"In addition to Hai Rui and Hu Shouren mentioning this matter in the secret report, why didn't Fu Jian, Bing Bei, Qian Xian and other officials mention it?!"
"Could it be that in their eyes, beating my personal guards means beating them?!"
In the Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Yijun was losing his temper with Zhang Juzheng.
Because Luo Shanggong, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard, was slapped by Lu Huo, the censor of Zuo Qiandu and the admiral of Caojiang, Zhu Yijun had already learned about it from the secret report that had just been sent to the capital.
Zhang Juzheng did not dare to say a word. He just stood beside the chair given to him, his head lowered, and his eyes only stared down at his waterfall beard.
Zhang Hong and Zhang Jing knelt on the ground.
Zhang Jing even started to wipe the sweat with his sleeves again: "The factory guard didn't report the matter. He probably didn't think he was very important, so he didn't report it."
"Isn't this important?!"
Snapped!
A piece of music was thrown flyingly in front of Zhang Jing.
After Zhu Yijun threw out the chapter, he spread his hands and said with a cold smile: "If this isn't important, then I really don't know what is important! He is slapping me in the face, not yours, so I don't think he is. important!"
"Your Majesty, please calm down, I will never dare to think like this!"
Zhang Jing hurriedly replied.
"You already think so! You think so!"
Zhu Yijun turned around and shouted, "Think about it" twice in a row.
Zhang Jing had no choice but to bow and kowtow again, bursting into tears: "Yes, I plead guilty!"
Zhu Yijun waved his sleeves and stopped arguing with Zhang Jing. He only looked at Zhang Juzheng:
"This Lu Hao was arrested for being disrespectful and harboring disloyalty, and he was treated as an accomplice to treason!"
"Including his immediate male relatives, they must also be arrested in accordance with the law!"
"If the Jia family is just because their descendants are unworthy, then this Lu Huo has obviously not taken me seriously for a long time and intends to take this opportunity to do something wrong and damage the monarch's authority!"
"Your Majesty, calm down!"
"The tradition of using civil society to control military affairs has been going on for hundreds of years. As the admiral of Caojiang, Lu Qianxian controlled the generals of Caojiang Navy and had the habit of dealing with military ministers. He must have just slapped the close military commander Wei Qian for a moment. It was an unintentional mistake. Please, Your Majesty, just remove him from his post, which is enough to achieve the effect of punishment, and directly punish him with the crime of treason, lest the world will criticize him, this will be suspected of belittling the scholar-bureaucrats."
Zhang Juzheng cupped his hands and replied.
Zhu Yijun directly waved his hand and said: "This matter is not negotiable! What I look at is the motive. If he, Lu Hao, commits an offense because of his own military guards, he can go directly to the Supreme Court to impeach him. Even if the impeachment is false, I will not kill him. After all, This shows that at most he only hates my pro-military guards and knows how to take me seriously; but now he directly slaps my pro-military guards. This is challenging my bottom line and deliberately showing it to other civil servants. As long as he Lu Hao If there is nothing wrong with the fight today, then tomorrow someone else will dare to directly kill my personal soldier Wei Qian!"
"This hole cannot be opened!"
"Besides, sir, you should understand better than me. If you are just dismissed, not only will it not shock the world, but I am afraid that some civil servants will be even more motivated by it. Don't fight for the black hat and beat a few close soldiers to prove that you are not afraid of the emperor's ministers. And dare to make decisions for what they call the people!"
"In this way, he is a hero, a hero known to everyone in the world."
Zhu Yijun then added: "Sir, you don't have to worry. Even if you don't hesitate to force me to compromise by reprimanding you, they will not really be grateful to you for this, and will be willing to retain any friendship with you in the future."
Then, Zhu Yijun threw a report from Jinyiwei in front of Zhang Juzheng: "Sir, take a look for yourself, this is the quotation reported by Jinyiwei about Wu Zhongxing's exile in the place of exile. People have spread it everywhere. You were trying to instigate the eunuchs." The one who beat him to death was because I didn’t obey, and that’s why I didn’t let you get what you wanted. In the eyes of others, the more you continue to treat them as one of your own, sir, the more they will think that you, sir, can be bullied!"
"Sir, since you have decided to do something loyal, you must compare yourself to treacherous ministers!"
Zhu Yijun said again.
Zhang Juzheng picked up Jinyiwei's report and read it carefully. Then because of what Zhu Yijun said at this time, plus the thought of his father's grave being dug up before, and his sufficient understanding of the scholar-bureaucrats, he handed it over and said: "I obey your Majesty's orders!"
Zhu Yijun was overjoyed at this. He knew that Zhang Juzheng was obviously beginning to let go of his original thought of looking down on civil servants. Although he was still pleading for Lu Huo at the beginning, he no longer insisted on asking him as the emperor. Be lenient to civil servants and officials. Even now, you may feel that if a person thinks you are a powerful traitor, you'd better really be a powerful traitor.
"There is also the scholar Zhou Maoyan, a dignified Confucian official, who hanged himself with a body that was difficult to recover for a mere meager tax revenue, and used this to prevent the court from canceling the exemptions. This is not the behavior of a gentleman, and has no thoughts about the common people of the country. It has ulterior motives. , is suspected of deceiving the emperor, and even though he is dead, he cannot be tolerated, so he is ordered to have his body whipped, his bones crushed and his ashes scattered, to remove his kindness!"
"His son Zhou Zhiyi agreed to Hai Rui's request, and because he dared to expose the truth of the matter, he was only dismissed as a commoner and exempted from military service."
"Those students who broke into the Governor's Yamen without permission will be treated as treason and there is no need to tolerate them!"
"In addition, those members of the Southern Zhili clan who knew the decree was issued but still resisted taxes and deceived the emperor and conspired against the emperor will not be allowed to enter the official career again within six generations of their clans!"
When Zhu Yijun said this, he gave Zhang Juzheng the memorial of Sun Guangyou and others participating in the impeachment of Hai Rui: "Sir, please handle these people yourself. They have the power to participate in the impeachment, but they have obviously used their power in places they should not be used. You are an official, why are you all looking at Hai Rui? Why don't you use your power to urge those officials and gentry who are not actively paying taxes to pay taxes!"
Zhu Yijun does not easily give the power of life and death to others.
But Hai Rui deserves such great power.
Because he believed in Hai Rui and knew that only in this way could Hai Rui continue to implement the integrated grain payment for officials and gentry in Southern Zhili.
After all, the order he gave to Hai Rui had already hinted that he could mobilize the people if the resistance was too great, and he was willing to give Hai Rui the power to mobilize the people.
Because of this, Hai Rui dared to do this and directly instigate one class to deal with another class.
It is equivalent to standing on a larger pattern.
"In addition, Hai Rui's request for permission to recruit people to support the local area due to the proliferation of thieves due to taxation should be granted immediately!"
"He is allowed to recruit civilians as police patrols, under the control of Hai Rui. He is allowed to directly appoint officers and soldiers from the National Taxation Department to serve as patrol police schools to patrol and protect local order. I allow him to execute people first and then report them. If there is an unjust, false or wrong case, he will be punished. It will be up to the imperial court to investigate and hold the officials accountable and compensate the relatives of the wronged persons with gold and silver as comfort."
"As for those who need to serve due to tax arrears requested by Hai Rui, let Xu Shi, with the title of Minister of the Ministry of Industry, arrange for these people to serve in various places!"
"According to the report from Ma Qing's family, I have decided that under the new policy, the officials and gentry will work together to collect food and serve as errands. Wang Yongji will have a share of the credit. Therefore, I will reinstate Wang Yongji as the supervisor and censor, and ask him to assist Xu Shi in this matter."
Then, Zhu Yijun announced two other things.
Zhu Yijun then looked at Zhang Hong and Zhang Jing and said, "Get up."
The two of them got up.
"Remove the Jinyi Guards who failed to report this matter. Such dereliction of duty can no longer be used!"
Then, Zhu Yijun gave this instruction to Zhang Jing.
Zhu Yijun didn't say anything else, just letting the autumn wind blow on his face, his face calm.
After Zhang Juzheng received the order and left, he came directly to the Imperial Palace to draw up relevant orders.
"Yuansuke, do you really plan to draw up these decrees?"
Zhu Geng, the minister who carried out the decree, asked after learning from Zhang Juzheng that Lu Huo and Zhou Maoyan were to be whipped and bruised, and a number of officials beheaded to give Hai Rui more power.
Without waiting for Zhang Juzheng to answer, Zhu Geng continued to say: "Yuanfu, please think twice! Doing this is undoubtedly using greater determination to implement the New Deal. There is already a lot of resistance to the implementation of the New Deal. If you do this again, I'm afraid the intensity will intensify." !”
"Prepare the decree!"
Snapped!
Zhang Juzheng slapped the table, shouted loudly, and said with an angry look on his face: "You can tell the world that you have persuaded the servant, but this matter cannot be said in detail. In addition, if the specific order given to Hai Rui is leaked, I will not be soft on you."
"My subordinates understand!"
Zhu Geng couldn't help but be startled. He didn't expect Zhang Juzheng to be so angry, so he had to say something in reply.
(End of chapter)
