A few quarters of an hour later, just when Shen Yi couldn't stand it anymore and started to prepare to evacuate, Liu Wei appeared here with the cavalry of the emperor's personal guards. The bluestones he stepped on rattled, and the hunting flags were blown by the wind. Puff.
Many people were stunned when they saw the sudden appearance of many officers and cavalry holding a large number of flags.
Bang bang!
Liu Wei and the cavalry, who had received the order, opened fire as soon as they arrived.
This is the emperor's imperial cavalry. They are equipped with the latest self-generated fire guns for riding, also known as flintlock guns, so they fire quickly and with high accuracy.
Therefore, it didn't take long for many people who participated in the riot to fall.
"The officers and soldiers are coming!"
"Run!"
Soon, many people who participated in the riot reacted, dropped their swords, arrows and clubs and ran around.
Some kneeled on the ground with weak legs.
Zhu Yijun, Qi Jiguang, Wang Xijue and others had already gone to a nearby attic and were watching this scene calmly.
Zhu Yijun knew that this was not the time for him to feel sorry for these rioting people.
Whether these people were bribed by the right to launch a riot and want to kill the prefect because they were greedy for money, or they were bewitched by the right and deliberately smeared Shen Jun, which led to these people being mobilized to kill the prefect, or two There are all reasons, and now he must use the army to stop this behavior with iron-blooded means.
Because if the prefect is killed on the spot by the rioting people, he is undermining the order of centralized power.
Zhu Yijun only allowed the people to arrest officials and go to Beijing to complain to the emperor in accordance with the "Great Edict", but did not allow the people to directly kill officials on behalf of the emperor. This destroyed the entire legal order and turned the system of people's supervision of officials into a tyranny of the majority. .
Therefore, Zhu Yijun must now forcibly stop this behavior.
"Those who drop their weapons and raise their hands to surrender will not be killed!"
"Those who drop their weapons and raise their hands to surrender will not be killed!"
…
With the appearance of the army, the riot was quickly quelled, and many people who participated in the riot fled. Those who did not flee also obediently dropped their weapons and raised their hands under the shouts of the officers and soldiers.
However, where the conflict occurred, there were already many corpses lying around, and even more were rolling and wailing on the ground in pain.
Zhu Yijun looked at this scene and said to Qi Jiguang and Wang Xijue:
"I didn't expect that this would be the first time that the Fire Gun would be used in a place like this since it was installed as a pro-military guard!"
With that said, Zhu Yijun said again: "What Duke Ji Guo discovered just now makes me think deeply. These people launched a riot to express their dissatisfaction with the prefect, but they only wanted to beat the prefect Shen Jun to death, and did not intend to use legal means to solve the problem." Bring him to my attention, are they deliberately corrupting the people's power to supervise officials, or is someone deliberately letting them corrupt the people's power to supervise officials?"
"In my humble opinion, the latter is more likely."
"Because the common people are self-sufficient, many of them have never seen a county magistrate in their entire life, let alone a magistrate?"
"Therefore, the common people should not have much hatred for the prefect. The only people who can directly have a big hatred against them are the minor officials in the county. They will not beat the prefect to death when they meet, and they can even recognize the prefect. Come, and now they can accurately stop the prefect and even beat the prefect to death, it only shows that someone behind them is coercing and instructing them to do this."
Wang Xijue analyzed at this time.
Qi Jiguang also followed up and said: "I second my opinion. As far as I know, many people usually don't even know the names of their parents and officials in this county, let alone the name of the prefect, but today many of them are calling Shen Futai by his first name!"
"It can be seen that these people have powerful rightists instigating them in advance, because if the people are really dissatisfied with a certain official, or even have a hatred, then the county official will definitely be the first to be beaten to death."
"Although His Majesty has already decreed that people can bring officials to Beijing to complain, but there are very few people who are willing to exercise this right. In the cases where it has happened, it was only organized by factory guards."
"It can be seen that the people are not willing to personally punish corrupt officials!"
"Of course, this is also related to the fact that it is difficult for most of them to directly feel the hatefulness of some officials; in addition, even if some people are directly bullied by officials, other people will be too lazy to participate in bringing officials to Beijing to report The main reason for using imperial certificates is that there is no benefit in spending energy, and it is easy to bring trouble to oneself, so those who can organize the people to fight against the government are either the court itself wants to fight against the government, or there are wealthy families who want to fight against the government."
Wang Xijue nodded.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun also nodded and said: "The people of the world are self-sufficient, or they just want to be happy to run their own fields and industries, and don't take the initiative to care about the government. This means that I still have to maintain the authority of the court; that's why I said, I still believe in you. These ministers!"
"After all, if I don't trust you, I can't trust local tyrants, right?"
Wang Xijue and Qi Jiguang looked at each other.
then.
Wang Xijue first excitedly raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty is a saint. Even though there are lawless officials among the officials, they are His Majesty's disciples. They have the responsibility to help the country, and the local tyrants do not have this responsibility!"
Qi Jiguang followed: "I agree with you. The current situation dictates that the power of the world needs to be unified, so the monarch and his ministers must work together."
Zhu Yijun nodded, and then said: "But we cannot always let local tyrants control public opinion. Without public supervision, monarchs and ministers can easily forget the crisis and even intensify their evil deeds. They may even be completely disgusted with the people's opinions, and even He will directly despise the people and mock them as a rabble."
"What's more, if local right-wingers are allowed to coerce and buy public opinion, and then make the people unknowingly become the right-wing minions and become the price of fighting against the government, then in the future, won't it make the people excessively hate officials, and then also hate officials excessively? The imperial court, but only think that local right-wingers are kind?"
"His Majesty!"
"This is very difficult to change because the people's wisdom has not yet been fully enlightened, and even if the people's wisdom is enlightened, in fact, just as the officials are easily addicted to peace and happiness, the people are also easy to be addicted to tranquility, and they only value the immediate benefits. If there is no The good thing is that they don’t even bother to read the notices outside the government offices. If it’s good for them, they would just copy the government offices and destroy the offices.”
"Therefore, there is a long way to go before public opinion is easily manipulated by local right-wingers."
At this time, Wang Xijue expressed his feelings after inspecting the place for many years, and hoped that the emperor would understand that just as in the Taizu era, it was impossible to fully expect the people to farm and weave and rule the world together with the emperor, the current Ming Dynasty cannot do it either.
"Then let there be more wealthy families who can control public opinion, so many that no consensus can be reached at all."
"Tweet grace!"
As Zhu Yijun spoke, he looked at Qi Jiguang and Wang Xijue and uttered two words.
"1. Efforts can be made to protect the property inheritance rights of common children and adopted children."
"2. On the grounds that it can avoid burdening parents and enhance the personal independence of citizens, Han people all over the world are encouraged to move to separate villages, and those who move to separate villages will be given a certain amount of tax exemption in the first year and an additional inheritance tax. And set up tiered taxation to enable the wealthy families to take the initiative to share their power."
"Third, large government-run factories can be relocated to the interior. In places where self-sufficiency is serious, the working class will emerge, which will then promote the growth of cities and towns and the emergence of the citizen class, especially those towns in the central and western regions that are expected to become large commercial ports like Suzhou and Hangzhou. , let their workers and industrial and commercial groups further grow! In the past, emperors moved wealthy households, and we moved to big factories. Where there are big factories, there are workers, and where there are workers, there are citizens. However, citizens cannot be self-sufficient, so they are naturally more concerned about their own rights and interests. Moreover, moving large factories to the mainland will also benefit the military and national defense!"
"Four. Although most people are lazy and unwilling to participate in helping the country, it does not mean that all people are unwilling! For those scholars and officials who have made outstanding contributions, wealthy households who are charitable and charitable, and influential literati and painters, many For officials who only speak out and do nothing, the imperial court should organize them and set up a yamen to discuss government affairs and people's affairs, and let them speak!"
"Anyway, since the imperial court still needs lecturing officials, and it can't really restrict the world's speech, then it should simply expand the number of lecturing officials. It's up to me whether you listen or not, but you can't just let a few people speak, and then give the powerful rightists the opportunity to bribe. ; In other words, since we can’t make everyone in the world shut up, we might as well make the number of people speaking so large that they can’t be bribed by powerful people.”
"5. Ordinary merchants, ordinary farmers, ordinary workers, retired officers and soldiers, private school teachers and other people from all walks of life can be encouraged to establish societies and form groups. Since individual people have no interest and courage to fight against the right-wing officials or collude with the right-wing officials to do evil, public welfare Sexual social organizations are always interested in confronting them, otherwise what authority do they have in their own industries?"
Zhu Yijun proposed five methods in succession.
Qi Jiguang and Wang Xijue were both dumbfounded after hearing this.
"However, it's too early to say this now. You just need to write it down first, and then discuss it in the political hall after returning to Beijing. At this time, you can only kill people and behead them first."
Zhu Yijun started talking again at this time, and said with a slight smile:
"Since the ministers urge me to leave the palace to fight against the rebellion in person and follow the example of the old affairs of the temple, they must have already made preparations for me to make the world angry after I leave the capital."
"There is no way around it. The deepening of economic reform will inevitably be accompanied by political reform. It is inevitable that local prefectures and counties have institutions to consult on government affairs, and even prefectures and counties have institutions to supervise and judge trials!"
"But these are distant waters, and they cannot quench the thirst for nearness. We can only suppress them with an iron fist in front of us. Only one official, gentry or powerful person can be frightened."
The word "economy" has long existed in ancient Chinese literature, and the word "politics" is also easy to understand. In addition, Zhu Yijun has often mentioned it in court meetings. Therefore, now that Zhu Yijun mentioned it again, Qi Jiguang and Wang Xijue were also surprised. It didn't feel abrupt, and I understood what Zhu Yijun meant.
But Zhu Yijun himself smiled bitterly after saying: "I don't want to, it will only increase the number of killings!"
Subsequently.
Zhu Yijun clasped his hands on his belt and said: "God has the virtue of good life, and people have compassion. Besides, I really want to talk about the friendship between my compatriots and the feelings of the nation, but sometimes I am tolerant of a few evil people. On the contrary, it is bullying the good people of the entire clan, and this is the only way to do it now."
Zhu Yijun then turned back to look at Zhang Jingxiu, the left commander of the Imperial Guard, who was accompanying him: "Zhang Jingxiu!"
Zhang Jingxiu hurriedly bowed his hands and said, "Please give me your Majesty's instructions."
"As soon as the Jin Yiwei found out, they caught Hao You who was behind this!"
"We must treat it as a counterinsurgency, and arrest as many powerful right-wingers as are involved."
Zhu Yijun then gave orders.
After hearing this, Zhang Jingxiu raised his hands and said yes.
Zhu Yijun then said to Qi Jiguang and Wang Xijue: "You two should go see Shen Jun in person. Don't say that I am the one who came here. Just say that you two helped him and will remember to recommend him to me."
Qi Jiguang and Wang Xijue raised their hands and said yes.
"Your Majesty wants to make the inspection in private so that it is not done by the emperor alone. It is not unwise!"
Therefore, when Qi Jiguang came out with Wang Xijue next time, he couldn't help but tell Wang Xijue his current thoughts.
Wang Xijue said with a serious face: "Your Majesty is naturally smart! He also thought of what we thought of; he still thought of what we didn't think of. It's no wonder that he doesn't respect us as ministers from the bottom of his heart."
Qi Jiguang nodded after hearing this: "Yes, we were worried that His Majesty did not know that the local tyrants are more terrifying than the bureaucrats, but His Majesty actually knew it very well. He said along the way that he was willing to believe that many of his ministers were loyal and virtuous. I don’t mean to be sarcastic, but I know that local right-wingers are more likely to ruin the world than bureaucrats, especially the wealthy families who monopolize the fields, industries, and even the number of scholars and officials in a township, county or even a government!"
"Not only does His Majesty know very well, but he has already guessed what they will do, and has even thought of many strategies."
"Such an emperor will make it difficult for us ministers to have any sense of achievement like Yao and Shun. We can only have a sense of luck in participating in the creation of a prosperous age."
After Qi Jiguang said this, he smiled and said, "Actually, this is normal. If there was no wise king since ancient times, how could any wise minister be able to turn the tide on his own?"
"Even before His Majesty took charge, Grand Master Zhang was able to take drastic measures and lay the foundation for a prosperous country and a strong military. His Majesty's role at that time cannot be ignored. Although His Majesty was only a ten-year-old emperor after he ascended the throne, it was not that he would not be able to bring peace to the world, because if it were not for that time Your Majesty is very smart, I’m afraid it’s not that easy for Grand Master Zhang to achieve ten years of serving the country.”
In the original history, during Zhang Juzheng's reforms, the ten-year-old Emperor Wanli was indeed not just a puppet, but also made great efforts in the reforms, because the Ming Dynasty did not have a real prime minister, and the Queen Mother could not really listen to politics directly behind the curtain, just Even the eunuch Feng Bao could only exercise power behind the scenes. His system determined that the entire reform required the cooperation of the little emperor Wanli in history.
Historically, Wanli was indeed not that bad before the 20th year of Wanli, or to be precise, the 15th year of Wanli. Especially before the 10th year of Wanli, he was indeed diligent and studious.
This is somewhat similar to his grandfather Jiajing. The initial stage was not that bad, and it also gave many ministers the opportunity to show their value.
Back to the topic.
After Qi Jiguang said this, Wang Xijue did not object. He smiled and looked at the sun in front of him and said: "As the Lord said, the king is like the sun in the sky. Without the radiance of the king, how can there be a tree towering into the sky!"
(End of chapter)
