Choi Chang-moo's words were like a spoonful of cold water poured into a pot of hot oil.

Suddenly, the entire court exploded.

The civil officials looked at each other angrily, looking at Cui Changwu as if they had seen a shameless enemy, and they couldn't wait to go up and slash this cabinet subordinate.

Zhang Buliang, the new secretary of the military department, was originally the governor of Sichuan, who stayed in Sichuan for more than ten years and had a good time with the local gentry. When he heard Cui Changwu's words at this time, his eyes widened and he stood up.

"The minister thinks that it is not feasible to change the law in Jiangnan. The north and the south of the Yangtze River have different geography, different customs, and different human feelings. A change that is successful in the North can become a bad law in the South. ”

"Most of the gentry in the south are scholarly heirlooms, based on benevolence and righteousness. These families treated the tenant farmers very well, and would never exploit the people. Therefore, although there have been many disasters in the south in recent years, there has been no large-scale bandit rebellion. ”

"The new law of the Son of Heaven must not be easily spread to the south of the Yangtze River, otherwise it will definitely provoke a large-scale civil uprising."

Cui Changwu frowned, and said to Zhang Buliang: "In the meaning of Shangshu, this gentry escapes the field endowment, accepts the offer to help others escape the field endowment, collects the land rent from the small people that should not be there, and gathers the whole world in his own court, so that the tax of the imperial court is lower and lower year by year, which is all justified." ”

Zhang Buliang was so choked by Cui Changwu that he couldn't speak, pointed at Cui Changwu and scolded: "Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh!" This court is full of Confucianism who has read poetry and books, all of them are from Jinshi, what do you know when you show it? ”

Hearing this, the civil officials behind Zhang Buliang were so excited that their eyes lit up one by one. They hated Cui Changwu, who represented Li Zhi, to the bone, and when they heard Zhang Buliang scolding Cui Changwu's background, they all felt extremely happy.

When Zhang Guanghang, a scholar of Dongge University, heard this scolding, he couldn't stand it anymore, and stood up and said: "Zhang Shangshu, Cui Ge is always a cabinet scholar appointed by the Son of Heaven, and he is a virtuous person recommended by King Qi, how can you be because of your background..."

However, before Zhang Guanghang's words were finished, Yang Shangxian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, stood up and said: "Governing the country is different from governing the family, and the only thing needed to govern the family is a scale, a ruler, and a ring wood." However, the knowledge and insight required to govern the country can only be known by a painstaking person who has read the scriptures and history a lot. ”

"Cui Changwu was born as a child, he is only thirty years old, and his family is acceptable. Governing the country is really a bit reluctant. ”

Hearing that the two Shangshu jumped out and nakedly attacked Cui Changwu's origin, Zhu Youzhen's face sank.

Sitting on the throne, Zhu Youzhen didn't say a word.

Cui Changwu was scolded by the two Shangshu.

He said slowly: "King Qi used the Han Shi to govern the place in Tianjin, and one town and nine provinces were prosperous and rich, and there was no chaos at all!" I think the middle school students in Tianjin have a much higher level of governance than you Confucians! ”

Hearing Cui Changwu's words, Zhang Buliang and Yang Shangxian looked at each other for a while, and they were a little speechless.

Cui Changwu waved the sleeves of his official robe and said loudly: "Shengshang, Zhang Buliang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Yang Shangxian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, have all organized fundraising activities to fund the Jiangbei rebels in the local area, and they are extremely evil. This time the previous sin was not washed, and the two of them were in tandem in the capital, trying to prevent the saint from being in Jiangnan Junping Tianfu, and the crime was unforgivable! ”

"The minister asked the saint to take down the two and put them in the Dongchang prison for careful interrogation."

Hearing Cui Changwu's words, Zhang Buliang blew his beard with wide eyes and shouted: "Cui Changwu, you dare to take the old man as a yellow-toothed child?" The old man has been in Sichuan for more than ten years, you took the old man, are you not afraid that the whole Shu will raise the anti-flag? ”

Cui Changwu sneered and said, "This official is not talented, and he has more than 100,000 tiger troops from King Qi as his aid. I'm going to see if the local military towns in Sichuan have the courage to challenge the Tiger Army. ”

Zhang Buliang's eyes widened, and he pointed at Cui Changwu sharply, and said, "You... You! ”

Cui Changwu bowed to the Son of Heaven and said, "Holy Lord, these two people are called officials, but they are actually anti-thieves. If you don't take down the two, I'm afraid that no one in the world will accept the changes of the Son of Heaven. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at Cui Changwu, was silent for a while, and nodded.

When Wang Dehua saw this nod, he turned his heart sideways, rushed forward with Dongchang Fanzi, and dragged the stunned Zhang Buliang and Yang Shangxian down.

The civil officials in the court were dumbfounded.

Choi Chang-mu was more ferocious than they thought.

Relying on Li Zhi's support, this Cui Changwu is more anxious than the Son of Heaven to change the law in Jiangnan.

Looking at the current situation, Li Zhi wants to be in Jiangnan Juntian more than the Son of Heaven. The Son of Heaven was given to increase taxes and reduce rebellions, while Li Zhi and Choi Changwu were given purely to return the gentry's swallowed cream to the poor peasants.

The change of the Son of Heaven can also be discussed, the Son of Heaven still needs civil officials to govern the country, and he needs loyal and filial scholars to maintain the entire ruling order. And Lee Sik and Choi Chang-moo's new policies have no room at all.

Li Zhi didn't need anything. In Li Zhi's eyes, there are only iron-blooded soldiers and fairness and justice, and he does not take the vested interests of the civil officials and gentry into account at all.

The civil officials looked at each other for a while, and suddenly they were gloomy.

The new pavilion elder, Dong Youwei, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion University, shook the front of his official robe and knelt down in the court with a plop.

"Holy! Holy! In the three hundred years of my Ming Dynasty, scholars and doctors ruled the world together, and only then did we have the Yin Yin Taiping in the south of the Yangtze River. If the saint changes the law so quickly and suddenly, I am afraid that there will be a great chaos in Jiangnan, and I don't know how many people will fall to the ground, and I don't know how many loyal ministers will become traitors. ”

"Holy Lord, you can't listen to King Qi's words! The law of King Qi can be applied to Tianjin, but it must not be applied to the whole territory of Jiangnan! ”

"The loyalty of thousands of scholars in the world is all in the thought of the Son of Heaven!"

Shouting and shouting, Dong Youwei was already in tears, and he couldn't cry.

Dong Youwei knelt for this, and the civil officials in the court all knelt down.

The old jinshi had tears and snot one by one, and they couldn't kneel on the ground. Some people kept kowtowing, and some people cried loudly to the sky, and the scene was suddenly chaotic, and they couldn't be quiet for a long time.

If you can't come hard like Zhang Buliang, the civil officials will come soft.

The right to exempt the gentry in Jiangnan is to be the life of the gentry. Without the right to tax exemption, how could the gentry accept land contributions? Without the income from land rent, how could the gentry support their families?

As representatives of the gentry, as members of the gentry, the officials from the Jinshi were even desperate for their lives to stop them.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the civil officials who were crying on the ground and took a breath.

He turned his head to look at Choi Chang-moo.

"Auxiliary, how's it going?"

Cui Changwu frowned, feeling that the words of the Son of Heaven had put all the pressure on him.

Isn't the Son of Heaven ready to change the law in Jiangnan?

But even if the Son of Heaven is not ready to change the law, the King of Qi will change the law in Jiangnan and rescue the people of Jiangnan who are exploited by the gentry.

Cui Changwu replied loudly: "The law of King Qi can be implemented throughout the country, and there is no difference between Jiangnan and Jiangbei!" ”

All the civil officials on the ground stopped crying in an instant, staring at Cui Changwu with anger and hatred in their eyes.

Zhu Youzhen took a breath, nodded, and said, "Since Elder Cui Ge said so, presumably King Qi also means the same." The matter of changing the law in Jiangnan was decided. The auxiliary minister is solely responsible for the deployment of personnel and the specific implementation. ”

Cui Changwu bowed his hand and said, "The minister obeys the order!" ”