Gao Gong asked Li Yanzhi whether he was going to be Zhou Gong or Wang Mang, but Li Yanzhi asked him, "Would you like to say, how should I choose?" He thought that with Gao Gong's personality, it was unlikely that he would flatter him in a humble manner or persuade him with righteousness, but Gao Gong said: "If the governor abdicates, he might cause a temporary infamous reputation, but his great cause will be extremely high. If the governor wants to be Zhou Gong, he will be in peace for life. Even if he works hard and has a good end, he will also suffer from whipping the corpse after his death."

This answer was really beyond Li Yanzhi's expectations! Even Li Yanzhi's current power cultivation is inevitable.

Gao Gong asked him the question, but in fact he had thought about it many times. After Li Yanzhi took power, he gradually became reluctant to leave. However, he felt hesitant to be an emperor. Sometimes he thought: it was too tiring to seize power for life. It was not only contrary to his original intention, but also not necessarily a good thing for future generations. Just look at the descendants of emperors of all dynasties. As the saying goes, the emperor's family is the most unfortunate. But if he doesn't become an emperor, many things will be worried about the destruction of the political power.

What should I do? Li Yanzhi kept thinking about this problem repeatedly, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt the contradiction, the more he felt the more he didn't know how to solve it. However, before Gao Gong said this, he could not find someone to discuss it. He could place Wu Ping in Penghu as the commander of his army, send the business bank to Japan to monitor Poshan for him, and allow Chen Yuting to establish an administrative team, but he couldn't speak about this matter until he heard Gao Gong's words, and for a moment it seemed that the deepest secret in his heart had been touched, a little uncomfortable, and at the same time, he felt relieved because of the matter.

The room was quiet for a moment. For nearly a stick of incense, Li Yanzhi didn't even speak, and the atmosphere was a little awkward, but Gao Gong held back his temperament and didn't say anything. Thanks to his timely silence, Li Yanzhi had time to think quietly.

The thoughts in Li Yanzhi's mind were over and over again. He thought that Gao Gong had not had a deep relationship with him after all. It seemed that Meng Lang was talking about this topic with him. He felt that Gao Gong could say such words and his position was already very clear. If he had another help from someone like him, it would be a rare thing. After all, Li Yanzhi is the largest real power faction in the entire empire at present. It is natural for people like Gao Gong who have political talents but no power resources to move closer to him. If the two can be combined, they will complement each other.

Finally, Li Yanzhi finally spoke:

"Suqing, what you said...is the truth..."

Although Gao Gong is calm on the surface, he is actually like he is hanging in the air. He feels relieved when he hears this sentence. He knows that from this sentence, he can discuss some in-depth words with Li Yanzhi. If he handles it well, he will be expected to become an extremely important member of this new interest group!

"However," Li Yan said straight: "You said this just now. Can I think you are persuading you to go in?"

"Of course not!" Gao Gong said: "You just hope that the governor will not be bound by false reputation, and do things in your business. If you have a method of two-dimensionality, of course it is best. If you don't have a method of two-dimensionality, you have to go second. Stigma is nothing at all. However, since the cabinet, the emperor has already been able to rule the world without doing anything! If the governor wants to be a person with good fortune, he may not necessarily need to be the emperor!"

Li Yan cheered in his heart after hearing this, Gao Gong said again: "It's just that the people in the world come to seek profit and power. The emperor's reputation still has the power to reverse the world. As long as this power is one day, there will be great danger if the governor does not ascend the throne."

This sentence seems to be persuading Li Yanzhi to be the emperor. Gao Gong's words seemed contradictory, but in fact, because of the contradiction, Li Yanzhi felt that he had told the truth. Chinese society had become extremely complex when it was developed to the Tang and Song Dynasties, and then to the Ming Dynasty, it was no longer simply to copy the Qin and Han political systems to adapt to this society. The political system of the Ming Dynasty has developed to this point and has indeed reached the juncture of great changes. Whether Li Yanzhi, who holds real power, is no longer entirely dependent on his personal ambitions.

Zhu Yuanzhang had the great achievements of expelling the barbarians and restoring the Han Dynasty. It was a dignified world, which was not comparable to Li Yanzhi's use of power and strategy to steal the world. If Li Yanzhi continued to do this like now, and used power and strategy to steal the world and make the world, then things might be able to continue. But if he showed the intention of stealing the world and making selfish, he would be afraid that the wave of counterattack would surge. Although Li Yanzhi might also use violent means to make officials and people surrender for a while, it would not last long. How strict the monarchy system established by Zhu Yuanzhang after the founding king Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne was, and how brilliant and cruel the methods of his successor Zhu Di were. However, within three generations, the system developed by Taizu and Chengzu was digging openly and secretly by civil officials. Later, those with a little inferior monarchy in the Ming Dynasty were played with and applauded by civil officials.

Therefore, how to choose this matter is a dilemma for Li Yanzhi. There are many troubles that the boss has not been solved. If Gao Gong can solve it in just a few words, that would be abnormal.

"Let's discuss this matter slowly depending on the progress of the situation." Li Yanzhi said: "Now we will deal with Caoyin's affairs first."

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He handed the imperial edict to Li Yanzhi and said, "In the imperial edict, the governor must be asked to try to transport Jiangnan taxes to Tianjin safely. This matter should not be difficult for the governor to do it. As for the imperial court, Gao will deal with it."

Li Yan said straight: "As long as I am justified and do everything, I will do it all. Just do this, it will cut off the life of Nanjing! The Supreme Emperor will definitely get angry regardless of everything."

Gao Gong sneered, of course, not a sneer at Li Yanzhi, but a sneer at Nanjing: "Nanjing has been poor for the past six months and has no money to use. He only relied on his kindness and power to entrust official positions. He could not reward him to train elite soldiers, nor could he be outstanding in the war. How could he be the opponent of the governor? As soon as the grain silver was cut off, everyone knew that Nanjing was in a desperate situation. At that time, Beijing issued another edict, and the governor led his troops to advance. Nanjing would not be determined by fighting!"

Li Yan nodded and said, "No, but I really don't want to go to Nanjing. Then, Lao Suqing will help me with my trip."

It is not dangerous to go to Nanjing, but it is a big-faced person who wants to force Jiajing to capture Yan Song. Li Yanzhi himself doesn't want to do this, but Gao Gong knew that taking on this job would increase Li Yanzhi's trust in him, so he happily agreed.

In the first year of Longqing, in the spring, just as Chen Simei was about to take over the first batch of grains for the year, Beijing suddenly issued an imperial edict saying that the canal was short of water this spring, and the taxes in Jiangnan were transferred to Beijing by Li Yanzhi.

Canal lacks water?

The canal is not short of water!

However, the imperial edict says that water shortage means water shortage. Since the canal is short of water, the water transportation cannot be carried out. If the water transportation cannot be carried out, we need to find another way. Who can I ask to find another way? Let Li Yan go straight.

Chen Simei was stunned on the spot after receiving the imperial edict, while Nanjing was even more infuriated!

Although such a result was the result they were most worried about, they were powerless except for praying. They could not interfere with Li Yanzhi's decision in advance because they could not draw more attractive chips than Xu Jie; they could not stop Li Yanzhi's actions afterwards! Because if they wanted to stop, they would have to move troops. They had no money to move troops. Besides, the officers and soldiers of the Nanzhili garrison usually bully the people. If they really wanted them to attack the Li family army, who would dare to arm the elite armed with bird guns, Folang machine cannons and Japanese swords?

"Maybe, I should have divided the money with Beijing at the beginning."

Some officials said regretfully.

This was the proposal of a minister of the Ministry of Rites. When the situation in front of him was mostly unwilling to let Li Yan get into a big shot, if Nanjing took over the canal silver, it would be a big deal that would force Beijing to take risks. It would be better to negotiate with Beijing first and everyone would share the tax equally.

But who would give half of the million taels of silver that would pass by the door of the house? Besides, Jiajing lived in Nanjing. Although his decrees could not reach north of the Huai River, the taxes were all from Jiangnan. In his opinion, at least the ground in Jiangnan should be under his control! Therefore, neither Jiajing nor Yan Song would let go of a slightest, let alone half of it? The minister was also rude, and the proposal was rejected after only half of it.

But now, it was too late for Yan Song and the others to regret it. Although the garrison bases controlled by the Navy Governor's Office were distributed in coastal areas from Nanzhili to Zhejiang and Fujian, the troops were ordered to act in a legitimate manner. No one dared to stop the prefectures and counties along the way. Under such circumstances, the officers and soldiers of the Navy Governor's Office had to go deep into Suhu, Ninghang. Once the tax was directly managed by Li Yan, the six ministries in Nanjing could not get a penny!

"Reverse! Reverse!"

The six ministers of Nanjing all shouted: "It's a big disrespect for the ancestors to change their laws without changing their ancestors!"

However, their voices could not be heard from Nanjing - this time it was just the Beijing court's order to change the way of handling taxes. Governor Li Zhe ordered the order to handle it, not to take the taxes alone. Although it was not very consistent with the old rules, it might not violate the foundation of the country. Why is it the other way around? What a crime of disrespect is just to talk about it. They had no money in their pockets and had no elite soldiers at hand, and what they said was like barking from a stray dog, and no one took it seriously.

Just when Nanjing officials were talking, the Li family army, who was good at dealing with economic problems and transportation issues, had already been dispatched to receive taxes, money and grain from Jiangnan before the officials of the canal transport. A fleet even drove to Yangzhou and Zhenjiang to patrol in case of accidents.

Li Yan made this move and took away the bargaining chips on which Chen Simei relied to negotiate with the two capitals. The Beijing court issued an imperial edict, suspended all Chen Simei's position, and returned to Beijing to obey the orders. He also ordered Yin Zhengmao to be the river censor, inspect the canal, appease officials at all levels, and the civilian grain gang.

Chen Simei did not dare to resist. After receiving this second imperial edict, she was suddenly on the ground. She was dragged to Beijing by several Jinyiwei. In just one round, the Beijing court was very authoritative! Everyone knew that the six ministries in Nanjing were incompetent! Especially in the past few months, the new officials who took the Nanjing Ministry of Personnel to the prefectures and counties to take office were the most nervous. These people all thought: "The Governor of the Cao Transportation Army would just say it, let alone us!"

But they didn't follow the path of Beijing, but went to the path of Shanghai! Officials all over the world already knew that Nanjing was not as good as Beijing, but Beijing had to rely on Li Yanzhi!

"Now he can save us!"

Because as long as Li Yan nods, he will be at ease and steadily! (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in.qidian., more chapters, support the author and support genuine reading!) (To be continued)
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