Chapter 415 The Horn Sounds
Chen Su is missing.
Early in the morning, a servant was yawning and cursing the fool as he walked, asking why he didn't die.
"We'll be free if we die." The servant muttered as he walked out of the bedroom, pushed open the door, and saw the bedclothes in disarray, but Chen Su Ren was gone.
"What about people?"
The servant went all the way to the study and other places, but didn't find anyone.
"It's over!"
A living person had disappeared. Chen Su's sons were furious. They immediately tied up all the servants and then reported the matter to the police.
Just as the incident was about to happen, people outside said that it was Jiang Qingzhi who took Chen Su away.
"Who the hell is talking nonsense?"
Jiang Qingzhi has recently preferred Zhilu. After entering the palace, if the Taoist priest is not available, he will go to Zhilu to get some food.
The charcoal in Yan Song's duty room is of the highest quality. Not only is it not choking, but the temperature control is also very good, neither too high nor too low, and it is comfortable and pleasant.
Jiang Qingzhi was rubbing his hands against the fire and drinking tea at the same time. Cui Yuan said, "Chen Su usually doesn't make any enemies. If he's missing, who else will the family look for if not you?"
"What Prince Consort Cui said, can I really take a living person away from the Chen family?" Jiang Qingzhi laughed but was puzzled.
Although I covered the manhole cover before leaving, the Chen family should have discovered it!
Could it be that the body was lost?
Jiang Qingzhi immediately thought of zombies.
Imagine, in the dim night, the manhole cover creaked and was slowly moved away, and a pale hand slowly stretched out from under the well mouth and grabbed the edge of the well wall...
What the hell!
Jiang Qingzhi felt a chill down his spine, "Old Cui, Prince Consort Cui, add some charcoal!"
Someone encouraged several brothers of the Chen family to go to Xin'an Lane to seek justice, and the brothers went there in mourning clothes.
"Fire them out!" Jiang Qingzhi ordered.
Sun Chonglou happily led his men to chase the Chen brothers all the way through three streets. Later, an imperial censor impeached Jiang Qingzhi, saying that he had kidnapped Chen Su.
"Evidence!" Jiang Qingzhi grabbed the censor's collar and flew into a rage.
"The Censor may report what he has heard." The Censor said weakly.
"Then can I report what I have heard?" Jiang Qingzhi asked.
The censor nodded, and Jiang Qingzhi said, "I heard that you and Prince Consort Cui were plotting a rebellion!"
Cui Yuan, who was innocently caught in the crossfire, rolled his eyes. Looking at his appearance, it would be more appropriate to say that he had a new lease of life and got a concubine rather than a rebellion.
The brothers of the Chen family started fighting for the title, and the whole mansion was in chaos. Until one day, the steward saw the backyard full of dust and fallen leaves and got angry, so he ordered the servants who had nothing to do all day to watch the drama of the house fight to clean up.
Water was needed for sweeping and cleaning, so the two servants went to the well while complaining.
The manhole cover was opened and the bucket was thrown down.
puff!
The sound is wrong.
That's not the sound of falling into water.
The servant pulled the rope a few times, felt something was wrong, and leaned over to take a look.
A corpse stood upright in the water, its head slightly raised, with a strange smile on its livid face...
"what!"
……
"The person was in the well. Fortunately, it was cold, so he didn't rot. The servant who found him went crazy on the spot... His Majesty asked me to tell you that the matter is over."
Huang Jin said this while staring at Jiang Qingzhi.
Before he came, the Taoist master had instructed: This matter was most likely done by this kid, you keep an eye on him, if he did it, I will punish him later.
Drowning a Ming earl in the well in his backyard in broad daylight was too bold. According to the Taoist, Jiang Qingzhi would be sent to the north as a punishment.
But Jiang is so cunning.
He looked gloating, "Dead? Good thing he died. It makes people happy and excited!"
He played the various reactions upon hearing that his arch-enemy had been killed flawlessly.
After receiving the report, Dao Ye was a little depressed, "Could it be that Chen Su really jumped into the well by himself?"
He was suddenly startled, "Who said that the well cover is closed?"
"Yes." Huang Jin also discovered this problem. "It's impossible for Chen Su to jump into the well and cover it with his backhand, right?"
Just thinking about that scene made the two of them feel creepy.
……
The people in charge of the case knew that there was no way to really investigate the matter and that there was no trace to be found.
"Damn it, when we went there, the manhole cover was intact. Can a dead person cover himself?"
"Chen Su must have been thrown into the well and drowned."
……
"Uncle did it on purpose!"
At the back door of Bo's mansion, the weather is nice today, and two good friends Xu Wei and Hu Zongxian are having a party here.
The wine was Palace Jade Wine, and the dishes were slices of bacon and sausage, as well as pickled broad beans.
The bacon and sausages were made under the personal guidance of Mr. Jiang. After Huang Jin confiscated most of them, Jiang Qingzhi gritted his teeth and simply smoked thousands of kilograms of them. The Bo Mansion specially set up several rooms to hang bacon and sausages, and a special person was in charge of it. After a while, they were replaced with the bacon in the kitchen.
The best pork is cut into strips, first marinated with peppercorns, then smoked with fruit wood, pine needles, tangerine peel, etc., using Jiang's unique recipe for three days and three nights, and then hung in the kitchen for half a month before it is considered to be in its initial shape. Then it takes another two or three months for the flavor to take hold.
The bacon and sausages made in this way are extremely rich in flavor and salty and fresh.
"My Lord wants to let those people know that anyone who dares to attack our house must be prepared to die a violent death." Xu Wei chewed the sausage slowly and found it extremely delicious.
"People outside are saying that this was done by the uncle. They are saying it with details, and even say that a stone followed him, and that some Asura appeared in the middle of the night..."
Hu Zongxian felt that this incident would have an impact on the image of Mohism. “Will the outside world’s view of Mohism be biased?”
"No." Xu Wei said, "Old Hu, don't forget that during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Mohists would draw their swords and fight at the slightest disagreement. If they said they would kill your whole family, they would kill your whole family. The fact that Uncle endured sneaking in in the middle of the night was a concession."
Hu Zongxian smiled bitterly, "I'm only worried about martial arts."
"Martial arts?"
"Those people are plotting to make His Majesty take back his order. Martial arts are now the top priority. The generals taught by the Mohist school kill people and send troops at the slightest disagreement... What do you think?"
Hu Zongxian narrowed his eyes and continued without waiting for Xu Wei to answer: "Tyrannical Qin!"
……
"This is the tyrannical Qin!"
The scholars and officials watched the secret struggle between Wu Xun and Mohism for a long time, and it finally came to an end.
"That was the case with the tyrannical Qin Dynasty back then. They would send out troops and kill people at will... The soldiers and civilians in the country were all proud to be in the army, and they all took pleasure in killing people..."
In the court, a civil servant was passionately criticizing the Mohist school, "Now that Chang Wei Bo is the dean of martial arts, it's easy to tell what kind of students he will teach will be."
The civil servant took a look at Jiang Qingzhi and found that he was actually dozing off behind Zhu Xizhong. He was furious and shouted, "Chang Wei Bo!"
"What?" Jiang Qingzhi was woken up and looked around blankly, "What's going on?"
Everyone looked at him, and then at the official who was so angry that he didn't even bother to wipe the foam from the corners of his mouth, and they couldn't help but laugh.
"If the responsibility of teaching students is given to Chang Wei Bo and Mo Jia, Your Majesty, I can almost imagine that scene." The civil official said solemnly: "Whenever the Ming Dynasty has conflicts or even quarrels with its neighbors, those warriors in the court will clamor for sending troops, or even destroying the country...
When this trend spreads to the entire Ming Dynasty, I dare not think... Everyone is red-eyed, thinking about killing people to earn military merit. The tyrannical Qin II died, and the Ming Dynasty was in danger! "
"Is the Ming Dynasty in danger?" Jiang Qingzhi said lightly, and then left the work. The officials subconsciously hid back, holding the tablets in both hands, and looked at Jiang Qingzhi vigilantly.
"Is it that serious?" Jiang Qingzhi smiled bitterly.
"Your Majesty, this matter originated from a debate among students of Mohism." Jiang Qingzhi said, "At that time, I gave them a topic called the dispute between civil and military. Then I ignored it. I didn't expect that this debate would spread from within Mohism to the entire capital..."
Of course the Taoist priest knew about this. The Jinyiwei had reported it the day before yesterday, saying that the scholars in the capital were debating with the Mohists, and they were debating the difference between civil and military, and the pros and cons of the Ming Dynasty.
Now the debate between the two sides is in full swing. There are few Mohists, but each of them is a powerful general. Not only are their words sharp, but they have also inherited Mr. Jiang's style of presenting facts and reasoning. For a while, they are not at a disadvantage.
At the beginning, it was just the scholars who took action to support the military achievements. Later, the topics of both sides became more and more diverted, extending from martial arts to the debate on the pros and cons of the current Ming Dynasty's system of controlling the military with civil power.
This debate started between two schools of thought and gradually spread to the court.
Although the system of controlling the military with civil power has not become an institutional system, after years of polishing by the literati, it has long become a rule known to everyone in the Ming Dynasty, or an unspoken rule.
"Now the scholars in the capital are so angry that they have even pursued him to the imperial court." Jiang Qingzhi said disdainfully, "A debate is a debate, but dragging it into the imperial court, are they trying to make it an ancestral rule to control the military with the civil?"
The so-called ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty is a nuclear weapon. In the fights between ministers and even in the secret fights between the monarch and his ministers, the ancestral system would be brought out for their own use.
Jiang Qingzhi threw out the ancestral nuclear weapon, which made the official secretly happy.
If he could make controlling the military with civil officials an ancestral rule, the literati and officials of the world would regard him as the number one meritorious official.
Just as the official was secretly delighted, Jiang Qingzhi coughed dryly and said, "I'm afraid you didn't understand what I meant by the ancestral rules."
Jiang Qingzhi looked at the officials with different expressions and asked, "When Emperor Taizu was alive, what was his view on military men, no, military affairs?"
The official's eyelids twitched.
"What is Emperor Chengzu's attitude toward military affairs?"
Jiang Qingzhi spoke one sentence at a time, "What is the late emperor's opinion on military affairs?"
"Yes!"
Jiang Qingzhi's eyes suddenly flashed with a sharp light, "I am holding my sword tightly and staring at the enemies of the Ming Dynasty. As long as the enemies do not bow their heads and surrender, the Ming Dynasty will not withdraw its troops!"
He walked to the front and said, "The attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards military affairs is that Emperor Taizu frequently ordered his generals to go out of the border to chase the enemy north. It was Emperor Chengzu who launched five northern expeditions and defeated the ambitions of the remnants of the Mongols to restore the country. It was the late emperor who was still persistent in looking north despite being suppressed by his ministers. This is the ancestral system of my Ming Dynasty."
Jiang Qingzhi's voice was sonorous and powerful. "In this Ming Dynasty, there has never been any culture controlling the military. There has never been, and there will never be in the future!"
Boom!
The ministers seemed to hear the sound of thunder.
They all looked at Emperor Jiajing.
Is this what Your Majesty meant?
If so, it means that the emperor is dissatisfied with the current political structure of the Ming Dynasty and he wants to make changes.
Change!
The scene at Zuo Shunmen that year has come to mind for many people.
I remembered Yang Shen’s words of encouragement.
Emperor Jiajing glanced at his ministers and said calmly, "I think it's good. What do you think?"
(End of this chapter)
