Songjiang Mansion.
This is a place with a story.
In the past, the imperial court sent Zhou Chen to inspect the official fields of the five governments in the south of the Yangtze River. As a result, Zhou Chen was plotted by the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River because he was too young and inexperienced. Not only did the inspection work make no progress, but he was also imprisoned, causing a lot of uproar.
He was still the current emperor of the Han Dynasty. He was developing industry and commerce in Peiping. After learning about this incident, he led two forbidden troops to the south of the Yangtze River in anger and killed everyone with blood flowing in the river and heads rolling in!
A large number of gentry and powerful people had their homes confiscated and were exiled, and the wealthy businessmen were terrified!
After that, Zhou Chen, with the strong support of Han Wang Zhu Gaoxu, officially implemented a whip method, and no one dared to stop him.
Jiangnan is a sacred land and has always been a financial and taxation center in the past dynasties. Therefore, whenever the imperial court reforms the land tax system, Jiangnan must be the first to bear the brunt!
Nowadays, the whipping method has been successfully implemented in Jiangnan for a long time and has been very effective.
At least the people in Jiangnan no longer have to bear additional taxes that do not belong to them, and the homeless and hungry people also get the fields that should belong to them.
The only people whose interests were harmed were the powerful Jiangnan gentry.
But instead, the people in Jiangnan lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the court's tax revenue increased more than ten times!
Facts have proved that Han King Zhu Gaoxu was right, and every decision he made was beneficial to the development of the Ming Dynasty.
Even if you use a knife to cut the flesh of the gentry!
It’s just that the meat isn’t cut enough!
Now, Yang Shiqi wants to personally break the bones of the gentry!
Since the imperial court officially announced the implementation of the national policy of dividing every son into an equal share, the whole country has been in an uproar, and countless impeachment memorials have flown into the Palace of Qianqing from all over the country.
And the targets of their impeachment were surprisingly unified.
There is only one person, and that is the Cabinet Order, Yang Shiqi!
No matter how angry the gentry and Jin gentry were, they would not dare to target Emperor Wude!
After all, he is the Son of Heaven, the emperor and father of the people of the world!
If you dare to accuse the emperor of wrongdoing, that would be disloyal and unfilial. No fool would do that.
His Majesty the Emperor cannot accuse, the gentry can only point the finger at Yang Shiqi.
Yes, it’s Yang Shiqi!
If this damned sycophant, Xingchen, had not presented slanderous words to deceive the saints, how could His Majesty have implemented Nao Shizi's new policy and wanted to break the bones of scholars all over the world?
It’s Yang Shiqi!
It can only be Yang Shiqi!
As a result, Yang Shiqi became the target of public criticism!
And the reputation of this Nanyang Prime Minister in the Great Tomorrow has gradually become bad because of Shilin's deliberate slander!
Not to mention ordinary scholars, even ordinary people have heard that there was a treacherous official in the Wude Dynasty, Yang Shiqi, who flattered the superiors and bullied the subordinates, beguiled the saints, and made slanderous remarks to Emperor Wude. Anyway, he was the kind of person who did all kinds of bad things. !
Yang Shiqi has never defended this, but has been doing his job silently.
From the moment he chose to take on this job, Yang Shiqi knew exactly what he would face in the future.
Either the reform will be successful and the country will reach the sky in one step, becoming the prime minister with real power under one person and over ten thousand people.
Either the reforms will fail and they will be shattered into pieces and become a treacherous minister who is despised by everyone and will be reviled for eternity.
Yang Shiqi had already been mentally prepared. At least he was not fighting alone. The Wude Emperor had been supporting him from behind.
From the information transmitted by the Jin Yiwei, it can be known that Emperor Wude has withstood the pressure of the court and withstood three waves of desperate counterattacks by the gentry and Jin gentry.
That's enough!
Emperor Wude suppressed the rebels at the central level, and Yang Shiqi implemented the New Deal at the local level. The two sides cooperated in a tacit understanding, and everything was going on in an orderly manner.
But today, something went wrong.
Commander Xiong Ben of the Flying Bear Guard hurried in with a very serious look on his face.
"Sir, all the scholars and scholars from the five Jiangnan mansions have gathered outside the gate. The number is probably tens of thousands!"
"They don't know who was instigating them, and they are shouting curses at the adults in a passionate and angry manner!"
Xiong Ben, the commander of the Flying Bear Guard, is also an old acquaintance.
When the King of Han went to the south of the Yangtze River in anger, he brought two forbidden armies, namely the Tiance Guard and the Feixiong Guard.
It is precisely because of this that after Zhu Gaoxu ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, Xiong Ben and Fei Xiongwei became the new emperor's confidants.
Before Yang Shiqi left for Jiangnan, Zhu Gaoxu was worried about his personal safety, so he specially sent the Flying Bear Guard to accompany him.
After all, if those gentry and gentry were forced into a hurry, they could do anything.
Even though Yang Shiqi is a cabinet orderer, he is still an imperial minister of the imperial court!
Wasn't Zhou Chen also an imperial envoy back then? Wasn't he being plotted by the Jiangnan gentry?
Facts have proved that Zhu Gaoxu's worries are not unfounded. The tens of thousands of scholars blocking the door and yelling at him are the best proof.
Yang Shiqi's expression did not change upon hearing this, but he smiled disdainfully.
"Is Guizhou Donkey exhausted?"
"He even resorted to such unflattering means!"
"If this is really the case, then I really overestimate them!"
Xiong Ben smiled bitterly and shook his head.
He is a martial artist who doesn't like to play with his brain.
"Sir, what should we do now?"
"Will you just ask the brothers to drive them away?"
There are five to six thousand people in the Feixiong Guard, and all of them are brave and capable warriors. It is very simple and easy to defeat these helpless scholars.
However, Yang Shiqi shook his head.
"That's what the other side wants us to do."
"I'm afraid most of these scholars have achieved fame."
"They deliberately instigated and encouraged these scholars to have an outburst with us, and then they could publicize the matter in a big way, thus completely stimulating the conflict between the court and the scholars."
"At that time, things will really get into trouble. I'm afraid His Majesty the Emperor will have a headache."
I have to admit that this is a vicious plan, and it is a ruthless and sinister plan.
If Yang Shiqi really beat up the scholars, it would just give the gentry and Jin gentry an excuse to attack.
You must know that these young scholars are still loyal to the imperial court. The blood in their hearts has not yet cooled down and they have not yet entered the big dye vat of officialdom, so they do not think there is anything wrong with the imperial court's implementation of the New Deal.
They are just young and impulsive young people who like to point out the world and criticize the current shortcomings.
They are not the enemies of the imperial court, but the hope for the future of the imperial court.
The gentry and gentry standing behind them are the real enemies of the imperial court!
"Then we will pick the ones that cause the most trouble and kill them directly to scare the monkeys?"
Xiong Ben once again made a suggestion, but it was still rejected by Yang Shiqi.
"Don't always think about fighting and killing!"
Xiong Ben: "???"
Your mother!
I am a military commander!
What do military commanders want when they don’t want to fight and kill?
"Sir, what should we do? Don't we go out today?"
When Yang Shiqi heard this, he smiled helplessly.
"Easy to handle!"
"Just find those rats hiding in them!"
Xiong Ben was happy when he heard this.
As long as there is a solution, that would be great!
"My lord, just ask."
"Go out first and have a look at the style of my great Ming scholar!"
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