Zhu Gaoxu is gone.
Li Chen and Zhu Zhanhe were left looking at each other.
As the crown prince and grand master, Li Di was deeply aware of his mistake and immediately bowed to Zhu Zhanhe to apologize.
After all, he is no longer the king of Korea, but the husband of Zhu Zhanhe, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty.
As the saying goes, "preaching and accepting karma to resolve doubts", if Li Sen could not change his ideas in time and use his own governing philosophy in North Korea to teach Zhu Zhanhe, what if the prince really did something wrong and affected the political situation of the Ming Dynasty? , then he, Li Chen, will never be able to atone for his sins!
Zhu Zhanhe had a gentle temperament and respected Li Chen very much, so the master and apprentice quickly restored their original status.
However, Li Chen still can't figure out why the Jiangnan gentry was so rampant that even the Ming Emperor was afraid of them.
If this were placed in North Korea, it would be impossible!
What a bullshit aristocratic family. If the King of Joseon can use you, then you are the so-called aristocratic family. If the King of Joseon can't use you, then just kill them all.
For example, Li Chen's father-in-law, Shen Wen, formed a large number of party members and became a scholar-bureaucrat leader. He was tabooed by Li Bangyuan, Taizong of North Korea, and was finally killed in one fell swoop!
This is the status of royal power, supreme!
How is it that in the Ming Dynasty, when faced with the Ming Emperor, the nine-fifth emperor, these so-called Jiangnan gentry dared to jump out and scream?
Hearing Li Chen's doubts, Zhu Zhanhe's expression became unusually solemn.
"Sir, you don't know. This Jiangnan gentry is the biggest cancer of our Ming Dynasty!"
"The reason is that when Taizu established his capital in Nanjing, the south is a place where humanities gather, and Jiangnan is a fertile land, so the cultural heritage far exceeds that of the north. This has led to the decline of scholars in Jiangnan since the Hongwu Dynasty. He has always dominated the imperial examinations, and even caused a dispute between the north and the south during the Hongwu period."
"The imperial examination was originally a talent promotion ceremony for the imperial court, set up to select outstanding talents, but it turned out to be the home field of southern scholars. More and more southern scholars entered the officialdom and court, and behind each one stood a huge Jiangnan Gentlemen!"
"These big families in the south of the Yangtze River have family members who speak for them in the court to seek their own interests, and there are intertwined relationships below them, like the roots of an old tree, that firmly control one party, collude with local officials, and annex local fields. They bullied the superiors and concealed the truth from the inferiors, falsely reported taxes, squeezed the local people in various ways, and enslaved the local people to cultivate the land for them... They were like cancers sucking into our Ming Dynasty, and they were constantly devouring the fate of our Ming Dynasty. !”
Hearing this, Li Chen was so shocked that his scalp was numb and his face turned pale with horror.
"no!"
"Your Highness, how is this possible?"
"Why does the imperial court allow them to behave like this? Doesn't it think of ways to suppress them?"
Zhu Zhanhe smiled and said: "Why don't you think of ways to suppress it? The imperial court has been suppressing it since Emperor Taizu Gao!"
"Back then, Emperor Taizu Gao repeatedly caused major crimes and killed these Jiangnan gentry again and again. Only then did they feel more at ease. But after all, they still didn't kill them all, and they couldn't be killed at all. Just imagine sending them to When investigating the officials of these gentry, aren’t there any of them among them?”
"In the name of "farming, reading and inheriting the family", these Jiangnan gentry continue to annex fields and exploit the people. On the surface, they have become a house of poetry, books and etiquette. They can gain a good reputation by occasionally providing disaster relief and benefiting the people, and then they are praised by the people, the government and the public. , and then used this virtuous name to seek some profits, from salt, iron, grain, cloth, tea, etc., all the most profitable businesses of the Ming Dynasty were almost monopolized by these Jiangnan wealthy families."
"Sir, you may not know that when my father joined forces with the Xungui Group and the Ming Dynasty Navy to launch a long-distance trade, these Jiangnan gentry smelled the business opportunities and learned that the profits behind the long-distance trade were astonishing, so they made trouble again and again His actions forced the imperial court to open up the voyage trade and let them participate, but my father almost killed them all!"
hiss……
Li Chen couldn't help but take a breath of cold air!
These Jiangnan gentry are really arrogant and arrogant!
If you only see financial benefits, don’t you have any brains?
That is His Majesty’s business!
You are just a few gentry, even if you have some manpower in the court, can you really force the Ming Emperor to bow to you?
Isn't this actively seeking death?
Li Chen smiled bitterly and shook his head. For the first time, he realized the madness of the Jiangnan gentry!
For the sake of profit, he even dared to use any means to intimidate the emperor!
It’s no wonder that this time when Su Song Mansion reported a disaster, the court chose to investigate first, and even dispatched the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which was feared by all officials!
It turns out that there is such a hidden secret in it!
"It is precisely because the power of these Jiangnan gentry is deeply entwined in the court and official circles and spreads throughout all aspects of the Ming Dynasty that my father spared no effort to suppress the gentry crazily. Even after he ascended the throne and became emperor, he tried his best to implement the system of dividing the land between households and households. A new policy!”
"Once the apportionment of farmers into acres is successfully implemented, the local gentry will lose their biggest support, which is the so-called fame and privileges. As long as this fame and privileges are gone, they will not be able to rely on the court's preferential treatment to annex fields and enslave and exploit them. Local people!”
"So, they have been cut off from their foundation, so they continue to smear my father and regard him as an enemy!"
Zhu Zhanhe also sighed.
Although his father has never allowed him to participate in these things, he is not stupid as a prince, so he does not understand his father's intentions.
My father wanted to take him out to prevent him, the prince, from being affected by this matter!
All the infamy was borne by the father.
Every time he thought of this, Zhu Zhanhe couldn't help but feel resentful, and he hated these gentry and gentry even more!
Li Chen was shocked when he heard this, and for the first time in his heart, he had respect for His Majesty the Wude Emperor.
For the sake of the Ming Dynasty and the common people, we must carry out this policy of sharing every son's land with his own family and cut off the gentry's basis for squeezing the common people, even if they bear all the infamy!
Such an emperor can indeed be called a wise king!
"Your Majesty, please remember His Majesty's teachings!"
"It sounds like these local gentry and court gentry, especially those in the south of the Yangtze River, really need to be on guard and suppress them as much as possible. They must not be given any chance to hold power!"
Zhu Zhanhe nodded with deep understanding, and then sneered: "Don't worry, sir, Gu naturally knows."
"In recent days, my father always calls me over to chat, and he tells me a lot of things."
"Just like the Jiangnan gentry, my father called them leeks and they must be cut from time to time!"
"Otherwise, these leeks will grow wildly, constantly absorbing the vitality and nutrients of the field, and eventually grow into towering trees, grabbing all the nutrients and sunlight. However, other flowers and plants will not be able to survive without nutrients and light, so they will naturally not be able to survive!"
"Not only the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, but also the gentry in other local and state capitals, the same is true!"
Zhu Zhanhe's eyes burst out with terrifying murderous intent.
“It’s better to cry as a family than to cry together!”
"It is better for officials to cry than for common people to cry!"
