Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 139 The Unrestrained Wei Zhongxian
Jiangnan has been a prosperous, gentle and prosperous town since ancient times.

Once the power was in the hands of the government and the opposition, Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch guarding Nanjing, who is now a wealthy party, seems to be a little bit reluctant to leave.

Grand Duke Wei, who has his own businesses in Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, and even the capital, Huguang, Shu and Lingnan, is now expanding his business scale and becoming a big philanthropist in the south, besides serving the emperor Zhu Youxiao. With tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver, its main job is to control the style of writing and public opinion in the south of the Yangtze River for His Majesty today.

As the "Da Ming Daily" exaggerated the deeds of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao who personally led the imperial guards to repel the Tartars, Wei Zhongxian can be regarded as a serious slap in the face of those scholars who ridiculed that His Majesty's personal battle against the Tartars is undoubtedly overreaching .

Even at the behest of Wei Zhongxian, some people have published long articles in newspapers discussing the unreasonableness of scholars controlling military power.

At the same time, continue to praise and praise His Majesty today, especially the people who are easy to be persuaded. Every time Wei Zhongxian serves porridge, the people will appreciate His Majesty, and every time he helps a student, he will say that His Majesty cherishes talents.

In addition, the atrocities committed by the Tartars and the Guanning army were also exposed, and Wei Zhongxian personally invited some storytellers to go to the countryside and market towns to tell the people at the bottom about the atrocities committed by the Tartars and the Guanning warlords.

Let them know who is escorting their peaceful life and who is threatening their existence.

Some royalist students even left messages in the newspapers to learn from Ban Chao of the Han Dynasty to join the army, join the imperial guards, eliminate Tartars, and suppress rebels.

And some Fushe students who tried to justify the Guan Ning army or find excuses for their family's business with the Tartars did not dare to say that His Majesty was militaristic, but euphemistically put forward the point of view that only obeying the king's way, cultivating the law of etiquette, and educating the barbarians, And dare not openly oppose Zhu Youxiao, or openly slander Zhu Youxiao.

You know, Mao Bijiang, the son of Mao Qizong, is a typical example. His father was executed by His Majesty because of making troubles in the capital. Therefore, Mao Pijiang had a lot of complaints against Zhu Youxiao, so he slandered Zhu Youxiao in a cultural and social activity. In a word, after being found out by several royalists, they immediately caught and beat them up, and one of the royalist students even questioned the majesty of Pijiang. Now that His Majesty even used the money for the construction of the mausoleum to help the people, why did His Majesty amass money like crazy? , Scrape the people's fat and people's ointment.

It is reported that Mao Pijiang was beaten into a disability, but the royalist student who beat him was safe and sound. Naturally, the reason was Wei Zhongxian's secret protection.

Wei Zhongxian has almost become a thorn in the side of the Jiangnan gentry now, not only because Wei Zhongxian has joined forces with a group of down-and-out literati and money-only storytellers to control the direction of public opinion in Jiangnan, but also because Wei Zhongxian always confronts these Jiangnan gentry.

Less than half a year after Wei Zhongxian came to Jiangnan, he opened the Wushu School, which funded no less than a thousand students from poor families. Three of them have already entered high school, and hundreds of them have become scholars. There were also more than a dozen new imperial examinations in Nanzhili and Zhejiang Province last year. It is because of the help of Wei Zhongxian that people were not replaced by gentry children.

Wei Zhongxian not only subsidized scholars from the bottom, but also assisted ordinary farmers and tenants who were squeezed and exploited by the gentry, and weavers in silk weaving workshops to resist the gentry.

A member surnamed Xu was arrested by Wei Zhongxian's people who used the Dongchang system forcibly because he owed the weaver's wages and cooperated with the local county magistrate to kill the weaver who led the disturbance.

And Xu Yuanwai was also paid for by murder.

Hundreds of miners in Cixi mutinied and rioted because of a large mining household that defaulted on ICBC all the year round. However, someone in that large household was a censor in the court, so this large household instigated the local government officials to mobilize officers and soldiers to punish these hundreds of miners on the grounds of rioting. Carry out suppression and siege.

Unexpectedly, this matter was learned by Wei Zhongxian. Wei Zhongxian used his power as the eunuch guarding Nanjing to blatantly ransack the house of the big family and rescued hundreds of miners.

In short, the present Wei Zhongxian is kind and loving in the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, but some gentry who are merchants and landlords hate him even more.

But Wei Zhongxian doesn't care what these Jiangnan gentlemen think, he just follows Zhu Youxiao's instructions, such as opening various workshops and hiring workers to pay generous wages, and even helping craftsmen in other workshops to find the bosses of these workshops for money For wages, when there is a food shortage, he never hoards it, but personally helps the government to stabilize prices.

It is precisely because of this that the business of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River has become more and more difficult to do, but his business has become more and more easy. After all, everyone knows that working with Wei Gonggong has a higher salary.

Some officials impeached Wei Zhongxian for plundering people's wealth in the south of the Yangtze River, causing the people to live in dire straits, and even criticized them directly in newspapers, but the result was often nothing.

Without His Majesty's decree, no one in the cabinet and the six ministries would dare to move Wei Zhongxian. Because of this, the pirates who control the ocean trade also know that Wei Zhongxian has a strong background, and they all like to cooperate with Wei Zhongxian.

As a result, Wei Zhongxian's business grew bigger and bigger, and more and more money was donated. Once there was a flood in the Qiantang River, the household department couldn't get any money, so Wei Zhongxian just asked Wei Zhongxian to put money first.

There is Wei Zhongxian in the town of Jiangnan, and Mao Wenlong and Yuan Chonghuan outside the pass are always harassing.

Shanhaiguan has a king in Jin guarding it, and with Man Gui, it can be protected without hindrance.

Then, from Jizhou, Xuanhua to Longxi, there were Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, and Sun Chengzong. There should be no mutiny among the soldiers.

For Daming, this is a good situation, and for the emperor Zhu Youxiao, it is also a good opportunity for reform.

The car was rumbling, Ma Xiaoxiao, when Zhu Youxiao and the imperial guards were about to return to the capital, Wei Guangwei, the chief assistant of the cabinet, Qian Qianyi, the cabinet minister, Gu Bingqian and the ministers of the Ministry had already arrived outside the capital and waited far away.

With the comprehensive rectification of the Eunuch Party and the eradication of the Donglin Party, although not all the current Beijing officials are capable of plotting, at least their loyalty can be guaranteed.

In the Forbidden City, in the Kunning Palace, Empress Zhang Yan, who had been eating fast and praying to Buddha for a long time, was accompanied by Liu Rushi and Yao Xuanshi, and stood outside the Qianqing Gate all day long, gazing out of the Forbidden City obsessively.

From the uneasiness in knowing that His Majesty was fighting bloody battles with the Tatars outside, to the tears of joy when he learned that His Majesty had repelled the Tartars and was about to return to Beijing, and now the longing for grievances all day and all night, Zhang Yan really lost a lot of weight ,
And now Xu Fo, who has been staying in Qianqing Palace, also learned about His Majesty from the ears of other palace women, and for some reason, like Zhang Yan and others, she was depressed in the days when Zhu Youxiao was not around.

Zhu Youxiao didn't realize that now that he was an emperor, there would be people in the deep palace who would care about him. The few months of his life away from Beijing made his desire to change Daming even stronger.

Especially when he saw hundreds of ministers outside the city gate shouting long live in unison, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help feeling emotional.

The ending of Ji Si Bian has changed, then, everything will change accordingly.

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