"Sell newspapers and sell newspapers, long live the decree that the country and the whole country will be exempted from the fields for two years, so as to lenient the suffering of the drought!"

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers! Long live the decree that the whole country will be exempted from the fields for two years, and the suffering of the drought will be lenient! ”

At the end of March, as spring is about to pass, farmers all over the world know that summer is coming.

Although Qin Tianjian in the Daming Daily has said that the drought will only get lighter and lighter from this year, many people are still worried about the failure of the grain harvest and the soaring price of grain.

However, with the announcement of the "Daming Daily" that the national field endowment will be exempted for two years, many people are excited to beat their chests and stomp their feet, and even more people dance the unicorn dance that is only danced on festivals.

The whole country is exempt from land for two years, which is something that has never happened in the country, so for a time the poems praising the emperor came out frequently.

It's just that compared to the happiness of the people, the people in the temple couldn't sit still.

"I've been exempting the fields for two years, and now there is no one left."

"His Royal Highness has already sent many officials who have returned from the Qi Kingdom to replace the local officials last month, and it is estimated that by October, they will be ready to replace the village officials with Fuxue students."

"What should I do?"

"What else? I don't think it's better to give in to Your Highness. ”

"It's not that I haven't been soft, but His Highness has turned a deaf ear, obviously we have already become a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh in His Highness's eyes."

"The whole country is exempted, and I think that tomorrow Jin Xuan and Yan Yinshao will definitely chase after us above the temple."

In the official workshop of the capital, when the news of the "national exemption from Tian Fu" spread, the ministers of the Yanshan faction, who had been concealed for a long time, finally knew why the King of Qi was delaying time.

No matter how they thought about it, they didn't expect that the King of Qi would dare to exempt Tian Fu, and it would still be two years.

The exemption in the past two years will at least put the Ming court on a debt of 80 million taels, and they don't know where the King of Qi has the confidence.

For a while, Chengde's courtyard was crowded with people, and everyone was gossiping, like a noisy vegetable market.

"Peng!"

"Okay......"

Chengde was so annoyed by the noise that he couldn't help but get up, frowning at everyone and teaching:

"Now that I know that I will lose, I will mess up every inch, in this case, I shouldn't be so aggressive earlier."

"Don't think it's ......"

"Bang-"

Before Chengde's words fell, he saw that the gate of the small courtyard was suddenly kicked open, and a team of brocade guards armed with rifles rushed into the small courtyard, making the already crowded courtyard even more crowded.

"Since they're all here, it's easy to do."

Lu Yuangao walked in from outside the door, looking at the more than fifty high-ranking officials of Yanshan crowded in the courtyard, and couldn't help but smile.

"According to the order of the King of Qi, all the adults here, please follow the boy and me."

As soon as Lu Yuangao's voice fell, an official pulled out the long sword at his waist and pointed at Jinyi Wei and said:

"We are all ministers of the imperial court, how dare some eagle dogs arrest me!"

"I'd rather die than go to prison!"

As soon as this man drew his sword, many Beijing officials who knew what the fate of entering the Imperial Prison would be, drew their long swords one after another.

They all knew the difference between the people who were taken by the Jinyi Guards and those who were taken by the three divisions.

The three Si take people, that is Cha Eucalyptus, and the Jinyi Wei takes people, that is Ding.

After all, the more than 50 high-ranking officials in the courtyard have experienced many years of corruption in the Ming Dynasty, and in this position, their buttocks have long been wiped clean by them.

If it had been the Sansnar, they would not have been afraid at all.

But if it is Jinyi Wei who takes people, it is not a cha, but a fixed eucalyptus that is bent into a move.

In other words, to deal with the Yanshan faction, King Qi didn't think about going through the formal process at all, all he wanted was to press the Yanshan faction to death.

"Your Highness is like this, aren't you afraid of losing your trust to the people of the world?!"

Jin Yiwei took one of the joints of the person, and many people instantly thought of Zhu Youzhen, and couldn't help but question.

For their problems, Lu Yuangao also felt very helpless.

Zhu Youzhen's bending into a trick like this may break the political pattern of the Ming Dynasty, but ......

"Arrest them all!"

Lu Yuangao drew his sword and shouted, he knew in his heart that the princes and princes were the losers and thieves, as long as they were convicted, the Yanshan faction would not be able to turn over in this life.

"I see who dares!"

"Bang!"

An official shouted with a sword, but was stunned by the sound of gunfire in the next second.

"Disarm!"

As soon as Lu Yuangao spoke, the brocade guards stepped forward and smashed the long swords in the hands of the officials with their rifles.

Looking at their easy appearance, Lu Yuangao couldn't help but sneer: "Didn't you say that Yanshan students are proficient in the six arts? Why is it so soft to even hold a sword? ”

His taunt made many officials blush.

In the past, they were indeed proficient in the six arts, but as they entered the officialdom, they basically thought about scheming and promotion, where would they have time to train.

In the long run, the so-called six arts have long been abandoned.

Without any obstruction, more than 50 officials were escorted out of the small courtyard by Jinyi Guard, and in the end, only Chengde was left.

Faced with this situation, Chengde had expected it, and without waiting for Jinyiwei to step forward to take him, he followed Jinyiwei to the carriage outside the courtyard.

Such a scene is being staged everywhere in the current official workshop, and most of the people watching the excitement are Yeonshan and neutral officials of Kim Hyun's faction.

After the incident, the old-fashioned Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren, and Feng Quan gathered together.

"Your Highness's trick is very good, but it just ruins your reputation."

In the Wen Mansion in Dashi Yongfang, when Zhou Yanru frowned and said this, Feng Quan, who was sitting opposite him, couldn't help but nod:

"It's not about reputation, but His Highness's planning started a few years ago, and he dared to waive the field for two years, which is what I admire about him."

"However, now that Tian Fu has been exempted from two years, he has brought more than 80 million taels of arrears, what will His Highness rely on to pay it back, this is also what I care about."

"The bank's deposits have not been able to go up, and last year it was embezzled 12 million taels, and now there is no way to move it."

"Besides, more than 80 million taels are in arrears, if you really want to take it from the bank, then I am afraid that you can empty the bank all of a sudden."

Feng Quan didn't know how many deposits Daming Bank had, but he thought it wouldn't be too much, otherwise the bank wouldn't have had to run out 12 million taels to lend to the account department last year.

Since the bank can't come up with the silver to fill the field endowment, Feng Quan is very curious about where this silver comes from.

"What I'm thinking about now is when His Highness will become a vassal, and whether we will be able to rise again after taking the vassal."

As soon as Wen Tiren spoke, he immediately attracted the attention of Zhou Yanru and Feng Quan.

Zhou Yanru and Feng Quan, one is the current leader of the Qi Wang Party, and the other is the second-in-command of the Zhejiang Party.

After Wen Tiren saw Yan Shan's fate, he only felt that the old school might be the next Yan Shan.

If the old school does not seek to change, I am afraid that it will ......

"I should be fine...... Feng Quan saw it clearly, and couldn't help but say:

"Our foundation is in the gentry, and the gentry are now being relocated overseas and outside the customs by the king of Qi by various means, which is equivalent to us having no foundation in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Central Plains."

"What is the role of our waiting, we must understand this before we can know how His Highness will deal with us."

"Although the Yanshan faction is suppressed at the moment, don't forget that there is also the official school like Yanshan."

"The official school has not yet emerged, but when they do, the temple also needs to contain their power, and our role is this."

In Feng Quan's view, the old school is almost suppressed, not to mention the Zhejiang Party, even the former Qi Wang Party, and now there is not one in ten.

This is the case with feudal centralized dynasties, as long as the monarch has enough reserve talents, then he can decide the life and death of the party at will.

In the Ming Dynasty, the monarch's instructions became the focus of competition among major parties.

Zhu Yuanzhang was unhappy with Huaixi, and Zhedong would immediately be able to hit Huaixi hard.

Zhu Di was unhappy with Jiangnan officials, and northern officials were able to suppress Jiangnan officials immediately.

Jiajing was unhappy with Yan Song, and Qingliu immediately overwhelmed Yan Dang.

Wanli and Empress Dowager Li supported Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Juzheng immediately overwhelmed Gao Gong.

Zhu Youxiao was unhappy with the five parties of Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun, and Kunming, and the Donglin Party immediately occupied the political high ground.

He was unhappy with the Donglin Party, and the Eunuch Party immediately broke the backbone of the Donglin Party.

This kind of thing basically happened to Zhu Youzhen, and compared with other monarchs, he has a talent reserve that is beyond the reach of kings of ancient and modern dynasties.

It was very easy for him to change a party, and in the struggle against the Yanshan faction, the Yanshan faction was basically defeated and retreated, and Zhu Youzhen sat firmly in Diaoyutai.

Although the local money bag is important, there are too many ways to crack it.

"Tuk-tuk—"

When Feng Quan said the role of the old school, there was a knock on the door of the Wen Mansion, and the conversation between the three came to an abrupt end.

The head of the house ordered someone to open the door, but when the little guy opened the door, the person who appeared outside the door made his legs almost weak.

"Minister!"

"Jinyi Wei Office!"

The little guy had just shouted, when he heard dense footsteps bypassing the shadow wall, and one by one brocade guards dressed in crimson round-necked robes appeared in the Wen Mansion.

Wen Tiren and the three stood up instantly, and Lu Wenzhao also walked out from behind the shadow wall and said to the three of them in the air:

"By the order of His Royal Highness, please ask Feng Shilang to go to the Imperial Prison."

"......" heard that he was going to the edict, Feng Quan's legs were weak, and he didn't know what he had done, and he was actually worthy of being invited to the edict.

Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, who heard the words, also turned pale, and they didn't dare to move for a while.

"Feng Shilang can't walk, you can help him."

Lu Wenzhao glanced at the person next to him, and then the two brocade guards stepped forward to frame Feng Quan.

This Zheng Sanpin waiter, who was sitting on a chair and pointing at the country a second ago, was now dragged out of the Wen Mansion like a dead dog.

During this period, Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru did not dare to move, until Feng Quan was dragged out, and they were sure that they were okay, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that they just breathed a sigh of relief, but Lu Wenzhao said again:

"According to the order of His Royal Highness, the postponement of the Zhengdan Festival will be held on the first day of the fifth month, and Banzai will also return to Beijing to preside over the court meeting, and ask the two ministers and Sun Ge Lao and Li Gechen to do it well."

"I'll take the order...... the two of them pretended to be calm, Lu Wenzhao saw this, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he turned around and led people out of the Wen Mansion.

After a while, the Wen Mansion fell into peace again, but for Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru, their hearts were not calm.

Feng Quan is the third-in-command of the old school, and his arrest means that King Qi is beating the old school.

Unexpectedly, Feng Quan was convinced that the role of the old school was to balance the parties in the future, but the next second he was arrested.

This means that although Zhu Youzhen needs them to balance the parties, he does not say that they cannot be suppressed.

If they don't obey one day, there will naturally be another party to take their place.

Feng Quan was arrested, this is Zhu Youzhen's beating of them.

Working with Zhu Youzhen, it can be said that he is like a tiger......

Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru glanced at each other, and after a brief gesture, Zhou Yanru left the Wen Mansion.

Also when Zhou Yanru left Wenfu, the news that the officials of the Yanshan faction in Beijing had been arrested and imprisoned began to spread.

Jin Xuan, who belonged to the same fang as them, was also informed by someone who cared about it, and soon learned the news of the collapse of the Yanshan faction.

Hearing the news, he was stunned, and then sat back in his place, not coming back to his senses for a long time, as if he didn't believe that the Yanshan faction was so easily cleaned up.

Originally, Jin Xuan thought that His Highness had to mobilize the people at least in order to completely uproot the Yanshan faction.

As a result, it now seems that His Royal Highness was completely thunderous, destroying the upper echelons of the Yanshan faction first.

As long as the upper layer is destroyed and the middle layer is slowly replaced, the base layer will naturally be torn apart due to the loss of the backbone.

These means, step by step, Jin Hyun can understand them, but when they are combined, he doesn't understand them.

In particular, the reduction of the great drought and the exemption of taxes on the Yanshan faction, which dealt a fatal blow to the Yanshan faction, are simply the root of the Yanshan faction.

How could His Highness know that the drought has subsided this year, and the people will not be instigated?

If there is no fleet in this year's drought, even if the city is exempted, the Yanshan officials will be able to encourage the people.

It can be said that as long as the chess game is poor, the Yanshan faction will be able to gain the upper hand again, and the result will be a major drought problem, and the Yanshan faction will fail.

Kim Hyun sighed, still unable to figure out how His Highness could accurately predict the receding drought.

However, compared with the problem of drought, how to accept the vacancy after the imminent collapse of the Yanshan faction is the biggest problem.

"Boyu!"

Not long after, Yan Yinshao's voice sounded outside the door, and Jin Mu, who was washing vegetables in the courtyard, also walked to the door and opened the door when she heard the words.

Seeing Jin Mu, Yan Yinshao hurriedly saluted, then walked quickly into the small courtyard, came to the hall and smiled at Jin Xuan:

"Wang Kejian and they were all arrested and imprisoned, and I guess Li Demao and Zhang Maocai in Anxi will not be able to escape."

"In the next few months, I'm afraid that the country and the dynasty will have a headache to fill the official vacancy, so you and I have to prepare early."

"In addition, after Wang Kejian and the others were arrested, we had to win over the officials in the villages and towns to minimize the impact."

Yan Yinshao talked about the official shortage, in essence, after Yanshan fell, the Ming Dynasty would definitely still be short of officials, but under Zhu Youzhen's arrangement, the gap in the official position was not too big, and it basically could not affect the normal operation of the imperial court.

However, there are good and bad official positions, and there are big and small powers, and how to arrange it depends on Yan Yinshao and Kim Xuan.

In addition, the grassroots Yanshan officials have no backbone, and at this time, Jin Xuan and Yan Yinshao, who are both from Yanshan, can take the opportunity to win them over.

The Yanshan faction is too powerful to be destroyed at once, but Zhu Youzhen can replace middle- and upper-level officials with Kim Hyun and Yan Yinshao to change their political demands in the short term.

Jin Xuan had already figured this out, so he also knew that unifying the Yanshan faction was something he needed to do right now.

For those hundreds of thousands of Yanshan faction officials, their current political appeal is to be promoted to become wealthy, which is an excellent candidate for officials in overseas countries that are short of people.

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Therefore, Jin Xuan didn't talk nonsense when he saw this, and immediately discussed the issue of how to win over the grassroots Yanshan officials.

While they were discussing, the Jinyi Guard, who had spread outward from the capital, had already begun to take people like crazy.

The sound of kicking the door may be the most frequent sound in the entire Ming Dynasty today, and there are not a few Yanshan officials who have broken the door, and the Yanshan officials above the seventh grade are the targets of this arrest.

There were more than 40,000 of them.

Although there are fewer grassroots officials than the hundreds of thousands of grassroots officials in Yanshan, it is still necessary to mobilize a large number of people to arrest them.

In this situation where the sound of breaking the door continued to sound, Zhang Maocai, the political envoy of the Beiting Courtyard, who had always been strong, stepped on the chair and put his head into the cloth belt of the hanging beam.

With his feet kicking down the chair, Zhang Mao instantly fluttered his legs, and saliva gushed out of his mouth, but he stopped moving for a while.

A moment later, the brocade guards who had knocked open the gate rushed into the mansion in large numbers.

When they saw Zhang Maocai who hanged himself, their first reaction was to save people.

It's just a pity that Zhang Mao has been dead for a long time and has long been unable to return to heaven.

Compared with Zhang Maocai, Li Demao, who also lives in Anxi City, is more stubborn.

He set the house on fire and burned it with his whole family.

When the news of the death of these two people reached the capital, Jin Yiwei's arrest of officials above the seventh rank had lasted for six days.

The middle and upper-level officials of the Yanshan faction were wiped out, and Zhu Youzhen could get out of the Qi Palace.

On days like the sixth day of the fourth month, instead of going to the palace to see his eldest nephew, he chose to go to the fields to visit the people who were farming in the fields.

Although it was summer, the drought had eased, many rivers had recovered, and rice had reappeared in the fields of Kitazhili.

Zhu Youzhen sat and watched the patches of rice being blown up and down by the strong wind, but there was an indescribable taste in his heart.

He handed the letter in his hand to Cao Huachun, who was waiting next to him, and said with mixed feelings: "Their temperament has not changed for many years. ”

Zhu Youzhen said Li Demao and Zhang Maocai, and Cao Huachun, who heard the words, also took the letter and immediately spoke:

"It's a little too easy to deal with Yanshan this time, even the slaves and maids think it's incredible."

"You think it's easy, don't you?" Zhu Youzhen looked at the rice field, his expression was calm, and his words seemed to be saying that he himself felt that it was too easy.

"It's easy not because we are fast, but because some people don't use their means to fight."

"Your Highness is saying...... Chengde? ”

Zhu Youzhen's words made Cao Huachun hesitate again and again, and then said Chengde's name.

He thought about it carefully, although Chengde was the leader of Yanshan, he did not cause bloodshed, nor did he use swords, so that most of the Yanshan faction was pacified without even using the means of killing the fish and breaking the net.

"How is he in prison?"

Zhu Youzhen thought of Chengde who was in prison, and saw the memories of his past and the old people from Chengde.

"He was just locked up, not tortured, and entertained with good wine and food."

"If he is released now, he may become the loser of the Yanshan officials."

Cao Huachun saw it thoroughly, regardless of whether Chengde was intentionally helping the Qi Wangfu to cut off the most unstable factor in the Yanshan faction, but the benefits could not be enjoyed by him.

Once Chengde enjoys the benefits, or is released immediately, then Chengde will have to be targeted by Yanshan officials and old-fashioned officials.

Chengde was in charge of Yanshan, squeezing out honest officials internally, and suppressing the old parties externally.

It can be said that under Zhou Yanru's command, most of the former officials of the Qi Wang Party were cleaned up by him with the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Those honest and idealistic officials who were expelled from Yanshan were also promoted by him, or sat idly by.

He is in trouble right now, and there are not a few people who want to step on his feet.

Putting him in prison has become a means of protecting him.

Such a method couldn't help but remind Cao Huachun of a person, so he looked at Zhu Youzhen, who was calmly looking at the field, and asked cautiously:

"Your Highness remembered Yang Lian?"

"Hmm......" Zhu You replied, and his face was a little moved:

"When Chengde suffered, I still had the spare strength to help him, but Yang Lian was imprisoned back then......"

Zhu Youzhen was silent suddenly, and only said at the end: "He is more suitable for teaching and educating people, and officialdom is not suitable for him." ”

"But Chengde is very suitable for officialdom...... So the slave maid felt that Chengde might be able to be retained. Cao Huachun added when Zhu Youzhen finished speaking.

Obviously, for Chengde, Cao Huachun and they don't have any hatred.

They all knew that Chengde was put up by the general trend, and he also took the initiative to ask for it.

Without Chengde, the Yanshan faction has long become a wild horse that has escaped over the years, and in this attack on Yanshan, if the people in power are radical people like Zhang Maocai and Li Demao, that war is inevitable.

Their concentration is much worse than that of Chengde, and after seeing that the situation is irreparable and Zhu Youzhen will not compromise, they will instigate the officials and people of Yanshan all over the world, no matter what means they use, they will make the national strength of the Ming Dynasty suffer.

"Your Highness, Chengde is a meritorious ...... to the dynasty"

Cao Huachun cautiously continued to speak, but Zhu Youzhen smiled when he heard this:

"There are merits and faults, even if you and I don't count, lock him up, don't have less wine and meat dishes."

"When I'm gone, let him out, otherwise with his character, he will still stop me after he comes out."

The political appeal of Li Demao and other Yanshan factions is to restore the punishment of non-commissioned officers, but Chengde's political appeal is very simple, that is, Zhu Youzhen does not want to be a vassal.

As long as he can still move, he will go up and down again and again, or use various means to prevent Zhu Youzhen from being a vassal.

It is precisely this move and this thought that reminds Zhu Youzhen of Yang Lian back then.

As long as Yang Lian can still move, he will give his brother over and over again, forcing his brother to cancel the suppression of the Donglin Party.

The two are not the same, but the behavior is very similar.

Chengde is a person, Zhu Youzhen is of great use, but he can't let him out now.

Not to mention that now is the moment on the cusp, Zhu Youzhen can't meet the demands of virtue alone.

lock him up for two or three years, and then let him out after he becomes a vassal.

At that time, Daming's officialdom can be better rectified, and most of his enemies will be solved.

When the time comes, what he has to do is to honestly assist his disciples to govern the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath, looked at the rice fields and said with a smile:

"This year, the people can have a good year......