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Hejian Road, Cangzhou City, the original Cangzhou Dalu Huachi Governor's Mansion, has now become the temporary palace of Chen Dexing, the king of the Ming Dynasty.

Inside and outside the palace, people come in and out from time to time. There are not only the guards who went to give orders, but also the horsemen who hurriedly came back and forth to report the latest military information, as well as the leaders of the wealthy families in the Cangzhou area. Those leading figures in Cangzhou, everyone was in a hurry, and everyone couldn't hide their anxious looks.

At least one battalion of steel-armored samurai was densely packed inside and outside the palace. Everyone was wearing armor and looked at the people coming in and out with expressionless faces. Every Cangzhou Haoqiang who came with gifts, as soon as they entered the palace compound, they would be stopped by them, and they would search carefully to ensure that there were no hidden blades, and then they were allowed to wait for the summons under the corridor outside the main hall.

Under the corridor outside the main hall, there are already sitting and standing, I don't know how many people with faces here in Cangzhou. At this moment, there is no former wealth and honor, Cangzhou is located on the bank of the canal, and has always been a commercial town on Hejian Road. The number of households has exceeded 10,000, and it can be a complete journey of its own. Because it is an important commercial town, almost all the leading figures in the city have anything to do with the word Shang - the ranking of Shinong industry and commerce is on the Mongolian side, and I am afraid it should be a merchant and a farmer.

Here, the status of the merchants was significantly higher than that of the scholars, and in particular, the merchants of Semu were almost assigned to the duties of tax collectors and money printers, and were in charge of the economic lifeline of the country. And most of the big Han businessmen are also inextricably linked with the Semu people - otherwise, there is no way to do business!

And this Cangzhou city is also the same as the various state cities and county towns under Hejian Road. All were occupied by troops sent from Yanjing - during the past month or so when Chen Dexing's army had fought bitterly with Kublai Khan in the south. Monk Liu, Zhang Shijie, Wang Wei and other generals were not idle. On the one hand, they guarded against the army of Mogo's army moving south from Yanshan; On the one hand, troops were sent to attack the prefectures and counties of Yanjing, Baoding, and Hejian.

The "road" of the Mongols was different from that of the Song Kingdom. It's not that big, and in principle, it's "Wanhu Road." Qianhu Prefecture", but there are also many roads with far more than 10,000 households (10,000 households seems to be a minimum standard), Yanjing Road, Baoding Road and Hejian Road, which are roads with far more than 10,000 households. Moreover, there are many state towns and county towns to which these three roads belong. The county seat may not be garrisoned by the Mongols, but the state city must be garrisoned with troops led by the governor of Daru Huachi, and troops need to be dispatched to eliminate them.

In addition, among these states and counties, there are many Semu people and Yuan and Han officials. These two humans need to be strictly controlled!

As for the powerful families in the states and counties. Most of them are also inseparable from the Mongols or the Han Marquis of the Northland. Either someone was acting for the Mongols, or they were sending their children to the Han marquis to join the army, otherwise these families would not have become big clans under the rule of the Mongols.

This is the case of Yanjing, Hejian and Baoding three roads. As long as the Han families are relatively well mixed, they are all related to the Mongolian nobles, the nobles of the color eyes or the Han marquis of the north.

In the words of later generations, it is a traitor!

And the vast majority of the traitors are not in Mengying, they simply regard Meng Yuan as orthodoxy and Chen Ming as a thief.

But now, Chen Ming, the Han regime that looks like a thief no matter how you look at it, has actually entered Yanjing City. did what the great Song Dynasty did not do in the past! He also defeated Kublai Khan, the Great Yuan Emperor and the Great Khan of Mongolia, and it seemed that he was going to be the master of the land north of Yanyun......

So I saw Chen Dexing's army triumphant, passing through Cangzhou. The people in this state who have a little face have all prepared generous gifts to come to the palace - in fact, they don't want to see Chen Dexing. These people were also not qualified to ask for a meeting, they just wanted to get a word of comfort from King Chen Daming.

For example, if the past is ignored - they can have a chance to hook up with Chen Ming's big man if they don't look into the past. So that his family and interests can continue to have a backer in the new dynasty!

If it weren't for this, even if they had money, they wouldn't be able to give it away.

But I waited for a long time. I didn't see anyone come out to deliver the decree, and these characters couldn't sit still. They all looked at each other, and they all looked sad.

Whenever someone hurried out of the hall, the figures craned their necks, hoping for the man to say what they wanted to hear. But none of these characters who came and went in a hurry paid attention to them.

The shape shì looks very wrong! Could it be that everyone is giving too few gifts?

……

"These people are aiding and abusive, and everyone is guilty!"

In the main hall of the palace, Chen Dexing had already dealt with the mountains of military and official affairs, and finally took over the gift list from Mrs. Yang's hand.

There are a lot of gifts, no matter how much they are worth, but they are all things that Chen Dexing's Daming does not need at the moment.

"Great King, as long as the people of the Northland have some power and property, who has not mixed with the Tartars? Even if he is a lower official, he has also been a lackey for the Tartars. ”

It was Guo Kan Guo's big lackey who spoke, who was a good dog of Tartar at the beginning, and bit all the way from the Central Plains to the Great Food Country. Now he has changed his appearance, and he has been an eagle dog for Daming, and he has bitten Kublai Khan all over his body.

Chen Dexing sneered, threw a gift slip on the desk, waved his hand and said, "Actually, the Lone King doesn't care about this...... It's just that the Lone King can't accept some gifts and let them go! This is not going to work, there are no rules! These people are guilty, and they are guilty of crimes against the country and the nation, not against the lone king. Therefore, it is not okay to give gifts to the lonely king, they should atone for their sins! ”

Expiation?

Guo Kan and Zhao Fu, who had just arrived from Yanjing, glanced at each other, and Zhao Fu asked, "How to atone for your sins?" ”

"Of course I paid for my sins!" Chen Dexing's fingers tapped lightly on the case, and he said thoughtfully, "Giving gifts to the lonely king, wealth into private doors, it will not help the country, and it is not atonement, but bribery." ”

The reason is good, giving a gift to Chen Dexing for protection is not the right way but bribery! A bribe to the emperor is also a bribe! If Chen Dexing accepted their gifts, he would have set a bad example of taking bribes.

Chen Dexing said lightly: "My Ming is different from the Tang, Yuan and Song dynasties, in addition to ruling the world with the gentry and gentry, the law is open, so the atonement should also be made public!" ”

"Public?"

Zhao Fu and Guo Kan frowned at the same time - of course they knew what it meant to be public. But they also know the truth that "the people can make it from it, but they can't make it know." If the rules are made public and things are done strictly according to the rules, the power and majesty of the court and officials will be smaller, and the interests of this official will be even smaller......

"It's open, it must be open!"

Chen Dexing smiled and said: "The system of the Ming Dynasty is different from that of the Tang, Yuan and Song dynasties, and we are an aristocratic republic, similar to the Western Zhou Dynasty. The gentry and gentry can all participate in politics through the election of the parliament, and it is not public, so that the gentry and gentry do not know the major policies of the country, how to get it? ”

This is the question of the form of government, and the dictatorship of the monarchy from the top down naturally does not need to be made public, as long as the dictatorship of the Sacred Heart is sufficient. However, there is no way to play a bottom-up aristocratic republic, which does not make public the political decisions, does not disclose the conditions for being a gentleman and a gentry, and does not formulate the fundamental rules of the game, the constitution.

"What about atonement...... Zhao Fu frowned and said, "What are the sins of these Cangzhou heroes, we can't figure it out, how to atone for it?" ”

Chen Dexing waved his hand and said, "You don't have to figure out those ...... Indulgences can be publicly sold by the Ming Wangfu (the Northland Recruitment Division is gone, replaced by the Ming Wangfu). The indulgences can be divided into two classes, one for the Han people and one for the Semu people. A Han Chinese indulgence is worth 500 taels or 300 taels of silver, and the price of the voucher is doubled. Except for the most heinous criminals, it can be purchased. Anyone who holds indulgences will not be asked about the crimes they have committed before the arrival of the Ming army. ”

The price of 500 to 1000 indulgences is naturally not cheap! But for those who are truly guilty of atonement, this is definitely not a lot of money. If he didn't even have this money, then his sin would not be great.

Chen Dexing actually has three purposes for this "indulgence": First, to get a vote, now he has a lot of places to spend money, and the finances are inevitably tight, so it is always good to make more money. Chen Dexing estimates that there will be no less than 10,000 people who need to buy a coup on the four roads of Yanjing, Hejian, Baoding, and Pingluan. Millions of dollars, just like that, it's easy to get your hands on.

The second is to reassure all kinds of traitors - Yanjing, Hejian, and Baoding have been ruled by the Tartars for too long, and there will be no bottom if they want to dig deeper, and it will not be good for Chen Dexing to put everyone in danger, so he simply collects some money and lets them pass. How else could it be? Kill everyone who has sold their lives for the Tartars? I'm afraid it's not enough to kill 100,000 or 200,000! Moreover, if you kill 100,200,000, you will have a grudge against hundreds of thousands of people, and you will inevitably kill more people in the future!

Third, it is to reduce the space for the bureaucracy to engage in black-box operations -- instead of letting officials at all levels act as a protective umbrella for the wealthy businessmen, it is better to use indulgences to provide them with protection. Of course, in addition to indulgences, Chen Dexing will also take many other methods to absorb these wealthy businessmen into a huge ruling base system.

"The worst of the worst crimes?" Guo Kan heard these four words as soon as he heard them, and he asked with some trepidation: "What kind of person is considered a great crime?" ”

Chen Dexing said: "Naturally, the list will also be made public, and when King Gu returns to Yanjing, he will start to formulate a "Record of Traitors and Traitors", and all those who are on the list will not be forgiven!" Of course, none of the former Mengyuan Han marquis officials who have abandoned the dark and surrendered to the Ming will be on this list. ”

Then rest assured! Guo Kan breathed a sigh of relief, then put on a smiling face, and said in his heart: "This openness seems to be beneficial, at least you can live with peace of mind...... It's just that I don't know if King Chen Ming's words count? If you count, you'll really vote for the right master! In the future, maybe he can go to the West and become the king of a country! (To be continued......)