Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 319 There are many aristocratic families in Jiangnan

After coming out of the palace, Zhu Zhen was actually helpless.

This man's heart and thoughts are changing every moment according to the general environment and time.

Just like Zhu Yuanzhang, Xu Da was critically ill and was about to die. He was sentimental about old Zhu Yuanzhang, thinking that the old brother would be separated forever. At this time, Xu Da was his biological brother.

But once Xu Da recovered from his illness, Lao Zhu was worried. If he was ahead, what would happen if the Xu family became powerful? The Han Dynasty showed the threat of foreign relatives.

For example, Wang Mang actually cut off the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty because of his powerful relatives.

Including the general He Jin in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, didn't he also cause his relatives to interfere in the government?

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude and thoughts are different. Before, Zhu Yuanzhang could reveal his thoughts to Xu Da and expressed his idea of ​​​​supporting Zhu Zhen to rise to power. He wanted to learn from Confucianism and those aristocratic families, not to put eggs in one basket, but to hold on to both hands. .

Okay now, Uncle Xu, do you know what my father said after you left? He wants to take you away.

Zhu Chu's face turned dark.

At this time, the pressure was on Tang He's side again.

Now that Tang He is dying, Zhu Yuanzhang becomes sentimental again.

But just wait, wait until Tang is reconciled, then you can see how Lao Zhu will settle old scores for you and scold you for your faults.

Zhu Chu touched his handsome face with his hand, and said to himself that it was good that Qiu Hou settled accounts, and he was not like Lao Zhu.

Well, he has no shame at all.

"Alas," Zhu Ming sighed again. He even spent a lot of money on his marriage.

With more than 10 million resources, what can we do?

The most primitive model of the Big Pineapple light machine gun costs only 500,000 resources. You can buy 20 of them and form a most advanced and invincible special forces.

Such a force, even with only twenty machine gunners, can overwhelm an army of tens of thousands.

Even the new model of Big Pineapple only costs 800,000 yuan per hand.

"The original Tiger tank, without any weapons and equipment, only has 40 million resources." Zhu Ming looked up at the sky, always feeling that he was the wronged one.

What do you mean if it's not you, Lao Zhu? You thought you owed me something, so you promised me out, right? Harm me with all your strength?

It has nothing to do with whether Tang Xinpiao is beautiful or not. Zhu Zhen has also seen beauties of various ethnic groups, but his mind is not on this aspect at all.

He was also taken down by Mu Qiu too early, and later he stayed with Xu Miaojin. From the time he was able to do that, he really didn't lack this kind of nourishment.

So what Zhu Zhen is thinking about now is all the major events that will affect the world in the future.

Shaking his head, Zhu Chu waved his sleeves, walked squarely, came to the outside of the palace gate, and got on his little carriage.

Zhu Ming was about to go back, or drop by the Xu Mansion to chat with the girl.

Suddenly, before driving his car, Wang Fu poked his head in and said, "Your Highness, there is news."

"Oh? Where?" Zhu Zhen asked.

"It's over in Zhejiang," Wang Fu replied.

"So fast?" Zhu Ming raised his eyebrows and said with some surprise, "It seems that boy Li Gui did a good job. Let's go to the Shen Family Courtyard."

"Yes."

The carriage was swaying as it headed somewhere in the capital.

Not long after, the carriage arrived in front of a manor.

Seeing the decoration of the carriage, the man guarding the gate did not ask, but opened the gate and let him in directly. After that, he cautiously looked outside for a few times and quickly closed the gate after noticing that no one was looking this way.

"Why do you need to be so sneaky?" Zhu Zhen came out of the carriage and said angrily when he saw the guard guard: "It's unnecessary. If the Jin Yiwei wants to keep an eye on me, you can't prevent him."

There are countless Jin Yiwei secret sentries in the capital. To put it bluntly, even the servants in many ministers' homes may be Jin Yiwei.

Everyone in the world is a royal guard.

Therefore, Zhu Ming sneered at the actions of Shen's servants and asked, "Where is Shen Wang?"

"The common people have been waiting for His Highness for a long time," Shen Wang greeted him from inside.

Because he was used to Zhu Chu's behavior, Shen Wang did not make a big gift. Instead, he cupped his fists and bowed his hands in a salute. Then he turned sideways and made an invitation gesture, inviting Zhu Chu to come in and talk in detail.

Zhu Ming nodded, walked in, and came to the room in the front yard.

Shen Wang and Wang Fu followed closely behind.

After the three people came in, Zhu Zhen asked directly: "What news came from Li Gui?"

Although Li Gui is a Jin Yiwei, Zhu Zhen once gave him other tasks, and even asked Li Gui to secretly investigate the current Jin Yiwei commander Jiang Wei, wanting to know whether corruption has begun to appear among the Jin Yiwei.

After all, Jin Yiwei's status is extremely special. If Jiang Wei wanted something, other officials would be overjoyed to fawn over him.

To be honest, Zhu Zhen is not stingy and still resents Jiang Yu for being so complacent.

But for national events, given Jiang Yu's position, a rat stealing from the country was exposed from the seam of his hand. It was a huge loss to the people and the country and should not be easily ignored.

What's more, Jiang Wei has nothing worthy of Zhu Chu's trust. He believes in Li Gui more, because Li Gui is his own.

So this time Zhu Zhen gave Li Gui a secret order so that Li Gui could bypass the Jinyiwei system and convey the news directly to him through the Shen family caravan.

Jiang Wei may not know these things, because when Li Gui left, he transferred a school of Jinyi Guards. Although it was not a full-time staff of more than a thousand people, it was still at the level of a hundred households, with a full number of 120 people.

It is impossible to hide Jiang Wei. I am afraid that Li Gui and others were secretly informed to the capital as soon as they arrived in Zhejiang.

Zhu Yuanzhang may have known about it for a long time, but he would not interfere. After all, this was the order he gave to Zhu Ming.

"Your Highness, according to Mr. Li Gui's visits and secret investigations along the way, he found that there are 248 Jiangnan aristocratic families, mainly distributed near the core area of ​​Taihu Lake, including 83 in Jiaxing Prefecture and 57 in Suzhou Prefecture. , twenty-seven in Changzhou Prefecture, twenty-four in Songjiang Prefecture, twenty-four in Hangzhou Prefecture, twelve in Yingtian Prefecture, twelve in Huzhou Prefecture, seven in Taicang Prefecture, and two in Zhenjiang Prefecture," Shen Wang said.

Zhu Ming's whole body felt bad, and he whispered: "Why are there so many? Isn't this more than the chieftain families I had in Yunnan?"

At the beginning, the village chiefs of many small villages were counted as chieftains, but these so-called aristocratic families must have something, far beyond those of the small chieftain families.

So Zhu Chu was shocked. So many families were crowded in the Jiangnan area, which was the granary of the world. Jiangnan, known as a land of plenty, could afford to raise them. If it were another place, a large number of them would have starved to death.

What made Zhu Zhen even more embarrassed was: "With so many families, how many people are there? If we kill them all, I'm afraid the world will be shocked."

He sighed, full of regret.

Shen Wang's eyes widened and he looked at Zhu Zhen in shock, saying in his heart, Your Highness, I am already shocked.

Shen Wang never expected that Zhu Xi would actually say these words.

Kill them all? Catch all the Jiangnan aristocratic families and kill them all? Your Highness, Your Highness, thank you for speaking out.

Today's capital is the core of Jiangnan, which means that the capital is surrounded by layers of Jiangnan. Which of the civil servants and ministers in the court are not from Jiangnan families?

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang severely suppressed the Huaixi faction, which led to the rise of the Jiangnan region.

As for the north, because the core of the country is in the south of the Yangtze River, and the north has been fighting for years, the northern Shilin has not yet recovered.

It is equivalent to saying that the relationship between the current Ming Dynasty and the Jiangnan family is inextricably linked, the kind that breaks the bones and connects the tendons.

He actually said that he wanted to destroy the Jiangnan family? You might as well say that you want to change the ministers of the dynasty, that would be easier.

"How is the Zhang family?" Zhu Zhen asked suddenly.

Shen Wang thought for a while and said: "According to the information, there are four things in Jiangnan, which can be said to be 'the money of the Liu family, the talents of the Zhang family, the face of the Pang family, and the house of the Gu family'."

"Oh?" Zhu Zhen sneered: "No wonder Yan Shitai was killed by them."

Zhu Chu did not forget that he met Yan Shitai at the Golden Tooth Guard, which is now Yongchang Mansion.

Yan Shitai was originally a county magistrate. Just because he severely punished the children of the Zhang family who committed many evil deeds, he was ostracized by the aristocratic family, was even impeached and persecuted by the officialdom, and was eventually exiled.

If he hadn't met Zhu Ming, this upright and capable talent would have been buried, or even died under Hu Yuan's high-intensity oppression.

"If there is anything else, please tell me one by one," Zhu Zhen said, sitting there with his eyes closed, quietly listening to Shen Wang's report.

Although there are the so-called Four Elephants of the four major families in Jiangnan, the number one family in Jiangnan is actually the Zheng family.

This was personally sealed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

It is said that during the Northern Song Dynasty, Zheng Qigong, the third generation ancestor of the Zheng family in Pujiang, felt that he would not be alive soon, so he summoned his descendants to the Zheng family ancestral hall and made a will: "If any of my descendants are unfilial, disloyal, or do not share wealth and eat together, Tianshi will punish them." Punish him."

Since then, the Zheng family has been taking this as a warning and following the ancestral precepts. Later, even Zhu Yuanzhang was deeply touched when he learned about it. In order to be grateful for Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial gift, the Zheng family later reportedly added three more family rules. If a child of the Zheng family becomes an official, they need to abide by the three family rules of "being honest and self-restrained, loyal to the country, and doing things fairly."

Therefore, the Zheng family was still highly valued by Zhu Yuanzhang, so much so that after the Hu Weiyong case was implicated in the Zheng family, brothers Zheng Lian and Zheng Shi rushed to jail.

When Zhu Yuanzhang found out, he said that there would be no rebellion in such a benevolent family and there was no need to interrogate him. He further appointed Zheng Shi as the Zuo Councilor.

Even Zhu Ming couldn't help but nod his head after hearing about the situation of the Zheng family.

This is the model that aristocratic families should have.

In fact, the so-called aristocratic families have ancestors who have received many awards.

Even the first aristocratic families, that is, the first aristocratic class, could only receive privileges if they had made great contributions to the world or the country.

For example, when talking about the Confucius family, it is natural that the Confucius family produced a sage named Confucius.

Another example is the meritorious nobles of the Ming Dynasty. Take the Xu family as an example. Within three generations, they will be considered a Xu family. If they stay in Jiangnan, they can be regarded as another rising aristocratic family in Jiangnan.

Therefore, today's aristocratic families are basically the ancestral shadow left by their ancestors.

Originally, the children of aristocratic families should cultivate their moral character and be cautious in speaking, so as not to bring discredit to their ancestors.

As a result, many aristocratic families became arrogant and domineering, forgetting that the reason for their privileges was the meritorious service of their ancestors. While enjoying the privileges, they forgot their responsibilities when traveling, and instead competed with the people for profit and oppressed the people.

Although there are models like the Zheng family, aren't there also the so-called Jiangnan Four Symbols and the four major families?

Zhu Ming took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes with a calm expression.

Since Li Guigang went to Zhejiang not long ago, he only had some basic information that he found out along the way. Many things still require further in-depth investigation.

The Liu family, the Pang family, the Zhang family, the Gu family, and the Zheng family, in addition to the Wu family, the Wang family, and so on.

More than two hundred families, big and small, are all crowded here in Jiangnan. Just trying to smooth out the relationship between them is a mess.

After all, during the Three Kingdoms period, this was the power of Soochow. Even at that time, it was a complex situation with many aristocratic families.

When the Sun family became the lord of Soochow, they were often tripped up by the envoys of those aristocratic families, including the Lu family, represented by Lu Xun, the governor of the late Soochow, who did not have a good relationship with the Sun family at that time.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the two families are feuding with each other.

This shows that the Jiangnan family is deeply rooted. I am afraid that the Gu family among them may even be descended from the same line from the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

No wonder even Lao Zhu found it difficult and even had to compromise with the Jiangshan family for a time.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was fighting for world hegemony, his banner was to expel the Tartars, but later even Zhu Yuanzhang changed his tune and no longer chanted the slogan of expelling the Tartars.

Of course, it is time to use troops on the grassland, it is time to march north to the Mobei Great Wall, and it is time to fight and do what needs to be done.

It can also be seen how strong Zhu Yuanzhang was in moving the capital.

Zhu Zhen narrowed his eyes slightly and secretly thought about countermeasures.

Shen Wang and Wang Fu naturally did not dare to disturb him.

The Jiangnan family is so deep-rooted that many people may ask what Zhu Chu wants to do.

There is only one answer, and that is, beat hard and suppress hard.

In this Jiangnan, I'm afraid the words of aristocratic families are more effective than the emperor's imperial edict.

Zhu Ming will also be an emperor in the future. What he needs are obedient ministers, ministers who can help him manage the country and govern the world.

Instead of being an opponent who finds fault when nothing happens, troubles oneself when nothing matters, and creates obstacles for oneself when nothing matters.

If that's the case, it's better not to.

"It seems that we still have to pull out the fire, or return to the old ways," Zhu Zhen suddenly sighed. After thinking about it, it seems that the only way is the old way?

Wang Fu felt puzzled and asked: "Your Highness, do you want our own family to rehabilitate themselves?"

"Nonsense, the aristocratic family has worked hard for so many years. I am afraid that most of the land in Jiangnan belongs to the aristocratic family. What do the people eat and wear? Only by changing the land and returning to the country can the people know that the court loves them and the aristocratic family is oppressing them. Therefore, we must reform the land and return it to the old. Once we change the thinking of the people and make them realize that the landlords are their enemies, we will succeed."

"As long as the people of the world want it, it's just a family. In the future, even the Kong family, if I want to deal with them, I can easily catch them. Saints should live in temples, and living saints are not true saints, including the saint's family. become a hidden danger.”

"If the Kong family hadn't come forward to recognize the Northern Yuan Dynasty, how could they have easily been recognized by the world?"

Zhu Zhen sneered, the true direct lineage of the Kong family may have been destroyed long ago.

For example, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the entire family of Kong Rong, the 20th descendant of Confucius, was killed. This is also the origin of the allusion "When the nest is overturned, the eggs will not be intact."

I'm afraid that the direct bloodline of the Kong family has been cut off at this point.

Not to mention, the Jurchens burned three holes in the Song Dynasty. Later, the Jin people granted the title of Yanshenggong to those who were said to be descendants of Confucius, namely Beikong, which was tied with Nankong in Quzhou at that time.

Later, the Mongolian army occupied Qufu and established another Duke Yansheng.

At that time, a rare and famous scene occurred, that is, the three kingdoms of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, and Mongolia were juxtaposed. It can be said that they were born in three days. At the same time, three full Dukes of Yansheng appeared.

Later, Kublai Khan unified the world and designated Beikong as the legal heir of Yan Shenggong.

But it is difficult to confirm whether Beikong is the true descendant of Confucius.

And the current Kong family is after Beikong.

Moreover, the Beikong family took advantage of both sides to the extreme, so much so that it was recorded in the "Records of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty": I heard that my ancestor Confucius taught the world, supported Gangchang, and his descendants are very human. Therefore, for dozens of generations, we have often been guests of the royal family. Is this the case today? Hu Yuan came to rule China and abandoned ethics and education. Yi Lun You Chu, Tian Shi is disgusted with it, so he lost his teacher. I will lead the people of the Central Plains to drive away the barbarians in order to stabilize Central Xia and restore the old ways of the previous kings. Although it originated from commoners, it actually inherited the lineage of the ancient emperors, and the ancients who started from commoners and called themselves emperors were also the ancestors of the Han Dynasty. Where is destiny, who can violate it?

This made Zhu Yuanzhang so angry. You have been Bei Yuan's slave for decades, and now you think I am easy to bully? I'll kill you.

At that time, Kong Kejian was still pretending to be ill. Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict: "I heard that you have a wind disease. It turns out that it is not true. If you are diagnosed with a disease without illness, it is not allowed. I will think about it." ’

Then Kong Kejian rushed to see Zhu Yuanzhang by himself.

Cheap or not?

This includes the so-called Kong family. One can imagine how contemptuous these families treat Zhu Yuanzhang.

Just like when Sun Jian moved into Soochow, you are just a white man, and you can't find out who your ancestors are for three generations, and you want to inform us? Do you deserve it?

What's our last name? Our bloodline is very noble, very high and very noble.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Ming, the scheming father and son, had a tacit understanding in asking Zhu Ming to go to Jiangnan and start touring the world.

This trip to Jiangnan is by no means easy.

One is that in the future, if Zhu Zhen ascends the throne through inheritance, he will definitely be blocked and resisted by these aristocratic families, so he must first test the tone and attitude of the people in the world.

After all, patrolling the world on behalf of the emperor is not an easy task.

Another thing, if there is really a strong resistance in the future, it is better to kill them first.

It's just a pile of heads falling to the ground. It's better to avoid trouble now than to encounter trouble in the future.

So from the very beginning, Zhu Zhen's tone was filled with cold murderous intent.

It's okay to be obedient and everything will be fine.

If not, then let everything stop.

"Your Highness, there is one more thing," Shen Wang said carefully while wiping his cold sweat.

Although the Shen family was a merchant, they actually had some status in Suzhou, and they were from an aristocratic family.

Isn't His Highness going to kill the Shen family as well?

Of course, his worries were in vain.

Zhu Chu looked at Shen Wang, meaning just tell him if he had anything to do.

Shen Wang then said: "According to the news sent back by Mr. Li Gui, there are always Japanese pirates from overseas coming to invade our Ming border. Just a few years ago, they burned, killed and robbed several villages and towns. We must be on guard against them."

Japanese pirates?

Zhu Ming stood up immediately and said angrily: "Good fellow, I haven't even spared my hand to destroy your island country, but you are here to kill me first?"

(End of this chapter)