Seven days later, all the newspapers in the southeast were full of single chapters with red letters. Although they had their own opinions, the central idea was the same, that is...

Successfully welcomed Mr. Shen, and the fleet arrived at Shanghai Port tomorrow! [..com]

On the second day, the whole city of Shanghai was empty, and the people supported the elderly and young, rushed to the Huangpu River. The river channel was densely packed with dozens of miles on both sides, three floors inside and three floors outside. There were no head or tail. Who wouldn't want to see the glorious scene of the thousand boats returning? Who wouldn't want to see what Master Chen Ge looked like?

Of course, the most important thing is that people regard him as a great savior and as the last hope to help them get rid of their pain. Therefore, incense tables can be seen everywhere on the river bank, and he is worshipped like Guanyin Bodhisattva who saves the suffering.

All the sea ships were hung with big purple flags. Thousands of ships and thousands of flags were guarding, a huge five-story flagship, the flagship flag was more than two meters high, and thirteen large golden characters were written on it: "The Taifu of the Ming Dynasty, Taibao, and the Grand Secretary of the Zhongji Palace Shen,!

The flag was shining brightly under the sunshine of mid-spring. Wherever the flag went, it caused a wave of cheers. The sound fell into Shen Mo's ears without missing a trace, making him smile bitterly in his heart.

Silent led his troops to fight and went through several triumphant ceremony, but this unique return ceremony can be said to be the most glorious and most important trip in his life. The reason why he was able to go against his original intention and cooperated with them to hold this ceremony that was so powerful that the world was afraid that the world would not know was nothing more than "momentum," the word "word".

He knew very well that the people looked up at themselves in a crowd of people, sobered up, and welcomed them in a dance. It was not because they were the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty with great fame, but because they were their last hope. They worshiped themselves so exaggeratedly, but because they worshipped themselves so much, but because they prayed for the appearance of miracles and saved them from the sea of ​​suffering.

The only difference is that everyone is very tolerant of Bodhisattvas. Even if the wish is not effective, they think that they are not pious enough, or that the Bodhisattva is too busy, which will not affect their perception of Bodhisattvas. They will ask for something next time. But the people in the Southeast will definitely not tolerate him, a living Bodhisattva, because one thing everyone asks him is to solve this crisis of destruction.

If you can do it, you will become a saint in your body from now on, and the people in the southeast will be filled with him. If you can't do it, he will become a vent of the people's deep resentment, and wait for it to be doomed.

Victory and defeat are here, only success is allowed, and there is no way out!

The Bund Wharf has been martial law, but there is no patrol soldiers from Shanghai, nor does it use the civilian self-defense militia. Instead, the official army of Zhenwu Camp in Nanjing has set up a double defense line outside the wharf. The officers and soldiers are wearing Qingyishui's new blue military uniforms, holding Longqing-style rifles, and shiny buffalo boots under their feet. They press the handle of the gun, standing like pine trees, appearing majestic and strict, making people dare not get close to them.

Inside the dock, there are more than 6,000 Southeast gentry, merchants, scholars, celebrities, and citizens who entered the market with coupons. These people occupy two-thirds of the area of ​​the square. What is even more eye-catching is the other one-third of nearly two thousand officials wearing black veils, crimson, blue and green official robes.

The gentry and businessmen whispered at the solemn officials. Everyone was mingling in the southeastern territory. Naturally, they recognized that the six ministers and nine ministers of Nanjing had arrived. The six provinces in the southeastern provinces and the four 11. The governors of Yunnan and Guizhou had either one or two. There were also the governors, inspectors, prefects, and county magistrates in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Two Lakes, and Fujian. The one with the largest number of people was still a member of the yamen of the six ministries, two courts, three temples and other yamen!

In the past, although Nanjing was the Liudu of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the cabinet, there were all government agencies, such as the Six Ministry, the Censorate, the Tongzhengsi, the Dali Temple, the Zhanshi Mansion, the Hanlin Academy, the Imperial College, the Imperial College, the Taichang Temple, the Honglu Temple, the Six Departments, the Pedestrian Department, the Imperial College, the Imperial College, the Taishang Hospital, the Five City Military Officers, etc., and there were all sets in Beijing. However, since the emperor was in Beijing, the actual political power was also in the hands of the Beijing Yamen, and all the officials in Nanjing were powerless and powerless. They were frustrated in the career of the officialdom and were arranged to come to Nanjing as a "Birds and Censors," or "Chief Censors". It was basically considered to leave the power circle. So it was difficult for everyone not to ignore the officials in Nanjing.

However, since the early years of Wanli, the situation gradually changed. Because of the need for reform, at least it was an excuse. Shen Ge Lao, who had great power and no one to check and balance, quietly increased the power of the Nanjing government. First, when the examination was implemented, the Southern Office was promoted on the grounds of the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty and the unfavorable assessment of officials in the south, the Southern Office was promoted and the North Pass was the North Pass. That is, the assessment of officials in the south was handed over to the Nanjing Ministry of Personnel and the Nanjing Censorate. This naturally made the two major yamen more and more powerful, so that southern officials were not afraid of the Beijing Ministry of Justice, but only the Nanjing Ministry of Justice.

But the most fundamental thing is that in the reform of the One-Whip Law, in order to realize the central government's total collection and general branch of finance, the "Duzhi National Money and Grain General Office" was established, and the "Duzhi General Office" was appointed as the Duzhi General Office. The Minister of Revenue was appointed as the Duzhi envoy, and the Minister of Revenue in Nanjing was appointed as the deputy envoy. The North and South General Office were established in the two capitals and the branch warehouse was established in various provinces across the country. It is stipulated that the tax bank collected by each province shall be released and transferred to the branch warehouse first, and then the North and South General Office was appointed as the comprador.

This is openly granting Nanjing financial power. Everyone knows what this means, which naturally makes Beijing officials very dissatisfied. But at that time, Shen Mo was at the peak of his life and said one thing, and he only said one sentence: "Everyone may have gone to Nanjing to become an official. So everyone shut up.

With the financial power, the six ministries in Nanjing were revitalized one after another. Basically, the various ministries in Nanjing had to handle things in the south, and they only needed to report to Beijing.

At that time, some people were heartbroken and said that if the Southern and Northern Dynasties appeared in the Ming Dynasty a hundred years later, the Chief Minister would be the culprit.

Shen Mo smiled and said, Who can tell the truth about what will happen a hundred years later?

In short, he has been reinvented for the Nanjing officialdom. After a few years, the Nanjing officialdom is no longer a cold yamen that everyone regards as fearless. With the natural and material conditions that are much superior to Beijing, many officials will choose to become an official in Nanjing when they cannot find ideal positions in Beijing.

In the eighth year of Wanli, Shen Mo Ding You, people expected that the short spring of Nanjing officialdom would pass. After all, no emperor could tolerate this de facto division of the north and the south. However, the subsequent development made the prophets' glasses shatter.

Because as soon as we came up, the Beijing officialdom and the emperor held on their feet. Both sides refused to give in and fought each other. It was really like flying sand and rocks. The officials were demoted from the capital, and 80% of them were in Nanjing. There were also many officials who were unwilling to participate in the struggle with the emperor. They chose to protect themselves temporarily, and regarded Nanjing as the best safe haven.

Moreover, the officialdom in Nanjing became more and more low-key. In the past, every political tide, he was still unwilling to be lonely, but there were few memorials to scold the emperor. Even if there were, it could be seen that it was a work that was inextricable. It seemed that everyone really didn't care about the battles in the capital and was enjoying the beautiful Qinhuai scenery.

This made Wanli feel that the officialdom in Nanjing was very obedient, and the bastards were all in Beijing. Besides, he was too busy to deal with the thorns in Beijing, and he was happy that the officials in Nanjing were in good health.

He also wanted to redistribute power, causing officials from both Beijing to bite the dog. As a result, the officialdom in Beijing was never fooled. It was just when the united front was established and the guns were consistent to the outside world. I wanted to use this low-level method to split us. Isn’t it too much for us?

So in recent years, Nanjing's calligraphy scene has been the only beautiful scenery here, but its low-key people almost ignore their existence. Whether it is the previous struggle between the monarch and the ministers, or the subsequent anti-tax struggle, the voices of Nanjing officials were not heard, and they were called "strange silence," the newspaper.

People believe that this has something to do with the Seven Queens of Nanjing.

The Censor of the Left Censor of Nanjing, Wu Baipeng.

Tao Dalin, Minister of Personnel, Nanjing.

Jin Da, Minister of Rites in Nanjing.

Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing, I have Ding.

Secretary of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, Wu Dui.

Secretary of the Ministry of Justice in Nanjing, Sun Piyang.

Secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Works, Zeng Shengwu.

When you look at the resumes of these seven Nanjing official leaders, you will find that they are all practical talents, with only records of when and where they make contributions, but in previous political struggles, they have not expressed any political views. This kind of talent who "does specialize in working and does not pick on tricks, is usually the best love of the rulers.

Such a group of honest children, if you were the emperor, would you be willing to touch them?

The tanks were broken and the bottles and jars were expected to be cleaned up.

However, at this moment, the honest children appeared in the crowd greeting Shen Mo with their honest subordinates. What does this mean? Are the honest children not honest? Or are they pretending to be honest?

No matter which possibility, the result is the same. At the moment when Shen Mo stepped on the ground, from Shang Yilang, from the doctor to the head, everyone paid a big gift to worship, shouting in unison: "Welcome to Lord Yuanfu!"

This sentence shocked the audience. People suddenly woke up and worshiped each other: "Welcome to Lord Yuanfu!"

After everyone got up, Shen Mo climbed onto the platform in front of the dock. He looked around the crowd in the field, and the field became silent. He shouted at the loudspeaker used by this era: "Today, I am standing here. Suddenly, I thought of the opening of Shanghai thirty years ago. I also stood here, and gave a speech entitled "%%," to the Southeast gentry that I gathered by me. You may have heard of it or may not have heard it, but it doesn't matter, because you are really, together with the small boat in Shanghai, have experienced the greatness of going from small to large, from weak to strong, from a small fishing village to the national economic center.

Change! All of this happened in these thirty years. The rapid change in this half of the 10000 years exceeded the previous one, or even two thousand years! The future we face was something we had not experienced in the previous three thousand years, so we could only cross the river with stones." "Why should I say this? Because Shanghai is facing big problems now. Of course, there are problems across the country, but as an economic center, Shanghai can recover and the whole country can recover. Crossing the river with stones is inevitable. If you don’t worry about problems, we can solve them. But before taking action, we must first reflect on what the cause of this crisis is?"

“It’s been more than a year since the crisis broke out.

I think most of you here have already reflected on it, and we really need to reflect on why we have had such a large trade surplus and made so much silver in the past ten or twenty years. Why did we have no resistance when the crisis comes?"

"I believe everyone has already understood that making money is only a necessary condition for the country to be prosperous and the people to be strong.

The sufficient condition for a country to be rich and strong is: someone must be able to protect your wealth, and this person is the country! If the country cannot protect personal wealth, or even plunder people's wealth, then no matter how much money you make, you may lose your security. Once rich can be compared to a country, it is just a dream. For example, this time, the late emperor easily banned the Huilian number, which led to the run that triggered this crisis. Then the late emperor sent a mine supervisor to directly plunder everyone's wealth, which even added a crisis, which directly led to the situation on the verge of despair today."

"We understand more than ever that wealth is fragile in the face of power. If this problem is not solved, even if this crisis is resolved, there will be a next time. Because wealth will always be fragile, plunder will inevitably happen, and a country and a strong people will always be a bubble!"

"So we demand that the Ming Dynasty should use the form of law to ensure that the property of the Si people is inviolable! So everyone in this country, including our Emperor, must abide by the laws he promulgated!"

"We also require that everyone's personal safety should be guaranteed! No one can be arrested or arbitrarily detained without legal trial! Therefore, we demand that factory guards be banned and that such evil monsters will never be allowed to appear on the land of the Ming Dynasty!"

"We also require that when our property and personal rights are violated, we have the power to rise up and resist tyranny! Because we are like emperors, generals, and ministers, with thoughts, emotions, flesh and blood, and we are not lambs to be slaughtered! We will no longer be silent under tyranny!"

"There is a saying I want to give to everyone... The wind can blow a dead leaf, but it cannot blow away a butterfly, because the power of life lies in disobedience. And the disobedience of the people is the ultimate force to correct mistakes for this society..."

"You all saw the anger of the people with your own eyes. If we cannot reshape a law-abiding government, this anger will be regular, expanded, and eventually become a huge wave, drowning all of us and this country..."

"In order to avoid being swallowed by huge waves, we must hand over the power of supervision to the people. I know that we have already had censors who risked their lives to speak out and were very loyal. But our censors are too few, and most of them are young people who lack political experience, and there are inevitable human ties such as fellow villagers and subjects. Therefore, relying on the censors alone is far from enough. We also rely on the strength of the people.

Therefore, it is necessary for us to establish a three-level advisory body in accordance with the Luzon model, and to elect representatives from the gentry and the people to be our civil censors, and to supervise our administration. As long as we find that the administrative officials are wrong, we have the power to impeach! We also have the power to impeach certain legislation of the court!"

"I said a lot of horrifying words today, but they are what I want to say most after half of my life in politics and over ten years of being in charge of this country. If you can agree with what I say, then I will take you all to ten years without hesitation. Ten years later I will retire to the countryside and will not be able to do officialdom. If you don't agree, then my boat is still at the dock..."

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Chapter completed!