Chapter 165: The Challenger
What else is there to choose from here?
Everyone will have to live under his authority in the future, and he really wants to be remembered, and one day he will casually find an excuse, not to mention the money, or his life will be gone. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Banknotes are money!
Anyway, as long as this thing can last for thousands of years, it is no different from a silver dollar.
In fact, these old landlords also understand that Yang Wangye is horizontal, but he is indeed an open person, and he also talks about the rules, and he really has to worry about their land when he is replaced by Kang Mazi, how can he be so troublesome, just a broken county order can make them bankrupt, from this point of view, this Daming Supervisor is more like a gentleman than Kang Mazi.
In this way, Yang Feng's soil gai was successfully launched.
Shang Shu of the Ministry of Land and Resources of the Ming Dynasty personally led a team from Nanjing to Beijing, and then began to go to various places to investigate and verify the situation of those large landowners who owned more than 1,000 mu of land, and all the excess part was forcibly sold to the state at the price of one mu and one dollar, and the state of course paid them dragon yuan bills. The land in the hands of these people is not millions of acres, but tens of millions of acres, but fortunately, Yang Feng only printed tens of millions of dragon yuan banknotes in the Imperial Bank, and asked the Imperial Bank to lend it to the Ministry of Finance in the form of treasury bonds, so he dared to eat no matter how much land he had.
Similarly, none of the big landlords who received the land money dared to exchange it, on the contrary, they all knew each other and deposited the money in the Imperial Bank, which could be regarded as giving face to Prince Yang.
And, of course, there's the stock market.
At the same time that the Yingtian Stock Exchange was booming, Yang Feng also opened the same Shuntian Stock Exchange, and it was opened in the modern Wangfujing, which was very difficult to plan because of his family's house in Beijing because his house was too big and the location was too good, so it was okay with this street. The land here was also quickly bought by him privately, and then the original buildings on both sides should be pushed, and the design and construction of new commercial streets began again, and in the future he is planning to tear down the walls of the imperial city, and simply open the imperial city.
Just as he was in high spirits to start construction, a special challenger appeared.
"Your Majesty, the eldest young master of the Kong family is waiting outside!"
Xiao Guizi approached Yang Wangye and said.
"Which Kong family?"
Yang Wangye said while looking at the drawings.
He is researching his first small steamer, the steam engine has been widely used in his factory over the years, and he can now make it himself, so the steam-powered steamer should naturally be launched, otherwise it will take a long time to ship from Jiangnan to the north, once the wind direction is unfavorable, if you change to a small steamer, you don't have to think about this problem, and the speed itself is much faster.
This is the first set of drawings drawn by his craftsmen, but instead of propellers, paddle steamers on both sides, this is a little less technical.
"Yan Shenggong."
Xiao Guizi said.
"Ah, is Kong Yuqi ready to surrender? Call him in! ”
Yang Feng said.
At present, there is only the central part of Shandong north of the Yellow River, which is the modern Tai'an, Laiwu, Jining, Linyi, Zaozhuang, and Xuzhou is still erecting the banner of the Qing Dynasty, which is basically bounded by the canal, that is, those gentry who are unwilling to hand over their land, huddle into a group and survive there. However, the Ming army did not launch an attack, mainly because the transportation was inconvenient after the canal was frozen, and there were too many places occupied at once, so it was necessary to garrison separately in order to protect the soil, and Yang Feng was not in a hurry, anyway, if he wanted to fight, it was just a sentence, just the regimental training of tens of thousands of rabble, and a random brigade was swept away.
And the leader of this area is the current Yan Shenggong Kong Yuqi.
"You are willing to surrender, but on the condition that this king continues to recognize your family's Yan Shenggong, and cannot also accept your family's more than 200,000 acres of land?"
Yang Feng looked at Kong Chuanduo, the eldest young master of the Kong family, who was summoned, and said.
"Your Royal Highness, Yan Shenggong is the Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty are also recognized, and the two thousand acres of sacrificial fields are also given by the Ming Emperor.
Kong Chuanduo said as he lay on the ground.
"Are you worthy?"
Yang Feng said with a sneer.
"This king Shaofeng Zheng is because King Wu of Yanping is loyal to the Ming Dynasty to the death, and this king Shaofeng is the king of Xining, because Li Dingguo, the loyal king of Xining, is the bloody battlefield of the Ming Dynasty and refuses to surrender to the Tartars until death, so why do you Kong family? Just rely on your family's share of the charming Tatar text of the Holy Emperor of the Eight Desolations and Xiange, or just rely on your share of the performance of the whole clan with a pig's tail to show the Tartar when the people of Jiangyin were fighting for the bloody battle for the shaving order? This king is indeed a succession, but this king is a loyal minister, not a second minister, do you think you are worthy of the name of loyal minister?
Go back and tell your father, he will surrender if he wants to, and if he doesn't want to surrender to this king, he doesn't mind raising his hand to press him to death, but when the Ming Wangshi hit your house, the man was a slave and the woman was a prostitute, don't blame the king for not giving you a chance.
As for the dream of the Holy Father, ......"
Yang Feng smiled and said, "You guys better wake up!" ”
Kong Chuanduo wanted to say something more.
Yang Feng flicked his hand, and the two guards immediately stepped forward and dragged him out directly.
"If they don't surrender, do you really treat them as slaves and prostitutes?"
Her Royal Highness asked.
"I gave them a chance, if they don't seize it themselves, then it's no wonder that others, when the Tartars entered the customs, they surrendered faster than anyone else, and they shaved their hair more actively than anyone else, and when I revived the Ming Dynasty, I actually have the face to talk about the conditions, and the skin is really thicker than the city wall."
Yang Feng said.
"But their family is different."
Huang Wei reminded him.
"Then let them be the same."
Yang Feng said.
However, he still underestimated the energy of the Kong family in the scholars, after Kong Chuanduo was kicked out of the palace, he immediately began to connect all over Beijing and Tianjin to show his strength to Yang Feng, and soon got the harvest, after listening to his oil and vinegar Yang Feng refused to be crowned the Holy Father again, and took back the sacrificial field given to the Kong family by the Ming Taizu, especially once the threat of the Kong family to go to the male slave and the female prostitute, a large number of scholars from all over Beijing and Tianjin immediately couldn't sit still.
The method they chose was simple.
"Fu Que?"
Yang Feng said with some astonishment.
"Lord Wang, there are one or two thousand Xiucai and Jinshi, all kneeling outside the noon gate clamoring to see you, petitioning you, asking you to continue to seal the Holy Duke of Kong Jiayan, they said that Kong Yanzhi surrendered to the Tartars back then, but also to preserve the Taoist system, which was a last resort, and the reason why he did not surrender now is not his responsibility, after all, he is not the governor of Shandong, nor does he have any official position anywhere, but he just took the false title of a prince and young master, and he has no right to decide whether to surrender or not?"
Xiao Guizi said.
"Uh, isn't it he who called on the Shandong gentry to unite for self-protection last time, and came to Kang Mazi as a representative to write a letter, asking for a group to practice protecting the territory and the people? Could it be that the 20,000 regimental exercises guarding the Yanzhou Mansion on the east bank of the canal were not organized by him at the expense of the local gentry? Could it be that half of the officers in there are not from his Kong family? Could it be that he was not the one who wore paper armor and swore to reject the thief with the Yanzhou prefect last time? ”
Yang Feng said speechlessly.
"Your Highness, why don't you go out and have a look?"
Xiao Guizi said.
"Look, look, I'm going to see how many are not afraid of death."
Yang Feng said with a sneer.
In fact, he knew very well that the reason why so many green insects suddenly attacked at the same time was that the matter of the Kong family was just a fuse, and in the final analysis, it was these guys who were lost without the Holy Lord Mingjun. was originally fine, but suddenly replaced by a demon like him, not only has he not opened the imperial examination until now, but he also doesn't care about any fame in the selection of officials, don't care about the Jinshi Juren, even if he becomes a candidate, he will still be kicked aside if he is not satisfied with his performance. In fact, during this period of time, Yang Feng elected officials, and most of the people who raised people were all brushed down by him, these people know a fart, what else can they know except for signing and playing boards to get bribes?
No matter how well the Bagu text is written, Yang Wangye doesn't even look at it, if he really wants to study the real economic development, these well-educated Confucians with all kinds of fame on their heads are vulnerable in front of those businessmen.
Not only that, but Yang Feng's method of selecting officials, which can be called a big rebellion, also cut off their way to become officials, and also swept a large number of Jinshi Hanlin who were originally waiting for vacancies in various places directly into the garbage heap. It's not a big deal for him to do this in the south, because there is no such thing in the south, and there are not many Jinshi waiting for vacancies, but he is in Beijing, and he has to face the overwhelming resentment of these people.
And Kong Chuanduo just lit this fuse.
So in front of the noon gate of the palace, there was a scene of nearly 2,000 scholars petitioning, which was more than the time of Zhengde Wanli, in fact, this also belonged to Yang Feng's own sin, he thought that his family lived in the huge palace was too deserted, and the even more huge imperial city outside was simply outrageous, so he simply ordered the opening of the imperial city, otherwise these scholars would kneel on Tiananmen Street at most, and they would never come to block the door of his house.
"It's so magnificent!"
Yang Wang Ye stood on the tower of the noon gate, looking at the nearly two thousand scholars kneeling outside, and couldn't help but sigh with heartfelt emotion.
At this time, his dragoons had quickly controlled the vicinity of the noon gate, but because this place was open, they could not do anything without Yang Feng's order, so they could only block the crowd of onlookers.
Immediately afterwards, Yin Lu Yizhong, who was called by Yang Feng from the south to help deal with government affairs, also came over, Beijing is not the official capital, Nanjing is, so the Ming Dynasty is in Nanjing, where it is temporarily presided over by Prime Minister Huang Baijia, and this side is actually the highest administrative officer of Shuntian Mansion, as for Yang Feng, it is just the generalissimo who came over, and he is also sad when he sees this kind of scene, as the same full-fledged Confucian, Lu Liuliang's son, he knows very well what these guys are going to play.
"Lao Lu, you said that if this king dragged all these guys to the side, wouldn't that scene be unprecedented?"
Yang Feng said with a smile. (To be continued.) )