Ming Dynasty: I risked my life to teach the prince, the emperor begged me not to die

Chapter 201 Fight against injustice
Zhu Houzhao said something that was neither big nor small, and Chen Ce was speechless after listening to it.

He never imagined that Jiao Fang, a talented person, would actually come up with such a crooked idea for the court to allocate part of the funds to pay salaries to the princes in urgent need.

The most amazing thing is that the imperial court actually thought there was no problem.

This is not the fault of the bureaucrats in the imperial court. In their inherent concept, they allocated a portion of the salaries to the princes first in order to let them stabilize the other princes.

But how can paper cover fire? Even if you warn and warn, the matter will eventually leak out.

And even if this group of princes did not say it privately, other princes would have found out.

It is obvious that these princes want to force your court to pay them salaries. If you pay some of them first, it will only arouse even greater dissatisfaction among the other princes!
Chen Ce sighed and said to Zhu Houzhao: "This matter will sooner or later lead to a bigger conflict. The court should think about how to appease them."

As for Jiao Fang's initiative to recommend Qian Yue to fight in the southwest war, this was within Chen Ce's expectations.

If nothing unexpected happens, Qian Yue will undoubtedly lose this war, and it will also provoke greater conflicts in the southwest, forcing the southwest, which was originally a loose group, to unite against foreign enemies.

Why do the policies made by the imperial court, which seemed foolproof to Zhu Houzhao, seem full of loopholes in the eyes of his younger brother?

He was not sure whether the matter was as serious as Chen Ce said, but now that the court had made the decision, it naturally could not be changed.

We can only take one step at a time.

Of course, Chen Ce saw all the results he wanted to see. Whether it was the princes demanding wages or the war in the southwest, everything was developing according to his idea.

Now Chen Ce only needs to wait quietly for these two major conflicts to break out together before he can take action to resolve them.

……

Early in the morning on the second day of September, Tang Yin came to Huaihua Hutong and found Chen Ce.

It's just that his complexion looks a little off.

Chen Ce asked Tang Yin in confusion, "Is there a problem with the courier?"

Tang Yin took a deep look at Chen Ce and shook his head, saying, "There's no problem with the express delivery. Um, someone from your hometown has come and wants to join our express delivery."

Chen Ce: “?”

After inquiring, Tang Yin learned that the other party was from Hangzhou and his name was Chen Boxin.

Recently, merchants from all over the country have come to the capital. Ever since Tang Yin opened up the express delivery franchise system, more and more merchants have come to the capital to ask to join the express delivery business.

Tang Yin naturally had to investigate the other party's background.

Yesterday, Chen Boxin came to Tang Yin and wanted to join the express delivery industry of the entire Hangzhou Prefecture.

After Tang Yin checked, he found out that Chen Boqin was actually Chen Ce's uncle.

Chen Ce narrowed his eyes and became furious when he thought of the ugly faces of his uncle's family.

Tang Yin probably knew Chen Ce's background, so they shared a common hatred for the enemy. However, Tang Yin was much calmer now. If he had his previous temper, he would have scolded the other party to death.

Chen Ce held the tea and drank it while thinking. After thinking for a while, he said to Tang Yin: "I was seriously ill at that time."

"My parents missed me, so they handed the family business over to my uncle."

"He took advantage of my father's anxious state of mind and signed several contracts with him. The first few were relatively normal, but the latter ones began to contain contracts for my father to transfer the business for free."

"But my father was so focused on me at the time that he didn't have the energy to look closely. Our family property was taken away by the other party just like that."

Chen Ce never mentioned this matter to anyone else.

If you suffer a loss, you suffer a loss. There is no point in saying anything.

"Now, let's give him back in his own way." Chen Ce's light words made Tang Yin shudder.

However, Tang Yin still had some doubts. You were a family at the beginning, and your father was not on guard against your uncle. This was human nature. No one would have thought that they would be stabbed in the back by their own brother.

But now it’s different. Shuntian Express and the other party are in serious business cooperation. The other party is not a fool and will carefully read and check every contract.

How could he possibly deceive the other party?
Chen Ce asked Tang Yin, "Do you know a kind of ink that looks the same as normal ink when you write with it, but disappears completely after it dries?"

Tang Yin was startled and asked, "There is such ink?"

What surprised him was certainly not the ink, but if such a thing really existed, it would provide a lot of possibilities when signing a contract!
This is so immoral.

But as Chen Ce said, he should give someone a taste of his own medicine. Tang Yin was not a saint either. Since the other party had done something treacherous, it was natural for Chen Ce to be unkind.

Chen Ce nodded and said, "Yes."

"Wu Mo."

"Ink made from squid."

After a pause, Chen Ce said to Tang Yin: "Don't sign a contract with the other party in the next two days. Try to see if the black ink has this effect first. I have only heard about it."

"If it really exists, then..."

"Kill them all!"

Tang Yin nodded and said, "Okay! I know what to do."

After Tang Yin left, Chen Ce's mouth curled up into a weird smile. I really didn't expect that before I went to find you, you took the initiative to come to my door.

Over the years, it’s not that Chen Ce didn’t want to look for them, but that Chen Ce didn’t have the time to look for them.

He had a lot to do. According to Chen Ce's original plan, he would go to Hangzhou Prefecture to settle past grudges at the last moment of his life.

It’s just that plans can never keep up with changes.

Wang Shouren came and spoke up for Chen Ce, saying that many scholars in Chang'an had recently impersonated Chen Ce and plagiarized Chen Ce's two couplets for their own use.

Chen Ce didn't care. He said to Wang Shouren: "People need to be tempered by things before they can stand firm and be stable when they are still or when they are moving. Let him be."

Wang Shouren savored it carefully and looked at Chen Ce in a daze. For some reason, every word Chen Ce said seemed to be exactly the same as what he was thinking about.

He seemed to be constantly checking and filling in the gaps in his thoughts, but he didn't do it deliberately.

But it is really hard to understand Wang Shouren. He is so young, why can he always speak of the great principles that only saints can comprehend?
When Wang Shouren heard about this, his first reaction was anger, as he always thought that intellectuals should not behave like this.

But Chen Ce said, stillness is also stability, movement is also stability.

He didn't care about these things at all. Sooner or later, things would become clear. Even if not, the other party would reveal his talent and knowledge sooner or later, and his deception would become known to the public, and at that time he would be even more confused and embarrassed.

In fact, he was not the only one who was as indignant as Wang Shouren.
Ning Zhijun was the same at today's banquet.

In a private room on the third floor of Cuiwei Tower overlooking the lake on Chengqingfang Street, Chen Boxin hosted a banquet for the Ning family's father and daughter.

Ning Zhijun stood up for Chen Zhengye and said that the two couplets in Wanggong Temple were clearly written by you, Young Master Chen, but there are so many people out there pretending to be you.

In response, Chen Zhengye could only smile bitterly and said, "Let him be. I don't care about these worldly reputations."

He wanted to care, but logically speaking, he didn't write those two couplets.

(End of this chapter)