Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning

Chapter 171 Jiajing: What do you think you are provoking Taizu?
No one expected that this time the imperial court would attack those nobles who shared weal and woe with the Ming Dynasty.

And when it comes up, it's a storm.

In just half a month, Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice accepted and tried hundreds of cases, involving 32 honorable families, 120 three people were sentenced to beheaded in autumn, and 830 people were sentenced to exile on the border.

There were even two marquises whose homes were ransacked directly.

It started the day after the case went to trial.

The memorials of various honorable officials began to float into the palace like snowflakes.

These nobles are not only the nobles in Beijing, but also the nobles in Nanjing, and even vassals from all over the world.

In the 50 and [-] years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, these nobles and vassals have already formed a community of interests through marriage. Now that Zhu Yuanzhang's attack on the nobles in Beijing is tantamount to attacking all the nobles and relatives in the country.

This naturally makes them feel a strong sense of insecurity.

"Grandpa, your actions this time are too big!"

"I definitely don't like you!"

"Don't forget, those honorable ministers hold military power in their hands, what if they rebel?" Emperor Jiajing persuaded with worry.

Zhu Yuanzhang grinned while reading the memorial.

"Let's just wait for them to rebel, and wait for them to come to Jingnan again!"

"If they had the vigor of the fourth child back then, this Daming wouldn't have decayed like this!"

Zhu Yuanzhang casually dropped the memorial in his hand and said, "If you don't believe me, let's make a bet on whether they dare to raise troops?"

"What kind of gamble?" Emperor Jiajing showed a hint of interest on his face.

"If they dare to raise troops, we will beat you to vent their anger."

"If they don't dare to raise an army... we will beat you twice to vent our anger."

"Do you accept this bet?" Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes flashed a very dangerous light.

"I'm so crazy to answer!"

Emperor Jiajing complained badly in his heart, but his face was full of bitterness, he grinned and said, "Unworthy grandson... admit defeat!"

Zhu Yuanzhang ignored the Emperor Jiajing who always liked to find a sense of presence by his side, and continued to check the memorial.

Another half month.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the heat was almost ready, so he came forward and recruited all the nobles into the palace.

"My lord, you must save us!"

"That Hai Rui, Hu Zongxian, and Xu Wei are about to kill us all!"

"What are they trying to do?"

"Our honorable ministers are the foundation of Ming Dynasty. They want to rebel!" As soon as they met, Duke Ding Xu Guangzuo threw himself at Zhu Yuanzhang's feet and began to cry.

"Humph!"

"Look at your bear!"

"Don't forget, who is your ancestor? It was Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, who swept away the north and won most of Ming Dynasty for us!"

"Would you like to see you again?"

"What does it look like now?" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.

He had seen the history of Ming Dynasty that had not been changed by him in the late Qing Dynasty.

When the city of Beijing was broken, the Duke of Dingguo took the lead in surrendering.

Not only Duke Ding, but when the entire Ming Dynasty was swept away by the iron hooves of the Manchus, ninety percent of these nobles who were known as the pillars of the country and shared weal and woe with the country chose to surrender.

They are not as good as Emperor Chongzhen. At least Emperor Chongzhen still had the courage to hang himself when his country was ruined and his family was destroyed.

And they don't even have the courage.

"My lord, we don't look like that!"

"But it's not because those civil servants took away our rights. If we still have military power, how can we be as useless as we are now." Xu Guangzuo also went all out today.

He lost two sons, and 26 members of the entire Xu family clan died. Even his own title of Ding Guogong seemed to be lost, so he had nothing to dare to say.

"Is giving you military power to make you eat nothing, or to engage in corruption?"

"Tell me, if we give you the three camps, can you take them well?"

Xu Guangzuo really wanted to say yes, but when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang's face, he held back the words abruptly.

He was really afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would really hand over the three battalions to him.

Today is different, with Hai Rui as the evil star, military power has become a hot potato.

He dare not take it.

He was afraid that when the time came, he couldn't help stretching out his hand, and would be caught by Hai Rui and sentenced to death by Dali Temple.

At that time, the Holy Majesty will not intercede for himself.

"Trash!" Zhu Yuanzhang really wanted to kick this bastard to death.

"Your Majesty, I, Old Xu, can't support the wall with mud, but there are a lot of emperors and nobles who can't support the wall with mud, and you can't just stare at my family!" Xu Guangzuo was scolded in public as a waste. Some defenses were broken.

"Oh... then tell me, which one else is there?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked with narrowed eyes.

"Which one, King Zhou of Kaifeng or King Qin of Xi'an, did not indiscriminately kill innocent people?"

"I heard that just half a month ago, the King of Qin took over 300 acres of fertile land. The King of Zhou saw that the newly married woman was beautiful, so he immediately snatched it. This plot is comparable to that of my boys. It's a much more serious crime."

"Your Majesty, don't tell me you're only stern and selfless in Beijing, and don't care about things outside Beijing?"

Xu Guangzuo is really going all out at this moment, and he doesn't care about it.

Anyway, his old Xu's family is over, if that's the case, then everyone just don't have a good time.

The other dukes of the other families were so frightened that they didn't dare to say a word, they knelt on the ground and shivered.

But deep down, everyone felt a little gloating.

Old Xu is still brave, he dares to speak out any big truth.

But the fact is that, your majesty, the old man, is only instructing Hai Rui to be Bao Qingtian in Beijing, but have you ever thought that the shit on your own royal family's ass hasn't been wiped clean yet!
"Lu Fang...!" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly.

"Your maidservant is here!" Lu Fang hurried forward beside her.

"This case is entrusted to you to investigate. According to the clues given by Ding Guogong, let us seriously investigate it. If the kings of Zhou and King Qin really corrupted the law, seized the land of the people, and robbed the women of the people , let us capture the descendants of these two unworthy descendants."

"Yes!" Lu Fang nodded respectfully.

"My lord...do you really want to investigate?"

"This...how does this work!"

"The old minister is just talking fast for a while, and he can't take it seriously!" Xu Guangzuo panicked.

Originally, he was only using the affairs of the royal family to command the emperor's army, so that the emperor would retreat in the face of difficulties, and let it go.

Unexpectedly, the emperor is crazy, and he really wants to break the casserole and ask the end.

"Isn't he afraid that the history books of later generations will say that he killed the royal family?"

"Isn't he afraid that the royal family will be separated from morality, and the country and the country of the Ming Dynasty will not be guaranteed?"

"In front of us, what you say is water that is poured out. If you want to take it back, it is deceiving the emperor. What crime are you talking about deceiving the army?" Zhu Yuanzhang said quietly.

"This... this... old minister, old minister...!" Xu Guangzuo was already very old, but at this moment he was anxious, his head was congested, and he couldn't hold himself back, and passed out with a creak.

Behind Zhu Yuanzhang, the real Emperor Jiajing, who watched the scene from beginning to end, put his hand on his forehead, feeling a little helpless.

"This Xu Guangzuo is really looking for trouble. You said that you can cooperate with the Sanju Department to investigate the case at home, can't you?"

"If you insist on stroking Taizu's beard, you can mess with Taizu?"

"This is not selling "The Analects of Confucius" in front of Confucius' door—what is overestimation!"

"See if this trash is dead? If it's not dead, carry it down and save it!" Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to the two little eunuchs behind him.

Soon Xu Guangzuo was carried down, and Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the remaining nobles again.

"Is there anyone among you who wants to report?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a deep voice.

"No...no!" The remaining Xungui hurriedly shook his head upon hearing this.

"If His Majesty has nothing to do, then the old minister will resign!" Xu Guangzuo fainted, and Zhang Rong, the British prince, became the leader, but he dared not argue. Now he just wants to go home and lie on the bed, and let the concubine comfort him With a wounded heart, I really dare not think about anything or do anything else.

"Retire?"

"Haven't we talked about it yet?"

"Why are you resigning?" Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes slightly and asked.

Only then did Zhang Rong suddenly realize that he and the others were summoned by Zhu Yuanzhang, not on their own initiative.

He was stunned by Xu Guangzuo just now.

"I don't know what orders your Majesty has?" Zhang Rong asked respectfully.

"Don't say we didn't give you a chance!"

"You have two quotas for each family. Send the most motivated and promising children of your family to the newly formed three major camps. Let's give them a powerful hundred-household official."

"As for how far they can grow in the future, it's up to them!"

"As for you... and those moths in your house, either stay at home obediently, or go to the newly built steel workshop for us to forge iron..."

After this conversation, the nobles in Beijing immediately became completely honest.

The seized farmland was voluntarily returned to the people, and the official positions held by them were dismissed one by one.

Among these people, the timid ones have been thinking behind closed doors, avoiding the limelight, and the bolder ones have begun to actively cater to Zhu Yuanzhang's policies, and actively offer advice and suggestions to the establishment of the three major camps, hoping to occupy a place in the three major camps that have been completely reorganized.

For such people, Zhu Yuanzhang did not completely use them. He only had a little ability, and even those who were willing to learn even though they did not have much ability, he recruited into the three major battalions for proper reuse.

After all, as Xu Guangzuo said, the nobles and the royal family are indeed one of the foundations of Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible for him to beat all these people to death with a single stick, and there is absolutely no need to do so.

What he does these days is to remove the dross and extract the essence.

During this period, Zhu Yuanzhang also intentionally brought over some young generals who performed well in the battle against exotic beasts in the early Ming Dynasty, and placed them in the middle and upper levels of the three major battalions.

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang handed over the position of the cavalry commander of the most important battalion of 3000 people among the three major battalions to Shen Jin, a thousand households in the early Ming Dynasty.

After a series of imperceptible changes in the past two or three months, Zhu Yuanzhang quietly took back control of the three battalions from the civil servants.

Even up to this point, the civilian group has not reacted.

After all, Zhang Juzheng has always been in charge of the restructuring and reconstruction of the three major battalions.

The three newly promoted Earls Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang, and Wang Chonggu are also in charge of the three camps.

In their view, the three earls who were promoted by Hu Zongxian could still control them even if they became earls.

It's not something to worry about.

Perhaps only Zhang Juzheng, who was in it, understood how terrifying the holy majesty who lived in the palace had become.

Not to mention those middle-level generals who don't know where the Holy Majesty transferred, just Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang, and Wang Chonggu, who have already been completely won over by the Holy Majesty.

Not to mention other civil servants now, I am afraid that even I, even Hu Zongxian, will almost be unable to command them.

While everyone was eating melons and watching the nobles suffer, the military power in Beijing had already changed hands unknowingly, and was firmly held by the Holy One.

Of course, Zhang Juzheng just kept these things in his heart, and he would never tell anyone.

He and Zhu Yuanzhang already have a tacit political understanding, and he also knows why Zhu Yuanzhang gathers military power. He has no worries about this, he just looks forward to it.

Looking forward to the day when Daming's national fortune will be strong again.

(End of this chapter)