Yin Qian watched Gu Beixin, the son of Gu Hanlin, cry so miserably, and couldn't help but be moved by his filial piety, of course, more importantly, he also knew that once the governor Wang Shouren was so unscrupulous to arrest the Jiangnan gentry, it would not be a good thing for his Jiangnan gentry.

Therefore, Yin Qian hurriedly personally helped Gu Beixin: "Good boy, don't worry, the old man can't care about Ling Zun's affairs!" You go back first, prepare for the exam, and leave this matter to the old man! ”

This Gu Beixin went back with a thousand thanks, and at this time, someone from Yin Qian came over: "Master, there is news from Jiangbei that the emperor has come to Jiangnan, saying that he wants to sacrifice Xiaoling!" ”

"What! The emperor has come to Jiangnan! How did the ministers of the court and the central government do it, and let the emperor go out of the palace to the south, and no one in the court dared to obstruct it! It's ridiculous! The emperor came to Jiangnan, no matter what he did, it was not a good thing! ”

Yin Qian couldn't help but sigh, and said secretly: "After Taizong moved north, the emperor did not come to the south again, in order not to hurt the Jiangnan scholars, so as to win the respect of scholars, but now this majesty suddenly went south, it is really a ridiculous and dumb king!" No wonder there will be a matter of punishing the gentry and the ten clans, and there will be something that will make Yang Ting and Mr. Wang! ”

Of course, Yin Qian could only say this in his heart, the emperor came to Jiangnan, he couldn't stop it, and he couldn't turn a blind eye, and even took the initiative to meet him, but because of this, he thought of Gu Xian's arrest by Wang Shouren, the governor of the same governor, and wanted to rely on his identity as a gentry to control the government and deter the magistrates in Jiangnan, so he hurriedly asked:

"Prepare quickly, when Your Majesty comes to Nanjing, he will definitely pass through Dantu, and the old man will go to meet him at that time!"

……

Zhu Houzhao and his entourage did stop when they arrived at Dantu and prepared to go to Nanjing by land.

At this time, Yin Qian also took a group of officials and gentry here for a long time, and when he saw Zhu Houzhao's appearance, he immediately shouted long live, and the gongs and drums were noisy for a while, and the salute was deafening, but it was also very lively.

Zhu Houzhao also saw Yin Qian, but he didn't have much impression of Hongzhi's early ministers, after all, he was still young at that time, so he could only ask Shoufu Ma Wensheng now: "Who is this person?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, this person is Yin Qian, the head of the household department of Hongzhi in the fifth year of Zhishi, the old Shangshu has always been very favored by the emperor, and now he must know that you are coming to Jiangnan, so he is specially here to greet him."

Marven replied.

Zhu Houzhao only smiled slightly when he saw this, but he felt that this Yin Qian was so diligent and had other purposes, but in any case, now, Zhu Houzhao couldn't refuse Yin Qian's kindness, and when he saw that Yin Qian wanted to salute himself, he hurriedly shouted "Excuse me" and asked:

"Lao Shangshu has always been in good health?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the old minister's body and bones are still quite healthy, and now I hear that Your Majesty is in the Dantu, so I have come to greet you, if it is too late today, the minister has the courage to ask Your Majesty to collapse the cold house", Yin Qian said.

"It's rare to see the good intentions of the old book, I'm right!"

Zhu Houzhao also wanted to see what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of Yin Qian's gourd, so he agreed, and asked Yin Qian to personally guide him.

And Yin Qian also took this opportunity to say in front of Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty has every opportunity, and he still took the time to rush to the capital to worship Taizu, it can be seen that Your Majesty is benevolent and filial, but Your Majesty does not know anything, and some officials do not appreciate Your Majesty's benevolence. ”

Zhu Houzhao stopped and continued to follow Yin Qian's footsteps, glanced at Yin Qian, and thought that this old Shangshu really had a purpose.

And Yin Qian saw that Zhu Houzhao stopped, and hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, why did you stop suddenly?" ”

Zhu Houzhao smiled coldly and asked Yin Qian: "Yin Shangshu, are you a Shangshu in the court, or a Shangshu who has been sent to Shi?" ”

"What does Your Majesty mean by this, the minister has already been raised for more than ten years!" Yin Qian replied.

"You also know that you have been raised, why do you dare to interfere with the government affairs, slander me, and comment on the ministers in the court without authorization?!"

Zhu Houzhao asked coldly, and then said: "Come on, you can't copy Yin Qian's mansion, you don't have any family property, and your family members will be assigned to Dongfan!" ”

Yin Qian was shocked, he just wanted to justify that the reason why he commented on the courtiers was because he couldn't sit back and watch the virtuous gentry being detained at will, but now he didn't expect that His Majesty would raid his own house before he finished speaking, so he asked with a trace of puzzlement: "Your Majesty! What is the sin?! ”

"Your Majesty, Lord Yin is also an old minister, although he does not discuss the government, but it is estimated that he was also invited by others, and I hope that Your Majesty will spare him for his crimes!"

Ma Wensheng, the first assistant to the cabinet, persuaded at this time.

And Zhu Houzhao snorted: "Rao? Why spare?

Today, he is a well-known scholar of the household department, who can use his identity to slander the courtiers and interfere with the government in front of me;

In his day, his children and grandchildren will be able to rely on their identity as Yin Qian's descendants to reverse right and wrong in front of officials and abuse the people!

Now that you have returned to your hometown, you should take care of your old age, who gave you the power to slander the courtiers! Intend to influence the government! If you don't punish you this time, the officials of Nanzhili will definitely think that you officials and gentry who have returned to their hometowns here must not be provoked!

For this, it is also necessary to punish severely!

But hang yourselves because of your old age, lest you continue to be a calamity to the country in the future! ”

"Your Majesty! The old minister is just pleading for mercy, and I hope that Your Majesty will forgive me! ”

Where did Yin Qian think that he was just using his identity as an official gentry to discuss the matter in front of Zhu Houzhao, so as to persuade the emperor not to let Wang Yangming treat the Jiangnan gentry so roughly, but he didn't expect that Emperor Zhu Houzhao would be even more ruthless, and he had just expressed his opinion, so he wanted to confiscate his home on the grounds of interfering with government affairs, and forced himself to hang himself!

This is even more ruthless than Wang Shouren, the governor of Nanzhili!

But Zhu Houzhao still did not spare this Yin Qian.

Because Zhu Houzhao knew that these gentry in Jiangnan relied on their own privileges to dare to run rampant in the countryside and dig the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and Yin Qian is the representative of these gentry, and it can even be said that they have the greatest privilege and the most fearless, they can even directly use their power in the court to threaten the government and even the emperor, so Zhu Houzhao must teach Yin Qian a lesson, he wants to let the entire Jiangnan gentry understand the consequences of interfering with the government.

Yin Qian finally chose to hang himself, but what Zhu Houzhao didn't expect was that his own people confiscated nearly five million taels of silver in Yin Qian's house, and many of them were Western silver, indicating that the Yin Qian family also made a lot of money from sea trade.

Zhu Houzhao had to admit that although he had not yet opened the sea, these Jiangnan gentry seemed to be beginning to enjoy the benefits of maritime trade, because in Zhu Houzhao's impression, it was these Jiangnan officials who copied the most silver, and the amount of cash that confiscated Xie Qian's family back then was even three or four times that of Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, etc.

What a terrible thing this is, most of the gold and silver of an empire are controlled in the hands of the Jiangnan gentry chaebol, which means that this group can control the world!

……

Zhu Houzhao didn't know how rich Jiangnan was, but he knew that now Daming is still the richest country in the world, and most of Daming's wealth is still mostly concentrated in Jiangnan.

The important purpose of Zhu Houzhao's southward trip this time was to ensure his legal income in Jiangnan, and not to let this rich land become a tax haven for the gentry groups!

Because of this, he brought Ma Wensheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Liu Jin, the chief supervisor of the cabinet, and other central officials of the central government, in order to control Jiangnan in a short period of time and express the presence of the central court to the gentry in Jiangnan.

"From now on, you will immediately take over the affairs of the southern provinces, especially the southern provinces, such as taxes, soldiers, money and grain, and at the same time immediately carry out major plans;

Since Taizong still retains the status of Jinling in Nanjing, it can't just be used as a place for retirement, and the Nanzhili area is re-assessed! If the tax arrears are owed, let the governor Wang Shouren recover them, and those who are unqualified for the crime will be deposed! ”

After Zhu Houzhao said, Ma Wensheng, Liu Jin, Wang Shu, and others immediately went to Nanjing's Ministry of Officials, Households, and Soldiers.

At this time, Wang Yangming also interrogated the results, and also gave the water bandits entrenched near Zhenjiang and the pirate nest in Chongming County to a swarm of bees, and even got a lot of new evidence, and Wang Yangming was not polite, even if he found out one and arrested another!

On this day, not long after Zhu Houzhao arrived in Nanjing, he asked Wang Yangming: "Now these Jiangnan gentry who have broken the law have all confessed?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, they all confessed, they were all very cowardly, they were all recruited as soon as they were sentenced, and now we have arrested nearly fifty gentry, but after all, they are people with official status, how to deal with them, please give your Majesty an order."

"All of them were beheaded, and their families were exiled for 3,000 miles to go to Yungui to reclaim the wasteland! In addition, the main culprit was executed by a car split! Set an example! ”

Zhu Houzhao commanded.

"Yes!"

Wang Yangming responded, and immediately followed Zhu Houzhao's instructions, and early the next morning, he ordered the Jiesheng Guard to escort the Jiangnan gentry who colluded with the water bandits and pirates, as well as the captured water bandits and pirates, to the Nanjing City Gate, and prepared to execute these people in front of the people of the city!

At this time, the first offender, Yuan Chong'an, was naturally severely punished because of the heavy blood debt owed to the Tax Bureau.

Yuan Chong'an himself didn't expect that in less than half a year, he would be executed by Che Crack because of this incident, and what he didn't expect was that secretly instigating water bandits and pirates to make profits for his Jiangnan gentry would one day lead to his execution!

And Gu Xiantong didn't expect that he would also die at the hands of the so-called nephew Wang Shouren, he couldn't help but scold: "Wang Yun, you dare to treat the Jiangnan gentry like this!" Thou shalt not die well! You're going to break with the gentry of the whole world! You are betraying Rulin! You are disloyal and unfilial! Lingzun will be disgraced because of you! The Holy One will be infamous because of you! ”

Wang Shouren didn't bother to pay attention to this, he only knew in his heart that the current Ming Dynasty belonged to his own era, not the era when these Jiangnan gentry continued to enjoy privileges.

Wang Shouren, the governor of Nanzhili, threw away the arrow and shouted: "Cut!" ”

Suddenly, there was the sound of slashing the ground and chopping heads.