Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 727 You are really shameless

Zhu Yuanzhang's series of actions, as well as various new government orders, were quickly spread.

Jinyiwei kept moving around and catching people within the Yingtian Mansion.

Jin Yiwei from various places also began to mobilize.

All of a sudden, people in the court were in panic, and the officials were frightened. Many of them had their family members arrested and thrown into prison for investigation.

Various actions such as paying taxes and confiscating land are also in progress.

Some wealthy landowners wanted to resist the imperial court's actions, but after being shot a few times, they all obeyed.

The last time a similar thing happened was during the tax reform, which made many officials in the Ming Dynasty understand that Zhu Yuanzhang was just old, not incompetent.

As they get older and become less cruel, they become a little more buoyant.

But being old doesn't mean that you won't be cruel. Nowadays, when you kill people, you can still be very terrifying. The methods of punishing their officials are as sharp as ever, making it impossible for them to stop them.

However, considering the need to run the government, Zhu Yuanzhang did not kill many people, but only those who resisted.

Those who did not resist, the family members of the officials, were imprisoned for a few years and then released. When new officials were trained in the future and the old ones were replaced, the accounts could be settled slowly.

Lao Zhu also prepared a blacklist and wrote the names of those who should be blacklisted.

Even if he is unable to settle accounts in the future, his good grandson can still do it.

The ministers in the DPRK were panic-stricken.

When Zhu Xuan was reading the memorial in the East Palace, he could also see that Jie Jin and the others were hesitant to speak, as if they wanted to plead for someone or say something, but they did not dare to say it.

They didn't dare to say it, and Zhu Xuan certainly wouldn't, so he took the initiative to ask questions out of boredom.

Whatever they want.

However, on the second day after Zhu Yuanzhang's operation, Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Household Affairs, and Yu Xin, the Minister of Household Affairs, went to the East Palace to find Zhu Xuan. The reason was that many officials were investigated and their family members were also arrested. They came to plead for mercy. , and the intensity of request for severe punishment can be appropriately weakened.

If this continues, the families of those officials will definitely suffer a lot.

Zhu Xuan looked at them for a while and asked calmly: "If I remember correctly, you are all officials from the Southern Department, right?"

Yu Xin and Xia Yuanji nodded at the same time.

What Zhu Yuanzhang now offends is mostly the interests of the south.

The landowners and scholars in the south and the southern officials in the DPRK have inextricably linked interests.

"This situation is most serious in your south. The number is several times that in the north. It causes countless losses to Ming Dynasty every year."

"As officials from the south, you don't restrain the behavior of you southerners, but you take the initiative to plead for mercy, hoping to reduce the punishment."

"Don't you think it's ridiculous?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked them.

Xia Yuanji said cautiously: "Those fields are accumulated by our southern family for generations. According to the original decree, we don't have to pay taxes."

Zhu Xuan immediately retorted and said calmly: "Ancestral accumulation for generations? Your ancestors have worked hard for annexation for generations, right? The previous decree was before, and now is now. If you don't collect taxes, you will definitely annex even more. In a few days, In the new year, I am afraid that the common people will not even have a place to stand on, and the poor will have no place to stand. This is what you want, right?"

"Don't dare!"

Xia Yuanji and Yu Xin said in unison.

But they know the virtues of those families better than anyone else. In the end, it will really be like this.

"Don't you dare? There's no way you wouldn't dare."

"As an official, you know the law and break it, but now you still have the nerve to come to me to reduce the punishment. Are you really thick-skinned?"

"It's a bit wasteful for you to serve as officials in the Sixth Department. You should show off your face and build the city wall."

"After all, the city walls are not as thick-skinned as you."

"Besides, you are really shameless!"

Zhu Xuan sarcastically scolded them so that they did not dare to raise their heads and their faces turned red.     However, what is said is all true.

In the face of interests, shamelessness has to be done.

Zhu Xuan snorted coldly: "You guys go out and reflect! In addition, Yan Guan sent someone to check them. I want to see if Mr. Xia has done anything special behind your back."

"Your Highness, I know I was wrong!"

Xia Yuanji said immediately.

Yu Xin said quickly: "I also know that I was wrong."

Zhu Xuan sneered and said: "Look at yourselves, once you encounter any problems, you will immediately admit your mistakes and admit your mistakes. But when you see the benefits, you will rush to join them. If your interests are damaged, you will pretend to be pitiful. Get out!"

As representatives of the Southern Department officials, the two of them did not dare to ask Zhu Yuanzhang, but only dared to ask Zhu Xuan. However, they still got nothing in front of Zhu Xuan and left in despair.

Zhu Xuan said angrily: "Do we Ming officials all have this kind of virtue?"

There are definitely good officials, but there are even more bad ones.

Normally, I find Xia Yuanji quite pleasing to the eye, but when it comes to the interests of the Southern Department, he is particularly disgusting. If it weren't for the lack of officials, Zhu Xuan would not have given him a chance to go out.

"Your Highness!"

Xie Jin said: "It is not a good thing for officials to form factions and form secret cronies."

Zhu Yuanzhang had cracked down on cliques many years ago. Now that he had relaxed, they began to form cliques again. Now the entire southern clique is united.

For the emperor, this situation was the most unfavorable.

Zhu Xuan said: "I will take care of it, you just retreat!"

Jie Jin and the others had no choice but to bow and leave Zhan Shifu.

"Yan Guan, find something to stir up the relationship between the officials who are united, no matter what, I don't want to see them get too united."

Zhu Xuan ordered.

Don't let them be too united.

There are many things that Jinyiwei can do. No matter what you ask them to do, they can help you complete it.

"Yes!"

Yan Guan said solemnly.

Watching Yan Guan leave, Zhu Xuan took a sip of tea and felt a little headache from recent events. After thinking about it, tomorrow's court meeting was the time for Yuan Kong to take the initiative to impeach the Buddhist temple.

The imperial court wanted to formally take action against Buddhism.

Strip away all the privileges that Buddhism has enjoyed over the years.

The court must step in and manage with force.

"Your Highness."

Mu Yuanjun came at this time and said softly: "I asked you to make some sugar water. Your Highness, can you take a rest?"

Seeing his little wife coming, Zhu Xuan's headache was relieved a lot. He put everything else down for the time being and said softly: "It's better for you, Mr. Yuan."

Mu Yuanjun smiled and said: "I am not good, I can't help His Highness with anything. Seeing His Highness so tired makes me feel distressed."

"There's been a lot going on lately."

Zhu Xuan spread his hands helplessly, took Mu Yuanjun's sugar water, took two sips, and said: "But I can finish one more thing quickly, and I can relax for a few days. There should be no other serious matters next. "

Once this matter is taken care of and there are no more troubles, he can take a break and then get back to work. Zhu Xuan will soon become a workaholic like Lao Zhu.

However, he was still thinking about the remaining three young wives entering the palace.

(End of this chapter)