Chapter 140: Li Jiancheng doesn't want to do it anymore
Li Jiancheng easily satisfied the idea of the scholars and doctors who wanted to intervene in the propaganda media. But how can he Li Jiancheng's advantage be so easy to take advantage of, you have to pay back as much as you take.
Li Jiancheng sat up and squinted his eyes and said, "Then let's continue to talk about the tens of thousands of literati fighting and brawling, and I don't want to say more about what to fight for." Let's talk about the fact that eighty percent of the people involved in the brawl are the children of nobles, and the children and grandchildren of all of you who are here! What do you think about this? ”
Li Jiancheng looked at these ministers with great interest, and the ministers who heard this were also very messy, this is not a small group of people! Li Jiancheng has counted almost all the noble children in the city, and now this group of people is still being suppressed and not released. An important task for the ministers today is to get everyone out of the hands of the emperor. The old character Li Ruhua first said: "Uh, back to Your Majesty, but this is the poor supervision of the ministers?" Your Majesty, after that, the ministers will be strict with the family to discipline these children, so the ministers ask Your Majesty if you can release them first! ”
Li Ruhua said that others also began to intercede, and said that they would be strictly disciplined in the future. But Li Jiancheng was deaf, he said: "Is this called unfavorable supervision? Even my driving dare to break into just a regulatory disadvantage? It's lawlessness! ”
Li Jiancheng continued: "Don't think that I don't know the way, I have already conducted some investigations on the folk style of the children of my Ming nobles. I know very well what is going on with you noble sons and daughters among the people! Originally, I didn't want to care about it, but yesterday's incident has fully demonstrated that this is not a small phenomenon, this is already a kind of atmosphere, in the long run, can I still have a bright day? So I thought it had to be suppressed. I, the Ming aristocracy, can't always be an image of a pest among the people. That's why I decided to revise some of my laws! ”
Li Jiancheng spoke surprisingly again. Another big house! Fang Congzhe couldn't believe it and said to Li Jiancheng: "Your Majesty is going to repair the law? ”
When Li Jiancheng heard this, he said to him with great certainty: "Yes, I want to make some changes to the rights and interests of the noble and noble classes on the issue of the law. In addition, it is precisely because of this incident that a number of policies in the national policy to be implemented in the future will be partially adjusted in agriculture and industrial law! ”
Li Jiancheng once again gave a very positive answer, the emperor actually had to deal with the noble group and the scholar group at the same time, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and the nobles present were all shocked! They thought that their ears were wrong, did the emperor not want to do it?
We won't talk about how big the scholar group is, but let's just talk about this honor. The nobles of the Ming Dynasty were not really aristocratic valves, unlike the nobles of the Han and Tang dynasties who had fiefs, the nobles of the Ming Dynasty did not have regional administrative power. The princes and nobles may own some acres of land, and these people are basically supported by state taxes, and their offerings are extremely high, so many people say that the nobles of the dynasty are a big cancer that sucks blood.
This is actually very easy to understand, the Ming Dynasty in the later period, which lasted nearly three hundred years, and the hereditary system adopted by the nobles and nobles, the number of people is naturally expanding more and more, and the more these people have nothing to do, the greater the pressure on the court. And why did the nobles completely turn into a cancer?
The reason for this comes from the change of the civil fort. Before the Tumubao Change, the nobles of the world still held the power of the army. At that time, the Ming Dynasty did not have the same emphasis on literature and light on military force as in the later period.
The sons of the nobles at the time of the founding of the Ming Dynasty and the sons of the nobles at the time of the Yongle Jingjing had the right to speak in the court at that time, at that time in the court was not the only civil official, the military generals had the same status, and it was not low, it was the existence that could compete with the civil officials, and even higher status, because most of the military generals were nobles, and the military officials were also much higher than the civil officials (Xu Da's annual salary was as high as 10,000 stones, nearly ten times higher than that of the first-class civil officials), these founding nobles and the noble children of the Jingjing Dynasty represented the military generals and noble groups, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di supported and relied on them to check and balance the civilian bureaucracy.
In the Tumubao Change, Ming Yingzong drove the expedition in person in order to improve his prestige in the army (in fact, at this time, the times changed, and the emperor's mastery of the army was already too big, and the emperor's desire to improve the mastery of the army was also to suppress the military generals), and the Xungui group did not want their voice to be weakened, so they would make the emperor bad, and they did not want the emperor to improve their prestige. I wanted to get a futile return at most a small defeat, so the army deliberately lacked supplies, and found a place to camp in lack of water, but the reality of wishing to be beautiful was cruel, I didn't expect to play off the line, a large number of noble veterans were collectively killed by the enemy, and let Yingzong be captured!
As a result, the emperor and his successors did not trust the Xungui clique, supported the civil official clique and tried to suppress the Xungui and military generals clique! The civil officials collectively hit the nobles with no spare effort, so that these nobles basically can't do anything, and once they have anything to do with politics, they will be written to plot against them! This also left a foreshadowing for the noble and lowly in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
Originally, before the civil fort, the military department was in charge of military affairs, and the military conquest belonged to the governor's office of the five armies, and it was difficult for civilian officials to intervene in it, and the military power belonged to the emperor and the military generals and noble groups, and the civilian officials were not in charge of the military, but after the change of the civil fort, the nobles were scattered, and the military power was in the hands of the civilian officials of the military department (similar to the modern Ministry of National Defense, the military officials were civilian), and the governor's office of the five armies was just an empty name and an imaginary number.
It is precisely because of the many restrictions on politics that the aristocracy has been greatly tolerated in the matter of committing adultery. Although the emperors of the past dynasties did not trust the Xungui group after the Tumubao Incident, Xungui was like a brother of the imperial family, he was the biggest supporter of imperial power, and after losing his political rights, they gained a lot of privileges. And the emperors of all dynasties attached great importance to the maintenance of the privileges of the nobles, for example, during the Chongzhen period, there was even a minister who was beaten to death by Chongzhen's court staff just because he collided with the car of the British duke, which shows how much the emperor protects the nobles.
However, the transformation of the noble collective into a cancer is also related to this privilege, because of their privileged nature of not doing anything, so that many businessmen collude with them, especially in the later society of the Ming Dynasty, many smugglers in the Ming Dynasty rely on these privileged classes to get through a lot of relationships and transport materials and intelligence to the enemy.
But in the final analysis, the Xungui collective is actually a supporter of the emperor, and the emperors of previous dynasties are also safeguarding the imperial power by maintaining the privilege of the Xungui, but now Li Jiancheng actually wants to use this privilege and let the Xungui collective abide by the law! To know that the nobles of the Ming Dynasty also include the kings of various places, and there is no need to say much about what the concept of the king is. This news sent out, which prince from all over the world is a fuel-efficient lamp? That's not all the rebellion, and the emperor wants to rectify the scholar class, and this group is even more incredible! He wants to deal with the nobles of the world and then fight the nobles, so who else will support him as an emperor! Relying on mud legs alone is too much to laugh off the big teeth, so everyone thinks that the emperor doesn't want to do it!
But things are often developing in an unexpected direction, and at this time, the British public Zhang Weixian took the lead and said: "Wechen reconsidered, Wechen thought that what His Majesty said was very true, and my noble children were indeed too disagreeable, and in the long run, it would not only insult the prestige of the ancestors, but also be a kind of infringement on the people of the country." Weichen asked His Majesty to change the law and teach me the children of the nobility strictly. (To be continued......)