A few quarters of an hour later, just when Shen Yi was a little overwhelmed and began to prepare to evacuate, Liu Wei appeared here with the cavalry of the Son of Heaven's personal guard, the bluestone slabs that he stepped on made a clatter, and the hunting banner also cracked in the wind.

Many people were stunned when they saw the sudden appearance of many officers and cavalry with a large number of banners.

Bang bang!

Liu Wei, who had already received the order, and these cavalrymen came directly and opened fire.

This is the Son of Heaven's Praetorian Cavalry, equipped with the latest cavalry self-generated firearms, also known as flintlock pistols, so they are fast and accurate.

As a result, it didn't take long for many of the people involved in the riot to fall.

"The officers and soldiers are here!"

"Run!"

Soon, many of the people involved in the riot reacted, dropped their knives, arrows, clubs and ran around.

Others fell to their knees with their legs limp.

Zhu Yijun, Qi Jiguang, Wang Xijue and others had already gone to a nearby attic at this time, and looked at this scene calmly.

Zhu Yijun knew that this was not the time for him to feel sorry for these rioters.

Whether these people were bribed by Haoyou to launch a riot because they were greedy for money and profit, and they wanted to kill the prefect, or they were bewitched by Haoyou and deliberately smeared Shen Yu, which caused these people to be mobilized and killed by the prefect, or both, now he must use the army to stop this behavior with iron and blood.

If the prefect is killed on the spot by the rioters, it is a violation of the centralized order.

Zhu Yijun only allowed the people to arrest officials in Beijing to complain to the emperor under the "Great Edict", but did not allow the people to directly kill officials on behalf of the emperor, thus destroying the entire legal order and making the system of the people supervising officials become the tyranny of the majority.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun must now forcibly stop this kind of behavior.

"Those who drop their weapons and raise their hands to surrender will not be killed!"

"Those who drop their weapons and raise their hands to surrender will not be killed!"

……

With the appearance of the army, the riot was quickly quelled, and many of the people who participated in the riot fled one after another, and those who did not flee also obediently dropped their weapons and raised their hands under the shouts of the officials and soldiers.

It's just that there are already a lot of corpses in the place where the conflict occurred, and there are even more people rolling on the ground and wailing in pain.

Zhu Yijun looked at this scene and said to Qi Jiguang and Wang Xijue:

"I didn't expect that since the fire gun was installed as a pro-military guard, it would be used in this kind of place for the first time!"

Saying that, Zhu Yijun said again: "The situation that Ji Guogong discovered just now made me think deeply, these people launched a riot to express their dissatisfaction with the prefect, but they only wanted to kill the prefect Shen Xuan, and did not intend to use a legal way to only release him to see me, are they deliberately making the power of the people supervise the officials taste, or are someone deliberately letting them change the power of the people to supervise the officials?" ”

"In the minister's humble opinion, the latter is more likely."

"Because the small people are self-sufficient, many of them have never seen the prefect in their lives, let alone the prefect?"

"Therefore, the people should not talk about how much hatred they have for the prefect, and the only ones who can directly have a big enmity with them are the county officials, so they will not kill the prefect if they want to meet, and even recognize the prefect, and now they can accurately stop the prefect and kill the prefect, which can only show that there are people behind them who are coercing and instructing them to do this."

Wang Xijue analyzed at this time.

Qi Jiguang also followed: "The minister seconded the proposal, as far as the minister knows, many people usually don't even know the name of their parents and officials in their county, let alone the name of the prefect, but today many of them are calling Shen Futai by his name!" ”

"It can be seen that these people are instructed by Haoyou behind their backs in advance, because if the people are really dissatisfied with a certain official, or even have a grudge against them, then the first to be killed must be the county officials."

"Although His Majesty has already decreed that the people are allowed to take officials to Beijing to sue the emperor, there are very few people who are willing to exercise this power, and there are examples of occurrences, which are only organized by the factory guards."

"It can be seen that the people are not willing to personally punish corrupt officials and evil officials!"

Of course, this also has to do with the fact that most of them also find it difficult to directly feel the hatred of some officials; In addition, even if a few ordinary people are directly bullied by officials, other people will not bother to participate in taking officials into Beijing to sue the emperor, mainly because it is not beneficial to spend energy, and it is easy to bring trouble to themselves, so those who can organize the people to fight against the government are either the court itself to deal with the government, or there are wealthy families who want to deal with the government. ”

Wang Xijue nodded.

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun also bowed his head and said: "The people of the world are self-sufficient, or they just want to be happy to run their own fields and industries, and they don't take the initiative to care about the government and politics, which is doomed to me still having to maintain the authority of the court; That's why I said, I still believe in you courtiers! ”

"After all, if I don't believe you, I can't trust the local tyrants, right?"

Wang Xijue and Qi Jiguang glanced at each other.

Then.

Wang Xijue first excitedly arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty's holy candle, even if there are lawless people in the hundred officials, but in the end, they are His Majesty's protégés, and they have the responsibility of supporting the society, and the local tyrants do not have this responsibility!" ”

Qi Jiguang followed: "The ministers seconded the proposal, the situation is natural, the power of the world needs to be unified, and the monarch and ministers must work together." ”

Zhu Yijun nodded, and then said: "But we can't always let the local tyrants coerce the people's will, and the monarchs and ministers who do not have the supervision of the people are easy to forget the crisis, and even intensify their evil, and even completely disgusted with the people's opinions, and even directly despise the people and ridicule them as a rabble." ”

"What's more, if you keep letting the local tyrants coerce the public opinion and buy the public opinion, and then make the people become the right minions of the tyrants without knowing whatsoever, and it becomes the price of confronting the government, won't it make the people hate the officials excessively in the future, and then also hate the court excessively, and only think that the local tyrants are good?"

"Your Majesty!"

"This is very difficult to change, because the wisdom of the people has not yet been opened, and even if the wisdom of the people is opened, and in fact, just as the officials are easy to indulge in peace, the people are also easy to indulge in peace, and they only value the immediate benefits, if there is no benefit, they don't even bother to read the notices outside the yamen, if there are benefits, they will follow the yamen and destroy the public office."

"Therefore, if we want public opinion not to be easily manipulated by local tyrants, it can be said that there is a long way to go."

At this time, Wang Xijue expressed his feelings about inspecting the place for many years, and hoped that the Son of Heaven would understand that in the same era as Taizu, he could not completely expect the people to farm and weave and rule the world with the emperor, and the current Ming Dynasty could not do it.

"Then let there be more wealthy families who can coerce public opinion, to the point that they can't reach an agreement at all."

"Tueen!"

Zhu Yijun looked at Qi Jiguang and Wang Xijue as he spoke, and spit out two words.

"1. Greater efforts can be made to protect the property inheritance rights of concubines and adopted children."

"2. On the grounds of exempting parents and enhancing the personal independence of the people, the children of the Han people in the world can be encouraged to move separately, and for those who move by dividing and relocating, a certain amount of tax exemption will be given in the first year, as well as an additional inheritance tax, and a ladder tax will be set up, so that the wealthy families will take the initiative to share their momentum."

"Third, it is possible to relocate the large government-run factories to the interior, and in places where the phenomenon of self-sufficiency is serious, to promote the emergence of the working class, and then to promote the growth of the cities and towns, and the emergence of the citizen class, especially those towns in the central and western regions that already have the hope of becoming a large commercial port like Suzhou and Hangzhou, so that their workers and industrial and commercial groups can be further expanded! In the past, the emperor moved to the wealthy, but we moved to a large factory, and there were workers in the factory, and there were workers and citizens, and the citizens could not be self-sufficient, so they were naturally more concerned about their own rights and interests. And moving the factory to the mainland is also conducive to military and national defense! ”

"Fourth, although most of the people are very lazy and unwilling to participate in the work of Kuangfu Sheji, it does not mean that all the people are unwilling! For those scholars and officials who have made outstanding contributions, wealthy families who are willing to give, and literati and painters who have great influence, more official positions will be given to those who only talk and do nothing, and the imperial court will organize them to set up a yamen to consult on government affairs and people's affairs, and let them speak! ”

"Anyway, since the imperial court still needs speech officials, and it can't really imprison the world's speech, then simply expand the number of speech officials, whether you listen to me or not, but you can't just let a few people speak, and then give Haoyou the opportunity to buy; In other words, since you can't shut up everyone in the world, then simply let the number of people who speak to the point that you can't be bought by Haoyou. ”

"Fifth, we can encourage ordinary businessmen, ordinary homesteaders, ordinary workers, veterans, juniors, and other people from all walks of life to form a community, since individual people have no interest and courage to confront the government or collude with the right and evil, public welfare social organizations are always interested in confronting it, otherwise what authority do they have in their own industry?"

Zhu Yijun proposed five methods in a row.

Qi Jiguang and Wang Xijue were both dumbfounded when they heard this.

"However, it's too early to say this, you only write it down first, and then discuss it in the political hall after returning to Beijing, and only kill people and cut off your head at this time."

Zhu Yijun spoke again at this time, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly:

"Since Zhu Qing strongly asked me to go out of the palace to fight the rebellion, and follow the old things of the temple, then I must have been prepared to make the world roll in after I leave Beijing."

"This is also no way, after the economic reform is deepened, it will inevitably be accompanied by political reform, and it is inevitable that the local governments and counties will have institutions for consulting and government affairs, and even let the prefectures and counties also have institutions for supervision and trial!"

"But these are far waters, and they can't quench their thirst, and there is only an iron-fisted suppression in front of them, which can scare an official gentry and a wealthy right."

The word "economy" has long existed in ancient texts, and the word "politics" is also easy to understand, plus Zhu Yijun has often mentioned it at court meetings now, so now that Zhu Yijun mentions it again, Qi Jiguang and Wang Xijue and others do not feel abrupt, and they also understand what Zhu Yijun means.

It's just that Zhu Yijun himself smiled bitterly after saying it: "I don't want to, just increase the killing!" ”

Subsequently.

Zhu Yijun clasped his hand on his belt and said: "Originally, God has the virtue of a good life, and people have compassion, not to mention that I really want to talk about the friendship of compatriots and the feelings of the nation, but sometimes the leniency of a few wicked people is the bullying of the good people of the whole clan, and now it can only be like this." ”

Zhu Yijun then looked back at Zhang Jingxiu, the left governor of the Jinyi Guard: "Zhang Jingxiu! ”

Zhang Jingxiu hurriedly bowed his hand at this time: "Please give instructions to Your Majesty." ”

"As soon as Jin Yiwei found out, he arrested Haoyou who was doing this behind his back!"

"It should be done in the nature of counterinsurgency, and as many powerful people are implicated, we will arrest as many as we want."

Zhu Yijun commanded.

Zhang Jingxiu said yes after hearing this.

Zhu Yijun then said to Qi Jiguang and Wang Xijue: "Let's go and see Shen Yu in person, don't say that I came here, just say that you two helped him, and remember to recommend him to me." ”

Qi Jiguang and Wang Xijue said yes.

"Your Majesty, this is trying to make the matter of micro-service inspection something that is not done by the Son of Heaven alone, it is not clever!"

Therefore, when Qi Jiguang came out with Wang Xijue next, he couldn't help but tell Wang Xijue about his current thoughts.

Wang Xijue said with a serious face: "Your Majesty is naturally clever!" What we thought, he thought of; What we didn't expect, he still thought of, and it's no wonder that he didn't feel much respect for us courtiers. ”

Qi Jiguang nodded after hearing this: "Yes, we are also worried that Your Majesty does not know that what is more terrible than the bureaucrats is the local tyrants, but Your Majesty has actually made it clear for a long time, along the way that he is willing to believe that many of the courtiers are loyal and virtuous ministers, not deliberately saying the opposite, but knowing that it is the local tyrants who are more vulnerable to the world than the bureaucrats, especially the monopoly of a township, a county and even a prefecture of land, industry, and even the number of scholars and the huge room of the local officials in the court!" ”

"Your Majesty not only knows very well, but has also guessed what they will do, and has even thought of many strategies for a long time."

"Such an emperor will make it difficult for those of us who are courtiers to have a sense of achievement for the monarch Yu Yaoshun, and we can only have a sense of luck to participate in the creation of the prosperous era."

After Qi Jiguang said it, he said with a smile, and said: "Actually, this is normal, if there is no Ming Jun since ancient times, how can there be a virtuous minister who can turn the tide alone?" ”

"Even before His Majesty took office, Taishi Zhang was able to make bold moves and lay the foundation for a rich country and a strong army, and he could not ignore the role of His Majesty at that time, although His Majesty was only a ten-year-old son of heaven after ascending the throne at that time, but it was not impossible to settle the world, because if it wasn't for His Majesty being smart at that time, I am afraid that Taishi Zhang would not be so easy to get ten years of success in seeking the country."

In the original history, Zhang Juzheng reformed, and the ten-year-old Wanli Emperor was indeed not really only a puppet, and he did make a great effort in the reform, because the Ming Dynasty did not have a real prime minister, and the Queen Mother could not really listen to the government directly, and even the eunuch Feng Bao could only exercise power behind the scenes.

And in history, Wanli was twenty years before Wanli, to be precise, fifteen years before Wanli, it was indeed not so bad, especially ten years before Wanli, and it was indeed diligent and studious.

This is somewhat similar to his grandfather Jiajing, it was not so bad in the early days, and it also gave many ministers the opportunity to show their worth.

The conversation turned back.

After Qi Jiguang said this, Wang Xijue did not object, and looked at the sun in front of him with a smile and said: "As the public said, the king is like the sun in the sky, if there is no light of the king, how can there be a big tree towering to the sky!" ”

(End of chapter)