Situation of Things" analyzed the salt certificates of Great Ming.

The birth of the "Theory of the Situation of Things", drawing on the strengths of hundreds of schools, and the academic style of tolerance, was accepted by most people for a time. The concept of contradiction, opposition and unity, was gradually accepted.

This article was written by Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng together. Zhang Juzheng tossing silver coins was thinking about the relationship between supply and demand. Separate labor diagrams and supply and demand diagrams are difficult to explain some problems.

For example, in the supply and demand diagrams, price fluctuations are completely attributed to the imbalance of supply and demand. But assuming an extreme situation where total supply and total demand are just balanced, what determines the price of goods? And labor diagrams cannot explain some strange phenomena, such as some magical things inexplicably rising in price beyond everyone's expectations.

For example, during the time of Emperor Renzong of Song, because of the palace's purchase of jewelry, the price of pearls rose to a sky-high price. If Emperor Renzong of Song had not banned the palace's purchase in time, the price of pearls would have continued to rise.

The palace didn't consume that much, but knowing that the palace wanted to buy, the big and good pearls were all chased up, chasing each other, eventually causing this situation.

Zhang Juzheng and Zhu Yijun, two people with top-level understanding of the theory of contradiction, entrusted their names to the pen name Zhu Zhongxing, completing this cognition of negation of negation, and completely perfecting the definition of the situation of things and commodity value.

Just when everyone thought that this scolding war ended in a balanced state, another article by the author Yu Jieshe was born.

The content published in the miscellaneous report made Qi Jiguang feel offended. The good-natured Marquis of Qian'an, for the first time, used his real name, Qi Jiguang, to conduct a real-name criticism of this article titled "Record of Pacifying the Japanese Pirates", published in the Quan Jin, Quan Chu, Quan Zhe miscellaneous reports and Di Bao.

Qi Jiguang published an article called "Nonsense Record of Pacifying the Japanese Pirates".

This "Record of Pacifying the Japanese Pirates" written by Yu Jieshe was written from the perspective of a mother in Taiping County, Taizhou, describing the content of guest soldiers pacifying the Japanese pirates in Taizhou.

The content inside could be described as unbearable to look at.

The content inside can be described as unbearable to look at.

But as Qi Jiguang led the southern soldiers to pacify the Japanese pirates, the picture began to turn sharply downward.

This mother was raped by a small flag (leader of ten people) under Qi Jiguang's account. The mother's eldest son heard the movement and wanted to kill this small flag, but was beheaded by the small flag in the name of communicating with the Japanese pirates. This mother endured humiliation and sought perfection, but still could not satisfy the small flag's private desires. Her daughter was soon tragically poisoned, and most of the women in this small village in Taiping County were poisoned by the guest soldiers.

This was not all. The small flag's name contained the word "crucian carp", so he did not allow the villagers to catch crucian carp. Such evil deeds were countless.

People who didn't know would think that Qi Jiguang was the Japanese pirate.

Qi Jiguang refuted from many aspects such as army construction, Japanese pirate atrocities, pacification achievements, and people's support.

"Are the people gathered?" Zhu Yijun had already put on his helmet, fully armored, standing in front of the Chengtian Gate, asking Zhao Mengyou if the soldiers had been gathered.

Zhao Mengyou looked at the nine-jin cannon that was slightly ferocious and asked quite solemnly, "Your Majesty, the people are gathered, but it's just a book society, there's no need for cannons."

"Even if there's no need, pull it over." Zhu Yijun did not get on his horse, but took the armored Embroidered Uniform Guards to the street.

He was not Qi Jiguang, he was not a good-natured person, he was angry.

Qi Jiguang could still endure his temper to refute all kinds of things, but Zhu Yijun directly asked the Embroidered Uniform Guards to supervise.

He went out and specially asked Wang Chonggu for a driving order. This was not a yellow paper case or a white paper case, but an iron case. Zhu Yijun was a person who followed the rules very well.

Zhao Mengyou had already found out the origin of the demon book. Zhu Yijun personally led the team to deal with it. He was young and still had the qualifications to make trouble. When he was older, it would be difficult to do things like killing base scholars by hand.

Zhu Yijun came to this book society, blocked the nine-jin cannon at the front door, and the Embroidered Uniform Guards surrounded the entire book society.

"Go and shout, count to three and if they don't open the door, fire the cannon." Zhu Yijun's tone was cold, and he signaled Luo Sigong to shout. Luo Sigong took three steps forward and shouted loudly, "His Majesty said, count to three and if you don't open the door, fire the cannon!"

"Three!"

"Two!"

"..."

Luo Sigong finally didn't shout the one, because the door was opened from the inside, and a large crowd knelt down.

Zhu Yijun carried the Qi family waist knife and walked into the book society. There were seven people in the book society, all of whom were pressed to the ground. Zhu Yijun found the pen corrector named Chen Youren. The Record of Pacifying the Japanese Pirates was written by this Chen Youren.

"Your Majesty, the commoner is stupid, the commoner doesn't know the details, spouting nonsense, Your Majesty spare my life!" Chen Youren saw the knife and finally knew fear. That the Emperor personally came to deal with it was something Chen Youren had never expected.

During this period, all kinds of miscellaneous reports emerged one after another, unfolding fierce debates around labor diagrams. The reason why Chen Youren wanted to write such a Record of Pacifying the Japanese Pirates was based on the two major premises of soothing the distant people and promoting literature and suppressing martial arts.

The content he wrote in the "Record of Pacifying the Japanese Pirates" mainly aimed to shape a kind of Japanese pirate who was also human, and not all Japanese were bad people, and the Great Ming army was not all good people, and by the way, render the harm of guest soldiers. These guest soldiers only knew how to kill and did all kinds of evil.

This kind of nonsense regardless of facts had been going on in Great Ming for more than a hundred years. Promoting literature and suppressing martial arts, if you don't render the martial arts people as heinous villains, how can you achieve the purpose of promoting literature and suppressing martial arts?

Chen Youren was just frying cold rice, publishing anti-heavenly remarks to gain attention. Miscellaneous reports also need sales, otherwise it is difficult to support them.

But this invited the Emperor's thunderous blow.

"No, no, no, you don't not understand. On the contrary, you understand very well. You just made a precise exchange of what Marquis Qi did and what the Japanese pirates did. You don't not understand, but understand very well. You are intentional." Zhu Yijun waved his hand repeatedly and said.

Zhu Yijun drew his waist knife and said very solemnly, "Since ancient times, the only one who has shouted to report to the Son of Heaven and save the people below is Marquis Qi. The only one who can be washed away by the flood for the sake of the people's cattle is the southern soldiers under Marquis Qi."

"The Emperor issued an edict to handle miscellaneous reports, isn't it to let people speak?!" Chen Youren was still struggling. Since he was handling miscellaneous reports, he was letting the pen correctors among the people open their mouths to speak. Could he only sing praises and not criticize?

Zhu Yijun said calmly, "Letting people speak is not spouting nonsense. You don't understand at all. In the first year of Longqing, the invasion of the capital area made the capital tremble. It has been less than ten years. If Marquis Qi were not in Jizhou, guess if the Northern Barbarians would be so easy to talk to? Once the peaceful days are over, forget the fear, and put down the bowl and scold the mother. Only you base scholars can say it with peace of mind."

The slogan of saving the people below led by Qi Jiguang would be shouted again three hundred and fifty years later. The base scholars didn't know what it meant at all.

Zhu Yijun knew it very well. He said solemnly, "In the name of the Son of Heaven of Great Ming, I sentence you to immediate execution."

Zhang Juzheng heard that the Emperor suddenly left the palace with the Embroidered Uniform Guards and knew it was bad! The young Emperor must have gone to do something big. He immediately rushed from the Wenyuan Pavilion to the book society in the outer city.

When he arrived, he heard Zhu Yijun sentencing someone to immediate execution.

"Teacher is here?" Zhu Yijun saw Zhang Juzheng and smiled, took out a bone-prying knife, accurately inserted it into Chen Youren's neck, and twisted it hard. The fourth cervical vertebra was pried open, and he was already dead.

He picked up the waist knife, raised it high, and with a swish, beheaded Chen Youren's head, clean and neat.

Beheading is not an easy task. Zhu Yijun's knife was fast and accurate, and his strength was also great, so he completed this set of movements.

Blood splashed three feet, and the head rolled to Zhang Juzheng's feet.

"Hoo!" Zhu Yijun held the waist knife in his hand. Practicing martial arts is useful. In addition to letting the soldiers know that their monarch is not a coward who cannot endure hardship when reviewing the army, some venting behaviors can be done by himself.

"Paying respects to Your Majesty." Zhang Juzheng ran a bit urgently. He had just caught his breath when he saw the head.

"Is the teacher going to say that I don't follow the rules? Are you going to admonish me to be benevolent and forgiving?" Zhu Yijun wiped the waist knife clean on Chen Youren's corpse and asked calmly.

Zhang Juzheng hurriedly said, "No, no, no, Your Majesty, the minister has no such intention. This person indeed deserves to die, but it should also go through the official document of the Ministry of Justice. This yellow paper case is easy to cause trouble for Marquis Qi and the Commander."

Zhao Mengyou took out the driving order and said, "There is a driving order from the Ministry of Justice, given by the Minister of Justice before coming."

A pile of court officials ran behind Zhang Juzheng. These were all people who received the news and rushed over. Seeing the Emperor's action of putting away the knife, and then looking at the scene of blood all over the floor, they couldn't help but shiver.

"Grand Secretary, this is indeed the driving order of the Ministry of Justice. I just didn't expect His Majesty to be so fast." Wang Chonggu answered blankly, proving the authenticity of that driving order. His Majesty really, actually when he lost his temper, still knew to ask for a driving order!

In this way, this is a case recognized by the outer court, but it was handled as an emergency, and the one who did it was the Emperor himself.

Even the most gentle Minister of Personnel, Wan Shihe, looked at the head on the ground, and then at the bone-prying knife placed on the side, and said with great emotion, "His Majesty is truly benevolent. Before he died, he even pried his bones."

"Minister Wan, you say that. I am young, if I don't pry the bones, I can't chop off the head." Zhu Yijun wiped the waist knife and bone-prying knife clean and said with a sunny smile.

"Good, good, good!! Killed well!" Tan Lun clapped his hands and applauded, and spat fiercely, regardless of the gentleness of a scholar.

Tan Lun highly praised the Emperor's hand-killing behavior. Qi Jiguang could defeat all foreign enemies, but Qi Jiguang, whose blade did not point inward, could not do the act of killing base scholars by hand.

But His Majesty could, because the Emperor is supreme, the embodiment of the rule of law, and does not need to follow so many rules. But His Majesty still followed the rules. Before doing things, he got the driving order of the Ministry of Justice, so there was no problem.

Some things must be handled as an emergency and cannot be tolerated for a moment.

After Zhu Yijun killed Chen Youren, the depression in his heart dissipated, and he felt much more refreshed.

These two days of anger made him unable to sleep peacefully. If Qi Jiguang were really the kind of bastard in Chen Youren's pen, how could he pacify the Japanese pirates.

When Qi Jiguang arrived, looking at the mess, he was slightly helpless. He knew things would be like this.

He was the Emperor's martial arts teacher. He knew the Emperor's temper very well. The Emperor was not unable to compromise. In the case of assassinating the King, the Emperor could endure it to exchange for the stability of the imperial court. But when he encountered some principled problems, the Emperor would change from a sunny and cheerful boy into an indescribable monster.

"The minister thanks His Majesty for his great kindness." Qi Jiguang said very solemnly. The Emperor did this to maintain Qi Jiguang's reputation.

"The matter here is over, I will return to the palace first. Minister of Justice, you handle the follow-up?" Zhu Yijun just came out to kill, and after killing, he planned to go back to continue learning.

"The minister's honor, respectfully send off Your Majesty." Wang Chonggu hurriedly agreed. Personally cleaning up for His Majesty is a very honorable thing.

Zhu Yijun smiled and returned to the palace with a long tail.

The court officials stood in the book society, looking at each other. Ge Shouli suddenly said, "Grand Secretary has worked hard, Grand Secretary still needs to continue to work hard."

This is not that the Emperor is fickle, but that there is a line there. As long as it is not touched, His Majesty is still a very easy-to-talk, sunny and cheerful person.

"Grand Secretary is in charge of the country, and he is duty-bound. The court officials must work together to let the Grand Secretary stay in this position of being in charge of the country for a long time." Wang Chonggu said with sympathy.

Must seal the little Emperor!

After Zhu Yijun returned to the palace, he kept waiting for someone to come and reprimand him. After all, personally killing someone is indeed a bit rebellious.

"Didn't the Empress Dowager come? Didn't the teacher submit a self-reproach memorial?" By the time evening came, before Zhu Yijun went to sleep, he did not receive any reprimand. The two Empress Dowagers did not ask, and even Zhang Juzheng did not send a memorial.

Zhu Yijun thought he would fall into a kind of public opinion, but the Minister of Justice Wang Chonggu, with the cooperation of the court officials, chose strict cold treatment, suppressing this matter without any wind, and cleaning up very professionally.

Maybe there is only this chapter today, something happened, asking for monthly tickets, Aowu!!!!!!!!!!!

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