Chapter 204 Although His Majesty is powerful, Ouyang Lun is even more powerful! (Please subscribe!!) Hearing this, an official asked with some confusion: "Master Li, how can your Majesty use this method to deal with the richest man in Jiangnan, Shen Wansan?"

Another official stood up and said: "It's only one tael of silver. Even if it is doubled the next day, it is only two taels. This Shen Wansan has a trillion yuan in wealth! It only takes one month, but it is just a drop in the bucket for Shen Wansan." !”

Li Shanchang smiled slightly and continued: "Your Majesty specially summoned Shen Wansan on the first day of the lunar month, and gave him one tael of silver to make a profit. Starting from the second day of the lunar month, one tael will be taken and two taels will be taken, and on the third day of the lunar month, four taels will be taken. Take eight taels on the fourth day of the lunar month and double it every day, that is, it will increase in a geometric progression for one month."

"Shen Wansan is just as you think. He feels that his wealth is incredible. One penny can be compounded with interest, so he agreed on the spot."

"But if I tell you that according to the conditions given by His Majesty, Shen Wansan will pay Your Majesty a total of 680 taels after one month!"

More than five billion! ! silver!

Most officials were dumbfounded!

I never thought that a penny would double every day, and in 30 days it would be so much! Li Shanchang cupped his hands towards Zhu Yuanzhang, "This is your Majesty's cleverness. What Shen Wansan is most confident about is his billions of wealth. So what if he is rich enough to rival the country? Shen Wansan can't even get [-] million taels of silver, so His Majesty, citing Shen Wansan's incompetence, ordered all the Shen family's huge property to be confiscated, and then ordered Shen Wansan's family to be exiled to Yunnan."

"This has solved Shen Wansan's problem. Later, when we ransacked the house, we also found the 'cornucopia' that was rumored to be magical. It was just a water basin made of pure gold. Apart from its beautiful appearance, there is nothing magical about it!"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

After Li Shanchang finished speaking, he cupped his hands towards Zhu Yuanzhang again.

The atmosphere was in place, and with Li Shanchang taking the lead, all the officials shouted to Zhu Yuanzhang, "Long live the Holy Ming!" !

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and nodded, his vanity greatly satisfied, "Haha, Shen Wansan is the representative of many businessmen. Businessmen are the best at disguise and the most cunning. When you get along with them, you must be careful to avoid falling into their trap. In a trap.”

"This time the North Zhili merchants caused trouble, although it is not as dangerous as Shen Wansan, nor is it as influential as Shen Wansan. Ouyang Lun's handling of the matter is not as brilliant as my handling of Shen Wansan, but it is still good. With your brains, you can't think of me. method, but you can learn from Ouyang Lun’s stupid method, which is to be tough on businessmen!!"

After listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's words.

The officials felt that His Majesty's self-promotion was too obvious.

Lu Chang, as a die-hard who accepts death, stood up after thinking for a moment and said: "Your Majesty's words are ridiculous!"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled slightly, "Lu Aiqing, what? You don't agree with Ouyang Lun's approach? Haha, I actually think Ouyang Lun is too gentle towards those businessmen. He dared to surround the prefect's Yamen, but he only slapped a few boards and put a monument on them. Opportunity."

"If I were to handle this matter, I would definitely kill a few businessmen's heads first, then lock up all the businessmen who participated in the trouble, and then confiscate their property and put it into the national treasury! The descendants of these businessmen will not be able to join the army or politics. It is absolutely impossible to engrave a monument on the Great Wall!”

“This is how we can severely shock those businessmen!”

Just when Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking and was waiting for Lu Chang to agree, the latter frowned and shook his head: "Your Majesty, don't you realize that what you are doing is too cruel?"

kindness? !

cruel?

Zhu Yuanzhang was taken aback.

Lu Chang continued: "Your Majesty, it's not that I don't agree with Ouyang Prince Consort, it's that I don't agree with your Majesty's actions!"

What! Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Lu Chang with wide eyes. This old guy was deliberately looking for trouble!I should have known a long time ago that Lu Chang is not Li Shanchang, how could he flatter me! "Lu Aiqing, since you have different opinions, let's speak out and let's discuss it together!"

Zhu Yuanzhang forced out a smile and said in a deep voice.

Li Shanchang, who sensed that Zhu Yuanzhang was not in the right mood, hurriedly said: "Master Lu, your majesty used a little trick to deal with Shen Wansan, which is enough to show that your majesty's strategy is far superior to Ouyang's consort's method of dealing with the troublemaking merchants in Peking. There is no dispute about this. , if you have any questions, come down and chat with me, and I will explain it clearly to you."

Lu Chang did not realize that Zhu Yuanzhang was angry at all, but thought to himself: "Master Li, the story you just told is very exciting and clear. I have no doubts."

"His Majesty just said that if you have any ideas, just say it and discuss it together. Do you want me to rebel against the decree and be disrespectful?"

Li Shanchang: Zhu Yuanzhang: Baiguan:. Li Shanchang saw that Lu Chang was as stubborn as ever, just as he had not allowed Zhu Yuanzhang to abolish the prime minister system, so he could hardly say anything more.

"Master Lu, Master Li is doing this for your own good. If you have any ideas, you can come down and talk about it. There is no need to talk about it now." Guo Zi also quickly spoke to persuade.

Lu Chang waved his hand, "Your Majesty asked me to speak, and I must speak today!"

Come on, no one can try to hold this guy back.

Lu Chang saluted Zhu Yuanzhang and said extremely seriously: "Your Majesty, I think Ouyang Consort can do a better job than your Majesty in dealing with businessmen!"

quiet--

The Tai Chi Hall suddenly became quiet.

"Keep talking!" Zhu Yuanzhang suppressed his anger and said in a deep voice.

"I think His Majesty's handling of Shen Wansan was too hasty and the methods he used were rather cunning and frivolous, giving people the impression that he was setting a trap for Shen Wansan to step on. Shen Wansan is a leader among businessmen in the Ming Dynasty and a good friend of His Majesty. He has repeatedly Helping the Ming court, regardless of Shen Wansan's culpability, he ultimately made a lot of contributions to the Ming Dynasty."

Lu Chang talked eloquently.

"So. I let him live, just exile." Zhu Yuanzhang said solemnly.

"Your Majesty! This Shen Wansan is a talented person who makes money in business, but you ransacked his house. Although it made the treasury a little more money, you destroyed a trading company that could make more money. In my opinion, you are killing the goose that lays the goose to lay eggs. !" Lu Chang shook his head with disappointment.

"." Zhu Yuanzhang was speechless, you are so disappointed! "Exiling Shen Wansan will definitely make other businessmen fearful and alienate from the imperial court. From this point of view, after Your Majesty dealt with Shen Wansan, Ming Dynasty gained more than it lost. Your Majesty can only win." Lu Chang continued: "But Ouyang Prince Consort's handling was different. With the combination of kindness and power, the businessmen neither dared to make trouble anymore nor resented the government and the court. Some were only in awe. There were no losers in this, it was a win-win situation. !”

"It's clear who is better, single win or multiple win."

"In addition, I heard that during the whole process, Prince Consort Ouyang did not personally come forward. He only asked his subordinate, the prefect of Peking, to come forward. This left enough buffer room for the matter and would not escalate the matter to the point where it could not be handled. It also showed the cleverness of the means. !”

"I think your Majesty should learn more from Ouyang Consort in this regard." Lu Chang, do you really dare to say that? Whether it was Li Shanchang, Guo Zi, Wu Jingzhi and other cultural relic officials, after listening to Lu Chang's words, they felt that he was too courageous, but there was some truth in what he said.

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were gloomy at this moment, and his face was twitching. It wasn't that he didn't want to pretend to be a good emperor who was good at accepting advice, but he really couldn't pretend anymore!

Let us study with Ouyang Lun? Thanks to you, Lu Chang, you can tell us whether the emperor is the emperor or Ouyang Lun, the father-in-law!

Originally, he wanted to show off and suppress Ouyang Lun's momentum at the same time, but now he failed to show off. After today, he will no longer be able to suppress Ouyang Lun's momentum.

Facing Ouyang Lun for the first time, Zhu Yuanzhang felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

If it were someone else, Zhu Yuanzhang would find a way to kill him. Even if he didn't kill him, he would be like Shen Wansan, squeezing out all the value so that he could be exiled to a place where he could not poop, and let him fend for himself.

But Ouyang Lun is not Shen Wansan.

Kill it.

But this boy is the consort, the husband of his daughter Princess Anqing, and the queen Ma Xiuying is particularly optimistic about it. With Zhu Yuanzhang's murderous nature, he can be killed even in this way, but he needs conclusive evidence of Ouyang Lun's corruption, bribery or other crimes. This matter He worked hard, Jin Yiwei worked hard, and Hu Weiyong also worked hard. As a result, Ouyang Lun was imprisoned twice and impeached countless times, but in the end he was safe. However, it was Hu Weiyong who exposed the incident first, and Jin Yiwei became a grilled fish guard and fried chicken. Wei, Zhu Yuanzhang's own bottom line of patience with Ouyang Lun was constantly penetrated.

But in just a few years.

Ouyang Lun, this boy, has gone from being an unknown magistrate of a small border county to becoming the chief envoy of Beizhili, who is in control and famous all over the world. He holds the military and political power of a province, has countless officials, hordes of businessmen, and the support of the people under his rule. , there were many people in the imperial court who spoke for him. He cooperated with the chief envoys of Hebei, Shandong and Shanxi provinces, and was an ally with Liu Yi, the capital of Liaodong. He was so good with Tang that he could wear a pair of trousers, and his influence in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty was greater than his. The emperor was still high, but fortunately Xu Da was in charge in Peiping, so Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little relieved.

To get rid of Ouyang Lun, it is no less difficult than to get rid of Hu Weiyong + Shen Wansan + Liu Bowen + Dongying at the same time Don't kill it.

With this kid around, sooner or later he will be pissed off by him! After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang became less angry, and even felt a little lucky that Ouyang Lun was his son-in-law!If this were someone else's son-in-law, he would really not be able to eat, sleep, or sit still!

Of course, there is another reason here, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang has been in contact with Ouyang Lun many times. He knows that Ouyang Lun has no ambitions and only thinks about his wife and children. If he had not forced him in various ways over the years, Ouyang Lun would have At this time, he was probably still living in a paradise-like life in Kaiping County and Anqing.

Forehead. In this way, I caused all this myself! No, no, I am doing this all for the development of Ming Dynasty. Isn’t it because of Ouyang Lun that Ming Dynasty is what it is today?So there is no problem with my decision.

Zhu Yuanzhang kept thinking in his heart, but his gloomy face and fierce look in his eyes were extremely clear in the eyes of the civil and military officials of Tai Chi Hall, and they all secretly thought that Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely face a moment of rage next!

They couldn't help but lower their heads, not even daring to take a breath.

At this time, Lu Chang also realized that he seemed to have said the wrong thing. Coupled with the silence of the Tai Chi Hall, he suddenly felt a little panicked, coupled with Zhu Yuanzhang's angry look.

puff-

Lu Chang thought for a while and decided to kneel down, and said angrily: "Your Majesty, what I just said may have offended Tianyan. All the mistakes are my fault. I am willing to die to apologize. I just ask your Majesty not to embarrass you." Chen’s family!”

Last time, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to abolish the position of prime minister and abolish it together with Zhongshu Province, but Lu Chang refused to agree. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang aimed his bow and arrow at Lu Chang, the latter was not afraid and firmly refused to abolition. In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang took Lu Chang had no other choice, so he took action against the people in Lu Chang's house. Pai Jinyiwei captured a domestic slave in Lu Chang's house. He casually accused him of a crime and put him alive in a linen bag directly in front of Lu Chang. Fall to death.

After that day, Lu Chang no longer dared to stop Zhu Yuanzhang from abolishing the position of prime minister.

Thinking of this, Lu Chang became more and more frightened. He had also committed the old habit just now. He only wanted to debate the matter clearly and did not notice that his remarks would anger Zhu Yuanzhang.

If I had known better, I would not have said too much. Misfortune comes from the mouth!

Li Shanchang and Guo Zi also looked at Lu Chang with sympathetic but helpless expressions. They had just tried to persuade Lu Chang, but he didn't listen at all!At this point, it is probably impossible for gods to save him! It's a pity that with Lu Chang's departure, no one in the entire court will dare to contradict Zhu Yuanzhang and insist on his own opinions. This is a loss for the Ming Dynasty! Time passed little by little.

Just when all the officials were preparing to welcome Zhu Yuanzhang's anger.

Suddenly, Zhu Yuanzhang laughed heartily.

"Haha, what Lu Aiqing said is really good!"

"Scold me to wake me up!"

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the civil and military officials in the Taihe Palace, and then asked with a half-smile: "My dear friends, do you think that I can get angry and kill people?"

He emphasizes the word 'killing' very hard.

Upon hearing this, the civil and military officials immediately felt as if they were standing in the cold winter, with a cold wind blowing from the back of their necks. This slight chill literally chilled them from head to sole.

His whole body trembled and he quickly shouted "I don't dare".

"Lu Chang. What do you think?"

Zhu Yuanzhang finally turned his attention to Lu Chang.

Lu Chang came to his senses and said quickly: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty. I am old and weak. I just said a lot of things that I shouldn't have said, but I have no intention of belittling Your Majesty!"

Although Zhu Yuanzhang was laughing, Lu Chang felt that the laughter was even scarier.

Zhu Yuanzhang put away his smile and said slowly: "Do you think I am just making fun of you?"

"wrong!"

"I really think Lu Chang is right. Ouyang Lun is indeed better than me in dealing with businessmen. He not only maintains the face of the imperial government, but also protects the interests of these businessmen, so that the entire new city plan will not be ruined because of Businessmen are in turmoil and stagnant.”

"In this way, the interests of the people will not be harmed."

"I'm not as good as me!"

Uh-huh! ? ?

(End of this chapter)