In addition, tens of thousands of local heroes gathered in the outer city of the capital, and even knelt in the direction of the imperial city to fight for the injustice of these scholars.
"Your Majesty, you can't treat Mr. Wenquxing like this. God will punish you if you do this!"
"Students are all descended from the stars, how can we make them like us!"
"Your Majesty, Mr. Wenquxing is very kind to us!"
These village heroes were kneeling outside the city and shouting.
Yang Weiyuan, the censor who patrolled the city, was naturally shocked when he saw this scene. He did not expect that people would come to complain about the scholars, and thought to himself: "When did the people become so sensible?"
It was not easy for him to drive them away without authorization, after all, he was only responsible for the security inside and outside the capital.
Therefore, Yang Weiyuan only sent people to inform the cabinet.
In addition, Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyi Guards in charge of city defense, only ordered the inner and outer city gates to be sealed first, and went to the palace in person to report the matter to the emperor.
Emperor Zhu Youxiao soon learned about this from the cabinet and Jin Yiwei.
Even, not long after, Zhu Youxiao also learned about what happened in Wanping County.
"Wenquxing? Since when have scholars become gods!"
This was new to Zhu Youxiao, but he was not surprised.
He knew about this era, and he didn't know whether it was the initiative of the people or the deliberate intention of the rulers to deify literati and link them to things with fairy colors like Xingjun to show the nobility of scholars.
He remembered a plot in "The Scholars" about Fan Jin's passing the imperial examination. It was written that after Fan Jin passed the imperial examination, his father-in-law did not dare to slap him again, because Hu Butcher began to think that Fan Jin was a literary star who had come down to earth and could not be beaten.
In this era, gods and so on still have a strong deterrent effect on ordinary people.
Many people fear nothing but fear God.
Therefore, it is not surprising that ordinary people admire and respect scholars. They also hope that their descendants can become scholars. They also believe that reading is the only way to be good in everything, and they firmly believe that good men should study instead of being soldiers.
But Zhu Youxiao also knew that it was not that simple. Even if the common people respected and admired scholars, they would not use the method of gathering crowds to demonstrate and shout slogans to government offices or even the gates of the capital to fight against the injustice of the scholars.
After all, the common people of this era do not yet have the consciousness and habit of participating in politics, and they are also full of fear of government agencies, unless someone instigates them.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao could guess that it was not that simple.
He also knew that these rural warriors who gathered for demonstrations and chanted slogans were not ordinary people, but tenant farmers from the families of officials and gentry in Beizhili near Gyeonggi Province, and they were tenant farmers who voluntarily donated their own fields! They came to complain about the scholars, and their original intention was to benefit themselves and continue to evade taxes and corvee.
"There are probably reactionary officials and gentry instigating this! There are also rumors that scholars are like literary stars descending to earth and cannot be dealt with! Why, scholars are noble gods descending to earth and the rulers of the world? These treacherous people who want to evade taxes , should be severely punished! Otherwise, it will not be enough to correct the world and people's customs, and give the common people a correct guide."
Zhu Youxiao said because of this.
"Your majesty is wise, may I ask your majesty, how should we deal with these troublemaking people?"
Fang Congzhe asked.
Zhu Youxiao fell silent, clenched his fists and said: "Observe first, although they are all people, there are still differences between people."
Fang Congzhe smiled and said: "Your Majesty is saying that, in my opinion, this is the same as the previous noblemen instigating the veteran military households to make a fuss in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. They are sure that your Majesty has some rights for the common people and military households." A compassionate heart, and use this to prevent the officials and gentry from receiving food and doing errands together."
"You are right, in the final analysis, you are still deceiving me as the emperor of the Han family!"
Zhu Youxiao nodded.
He had to admit that if it were not because he was the Han emperor, but because the ruler of China was a foreign emperor like the Manchu Qing, then these Han people would not have the courage, because the foreign emperor would not mind killing all the Han people who were making trouble. dropped.
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Although these rural warriors in the Gyeonggi area still gathered in Wanping County and outside the capital to demonstrate, shouting slogans, and even smashed the surrounding shops or looted the surrounding houses, the reform of the government and the gentry integrating grain and errands continued. Implement.
Xichang has completed the autumn tax collection work in the three prefectures of Daming, Baoding and Zhending in Beizhili after the implementation of the new policy of paying grain and serving errands to both officials and gentry, which means that the policy of paying grain and serving errands to both government and gentry has been officially implemented in these three prefectures. .
However, the closer they got to Shuntian Prefecture, the center of Northern Zhili, more and more rural warriors gathered to oppose the unified payment of grain and errands by the officials and gentry, and almost few scholars, officials and gentry participated.
These gentry, officials, and gentry are all well-educated now and will not jump out like before.
And these rural warriors, that is, the tenant farmers who took the initiative to donate their fields to the homes of officials and gentry to avoid taxes, this time also because their own interests were harmed, they took the initiative to block the New Deal by complaining about the grievances of the scholars.
Therefore, when the Governor of Xichang led the troops of Xichang to the vicinity of Gyeonggi, he saw that many local warriors had been surrounded throughout Gyeonggi.
"Why are there so many people? They don't look like refugees. They are very orderly and obviously have leaders. You see, after they found our officers and soldiers in Xichang, they were looking for themselves with their eyes. The leaders here, besides, they all look cunning and are sizing us up.”
Han Zanzhou, the general manager of the West Factory, spoke to Zhu Xieyuan.
Zhu Xieyuan also looked at these village warriors with deep eyes, nodded, and then said: "Ignore these people, we collect our taxes. If they dare to stop them, they will report it to the court immediately and ask for your Majesty's decree! Eunuch Han and Admiral He What do you think?"
"As it should be!"
Han Zanzhou and He Shixian replied.
So, the people from Xichang continued to walk towards the capital.
But at this time, after some whispering, the leaders of these rural warriors actually surrounded the people in the West Factory.
"You people from the West Factory will suffer retribution for killing Mr. Wenquxing!"
"That's right! You are all traitors who tortured the masters, and we can't let you go!"
"Folks, kill these people from the West Factory!"
These village warriors shouted loudly one by one and began to throw mud blocks at the people and horses in Xichang.
"Prepare for war!"
He Shixian shouted, and then he pulled out his sword. His servant Jingqi immediately took up the three-eyed gun.
"Wait!"
Zhu Xieyuan shouted at this time, and then said to He Shixian: "Wait for the imperial decree first! We only have the right to deal with those who resist taxes, otherwise it will be trespassing or killing others without permission!"
Han Zanzhou said: "Let's change the city gate and go into the palace. This place has been blocked by the people and we can't get out!"
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"There are a lot of local brave people who have denounced us scholars. Huang said that the government where the officials and gentry all pay the grain and serve as errands harms not only the interests of our civilian gentry, but also the interests of the tenant farmers. There are many of these people now, no more than There are very few farmers who pay taxes to the imperial court, especially nowadays, most of them are tenant farmers who surrendered on their own initiative! Unless, your Majesty, you don't care about the life and death of these ordinary tenant farmers! You will also slaughter them all and force them to rebel!"
Huang Liji, Shao Zhanshi and Minister of Guanglu Temple, said something to Song Quan, the left deputy capital censor, after learning that Xiang Yong outside the capital had gathered to demonstrate.
"That's right! I don't know how Your Majesty will deal with it! Now, the "Huang Ming Bao" is discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the Hulu emperor taking over China and the Han emperor taking over China. In my opinion, if the Hu emperor takes over, I'm afraid You don’t need to think about it so much. Anyway, we don’t rely on the Han people to maintain the throne, so we can’t kill them all! It’s easy! However, your majesty is different. He is the emperor of the Han family, and I don’t know if he will dare to cleanse us Han people wantonly. "
Song Quan echoed.
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