With the dispatch of officials from the Inspection Division and the Qingtian Division, Yanzhou Mansion, Dongchang Mansion, and Luxi Prefecture and County were in turmoil, countless state and county officials were arrested, and many gentry were raided......

And the three prefectures of Jiaodong, the peasant army of Wenxiangjiao has become more and more intense, has swept the land of Jiaodong, the scale of the people who participated in the rebellion reached as many as two or three hundred thousand, Zhucheng, Jiaozhou, Pingdu Prefecture, Jimo, Laiyang, Zhaoyuan, more than ten county towns in the three prefectures of Jiaodong have been occupied by the peasant army, and the army of the government guard has fought with the peasant army one after another, but they have been defeated one after another, and they dare not go out in the city of Laizhou, Dengzhou.

The rebels have gathered more than 100,000 troops and are besieging the capital city of Laizhou.

Fortunately, the army requisitioned by the emperor finally arrived, Zhou Yuji led the Liaodong army to land in Dengzhou Shuicheng, Zhao led the Jingshi Janissaries also arrived in Qingzhou Fucheng, Zhang Shize led the army from Juzhou, captured Zhucheng, and the three-way army surrounded the peasant army from three sides.

All of a sudden, the whole Shandong was turbulent, and a group of officials around Zhu Youzhen, such as Hong Chengchou and others, were busy all day long, but at this time, there was one person who was forgotten and felt very aggrieved, and this person was Wen Tiren, a member of the Cabinet University.

Wen Tiren is very aggrieved, very aggrieved!

He was a scholar and cabinet member, and had the highest official position among the officials who accompanied the emperor to the south, but he was left unattended by the emperor in Jining Prefecture.

At the beginning, he was the general manager of the Southern Patrol Army, responsible for the food and lodging of 20,000 people, responsible for communicating with the local government, etc., how powerful it was.

Who knew that after arriving in Shandong, everything suddenly changed.

Because the two clans complained in Dezhou, the emperor actually led thousands of troops to go to Jinan Mansion to deal with King De, and Hong Chengchou, the secretary of the military department, was able to accompany the emperor, but he, the general manager of the dignified scholars, had to lead the rest of the people to go to Jining Prefecture under the guise of the emperor's honor guard.

When I arrived in Jining Prefecture, I was stationed for more than two months. The emperor raided the Dewang Mansion in Jinan Mansion, arrested the officials of Jinan City, and Qingtian raided the house vigorously, and Zhang Shize, who came to Jining Prefecture with him, was also sent to Qufu to deal with the Yansheng Mansion, but he, the chief administrator, has been staying in Jining Prefecture and is not allowed to go anywhere.

Raided the Dewang Mansion and dealt with the Yansheng Mansion, and then the emperor actually announced the reform of the Shandong clan, and to conduct an Enke examination for all the clans, and if they passed the examination, they could serve as officials, and in order to make room for these officials, the emperor actually swept away the officials of the yamen of various prefectures and counties in the name of investigating corruption.

Thousands of miles of officials are only for money, and they are so meager, how can there be officials who are not greedy, and the officials have no chance of promotion, so they are naturally desperately greedy for money, and they are naturally one to get one on the grounds of investigating corruption, so countless officials in various states and counties have dismounted, and those who have passed the examination have become new officials, and Wen Tiren shook his head.

Your Majesty, Your Majesty, even if you feel sorry for these clansmen of yours, there is no need to do this, these clansmen have been raised, they don't know how to do things at all, let them be officials and have to make things worse in the yamen!

At the beginning, Wen Tiren thought that Zhu Youzhen did this out of selfishness to protect the clan, but later, Zhu Youzhen held an examination to recruit scholars as officials, and Wen Tiren felt that something was wrong. Compared with the large number of officials in each prefecture and county, the number of clans is a minority after all, and the impact of being placed in the prefecture and county government is not very great. However, the emperor wantonly recruited poor scholars and replaced the original officials with these scholars, which was clearly a posture of completely replacing the original officials!

Moreover, the emperor soon set up an inspection department to supervise these new officials, and after these immature scholars of the clan became officials, although they only underwent simple training, they burst out with great enthusiasm for work, and managed the affairs of the government and county government in an orderly manner. And these people are very incorruptible, and they have been praised by the people, and they have seen that the local officials have become rare and clear!

Wen Tiren is in Jining Prefecture, and he can see all this clearly, and he can't help but be amazed, if the local officialdom is cleaned up according to the emperor's approach, the local officials will be clean and clear, and there will be no corruption, not to mention that the people's life will be better, and the tax and grain revenue of the imperial court will also double. And those clans were liberated to become officials, and at the same time, they no longer needed to use Lu rice to support, and saved a huge amount of Lu rice, this inside and outside, just in Jining Prefecture in front of them, the money and grain saved every year are afraid of tens of thousands of stones, and the money and grain saved in the whole Shandong are afraid of not millions of stones!

What a great fortune! This made Wen Tiren admire the emperor's methods.

However, after thinking about it again, fear arose in Wen Tiren's heart. The emperor did this to connect the officials and completely clean up the officials, did the emperor want to do this in the entire Ming Dynasty? Does the emperor want to clean up all the officials of the entire Ming Dynasty?

This, this is simply incredible!

Moreover, the emperor also took action against the gentry, and copied many gentry's homes in Jinan, Yanzhou and other prefectures.

When the news came out, the gentry and officials of the world must have been shocked! In order not to be at the mercy of their own fate, for the sake of their lives, what choice will the provincial officials and gentry make?

Wen Tiren can imagine that from now on, the local gentry and officials in various provinces will inevitably have strange thoughts, fear and disgust for the emperor, and even antipathy......

Wen Tiren is an extremely smart person, and from what is happening in front of him, he can naturally easily deduce the consequences that will occur.

Maybe the rebellion of the Wenxiang Sect in Jiaozhou is related to the emperor's reckless behavior, and it is the evil result caused by the emperor's reckless behavior, otherwise, why could the number of rebels grow so quickly?

Otherwise, why did Jiaozhou, Laiyang, Pingdu Prefecture and other cities fall so quickly?

What do the rebellious peasant armies know how to attack cities? If there were no officials who cooperated with each other, how could they have beaten so many cities in a period of time?

As for why the officials helped the rebellious peasant army, it was naturally because they had no way to live. Once the emperor's people arrived in the states and counties, they would all be arrested and interrogated, and even their homes and beheaded! For the sake of his life, he could only choose to join forces with the rebellious peasant army. There will even be a lot of gentry who will secretly help the anti-thieves!

People's hearts are selfish, and the emperor is messing around, and he can't blame these officials and gentry for rebounding.

The three prefectures of Jiaodong have formed a rebellion of such a scale, if the gentry and officials in other provinces also rebel, how much momentum will it set off? That is, the emperor has 100,000 Praetorian Guards, and in the face of the situation that all provinces are opposed, how much energy does he have to suppress?

Thinking about it, Wen Tiren feels afraid!

No, you have to go to Jinan immediately to see the emperor and ask the emperor not to mess around, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will be in danger!