"He speaks of filial piety, but this cannot be used as an excuse for him to betray me! If he and his family really died for the country, I will give him and his family posthumous honors, and even give his parents higher honors. As for his unfulfilled filial piety, if he dies but his family is saved, I will let the court fulfill his filial piety and give his parents and family generous treatment! He clearly wants to use filial piety to excuse his infidelity after his death! How cunning!”
Zhu Youxiao said something, and then he put Xiao Jingao's memorial on the candle and burned it, and said: "We still punish the nine tribes, but we also allow him to play the memorial, and let him be buried with his family, but let the nine tribes They crushed their bones and raised ashes and were buried together, but there is no need to record the incident. All official documents, family trees, and local chronicles related to Xiao Jingao and his family were burned and erased! This way, this person would not want to rely on filial piety to justify his name, and later generations would People cleared him up! The same goes for other gentry who committed crimes. Their family genealogies were all burned, and all relevant records in official files and local chronicles were deleted."
"According to the order!"
Xiong Tingbi replied.
Then, Zhu Youxiao said: "The rebellion is completely over, but the Jiangnan matter has not been settled yet. As far as I know, the performance of the nobles in Nanjing City is very disappointing!"
Zhu Youxiao already knew through Dongchang's informant how the Nanjing nobles behaved when the rebels rebelled in the outer city of Nanjing.
To be honest, Zhu Youxiao was not surprised by the weak and fearful behavior of the Nanjing nobles.
Because Zhu Youxiao remembered that "The Southern Strategy of the Ming Dynasty" records that when the Manchu and Qing Dynasties went south, none of these Nanjing nobles died for the Ming Dynasty. They all knelt down outside Nanjing City along with the civil and military officials to welcome Duduo. When he entered the city, he even took the initiative to shave his head.
Although Zhu Youxiao was determined to support the Xungui Group to check and balance the civil servants, he had to admit that the Xungui Group in Ming Dynasty was basically useless and no longer reliable.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao can only plan to keep these nobles as fat pigs like many vassal princes, and then kill them one by one to replenish the internal treasury when they are free in the future.
If we want to check and balance the civil service clique that basically emphasizes civil service and neglects martial arts, we can only cultivate a new martial arts clique.
Establishing a new military merit title system, just like the imperial examination system that manages the civil service group, can continuously change the blood of the civil service group, and finally use the new military selection system and military merit title system to continuously change the blood of the military honor group, so that capable people can be replaced at any time The new military ministers can enter the noble class, but the old nobles can also be eliminated to avoid becoming a stagnant water.
Xiong Tingbi, Han Xu and others remained silent.
Because the Ming Dynasty's noble status is inseparable from civil servants like them.
When Zhu Youxiao saw that the two important ministers around him were silent, he raised the corner of his mouth slightly. He naturally knew that the civil servant group had always been very defensive about the noble group. He would rather allow the nobles to amass money and annex land and lose their will than to Willing to urge the emperor to strengthen the cultivation of noble abilities.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao also understood why Xiong Tingbi and Han Xu didn't speak. At this time, it was hard for them to say anything.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao just directly issued an order: "Invite Li Changgeng, the Minister of the Ministry of War of Nanjing, and the distinguished nobles of Nanjing to come to see me!"
Zhu Youxiao is now stationed in the garden of Wei Guogong's Xu Family Garden near Mochou Lake in the outer city of Nanjing. These Nanjing dignitaries and Li Changgeng have also been waiting here for a long time. Now when Zhu Youxiao saw them, they all He immediately came to the imperial court to have an audience.
As soon as Zhu Youxiao saw these Nanjing nobles, he first asked which of these Nanjing nobles were granted the title during the Taizu period and which ones were granted during the Chengzu period.
These nobles all answered one by one, and they were very energetic when they mentioned the glory of their ancestors.
Then, Zhu Youxiao asked Gu Mingjiao: "Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Mingjiao, you are the garrison of Nanjing. Please tell me, what were you doing when the rebellion broke out in the outer city of Nanjing?"
Gu Mingjiao shamelessly replied: "Your Majesty, as soon as I learned about Xiao Jingao's rebellion, I quickly organized my slave soldiers to bravely go to the city wall to defend the city. They did not dare to take off their armor day and night, and slept on the city wall every day. Just to prevent the inner city from falling into the hands of the rebels! Fortunately, His Majesty was wise and led the army to march south early. The march was unstoppable, which frightened the rebels. In addition, the civil and military forces in the inner city of Nanjing were united, so in the end, the rebels failed. Attack the inner city!"
Gu Mingjiao and other Nanjing dignitaries did not expect that the rebels would be so evasive. They would fall apart as soon as the emperor's army arrived. Naturally, they were secretly glad that they did not surrender directly when the rebels were recruiting. In fact, they are now He has begun to think about taking advantage of the emperor's victory in suppressing the rebellion to gain some benefits.
Therefore, Gu Mingjiao took the initiative and only mentioned how he defended the city.
Zhu Youxiao originally let Gu Mingjiao speak first instead of Li Changgeng, the Minister of War of Nanjing. This was actually to give the nobles of Nanjing one last chance to perform.
He also hoped that although these nobles were afraid of death, it would be good if they could take the initiative to admit that they were afraid of death. At least they would be honest with themselves as the emperor. Therefore, he did not let Li Changgeng, the Minister of War in Nanjing, speak first to prevent Li Changgeng first informed these nobles about their status, and then asked Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Mingjiao.
But Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that Gu Mingjiao would only talk shamelessly about how people like him defended the inner city of Nanjing to the death.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao only sneered: "So, you still have merit?"
"In that case, tell me, what reward do you want?"
Zhu Youxiao then asked again.
Gu Mingjiao became very excited after hearing this. He had already inquired and found out that although the young emperor was now very irritable and would kill people at every turn, he was also very generous with his money. In the first battle of Yangzhou, he directly gave out a reward of two million taels. Therefore, He couldn't help but think that His Majesty was so generous to those big soldiers, so he wouldn't be stingy to those of us who had done meritorious service in defending the city.
Therefore, Gu Mingjiao also said: "I dare not ask for reward! But if I can, I can only ask your majesty to give the confiscated Lanchun Garden to me for my retirement. In addition, from the fields confiscated during the suppression of the rebellion, I can ask for a reward." The traitor Xu Shaoliang gave me 30,000 hectares of fertile farmland near Lanchun Garden. My family has a large population and has little progress. If there is no new land, it may be difficult to survive. Please be merciful, Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, Lingbi Marquis Tang Guozuo, has a large population in his palace and it is difficult to sustain it. Therefore, he begs to grant 10,000 hectares of land raised by the former censor Wang as a village land! Long live my emperor! Long live my emperor!"
Tang Guozuo was afraid of being too slow and letting all the good land confiscated after the suppression of the rebellion go to other nobles. Without waiting for Zhu Youxiao to reply to Gu Mingjiao, he stood up and asked the emperor to give him farmland.
Because the relatives of nobles and nobles during the Ming Dynasty had always been in the habit of begging for farmland from the court, basically every emperor during his reign had relatives of nobles and nobles begging for farmland.
The emperors basically would not refuse, and even if they refused, they would not punish them, and the civil servants would not make things difficult for their relatives.
Therefore, these noble relatives just asked to give Zhuang Tian if they had nothing to do.
Now, seeing that the Nanjing nobles had successfully suppressed the rebellion, the emperor also asked the same question, and asked for Zhuang Tian as usual.
"I favor the Marquis of Ning, Zhu Guobi, and beg for the former chief envoy Zhan Chenglun's land of 20,000 hectares to be my village land!"
Zhu Guobi also started talking.
"roll!"
Zhu Youxiao directly picked up an inkstone and threw it towards these Nanjing nobles, hitting the ground in front of these nobles on the spot.
Gu Mingjiao, Tang Guozuo, and Zhu Guobi couldn't help but tremble.
Even Wei Guogong Xu Hongji, who had been silent for a long time, knelt down and said, "I will leave!"
With that said, Xu Hongji hurriedly slipped out of the room where Zhu Youxiao was, and other nobles also hurriedly slipped out.
"What do you mean by His Majesty's words of 'get out'?"
As soon as these nobles came out, Gu Mingjiao started asking questions.
"Who knows, the key is whether His Majesty is willing to reward me or not?"
Funing Hou Zhu Guobi replied.
"Let's ask the disciples, but His Majesty looks young and seems to have a very bad temper. He just threw the inkstone away!"
Tang Guozuo followed.
Xu Hongji remained silent and had a sullen face. He could feel that the emperor had no intention of letting these nobles go.
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