Shi Kefa couldn't help but laugh and sent Yao Kang out, and after thinking about it, he first wrote a festive text about Huguangnu becoming Daping, and asked the staff to send it sincerely. As long as you don't erect an anti-flag, it will be as short as five or seven days, and as long as it will be more than ten days, it will be calmed down.

What's more, the crown prince has issued an order to "treat himself as a mortal by leaving his nationality", which is tantamount to a disguised denial of all the deeds of identity certificates, and those chaotic slaves who use the name of "asking for identity certificates" and robbing and revenge are unable to gather more people.

The reason why slavery was not abolished directly was that there were many slaves who themselves stood against slavery, and they were loyal to their families for generations, and the crown prince was naturally not worth the greater political risk for this.

As soon as Shi Kefa thought of this, he couldn't help but sigh: This crown prince is really a delicate person with a careful heart.

At this moment, the crown prince, who is as careful as a hair, is strolling through the Nanjing Palace, followed by a group of Nanjing nobles and nobles.

These people are either descendants of the famous generals of the founding of the country, or after the martyrdom of the country, such as Zhu Guobi, a "new upstart" of the Chenghua Dynasty, can only obediently walk in the back of the brigade.

Because of their status, these people have remained silent under the general trend of denouncing the crown prince, which is also the only capital they have to walk into this imperial city now.

Those civil officials outside who came in without face, it was easy for these relatives to help talk about it-

Once Nanjing is removed, the liuguan will be like monkeys and birds in the trees, and they can be moved. However, these noble relatives are vines that survive on the nourishment of big trees, and can only slowly wait to wither and die.

"It's so hard!" Zhu Cihong suddenly looked up to the sky.

Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, there are really some villains who don't know what to do, so there is really no need to be angry with them. ”

"I don't think it's a puff. In this situation, I can't do it anymore. I wanted to report to the Son of Heaven and go down to An Lishu. It's just disgusting, why bother? Zhu Cihong sighed to the nobles who were over fifty years old.

"Your Highness, newspapers are the easiest thing to confuse right and wrong. Before, the ministers were saying in private that it was too hurtful to let them talk nonsense in the newspaper! I thought about asking His Highness to ban the newspaper, but I was afraid of provoking the criticism of the 'mouth of the people', and I thought that I would find someone to write some articles to set the record straight. but people refuse to send it in the newspaper; The ministers also raised funds to set up a newspaper, wanting to advocate for His Royal Highness, no, the approval of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has come down, and the manpower and lettering craftsmen can be ......"

"Alright, I know your thoughts." Zhu Cihong interrupted Xin Chengbo's self-defense. Judging from this aspect alone, these noble relatives in Nanjing really seem to be loyal to the heavenly family.

It's a pity that the crown prince is not a stupid boy in his early twenties who doesn't understand the world.

"What I say is difficult is that you are all relatives who have died with the country. How should the heavenly family share the joys and sorrows with you? Zhu Cihong sat down on the throne, without showing the legendary Corporal Lixian at all, and looked at these fifty or sixty-year-old men standing in the spring cold with peace of mind.

But as long as someone leaves a name of loyalty on the original historical script, Zhu Cihong will not use such an extreme method to catch them all.

But in the history books of Zhu Cihong's previous life, it was these relatives who collectively sold the city with the civil officials left behind in Nanjing, without the slightest resistance, and handed over Jiangnan to the Tartars, helping to abuse them. Dozens of massacres in Jiangnan were caused.

People cannot be held accountable for what they have not done, but the original sin of ignorance and greed of these people is not diminished by this.

"Isn't that what it is now?" Xin Chengbo cautiously accompanied. When he raised his eyes, he saw Wang Zhixin walking over with a thick pile of books, standing behind the crown prince with low eyebrows, bowing slightly.

"Do you want me to be honest?" Zhu Cihong's voice was cold: "When the Son of Heaven was in the most difficult situation, he collected all the gold and silver utensils in the palace, and only made up seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver. Do any of your families have less than this amount? Yes! ”

Zhao Zhilong's body trembled slightly, and he was silent.

Xu Wenjue, the eleventh Duke of Wei, stepped forward and said, "Your Highness." It is said that Jiangnan is rich, but in fact, when it comes to family property, each family is only less than 70,000 taels, how can there be a real family wealth? As the first relative of Nanjing, Wei Guogong came forward, and others such as Lingbi Hou and others echoed him.

"Hmm. So it seems that I have wronged you? Zhu Cihong suddenly smiled and said: "Wang Zhixin, prepare pen and ink for them, and let them write out the family property one by one, and sure enough, it is less than 70,000 taels, and I will admit this crime of wronging the lord." ”

Twenty or thirty relatives here, looking at each other, saw that the eunuchs came out with pen and ink in their hands, lined up in several columns, and retreated again. The guards who were originally guarding both sides of the crown prince stepped forward one after another to form a human wall in front of the crown prince. Each hand pressed the handle of the knife, and his face was murderous.

This situation was a bit like torture, Wei Guocheng was about to speak, and suddenly heard a thunderous cannon horn, faintly coming from outside the city.

Zhu Cihong clapped his palms, and a high-pitched whistle suddenly sounded in the garden.

Before the whistle sounded, a group of soldiers of the 1st Guards Division dressed in iron armor rushed out of the doorway, each holding a long knife, and surrounded the honors and relatives in the garden, which was full of hundreds of people.

"Your Highness, what does this mean?" Uncle Xin Cheng stepped forward, with a crying face, and said: "We are all meritorious families since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and we have never violated the law of the country...... How can we be treated with swords? ”

When Wei Guogong saw the sword soldiers, he was obscene, and he didn't dare to speak anymore, so he only asked Xin Chengbo to come forward and plead. Xin Chengbo is now leading the Nanjing Jingying, and it is the lord of this round of sitting in the village, and he should come out.

"You think I haven't seen the World Ticket?" Zhu Cihong smiled angrily: "Whose family history coupon says that it exempts the ninth world from capital crimes, take it out and open my eyes!" ”

The crowd was speechless.

For a while, they said that their children and grandchildren would not die, but after saying it for a long time, they believed it.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he has only been exempted from two deaths for non-treason, and his son has been exempted from one death. The so-called gold medal for avoiding death no longer exists in the grandson's generation. Now, these relatives, even if they are knighted late, cannot be within the scope of avoiding death.

"I really don't know what's going on in your heads...... Write quickly, and when I don't have the patience to spend it with you, it's too late for you to cry again. Zhu Cihong pointed to the cases.

Zhu Guobi glanced at Wang Xinxin, who was nodding at him.

"The monarch wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die, not to mention just reporting the family property!" Although Zhu Guobi, the Marquis of Funing, was standing at the end of the queue, he was the first to walk towards the dwarf at this moment, but he looked magnificent.

When he entered the palace, he had already received a hint from the king's heart, so that everything went according to the crown prince's wishes. At that time, Zhu Guobi had a bad premonition, but thinking about it, could he escape this kind of thing? simply hardened his head and followed in, to see what kind of Hongmen banquet the crown prince was arranged.

Who knew that the crown prince of Ludao only had "Hongmen" and no "banquet" on his side, and he also lost the early warning of the king's heart, which made him mentally prepared.

Although he had such preparations, Zhu Guobi was still a little timid when he walked to the front of the case. He didn't know how much his family property was, but did he write it all down? If the crown prince follows the map, wouldn't it be a nest?

However, the crown prince is the prince of a country after all, and he will never do such an open fire to fight.

"You should be a good student and write it all, don't do anything that deceives the king." Wang Zhixin didn't know when he had already walked into the circle, and said to a few noble relatives who were soft with Zhu Guobi. Immediately, he glanced at the nobles who were standing in place, just crying and refusing to move.

Zhu Cihong beckoned to the king's heart.

The king's heart stepped forward quickly, and passed over with his ear.

"Wei Guogong is standing over there, and the others are bound to not move." Zhu Cihong said in a low voice: "Announce his guilt." ”

Wang Zhixin bowed and took one from the book he had held.

The word "Wei State" is written on the lower left corner of the cover, but after opening it, it is a record of the violation of the national law by the entire Wei Guogong clan.

Among them, the most detailed evidence is not bullying men and women - with the Xu family's family power, there is really no need to do such a thing - but usurious loans and exploitation of small people.

It was this trip to Jiangnan that made Zhu Cihong discover another long-standing misunderstanding of himself.

Because of his education in history textbooks, Zhu Cihong believed that land annexation and the landlords' re-investment of the looted silver taels into the land were the main reasons why the Ming Dynasty failed to develop capitalism.

In fact, after entering this society, he found that the problem of land annexation was only the loss of the state's finances, and the people actually profited - otherwise no one would be willing to send someone else's name. It is precisely because the pressure of the imperial court's regular taxation and servitude is much heavier than that of the false name and treachery, which caused this illegal annexation.

What really affects the development of social production is usury.

The Ming Dynasty did not have a special lending institution, and as for the legendary ticket number, it was a business model invented by Gu Yanwu and Fu Shan to raise funds against the Qing Dynasty.

At present, most of the lenders are large merchants and large families with a high reputation, who invest their profits in the loan market and recover them at high interest rates, without transforming their own means of production, without promoting productivity, and at the same time exploiting the reproduction capacity of their borrowers.

The "Daming Law" stipulates that the interest on private lending is only three cents, and at the same time, regardless of the year, it can only be one interest, and the interest cannot be included in the principal and then the interest can be withdrawn. Later, the rich borrowed more compound interest, the so-called "rolling interest". Later, in order to prohibit this kind of compound interest exploitation, the imperial court stipulated that "the interest shall not exceed half of the principal regardless of the year", but this lack of financial control obviously did not work.

If someone lends money at a monthly interest rate of three cents, that is, three percent, he is already a compassionate and benevolent person. The vast majority of usurers have exceeded the limit of "three points", and Suzhou has even had an ultra-high interest rate of two stones of principal and one stone per month.

However, the popularity of usury in the Ming Dynasty was widespread, but it was involved from officials to ordinary people. This time, all the relatives who were found to have violated the national law by Dongchang were all guilty of serious crimes on the issue of usury. (To be continued......)

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