Chapter 128 Reconciliation and Compromise
Seeing that Mr. Zhang fell into a coma again, Mr. Feng sighed helplessly, looked at him deeply, and shook his head and retreated.
Zhao Hao sent Eunuch Feng out. Seeing that he had something to say, he waved his hand and asked the secretary and guard to retreat.
"Why did it happen like this?" Eunuch Feng handed his hands in his sleeves, so worried that he wanted to squat down.
"The father-in-law is under too much pressure." Zhao Hao sighed: "Now it is a man of thousands of people, and internal and external troubles. I am really worried that he can't hold on."
"What should I do if I can't hold on? The Empress Dowager cannot live without him, the Emperor cannot live without him, the imperial court cannot live without him, and our family cannot live without him." Feng Bao said anxiously.
"My father-in-law has already known what happened yesterday." Zhao Hao's eyes were filled with tears, and he cut his neck with a knife, "The chief minister was forced to kneel down to his subordinates and let others kill him. I have never seen such a scene after reading through history books!"
"Oh..." Eunuch Feng finally squatted down with worries. Thinking of what uncle and brother said in his ear, he finally softly said: "Then what do you think, what should you do?"
"I thought about it all night last night, do you think this is true?" Zhao Hao also squatted beside him and began to plan softly.
"I will never worry about my burial, and I will not be dismissed from my job after I am suspended from my salary." Eunuch Feng is a cultural person and quickly refined his central idea. After saying that, he frowned and said, "Isn't that what the person named Xiong Dunpu means?"
"Yes, I will never worry about my return to the funeral. I just give my father-in-law a long vacation so that he can go back to his hometown to bury his father and fulfill his filial piety. But there is no need to be restricted by twenty-seven months. Once something happens in the court, I can recall it immediately." Zhao Hao nodded and said, "Suspension of wages is a mourning attitude. If you do not leave your job, you will prevent someone from taking the opportunity to seize power, so as not to return to Beijing in the future and stay in the pavilion."
"It makes sense, but in this way, who will govern the country?" Feng Bao has been using the man-to-man tactic of the emperor for many years, and has become afraid of the national government.
"This is also simple. Before my father-in-law left Beijing, I would like to recommend a few young, obedient, honest and honest entry into the cabinet to do things." Zhao Hao said: "My father-in-law also pays more attention to it to ensure that they are Xiao Guicao follow the rules. If they encounter a big event, they will use 800 miles to urgently ask for their father-in-law. They can also use a carrier pigeon. The speed is faster and will not delay trouble. If the matter is too big, they will have the opportunity to recall him in advance!"
"Well, safe." Feng Bao nodded and relaxed a lot, "This way, you should be relieved of state affairs."
As he said that, he said worriedly, "But the Empress Dowager and the Emperor? Alas, you know. The emperor and the mother have relied on their husbands so much in the past few years, and they cannot live without him for a moment."
After a pause, he said again: "The emperor is fine, but he is still a child, and he is very playful. But his temper is following his grandfather and cannot tolerate anyone's rebellion. Those ministers openly regard his will astray and even speak rudely again and again, so the emperor will argue with them."
Zhao Hao nodded. Feng Bao said this very thoroughly. The main obstacle now is the empress dowager. As long as the empress dowager is turned around, the emperor will not have a big problem. After all, the emperor has not taken power yet, and now the queen has the final say.
But he didn't believe that the Queen Mother would not panic if she burned the Buddhist temple? Zhang Xianggong was bleeding heavily, what use was it for the Queen Mother? The strong King Zhang was the pillar of the Queen Mother, the backbone and the instructor of cultivation. Such a smart woman could not know how to fish without expending the lake, killing chickens to get eggs, and burning forests to hunt?
"I won't talk about it in the palace for now. Can the civil servant agree to this plan? Don't make any more troubles." Eunuch Feng said worriedly: "One family actually knows that their troubles are on the surface, but in fact they are against Mr. Zhang's new policy. As long as the exam is completed and the law is not taken, or they continue to clear the land and acres of Zhang, they are afraid that they will continue to make trouble."
"Well, that's the reason." Zhao Hao nodded and said, "These two things are also the bottom line of my father-in-law. Even if he sacrifices his life, he will have to stick to the end."
"Who said it wasn't?" Eunuch Feng sighed, "Our family can only help him to the end."
"But these two things are different for civil servants." Zhao Hao picked up two small stones from the ground and put them in his palm and said, "The test method has been implemented for five years. Although everyone complained, they have been used to it for a long time, so it will be fine if they persist."
"Yes, it's been five years..." Eunuch Feng nodded.
"So there is only one problem of clearing the land acres of Zhangzhang." Zhao Hao threw away a stone and said, "How many years have it been?"
"It hasn't started seriously yet." Feng Bao said: "It was only a few years ago that Haigangfeng was completed in Yingtian Tenth Mansions, and the effect was very good. My uncle decided to implement it nationwide after the autumn harvest this year. If it weren't for the death of Lao Fengjun, the whole country would have started now."
"In other words, because my father-in-law was not here for a while, the people below didn't want to start with such a national policy?" Zhao Hao asked back.
"Of course, Qingzhang Tianmu is a demon mirror. If you really want to implement the test method, no one can hide from it." Feng Bao smiled and said, "Actually, this time, it's just a matter of trouble."
"By the way, has something been found in Yueyang?" Zhao Hao asked in a low voice.
Feng Bao shook his head slowly and said in a voice that only two people could hear: "Everyone on the ship that day, including the Jinyiwei who protected Lao Fengjun, was arrested and punished. Several of them were stripped of their skin, but no one confessed."
"Yes, I'll kill the family." Zhao Hao stared at the stone in his hand and said, "So this matter should be more cautious, otherwise more trouble will occur."
"Then do you have a way to take care of both ends?"
"The clearing of the land of Zhangzhang must be unswervingly, just extending the front line a little longer, such as completing the deadline for three to five years." Zhao Hao sighed and said, "Let's pass the barrier in front of you first..."
"That's all." Feng Bao nodded. Although it was not a good idea, it was the only solution that could be accepted by both parties.
The two discussed for a long time, and Feng Bao left Dashamao Hutong at noon.
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Zhao Hao saw him off and turned back to the bedroom and continued to serve his father-in-law.
But when Zhang Juzheng woke up again, he asked softly why he had been there for so long?
While wiped him, Zhao Hao replied: "My father-in-law told Eunuch Feng that he wanted to go home. Eunuch Feng couldn't bear it, so he discussed with the child whether he could think of a way to help his father-in-law escape without affecting his father-in-law's control over the reform."
As he said that, he reported to his father-in-law truthfully the way he discussed with Feng Bao.
Zhang Juzheng listened quietly, and when Zhao Hao said, "I will not worry about returning to the burial, and I will not be dismissed from my job." "I chose a puppet to enter the pavilion and controlled it with a remote control of a carrier pigeon", he couldn't help but lit up his eyes. This way, there is no need to worry about losing power.
"Can those people agree?" Zhang Juzheng asked weakly. To be honest, he was shocked by the pleading of the five beasts by all officials.
Do you really just want to be humiliated? Then last year, when I wanted to be a court stick for Liu Tai, no one pleaded for it? Zhang Juzheng had to give himself a step to avoid the evil beast's court stick.
So in Zhang Xianggong's view, this year, these people rushed forward, and it was simply that Xiang Zhuang danced his sword intent in Peigong. Pleading for the five people was just a guise. The real purpose was to oppose one's own love and oppose the clearance of the land!
He knew very well that all officials would feel uncomfortable about the matter of the father-in-law. But no one dared to object in person, so just pretend that no one would object, and if you benefit the country, you would have to live and die!
But now everyone is almost breaking apart. Can all officials accept his arrangement?
"The problem should not be big. First of all, it is not a bad thing for my father-in-law to fall ill this time. At least the public no longer believes that my father-in-law is the mastermind of this incident. I heard that today, many officials went to the palace gate to petition the emperor and the empress dowager." Zhao Hao replied softly:
"If my father-in-law has a little more gratitude to limit the deadline for clearing the land, I believe they will compromise with their noses."
"..." Zhang Juzheng was silent for a long time. When Zhao Hao thought he was asleep again, he heard Mr. Zhang say quietly: "Three years..."
"Okay, the kid asked my father and Shen Zhuangyuan to spread the word, hoping that they would no longer be ignorant of each other." Zhao Hao nodded and breathed a sigh of relief.
He knew that the Zhang Gonghui agreed to extend the deadline for clearing the land to three years.
Because in another period of time and space, this major event that concerns the national economy and people's livelihood has caused huge resistance since the proposal in the fifth year of Wanli. In the entire incident of seizing the situation, hundreds of officials and the ruling party were actually fighting around this matter.
The land mu of Qingzhang, which was originally scheduled to start in October of the fifth year of Wanli, was not implemented until the sixth year of Wanli. Moreover, the time was only three years later.
Zhang Juzheng also specifically instructed the governors of various provinces in charge of this matter to "clear the matter of the past century, and it is necessary to be in office as long as the servant is in office, and to make a hundred things happen. However, if the matter is done in a hurry, it is inevitable that it is just a false text. If you have a long plan for the people, you must carefully study it in detail and not be hasty. This matter should only be discussed whether it is done or not, and there is no need to be discussed at a slow pace."
On the one hand, it means that you should do this when you are in power, and on the other hand, the handler should pay attention to the method and not be impatient. In fact, it is just worrying about causing a big problem.
In the ninth year of Wanli, the three-year period was about to expire, and the officers could conduct a thorough investigation according to the limit and be impeached; but Zhang Juzheng still instructed all provinces to be cautious in their work and ordered them to be impeached for the first time.
Is this Zhang Xianggong slapped himself in the face and no confidence in Qingzhang Tianmu?
It is not that the power-powerful Regent paid so much attention to his working methods. It is precisely his performance that he hoped to complete this century-old plan during his reign. He would rather break the rules than to force them too quickly, causing the following to "get things done" and make the land of the cliff a mere text a mere text that would lose its meaning.
Mencius said, "Benevolent government must start from the boundaries of the classics." It means that before the land is cleared, the burden on the people is not fair, which is the greatest injustice. Zhang Xianggong wanted to reduce the burden on the common people and let the landlords assume the obligations they deserve to the country, so as to resolve the crisis of the empire.
It should be like this, it should be like this.
However, Zhang Xianggong's efforts failed...
Because it is simply unrealistic to rely on officials who are large and small landlords to carry out clearing of land and acres.
Chapter completed!