I have a cornucopia

Chapter 336 The evil slave bullies his master!
King Yang's list completely destroyed the Zhejiang Elders Association.

Those on the list certainly lost the motivation to resist.

Not on the list...

Those not on the list collapsed.

However, Yu Huang still chose to commit suicide on the list, which did not change anything...

He is stupid, but others are not.

He wanted the gentry in Zhejiang to maintain their dignity, but the gentry in Zhejiang only wanted to protect their family property. Can dignity be eaten?
So the wave of donations began immediately.

Those elders and local sages who were not on Yang Feng's protection list, while cursing their former comrades on the protection list for harming them, cried and shouted as they rushed to Hangzhou to surrender to the eunuch Lu Jiude sent by Her Majesty the Queen. The latter had been appointed as the General Manager of the Internal Affairs Department. At present, the head eunuch under the Queen is still Han Zanzhou, the head of the Silijian, and the East Factory is definitely gone, so the second is the General Manager of the Internal Affairs Department. As for Lao Wang, he has a special status. He is on the same level as Han Zanzhou but they are not subordinate to each other. In fact, he is equivalent to another eunuch system and is the Queen's representative in the entire north.

Like a vassal state.

Therefore, the eunuch system was divided into two parts, north and south.

The six provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan originally controlled by Li Zicheng, Shandong and northern Zhili under the jurisdiction of Yang Feng, all those originally under the control of the eunuch system are now under the control of him, the governor of the Western Capital.

Including the capital city after it is recovered in the future.

The main reason for choosing Lu Jiude as the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is that he is ruthless and cruel...

He is essentially a military commander.

He was the commander of Chongzhen's Yongwei Camp and had always been in charge of fighting. Huang Degong and others were originally his subordinates, so his hands were stained with blood. It was estimated that he had massacred unruly people countless times.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs needs such talents.

The gentry knelt down at Lu Qiansui's feet and cried, offering everything they had to Her Majesty the Queen, their land, their property, and even themselves, and Her Majesty the Queen also promised to protect them. As Her Majesty's slaves and private property, no force was allowed to touch them. As the eunuchs, they were slaves, but as Her Majesty's slaves, they could not be treated the same as other slaves, so they could take the imperial examinations, become officials, and guard Her Majesty's property, which had become Her Majesty's property.

Same as in the past.

Of course, there is one more thing they cannot consider for the time being.

At least for now, it seems that this is their only lifeline.

"I am a slave and I am honored!"

The calls for checking the packaging echoed throughout Zhejiang.

"I am a slave and I am honored!"

Then the shouts of countless gentry who became servants of Her Majesty the Empress also resounded throughout Zhejiang.

Etiquette, justice and integrity?
Can it be eaten as a meal?
Can we keep the land and wealth?
Isn't it just calling Her Majesty the Queen a few times?

The whole world originally belonged to Her Majesty the Queen, and we are all Her Majesty's slaves...

Well, they have begun to explain their behavior from the perspective of Confucianism. After all, they are well aware that this behavior is shameful and in serious conflict with their past personalities. After all, the gentry have always advocated that the emperor and the literati share the world, advocated the confrontation with the imperial power, and advocated their courtesy, righteousness, integrity, and loyalty. As a result, they all ran to kneel at the feet of the eunuchs and called themselves slaves of Her Majesty the Queen.

shame!
So shameful!
More importantly, they can no longer use the same tricks they used to show off in front of ordinary people.

Character!

The character is broken!

After all, the teachings of sages certainly never taught them to be slaves.

Fortunately, they were originally responsible for interpreting the teachings of sages, and now they can only reinterpret them and explain their behavior in a way that conforms to Confucianism, just like the Confucian scholars of our Qing Dynasty who did their best to interpret Confucianism as slavery. As long as they interpret Confucianism as slavery, then they naturally have nothing to feel ashamed of.

but……

They are not the only Confucian scholars.

Because our Qing Dynasty needed slave studies, we helped them physically eliminate other explanations, and in the end only those who taught slave studies were left.

But in the current Ming Dynasty, not only will slavery not become mainstream, but it will become the target of collective attack by those Confucian scholars who have not become slaves of the empress, especially those who were spared from this disaster because of Yang Feng's protection, and they will definitely not accept slavery. In the end, it will be a war of ideas, and Yang Feng's protection list itself has torn the relationship between the gentry. Those gentry who were forced to surrender have only hatred for those who were protected...

Why are you protected?
I hate it!
And now there is also a split in ideology.

After destroying Zhejiang's resistance in one fell swoop, King Yang immediately put forward a list of people to be protected in Suzhou, Songjiang and other places.

The latter's resistance collapsed without any suspense.

Those who were not on the list were all like the Zhejiang gentry, cursing those on the list while crying and shouting to surrender to the empress, and even killing each other. Yang Tingshu, the head of the Suzhou Elders Association, was assassinated in the street because he was protecting the list. In fact, there have been many such assassinations. Qian Shisheng, the original elder of the Elders Association, was shot. Now those who were not on the list, on the contrary, focused all their hatred on them, thinking that it was all their fault, that they had coerced them, deceived them into resisting, and then made them slaves, and they were actually protected by Yang Feng?
Aren't they supposed to be the same?

There is even reason to suspect that they had conspired with Yang Feng long ago.

So at the same time as surrender, revenge is bound to happen. After all, everyone has enough force now, and who doesn't know how to shoot secretly?
For a time, assassinations became a trend in Jiangnan.

Just as the Elders' Council collapsed, Gao Yigong took advantage of the chaos to capture Wuxi.

Gao Jie landed in Jiangyin.

Shen Tingyang did not resist. In fact, he was shot. Although he did not die, he was seriously injured. The person who shot him was Lu Gong, an exiled scholar from Changzhou. Of course, the top scholar of the Qing Dynasty was not on the protected list, but their commander Shen Tingyang was!
Lu Gong was homeless and had nothing to offer, after all, his house had been ransacked by Gao Yigong a long time ago. Suffering from a mental breakdown, he imagined the inside story of Shen Tingyang colluding with Yang Feng to sell Jiangnan, and then suddenly broke into the command center with the demeanor of a nuclear staff officer and shot Shen Tingyang. Of course, he was also hacked to death by Shen Tingyang's personal soldiers.

Du Yinxi is missing.

Although he was also on Yang Feng's protection list.

As for King Yang's explanation, it was that Kang Miao had told the Empress in a dream that he had been pardoned.

In fact, all those who participated in the regicide were pardoned, but the others were not clear, only he was guilty, so Kangmiao clearly said in his dream that he was the leader of the regicide. Since Kangmiao pardoned them in his dream, the empress could not pursue them. She could pursue those who had no names, after all, she could change their crimes, but she could not pursue Du Yinxi, who had a name.

This was pardoned by Kang Miao.

Kang Temple is so great.

Du Yinxi is a smart man. If he doesn't run away, he will end up like Shen Tingyang.

So he slipped away.

His 40,000 elite troops from Susong surrendered to Gao Yigong in Changzhou, but were then transferred to the capital by King Yang in the name of the Northern Expedition, and then transferred to Jiangbei, where they were organized into the Imperial Camp with the Zhejiang New Army to reinforce the Northern Expedition Army. In fact, not only them, but also the Zhejiang militia was incorporated into the Imperial Camp. As for Chen Zilong, he also disappeared. It is said that he became a monk and lost all hope, but he should not be a monk for long. Madam Qian has gone to find him. After Qian Qianyi died, Madam Qian had no worries, so it was reasonable for Chen Zilong to take care of her for her. The war in Jiangnan was easily quelled by King Yang with the protection list, but then Her Majesty the Queen issued an order that all the land donated by the slaves who surrendered to her would be given to the original tenants as permanent land. The land was under the name of the Queen, but it would always belong to the descendants of these tenants for cultivation, and the rent would always be 10%.

Of course, no trading allowed.

The right of perpetual tenancy cannot be traded unless approved by Her Majesty the Queen.

After all, this is a gift from Her Majesty the Queen, and anyone who dares to trade privately would be deceiving the Queen.

Even the management of these permanent tenancy fields had nothing to do with the original landlords, that is, the gentry who surrendered as slaves, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs set up separate management agencies in various places. The bondservants were all dumbfounded.

They were lied to.

Why did they make the donation? It was just to keep the land, but now the land has nothing to do with them?
This is not what they want!
Hangzhou.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, I am the first one to surrender to the master. King Yang said clearly that the land and property would still be managed by me. How could it change now? Your Highness, this is not right!"

Cha Baoyi knelt in front of Lu Jiude's horse and shouted.

In fact, he has fallen sharply from the peak of happiness these days.

After Lu Jiude arrived in Hangzhou, the newly appointed officials of the court also arrived. He, who had originally dreamed of becoming the governor of Zhejiang, actually did not hold any official position. The explanation was that he had no official position in the first place. Although he, a juren, could become an official, he had to be selected by the Ministry of Personnel and promoted step by step.

How could a juren directly become a governor?

What are the rules of the court?

In short, let alone the governor, he didn't get anything.

But he still comforted himself, at least the land was saved, and he would just take the exams as before. After all, he was a bondservant of the Empress, and even if he registered as a juren, he would still be able to get a job. With the favor of the Empress, it would not be a dream to be a governor, governor-general, or even a cabinet minister. Even cabinet ministers had to be from the Hanlin Academy, but he was different. How could he be like an ordinary person because he was a slave of the Empress?

then……

The land is gone too.

"Asshole, is that your land? It's Her Majesty's land, and it's under the control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. How dare you, a servant, claim that Her Majesty's land is yours.

What land do you, a slave, have?

Even your people are slaves of the Imperial Household Department.

Come, drag this dog slave who dared to rebel against his superiors aside and give him thirty strokes of the cane to teach him a lesson! "

Lu Jiude shouted.

The soldiers behind him stepped forward immediately and kicked Cha Baoyi to the ground before he could react. Then two of them held him to the ground, while another lifted up his green robe and pulled it inside. Then two soldiers who had been prepared swung their clubs and hit him.

"what……!"

Cha Baoyi screamed.

"Our family is teaching you a lesson. You need to remember your status. You are a juren, but you are also a servant of Her Majesty the Empress. A servant should behave like a servant. After you have submitted your property, it has become Her Majesty's. It has nothing to do with you. How Her Majesty the Empress handles it is also none of your business. Not to mention changing these lands into permanent tenancy, even if you are asked to donate all your property to the Empress, that is your duty.

This is what it means to be a slave! "

Lu Jiude put on a governor's face and said.

And Cha Baoyi woke up as if from a dream.

"Liar, you liars, ah!"

He screamed under the board.

"You still dare to slander Her Majesty the Queen, you evil slave bullying your master, keep beating him until he dies, go, take people to confiscate his house, a slave dares to scold his master, you must be tortured to death, today I am in a good mood, I will give you a quick death."

Lu Jiude shouted.

The unfortunate Cha Baoyi could no longer speak. He screamed in agony as he was hit by a big stick from behind...

"So, this is Yang Feng's real purpose."

Chen Zilong, who was already bald in the crowd, watched the scene coldly.

Next to him was Du Yinxi, who was dressed as a vendor.

In fact, there was also Madam Qian who pretended to be young, but she was now wearing men's clothes, but the clothes were men's clothes that could be seen as women at a glance. However, no one paid attention to them. After all, there was a good show of investigating the bondmen, so who would pay attention to anything else. The latter had been showing off his power in Hangzhou for many days, as if he was the governor of Zhejiang. Now that he has fallen to this point, he still attracts a lot of idle people.

"First, he tricked them into surrendering, and then he made public the names of those he protected. With just a few pieces of paper, he easily disintegrated our army of 100,000. Those he protected naturally no longer had the will to resist, and those who were not protected by him, jealous of those he protected, drew their swords against him instead, preferring to surrender rather than fight. As a result, after laying down their weapons, they became at the mercy of others.

There is no reasoning yet.

Slave.

Or a minion.

Since they are all slaves, they are naturally at the mercy of their masters.

If the master is the empress, she can be killed at will, even a eunuch can be beaten to death.

Ridiculous! "

Du Yinxi sneered.

Of course, no one has sympathy for Cha Baoyi.

After all, if he had not been the guide, the iron wall of Jiangnan would not have been breached. At least that was the case in the eyes of Du Yinxi and Chen Zilong. As long as Yang Feng did not take action personally, their defense line would never have been breached. As a result, because of this traitor, the defense line consisting of a hundred thousand troops, countless fortresses, and countless cannons collapsed in an instant.

In fact, they originally wanted to kill this traitor.

But not anymore.

There are actually many people like them who gloat over other people's misfortunes.

As they watched, Cha Baoyi, who was beaten with a stick, gradually became a bloody mess. He used up his last bit of strength to reach out to the Zhejiang Governor who came after hearing the news, as if he was grasping at a last straw.

But the latter remained indifferent.

"Eunuch Lu, although the execution of slaves by the Ministry of Internal Affairs has nothing to do with the local area, it is still inappropriate to block the road in a busy city."

He just said.

"Ah, it was our fault for being careless. We will pay more attention to this kind of thing next time, and it won't happen again."

Lu Jiude said with a smile.

The governor nodded, bowed to him and left.

The Imperial Household Department only beat slaves to death, which had nothing to do with the local government, and he had no right to interfere with the Imperial Household Department's punishment of slaves. After all, they were already slaves and had long been no longer registered as civilians. Although the governor could control the masters of the slaves, he had no control over his master being the empress.

(End of this chapter)