Chapter 239 Exiled Jiangnan gentry to plant potatoes outside the gate
"The court repeatedly declared that it was not allowed to form associations privately. These people really took the imperial ban as their ears!"
"But since you dare to form an association privately and dare not take the imperial court seriously, why are you still taking the initiative to confess to the riots? It turns out that you have not had the courage to break up with me completely! I am not afraid of chaos in the world, nor do you know why you gentry in Jiangnan are so afraid. These profit-seekers have the attribute of cowardice! Since this is the case, don't blame me for being tougher to you!"
Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but complain a few times when he received Zhang Tongchang's report.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao ordered the other party in the Political Affairs Hall: "I will draw an order to Zhang Tongchang, Sun Chengzong, and Yang Huan, telling them: Although the court has surrendered himself, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no suspicion of being forced to confess. This riot cannot be ended if they want to end the riot. In order to better rule the Jiangnan area, this important land of wealth and wealth in the future, we must take this opportunity to eradicate some Jiangnan gentry! And let them again investigate those who are privately formed in Jiangnan. Once the investigation is made,
In Ming Dynasty, the founders of the society were executed directly, and all those who entered the society were exiled! In addition, the first thing they had to do about the association was to immediately demolish and burn Donglin Academy, and all the land occupied was converted into farmland, including its teaching fields, and they were all classified into imperial villages and divided into the people to settle! My previous orders may not have any intimidation for those of them who do not take the imperial edict seriously. Then this time, they will let them know my determination by demolishing and burning Donglin Academy!"
After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he sat back on the dragon throne with a golden sword, and was powerful without anger.
As the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he really didn't look down on the gentry of Jiangnan from the bottom of his heart, so he directly issued an order to demolish Donglin Academy.
Because Zhu Youxiao now has to admit that there are not many gentry in Jiangnan who dare to rebel directly after being suppressed.
Of course, if Zhu Youxiao knew that he would continue to be tough, if the gentry in Jiangnan was still unwilling to give up their interests, he would be afraid that there would be only one way to directly rebel.
However, if Zhu Youxiao was extremely tough as soon as he ascended the throne, he still didn't worry that some of these gentry in Jiangnan would dare to rebel directly.
Because Zhu Youxiao believed that even if these people rebelled, they would not be able to do anything. After all, history has proved that these people are more capable of fighting and bullying the people, but if they really want to be dead, they are really not able to do it. They even have a lot of tricks, and their IQ seems to have dropped by several levels directly, such as the Jin Dynasty defeating Liao, the Yuan Dynasty defeating Jin, and the enemy defeating the enemy.
However, what Zhu Youxiao was curious about was that when the Qing Dynasty ruled China in history, the gentry of Jiangnan who dared to rebel directly was to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. If these people opposed themselves as emperors, what would they use to rebel against the Ming Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?β
"Abide by the order!"
Fang Congzhe received the order, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and said in his heart: "These Jiangnan literati's love for association completely angered His Majesty. The Donglin Academy, which often interfered in the affairs of the temple court and even ordered the officials in the court to be under his control, was finally completely cleaned up! However, Gu Xiancheng, a villain who was in trouble with the court, has passed away, otherwise he would not know what he would feel."
"I remember that Donglin Academy was built by Gu Xiancheng and others, and then preached the decree and cut off Gu Xiancheng's coffin and killed the corpse, crushed the bones and raised ashes!"
Zhu Youxiao suddenly said something at this time.
Fang Congzhe glanced at Zhu Youxiao in surprise and replied quickly: "I obey the order!"
Next, Zhu Youxiao thought that the Jiangnan gentry who had been arrested had nearly 10,000, so he should deal with it immediately. He could not be kept in prison forever, otherwise he would only waste money and food.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao once again passed the imperial edict: "In addition, he will send the imperial edict to Zhang Tongchang, Sun Chengzong, and Yang Huan, and let them defend the gentry of Jiangnan who was suspected of rioting. The main culprit was directly killed and executed. The accomplice, regardless of the severity of the culprit, and all the accomplices and their relatives and slaves were exiled to Liaodong to settle down, plant potatoes and cotton. After the family's financial records were confiscated, the Ministry of Revenue allocated part to exile these people on the way to exile."
Zhu Youxiao exiled these Jiangnan gentry, who were considered wealthy families in Jiangnan, to Liaodong outside the pass, which was also a disguised immigration, increasing the number of Han people outside the pass.
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"I don't want to grow potatoes! I don't want to grow them! This is not the work that a noble person like me should do!"
At this time, in Liaodong, in the newly reclaimed wasteland, Zhu Zhonglin, the deputy commander of the Jinyiwei, the son of Duke Chengguo Zhu Chunchen, who had been exiled here, shouted because of the matter of growing potatoes, and threw the potato pieces he distributed to him to the ground.
Duan Huang Yi, the father-in-law who was in charge of their potatoes, rushed away angrily when he saw this. He snatched a supervisor's whip and whipped Zhu Zhonglin hard: "Pick it up for me! This is edible food. Who told you to throw it on the ground?! Do you still think that you are the prince of the Duke's Mansion? When you are exiled here, you have to be subject to the supervision and plant it honestly. Don't throw too many potato pieces in every pit, don't be careless, otherwise, I won't beat you to death!"
"Ah! It hurts, it hurts!"
Zhu Zhonglin screamed and shouted a few times, then he had to squat on the ground, pick up the potato cubes he had just thrown, and then tears fell on the ground one by one, crying: "I want to go back to the capital! I want to go back to the capital! I want to go back to my Duke's Mansion!"
Seeing this, other people who were exiled here became much more honest and obediently began to dig holes and throw potatoes. They only cried secretly when they returned to the straw shed to rest at night.
However, Duan Huangyi, who is already the father-in-law of the Ming Dynasty, actually has an idea of ββan ordinary farmer, is very puzzled by this. He will always say when he sees these exiled powerful people crying: "What's there to cry? It's just that you just want to plant potatoes, it's not your life, nor does it make you hungry. They are all used to being masters! I'm a high-ranking official now, so I'm not a good farming!"
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"No, if we don't go to Liaodong, we can't go to Liaodong!"
"Please, please don't let us go to the bitter and cold land of Liaodong!"
"I want to stay in Jiangnan! If you ask me to go to Liaodong, it would be better to kill me directly!"
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When Zhang Tongchang, according to his will, he wanted to exile most of the Jiangnan gentry suspected of rioting and convicted of being accomplices to Liaodong, and read out the will to these people, these people were excited to refuse or beg or even roar.
These gentry in Jiangnan also find it difficult to accept the arrangement of going to Liaodong to grow potatoes.
But in Zhu Youxiao's opinion, this is what the emperor, the most important thing he needs to do now.
Without moving a large number of Han people, especially Han people with a certain level of knowledge in Han culture, to settle outside the pass through exile, it would be impossible to establish a long-term effective rule of these places by the Central Plains dynasty.
Because the Ming Dynasty's Academy of Agricultural Sciences has now cultivated potatoes, high-hard-resistant and high-yield crops, and has the basic conditions to allow more Han people to take root further north.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao must seize the time to let more Han people outside the pass.
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The court recommended that the court now roared at Yang Huan because he knew that the court wanted to exile most of the gentry in Jiangnan to Liaodong to grow potatoes: "Why, why are you so cruel? You actually came up with the cruel trick of exiling so many people to farm in Liaodong! Since that's the case, why don't you kill them all! Why do you humiliate the gentry so much and let them farm in the bitter and cold land like grass and untouchables!"
Chapter completed!