The Ming Dynasty started with saving the eldest grandson

Chapter 312 Dare to break everything

This morning, Chen Jingke wandered to the palace gate and saw Qiu Guangan walking over with a sad face.

He immediately knew in his heart that this person had come to him for help with something else.

"I said Qiu Shangshu, next time you come to me for something, can you not always have the same expression?"

Qiu Guangan touched his face and said innocently: "Is there any?"

Then he grimaced again and said, "Hey, this time it's really... embarrassing."

Chen Jingke was not fooled, and said jokingly: "Hey, what's wrong? You were raising a child outside, and your wife found out that you started making trouble?"

Qiu Guang'an said angrily: "I'm not joking with you. My useless young son had the engagement broken off."

Chen Jingke said in surprise: "What? I said Qiu Shangshu, this is related to your son's reputation, so you can't just joke about it."

Qiu Guang'an sighed: "How can I make fun of my son when you know everything?"

It is likely to affect subsequent marriages.

"No matter what I do, I will never make fun of my son's marriage."

When he was in his forties, he went crazy as a teenager. Anyway, the final result was that his first wife, who was over forty, gave birth to a son again.

"I think we should demote all these people out of the capital and let them go to a bitter and cold place to practice for a few more years."

Chen Jingke sneered: "I don't know whether to live or die."

Chen Jingke asked: "Drive them all away? Who will take their place?"

"My personal honor and disgrace are small matters, but I'm afraid I will delay His Majesty's important events."

Not to mention the implementation plan of stepped tax collection, even normal work will be difficult to carry out.

Of course, there is also the meaning of marriage. The woman's family has been officials for many generations and is an orthodox Confucian bureaucrat.

As soon as this move came out, the woman's family was greatly praised by the Confucian community. It was really a righteous move.

Chen Jingke nodded and said, "Yes, it's worth using your own son as a foreshadowing. The matter will definitely not be trivial."

There is no way to break the situation, which is to marry a distinguished person.

Qiu Guang'an echoed: "Yes, yes, he actually delays national affairs for his own selfishness. How can such a person stay in the central government office."

When the plot was exposed, Qiu Guangan was not embarrassed at all and immediately took out a volume of memorials from his sleeve:
"It's hard to do work now. I, the Minister of Household Affairs, am just a useless person."

The resistance of the civil service system began.

Because Qiu Guangan supported the stepped collection of land taxes, he was expelled from the Confucian system.

Qiu Guangan was obviously prepared and said, "I have observed carefully that not everyone wants to participate."

"I have already rejected you once. I will definitely refuse you a second time. Your evil plan will succeed."

"Tell me, if possible, I will consider whether to help."

"If the Ministry of Revenue stops functioning, won't the country be paralyzed?"

The prospective in-laws also returned the marriage certificate. Your Qiu family is a big family, but I, a small family, can't afford it.

Everyone should be able to guess what happens next without telling you.

As for the Qiu family, they became the target of ridicule.

As expected, officials from the Ministry of Revenue used various excuses to delay and not cooperate with the work.

Qiu Guangan's face froze, then he forced out an awkward smile and said:
"Chen Bandu, look at what you said, I am not such a person."

It is not necessarily shameful to have your engagement broken off, but it is quite shameful to have your engagement broken off for this reason.

In particular, it was almost impossible to get married to a Confucian bureaucrat.

Qiu Guangan told the story again.

As the saying goes, young sons and eldest grandchildren are the lifeblood of the elderly.

"It's just that everyone does it. They don't want to be an outlier and can only follow the crowd."

Chen Jingke ignored his complaint, took the memorial, unfolded it and glanced at it.

Chen Jingke's expression also became serious: "Whose girl is it? What's the reason?"

One can imagine how much the old couple loves their son.

Therefore, after complaining, Qiu Guangan said with a shy face:
"Chen Bandu, you have a good relationship with Xungui. Can you help me find a suitable marriage for my son?"

"Let me guess, if I reject this matter, you can just put forward a new condition."

He, the Minister of Household Affairs, has been sidelined.

The traitor deserves to be annulled.

Some people want to say, what if you don't get married to Confucian bureaucrats? Is it possible to get a wife if you leave them alone?
The problem is that the current bureaucracy is still controlled by Confucians. Without marriage with them, it will be difficult to move forward in the officialdom.

A marriage was arranged early, and the woman was from a well-educated family with both talent and beauty.

After all, the current state affairs of the Ming Dynasty are actually still in the hands of nobles.

Chen Jingke glanced at him sideways and said, "Old Qiu, that's right. He has learned the art of war."

"As long as all those who take the lead are demoted, the remaining people will naturally become honest."

Chen Jingke asked: "Where is the vacant position? Do you dare to guarantee that the newly appointed officials will cooperate with you?"

Qiu Guang'an finally revealed his true purpose: "Confucian officials will naturally not support me, but don't forget about the officials."

"After several years of development, the planning officer group has produced a lot of talents."

"It's just that all the central government offices have been occupied by civil servants, and there is no way for everyone to be promoted."

"We just take advantage of this opportunity to promote a group of planning officers to the center."

Chen Jingke was shocked and said with a solemn expression: "Do you know the consequences of doing this?"

"Once the party struggle starts, many things will be out of our hands."

Qiu Guangan retorted: "Are we left to our own devices now?"

Chen Jingke was silent.

Except for the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army, all central government offices were in the hands of civilian officials.

It is difficult for civil servants to collectively boycott a certain policy.

Of course, civil servants are not monolithic.

The new party can be used to attack the old party, which is also a party struggle.

Qiu Guang'an said sternly: "Let the planning official take control of the household department, which is to open a crack in the civil service system."

"Once we succeed, the judicial officers will definitely challenge them to fight for the ownership of Dali Temple."

“The civil servants will then be overwhelmed and unable to make a concerted effort to resist the New Deal.”

"As for the party struggle you are worried about..."

Having said this, Qiu Guangan raised his head and looked at the palace: "What kind of party struggle can compare with the struggle between the nobles of Huaixi and the civil servants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang?"

"In the end, it was not easily eliminated by His Majesty."

Chen Jingke looked at him and said, "You should know how His Majesty handled this matter back then. Are you not afraid of the lessons learned from the past?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's method of dealing with party strife was simple: kill.

Anyone who makes a big fuss will be killed.

Whether it was the Jiangsu and Zhejiang factions or the Huaixi nobles, they were all killed to the point of fear.

Qiu Guangan took a deep breath and said, "Afraid, who can't be afraid of death?"

"But I am even more afraid that when I am lying on my bed in the future, my descendants will ask me what political achievements I have made, and I will not be able to answer."

Chen Jingke nodded and returned the memorial to him: "Remember what you said today."

Qiu Guangan felt happy, knowing that he had convinced the other party, so he solemnly said:
"You can wait and see."

The two people whispered for a long time, and naturally everyone noticed.

Everyone in the civil service knew that Qiu Guangan had been sidelined and asked Chen Jingke for help.

Although they were a little worried, they didn't think there was anything Chen Jingke could do.

We don't oppose it, but we don't support it either.

No matter whether you ask or not, the emperor can't kill people just because of this, right?

Deport people from the capital?

If a different group of people come in, won't they still be our people?

Don’t use our people? Huh, then who can you use?

Honorable?

They are indeed very strong, but if you have the ability, let them govern the people.

Soon the palace door opened and everyone went to Jinshen Palace.

On the way, Xu Da wandered to Chen Jingke and said, "But what's the problem?"

Chen Jingke did not hide anything and said: "The officials of the Ministry of Revenue are trying to evade Qiu Shangshu."

"He wants to bring in a group of his own people to ask for my opinion."

Xu Da frowned and said, "He is also a smart man, so he has never thought about the consequences of doing this?"

Chen Jingke sighed: "Why haven't I thought about it? He told me that someone has to do things." "I am afraid of wolves in front and tigers in the back, and I am not worthy of sitting in this position."

Xu Da raised his eyebrows and said with some admiration: "This Qiu Shangshu is also a responsible person. No wonder you look at him differently."

Chen Jingke didn't say anything more about this matter and asked instead:
"How are your preparations going?"

Xu Da said: "We have sent people to deal with it, and there will be results in the next few days."

Chen Jingke perked up and said, "That's good. I'll let the Jin Yiwei and the reserve system vigorously publicize this matter."

"I dare not say that I can win this battle. Even Guo Zuo of the Ming Dynasty can catch up with the Han Dynasty."

He is talking about the two Hans combined.

Set a small goal first, four hundred years of national rule.

Seeing the confident Chen Jingke, Xu Da was filled with admiration.

It can be said that he watched the other party step by step to get to where he is today, and Daming is also changing day by day.

Looking back eight years ago, who could have imagined that Ming Dynasty would become what it is today.

It was not only the Ming Dynasty that was changed, but also nobles like them.

He was even more excited when he thought about Zhu Yuanzhang talking to them some time ago and promising benefits.

This is a good thing that I never dared to think of before, but I didn't expect it to fall in front of me so suddenly.

If everything can come true, then they all have to thank Chen Jingke.

Because without him, none of this would be possible.

But there is a prerequisite for obtaining this benefit.

The stepped tax collection was successfully implemented.

If this New Deal fails, all will be lost.

and so……

Xu Da looked at the group of civil servants with a fierce look in his eyes.

I've always been kind to others, so I hope you won't force me to be cruel.

Before the morning court started, Chen Jingke went to the Qianqing Palace to find Zhu Yuanzhang and told him about Qiu Guangan.

Zhu Yuanzhang said in surprise: "Oh? I knew that there were tigers in the mountains, so I went to the Tiger Mountains. I didn't expect Qiu Guangan to be so bold."

"Okay, since he's not afraid of death, why not let us help him."

Chen Jingke shrank his neck and said, "You old man, don't die so easily. It's so scary."

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered: "Ha...are you afraid now? It's too late."

"You'd better give birth to a son as soon as possible, lest we kill you in the future if you are unhappy, and your family will have no offspring."

Chen Jingke: "..."

Okay, okay, you are awesome.

"I don't know if the empress has gotten up yet, I haven't paid my respects to her yet."

The proud expression on Zhu Yuanzhang's face froze and he said angrily: "You bastard, you know how to complain. Believe it or not, I will beat you up now."

Chen Jingke ran away: "I will go to court soon, so I won't waste Your Majesty's time."

Morning starts normally.

But today it seems particularly deserted.

The group of civil servants who usually like to submit memorials fell into collective silence.

As for military generals... major military and state affairs are held in private meetings and will not be brought to the court for discussion.

They all came here to be mascots in the morning.

The eunuch Sun Fu asked twice in succession: "There is a morning memorial."

In the end, no one paid attention.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face immediately turned livid, and a cold and murderous look appeared in his eyes.

Originally, he thought Qiu Guangan was exaggerating, but now he realized that the matter was more serious than what he said.

Okay, okay, it seems like I haven’t killed anyone in a few years, so they don’t take me seriously anymore.

He had planned to clean up the court before abdicating, so as to prevent some people from constraining Zhu Biao.

It's just that the court has been quite stable in the past few years and the country has been developing smoothly. He is also hesitant to break this calm.

This situation now completely strengthened his determination.

Even if we dare to resist, it's okay if Biao'er succeeds.

At this moment, Qiu Guang'an stood up and impeached the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs for resisting the New Deal, and also produced substantive evidence.

On a certain day of a certain month, at a certain time, I arranged something for so-and-so, but in the end I didn't do anything.

One note was very clear.

It involves one-third of the officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs, and all of them are members of important positions.

Among them was the Minister of Household Affairs.

Those officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs calmly stood up and defended themselves. It's not that we won't do anything, but that we have other matters at hand that need to be dealt with urgently.

You can't put down all other government affairs just for this matter, right?

These are all matters of the imperial court, and nothing can be delayed.

Once we have taken care of the matters at hand, we will definitely seize the time to complete the work assigned by the Minister.

Both inside and outside his words, he accused Qiu Guangan of being eager to make meritorious deeds.

At this time, the civil servant group that had remained silent seemed to suddenly come to life, and several people stood up to impeach Qiu Guangan.

Some oppressing subordinates, some indulging slaves to hurt others.

There is no way to teach a son well. The youngest son has been nostalgic for Qinlou and Chuguan at a young age, forcing his in-laws to break off the engagement.

As for the big problems, there are none of them, they are all trivial problems.

But it's these little things that can ruin a person's reputation the most.

Once these charges are confirmed, Qiu Guangan's reputation will be ruined.

In China, a person's reputation being ruined means the end of his official career.

At least most of the time, this law works.

Even though Qiu Guangan had already guessed that the other party might take action on him, his face still turned red with anger when he heard these impeachments.

However, he did not retort because there was no need for it.

Listening to these civil servants impeaching one after another, Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly:
"When I asked you to perform, none of you said anything, but now each one of you is talking more than the last one."

"I think you are not trying to impeach Shangshu Qiu. Your real purpose is to make us look bad."

"Very well, we appreciate your courage."

The ministers were shocked, but when they saw so many colleagues around them, they immediately became more courageous.

I don’t believe you dare to kill everyone.

So, everyone said in unison: "I have no such intention, please investigate clearly."

Zhu Yuanzhang said murderously: "Of course we have to investigate carefully..."

"Jiang Wei, send all the people who just impeached Shangshu Qiu to prison and investigate them one by one."

Jiang Wei directly led a group of people in, knocked off the official hats of more than ten officials, and dragged them away like dead dogs.

These officials finally became frightened and shouted for mercy one by one, or yelled "so and so" to save me.

However, the civil servants who had just shown that they share life and death were collectively silent.

No one stood up to plead for mercy.

They finally recalled what kind of character Emperor Hongwu was.

A tiger is still a tiger after it takes a nap, and not everyone can bully it.

The law does not punish the public may be useful for other emperors, but it is completely useless for the emperor in front of him.

He is someone who dares to break everything and start over.

Hu Weiyong's case and Zhao Mao's case were both murderous and bloody.

There was no time when the court was not emptied by half, or even more.

As for the turmoil in the DPRK caused by this, he didn't care at all.

After killing them all, another group of obedient people will come over.

When they thought of this reality, the ministers felt extremely heavy in their hearts.

The little resistance that had just arisen before had begun to disintegrate.

However, there is no regret medicine in this world.

There is no turning back when the bow is fired. Since Zhu Yuanzhang decided to pick up the butcher knife, he would not put it down so easily.

The court had already fallen into a state of solemnity.

(End of this chapter)