"My Ruan Dacheng's ambition in this life is to be a lonely and loyal minister, not to form a party, not to accept bribes, not to be greedy for ink, not to speculate in the camp!"
Ruan Dacheng arched his hand towards the north as he spoke.Dong Qichang looked at him in disbelief."
Don't believe it!"
But Ruan Dacheng was even more angry because of this, and slapped Dong Qichang again, making Dong Qichang's face fatter and redder.Then, Ruan Dacheng shook his hand and asked, "Do you think that all the officials in the world are like you to form a party for personal gain?"
”Saying that, Ruan Dacheng threatened Dong Qichang in a low voice: "You'd better be honest, listen to our arrangement, and don't talk like this nonsense, otherwise, don't blame the official for not reminding you, as long as the official tells the elder of the small pavilion, and then let the hundred officials impeach you, saying that you are resisting taxes and plotting rebellion, and then it will be a disaster for the nine clans!"
So, you have to listen honestly to the official's arrangement, understand?
”Dong Qichang also understood.Hearing Ruan Dacheng mention something about the elders, Dong Qichang also realized that the pattern between the DPRK and China must have changed, and if he wants to survive now, he can only be obedient.Therefore, Dong Qichang was also busy kowtowing and said: "Old decay understands!"
The old man didn't dare to rebel, and the old man didn't dare to slander Shangguan, please forgive Ruan Gong!
”"Very good, you now immediately write a proposal to advocate the payment of the gentry of the world to the Chongwen Temple for release, in addition, you write a confession of tax arrears, and at the same time write a song to submit to the emperor, and to strictly punish the gentry of the world is an act of ignoring the law of the country, and ask the court to punish these people severely, it is best to exterminate the family, to be ruthless, and even ask the gentry of the world to pay all taxes as the first family discipline!
This is the time to show your faithfulness and awareness!
Do you understand?
”Ruan Dacheng spoke."
Understood!
Got it!
”Dong Qichang replied respectfully.But Dong Qichang was dripping blood in his heart, he knew that Ruan Dacheng was forcing him to admit defeat to the emperor and the court on behalf of the Jiangnan gentry."
Write now!
Otherwise, even if Your Majesty doesn't punish your Nine Clans at that time, we will also advise Your Majesty to kill your Nine Clans!
”Ruan Dacheng threatened as he spoke.As a result, Dong Qichang had to go back to the study under the coercion of Ruan Dacheng and write a document about "paying taxes is very honorable".And this time.The treasury of the Dong Mansion has also been opened, and the grain and silver have been copied out, and then they have been counted and inspected by the people of the West Factory and loaded and transported away.However, what Dong Qichang is most distressed about now is not his seized grain and silver, but the proposal and confession he is writing now are undoubtedly equivalent to his entire Jiangnan gentry submitting to the imperial court, and it will undoubtedly make him Dong Qichang change from a famous man respected by Shilin to a coward who is shameless by Shilin.But this is the reason why Zhu Youxiao sent Ruan Dacheng of Chongwen Temple to Jiangnan, that is, to force some of the gentry and eunuchs representing the gentry in Jiangnan to compromise with the imperial court.An hour later, Ruan Dachengzhi was so satisfied that he left the Dong Mansion with Dong Qichang's "Mobao".As a famous generation of calligraphers in history, Dong Qichang pursed his mouth after seeing Ruan Dacheng leave, his old eyes became cloudy, and he looked to the north."
Your Majesty!"
Dong Qichang then knelt down, yelled, and then cried and said: "Even if the criminals and others are not, you can't send soldiers!"
Your Majesty!
It's really insulting for you to let those murderous border town thugs collect taxes!
Your Majesty!
Why are you so mean, aren't you really afraid that you will leave a reputation for eternity after a hundred years?!
Your Majesty!
”......
"Whoever cares about the affairs behind him, let his infamy roll in, I don't care about the flood after his death, as long as he can hold power in the world!"
”Zhu Youxiao looked at a bunch of recitals who were discouraged by the establishment of a west factory for the imperial court to recover the endowment.In Zhu Youxiao's opinion, in these years, as long as any emperor cares about reputation, he will be killed by these civil officials.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao didn't pay much attention to these notes after asking him to withdraw to Xichang on the grounds of asking him to stay in the name of the emperor.Moreover, Zhu Youxiao also took the list of the gentry in arrears of taxes in Nanzhili handed over by Wang Yingjiao to the political affairs hall, threw it in front of Fang Congzhe, and instructed: "The big households who are in arrears of taxes and grain are overdue, and all the officials involved in the affairs will be punished!"
Those who have meritorious fame will all be removed from their fame!
Those who have more than 10,000 stone will be exiled and exiled to Yansui, Ningxia and other places to serve in addition to their meritorious reputations!
Someone in the family is an official, and the official is directly degraded to a remote place, as a scholar, he is treated preferentially by the state, but he has no awareness of paying taxes and grain, which is really a vain reading the book of sages!
”Zhu Youxiao originally wanted to exile these gentry who should be exiled farther away, but now he found that the territory of the Ming Dynasty was indeed too narrow, so that he could not exile people to places that were too far away and too bitter cold, such as Sakhalin Island and Siberia, or go to Nanyang to spread Han culture.Fang Congzhe was quite shocked when he heard this, he really didn't expect His Majesty to be so ruthless, not only to remove the reputation of the gentry, but also to exile those who were seriously endowed."
Obey the order!"
But Fang Congzhe did not advise, because the gentry who were dismissed were all Jiangnan gentry, which was the basic plate of Donglin officials.In Shilin, although the Donglin officials no longer have the greatest power in the court, in Shilin, the gentry who are biased towards Donglin are still the majority.Who made the gentry of Jiangnan the most popular in the Jinshi examination over the years.Therefore, as a non-Donglin party, Fang Congzhe could not get rid of some of the Jiangnan gentry's fame.As for the consequences, Fang Congzhe could also think of it, it was nothing more than that the Jiangnan gentry were even more dissatisfied, and they couldn't wait for the world to immediately change the emperor or directly change the dynasty, and even find an ambitious vassal king to rebel.But Fang Congzhe believed that as long as these civil and military generals were ready to deal with it at any time, there was no need to worry that these Jiangnan gentry would rebel successfully with a certain vassal king.Because in Fang Congzhe's view, as long as the common people in the world can survive, as long as the hundreds of thousands of border troops in the north are not chaotic, the world will not die, after all, Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, did not succeed in rebellion back then.What's more, now that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is determined to innovate and eliminate malpractices, in Fang Congzhe's view, it is bound to be ruthless and decisive.After all, innovation and elimination of malpractices is not a dinner party, it requires human lives to succeed, and it is impossible not to kill a few speech officials, or even kill some people who cause trouble.......
"The minister and the servant temple Shaoqing Shen used to kneel and beg His Majesty to open the net, the tax arrears have indeed violated the national law, and the grain is really the crime of Shilin, the minister has ordered his family to pay the tax truthfully, and he does not dare to have any more arrears, and please ask Your Majesty to have mercy on my gentry and dignity, set up the West Factory, and transfer the border army back to the nine sides to avoid the instability of the border town, and the ministers guarantee that they will not owe taxes again!"
”"Chen Tong Zheng Zuo Tong Zheng Wang Tingxi knelt down and begged His Majesty to treat the people with kindness, this time the grain was cut off not because I Nan Zhili deliberately delayed the imperial court's plan, but in fact because of the dissatisfaction with the traitors in the court, the people at the bottom did not know the righteousness, so they did this act against the law of the country, and then please forgive your Majesty for its loss, the minister has gone to the family, not to default on taxes and grain, to misunderstand the law of the country, and then please Your Majesty to dismiss the West Factory, don't bully my gentry with arrogance!"......
"Please Your Majesty to set up the West Factory, don't bully my gentry with arrogant soldiers!"
”"Please Your Majesty to set up the West Factory, don't bully my gentry with arrogance!""
Please Your Majesty to set up the West Factory, don't bully my gentry with arrogance!"
…… Outside the left door.After learning that the imperial court had used tens of thousands of elite soldiers to form the West Factory and forcibly levy taxes in the south, and the emperor ignored their advice, they all knelt here, kneeling and begging the emperor to dismiss the West Factory and not send arrogant soldiers to Nanzhili.