Wanli Youming

Chapter 119 Don't dare to embezzle

Chapter 119 Don't dare to embezzle

Li Youzi wrote the book the next day, and asked the court to implement the official residence system, so as to use the power of extinction for personal gain.

After seeing this book, the ministers of the cabinet proposed to approve it because Zhang Juzheng strongly advocated it. Finally, it was approved by the Supervisor of Rites and became an imperial edict. The foundation was expanded to become the official residence of the ruling minister of Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Li Youzi's actions naturally made many ministers and civil servants dissatisfied with him. They were dissatisfied that he blindly catered to Zhang Juzheng without considering the feelings of the entire civil servant group, and they regarded Li Youzi as a villain even more.

But Li Youzi only cares about whether his power and status will be improved.

As for the life of the entire civil servant group, he didn't think it was very important to him.

Moreover, in Li Youzi's view, since he has been defined as a villain by the civil servants, it is impossible for him to fantasize about Zhang Juzheng after Zhang Juzheng's fall. , can also be respected and even elevated by the entire civil servant group.

Therefore, Li Youzi didn't care much about the opinions of other civil servants.

Zhang Juzheng asked Li Youzi to be responsible for implementing the official residence system, which was also a signal to selfish people like Li Youzi who were still in Zhang's party system.

Tell them that the clean-up of the door is indeed over, and the suppression will not continue.

And let them rest assured that he, Zhang Juzheng, would still use them.

It is just to let them understand that some things should not be overdone, that money is money, and that there is no principle in not making money, even to the point where they have betrayed the entire Zhang party and secretly want to back Zhang.

In that case, Zhang Juzheng would be cruel to clean up.

After all, the fate of You Qi, Li Cai, and Qin Yao is an example.

As a person who can be the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Li Youzi also understands this truth.

Therefore, he was very serious about his responsible implementation of the official residence system, and did not dare to be sloppy.

Moreover, when he designed the entire mansion, he really imagined every minister and minister as a snob like himself, and thought about how to design the mansion to prevent a villain like himself from cheating on someone or even in private. Privately conduct power-for-money transactions.

Li Youzi knew that once he built his official residence, he would definitely become an official.

Because when Zhang Juzheng was robbed, he was the first minister to ask the emperor to rob Zhang Juzheng. He had already been blacklisted by the entire civil service system.

It will be a matter of time before someone presents evidence of his crimes and impeaches him and returns home.

Therefore, when Li Youzi designed his official residence, he didn't have to consider whether his design was too perfect, or whether it would affect his self-seeking.

In short, Li Youzi's current state of mind is: After I leave, no matter what happens to him!

What's more, Li Youzi also understands that no matter how much civil servants in the world hate him, it is not easy to deny the mansion system he promoted.

After all, no one would admit that he is a villain and be afraid of the official residence system, but should only regard the official residence system as the emperor's grace and good governance for the convenience of governance.

For Li Youzi, this is undoubtedly an opportunity to whitewash himself, and it can also be regarded as allowing him to leave behind a political achievement before he retires.

In any case, as long as those who write history in the future mention the restoration of the official residence system in Ming Dynasty, they cannot ignore Li Youzi.

It's like mentioning the fact that Zhang Juzheng was robbed of his love, but he couldn't ignore Li Youzi.

But Li Youzi was still worried that in the future, some literati and bureaucrats would deliberately ignore his contribution to the restoration of the official residence system.

Therefore, he decided that after returning to his hometown in the future, he should mention this matter more in front of his friends, in his genealogy, local chronicles, and even in his personal notes, and even in his epitaph in the future, so as not to revise history in the future. However, the people still don't mention this matter in his biography in the official history, and even later generations still only remember the matter of supporting Duoqing.

In addition, Li Youzi is also very grateful to Zhang Juzheng for this matter.

Because Zhang Juzheng gave him a chance to clear his reputation, and his previous dissatisfaction with Zhang Juzheng's too tough method of cleaning up the family disappeared.

In his private letters to his relatives and friends, he still praised Zhang Juzheng as his respected teacher.

"Qizou Your Majesty, according to the minister's plan, all the official residences of the ruling ministers are built around, and the garden is placed in the center, so that when the ministers are resting, they can see which ministers have subdued themselves on the rockery in the park. The official residence, or someone from a family or a slave brought someone in."

"In addition, the official residences of the chief assistant and the privy envoy are at both ends, and the steps are higher, at the end of the central axis royal road; so, no matter who visits the chief assistant and the privy envoy, the ministers in other official residences can see it;"

"And the Chief Assistant and Privy Envoy can also condescendingly see who the other ministers are conspiring with in private."

Li Youzi got a chance to be summoned by the imperial court because he was in charge of building the official residence that day, and because of this, he played the layout of the official residence designed by himself in front of Zhu Yijun.

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this.

He had to admit that Li Youzi was really speculating on the ministers with the greatest malice, otherwise he would not have designed such a layout of the official residence.

This made Zhu Yijun very satisfied, and he still asked Li Youzi at this moment: "What if I want to secretly visit a minister?"

"Qizou Your Majesty, there are special royal roads in the official residence group, and there are high walls on both sides of the royal road overlooking the various official residences, and the royal road can lead directly to each official residence, so if your majesty goes to secretly visit a certain minister, you will not be noticed. "

Li Youzi replied.

Zhu Yijun nodded, and was more satisfied with this: "It's very good."

Next, Zhu Yijun finally agreed with Li Youzi's design of the official residences of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty after asking other questions such as gate posts, anti-assassination, and even fire protection.

At this point, even if the design of the official residence was finalized, the construction was naturally put on the agenda.

Knowing that the construction of the official residence would offend many civil servants, when Li Youzi was in charge of the construction of the official residence, he did not dare to embezzle the project funds to avoid being caught.

However, this also made the construction of the official residence very fast.

After all, the wages of the craftsmen and peasants have not been owed.

The purchase of materials is not tricky, so that the merchants who provide materials dare not delay the materials ordered by the Ministry of Industry.

It's just that when Zhu Nanyong, the censor who was in charge of inspecting the project on shift, came to inspect the project at the place where the mansion was built, his heart was burning because he saw the blueprint of the mansion, so he said directly to Li Youzi:

"Da Sikong! You are obviously imagining all ministers and ministers as villains who seek power for personal gain! You even imagine the Chief Assistant and Privy Envoy as villains who seek personal power for personal gain!"

"That's not the case, how to prevent the gradual progress?!"

"However, this hall believes that as long as you are a gentleman, you don't care about the layout of the official residence, and you don't care what other people think. The so-called clean is self-cleaning. Are you still afraid of people's random speculation?!"

"A real gentleman will only be grateful for the emperor's grace!"

Li Youzi questioned Zhu Nanyong, and added a sentence at the end.

After hearing this, Zhu Nanyong didn't want to refute, but went to see a certain old man that night, and said eagerly:

"George, you don't know. Taking advantage of today's turn to inspect the project, I have already seen the so-called layout of the official residence. The layout of the official residence is clearly for the lower official. I will not be able to visit you privately in the future." !"

"Have you found out that Li Youzi has no project money?"

The old man asked directly.

Zhu Nanyong said: "No, this villain is very shrewd, he knows exactly where the money is going, and he can't find any flaws!"

"Then we can only bear with it, and when all the new laws can be abolished in the future, this system should also be abolished!"

The cabinet minister said in a deep voice.

Zhu Nanyong clapped his hands and said yes, and said with a sigh: "That's the only way to go."

Then, Zhu Nanyong said again: "It's just that Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng joined forces to disrupt the situation this time, which caused us a lot of losses. If we want to lose Zhang in the future, we don't know when we will have to wait?"

"Now we can only wait!"

"As long as Zhang Jiangling continues to reform, he will still have a chance!"

(End of this chapter)