Brother Zhu Youxiao

"Censor Duchayuan Zuoqiandu Censor Wang He impeached Youyang Marquis Qin Quyi! Wu Yingdian University scholar Jiang Ding! Shi Zhu Bo Ma Fu!"

"Impeach Qin Quyi, Jiang Ding, and Ma Fu!"

When the "Nanhai" incident broke out, in April of the second year of Shaoqing, it finally opened with the group of the Metropolitan Procuratorate forcing the palace.

More than a hundred senior officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in Beijing knelt in front of the Qianqing Palace and sang loudly the names of the people they had impeached, making the three leaders of the hundreds of officials behind them look ashen.

At this time, an official walked quickly from the direction of Huangji Hall, walked up to the three of them, bowed and saluted, and then hurriedly said:

"Governor, Lord Marquis, Uncle Li, Li Ziren of the Metropolitan Procuratorate called all officials below the fifth rank in the Kyoto Procuratorate to protest at Chang'an Gate, demanding that Long Live severely punish Qin Qumin, the captain of the "Wangyue"."

"Bastard!" Marquis of Youyang Qin Quyi blurted out when he heard someone denounce his younger brother, Ma Fu, the uncle of Shi Zhu, couldn't help squinting his eyes.

At such a time, Jiang Ding, a senior scholar of the Hall of Martial Arts, who was in his forties, was calm, as if he had long expected that the Metropolitan Procuratorate would play this trick.

He turned his attention to the group of high-ranking officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate above the fifth rank in front of him, and then asked a third-rank servant next to him: "When did Yushi Li Du go in?"

"About half an hour ago..." the servant replied with a bow, Jiang Ding nodded when he heard the words, didn't say anything, just quietly watched the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate loudly impeach.

While they were observing, the news that Li Ziren called all the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in Beijing to protest at Chang'an Gate also spread into the Qianqing Palace.

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation in Qianqing Palace, Shaoqing Emperor Zhu Bohai looked at Li Fu, the Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, in front of him calmly.

In front of Li Fu, in addition to Zhu Bohai, there were two cabinet chief assistants Tian Wenjing and second assistant Zhang Tingyu.

Li Fu, who was born in Jiangxi in the fifth year of Qiansheng, is now in his fifties. He serves as the censor of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and is also the executor of the "Shaoqing New Deal".

He has a strong personality, is upright, and never accepts bribes. That's why Zhu Bohai asked him to carry out the "Shaoqing New Deal".

But now, Li Fu's character caused the three people in front of him a headache.

"It is difficult to implement the New Deal. This matter was discussed last year. Why do you bother..."

As the first assistant, Tian Wenjing spoke first, but his words were very harsh in Li Fu's ears.

Facing his words, Li Fu argued with reason: "I have already made plans to be loyal to Daming and Long Live, but we can be lonely, but we can't watch the murderer get away with it!"

"Long live, please punish Qin Qumin severely!" After finishing speaking, Li Fu put his hands together and bowed deeply.

His appearance made Zhang Tingyu subconsciously look at Zhu Bohai. Seeing that Zhu Bohai's face was calm, he stood up and persuaded:
"The matter can be discussed. You should let the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate outside Chang'an Gate disperse first."

"If the matter has no result, how can we persuade them to disperse?" Li Fu asked Zhang Tingyu back, and Zhang Tingyu's question was blocked.

Before he could refute, Tian Wenjing pressed him step by step, questioning him:
"Li Julai, this is not your first day as an official. Do you still need me to teach you how to bring down corrupt officials? Now you are putting Long Live on the stove. Do you want to force civil strife in the Ming Dynasty?!"

"I haven't achieved that level!" Li Fu confronted each other, and the momentum of the two was equal for a while.

Zhang Tingyu intended to persuade him, but before he could open his mouth, Zhu Bohai said indifferently:

"Okay, you don't need to act for me."

"Qin Qumin connived at his subordinates to fire on the special ship sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The evidence is convincing. He was beheaded for the crime and his relatives were exiled to Lingbei."

Zhu Bohai saw through the careful thinking of these three people. Although Tian Wenjing and Zhang Tingyu were embarrassing Li Fu, their purpose was only to point at Sang and scold Huai.

The three of them are all reformists, and what they want is nothing more than their own attitude, and this attitude was given by Zhu Bohai.

He turned his head to look at a Tianxiong eunuch next to him: "Big Companion, give Li Du Yushi Yushi Yujian, and give him the right to cut first and then play."

"The minister leads the decree..." Tianxie eunuch bowed in return, and then went to the side to draft the decree.

After a while, when a eunuch brought the Yujian, Zhu Bohai got up and took the Yujian, placed it in front of Li Fu, and said indifferently:

"This is the sword worn by Emperor Shizu Wu, and it is also the sword used by King Wen to restrain the five armies."

"From now on, you will hold this sword and patrol the hunting on behalf of the heavens, from the cabinet to the common people, regardless of whether it is literary or martial arts, and everyone has the right to deal with it before the battle!"

There are many imperial swords in the inner court, and almost all emperors of all dynasties have their own imperial swords, but the highest standard among them is nothing more than the imperial swords of Taizu, Chengzu, and Shizu.

Among them, Shizu Yujian is the most noble, and there is no reason for it, only because King Wen of Qi used it to patrol the sky on behalf of the sky.

"Minister! Thank you for your grace!" Hearing that the Yujian in front of him was the Yujian held by Shizu and King Wen, Li Fu's eyes lit up. Dali came to repay the emperor's trust in him.

When he got up, he took Yujian carefully with both hands, his eyes were so hot that it almost melted Yujian.

Not only him, but Tian Wenjing and Zhang Tingyu next to him couldn't hide their envy.

They thought they could get Taizong's Yujian or Gaozong's Yujian at most from the emperor, but they never expected to get Shizu's Yujian among the three ancestors.

"The New Deal cannot be obstructed, the three of you can figure it out, step back."

Zhu Bohai turned around and walked towards the dragon chair, the three of them also bowed and saluted after hearing the words, and slowly exited the Hall of Mental Cultivation after shouting long live.

After they walked out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation and the Palace of Qianqing, Li Fu boldly pulled out the Imperial Sword of the Ancestor.

The sun shines on the sword body, illuminating the four characters "Apocalypse Yujian" on the sword body.

Li Fu felt the hilt of the sword he was holding. When he thought that this sword was once held by Emperor Shizu Wu and His Royal Highness King Wen of Qi, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

These two are heroes who changed the face of the Ming Dynasty, and now I am fortunate to be able to hold the same sword with them, what a privilege it is...

Holding the imperial sword tightly, Li Fu and Tian Wenjing walked out of the gate of Qianqing Palace.

The censors who were still loudly impeaching at the gate of the palace closed their mouths when they saw Li Fu walk out, and their eyes were fixed on the imperial sword in his hand.

When Li Fu appeared holding Yujian, the complexions of Jiang Ding, Qin Quyi and others suddenly turned bad.

"Let's all go back to the yamen to do business!"

Li Fu did not explain who owned the Yujian in his hand, because he knew very well that all the officials would know it before long.

What he wants to do now is to take the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to study how to deal with the two parties while Jiang Ding and others don't know.

Hearing Li Fu's words, the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate got up one after another and followed him to the outside of the palace.

The two sides crossed each other, Qin Quyi clenched his fists tightly, and only after Li Fu and others walked away, he left with a pale face and led the nobles.

Obviously, he recognized whose Yujian was the Yujian in Li Fu's hand.

Although Jiang Ding didn't know, but seeing Qin Quyi's expression, he probably guessed that the owner of this Yujian should be one of the three ancestors.

But even so, he still calmly left with the officials behind him.

Judging by Li Fu's appearance, I am afraid that the emperor is really ready to attack the two parties.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ding began to make his own plans in his heart.

The three parties left separately, and soon Li Ziren outside the Chang'an Gate also got the news, quickly dismissed many officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and then rushed to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

When he arrived at the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Li Fu saw that the important officials had arrived, and then showed them the Imperial Sword of the Ancestor.

When Shizu Yujian appeared, the group of officials were all shocked without exception.

Although Shizu was only a few decades ago to them, the more important meaning of Shizu Yujian is that King Wen once held this sword.

Except for the grandsons and princes of the past dynasties who can carry this sword with them when they inspect Qi, the rest of the time is placed in the Tiange for worship.

Obtaining this sword greatly enhanced the enthusiasm of the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

While the officials were still in shock, Li Fu issued new orders without hesitation.

To bring down the two parties, they need to do more than just investigate the case, they also need to mobilize the power of the people.

Therefore, Li Fu selected 420 seven officials as inspectors and censors, and hoped that they would go to various prefectures, counties and towns to mobilize all the power of the people that could be mobilized, and expose all the evidence of the two parties' crimes that could be revealed.

With the Sixth Division and the Third Division unable to intervene, they can only solve the problem by disrupting production in this way.

This is imperative, but it must be done.

It's all worth it to endure the temporary pain in exchange for a hundred years of stretching!
At this time, among the top ten industrial provinces of Ming Dynasty, Beizhili and Nanzhili were places where the Metropolitan Procuratorate could not enter, while Shaanxi, Anxi, Liaodong, and Shanyu were traditionally noble sites.

Therefore, only the four provinces of Shandong, Huguang, Guangdong, and Yunnan can be planned by the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Since Li Ziren was from Changsha Prefecture, Huguang, Li Fu appointed him as the Huguang Supervision Censor to control the officials of the Huguang Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Li Fu gave Li Ziren a heavy task, not only to organize workers in Huguang to report factories, private businessmen and government businessmen, but also to let farmers expose the dirty things of local civil servants in the local area.

In addition, Li Ziren needs to wait at any time to help his colleagues in the Metropolitan Procuratorate in Guangdong and support his colleagues in the Metropolitan Procuratorate in Henan.

Li Ziren knew that his task was heavy, but he was not afraid. Instead, he took more than [-] officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate back to Huguang by train the day after Li Fu gave the order.

On the tenth day of April, Li Ziren led the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to Wuchang, Huguang, where he reached a consensus with his father, Li Changling, the Procuratorate of Huguang, to jointly investigate illegal officials who worked in Huguang and did not abide by the "Law of the Ming Dynasty".

After the consensus was reached, Li Ziren divided the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate into ten teams, went to the countryside and industrial areas respectively, and went deep into the people, boldly exposing the obstruction of the "Shaoxing New Deal" by the officials of the two parties in the court.

"Shaoqing New Deal" is a new deal to punish state and private corrupt officials and benefit the common people.

Thanks to the compulsory middle school education for all in the Ming Dynasty, most workers and peasants can understand the reality that the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate said.

Under the explanation of the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, they finally knew why their wages were getting less and less, and why the state paid less and less attention to workers and peasants.

After learning about the situation in the temple, a large number of farmers and workers were organized to elect representatives to expose and record the illegal behavior of some local officials.

This kind of situation is not only carried out in Huguang, but also in Henan, Guangdong, and Yunnan.

Afterwards, this situation expanded to Luchuan, Jiaozhi, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

Faced with such a situation, it was rare for officials of the two parties to sit down calmly and cooperate with the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Jiang Ding believes that to cut off the connection between the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the first thing is to suppress the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in Huguang. Much easier.

Under the organization of Jiang Ding, a scholar in the Hall of Martial Arts, the Huguang Metropolitan Procuratorate has been suppressed unprecedentedly.

On the fifth day of June, Li Changling, the inspector of Huguang, was transferred to Persia to serve as the chief envoy.

On the seventh day of the lunar month, an official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate of Hanyang Iron and Steel Works was shot while giving a speech, which is known in history as "Ding Wei shot".

In this shooting, Li Ziren, the supervisory censor of Huguang, was injured, Wang Zhao and Zhao Jian, the inspectors, died, and as many as 26 workers were implicated and shot.

At the same time, private factories began to close down for rectification, and a large number of unemployed workers took to the streets.

After the incident, Emperor Zhu Bohai dismissed Shi Xun, Minister of the Household Department, and sternly reprimanded many nobles.

On June [-], Huguang private factories had to resume production under pressure.

However, after the private sector resumed production, Jiang Ding and others made a fuss about the Huangdian state sector.

On the fifth day of July, 12 people were injured at the Huguang Iron and Steel Plant because of "workers" operating errors, and the iron and steel plant announced a suspension of production for rectification.

Huguang Iron and Steel Works was one of the top ten steel plants in Daming at this time, with as many as 400 workers working inside.

Since Daming implemented a daily wage system, a large number of workers lost their source of income after the steel plant announced the suspension of production for rectification, and had to take to the streets to find temporary jobs.

In August, following the closure of Huguang Iron and Steel Works, state-owned factories such as Hanyang Iron and Steel Works, Wuchang Gunpowder Bureau, and Wuchang Weaving Bureau stopped production one after another to check potential safety hazards.

Emperor Shaoqing issued an imperial decree to question Shi Xun, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Jiang Ding, a scholar of the Wuying Hall, and Wang Qin, a scholar of the Jianji Hall.

After the three answered in this way, it was recorded in the history that "the emperor was angry and dismissed from office".

However, even though Zhu Bohai dismissed the three officials, the hundreds of thousands of officials in Huangdian continued to stop production for maintenance according to the original plan.

The auto factory shut down for maintenance today, the weaving factory for maintenance tomorrow, and the steel factory the next day... Repeatedly, the local workers in Huguang couldn't bear the disturbance.

Such suspension of production and maintenance has directly led to rising prices of chemical fertilizers, cloth, and grain, and a sharp increase in the cost of living of the people.

Under the pressure of living costs, many workers and peasants had to give up following the action of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to report corrupt officials.

Seeing that the struggle in Huguang was about to be defeated, Li Ziren, the supervisory censor, was discharged from the hospital with his injured body and headed to the countryside and factory.

He is well-known among the people in Huguang, so when they learned that he was coming, many people would still go to listen.

In the conversation with the common people, Li Ziren used his own experience to educate the workers, making them further understand that "obedience will not bring you respect, but will only lead to intensified oppression."

After returning to the Yamen of the Huguang Metropolitan Procuratorate, Li Ziren discussed with officials how to counter the counteroffensive of the two parties.

At the meeting, Li Ziren believed that the state-owned officials were standing on the back of the imperial store to suck blood, while the private-run enterprises were where the interests of the nobles were.

The private market is very fragile, and it is impossible to suspend work for a long time. This is not in the interests of nobles and businessmen.

Therefore, Huguang must maintain the private market, or even expand the private market, so that Huguang's official and private market shares will change.

If it can be done, private businessmen will not give up the market share they have gained, and there will be conflicts in the relationship between officials and businessmen of the two parties.

As long as there are contradictions, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will have the opportunity to break them one by one.

Now they must provoke the relationship between the state-run and the private sector, and this relationship can be provoked openly with practical actions.

After the meeting, Li Ziren donated all his property and established a Ming Dynasty Mutual Aid Association.

He put his family property into mutual aid associations, and called on all farmers and workers to stop buying things from imperial stores, and instead go to private factories and shops to buy things.

If any family encounters difficulties, they can receive necessary living materials such as rice noodles from the local mutual aid bureau.

Under his call, a large number of people changed their living habits and went to private or self-employed ordinary people's shops to buy things.

The direct result of this is that from July to September in autumn, the net profit of Huguang Huangdian was halved by 45%, and the disputes between Huguang Huangdian and private businessmen continued, and it was no longer possible to jointly sanction the Huguang Metropolitan Procuratorate.

At the same time, according to the reports of the common people, Li Ziren arrested some officials in the Huangdian who accepted bribes, leaving a gap in the profit chain of Huguang Huangdian.

Li Ziren used the criminal evidence of some officials to lure them into revealing the criminal evidence of other officials, and promised to give him a lighter sentence afterwards.

In the face of solid evidence, some officials who are not firm in their stance have confided in the evidence they have.

Relying on these criminal evidences, Li Ziren impeached Huguang Minister Tan Che and Huguang Emperor Gao Shilian on the fifth day of October, and sent the criminal evidences to the Beijing Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Upon receiving the news, Li Fu immediately supported Li Ziren in the court, and based on the criminal evidence sent by Li Ziren, he arrested the two and their followers and put them in prison.

Seeing that Li Fu and Li Ziren overthrew Huguang officials, Tian Wenjing and Zhang Tingyu, who were firmly seated on Diaoyutai, immediately arranged a large number of non-party officials to take over Huguang.

By the end of October, factories in Huguang began to resume normal production, and the "three increases" policy was implemented. While a large number of workers benefited, Shaoqing Emperor Zhu Bohai also ordered Huguang to be exempted from agricultural taxes for one year.

After this news spread through the "Da Ming Pao", the people in the southern provinces were greatly stimulated. They actively responded to the call of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, continuously reported and exposed the illegal actions of local officials, and monitored their every move.

By the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month in the second year of Shaoqing, more than [-] officials had been exposed and imprisoned nationwide, and more than [-] businessmen who had bribed had reached more than [-].

However, before Zhu Bohai, Tian Wenjing and others were happy, a bloody news spread to the palace.

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month of the third year of Shaoqing, private factories in Yunnan refused to abide by the "three price increases" policy, which triggered a collective strike of workers in Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan. More than [-] workers took to the streets to march and surrounded the Yamen of the Chief Minister of Yunnan.

After the incident broke out, Yunnan military envoy Wu Yaonan, chief envoy He Kun, and procuratorate envoy Zhao Jixian ordered the soldiers and government officials to disperse the workers. During this period, due to quarrels, gun grabbing occurred, and the soldiers accidentally shot and killed a worker.

After the gunshots rang out, many criminals hidden among the workers incited the workers collectively, which in turn led to riots.

Sun Yigui, the garrison of the Kunming military and horse division, ordered a counterattack, resulting in the death of 320 workers and the injury of 450 workers.

Known in history as the "Wushen Strike"