Rumble!

Maybe Liu Shangyi was too unlucky, or the accuracy of the artillery shot by Shen Mao was too random, or the family members around him rushed over, making Liu Shangyi's goal too obvious.

In short, Liu Shangyi himself was blown to the ground with just one shot.

"It hurts!"

Liu Shangyi couldn't help shouting for a while, and then looked up at Shen Mao in surprise: "You! ”

After speaking, Liu Shangyi was stunned when he saw that his lower body was gone, and he quickly lost his breath.

And Liu Shangyi's family members were also stunned at this time.

"They actually killed the uncle!"

"Mother, their IRS is serious!"

"What should we do, should we leave the uncle, or avenge the uncle?"

……

All of a sudden, these family members became aware.

The main reason is that the reality comes too quickly, and they don't have this psychological expectation.

You must know that as sincere Bofu house slaves, their knowledge is actually limited, not to mention, most of them are still family slaves, and they have grown up and worked in Liu's manor all their lives, which means that the world they see is only as big as Liu's manor, and they have always regarded Liu Shangyi, the head of the Liu family, as the sky on their heads.

In fact, in their eyes, the emperor and the bureaucrats are very vague concepts and not concrete, and what they are more afraid of is the head of the Liu family who can be seen every day.

Therefore, now that there is no head of the family, these family members are a little overwhelmed.

Bang bang!

This overwhelm ushered in a series of guns.

Although Shen Mao is now a tax collector, he and his subordinates are originally border troops, and once they decide to use force, they will naturally strive to be completely annihilated.

As a result, it didn't take long for these family members to be killed on the spot.

Huanghuali was also directly confiscated as a reverse birth.

Now that military households are treated favorably by the imperial court and are regarded as nobles, many officials from military households will also be more serious in order to maintain the stability of their class.

Because the richer the country, the more stable their privileged position became, not only the Jinyi Guards were also more active in thinking, even the officers and soldiers in charge of tax collection were more serious, so Shen Mao dared to directly bombard the people of the Sincere Bofu.

What's more, the current Shoufu is still Qi Jiguang.

Therefore, it is impossible for Shen Mao, as the southern soldier system, to allow a powerful person like Cheng Chengbo to make the reform presided over by Qi Jiguang unable to be implemented.

Even if Qi Jiguang might punish him for this and use his life to extinguish the anger of the nobles.

After Shen Mao bombarded and killed Liu Shangyi, the businessmen who passed through Hushu Pass in the back were much more honest.

Even if they all come from powerful backgrounds.

"Nan Zongbo Huang Jiashu brocade 500 horses, need to add luxury tax, this is a tax stamp, pay or not?"

Shen Mao stood on the gate at this time, stepping on a small copper cannon, blowing the fire, and then looked at a tax official and asked a wealthy businessman.

The rich businessman hurriedly laughed and said: "Pay, naturally you have to pay, our lord has already spoken, the tax that should be paid must be paid!" ”

"That's good."

"A thousand catties of spices from the royal family of Zhengfu Deqing?"

"Naturally, we also have to pay, how can we be an exception."

"Good!"

……

The luxury tax was levied seriously by many bureaucrats, so many silver dollars were continuously channeled into the national treasury through the collection of luxury tax.

It's just that the officials under Qi Jiguang's command also executed too strictly when they were responsible for tax collection, and completely followed the way of performing military tasks, which was simple and rude.

Therefore, it has also made many powerful bureaucrats more fearful and resentful.

"My son!"

After seeing the corpse of his son Liu Shangyi, Liu Shiyan, who was sincere and heartbroken, was also very resentful, so he directly gave Zhu Yijun a chapter, impeaching Shen Mao for excessive use of power and torture and killing of the lords, and said to Zhu Yijun in the chapter:

"The arrogant soldiers and fierce generals have never been the officials of the civil affairs, and they are easy to provoke the people to change their words, and they will give many lives in vain, so the first emperor was wise, and suppressed the military with literature, Rao is Taizu back then, and also used severe punishment to punish the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals to control their evil."

"However, now, the lord is the auxiliary minister, even if he is loyal to the country, his old department will also grow arrogance and act recklessly!"

"And once the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals act wrong, the disaster is only above the civil ministers, please Your Majesty to control the military with the civil system, and not let the lords be the head, and the lords can only be idle."

After Zhu Yijun watched Liu Shiyan's chapter, his face sank:

"Passing the decree, the sincerity of the uncle is lawless, intending to kill the tax collector, as if plotting rebellion, but the culprit has been corrected, so he can only investigate the guilt of the sincerity of the uncle himself and the family, the sincerity of the uncle himself is not evil, reversing black and white, actually good at discussing the government, should have been given death, after reading that he is a lord, exiled to Ezo, and the original Xiangcheng Bo Li Yingchen as a companion, never forgivable."

"The family regains the title and gives land, and if the heirs have great achievements in the future, they can ask for the restoration of the ancestral title."

Zhu Yijun had to admit that a noble like Liu Shiyan had really fallen completely.

Although there is an angry factor caused by the murder of his son, he is actually in favor of emphasizing literature and suppressing military force, and obviously only wants to be safe in his bones, only wants his family to be comfortable, and does not want the country and the people to be comfortable.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun simply took this opportunity to severely punish Liu Shiyan.

"Yes!"

After Liu Shiyan received the holy decree, he was not too surprised, but only smiled bitterly, and when he was caught and taken away by the Jinyi guard, he shouted towards Peking University:

"Qi Yuanjing, don't be too complacent, someone will clean you up sooner or later!"

And when Liu Shiyan was escorted to Ezo, the tribute envoys Masuda Nagamori and Sakai Ieji sent by Tokugawa Ieyasu also finally arrived in Kyoto.

Masuda Nagamori also saw the scene of the luxury tax being levied at the Chongbunmon Gate, and couldn't help but say to Sakai Ieji:

"It's not easy for this luxury tax to be levied, and it is related to the interests of many powerful gentry, after all, luxury has little to do with the common people."

"Yes, this shows that their emperor is indeed a good emperor, and he does have a strong control over the country, and their ministers are also iron-fisted ministers, who dare to attack the powerful and gentry, which is not afraid of life and death."

Sakai said.

After hearing this, Masuda Nagamori frowned even more and said worriedly:

"The monarchy is very powerful, the ministers are also very courageous, such a Ming country, respectable and terrifying, we must try our best to make it accept the reality of our Tokugawa clan as the shogun, otherwise, the consequences will be really terrible."

"I think it's acceptable."

Sakai Ieji said at this time.

Masuda Nagamori looked at Sakai Ieji with interest: "How did you see that?" ”

Sakai replied with a smile:

"Because the people of his Ming Dynasty can be so rich and idle, the sergeants can get enough preferential treatment, and even the old sergeants will be given silver pensions, which also has something to do with our Japan;"

"The greatness of the Celestial Empire can be said to have contributed to us, and it is our diligence and hard work that have provided them with a steady stream of wealth, so that they can be so idle."

"Therefore, as one of the greatest monarchs in the world, the Ming Emperor is so wise that he should understand that allowing our head of the family, the Tokugawa clan, to be the master of Honshu, and at the same time to be his vassal, and to live in harmony with him, and to allow our shogunate to adhere to its own system and etiquette, will only make his empire so peaceful and peaceful."

"You're right."

"Emperor Ming should understand."

"But I can't say, after all, there is still a question of etiquette."

Masuda Nagamori replied.

Sakai immediately asked, "Why can't you say for sure?" ”

"Is he really going to destroy our Tokugawa clan?"

"Isn't he afraid that in order to protect himself, the Tokugawa clan will also reform and change the law, and then incite all the Japanese people to rebel against the Ming Kingdom?"

"If he doesn't want to, what's the benefit of facing him here?"

"To put it mildly, let's take the initiative to be the lackeys of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, isn't it?"

"Will he not want to force us to be mad dogs that bite him?"

"Let's talk about it when we see His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

Masuda Nagamori replied and did not argue with Sakai Ieji again.

Zhu Yijun announced that he had met them after learning that they had come to Beijing.

After seeing Zhu Yijun, Masuda Nagamori first presented the first copy of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and said:

"Our family governor feels extremely guilty for the attack on the merchant ships of the kingdom by the daimyo below, and is willing to ask His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty for his guilt, and has executed the daimyo first, and is willing to double the compensation for all losses;"

"In addition, our family governor is willing to serve His Majesty the Ming Emperor as the king, and only ask His Majesty the Ming Emperor to crown him the king of Japan."

"Please, please!"

"This dynasty has crowned the king of Japan, and I have sent someone to proclaim to your family governor that he should go to the shogunate and accept the rule of your monarch Ashikaga Yoshiaki."

Zhu Yijun directly rejected Tokugawa Ieyasu's request.

Sakai Ieji was shocked when he heard this, and then hurriedly said: "I implore His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to see that Ashikaga Yoshiaki has lost virtue and has no merit, and it is no longer enough to rule Japan, and the people of Japan who have made outstanding achievements are the best candidates for the king of Japan, and it is also the wish of all the subjects of Japan, so please ask His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to grant peace to Japan from the wishes of my Japanese people, then I Japan is willing to maintain peace for the Heavenly Empire." ”

Zhu Yijun said: "The Ashikaga clan is the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty, and he is respected by the people, so he is a virtuous man, what kind of virtue is the Tokugawa clan?" ”

"Is it virtuous to repeatedly invade other people's land and slaughter ordinary people?"

"What's more, the Ashikaga clan has been the lord of your Japan for many generations, and now you are rashly usurping his throne, but you are courteous, and you want to be ruin?"

After hearing Zhu Yijun say this, Masuda Nagamori was ashamed and embarrassed, and couldn't help but reply: "Don't dare!" ”

Zhu Yijun glanced at him.

Sakai Ieji also glanced at him in shock.

And at this time.

Sakai Ieji still couldn't help but ask Zhu Yijun: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, aren't you worried that my Tokugawa clan will also learn from your side to reform and reform, and then let the kingdom not be able to use the people of Japan to anoint their own soldiers and civilians?" ”

"The point is, can you Tokugawa clan succeed?"

Zhu Yijun asked first at this time.

Then.

Zhu Yijun looked at these Japanese envoys and said, "Even if I can, I won't let you succeed in messing around." ”

"The reason why I saw you and others was to proclaim that you should go back and persuade him to the Tokugawa clan, let him obey the etiquette of the world, go to the position of the shogunate, and ask his monarch to canonize him, and not to stand without permission! Otherwise, I will come to ask for it! ”

Then, Zhu Yijun said a few more words.

Masuda Nagamori said at this time: "Please also ask the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to be merciful and transfer his favor to my Tokugawa clan, after all, how can the etiquette be compared with the Qin Order." ”

"Having said that, the gift I have set must not be messed up!"

"In particular, this gift of succession to the throne is the foundation of world unity, how can it be chaotic because of the Tokugawa clan's unvirtuous people?"

As he spoke, Zhu Yijun looked at the envoys of the foreign vassals of Korea, Ryukyu, and Siam who had been summoned to Beijing: "You also tell me, should this world's gift be chaotic?" ”

North Korean ceremonial Cao Yin Yuanjie first arched his hand at this time and said:

"Your Majesty, the rites of the world should not be chaotic, if there is chaos, the authority of the kingdom will not exist, and the vassals of the world will also be disordered because of this, the reigning monarch will worry about the usurpation of the courtiers, and the courtiers will also plan to usurp the throne once they have great power, and they will not concentrate on the peace and benefit of the people, so the Tokugawa clan who is unauthorized to establish the shogunate, should be cut down, in order to correct the law."

"Your Majesty, the minister seconded the proposal, when the Tokugawa clan is corrected, or Dongyi will never be able to be civilized, and he is still like a wolf, only knowing how to kill."

The Ryukyu envoy Qi Wenzhao also expressed his opinion.

Immediately, the Siamese envoy Luo Zongjun also followed and said: "Your Majesty, the rites cannot be abolished, and the succession of the throne cannot be chaotic, otherwise if the rites are disorderly for the sake of temporary benevolence, they will condone the sins of their country for eternity!" ”

……

For a time, the envoys of various foreign feudal clans said that they could not let the Tokugawa clan succeed in usurping the throne, and they all supported the Ashikaga clan as the king of Japan.

This is naturally because they also do not want their own domestic power to usurp the throne.

And because of this, the gift of succession cannot be messed up, and it seems to have become a political value recognized by all countries in the international system with the entire Ming Dynasty as the suzerain.

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "That is the case, once the Tokugawa clan insists on messing with the courtesy, you and other vassal states cannot shirk the order of my troops, you should listen to my decree, raise troops together to fight the Tokugawa clan, and protect the etiquette!" If you dare to shirk, I will also ask for it with a disorderly courtesy! ”

"Don't dare!"

These foreign envoys replied without hesitation.

After all, this is also related to the interests of their monarch, and the crusade against the Tokugawa clan is a reflection of the common values they share with the Ming Emperor, so there is no hesitation.

Tokugawa Ieyasu's envoys, such as Masuda Nagamori and Sakai Ieji, felt particularly helpless by this.

"What should we do?"

Sakai asked Masuda Nagamori after the audience.

Masuda Nagamori said: "Try to persuade the general, the etiquette can't be violated!" ”

"How could the general agree, besides, why should he bind us because of courtesy?"

Sakai asked.

Masuda Nagamori said: "If we don't abide by this etiquette that all the countries in the world agree on, do we have any other way to survive in the world, and do we have a strong ship and a gun?" ”

"If the general can't become a general because of this courtesy, we, the retainers, should be ashamed of it!"

Sakai Ieji only looked at the slanting sun at this time and said in a deep voice.

……

"If Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes the king of Japan, we in Goryeo should be ashamed of this, because he is corrupting etiquette and deceiving my Ming king!"

"It's hard to sleep and eat!"

In fact, many foreign vassals already knew about the Tokugawa clan, and also knew that the Ming Dynasty was going to crusade against the Tokugawa clan, among which the Joseon king Li Hao specially expressed his views in the court on this day.

(End of chapter)