"The remnant of the Zhang Party controls the government, and you factory guards are willing to be his pawns. What do you want us to do?!"
Tan Hongzhi yelled in grievance, and suddenly his mouth collapsed and he began to sob.
"You still understand that both His Majesty and the ruling ministers in the court still care about the common people of the country, so they want to bully ordinary people; if the traitor party really controls the government, you will treat the scholars who came to Beijing to take the exam. If we kill them all, we won’t even be able to threaten the traitors even a hair!"
Wang Tingshu started talking to Tan Hongzhi, and as he spoke, he suddenly pointed a knife at Tan Hongzhi: "So, I and these people are not the traitor's minions, but they are protecting the imperial court!"
"take away!"
Then, Wang Tingshu sheathed his sword and rode away.
Zhu Yijun attached great importance to the construction of Jinyiwei, which improved Jinyiwei's capabilities a lot.
Therefore, these radical scholars who do not hesitate to use extreme methods to achieve the goal of boycotting the exams are ready to collude with soldiers and homeless people to commit thieves. This will make everyone who is rushing to take the exam panic and not dare to take the exam. At the same time, it will also shock the government and the court. When the emperor knew that the traitors had indeed unpopular purposes, they had already focused on these people and quickly arrested and brought back most of the radical scholars who did so.
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In the Gyeonggi area, there were no large-scale theft incidents that were enough to shock the court and affect the travel of officials and citizens and the traffic of merchants.
However, it is worth mentioning that during the Ming Dynasty, banditry incidents were indeed rampant in the Gyeonggi area, and they were often seen in Ming records and official memorials. Therefore, these radical scholars who opposed the New Deal thought of using this method to achieve their goals. political purpose.
But precisely because of this, Zhu Yijun and his ruling ministers also paid great attention to this matter.
In fact, because they have reached an ideological agreement and want to share the world with the Ming people, instead of just treating the scholar-bureaucrats as human beings, they pay more attention to them and clearly stipulate:
The royal guards, patrol camps and local bureaucrats responsible for arresting thieves will be severely held accountable if there are heavy casualties and property losses. This is written into the examination system and the incidents are divided into levels, making these responsible for maintaining public order. The bureaucrats dare not not take the safety of the people seriously, so they will not think that as long as they ensure that the city is not lost and there is no large-scale refugee rebellion, they can ignore any thieves.
While Jin Yiwei and others were arresting the trouble-making scholars, Zhu Yijun's request to let the pro-military guards and the people know about Wu Zhongxing and others' intention to abolish the New Deal was also carried out by Zhang Jing and Zeng Shengwu.
"What you just listened to me read was Wu Zhongxing's article. Some of you who have read it should understand it!"
"If you don't understand, don't worry, I'll explain it to you again in plain language."
"In this article, he objected to His Majesty's establishment of Xingming Academy to educate orphans like you, saying that once you are educated, you will definitely be sycophants and will bring trouble to the government, and you should not invite famous teachers to teach you and have a minister to pay you a sufficient pension. enough."
"And those who are truly worthy of being disciples of the Emperor must be sons of noble families with moral education!"
"In addition, here is an article from his student Shen Tao, which is more straightforward, saying that you are all poor military households. It was because Taizu allotted fields to you and relied on you that he did many unkind things. Things; if the emperor continues to support you and rely on you, he will easily become a tyrant!"
"Even if the children of military families want to be called by Honglu and become civil servants, they cannot be trained by the emperor. They must first cultivate and study to inherit the family like other children of civilian families!"
Zhang Jing handed over this matter to Sun Shizhong, the commander of Jinyiwei, who was the first batch of students of the original Xingming Academy and was an orphan.
On this day, Sun Shizhong first gathered the orphans and family members of his Jinyiwei, as well as the Jinyiwei officers and soldiers who did not have to go out on patrol, and analyzed the articles of Wu Zhongxing and others one by one.
"Damn it! Why can the children of their civil servants be favored to enter the Imperial College and be trained by Your Majesty? Why can't the orphans of our generals who died in battle be trained by Your Majesty?"
At this time, Jin Yiwei Qianhu, who had a bad temper, started to speak up.
"That's right! It is out of consideration for justice and to avoid being lucky that your majesty requires the orphans trained by Xingming Academy to take civil service jobs, they must take the imperial examinations like other children from their native places, otherwise they cannot be awarded civil service positions."
"Nowadays, it is said that we will become sycophants. Could it be that those civil servants will not become sycophants just because they are descendants of noble clans? I think so!"
"It is even more ridiculous to say that we will make His Majesty a tyrant!"
"Do we just like murderous tyrants?"
"What's more, there are many literati in history who instigated emperors to kill people!"
"They said this just because they wanted to trample under their feet the children of us military families! They wanted to negate the merits of the military ministers who died in battle, but it was still their idea of emphasizing culture and restraining military force that was at work!"
At this time, the orphan Yi Jinyiwei who was studying at Xingming Academy also started talking.
"This makes sense! Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian also have big mouths, and they can say anything! Why is it enough to pay enough pension money? But in fact, before Taishi came to the country, after Lu Taibao died, the civil servants paid When will Jinyiwei's orphan's pension be enough? It will be great to achieve something!"
Then, another Jinyiwei orphan who was already a Jinyiwei officer spoke up.
"Don't worry, everyone. Fortunately, the current ministers in power are all former members of the Grand Master, and they are loyal to the country. Therefore, they have no objection to His Majesty's establishment of Xingming Academy. They also attach great importance to military preparations like the Grand Master. It's just that Wu Zhongxing, Zhao Yongxian and other so-called world The Shilin leaders are inciting the scholars all over the world, calling them traitors, saying that they are deceiving the public, and there has even been an incident before where they wanted to force the palace with military remonstrance and force His Majesty to liquidate the Grand Master's party, in order to abolish these national policies."
"Because of this, Yang Sizhi was killed by three clansmen. You must know this."
Sun Shizhong continued to speak at this time, and suddenly said loudly: "But! They didn't give up. They tried to hold the people of the world hostage, creating a world where both the government and the middle party are traitors to the party, and the new government is harsh, and bully us into studying without them. There are too many scholars to speak, do you think we can sit back and watch them confuse right and wrong like this, and let His Majesty and the decent ministers in the DPRK mistakenly think that they are really against the entire world?"
"cannot!"
"cannot!"
At that moment, many of the Jin Yiwei disciples shouted loudly.
…
“Who would benefit most if we did not cancel the exemption?”
"Those gentlemen around you!"
"Every year, the imperial court has to guard against Tatar bandits, provide disaster relief, catch thieves and repair water conservancy projects. The tax and grain that need to be collected are fixed. Even because there are more and more people in the world, the world has become more and more complicated, and the number of Tatars has increased. It’s more, but you have to collect more.”
"And if the preferential exemptions are not cancelled, the tax and grain savings saved on the gentry and the increased tax and grain will have to be shared equally among you."
"Would you like that?"
Zeng Shengwu's staff, Zhang Yanzhuo, a student of Shuntian Prefecture, was gathering a group of people in the capital. On a temporary stage, he talked to these people who came to watch a free drama whether the New Deal was harsh. thing.
"I don't want to!"
"Why!"
"It's not like they don't have salary as officials, they don't have food and clothing when they study, and the court doesn't just protect them, so why don't they give out anything!"
The people started making noises.
"But people like Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian are using their articles to promote the New Deal as a harsh rule. They want to liquidate Zhang Taishi and Hai Qingtian who helped our people suffer hardships. They want to cancel preferential exemptions and prohibit the court from killing corrupt officials! Do you think we should protect the New Deal? ?”
Zhang Yanzhuo asked loudly.
"want!"
"want!"
"want!"
Many people shouted.
"It's the opposite, it's really the opposite!"
"Hit me!"
"Fight to death!"
The gentry of Shuntian Prefecture nearby, Fan Guangyu, a former Hanlin lecturer, came over with a group of Haonu Xiangyong. He ordered his Haonu Xiangyong to beat the gathered common people, and pointed his cane at Zhang Yanzhuo and scolded him. He stood up and said, "You living beings, how can you instigate people to gather together and make trouble!"
"Dare to kill the people under the instructions of the Governor-General and interfere with the government affairs of the court!"
"General Gan Qian of Biaoying, suppress it immediately, and arrest and stand trial for the evil gentry who led it!"
Zhang Yanzhuo directly took out the official letter from Governor Zeng Shengwu and gave instructions to Gan Qiang, the general manager of Biaoyingqian who was temporarily resting here.
Gan Qiang immediately led his cavalry to kill these Haonu Xiangyong who attacked the people one by one, and also captured Fan Guangyu.
Not long after, Fan Guangyu was taken to Zeng Shengwu.
"Zeng Que'an!"
"What are you doing?!"
"Taizu once issued an edict: There is a difference between the nobles and the lowly of the common people. How can you arrest me without authorization! And favor these unruly people?!"
After Fan Guangyu knew that his captors were soldiers of Zeng Xingwu, the newly appointed governor of Beizhi, he was not afraid when he was taken to Zeng Xingwu, and he yelled at Zeng Xingwu.
After all, he was born in the Imperial Academy. If he hadn't been dismissed because he opposed seizing love, as a high-ranking official in the Imperial Academy, his qualifications would have been above Zeng Xingwu's.
Zeng Shengwu only told Zhang Yanzhuo in a deep voice: "Aren't you a follower of He Xinyin of the Taizhou School? Do you want everyone to be friends? Then be friends with the people first, drag him down, and kill him in front of the people!" You can think of the reasons for the imperial court, and then report them to the imperial court in the name of me! Then, in the name of your meritorious service in suppressing thieves, I will recommend you to be elected as the new inspector of the Inspection Department of Beizhi!"
