New Shun 1730

Liu Yu was not domineering, but now he insisted on killing so many people. Isn't it obvious that there is a mastermind behind the scenes?

Who is qualified to be the mastermind behind the scenes? Isn't this a louse on a bald head?

The officials who were invited thought that if they couldn't understand this, they might as well resign and go home.

After they scolded these gentry for their moral corruption one by one, Liu Yu also scolded them a few words and said: "The ancients said that we should govern the country with virtue and courtesy, and with benevolence and righteousness. In short, we should govern the country with morality. This is the true kingly way."

"This matter is indeed a moral issue and has nothing to do with other things. I am really angry! If you want to impose heavy penalties, you must confiscate and compensate, and you can't let them off lightly."

Everyone thought to themselves, this is really a case of trying to cover up the truth.

Liao Hanhui laughed in his heart, thinking that it's more than just a confiscation. You have prepared a lot of young people from the surveying and mapping department in advance. Now that the wasteland has been measured, just let them measure the land.

Huang Huai Governor also slammed the table and cursed: "This is a moral issue. The Duke is angry, and so am I. This is not a trivial matter, but a warning to the gentry of the world not to act recklessly. The Duke thinks that they are using the river engineering funds, disaster relief funds, and military supplies funds. I think that makes sense."

Everyone nodded, thinking about how to solve this matter today?

Of course, kill everyone.

Otherwise, if they just take the land and confiscate the house, a group of people are still alive, and they will inevitably say some nonsense. If it is not done well, I am afraid that someone will slander the emperor. Doesn't this show that we are not doing a good job?

Anyway, the name of killing is the Duke of Xingguo. This matter should not be done, or it should be done thoroughly.

Kill all those who should be killed.

For the rest, the children will be thrown into the Nanyang plantation to cut sugarcane, and the women will be sent to the Western Regions to marry the border guards to avoid entanglement in the future.

Liu Yu added: "Fortunately, I made up for the loss and found those who resold rice grains. I sent people to arrest them in advance. After interrogation, I found that they had not sold too much rice grains. There were more than 400,000 stones left, all stored on overseas islands and not sold yet."

"Your Majesty gave me such a big task. Fortunately, I made up for the loss. Otherwise, I would really be ashamed of Your Majesty."

Everyone thought about it and understood. These more than 400,000 stones are the entire price difference. It was you who did it behind the scenes. Of course, you will find out once you investigate. Since even this last way is blocked, once the grain is handed over, there will be no problem.

Stored on overseas islands? Isn't it like storing it at your doorstep?

What does this mean?

It means that the court is using the grain of the imperial court as the grain for river workers, but in fact, it feeds these working people with coarse grains.

Then the gentry took the blame for the crime. When the man was killed, the people cheered and shouted that Your Majesty was wise.

Anyway, whether they had eaten rice or corn flour before, it was all shit.

The 400,000 shi of rice "checked" back was just the right rice for the second phase of irrigation branch canals this year.

One penny became two pennies. The people ate white rice this year and thought about last year's corn flour. How could they not be convinced by the court?

Anyway, the court spent money and got the job done. Not only did it get the job done, but it also saved more than 400,000 shi of rice and flour than expected.

If the case is made a dead end and turned into a moral issue, will there be a chance of overturning the case?

Everyone thought that the Duke of Xingguo, who used a musket, could now use bows and arrows.

Originally, he was straightforward and said it was a matter of means of production and land rent, which made everyone unhappy. Now he can beat around the bush.

These gentry are also pitiful.

Now it's not just the Duke of Xingguo who wants you to die, His Majesty also wants you to die, and we have to make you die without any chance of recovery.

From the emperor to the Duke and then to the governor, several major forces in the court want you to die, this is a great blessing.

Liu Yu, the real manipulator of this matter, had a calm face.

After twenty years of baptism, he is no longer the rookie he was at the beginning.

Liu Yu now understands Kang Budai's words to him, "He is not a Dashun person."

Just like this time dealing with the gentry in northern Jiangsu, according to his understanding, it is not the case.

Whether these gentry are morally corrupt or really good people who repair bridges and roads, this class should be eliminated.

Otherwise, the land rent is here, the commercial interest rate is too high, the land yield is too high, the domestic demand is really sluggish, and industry and commerce cannot develop at all.

In his opinion, eliminating landlords and gentry has nothing to do with morality.

As the spokesperson of the Dashun bourgeoisie, he was irreconcilable with the landlords and gentry for the rise of the Dashun bourgeoisie.

For the development of industry and commerce in southern Jiangsu, capital is needed. Capital is all going to land, usury, and pawnshops. Without capital, how can industry and commerce be developed?

The salt well industry in southern Sichuan can be developed greatly because there is a return rate of nearly 150%. But looking at the whole world, how many industries in Dashun can achieve such a return rate? If he had the ability to create a bunch of industries and commerce with a return rate of more than 36%, he wouldn't have to waste his energy. The problem is not that he doesn't have the ability to do alchemy.

Only by using the most violent means to make capital flow into the land without any return, or the return is far lower than the textile industry, iron smelting industry, and mining industry, can industry and commerce develop.

This is the most basic principle of economics.

However, this set of theories cannot be used in Dashun.

Therefore, he can only choose to characterize this matter as a moral issue.

Because, the ruling class of Dashun, the emperor, bureaucrats, and gentry, did not pursue industrialization as the highest goal.

There was no organization with clear program, charter, and goals to rationally realize all this.

In this era, he could only choose to synchronize with the times, hide his purpose and reason, and characterize this matter as a moral issue.

Use the logic, methods, and political correctness of the time to secretly do things that are absolutely politically incorrect at the time.

To put it simply, the so-called three views are the question of "Chuang Wang" or "Chuang Ze".

To put it a little more complicated, the so-called three views are that if the landlords are all good people, gentle, respectful, frugal, repairing bridges and roads, and only collecting 60% to 70% of the rent, then should they exist?

Soldiers need military pay, and landlords need rent. This is life, which does not contain good or evil, just like you cannot ask soldiers to go to war without military pay and food for the court and the country.

Collecting rent is similar to taking military pay and wages to some extent. So, since taking a salary involves morality, collecting rent does not involve morality either. Doing something good in addition to collecting rent is morally noble. Wouldn't such a class of morally noble people be eliminated?

In Liu Yu's view, this is not a problem at all.

Of course, they must be eliminated.

Either they don't live on rent and go to work in a factory or even grow crops to sell.

Or, die.

What he didn't consider a problem was a problem in Dashun at that time, and a huge problem.

Including the very radical Yanli School, in the most radical land-equalization plan that was extremely idealistic, they also retained a strong class nature - they wanted to equalize the land, but if they passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, they could retain a certain amount of land to collect rent for support, and scholars with high morals should leave their jobs and collect rent instead of working.

This was the most radical land theory proposed by Confucian scholars in Dashun under the trend of criticizing Song and Ming Neo-Confucianism. At this time, the most radical plan under the tradition did not think that land rent was wrong, but only thought that land rent affected small farmers, but did not realize that land rent really affected industry and commerce.

So from the beginning, Liu Yu actually did not need the Funing County Magistrate to remind him, he was ready to do so.

Otherwise, he had nothing to do and was so rich that he was panicking about the Qingmiao loan in northern Jiangsu, which was obviously a money-losing product and did not improve people's livelihood at all? Those who lent Qingmiao loans were simply collecting the evil deeds of these gentry - moral ones.

Because according to Liu Yu's point of view, what is the use of moral good and evil? What he wants to destroy is the absolute land rent of the landlord class of Dashun, so what does it matter if you are moral good or evil?

Since he sent people to collect it, it can only be moral, otherwise it would be a waste of time.

Before, when Kang Budai said that he was not a Dashun person at all, he tried to defeat magic with technology at that time.

And now, he has learned to defeat magic with magic, and he has finally mastered it.

In this matter today, he used the common means in the Dashun officialdom.

He knew what he was going to do, why he was doing it, and what he was going to achieve.

And including the governor of Huanghuai and others, they believed that Liu Yu's decision to do this was definitely not his own, and there must be a mastermind behind the scenes. After all, this case was too big, and so many people had to be killed. This was not the time of the founding of the country. Liu Yu would not do this without asking for permission unless he was crazy.

And the incident happened suddenly, and they would never ask the "mastermind behind the scenes", and there was no way to ask about this, which seriously affected the benevolent image of the mastermind behind the scenes.

So in their view, this matter was the emperor's intention, and Liu Yu was a glove and a dirty job.

Liu Yu said that he wanted to put a big hat on these people and let them die. So in their view, was this Liu Yu's intention or the emperor's intention?

You can't ask the emperor: Hey, emperor, did you let Liu Yu set a trap and kill all those gentry?

Even if someone is stupid and really asks, the emperor will definitely deny it.

I have to tell these people, nonsense, how can I be so bad? I am a benevolent monarch, how can you think of me like this? How could I use such an inhumane method? Don't spread rumors, it's simply slandering the emperor and father. The emperor is both the emperor and the teacher, so how can I be a moral role model for the world?

So, what is the key to the whole thing in the eyes of these officials?

Is it the life and death of these gentry?

Obviously not, they don't care at all, and have no heart of grief for the death of rabbits and foxes.

Is it whether the crimes committed by these gentry are enough to be killed?

Obviously not, they still don't care, whether they live or not, anyway, they are not their relatives. No official within 800 miles is the most basic rule of Dashun officialdom.

So, what is the key to this matter?

The key is to make this matter a moral death case.

The mastermind behind the whole thing "really" just because these gentry are morally corrupt, he acquiesced in anger and severe punishment.

Absolutely, inevitably, definitely, and definitely not because of the land issue, and these gentry were dealt with.

Out of righteousness.

Not profit!

The crime may not be punishable by death in law, but it must be punished morally and public opinion, and no one dares to overturn the verdict and doubt it.

Everyone understands that this is a problem of the distribution of means of production. Although they may not use this word, the fact that people were not attracted by gravity before Newton discovered gravity does not mean that people were not attracted by gravity.

And the details to be investigated should not and must not be to find out who is reselling coarse grains behind the scenes. Just be confused.

The key point of the details is the moral shit that these gentry do on a daily basis, which makes people angry but is actually normal in Dashun.

Criticizing morality in a big way.

Distributing the land quietly.

This is a common method used by Dashun. If you really want to investigate people by the standards of saints, almost everyone has shit on their butts, but the key is who to investigate.

Not only in the officialdom, but also in the wealthy merchants who have risen in Songjiang Prefecture in recent years, if you really investigate the past, most of the shareholders of the Oriental Trading Company are basically qualified to be shot.

When they were in Nagasaki, did they lick the Nagasaki Bugyo for the trade letter? Did they sell contraband? Did they call their merchant ships tribute ships to imply that Dashun paid tribute to Japan to satisfy the spiritual needs of Japan?

However, if you don't investigate it too deeply, won't they all be alive and well? They just received a plaque from the emperor to reward them for donating 100,000 taels of silver to repair the Three Gorges waterway.

As for overthrowing Liu Yu, the officials in the officialdom have already seen it clearly. Did Wei Yan fall from power in the previous dynasty because of his many crimes? Or because Emperor Tianqi collapsed? Criticizing the new policies every day has almost become a daily routine in the court meetings, but it's useless.

Who is the mysterious major shareholder of the Western Ocean Trading Company in Songjiang Prefecture?

Who owns the half-ship of special-grade porcelain loaded by the Free Trade last year?

Who is the backer behind Jingdezhen's daring to print glaze patterns with crosses?

How could it be so coincidental that the sea merchants who "voluntarily contributed" hundreds of thousands of taels of silver after the Danish East India Company was seized?

Who selected the many deputy prefects and Tongzhi sent to the tax reform in southern Jiangsu?

Who has been holding the money from the emperor's rich internal treasury in recent years?

The officials of the six governments can't say a word about whether to continue to station troops and settle in the Western Regions, because the emperor didn't use the money of the six governments at all, so where did the emperor's money come from?

Should we check who is behind the Christian porcelain designs in Jingdezhen? How dare they violate the imperial edict to ban religion? They should be arrested and beheaded?

Those who understand this would have stopped early, saving their saliva and waiting for the story of Wei Yang, King Hui of Qin. Those who don't understand this don't have the ability to join the game.