The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

But having said that, the opposition of the aristocratic families and powerful people headed by Wu Pinghou to the emperor's implementation of the three new policies of apportionment of children into acres and the return of fire to the public has completely come to an end, but this does not mean that these three new policies were implemented very smoothly.

The imperial power did not go to the countryside, and many local officials simply regarded it as ignorant of the three new policies, including the sharing of land between tenants and the return of fire to the public. They thought that the mountains were high and the emperor was far away, and they had the final say on whether to implement the three new policies. The emperor would not know that they had not implemented the three new policies. Unfortunately, they underestimated the emperor.

The emperor always knew the faces of local officials and had already sent dragon guards to various places to keep an eye on them. Once it was discovered that the local officials did not implement the new policy, the Dragon Guards directly punished them and then exiled them to Lingnan.

Every time Zhao Yao wrote a memorial to the emperor, he would tell the emperor that there were too few people in the Marsh Mansion. The emperor would deceive these officials, who were both obedient and inactive, and were directly exiled to Lingnan to add coolies to Zhao Yao.

It was learned that the emperor directly sent his cronies to inspect the implementation of the three new policies in various places, and that those officials who did not implement the three new policies were exiled to Lingnan. Other local officials were frightened and did not dare not implement the three new policies. .

The emperor was particularly ruthless and went out of his way to announce in the morning meeting the local officials who had not implemented the three new policies. Of course, their fate was also announced. By the way, this incident was also publicized in the Di newspaper, letting officials from all over the Zhou Dynasty know about it.

The officials in the capital are all thankful that they have implemented the three new policies honestly and did not violate them like local officials, otherwise their end may be even worse.

Marquis Wu Ping and the others were extremely lucky that they recognized and compromised in time. If they had continued to protest according to the original plan, they would have ended badly.

However, what frightened the civil and military officials the most was that the emperor actually sent his trusted secret guards to various places to monitor whether local officials implemented the three new policies. The most terrifying thing is that these trusted secret guards can actually find out everything without anyone noticing. Could it be that the emperor's trusted secret guards were also spying on them?

For a moment, fear shrouded the hearts of all the civil and military officials in the court, and they all wondered whether there were secret guards monitoring their every move. However, they thought about it carefully later and realized that if someone was really watching their every move, they would have been demoted or even beheaded long ago. It is estimated that the emperor sent secret guards to keep an eye on the local officials because they did not implement the new policy properly. With this thought, the ministers felt a lot more relieved.

In the study room of Prince Chu's Mansion, Prince Chu was chatting with Yang Ling.

Yang Ling asked: "Your Highness, do you think the emperor really sent secret guards to keep an eye on the officials in the capital?"

"My father is not so idle. He keeps an eye on every move and word and deed of the officials." King Chu felt that some people thought that his father sent people to monitor them because they had evil intentions. "If the emperor really sent people to monitor them and knew everything they did, would they still be fine now?" There are only a few ministers in the court who have clean butts. If the emperor really sent people to keep an eye on them, , knowing everything about them, then they would have been dealt with by the father long ago.

Yang Ling stroked his beard and said with a smile: "I think the emperor will send people to keep an eye on those aristocratic families."

"The aristocratic family must keep an eye on it, but not the other ministers." After all, the aristocratic family is dishonest.

"Many ministers in the DPRK are probably worried now."

King Chu sneered: "It's better to scare them and let them know they are afraid."

Hearing this, Yang Ling chuckled and said, "There are no ministers in the court who are not afraid of the emperor." What happened this time only made the ministers more afraid of the emperor.

"This is the majesty of my father." Compared with his father, he was really far behind.

"His Royal Highness the King of Han is very similar to the Emperor."

When the King of Chu saw that Yang Ling suddenly talked about Zhao Yao who was far away in Lingnan, he raised his eyebrows slightly: "How does the tenth brother look like my father?"

"Your Highness, just a few days after His Highness the King of Han went to Marsh Mansion, he killed all the officials of Marsh Mansion." Yang Ling said, "I heard that His Highness the King of Han also killed many officials who arrived from other prefectures some time ago."

The King of Chu knew about this matter, and because of this matter, Zhao Yao was also involved by the censors.

"Those officials in Lingnan did all kinds of evil. There is nothing wrong with my tenth brother killing them."

"But His Highness the King of Han killed no one alive. Don't you think this is cruel?" Yang Ling said again, "The Emperor also killed all the aristocratic families in Yangzhou and the officials of the Jinling Mansion before. In this regard, His Highness the King of Han is very similar to the Emperor. ."

"Both the father and the tenth brother killed the people who deserved to be killed."

Yang Ling raised her eyes and looked deeply at the King of Chu, and asked sharply: "If it were you, Your Highness, could you kill all those guilty officials?"

King Chu was stunned for a moment when he was asked, and then he said: "I can." "Your Highness, you can't!" Yang Ling said this very decisively, "Your Highness, you will kill half and keep half, but you won't do all of them. Kill them all. You know that their sin is unforgivable, but you will leave half of them to forgive their sin."

King Chu was speechless by Yang Ling. Although he just said he would, if it really happened, he would not kill everyone like Yang Ling said.

"Your Highness, you will implement the law without blaming others, but the Emperor and His Highness the King of Han don't care. They believe that the officials have committed serious crimes. No matter how many people there are, even if they are thousands of people, they should be dealt with according to the law." Yang Ling He said with a serious face, "Your Highness, this is the biggest difference between you and the Emperor."

"Sir, do you think my father shouldn't kill so many officials?"

"The emperor killed well, but I don't think it is necessary to kill them all. This will be bad for the emperor's reputation and will leave a cruel reputation in the history books."

King Chu said: "Father, I don't care about reputation."

Yang Ling asked again: "Your Highness, can you be as careless about reputation as the Emperor?"

The King of Chu pondered for a while and said: "As long as it is good for the people, I don't care about reputation."

"Your Highness, take the emperor's insistence on building the canal a few years ago as an example." Yang Ling said, "Let's not talk about the money spent to build the canal for now. Just say that building the canal requires hundreds of thousands of people. During this period, there are Many people died during the construction of the canal. Because of this incident, the people were very dissatisfied with the emperor. In the past two years, many people opposed the construction of the canal, but the emperor insisted on continuing to build the canal. If it were you, you would stand up to the people If you feel dissatisfied and cursed, should you continue to practice?”

Just as King Chu was about to answer, he heard Yang Ling say: "Your Highness, when you learn that thousands of people died during the construction of the canal, you will soften your heart and stop continuing to build the canal."

"I..." King Chu wanted to say that he would continue to practice, but he couldn't lie.

"Your Highness, you will stop." Yang Ling knew the temperament of King Chu very well. "I remember that His Highness the King of Han was involved in building the canal. He proposed to the Emperor where to build it, right?"

The King of Chu nodded slightly and said: "The tenth brother is very good at water conservancy. It was also the tenth brother's suggestion on how to rectify the Yellow River. So my father wanted to build a canal, so he asked the tenth brother for his opinion. So the tenth brother proposed to build a canal from the south to North Canal.”

"I have to say that His Highness the King of Han is really powerful. He is even proficient in building water conservancy." Yang Ling brought the topic back up. "If it were His Highness the King of Han, he would insist on building the canal just like the emperor, no matter how many people died."

The King of Chu did not refute Yang Ling's words.

"When His Highness the King of Han arrived in Marsh Mansion, he started a large-scale construction project, building docks, building official roads, building restaurants, etc. The people in Marsh Mansion were not enough for him. He also transferred exiled prisoners from other states to work in Marsh Mansion."

King Chu frowned: "Sir, do you think this is bad?"

Yang Ling sighed: "His Royal Highness the Han Dynasty wanted to build the Marsh Mansion, but he was too anxious. He just went to the Marsh Mansion. He should focus on recuperating and recuperating instead of going to war and doing so many things. The people of the Marsh Mansion cannot withstand His Highness the Han Dynasty. "

King Chu did not expect this.

"Your Highness, there is nothing wrong with you being different from the Emperor in this respect." Yang Ling said with a smile, "Your Highness, you have a soft and kind heart, which is your advantage." Yang Ling did not know the advantages of the King of Chu that he said , a shortcoming in the eyes of the emperor.

King Chu looked at Yang Ling and said with a very solemn expression: "Thank you for your compliment, Mr."

Yang Ling didn't talk about it anymore and changed the subject to talk about King Zheng's upcoming return to Beijing. A few days ago, the emperor ordered King Zheng to return to Beijing.

King Zheng was on his way back to Beijing at this time.

"Your Highness, are you really not going to send someone to intercept King Zheng on the way?" If he guessed correctly, King Dai and King Jing had already sent people to assassinate King Zheng.

King Chu said with a gloomy face: "Let him die on the way, it will be an advantage for him."