"The governor, they are all cleaned up, and none of them escaped, and none of the gentry in Chengdu are here."

What can you do in the time of a cup of tea? Sun Chuanting used his actions to tell Zhou's staff and Wu Youxing.

At the time of a cup of tea, all the gentry of Chengdu were killed, and more than 4 million mu of military tun land and millions of mu of civilian land they were involved in became ownerless and were distributed by Sun Chuanting.

The corpses were dragged away, and Wu Youxing seemed to have lost his strength, holding the table with one hand and sitting on a chair.

Sun Chuanting wiped the blood on his face with a towel, and said lightly:

"According to the crime of embezzling the army's tun land, they will all be raided, the acres of land will be counted, and the books will be summarized."

"Yes......" Zhou's staff responded, then turned around and went to deal with things.

A soldier removed the blood-stained meal, wiped down the table, and put a simple leek egg and a bowl of rice on the table.

One dish and one meal, this is the most fragrant meal that Sun Chuanting has eaten since he entered Sichuan.

Wu Youxing looked at him who was eating calmly, and couldn't help but say:

"This matter has been stabbed, and the matter of His Highness arranging for you to go to the northwest is over."

"Your official position as governor, political envoy, and governor probably no longer exists."

"If I don't kill them, the hundreds of thousands of victims outside the city and the millions of victims in eastern Sichuan will also kill them." Sun Chuanting opened his mouth calmly while eating.

"Kill them, and the millions of victims in Sichuan will still have a way to live."

"I will bear the charges, and I will resign from my posts as political envoy, governor, and governor with immediate effect."

"Alas......" Listening to Sun Chuanting's words, Wu Youxing sighed deeply.

Not long after this sigh, a team of Tang riders headed for Beijing overnight.

By the time the news reached the capital, it was already five days later.

Sun Chuanting's ruthlessness was something that everyone didn't expect, including Zhu Youzhen.

Killing a gentry, although Sun Chuanting has Shang Fangjian in his hand, his ability to do this kind of thing also exceeds Zhu Youxiao's expectations.

Zhu Youxiao originally thought that he was killing a few officials, and he killed Liu Yuyou and Pan Shiliang, but he didn't expect that Sun Chuanting did not choose to kill officials, but chose to slaughter the gentry.

Things have reached such an extent that it is impossible for the simple deliberations of the Qi Palace, the cabinet, and the emperor to calm this eucalyptus.

A court meeting was held suddenly, and all the officials above the fifth rank in the court rushed to the Huangji Gate, and this kind of temporary court meeting was impossible to be in the Huangji Palace, and everyone came in a hurry.

Zhu Youzhen was wearing a scarlet prince's regular clothes, and rushed over without bringing anything.

The officials waited for him to take the lead, but the atmosphere at the scene was very strange.

What did the Ming Dynasty consist of......

To put it simply, it is composed of imperial power, vassal power, and military power, but if you investigate carefully, it is actually composed of gentry.

The essence of the feudal dynasty is to plunder the means of production, and the emperor is the biggest gentry and the most ruthless gentry.

The difference was that the gentry were only responsible for themselves and their families, while the emperor was responsible for the dynasty.

The scope of this responsibility is very wide, it can be as wide as tens of thousands of people, or it can be as narrow as hundreds of people above the temple.

Killing the gentry, this is something that only rogues and anti-people can do, even Zhu Youzhen needs to find an excuse to do it, and he has to wipe his ass for several years after doing it.

Now Sun Chuanting has done it, not only has he done it, but he has also done it very well.

The matter of killing the Chengdu gentry can be big or small, and it is reasonable and unreasonable.

To put it mildly, this is just a manifestation of the local case.

To put it more broadly, this is a very bad start, and it will put everyone in the country in danger.

It is reasonable to say that the gentry of Chengdu Mansion did something that the gentry in the whole world did not dare to do, that is, they embezzled the military tuntian that Zhu Youzhen had not easily recovered, and it was reasonable that they should be killed.

The unreasonable thing is that the gentry of Chengdu Mansion need at least three divisions to interrogate before deciding whether to kill or not, and Sun Chuanting is now mobilizing the Western Army Gongwei Battalion to kill people.

Does this mean that as long as you have military power, you can kill the gentry at will?

If so, is the Ming Dynasty going to repeat the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?

Originally, Zhu Youzhen used military power to reinvigorate the imperial power, and he had already made the army continue to grow.

At present, there is no outbreak of anything with Wu Lingwen, because Man Gui, Sun Yingyuan, Qi Jin, and Qin Bangping are interesting and loyal, and Wenchen also knows how to clamp his tail and be a talent.

In short, no matter what, what Sun Chuanting did undoubtedly played a role in how the Ming Dynasty treated the gentry in the new situation.

As soon as the news and processing spread, all the gentry waited and watched.

If the imperial court thinks that Sun Chuanting is doing the right thing, then it is okay, the military generals will suddenly override the civil ministers, and the gentry only need to win over the military generals.

In this way, once a military general wants to rebel, then after they have close contact with the gentry, they can not worry about logistics.

On the other hand, if the imperial court felt that Sun Chuanting had done something wrong, it would also arouse the dissatisfaction of the generals with Wenchen.

Originally, the military generals were suppressed by the Wenchen for hundreds of years, and now looking at what Sun Chuanting did, some military generals were angry in the future, and they would cut the Wenchen gentry under the horse when they drew their swords.

To put it bluntly, the outcome of this matter deserves everyone's attention.

"Quiet—"

When Honglu Siqing sang at the Huangji Gate, everyone fell silent.

"Sing—"

"Wow......"

"Hooray, hooray, hooray......"

The singing sounded, and then the bell rang, and Zhu Youzhen took the lead in starting to push the singing of the golden mountain and the jade pillar.

Zhu Youxiao came dressed in azure clothes, wearing a winged crown, and sat on the dragon chair.

"Up-" Honglu Siqing struck the bell again, and all the officials got up one after another.

In the face of this situation, no one dared to take the lead in speaking, only the two brothers, Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao, could.

Zhu Youxiao subconsciously set his eyes on his younger brother, and the eyes of the hundred officials also followed.

This gaze contains a lot of meanings, and everyone wants to know whether Sun Chuanting's actions were instructed by Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen felt his gaze, he naturally couldn't say that this matter was not instructed by himself, but he also couldn't say that this matter was instructed by him.

Faced with his gaze, he chose to avoid the question and said instead:

"Sun Chuanting, the governor of Sichuan, the political envoy of Bu, and the governor of the seventeen provinces, beheaded more than 70 gentry and gentry five days ago."

Zhu Youzhen chose to throw out the question first, and Feng Quan, Shi Fenglai and others listened to this question very attentively, and Gu Bingqian and them were the same.

It can be said that at present, Feng Quan and Shi Fenglai represent all the gentry in Jiangnan and Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and Gu Bingqian represents the gentry in other provinces.

The affairs of the gentry in Chengdu have to come up with an explanation, an explanation that does not disgust the gentry in the world, so that they can explain to the people below, and the people below can explain to the gentry.

Zhu Youzhen knew it very well, but he also wanted to take this opportunity to beat the gentry.

The essence of the feudal dynasty was to plunder the means of production, even if the gentry of Sichuan did not occupy the military tuntian, the gentry of other provinces would also occupy the military tuntian.

The next three years will be a good opportunity for Zhu Youzhen to organize the sweep of the north, and the drought will decline in stages, so he wants a stable situation to organize the sweep of the north.

It is very important to use Sun Chuanting's incident to beat the gentry and tell the gentry what the bottom line of the court is.

What is the bottom line of Daming? This mother is doubtful, and it is nothing more than the word finance.

If the gentry pay their taxes honestly, the court will not take the initiative to trouble them.

If Zhu Youzhen wants to stabilize them and beat them, he first needs to magnify the matter of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

"The Sichuan army's tuntian, more than 4 million mu, was all occupied by the gentry of Sichuan by means of forcible seizure."

"What is the nature of Jun Tuntian, I think about it, I don't need to open my mouth alone, you also know it."

"If the local gentry are allowed to invade the military tuntian, then more than 90 million mu of the military tuntian in the Ming Dynasty will be occupied, and who will pay the more than 40 million stone fields of the imperial horse supervisor? Who will pay the salaries of the hundred officials and the military salaries of the governor's office of the five armies? ”

Zhu Youzhen first raised the matter of the Sichuan Army Tuntian to the existence of an unshakable national policy, and then he continued:

"The gentry of Chengdu Mansion should be killed, but not Sun Chuanting, they should be tried by the three divisions, and the final decision should be made whether to kill or exile."

If the previous sentence raised the seriousness of the Sichuan incident, then the current sentence is stabilizing people's hearts.

The process that should be followed must be followed, and the rules that should be followed must also be followed.

This incident belongs to Sun Chuanting's personal behavior, although he did it right, but the process went wrong, this is what Zhu Youzhen meant.

Gu Bingqian and they had already guessed this meaning, and what they were concerned about now was not what Zhu Youzhen meant, but how to deal with the matter and how to make them explain to the people below.

"Temporarily remove Sun Chuanting's five military governors' mansions, the governor of the Western Army, the governor of Sichuan, the political envoy of Sichuan, and the governor of the seventeen provinces!"

Zhu Youzhen began to convict Sun Chuanting, and everyone held their breath and listened carefully.

"In addition, go to Sun Chuanting again, Lord Wu, and take the position for the people!"

In the end, this is Zhu Youzhen's explanation to the hundred officials and the gentry of the world, and at the same time, he is also protecting Sun Chuanting.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, Sun Chuanting has the ability to reinstate himself at any time, and what he needs to do now is to keep him.

"Dare to ask Your Highness, without going through the trial of the three divisions, you killed more than 70 gentry with meritorious fame without authorization, is this the result?!"

A spokesman from the Metropolitan Procuratorate stood up, and Zhu Youzhen glanced at the other party, and recognized the other party as a member of the Sichuan Party at first glance.

Facing the other party's questioning, Zhu Youzhen turned sideways and responded unhurriedly:

"Li Gongsheng and others should be killed, Sun Chuanting is not wrong, only more than 70 of them have coveted half of the land in Sichuan, including more than 4 million acres of military tun fields, shouldn't this kind of behavior be killed?"

"According to the "Da Ming Law", Sun Chuanting did not make a mistake in killing, nor did he commit unjust killing."

"Besides, he still has the Fang Sword in his hand, so he already has the right to cut first and then play!"

Zhu Youzhen wants to protect Sun Chuanting, this mother is doubtful, everyone can see it, so Gu Bingqian, Shi Fenglai and others did not stand up to refute.

In the final analysis, with Sun Chuanting's status, killing Li Gongsheng and them is nothing.

If it weren't for the fact that this eucalyptus involved too much, causing the gentry all over the world to wait and see, they would not have found it troublesome.

Now Zhu Youzhen has given a reason, that is, to occupy the military tuntian.

Although everyone knows that the more than 4 million acres of military tuntian must not be occupied by only these 70 or so families, Zhu Youzhen's move is to impose all the charges on the heads of the more than 70 gentry who have died, but who cares about the dead people?

In other words, Li Gongsheng and others took the blame for the other living Sichuan gentry, and it was too late for the other Sichuan gentry to be happy.

It is an inevitable act to hand over the army tuntian, and no one dares to be an enemy of the current imperial court.

In this case, it is a good choice to hand over the land to save your life.

As for the money and grain that was lost by forcibly renting the land, it could only be that the Sichuan gentry thought they were unlucky.

Zhu Youzhen was willing to let go of some small and medium-sized gentry, which made the Sichuan Party breathe a sigh of relief.

They are most afraid that Zhu Youzhen, like Sun Chuanting, will uproot the Sichuan Party and kill all the gentry in Sichuan regardless of the consequences.

Now it seems that although they can't give any explanation to the living Sichuan gentry, at least they keep the living gentry.

Even if the energy and power of these small and medium-sized gentry are not as good as those of several gentry in Chengdu Mansion, they have saved a trace of face after all.

The Yanguan got the benefit and naturally retreated.

"Juntuntian is the foundation of the country, whoever dares to encroach on Juntuntian will not be spared!"

After pacifying everyone, Zhu Youzhen was about to start beating everyone.

Juntuntian is the bottom line of the Ming Dynasty, and no one can shake this.

"Long live, what the minister should have said is finished, please make a decision!"

After the matter was handled, Zhu Youzhen handed over the opportunity for the final ruling to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youzhen can only express his position, because Sun Chuanting is his person, compared to him, Zhu Youxiao's maneuverable space is much larger.

After Zhu Youzhen expressed his position, he had a certain right to retain Sun Chuanting, so that he would not cut it to the end.

However, he can't explicitly protect Sun Chuanting, but to retreat as advance.

Sitting on the dragon chair, Zhu Youxiao glanced at the hundred officials, looked at everyone bowing their heads, looking at their noses and hearts, and slowly spoke:

"Sun Chuanting's matter can't end in such a hurry."

"First temporarily remove him from all official positions, and take back Shang Fang's sword and official seal."

"In addition, since the officials of the Sixth Division have arrived in Nanjing, and it is only a month's waterway trip to Chengdu, then this matter of Sun Chuanting will be jointly tried by the Sixth Division."

"With Wen Tiren temporarily acting as the presiding judge, Zhou Yanru and Li Banghua as the deputy judges, Sun Chuanting's culpability will be judged how it should be judged."

"Long live Shengming......" Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, everyone bowed down and sang.

Everyone can hear it, whether it is Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, or Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, they all want to protect Sun Youxiao, especially Zhu Youxiao.

After all, Sun Chuanting's crimes can be big or small, and how to sentence Wen Tiren and a few of them.

When it is big, it is to follow Zhu Youzhen's instructions to cut his post for the people.

is small, at most, the real power and official position on him will be removed, but the scattered rank and martial arts are still retained, although he has to go home, but there are always two servings.

In any case, it is difficult for Sun Chuanting to cause trouble for the parties in a short period of time, which also makes Gu Bingqian and others breathe a sigh of relief.

Let Governor Sun Chuanting go down again, I'm afraid he will kill more than just so many people next time.

"Scattered Dynasty—"

Honglu Siqing's singing sounded again, and the hundred officials began to retreat after singing, but Zhu Youzhen did not leave.

He bypassed the dragon chair of the Huangji Gate, and sure enough, he saw Zhu Youxiao waiting with his back to him.

"Brother ...... Emperor"

Zhu Youzhen stepped forward to make a move, and when Zhu Youxiao heard it, he frowned and turned to look at him:

"Sun Chuanting's matter should end here, right?"

Obviously, Zhu Youxiao was also very dissatisfied with Sun Chuanting's handling of the situation, although it was a pleasure to kill someone, but the follow-up impact would definitely have to be ended by the imperial court.

Zhu Youxiao cannot deny that Sun Chuanting is a good general and virtuous minister, but he is not willing to do more than this kind of thing to spend the energy of the entire court to wipe the ass of a person.

"It's over......"

Zhu Youzhen heard the meaning of Zhu Youxiao's words, and bowed slightly to indicate that the matter was over.

"That'll do." Zhu Youxiao breathed a sigh of relief, and then reassured:

"No matter what the result of the trial is, let him go home and rest first, and it's not too late to come back after two years."

"Brother thinks so too." Zhu Youzhen nodded in response.

Perhaps in Zhu Youxiao's opinion, Sun Chuanting is capable, but he is more capable of causing trouble, and in Zhu Youzhen's opinion, Sun Chuanting is indeed time to rest.

Not to mention that he pacified the southwest, stifled the Jianyu, passed through the northwest, and patrolled the world, but he did not return home for nine years, and the follow-up turmoil he caused at the moment alone also determined that he could not show his face in the short term.

"I will ask Zhongxian to send some money to the Sun Mansion, anyway, he has indeed made a meritorious contribution to the imperial court this time."

Zhu Youxiao is still very aware of Sun Chuanting's exploits this time, although the imperial court wants to help him wipe his buttocks, but the gentry and heroes of Sichuan have been cleaned up by him in one go, and it is not surprising that Sichuan has been stable for at least a few decades.

In contrast, rewarding some money is nothing, if it is not to estimate the feelings of the gentry in the world, Zhu Youxiao wants to promote Sun Chuanting.

"The younger brother thanked the imperial brother for Sun Chuanting." Zhu Youzhen expressed his gratitude, and Zhu Youxiao also nodded:

"Okay, that's the matter, Sichuan's military tuntian should be recovered quickly, and more than 70 other gentry should also raid their homes, don't delay the autumn harvest."

"Yes......" Zhu Youzhen nodded, and then said:

"Since there is nothing to do, then the younger brother will go back to the house first, and there are still a lot of tricks in the house that need to be dealt with."

"Okay, I'm also back to the Heart Cultivation Palace." Zhu Youxiao nodded slightly, and also talked about his own affairs.

After the two brothers separated their work, both sides were a little busy, and naturally it was impossible for Zhu Youxiao to pester Zhu Youzhen to play as before.

However, although life is very busy, Zhu Youxiao can at least understand his younger brother's difficulties.

The two exchanged a few words, and then drove away.

For Zhu Youxiao, this matter is a bit troublesome, but it is not tricky, after all, as long as the feelings of the gentry in Jiangnan are taken care of, the feelings of the gentry in other places are not important.

For Zhu Youzhen, Sichuan was empty, which was good for him and the imperial court.

Riding in the carriage, Zhu Youzhen closed his eyes to recuperate, and then slowly spoke:

"Let Lu Wenzhao escort the family rolls of these more than 70 gentry to Jiaozhi, and when he goes to the West for the second time in the next year, he will accompany the ship to Leviia."

"The slave and maid take ......the order," Wang Chengen responded, but then he looked at Zhu Youzhen and said hesitantly:

"Your Highness, Sun Chuanting is now being cut to the people, so next year's Wusi Zang ......"

"Wu Sizang postponed ...... for the time being," Zhu Youzhen responded with his eyes closed, because Sun Chuanting's incident gave him a good opportunity to beat the gentry.

Now he wants to see the reaction of the gentry, if the gentry is honest, and the scale of the drought will decrease next year, then he will be free to clean up the prisoners.

After careful calculation, he also let the old slaves survive for nearly six years, and once the drought subsided, he could start to do it.

Compared to the Northeast, the affairs of Uszang can be put aside for the time being.

"Your Highness, there is one thing that the slave doesn't understand......"

When Wang Chengen heard Zhu Youzhen's words, he hesitated:

"Since Sun Chuanting can clean up the gentry, why can't we?"

"Although the gentry in Jiangnan are powerful, they are also as powerful as swords......"

Wang Chengen's question is similar to the question of "the Qing Dynasty can move the sword, why didn't the Ming Dynasty move" in later generations.

The Qing Dynasty could use the knife because at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty and even throughout the Qing Dynasty, the small clan bullied the big clan, and the small clan was an interest group, and because of the nationality, it was impossible for them to be in harmony with the Han gentry.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, he killed tens of thousands of gentry in Jiangnan in one go, and the scale was hundreds of times that of Sun Chuanting now.

They are not afraid of turmoil, because they have hundreds of thousands of oppressors behind them to help stand in line, and the national nature restricts them from being able to go to the Han gentry, even if they are bribed, they will not delay them from raising their swords against the Han gentry.

Zhu Youzhen used officials with no background to kill corrupt officials at the beginning, and the same is true.

It's just that when he started doing this, the gentry of Jiangnan had already begun to notice.

The Qi Wang Party, the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the Yanshan Sect, the speed at which they corrupted far exceeded the speed at which Zhu Youzhen cultivated them.

It will take several years for Zhu Youzhen to cultivate an interest group with a clean background, but it will only take a few months for the gentry to corrupt them.

The Qing Dynasty was able to suppress the Han gentry because he led the Manchu interest groups and some Han officials to oppress all classes, and then distributed the collected means of production according to the hierarchy of the royal family, Manchu ministers, and Han ministers.

Zhu Youzhen is also engaged in distribution at the moment, but he cannot squeeze all classes to engage in distribution like the Qing Dynasty.

At present, he is squeezing the gentry alone, and the gentry are squeezing the people, and the people can't stand the suffering and become outcasts, which is a bit of a dead cycle.

In short, no matter what his original intention was, even if he was bent on reducing the burden on the people, judging from this situation, all the oppression would be transferred to the heads of the people, which was an unsolvable problem.

Although it is comfortable to kill the gentry in Sichuan, the existence of the gentry cannot be killed.

As long as people exist, there will be differences, and if he kills the gentry today, it will not be a few years before some rich peasants will evolve into gentry.

It's easy to go on a rampage, but who has his back?

Houjin has more than 100,000 Jianyu to support, but his four ......

The Qi Wang Party has become the Gu Party, and the Yanshan faction is also a little disobedient, and the only one who obeys the order is the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

It's just that once the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is used to carry out a brainless massacre, not to mention that the military discipline of the Ming army that Zhu Youzhen has cultivated for so many years will be corrupted, he can't afford the consequences of martial arts interfering in politics alone.

One is not well operated, and another is five generations and ten countries.

At the moment, he has no better way to solve the gentry except to use some people of faith to slowly solve the gentry.

Sun Chuanting can use the knife because there are many people behind him to wipe his buttocks, if Zhu Youzhen uses the knife, there will be no more than 100,000 firm squeezers behind him to help him.

Ninety percent of the officials above the court are related to the gentry, and this incident can be seen.

Moreover, his Zhu family is the largest gentry leader in this land......