Lu Ming

Chapter 476 The Golden Temple Splashes ([-])

The old Zhu's family has ancestral skills in killing courtiers.

Needless to say, Zhu Yuanzhang.In later generations, people may not be able to talk about Lao Zhu's other achievements, but people must be familiar with the two verbs with profound connotations, cleaning the old brother, and the peeling last grass and melon vine he created.

An emperor who left his name in history by inventing a new model of killing officials is no one else.

The next Zhu Di is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

Zhu Di, who is equivalent to re-founding the country, is naturally murderous in the face of a large number of former officials with questionable loyalty.

After that, the successor emperor will die.The latecomers first faced the increasingly stable court structure and the increasingly powerful scholar-bureaucrat group—in the early days of the dynasty, there were few social conflicts, the growth rate of the bottom population increased, and the power of the landlord class expanded accordingly.

Secondly, the conservative emperors had neither the ability and vigor to found a country, nor enough political prestige.In a word, Yu Guo has no merit.You, a rich N generation who came to power by blood, how can you kill people in large numbers?So in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor retreated step by step in front of the scholar-bureaucrat group, and there was such a funny show as defrauding the court.

Not to mention Zhu Baba's funny script of civil servants, even in Zhu Di's era, it would have ended up killing the whole family.

Then it's the end of tomorrow.

At this time, the situation turned to another extreme: social conflicts broke out, the scholar-bureaucrat group could no longer hold the situation, and then everyone happened to meet a young emperor who was not capable enough but was determined to turn the tide.

So it's a tragedy.

After realizing that he was taking over a super mess, the impatient Emperor Chongzhen began to attack officials.

At this time, the bureaucratic group also lost its confidence-the current situation has become like this, the scholar-official group in charge of specific administration, annexing the world's land, and dividing up the country's tax revenue is not responsible. Could it be that the pot is thrown to hide in the palace to do carpentry work? the emperor?
After Chongzhen came to power, the bureaucrats were quite happy at first, because Jiuqian Sui and the Eunuch Party were dealt with first.

However, when the young emperor found out that the situation had not changed, it became even worse. Not to mention that the court was out of balance, and even the capital was surrounded by Tartars, the emperor's anger was aimed at these people on the stage.

Ever since he cut Yuan Chonghuan, Chongzhen raised the butcher knife without hesitation, and began to let himself go, never returning on the road of incompetence and rage.
In this Jisi change, apart from Yuan Chonghuan who was directly killed, there are actually many other ministers who were directly and indirectly killed by the emperor.

The academician Qian Longxi was sentenced to death for being implicated in the Yuan case. Later, he narrowly escaped his life and almost became the second chief assistant whose head was beheaded by the emperor since Ariake.This gentleman was later assigned to Xu Shou Ding Haiwei. In the end of the Chongzhen Dynasty, he was not allowed to return after two amnesties.

However, Qian Longxi's fate is still good.

During the Jisi Incident, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, was killed in Chongzhen, Wang Qia, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, was imprisoned, and three doctors were beaten to death with random sticks.Qiao Yunsheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, and Qian Longxi, a bachelor, were imprisoned and sentenced to be exiled after being hanged, and Han Jisi was succeeded by Han Jisi.

Liu Ce, the governor of Jiliao, Zhang Xianshi, the commander-in-chief, Geng Ruqi, the governor of Shanxi, and Zhang Honggong, the commander-in-chief, asked to be executed.
Those who were dismissed like Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, were actually considered lucky.

The above-mentioned officials who were directly killed by Chongzhen will be accompanied by varying numbers of middle and low-level criminals behind them.A group of officials who surrendered in Yongping, such as Li Jichun, the second and fifth boy who was hacked to death by the order of Chongzhen in history, are nothing, and they can't get on the stage at all.

With just one change in himself, Chongzhen has gained a lot of prestige.

Chongzhen was not as domineering as the founding emperor when he dealt with officials.Zhu Yuanzhang killed people regardless of civil or martial arts. He often ransacked his family and exterminated his family, and even brought his neighbors along with him.

And Chongzhen is still a bit restrained here.Not only was he unable to take the sword against powerful warlords like Zu Dashou, but he also seldom ransacked the families of ministers.

However, this is scary enough: in the late Ming society, there was air leakage and smoke everywhere, and these incompetent talkative scholars and bureaucrats were full of mistakes in front of Chongzhen. If they really wanted to kill them, they would kill them if they wanted. Out.

After hundreds of years of peace, the scholar-bureaucrats who had been arrogant throughout the middle and late Ming Dynasty were awakened by Chongzhen in the recent period of precariousness when the country was founded.

In today's battle in Huangji Palace, although the script was still designed by the civil servants, one core has changed: the civil servants can no longer defeat Uncle Zhongyong by reversing black and white, making strong words, and having a large number of people as before.

In front of a biased Chongzhen, if he wanted to overthrow someone surnamed Cao, he had to come up with real evidence based on facts.In addition, no matter whether it succeeds or not today, the initiators will probably have to pay a price——Xu Bengao, Wei Xu, and Hangjiahu Counselor Nanjing Military Department, etc., are about to pay the price.What is uncertain now is how many people will Chongzhen kill this time?
Seeing that the group of people who came to besiege him aggressively just now had all retreated to the train, Uncle Zhongyong was full of arrogance at this moment.

I saw him stepping forward with his chest and stomach protruding, walked to the opposite side of a group of civil servants with big headscarves, then slapped his chest hard according to the established reckless persona, raised his thumb, pointed at the tip of his nose and said arrogantly: "Old Cao, I was born recklessly. I never turn corners in my actions, and I pay attention to being open and aboveboard!"

"The Xu family sent troops to beat me, and I sent troops to bombard his house. This is called retaliation!"

"Today in the Golden Luan Hall, in front of the emperor, I, my old Cao, have a clear conscience, and I said the same thing!"

Uncle Zhongyong suddenly turned around and bowed his waist, clasped his fists to the throne and said, "Your Majesty, Lao Cao went to bombard Xu's family that day, but none of his soldiers disembarked, and he gave Xu's family a stick of incense to escape."

"In the end, Lao Cao just blasted an empty house to vent his anger, and thousands of people on both sides of the Huangpu River can testify!"

Chongzhen on the stage nodded gently when he heard this: Compared with those civil servants who talk cloudy and act irresponsibly on weekdays, Cao Zongbing's way is more in the emperor's appetite.

"Cao Qing can rest assured, I will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly."

Seeing the duo colluding in public, Hou Xun, the behind-the-scenes chief planner of this political tide, became a little anxious: Bandits Cao actually wiped out and beat them up, not only cleaning up the "abuse of the people", but also compromising their own side and damaging the generals. The hall uttered unreasonable words, it is really impossible to allow this beast to be rampant again.

However, to his surprise, the snipers who had been arranged before were all dumbfounded at this meeting, and no one stood up and continued to hate Cao.

Seeing that the situation is not good, Hou Xun can only play shirtless.He stood up from the queue and said coldly to Uncle Zhongyong: "Cao Chuan, don't rush to be arrogant, you must not slip away from the twelve major crimes in the memorial!"

"Tch, this hall official, I will teach you to be a good boy today. If you want to convict someone, one sentence is enough."

Cao Zongbing came to the capital for only a few days, and he didn't actually know Hou Xun, but this didn't prevent him from hating others.After exchanging words, Cao Zongbing began to pick up the memorial and continued to defend himself against the remaining charges.

The remaining charges, excluding those who are useless to make up the scale, are actually the most core accusations of "rebellion" that everyone knows, referring to the production model and the absorption of refugees.

What made the scholar-bureaucrats restless was that apart from absorbing refugees, the industrialized farming model implemented by the crossing people in Taiwan was the key point.

As for those factories that are really deadly, the scholar-bureaucrats can't sum up anything.Now is the seventeenth century, and people can't infer the horror of the production line just from the description in the brochure.

Regarding the above two points, they are actually related to each other. Uncle Zhongyong then gave a reasonable explanation.

First of all, Uncle Zhongyong still generously admitted the matter of plowing the fields, and explained to everyone in the hall that he had led his brothers to drive away the savages in Tainan and occupied the vast plain before he was recruited.

After that, because of the lack of food, his men couldn't eat enough, so he began to trade with overseas Alaska merchants who were good at making tools, bought iron carts for farming from that country, and introduced some workshops.

Having said this, Uncle Zhongyong spread his hands and questioned the officials in the palace: "There are a lot of wild fields but few people cultivate them. Lao Cao, I try to buy some iron oxen to plow the fields. What is the crime?"

After asking this sentence, Uncle Zhongyong took advantage of the situation and talked about recruiting refugees: Tieniu is not omnipotent, the number is small and difficult to serve, so he needs to recruit refugees from Daming to work and farm.

The next moment, Uncle Zhongyong threw out his trump card.

He told everyone present: the fertile plain that is as large as a county, over the years, the savages on it have been cleaned up by his brothers, and water conservancy projects have also been repaired.

Not only that, he also bought the secret method to restrain miasma from Alaska.Today, Tainan is no longer an overseas evil island that people have heard and changed, but a well-known rich place in Fujian and Guangdong.

The most important thing is, he is loyal and brave, sir, when did he say that people are not allowed to buy land and fields?
After saying this, Uncle Zhongyong and the officials looked at each other, and the time paused for a few seconds.The next moment, there was a burst of whispering in the train.

The quick-responsive courtiers had figured out what Uncle Zhongyong meant: everyone present can go to Taiwan to buy land, and then send people to plow the fields.In this way, the so-called accusation ceased to exist—the land was bought by the gentry, so naturally they could grow it however they wanted, wouldn’t it become a prefecture of Daming?
So Hou Xun was dumbfounded.

Uncle Zhongyong continued to say loudly at this time: "In the land in Yizhou, the rice is harvested twice a year. As long as someone is willing to pay for it, I will sell it! The price is only five taels of silver per mu, and the whole land can be sold for a hundred hectares. I’m not serving you yet, this project is called attracting investment.”

Seeing the shocked and greedy eyes of the courtiers, Uncle Zhongyong laughed, turned around and said to Chongzhen: "Don't worry, your majesty, in fact, Lao Cao also prepared Huangzhuang to give gifts in Yizhou early in the morning, and there will be production and delivery on time from now on." Entering the capital, I still hope to accept it!"

Seeing this country turtle openly bribed the emperor in the temple, all the courtiers were shocked at this moment.

Chongzhen laughed out loud when he heard the words, until tears flowed from his laughter.

(End of this chapter)