Chapter 65: Yan Song's Speculation, Yan Shifan: My father is cunning and treacherous
"By the way," Jiajing suddenly said after giving the order, "Hai Rui is a capable minister. He can be of great use."
"Next, the north will be the busiest place," Jiajing said, with a smile on his face. "The national policy of stationing troops to promote agriculture is jointly supervised by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue. This Hai Rui..."
"Just arrange for him to go to the Ministry of Revenue and put him under Zhao Zhenji. I think Xu Jie and others will be happy to see this."
The national policy of stationing troops to promote agriculture was the key to restoring the Wei-suo system. Jiajing wanted to take this opportunity to stabilize the border, squeeze from the outside to the inside, and completely restore the collapsed Wei-suo system.
In this way, the financial pressure on the Ming Dynasty was reduced.
Before that, the conscription system continued to be implemented internally to ensure the stability of the Ming army's combat effectiveness.
Externally, it reduces the financial burden. Internally, it spreads outward and provides a stable force for the whole country, forming a virtuous cycle.
Once we have money and soldiers, we won’t have to worry too much about the Mongolian border and the Japanese pirates along the coast.
After that it is time to clean up the internal affairs and rectify the administration.
In the evening, the setting sun is like blood.
The three riders left the capital, galloping their horses, heading straight to the southeast.
The news from the palace spread out, and naturally everyone knew about it. Of course, there was more to the news from the palace, including Hai Rui's personnel appointments and the emperor's attention to Hai Rui.
Yanfu.
It was still in Yan Song's study.
"Beast!" Yan Shifan glanced at the message sent back by the southeast pigeon in his hand and said in hatred: "This Zhang Ziming deserves to die!"
"I shouldn't have let him go in the first place. He eats my food but smashes my pot. What a two-faced villain!"
"If I had known earlier, I should have sent Gao Hanwen."
"He seems to be a smart person, knows the rules of the officialdom, and understands his position. I didn't expect this beast to play this trick on me..."
Looking at his furious son, Yan Song snorted and laughed, raised his head, and said slowly: "It doesn't matter who we send."
"These kids who have just entered the officialdom can understand their positions, but their positions are dominated by conscience," Yan Song said with some emotion, "I was once like them, haha..."
A laughter with complex and incomprehensible meaning, as if a person who has experienced it saw his younger self.
I have been like this before, with my stance guided by my conscience.
When he was young, he also took sides and chose his position in officialdom, but he was also dedicated to serving the public. But the result, haha.
There are always things in life that don’t go as planned. We must learn to accept that things don’t go as we wish, right?
It is understandable that young people are more aggressive.
"Oh, conscience?" Upon hearing this, Yan Shifan sneered, feeling that these two words were very despicable.
"Over the years, I have seen everything in the officialdom, but I have not seen this rare thing. Conscience?"
"Why would you be an official with a conscience?"
"Talking about conscience is worse than having an erotic dream!"
Looking at the "perverted" Yan Shifan, Yan Song was too lazy to bother with him.
This guy doesn't have some of the best things that humans have, so it would be a waste of words to talk about it.
"Let's leave Hai Rui's matter alone." Yan Song changed the subject. "The head of the Ministry of Revenue was appointed by the Emperor himself, so that is an iron rule. If you do anything extra, it would be a disgrace to your attitude."
"Minister of Revenue," Yan Shifan was very unhappy and slammed his fist on the table and said angrily, "The sword has been put into Qingliu's hands again. The emperor is persecuting us."
"We gave him everything he wanted, but he was still not satisfied. We were still hungry, and he didn't even know how to show sympathy..."
"The emperor has forgiven us for the huge deficit in the national treasury. What else can we be dissatisfied with?" Yan Song shook his head slightly. "The emperor wants to restore the guard system, so we just need to be loyal to him."
"Don't worry, you won't starve."
"In any dynasty, any emperor will always have some ministers around him who do the dirty work. During a dynasty, the treacherous and corrupt will always remain, while the honest ones will come and go."
"What about the future?" Yan Shifan asked inexplicably. He knew the truth. During the Jiajing period, their Yan family did what his father said, doing good things and standing firm.
These days, he has also been thinking about the future.
The emperor will eventually leave. Who will be the new emperor? What will be his attitude towards the Yan family? If it is Prince Yu, the Yan family will definitely die!
"King Jing." Yan Song raised his eyes, looked at Yan Shifan, and said slowly:
"Shifan, if you don't consider the small, you won't be able to plan for the big; if you don't plan for the distant, you won't be able to plan for the near. Next, our Yan family has to consider how to survive in the long run."
"Dad, what do you mean?" Yan Shifan looked at his father, as if he understood something, but he was not sure if it was what he thought.
"The Emperor has always liked His Royal Highness Prince Jing," Yan Song said, his tone becoming increasingly low, "It's a pity that His Royal Highness Prince Jing, due to his status, had to be forced to become a vassal in De'an..."
"This is an opportunity for us," Yan Song said calmly, "I have a feeling that when the matter in the north is over, we and Qingliu will probably both suffer losses."
"The ultimate winner can only be the emperor."
"What kind of situation will that be? The emperor's recent behavior makes me feel deeply uneasy."
Yan Song's tone became increasingly low as he spoke, "Perhaps the emperor is preparing for his afterlife."
"Dad!" Upon hearing this, Yan Shifan subconsciously shouted in a low voice, and at the same time looked around in fear. This was extremely disrespectful.
"The emperor no longer renovates the palace and no longer puts Xuan cultivation first," Yan Song ignored his son's thoughts and continued to speak slowly, "This shows that the emperor has given up."
"Harvesting our wealth and Qingliu's wealth for military supplies is intended to stabilize the border defense and ensure the combat effectiveness of the army."
"The emperor wants to defend the coastal areas and borders. Restoring the garrison system is to relieve financial pressure. The next step may be the administration of officials."
"Parents who love their children will plan for them in the long run. Your Majesty is clearing the way for the crown prince. Once everything is stable..." Yan Song said in a low voice, "It will be easy to rectify the administration of officials."
"By then, all the officials in the world, whether they are the clean officials or the strict officials, will be nothing but prey under the sword of the Ming Dynasty."
"Once the matter in the north is over, the Ming Dynasty will usher in a brutal and bloody purge at the end of this emperor. What does it matter if the emperor did this evil man?"
"He is responsible for cutting out the festering flesh of the Ming Dynasty. The new ruler will heal the wound and win over the hearts of the people. What he will get in return is a gradually healing and reborn Ming Dynasty..."
"Therefore, the Yan family must find new support!"
"Only a true crown prince can protect us, and we must also thoroughly defeat Qingliu in the national policy of stationing troops to promote agriculture, so that Prince Yu will never have a chance to turn things around."
"Do our best to help His Royal Highness Prince Jing return to the capital!"
After hearing his father's far-sighted words, Yan Shifan opened his mouth and said after a while: "But father, when you first proposed the national policy of stationing troops to promote agriculture, wasn't it to feed yourself?"
"Oh!" Yan Song snorted and laughed, "Remember I treated you to a good meal?" After saying that, he looked at Yan Shifan as if to say that if you don't eat, you will be at a loss.
However, Yan Shifan was stunned and felt his scalp tingling under this meaningful look.
So this is what the phrase "have a good meal" meant? Didn't it mean that I should enjoy it while there was still plenty of money at home?
He said, even if he paid all the money to save his life, it wouldn't be necessary to do this, right? Besides, he could always earn it back, so he didn't have to act like a nouveau riche who was enjoying the food while he didn't pay.
Obviously, he had planned this in advance.
It turns out that from the beginning, my father had no intention of living a good life anymore. He wanted to take the Yan family, this big ship, and fight a desperate battle.
Next, the entire Yan Party will really turn into mad dogs and fight to the death, not just for eating meat.
It's for survival, to stay alive!
We must cripple Qingliu, or even kill him, and completely suppress Prince Yu, leaving him no chance of a comeback. We must do our utmost to help Prince Jing.
At this moment, Yan Shifan finally understood.
Looking at my father who is getting older and older with white hair and beard, a very disrespectful but very fitting word popped up in my mind: cunning and treacherous!
Qingliu and himself, perhaps even the emperor, thought that his father proposed the national policy of "stationing troops to promote agriculture" because he was extremely hungry.
Therefore, he was so hungry that he had no choice but to take advantage of the land in Qingliu's hands, hoping to eat Qingliu's flesh to fatten himself.
It turns out that Dad had no intention of eating meat at all.
He pursues farther and longer, endures hunger, and fights a desperate battle for survival. How ruthless!
"..."
(End of this chapter)
