"The general will obey his orders."

"Go ahead, I will ask Liu Jin to send you the appointment decree later."

Originally, the appointment of the commander of the Three Thousand Battalions had to go through the Fifth Army Governor's Office and the cabinet, but now the Fifth Army Governor's Office is almost empty, and the cabinet Li Dongyang can't resist him, so he can save the procedure and directly issue the appointment edict.

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"I will finally retire."

Hu Dakui stepped back, and Zhu Houzhao turned his attention to Liu Jin again: "Send a message to Qiu Ju and ask him to keep an eye on the Shandong family and don't let them come out to cause trouble for me."

There are not many forces in the world that Zhu Houzhao can be afraid of. The civil servant group, the coastal wealthy families, the Jiangnan gentry, the noble group, and the vassal group are not serious worries. As long as they have military power and the ability to overturn the table, they can be easily defeated.

Suppressed!

But there are several families that are different. Not only are they powerful, they also enjoy great prestige. They are the Confucius family in Shandong, the Zhu family in Neo-Confucianism, and the Zhang family in Longhushan.

The Zhang family was in charge of Longhu Mountain and had been cultivating Taoism for generations, posing no threat to the imperial court. Although the Zhu family of Neo-Confucianism had the same surname as the Ming Dynasty royal family, they were never welcomed by the royal family and could not become popular. The only exception was the Confucius family.

A descendant of Kong Sheng, with these four words, even if he wants to touch the Kong family, he has to consider the consequences.

Only by studying can you become a master. This concept has long been ingrained in the hearts of the people of China. Once the Confucius family is disturbed, not only the scholars in the world will be upset, but also those poor people who hope to make a difference through reading will also follow suit. The consequences will be serious, not only killing people.

It can be solved.

And the reason why he was on guard against the Kong family getting involved was because he was worried that the officials who had been kicked out of the court would get into trouble with the Kong family. The Duke Yansheng, who was said to be a descendant of a saint but actually had no moral integrity, came forward.

Even as an emperor, he would have a headache.

He had experienced the power of the Kong family a few years ago. If he had not grasped some information about the Kong family, he would not have been able to clean up the Jiangnan gentry through King Ning's rebellion.

"My slave understands."

Liu Jin nodded slightly. Zhu Houzhao deliberately sent Qiu Ju, one of the Eight Tigers in the Chamber of Secrets, to Shandong for the convenience of monitoring the Kong family. The so-called inspection of Shandong on behalf of the emperor was just an excuse.

"Also, tell Yan Song that you can make the next step!"

Those officials who resigned have been praised highly and the whole capital is praising their selfless dedication. Now it’s time to send them to hell!

Zhu Houzhao would never be merciful towards those sycophants and deceitful ministers.

...

They resigned and returned to their hometowns to help the people in their hometowns seek development. People in the entire capital admired them. Some merchants who came to the capital to do business even spread this story to all parts of the world, praising their reputation.

When they heard the news, those resigned officials who were still looking for connections and hoping to return to the court were immediately confused. How could the excuse used by the emperor to drive them away spread to the people?

Moreover, are they as selfless as the rumors say? They would rather not be officials but return to their hometowns to help the people seek development?

My family knows their own affairs, they make money and occupy land, and they are definitely all masters among masters, but to say that they can put the people of their hometown first is pure nonsense!

They are just a bunch of idiots, what qualifications do they have to attract the attention of noble scholars like them? In their eyes, there are never ordinary people, only promotions and fortunes, brothels and gambling houses.

Drinking and chatting with brothel courtesans, talking about the current political situation, and playing dice with three or five friends in the gambling house for fun. This is what they should do, do something practical to help the people, when they first entered the officialdom

They may have thought about it, but now, anyone who works for the people is a fool and an alien from the scholar-bureaucrat class.

Precisely because they knew what kind of character they were, after hearing the news that spread throughout the streets and alleys in the capital, a group of resigned officials couldn't sit still. Decades of official experience told them that there must be a conspiracy among them.

Big conspiracy.

A group of resigned officials, led by Zhang Wenjie, a member of the Literary and Selection Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, sought help from their former colleagues. They did not seek to return to the court, but only wanted to suppress the increasingly outrageous news and continue to spread it.

Many things they have done cannot be concealed, and no one in the world will let them go.

Paper cannot contain fire.

They didn't know Zhu Houzhao's plan, but they knew that once the bad things they had done were exposed, the court would cut them into pieces to vent the public's anger.

Officials like them are very good at using the people, inciting them, using the power of public opinion to achieve their own goals, and even forcing the emperor to compromise. Therefore, he also knows the power of the people best. In front of the huge number of people, there is no secret that can be hidden.

living.

They went to meet many old friends, colleagues, and superiors, but no one was willing to help them. Li Dongyang, Yang Yiqing, Wang Hao, Fei Hong and others either pretended to be deaf or dumb, or simply closed the door and thanked the guests.

They are all old foxes who dominate the officialdom. Who doesn't have extremely vicious eyes? Even those stupid resigned officials can see the problem. How could they not see that this matter is obviously controlled by someone behind the scenes? They

How could you fall into it foolishly?

As the news became more and more widespread, the destructive affairs of those resigned officials were finally exposed. It can be said that they are full of bad deeds, full of evil, and unforgivable crimes.

Zhang Wenjie, a foreign minister in the Literary Selection Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, accepted a bribe of 300,000 taels of silver from a wealthy businessman in Jiangnan;

Zhao Yanping, the head of the Ministry of Household and Civil Affairs, concealed a population of 1,000 people and turned them all into his own tenants;

Sun He, a priest at the Ministry of Civil Service, raped and killed several women from good families;

He Qiu, the head of the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War, was generous in loan sharking while abroad and killed many people;

.....

One after another, it either involves corruption, human life, or land grabbing. All of them are true, without any fraud. Some of them were exposed by the master of suffering, and some were secretly released by people from Dongchang.

When the bloody crimes were presented one after another, the people who had been singing praises to those officials immediately became angry. How could such a conscientious and evil person be called an upright official?

The common people who felt deeply that they had been deceived rushed to the mansions of those officials to curse, and went to the Yamen of the capital to complain, demanding that the court severely punish those corrupt officials and devils on earth no matter what.

After receiving the news, Zhu Houzhao smiled: "The people who cannot be bullied the most in the world are the people!"

The common people do not read and are illiterate. They may be easily deceived and easily incited, but they are definitely not easy to bully. Those officials who think they can play with people's hearts will experience the horror of the so-called mud-legged people they despise.

The emperor who was willing to be killed and dared to pull down the emperor was almost mythical and was called the Son of Heaven. Not to mention a group of powerless civil servants who knew nothing but making money and encircling the land, in front of the angry people.

, their fate is already determined.

Not to mention conclusive evidence, even if they are truly honest and honest, they must also be corrupt officials. In order to give an explanation to the angry people, the court can only handle official business.

The power of the people is infinite. This is the truth that a great man taught Zhu Houzhao. Due to the limitations of the times, the meanings of the two words "people" and "common people" may be different, but the truth is the same. Zhu Houzhao wants to borrow the power of the people this time

Teach those officials a lesson, knock on the mountain to shock the tiger, and kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.

If anyone is disobedient in the future and dares to continue to make money and enclose land, and dares to continue to fight against him, then we cannot blame him for sending talents to the people again!


Chapter completed!