Apocalypse met with these civil ministers and asked, "Does the matter of the grain shortage have anything to do with you?" ”

Shen Yongmao replied first: "Naturally, it doesn't matter. ”

"It's okay, then what are you going to cry about!"

"The rebels and thieves who conspired to unite with Caoyun and local officials to cut off grain and try to make the world chaotic should be dealt with according to the law!"

"As for what Uncle Zhang Guo and Zhao Yan did, I already know very well that it is not considered to frame Zhongliang and attack dissidents, so don't slander at will! Otherwise, I won't be spared! Let's all retreat! ”

Apocalypse is not angry.

"Your Majesty!"

Shen Yongmao couldn't help shouting, and then he bowed to the ground and said with tears in his eyes: "The subjects of the world who do not lose grain for the country know that they are wrong, please be gracious!" ”

"When I begged you to donate food to save the country, few of you remembered me as a monarch."

When Apocalypse said this, he asked, "What qualifications do you have to come to ask for mercy now?!" ”

"Two million stones!"

Shen Yongmao said a number, and then said: "The minister is willing to be the first to ask for the grain to be added to two million stones, and only ask His Majesty to issue an order to withdraw the post of governor of Xichang and Zhejiang." ”

"Your Majesty! The court argued that it was not a bargain to increase the grain at will, it may be to increase the amount of grain to the people, but it is better to clear the acres of land first, and then decide how much the grain should be increased, so as to realize that the people do not increase the amount of grain and the country can use it enough. ”

Yuan Keli objected at this time.

When he was a magistrate in Suzhou, he was determined to crack down on the powerful and advocated reform of the law.

If he is reused after today's Qi ascends the throne, and now he is even more allowed to preside over the change, even if the apocalypse wants to retreat, he doesn't want to retreat at this time.

Some scholars pursue fame and fortune, some pursue meritorious deeds, and Yuan Keli pursues meritorious deeds.

Shen Yongmao saw Yuan Keli say this, and glanced at him with dissatisfaction.

The apocalypse wished that Yuan Keli would stand up at this time.

Although he likes carpentry and treats people around him very well, as an emperor, he still knows some imperial skills, and he is also willing to let Yuan Keli stand up and share the pressure for himself, so he said:

"What Yuan Qing said is very true, I can't be kind to the people at will, nor can I give to the people at will, governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, how can it be like a child's play? I still say the same thing, merit will be rewarded, crime will be punished, and you will deal with it as you want! Ruling the country is like holding the scales, I can't open the net just because you civil officials have committed a great rebellion, of course, if my domestic slaves and close ministers have committed a great rebellion, they will not open the net. ”

"That's all for today!"

Apocalypse said and left the place.

Shen Yongmao and others had to retire.

Yuan Keli also left Xiyuan.

But as soon as Yuan Keli left Xiyuan, Shen Yongmao and other civil officials who had failed to ask the emperor to show mercy stopped him.

"Please stay!"

Shen Yongmao first bowed his hand to Yuan Keli, and said: "You Yuan Liqing want to restore the old government of Jiangling, and clear the acres of land in the world, we know." But everyone is a son of a saint, a two-list jinshi, and you, Yuan Liqing, are also from the Deshi family, do you really want to sit back and watch the Jiangnan gentry being treated so harshly by Uncle Zhang Guo and Zhao Fushi? ! ”

Yuan Keli replied bluntly: "If the official gentry took the initiative to cooperate with the new policy, there would be no such things. ”

Shen Yongmao sneered: "Even so, but Zhao Fushi was recommended by you, and he is also your best friend, how he does it is naturally at the instigation of you Yuan Liqing, he is now so cooperating with Uncle Zhang Guo to kill the official Gentry Liwei in Yangzhou, is there no instruction from you Yuan Liqing?" You Yuan Liqing can't withdraw him Zhao Yan, or write a letter to ask him Zhao Yan to rein in one or two? It's rare that you really want to isolate yourself from the scholars, just to flatter the powerful and cater to the will?! ”

Yuan Keli was furious when he heard this, and said, "Princess! He Zhao Fushi served as the governor of Zhejiang, and went to Jiangnan to implement the law change, which was recommended by contemptible people. But did Zhu Gong think about it, if he Zhao Fushi went to Jiangnan and didn't actively change the law, what would be the consequences? ”

"What can be the consequences, it's nothing more than that he, Zhao Fushi, will be rated as an incompetent person by His Majesty, and he will be dismissed from office and taken from office!"

Shen Yongmao said.

"Don't you understand, Your Majesty now distrusts our Wenchen! If a hard-working minister like Zhao Fushi does not actively change the law, His Majesty will completely give up on our civil ministers, and directly let foreign relatives interfere in politics, or let eunuchs participate in foreign court affairs! We must let Your Majesty understand that we civil officials are still willing to do things, and the Ming Dynasty has not yet reached the time when we will only rely on eunuchs and military ministers to go around for government! ”

Yuan Ke immediately said loudly and said: "Believe it or not, if I wait for Wenchen to stop seeking the country, Your Majesty will make Wei Zhongxian ten times more vicious than now, and Uncle Guo is only afraid that he will not only collect taxes on behalf of the Son of Heaven, but also regent on behalf of the Son of Heaven!" ”

Shen Yongmao knew that what Yuan Keli said was not a big truth, but what he was more concerned about now was that his Shen family's tens of thousands of acres of hidden fields in Suzhou were about to be cleared out of the Qingzhang Field.

It can be said that as long as he does not clear the acres of land, he would rather have the dictatorship of eunuchs or his relatives interfering in politics, rather than see that there are civil officials and foreign relatives and military ministers in his hometown to clear the acres of fields.

But Shen Yongmao is not good at directly refuting Yuan Keli's saying that it is wrong to prevent eunuchs or relatives from becoming bigger, after all, preventing eunuchs or relatives from becoming big is politically correct in the civil government.

Therefore, he was dumbfounded for a while, and he didn't dare to say it after thinking carefully, so he could only stare at Yuan Keli with two eyes, holding back his anger.

Yuan Keli continued: "Therefore, not only can we not let Zhao Fushi relent, but also make him work harder than Uncle Guo!" I have to let Your Majesty know that we civil officials don't need to have relatives or other forces whipped behind us to get down to business! The contemptible man decided to write to Zhao Fushi again, telling him that he would have to be more ruthless than Uncle Guo when implementing the new policy! ”

Yuan Keli threw up his sleeves and walked away as he spoke.

Shen Yongmao: "......"

……

Nanzhi, Ying Tianfu.

Zhang Gui, Zhao Yan and others had been in Nanjing for several days, and they were waiting for the magistrates and county officials of Zhejiang and Zhejiang to come to the newly established governor's yamen to accept the relevant arrangements.

Nanzhi and Zhejiang cover Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other places in later generations, and are the richest and most densely populated places in the Ming Dynasty.

The gentry and gentry are also the most powerful.

Because the original capital of the Ming Dynasty was in Nanjing, there were many powerful people.

Therefore, it is not an easy task to clear the acres of land in these two places.

Fortunately, Zhang Gui used the heads of the governor of Caoyun and the general soldiers of Huai'an, while Zhao Yan used the heads of the gentry and wealthy businessmen of Yangzhou Mansion to stand up first, showing the attitude of directly flipping the table if he did not cooperate.

Therefore, it also made Zhou Qiyuan, the governor of Yingtian, and other officials in Nanzhi and Zhejiang dare not do it on the surface.

During the period when the officials of the two places arrived in Nanjing, Zhao Yan's governor Yamen also hurriedly recruited many scholars from the Han family as his staff to prepare for the next work of clearing the acres of land.

The literacy rate in Jiangnan is very high, and there are many scholars, and there are also many scholars from poor families, and these scholars from poor families have in fact long suffered from the harm of land annexation and oppression by the powerful and powerful.

Otherwise, in the late Ming Dynasty in history, there were incidents in which the Hanmen organized the people to confiscate Dong Qichang's family, and in the Chongzhen period, there were even more Hanmen students represented by Xu Du who directly rebelled.

It can be said that the social contradictions in the late Ming Dynasty have intensified into the minds of scholars.

Many of the poor scholars have been monopolized by big bureaucratic families because of their upward channels, and they have begun to accumulate dissatisfaction with society.

Because of this, there are many scholars from poor families who come to the governor's yamen who are willing to work for the Qingzhang fields.

What's more, after the imperial examination has actually been controlled by most scholars in the Ming Dynasty in various ways, there are not many opportunities for scholars from poor families to advance through the imperial examination, so it is not a good thing for their personal future to directly intersect with the governor-level officials of the imperial court before the middle examination by doing things for the governor's yamen.

Zhang Gui also asked the West Factory to recruit a lot of poor scholars for training, and intended to let them undertake some grassroots clerical work when the West Factory was taxed in the future.

On this day, because the officials of Zhejiang and Zhejiang had arrived, Zhao Yan, the governor of Zhejiang, met with the officials and gentry of Zhejiang and Zhejiang at the governor's yamen and began to arrange the matter of clearing the acres of land.

Sun Ruyou, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion and a prince of the Prince's throne, said at the meeting: "From the old man's point of view, you can clear the acres of land, but you can't clear the fields of the gentry!" I, the Jiangnan gentry, who is not a good family, who is not only guarding the land left by the ancestors, how dare to merge and seize the small people's land? Only the small people have newly cultivated fields, or when the Qingzhang comes out, it is not very burdensome to the people, and our officials and gentry can also persuade the people for the government, understand the court, and accept the government. ”

As he spoke, Sun Ruyou asked Zhao Yan: "What does the ministry think?" ”

"The fields of the gentry must be cleared! There is no reason why the New Deal is half implemented and half is not implemented! ”

At this time, Zhang Gui said undoubtedly.