my days with tyrants

"No, he was tricked."

Immediately afterwards, Yang Feng, who learned that Zhu Yunxi's bloody suppression of Confucian scholars who wrote letters, immediately realized that this was wrong.

It was normal for him to give the order to shoot.

Zhu Yunxi had a bad temper.

The old Zhu's family and the old Chang's family's genes were violent.

How many of his uncles are not painted storms?
King Qi, King Qin, King Jin...

All are.

In fact, Zhu Di is also very tyrannical.

It's just that he is more restrained in front of Yang Feng.

To be precise, everyone is more restrained in front of him.

But Zhu Di also massacred cities in the Western Regions. A person who can order massacres without hesitation is definitely not a kind person.

Zhu Yunqi's performance department is really not like the old Zhu's, Zhu Yunxi is just the normal style of the old Zhu's.

What's more, he had always looked down on Confucian scholars under Yang Feng's bewitching. Confucian scholars thought they were elites and Wenqu stars, but in his eyes they were just a group of caterpillars, and Yang Feng was quite sure of his grandfather's governing skills, so He also followed his grandfather as an example in the way of being a king.Now these Confucian scholars have made it clear that they are bullying him. When his grandfather was around, they all cowered like quails. Now that he has officially succeeded to the throne, they all dare to fight against him.This is to bully him, it is to think that he is a young man who does not have the murderous spirit of his grandfather at all. If he does not come and beat down this evil spirit, all the officials will think that he is easy to bully.

Shooting is normal.

This kind of thing shoots and shoots, and the emperor will kill them, and rewarding them with a bullet is their blessing.

But the key is why these Confucian scholars do this?
For Zhu Yunwen?

Where does he have such a big face?
Zhu Yunxi's succession to the throne is right and cannot be more right.

In the 25th year of Hongwu, he was established as the grandson of the emperor. After that, he was led by Lao Zhu to study and govern the country. By the 29th year of Hongwu, he had basically completed the de facto transition as emperor. Later, Lao Zhu was basically equivalent to the emperor. It is completely entrusted to him, that is, some major military operations, and Lao Zhu only asks about it. It can be said that no one can find any doubts about his throne.

So with the normal style of painting of these Confucian scholars, shouldn't they be rushing to sing praises?

Why did they deliberately provoke him?

This is not the end of the Ming Dynasty, Confucian scholars have been spoiled.

They just got rid of Lao Zhu's shadow, even if they got carried away, they wouldn't go to this point.

"The princess said that now the gentry all over the south of the Yangtze River have completely regarded him as Jie Zhou, and some people are making rumors about him, saying that his grandfather was poisoned to death by him, and that it is unfilial for him to abolish the burial, and that he is following the You learn the magic method, in short, all kinds of sensational rumors. Some people even use tabloids to encourage the Shanxi gentry to follow the example of the Shanxi gentry and arm the civil organizations to engage in self-government. After all, the manufacture of matchlock guns and Flang machines are already rotten. Just find a decent civil society and you can build it. In this case, it is easy to increase the military force of the people. At least the old army of the imperial court, it is difficult to crush it like in the past when confronted with this kind of armed force, and the generals of the guards can also be bought. After all, the generals of the Weisuo actually belonged to Zhu Yuanzhang's suppression.

So I suspect that they are not trying to become emperors for anyone, but they just want to use this incident to achieve local autonomy. The Shanxi incident you brought up has made the gentry feel like grass. After all, they have no loyalty to the old Zhu family.

Just afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Especially in southern Jiangsu, Zhejiang, which was originally Zhang Shicheng's territory, was originally hostile to Zhu Yuanzhang.

And Huguang.

Now that Zhu Yuanzhang is dead, and the proliferation of new gun technology has increased civilian armed forces, they have also begun to become bolder.

I suspect that this time, including Zhu Yunqi's escape, is a plan. He escaped, ignited the fire of the little emperor, and then created public opinion, labeling him as unfilial and disrespectful, and first turning him into a ruthless and ruthless righteous fool.

Then he encouraged Confucian scholars to provoke him, and lured him to suppress him by force. In the end, the faint king became Jie and Zhou.

This creates panic among the people.

And I suspect that some of those vassal kings also cooperated with them, not necessarily for the throne, after all, his throne is still very righteous, but he can divide the whole country.The vassal kings became real vassal kings, and the local gentry gained more freedom. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang's system was very unfriendly to the gentry, and they were eager to take advantage of Zhu Yuanzhang's death to get rid of the shackles.After all, it is unprecedented that they are not allowed to lend usury, let alone they are not allowed to trade gold and silver, and they are not allowed to go to sea for trade. Zhu Yunxi has already decreed that he is going to form a fleet to sail to the West. This is clearly to learn from his uncle in history. That set.

The reform of the imperial examination has even angered countless rural sages who have cultivated and studied their families.

And the banking monopoly.

The gentry really wanted to open a bank.

There is also mandatory settlement.

Gentlemen don't want to come to an overseas businessman with countless gold and silver, but they only get precious banknotes in the end after a huge business.

They really didn’t dare during Zhu Yuanzhang’s time, but Zhu Yunxi was not strong enough to make them really afraid. If you were in the capital, they would probably be able to bear it. Went out to sea, then capsized at sea.

It also said that you were killed by a poisonous snake in the mountains and forests of Guangxi.

It is also said that you met the god who killed the demon, and the god has already accepted it.

In short, I found all kinds of ways to die for you.

This should be an important reason for their courage. Otherwise, with you by Zhu Yunxie's side, they might not have the courage.

And the most important thing now is what will happen to those vassal kings.

Zhu Di and others have already arrived in Xi'an, Liao Wang and others are heading south, and they have already made a second request for Zhu Yunxi to make Zhu Yunqi the vassal king. I suspect that their group will meet in Kaifeng and then give Zhu Yunxi a joint action.In addition, when King Shu and King Min arrived in Jingzhou, they were stopped by the King of Xiang, and they had already entered the mansion of King Xiang under the pretext of persuasion.He only moved to the feudal domain the year before last. At this time, most of the guards in Wuchang were his old troops. If he didn’t leave, Zhu Yunxi had no choice but to rush to the capital before his funeral. It would take only a few days to travel directly from Wuchang .

This clearly means advancing and retreating together. "

Sister Liu said.

As a bystander, she can see clearly than the little princess.

The latter at most asked her to tell Yang Feng some specific situations, but as a bystander, she could analyze calmly, not to mention that she had a group of experts as consultants.At present, the scientific research work there is still progressing slowly, but this is likely to be an epoch-making breakthrough scientific research project, and it is not uncommon to study it for decades.

That's just over six years in total.

And after the initial attention, it has been treated as a normal scientific research project. Although there is still an academician in charge, it has become a research institute that can only be said to be a key project.

After all, this kind of research does not bring direct benefits.

It can only be said that it is looking at the future.

"This is very interesting, is this to force the new king to play Magna Carta or feudal princes?

Going forward or stepping back? "

Yang Feng said with great interest.

Obviously, his tossing and tossing these years has made Daming's heart grow grass. After all, what he brought is not only new technology, but also new ideas and new systems. It's just that when Zhu Yuanzhang was still alive, no one dared to try it. Now he is dead. , Immediately someone couldn't hold back.

In a sense, he has already quietly changed the country.

It’s just that Lao Zhu is pressing down like a mountain, and everything is just like the grass under the stone. He has to endure the heavy pressure and wait as if it doesn’t exist below. When the stone is overturned, he can’t wait. Stretch out.Now it can be said that this country has reached a critical crossroads, and it is still a three-fork. What the vassal kings want are real feudal princes, and each person will give them a vassal state, and they will truly be the monarchs of the vassal state.Just like the king of Chu, who actually holds great power in Annan, why should he accept an Annan Chief Secretary, Annan Dusi, why not a monarch who really controls everything?

We are all descendants of the Daxing emperor, can you be the emperor and we be the princes and kings?

The empire is so big.

Can't one person share one province?
After all, which vassal has no ambition?

Dividing one province is too much, can it be divided into several prefectures?

As it is now, it is difficult to accept that they should either be given a barren and cold place, or thrown to a so-called foreign land, and let them overcome obstacles by themselves. Like King Zhou, sealing Longyou is not too much, right?What can a Huangzhong do?Like King Qing, the whole of Ningxia is not too much, right?Isn't it too much for King Su to seal the whole of Hexi?

Even if it is the king of Liao, no matter what happens, he must be sealed off from Shanhaiguan to Liaohe.

We are all sons and grandsons of phoenixes, so we can't be allowed to suffer outside. You are enjoying the colorful world in the south of the Yangtze River.

As for the gentry who want to get rid of the shackles, open up sea trade, open up usury, and cancel the ban on gold and silver transactions...

Especially the compulsory settlement of foreign exchange.

At present, Daming’s overseas trade must use precious banknotes, which is compulsory foreign exchange settlement. Overseas businessmen who come to Daming must use precious banknotes no matter what business they do. If you seize the private use of gold and silver trade, no one will behead the gold and silver copy.Moreover, reporting is encouraged. Once the report is caught, the informant will get all his property. Therefore, there are always fishing people in several coastal trading ports. Over the years, several overseas businessmen have been murdered.This is too unfriendly to the gentry. No matter how big the business they do, they can only get treasure notes in the end. Although the value of the treasure notes is currently stable, they cannot be used as wealth heirs, although the bank does allow free exchange , but it is still courting death for the exchange of large banknotes.

If you exchange it today, maybe tomorrow Jin Yiwei will come to check on you for treason.

As for your claim to be innocent...

Then the instruments of torture in the imperial prison have the final say.

In fact, it is free exchange of small amounts of gold and silver. As for the public reason, of course, the output of the mint is limited.

Of course, Yang Feng would not give silver ingots. At present, all the outflows from the bank are gold and silver coins, which are similar in style to copper coins, but they are made of gold and silver.

The gentry are of course eager to no longer be harvested by this insane monetary policy.

The Ming Dynasty conquered all these years and spent a huge amount of military expenditure every year, but the banknotes remained stable. Didn’t it mean that through forced foreign exchange settlement, the gold and silver that should have fallen into their hands were turned into banks, and the banks guaranteed that Lao Zhu could Throw out a lot of treasure money, and then make ammunition to reward soldiers, let them wear the latest armor and hold the magic gun to expand the territory.

This is the gold and silver of the gentry.

Well, they think it should all be their gold and silver.

Confucian scholars are not important.

In fact, they should have been pushed out by the gentry as cannon fodder.

After all, someone has to go ahead.

Zhu Yunxi reformed the imperial examinations, and Confucian scholars were hit hard. Who would they not attack?
So what the gentry want is actually to unlock the shackles that Zhu Yuanzhang put on them, and then start to move towards the late Ming Dynasty in the original history, which is the so-called embryonic stage of capitalism.It's not just economics, but also land, taxation, salt industry, etc. It can be said that they are dissatisfied with almost all the policies left by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Land transaction restrictions.

Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the land should not be in the capital, not that it is not allowed to buy and sell land across the capital, but that it is not allowed to transfer the land outside the name of the buyer. If the buyer wants to buy it, he must be a separate household in the capital.

It is in this way that the concentration of land under the name of a certain big landlord is restricted.

you can buy.

But you can divide households to fields.

There is also an open system.

Needless to say, the pain of the salt merchants.

……

I have to say that Lao Zhu is really too unfriendly to the gentry.

The emperor's path is to continue his grandfather's path and carry out some reforms. This path was actually designed for him by Yang Feng. First, suppress land mergers to the greatest extent, control the financial industry through banks, firmly grasp the currency rights, and protect the treasures. of stability.In this way, the currency power is prevented from being controlled by the gentry. The collapse of the Ming Dynasty’s finances in history was essentially the loss of currency power. The depreciation of precious banknotes existed in name only, and the influx of a large amount of overseas silver made silver the main currency, and silver was controlled by the gentry. In the hands of the gentry, the gentry held the currency power of the country.To avoid this, the emperor must control the currency, must maintain the stability of the banknotes, and insist on the currency status of the banknotes. The basis for the stability of the banknotes is of course the bank's financial industry monopoly and compulsory foreign exchange settlement.

With these two in hand, basically the finances are invincible.

After all, money can be printed and national debt can be issued.

As for the vassal king, it is still the clan reform that he is starting.

Either get the money and go to Beijing to work as an apartment.

Either one family will give you a small fief in a remote area, you have to choose one anyway.

Three routes.

Classical feudalism, budding capitalism, big government control or use another word.

"what would you do?"

Sister Liu said with great interest.

"Look."

Yang Feng said.

"Look? Are you afraid they will fight?"

Sister Liu said.

"Nonsense, if they don't fight, how can I intervene? Just let them continue to fight. It's just begun. How can I interrupt the good show? I have to watch them continue. Shot, in the final analysis, I am also an ambitious person, no, I should be a person with ideals.

How can I have a chance if they don't make trouble? "

Yang Feng said.