Coming to the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Cihong sat on the dragon case paved with yellow silk, and approved the official documents sent from all over the country.

Half an hour later, Zhu Cihong stretched his waist, thinking in his heart about the cleaning up of the transportation and the salt merchants, re-dividing the salt profits, and holding the bulk of the salt tax in his hands.

The noble officials behind the big salt merchants have all collapsed in the background, they just want to make a fuss and don't have that ability, Zhu Cihong secretly regretted that he didn't have the opportunity to raid the homes of those big salt merchants.

After Jin Yiwei served food one after another, Li Dahai, who assassinated Zhu Dadian at Caoyun Wharf, committed suicide many times, and finally couldn't bear to confess everything, Li Tingbiao tried a series of people along the vine, and finally found out the mastermind behind the scenes, Wei Guogong and other Nanjing nobles.

A neat row of death-free iron coupons on one side of the dragon case was sent by the families of the nobles on the second day of the palace to save their own family.

The system of the iron coupon is like a tile, the specifications are different, and the duke of Wei Guo and other dukes get the largest, one foot high, one foot six inches and five minutes wide, the marquis's is slightly smaller, and the earl gets the smallest.

Zhu Cihong glanced at these old antiques and smiled faintly, this thing can only be spared death once, and now with the charge of forcing the palace, isn't it easy to kill these Nanjing nobles?

Zhu Cihong also follows the rules, if you have an iron ticket to avoid death, you will be spared from death, as for who to spare, it is not you who has the final say, but I have the final say! Forcing the palace is a major crime of rebellion, the kind of beheading of the whole family, just avoid one death.

However, Zhu Cihong seemed very benevolent and generous, although he copied the homes of those nobles, but did not punish their nine clans.

In addition to the nobles such as Wei Guogong who forced the palace, the rest of his family can spend money to buy their lives, one million taels of silver from their heirs, and one life from their concubines, and four hundred thousand taels of one life from their concubines.

Zhu Cihong made several packages for them, such as three concubines and two concubines, only 350,000 taels, saving 300,000 taels; Five concubines plus five concubines, five million taels, is equivalent to giving five concubines for nothing.......

There are also other combination packages, such as the combination of concubines and concubines, and the combination of concubines and concubines......

Although Zhu Cihong copied their home, after one or two hundred years of development, these noble families still have a lot of hidden assets, even more than on the surface.

You can't do without this money, and if you don't take it, it's not tolerated!

Wei Guogong, Marquis of Funing and other nobles, Zhu Cihong planned to be executed together on the second day of the second month of February, when he went to the filial piety tomb of Shenlie Mountain to worship Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

On the second day of February last year, he executed a group of Beijing nobles in Beijing, and this year's anniversary celebration coincided with sending them down to meet and chat.

In the middle of his thoughts, the eunuch on duty appeared outside the Qianqing Palace with a pile of official documents, and said: "Your Highness, Yang Shicong, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, asks to see you." ”

Zhu Cihong said lightly: "Let him come in." ”

Yang Shicong gently approached the Qianqing Palace in response, and immediately bowed down and made a big salute.

He was worried that he would not behave well and fall out of favor in front of the crown prince, so he was ready to make amends.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Zhu Cihong didn't look up, continued to review the recital, and said lightly.

Yang Shicong was taken aback, and felt that he had come to the right place, and it was necessary to remedy it.

He coughed lightly and said, "Your Highness, in order to continue to increase the cultural control of Jiangnan, the minister proposed to characterize Donglin Academy and even the Restoration Society as reactionary organizations, and order all local associations to be canceled immediately, and members to be forced to withdraw. ”

Zhu Cihong raised his head in surprise, and secretly said that this Yang Shicong is quite ruthless? He didn't dare to be so prodigal, but he really dared to say that he was not afraid that Li Banghua, Mao Xiang and other people from the Fushe Society would trouble him?

Although Mao Xiang, Huang Zongxi and other people from the Restoration Society supported the New Deal, if someone proposed to cancel the Restoration Society, they would definitely not be happy in their hearts, they had always felt that the Restoration Society was a patriotic organization, and if it was condemned as reactionary, where would their faces go?

Li Banghua, Shi Kefa and others are also related to Donglin Academy and have the same thoughts.

Yang Shicong knew that Zhu Cihong wanted to completely solve the southeast scholar, and seeing that he was interested in the proposal, he suddenly became energetic, and continued: "Not only that, but the minister also suggested that Donglin Academy be burned and all newspapers under Donglin and Fushe should be banned!" ”

Zhu Cihong said meaningfully: "Aren't you afraid that Jiangnan Shizi will jump off the wall in a hurry and fight back when he is dying?" ”

Yang Shicong said secretly, Donglin and the scholars who opposed the new policy of the Fushe were almost killed by you, and I am still afraid of Mao!

However, it is indeed difficult to explain to several officials from the Donglin Party and the Fushe in the DPRK, and it is inevitable that they will be hostile to them, but for the sake of his own future and the ambition of the crown prince, Yang Shicong decided to let it go!

He nodded firmly: "Don't be afraid!" For the sake of His Royal Highness the Prince, the minister is willing to go to the soup and fire, and he will not give up! ”

Sure enough, the crown prince smiled, and he smiled very happily! Yang Shicong was determined.

Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "Yang Qing is worthy of being an old minister who has been with the palace for several years, he is deeply lonely, and he is also a capable minister, not afraid of difficulties, not afraid of people's words!" ”

Yang Shicong hurriedly bowed down and shouted: "The minister is willing to die for His Highness and remove all obstacles for His Highness!" ”

"Good! Good! Good! Zhu Cihong stroked his palms and smiled, and encouraged: "You are the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and the academy and newspaper are under your control, so you can watch and handle this matter!" ”

Yang Shicong was stunned in his heart, he still thought that Zhu Cihong had ordered Tianwujun to do the matter, but he didn't expect to have to bear the consequences himself......

Without waiting for him to say more, Zhu Cihong had already waved his hand and said, "You go to Changzhou Mansion in person, remember to bring more people, okay, there are important things to deal with in this palace, you go down." ”

Yang Shicong retreated very familiarly, and left for Wuxi, the capital of Changzhou, on the same day, in order to ensure that he was not beaten by the students of Donglin Academy, he brought more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of Yingtianfu to accompany him.

After a few days of non-stop travel, Yang Shicong finally came to the holy place in the hearts of the Jiangnan gentry and literati, Donglin Academy.

Seeing a group of officers and soldiers rushing into Donglin Academy with torches, some scholars who still insisted on advocating the political concept of the Donglin Party rushed to try to prevent Yang Shicong from burning down Donglin Academy.

Some scholars did not hesitate to beat and scold Yang Shicong, calling him a scumbag, and even picked up bricks and stones and threw them at Yang Shicong.

Yang Shicong's head was smashed, almost blooming, his forehead continued to bleed, and he said angrily: "Those who dare to disturb official affairs will be killed on the spot!" ”

Yang Shicong knew the virtues of these scholars, some time ago, the Tianwu Army slaughtered tens of thousands of scholars at the Jinling Conference, and when he heard that those scholars were cowardly, they suddenly showed the bottom.

The officers and soldiers of Ying Tianfu didn't dare to make a move at first, but when he saw that Lord Yang was almost cut off his head and was bleeding terribly, he immediately became ruthless and rushed into the crowd with a knife.

With a pop, a bold official stabbed a soldier in front of him in the chest with a knife, and the Donglin student didn't know what was happening, so he threw himself backwards and fell to the ground.

Seeing the officers and soldiers killing, the soldiers who were surrounding the academy in front of them collectively shivered, and they all screamed in horror and scattered.

"I don't know what to do!" Yang Shicong snorted coldly, wrapped his head in a cloth and shouted: "Enter the academy, all of them will be dismantled and burned!" ”

A group of officers and soldiers from Ying Tianfu immediately took action to demolish all the Donglin Academy, and then poured the entire academy with fire oil, and then used dry wood to fuel it.

After a while, the entire Donglin Academy turned into a sea of fire, a whole day and a night, and finally turned into a rubble field, and the last monument of the literati in Jiangnan was directly destroyed.

Donglin Academy was founded in the Northern Song Dynasty, which was a place where the Northern Song Dynasty physicist Cheng Hao, Cheng Yiyan's senior brother, and the well-known scholar Yang Shi gave lectures for a long time, and was later abandoned.

In the 32nd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, it was restored by Donglin scholar Gu Xiancheng and others and gathered here to give lectures and publicize the political ideas of the Donglin Party.

Now that it was burned into a white ground by a fire, many Donglin scholars couldn't help but cry, and the government and the opposition were also shocked when they heard about it.

After Yang Shicong took out the headquarters of the Fushe, Zhu Cihong pretended to come out and say a few words, and prevented Yang Shicong from continuing to seize the "Jiangnan Xinbao" founded by Donglin and the "Jinling Times" founded by the Fushe, and handed them over to the Ministry of Rites for rectification.

A few days later, Yang Shicong officially ordered in the name of the Ministry of Rites to ban all literary societies, and all privately opened academies and organizations in various places must be reviewed and filed by the Ministry of Rites.

Zhu Cihong smiled and said nothing, no matter what, from this moment on, it is no longer possible for this kind of private group to control the government, so let's honestly enter the official school and study.

As for freedom of speech, there can be one, but if you want to oppose the ruling program of the imperial court, you still have to be admitted to the official first, don't just end the compulsory education, and the heart of the Forbidden City.