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Chapter 331: We also have bondservants in the Ming Dynasty!

Hainingwei.

"Mr. Zha, I am really pleased that you have such a broad perspective!"

King Yang looked at Mr. Cha in front of him with genuine satisfaction.

Of course, King Yang was not here to boost the morale of his minions. He was neutral, so how could he favor any side? He just came here under the guise of an inspection to make a final effort to save the war between the two sides for the sake of peace in Jiangnan because the armistice period was about to end. So Hainingwei was already his fourth stop on this trip. Before that, he had been to Zhenjiang, Taizhou, and Jiangyin, and had persuaded Gao Yigong, Gao Jie, Shen Tingyang and others with great sincerity, trying to get them to put the overall situation first. After all, Kang Temple had been buried in peace. No matter what happened in the past, just treat this page as a page that has been turned over. Let's look forward together and stop dwelling on the past...

Let the past be the past!
Kang Miao in heaven certainly does not want his death to trigger a larger-scale war and cause more deaths. He has forgiven those who hurt him. He chose to forgive like a green-haired turtle.

great!

Very great!
In short, let's stop worrying about who killed him.

Treat this tragedy with a calm mind.

But unfortunately no one listened.

Gao Yigong and others, who were full of loyalty to the Kang Temple and Emperor Yongchang, and Gao Jie, who was also full of loyalty to the Kang Temple, clearly rejected the persuasion of His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi.

They are loyal subjects.

A loyal minister must avenge his monarch.

The hatred between the emperor and the father is irreconcilable. They keep the teachings of the sages in mind. Soldiers are very simple. In their eyes, there is only loyalty and disloyalty. There is no compromise and they will not consider the overall situation. For the traitors who killed the emperor, all nine clans must be killed. Even if Kang Miao really forgives those people, they will not stop. Forgiving them or not is Kang Miao's business. They are only responsible for sending the nine clans of these people to see Kang Miao together.

So the King of Qi was also helpless. After all, there was nothing wrong with what they said. They were loyal ministers, there was no doubt about that. Loyalty, loyalty cannot be expressed in words, and he could not force a group of loyal ministers to give up their principles!
After all, he read the books of sages.

Which sage doctrine taught him not to let a group of loyal ministers avenge the emperor?

As for Shen Tingyang's answer, it was not unreasonable either. After all, what others said was very clear. The hometown cannot be trampled by outsiders. The word "country" is very clear. The country and the family are very important. When defending the Ming Dynasty, they did not retreat. They fought bloody battles with the Jiannu for many years, but now when defending their own homeland, they will not retreat either. They are also loyal ministers, but loyal ministers only listen to Her Majesty. If Her Majesty does not allow them to resist, they can lay down their weapons, but as long as the Queen does not explicitly order them not to resist the Jingnan Army and ask them to die and sacrifice their lives, then they have the right to resist. In this way, King Yang also had nothing to say. After all, the Queen did not say that they were not allowed to resist. He was just a paperhanger. What could he do? The army he could mobilize was not as many as others.

In the end, King Yang came to Hainingwei with a heart full of regrets.

“Here they don’t agree either.

They said that the Confucian Knights were the Knights of the Church, and what they protected was Confucianism and the Way of the Sages. Loyalty to the Emperor was the core of the Way of the Sages, so there was no room for negotiation on this matter. They also accused me, saying that as a Confucian Knight, I did not join the Jingnan Army, and I failed to live up to their trust. Alas, I was helpless, and I also knew that what they did was actually right. If they sat back and watched the traitors kill the emperor without fighting, then the Confucian Knights would not be qualified to exist.

After all, we all read the books of sages, so we naturally understand that the word loyalty cannot be taken lightly.

Loyalty.

Loyalty should always come first.

But I have no choice. For the sake of the overall situation, what can I do? "

King Yang said with a sad face.

"Your Majesty is absolutely right. Your Majesty is a famous scholar of the time, well-versed in both ancient and modern knowledge, so he cannot be wrong.

Ultimately, the overall situation should be taken into consideration.

Now the Jianlu have been pacified by the king, and the queen has revived the Ming Dynasty. The king's rule is a prosperous era, but only in the corner of Jiangnan, everyone is fighting for their own interests, which is really a great sin. In fact, the students also know that the death of Kang Temple is indeed the result of the elders' regicide. Not only the students, but also some elders such as Chen Su'an are aware of this, but they are still weak and have no choice but to be coerced and wait for the opportunity.

But now, just for this corner of Jiangnan, the great Ming Dynasty was destroyed, and they regretted it deeply. They also knew that they could not betray the Queen and the King for their own selfish interests.

But they are traitors after all, so they still feel uneasy. "

Mr. Cha quickly said with a smile.

"This is understanding the overall situation. He is worthy of being the runner-up. His vision is different.

You can rest assured about this.

I'll guarantee you.

No matter what the final outcome of this war is, I will protect you all."

Yang Feng said.

Mr. Cha knelt down immediately in excitement.

"Your Majesty, I am grateful to you for your appreciation. Even if I become a slave, it will be difficult for me to repay your kindness."

He said while lying on the ground.

"Well, are you really a slave?"

King Yang said thoughtfully.

"Uh?"

Mr. Cha was confused.

He was just talking. He came from a prominent family with a long history of nobility. How could he be a slave?
"Not for me, but for Her Majesty the Queen. You know that Her Majesty the Queen is a woman after all. She doesn't need the beauties in the harem. At most, she can only have some maids to serve her. How many can one person use? In the future, the palace will not need more people. In the past, the most criticized people in our Ming Dynasty were the eunuchs. Although there were loyal eunuchs like Wang Taijian, most of them were corrupt and perverted the law. She knew this in the palace, so she will try not to recruit eunuchs in the future.

What's more, the court cannot afford to support too many eunuchs in its current situation.

A thousand or so people would be enough.

In this way, many things in the local area cannot be taken care of. After all, many things in the past were handled by the eunuchs. Now that so many eunuchs are gone, and no new ones are added, many things will be left unattended. This is definitely not acceptable. Her Majesty thinks that the baoyi system of the Jianlu is quite desirable, so she also wants to set up an internal affairs department to manage the royal properties outside. That is, to take loyal, reliable and capable people in the local area and take them in as her slaves, just like the Jianlu baoyi slaves, but they are registered under the name of the empress and belong to the internal affairs department, but they still live in various places.

It's also possible to pass the imperial examination and become an official.

Of course, it is also possible to be directly granted an official position.

They were just slaves registered under the name of the Empress, but apart from the title of slaves, they were no different from ordinary gentry, and the way they expanded their family branches remained the same as before.

Even more glorious and wealthy than that, after all, you are all the true confidants of Her Majesty the Queen.

From now on, Her Majesty the Queen will rely on you to help her look after the place."

Yang Feng said.

This system actually exists.

The Queen really has no interest in continuing to keep that bunch of eunuchs.

She didn't need to keep a bunch of beauties in the harem. So the palace had stopped accepting new people a long time ago, and the ones under Han Zanzhou were still accepted. In addition, those from the Xi'an Palace were accepted. However, those from the Xi'an Palace did not go to Nanjing, but continued to stay in Xi'an, led by Wang Chengen to guard the tomb of Chongzhen, or to serve as the governor of the court in Xi'an. After all, the Xi'an court was still composed of Li Zicheng's old subordinates, and there was no need to replace them in the short term.

As for those who were scattered in other places, direct orders were issued to allow them to find their own places to go.

Go wherever you want.

Allow civilians to take them in.

In fact, they are very popular, because these people know too much that ordinary people don't know, and they also have too many connections that ordinary people don't have. If local gentry want to enter officialdom in the future, then such a consultant is very necessary. Therefore, those who are scattered outside are basically quickly recruited by local gentry, either as their domestic slaves or as their guests, and they can be said to have no worries about food and clothing.

The Queen allowed the people to take them in, which only gave legitimacy to this behavior.

After all, in the past, people were not allowed to keep eunuch slaves.

just now……

There are already countless of them among the people.

It is estimated that the new gentry along the coast have hundreds of thousands of subordinates.

But without these people, the Queen still needs some confidants to control the royal industry...

Of course, it is King Yang who is under her control now.

After all, Her Majesty the Queen has been supported by King Yang for all these years. The court's finances have collapsed long ago, and Nanjing relies entirely on tax revenue from a few checkpoints, just like the Beiyang government. What really maintains the Nanjing court is actually the continuous loans from King Yang's bank. It can be said that the Nanjing court was supported by King Yang.

But in the end we will have to discuss our own affairs.

Such an institution similar to the Imperial Household Department of the Qing Dynasty is very necessary, and this method can also bid farewell to the rampant eunuch party in the past. The people still care about this. Wang Chengen alone cannot change the dark history of the Ming Dynasty eunuch group. Her Majesty wants to show that she has started anew to revive the Ming Dynasty. The first step is to show a new look in this regard. There is no eunuch monopoly in the Ming Dynasty anymore. As for the Baoyi of the Imperial Household Department, they are not eunuchs.

They fished more than the eunuchs...

Then they are not eunuchs.

There will no longer be eunuchs monopolizing power in my Ming Dynasty. At most, the Cao family will be as rich as a country.

Cha Juren was also a smart man. After all, he was the first person to inform on the Ming History case, although he chose the wrong person to inform on. He informed on Xuedao. Perhaps Xuedao still had some conscience, or perhaps he did not take it seriously. In any case, Xuedao suppressed his report until Wu Zhirong informed on him again.

As for why this story has been passed down...

Please, this is honorable in our Qing Dynasty, and it is not something shameful. His students themselves recorded it clearly for him, and there is no need to hide it.

At this moment, he quickly understood what it meant to be a bondservant to Her Majesty the Queen...

Wealth and honor.

Wealth and prosperity from generation to generation.

Of course, the gentry all knew very well that the eunuchs were actually the royal family's gloves. The eunuchs made money for the emperor and killed people for the emperor. The Ming Dynasty was not the Tang Dynasty. All the power of the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty was given by the emperor. Similarly, if the emperor wanted their money, they had to hand over all the money. If the emperor wanted them to die, they had no choice but to die. Wei Zhongxian was already nine thousand years old, and if Chongzhen wanted him to die, he had no choice but to die.

But compared to the baoyi of the Imperial Household Department, eunuchs are nothing. Baoyi have descendants, but do eunuchs? The descendants of baoyi can take the imperial examination and become officials, but eunuchs...

He must have offspring first.

The wealth and status of the Baoyi could be inherited.

Eunuch...

He must have offspring first.

Baoyi can bring prosperity and wealth to generations.

Eunuch...

He must have offspring first.

In fact, after the death of eunuchs, their affairs usually had to be handled by monks in the temple. They were basically kicked out of the family tree when they entered the palace. Although their relatives did rise to high positions with them after they became rich, not many eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty had a good end. It would be too naive to expect that their relatives would handle their affairs after they starved to death while eating radishes in Guan Nanyuan.

Even the head of the Imperial Household Department during the Wanli Dynasty had to be buried by monks from the Xishan Temple when he died.

So why not do such a good thing?
In fact, he also knew that this was the guarantee Yang Feng gave them. They were all slaves of the empress, so of course they didn't have to worry about their property being confiscated in the future. With this identity, no one would dare to touch them in the future, including the local officials in the future. Moreover, they could decide the fate of the local officials.

Secret music!
Isn't it natural for a servant to report illegal local officials to his master?
"Your Majesty, I am a student and I am willing to serve Your Majesty the Queen for generations!"

Cha Juren was so excited that his voice was trembling.

"Get up. Remember, you will be the Queen's servants from now on. Sometimes you don't have to be told what to do. As long as it is beneficial to the Master, you should do it boldly. Don't worry about the past. Let go of the burden of the past and serve the Master wholeheartedly from now on."

King Yang said meaningfully.

Understand!
Cha Juren understood.

Don't worry about past friendships or even relatives. You are already the slaves of the Queen. You are no longer from the same world as those relatives and friends. Even if they confiscate your property and exterminate your family, you will not be implicated. You don't need to share your wealth and glory with them. Just do things that are beneficial to the Queen and wait for the Queen's reward. Similarly, the Queen's enemies are also their enemies. The Queen's revenge for her father's murder is waiting for them to avenge. The slaves avenge their masters, and in the past, they must be praised as loyal slaves!

So Cha Juren, who had just left with great excitement, went into Li Zhifang's residence without hesitation.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Yang Feng.

King Yang did not ask them to betray their hometown, nor did he ask them to be guides. He was neutral and would not intervene in the war. He just helped the Queen to collect a few slaves.

Slave...

The master doesn't need a reason to kill his servant!

The wealth of a servant also belongs to the master!
The Cao family is as wealthy as a country and has great power. The master's words can make the whole land turn white.

King Yang did not break his promise!
King Yang gave them a guarantee, which was true and effective. As the slaves of the Queen, they would be safe no matter who won. Be it the Knights of Confucius and Mencius or the old bandits, even if Zhejiang was conquered, nothing of theirs could be touched. They were the slaves of the Queen, and everything they had belonged to Her Majesty, so of course no one would dare to touch Her Majesty's things.

unless……

The Queen herself!

After all, after this war, Her Majesty the Queen will also need a few sacrifices.

Isn’t this ready-made thing delivered to your door?
(End of this chapter)