Of course, the reason why Zhu Youzhen is so rigid is because he has the pulse of the gentry, and the gentry seem to be huge in strength and control the government and the opposition, but in fact they are just a plate of scattered sand, and it is impossible to unite at all.

The party in the court was fighting all day long, and the officials of the various factions were fighting with each other, and the same was true for the local squires.

In the face of ordinary people, these gentry are like wolves and tigers, and they are extremely powerful, but for the truly strong, they are just lambs to the slaughter. In the face of strong force, the vast majority of the gentry will inevitably compromise and will take the initiative to embrace the revolution.

So Zhu Youzhen is really not afraid of the gentry rebelling.

However, Wen Tiren's words also reminded Zhu Youzhen, is what he has done to the gentry and officials too extreme, is it necessary to kill them all? Officials will be killed, and those who should be killed will be killed, and the government will be reformed according to their own minds in the future, and the system of selecting officials for the imperial examination will also be changed.

But for the gentry, there is really no need to kill them all. For those gentry who were willing to hand over their fields and were willing to pay land taxes and commercial taxes, they could open the net. There are too many gentry in the world, and they are all the smartest people, and it is a great loss for Daming to really kill them all.

What I want to overthrow is all the unreasonable systems of the Ming Dynasty, not against the gentry themselves. The gentry are also a member of the Ming people.

But you don't have to rush things so much, you can take your time. You can't force all the gentry of the entire Ming Dynasty to rebel at once.

Zhu Youzhen finally thought clearly.

"Da Sima has drawn up a decree, saying that the investigation of local officials will only be implemented in Shandong, and the local officials will be sent by the Inspectorate to investigate." Zhu Youzhen commanded.

Now that Shandong has implemented it, a large number of grassroots officials have been trained first, and the reformed system has been stabilized, and with a mature system and a sufficient contingent of officials, even if the gentry of the whole country are against each other in the future, they will be able to quickly pacify and stabilize the localities.

Zhu Youzhen was not afraid of the gentry rebelling, but he also did not want the gentry to rebel now. After all, now the north needs money and grain supplies from the south.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Wen Tiren said happily.

"Since Elder Wen Ge has come to Jinan, he is still in charge of logistics, first manage the inventory materials, and be responsible for raising and transporting grain and grass for the army of thieves." Zhu Youzhen commanded.

"Wechen obeys." Wen Tiren was overjoyed. The emperor handed over the logistics and food to himself, indicating that his holy favor had not decreased.

......

"Da Sima has always been by His Majesty's side, and he knows His Majesty's thoughts, and if Wen does something that does not conform to His Majesty's thoughts in the future, please Da Sima must point it out." On the way out of the emperor's temporary bedroom, Wen Tiren said solemnly to Hong Chengchou.

Now Wen Tiren has seen clearly that in the emperor's heart, Hong Chengchou is much more important than himself. Hong Chengchou must know a lot of things that the emperor did, and it is likely that the decision was made after the two discussed. Otherwise, with the emperor's age, many things will not be safe at all.

Since Hong Chengchou is deeply trusted by the emperor and is the emperor's real confidant, he can't separate himself from Hong Chengchou now, otherwise he may get into trouble. As for later, hmph, I'll talk about it later.

"Elder Wen Ge has been tortured by the officials, where can you guess Your Majesty's thoughts as a courtier." Hong Chengchou said humbly, "But it's all for Your Majesty, if there is anything in the future, if Elder Wen Ge has anything, we can discuss it." ”

"It couldn't be better." Wen Tiren said happily.

"After today's events, Elder Wen Ge must have understood His Majesty's thoughts." After walking together for a while, Hong Chengchou looked around at no one and said suddenly.

"Know something......" Wen Tiren nodded.

"Your Majesty is determined to reform all kinds of malpractices in the Ming Dynasty, and all your Majesty's actions are aimed at establishing a new Ming Dynasty, a Ming that far surpasses the Taizu Chengzu.

Although many of His Majesty's actions seemed to have hurt the gentry, it was a large number of ordinary people who benefited. Although you and I are members of the gentry, we have read the books of the sages, and we should know that the ideal of being a scholar and governing the country and the world is an ideal that my generation of scholars should pursue.

coincides with the Holy Monarch's lifetime, and you and I will assist the Holy Monarch to complete the great cause, so that the strength of the Ming Dynasty will reach the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the prestige of the Ming Dynasty will spread all over the world.

What is the little benefit lost by the gentry compared to this great achievement? Hong Chengchou said angrily.

"Your Majesty, although young, is accustomed to being arbitrary, but it is not that he does not listen to opinions. We are Your Majesty's courtiers, and we should do our best to assist Your Majesty in accomplishing the great cause, and we must not be half-hearted, otherwise we will be severely punished. ”

"Don't worry, I know how to do it." Wen Tiren knew that this was Hong Chengchou's beating on himself, warning himself not to be half-hearted in the future, and to do whatever the emperor told him to do, and at the same time warned himself not to say today's things, the emperor's thoughts could not be told to anyone.

Hong Chengchou nodded with a smile and walked away.

Out of the royal city of King Lu, where the emperor lived, a servant greeted him and led Wen Tiren to his own yamen.

Except for Shen Xun, the governor of Shandong, the entire officialdom of Jinan was almost swept away. Although Shen Xun is the governor of Shandong, in fact, he has long been completely hollowed out, and he has no power in his hands, and he only writes his "Fu Qi Shu Manuscript" in the governor's yamen all day long. The power is all hollowed out, and I don't know which one to caress with?

Wen Tiren is now the Yamen where the former political secretary is located, and after arriving at the political secretary, a group of officials came to pay their respects.

Looking at the subordinates standing upright with fists in front of him, Wen Tiren nodded slightly, knowing that these people were not the original officials, but the clans or poor scholars recruited by the emperor's examination.

As soon as he sat down in the back hall of the office of the Chief Minister, one by one the scribes walked in with stacks of documents and placed them in front of Wen Tiren.

Looking at the stacked papers, Wen Tiren took a breath and began to flip through them.

The top documents are all records of copying the house, which indicate the money, grain and wealth obtained by the officials and gentry.

Looking at these lists of stolen money, Wen Tiren was shocked in his heart, there was too much wealth copied from him.

The palace of King Lu was copied, and 350,000 taels of silver were copied, more than 20,000 stones of grain, and there were all kinds of treasures of gold and jade to fight.

The Yansheng Mansion was copied, and the silver copied out was 1.5 million taels, and the document said that it filled ten silver cellars, and there were as many as 460,000 stones of grain. The Kong family owns nearly 2 million acres of land, and the land rent they collect is as high as 60%, and they have an annual income of millions of stone grain. Of course, in order to feed the huge population of the Yan Sheng Gong Mansion and to satisfy the poor and luxurious life of the Yan Sheng Gong, it is not bad to be able to save so much silver grain.

In addition, the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in various provinces were raided, and more than a dozen gentry were raided, and the total amount of silver seized was as high as 3 million taels, and the total amount of grain was more than 1 million stones. And this is only the money confiscated from Jinan Mansion, and the wealth confiscated from Yanzhou Mansion, Dongchang Mansion, and Qingzhou Mansion is not included.

The silver confiscated in Jinan alone is worth a year's income from the state treasury, and the seized grain is enough to sustain an army of 100,000 for two years.

No wonder the emperor likes to raid his house!