Chapter 1458 Ye Mingsheng’s decision!

In the imperial study, Ye Mingsheng was looking at the letter of request in his hand seriously, while Ji Xian was standing respectfully opposite the desk. Although Ji Xian looked humble and calm at this moment, he was actually quite nervous in his heart.

He didn't know what decision Ye Mingsheng would make next, and whether such a decision would be beneficial to him!
After half a cup of tea, Ye Mingsheng put down the petition in his hand and immediately asked Ji Xian:

“Whose idea was this?”

Facing Ye Mingsheng's emotionless question, Ji Xian, who didn't know what Ye Mingsheng was thinking, also felt a little pressure. After careful consideration, he said:
"Your Majesty, this letter of request is the opinion of all our colleagues in the Coordination Office!"

After hearing this answer, Ye Mingsheng didn't say anything, but just picked up the teacup beside him and took a sip. Seeing this, Ji Xian immediately began his impassioned speech.

"The G-forces are bloated and have become too big to be removed. The hundreds of thousands of T jobs have forced the Great Zhou to demand more from the people, causing them to complain bitterly and causing public resentment. This is an important reason for the fall of the Great Zhou!"

"My Great Qian was born out of the Great Zhou, and also inherited part of the official system of the Great Zhou. This is not only the historical burden of my Great Qian, but also the burden of my hundreds of millions of subjects in the world. Your Majesty, if you are willing to solve this matter, it will benefit not only the country but also the people of the world!"

At this point, Ji Xian paused, and observed Ye Mingsheng's expression with the corner of his eye, and then he made up his mind and continued with murderous intent:

“However, there are always some people with corrupt morals who are content with nothing and refuse to follow the general trend of the world. They try to make up rumors and cause trouble by trying to shake the tree with their own hands. Such people should be killed...”

"People in the provincial governments and counties have a sympathetic and lucky mentality towards these people, and have not seriously and thoroughly eliminated these parasites. Then this matter should be handled by my Coordination Office!"

"Since I am the personal army of Your Majesty and receive Your Majesty's salary, I naturally have to share Your Majesty's worries and help Your Majesty to clear out these villains and make them face reality!"

Feeling the undisguised murderous intent in Ji Xian's words, Ye Mingsheng was also a little surprised. In his impression, Ji Xian was a smiling tiger who was good at disguising himself. What he was best at was smiling at you on the surface but stabbing you in the back!
But now Ji Xian showed his brutal and terrifying side, which was uncharacteristically true, and this made Ye Mingsheng realize how strong Ji Xian's desire for the position of director of the Coordination Office was!

Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng pondered for a moment and asked:
"What specific plans do you have?"

Ji Xian said without hesitation:
"There are a total of 1,300 spies at the Yijing headquarters of the Coordination Office. In addition to the 300 or so civilian personnel, I plan to have the remaining 1,000 people led by the three centurions Chen Chaozhong, Wang Yinchuan, and Li Jinhong to go to Jingchu, Yunbing, and Guanzhong!"

At this point, Ji Xian looked at Ye Mingsheng and said:
“Your Majesty, you are kindhearted. After you laid them off, you also gave them job training. But in my opinion, these people are all ruthless and heartless. No matter how good you are to them, they will not appreciate it…”

"I understand that these people are not satisfied with just protesting. They also besieged the government office and beat up the imperial officials who tried to carry out layoffs. What they did is already a rebellion. Such bastards must be dealt with severely!"

"The provincial governors, provincial judges, prefects, and county magistrates in all regions who are found to be hiding something will also be severely punished. Your Majesty's orders must be carried out!"

Ye Mingsheng looked at Ji Xian's serious expression, and he knew in his heart that Ji Xian was determined to kill people in order to get the position of director of the Coordination Office!

But this is not a bad thing for Ye Mingsheng!
Although the current unrest in various places is still under control, as the saying goes, a single spark can start a prairie fire. Ye Mingsheng must pay enough attention to the current situation, otherwise the situation is likely to get out of control in a short time!

Letting Ji Xian go on a killing spree at this time was Ye Mingsheng's last choice instead of using the army to suppress the rebellion!
If Ji Xian couldn't handle it, no matter how much Ye Mingsheng couldn't bear to see innocent people get hurt, he would have to mobilize the army!
Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng did not give an answer, but pondered for a moment and asked:
"After Wang Xuecheng left, all the work he was doing was handed over to you, right?"

Ji Xian nodded affirmatively and said:

"Yes! All the work in Director Wang's hands will now be taken over by me!"

"How are you handling the Yang Qinghe incident and the Jinghaijun incident?"

Ji Xian hesitated for a moment and said:
"Your Majesty, the matter of Prefect Yang has come to a conclusion. According to our investigation, there was a situation of profiteering between Prefect Yang and Hanyang's big businessman Wang Yong. Under Prefect Yang's protection, Wang Yong has repeatedly seized a large amount of property in Hanyang over the past decade!"

"From what we have learned so far, there are seven shops and thousands of acres of fertile land. In addition, there are shares of many businesses, as well as 30,000 taels of silver, and gold, silver, jewelry, collectibles, porcelain, and antiques worth tens of thousands of taels of silver..."

"As for the matter between Prefect Yang and Wang Lingling, Prefect Yang said to the public that the dinner between Wang Lingling and Yang Ning was not an engagement dinner. There was never any engagement between Wang Lingling and Yang Ning. That dinner was just an ordinary dinner!"

"As for the story about Magistrate Yang marrying Wang Lingling, it's even more ridiculous. The house Wang Lingling lives in doesn't belong to Magistrate Yang at all!"

"The rumors that Prefect Yang stole his son's wife and allowed his daughter-in-law to be his concubine are completely false. This is all premeditated and someone is behind this. It is the most shameful slander against Prefect Yang!"

Hearing Yang Qinghe completely deny these accusations, Ye Mingsheng became interested and asked:
"So what is the truth?"

"According to our investigation, that dinner was indeed not an engagement dinner, but it was also a blind date between Wang Lingling and Yang Ning!"

“After Wang Yong learned that Prefect Yang might be promoted to the governor, he also wanted to use the power of Prefect Yang to expand his business empire, so he came up with the idea of ​​marrying his daughter Wang Lingling to the Yang family as a daughter-in-law. Prefect Yang’s eldest son Yang Hongfu wanted to pursue a career in politics and didn’t want to marry the daughter of a businessman!” “So Yang Ning, a concubine’s son, and Wang Lingling went on a blind date, but later Prefect Yang fell in love with Wang Lingling and developed an improper relationship with her…”

Hearing this, Ye Mingsheng frowned slightly. From Ji Xian's description, although Yang Ning and Wang Lingling did have contact with the premise of marriage, there was indeed no engagement. Therefore, Wang Lingling naturally could not be considered Yang Qinghe's daughter-in-law!

In this case, even if something happened between Yang Qinghe and Wang Lingling, it was just an extramarital affair, not a serious act of adultery!
At this time, Ji Xian continued:

"Your Majesty, in addition to investigating the cause and effect of this incident, we also discovered that someone deliberately spread rumors behind the scenes that Yang Ning and Wang Lingling were engaged, and that Wang Lingling was the future daughter-in-law of Governor Yang!"

"This also led to some deviations in our initial intelligence gathering. However, after questioning many guests who attended the dinner that day, we were able to confirm that it was not an engagement but a blind date. It was just that Wang Lingling and Yang Qing were very satisfied with each other at the time, and both parties mentioned the plan of getting engaged next!"

"But this situation was misinterpreted by someone with ulterior motives, and it was spread as an engagement, and Wang Lingling is the future daughter-in-law of Governor Yang!"

Hearing Ji Xian's hint, Ye Mingsheng raised his eyebrows and asked:

"Is this person with ulterior motives you mentioned Dai Ping?"

Seeing Ye Mingsheng being so straightforward, Ji Xian hesitated for a moment and said:
"Your Majesty, according to the reports from our colleagues in Jingchu, we cannot rule out the possibility that it was Governor Dai who secretly spread the rumor. However, we do not have any substantial evidence to prove that Governor Dai was the one who instigated this incident..."

Seeing that Ji Xian's words were quite rigorous, Ye Mingsheng did not ask any more questions. He thought for a moment and then ordered:

"Order Yang Qinghe to be executed! Confiscate the property of the Yang and Wang families, and exile them all to Yongliang."

Although Ye Mingsheng had admired Yang Qinghe's execution ability before and gave him a chance to reform and start a new life, this incident still made Ye Mingsheng very disappointed!

Although strictly speaking, Wang Lingling was not engaged to Yang Ning and was not yet Yang Qinghe's future daughter-in-law, this matter was too disgusting. It would be too embarrassing for the prefect of Hanyang to do such a dirty thing. If it were to be spread out!
So although according to the law, this matter needs to be tried by the three courts, but in order to protect the face of the court, Ye Mingsheng directly sentenced Yang Qinghe to death. As for who deliberately spread this matter, the Coordination Office has not yet confirmed it, but in Ye Mingsheng's heart, he has almost confirmed that it is Dai Ping!

After all, the reason why Ye Mingsheng had not been appointed as the Governor of Jingchu was that he wanted to see who was more suitable between Dai Ping and Yang Qinghe!
Dai Ping and Yang Qinghe have been fighting overtly and covertly because of this. Logically speaking, if anything happens to Yang Qinghe, Dai Ping is the biggest beneficiary, so there is no doubt that he is the most suspicious in this matter!

But to be honest, Ye Mingsheng didn't want to pursue the matter anymore as to whether Dai Ping did it or not. Whether it was Dai Ping who did it or not, Ye Mingsheng didn't care!
After Yang Qinghe was sentenced to death, Ye Mingsheng needed someone who was familiar with the local situation to preside over the overall situation in Jingchu. At present, this person can only be Dai Ping·················

In fact, Ye Mingsheng could see that neither Yang Qinghe nor Dai Ping agreed with some of the reform measures he had promoted from the bottom of their hearts!
But the difference is that Dai Ping has certain moral integrity and is unwilling to do things that he disagrees with!

But Yang Qinghe has no moral integrity. He is more like an opportunist in politics. He saw Ye Mingsheng's determination and ideas to promote reforms.

So even though Yang Qinghe did not agree with some of Ye Mingsheng's reform measures, in order to get promoted and make money, he packaged himself as a staunch supporter of reform, hoping to gain Ye Mingsheng's favor and become the governor of Jingchu!

Although Ye Mingsheng saw through Yang Qinghe's true thoughts at the time, because Dai Ping really did not support reform, Ye Mingsheng still gave Yang Qinghe a chance to reform!

But unfortunately, there is no way to prop up a piece of rotten wood, so now Ye Mingsheng has no other choice, he can only choose Dai Ping!

Although Dai Ping does not agree with Ye Mingsheng's reform measures, from what we have learned so far, although Dai Ping is not an honest official like Hai Rui, nor an able official like Zhang Juzheng, he cares about the people and is diligent in government affairs. He can be considered a diligent person!

So even though this person is relatively conservative, not very willing to accept new things, and prefers to live in his comfort zone, it is not a difficult decision for Ye Mingsheng to let him be the governor of Hebei and Henan, and the parent official of millions of households in Hebei and Henan...
Having made up his mind, Ye Mingsheng continued to ask:

"What do you think about the Navy?"

When Ye Mingsheng asked this, Ji Xian was not as straightforward as he was when answering Yang Qinghe's question just now. He hesitated for a moment before saying:
"Your Majesty, regarding this matter today, I would like to ask you to show mercy and give Ge Xiongge a chance to redeem himself and make meritorious contributions!"

Ye Mingsheng frowned slightly when he heard this and said:
"Are you going to plead for Ge Xiong?"

Feeling Ye Mingsheng's cold gaze, Ji Xian's heart tightened. He quickly gave up the words he had just prepared in his mind, saying that Ge Xiong had made great contributions and had worked hard, and quickly spoke on the matter:
"Your Majesty, regarding this matter with the Jinghai Navy, the Jinghai Navy is very angry. It is difficult for us to carry out our work. In addition, the previous negotiations with the Jinghai Navy were all led by Director Wang himself, and Captain Ge was in charge of the details!"

"Captain Ge has a good relationship with some people in the Jing Navy. We have just taken over and are not familiar with them. The pirates don't trust us. We have made limited progress and the relationship is very tense!"

Ye Mingsheng frowned even deeper when he heard this. Yesterday, the Jiangnan Provincial Government reported that the Jinghai Navy had caused a lot of trouble in Nanyang, and they were also going to increase the amount of protection fees. This was undoubtedly an act of revenge!
Although Ye Mingsheng was very angry when he heard the news, the Daqian Navy is still under construction and has not yet formed combat effectiveness. Therefore, in order to stabilize the maritime trade lines, Daqian still needs to stabilize these pirates for the time being!
At present, the things these pirates have done have affected the development of some foreign trade companies in Jiangnan, so this problem must be solved as soon as possible...

(End of this chapter)