Chapter 143 Daming Leaves You Still Go
Wang Mang only usurped power, not overthrew the former Han.

On the other hand, Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, and the feudal aristocracy of the Yuan Dynasty underwent a major purge.Millions of people died in the entire Central Plains, with blood flowing, and most of those from the aristocratic forces died.

Even some old feudal nobles were directly exterminated, and new feudal nobles have not yet grown up.

Zhu Yuanzhang remembered what Qin Yu said to him, the establishment of a new dynasty is the best time to bring the land back to the imperial court.

And there is another reason that provides the possibility for Zhu Yuanzhang to finally succeed in implementing the public land system, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang can use a stronger hand than Wang Mang.

Wang Mang's usurpation of power was backed by the support of the feudal nobles. His practice of the common land system violated the interests of the nobles who supported him, and he would betray his relatives and leave.And Zhu Yuanzhang did not have the support of the feudal nobles behind him. He relied on soldiers and horses to bring down the world.

The cards behind Zhu Yuanzhang were those Huaixi generals and their soldiers.

If those feudal nobles who have not grown up are disobedient, he can kill them.

Furthermore, Wang Mang was usurping power and was cast aside by the people, and he was not popular with the people.On the other hand, Zhu Yuanzhang restored the Han family from the hands of foreigners, and has a high prestige in the hearts of the people and won the hearts of the people.

Wang Mang implemented the communal land system without any conditions for success, while the conditions for Zhu Yuanzhang's implementation were very mature.

However, these reasons obviously cannot be explained to the ministers.

"Your Majesty, the usurping thief Wang Mang, really can't be compared with your Majesty." At this time, Li Shanchang said again, "But the fall of Wang Mang's new dynasty is enough to show that the public land system is full of drawbacks and cannot be imitated."

"Please the emperor cancel this new policy."

"Wang Mang's new dynasty is a lesson from the past."

"Please think twice, Your Majesty!"

……

Seeing that Li Shanchang, the prime minister of Zhongshu Province, came out to speak, the ministers seemed to have found the backbone and said one after another.

There was no substantive reason for Li Shanchang's concluding remarks just now. It was just a simple analogy with Wang Mang's new dynasty. There was no nutrition, and the ministers could not tell the specific drawbacks of the common land system.

This point has been keenly captured by Zhu Yuanzhang.

I sneered in my heart: You all stood up against it, isn't it because the return of the land to the imperial court has affected the interests of all of you?
Now the court is collectively opposed, and no one supports him.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had already realized what it was like to be a dominatrix.

When Yongzheng implemented the New Deal, hundreds of people from the imperial court threatened to resign en masse.At that time, he stood alone in the court and faced all the ministers. It is estimated that he felt the same as Zhu Yuanzhang now.

The people betrayed their relatives.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked cold and glanced at everyone.

Touching Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, in an instant, the noisy courtroom became quiet again.

"Please take back the emperor's order, abandon the abuse of Wang Mang, the usurped king, who has been abandoned by the world, and let the monarchs and ministers in the court be united." At this time, a minister named Gu Jishi stood up and said.

He didn't want to stand up, but someone told him to stand up.

What made him stand out was his peak, and it was enough to make a look at the peak.If he dares to be disobedient, the end will be miserable.

When no one dared to disobey the emperor, the role of cannon fodder was revealed.

"Okay, okay!" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "What a monarch and minister with one mind. Come, drag it down, behead!"

It is obvious that such a major move of converting private land into public land cannot be implemented without bloodshed.The emperor kills, sometimes not because of likes and dislikes, nor because the other party has committed a crime, but must kill.

Zhu Yuanzhang did this just to tell the ministers a truth:
Wang Mang left the nobles who supported him, and the new dynasty could not function.But the Ming Dynasty left you, and the court continued.

Watching Gu Jishi being dragged out to be beheaded, the civil and military ministers inside and outside the top were trembling and afraid to speak.The crowd already knew in their hearts that whoever objected at this time would be the next Gu Jishi.

Emperor Zhu was decisive in killing anyone he wanted to kill.

Therefore, the emperor's decision, it is best not to object.

Under the bright future, the emperor is still in charge.

They were not the princes and nobles of Wang Mang's period, and they could not influence the political situation of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if the emperor killed all the civil servants, it would be enough to change another batch.

The only thing that can make Emperor Zhu jealous, it is estimated that only all Huaixi generals will unite against him.But that is simply impossible. Most of Huaixi's generals are his confidants, his adopted son and righteous nephew, and they are loyal to him.

"Who else stands up to oppose us?" Zhu Yuanzhang said indifferently, "Be bold, maybe this is another rare opportunity for you to leave a name in the history."

The ministers were even more frightened when they heard the words. The last time he said this, Wang Lei was executed by the nine clans!
The most important thing is that Wang Lei did not have a name in the history, but was sold by a group of civil servants. Now it is said that he is short-sighted and almost mistaken for the country.He and his nine clans were dead in vain.

Not only did he not leave a good name, but he left an infamy.

……

"Your Majesty." At this moment, Liu Bowen stood up and spoke.

"Bowen, why, you also want to oppose us taking the land to the imperial court?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.People like Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong wanted to oppose it, but they pushed out the minions under their hands, but he stood up by himself.

"No, this minister just wants to tell a historical fact." Liu Bowen said, "When Wang Mang implemented the public land system, a minister named Ou Bo rebuked him and said: Although Jingtian is a holy king, it has been abandoned for a long time... The resurrection of Yao and Shun, without the gradual progress of a hundred years, cannot be done. The world was initially set, and the people were newly attached, and it was not possible to implement it... This means that according to the conditions of the new dynasty at that time, even if Yao and Shun were resurrected, they would not be able to realize what he implemented. Public land system. Because the world had just settled down at that time and the people had just joined the new dynasty, there was no way to implement it."

"Listed as a ministerial worker, have you heard it?" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The law of the holy king of Jingtian has been abandoned for a long time... Gongtian is the law of the holy king, but it has been abandoned for too long. The Jingtian system was implemented in the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. It was perfected during the Zhou Dynasty. Confucius often said that the Zhou ritual should be restored, and the Zhou ritual should be restored. Now that we are returning the land to the imperial court, we are restoring the Zhou ritual.”

"You scholars who read books on sages and sages all day, actually stand up against each other. Your books on sages and sages have all been read into the stomach of a dog? You are opposing Confucius' thinking!"

The ministers were dumbfounded when they heard the words, and they all immediately understood that Zhu Yuanzhang was not only capable of fighting.There were only a few 'loopholes' in Liu Bowen's words, and he was keenly caught.

Moreover, he also said that the well-field system was implemented during the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and was perfected in the Zhou Dynasty.Regarding this period of history, the "Historical Records" only recorded one or two sentences without details, so no matter how knowledgeable the civil officials of the dynasty were, they could not find historical facts to refute it.

(End of this chapter)

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