When he heard the "rumors" that the emperor was going to transfer the Liaodong Janissaries to Shandong, Cao Yubian was so shocked that he was almost speechless. If the matter is true, what does it mean He knows very well in his heart, the emperor is going to kill on a large scale, and Shandong will inevitably be rotten......

"Find a boat to cross the river!" Cao Yubian couldn't rest, and urged impatiently.

Quickly crossed the Jishui, and rushed to Jinan City in a carriage again, the coachman desperately waved the whip, drove the horse's hooves and flew hard, Cao Yubian still felt too slow, and urged him to run faster from time to time.

When he finally arrived in Jinan City, the horse pulling the cart was almost exhausted......

"Your Majesty, the left deputy capital Yu Shi Cao Yubian is here." Wang Chengen whispered.

I ran quite fast, but unfortunately I was late, and I did everything I had to do. Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly, and ordered someone to summon Cao Yubian in, but when he saw Cao Yubian, Zhu Youzhen was still stunned, and saw that Cao Yubian was covered in dust, his expression was extremely haggard, and he could barely walk on the road when he staggered......

"The old minister knocks to see Your Majesty." Cao Yubian trembled and was about to kowtow.

"No courtesy, give Cao Qing a seat!" Zhu Youzhen hurriedly ordered, for fear that Cao Yubian would die in front of him if he fell to the ground.

"I heard that His Majesty ordered the Liaodong Praetorian Guards to come to Shandong, I don't know if there is such a thing?" Cao Yubian didn't care about anything else, and asked directly.

Zhu Youzhen nodded slightly: "This is indeed the case, the envoy just left yesterday." ”

"The old minister dares to ask Your Majesty, why did you send troops to Shandong?" Cao Yubian immediately asked.

Zhu Youzhen frowned slightly, muttering how to answer, and dispatched troops to deal with the gentry and officials, this reason is really indescribable. Officials are officials appointed by the imperial court, and the gentry are the gentry who have achieved fame through the imperial examination. It doesn't hold up at all to say it.

When officials commit crimes, the imperial court has its own system to deal with them, and the Dali Temple of the Inspectorate is all set up for criminal officials. If the gentry break the law, they will naturally be dealt with by the local government, and it seems that there is no need to use the army?

To tell the truth, Zhu Youzhen bypassed the imperial court system, executed corrupt officials and corrupt officials on his own, used the army to arrest the gentry and landlords, and appointed officials on his own.

"There are homeless people rebelling in the mountainous areas of Yanzhou and Qingzhou, many anti-thieves occupy the mountains as kings and often harass the place, and there are more than ten ringing horses in Dongchang Mansion, threatening the first line of the canal, so His Majesty decided to send 20,000 Janissaries from Liaodong to Shandong to quell the rebellion." Hong Chengchou on the side explained for the emperor.

Cao Yubian glanced at Hong Chengchou deeply, and arched his hand to Zhu Youzhen: "Even if there are some displaced people in Shandong, how much climate can there be, just call the local guard army to suppress it, why bother to recruit the Liaodong army for thousands of miles?" The army was drawn out and spent countless sums of money, wouldn't it increase the burden on the imperial court and the people of Shandong? Please retract your order! ”

Zhu Youzhen hesitated for a moment and did not answer.

"Your Majesty has heard of Zhang Yuan in the Song Dynasty?" Cao Yubian asked suddenly.

Zhu Youzhen thought about it, felt unimpressed, and shook his head slightly. As a two-time emperor, he actually didn't read too many books, his knowledge was really limited, he didn't know much about the allusions to the characters of the previous dynasty, and he hadn't heard of Zhang Yuan at all.

"Zhang Yuannai is a Song person, because of repeated failures, dissatisfied with the Song court, he rebelled against the Song Dynasty and surrendered to the party member Li Yuanhao, assisted Li Yuanhao to establish the establishment of the Western Xia, and was appointed as the prime minister of the Western Xia, and later assisted Li Yuanhao to defeat the Song army in the Battle of Haoshuichuan, killing more than 10,000 Song troops, so that the Western Xia successfully established a firm foothold in northern Shaanxi." Hong Chengchou explained to Zhu Youzhen.

"I see, this Zhang Yuan surrendered to the alien race to attack the mother country just because he tried repeatedly, which is simply disloyal and unfilial." Zhu Youzhen said with disdain.

"That's true." Cao Yubian nodded in agreement with Zhu Youzhen's evaluation of Zhang Yuan, but the conversation changed, "But there is a saying that a good bird breaks a tree and rests, and there is a saying that you can learn literature and martial arts and sell goods to the emperor's family." Since Zhang Yuan can assist Li Yuanhao to achieve great things as emperor, it can be seen that his ability is extraordinary, but the Song Dynasty cannot recognize people and use them, so it is understandable for Zhang Yuan to go to another country.

The world is the world of the Son of Heaven, but also the world of the people of the world, the Son of Heaven has a way, then the heroes from all over the world have attached, learn to become a literary and martial arts, sell the emperor's family, the Son of Heaven has no way, although the ministers of the cronies will also carry it, this is the good bird folded wood and perched. Therefore, after the incident of Zhang Yuan, Song Renzong learned from the pain, and was more tolerant to the world's scholars, and those who repeatedly failed the scientific examination could be promoted to officials, so that there was no sage left behind, so although the former Song Dynasty was extremely weak, there were still countless scholars who would rather die than go to a foreign country when they died, and were willing to commit suicide and martyrdom, so when Lu Xiufu jumped into the sea with the Song Emperor on his back, 100,000 scholars and people followed the feat of jumping into the sea and martyrdom! ”

This is to use Zhang Yuan as an example to satirize himself, saying that he treats scholars cruelly! Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath and endured his anger and said, "Then Cao Vice Xian said, how does my Ming treat scholars?" Can it be compared to the former Song? ”

Cao Yubian had to admit: "Da Ming is naturally very tolerant of scholars. ”

In the Ming Dynasty, the status of the gentry was extremely lofty, they entered the court as officials and returned to their hometowns as gentry, and they did not pay taxes and did not pay conscription, except that the officials were far inferior to the Song Dynasty, and in terms of the privileges of the gentry, they were not worse than the scholars of the Song Dynasty, which Cao Yubian could not deny.

"Since I, the Ming Dynasty, is very tolerant of the gentry, if the Ming Dynasty dies, will there be 100,000 gentry who will die for the Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Youzhen continued to ask.

"This ......" Cao Yubian hesitated for a moment, not knowing how to answer. One is that it is very unlucky to mention the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and he is not sure how many gentry will really be willing to martyr.

Zhu Youzhen closed his eyes and took a deep breath, at this moment he recalled that when the city of Beijing was breached by Li Hongji and led by the army in the previous life, a small number of officials committed suicide and martyrdom, but more officials rushed to welcome the Shun army into the city, kneeling and begging Dashun to seal his official position. Zhu Youzhen remembered that when the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty fell, the provinces in Jiangnan surrendered one after another, and the Jiannu soldiers were almost bloodless, but Na Dolgon made a stupid move and ordered the Ming people to shave their hair and change their clothes, which made all parts of Jiangnan resist.

Those Jiangnan gentry who resisted Jiannu were more to serve to keep their hair than to be really loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

Da Ming is not bad to the gentry, but is too good to the gentry, so that they don't know gratitude, thinking that everything is taken for granted, and it is the reward they deserve for their fame in the ten-year cold window! In the hearts of most gentry, there is only their own selfish interests, and there is no Ming in their hearts at all, for these gentry, it doesn't matter who sits in the world, it doesn't matter if the Ming Dynasty falls, anyway, they are also officials in the new dynasty.

The more Zhu Youzhen thought about it, the more angry he felt.