"I actually use filial piety to speak, but this cannot be an excuse for him to betray me! If he and his family really die for the country, I will give him honor and even give his parents higher honors, and give him the filial piety that has not been fulfilled. If he dies and his family is saved and not dead, I will let the court fulfill his filial piety for him and give his parents and family kindness! He clearly wants to use filial piety to excuse his unfaithfulness after his death! It's so cunning!"

Zhu Youxiao said, and then put Xiao Jingao's memorial on the candlelight and burned it, and said, "The nine clans are still punished, but they are allowed to be buried with their families. It is just to let the nine clans burn their bones and ashes and then bury them together. However, there is no need to record the matter. All the official files and family genealogy, local chronicles, and other parts about Xiao Jingao and the family are burned and erased! This is not to make this person want to rely on filial piety to justify himself and make future generations whitewash him! The same is true for other gentry infringements. All the family genealogys are burned, and all the records related to official files and local chronicles are deleted."

"Abide by the order!"

Xiong Tingbi replied.

Then, Zhu Youxiao said: "The rebellion has been completely over, but the matter in Jiangnan has not been dealt with yet. As far as I know, the performance of the nobles in Nanjing City is very disappointing!"

Zhu Youxiao had already learned through the eyewitness of the East Factory that the Nanjing nobles were performing when the rebels were in chaos in the outer city of Nanjing.

To be honest, Zhu Youxiao was not surprised by the weak and fearful death behavior of the Nanjing nobles.

Because Zhu Youxiao remembers that when the Qing Dynasty went south in history, none of these Nanjing nobles died for the Ming Dynasty. They all knelt outside Nanjing city with civil servants and military officers to welcome Duoduo into the city, and even took the initiative to shave their heads.

Although Zhu Youxiao was willing to support the civil servants of the noble group, he had to admit that the nobles of the Ming Dynasty were basically abolished and were no longer reliable.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao can only plan to raise these nobles like many vassal kings as fat pigs, and when they are freed up in the future, they will slaughter them one by one to enrich the inner treasury.

If you want to check and balance the civil service group that basically focuses on civil governance but neglects military achievements, you can only cultivate a new military honor group.

Establish a new military merit-level system, just like the imperial examination system that manages the civil servant group, which can continuously change the civil servant group, and finally use the new military selection system and military merit-level system to continuously change the military honor group, allowing capable new military officials to enter the noble class at any time, but can also eliminate the old nobles and avoid turning into a pool of stagnant water.

Xiong Tingbi, Han Yu and others were silent and didn't say anything.

Because the great men of the Ming Dynasty are now in this way, they are inseparable from their civil servants.

When Zhu Youxiao saw that the two important officials around him did not speak, he raised his lips slightly. He naturally knew that the civil service group had always been very good at guarding the nobles. He would rather indulge the nobles to make money and merge land to waste his will than urge the emperor to strengthen the cultivation of the nobles' abilities.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao also understood why Xiong Tingbi and Han Yu didn't speak, and at this time, they couldn't say anything.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao only issued a direct order: "It is said that Li Changgeng, Minister of War in Nanjing, and the honors of Nanjing come to see me!"

Zhu Youxiao is now stationed in the garden of the Xu family garden of the Duke of Wei in the Mochou Lake area of ​​Nanjing's outer city. These Nanjing nobles and Li Changgeng had already been waiting here at this time. Now, as soon as Zhu Youxiao saw them, they all came to the imperial court to meet.

When Zhu Youxiao saw these Nanjing nobles, he first asked which Nanjing nobles were granted from the Taizu period and which were granted from the Chengzu period.

These nobles answered one by one, and when they mentioned the glory of their ancestors, they were still energetic.

Then, Zhu Youxiao asked Gu Mingjiao first: "Marquis of Zhenyuan, Gu Mingjiao, you are the garrison of Nanjing. Let's talk about what were you doing when a rebellion occurred in the outer city of Nanjing?"

Gu Mingjiao replied with a shameless face: "Your Majesty, when I learned that Xiao Jingao had rebelled, I hurriedly organized my family slave soldiers to guard the city walls. I dared not take off my armor day and night, and I slept on the city wall every day, in order not to let the inner city fall into the hands of the rebels! Fortunately, Your Majesty was wise and led a large army to the south. The whole way was unstoppable, which made the rebels frightened. In addition, the civil and military officials in the inner city of Nanjing were united, so the rebels were unable to attack the inner city in the end!"

Gu Mingjiao and the Nanjing nobles did not expect the rebels to be so careless. When the emperor's army arrived, they collapsed and collapsed. They naturally secretly thanked that they did not surrender directly when the rebels surrendered. They even began to think about taking advantage of the emperor's opportunity to suppress the rebellion and win.

Therefore, Gu Mingjiao took the initiative to mention how he defended the city.

Zhu Youxiao originally asked Gu Mingjiao to speak first but not Li Changgeng, the Minister of War in Nanjing, to speak, but in fact, it was to give Nanjing nobles a last chance to show their performance.

He also hoped that although these nobles were afraid of death, it would be good if they could voluntarily admit that they were afraid of death, at least they were honest with themselves as the emperor. Therefore, he did not let Li Changgeng speak first, in case Li Changgeng complain about these nobles first, but asked Gu Mingjiao, the Marquis of Zhenyuan.

But Zhu Youxiao did not expect Gu Mingjiao to say shamelessly how he and his people swear to defend the inner city of Nanjing to the death.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao only sneered: "So, do you have any contribution?"

"Since that's the case, let's talk about what rewards do you want?"

Zhu Youxiao then asked another question.

Gu Mingjiao was overjoyed after hearing this. He had already found out that although the young emperor was very irritable and killed people at any time, he was very generous in giving money. He directly gave two million taels of reward in the battle of Yangzhou. Therefore, he couldn't help but think that His Majesty was so generous to those big-headed soldiers and would not be stingy to us nobles who had made contributions to defending the city.

Therefore, Gu Mingjiao also said: "I dare not ask for rewards! But if possible, I only beg your Majesty to give me the confiscated Lanchun Garden to my elderly care. In addition, from the fields confiscated by the rebellion, I would like to give me 30,000 hectares of tyrant Xu Shaoliang's fertile land near Lanchun Garden. My family has a large population and there is no investment now. If there is no new land, it is difficult to continue. Please ask Your Majesty to be kind!"

"I have come to your Majesty, the Lord of Lingbi, and the mansion is also very crowded and difficult to sustain. Therefore, I would like to give 10,000 hectares of land raised by the former Censor King to the farmland! Long live my emperor!"

Tang Guozuo was afraid of being slower, so he made all the good fields confiscated after the rebellion be returned to other nobles. Without waiting for Zhu Youxiao to reply to Gu Mingjiao, he stood up first and asked the emperor to give him land.

Because the nobles and relatives of the Ming Dynasty had always had the habit of begging for farmland from the court, basically every emperor had the nobles and relatives of the nobles and relatives of the country begging for farmland to begging for farmland during his reign.

The emperors basically would not refuse, and even if they refused, they would not punish them. The civil servants would not make things difficult for nobles and relatives in such matters.

Therefore, these nobles and relatives were asked to give them land to the village.

Now, these Nanjing nobles have successfully suppressed the rebellion, and the emperor has asked this question, and they are asking for land as usual.

"My minister, Zhu Guobi, asked for the former governor Zhan Chenglun's land of 20,000 hectares as his minister's land!"

Zhu Guobi also started talking.

"roll!"

Zhu Youxiao picked up an inkstone and threw it at these Nanjing nobles, and smashed it on the ground in front of these nobles on the spot.

Gu Mingjiao, Tang Guozuo, and Zhu Guobi couldn't help but tremble.

Even the Duke of Wei, Xu Hongji, who had not spoken, hurriedly knelt down: "I will take my leave!"

As he said that, Xu Hongji hurriedly slipped out of the house where Zhu Youxiao was, and the other nobles hurriedly slipped out.

"What is the deep meaning of your Majesty saying 'get out'?"

As soon as these nobles came out, Gu Mingjiao asked first.

"Who knows, the key is whether Your Majesty is willing to reward or not?"

Zhu Guobi, the Marquis of Funing, replied.

"Let's ask the guest, but His Majesty looks young and seems to have a very strong temper. He just throws the inkstone!"

Tang Guozuo followed.
Chapter completed!