Mingshi

Chapter 725

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The three of Fang Zigen were sandwiched between Luo Sheng and those scholars, exhausted physically and mentally.They know that if things go on like this, Taiwan will definitely be in chaos.Just when they didn't know how to deal with it, they suddenly found Luo Xin coming, how could they not be ecstatic?
Fang Zigen, Zhou Xian and Cui Hao led dozens of literati and some generals to greet Luo Xin.

In the city, which has been mostly completed, in a courtyard, more than thirty literati gathered together, drinking and having fun, watching some indigenous women dancing folk dances, and talking loudly.

"Luo Sheng is back."

"Well, I heard that."

"Fang Zigen, Cui Hao and Zhou Xian all went to meet him."

"A martial artist, is he worthy of our welcome?"

"Yeah, when is it the turn of our generation of scholars to humble themselves in front of military generals? I get angry when I see Fang Zigen and the others being cautious in front of Luo Sheng and Luo Yeman. They really pretend to be scholars and embarrass us scholars."

"That is, what do their martial arts know? The country ultimately depends on us scholars."

"Don't mention Fang Zigen and them. I get angry when I mention them. They are also scholars, but they don't know how to maintain the dignity of scholars. They deprived us of the privileges of scholars for the sake of flattery. For nearly 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, we scholars have enjoyed the privilege of tax exemption. , why deprive us of it.”

"........."

"Meet Your Majesty, long live long live long live long live."

Luo Xin looked at the group of people kneeling in front of him, including literati, military generals, and civilian workers who were under construction. He even saw his uncle kneeling in front of him.

A wry smile emerged in Luo Xin's heart. Looking at these people, he knew that the day when he would be wearing a yellow robe was getting closer.Once his strength expands to a certain level, whether to overthrow Daming is not up to him.

After two quick steps, he came to Luo Ye, stretched out his hand to help Luo Ye up and said, "Uncle, please get up quickly."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Luo Ye said in a concentrated voice, with respect on his face.This made Luo smile even more wryly in his heart. Seeing what Uncle meant, he was bound to force himself to rebel and replace Daming.The expression on his face remained unchanged. After helping Luo Ye up, he helped Fang Zigen, Zhou Xian and Cui Hao up with his own hands.Then boarded the carriage and headed towards the city not far away.

After entering the city, Luo Xin opened the car window and looked outside, feeling better.The city has been built seven to eighty-eight, and Luo Xin estimates that in three months, the city will be fully completed, and the pedestrians on the street can be regarded as bustling, a bustling embryonic form.

From a distance, you can see a huge palace complex, because the houses there are the tallest.When he came to the gate, he jumped out of the car and looked towards the palaces. Luo Xin knew that this was the palace built for him, because the layout and shape of the buildings here were almost exactly the same as the palaces in the capital.

Arriving at the Golden Luan Hall, Luo Xin already understood everyone's psychology in his heart at this time, so he no longer hesitated, strode towards the dragon chair above, and then sat down firmly.The civil and military officials in the main hall once again knelt in front of the ranks, shouting long live.

"Your family is free from courtesy." Luo Xin said calmly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, long live long live long live."

Looking at the civil and military officials below, his ambition was completely exposed at the moment when they shouted long live.His face was slightly red, and his heart was beating violently. At this moment, he had an urge to lead an army to the capital, kill Emperor Jiajing, and sit on the dragon chair in the Jinluan Hall of the Ming Dynasty. .

A man drunk lying on the lap of a beauty, wake up and take power in the world!

At this moment, even Luo Xin, who was only thinking about the people in the world, couldn't help but feel eager to move.

Luo Xin took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the restlessness in his heart.He looked at the civil and military officials in the hall, he was familiar with them all, and he could call them by their names.But I don't know what positions some of them hold in this Taiwanese court today.Sweeping his eyes across the crowd, he said:
"I can call out your names, but I don't know that you all have any positions here. Please introduce yourself."

In this way, even Luo Ye and others introduced themselves.With Luo Xin's memory, he naturally remembered everyone's duties clearly.There were quite a lot of civil and military officials in the room, and this self-introduction would have taken a lot of time, and Luo Xin had to give a few words of encouragement to everyone after the introduction.This time will take longer.

Fang Zigen was the third to introduce himself after Luo Ye and Luo Sheng introduced themselves.Nothing happened to him after that.It's just that he was very anxious in his heart.His anxiety comes from two aspects. On the one hand, he did not expect Luo Xin to come back today. He never thought that an official of Ming Dynasty, and he was a fifth-rank Hangzhou Tongzhi, would go to Taiwan privately. It is a capital offense.

Could it be that...Luo Xin has rebelled?
Another thing that makes him anxious is that it is precisely because he didn't expect Luo Xin to come to Taiwan, he only thought that Luo Sheng had returned, so he just knew the thirty or so literati who were self-inflated and asked them to come to welcome Luo Sheng, without telling them that Luo Xin is back.Although when he entered the city, he had quietly sent someone to notify the thirty or so literati, but he found that Luo Xin never asked why those people didn't come?

Maybe Luo Xin thought those people were busy with business, maybe Luo Xin was extremely angry.And Fang Zigen thinks that there should be more of the second type.It is impossible for Luo Sheng not to report what happened in Taiwan to Luo Xin.In this way, Luo Xin is suppressing his anger.After a while, when those thirty or so people came, Luo Xin's anger would definitely erupt.

If Luo Xin collides with your thirty or so scholars, then Taiwan will be completely chaotic.He didn't know how to dispel Luo Xin's anger, so he heard footsteps coming from outside the gate, more than [-] civil servants walked into the main hall, saw Luo Xin sitting on top of the main hall, their faces changed, and they knelt down one after another fall.

"Meet Your Majesty, long live long live long live long live."

The smile on Luo Xin's face gradually subsided, and he silently looked at the thirty or so civil servants kneeling on the ground.The entire hall fell silent, and the air seemed to become sluggish, pressing towards everyone's hearts like a sea tide.The thirty or so civil servants kneeling in the center of the hall became nervous, and some of them were already sweating.

After more than ten breaths passed, Luo Xin said lightly: "Get up."

"Thank you!"

Thirty or so civil servants stood up, thinking about going back to where they should stand, but they heard Luo Xin asking in a calm voice:

"Do you have any problems with the rules I specified?"

The hearts of these thirty or so civil servants jumped, and a middle-aged man standing in the front cupped his hands and said:
"Return to Your Majesty, I will support Your Majesty's rules, but..."

"Just what?"

"It's just that I don't understand why Your Majesty wants to abolish the tax exemption policy for scholars?"

"You really don't know?" Luo Xin asked lightly.

"do not know."

Luo Xin swept his eyes over the thirty or so people one by one, and asked indifferently, "You don't know either."

"I don't know." The thirty or so people said in unison.

Luo Xin looked at Fang Zigen, Zhou Xian and Cui Hao.The three of them went out to play and said:
"Your Majesty, I have something to say."

"Say!"

"About why the tax exemption policy for scholars should be abolished, the minister and others have already explained to them."

Luo Xin looked over indifferently, and the thirty or so people also raised their heads to look at Luo Xin at this moment, with puzzlement mixed with a trace of resentment in their eyes.

"Your Majesty, why? Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, we scholars have been superior to others. All things are inferior, but studies are high. This is the privilege of our scholars."

"This is not Da Ming!" Luo Xin said lightly.

"No matter where we are, we scholars should enjoy special status and rights. Taizu said that the royal family and scholar-bureaucrats rule the world together."

Luo Xin's heart was already cold, this Great Ming's influence on people was really too deep, because he glanced at the generals in the hall, and found that those generals didn't show any anger at all, this scholar is superior to others, the royal family and scholar-officials rule the world together, etc. The noble thoughts of the Ming people are deeply rooted in the bones of the Ming people, and even the generals feel that there is nothing wrong with it. Let a group of helpless Confucian scholars wantonly trample on the generals. What kind of vigor does such a country have?
I have told them just now that this is not Da Ming, and they seem to have not heard it, and they still argue with Da Ming's theory. Is this their sorrow, or the sorrow of Da Ming as a whole?

Luo Xin took a deep breath, calmed himself down, stared at the dozens of people and said lightly:

"This is not Daming, you want to rule the world with the Luo family?"

The thirty or so people were stunned for a moment, and then they remembered that this is not Daming, but a deep-rooted thought, and this involves the vital interests of their scholars, so they have to fight, so they said:

"Your Majesty, we rule the world together with the Luo family, and it is also for the prosperity of the Luo family..."

Luo Xin waved his hand to stop him and said: "The rules cannot be changed, all you have to do is to do things well within the rules, and I will reward those who do meritorious deeds and punish those who do not."

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" The middle-aged civil servant said, poking his neck, "Abolishing the rights of literati is a humiliation to literati. I would like to resign and return home."

Luo Xin's eyes narrowed, and he said lightly, "Resign and go home? Where do you want to go?"

"Your Majesty, please send a boat to send us back against Daming."

An evil fire burst out in Luo Xin's heart, but his face remained calm, his eyes swept over the thirty or so people, and he said lightly:

"You all think so?"

"Your Majesty, please allow me." The thirty or so people said in unison.

A look of sarcasm appeared in Luo Xin's eyes and he said: "Back to Daming? Hehe... Do you know your identities? You are criminals exiled from Daming. Do you want to return to Ninggu Pagoda again when you return to Daming?"

Those thirty or so people were taken aback for a moment. They had already forgotten that they were criminals in Ningguta these days in Taiwan. They restored the dignity of scholars in Taiwan and became officials, which made them immersed in enjoyment for a long time. In the middle of the day, what I think about every day is how to make my life more comfortable and earn greater benefits for myself.Today, when they suddenly heard what Luo Xin said, they felt fear in their hearts.

They can't meet Daming, once they go back, they will become criminals and be arrested.

"Your Majesty...we also have some fields in Taiwan...we return home..."

"Want to live in Taiwan?"

"Yes……"

"You have some fields in Taiwan?"

"Yes……"

"Do you remember your identities?"

"........."

"Do you still remember the life in Ningguta where you were not as good as a dog?"

"........."

"Do you still remember that if I hadn't rescued you, maybe you would have died at this time? Maybe you haven't died yet, and you won't live long?"

"........."

"You are all scholars, you should know how to be grateful. Don't say that I gave you land as a shelter, gave you a future, and let you realize your ambitions. Even if I don't give you these things, you should give them instead of asking for them. , so that you can live up to the morality of a scholar, have all your books been read into the stomach of a dog?"

"We...we are not for ourselves...we are for scholars..."

Luo Xin's face showed impatience, he waved his hand and said, "Kill it."

There was silence in the hall, everyone looked at Luo Xin in astonishment, even Luo Ye and Luo Sheng also looked at Luo Xin in astonishment.Luo Xin condensedly shouted:
"Come on!"

"Hula..." The guards rushed in from outside the main hall, and saluted Luo Xin: "Your Majesty."

"Press them out, cut them off!"

"Yes!"

"Hula..."

These people flocked to the thirty or so scholars, and the thirty or so scholars only knew to be afraid at this moment, they never thought that Luo Xin would kill them.

Kill scholars?
They never thought about it at all, and they knew that Luo Xin lacked scholars nowadays, so how could they kill them?

However, Luo Xin said the word "cut" lightly. Seeing that the guards really stepped forward to arrest them, they all turned pale, and they were really scared in their hearts. They knelt on the ground and shouted:
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty's ministers will be convicted..."

"Your Majesty!" Fang Zigen walked out: "Your Majesty, they all made mistakes unintentionally. I beg Your Majesty to give them a chance."

Luo Xin turned cold and said: "You said they made mistakes unintentionally?"

Zhou Xian and Cui Hao just wanted to come out, but when they saw Luo Xin speaking coldly, they stopped in their tracks.

"This……"

Fang Zigen was tongue-tied, no matter how much he wanted to intercede for those people, he could no longer say that they made unintentional mistakes against his conscience.At this time, Zhou Xian hesitated and walked out and said:

"Your Majesty, they are scholars after all, and they are still needed in the construction of Taiwan. It is better to let them take their crimes and make meritorious deeds."

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