Alliance of the Heavens and Ming Dynasty

Chapter 39 No.30 Nine
"The last will obey."

"Go, I will ask Liu Jin to send you the imperial edict of appointment later."

Originally, the appointment of the Commander of the [-] Battalion had to go through the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion and the cabinet, but now the Five Armies Commander's Mansion is almost empty, and the cabinet Li Dongyang can't resist him, so he can save the procedure and directly issue the imperial edict of appointment .

"I will retire at the end."

Hu Dakui stepped back, and Zhu Houzhao turned his attention to Liu Jin again: "Send a message to Qiu Ju, and ask him to show me the family in Shandong, and don't let them come out to make trouble for me."

In the world, there are not many forces that can make Zhu Houzhao fearful. The civil official group, the coastal wealthy family, the Jiangnan gentry, the noble group, and the vassal group are not considered serious problems. As long as they have military power and the ability to turn the table, they can be easily defeated. Repression!
But there are a few different ones, not only powerful, but also enjoy great reputation, they are the Confucius family in Shandong, the Zhu family in Neo-Confucianism, and the Zhang family in Longhushan.

The Zhang family is in charge of Mount Longhu and has been cultivating Taoism for generations. It poses no threat to the imperial court. Although the Zhu family of Confucianism has the same surname as the Ming royal family, they have never been favored by the royal family, and they have never been popular. The only exception is the Confucian family.

The descendants of Kong Sheng, based on these four words, even if he wants to move the Kong family, he has to weigh the consequences.

Only by studying can one become a master. This concept has long been ingrained in the hearts of the people of China. Once the Confucian family is moved, not only the world's scholars will be turned upside down, but also those poor people who hope to rely on reading to make a fortune will follow suit. The consequences are serious, not just killing people can be solved.

And the reason why he was afraid that the Kong family would get involved was because he was worried that those officials who had been kicked out of the court would get on the line with the Kong family. There was the descendant of the sage, who was actually unscrupulous Yan Shenggong, who came forward. Even being an emperor would be a headache.

The Kong family is powerful, and he had learned it a few years ago. If he hadn't mastered some tricks of the Kong family, he would never have gone so smoothly by taking advantage of King Ning's rebellion to clean up the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River.

"The servant understands."

Liu Jin nodded slightly. Zhu Houzhao deliberately released Qiu Ju, one of the Eight Tigers, to Shandong for the convenience of monitoring the Kong family. The so-called inspection of Shandong on behalf of the emperor was just an excuse.

"In addition, tell Yan Song that the next step can be made!"

Those resigned officials have been praised, and the whole capital is praising their selfless dedication, and it is time to send them to hell!
Zhu Houzhao has never been merciful to those courtiers.

Resigning from office and returning to their hometowns to help the people in their hometowns seek development, people in the entire capital admired them, and some merchants who came to the capital to do business continued to spread this matter to all parts of the world, praising their reputation.

When they heard the news, those resigned officials who were still looking for connections and hoping to return to the court were immediately stunned. How did the emperor use the excuse to drive them away to spread to the people.

Moreover, are they as impartial and selfless as the rumors say, they would rather not be officials, but also return to their hometowns to help the people seek development?

My family knows their own affairs, they make money and encircle land, they are definitely all masters among masters, but to say that they can put the people in their hometown as the most important thing is pure nonsense!
They are just a bunch of mud legs, what qualifications do they have to make them, noble scholars, look sideways, in their eyes, there are never ordinary people, only promotion and fortune, brothels and gambling houses.

Drinking and chatting with brothels, chatting about the political situation, playing pots and rolling dice with three or five friends in gambling halls, trying to have a good time, this is what they should do, helping the people to do something practical, when they first stepped into the officialdom They may have thought about it, but now, whoever does things for the common people is a fool, and he is an outlier of the scholar-bureaucrat class.

Just because they know what kind of virtue they are, after hearing the news spread in the streets and alleys of the capital, a group of resigned officials couldn't sit still immediately. Decades of experience as officials told them that there must be a conspiracy in it, God big conspiracy.

A group of resigned officials headed by Wailang Zhang Wenjie, a member of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, sought help from their former colleagues everywhere, not to return to the court, but to suppress the increasingly outrageous news, and then continue to pass it on. Many things they have done cannot be concealed, and no one in the world will let them go.

Paper cannot hold fire.

They didn't know Zhu Houzhao's plan, but they knew that once the bad things they did were exposed, the court would definitely smash them into pieces to vent public anger.

Officials like them are very good at using the people, inciting the people, using the power of public opinion to achieve their own goals, and even forcing the emperor to compromise, so they also know the power of the people best. In front of a large number of people, there is no secret to hide living.

They went to see many old friends, colleagues, and superiors, but none of them were willing to help them. Li Dongyang, Yang Yiqing, Wang Jia, Fei Hong and others either pretended to be deaf or dumb, or simply closed their doors to thank the guests.

They are all old foxes in the officialdom, whose vision is not extremely vicious, even those stupid resigned officials can see the problem, how can they not see it, this matter is obviously controlled by someone behind the scenes, they How could he fall into it foolishly.

As the news became more and more popular, the deeds of those resigned officials were finally exposed.

Zhang Wenjie, a member of the Department of Anthology of the Ministry of Officials, accepted a bribe of 30 taels of silver from a wealthy businessman in the south of the Yangtze River;
Zhao Yanping, head of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, concealed a population of 1000 people, all of whom were tenants of his own family;
Sun He, the priest of the Ministry of Officials Temple, raped and killed several women from good families;

He Qiu, the head of the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War, let usury a large number of people, killing many people;

One after another, either involving corruption, human life, or land grabbing, all of them are true, and there is no fraud.

When the bloody crimes were presented, the people who were still singing the praises of the officials were immediately angry. How can such a conscienceless and evil person be called an upright official?

The people who felt that they had been deceived ran to the mansions of those officials to curse, and went to the capital's yamen to file a complaint, demanding that the court should severely punish those corrupt officials and demons in the world no matter what.

Zhu Houzhao smiled when he received the news: "The people who cannot be bullied are the common people!"

People are illiterate and illiterate. They may be easily deceived and incited, but they are definitely not easy to bully. Those officials think they can play with people's hearts.

Willing to cut himself to pieces, dare to pull the emperor off his horse, it is almost a myth, even the emperor who is called the Son of Heaven is like this, let alone a group of civil servants who are powerless and know nothing except making money and enclosing land, in front of the angry people , their fate is doomed.

Not to mention the solid evidence, even if they are really honest and honest, they must be corrupt officials. In order to give an explanation to the angry people, the court can only do business in a formal manner.

The power of the people is infinite. This is the truth that a great man taught Zhu Houzhao. Due to the limitations of the times, the meanings of the two words people and common people may be different, but the truth is the same. Zhu Houzhao wants to borrow the power of the common people this time. Teach those officials a lesson, beat the mountain to shake the tiger, and kill the chicken to make an example to the monkey.

In the future, if anyone is disobedient and dares to continue making money and encroaching on land, and continues to fight against him, then he can't be blamed for sending talents to the people again!

　Once again, the author is highly myopic, and typos often appear when coding. If you read a typo, you can bring it up. The author will revise it as soon as possible. Thank you for your support and understanding.

　　In addition, the author will have other arrangements for Empress Xia later, and the setting with Zhu Houzhao can be compared with Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma.

　　The author's personality is also relatively conservative, and he feels a bit unable to write after opening the harem.

　　
　
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