Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 569
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A well-known degenerate literati in Zhongyuan Tangkou once said a famous saying: The bottom line is used to break through a little bit, and the ancestral precepts are also used to violate a little bit.

In order to show the people all over the world that he really values ​​agriculture in order to stabilize the hearts of the people, Lao Zhu shyly stipulated that merchants are not allowed to wear silk clothes, and merchants are not allowed to serve as soldiers, take imperial examinations, or be officials. It's no use for birds.

Lao Zhu did not allow businessmen to be officials, some people would first become officials and then instruct their cronies to do business, or directly collude with those wealthy businessmen.

Lao Zhu banned the sea, and Zhu Laosi monopolized the sea trade in the name of searching for Zhu Yunqi.

Lao Zhu engaged the king of Sai to guard the border, and Zhu Yunqi and Zhu's fourth uncle and nephew successively cut down the vassal.

Old Zhu prohibited eunuchs from intervening in politics, so Zhu Zhanji set up an internal eunuch school and invited a group of great Confucians to teach the young eunuchs in the palace to read and write. '

All in all, except that the ancestral system established by Lao Zhu was in place during the Hongwu period, it was really not implemented in the rest of the time, and it also made the later emperors of the Ming Dynasty timid, and had to follow the court if they wanted to open a sea ban Fight with the merchants in the southeast.

Because time has changed and things have changed, after decades or hundreds of years of development in the Ming Dynasty, the rules set by Lao Zhu no longer meet the social productivity at that time, nor do they meet the needs of the emperor, the court, or even the people.

However, the rules set by Lao Zhu must not be completely negated just because the rules set by Lao Zhu do not meet the later needs, because the rules set by Lao Zhu are absolutely in line with the development of the Hongwu period, and it is precisely because Lao Zhu These rules set down allowed Daming to save a certain amount of family property during the Hongwu period.

Now Emperor Zhu suddenly brought up the old events of the Hongwu period, and also the old events of Yangzhou Shibajia Lane, and those students who were born in merchant families were suddenly choked speechless.

Emperor Zhu cast a cold glance at the students who were born in merchant families, and asked, "You think merchants are also one of the people in the world, and you think it's unfair to merchants that I only collect taxes from merchants but not farmers? But have you ever thought about the fact that the merchants have the least number of people but control the vast majority of the wealth, is this fair to the farmers, artisans, and military households with the largest number?"

Those students who came from merchant families instinctively felt that something was wrong—only merchant tax was collected, which was indeed fair to those peasant households, artisan households, and military households, but was it really fair to merchants?Aren't businessmen also risking their fortunes in business?Isn't the money in the hands of businessmen saved little by little?

It's just that no matter how something felt wrong, these students from merchant families didn't dare to mention it in front of Emperor Zhu, because the surrounding farmers in Cui Gezhuang and the soldiers of the imperial guards who were in charge of guarding them looked at them even more. Something is wrong, as if wishing to tear them apart.

Seeing that the students who were born in merchant families were all dissatisfied, Emperor Zhu laughed again and said: "I know that doing business is risky, but I also know that doing business can make money , Those merchants who have made money can live a life far superior to that of ordinary people, and can enjoy the benefits that many ordinary people cannot enjoy in their entire lives."

"Or I can tell you this, if you feel that I have treated merchants unfairly and feel wronged, you can choose to join the army, work, or farm. I didn't stop you, and the Ming Law didn't stop you, it's all yours." free."

First of all, Zhu Laosi monopolized the sea trade under the guise of searching Zhu Yunqi, and then
There is an old saying in Zhongyuan Tangkou, which is called "all mouths make gold, and accumulation destroys bones."

For example, there was such a story in the Ming Dynasty 17 years before Jiashen, and it even spread to the Qing Dynasty:
Xiaomei acted coquettishly and told her husband not to worry, so Xiaomei's husband went out again.

Well, Lao Wang felt that Xiaomei's affair with him was an extremely shameless act. When his conscience found out, he simply crawled out from under the bed and killed his lover Xiaomei with a knife. After the killing, he swaggered and went to work.

Seeing that there was a problem, the beheading officer hurriedly reported it layer by layer, and finally arrived at Zhu Yuanzhang's place. Zhu Yuanzhang was also unambiguous, summoned Lao Wang directly, and asked face to face: "Why did you kill someone?"

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished listening, he nodded and said, "It's a good thing to kill an unjust person and save an innocent person!"
Is it bizarre enough?
But anyone who knows Zhu Zhishan's old man should understand that this is another nonsense article to smear Zhu Chongba.

Similar to this is Fang Xiaoru's murder of the ten clans.

Then, Zhu Laosi asked Fang Xiaoru to write the enthronement edict.

The description of this period of history in "History of the Ming Dynasty" is "Xiao Ru threw a pen to the ground, cried and cursed and said: "Death is death, and the edict cannot be careless. "Cheng Zu was angry and ordered all the cities. The description in "Records of Emperor Taizong" is "The treacherous ministers Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru, etc. came to Que Xia.Counting his crimes, Xian Fugu was killed in the city. "

However, the "Taizong Veritable Records" that has been changed by Jigou does not mention Fang Xiaoru's extermination of the ten clans. Even the "Ming History" dedicated to discrediting Ming Dynasty also does not record this matter. Song Duanyi wrote during the Chenghua period His "Li Zhai Xian Lu", "Ge Qu Lu" and other books about Jianwen's loyal officials only wrote: "Yi Qi Clan" but there is no such thing as "destroying ten clans".

"History of the Ming Dynasty" also records that after Fang Xiaoru and his brother Fang Xiaoyou were killed in Nanjing, Fang Xiaoru's wife Zheng Shi and two of his four sons, Fang Zhongxian and Fang Zhongyu, hanged themselves, and their two daughters also jumped into the river to commit suicide. Zhu Di's "Yi nationality", but his wife, daughter and son were martyred after her husband was killed.

A real college student is a real treasure, a scarce human resource.

Including the ridicule of later generations that undergraduates are everywhere, and specialists are not as good as dogs, which are actually bullshit among bullshit.

However, this does not mean that Emperor Zhu will indulge these students indefinitely.

As we all know, the group of students is the most magical.

They are young, they are passionate, they are cynical, and they can't understand all injustices.

But their biggest problem is that they think they are smart and are easily fooled.

All they care about is the ideal they agree with.

It would be easy to say if this ideal is right, but what if the ideal they insist on is wrong?
For example, those sand sculptures holding white paper and shouting slogans, such as those bastards who shouted that the fireworks in the world have begun to recover—maybe, the fireworks and fireworks are not connected?
Therefore, the enthusiasm of scholars is essentially a double-edged sword, which can easily hurt both the enemy and oneself.

As for the truth, when the life and death of a country and nation are at stake, will those scholars dare not stand up because they have lost their blood...

Yue Wumu was not a scholar in the traditional sense. The teacher had served as a soldier for half a year before entering Hunan No. [-] Normal School.

On the contrary, Qian Qianyi, who is too cold, was born as a student of Donglin, and Wang Zhaoming, who attempted to assassinate the regent Zaifeng, was born as a scholar.

Don't forget, there is an old saying in the hall of the Central Plains: Every time more dogs are slaughtered in righteousness, most of them are scholars who are ungrateful.

What kind of bullshit is this riding a horse!
Zhu Jinsong was upset, and his face naturally became colder and colder: "They are willing to come, so why don't I stop them? Don't you want to know what they want to do?"

This is more than 3000 Jinshi!

But killing three thousand students is an unprecedented event!
More importantly, these [-] Jinshi are only those who have already rushed out of the palace, and there are more on the way who have not rushed over!

And behind these people, there are thousands of families, and tens of thousands of people can be involved casually!
Zeng Cheng felt dizzy when he thought of the thousands of scholars and the families or clans behind them.

The sky is falling!

This is not a solution, after all, compared with the impact of killing thousands of Jinshi at a time, it is so small that it is not even a fart!

However, Emperor Zhu sneered, stared coldly at Zeng Cheng and Liu Heming and said, "Do you know what is the Son of Heaven?"

Regarding Emperor Zhu's question, not to mention Zeng Cheng, who is well-read in poetry and books, even Liu Heming, who was born in the army, knows the meaning of emperor.

The truth is this, but when they gathered outside the palace and shouted for the abolition of the ancestral system of "only students are not allowed", the nature of all this changed.

Forcing the emperor to modify the ancestral system is tantamount to denying Zhu Chongba, and denying Zhu Chongba is tantamount to fundamentally denying the correctness of Emperor Zhu's accession to the throne.

After pondering secretly for a long time, Zeng Cheng tried to persuade him: "Your Majesty, those students are mostly idiots who have not read their books. I think it's okay to get rid of their fame according to what the governor said, and then rush back to the village and never use it." That's it, why should His Majesty's reputation be damaged because of them?"

It was just that Zeng Cheng's voice had just finished speaking, but outside the main hall, Captain Jin Yiwei rushed over, whispered a few words to Ke Zhiming, and then left quickly.

Emperor Zhu sneered and said, "If you have any new news, you might as well tell me."

Ke Zhiming had a gloomy face, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, those students... those students shouted slogans and wanted His Majesty to go out of the palace to meet them. They also said that if His Majesty does not come out If you go to see them in the palace, they will go to Taimiao and Confucian Temple and Weeping Temple."

After listening to Ke Zhiming's words, Zeng Cheng knew that today's matter was completely over. No matter whether Emperor Zhu was persuaded before or whether he wanted to change his decision, there was no room for any relaxation. .

Emperor Zhu laughed back angrily, looked at Zeng Cheng and Liu Heming and said, "Is this what you said about being stupid in reading? From my point of view, they are not too stupid, at least they know how to go to the Taimiao Weeping Temple!"

Zeng Cheng and Liu Heming looked down at each other, and they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes - as the saying goes, it's hard for the king of Hades to save the damned ghost, it's fine for these students to leave their good books and don't read and come to the palace. Want to run to the Taimiao and Confucian Temple?

This is really rushing to court death!
After being silent for a while, Zeng Cheng couldn't help but sighed slightly, and then bowed his hands resolutely and said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, I want to ask the governor to transfer the capital camp into the city, and kill all the traitors who are not ministers after nightfall!"

Emperor Zhu couldn't help but glance at Zeng Cheng unexpectedly.

Although it is certain that the Beijing camp enters the city to arrest and kill people, whether the order was issued directly by Emperor Zhu or Zeng Cheng proposed it, these are two completely different concepts—if Emperor Zhu directly ordered troops to arrest and kill people , then all the pots belong to Emperor Zhu, and the infamy of cruelty and bloodthirsty in the history books cannot be escaped.

However, if Zeng Cheng, the chief minister of the cabinet, directly proposed it, it means that Zeng Cheng took the initiative to take the blame for killing the students. Although Emperor Zhu may have a reputation of being unknown, at least he will not be burdened with cruelty and bloodthirsty. notoriety.

The difference is quite big, and once Zeng Cheng takes the blame, what awaits Zeng Cheng in the future is overwhelming impeachment and even revenge-style assassination.

First of all, the Censor's Yamen will write a letter to impeach Zeng Cheng for arbitrarily mobilizing troops and killing students, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will also ask Zeng Cheng to drink tea. Once they catch some small tail, waiting for Zeng Cheng may be a dead end.

Even if Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate can't catch Zeng Cheng's little tail, will the relatives of the killed students want to kill Zeng Cheng?

As the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty and an old fritter who had been the magistrate in the Qing Dynasty, it is impossible for Zeng Cheng not to know the risks involved—that is to say, when Zeng Cheng proposed this suggestion, he already knew it in his heart. Prepared to die.

Just when Zeng Cheng had already slightly closed his eyes and prepared to meet the unknown fate, Liu Heming suddenly laughed, looked at Zeng Cheng and said, "Although Mr. Zeng Ge is the first and assistant minister of the cabinet, your cabinet can't control me five times." The military governor's mansion, so the deployment of troops should be ordered by me, the commander-in-chief."

After finishing speaking, Liu Heming paid respects to Emperor Zhu seriously: "Your Majesty, I'm just a piece of rubbish that cannot be supported by mud. You asked me to read more books, but I just couldn't read it. There is nothing I can do about it. "

"But, no matter how stupid I am, I still remember the hardships of sweating when farming, and the bitter days when I woke up hungry in the middle of the night and could only rely on drinking water to satisfy my hunger. I also know a truth-social studies The popularization of county schools and prefecture schools is to enable people all over the world to read and understand, so that people all over the world have a way out, so that they don't have to be blind like we were back then."

"Those bastards are now clamoring to restore Kexing, but they have become Juren masters. They don't want more people to become Juren masters. They want to cut off the way out for others. They want to be the same as before. Playing tricks on people all over the world."

Liu Heming took another deep breath, and continued: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty, I want to transfer the Beijing camp into the city without an order, to put down the rebellion!"

After finishing speaking, Liu Heming took another deep breath, bowed heavily to Emperor Zhu, and then got up to leave.

(End of this chapter)