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

Chapter 337 The people are honest

Not to mention the reaction of the civil servants who came from Jiangnan aristocratic families above the court, and how they should face the huge thunder that broke out from the Zhang family.

At least in Liyang County, in less than three days, with the destruction of the Zhang family, the people of Liyang County felt earth-shaking changes.

The first is to open a warehouse to store grain.

The Zhang family has dozens of granaries, storing grain worth tens of millions of dan.

If there were such a batch of grain, it would be enough for the court to raise an army of 500,000 to fight for a year.

Even very wealthy.

After getting the account books from Zhang's house, Zhu Ming couldn't help but curse: "These rats only criticize the court and the emperor all day long, saying that the court's taxes are too heavy. The court has tried its best to reduce taxes for the Jiangnan family. They were not satisfied with the tax exemption. They deceived the superiors and concealed it from the inferiors. While crying to the court about poverty, they turned around and bullied the fish and harmed the people. They were full of food, but the court took all the blame. Damn it. "

How much suffering have the people of Liyang County suffered?

However, all the grain was taken away by the Zhang family and sold to other places in exchange for great wealth.

This is the Jiangnan family, full of benevolence and morality, but full of male thieves and female prostitutes.

Don't blame the Manchu Tatars for killing their heads, they deserve to be killed.

Now that Zhu Chu is here, he will naturally not tolerate it. Although the Zhang family has been confiscated and exterminated, as for the evidence of the crimes committed by the Zhang family over the years, in addition to submitting a memorial to the court stating the causes and consequences, Zhu Chu is even more impressive. Post notices throughout the county, and even beat gongs and drums, and ask literate people to tell the people about these things.

I am afraid that some people will be deceived into thinking that the Zhang family is innocent.

Don't underestimate the shamelessness of these aristocratic families. They are capable of doing what they do. The policy of obscuring the people is exactly what they have done. Confucianism deserves to be damned.

Zhu Chu wants all the people to know that it was the Zhang family who harmed you. The court does not know these things. Don't think that the court is the protective umbrella of the Zhang family.

While posting notices to reveal the true face of the Zhang family, they also opened warehouses to release grain so that the people could receive actual benefits and compensation.

Zhu's reputation began to rise in Liyang County.

Nowadays, every household is singing, "When the King of Dian comes, there will be blue sky; when the King of Dian comes, the people will be saved."

Of course, there are still a lot of things to do in the aftermath, and it’s not that easy to leave.

Including the county magistrate of Liyang County, they also have to wait for the court to re-allocate, and the hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land after the collapse of the Zhang family should also be re-distributed.

Zhu Chu has been having people measure the land in the past few days. He plans to distribute the land to the people before the arrival of the new county magistrate, lest the new county magistrate is also a hungry wolf and messes around again after he leaves. , then what he just did was useless.

Anyway, he was familiar with these things, and with the help of Peng Yue and Niu Sheng's army, on the seventh day after arriving in Liyang County, the land matter was basically fully determined. Register to receive a new land title.

Many of the people holding the land deeds were so excited that they could not help but cry with joy.

Even more people couldn't believe that they could actually get the land.

Some people were forced to sell their land due to some incidents. Looking at the land deeds that they had regained, they were extremely moved.

Suddenly, someone shouted: "It was His Highness who made the decision for us. It was His Highness who returned our land to us and even distributed more land. It was all Your Highness."

The common people cannot tell the truth from the scriptures, but they know who has helped them and who has been good to them.

So the people spontaneously gathered outside the gate of the government office.

Ever since the Zhang family and the Liyang County magistrate were beheaded, Zhu Ming had moved here. In his words, the Zhang family's house was too dirty for him.

At the same time, Zhu Chu was also in the government office lobby to handle official business more conveniently.

Suddenly, Xu Miaojin ran in from outside, her face flushed, and said: "Brother, come out quickly."

Zhu Ming was stunned for a moment, and before she could react, Xu Miaojin came up to hold her hand and was forcefully dragged out by her.

When he came outside, Zhu Xi saw that the street outside was already surrounded by countless people.

When they saw Zhu Chu coming out, the people spontaneously knelt down one after another.

"Your Highness, you are so alive."

Zhu Xi blinked, is this a compliment to me? Are you complimenting me? Not alive, or dead?

"Your Highness redressed the grievances of our people and gave us the land. Your Highness will live a thousand years."

The people didn't know what to say, and they all shouted for a thousand years, and even kowtowed to him in a real way. The ground seemed to be shaken for a while.

Even if not all the people in Liyang County came, there were at least tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people. At this time, they were all willing and grateful to Zhu Ming.

Zhu Ming looked at the people in front of him with emotion in his heart, and said to Xu Miaojin beside him: "Sister, what the people want is actually very simple, nothing more than food and clothing. Since ancient times, the people have never asked for too much. As long as they can survive, they will be satisfied.”

"But even such a small request turned out to be a luxury. When the people have no hope of living, what else can they do except take desperate risks?"

"Is it the inaction of the country and the kings of the past dynasties? Yes, but not entirely. In the later stages of the dynasties, corruption cannot be avoided. Especially those gentry from aristocratic families, they are the scum of the country."

"As long as the land annexation is not resolved for one day, the living space of the common people will continue to be squeezed by the aristocratic families. Why should the country compete with the people for profit? The people are the foundation of the country. It is those aristocratic families who compete with the people for profit, and in the end they are accused It’s all up to the country.”

Zhu Ming sneered: "There are too many Jiangnan aristocratic families. It's time to take care of them."

Not far away, Tang Xin's eyes flashed with strange luster, staring closely at Zhu Zhen.

Although Tang Xin was the daughter of a military commander, she was not completely ignorant of political affairs.

For example, Zhu Yunwen was surrounded by a group of civil servants in the court, and most of the civil servants in the court today came from Jiangnan aristocratic families.

Including the original Crown Prince, he also had the support of aristocratic families.

The aristocratic family occupies too important a position in the court. Who would be willing to completely offend the aristocratic family for a bunch of idiots?

But Zhu Chu was different. He only talked about one thing from beginning to end, that is, he who wins the hearts of the people wins the world.

A mere aristocratic family? He didn't take him seriously at all.

Although Xu Miaojin had experience on the grasslands, she had never experienced the real scene of returning from the original land during the Yunnan period.

At this time, I was deeply shocked and touched by Zhu Xi's words.

Xu Miaojin also turned to look at the common people in front of her. She suddenly lost her previous excitement and became a little sad instead.

As Zhu Ming said, the people's demands have always been very simple, but in the end, this family still drove the people to a dead end.

If Zhu Chu hadn't had the idea to raise Yan Shitai's reputation before, I'm afraid even if he beat gongs and drums to tell the people that the Zhang family would be severely punished, no one would dare to come forward as a witness.

Because they are desperate. The Zhang family is heaven here, and they are the earth emperors. Even if they kill people in the street, no one dares to care.

Robbery? That's all good to hear. If you fall in love with your family's land and kill your whole family, won't you get the land deed?

It's your honor to fall in love with your daughter. Just kick in the door and grab her. After playing with her, she will be sent back to you. You still have to thank her.

Many of the children of this generation of the Zhang family are such inhuman beasts. Not only Zhang Zhan, who was severely punished by Yan Shitai, there are also many beasts who are inhumane.

So at that time, Zhu Zhen used thunderous means to kill the entire Zhang family overnight, even young children or the elderly.

Although the people were deeply shocked and frightened by the bloody scene, no one felt that the Zhang family was wronged. Instead, they clapped their hands and applauded.

"Fathers and fellow villagers, you have suffered. It is the imperial court's negligence in its duties that has caused you to suffer these tortures. I, Zhu Chu, am here to apologize to you," Zhu Chu suddenly said loudly, clasping his fists with both hands and giving a deep salute.

He didn't kneel down, but as a vassal king, he bowed to the people at this time, which still shocked countless people.

"I can't do it, I absolutely can't do it."

The people nearby wanted to get up and come forward, but they did not stand up. Instead, they knelt down in front of Zhu Chu and held Zhu Chu's hand.

"Your Highness, without you, we would still be persecuted by the Zhang family, and even that beastly dog ​​official would help the Zhang family bully us."

"It was you who gave us mud-legged people a way to survive. It was you who redressed our grievances. You also distributed food to us to keep us full. You also distributed land to us and even gave us seeds."

"Your Highness, we are not ungrateful people. That was the fault of the Zhang family and Dog Officer. Why should you bear the responsibility?"

It’s not that the people don’t know how to be grateful, or they don’t understand right and wrong. They just suffer from having nowhere to complain and speak out about their suffering and sins.

Although this place is at the feet of the emperor, the common people are simple and do not know how to go to the capital to complain, and there is no way to complain.

To put it more unpleasantly, not to mention in ancient times, even in modern times, many people have never left their hometowns in their entire lives. Even today, there are cases where people in the countryside have never left their villages in their entire lives.

This is not an exaggeration.

The people are used to being submissive, because many of them have never read books, but they know how to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic.

Some people have never seen the emperor in their lives, but they know that they are loyal to him.

On the contrary, these aristocratic families read the so-called sages' books, but they use the policy of obscuring the people to bring harm to their hometowns. They are also complacent and condescending, and look down on others.

Zhu Ming raised his head again, looked at the people's eyes that were full of energy again, and looked grateful to him. He took a deep breath and shouted: "Everyone, get up. You have nothing to thank me for. That's what you deserve." , is what I should do. Now that the corrupt officials and the black sheep’s families have been killed by me, you can just wait and live a good life from now on."

"Oh."

"A thousand years old."

The people cheered.

Zhu Zhen also smiled.

In fact, he is not that great. He never thinks that he is a saint, and he also has his own selfish motives.

From the beginning to the end, he has been saying that those who win the hearts and minds of the people win the world. The people's hearts and minds will follow the general trend, so why worry about failing to achieve a great cause?

Therefore, what Zhu Ming did was also to accumulate fame for himself. Why didn't he regard the people as his political bargaining chip?

But this does not prevent him from sincerely doing things for the people.

Again, the people are so simple and kind, as long as you give them some good things, they will remember you forever.

Moreover, the needs of the people are too simple, they are nothing more than the living conditions to survive.

Is it difficult to have enough food and warm clothes?

Why can't even such a small request be met?

Even edible salt is being squeezed by the neck, and people have to pay a lot of money to even take a bite of salt.

In fact, there was no shortage of salt in ancient times. It was just a means of control by the court to earn money and enrich the national treasury.

Zhu Zhen took a deep breath and had an idea in his mind. On the day of his enthronement ceremony, he must subvert many rules.

In the evening, Zhu Ming was still busy handling affairs.

Although granaries were opened to release grain, the land was re-measured and the registered population was re-calculated, and the land was re-distributed to the people.

But there is still much to do.

First of all, Li Yang helped the Zhang family and did a lot of things. Unjust cases, false cases and wrong cases abounded.

Many of them were forced to have their families destroyed, and many of them were even exiled to other places, including Yunnan.

Some of them were lucky and were still in prison. As long as they were not local gangsters or working for the Zhang family, Zhu Ming released them and gave them innocence.

He overturned dozens of cases in one day. Even if the harm caused to the people was irreparable, he at least wanted to restore their reputation.

Yan Shitai had only been away for a few years, but in the past few years, there had been dozens of major exile cases.

This Li Yang really dares to do this.

Zhu Ming regretted it. He had known earlier that he should not have sentenced Li Yang to just one execution, but should have executed everyone in his family.

In addition to these, many others who slipped through the net were tried, such as the county officials, who were also in cahoots with Li Yang and the Zhang family, and the jailers in the prison.

The whole Liyang County is in ruins.

Zhu Ming was not ambiguous, and with a wave of his hand, starting from the servants of the Zhang family and the Zhang family, anyone guilty would be executed.

Not killing is not enough to anger the people, and not killing is not enough to quell his anger.

Although it is not a chaotic time at this time, it still requires strict rules and regulations.

At the same time, it can also scare Xiao Xiao and make officials all over the world take this as a warning.

"Do you really think that Emperor Hongwu is old and your spring is coming?" Zhu Zhen sneered again and again: "Sooner or later, you will miss Emperor Hongwu. I am not as kind as him."

Outside the door, Xu Miaojin and Tang Xin happened to come over. When they heard this, they couldn't help but shudder.

Emperor Hongwu, benevolent?

Oh my god, how did you put those two words together?

We know each other clearly when we are apart, why do we feel so strange when we are together?

And what do you want to do? If even Emperor Hongwu can be considered merciful, how far will you go?

"Brother, it's time to rest," Xu Miaojin walked in and called her brother. After all, their marriage was not even an engagement, and they didn't even have a name yet.

But the two of them already had the truth. Zhu Chu still had a girl, so Xu Miaojin had to feel a little aggrieved. Although she was one year older than Zhu Chu, she called him brother instead.

Of course, this is what I say in front of outsiders. As for privately, I have to add the word 'love', Brother Qing.

The two women were each carrying something. Xu Miaojin was holding steaming tea, while Tang Xin was bringing a few plates of snacks.

Zhu Zhen pinched his eyebrows with his hand, and he did feel a little tired.

The main reason is that in the past few days, he has been dealing with cases that occurred in Liyang County in the past few years, as well as the aftermath, and he also had to figure out how to submit a memorial to the court.

Previously, the Zhang family and Li Yang's violations of laws and disciplines were only explained, but the subsequent matters must also be explained, including Zhu Zhen's proposal to keep the grain stored in the granary by the Zhang family locally.

It was supposed to be food for the people, so Zhu Zhen suggested that it should be kept locally for storage so that in case of natural disasters, it could directly help the people.

In addition, these grains amount to tens of millions of dan, which can be used as local annual taxes and pay taxes on behalf of the people.

To put it bluntly, I want to give the local area tax exemption for three years to make up for the people, but it is difficult to say it directly.

There are also matters such as selecting new officials for the local area. According to Zhu Zhen's intention, he plans to transfer from the north to the south, and select a capable, honest and ambitious person from the northern students who have obtained meritorious examinations and are still on the waiting list.

Don't get another one that is related to the Jiangnan family, or if the hungry wolf comes, the people will not be able to withstand repeated tossing.

A lot of things are weighing on Zhu Ming. Even Wang Fu can't worry about this kind of thing. All Wang Fu can do is to plan the next step in advance and send a team of guards in advance to take the first step. Go to contact and find the Jin Yiwei left by Li Gui.

As for Li Gui himself, he has now gone to Hangzhou.

Suzhou and Hangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River have been famous places since ancient times. There is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below.

In Hangzhou, there are two major families, the 'Liu family's money' and the 'Pang family's face'.

Given the size of Hangzhou, there must be more than two, but these two occupy a significant position.

In Suzhou, it is the 'Gu family's house', which is the Gu family's territory.

This also made Zhu Ming decide that after the incident in Liyang County was over, he did not plan to go straight to Hangzhou, but to change his route to Suzhou.

He is in no hurry and goes directly to the coast. The Jiangnan family is also his target.

Thinking in his mind, Zhu Miao took the tea cup from Xu Miaojin's hand and gently squeezed the girl's little hand.

He was still looking at a case file, but suddenly his heart moved and he turned around to look.

Xu Miaojin was seen holding the teapot with her mouth open, while Tang Xin's face was flushed, looking at Zhu Chu's little hand that was still tightly squeezed.

Tang Xin is the type of Xiaoniao Yiren Xiaojiabiyu. Although the weapons she is good at are very sturdy, her small hands are not calloused, but soft and boneless, white and tender.

Zhu Ming squeezed it again subconsciously, feeling that it was softer and tactile than Xu Miaojin's little hand.

Tang Xin made a sound and quickly pulled his hand back.

As a result, she forgot the teacup in her hand and knocked the tea over, pouring it on the three of them. None of them ran away, which was fair enough.

That's it, Zhu Zhen had to get up, put down his official duties temporarily, and go change his clothes first.

(End of this chapter)