The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

The top ten tables were big local tyrants who bid at least 5 taels of silver. 733

The chief is monopolized by the nine gentry families in the south of the Yangtze River.

Although there were dark horses emerging, the big businessmen of the big gentry clan were rich and powerful after all, and they did not let the lurking local tyrants mess up the order, but they also spent a lot of money, at least hundreds of thousands of taels.

The patriarchs of these great gentry clans talked and laughed happily on the surface, but in fact they felt distressed in their hearts. They looked at the banquet on the table upstairs and outside the building with pain, and secretly cursed Yan Song for taking the opportunity to amass money.

Usually such a table of noodles is nothing more than some common dishes, the top day is only a hundred taels of silver, but now each person pays at least a few hundred thousand taels, enough to eat for a lifetime.

Even if the big gentry are rich and powerful, it still hurts them.

But in order to appease Jiajing's anger and Yan Song's dissatisfaction, they can only spend money to avoid disaster and sacrifice their lives to accompany the gentleman, so they should pay some protection fees.

This is not to say that the Dashi clan will completely surrender to Jiajing and Yan Song, this is just their consistent style of seeking stability and hedging their bets.

The big gentry only act in accordance with the goal of maximizing their own interests.

Not long after, Emperor Jiajing, accompanied by Yan Song, made a majestic appearance and went straight to the private room on the second floor for the imperial use.

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Chapter 311 New Main Theme Drama 【Xiaoshan Chaos】【6】

For the convenience and safety of the emperor watching the play (pretending to be coercive), Yan Song specially built a two-story building to distinguish it from many good people.

Condescending, overlooking the audience.

Even so, these wealthy businessmen still felt honored and honored to see that Emperor Jiajing attended the disaster relief performance in person as promised, and kowtowed desperately.

"Long live the emperor, long live, long live!!"

The mountain shouted.

Emperor Jiajing was very satisfied when he saw the rich and powerful households in Suzhou and Hangzhou. He smiled and calmed down the audience.

Jiajing lowered his voice and praised: "Yan Aiqing, you did a good job this time!"

Yan Song patted his horse pi~ and said: "Everything is your majesty's thunderous anger, and the means of imperial power have frightened them out of their courage. These big gentry who were previously a frog in the well and did not know the enlightenment of the emperor's power have realized the stupidity of being a car with their arms. I'm starting to show my love to you. This time, the large households in Suzhou and Hangzhou have donated money to help the victims, which is a succumbing to the emperor."

Jiajing felt his face was greatly satisfied.

Along the way, he went to Yangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou. He was fighting with the rebellious Jiangnan gentry and businessmen. Wasn't it just to tame the richest, powerful and powerful class in Ming Dynasty and use them for him? what?

Now, they finally gave in. Although it was only on the surface, Jiajing was still very satisfied.

He has accomplished what the emperors of all dynasties failed to do.

Jiajing smiled slightly: "In that case, let's start the show!"

Yan Song came down, replaced Jiajing, and announced to the audience: "Follow the heavens, the emperor ordered, all good people, be kind to the villagers, be kind and generous, and there is nothing good about it. Yan Song, the chief assistant of the cabinet, will give banquets and wine on my behalf. Please Everyone, please enjoy the repertoire of [Xiaoshan Chaos] performed by the Imperial Kunqu Opera Theater! This is bestowed upon you!"

There was a sensation in the audience, and they knelt down again, shouting long live.

Jiajing sat with a smile, very proud of Li Shimin's "heroes in the world, come into my womb".

After a bang of clappers, "Xiaoshan Chaos", the disaster relief charity show opened.

[Xiaoshan Chaos] still continues the main theme of praising Jiajing.

Jiajing is still an upright emperor, Yan Song is the chief minister of the cabinet who has made great contributions and is resourceful, Xu Youdao, a corrupt official who was overthrown by the emperor, naturally played his own image of a villainous corrupt official, and Wang Bensheng, an elm bump "upright official" ", was also portrayed by Tang Xianzu in a three-point way, very vivid.Yuanyuan is still the core heroine, but this time she is transformed into Wu Xiucai's younger sister.

[Xiaoshan Chaos] The first scene of the story [Sell~shen] tells the story of Wu Xiucai and Yuanyuan's family, who were attacked by Japanese pirates and escaped from Ningbo with no money and money, begging all the way to Hangzhou.When he arrived in Hangzhou, who would have thought that Xu Youdao, the prefect of Hangzhou, treated the [-] disaster victims as fat sheep. Instead of reporting to the court for relief, he teamed up with wealthy businessman Wang Yiyi and others to deliberately deceive the victims and buy wives, children and beautiful women at low prices.Seeing that her mother and nephew were about to starve to death, Yuanyuan couldn't bear it, so she offered to sell ~shen as a maidservant, so that her family could survive.

Chen Yuanyuan's performance is too brilliant, she has both form and spirit, and she is very pitiful. She vividly expresses the best side of a loyal, kind and beautiful woman through her appearance, lyrics and acting skills.

Seeing Yuanyuan voluntarily selling ~shen as a slave, just begging her mother and brother to have a bite to eat and survive, even those hard-hearted patriarchs and big businessmen sighed for it.The sound of wiping tears and blowing nose was heard one after another at the banquet.It is not known how many of them are sincerely moved and how many crocodile tears are there.

Even Jiajing sighed.

Who would have thought that in the second act [Black Curtain], the plot would suddenly change.

That Wang Yi is just a brothel owner, and he bought it back for Yuanyuan to pick up customers.Yuanyuan refused to obey, but was forcibly taken away.Wu Xiucai knew what happened to her sister, and she was very angry and blamed herself.Xu Youdao dispatched troops to drive the victims to Xiaoshan County.Wang Bensheng, the county magistrate of Xiaoshan, did not provide relief, but ordered the victims not to harass them.The victims were desperate and sold their sons and daughters. They were miserable.

Seeing the tragic situation of the disaster victims, those rich and wealthy businessmen once again sighed, and this time the tears were a little more sincere.

The third act, [Chaos].

Wu Xiucai used Yuanyuan to sell ~shen silver, and the life-saving food bought for his mother was kicked over by the subordinates. , so that the conflict reached a climax, seeing an unprecedented catastrophe and riots are inevitable.

Seeing the scenes of those disaster victims turning into mobs, rushing into the rich families, beating, smashing and looting, these rich people from the big families in the south of the Yangtze River were all shocked, and their faces were ashen.There are also a few wealthy households in Xiaoshan County, and they are even more vivid, talking about the scenes of their homes being beaten~ smashed.

Looking at the fearful faces of these wealthy households, Jiajing and Yan Song looked at each other and smiled slightly.

This is the purpose of letting these lawless guys come to see [Xiaoshan Chaos].

Let you see what will happen if you are unkind to the people for the sake of wealth and disobey the imperial court!

Don’t think that if you have a little bit of money, you can be lawless. In the fish and meat town, the rich are not benevolent. Once the oppression is too deep, it will stir up civil uprisings and upset the people. From victims of disasters to mobs, your money will be robbed in minutes.

The fourth act, [Setting things right].

Under Jiajing's order, Yan Song fought against corrupt officials wisely, and ".(Zhao Lihao)" honest officials" Wang Bensheng, how Jiajing could distinguish right from wrong, deal with Xu Youdao, return justice to the victims of the disaster, and be considerate to the victims, avoiding cruel punishments, and promised to give back to Xu Youdao Yuanyuan's nephew was born in Jin Yiwei.

The wealthy households were overwhelmed by Jiajing's handling of this matter, and they all sang praises. Hearing Jiajing's elation again, they recalled the good taste of that day.

The last scene, [Farewell].

Yuanyuan bid farewell to her elder brother Wu Xiucai who died generously, and witnessed the treacherous and corrupt imperial minister Xu Youdao and the traitor Wang Yiyi and others. Their heads fell to the ground, with blood splashing three feet. The emperor's sage's praises, his gratitude to Mr. Yan Ge, and at the same time the desolation of not having enough food and clothing.

The curtain fell slowly.