Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Gaoxu was sleeping, but was awakened by the eunuch.
"Your Majesty, Master Nie wants to see you!"
Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu immediately sat up straight.
In the entire Wude Dynasty, there were only a few people who could enter the palace late at night.
Nie Xing, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, is exactly one of them.
Zhu Gaoxu thought for a moment, then stood up to change his clothes and saw Nie Xing.
"what happened?"
"Have you found any clues?"
Zhu Gaoxu asked with a smile.
Nie Xing entered the palace late at night, something big must have happened.
"Your Majesty is wise!"
"Those Jin gentry are really evil and trying to cause turmoil in the capital!"
"Oh? Tell me more!" Zhu Gaoxu's eyes turned cold.
Causing turmoil in the capital would really shake up the country and the country!
Where is the capital, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, at the feet of the emperor, the most beautiful place!
If there is chaos in the capital, it will be a fatal blow to the court's prestige, and he, the virtuous emperor, will also be denounced by the people of the world!
"I really want to thank Zhan Yuquan this time!" Nie Xing said with a smile, and then told what happened in detail.
Zhu Gaoxu was a little surprised after hearing this. He didn't expect that this kid Zhan Yuquan was so smart. He not only subdued the merchants, but also led them to surrender to him!
Yes, he is a talent!
"Your Majesty, those gentry and gentry have really lost their face this time!"
"Deliberately closing the shops, creating panic in the capital, and trying to shake up the Ming Dynasty. I ask your Majesty to issue an order to imprison all of them, and to set a standard punishment to serve as a warning to others!"
Nie Xing spoke with murderous intent, not hiding his murderous intention towards those Jin gentry.
Originally, this was a war between the royal family and the gentry. No matter what tricks you did in the court, everyone would still accept it.
For example, when Quan Jin and others cried bitterly in Fu Que earlier, that was also within the bottom line. After all, such a thing had happened in the previous Song Dynasty, and it could be regarded as a way for officials and gentry to express their dissatisfaction to the emperor.
But now, you damn bitches want to close all the shops and deliberately create panic in the capital, so where can the people buy food?
Deliberately creating panic and stimulating people to revolt has crossed the line and touched the bottom line of the court!
Although everyone knows that the purpose of your doing this is to force the emperor to compromise and stop implementing the New Deal, there are many acts of rebellion and rebellion, trying to shake the Ming Dynasty!
What is this behavior?
This is such a rebel!
When Nie Xing and others rebelled against Emperor Yongle, they had not yet used this trick!
No need to say more, just take action, confiscate the houses where they should be, and exile them where they should be!
Looking at Nie Xing with a murderous look on his face, Zhu Gaoxu asked angrily: "Do you want to arrest someone directly just because you have evidence?"
"Jin Yiwei arrests people, no evidence is needed, he will be killed first and then beheaded, it is authorized by the imperial power!"
Nie Xing spoke with righteousness and righteousness, neither humble nor arrogant.
Zhu Gaoxu was so angry that he kicked him.
"Then do you know which officials and gentry are involved?"
This actually confused Nie Xing.
After all, it is not possible to identify the specific person just by relying on those secret messages.
There are so many powerful benefactors behind these merchants, we can’t just catch them all!
Nie Xing felt a little embarrassed when he thought of this.
"Then what your Majesty means is..."
"Let the merchants stand still. It's not us who are anxious now, but the gentry!"
Zhu Gaoxu sneered and said: "They have always looked down upon merchants. If merchants do not obey their orders, these powerful gentry will naturally be unable to sit still, and they will show their flaws by themselves."
"In this way, send your royal guards out to monitor and protect all the merchants involved. Those Jin gentry will definitely contact and force the merchants again, seize these tongues and follow the clues, find out all the officials and gentry involved, and kill them all!"
The plan became clear after hearing this.
"Your Majesty is wise!"
"Get out of here!"
Nie Xing flattered him and left in a hurry.
After he left, Zhu Gaoxu touched his chin and fell into deep thought.
Jin Shen's counterattack plan can be described as sinister and sinister.
But Zhu Gaoxu couldn't understand. Who else in the court now dared to be brave enough to go against him?
After the previous lesson, the ministers also vigorously suppressed their subordinates and strictly prohibited them from participating.
In the last incident involving hundreds of officials, leaders such as Quan Jin had already been sent to prison, and the remaining ones were only two or three cats and dogs.
Who else?
Zhu Gaoxu couldn't understand, so he simply stopped thinking about it.
It will naturally become clear when Nie Xing follows the clues and finds out the mastermind behind the scenes!
Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and nothing major happened in the capital. It was still bustling and bustling, and it looked like a prosperous time.
However, some people couldn't sit still.
Officials and gentry gathered at Shi Zhongcheng's mansion again, all with angry faces.
"This is really unreasonable!"
"Those despicable merchants dare to disobey orders!"
"Yeah, these damn bitches, where did they get the courage?"
One official Jin Shen spoke up and couldn't help but curse.
When those merchants met them on weekdays, they would be extremely humble and flattering, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that they would obey their advice.
But now, who would have thought that when these merchants were asked to do big things, they would have the courage to disobey orders and remain indifferent, which would directly affect their plans!
Being rejected by merchants made all the gentry feel humiliated, as if their own dog had suddenly bitten them!
Shi Zhongcheng drank tea leisurely. After everyone had vented their anger, he said calmly: "There is nothing surprising. The businessmen are just of low status. They are not idiots. They are all smart!"
"Let them all close their shops this time. Naturally, they are afraid that they will get involved in this fight and become abandoned in the end!"
"So you can no longer boss around like before. It's best to offer these merchants the temptation of huge profits..."
"Shi Gong, how is this possible?" A Jin gentry retorted angrily: "Is it possible that we, the Jin gentry, are still waiting for those bastards to beg for help?"
The Jin gentry pride themselves on being romantic and think very highly of themselves. If they hadn't supported those merchants to make money for themselves, they wouldn't have interacted with these despicable things!
Shi Zhongcheng sneered when he heard this: "Stupid! Unbelievably stupid!"
"Winning this battle is the most important thing right now!"
"As long as Emperor Wude gives in, and we, the Jin gentry, win a great victory and regain the right to speak in the court, will those humble merchants just let us round them up and flatten them?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent.
The truth is this.
But it was hard for all the Jin gentry to accept that their noble gentry should bow their heads to humble merchants and treat them as equals.
"Don't forget, Yang Shiqi is currently carrying out drastic reforms in South Zhili!"
"If we don't take action, when Yang Shiqi's reform is completed, Jiangnan, a place with a lot of money and food, will fall into the hands of the royal family, and then we and the Jin gentry will be unable to save themselves!"
After hearing his words, everyone realized the seriousness of the problem.
"Shi Gong, when I understand, I will go back and prepare!"
"As it should be, we, the gentry, should work together to overcome the difficulties!"
A group of Jin gentry left one after another, preparing to change their attitude to a gentler attitude and seduce merchants with promises of huge profits.
But what they didn't know was that Jin Yiwei had already laid out a big net, waiting for them to jump in!
