Chapter 94 Preparing for the Great Purge

"presumptuous."

Zhu Houzhao was furious: "All land in the world belongs to the Ming Dynasty. The court wants to check the acres of land. As the royal vassal king, you should set an example for the world and actively cooperate with the court."

"But you dare to allow your servants to beat to death the officials responsible for checking the land. You have done many evil things in the local area, making the people complain."

"Zhu Yueqi, you are a member of the Zhu family in vain!"

At this time, Zhu Houzhao stopped pretending. When the evidence was conclusive, Zhu Yueqi's excuses were useless.

"The king of Jingjiang, Zhu Yueqi, committed many evil deeds in the Guangxi fiefdom. He openly resisted the new policies of the imperial court and allowed his servants to beat government officials to death. He committed numerous crimes and made everyone angry!"

"Now Zhu Yueqi is deprived of his title as Prince of Jingjiang, and all members of Prince Jingjiang's lineage are expelled from the royal family tree and demoted to common people. The Prince of Jingjiang defies the imperial court and beats officials to death. This is an unforgivable crime and he will be sent to Liaodong."

As soon as this statement came out, all the ministers were shocked. Zhu Houzhao's handiwork was really too big. Not only did he want to depose King Jingjiang, but he also wanted to depose all the royal family members of King Jingjiang's lineage. This was simply...

They are killing Zhu Yueqi!

"So cruel!"

Prince Ning Zhu Chenhao was secretly dumbfounded. There were many more people from King Jingjiang's lineage than from Prince Ning's lineage. After Zhu Houzhao did this, he didn't know how many people would starve to death because they lost the support of the imperial court!

This is not alarmist, but an ironclad fact. Nine out of ten people in the feudal lord group are pampered people. They have nothing to do with clothes and food to open their mouths. Even taking care of themselves in daily life is a problem.

Without support from the court and without any skills, it is definitely not uncommon for those people to starve to death on the streets due to their laziness and incompetence!

Calculated in this way, there is almost no threat to him in the whole country. It is completely feasible to carry out a large-scale purge, and it will not cause too much trouble once it is completed.

After giving instructions to Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but look closely at the map of the Ming Dynasty hanging on the side.

Luo Xiang and Wei Bin are in charge of Shanxi, monitoring the group of unscrupulous businessmen in Shanxi and restraining profiteers from becoming big.

He was often abused by Zhang Yong in the beginning, and he still clearly remembers all kinds of torture methods. Zhu Yueqi will be the second one.

Zhang Yong and Chen Wu were in charge of Liaodong, taking charge of various criminals who were sent to Liaodong, and secretly conducted an experiment for him that was related to the great cause of the Ming Dynasty.

"It is reported that Wang Yangming, Wang Hao, Fei Hong, Liang Chu, Mao Ji, Jiang Mian, Jin Gui, Liu Yu, Yan Song, Gu Dayong, Shi Wenyi, Zhang Cai and others came to see me."

After a brief period of shock and numbness, Zhu Yueqi pointed at Zhu Houzhao's nose and cursed, revoking his title of King of Jingjiang. How dare Zhu Houzhao, how dare he?

They were also sent to Liaodong. Is that a place where people go? Except for Prince Ning, who was useful to Zhu Houzhao, no one who went to Liaodong came back alive.

He finds it annoying to fight back and forth with the major interest groups all day long. His goal is the entire world, the endless heavens. He is tired of the calculations and fights with the major groups and does not want to continue to waste time.

He once used Prince Ning's rebellion to clear out more than half of the wealthy gentry families in Jiangnan. Now, there is no need to keep the remaining half!

Amidst the sounds of pleading and cursing, Zhu Yueqi was taken away directly, and what greeted him was the ice and snow of Liaodong.

Yang Yiqing traveled to various places to suppress local clan rebellions.

"take away!"

Zhu Houzhao glanced at the officials, especially the civil servant group, with coldness and murderous intent in his eyes.

Let's do a big cleaning, get rid of all the disobedient ones, and let the obedient ones go up, so that they can be quieter in the future.

Yang Tinghe and Ma Yongcheng were in charge of the southwest to prevent the southwest chieftains from counterattacking.

In the center of the imperial court, there are Wang Yangming, Yan Song, Fei Hong, Liu Yu, Wang Hao, Wang Qiong, Hu Shining, Gui E and others supporting him!

Gao Feng sat in the south of the Yangtze River and monitored the wealthy gentry families in the south of the Yangtze River headed by the Xu family, Duke of Wei.

The dead eunuch Zhang Yong installed by Zhu Houzhao in Liaodong will make Zhu Yueqi feel what is meant by the majestic power of the emperor and cannot be violated.

"Retreat from the court."

"Zhu Houzhao, you are a bastard who has forgotten his ancestors. Emperor Taizu will never let you go."

"Zhu Houzhao, you dare to depose me. Do you know who my ancestor is? My ancestor is Zhu Xinglong, the king of Nanchang. He was Zhu Wenzheng, the first hero in the Battle of Hongdu. He made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty. You can't do this to me.

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"As long as your Majesty is willing to let me go, whatever your Majesty says, I will obey you!"

In the whole world, everything is the land of the king. On the shore of the land, there is nothing but the king’s ministers.

Qiu Ju was based in Shandong and controlled Yan Shenggong's mansion.

Admiral Liu Jin was in charge of the East Factory, Admiral Gu Dayong was in charge of the West Factory, Shi Wenyi, Zhang Cai were in charge of Jinyiwei, Hu Dakui, and the British were in charge of the three major battalions.

Surprised, his heart was still full of schadenfreude. The king of Jingjiang, Zhu Yueqi, would also end up with the same fate as him. It made him sad to think about the coolness of Liaodong.

If the repeated lessons were not enough to make them learn to be obedient, then he would not mind another purge to completely change the blood of the court.

Zhu Houzhao didn't bother to argue with the dying man's dying struggle, and directly asked people to drag Zhu Yueqi away. From this moment on, Zhu Yueqi was no longer the king of the Ming Dynasty, so there was no need to be polite to him!

"A single man. A tyrant"

"Oh my god, why does my Ming Dynasty have such a cruel and cold tyrant?"

There is no shortage of capable officials under him. Wang Yangming, Wang Hao, Fei Hong, Liu Yu, Yang Yiqing, Yang Tinghe, etc. are all outstanding officials.

Emperor Taizu Jiuquan will not let him go. He has even seen the living Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, yet he is still afraid of an illusory ghost. What a joke!

"Your Majesty, I realize that I was wrong. I am willing to hand over all my land and acres and actively cooperate with the imperial court's new policies."

"Zhu Houzhao, you are such a young boy, how dare you do this."

Chen Jiuchou guarded Gansu, and all the soldiers on the nine sides were his.

"I am the King of Jingjiang and a descendant of Emperor Taizu's eldest brother. You dare to deprive me of my title. Do you still take Emperor Taizu and the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty seriously?"

The governor of Yingtian, Qi Kangping, was dragged out of the Meridian Gate and beheaded in public. The king of Jingjiang, Zhu Yueqi, was deprived of his title and sent to Liaodong. The two troubles were solved. Next, it was the turn of the civil service group.

What he lacks is a large number of obedient ministers, not a group of worms who constantly oppose him for their own benefit.

The trend is mine!

He picked up the imperial pen and drew a large circle on the map. Within the circle were most of the areas south of the Yangtze River. This time, the cleansing began from the south of the Yangtze River.

Then there are the feudal lord group and the noble group. No one can escape.

Originally, he wanted to make a smooth transition, implement the reform first, and then turn around to deal with these national worms. However, everyone is seeking death. No wonder he!

Anyway, they will die sooner or later, so sending them on the road first, carrying out the purge while promoting the reform, paving the way with countless heads, may be the correct rhythm for the reform.

Starting from today, there will be four updates a day, and there will be no missing updates unless there are special reasons!
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