Chapter 75 The Gentry Works as One to Pay Grain(1/2)
The most poisonous thing about killing people is to attack the heart.
For those who are not afraid of death, killing him will fulfill his wish and leave him a good reputation.
Wang Xiao didn't do such a thing. He directly pressed Wu Zhong's head to the gentry as a member of the army. Now he became the biggest traitor in the eyes of scholars all over the world.
Even if Wuzhong was so angry that he was, scholars all over the world would not cry for him, but would applaud him instead.
There is no Internet, no TV, and even the most primitive broadcasts these days.
If you want to inform the world of something, you rely on the Lubu released by the court.
In other words, the right to speak is in the hands of the court.
What is written on Lubu, the whole world will think it is.
It was written that Wu Zhong was the initiator, so even if Wu Zhong mobilized the whole clan to explain it, it would be useless.
This move is too poisonous.
Originally, Wu Zhong was just the leader, and the civil servants would rush forward to oppose Wang Xiao's policy.
But as soon as this move was used, the civil servants in the hall were stunned.
Even if you sacrifice your life to fight, not only will no one appreciate it when it is passed on to the outside, but you will be scolded for countless years and become famous among the treacherous ministers. Who dares to jump out?
"The will must be clearly written. Those who dare to resist will be regarded as rebellion. One kills another, and one clan kills one clan! I don't believe it. There are so many scholars in the world who want money but don't live."
Yang Shiqi and others lowered their heads and looked at their feet, but no one dared to object.
One of the iron rules that Wang Xiao has always adhered to is, "The emperor is the only one who is strong in the army and horse is responsible for it!"
The boasts of the big turbans are meaningless, only military power is the root of all power.
The civil officials dared not object because Wang Xiao was tightly holding the military power of the whole world.
A martial emperor will always be the natural enemy of civil officials. Only those emperors who are good at the hands of women in the deep palace are their favorites.
Because it's so fooling.
Wang Xiao nodded to Yu Qian, and Yu Qian, who had finished writing the imperial edict, stood up and clapped his hands, "Come in!"
A group of cabinet officials walked into the hall with the imperial edict in their hands and came to the front of the twenty-four military nobles.
"You are all dukes and guards who are divorced with the country. You must help guard the world."
Wang Xiao stood up and pointed to the imperial edicts, "This is the imperial edict I have given you. If any civil ministers take power in the future and try to abolish the gentry as a united person and pay grain, you should be punished! In the future, unfilial descendants will be deceived and try to abolish the gentry as a united person and pay grain. You will raise an army to clear the monarch and establish a new king! You are not rebelling, but defending the country!"
Wang Xiao's words once again shocked everyone in the hall.
In order to completely break the disaster of land annexation and the fall of civil officials in the country, Wang Xiao even gave them the power to replace the emperor!
Everyone was frightened and even thought that Wang Xiao was crazy about gaining and losing.
Didn’t he know that the generals would be unstable in the world if they held great power?
Of course Wang Xiao knew, but this was all forced by the civil officials.
The literacy rate in the Ming Dynasty is very low now, so it is impossible for him to kill all scholars.
Before opening up people's wisdom and popularizing education for the whole nation, Wang Xiao would rather risk the opportunity of the dynasty being overthrown than to restrict the big turbans.
As for the military general's pursuit of power, he did not only give it to one or two people. Instead, he gave it to twenty-four people at once, and limited their families to be allowed to marry and marry each other. Violators directly punished the case for conspiracy.
It is easy for one or two people to do big things, but it is not enough for more than twenty people to do big things.
They are unstable in their own internal disputes.
As for the consequences of this matter, Wang Xiao no longer cared about it. It was not his turn to care about it. At that time, Wang Xiao had long known which world he had gone to freely.
"I will do my best to repay the emperor's kindness!"
The military generals and nobles took over the imperial edict and gave great gifts to Wang Xiao.
This is the real iron coupon for the alchemy book!
Wang Xiao's sword was too fierce and too fast, and he directly cut off the backbone of the gentry.
The news came out and the world was shocked.
If you say that scholars will endure it so easily, you look down on them.
After Wang Xiao's sword, their previous superior status would be gone. Not only did they have to pay money, but they also had to perform labor service.
What is corvee service? In the hearts of scholars, it is a coolie thing that the inferiors do.
How could these men with fame and fortune do those dirty things? It is simply a disgrace to be gentle!
Although Wang Xiao said that he could spend money to replace corvee labor, he still had to pay from their pockets.
Cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents.
In the face of money, even the emperor cannot do it!
Under the instigation of those who are interested, the boycotts are surging in various places.
This year, we were going to have a provincial examination. A group of big turbans from Henan Prefecture ran to the government office and shouted slogans to resist the gentry as a member of the worker and paid food, and shouted in front of countless people that they wanted to stop the exam.
The people in the Henan government office did not dare to care, or they were at least acquiesced.
When the news reached the capital, Wang Xiao immediately ordered the Jinyiwei to take action.
Nie Xing, who had been promoted to the Qianhu family of the Jinyiwei, rushed out of Beijing with a large number of Jinyiwei soldiers and headed straight for Henan Prefecture.
After arriving, he first took out an imperial edict and took down all the Henan Prefecture.
Then he brought all the scholars who had finished the exam to the square and read the imperial edict in front of many people.
Like Zhu Yuanzhang, Wang Xiao was too lazy to use any official language, and he spoke vernacular.
The general meaning is that since you don’t want to participate in the provincial examination, don’t participate in it in the future.
All 117 candidates were deprived of their fame and had no chance to enter the examination room again in this life.
The two who took the lead in causing trouble were beheaded directly.
The people around the world cheered loudly. They had long been dissatisfied with these trash people who were five people and six people but did not do good things.
The head was cut off and the fame was deprived. When the chickens were killed, the monkeys were frightened.
The boycott that was originally surging quickly disappeared.
Even if I am dissatisfied and resentful, I wish that the Ming Dynasty would be destroyed by foreign races tomorrow.
But in the face of the bloody reality, these scholars who are invincible in the world and are really scared to death when they move.
Wang Xiao also didn't believe it anymore. There was no reason why he couldn't do what the Qing Dynasty could do.
When the Qing Dynasty dared to kill people, those scholars became quails and paid taxes obediently.
Wang Xiao dared to do this, but he didn't believe that those weak scholars who were powerless could have much backbone.
Although most scholars have the same virtue as Yan Shenggong, there are still scholars who are truly unafraid of death and have backbone in all dynasties.
But these people basically cannot show their passion for the sake of paying taxes and food.
They are all citizens of the Ming Dynasty. Why don’t you pay taxes if the emperor asks you to pay?
In the curse of many scholars scolding Wang Xiao for dying soon tomorrow, the gentry was working as a member of the service to pay for food and abolishing the policy of preferential treatment of scholars was unswervingly implemented.
It won't take too long, just ten years, this matter will become a regular law and continue to be implemented.
Unless there is a brainless emperor educated by Confucianism forcibly abolished at all costs.
In order to avoid any possible rebound of Confucianism, Wang Xiao quickly made the next move.
After appointing Zhu Qizhen as the crown prince, Wang Xiao issued an order to recruit legislators, military strategists, clerks, and even descendants of the Mohist and peasants to come to the capital to be the crown prince's tutor.
When Liu Che dismissed all schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone, he never thought that the royal family would also become disciples of Confucianism.
Although the various schools of thought are insignificant, they still have inheritance.
Li Shizhen, who wrote the Compendium of Materia Medica, is a doctor.
For example, the Legalists and the Farmers are integrated into Confucianism and are called Confucian skin and bones.
Military gentry has existed throughout the ages, and although there are not many geniuses, there are still some.
The novelists of the Ming Dynasty were even more prosperous, and Journey to the West, Water Margin, a certain bottle and a certain plum, etc. were all works by novelists.
The Mohist school is the worst suppressed by Confucianism, because in the eyes of Confucianism, the Mohist school that represents science is all strange techniques, and is born to oppose Confucianism that is verbally verbally.
But even so, there are still Shen Kuo who wrote about Mengxi's poems, Xu Guangqi, who wrote about the original geometry, etc.
There was nothing we could do before. Since the Song Dynasty, Confucianism has been desperately confining ideas to destroy all different voices. Confucianism, who only allowed to teach the way of being an official and the method of making money, can survive.
But now, as Wang Xiao’s order to recruit talents was released, the dark curtain called Confucianism, which had been shrouded in the hundreds of schools of thought for more than a thousand years, was finally torn apart.
The Confucian reaction was extremely fierce, and there was even a large-scale resignation trend in the court.
Wang Xiao’s response is to be tough and tough.
No matter who resigns, he will allow it, and someone will fill the vacant position immediately.
Resigning from office couldn't scare Wang Xiao, so some people wanted to use fierce means.
To be continued...