Daming: Wanted to be a small landlord, but was forced to ascend the throne

Chapter 419
There has been a big storm in the capital recently.

The case of murdering his wife by Zhang Yanling, Marquis of Jianchang, has not yet been closed, and the fact that he robbed people's land and beat the landlord to death became even more popular.

It's just that when this matter was still pending, Shouning Hou Zhang Heling pleaded guilty on his own initiative, saying that he was lax in disciplining his younger brother, allowing his younger brother Jianchang Hou to be arrogant, and accidentally killed his sister-in-law Gu.

Zhang Heling made the decision to sell Jianchang Hou Zhang Yanling's concubine, and compensate Gu's family for 3000 taels of spiritual loss for the lost daughter;
In addition, the Shouning Hou Mansion and Jianchang Hou Mansion returned 10 Zhuangtian sites in Gyeonggi, nearly [-] mu!
Compared with Zhang Yanling's murder of his wife, the Zhang brothers' replacement of Gyeonggi Chuangtian is definitely explosive news.

After Shouning Hou made his statement, the case of Jianchang Hou Zhang Yanling was also tried and concluded soon.

The Ministry of Criminal Justice believed that although Zhang Yanling, Marquis of Jianchang, accidentally beat Gu to death, it was also a crime of homicide. Gu Nian and Gu's family were willing not to investigate further, and sentenced him to fifty sticks and exile for a thousand miles;

After the case was finalized, it was submitted to Dali Temple for review. Dali Temple had no objection to the punishment of the Ministry of Punishment, and it was submitted to the emperor for final review.

Zhu Houxi, Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, read the letter and gave instructions:
Zhang Yanling, the Marquis of Jianchang, doted on his concubine and killed his wife Gu Shi. Although it was considered a serious mistake, the attitude of admitting his mistake is good, and the Gu family is willing to forgive him lightly. Ji Yuanji has been reflecting on his mistakes for three years!
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"You are useless! You actually donated all the properties of the Zhang family in the capital these years, who gave you the right! If your parents are alive, you will definitely be kicked out!"

Empress Dowager Zhang angrily threw the round fan in her hand at Zhang Heling, still unable to understand her hatred, she also wanted to throw the teacup in her hand at her elder brother.

"Queen Mother!"

The nanny at the side wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

Zhang Yanling was kneeling on the ground to plead guilty to Queen Mother Zhang. The things she did did not have time at all, no!He didn't intend to tell Queen Mother Zhang first. Once he did, the matter would not be done at all.

After the matter was settled, he came directly to plead guilty, facing the wrath of Queen Mother Zhang!

He knows his sister too well, so this matter must be dealt with first!

It's just that after the matter is over, he will come to plead guilty, so as to calm his elder sister's anger and prevent her from acting impulsively.

Zhang Heling felt a hot liquid flowing down his brow bone, and in an instant, half of his cheek was stained with blood.

He endured humiliation these days, didn't sleep well for a few days, kept his head low, and begged his grandpa to tell his nanny to run around for the sake of his younger brother and to keep the Zhang family. His grievance and anger burst out at this moment.

No matter how soft the character of a persimmon is, the slime still has three points!
Zhang Heling looked at Queen Mother Zhang with red eyes.

Empress Dowager Zhang is used to being domineering. Although she is biased towards her two younger brothers, she has always been in a commanding posture, especially towards this eldest brother. In her eyes, this eldest brother is a soft-spoken character.

Today, the elder brother stared at her with angry eyes, and looked at her with a half-blooded face. She couldn't help being a little timid and frightened. She didn't expect that the elder brother's face when he became angry was so terrifying.

I didn't even think that I would hit my elder brother's brow bone with a teacup before. If I tilted it a little more, I might hit my eye. I am afraid that Shouning Hou Zhang Heling will have the nickname "One-eyed Dragon" in the future!
"If I don't do that, do you think my little brother can still save his life? Killing his wife, robbing people's property for property and murder, just one thing is enough to kill him! Do you think he really killed Gu by mistake? He is an idiot , killed Mrs. Gu, and disemboweled her own child, and let the child freeze to death outside! My good sister, this is the smart brother you have loved all these years!"

"How are you going to save Yanling? Crying and making trouble at the new emperor's place? Could it be that you want to send us two brothers to the guillotine quickly? Why were we arrested and imprisoned for a few days before? It's not you Do you have to claim credit and show yourself in front of the new emperor? If not, can we be caught as targets?"

Zhang Heling looked at Queen Mother Zhang and said word by word.

"You...you heartless! If it wasn't for me, you would be as rich as you are today..."

Empress Dowager Zhang was trembling with anger, she felt that she had dedicated her whole life to her natal family, but she didn't expect to be accused by her elder brother like this.

"Yes! Eldest sister, if you hadn't been chosen as a concubine and became Xiaozong's concubine, your father would have been a supervisor of the Imperial College at the highest level. Now he has already lived in his hometown in Cangzhou, guarding the land. My younger brother and I may at most be a young scholar. Maybe it’s a small business and a normal life! We thank you, you let us enjoy the prosperity and wealth of this capital! But, eldest sister, do you know that it’s too late! You’ve been used to going smoothly since you were a child, and you don’t understand this dynasty at all. The emperor and his courtiers, this is not the world of Emperor Xiaozong and the first emperor, but now the world of the new emperor Zhu Houxi!"

"He defeated Yang Tinghe, whom neither your husband nor your son could defeat. Now the power of the court is in his hands, and you still pretend to be a tall queen mother, commanding at will. Do you think he can listen to you? Yes! He I don’t dare to confront you head-on. In order to maintain his dignity, Yanling and I will become targets. Today is Yanling, and tomorrow it may be me! Anyway, our wealth is also given by the royal family, and now it is returned to the royal family. Return it to its original owner, I just want my home to be safe!"

"If you don't want our Zhang family to be wiped out, I advise you not to interfere with our Zhang family's affairs! In the future, whether you are poor or rich, I, Zhang Heling, will never blame you!"

Zhang Heling thought of Zhang Cong's on-demand broadcast to him that day, and he was still in a cold sweat from time to time.

The blood stain narrowed one eye, Zhang Heling touched it with his hand, turned and left.

Empress Dowager Zhang sat slumped in her seat, her eyes were sad, and she aged a lot in an instant.

"Queen Mother!"

The mother on the side was a little worried.

"Are you saying that I really care too much?"

After a while, Queen Mother Zhang asked in a murmur.

"The Queen Mother...Does the Queen Mother want me...to tell the truth?"

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Dingguo government office.

Xu Guangzuo lay haggard on the bed.

His son Xu Yande waited on him.

"You said that the estates of Marquis Shouning and Marquis Jianchang have been handed over?"

Xu Guangzuo still asked incredulously.

"Yes, father, I think they are just trying to please His Majesty and avoid their own guilt! That's all right, the late emperor is gone, and the period of Zhang's arrogance has passed. Talk about fifty sticks, and that fellow will cry for his father and mother, and he will be as cowardly as a grandson, haha!"

Xu Yande couldn't help laughing.

"Shut up, you idiot!"

Xu Guangzuo was so angry that his beard trembled.

"Father?"

"I'm getting old now, and I'm not in good health. You... you actually see things so simple, my Xu family... my Xu family...cough cough cough..."

Xu Guangzuo kept coughing, so frightened that Xu Yande quickly stood up and poured tea for his father to let him drink it down.

"Father, don't be angry. Although the son is dull, please give me more advice!"

Although Xu Guangzuo has three sons, the other two are born of concubines, so there are too many to count.

In this day and age, no matter how smart and capable a concubine is, he is still a concubine, and he is nothing in front of his concubine.

The whole environment is like this. The environment and resources faced by the concubine are incomparable with those of the scorpion, so it is not easy to surpass the scorpion.

To be honest, Xu Yande is not considered smart, at least Xu Guangzuo feels that this son is not as slick as he is, and sometimes it is too real, but after all, he is his own seed, and he is still a son, so he can only cultivate it patiently.

He is also getting older, and in the future, the position of the family and Ding Guogong will still be handed over to his son Xu Yande, and he must try his best to guide him when he can still teach.

"De'er, this Duke Dingguo Mansion will be yours from now on, you have to learn to look behind the scenes through small incidents!"

"What's behind it?"

"Yes! The Zhang Yanling Killing His Wife looked like a knot, but it was untied in the end. Why do you say?"

"Naturally, Zhang Heling used money and land to open up for his younger brother!"

Although Xu Yande is not as slick as his old man, after all, some of the officials' children, who were born and raised in this circle, are so stupid that they can't breathe. At most, they are just a little bit more transparent than smart people.

But just this little bit of transparency may take half a lifetime to learn for children from ordinary families. This is the importance of the circle!
This is the same as sitting here drinking coffee with you after struggling for 20 years in my previous life.

"Well, it's not so stupid! Zhang Heling's giving up the fields in Gyeonggi is the key. Didn't you read the last instruction of the new emperor? He is letting the Zhang brothers fight the front battle! The royal relatives have taken the lead, us The meritorious service is enough..."

"Father, are you saying that the emperor wants to take back those fields in Gyeonggi..."

"It's not that I want it, but it's being harvested. Now this posture probably requires us to take the initiative to hand it in... Your Majesty is going to clear the farm. All the fields in Gyeonggi have indeed fallen into personal pockets these years. Your Majesty must have found out after coming to power. The national treasury is empty, and his internal treasury probably doesn't have much silver left, so with his temperament, he definitely won't do nothing!"

"Father, how can that be? We bought those fields with our own money, of course...of course the price is very cheap..."

Xu Yande thinks about his family's large fields in Gyeonggi, and the family's life is so generous now, those fields have played a big role...

"So what! A lot of the land has changed hands several times. If you don't bring out the list to check, you can't find out whether it is private land or military land. I am afraid that His Majesty has already made preparations to clear the farm. If you are not fully prepared, Zhang Heling will definitely not I will donate all the fields of their two families, and I am afraid that I can only choose one if I want the land or my life, no! I am afraid that my life will be gone, and the fields will be gone!"

Xu Guangzuo said with a sigh.

"Father, what should we do? Just give up the field like this?"

Xu Yande was very confused, he really didn't know how to solve this kind of thing.

"Find a few people to keep an eye on Marquis Wuding's mansion. If they have any movement in the fields on the other side of Gyeonggi, come and report to me immediately!"

Xu Guangzuo had been feeling unwell during this period of time, but when he thought of Wuding Hou Guoxun, his coughing throat did not itch so much, and his spirits cheered up.

"Yes! Father, why don't we discuss it with Marquis Wu Ding..."

Xu Yande was a little puzzled. His father didn't know why he always liked to pinch Wudinghou Guoxun. You must know that both families are meritorious families. We discussed how to do it together, but my father always had to compare with their family.

"Shut up! If you say you are stupid, you are stupid. Let's discuss it with that guy. You don't even know he sold you! When the new emperor came to Beijing, I went to greet him. He knew the details of the new emperor. The emperor came so close, he didn’t reveal anything to us at all, and took the credit for himself, you don’t know, although the new emperor says he also uses us, he is always different from that Guo Xun! We will not move on to this matter, I am afraid that I will be suppressed by Marquis Wu Ding in the future!"

Xu Guangzuo said impatiently.

If he had known a little bit of news back then, Jiang Bin might have been the one who welcomed him!

"Yes! I'll let people go!"

Xu Yande reluctantly agreed that whenever Guo Xun was mentioned, his father would be furious.

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The weather has entered May, and it is getting hotter and hotter day by day.

Fortunately, in winter, under Qin Shao's suggestion, there are a lot of ice cubes in the ice cellar of the House of Internal Affairs, and there is no shortage of ice cubes in the palace.

The ice cubes in the ice cellar were endless, so Qin Shao asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to sell them to the outside world. Of course, the sales targets were all wealthy businessmen and dignitaries in the capital.

He made a lot of money.

In fact, the weather today is not hotter than in previous lives.

Unlike the palaces rebuilt in the previous life, many of the palaces in the capital today are not fully paved with too many bricks and tiles. There are many open spaces with many trees, and there are not as many reinforced concrete as in the previous life. Except for the heat at noon, morning And the night wasn't too hot.

It's just that some nobles use ice cubes as a fashion.

Once a thing becomes fashionable, it has no common sense, and everyone is eager to imitate it, even if it is expensive, people will buy it.

Qin Shao stood up from behind the desk, stretched his waist, and moved his neck that was a little pantothenic.

"Master, this is scented tea to relieve the heat, drink some!"

Han Jinrong came in with her maid, who obviously came here when he was resting, and brought some snacks.

Qin Shao nodded his thanks.

Han Jinrong and the others went out after finishing the arrangement.

Qin Shao drank some tea, ate a few pieces of pastries, and then began to look through the stacks of thick books on the desk, all of which were yellow books and fish scale albums.

These imperial registers are actually the so-called household registers of Ming Dynasty. Households are used as units, and the birthplaces, ages, occupations, land allocations, and housing conditions of each member of each family are clearly listed.

The Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Atlas are the important basis for taxation and corvee in the Ming Dynasty, and they have to be recompiled every ten years.

These days, Zhang Cong and the others have finished summarizing the household registration and land conditions in Gyeonggi, and they will review it for him after sorting it out.

From Hongwu to Hongzhi for 40 years, the quotas in the world have been reduced by half, and Hunan, Hebei, and Guangdong have lost a lot of quotas.

In the Yulin Atlas compiled by Hongwu in 24 years, more than 850 million hectares of land were registered. Today, only 405 million hectares of land are left in the Yulin Atlas, which is less than half.

Now it has been found that there are 528 Xunqi Zhuangtian in the Gyeonggi area, covering an area of ​​more than 57400 hectares, of which 26000 hectares of private land have been verified and occupied.

Seeing these numbers, Qin Shao's head got a little big!
The reason why Ming Dynasty went to the end is self-evident!

Fortunately, in the south, the south of the Yangtze River is rich, and there are other ways to make money and eat without land, so as not to starve to death. The north, especially the northwest, is different!
Without land, that is the life of starving to death!

It is not difficult to understand that the Northwest Uprising and the Rebel Army destroyed Daming.

"Father!"

Qin Shao was thinking about the tragic fate of Daming in the late Ming Dynasty when Wang Yin's voice came.

At noon at this moment, Wang Yin must be busy when he comes over.

"Master! Marquis Wu Ding, please see me!"

As soon as Wang Yin came back from outside, he met Guo Xun, Marquis of Wuding, who came to ask for an interview, so he came in to report for him.

"His Majesty!"

As soon as Wang Yin finished speaking, Zhang Zuo came in from the outside.

(End of this chapter)