Chapter 169 Strengthen the court's control over the locality
Fang Congzhe felt a trembling heart after hearing this, and said to himself: "Since Your Majesty's strict rule, even the factory guards around him have become so tough. Three marquises and one Nanjing Minister of War were killed like this! In the future, if the powerful and powerful gentry in the world do not want to be suppressed by Your Majesty, they will have to rebel. Once these powerful and powerful gentry rebelled successfully, they will definitely be the first to be cut into pieces. After all, Your Majesty is still the lord of the world. As long as the powerful and powerful gentry still wants to be the best of the Ming Dynasty, they still have to give His Majesty a little face, just like Emperor Yang of Sui was strangled to death."
Because of this, Fang Congzhe couldn't help but secretly swear that he would not let the anti-minded person rebel successfully.
Wei Zhongxian also had the same idea as Fang Congzhe at this time.
Even though he was not very willing to see such a situation happen, Wei Zhongxian knew that he was already a vassal of the emperor and he had to support his emperor without reservation.
Therefore, Wei Zhongxian did not object because Zhu Youxiao said that Xu Xianchun was good at killing, so he continued to report calmly: "Your Majesty, Commander Xu also reported that he had arrested more than 670 scholars suspected of illegal association and criticized the government."
"The purpose is to introduce an order to remove all those who join the society from the illegal cultural and cultural society from the society from the society from the society from the society from the society from the society from the society from the society from the society from the society from the law. Those who form illegal cultural and cultural society will be eliminated, their property will be confiscated, and their property will be imposed on the local vassal treasury. They will be exiled for the expenses of helping the students and the people for three thousand miles!"
Zhu Youxiao's other party started to give orders at this time.
"I obey the order!"
Fang Congzhe did not advise and he knew that he had to be strict at this time.
Moreover, Fang Congzhe also handed the book of Chongwen Temple to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, Chongwen Temple has also reported that they have investigated and dealt with 349 bookshops, arrested 1,307 people who sold demon books and slandered the government's affairs."
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded and ordered: "Those who have made an order to sell evil books and banned books, those who have fame and fortune will be eliminated, and then exiled to guard the border, and their property will be confiscated, and the local vassal treasury will be used to help the people. They will be ordered to use this money to open more officials and run schools to reduce private academies, and build more officials and clinics, public dry toilets and canals, and benefit the people and enhance the local ability to resist the epidemic. Those who have no fame will be exiled to guard the border, and their property will be confiscated, and the local vassal treasury will be used to help the people. It is the same as what I just said, increasing the function of the government to pay back the people after collecting taxes. Don't rely on only individual gentry with conscience to build a place! Those who sell counter-books that slander the court will be killed!"
Because I was chatting with the queen and learned that the landlords and gentry were very destructive in the local area, but some conscientious landlords and gentry had a positive effect on maintaining stability at the grassroots level, Zhu Youxiao did not intend to collect the money for illegal publication and lectures to the central government of the court. In this way, the court's treasury is now full of a lot, and this is not a big money. Moreover, transporting it to Beijing will in vainly increase more freight;
Second, Zhu Youxiao hopes to enhance the government's management and control capabilities at the grassroots level, so he feels that it is better to leave the money to open social and medical clinics, public toilets, and public canals. In this way, while offending Jiangnan's gentry and landlords, he wins over Jiangnan's small landlords and common people. This is called fighting and pulling together.
"Your Majesty is wise! I will draw an order!"
Fang Congzhe was quite surprised by the emperor's method and hurriedly flattered him sincerely.
Then, Fang Congzhe said again: "Your Majesty, Feng Quan, the Southeast Governor Feng Quan, reported that Qian Qianyi, Ye Maocai, Chen Yutai, Zhang Pu and others cried to Confucius Temple to worship Xu Yuanqing, Dong Zuhe, and Gu Yongcheng who died of tax resistance and inciting villagers to cause trouble and attack the imperial envoy of the court. They also cried and shouted for the late emperor, wanting to let the late emperor seek justice for them. Their intentions were sinister, obviously slandered the court, and they were dissatisfied with the emperor and had the intention to rebel, so please punish them severely."
Crying temple?
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao said directly: "All the main culprits reported were executed and their family property is lost. In addition, as far as I know, Qian Qianyi was born in Tanhua, and he was so disrespectful to me. He was especially punished for drowning!"
"yes!"
Fang Congzhe replied.
"Dongchang and Chongwen Temple have implemented a good implementation of the action of prohibiting private associations and lectures in Nanzhili. They have issued an order. All officials from all over the East are rewarded with five years of salary, while all officials from all over the Chongwen Temple are rewarded with five years of salary! Xu Xianchun is the crown prince Shaobao, Feng Quan is the crown prince Shaobao, Fang Shihong is the right minister of Chongwen Temple and the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Ruan Dacheng is the first minister of Chongwen Temple and the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy in Nanjing! This time, the performance of some of the Nanjing nobles disappointed me. Xu Xianchun met with the Nanjing nobles and immediately expressed his attitude towards the new policy of the court! In addition, Wang Qia, who obstructed the emperor's mission, was all punished with the crime of regulating rebellion, including the three nobles of Linhuai, Dingyuan, and Anyuan! The title was removed! Zonghe, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue of Nanjing, was also punished with the crime of regulating rebellion!"
Zhu Youxiao continued to announce the order.
"Abide by the order!"
Fang Congzhe continued to draw up his purpose.
For a moment, strict orders were issued from the Political Affairs Hall.
Zhu Youxiao used tough measures to suppress the powerful and Jiangnan gentry who opposed the new court policy.
This naturally caused a great response in Jiangnan.
The dissatisfaction of the powerful and noble gentry in Jiangnan with the court can be said to be getting stronger and stronger.
But like the Qing Dynasty did this in history, no one dared to be the first to rebel.
These powerful and noble gentry are different from refugees who cannot survive, and their class attributes determine that they have to be more cautious in this kind of venture capital.
However, there is no doubt that they are naturally more looking forward to someone who can rise up or even cause chaos in the world, and have a stronger force to suppress the Zhu Ming regime, so that they can get rid of Zhu Youxiao's rule and take the lead again.
But at present, there has not been a major war in the world.
Nurhaci in the northeast was restricted by Xiong Tingbi so that he could only bully the Mongolian tribes and North Korea in the southeast.
In the southwest, She Chongming, because Zhu Youxiao did not agree to lead his troops to Liao, he could not find a reason to rebel.
The people in the mainland also banned Liao tribute and rectified the administration after the implementation of the law, so their burden did not increase but decreased, and the trend of increasing refugees was curbed.
The Nine Border Army also received money from the court and the purgation of the administration, so military pay was paid in a timely manner, so naturally there was no large-scale mutiny of soldiers or military households fleeing.
Therefore, at the end of the first year of Tianqi, although Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youxiao and his important officials were turning Jiangnan into a huge upside down and turning the world, other parts of the country suddenly became peaceful!
Historically, this period should have been a mess, and a large number of Liaodong, where a large number of generals in Liaodong were killed or surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, had almost nothing to report.
Therefore, the powerful and noble gentry could only grit their teeth and endure the rule of Zhu Youxiao, the "tyrant".
However, although the powerful and powerful gentry can only grit their teeth and endure it now, various methods behind their backs are still inevitable.
At this time, Fang Congzhe had to use his decades of experience as an official and his smart mind to think about what methods these powerful and noble gentry would use to deal with his Majesty.
Because he is on the same boat with the emperor now, and since the emperor asked his son to take charge of Chongwen Temple and let the Fang family invest and pay dividends in Chongwen Temple, the other Fang family only relies on Chongwen Temple to pay dividends. Therefore, Fang Congzhe now has to protect Zhu Youxiao's imperial power, both in terms of political and economic interests.
This is also the real motivation for Fang Shihong to purify the Jiangnan sects after he went to Jiangnan at the cost of offending Jiangnan gentry.
It is obviously not enough to rely solely on Fang Shihong's hatred towards the Donglin Party.
Therefore, Fang Congzhe was still honestly drafting various ruthless imperial edicts for the emperor, and now he had to continue to take the initiative to remind Zhu Youxiao:
"Your Majesty! I dared to say that the court will be even more dissatisfied with the scholars in the world if they do this now, but it will not be possible if they raise troops to rebel. Because now, the Ming Dynasty is different from the end of the Sui Dynasty. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the aristocratic families and the people are unbearable. Now, although the people of our Ming Dynasty are suffering from exploitation, they are only exploited by the powerful and powerful gentry below. The court has not slaughtered a large amount of Liao treasury, and now you allocated a large amount of civil treasury to provide disaster relief last year. Therefore, these people will not risk the world's dissatisfaction with the meat eaters and deploy them in your external court and even the inner court. Although your Majesty has no descendants, your Majesty has an imperial brother!"
Fang Congzhe said this, paused for a moment, and then resolutely chose to say it: "Your Majesty, please strengthen your guidance to the fifth prince! In my opinion, the fifth prince should not be a vassal before he determines his intentions, and he will also control the harem! As well as the education of the emperors in the future."
"Yuan Fu's thoughts are far-reaching, I know!"
Zhu Youxiao said something and looked out the window, but for this, he saw Zhang Yan wearing Guanyin bag and feather satin holding the plum blossoms and smilingly walking towards Kunning Palace.
Chapter completed!