Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 417 Atonement Silver

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After Duding was cut in half, the scholars and common people who were watching around Caishikou couldn't help roaring loudly. It can be said that they applauded!
This kind of excited emotion is undoubtedly a rare phenomenon in the thousands of years of history in Ming Dynasty and even in the whole of China, because the source of their emotion is that they have such emotion because the dignity of the nation has been challenged. reaction.

This shows that the national thought deliberately guided by Zhu Youxiao has achieved very good results, and he no longer only pays attention to benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trust, and learning literary and martial arts goods and the emperor's family.

Perhaps there will be such a trend of thought in the future, that is, they will no longer use their allegiance to the current emperor to maintain order in this country, but will transfer from their own emperor to the Ming Empire.

At that time, I am afraid that the imperial power of my descendants will be challenged again, and even a constitutional monarchy will appear directly. The worst result may be that my descendants refuse to compromise and follow the path of Louis XVI.

But these are beyond the control of myself as a time traveler. I am not from the Zhu family, and I don't have to take responsibility for whether the Zhu family can rule the empire for a long time.

For his descendants in this world now, as a modern person, Zhu Youxiao does not want them to be the emperor and be responsible for the future of the empire. They should have their own journey in life. How to choose is theirs. thing.

But since as a father, Zhu Youxiao felt that it was necessary to ensure that they could have a better material life in the future, so Zhu Youxiao felt that he had to further establish the spiritual belief of scholars and common people in the royal family in the future, that is, the royal family could It does not control the administrative order of the empire, but it can still be used as a spiritual symbol of the etiquette and order of the empire, so that beliefs will not be interrupted and lacking due to utilitarian and material pursuits.

Today's scholars and common people at least don't know that society can still function without the emperor. In their world, they still think that the world cannot live without the emperor, and what Zhu Youxiao has to do is to further consolidate their thinking. The Ming Empire cannot live without an emperor!
Looking at the large pool of blood on the ground and the man who refused to die immediately but was desperately crawling towards him, with a pair of dilated pupils staring straight at him, Qian Qianyi could not help but sit on the ground, Stomach was churning like sea and river, wanting to spit it out, but unable to spit it out, murmured in his mouth: "I killed someone, I killed someone!"

However, Qian Qianyi immediately realized that he had lost his composure, so he hurriedly stood up while the people were still applauding because they were cut in half, and didn't notice him, and shouted loudly: "Everyone be quiet! "

No one expected that the scholars and common people were so obedient at this time. After Qian Qianyi pressed his hands down, all the scholars and common people stopped applauding and waited for Qian Qianyi's lecture.

When Qian Qianyi saw this scene, he couldn't help but suddenly felt a sense of heroism, and he finally experienced the feeling of being able to respond to everyone.

"My Ming Dynasty is the Kingdom of Heaven, and my people are the people of the Kingdom of Heaven. The dignity of my Ming cannot tolerate the slightest provocation from barbarians like you, and the dignity of my people cannot tolerate the slightest provocation from barbarians like you." The slightest provocation, and now the crown prince of Java, who is only a small country, ignores the dignity of our celestial kingdom, molesting our celestial women, and killing our celestial citizens. Therefore, today, in front of all the scholars and people, cut this person in half, as a warning to others!"

Qian Qianyi's impassioned words made the crowd even more excited, and he himself returned to normal from the initial shock after the murder. He even seemed a few years younger, and he had a bit of the golden list title Honglu singing drums back then. The calmness and tolerance.

The fact that the crown prince of Java was beheaded for murder spread like wildfire in Siyi Pavilion and the entire Ming Dynasty. Zuo's execution of Earl Turia of Frangji and other incidents all showed the rest of the world that Ming Dynasty had a tough attitude towards foreigners.

The other envoys of the Java State were also locked up in the Siyi Pavilion on the grounds of admonishing the crown prince to be unfavorable at the moment. Although these were beaten and injured all over their bodies, once the low-level officials of the Ming Dynasty turned their faces, they were very decisive and did not give them any help. Some medicines were used to treat the wounds, so let them mourn in the small cells.

And the other envoys of these Java countries can only dare to be angry and dare not speak out. Now they only hope that they can be sent back to the country as soon as possible. They vowed that they would never set foot on this Middle Earth again.

They hate those Han people in their country, because in their view, this so-called Ming Dynasty is not a happy land, nor a gentle and rich town, but hell!It's where the devil lives!
However, according to Zhu Youxiao's habit of rooting out the roots of geese, it is impossible for these powerful officials from Java to accompany their crown princes to Daming, such as ministers and ministers, to return to China so easily. To Daming, these may be just ordinary people , but he is a very important political figure for Java, and he has to pay a ransom if he wants to return to his country.

Because Zhu Youxiao has asked the Ministry of Criminal Justice to determine the punishment for these people, the heaviest will be sentenced to five years, and the lightest will be sentenced to three years, but in order to continue the friendly relationship between the two countries, Zhu Youxiao specially allowed the other country to send diplomatic The minister came to negotiate, and a certain amount of money could be used to redeem the crimes committed by the personnel of the other country in Daming.

Zhu Youxiao called this atonement silver, which is also the first of its kind in Ming Dynasty to implement atonement silver. However, unlike Yongzheng, Daming’s atonement silver was not given to officials, but to foreigners, but this atonement silver It is limited to punishments below exile, that is to say, if you committed heinous crimes in Daming, you cannot redeem them with money.

But also because of this atonement silver, Zhu Youxiao was scolded by other countries as a money-making emperor, and even Galileo, a scientist who loves to keep a diary, also commented on Zhu Youxiao with a critical spirit: "This is a person with a split personality. The emperor, he has extra tolerance and preferential treatment for his people and foreign personnel who are willing to serve the empire, and always exempts them from taxes and grants bonuses without hesitation, but he treats personnel from other countries who are hostile or do not serve the Ming Dynasty. It is also extremely stingy, and exploits as much as possible, and even does not hesitate to operate some dirty trades that can destroy the fate of this race, such as opium."

Zhu Youxiao naturally doesn't care how these foreigners evaluate him. He is only serving the interests of Daming. What he has to do is to continuously expand the interests of Daming. He doesn't care about the reaction of the Java State. He even wants to anger the Java State because of this incident. , and seek reasons for his leveling of Java.

Even, Zhu Youxiao deliberately published his order in the newspapers, that is, the Ming Dynasty was inherited from the Song Dynasty, and the Java Kingdom in Nanyang was originally developed by the survivors of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the people of the Southern Song Dynasty were the people of the Ming Dynasty. It should belong to Daming's territory.

(End of this chapter)