"If you really pay... Then tell them that the Wu Dynasty is newly built and lacks construction funds. I hope they can use 90% of their family money to support the construction of the country! The people of the Wu Dynasty will Thanks to them!”
Xu Yi said casually.
After hearing this, Cao Zhengchun felt as if he was enlightened and realized the unparalleled magical power.
It turns out that this is the essence of etiquette first, then attack, and division comes first!
Learned (wasted)!
Learned (wasted)!
Cao Zhengchun decided that from now on, he would regard the eight words "Courtesy first, then troops, and division with reputation" as his action plan in Dongchang. He must make sure that everyone in Dongchang can understand the essence of these eight words.
"What if they also hand over the money?"
Cao Zhengchun asked carefully for the second time.
Although he felt that it would be impossible for those high-minded aristocratic families to agree to such harsh conditions, but what if?
What if they agree humbly?
"If you pay the money...then it doesn't matter if you let them live."
Xu Yi pondered for a while and finally said this.
As Cao Zhengchun said, the most important reason why he wanted to recruit these aristocratic families was to scare the monkeys!
The current court is very obedient and united, and they do whatever they say. On the one hand, this is due to Xu Yi's personal strength, but on the other hand, he has not yet started real reforms and has not really involved their own interests.
Once he starts real reforms and starts to involve their own interests, they will definitely change their attitude to show you every minute.
Even though they were still frightened by Xu Yi's personal force and did not dare to do anything openly, they could definitely do all kinds of small tricks behind the scenes, even overt and covert violations, etc.
Generally speaking, most of the policies of a court are good. Even if the person in power is a foolish king, he will still want to make the country better.
Because in this way, he can enjoy it better!
But in fact, if a policy is implemented everywhere, it is already very good to achieve 30% effect. All this is because the people below are acting in secret and not cooperating at all.
In other words, they cooperated, but in reality it had the opposite effect. It was obviously a policy of benefiting the people, but in the end, it completely enriched the pockets of those in power.
These people are not good at getting things done, but their ability to make money for themselves is unmatched!
No matter how strict your policies are, they will always find flaws and use them to make money for themselves.
Among these people, it is the members of these aristocratic families who earn the most. In other words, these members of the aristocratic families are the source of these people and their protective umbrella.
Xu Yi didn't have time to play cat-and-mouse games with them. After he issued the decree, these people would jump out and cause trouble, and then he would deal with them one by one.
It's not necessary.
He chose to kill them all with one stick!
He does not deny that there may be good people in these aristocratic families, but what they have done in the past few years is enough to rob them all of their families and exterminate them!
Of course, he didn't mean not to give them a chance.
As long as they could offer all their martial arts knowledge and 90% of their family property, he wouldn't mind giving them a chance to survive.
After all, he is not a devil, right? !
"This slave understands! This slave will do it now!"
Cao Zhengchun turned around and left with a stern look in his eyes.
Wang Xing! Zhao Zhiyi! Li Quan! besides······
It’s time for our family to settle the feud between us with you!
In the royal garden.
Xu Yi put his hands behind his hands and looked at the sky. Under the blue sky, the clouds were rolling and relaxing. No one knew that a storm was coming.
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The family family is very powerful.
But their strength does not lie in individuals.
If we only talk about a single family, their power is actually very average. Even the most powerful families such as the Wang family, Zhao family, and Li family are only equivalent to a first-class force.
Top forces such as Hulong Villa, Dongchang, and Liumen can easily destroy them.
The strongest members of these aristocratic families are only top-notch warriors, and most of them are those who have never experienced hardships and relied on their resources to get there.
Such a top warrior can be said to be the weakest. If it is a life and death battle, an innate warrior who has experienced hundreds of battles may be able to kill him with a sword even if his strength is much weaker.
In terms of hard power, a single aristocratic family is really not that powerful.
But what’s really great about them is their alliance!
Regarding the reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, there are many conclusions in later generations, both internal and external, but in any case, there are three reasons that are almost indispensable.
One is natural and man-made disasters.
The second is cholera.
The third is the party struggle in the imperial court.
The "Qingliu Party" and "Donglin Party" of the Ming Dynasty can truly be said to be celebrities through the ages.
A large number of officials form cliques for personal gain, ignore government affairs, and have no regard for the life and death of the people in the world. They only care about making money for themselves.
It's still pretty good now, but by the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the phenomenon of forming parties in the court for personal gain had reached its extreme. If you didn't join, there was no possibility of promotion. The entire power structure of the court was almost controlled by them. .
Although it is not as serious as in later generations, it has begun to show some clues.
The major aristocratic families have used means such as marriage, sponsorship, master-disciple relationships, etc. to win over a large number of officials and make them their lackeys.
Not only that, they are also connected with each other. Once the superiors want to take action against them, they will definitely join forces to fight the enemy together.
A single move affects the whole body.
When the officials from all the major aristocratic families combined accounted for almost 50% of the entire imperial court, no emperor dared to touch them easily.
Are you talking about Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di?
They did dare to kill, but at that time, the power of the family members was not that strong.
If they were in the corrupt environment of the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, they would have to do it slowly if they wanted to influence these aristocratic families.
Taking action directly will involve too much, and it will easily cause turmoil in the world. Even if you are not careful, someone will pick the peach, and there is no way to know whether the dynasty will change.
But all this is not a problem for Xu Yi.
With absolute power in his hands, he is not afraid of any turmoil or turmoil at all. No matter who it is, he can suppress it with his own strength!
In fact, this will not cause any major turmoil or turmoil.
With Dongchang as the leader, Liumenmen and Hulong Villa as the assistants, and the major rivers and lakes forces on the outermost side helping to finish things off, what ability do the major aristocratic families have to stir up trouble?
Is the great Confucian scholar publicly insulting?
This is the most common method used by major aristocratic families. If their own strength is not enough, they will start a public opinion war.
Your Majesty, you don’t want to be infamy after your death, do you?
Faced with this kind of public attack, Xu Yi just criticized it with five words.
Rebellious minister of the previous dynasty!
kill! ! !
After killing dozens of great scholars and more than 1,700 scholars one after another, the whole world fell into silence.
Not to mention openly, even in the dark, no one dared to speak out.
Zhuge Zhengwo was the only one who still had the courage to play.
"Your Majesty, these great scholars and scholars are, after all, the pillars of our Wu Dynasty. Such killings are also a huge loss to our Wu Dynasty!"
After returning from the Battle of the Western Regions, he completely let go of everything and chose to rejoin Xu Yi's command.
Xu Yi ignored the previous suspicion and still let him hold the position in the Liuwu Shenhou Mansion.
"It doesn't matter, I have my own ideas!"
Xu Yi said calmly.
Next, he will promote a modern scientific knowledge system, which will completely shake the foundation of Confucianism.
Even if they don’t jump out now, they will definitely jump out then!
It doesn't matter if he jumps out now. After he kills like this once and lets them know whether the knife in his hand is fast or not, they probably won't dare to jump out even if they have ideas in their hearts.
By doing this, he indirectly saved most people's lives!
"Well, Your Majesty, if you do this, your reputation in the future may..."
Zhuge Zheng and I still want to persuade him from another angle.
Xu Yi waved his hand directly.
"Since I established the Wu Dynasty and became the emperor, I have never thought about reputation!"
How much is reputation worth?
not to mention.
Do you know how the Qing Dynasty ruled the world?
There are only tens of thousands of Eight Banners disciples. If you want to truly rule the world with tens of millions of people, you have to break the bones and spirit of Ming Dynasty!
The most effective method is to kill, kill, kill.
The hundreds of years of history of the Qing Dynasty later proved that their method was indeed very effective. Although they later spent hundreds of years revising the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties in an attempt...
Well!
Nowadays, Xu Yi can only learn from it a little bit.
Of course, when it comes to public opinion wars, who can compare with him?
These days, he has been writing basic teaching textbooks for future generations based on the memories in his mind, from the first grade of elementary school to the third grade of high school.
He only needs to add a little bit of stuff to the above history classes and political thought classes. Who will care about those "unofficial histories" made up by so-called great Confucians?
In the Hokage, the third generation Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen was able to modify everyone's memories in just a dozen years with the help of a booklet, making them think that he was the strongest Hokage in history.
Is Xu Yi even worse than him?
From beginning to end, he never paid attention to these so-called great Confucian scholars.
Without these means, the family members also lost their only means of countermeasures.
When a person who controls an absolutely violent institution doesn't even want to lose face, what else can you do to deal with him?
Assassination? Assassination? Poison?
That kind of method is okay for dealing with ordinary emperors.
Deal with Xu Yi?
I'm afraid you've lost your mind!
A large number of aristocratic families were directly confiscated and exterminated.
They also tried to resist, but their power could not make any waves in front of Xu Yi, who controlled almost 90% of the world's high-end combat power.
In this world of martial arts, high-end combat power can even determine the direction of a war. What can these nobles from aristocratic families who lack high-end combat power do to fight him?
In less than half a month, these aristocratic families that had troubled countless generations of emperors were easily solved by Xu Yi.
During this period, not to mention causing any turmoil or turmoil among these aristocratic families, there was not even a big movement.
Xu Yi's side was too powerful, and they had made all kinds of preparations in advance. Even if they wanted to rebel, they would be extinguished in a very short time.
Some aristocratic families want to disperse the family's children and make them anonymous in order to rise again in the future, but this has no effect.
On the one hand, there is a three-way cooperation between Dongchang, Liumen and Hulong Villa. They have precise control over the information of each family member and have already laid a dragnet.
On the other hand, Xu Yi also gave Cao Zhengchun the top-notch torturous martial arts "Yin Yang Grinding". As long as the person is caught and interrogated, what information can't be obtained?
In this way, after a series of actions, these aristocratic families were basically wiped out, and only three families survived.
"There are three more?"
Xu Yi was a little surprised to hear this.
"Have they handed over all their martial arts skills and family property?"
"Reply to the master, they have all handed over."
Cao Zhengchun lowered his head and said.
"Honestly?"
"Honestly."
"interesting."
Xu Yi glanced at the directories of these three companies.
"so be it!"
These three families are just ordinary families. They are barely average among all the aristocratic families. They themselves cannot play any role. It doesn't matter if they are allowed to survive.
'If they can continue to survive the following policies, then the Wu Dynasty may not be able to tolerate them! '
An inexplicable smile appeared on Xu Yi's lips.
Among his subsequent various policies, most of them were to severely target and attack these aristocratic families.
If they really want to survive in such an environment, they will no longer be members of aristocratic families.
"Master, these are the list of replacement officials, do you think they are?"
Cao Zhengchun handed over a thick list of officials.
Compared with solving the problem of aristocratic families, the problem after solving is a bigger problem.
People from these aristocratic families occupy too many positions. There may be few important positions such as the head of the six departments, but under this, almost half of the officials are controlled by them.
This does not include those who are related to them for some reason. If those people are included, almost 80% of the officials in the court are related to them!
If we kill them all, the entire court will be mostly empty!
Xu Yi didn't care at all.
When it comes to killing officials, who can kill more ruthlessly than Zhu Yuanzhang?
That guy is really killing one after another!
During his reign, the entire court had countless prime ministers, but what was the final result?
The world is still spinning!
"This court is still too bloated! In fact, there is no need for so many people!"
Xu Yi looked at the list of officials, shook his head, pointed and picked less than one person, and gave up on the rest. At the same time, he said something to Cao Zhengchun.
"Tell the people below that starting from today, the entire court will implement a performance system. If that department does not do well, I will consider axing it entirely!"
(End of chapter)
