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

Chapter 352: Sit back and wait, and invite you to enter the urn

Naturally, Xiao Shiyu was not willing to confess his crime easily, and he still wanted to take chances, so he planned to bite the bullet and resist first.

But since Zhu Chu is here, he will naturally not be fooled by him.

So Zhu Chu took out those notices.

"What explanation do you want to give?" Zhu Zhen asked.

When Xiao Shiyu saw those notices, he breathed a sigh of relief and was about to speak out the excuse he had prepared.

But suddenly, Xiao Shiyu discovered that there were two people standing behind Zhu Chu.

Because it was already night, even if the lantern was lit, it was still a little dim, and he had not been able to see clearly before.

Looking at it now, isn't one of them the head of the Qian family, Qian Gui?

Why is he here?

Xiao Shiyu panicked, because he knew that what he and the Liu Pang family were doing could never be hidden from the eyes and ears of another local aristocratic family, the Qian family.

How can this be good?

"Are you speechless?" Zhu Zhen mistakenly thought that Xiao Shiyu was speechless after being asked and knew that he was in the wrong. He softened his tone and said, "Don't think you can get away with it. These miscellaneous taxes with clever names are... The imperial court doesn’t know anything about it, so if you show it to my father, do you think what will happen to you?”

"You are so bold. Are you really not afraid of death? Are you really brave enough to exploit the people under such a pretext? Are you not afraid that my father will slaughter all nine of your tribes?"

Xiao Shiyu collapsed on the ground, unable to get up, and his whole body was soaked in cold sweat.

He knew that he was finished, but at this time, he became more and more afraid to speak casually.

Because even if you say a wrong word at this time, you may be irreversible.

Now Xiao Shiyu is not afraid of death, he is afraid of causing harm to his family.

Whoever served as an official in the Ming Dynasty did not know their Majesty's methods.

Killing one of you is not enough, if you want to kill, kill the whole family.

So Xiao Shiyu just lowered his head and looked pale, but didn't say a word.

Zhu Ming narrowed his eyes slightly. If Xiao Shiyu didn't speak, how could he pry Liu and Pang's family apart?

This bitch, let me see how stubborn you can be.

Just at this moment, the sound of horse hooves broke the tranquility in the city.

It was Wang Fu who came over with ten thousand horses.

When he left the capital before, Zhu Zhen brought out more than 15,000 troops.

But in order to send large amounts of dirty silver from Liyang County and Suzhou City to the treasury, two teams of more than 5,000 troops had to be dispatched to escort them. Even Peng Yue went with the escort.

So now there are only 10,000 people.

As soon as Wang Fu came in from the outside, he heard Zhu Min's order: "Put this bitch in jail. No one is allowed to visit him without my order."

Wang Fu was about to take the order to go down, but was stopped by Zhu Zhen's look, so he had to let Li Gui take him down.

"See Your Highness," Wang Fu came over.

Zhu Ming nodded and asked in front of Gu Wen and Qian Gui: "How is the Hangzhou camp? Did you notice anything strange? Do you have any private dealings with the Liu and Pang families?"

Wang Fu shook his head and said: "Maybe because the time is still short, nothing has been discovered yet."

What Zhu Ming is actually most worried about is the collusion between government and businessmen and the activities in the military camp.

Are you going to rebel?

Now I feel relieved. Fortunately, the barracks is not in ruins.

Then Zhu Ming introduced Wang Fu and Qian Gui.

"Qian Changshi, this is Wang Fu. Now he has an official position as an envoy. He is my favorite general."

"Wang Fu, this is Qian Gui, the head of the Qian family. He is now the chief historian of our palace. He holds the same position as Gu Wen and Gu Changshi."

The two of them were polite to each other under Zhu Xi's introduction.

Then Zhu Ming explained to Wang Fu again: "There will definitely be no peace tonight. The movement of you coming from the military camp may have been noticed by others. Then Xiao Shiyu is not stupid. He guessed that even if he confessed to all his crimes, This king also wants to kill his whole family. But he is not willing to die yet, he needs those people to give him a guarantee."

"Wang Fu, I want to give you an important task. Station the army around the government office. I will only give you a few dozen soldiers and ask you to ambush in the prison. If anyone approaches Xiao Shiyu, give him to me. Take it."

Zhu Zhen knew that it would be difficult to dig out useful evidence from Xiao Shiyu's mouth.

In that case, give those people a chance.

He put Xiao Shiyu in jail, rather than directly torture him to extract a confession, just to give those people this opportunity.

The Liu and Pang families must have known what happened. Aren't they worried that Xiao Shiyu would betray them?

So what Zhu Ming has to do next is to wait and wait for those two companies to show their flaws.

"I will live up to my command," Wang Fu immediately took the order and made arrangements.

"Uncle Eighteen, where am I?" Li Jinglong was afraid that Zhu Zhen would forget him.

"You?" Zhu Xi thought for a moment and said, "You lead a team of people to strengthen the guards of Qian Mansion. I'm worried that those people will jump over the wall in a hurry."

"You don't need to be so cautious, right? After all, Xu Miaojin and Tang Xin are not even able to defeat me, not to mention that stupid Niu Sheng and your guards are here. They are all brave generals who can match a hundred. "Li Jinglong was a little reluctant to go.

Zhu Chu frowned and raised his fingers to ask Li Jinglong to come over.

At first, Li Jinglong was worried about being taught a lesson by Zhu Chu, so he approached cautiously, and then heard Zhu Chu whisper: "I want you to lead three thousand troops to the vicinity of Liu Pang's family. If anyone wants to leave overnight, just give them to him." I’ll catch them all.”

It turns out that Zhu Chu was not really worried that someone was going to capture the two daughters of Tang and Xu to make him throw a rat weapon. After all, Zhu Chu himself believed that the two women had enough ability to protect themselves.

What Zhu Zhen really cared about was that he was afraid that someone from both families would run away overnight.

Either don't do it, or catch them all in one fell swoop. Zhu Chu doesn't like to cut the weeds and grow them again when the spring breeze blows.

He will never leave any hidden dangers for himself.

Only then did Li Jinglong understand Zhu Xi's true intention, and he immediately accepted the order with a smile on his face and left.

After a while, Li Gui walked in and said: "Your Highness, Xiao Shiyu has been put in prison. Does he need to personally lead others to torture him under his humble position?"

Li Gui has become more and more like a qualified Jinyiwei. According to legend, Jinyiwei has a prison. Anyone who enters without dying has to shed a layer of skin. Even if he is an upright official, he will be asked what to do.

However, Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "No hurry, you first find all the Jin Yiwei who were sent to various parts of Hangzhou city and let them spread the news. Just say that Xiao Shiyu, the prefect of Hangzhou, oppressed the people because he secretly increased miscellaneous taxes and created a clever excuse. I have been captured by the imperial envoy and taken to prison, and will soon be escorted to the capital for trial by His Majesty himself. Now my name is not as useful as my father's."

Once the news spreads, it is conceivable that those people will panic.

As long as they panic, their flaws will be revealed.

"Also, go and control all the people in this mansion, and dig three feet of the ground for me to seal up all the useful and useless things. I will investigate slowly tomorrow," Zhu Order after order was handed down in an orderly manner.

Gu Wen and Qian Gui were watching behind them, and suddenly realized that there seemed to be nothing going on without them?

who are they? Where are they? I originally thought that Zhu Ming had something to ask them, but now it seems that apart from making some suggestions at the beginning, they are useless?

In fact, Zhu Min didn't deliberately look for so-called advisers along the way. He always believed that many things could be solved by himself.

Facts have also proved that he did solve many things on his own.

But now it suddenly involves aristocratic families and many areas that I am not good at, so I had nowhere to start at the beginning.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is no different from when we targeted the Zhang family in Liyang County.

Only the order has changed.

When he was in Liyang County, the Zhang family was too arrogant and domineering and did not take the people into consideration at all, so it had already aroused public anger. At this time, Zhu only needs to control the Zhang family and the county government, and then let the people vent their anger. If he has enough evidence, he can eradicate the Zhang family.

The Liu Pang family is much smarter than the Zhang family, and their methods are much more advanced.

The reason why Zhu Ming found it difficult was that the people of Hangzhou were bewitched by the Liu and Pang families, and he was afraid that he would arouse public anger.

Then the gain outweighs the loss.

But as long as we change the order and ideas, wouldn't it be solved?

It was just a change from controlling the Zhang family first to controlling the government first.

Instead of arousing public indignation and asking the people to bring evidence to sue the Zhang family, we first found evidence to accuse the Liu and Pang families and then aroused public indignation.

So Zhu Ming suddenly understood and knew what to do next.

Just when Qian Gui and Gu Wen were lost in thought, they heard Zhu Zhen say: "Qian Changshi, Gu Changshi, your family should be responsible for helping the court benefit the people and serving as role models. As a result, many aristocratic families now not only fail to benefit the people, but also serve as role models." The common people still have to compete with the people for profit, but also bring disaster to the country and the people. If all aristocratic families are like this, is there no need to exist? "

Qian Gui and Gu Wen were shocked when they heard this.

Is it possible that His Highness is so cruel that he is ready to completely eradicate all aristocratic families?

"Your Highness, the aristocratic family has made mistakes, but it is not the fault of all aristocratic families," Gu Wen said quickly.

Qian Gui looked thoughtful, and said after a moment: "If a family wants to survive in the long run, it must continue to grow, whether it is the number of people, or the wealth and land it controls, otherwise a family will only continue to decline. So the family will continue to grow. If it wants to grow stronger, it will naturally shake the foundation of the country and compete with the people. This is an inevitable phenomenon."

"Hey, Qian Changshi, how can you say that?" Gu Wen was startled, where are you from?

But Qian Gui ignored him and continued: "But Your Highness, in fact, the largest aristocratic families and landowners in the past dynasties have been the royal family. The aristocratic families are just tools used by the powerful in the past dynasties to rule the world. Well, it can assist the government, but if it is not used properly, it will naturally become a black sheep."

Zhu Chu smiled, he was such a sharp-tongued guy, was he cursing himself in a roundabout way?

However, Qian Gui was not afraid at all and continued to express his thoughts: "Just like this time, although Xiao Shiyu privately posted notices to increase taxes and impose miscellaneous taxes, isn't this also the power given to him by the imperial court? And Liu The reason why the Pang family is able to win the hearts of the people is because they are actually sharing the worries of the imperial court."

"The common people didn't know that there was something hidden in these. They just thought that they were doing things for the imperial court, so the imperial court took the blame. But the fundamental problem was that the imperial court failed to do a good job. Many miscellaneous tax issues should also be taken seriously. and settled it.”

Zhu Ming nodded and sighed: "That's what I have in mind. My plan is to exempt all miscellaneous taxes and taxes. From now on, only the official taxes of the imperial court will be implemented, which is called the One Whip Law."

Gu Wen and Qian Gui looked at each other, surprised at Zhu Chu's boldness, and shook their heads at the same time.

"It's not that easy. The world is so big. How can the imperial court supervise every detail of everything in the world? The so-called miscellaneous taxes are often allocated by local officials themselves and the tax and grain collection is completed according to the actual local conditions. If it is strict Setting an exact number will cause chaos in the world."

"And in the process of transportation to the treasury, there will inevitably be losses. Miscellaneous taxes include this part of the reservation. If miscellaneous taxes are completely exempted, local officials will probably have to pay out of their own pockets. No one It’s affordable.”

It’s not that they are dissatisfied. In fact, due to the backward technology in ancient times, many things could not be implemented in every corner of the place.

For example, the land in the Jiangnan area is fertile and there are two seasons a year. How much grain can be harvested per mu of land in a year?

And what about the north? How big is the difference?

In fact, the current taxation is already very flexible, but there is a lack of strict supervision. As a result, whether the people in a place are happy or suffer depends entirely on the conscience of local officials.

But Zhu Ming shook his head, he naturally had his own plans.

Many times in ancient times, once a certain place encountered a natural or man-made disaster, the people would either starve to death, rebel, or starve to death.

It was because the people had no food at all in their homes, and all the money they had earned after a year's hard work was confiscated, and the people were all slaves.

But even so, the national treasury is not rich. Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the national treasury has never been rich, but has been getting worse.

But what about money? What about food? Where have they all gone?

It's not like he was corrupted by officials and aristocratic families.

Zhu Ming looked at the two people with deep eyes and said slowly: "One whip method must be implemented. The people are suffering too much. Even if you two have treated the people well enough, you still don't look at the problem from the people's point of view." , your position is still that of a higher class."

Issues such as miscellaneous taxes, taxes, and corvee have caused hardship to the people since ancient times.

Even their old Zhu family suffered greatly.

It is said that Emperor Yuan Shun even levied taxes more than thirty years later in order to celebrate his concubine's birthday.

Zhu Yuanzhang's father was also Zhu Min's grandfather. Because he had given birth to several children, he had to pay thousands of taels of silver at a time.

Zhu Wusi even cried. He had never seen a few taels of silver in his life.

Zhu Yuanzhang's family was forced to death, and their family was destroyed.

But with a whipping method, there won't be so many messy things. People only need to pay a tax once a year, or in other words, they no longer have to worry about other tax issues. This is the beginning of peace and prosperity for the country and the people.

To benefit the people, Zhu Zhen never just talked about it, but seriously thought about possible ways.

Of course, the whip method does have its drawbacks.

But it doesn't matter, you can also refer to some of Yongzheng's policies and measures, such as returning fire to the public, and even increasing the money to support integrity.

It is true that the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were too small, but as long as you are willing to work hard and be honest and good officials, since you are honest, you should naturally maintain your integrity.

The court will support you.

It's just that many things are still unformed in Zhu Xi's mind, and he has to take his time to plan.

After all, he is not the emperor yet.

At the same time, in the city of Hangzhou, there was a large, extremely splendid and luxurious courtyard. The courtyard was brightly lit, almost catching up with daylight.

"Is this a candle? It's really good." The head of the Liu family looked at the fresh candle flame and found that it was brighter than an oil lamp and exuded a refreshing fragrance of bamboo, which was very pleasant.

The key is that this candle is not expensive, at least to their family, it is nothing.

"Oh, Brother Liu, do you still care about this little gadget? Didn't you hear the sound of horse hooves on the street before? The people I sent out to inquire not only saw that the prefect's Yamen had been surrounded by the army , and I also heard the news that it was His Royal Highness the King of Dian sent by the imperial censor to personally imprison Magistrate Xiao. Aren't you worried about the Dongchuang incident?" The head of the Pang family turned around anxiously.

"There's nothing to be afraid of. Xiao Shiyu is a smart man. He knows that even if he tells those things, he will still die. If he should have his house confiscated and beheaded, he will have to be ransacked and beheaded. But if he doesn't tell, the most he will die is He is alone," the head of the Liu family said calmly.

"That's what I said, but I also heard that the Dian King plans to escort Xiao Shiyu to the capital. Once he is in front of His Majesty, who can withstand it? And the emperor is angry, no matter whether the evidence is conclusive or not, when the time comes Xiao Shiyu The Shigure family will still have to die. When that time comes, will he be able to keep secret for us?" The head of the Pang family is not as optimistic as the head of the Liu family.

"Then what do you think we should do?" asked the head of the Liu family.

"It's better," the head of the Pang family gestured with his hand on his neck and said, "Only the dead can keep secrets. As long as there is no proof of this matter, we can have peace of mind. All we need to do is tell him that we will take good care of him. His family can ask him to go on the road. This is the best choice for us and his family. Otherwise, the three of us will die together."

Things have reached this situation. The key is that they were not given a chance to react at all, and they were very passive.

The only solution now is to kill people and silence them.

But neither of the two families knew that the news they got was deliberately spread by Zhu Zhen.

Zhu Lingshi's strategies were to wait for the rabbit and invite the emperor to enter the urn.

However, the Liu and Pang families could only fall into the trap willingly.

Because they have no choice.

What Zhu Zhu used this time was all a conspiracy. Once Xiao Shiyu was really brought into the capital and presented to Zhu Yuanzhang, Xiao Shiyu would not be able to handle it, and he would still have to confess when the time comes.

So Xiao Shiyu must die.

In this way, the two families sent a team of people and hurried to Hangzhou Dalao in the dark.

With the huge influence of Liu and Pang's family in Hangzhou, it is very easy to visit the prison.

If this happened in the past, it would have been just a formality for two of their children to break the law.

Originally these were all trivial matters.

But who would have thought that as soon as these people entered the prison, they were captured by Wang Fu, who had been waiting for a long time.

(End of this chapter)