Neither the instructions nor the stays.

The crown prince's approach was to refuse the advice of his courtiers, and he directly said in the court that he would use strict punishment to govern all officials. If this continues, Zhu Houzhao's reputation is not much better than that of Emperor Yongzheng.

Power can be retreated, but power can't stop the minister's mouth, even if it is not allowed to speak openly, it still can't be stopped in private.

This is the inevitable political development of the Ariake generation.

Liu Jian is sometimes a little worried about this, if he, the leader, follows a tyrannical king, it will still affect his name behind him...... He doesn't care, but he still has the point of cherishing feathers.

However, the East Palace did anticipate the future.

Li Dongyang bought the latest issue of "Ming Pao" and gave Liu Ge a look, and today's topic is very big and terrifying: The beginning and end of corrupt officials in Zhejiang.

When he was watching, the Imperial Shijiang Tongzu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who had taken off his official uniform, was also watching, and after finding that his name was listed in it, he was so angry that he tore up the paper!

"The Son of Heaven should share the world with the scholars, not with the people!"

Confetti flew in the cold November wind, landing at the foot of the chair, on the threshold, and on the person who came in with his foot. This person is Jiang Tongzu's friend of the same department, Ma Yiqian, who was the commander of the military department at this time, and was in the fifth grade.

The two of them are close in age and have similar interests, and they have always had a good relationship after becoming officials in the court.

Yesterday's events in the palace, everyone knows that Jiang Tongzu is going to be a common man, this punishment is not severe, but it is very insulting, as if to say...... He Jiang Tongzu didn't know the suffering of the people at all. Where will this reputation be good?

"Huide, be careful!" Ma Yiqian was scared when he heard his friend shouting so loudly.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's power has already intervened in the Jinyi Guard, and the Crown Prince is obviously more proficient in using the power of the Jinyi Guard than the current Holy Lord. Shouting like Jiang Tongzu at home, don't think that the prince won't know. At the beginning, Cheng Minzheng said in Beijing, 'The prince is just an eight-year-old child, didn't he be known later?'

"How can I not know how to be cautious in what I say, but state affairs are like this, and you and I are blindly cautious, cautious, cautious...... And what good is it?"

Of course, Ma Yiqian understood what he meant, and he could better understand Jiang Tongzu's mood.

The crown prince's style of doing things, now they have understood, if it sounds good, it is called assertive, and if it is not good, it is wise enough to refuse to admonish, and the court can also see it yesterday.

For Jiang Tongzu, the letter thrown to the ground basically announced the end of his career. Jiang Tongzu has not yet been established, so early, so suddenly, how can the psychology be balanced?

There are still many people like this in the capital, as long as the concept is far from the prince, most of the time they are named rotten Confucian, and they are all the proud sons of heaven who were born in Jinshi, and sometimes they will inevitably be unconvinced.

"Huide, I warned you back then. The prince is a very wise man today, and it is useless to convince him with a book of notes." Ma Yiqian looked at the broken piece of paper in his hand, "Whether it is the change of Zuo Shunmen in the twelfth year of Hongzhi, or now that Song Shu has been returned, the prince's door is closed to us people. He just needs to be able to cater to his ministers." ….

Bang!

Jiang Tongzu was angry and slapped the table hard.

"Greet the monarch with flattery, and the people of my generation are not ashamed to do it!"

I don't know if his words are really righteous in his heart, or because his career is hopeless. What makes them feel most desperate is that the crown prince has just turned fourteen years old now, and in the future, he will ascend the throne and pro-government, and their life is over.

"I've figured it out." Ma Yiqian sighed, "Looking for the right time, I will resign, there is no place for us to stand in the DPRK and China, so why force it? In the future, it will be a joy in life to love the mountains and rivers and recite poems."

Jiang Tongzu still seemed to be a little unable to swallow this breath, and reluctantly agreed, his tone full of sourness: "It's the same...... If there is a way in the world, you will see it, and if there is no way, it will be hidden. There is no way to be rich, rich and noble, and shameful."

Ma Yiqian was a little surprised, he knew his friend, "When did Hui Tak change his mind?"

"It's not a change

The idea is that the world is like this, and there is nothing to be done. I also have a good friend, surnamed Lu Meng, who also suffered from the same situation as me, and we entered the court as officials together, in order to help the world and benefit all the people, but the prince does not need us. Instead of living in a mess, it's better to go back to the countryside."

"Good!" Ma Yiqian congratulated, "Huide doesn't know, not only you and I have this idea, when the time comes, find some like-minded people, and return to their hometowns. At that time, let's chase the demeanor of the Eight Sages of the Bamboo Forest, and the people of future generations will know us, and they will also have a little envy!"

In this way, it seems that the unhappiness in the court is nothing.

But faintly, Jiang Tongzu was still a little worried.

"I'm afraid...... Hongzhi Zhongxing collapsed halfway, the world will be chaotic, and you and I earthly duckweed will not be able to stop the rolling tide."

"Will it?"

Jiang Tongzu seems to be very convinced, "Today, the crown prince was born in the palace and grew up in the palace, and the attendant teacher of the Zhan Mansion taught him a sentence: 'The people are the foundation of the state, and the country is solid, so he believes it. As everyone knows, the gentry of the world are the foundation of the imperial court. Besides, how could I not have known that the gentry oppressed the people? But if you move the gentry, it is like destroying your own foundation, and in the long run, how can the country not be chaotic?"

"This is also the truth of Huide's saying that the Son of Heaven shares the world with the scholars, not with the people."

"Not bad. To put it in his heart, the talent, courage, and courage of today's prince are indeed very human, but this concept is wrong, and he slashes at his own foundation with a knife, that is, he is fighting the world with one person. said that this time Zhejiang Eucalyptus, which gentry will have the heart of the court in the future? It's a pity that Donggong still thinks I'm a corrupt Confucian, and I don't understand the principles of governing the country."

Ma Yiqian was speechless for a while when he heard this.

And Jiang Tongzu made a certain determination at this moment, "Even if you and I are far away from the court, we must also have the idea of saving the country. Since the prince doesn't listen to you and me, then we can only try it slowly. Didn't Donggong establish a academy and create "Ming Pao" to influence people's hearts? We must also spread our ideas to other places and others, gather talents and talents, and wait for the opportunity, and one day Your Highness will come back and find that we are well-intentioned."

……

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At this time, in the Qianqing Palace, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian were in the audience. There were only three of them, and the crown prince Zhu Houzhao was not there. ….

「…… Yesterday morning, what do you three think of the prince's performance?" Emperor Hongzhi took his hands and paced in the hall, he was now better, and he liked to move his muscles and bones like this every day.

"Bold and imposing." Liu Jian responded.

The emperor glanced at Li and Xie. So Li Dongyang replied, "Your Highness is resolute and decisive, and dares to make plans and face controversies in what you have decided."

"Where's Elder Xie Ge?"

Xie Qian couldn't escape, but he said more briefly, "Your Highness has the image of a male lord."

"How is it better than me?"

If it was an ordinary minister, or if it was not so smart, it would be a sycophant of the emperor. But the three of them have been in the court for so many years, and in addition to knowing the crown prince, they know the emperor even better.

Our saint is the inheritor of the ancestors, Emperor Taizu was deeply worried that his descendants were weak and bullied, and he was ecstatic that his descendants were smart enough to bear the world, and Emperor Taizu still had so many sons at that time, but now he doesn't have to worry about it, just that. The inheritance of our ancestors and the society of eternity will be handed over to him no matter what.

Liu Jian replied, "The Holy One is indeed inferior to His Highness at such an age."

This is the art of expression of the scholar, which brings the meaning without degrading the emperor too lowly.

In fact, in the past few years, Emperor Hongzhi has seen it clearly, what is not old, "You dare not say it, I dare to say it." My crown prince is more suitable to be an emperor than me, hey, I really don't know whether to be happy or sentimental...... I have governed the world for 17 years, and in the end, the greatest contribution to my ancestors and the world is not to govern the Yellow River and appoint people on the basis of merit, but to give birth to an heir to our Zhu family who has the mind and means to directly follow the ancestors."

"The Holy One doesn't have to be so humble." Li Dongyang replied: "For three generations, His Majesty can be called the son of benevolence and virtue, and the wise and virtuous monarch

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"That's the problem." The emperor waved his hand, "I am the king of benevolence and virtue, and the crown prince is a strict punishment. Some ministers in the court always think that I am such a son, so I am too fond of him. Elder Liu Ge, Elder Li Ge, Elder Xie Ge, do you also think that I love the prince really just because of my affection? You are also my teacher, I ...... Is this such a general and ignorant monarch?"

When the three of them heard this, they all knelt down neatly, "The ministers don't dare."

"If I just spoil him, I won't let the prince intervene in the government so deeply, and if he doesn't have this will, he can't be forced to come. The ancestors' country, how dare I take it lightly?"

"Your Majesty!"

"After you go down, you convey my meaning, there will always be one sun in the sky, and there will be no big sun or little sun."

All three of them are extremely intelligent people.

The emperor's meaning is clear, that is, the courtiers should not ponder whether there is any disagreement between the emperor and the crown prince, and whether the prince's meaning is not the emperor's meaning. No, there is always a political center in the court, there is no second.

"Your Ministers understand."

Now there will be courtiers who make up their own brains, and then give very inappropriate examples, such as Li Shimin making his father the emperor and the like.

"It's good to understand......

The emperor said that, and the three old men did not continue to stay.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao was reading the secret report given by Jinyiwei, is it really impossible to offend the gentry?

If he hadn't known that the early Qing Dynasty had been lost, he would have almost believed it.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, these gentry groups in Jiangnan were accustomed to arrears of money and grain to the imperial court during the Ming Dynasty, so they did not change the emperor's practice. As a result, the Manchu court was unreasonable with them, and strictly ordered officials at all levels to pursue the gentry's arrears of grain. Of course, things were the same as in the Ming Dynasty at the beginning, because the local gentry and landlord forces in the Jiangnan area were entrenched and deep-rooted, and it was obviously unrealistic to completely cut off these forces based on the emperor's edict alone.

But the rest of the story is different.

In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, after some recovery, the Qing court deposed all the officials and gentlemen in Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and Liyang County, who were still in arrears of grain, totaling more than 13,000 people, and the decree was very strict, no matter how much money and grain were owed, they would be severely punished, that is, not a grain of grain should be owed.

So much so that Ye Fangai, a Jinshi at that time, was deposed by the imperial court because of his arrears, and the so-called rumor that "Tanhua is not worth a penny" comes from this.

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Zhu Houzhao instructed the Jinyi guards kneeling in front of him, "Don't alarm them, let them gather."

It's more convenient to end a pot than to look for it all over the street.

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