"Are you the emperor?"
Feng Shengshi asked hurriedly.
Zhu Youxiao was too lazy to pay attention to him and just shouted: "Let's drive!"
Hua Yuncheng ordered his Biaoying soldiers to take over Feng Shengshi and Feng Shengshi's domestic slaves from Jinyiwei.
As for the few people who were beaten and killed by Feng Shengshi's order just now, Zhu Youxiao ordered Hua Yuncheng to send people to bring these injured people into the city for treatment and compile them into Tianjin New Households, and those who were beaten were buried properly.
The gentry and landowners who have manors in Shuntian Prefecture are facing the problem of a large number of domestic slaves and tenants losing their domestic slaves and tenants because the Tianjin industrial base is more attractive to the labor force, and they are also using various cruel behaviors to prevent tenants and domestic slaves from entering. The factory becomes labor.
Feng Shengshi, a squire who wanted to beat up and kill tenant farmers who wanted to flee to Tianjin, was not an exception.
Zhu Youxiao was not surprised or surprised by this. He knew that the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty since he started in Tianjin meant that these social contradictions would arise.
He, the emperor, and the new-type officials and gentry who profited from industrialization were destined to have conflicts with the traditional gentry who exploited farmers by monopolizing land resources because of their competition for labor resources.
This is inevitable.
"Your Majesty! I have something important to report. According to reports from Dongchang informants in Wuqing County, the Wuqing County government office was burned down by ruthless people. The magistrate Tao Yunzhi was even burned to death by ruthless people using firewood. According to Dongchang's informant, The report from the factory was made by Wang Tai, the left minister of the Ministry of Etiquette, who ordered the villagers to do it!"
When Zhu Youxiao passed through Wuqing County, Wei Zhongxian suddenly received an urgent report and came to Zhu Youxiao to report it.
When Zhu Youxiao learned about it, his face became cold again: "This is a rebellion! How dare you burn even the imperial officials to death? Why, this world is really the country of the squire! Pass the order and follow the generals of the border army Ma Shilong immediately led his troops to capture Wuqing County, directly suppressed the rebels in the city, immediately rescued the county magistrate Tao Yunzhi, and escorted Wang Tai here!"
Not long after Zhu Youxiao issued the order, Ma Shilong led his servants and immediately rode towards Wuqing County.
Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Zhongxian: "Can Dongchang find out what is the specific reason why local officials like Wang Tai are so lawless?"
"Back to your lord, according to an informant in Dongchang, Wang Tai's son-in-law Yu Gongsheng beat and killed more than 20 tenants who wanted to flee to Tianjin. When Tao Yunzhi, the magistrate of Wuqing County, found out about this, he locked up Wang Tai. His son-in-law Yu Liren, and Wang Tai, on the grounds that his son-in-law Yu Liren was a scholar and should not be criticized by the people and that the new county magistrate was strict in enforcing the law, he mobilized the villagers to burn the county government office, forced his way into the county jail, rescued his son-in-law, and told the magistrate Tao Yunzhi was attacked by a monster, so he was cruel and inappropriate, so he decided to burn him to death. Most of the villagers in Wuqing County were from the Wangtai tribe, and the Wangtai tribe had always been quite famous in Wuqing County, so the villagers in Wuqing County were convinced that He said, therefore, the county magistrate Tao Yunzhi will be burned to death!"
Wei Zhongxian reported truthfully.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded and couldn't help but said: "Another tragedy happened because the tenants refused to be enslaved by the squires! These lawless squires are really abominable. They still rely on their appeal in the countryside. They don’t take the imperial court seriously and treat human life as nothing! Could it be that all their sages’ books have been read into the stomachs of dogs?!”
"Your Majesty, the gentry and wealthy families have been able to accumulate wealth for generations by enslaving the people. However, they have always regarded their slave tenants as private property and disposed of them arbitrarily, regardless of national laws. Even if the government intervenes, they will blame the government. God In the Miao Dynasty, Li Song, the minister of the Ministry of War who lived in the countryside, beat the county magistrate because he favored his family. However, Li Song was not punished in any way;
Nowadays, it is understandable that tenant slaves choose to live elsewhere because their contracts have expired. However, these squires beat and mutilated them without authorization. It is indeed an act of destroying conscience and goes against the way of a saint to love the people. This is enough to explain. How serious is the corruption of local disciplines;
In my opinion, only by governing the country with strictness and strengthening national laws can we make some gentry and wealthy people know to be afraid. It is difficult to make them have the heart to be good only with the benevolent education advocated by the saints! "
Xiong Tingbi also has his own manufacturing industry in Tianjin, and has also participated in government-owned industry investments. Therefore, he is now also a new type of rentier class.
Xiong Tingbi no longer minded losing some of his interests in the land, but hoped that the factory could expand in scale with the addition of more workers and make more profits. Therefore, he naturally responded to those who killed tenants without authorization and even killed them. He was dissatisfied with the behavior of beating officials, and at this time he took the initiative to say that the court should punish these gentry and wealthy families with severe punishment.
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"The tenant Guo Xiaochun and others were innocent, but Feng Shengshi ordered his slaves to kill him. According to the Ming Dynasty law, if a slave is killed without sin, he will be sentenced to sixty years of imprisonment and one year of probation, and all the people in the household will be released and be good. How much more so? Guo Xiaochun and others are not their slaves, but just tenants. I have sent an official order to immediately banish the evil gentry Feng Shengshi with a hundred ting sticks and exile them for three years. All the slaves in the Feng Mansion are ordered to behave, and the Feng Mansion is not allowed to keep any more domestic slaves!"
Hua Yuncheng had already opened a court hearing on Feng Shengshi's case, and after learning the details through questioning the tenant Guo Xiaochun and others, he immediately issued an order.
"No, you can't hit me! My father is a servant! You can't hit me!"
Feng Shengshi shouted hurriedly.
But Hua Yuncheng's camp guards still pinned Feng Shengshi to the ground.
Hua Yuncheng shouted at this time: "Hit!"
Snapped!
Hua Yuncheng's camp guards then beat Feng Shengshi with a big stick.
"ah!"
Feng Shengshi screamed immediately.
He had never imagined that he, who originally wanted his slaves to beat up the runaway tenants, would be beaten with a big stick by the Tianjin governor.
Feng Shengshi screamed miserably.
As a scholar, he was pampered and his ability to withstand fighting was not as good as that of the tenant farmers. For him, a hundred sticks could kill him.
But in fact, Feng Shengshi was beaten to death before the eighty sticks were reached, and only when he was counting to seventy.
"Wait a minute! You can't hit me like this!"
At this time, Feng Jinglun, the former left minister of the Nanjing Ministry of War, suddenly shouted outside, and then walked in accompanied by his family boy.
As soon as Feng Jinglun saw his son Feng Shengshi lying on the ground unable to express his anger, he burst into tears on the spot: "My son!"
Then, Feng Jinglun pointed at Hua Yuncheng and shouted: "Hua! You killed my son, I want you to pay with your life!"
Hua Yuncheng just touched his nose: "Your Majesty ignored the king's law and beat and killed the people. As the local governor, I should be punished! Even if he was beaten to death, it was just that the King of Hell wanted to take him in. It had nothing to do with me. You want to What is the basis for my life to be paid? Of course, if you are not convinced, you can go to Beijing and file a complaint!"
"The ones who were beaten to death were just my tenants, what kind of living people are they? Besides, according to the laws of our Wang clan on escapers, any tenant who escapes privately must be beaten to death! My son acted according to the clan laws, what's wrong with him? !”
Feng Jinglun gritted his teeth and loudly questioned Hua Yuncheng.
"Of course there is something wrong!"
Hua Yuncheng also shouted back.
Then, Hua Yuncheng said again: "When did your clan law become stronger than the Ming law? The Ming law did not allow the gentry to beat and kill tenant slaves at will, but your clan law allows it. What kind of clan law is this! In addition, what's the law? Who gave you the power to dare to make laws without authorization!"
Then, Hua Yuncheng asked directly and coldly: "Are you going to establish a new court?!"
Feng Jinglun couldn't help but tremble after hearing this. He didn't expect Hua Yuncheng to say that he wanted to rebel, so he shouted hurriedly and fiercely: "Hua Futai! We are all scholars, why are you so decisive?! That's right, you You have an industry in Tianjin, so you want all the tenants and domestic slaves in the world to be your employees, so you try your best to force everyone to work here! Right? Are you still a scholar?! You are a despicable and shameless person!"
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