It is now the spring of the seventeenth year of Wanli.
The scenery is beautiful and the flowers are in bloom.
The Ming Dynasty is still prosperous and is still making progress in a more civilized direction.
However, it has been nearly seven years since Zhang Juzheng passed away, and it has been almost seven years since Zhu Yijun took charge of the country's affairs. Zhang Juzheng's son Zhang Jingxiu has replaced Liu Shouyou as the left governor of the Jinyi Guards and is in charge of the Jinyi Guards.
And at this time.
Zhang Jingxiu, who was wearing a flying fish dress, was standing under the eaves of Fusi in Beizhen. He breathed a long sigh of relief, his eyes wandering in the silent drizzle, watching the Jin Yiwei standing on both sides of the long street.
For Zhang Jingxiu, the day when his father was here seems like yesterday, not long ago.
And the days when he turned the Zhang family into a noble family with several generations of officials and stayed up late reading seemed like just yesterday.
But destiny is unpredictable, and he never expected that he would now become a figure like Lu Bing, serving as the King of the current dynasty!
He is already a figure that every civil servant in the outer court is afraid of.
Zhang Jingxiu was happy about this, like drinking spring dew.
"Brother, do we really want to attack our own family members?"
Zhang Maoxiu is also happy with the current situation. Now he is very addicted to the feeling of being feared by the nobles, unlike before, when he was ridiculed and despised by the so-called "gentlemen" because he was the son of Zhang Juzheng.
In Zhang Maoxiu's view, since he cannot get the respect of some people, it is better to make these people hate and fear him than to have them despise himself.
But he still valued family ties, so after knowing that the emperor hinted that the Zhang family should dare to strictly control their own family members, he asked Zhang Jingxiu.
Zhang Jingxiu felt the same way, and after Zhang Maoxiu asked, he said:
"Everyone in the world thinks that it was my late father who made Your Majesty so powerful that he was able to play with the people of the world. They also think that it was the emperor who was instigated by us who followed in our father's footsteps and is so powerful."
"Actually, we are the only ones who know that it is His Majesty who is very powerful and blessed by destiny, and the fact that our Zhang family is as prosperous as it is today is all due to His Majesty's own means and efforts, not our Zhang family's children. How powerful I am to be able to be where I am today."
"It can be said that it was His Majesty who created and blessed the Zhang family today, not my late father and ourselves who created the Zhang family today!"
"So, anyone who is not loyal to His Majesty is not loyal to the Zhang family!"
"Those who are only loyal to the Zhang family but not to His Majesty are actually disloyal to my Zhang family and are just seeking benefits for themselves under the banner of the Zhang family."
"Therefore, the holy will cannot be violated. We must follow the holy will. Just like my father killed You Qi back then, we will punish anyone who breaks the law!"
"First let Nanzhen Fusi transfer Huo Chu back to the capital and put him under control, and also take Min Hong, a slave who had contact with the Yang family in Nanjing, home and beat him to death in front of his family, without waiting for His Majesty to ask Dongchang to take action. "
Zhang Maoxiu raised his hand and said yes.
…
Not long after, Zhu Yijun learned about the Zhang family's actions from Sun Bin and asked: "You mean, Zhang Jingxiu has already started to take action?"
"Back to your lord, yes!"
"In addition, Dongchang has also bribed more scholars and people to participate in the riots in Suzhou, and His Majesty will always keep an eye on these scholars and people."
Sun Bin replied.
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "Remember to report to me at any time. Whether I can completely control the civil and military bureaucrats to do things according to my will depends entirely on whether they can help me, so you can't be careless, and you can't lie to me to please me." , saying that they are not a mob, and if there are treacherous people who secretly make trouble, keep an eye on them!"
"In any case, I hope that the scholars and people of Suzhou will not disappoint me. If this place, the most prosperous place for culture and education in the world, still has uneducated people, then I can only continue to tolerate the civil and military bureaucrats!"
"yes!"
"I think they will not disappoint His Majesty."
Sun Bin replied.
Zhu Yijun just smiled slightly and said: "Moreover, tell Zhang Jingxiu the dirty things about the Zhang family that your Dongchang discovered in a favor. He will naturally know that I am asking Dongchang to help him, but also I'm supervising him at Yongdong Factory."
"My slave obeys the order!"
…
At that time, Nandu.
Zhang Jingzheng asked the civil servant Yang Yingkui: "Are you really corrupting the people of the loyal government?"
Yang Yingkui nodded and said with a smile: "People like Zhang Siwen cannot be corrupted, so why can't we start with his family? Just because Zhang Siwen is not greedy for money and not afraid of death does not mean that everyone in his Zhang family is not greedy for money and not afraid of death."
"In this way, if Zhang Siwen jumps into the Yellow River to clear his name, no one in the world will believe that what the Zhang family did had nothing to do with him."
"This is indeed a poisonous plan!"
After Zhang Jing said this, he asked Yang Yingkui: "But will Zhang Siwen also kill his relatives out of justice?"
After hearing this, Yang Yingkui lowered his face and said, "Then I can only completely convince him!"
At this moment, scholar Qiao Jinsheng came over and said to Yang Yingkui and Zhang Jing: "I just got the news that Huo Chu, the Qianhu Huo Chu who was stationed in Yingtian, was transferred back to Beijing. In addition, Min Hong was also called back to his hometown in Huguang by the Zhang family. He said he was going back to take over the duties of an old housekeeper in the government and take charge of the Zhang family’s shop and property in Huguang.”
After hearing this, Yang Yingkui said: "In this case, we should immediately send someone to Huguang to inquire about the situation."
Zhang Jing and Qiao Jinsheng all nodded in agreement.
However, Huo Chu and Min Hong, two people related to the Zhang family, were transferred away from Yingtian.
Huo Chu was transferred back to the capital in the name of promotion. He didn't know that Zhang Jingxiu wanted to follow the holy will and kill him. He only felt happy that he was indeed a person with strong connections. He had made enough profits in Yingtian, and not only was he fine You can still get promoted back up.
Huo Chu knew that all this was brought to him by the Zhang family, so he specially selected many precious gifts and went to Beijing to give them to Zhang Jingxiu and others to show that he was grateful.
Min Hong also returned to the Zhang family with a large number of subscription coupons, preparing to claim credit from his family head and let the Zhang family know that he had secured a lot of benefits for the Zhang family in Yingtian, but he did not know that he was about to be killed by Zhang. Home cleaning portal object.
When Huo Chu and Min Hong left Yingtian, Suzhou had already started to make a fuss over the subscription issue.
The scholars and people of Suzhou did not disappoint Zhu Yijun.
Zhu Jiayan's domineering attitude of ignoring the dignity of the common people completely angered the scholars and people of Suzhou.
Therefore, a large-scale school strike soon broke out.
After a large number of ordinary people became the middle class due to the policies that benefited the people, and then became scholars through reading, they became more concerned about the competition for political and economic interests, instead of just accepting the situation.
Especially Suzhou, which is now the center of the Ming Dynasty’s economy.
There are more civilian children studying, and they are more aware of fighting for their rights.
What's more, Zhu Yijun didn't let the government stop them from doing this last time, so they are now more proactive and bold.
Xiao Dacai, the prefect of Suzhou, was furious about this. He arrested a large number of scholars and directly proposed that the academic officials should depose the academic titles of these scholars who had withdrawn from the examination.
However, shortly after Ti Xueguan was deposed because of the protection of officials, workers and businessmen in Suzhou went on strike and went on strike, which directly caused the industrial paralysis of many towns in Suzhou.
"What exactly is going on?!"
Governor Li Zhi, who was discussing with several local scholars at Donglin Academy about whether to set up a girls' school to completely eliminate the current situation in which women were influenced by the old rituals and were consciously upholding the old rituals and were ashamed of working. Therefore, the governor Li Zhi hurried to Suzhou and asked. Mentioned the patrolman Su Yao who came here.
Su Yao said: "Of course it's because of the subscription coupons! The citizens suspected that there was fraud in the sale of subscription coupons, so they demanded that the sale status be disclosed."
"Didn't the imperial court require public disclosure? Why do the people and the people still demand public disclosure? It's because the officials below didn't publicize it?"
Li Zhi just finished asking and said without waiting for Su Yao's answer: "I understand. The officials below are unwilling to make it public, so even if it is made public, it is false."
Su Yao replied: "Yes, I checked, but I couldn't find it out."
"Because when I went to check, I could find that many ordinary people bought the subscription coupons. It was true that most of them were bought very early in the morning, such as the early morning after the subscription coupons were released. And the background of these ordinary people is indeed very innocent. , so now we can only assume that these scholars and people are messing around. After all, we can't let them not go to school, work, or open the market. At that time, it will affect the tax revenue of the entire country, the food and clothing of many people who don't want to make trouble, and more importantly And Fuyuan will have a bright future for you."
After Su Yao said that, he looked at Li Zhi helplessly.
I didn’t add an update today because the ideas behind it are a bit messy. I feel like I need to write a lot, but I don’t know where to focus, so I won’t add an update. I’ll sort out my ideas tonight.
(End of chapter)
