Zhu Youzhen hurriedly shouted: "Imperial sister-in-law, I don't want to kill the imperial brother, I just want to follow the story of Yingzong, and then support Ci Ran to ascend the throne." ”

Zhang Yan sneered: "It seems that you think of me as a brainless person, what happened to Yingzong's affairs in the end?" How dare you imprison your imperial brother? Unless you don't want to die, you dare to make Ci Ran the emperor, unless you want to die in twenty years? I'm stupid, but I'm not as stupid as you think. I used to be blind, so you can do it yourself. ”

Seeing Zhang Yan leave mercilessly, without even looking at him, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but feel dead. shouted: "Brother Huang, my brother knows that he is wrong, please spare my life." ”

Zhu Youxiao glanced at him lightly, waved his hand, and Wei Zhongxian asked Zhu Youzhen to drag him out. Zhu Youzhen kept shouting "Brother Huang spare", and Zhu Youzhen ignored it.

After Zhu Youjian went out, Zhu Youxiao said: "Zhang Weixian rebelled because we fined him money?" Is that a little money? ”

Wei Zhongxian replied: "He didn't answer Zhang Weixian's words, but kept shouting that he wanted to face the saint, and wanted to escort him to interrogate?" ”

"Let's take it all, first Zhang Weixian, then Wang Qia, and finally Huang Taiji. I'm going to ask them one by one to see what they have to say. ”

As soon as Zhang Weixian entered the hall, he didn't kneel down or speak, just looked at Zhu Youxiao in a daze.

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "It seems that the British public has a lot of grievances in his heart, can you tell me about it." ”

Zhang Weixian knew that he could not be spared, and as for his family, he was afraid that it would be difficult to escape. Although the family of the Shanxi businessman was not implicated much last time, it was just an affair and a rebellion.

Since they are all dead, let's die hard. He nodded and said, "The minister does have resentment in his heart, I don't know if His Majesty wants to hear it." ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "You say come and listen." ”

Zhang Weixian said: "Your Majesty may think that the minister has no reason to rebel, but he just fined some money, as for it?" But would the minister really rebel because of a little money? The reason why the minister wants to rebel is because His Majesty has blocked our way, and if we don't rebel, we will soon become like ordinary people, and finally become merchants? Landowner? Farmer? Your Majesty, the minister is a duke who rests with the country, not a mud leg in the ground. To put it mildly, half of the Ming Dynasty was beaten down by the ancestors of the ministers. There is a Zhang family in the country, and it is your Zhu family who sits in the country, but you should let us drink some soup when you eat meat, and you can't treat us as ordinary people. ”

"Your Majesty ascended the throne, and the ministers also contributed. But how did His Majesty treat the heroes after he ascended the throne? Forget about the reward, not only do you think of some way, so that we have to withdraw from a large number of fields, and we have to withdraw from some commercial fields, Your Majesty wants to force us to have to rebel. ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "It turns out that the last rent reduction hindered the British public, no wonder. But in terms of business, I didn't suppress you. ”

Zhang Weixian laughed miserably: "Your Majesty's increase in commercial taxes has greatly reduced our profits. And the agricultural cooperatives, which are also open in the cities, sell cheaper than us, and sell some goods that we can't get. In this way, what money can we still make? The Zhang family has no other livelihood, in this case, our store has closed down by 20%, and the profit is only less than 40%. We are a big family, relying on this to eat, you have blocked our financial routes, what if we don't do the opposite? ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "It's strange, some shops can't hold on, you don't check your own management problems, but you have to blame me for opening an agricultural cooperative." And the commercial tax even has to be paid for the factories I opened, and I have paid it, so why can't you pay it? ”

Zhang Weixian said: "Your Majesty, you are the emperor, and we are honorables." The country was beaten down by our ancestors, so of course we have to take some advantage, you equate yourself with those untouchables, how they pay taxes and how we pay taxes, we are no different from them, so what did our ancestors fight this country for? Is it just to live the same life as the untouchables? Your Majesty, the ministers can't figure it out. ”

Zhu Youxiao was silent, he remembered that in later generations, those second-generation people always felt that the country was brought down by their grandfather, so it should be them who sat on the country. Zhang Weixian's thoughts are relatively similar to them, but Zhu Youxiao does not know whether he should admire Zhang Weixian's thinking that it is close to that of people three or four hundred years later, or whether he should be sad that in the past three or four hundred years, the concept of the Chinese people has remained unchanged and has not changed at all.

But this is a feudal society of all evils, and in three or four hundred years, it will be a new generation that has already overthrown the emperor and aristocracy, and it will be an era in which the people are the masters of the country. It seems that this change of thinking is indeed the most difficult to change.

He smiled and said, "I have already understood what the British Duke meant. I don't think we're much more noble than the untouchables you are talking about, and whether we're noble or not has nothing to do with where we come from, but with what we do. When Taizu fought the country, his original intention was not to be the emperor, but to rescue our Han people from the iron hooves of the Mongols. It was only after defeating the Mongols that the Ming Dynasty was established at the invitation of the people of the world. ”

"As the descendants of our ancestors who fought the country back then, we don't have credit, so why should we enjoy the privilege?"

"Didn't our ancestors fight the country just to seal their wives and sons? So what about our privileges? Zhang Weixian asked strangely.

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "Fighting the country is just to seal his wife and son? You may be right, but I don't like it. In fact, when it comes to privileges, the most powerful person is of course the emperor, but of course you don't think there's anything wrong with the emperor enjoying privileges, so you didn't talk about it from this aspect when you fought back just now. However, I don't think that's right. Taizu fought for the Han people of the whole country, to overthrow the oppression of the Mongols on us, and to make the Han people in the world straighten their waists and no longer be the lowest people in the Yuan Empire. And now you regard the person Taizu wants to save as a pariah, that is your comrade, not a pariah. ”

Zhang Weixian looked at the emperor in surprise, and said in a trembling voice: "Do you think it is wrong for the emperor to enjoy privileges?" You're the emperor yourself. ”

Zhu Youxiao smiled: "Yes, I am the emperor." But I don't think the emperor deserves privileges, and of course, now I'm just telling you that one day, I'm going to say it to the people of the whole country. Taizu relieved the people from hanging upside down and saved the people from fire and water, not to create a new class on the heads of the people to oppress the people, so it is right that you cannot enjoy privileges. ”