Daming: My brother-in-law is Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 371 Is it wrong to respect Confucianism and abide by etiquette? !

"How cautious Uncle Guo is, I naturally can't guess accurately. But I did not expect that His Majesty did not choose to be Emperor Han Jing, and presumably Wen Ruogong did not."

Pan Ji'en smiled bitterly, and then said: "It can be said that His Majesty betrayed his ministers. Thinking about it now, Uncle Guo is still different from Chao Cuo, and maybe His Majesty's thinking is also different from Emperor Han Jing."

"How can Emperor Han Jing compare with His Majesty?"

"Using Uncle Guo's words, His Majesty does not only regard himself as the biggest landlord in the world, nor is his thinking limited to internal fighting. To be precise, His Majesty never only thinks about himself!"

"Only the emperor who only thinks about himself will be successfully used by you. You just think that your majesty thinks the same as you, but you don't know that your majesty, as a person who likes to invent and create, is essentially tired of being the same. I want the common people in the world to be better because of his transformation."

Zhou Neng said.

After finishing speaking, Zhou Neng ordered: "Bring Tian Jingyuan here!"

Not long after, Tian Jingyuan was escorted here.

After seeing Tian Jingyuan, Zhou Neng asked directly: "Tian Jingyuan, you have been listening for a while now, right? What he Pan Jien said is true?"

Tian Jingyuan nodded.

But at this time, Liu Hongxun yelled from the side: "My surname is Tian, ​​I would like to ask you, as a child of a sage, where is your conscience? He Yang Sichang asked you to frame this old man, so you framed him! Thanks to this old man, I still believe in you and support you." you."

After Tian Jingyuan heard this, he also replied loudly: "Liu Yuanfu, I am sorry for you! But is Uncle Zhang Guo not responsible for this matter?! If Uncle Zhang Guo hadn't asked Zhu Zhiyu to deliberately pull people into the water, we wouldn't have used your boss ?!"

Bang!
Zhou Neng kicked Tian Jingyuan directly, and roared: "Clean up my mouth! Is it addictive to frame Uncle Guo?"

Tian Jingyuan didn't dare to say any more, he just said: "If you want to kill or cut, please do it!"

After that, Pan Ji'en and Tian Jingyuan were all killed, and the nine clans were also exiled to Sakhalin Island.

Liu Hongxun was also released from prison because it was found out that he was not the mastermind behind Tian Jingyuan.

Chen Zizhuang added that he was a bachelor, and he was still in charge of the Ministry of Rites.

So since then, people have called Chen Zizhuang the Chen Gebu.

There was a precedent in the Longqing Dynasty for a bachelor to concurrently manage affairs. Gao Gong also served as a minister of the Ministry of Officials as a bachelor.

However, generally speaking, it is rare for such a cabinet scholar to also be in charge of the six ministries.

But now, Tianqi asked Chen Zizhuang to concurrently manage the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, mainly because among the current Qingliu officials, there are not many Qingliu civil officials who can be trusted.

No one knows how many of these Qingliu civil servants sincerely support Neo-Confucianism. Although many Qingliu civil servants have taken advantage of the trend to express their position that they do not support Solo Confucianism, Tianqi can only trust Chen Zizhuang, a Qingliu official who was born in the Imperial Academy. .

After all, recently reactionary civil servants have always appeared in the position of the Ministry of Rites, which is a concentration of pure officials.

And Chen Zizhuang and the emperor are bound by interests.

People can believe in no relationship, but they can only believe in the relationship of interest.

After Liu Hongxun came out, he also had to admit that it was not Uncle Zhang Guo who actually framed him, but people like Yang Sichang, and the reason was that he wanted to make himself a victim of public opinion created by them.

People's hearts are sinister, Liu Hongxun has learned a lot now, and he dare not stand out against Zhang Gui in a foolish way, and then be used as a gunman.

In the face of absolute strength, any strategy is pale and powerless.

Because Zhang Gui had tied the most powerful emperor to his chariot, he had also mastered absolute strength, and it was only then that Yang Sichang, a behind-the-scenes opponent who started from various aspects of the industrial department, factory guards, and Qingliu civil servants, unexpectedly His life was ended in a simple and rude way.

The Manchu Dynasty was not shocked by Yang Sichang's death.

Because Yang Sichang had long been despised by civil servants and bureaucrats because he became a military general, not to mention, people like Wu Weiye scolded Yang Sichang for his reputation before that.

Of course, Yang Sichang himself did some things that did not please the conservative ministers in order to paralyze Zhang Gui and the emperor, so after Yang Sichang was killed, there was not much disturbance.

The courtiers now have to turn their attention to the upcoming battle against the puppet dynasty in the south.

Long before Tianqi and Zhang Gui left Beijing to defeat the Gao Chongjian Department of the Puppet Dynasty, Lu Xiangsheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, had been ordered to mobilize troops from all over the country, mainly outside the customs and newly established overseas areas, in order to completely wipe out the puppet dynasty in the south.

Now a few months later, the army has been assembled one after another, the money, food and supplies are almost ready, and the officers and soldiers are almost rested.

Zhang Gui was also re-appointed as the supervisor of several provinces in the south, and became the commander in name of going south to pacify the imperial court. Zhu Xieyuan, a civil servant who made great achievements in pacifying the barbarians in the southwest, was appointed as the governor of the five provinces with the title of minister of the Ministry of war, and was actually the commander. .

The reason why Zhang Gui wants to go together is because many of the governors in the governing places are already reformists, and Yuan Keli, Chen Zizhuang, and Lu Xiangsheng are going to sit in the center, so a reformist official is needed as the commander to coordinate all aspects The contradictions ensure that Zhu Xieyuan's Jun order will be delivered.

Otherwise, if the governors at all levels do not want Zhu Xieyuan to make meritorious service easily, they can use various legal methods to restrain Zhu Xieyuan.

On the side of the puppet dynasty in the south, they have also begun to discuss how to resist the court to destroy them.

"The current plan, only uniting barbarians and destroying bandits can preserve orthodoxy!"

Therefore, Wang Wenkui put forward his own idea, which is similar to that proposed by the civil servants of the Hongguang regime in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty to unite the captives and suppress the invaders.

Wang Wenkui and other ministers agreed with this, and decided to continue to strengthen cooperation with foreign barbarians and fight against the imperial court.

Obviously, the scholar-officials in the puppet dynasty who advocated the sole respect of Confucianism and the restoration of the ancestral system would rather count on the barbarians than count on the Han people under their rule who were willing to support them.

The key point is that Wang Wenkui's so-called strategy of "uniting barbarians and destroying bandits" is to spend money to hire barbarian soldiers to fight for Ming Dynasty.

And hiring foreigners naturally needs money.

Therefore, by doing this, Wang Wenkui and other puppet scholar-bureaucrats are obviously creating opportunities for themselves to make a fortune. Therefore, in the name of the puppet emperor, they issued a taxation title of "employing barbarians".

Sometimes one has to wonder whether these people are really rebelling, or are they really just trying to make money in the name of rebellion.

Of course, this may not be up to them.

The actual "employment salary" levied on the people is naturally many times higher than the nominal tax increase.

Wang Wenkui and other puppet ministers naturally made a lot of money.

It's just that the people are more miserable. Not only a large number of poor and middle peasants have gone bankrupt, but even many rich peasants have begun to go bankrupt.

Wei Boxiang, who defected from the country, couldn't bear to see this, so he had to ask to see Wang Wenkui, reflecting the burden of the people, and said: "It's rare that the center can't see it, the whole Guangzhou government is starving and dying!"

Wang Wenkui said: "The people's livelihood is difficult, and I know it, but the fortune is so far, so I can only persevere."

Wei Boxiang said: "If you insist any more, the common people will rebel! Restoring the ancestral system and respecting Confucianism alone should not be for the convenience of expropriating the people. What kind of extra wages must be added to exploit the people!"

Wang Wenkui slapped the table suddenly: "Don't talk so nonsense. Now that the imperial court has restored the ancestral system and respected Neo-Confucianism, the court is full of people, and the officials are clear and bright. Where are there any corrupt officials?! Corrupt officials are everywhere. That is the north controlled by the treacherous minister Zhang Gui." The situation of the puppet dynasty is not our situation! Could it be that you are going to say that it is wrong to restore the ancestral system, respect Neo Confucianism, and abide by ethics?!"

(End of this chapter)