"He actually said things with filial piety, but this is not an excuse for him to betray me!
If he and his family really die for the country, I will posthumously give honor to himself and his family, and even give his parents a higher honor, so as to fulfill his unfulfilled filial piety.He clearly wanted to excuse his infidelity through filial piety after death!
What a cunning!
”Zhu Youxiao said a word, and then put Xiao Jingao's recital on the candle flame and burned it, and said: "The nine clans are still punished, but they are also allowed to play, and let them be buried with their families, but they are just buried together after the people of the nine clans are broken and ashes, but there is no need to describe it, all the official files and genealogies, local chronicles, and all the parts related to Xiao Jingao and his family are burned and erased!"
Don't make this person want to rely on filial piety to justify his name, so that future generations will whitewash him!
The same was true of the other criminal gentry, whose family genealogy was burned and all official records and local chronicles were deleted. ”"Yes!"
Xiong Tingbi replied.Then, Zhu Youxiao said: "The rebellion is completely over, but the affairs of Jiangnan have not been dealt with, as far as I know, the noble performance of Nanjing City is very disappointing!"
”Zhu Youxiao had already known the performance of the Nanjing nobles when the rebels were in rebellion in the outer city of Nanjing through Dongchang's eyeline.To tell the truth, Zhu Youxiao was not surprised by the weakness and fear of death of the nobles in Nanjing.Because Zhu Youxiao remembered that when the Manchu Qing Dynasty went south in history, none of these Nanjing nobles were martyred for the Ming Dynasty, and they all honestly knelt outside Nanjing with the civil and military attachés, welcomed Duoduo into the city, and even took the initiative to shave their hair.Although Zhu Youxiao had the intention to support the Xungui group to balance the civilian officials, he had to admit that the honors of the Ming Dynasty were basically abolished and were no longer reliable.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao can only plan to raise these nobles as fat pigs like many vassal kings now, and slaughter them one by one to enrich the inner treasury after freeing up their hands in the future.If we want to check and balance the civilian-bureaucratic clique, which basically focuses on civil rule and ignores martial arts, we can only cultivate a new martial arts clique.The establishment of a new system of military meritorious knights, just like the imperial examination system that manages the civilian official group, can constantly exchange blood for the civilian official group, and finally use the new military election system and the military merit system to constantly exchange blood for the military meritorious group, so that capable new military ministers can enter the noble class at any time, but it can also eliminate the old nobles and avoid turning into a pool of stagnant water.Xiong Tingbi and Han Yi and the others were silent and did not speak.Because the Ming Dynasty is now in this state, it is inseparable from these civil officials.Zhu Youxiao saw that the two important ministers around him did not speak, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly, he naturally knew that the civil official group had always defended the noble group very strongly, and would rather connive at the nobles to amass wealth and annex the fields and thus wear down their will, rather than urge the emperor to strengthen the cultivation of the ability of the nobles.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao also understood why Xiong Tingbi and Han Yi didn't speak, and at this time, they couldn't say anything.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao only directly ordered: "Spread the news of the Nanjing Military Department, Li Changgeng, and the Nanjing Zhuxungui to see me!"
”Zhu Youxiao is now stationed in the garden of the Xu Family Villa of Wei Guogong in the area of Mochou Lake in the outer city of Nanjing, and these Nanjing nobles and Li Changgeng have been waiting here for a long time at this time, and now Zhu Youxiao immediately came to the palace to meet them as soon as they saw them.As soon as Zhu Youxiao saw these Nanjing nobles, he first asked which of these Nanjing nobles were sealed during the Taizu period and which ones were sealed during the Chengzu period.These nobles answered one by one, and when they mentioned the glory of their ancestors, they were also refreshed.Then, Zhu Youxiao first asked Gu Mingjiao: "Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Mingjiao, you are the Nanjing garrison, tell me, what were you doing when there was a rebellion in the outer city of Nanjing?"
”Gu Mingjiao replied cheekily: "Your Majesty, as soon as the ministers learned that Xiao Jingao had rebelled, they were busy organizing the slave soldiers to bravely go to the city wall to defend the city, and they did not dare to remove their armor day and night, and slept on the city wall every day, in order to prevent the inner city from falling into the hands of the rebels!"
Fortunately, His Majesty was wise and led the army to the south early, all the way like a bamboo, which made the rebels frightened, and in addition, the civil and military forces in the inner city of Nanjing were all united, so in the end, the rebels failed to attack the inner city!
”Gu Mingjiao and other Nanjing nobles didn't expect the rebels to be so indifferent, and as soon as the emperor's army arrived, they would directly collapse, and they naturally secretly rejoiced that they didn't surrender directly when the rebels surrendered, and even now they have begun to think about taking advantage of the emperor's victory in counterinsurgency to ask for some benefits.Therefore, Gu Mingjiao only took the initiative to mention how he defended the city and so on.Zhu Youxiao originally let Gu Mingjiao speak first instead of Li Changgeng, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, but in fact, he gave the Nanjing nobles one last chance to perform.He also hoped that although these nobles were afraid of death, if they could take the initiative to admit that they were afraid of death, it would be good, at least they would be honest with themselves as the emperor, so he did not let Li Changgeng, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, speak first, in case Li Changgeng told these nobles first, but asked Gu Mingjiao, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, first.But Zhu Youxiao didn't expect Gu Mingjiao to only say unashamedly how these people swore to defend the inner city of Nanjing.Zhu Youxiao only sneered after hearing this: "So, you still have merit?"
”"Tell me, then, what reward do you want?"
Zhu Youxiao then asked again.Gu Mingjiao's heart fluttered after hearing this, he had already inquired and learned that although the young emperor was very irritable and killed people at every turn, he was also very generous in giving money, and Yangzhou directly took out a reward of two million taels in the first battle, so he couldn't help but think that His Majesty was so generous to those big-headed soldiers, and he should not be stingy with us, the nobles who have made meritorious contributions to defending the city.Therefore, Gu Mingjiao also said: "The minister doesn't dare to ask for a reward!"
But if you can, the minister can only beg His Majesty to give the confiscated Lanchun Garden to the minister, in addition, from the fields confiscated by this counterinsurgency, begging to give 30,000 hectares of rebel Xu Shaoliang to the good land near the Lanchun Garden, the minister's family has a large population, and now there is no income, if there is no new field, it may be difficult to continue, please also ask Your Majesty to be gracious!
”"Your Majesty, the Marquis of Lingbi, Tang Guozuo, the house is also very populous, and it is difficult to continue, so he also begged the former Yushi Wang to raise 10,000 hectares of land for Zhuangtian!
Long live my emperor, long live, long live!
”Tang Guozuo was afraid of taking a slow step, so that all the good fields confiscated after the suppression of the rebellion would be returned to other nobles, and without waiting for Zhu Youxiao to reply to Gu Mingjiao, he stood up first and begged the emperor to give him farmland.Because the relatives of the Ming Dynasty have always had the habit of begging for farmland to the imperial court, basically every emperor has a noble relative begging for farmland.And the emperors basically will not refuse, and even if they refuse, they will not be punished, and the civil officials will not make things difficult for their relatives in this kind of matter.Therefore, these noble relatives will be fine, please give Zhuang Tian.Now, because these Nanjing nobles saw that the counterinsurgency was successful, the emperor also asked so, and asked for Zhuang Tian as usual."
The minister Fu Ning Marquis Zhu Guobi begged the former political envoy Zhan Chenglun's field of 20,000 hectares as the minister's farm!"
Zhu Guobi also followed."
Get out!"
Zhu Youxiao directly picked up an inkstone and threw it at these Nanjing nobles, and smashed it on the ground in front of these nobles on the spot.Gu Mingjiao, Tang Guozuo, and Zhu Guobi couldn't help but tremble.Even Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, who had not spoken, knelt down in a hurry: "The ministers are retired!"
”With that, Xu Hongji hurriedly slipped out of the room where Zhu Youxiao was, and the other nobles also hurriedly slipped out."
What do you mean when you say that Your Majesty said 'get out'?"
As soon as these nobles came out, Gu Mingjiao asked first."
Who knows, the key is whether Your Majesty is willing to reward or not?"
Zhu Guobi, Marquis of Funing, replied."
Let's ask the doorman, but Your Majesty looks young, and it seems that he does have a big temper, so he will throw the inkstone directly!"
Tang Guozuo followed.Xu Hongji didn't speak, only his face was gloomy, and he could feel that the emperor didn't intend to let them go.Travel through the Ming Dynasty as a tyrant