Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 373
Zhang Ruoqi, the former censor of Nanzhili Metropolitan Procuratorate, now serves as Jiangsu Household Department after Nanzhili was abolished.

As an official of the Ming Dynasty, this person has completely become the umbrella of smuggling maritime merchants.

Some time ago, the imperial court beheaded some officials involved in smuggling, but he managed to escape that storm.

The gentry worked together as a errand, paid food as a whole, and divided the gentry into the mu, which further squeezed the way for the gentry to earn money, which made the southern gentry very angry.

Seeing that the gentry and literati in the south of the Yangtze River were very resistant to the reform of the Ming Dynasty, but because the emperor was strong, they dared not take any action for the time being.

Zhang Ruoqi, a disciple of the Confucian family, began to move around, and soon got strong support from those in Donglin Academy, who began to encourage literati and gentry everywhere.

I hope they can all unite to resist education reform, business tax increase, and fight against smuggling.

The current power of the civil official group in the Ming Dynasty Hall is completely suppressed by the generals, making them more and more frustrated.

They used to strongly support the sea ban, and their purpose was to facilitate their own smuggling. There was no sea ban at all.

In the past, if anything was unfavorable to them, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate would come forward to complain. Even Chongzhen sometimes had no choice, but Zhu Youjian banned the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Make those civil servant groups completely dumb, and there will be no more noises in the court.

Many local civil servants secretly supported this matter for their own benefit.

Especially abandoning Confucianism, they feel that this is a great insult to gentlemen and literati, and it is also a divine assist to stir up trouble.

After a period of plotting, they prepared to march and demonstrate from Suzhou Fu.

Put pressure on Ming Dynasty to let the imperial court give up education reform and business tax increase to crack down on smuggling.

These gentry groups are extremely powerful, and it can be said that they want money and money and people.

There were only tens of thousands of people in captivity in the East. Without their support, it would be impossible to unify the world.

When the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty fought in captivity, they were almost defeated in a single battle, but after they surrendered, their combat effectiveness exploded.

The main reason is that they reached a certain deal or consensus with Dongyao.

They can help Dongyao to pacify the world, and Dongyao promised not to touch their cake.

Well now, with the help of the southern gentry, the literati once again brought their talents to discredit others to the extreme.

Soon there were rumors in the south that the rogues had not been wiped out at all.

It's just that the imperial court gave Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others tens of millions of taels of silver to solve the problem of rogue bandits.

Regardless of life or death, the common people gave the money collected from the gentlemen to the rogues to pray for peace.

There was also the battle against the Dongkuo, which was also a series of consecutive defeats, in the end in order to calm the matter.

Chongzhen could only marry the princess to Dongyao, and also allocated all the land outside the pass to Dongyao as pastures.

This kind of rumor spread more and more widely, and it seemed to be the same as the truth.

The people who didn't know where they were, were later deceived by these hateful literati and gentry, and followed them to the streets.

Look at the literati of Ming Dynasty, what kind of black emperor Zhu Youjian is, it's completely turning black and white and spouting shit.

Know why Qin Shihuang became a tyrant, this is also the abuse created by those rotten Confucians.

In history, after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, did he kill the founding heroes?

Among the heroes Wang Jian, Wang Ben, Wang Li, Zhang Han, Meng Wu, Meng Tian, ​​Li Xin, Li Si, Yao Jia, Wei Liao, Zheng Guo, Meng Yi, Feng Jie, and Wang Wan, which one was killed by the First Emperor?
Since the first emperor didn't kill a single hero, why did he become a tyrant?
The Great Wall was also built to prevent the northern nomads from going south to harm the people.

And Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, is it really as unbearable as they wrote?

Although the excavation of the Grand Canal has caused great pressure on the survival of the people.

However, history has proved that the Grand Canal has benefited China for generations after it runs through the north and the south.

Without the unification of the Sui Dynasty, how could the rule of Zhenguan come about.

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Qianqing Palace

After Zhu Youjian retired from the court, he was checking the memorial when the little eunuch came to report:
"Your Majesty, Cao Zhengchun, the governor of the East Factory, and Qinglong, the commander of Jin Yiwei, are asking for an audience."

Zhu Youjian didn't even look up:

"Let them in."

"According to the purpose"

Not long after Erxi left, Cao Zhengchun and Qinglong hurried into the Qianqing Palace.

"My minister Cao Zhengchun Qinglong, see Your Majesty."

Zhu Youjian looked up at them, then put down the memorial in his hand.

"Calm down, look at your nervous looks, is the sky about to collapse somewhere?"

Qinglong Cao Zhengchun hastily reported the information obtained by Jin Yiwei and Dongchang to the emperor:
"Your Majesty, the gang of literati and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River smears the Holy Majesty, and they are preparing to demonstrate in order to put pressure on His Majesty to give up education reform, give up the collection of commercial taxes to combat smuggling."

After Zhu Youjian listened, instead of panic and anger, he suddenly laughed:
"I finally couldn't bear it anymore, and finally exposed the fox's tail. Let them make trouble. This is the day I've been waiting for."

Zhu Youjian's words made both Qinglong and Cao Zhengchun puzzled by Monk Zhang Er. How could the emperor say that? Could it be that he was confused.

Qinglong cupped his hands and said:

"Your Majesty, why do you say that? This is not a trivial matter. The parade will turn into a riot, and some lawbreakers will definitely take advantage of the chaos to harm the people."

Cao Zhengchun also couldn't understand the emperor a bit:

"That's right, the world is just at peace now, and the southern region is an important source of tax revenue for Daming. If there is a riot, it will definitely affect the stability of Daming."

If it is said that the Ming Dynasty is rotten to the root, the southern gentry officials should bear the main responsibility.

After Zhu Youjian crossed, he hadn't attacked the southern gentry, but he was waiting for them to try their best.

Seeing the confused looks of the two capable generals, Zhu Youjian sneered:
"Hmph, party struggles and infighting are their specialty, if these people are not eliminated, Daming's persistent disease will always exist.

Let Jin Yiwei closely monitor them, especially the more active literati and gentry, and write down the names for me.

If they are just making trouble in the streets and not affecting or hurting the people, then don't touch them for now.

I will give you a secret decree to mobilize the local army. Once someone is found to take advantage of the opportunity to smash, loot, and burn, he will immediately send troops to suppress it. All rebels will be killed without mercy. "

"According to the purpose"

After hearing the emperor's will, Qinglong Cao Zhengchun was overjoyed.

This is the decisive emperor in their hearts. They smiled at each other, took the secret decree and turned to leave the Qianqing Palace.

Protests and demonstrations in the south have developed from Suzhou Prefecture to Zhenjiang, Changzhou, and even Nanjing.

As the flow of people increased, it gradually turned into a riot, and some people started beating, smashing, looting and burning.

In a painting boat on the Qinhuai River, Zhang Ruoqi, Zheng Si, Wang Duo, Zhao Zhilong and others were all happily talking about wine.

They were not worried about the situation getting out of control. For them, the more chaos the Ming Dynasty had, the better. It was best to overthrow Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian directly.

Zhang Ruolin raised his wine glass and laughed triumphantly:
"Hahaha, today's dog emperor has no way, and he doesn't pay attention to the gentry and literati. We are also petitioning for heaven. It must be very satisfying!"

Wang Duo also got up and raised his glass:
"During the Wanli period, eunuchs were sent to Jiangnan to collect taxes, what happened?
As a result, he was beaten to death by our Jiangnan literati, and Wanli did not dare to impose any punishment. "

Zheng Si also toasted with a sinister smile on his face:

"Of course, in the future, scholars should coexist with Zhu, Hong Wu is a cowherd, only literati can rule the world with him..."

"Hahaha... Cheers..."

The leaders of the older generation of literati were either killed by Zhu Youjian, or retreated behind the scenes.

They are the current literati leaders in Jiangnan. In their view, if the old Zhu family wants to govern the world, they cannot do without them.

Even if the Korean and Chinese officials are temporarily suppressed by military officials, the court will still be in the hands of their civilian officials in the near future.

And those who support them are huge gentlemen and literati, which are extremely rampant.

However, when they were overjoyed, they forgot that there is an old saying in China that extreme joy begets sorrow.

After clinking glasses, before the wine glass was brought to his mouth, he suddenly heard a cold voice:
"Hahaha, it's just a bunch of rotten scholars who dare to criticize the current sage behind their backs..."

(End of this chapter)