Chapter 52 Carrying a Thorn (Part 2)

Thinking that the gunpowder that was stolen and sold would blow on the Huai'an Army in the future, and thinking about the advice of the two good brothers Wu Liangmou and Liu Kui to him, Han Jianhong felt that he had no shame to face anyone again. He suddenly lowered his head and bumped into Zhuqizhuzi in the conference hall.

"What do you want to do?" Zhu Chongjiu quickly grabbed Han Jianhong's belt, then "carry the pig" and was used to it. "Do you want to tell others that Zhu started to slaughter heroes without accomplishing a major event, or do you want to hide it for others, so that Zhu can't track down to the end?"

"Governor." Han Laoliu was so scolded that he had a cold war, he lay on the ground, and burst into tears.

Death is not terrible. He was infected with the wound more than two years ago and had died once. It was his lord who took his life back from King Yama at all costs. However, if he had actually hit the death of the pillar of the convention hall just now and the news spread, it would have given people the impression that Zhu Chongjiu could share hardships and not share wealth. His two good brothers Wu Liangmou and Liu Kui, as well as the rest of the fellow villagers who were sent to the Huai'an Army by the family as bets by the Shanyang Lakeshore, would not be unaffected.

Even if Wu Liangmou and Liu Kui take the initiative to draw a clear line with him, even if his lord Zhu Chongjiu tried to forget his existence, the result was the same, because people could not ignore the shadows he left behind, and the heads of the Bureau of Officials and the Bureau of War would not be able to hand over the task to anyone in Shanyang again with confidence.

"The surname of Han, if you don't figure it out today, it's not that easy for you to die." Seeing that the other party seemed to have given up the idea of ​​suicide, Zhu Chongjiu let go of his hand and gritted his teeth and threatened, "After figuring out, what crime should be, what crime should be. Zhu can guarantee that he will not implicate anyone in your family, but if you dare to continue to make trouble for me, hum, I, I will."

He smiled loudly. He wanted to threaten to kill Han Laoliu's family, but this place did not conform to his own nature. He gritted his teeth and continued to add, "I will burn you to ashes, then mix into the iron and make a villain, kneel at the door of the General Administration's Office, so that the passing brothers knew that Han Laoliu was a killer who dared not be a killer, and let you be like Qin Hui for thousands of years." (Note 1)

"Governor, Governor, the last general dare not, the last general knows the crime, the last general is willing to receive any punishment." Han Laoliu was so scared that he shivered again, and his crying stopped abruptly. As a native of time and space who was replaced by a false place, he made an iron man and knelt for a lifetime. It was ten times more cruel to him than to raid the family and exterminate the clan. After all, in folk beliefs, a knife cut his head but a big scar. He could be reincarnated in twenty years, and the ashes were kneeling for a long time, but he would not be reborn in tens of thousands of years.

"Stand up for me." Zhu Chongjiu glared at him fiercely, and ordered angrily. Then, he turned his eyes to Lu Lu Zeng and Su Mingzhe again, "What else do you two find the crime but don't report it to me? There is no need to hide it for him. He is committing his own death, no one is wrong."

"The matter about Lord Han has indeed been found out." Lu Lu thought for a while and tried to respond in a calm tone. "The Bureau of Personnel organized personnel to check the handling records of all official duties in the Salt Administration over the past two years. Lord Han did not abuse his power. In the past two years, the Bureau of Personnel has also been middle-class in his performance."

"Overall, the confidants recommended by Lord Han are not worse than those of other colleagues." Although Mr. Su was so angry that his teeth were itchy, he began to feel weak when he saw Han Laoliu crying. He took the words of Lu Luzeng and took the initiative to say good things for the person involved.

"What do you two mean? Can you explain it clearly? Don't go around in circles?" Zhu Chongjiu was unable to adapt to the change in their attitudes. He frowned and asked in a deep voice.

"Forgive me, lord." Lu Lu once took action and explained very seriously, "The assessment results of the Bureau of Officials show that Lord Han Jianhong did not make much mistakes in his tenure as the Ambassador of the Salt Administration. My previous law of Huaiyang did not prohibit officials from recommending talents. As for the benefits his family received when helping others write recommendations, and the recommended people steal gunpowder, they need to be dealt with separately, one thing is one, and cannot be confused in general."

"Master Lu." Han Jianhong raised his head with difficulty, looked at Lu Luzeng, who was as heavy as water, and his face was full of disbelief.

According to his previous thoughts, Lu Luzeng, who was in charge of the Office of the Office, must use his head to kill the chicken to warn the monkey. So at the beginning, he put his main object of pretending to be pitiful. Unexpectedly, he was the person who was the least likely to plead for him and began to find ways to excuse himself.

"I think that some of Lord Han's initial behaviors may be out of public aspirations." What made him even more incomprehensible was that, next, Su Mingzhe, who had always followed Zhu Chongjiu's head, actually took the initiative to plead for him. The old chief stern body was trembling and trembling, but his eyes were always calmly opposed to General Manager Zhu. "I was indeed short of talents in the Huaian Army at the time, and the lord once said that everyone should not avoid relatives."

"What did you say?" Before he finished speaking, Zhu Chongjiu was already furious. He walked to Su Mingzhe in three or two steps and looked down at his eyes. "When did I give such an absurd order? Could it be that without his children from Hanjiazhuang, my Huaian army would have to be disbanded?"

"My lord has indeed said it." Lu Lu Zeng's lord stepped forward and shared the pressure from his head with Su Mingzhe. "At that time, my Huai'an army's future was not as bright as it is now. Mr. Su spent a lot of money to Yangzhou and Jiangnan to collect talents, but the result was not satisfactory. Then the lord captured Gaoyou and Yangzhou again. The territory expanded too fast, and even the six-bedroom clerks in the county governments in various places could not be collected, let alone the Grand General Administration, Huaiyang Business, and the army."

"Boom." It seemed as if Qingtian had a thunderbolt. Zhu Chongjiu was blown to death, and his eyes were dark. He remembered that he had indeed mobilized in public to ask all his civil and military officials to take the initiative to recruit talents. He seemed to have announced in public that he would not avoid relatives. As long as he was qualified, the General Administration and the Huai'an Army would not refuse anyone. The original intention of his words was to satisfy the huge talent gap under his command. However, after only two years, he had to face the evil consequences caused by his impatience.

Just as he regretted it, he heard Chen Ji, the head of the Military Intelligence Department, whisper beside him: "Report to the lord, among the sons and nephews recommended by Lord Han, there are three unworthy people, but most of the others are loyal and reliable, compared to the imperial examination."

"What do you want to tell me?" Zhu Chongjiu glared at Chen Ji, "Is it because my child is to be assured, or is it because I am a hero? Since that's the case, what's the use of imperial examinations? In the future, I will restore the ninth-rank Zhongzheng system. I will not be a member of the civil and military resident of Huai'an army, but I will be kept out."

He was so angry that he could not understand the difficulties in the hearts of several important officials, because in the memory of another time and space, there was such a team that also overthrew the corrupt Qing government under the banner of expelling the Tartars. It was this team that in just a few years, it fell even more than the people they hated at the time. They were nepotism, formed cliques for personal gain, corrupt, abused the law, colluded with power and money, and fought with each other endlessly until the entire Chinese nation was dragged into the abyss of darkness.

‘If the Tongmeng member in 1931 meets the group of people who died in the Huanghuagang Uprising twenty years ago, the former will be embarrassed to death.’ This is the conclusion that many people came to in the time and space of Zhu Dapeng after being heartbroken.

This conclusion is not only applicable to China in another time and space in the 20th century. If you change time, place, forward or backward for fifty years, it is the same. Almost any regime established under the banner of national independence has never escaped the same fate.

When they expelled the original colonists and prepared to build an ideal free country, they gradually discovered that the regime established by countless people with lofty ideals at the cost of their lives was even more brutal than the original colonial government, and those people who silently supported them lived a more tragic life than they did.

The memory from another time and space has clearly told Zhu Chongjiu what kind of disaster he would bring to the country if the Huaiyang clan was allowed to fall. However, he found that his power was extremely thin at this time. All subordinates seemed to be excusing Han Laoliu. All the mistakes seemed to be from beautiful original intentions, and everyone's actions and reasons were very sufficient. All the talents recommended by their own people were their own people, and their loyalty was far more reliable than those obtained through the means of him. Because their wealth and life had long been tied to the recommenders and the entire Huaiyang clan, both losses and prosperity. Those who recruited through imperial examinations or came to join him automatically may have other choices in the future.

It turns out that Mr. Zhu was destined to be in vain when he came here. When he thought about what kind of dynasty he would build after he conquered the country, Zhu Chongjiu felt that the things he had done before had no meaning. If he had known this, it would be better to go to Zhu Chongba honestly. At least, he still had the courage to peel off the corrupt officials. At least, he could still make a big fuss and send all the guys who had fallen to the end to the West. (Note 2)

"Puff." The more I thought about it, the sadder it became in my heart. The more I thought about it, the more desolate it became. Suddenly, Zhu Chongjiu felt his throat start to sweeten, and a mouthful of blood in his heart erupted from his mouth.

"Governor, Governor, you, be careful." Seeing Zhu Chongjiu's body shaking and shaking, he was about to fall, Han Laoliu was so scared that he knelt on the ground with one leg, and pressed his lord's back against his back tightly. "Mr. Lu, Lord Su, stop talking, please, Mr. Han deserves to die, and Han is willing to receive any punishment."

"Lord, please calm down." Lu Lu Zeng and Mr. Su were also scared and stormed, rushed forward, holding one of Zhu Chongjiu's arms to prevent him from falling.

"Lord, please calm down. I am so angry. I am so angry. I am so angry that I will arrest everyone in the Han family." Zhang Song, the head of the Interior Department, was even more frightened. He pale and roared in a low voice, "Come on, come and save the guards."

"Lord, lord, there is no need to be angry. What do you say? Everyone will listen to you." Chen Ji, Feng Guoyong, and other officials present also surrounded him and kept saying good things to make Zhu Chongjiushun angry.

The reason why everyone tried to relieve Han Jianhong of his crime was mainly because they were afraid that the attack would be too wide. Because if Han Laoliu was punished for the crime of "article nepotism and undermining the administration of officials", everyone in the Huaiyang General Administration would probably be in danger, because before that, everyone had done similar things more or less, and the General Administration never explicitly prohibited the promotion of private individuals, and even encouraged everyone to do so.

However, if you have to choose between avoiding too much attack and making Zhu Chongjiu angry, everyone in the Huaiyang General Administration knows how to choose. The lord doesn't like to kill people, and everyone will not be punished to death. Punishing a large number of officials, including himself, will at most slow down the development momentum of the Huaiyang Group, and the morale of the military will temporarily fall. However, if Zhu Chongjiu is gone, the Huaiyang General Administration and the Huai'an Army will be removed at the same time. It won't take too long to become the blood food in the mouth of others.

"Get out." Zhu Chongjiu used only one word to answer everyone present, breaking away from the support of Lu Lu Zeng and Su Mingzhe, and knocking Han Laoliu with one leg with his butt. He stumbled out of the crowd like a crazy bull. After walking for about ten steps, he suddenly became dark in front of him. He reached out to hold his handsome desk and sat down slowly.

"Lord." Seeing this, all the civil and military officials rushed forward to support him again. Zhu Chongjiu waved his hand and panted with an order, "Go out, all of them are for me. I need to be quiet, I need to be quiet for a while. Please, let me be quiet for a while. Go out, I don't want to see any of you now. Liu Ju will give me a visit."

"Yes, I will obey the order." The civil and military officials did not dare to delay any longer. They rushed before the guard commander Liu Ju started to chase people, and retreated in shame. No one knew what happened today and how to end next.

"Close the door, light a candle, and light a few more, it's dark." Zhu Chongjiu didn't even want to look at everyone, and continued to whisper to the guards.

All his thoughts are gone, all his thoughts are gone. It is no exaggeration to use these four words to describe his mood at this moment. He thought that with the six hundred years of experience that he had gained in his memory, the Chinese in this time and space could take fewer detours and allow the fellow villagers in this time and space to endure less suffering. However, through recent collisions, he gradually discovered that the inertia of history is so strong that no matter how hard he tried, the heavy wheels would return to the original rut.

Zhu Chongba was right to burn the Qinggong Tower. Who knew how depraved the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty that year? Zhu Chongba was right to peel off the corrupt officials. At least during his lifetime, the people of the Ming Dynasty were bullied by officials and could hand over the prosecutors to the Forbidden City. Zhu Chongbayi disagrees and copied the nine tribes of the heroes. At least, it was right to reduce the number of ***s in the Ming Dynasty. The nobles did not form interest groups from beginning to end. Zhu Chongbayi was unhappy and dragged his ministers down and spanked them. At least, his ministers did not dare to openly stop him from chasing the blame for some people.

In this way, wouldn’t Zhu Chongjiu’s best destination be Zhu Chongba in another time and space? In this way, what Zhu came here to do? The so-called Huai'an Army and the so-called revolution were just a joke from beginning to end, and he didn’t know the clown who was just a joke.

"Husband, what's wrong with you?" I don't know how long I sat in the meeting hall, but a soft voice suddenly sounded in Zhu Chongjiu's ears, "It's dark, don't you want to go home? The food I cooked for you is cold."

Note 1: The kneeling statues of Qin Hui and his wife were originally cast in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Dapeng’s history is not bad, so don’t laugh at him.

Note 2: Zhu Chongjiu's idea was out of anger and regarded the joke as a historical fact. In this time and space, Zhu Yuanzhang never really burned the Qinggong Tower. Instead, he was scolded from the Ming Dynasty to the present because he killed his meritorious officials and encouraged the people to petition beyond their level.

Note 3: Off the topic, there is a bird that is destined to hang its chest on the thorns in order to sing the most beautiful sound. If there were really time travelers in the world, they would not face less pain than thorny birds.
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