"Pass the decree, Dongchang will immediately send people to Prince Fu's Mansion to arrest Deng Ruochang, a follower, and strictly interrogate his motives!"
Zhu Youxiao ordered with a serious look.
"My slave obeys the order!"
Wei Zhongxian replied cooperatively.
Next, Wei Zhongxian immediately arranged for Yang Huan to take a large number of people from Dongchang to Henan on the grounds that he was ordered to investigate the regicide case.
All of this is naturally a conspiracy that Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Zhongxian to carry out.
Because these rentiers who need to be deprived of their profits by Zhu Youxiao's reform are now particularly cowardly, and they all know that the emperor is not easy to mess with.
After all, even the Donglin Party and the Jiangnan gentry, southwestern chieftains, salt merchants, and Nanjing nobles behind it have been dealt with badly by the emperor.
Therefore, few of these people now dare to stupidly hit the emperor's gun, and now they are all honest and do not commit any crimes and do not give Zhu Youxiao a chance to suppress them.
Just like the current King Fu.
However, Zhu Youxiao had already confiscated many of his properties, forced Concubine Zheng to death, severely punished the Zheng family, and even ordered King Fu to make up for the 1.8 million taels of silver that had been lost to the court's salt interests.
But King Fu was still very stubborn and did not raise an army to rebel. He only used illness as an excuse to evade Zhu Youxiao's order to go to Beijing to accept the crime.
In short, the vested interests in Ming Dynasty seem to have become very smart now, and they no longer dare to provoke Zhu Youxiao.
As a result, Zhu Youxiao, the emperor who wanted to innovate and eliminate abuses, had to take the initiative to look for trouble and conspiracy to force these people to commit crimes, or to find reasons to deal with these vested interests who had become a coward.
From the perspective of the vested interests such as King Fu who gave in, the current emperor Zhu Youxiao is really hateful. They are obviously very honest in order to protect their existing vested interests, but the emperor still refuses. Let them go, bully them in various ways, and deprive them of their benefits.
But for Zhu Youxiao and the ministers who followed him, the emperor had to do something for the sake of the country, for the people of the world, and for the long-term stability of the Ming Dynasty. Right or wrong is no longer important. What is important is whether he can complete the reform and eliminate the disadvantages. political aspirations.
Anyway, unlike before when civil servants, nobles, and vassal kings took the initiative to trouble Zhu Youxiao, now it is Zhu Youxiao who takes the initiative to trouble these people.
It was Zhu Youxiao who took the initiative to attack and create conspiracies.
After all, the emperor Zhu Youxiao already controlled a sufficiently powerful army, as well as a bunch of new interest groups bound by interests.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao has the capital to take the initiative to find trouble.
The news that Han Xu was assassinated and fell into the water naturally spread like wildfire.
The first people to learn the news were Yangzhou salt merchants not far from Huai'an, where Zhu Youxiao was stationed.
The salt merchants in Yangzhou have become very honest since they were punished by Zhu Youxiao last time. They are deeply afraid of being blackmailed by Zhu Youxiao again. Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao arrived in Yangzhou on his way back to Beijing, these salt merchants They all consciously traveled hundreds of miles out of the city to welcome him, and even took the initiative to offer all kinds of rare treasures to please the emperor and avoid making him angry.
And because these salt merchants behaved well when he came to Yangzhou on his way back to Beijing, Zhu Youxiao did not give these salt merchants any more trouble.
But even Zhu Youxiao did not make things difficult for these salt merchants. When the news that Han Xu was assassinated and fell into the water reached Yangzhou, these Yangzhou salt merchants were still a little worried.
"This time, Mr. Han Ge was assassinated and fell into the water. It is said that King Fu's men wanted to kill the emperor. However, the emperor actually did not take the waterway, but still took the dry road, so the assassin assassinated the wrong person!"
At this time, the salt merchant Yao Sunju mentioned the matter to other salt merchants.
"No, I heard that this time the imperial court is going to reform the Central France and send the salt directly to the officials in the border towns. In the future, if the salt merchants want to exchange the salt, they have to transport grain to the border towns and get it from the officials in the border towns. They changed their hands for salt, and they said that the person who proposed this reform was Mr. Hange! Do you think this will make the emperor feel that our salt merchants are obstructing it, and look for opportunities to extort our salt merchants' money? ?”
Salt merchant Ding Kuicheng waved his hand and told another version.
"If this is really the case, then the imperial court is too greedy. Last time we were extorted from 30% of our family property! Besides, how dare we salt merchants do such a thing now? If we are found out, we will be punished by the Nine Clan Ah! In my opinion, 80% of it is a deliberate conspiracy by the one in the Nine Heavens (Zhu Youxiao) to suppress our salt merchants."
Salt merchant Jin Maotai said hurriedly.
"Suppress our salt merchants?"
Yao Sunju couldn't help but ask, and then said hurriedly: "How else does the imperial court want to suppress us? Is it really going to confiscate our home?"
"It should be because of the opening up of China and France. If any of us salt merchants are dissatisfied with this new policy and make trouble, they will say that we are involved in this assassination, and then they will confiscate our homes and exterminate our families!"
Jin Maotai said.
Ding Kuicheng smiled helplessly: "How dare you!"
Then, Ding Kuicheng said very unhappily: "It's just that the reform of China and France is really a headache. If we salt merchants want to continue to earn salt profits in the future, we will have to move to border towns to farm fields, otherwise we will have to bear huge responsibilities." How come Mr. Han Ge made such a hateful suggestion!"
"This is taking advantage of the business people! But what else can we do, we can only accept our fate! However, because of this, maybe some of our salt merchants did such things because they were angry. Now we can only hope If the imperial court can let us salt merchants go free and ask us to transport grain to border towns like before the Hongzhi Dynasty, we accept it, but don’t really confiscate our homes and exterminate our clans!”
Jin Maotai said something.
"well!"
Ding Kuichu sighed.
And Yao Sunju also sighed: "A common man is not guilty of having a jade in his possession!"
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"Are you saying that Mr. Hange was assassinated, and then Dongchang found out that it was someone in my palace who instigated it?"
King Fu also stood up in horror after learning that Mr. Han Ge was assassinated and fell into the water and that Zhu Youxiao had ordered to arrest his people.
Ye Chuchun nodded hurriedly and replied: "The news is absolutely true, Your Highness, even if you don't want to rebel, this tyrant will charge you with regicide. The student has said it a long time ago, Your Highness, you are still here Why are you hesitating!"
"An ordinary man is innocent of the crime of harboring a jade. Although I am not an ordinary man, I still refuse to let him go because I am in Zhu Youxiao's eyes."
King Fu almost cried with anger, his eyes became moist. He had never been so wronged before. For a moment, he looked up to the sky and cursed:
"Zhu Youxiao! You tyrant, just because your father died, you united with your gang of treacherous officials to bully me like this! I can't wait to eat your flesh, drink your blood, and sleep with your skin! You Bastard! Why are you so bad! No one has ever bullied me like this since I was a child! Woohoo!"
And then, King Fu really cried, crying heartbreakingly.
After crying, King Fu resolutely said: "I have decided to raise an army!"
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"I am very bad! But I am saving the Ming Dynasty. If I don't treat you like this now, in the future, the Ming Dynasty will be dragged down by you vassals and the country will be ruined and the family will be destroyed. At least I will not kill you. I’ll make you a feast of blessings, and I’ll give you a complete corpse because you’re the vassal king!”
After Zhu Youxiao learned what Zhu Changxun said before he decided to rebel, he couldn't help but curse a few words in his heart.
Although Zhu Youxiao felt that he was bullying King Fu by doing this, he did not regret doing so because he understood that if he wanted to do great things for the country and the people, he could not be a good person. The heart is also harmful to others.
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