When the news of the small court in Nanjing, as well as the articles and poems insulting Sun Chuanting like snowflakes, as well as a large number of articles accusing Sang and scolding Huai alluding to Cheng Shijie, were sent to the cabinet, Sun Zhixi, as the prime minister of the cabinet, was so angry that his face turned pale, his body trembled slightly, and he was speechless.

Zhou Ning was also very angry, as the so-called lord worries about the humiliation of the ministers, and the lord humiliates the ministers to death, these bastards dare to scold Sun Chuanting, it doesn't matter, but they dare to scold Cheng Shijie, although they don't name them, but the posture of pointing at Sang and scolding Huai is almost named.

"Send troops!"

Sun Zhilan gritted his teeth and said: "You must send troops and arrest all those bastards, Ling Chi!" ”

"Ling Bu Ling Chi, that's the king's right."

Zhou Ning said indignantly: "As courtiers, we can't sit idly by!" ”

Since Cheng Shijie became the regent of the Ming Dynasty, he has also carried out a major clean-up of Jinyiwei, including commanding Luo Yangxing, commanding Tongzhi Wu Mengming and 14,000 households, four commanding servants, and two suppressing the country, which were almost swept away, leaving only one Nanzhen envoy Liu Qiao and four thousand households.

Especially after the purge of Jinyiwei, as the largest guard in the Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei was originally considered a regular army level, but it was reduced to a strengthened regiment level. Now there are 14 thousand households in Jinyiwei, and the largest number is only more than 600 people left, and the least is only more than 100 people left.

Of course, these brocade guards were not killed directly, but sentenced more than 7,000 people. Cheng Shijie really didn't directly dismiss Jinyiwei, although Jinyiwei is mostly bastards, but its usefulness is still huge.

Cheng Shijie directly split Jinyiwei, and the original responsible for foreign intelligence collection and espionage was directly merged into the Secret Bureau under the jurisdiction of the General Staff and became a division-level unit. The prison in charge of the edict and the torture were similarly divided into two parts, one of which was subordinate to the prison of the Ministry of Justice. It no longer has the authority of torture, it is only a serious prison.

In addition, the professionals who are specifically responsible for execution were also used by Cheng Shijie and became the sixth bureau of the Military Highway Department of the Lishu Supervisor.

Historically, the authority of Jinyiwei has also been abolished several times, although it has always existed in the end, unlike the West Factory and the East Factory, which have existed for a short time, but the team of Nanzhen supervising the civil and military officials has been retained, but they do not have the power to directly arrest and torture, but as the acting commander of Jinyiwei, Liu Qiao and the rest of Jinyiwei want to handle big cases, do big things, and revitalize Jinyiwei.

In fact, Jin Yiwei is also a son of heaven and a courtier, every emperor takes office, he will definitely clean Jin Yiwei, for them Jinyiwei, the greatest value of existence is to maintain imperial power, of course, now Cheng Shijie is not the nominal emperor, but he is already the de facto emperor.

Originally, they didn't know how to carry out their work and regain Cheng Shijie's trust, but now the opportunity has come, and their opportunity to show their skills has come.

Liu Qiao said: "Chief of General Staff Zhou, the king has an order, spring ploughing does not fight, and now send troops, I am afraid of ......"

As soon as Zhou Ning heard this, he also knew that now could not be the time to send troops, after all, Cheng Shijie issued a spring ploughing no war order, who will fight against Cheng Shijie, where is Cheng Shijie's majesty?

Liu Qiao said: "Why do you need to use a knife to kill chickens, to deal with a group of clowns who jump off the beam, we Jinyi Wei have an unshirkable responsibility!" ”

In the Chongzhen Dynasty, in fact, the Jinyi Guard has been out of control, the Jinyi Guard is full of mountains, even Luo Yangxing can not command all the Jinyi Guards, just when Li Zicheng entered the city of Beijing, the Jinyi Guards and Li Ruolian led their subordinates to resist to the death, and fought a bloody battle with Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses at the Chongwen Gate, Li Ruolian's Jinyi Guards were all killed in the end, which is also the most tragic glory of the Jinyi Guard.

Luo Yangxing, who was trusted by Emperor Chongzhen, did not serve Chongzhen, and took the initiative to take refuge in Li Zicheng like the eunuchs who opened the city gate for Li Zicheng, and the commander Wu Mengming saw that the general trend had gone, and then surrendered, but when he was forced to pay by Liu Zongmin, he was tortured to death. There is also a brocade guard led by Ma Jixiang, after the death of Chongzhen, the descendants of the clan established the Southern Ming, Ma Jixiang started by "patting horses" and won the trust of Emperor Yongli,

In this time and space, Luo Yangxing took the initiative to cooperate and participated in Wen Tiren's surrender to Huang Taiji, Wu Mengming was also forced to surrender, Ma Jixiang escaped from the capital like history, but Li Ruolian also died in battle like in history, they died in the Forbidden City, fighting against the Qing army and the Guanning army, but more than 1,000 people eventually fled to Liaodong.

For Liu Qiao, Ma Jixiang, the commander of the Nanming Jinyi Guard, is a natural ally, and let them raise the flag anyway, they still need to wait until Cheng Shijie's army arrives at the city of Nanjing, but let them catch a few blind scholars and ministers, they can still do it lightly.

Liu Qiao really wanted to rely on this way to gain Cheng Shijie's trust.

It's just a pity, Cheng Shijie doesn't want to play this trick, this Liu Qiao's pattern is too small, do you still need to ask for instructions on this matter? If you want to do it, you will definitely be rewarded.

Daming has never been convicted for his words, and Cheng Shijie is also impossible to kill people because of a few words of scolding him, Cheng Shijie remembered the lines in "My Regiment Leader, My Regiment", scholars are useless, empty talk misleads the country, scholars are pedantic, but they are indispensable, because they bear the inheritance of civilization.

If Cheng Shijie did not establish a newspaper, there was no means and channels for public opinion propaganda, and in the face of this kind of black-and-white abuse, he would have no way to fight back, but the problem is that he now has a newspaper, and with Cheng Shijie ruling the Ming Dynasty, the original "Liaodong Times" has been directly renamed "Daming Imperial Times", and the original "Liaodong Business Daily" has also been renamed "Daming Imperial Business Daily".

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "It's too cheap to be angry with those bastards...... They wrote articles to scold me, I wrote articles to scold back, saliva lawsuits, nothing more than hurting each other, see who can't bear it first, I really haven't been afraid of anyone in this regard! ”

Sun Zhili and other civil officials, especially the imperial historians of the original court, were gearing up and preparing to make a big move, because this was where they came in.

It's just that Cheng Shijie then read more than 100 articles by Sun Zhili and others, and he scanned only a dozen articles, and his brows furrowed: "No, no, you must not be able to write like this?" ”

"Why?"

"It's so urbane!"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "This kind of article is not understood by ordinary people or people with insufficient literary cultivation, and scolding people must not only expose the shortcomings, but also be straightforward!" ”

Although Cheng Shijie did not personally write an article to scold people, under his guidance, the "Ming Imperial Times" soon began to dig graves.

This is an article by an anonymous author, this article does not talk about any big reason, but uses the most straightforward words and data to list the various preferential treatment enjoyed by a scholar and the harsh taxes that a peasant has to pay every year, as well as the annual income of a Ming merchant and the amount of taxes and silver paid.

The data is extremely detailed and clear at a glance, and the author does not comment much on it, and the article of several thousand words, most of which are columns of numbers and examples, however, as soon as it was published, the article immediately set off a terrible storm.

Needless to say, the various preferential treatment received by the scholars of the Ming Dynasty is needless to say, so to speak, as long as a person is admitted to Xiucai, he will begin to have a lot of privileges, and he does not have to bow down to the officials, and he does not have to serve the conscription, and every year the government will have anointing silver hair;

After the middle lift, it is even worse, the third aunt, six mothers-in-law and two uncles will come to donate the land, put their own land property in his name and evade taxes with confidence, of course, the benefits will not be less than his.

If you become an official...... Not to mention being an official, even if he is temporarily dismissed from the official and is idle at home, there will still be a steady stream of hope money in his pocket, especially the kind that was brought back by the emperor.

In the Ming Dynasty, being dismissed by the emperor because of the confrontation with the emperor was a face-saving thing, and it didn't take a few years to go back and continue to be an official, and he was promoted several levels! In contrast, ordinary people can only be described as "miserable......

The article is very long, and even directly lists part of Cheng Shijie's property, and also lists part of Cheng Shijie's income, and directly lists how much tax Cheng Shijie paid.

These taxes basically accounted for ninety-five percent of the military expenditure of the Yuanning Navy, more than half of the road construction, and more than one-third of the school construction.

is the so-called peer foil, under the foil of Cheng Shijie, the regent, those scholars are really not a thing, because everyone found that Cheng Shijie, such a big official, actually did not have Tuntian real estate, Cheng Shijie has no land under his name, he only has more than a dozen houses......

The whole article is written in the vernacular, and even an illiterate person can understand it if a literate person reads it. Because of this, the article quickly took a terrible storm.

The common people surround the newspaper readers, the more they listen, the more red their eyes become, his grandmother's, we have worked hard, tired and tired all year round, and we can't even eat enough, you readers travel leisurely and leisurely all day long, you don't have to do anything and the government raises you, why!

When they heard that the commercial tax paid by Jiangnan in a year was only about two hundred taels, they were about to explode, who didn't know that Jiangnan was rich in the world? Is it fair that such a rich place doesn't want to pay a penny of taxes, but they, who are so poor to death, want to sell their sons and daughters to make up enough taxes!?

There is no harm without comparison, and this article has been very successful in causing tons of harm to hundreds of millions of people. When those Xiucai and Juzi once again criticized Sun Chuanting, Cheng Shijie and others for their brutal murder of the gentry in front of everyone, a large number of tiles would fly over immediately.

Although it is said that the small Nanjing Imperial Court reacted at the first time and banned the sale and publication of newspapers and periodicals such as "Ming Imperial Times", "Ming Imperial Business Daily", and "First News of the Ming Empire", the problem is that Nanjing Jinyiwei is now just like Luo Yangxing at the beginning, directly betrayed the Nanjing Imperial Court, and asked Jinyiwei to seize the newspapers.

Of course, the people dare not target the officials, but the Nanjing officials do not dare to walk at night, they are easy to be beaten and stuffy, and the family will accidentally walk in the water.

There are also officials and people who have been thrown dung at their homes, which makes the whole inner city of Nanjing stinky and makes the officials miserable, they are still uncomfortable, they want to eat meat, no one sells them food, no one sells them to them, and even the top names who want to drink flower wine, some famous and capable people are unwilling to receive them......

Cheng Shijie saw the news from Jiangnan, and he was in a very good mood: "If you see it, do it like this, not only kill people, but also punish your heart!" ”

Sun Zhili cried and laughed and said: "Your Majesty, this is too powerful, and Weichen is also deeply affected!" ”

When Sun Zhili went to the cabinet to be on duty, despite the protection of the guards, he was shot in the head by the people with a slingshot, fortunately it was only a small pebble, if it was a crossbow, or a musket, the danger would be even greater.

It wasn't until now that Cheng Shijie saw a big bag bulging out of Sun Zhixi's head.

Cheng Shijie said: "This is actually very simple, Sun Ge Lao has the skills to govern the family, and teaches his children well, I believe that you are honest and honest, you publish your own and the Sun family's property and land, as well as the taxes paid, so that the people will understand!" ”

"This ......"

Sun Zhili himself does not have much property, he has been with Cheng Shijie for more than three years, and he does not need money for food and clothing, his salary alone is 7,200 taels per year, plus various other subsidies, his annual income is equivalent to more than 10,000 taels of silver.

In fact, this income is only low compared to the income of the original Ming Dynasty officials, in fact, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are only not high on the surface, in terms of local officials, Hai Rui is a famous poor official in the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing officials have an income of more than 2,500 taels a year, which is 50 times the annual income.

However, the entire Sun family is different, although Sun Chengzong is not a corrupt official, but the Sun family has 30 tilts of Ueda, a total of 25 of Zhongtian and Xiatian, which is 55 tilts of land, that is, 55,000 acres, a large landowner.

Cheng Shijie knew Sun Zhixi's difficulties and said with a smile: "Then divide the family, your grandfather, my teacher has seven sons, seven nephews, and thirteen grandsons, 55,000 acres of land, divided into seven parts, each family seven or eight thousand acres, and then distributed to more than 100 nephews, with an average of dozens of acres of land per person." ”

The existence of a big family is an insurmountable mountain in the local area, compared to officials of the same level, Sun Chengzong's family property is still small, not to mention the cabinet scholar level, even if it is far inferior to Sun Chengzong's Lu Xiangsheng, it is not a family of extreme poverty.

Jin Yiwei got Lu Xiangsheng's wealth statistics report, Lu Xiangsheng's family as early as the Southern Song Dynasty Gaozong Jianyan period, Lu Xiangsheng's distant ancestor Lu Zhan in Yixing, Jiangsu Renzhi County, because of the fancy of Lingxia Village surrounded by Cuiling, after retiring from office, then settled here, the Lu family has multiplied here for generations.

The Lu family in Yixing has hundreds of clansmen, if you even count the distant branches, their family also has more than 200,000 acres of land, dozens of shops, of course, Lu Xiangsheng's own sect also has more than 130,000 acres of land, nearly three times more than Sun Chengzong.

This is the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no way to do it.

After Sun Zhili and Sun Chengzong discussed, Sun Chengzong thought about it all night, and finally agreed to split up.

Sun Chengzong's seven sons were divided into seven rooms of the Gaoyang Sun family, and each of the seven rooms was divided into several families, and finally, in this way, Sun Zhili announced his family's property as the eldest son of the third room, seven tilted land, three houses, sixty-two rooms, and saved 39,300 taels.

Since then, Sun Zhili has become a clean official in the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty, although Sun Zhili is not poor, he is already very incorruptible compared to Wang Bagai in Jiangnan. (End of chapter)