"Your Majesty, now it is no longer how Shi Kefa will deal with it, but this crooked trend of scholars running to demonstrate to Your Majesty whenever it is not going well must be stopped.

Your Majesty is a king.

And they are just ministers.

His Majesty asked the Criminal Department to hand over Shi Kefa to Jinyiwei.

Then no matter what the reason is, the criminal department must be handed over to Jinyiwei.

In the same way, if Shi Kefa has committed a crime, it is not up to these scholars to decide whether to pardon him, and even if he is to be pardoned, it must be of divine will, and these people have no right to ask His Majesty to do so, and if Shi Kefa's punishment is not in accordance with the law, they can come to His Majesty to appeal, but if Shi Kefa is dealt with according to the law, or if he is not disposed of, they have no right to compel His Majesty to do what they ask. ”

Upstairs in Chengtianmen City, Yang Xin continued to bewitch the Holy Listening.

The apocalypse is not in the Qianqing Palace.

His Majesty the Emperor now spends ninety percent of his daytime at the Academy of Sciences.

The entire Rabbit Mountain, the area of the rotary grinding platform, has been completely transformed into a special scientific research base, the Ministry of Industry and the skilled craftsmen selected from all over the country are there to serve His Majesty the Emperor, and even have iron smelting furnaces, in fact, there is a gunpowder test area in the most remote corner. With a cement wall one and a half zhang thick and two zhang high, a small courtyard is enclosed, in which gunpowder craftsmen test various proportions, granularization, different gunpowder under different conditions, and nitrate purification, all of which are tested there.

There has already been an explosion.

But because the cement wall was so thick, and there were actually steel bars added to it, all the explosions were equivalent to nearly 100 catties of gunpowder, but they only destroyed the inside.

Nothing was affected from the outside.

In the end, under the proposal of 9,000 years old, the storage capacity of gunpowder in this test base should not exceed 50 catties.

Even Wu Zhiwang has a pharmaceutical workshop there, specializing in purifying herbal medicines, and specially found dozens of pharmaceutical craftsmen from Linjiang Mansion to specially configure pills and ointments similar to Chinese patent medicine, as for what they can research, Yang Dudu is not very clear, anyway, he just reminded Sanqi and the like. This thing has been used for a long time, and the Compendium of Materia Medica is clearly recorded, and it has even been used in the army, but to what extent it can be studied depends on their ability.

Anyway, Yang Dudu doesn't need it.

There is such a good place, how can the apocalypse have leisure in the Qianqing Palace, he will go back at night, and he has been coaxed by Zhang Yan very well recently, after all, rose essential oil is still a little fresh.

This time, Yang Xin also invited him.

And the outside of Chengtianmen is still blue, those who have just finished the six arts assessment, at least 4,000 people gathered outside, a total of 5,000 people in this subject participated in the imperial examination, that is to say, 80% of them participated, these are different from the previous times, this time it is all the same. They formed a huge cluster outside the Chengtian Gate in a manner similar to meditation, and did not shout or make trouble, just waiting for the emperor to give them an answer, but they deliberately chose a good day, and it was still very comfortable to bask in the rare warm sun overhead in the wax moon, and from time to time there were people carrying large teapots carrying water and walking among them.

The civil servants did not show up.

The head of the cabinet did not know anything.

He is actually a group of ** stars, that is, the old Donglin Party, and this itself is the old Donglin Party.

In fact, the emergence of the old Donglin Party is also related to interests to a large extent.

In the past, the core of industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty was Nanzhili, although Fujian and Guangdong had the same industry and commerce, but it was always suppressed by Nanzhili, especially the canal was controlled in the hands of Nanzhili, even if Fujian and Guangdong went north, they must also use Nanzhili, which is why there are many members of Fujian and Guangdong provinces in the Donglin Party.

They have the same interests.

But now Nanzhili is too busy to take care of itself because of the appearance of the Red Turban Army, and even the amount of cotton cloth exported to the north has plummeted this year, while Fujian and Guangdong provinces have been put on the route because of Li Dan's legalization, coupled with Yang Xin's new schooner ship, especially the two development zones established by Li Dan and Yang Xin in Taiwan, which can directly take goods through Taiwan and ride the warm current of Taiwan directly to the north.

Nanzhili's position on the economic map of the Ming Dynasty is weakening.

Fujian and Guangdong, especially Guangdong's position is strengthening, although this year, although the number of cotton cloth and silk exported to the north by the south has plummeted, but the number of Guangdong textiles exported to the north has skyrocketed.

It's not just Li Dan's fleet that is transporting.

Even the Dutch and Portuguese also loaded Cantonese goods to the north during the trade season, and a large number of such goods entered the port at the Tianjin and Dengzhou customs controlled by Yang Xin.

The prosperity of shipping is enabling Fujian and Guangdong provinces, including Guangxi, to get rid of their dependence on the southern Zhili.

In this case, why do they continue to praise the people of Nanzhili?

In the past, they praised the people of Nanzhili, which was nothing more than the latter controlling the canal, and all the southern goods had to go north, and it was too troublesome for Fujian and Guangdong merchant ships to go north directly, and they had to rely on the monsoon, even if the summer was downwind, they had to resist the coastal current, but now there is Taiwan, North Korea, these transit stations do not need to go along the coast at all.

Just go to Taiwan.

From the Guano Port of the Yang family in Taipei, even the old-style sailing ship will only take seven days to reach Mokpo Port, which is enough to reach Gegu in half a month.

The new schooner can sail into Gegu in seven days.

In the past, it took several months to transfer the canal to the capital in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In this case, why do the Fujian and Guangdong gentry still serve the Nanzhili gentry?

Similarly, the Donglin Party in the north has also changed its financial owners, and now their main supporters are the Fujian and Guangdong gentry, after all, the Nanzhili gentry have not been able to provide them with too many benefits, and the latter can now say that the landlord's family has no surplus grain, and Changzhou and Zhenjiang have suffered heavy losses, and now they have to maintain regimental training, and all their financial resources are now mainly used to deal with the Red Turban Army, how can there be excess to send out?

This is the split between the old and new Donglin parties.

To put it bluntly, it's actually very simple, the behind-the-scenes financiers have changed.

And there is also a side effect, that is, the cotton-producing area of Nanzhili has shrunk significantly.

The areas controlled by the Red Turban Army did not produce cotton, or the output dropped sharply, and the surrounding gentry-controlled areas were afraid that the poor would rise up and rebel, so they began to appropriately improve their treatment, resulting in the price being passed on to the cotton cloth, and the large influx of cotton cloth in Guangdong through the sea route caused the price to be hit again, so the output of cotton cloth in Nanzhili declined. As for the cotton in Guangdong, it was imported, they were all purchased from India, and the cotton spinning industry in Guangdong was originally supported by importing Indian cotton in the Qing Dynasty, importing millions of taels of silver every year.

And they still do.

It's just that the original supplier, the British East India Company, was replaced by the Portuguese.

This year, the Guangdong customs imported more cotton than grain, and some Portuguese merchant ships would rather transport more profitable cotton than grain for that tax cut.

The division and union of political forces is actually the division and union of silver.

In the past, Nan Zhili was the gold owner, and the Donglin Party in the north was willing to serve them, but now this gold owner has no money, on the contrary, another group of comrades-in-arms suddenly paid money, so the North Donglin Party naturally went over and hugged each other without hesitation. As for the eunuchs, they are actually changing to the local industrial and commercial groups in the north, that is, those who are dependent on the nine thousand years old, and this power is also growing day by day, of course, no matter which side they do, they don't like Yang Dudu, including the Fujian and Cantonese gentry who also hate him to the core.

It's just not to the point where you're dead or alive.

After all, Yang Xin didn't create a Red Turban Army in their house, and they actually cooperated with each other.

To be precise, it is precisely because they don't want to live or die with Yang Xin that they draw a line with the New Donglin Party.

After all, the consequences are not the same.

Nanzhili and those in Zhejiang who belong to him are not in the same place, and at this time, because of the influence of the Red Turban Army, there have been many slave mutinies in Zhejiang. Fortunately, they also set up a dynamic non-governmental organization such as Tuanlian in time to resolutely crack down on these evil slaves, but the problem is that if the Red Turban Army is not eliminated one day, then there will only be more and more such things, after all, such a big example is there.

Those slaves did not cry out for rebellion.

People shouted that they wanted to be the emperor's militia and the emperor's tenants, and some people even tried to go to Nanjing to find the garrison eunuchs to offer the book of the people, asking the emperor to make decisions for them.

This is simply a great rebellion.

Dare to bypass the gentry to show loyalty to the emperor.

And the general backstage of all this is Yang Xin, and he can't solve the Red Turban Army without killing him.

It is said that as a minister of a feudal dynasty, Yang Dudu has achieved such a point where the officials and gentry of the whole country unanimously shouted to kill, which is unprecedented, after all, even Wang Mang still has some supporters.

"And this is not the first time for them, these gentlemen rely on their different status, relying on Your Majesty's preferential gentry, coercing Your Majesty like this again and again, Your Majesty gives them all kinds of preferential treatment, farming is tax-free, forced labor is converted into silver, Ding silver is not collected, even they walk through the banknote customs do not collect taxes, and even the merchants on the canal invite them to take boats to exempt the tax on goods. They also received contributions from others, and a person was immediately promoted to a peasant who had originally paid taxes with his land and voluntarily became a slave for him to be exempt from taxes, and in this way, there were also a large number of hidden fields, and no one could do without paying thousands of acres of land without paying taxes.

His Majesty gave them back the silver.

They are also given all kinds of privileges, their fame is not removed, and they don't even have to be beaten if they commit crimes.

But they repay Your Majesty in this way, coerce Your Majesty in this way, and if this unhealthy trend is not suppressed, they will become even worse. ”

Yang Xin continued to bewitch the saint.

Apocalypse silently looked at the sit-in demonstrations outside.

At this time, it was close to noon, and even people began to carry large meat buns full of food boxes and distribute them among the lifters, and one of them was obviously unappetizing, and took a bite and angrily fell on the face of the subcontractor.

The man groveled and hastened to apologize.

This scene made the corners of Apocalypse's mouth can't help but show a sneer.

"Let the celebrant draft the decree and tell them to disperse immediately, how to deal with Shi Kefa, I have my own opinion, they are here to participate in the imperial examination, and now they should honestly review their homework, instead of gathering people here to mess around, and those who resist the decree will all be in charge. As for the boycott, draw up a pledge to voluntarily abandon the exam, and then let them sign it themselves, and the boycott of this subject will be imprisoned for life, and since they boycott the exam, they will never take the exam.

The matter was left to my brother's sole discretion. ”

He said.

After speaking, His Majesty the Emperor turned his head and left.

"Just don't kill anyone!"

Then he turned back and added.