"Reporting to your Majesty, Dongchang has reported that it has indeed passed an investigation and learned that the scholar Jiang Hede, Gao Eryan and others are inciting the tenants to fight for the injustice of the scholars, and said that the emperor is kind and loves the people, and will not use iron and blood against the people. The tenants were convinced by the tactics, and they were really unwilling to become free commoners who paid taxes and served the imperial court, so they followed the instigation of these scholars and the servants of officials and gentry, and gathered in government offices or the capital to protest against the scholars."
At this time, Wei Zhongxian of the Dongchang also wanted to report to Zhu Youxiao the latest investigation of the Dongchang regarding the Xiangyong gathering to cause trouble.
Zhu Youxiao rubbed his face after hearing this.
He had to admit that these selfish tenant farmers were still relatively ignorant, and they actually believed that these scholars were as innocent as some of the emperors before the Ming Dynasty, such as Ming Xiaozong, Ming Mu Zong, and Ming Guangzong.
Because Zhu Youxiao believed that he was not a kind king, even if a scholar took the initiative to give him a high hat, he would not recognize it.
He indeed wanted to make the people of the Ming Dynasty richer, more thoughtful and more educated, but he always believed that to achieve all this, it was impossible to be as kind as a Bodhisattva.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao would brutally suppress a large number of troublemaking weavers encouraged by the gentry because of the government-run industry establishing a foothold in Jiangnan.
However, in this era, due to the lack of information, the common people's indifference to politics, and lack of independent thinking ability, in addition to the fact that groups forget popular events very quickly, coupled with the conflicts between interests and gentry within the clan and among the tenant farmers, Due to reasons such as being very authoritative in front of them, these tenant farmers did not know that their emperor was a reckless emperor, and they did not know how unreliable the scholar's words were. These village warriors did not know that Zhu Youxiao had previously dealt with the weaver Weaver House. The memory is long.
"Have these agitators been arrested?"
Zhu Youxiao asked next.
"Already arrested, now awaiting instructions from the Emperor."
Wei Zhongxian replied.
"Intensify interrogation and dig out more people!"
Zhu Youxiao ordered.
"My slave obeys the order!"
Wei Zhongxian replied.
At this time, Fang Congzhe, who was next to Zhu Youxiao, asked: "Your Majesty, the Xichang side is still waiting for orders. What do you think of the troublemaking people outside?"
"What kind of common people are they? They are just lackeys of scholars. They are ignorant and selfish. They are not destined to be scholar-bureaucrats, but they have the disease of scholar-bureaucrats. Do they really think that by being dedicated as tenants in the name of officials and gentry, they themselves are also officials and gentry?"
Zhu Youxiao asked as he spoke.
Fang Congzhe was not surprised by the emperor's words. He knew that his emperor looked deeply into problems and was full of doubts about everyone's words. No one could deceive even the words of a saint.
Therefore, he knew that the tenant farmers who caused trouble due to the officials and gentry working together to pay for food could not scare the emperor, and they would not make the emperor feel that what they were doing was not beneficial to the people.
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
Fang Congzhe therefore only replied.
"The cabinet drafted a decree to have all the patrol battalions go to the periphery to surround all the troublemakers. Those who escaped due to the suppression of Xichang were all arrested and temporarily detained in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, waiting to be dispatched. At the same time, the Xichang was instructed to suppress them directly. Kill without mercy!"
Zhu Youxiao said: "Since they deceive me as the emperor of the Han Dynasty, they think that I will not destroy my own foundation, but I would rather destroy my own foundation than let this world have no rules!"
"yes!"
Fang Congzhe replied.
Because Xiong Tingbi became an official, Yuan Keli, who replaced him in the cabinet and political affairs hall, sighed secretly.
He had already expected that something like this would happen, but he only suggested strengthening the West Factory to prevent a large-scale rebellion, and did not choose to stop the emperor because he knew that the court was right to do so.
But what Yuan Keli had to admit was that Fang Congzhe still had selfish motives for his own power and position. He would rather attack the civilian gentry first than engage in business tax matters.
Zhu Youxiao had to admit that the essence of the imperial court was still a violent institution, established by the strongest to rule the weak.
Therefore, at this moment, when the interests of the imperial court and the interests of the tenant farmers were irreconcilable, as the highest decision-maker of the imperial court, the Ming Emperor, he still had to use his own violence to forcibly suppress these tenant farmers who were fighting against the scholars for their own interests. .
"fire!"
He Shixian shouted loudly.
The sound of the artillery was loud, and the shells directly hit the crowd of rural warriors blocking the west factory, immediately smashing many people into pulp.
At the same time, He Shixian personally led his servants on horseback to kill these village heroes with three-eyed blunderbuss.
Lead bullets were fired into the midst of these rural warriors.
These brave warriors fell in batches.
They were naturally surprised at this time.
They did not expect that the officers and soldiers of the West Factory in front of them would still attack them. Unlike the officials and gentry said, the emperor would give them face.
Many local warriors fled immediately.
The patrol battalion surrounding the outside immediately caught the Xiangyong who ran out and tied them into a pile. Soon, many Xiangyong were tied up in the entire open space on the outskirts of Beijing.
At the same time, Xichang still used iron and blood methods to suppress these Xiangyong who had not yet had time to escape, directly cut a bloody road, and then successfully entered the capital city.
"His Majesty decided to take action!"
Huang Liji couldn't help but said to Song Quan while listening to the sound of gunfire outside.
"It's your Majesty after all! I don't know how future generations will comment on this matter."
Song Quan sighed and replied.
"Actually, if you think about it, what could the tenants have done wrong? They just gathered together to say a few words for us scholars and did nothing else! Such simple and kind people should be educated even if they do not understand the court's intentions. , how could you kill him so indiscriminately!"
Huang Liji couldn't help but said angrily.
"Your Majesty is doing this for us scholars! He said before that scholars work gloriously, but now these people have gathered and said that we scholars are literary stars who have come down to earth and cannot be used for hard labor. Naturally, Your Majesty will not allow this kind of work that is different from him. Sound exists.”
Song Quan continued.
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"Your Majesty, I would like to inform you that all those who fled among the people who caused trouble have been arrested. Please tell me how to deal with them."
Fang Congzhe reported to Colonel Zhu You here.
"They don't want to be the lackeys of the officials and gentry, but they don't want to be yeoman farmers who pay taxes to the court. I refuse to let them get what they want, and let them be yeoman farmers. I will disrupt and reorganize them according to different clans and different places of origin, and then Exiled to various towns and cities in Nagasaki, Taiwan, to work in the fields! There is not a single scholar there yet. Let me see how they can contribute! Let’s do it this way! In addition, we will do the same thing when passing on edicts and people rioting in other prefectures. First suppress them, then arrest them, reorganize them all and exile them to the newly opened territories of the Ming Dynasty!"
Zhu Youxiao ordered.
"Your Majesty! If this is the case, I am afraid that a large number of gentry's fields will be left vacant. After all, without the tenant farmers, no one will farm the gentry's fields. How should these vacant fields be disposed of?"
Yuan Keli said at this time.
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