The officials of the Ming Dynasty seem to have returned to the terrible era of being ruled by Wei Zhongxian, and the minions of Dongchang and Jinyiwei scattered out, and they continued to crash into luxurious mansions, pulling out those officials who were high and invincible in the past and putting them in the edict prison to torture them, and then tortured other officials involved in the case from them. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, they are not willing to be captured, and they have also thought of many ways to try to reverse the situation, these people have a wide relationship, and hold the power of public opinion, so the name of the tyrant soon spread throughout the Ming Dynasty, except for Shaanxi, Shanxi and other provinces that have received Li You's favor, the rest of the provinces have many complaints about this, especially in the Jiangnan area, which controls the economic lifeline and cultural context of the Ming Dynasty, Li You's reputation can be compared with Sui Yang.

But Li You didn't care at all, if his mouth could work, what did he want the army to do? Later, I was more brutal in dealing with these scholars, and I didn't see them turn the sky upside down, most of these people are soft bones, and when the time comes, they will be obedient, and now the reason why they are so arrogant is just because Daming has always treated readers preferentially.

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, the Son of Heaven has ruled the world with scholars, and it is probably not a good thing for you to treat scholars so harshly." The work of these people has also been done in the harem, and Empress Zhang, the main palace of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, couldn't help but come to persuade Li You.

"Imperial sister-in-law, you can indeed say that." In the final analysis, the emperor is just a representative of the landlord class, cooperating with the large and small landlords of the scholar class, they provide taxes and human resources to the court to maintain the rule of the court, and the court protects the safety of their family property and jointly oppresses the people, but now the situation in the Ming Dynasty is that the scholars and doctors have squeezed the people too much, and gradually relaxed their obedience to the court, so that the people gradually can not bear their oppression, and the emperor and the court have no power to help them squeeze the people, How can this situation continue?

After all, Empress Zhang is a woman who lives in the deep palace, and she sees the problem far from being so thorough, but she has some shallow impressions based on some sage scriptures, but she ignorantly feels that the current situation is inappropriate, but she can't find the fundamental reason, Li You said the above words truthfully, afraid that Empress Zhang would not understand and made an analogy, "This is like my imperial village outside the capital, I don't have time to take care of it myself, so I hand over the imperial village to a few village heads to manage, they only need to arrange for the farmers to farm on time, and pay me the output every year. It is enough to leave food for the farmer to survive; But now that they refuse to feed the farmers and pay me enough food, they are squeezing the farmers and embezzling my grain to feed themselves, and this situation may last long? ”

Then Li You told her about the changes in taxes in the Ming Dynasty in recent years, the different situations in Jiangnan and the northwest, the northwest has been barren since ancient times but bears the bulk of the salary, Jiangnan has always been prosperous and those scholars do not have to pay any taxes, this situation is by no means reasonable, if it is not for Li You's decisive handling in Shaanxi, I am afraid that the northwest would have been full of flames now.

"It's the mourning family's shallow thinking." Empress Zhang was speechless when she said this, and retreated in shame, she had already made up her mind that she would never care about the affairs of the court from now on.

Empress Zhang was convinced, and Empress Zhou was naturally not difficult to persuade, Li You stabilized the harem without much effort, and also warned Empress Zhou to let the national uncle be safe, but don't be stupid and killed by someone as a gun.

After solving these things, Li You once again called Cao Huachun and Luo Yangxing, now the civil and military officials are unreliable, and all he can rely on is these people, but this is not a long-term solution, so Cao Huachun and Luo Yangxing in addition to digging out the corrupt ministers should also help pay attention to the available talents there, so as to use these fresh blood to replace these incompetent people who occupy the court.

"Have you found the person you were looking for?" Li You asked, before the last royal expedition, Li You asked them to contact Song Yingxing, Sun Yuanhua, Zheng Zhilong and others, I don't know how they are doing.

"Your Majesty, Sun Yuanhua has been brought back to the capital from Ningyuan by Weichen, and is now waiting to be summoned in the mansion; Wang Zheng and Sun Yuanhua have a lot of friendship, and his subordinates ordered someone to go to Sun Yuanhua's letter to ask for a meeting, so that according to His Majesty's arrangement, he will be able to seize his affection, and now Wang Hui has also arrived in the capital, and he lives in Sun Yuanhua's mansion. Luo Yangxing hurriedly said, he has suffered a lot in order to find these two people, Sun Yuanhua and Wang Zheng are both scholars, where can they afford Jinyiwei? If it weren't for Li You's holy decree and Luo Yang's open-minded face to threaten, these two would never have come to the capital so easily.

"Your Majesty, that Song Yingxing is a person in the forty-third year of Wanli, but unfortunately he failed to pass the examination one after another, and the young female gradually gave up the heart of the imperial examination, and now he is living in the countryside, and the slave maid has also invited him to Beijing to settle down; The missionary John Tang was also invited from Xi'an by slaves. Cao Huachun's movements were still a little fast, Li You had not yet arrived in Shaanxi, and Tang Ruowang was taken back to the capital by him, otherwise they would still have hoped to meet in Xi'an.

"Well, well done, quickly send someone to invite them into the palace, and I will summon them in person." These are all useful talents, much more useful than those guys in the court.

Luo Yanghe and Cao Huachun hurriedly sent someone to inform, but Li You pondered for a while, but found that something was wrong, almost all the people he told him last time were found, but why did he miss the most important Zheng Zhilong? So he said dissatisfiedly, "What about Zheng Zhilong?" Didn't you invite him to the capital? ”

"Your Majesty forgives your sins, and the ministers/slaves are incompetent." The two of them knelt down together to plead guilty, and then explained the reason, it turned out that Zheng Zhilong thought that Wang Zhixian was deceived by Zhao'an and went ashore but was executed by the imperial court, so he was quite worried about the invitation of the imperial court, so he didn't dare to come by himself, but just sent his brother Zheng Zhifeng to the capital, Luo Yangxing and Cao Huachun were afraid that His Majesty would be unhappy, so they delayed and did not dare to answer.

"I can't blame you for this, then let Zheng Zhifeng also enter the palace to see him, and then summon him after I have met Sun Yuanhua and others." Zheng Zhilong's idea is understandable, and now Daming does not have a strong navy, and Zheng Zhilong can't be helpless for the time being, so Li You can't help it even if he is a little unhappy.

After a while, Sun Yuanhua, Wang Zheng, Song Yingxing, Tang Ruowang and others arrived at the palace and were led to the study to meet them.