Apocalypse finally chose to ease the conflict.

Of course, it was not in the case of killing the king, he could not make concessions in this case, and his approach was to immediately throw out the law of restricting the clan.

This is also what Wenchen has always wanted.

From the beginning of this year, the feudal lords will no longer grow, each feudal clan is according to the current standard, and it will become a fixed feudal in the future, no matter how much population is added, the imperial court will no longer increase the feudal system according to the increased population, you will solve it internally, anyway, the imperial court will give these in the future, which is a symbolic gift to the ministers of a sweet date, which was actually released in this year in the original history.

It's just that it was originally forced by finance in history, but this time it belongs to the apocalypse to take the initiative to show goodwill.

Of course, this is of little use.

Unless the Apocalypse decrees the abolition of Zhaoyi City, kicks Yang Xin out of the imperial court, deprives him of all powers, and even cuts him with a thousand knives, the gentry will not forgive His Majesty the Emperor, and Apocalypse is obviously not so stupid, so his image in the eyes of the gentry will not change because of the clan restriction law. In the next few days, the new Donglin Party, including some of the old Donglin Party officials, continued to criticize Jinyiwei for creating unjust prisons, and portrayed Wen Zhenmeng and others, who had been carrying them in the edict so far, as loyal ministers who were deliberately framed by Yang Xin.

However......

Outside the Qianqing Palace.

"Loyalist? Ladies and gentlemen, this is your loyal servant? Look at it, this is their confession, they have confessed to all their crimes! ”

Yang Xin shouted with a pile of confessions.

The officials who were blocking the door and begging to see the apocalypse were stunned.

Wei Dazhong snatched the confession from Yang Xin's hand in disbelief, and looked at the familiar handwriting on it, which was the handwriting of Wen Zhenmeng, who confessed to all the charges, including murder and rebellion.

"It can't be!"

He screamed as if he had broken down.

"Black and white, don't tear it, if you tear it up, I'll ask him to write a copy again."

Yang Xin said proudly.

"I want to see him!"

Wei Dazhong took a deep breath and said.

"Take him to see him, don't get close, don't talk!"

Yang Xin said.

Sun Yunhe, who was beside him, hurriedly stepped forward and took Wei Dazhong to the Imperial Prison.

Several other officials also stepped forward, Yang Xin calmly read the confession in his hand casually, and then Yuan Huazhong angrily threw Li Yingsheng's confession in his hand to another imperial history, and then turned his head with a gloomy face and left, and after a few steps, something fell under his feet.

"Yuan Yushi, your recital is broken!"

Yang Xin shouted.

Yuan Huazhong, who was about to bend down to pick it up, snorted coldly and left directly.

"This temper is getting bigger!"

Yang Xin said with a smile.

After reading the confession, the rest of the officials also left with a calm face, as for going to the edict to see if there is Wei Dazhong, if Jinyiwei beats Wen Zhenmeng and a few people into a weird shape, it is a big deal to continue to impeach, but they also know that since Yang Xin dares to let Wei Dazhong see it, then he must have no fear, that is to say, Wen Zhenmeng and these people have not suffered too much, these guys are likely to be too soft-boned, judging from the last Dayi Jue mystery, it is not impossible to see this possibility.

The officials who were originally blocked at the Qianqing Gate dispersed in a blink of an eye.

"That's a good idea."

Xu Xianchun said with a smile.

"It also depends on who is right, and the real hard bones can carry it."

Yang Xin said.

In order to be able to quickly obtain a confession, he had to use some special methods, some should be said to be very despicable and shameless methods, after all, some things are more effective than torture, but fortunately, the effect is still very good, it only took ten days, he easily destroyed the defense line of Wen Zhenmeng and others, and he didn't have to fight in a weird shape.

It is to let Xu Xianchun, these eagle dog minions, open the door to a new world.

After finishing speaking, Yang Xin rearranged his confession, and then went directly to the apocalypse.

And Wei Dazhong's trip to prison, naturally there is nothing special to discover, Wen Zhenmeng and a few people were indeed tortured, but it would be an exaggeration to say that torture and torture, in fact, they are all normal, except for the poor spirit, the eyes are empty, there is basically nothing abnormal. Even Li Yingsheng's spirit was still very excited, cursing Yang Xin and these traitors incoherently in the cell, and he was still scolding while walking there, and he could see that there was nothing wrong with his body, and in the end, Wei Dazhong just went back to pick bones with eggs, and casually got a doomed useless twist, accusing Jinyiwei of some trivial things.

For example, the poor treatment of prisoners and so on.

It's pure sprinkling.

And Yang Xin's proposed disposition based on their crimes was approved by the Apocalypse, but His Majesty the Emperor slightly modified it.

Ling Chi changed it to beheading.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, no matter what the first followers are, they will be late.

But in order to show mercy in the Apocalypse, including Wen Zhenmeng, Chen Renxi, Li Yingsheng, and Wu Changshi, all the prisoners were changed from Ling Chi to beheading, but at this time they could not be killed, because there was a time limit for the execution of the Ming Dynasty, and after the autumn equinox before the beginning of spring, this was the time for the execution of the death penalty, and it could not be killed outside of this time.

And within this time, you have to avoid the ten days of fasting.

Therefore, the execution of these prisoners had to wait for more than half a year, and in fact, it was just after the beginning of spring at this time.

Of course, their death sentence has already been set.

Originally, they started with their grandfathers and continued to their grandchildren, including their uncles, who were over sixteen years old, and they were all to be beheaded, but the apocalypse was changed to three thousand miles of exile, and they originally had to have a hundred rods before they were exiled, and this was also exempted. As for the place of exile, of course, it is still to dig up bird droppings, Yang Xin has signed an agreement with the Criminal Department to get the grace of the Apocalypse, that is, if he flows three thousand miles in the future, he will be directly given to him, so that the imperial court does not have to bother about it.

As long as the sentence of exile is 3,000 li, this will be given directly to him, and then he will give the criminal department silver, although this system was criticized by the officials, but in the case of the 9,000-year-old control of the criminal department and the criminal department, it was quickly implemented.

The female dependents were also given leniency.

Originally, the female dependents were not slaves according to the law of the Ming Dynasty.

But Apocalypse still deliberately pardoned, and returned the children to their parents' families, in fact, those who were in similar situations before were also dealt with in this way, so the gentry were not really afraid of Yang Xin and Apocalypse, they knew that neither of them was the kind of person who liked to kill, at least not the kind of person who killed them all.

Of course, it doesn't hurt to do that, at least they're brave enough to jump out.

As for their property, it must belong to the emperor, whether it is money, land, real estate, or shops, all of them will be returned to the emperor, and the slaves and maids will be released as good people and properly settled, and the land and its tenants will be changed to the Huangzhuang militia.

This approach has become routine.

And was deeply hated by the gentry, although it was already very benevolent compared to the original, but because copying no family was equivalent to the emperor laying a nail in a militia area in the locality, so the gentry everywhere regarded it as tyranny, after all, if this continues, the emperor will have more and more nails in the local area, just like the guards set up by Zhu Yuanzhang in various places back then to tighten the noose on the gentry. It took two hundred years for the gentry and civil officials to finally destroy the guard and make it a shell, but Tianqi and Yang Xin, the two traitorous ministers of the faint monarch, were rebuilt in this way, so that the gentry gradually returned to the fear of being dominated by Zhu Yuanzhang's shadow.

It's true.

This is even more ruthless than Zhu Yuanzhang.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang does not have Yang Xin's economic acumen, and the living standards of his military households in the guard house are better than those of ordinary people.

But the life of the militia is really much stronger.

Yang Xin formed an internal business through this system, opened all kinds of factories, this year alone along the Yangtze River opened countless canneries, the entire militia area formed a self-sufficient, and expanded industrial and commercial network, the same two or three percent of the land rent also allowed the militia area to have surplus grain even in disaster years, and even now even the gentry-controlled areas have to buy grain, canned food, and so on.

This really poses a huge threat to the rule of the gentry, and even many workers who worked as coolies in Suzhou have run away, after all, the life of being a coolie is definitely not as good as being a militiaman, even if there is no land to be distributed to them in the militia area, and there are those factories opened by Yang Dudu, Yang Dudu's factories are much stronger than those of the gentry, especially the canning factory, which is completely full, and in the textile workshop of the gentry, it is really not necessarily full.

"After all, this is the most important thing to eat!"

Yang Xin stood at the window, looking at the scholars who were pouring into the examination room in front of him and sighed.

The examination of the new department of the Ming Dynasty has officially begun, and the five thousand people who have gathered in the capital will start an important moment in their lives, and the murder case has not affected the mood of the scholars, after all, this is a murder case, and it is also appropriate to punish the nine clans if they dare to kill the monarch and rebel, not to mention that those prisoners themselves have already confessed.

"But it's almost impossible to eat outside the gate."

Chen Yujie behind him said.

He did not enter Beijing by edict, but came here privately to urge grain, not to find the imperial court, and their grain transportation there was contracted by Yang Xin, and it was not a matter of the household department at all.

In fact, over the years, he has often entered Beijing in such a semi-secret way.

"In recent years, the customs have become more and more dry, and the winter has become colder and colder, and the grain planted cannot be harvested, that is, sweet potatoes and sorghum can still be harvested a little, and more and more livestock in the pastoral area are freezing to death. According to Jiannu, who fled to Jintaiji, because there was not enough food in the wild boar skins, they had begun to kill people who had no food, that is, those old and weak and useless slaves, and even killed them directly for food.

It doesn't look like it's going to get better this year, and there's nothing left to grab in North Korea, and I'm afraid they'll have to take a risk after the beginning of spring.

Otherwise, you will starve to death.

Lin Dan Khan was forced to be in a hurry, and he was already starving to death on his side.

He didn't have the help of Jintaiji's silver like fried flowers, and the grain he bought from Zhangjiakou was often robbed by the Hara Shen Ministry, so he could only use this method to make a profit, and robbing the livestock of the Ha Lashen Bu would at least allow him to survive the most difficult days of winter.

To put it bluntly, they are all starved.

You can't feel it here, but outside the gate, it's really to the point where you starve to death if you don't grab it."

Chen Yujie said.