"Is Your Majesty going to get rid of all the gentry and officials in northern Shaanxi?" All the officers and soldiers were ordered to go, but Zhang Shize stayed and asked with some concern. As a nobleman, his sense of smell is much more sensitive than that of those soldiers who were born in peasants, and he knows what Zhu Youzhen's words just now mean and how serious the consequences will be.

Zhu Youzhen said lightly: "It's not all the gentry officials, but the inferior gentry and evil officials." For those gentry who are willing to give, I will not only deal with them, but also reward them. ”

Zhang Shize secretly said that there are probably very few like that.

"Your Majesty, the minister is worried that if the news is transmitted back to Jingshi, it will shock the courtiers." Zhang Shize said worriedly.

According to Zhu Youzhen's practice, I am afraid that it will not be long before the entire northern Shaanxi officials and gentry will be empty, and in these years, there are too few officials and gentry who are kind and good to the people, otherwise the people of northern Shaanxi will not rebel.

And there are quite a few officials from northern Shaanxi in the court, and the courtiers and local gentry have always been in the same spirit, Zhu Youzhen is tantamount to shaking the foundation of the civil officials, how can they agree? Although these civil officials have nothing to do with the emperor and cause trouble, they can't prevent it, after all, they control the imperial court and local governments.

Zhu Youzhen said lightly: "So what? There is such a big mess in northern Shaanxi, the food I ordered people to relieve the disaster has been exhausted, and the holy decree of tax reduction and exemption has also been violated by the yang and the yin, so no one needs to be responsible? I have won the entire Shaanxi officialdom, see who dares to oppose it! ”

Zhang Shize sighed, knowing that he couldn't persuade him. Perhaps it would not be long before a fierce struggle broke out between the emperor and the courtiers.

"Zhang Shize, you are the prince of England, the head of my future nobles of the Ming Dynasty, I ask you, whose world is this world?" Zhu Youzhen glanced at Zhang Shize and asked lightly.

Zhang Shize hurriedly said: "Of course, it is Your Majesty's world." ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head: "Definitely!" This world is nominally me, but in fact it belongs to these gentry and civil officials.

Although I am the emperor, what is the shore of the land is not the king's land, but the land I really own is only those imperial villages in addition to the Forbidden City, and the income in the imperial villages is at my disposal, and all the imperial villages around Beijing add up to tens of thousands of acres.

Of course, I still have income from the mountains and mines, taxes, banknotes, etc., but when something happens, those civil officials are staring at my inner treasury, eager to empty it.

I heard that the family property of those gentry in Jiangnan is often millions, and there are many families with tens of millions. How much silver do I have in my inner treasury? If it weren't for the recent raiding of the eunuchs and the Fu Wang's house, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have a million taels of silver, and compared to those gentry, I, the king of a country, am the real poor! ”

"Your Majesty......" Zhang Shize didn't know what to say, although his family was not a gentry, but the British Mansion was the first noble of the Ming Dynasty, and the wealth in the mansion was worth not 10 million taels but also millions, maybe it was really richer than the emperor.

"These gentry and officials, if they read well and gain fame, they do not have to pay any taxes, and then become officials, retire to gentry, and can control the court and the countryside, and I, the king of a country, will at most spread the decree to the state and county, and whether the decree can be carried out depends on whether those officials are willing or not. You say, who is the master of the world? ”

"If the Ming Dynasty is overthrown, my whole family will have to be martyred for the Ming Dynasty, and those gentry can turn around and turn to the new monarch and continue to be powerful. The Ming is gone, I am gone, but they will still exist. Who is the master of this world? ”

Zhang Shize was chilled when he heard this, he never expected that Zhu Youzhen had such a deep resentment against the civil officials and gentry.

"But Your Majesty, the world still needs their help to govern." Zhang Shize said softly.

Zhu Youzhen nodded: "Yes, I still need them to help me govern the world, so there is nothing to do with them now." But they have too much power, they enjoy too much and give too little, which is unreasonable. So I need to change that. ”

Zhu You looked at Zhang Shize with certainty: "Zhang Shize, you are the prince of the United Kingdom, the first noble who retired with the country, if the Ming Dynasty dies, your British Mansion will no longer exist, I ask you, are you on my side, or on their side?" ”

Zhang Shize knelt down and said loyally: "Of course the minister is loyal to His Majesty and loyal to the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded: "Then let our monarchs and ministers work together, start from northern Shaanxi, and slowly pry the foundation of civil officials." This Ming system should be changed, and the tradition of nobility and martial arts also needs to be changed. ”

Zhang Shize suddenly became a little enthusiastic, it is the wish of all nobles to change the tradition of the noble and the lowly!

......

More than twenty captives lived in the dilapidated huts, and when they saw Lei Shi and his people coming in, they all looked at him with bewildered eyes.

A battle frightened the captives, and the Janissaries, under the threat of strong force, turned them from rebels who rose up to quail.

"As a common man of the Ming Dynasty, you dare to gather a crowd to rebel and brazenly attack the county seat! Do you know what the sin of rebellion is? The unforgivable sin, according to the law of the Great Ming, all of you should be beheaded, and all your family members will be exiled to Lingnan! As soon as Lei Shisheng opened his mouth, he was frightened, and the soles of the prisoners' feet were weak, and they knelt down one after another.

"Official, we don't really want to rebel, we have been deceived."

"Yes, it's that lamp, his name is Zhao Sheng, he stayed up all night to write a military book, and then told us to follow him to eat, we were so hungry that we couldn't do anything, and we followed him as soon as our brains were hot, but we didn't kill anyone."

The captives kowtowed and pleaded.

Looking at the pitiful appearance of these captives, Lei Shisheng smiled with satisfaction, and his voice changed:

"However, Your Majesty is merciful, and Nian Er and others are all deceived by others, so he decided to pardon Er and others, and he is not to blame for the past."

The captives rejoiced.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty is a good man!"

"Well, is Your Majesty really in the army?"

Lei Shisheng's face turned grim: "Of course Your Majesty is in the army, is this committee member still going to lie to you?" You know that for your business, Your Majesty came here from Jingshi thousands of miles away to save your life. ”

Just hit us and said save our lives, is the emperor so kind? The captives looked at each other, full of doubt, but none of them could say anything.

"I have a million army in the Ming Dynasty, Xi'an in the south, and Yulin in the north, all have large armies stationed, as far as you people rebel, as long as the army arrives, it will be easily extinguished, why why should Your Majesty personally bring the army here?" Lei Shisheng snorted coldly.

The captives blinked, and what they said was that the emperor was so busy, how could he have time to pay attention to his people making trouble, and send troops to do so?

Looking at the stupid appearance of the captives, Lei Shi laughed silently, don't be too simple to deal with these stupid peasants.