"It's ridiculous! The system of road guidance has been banned for many years, the people of the Ming Dynasty have the freedom to move, all officials and individuals are not allowed to illegally detain, restrict their freedom, this Confucian family is a descendant of the saint, not to mention the prohibition of mining, but now it is still restricting the freedom of the people in the village with the clan contract, and even privately set up criminal laws to deal with it, what do they want to do, do they want to set up another court? ”

Zhu Houzhao said angrily, he really didn't expect that Daming would have such a rule as the "escape law".

Wen Zhengming, the attendant who accompanied him, didn't dare to say a word after hearing this, thinking to himself that His Majesty the Emperor wanted to treat the Confucian Mansion as a rebel, but this Confucian Mansion did do some things, but how many clans in the world are not like this, and the clan covenant is sometimes more stringent than the law, and even more feared by the people.

But Wen Zhengming saw that Zhu Houzhao had just said to him, and he had to reply: "Your Majesty, although Nanzhili has set up a police department, and the administrative reform system implemented by Zhang Cifu has included the rank of lieutenant chief in the assessment of the officials, but the clan power is still very strong among the people, and the people are under the control of the clan and are also protected by the clan. ”

At this time, Yan Song, the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, replied: "However, the minister has been in charge of Nanzhili for a period of time, and now he is promoting sweet potatoes in the world, but he also found that in recent years, the gap between the clan and the people is getting bigger and bigger, even if it is a scholar, and even the eldest son of the family is trying to escape the control of the clan." ”

Zhu Houzhao knew that the ancient society of agrarian civilization gave birth to clans, but now listening to Yan Song's words, he seems to also realize that with the development of capitalism, it may have led to the collapse of the clan society, which plays an important role in stabilizing the agrarian society.

"Back to Your Majesty, the people along the coast are not willing to stay in the countryside to farm, but would rather go to the countryside to work, so they earn a lot of wages, and in this way, the old squires of the clan naturally have no tenant farmers who cultivate the land, and naturally have to be strictly constrained by the clan, and the scholars can study and become officials in the past and rely on the clan, but now they rely more on the popularization of education in the imperial court, so the scholars are no longer grateful for the support of the clan, but they are also bound by the clan, so they also compete to escape from the clan;

"Of course, the gap between the clan and the people is the most obvious, many clans in order to control their own people to go out, can only be strictly forbidden by clan covenant, but now everyone in the world knows that the benefits of working are greater than the benefits of farming, so there are still hundreds of people fleeing", Yan Song replied.

"It seems that my Ming civil society is really changing, the imperial court must keep up with this change, the clan is no longer only able to maintain a peaceful and prosperous world, but also hinder the people from getting rich, increase social contradictions, although I Ming advocate the autonomy of the villagers, but this clan covenant is obviously illegal!"

Zhu Houzhao said that he saw that the hands and feet of those people surnamed Kong were about to be cut off, and he hurriedly instructed Yijinyiwei: "You go and stop it, rescue those people, and then Guo Rong, you will report this matter to the officials of Shandong according to the prosecutor in the name of Guo Rong, the left governor of Jinyiwei, and let them deal with this matter." ”

Guo Rong took the order.

And Jin Yiwei, who was ordered by Zhu Hou to rescue those people, also went to the mining area, and successfully rescued these people, but not long after, Kong Wenshao also learned that Jin Yiwei appeared in his mining area and rescued several ordinary people of his own clan, and he was also very nervous for a while, thinking: "Why did Jin Yiwei suddenly interfere in the affairs of his own clan?" Could it be that Your Majesty is still sending people to keep an eye on our Kong family? What did they want to do when they arrested these people, did they want to use them as witnesses to accuse our clan of internal affairs to the front of the emperor? ”

The more Kong Wenshao thought about it, the more terrible he felt, and he couldn't help but slap the table for a while: "If you don't do it, this brocade guard can't let him return to the capital and pass on the seventh master!" ”

The Shandong envoy was also taken aback after getting Guo Rong's text, and hurriedly brought the officers and soldiers to Dongchang Mansion to check.

However, when the Shandong envoy had just left Jinan, someone brought the news to Kong Wenshao, and Kong Wenshao suspended the opening of the mine in Dongchang Mansion after knowing it, but instead let the people who were forcibly used in the mine have no food to eat for a while and starve to death.

Kong Wenshao instead took advantage of this incident to inform the Jinyi Wei of disturbing the place to the imperial historian Li Huaizuo of Shandong, and the judge was embarrassed and treacherous, so that the Kong industry was stopped, and the landless Kong people suffered from hunger and cold because they had no work to do, so that several people starved to death.

"The descendants of the saint are so abused by the corrupt official Quan Jue, it is truly hateful!"

After Li Huai knew about it, he impeached Jinyiwei and Wang Shou, the envoy of Shandong.

Meanwhile.

When Zhu Houzhao was about to leave Dongchang Mansion, he encountered a team of thieves.

This group of thieves didn't know that Emperor Zhu Houzhao was sitting in the carriage, but because they knew that the Jinyi guards who appeared in the coal mine opened by the Kong family were in it, so they directly rode over to destroy this team of Jinyi guards.

Hearing the whistling of horses outside and the brocade guards nervously "There are assassins!" Shouting, Zhu Houzhao also became inexplicably nervous, he really didn't think that he would encounter horse thieves when he went out on patrol in Guannai, and it was in a region like Shandong on the side of the Grand Canal, which made him begin to doubt his Ming security.

Of course, although Zhu Houzhao went out on patrol in micro-clothes, there were not a lot of plainclothes Jinyi guards who followed him, and there was even a company of guards, even if he opened the rifled gun, he directly shot at the invading enemy.

Crackling bullets rang out.

More than a dozen horse thieves fell to the ground immediately, and the brocade guards were also very desperate because they were protecting the emperor, and they also killed and injured more than a dozen horse thieves when they were in close combat, and the rest of the horse thieves saw this only to find that they had encountered a strong enemy.

But this assassination experience also touched Zhu Houzhao a lot, and he almost didn't ease up for a while.

Frankly speaking, this is the first time Zhu Houzhao has been assassinated.

Even if he had gone to Saiwai, no Mongol cavalry dared to assassinate him.

But this time, Zhu Houzhao didn't expect that he would be assassinated, and he was still in the mainland.

Of course, what Zhu Houzhao is still unsure of is who wanted to assassinate him, and he was so stupid.

Zhu Houzhao admitted that he must have enemies as an emperor, but there are many people who want to protect themselves because of their interests and emotions, and there is no doubt that it is impossible to assassinate himself!

But what Zhu Houzhao didn't know was that in fact, these horse thieves didn't want to assassinate him, but wanted to get rid of the Jinyiwei who had opened the coal mine opened by the Kong family.

It's just that these horse thieves stabbed the emperor by mistake.

After all, there are still a few people who can know that the emperor is on patrol here, and it is naturally even more difficult to know whether Kong Wenshao, who is far away in Shandong, or Kong Wenshao, who has been removed from his title.

But no matter what, Zhu Houzhao's current mood is extremely bad.

At this time, Guo Rong, the left governor of the Jinyi Guard, came over: "Your Majesty, the injured horse thief confessed that it was a person named Seventh Master who made their move, saying that they wanted to destroy our team of Jinyi Guards, but they didn't expect that we would hide so many people." ”

"Seventh Master, who is Seventh Master?" Zhu Houzhao asked.

"Kong Wentai, ranked seventh in the clan, is quite famous in the Shandong Cao Gang and Yaxing, and is called the Seventh Master by the Jianghu people", Guo Rong replied.

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but smile coldly: "What a Kong family, he actually dares to do something to kill people and destroy his mouth!" ”

And at this time.

Zhu Houzhao also received a note from the Metropolitan Procuratorate about the impeachment of the Shandong Inspectorate and Jinyiwei by Li Huai, the governor of the imperial history, and he couldn't help laughing angrily for a while:

"This Kong Wenshao's energy is quite big, but he will beat a rake, not only to destroy the mouth of Jinyiwei, but also to sue Jinyiwei and Shandong according to the judge, and pass on the decree to Qi Xun, the chief military officer of Denglai, Shandong, Kong Wenshao's private decree, illegal mining, cruelty to the villagers, I have abolished his Yansheng dukedom, and still dominate the township with the family of the lord, there is no doubt that there is a conspiracy to rebel and stand on its own in Qufu regardless of the discipline and law of the imperial court, Qi Xun led the troops to eliminate it as a thief, the family property is confiscated, and the land is divided into the township, The Ministry of Officials dismissed Kong Yanze of Qufu Zhixian County and Shandong Inspector according to the imperial history, and the East Factory Inspectorate Department investigated these two people! ”

Zhu Houzhao said this, Wen Zhengming was quite surprised, he didn't expect that Emperor Zhu Houzhao would directly punish Kong Wenshao as a conspiracy against the crime, and directly dispatch the army to deal with the Kong family, this is the rhythm of his execution, and the land is divided into the township, which is to cut off Kong Wenshao and other Kong descendants in their hometown.

Even Wen Zhengming knew that once the imperial court dealt with the Kong family like this, then the descendants of the Kong family would have no day to turn over.

At this time, Kong Wenshao didn't know that he was about to be wiped out, and now he still let the coal mine open, in his opinion, the impeachment of Jinyiwei and Shandong according to the imperial history, no matter what the result is, will no longer have anything to do with him, because no matter what, it is a matter between the court officials.

Kong Wenshao believes that as long as Jinyiwei can't find himself, he will be fine.

But what Kong Wenshao didn't expect was that before he could put his mind down, Qi Xun led his officers and soldiers to surround the Confucian Mansion in Qufu.

Kong Wenshao was very stunned: "Chief soldier Qi, what are you doing here?" ”

"By order, exterminate the traitor Kong Wenshao clan! I said, Mr. Kong, you are also bold, dare to assassinate the current emperor! Even if you don't know that the emperor was in that team of brocade guards at the time, and the brocade guards were the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, you can't think about destroying your mouth! ”

As soon as Qi Xun said this, Kong Wenshao naturally understood everything, and fell to the ground directly for a while, muttering to himself: "Your Majesty? Did the emperor come to Shandong? How is this possible! ”

Qi Xun didn't say anything, only ordered people to fence off the Confucian Mansion and not let one go, after all, he had only learned about it from others, and for a while he understood why he had received a holy decree to destroy the Confucian Mansion.

At this time, Kong Wenshao suddenly knelt in front of Qi Xun after calming down a little, and cried directly: "General Qi Bing, Kong is really wronged, how dare Kong assassinate the emperor!" Qi Zongbing, you have to be aware that Kong is a descendant of a saint, how dare he have such a disloyal heart! ”

"The holy decree has been issued, Mr. Kong, you don't have to quibble anymore, besides, don't you Confucian ministers often say that the king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die, why bother to quibble!"

Qi Xun waved his hand as he spoke, and shouted: "Take it away!" ”

At the same time, Qi Xun pulled out his knife, and at this time, Kong Wentai also walked out: "Chief Qi Bing, what are you going to do?" ”

As soon as Kong Wentai's words fell, Qi Xun stabbed him with a knife: "By order, deal with the rebels!" ”

Except for Kong Wenshao, who was escorted to Beijing and severely punished, the rest of the Confucian descendants were executed, and the fields of the Confucian descendants were distributed to other Confucian commoners in Qufu, and at the same time, all the mines opened by the Confucian Mansion were also stopped.

Zhu Houzhao didn't say anything after knowing about this, and he didn't think that he would deal with the Kong family to this point, but he didn't expect that the Kong family would hit the knife edge that he hated for the private mining of the people, and because of the mining to enslave his own people, and even set up a harsh clan covenant privately, Zhu Houzhao saw that it was not a benevolent clan but a cannibalistic underworld group.

But Zhu Houzhao didn't know that when he got rid of a Kong family, there were still many clans like the Kong family that played the role of cannibalism.

After the ban on the mining of the Confucian family, it did not affect the production of the local people like the ban on the mining of the people in the barren areas, but liberated the local people, and coupled with Zhu Houzhao's removal of the Confucian family, the local people still had enough land for farming, and even alleviated the class contradictions in Shandong.

Zhu Houzhao found that the ban on mining is not a policy to hurt the people, for some areas with developed agriculture and a large amount of cultivated land, mining is the monopoly of the large gentry, and the ban on mining can curb the erosion of agricultural land by the big gentry for profit, so that the people can have more arable land for agricultural production.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao can also guess that the people in some places do live by mining, so it is still difficult for him to directly conclude that mining is strictly prohibited, and he still has to wait for the results of Zhang Xuan and others' inspections.

Zhu Houzhao went ashore after arriving in Zhenjiang, this time he did not go to Nanjing, but went directly to the Susong area, he wanted to see what the town in Jiangnan was like.

"Who told you to go into the city and sell it! Call me! ”

In Nanxun Town, Zhu Houzhao, who was dressed as a businessman, had just entered the town from an official road, when he saw a group of green skins knocking down a cart of raw silk that a man had brought into the city, and directly led four or five people to beat the man, and stepped on the raw silk in the man's hand on the ground.

Zhu Hou was still very surprised after taking care of it, and asked Liu Shi, a Jinyi guard who was familiar with Jiangnan society, who was stationed in the southern tour: "What's going on?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, this dealer did not sell the goods to the tooth shop according to the rules but transported it into the city to sell raw silk by himself, naturally he will be beaten by the tooth shop, according to the rules, whether the dealer sells cotton yarn and raw silk must be sold to the tooth shop, and then the tooth shop can sell it to the merchants, and the merchants can only buy cotton yarn and raw silk from the tooth shop, these tooth shops are also known as the industry tyrants, basically there is a not simple background behind."

Jinyi Wei Liu Shi replied.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing after hearing this: "I didn't expect that there are still these doorways in this Jiangnan market, this is all because the imperial court has not strengthened management at the grassroots level, which has made the commercial order so bad, and the people of Shengdou have no freedom to buy and sell!" The right to trade is monopolized in the hands of the wealthy! ”