On June 20, on the Emperor's Palace, hundreds of officials were gloomy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This was the first court meeting after the Son of Heaven returned from Tianjin, and the atmosphere was very different from the past. The hundred officials had already heard yesterday that the Son of Heaven wanted to follow Li Zhi's reform.

The biggest fear of civil servants was that things would come to this. Li Zhi is very prosperous in one town and six provinces, but after all, he can only do it in his territory. The lords controlled by Li Zhi were mainly Shandong and Henan, and the others were "overseas territories". Out of Shandong and Henan, the gentry in other provinces were safe.

But if the Son of Heaven wants to change the law, it will be bad. Once the Son of Heaven gives an order, it means that the whole country will change. If you really go to Juntian Fu and run a court according to the Son of Heaven, the gentry of the world will lose the foundation of fine clothes and food for a while.

Looking at the miserable appearance of the gentry in Li Zhi's territory, you can know how depressed the gentry will be after Juntian Fu.

The gentry would never have watched their entire good life be taken away by the Son of Heaven. Although today's Zi Zhu Youzhen has completely controlled the capital, and the civil officials can no longer threaten the Son of Heaven with their personal safety, the civil officials are not completely without bargaining chips. The officials of the world are all members of the gentry, which is the actual power that controls the Ming regime. Moreover, the gentry had 160,000 Jiangbei troops in Huai'an.

Even if the civil officials risk being beheaded by Zhu Youzhen, they still have to stop the Son of Heaven Juntian Fu in the court.

The officials were talking to each other, and the officials of Honglu Temple sang a cappella song: "The Son of Heaven has arrived!" ”

The civil servants stopped talking and took their places. In the kneeling of the hundred officials, Zhu Youzhen walked into the Huangji Hall with great ambition.

is different from the restrained appearance of walking on the throne without squinting in the past, and now Zhu Youzhen walks very confidently. After he entered the Imperial Palace, he first stopped on the royal road to observe the civil officials kneeling on the ground, scanned the main hall, and then slowly walked to the throne.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the "hypocrisy theory" was extremely popular, and the gentry advocated that the Son of Heaven was a scourge and should be offered up and left alone. This kind of rhetoric deeply affected the court of the Chongzhen Dynasty. In the past, Zhu Youzhen said that it was a little ugly, but it was just a tablet provided by a civil official.

But now that he controls the situation in the capital and has found a way out of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen is completely different. Today's Zhu Youzhen is truly a king who turns the tide.

With a flick of the front of the dragon robe, Zhu Youzhen sat on the dragon chair.

"Flat!"

The officials also found that the momentum of the Son of Heaven was different from the past, and they looked at each other on the ground for a while before they got up with a heavy face.

The officials of Honglu Temple sang loudly: "If there is something to play, there is nothing to retreat!" ”

Although the officials of Honglu Temple started the early dynasty, today's Zhu Youzhen was full of majesty, and the civil officials were obviously a little hesitant, and no one spoke for a while.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the civil officials with solemn expressions, stroked his beard, and did not speak.

The court was silent, and no one stood up to break the silence for a long time.

The officials of Honglu Temple didn't understand what was going on, and shouted again: "Something is happening!" Nothing to retreat from! ”

Finally, Yu Qingdao, the head of the household, stood up and took the lead.

"Holy Lord, I heard that the Holy Lord wants to give Juntian?"

Someone finally stepped up. Hearing Yu Qingdao's words, the officials looked at the Son of Heaven and saw the Son of Heaven's statement.

Zhu Youzhen met the gaze of the civil officials and nodded.

Wang Chengen, who was standing beside Zhu Youzhen, shouted loudly: "The Son of Heaven has an order, and in the near future, he will be given all the land in my Ming Dynasty, and the officials and gentry will pay for the grain in one piece!" Set up a court to suppress the illegal and powerful! Protect patents and safeguard the interests of craftsmen! ”

Patent or something, Yu Qingdao didn't bother to listen to it, he heard the six words of the official gentry paying for food, and his face was red with anxiety.

"Holy Lord, this move is ridiculous!"

Hearing Yu Qingdao's words, Zhu Youzhen's face sank and he looked at Yu Qingdao.

Wang Chengen shouted angrily: "Yu Qingdao, do you know what the crime of great disrespect is? ”

Yu Qingdao turned his heart sideways and said: "The king wants to take the life of the minister, how can the minister still make a promise?" My ancestors have a legal system, and the scholars and the Son of Heaven rule the world together. If today's son is bewitched by the Tianjin Li thief, he wants to take away the fundamental interests of our doctors! Don't you know that dogs will jump over the wall when they are in a hurry, let alone doctors? ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at this Yu Qingdao and frowned.

Wang Chengen looked at the Son of Heaven, and saw that the Son of Heaven had no intention of retreating, so he sneered and said to Yu Qingdao: "Yu Qingdao, what do you mean by this, do you mean that if the Son of Heaven is all flat and Tianfu, the gentry will rebel?" ”

Yu Qingdao snorted coldly and said: "Scholars have been cold for decades, and one day they will get fame in the gold list exam, what do you want?" It is nothing more than to become a human being, so that someone can bring the field to give, so that there will be no more hunger, cold and poverty. Today, the Son of Heaven will seize all the interests of the scholars with a single sentence, and in the future, who will read the book of the sage hard? ”

"If the Son of Heaven acts like this, if the people of the world do not agree, the Jiangbei Army will not agree!"

Zhu Youzhen couldn't listen to it anymore when he heard this. This Yu Qingdao also jumped off the wall in a hurry, and he nakedly threatened himself with the rebellion of the Jiangbei Army.

Zhu Youzhen put his hand on the armrest of the dragon chair and said, "Yu Qingdao, do you know that what you said is a big rebellion, but you can be punished?" ”

Yu Qingdao obviously let it go, and scolded loudly: "The Son of Heaven and the Li thief colluded, did not distinguish between loyalty and treachery, did not distinguish between good and evil, and put the butcher knife on the corporal doctor in the world, then everyone in the world can rebel!" If the Son of Heaven really seizes the tax-free rights of scholars, I am afraid that from Sichuan to Nanzhili, there will be a lot of anti-flag, and the world will no longer serve the Lord! ”

Although Zhu Youzhen took control of the capital, it was clear that these scholars had not yet become accustomed to the new situation.

This Yu Qingdao still uses the previous set of skills to confront Zhu Youzhen. He felt that with the Jiangbei Army supporting him in the south, the civilian officials were not afraid of the Son of Heaven no matter what. When the 160,000 Jiangbei Army and the 80,000 New Army fight, I am afraid that the strength of the Jiangbei Army will have the upper hand. What if the Son of Heaven controls the capital?

In recent years, the situation of the Jiangbei army separating the south of the Yangtze River has become more and more obvious, and the south has basically been under the control of Zhu Youzhen except for paying taxes to the imperial court.

This is not caused by Li Zhi, in fact, in the original history, there were many places in the Ming Dynasty that were actually divided. For example, Zheng Zhilong's Zheng family seized Fujian. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Zheng Chenggong relied on Fujian and the Manchu Qing Dynasty to fight for several years in history, and once attacked Nanjing. From the last years of Chongzhen to Fujian in the Southern Ming Dynasty, it was completely the Zheng family who had the final say. The Son of Heaven can't control anything else except collecting taxes.

Another example is Zuo Liangyu in the original history, who actually occupied the Huguang area and did not take the court in his eyes at all. At that time, Zuo Liangyu gathered hundreds of thousands of thieves and became the de facto "King of Huguang".

At the local level, Zuo Liangyu completely relied on forcibly expropriating money from the people to obtain the necessary military funds, as if collecting taxes. In the center, Zuo Liangyu formed an alliance with the Donglin Party, and even sent hundreds of thousands of troops to crusade against the Southern Ming Dynasty after the Donglin Party lost power, playing the banner of the Qing monarch's side.

In the Chongzhen Dynasty, the feudal townization of local warlords has always been a clear trend. Although Li Zhi's crossing has changed history, this kind of feudal townization has not changed.

It is precisely by relying on the strength of the Jiangbei Army that Yu Qingdao has the confidence to call for Zhu Youzhen.

However, the existence of the Jiangbei Army could not threaten Zhu Youzhen. Seeing that the Ming Dynasty was sinking little by little, the current Zhu Youzhen found his way in Tianjin and had to stand up to save the Zhu family's world, and he was no longer the worried emperor in the past.

"Yu Qingdao is very disrespectful, drag it down, a hundred court staffs!"