eldest son of Ming dynasty

Chapter 303 Take it all down!

People in Hangzhou are saying that they have not seen such a heavy rain for many years. This day, it has been gloomy for several days in a row, and the sun is hiding behind the dark clouds, not even a ray of it wants to come down.

Many scholars don't understand why the officials and people in Hangzhou, even the traffickers and pawns, lived a peaceful life before the 17th and 18th years of Hongzhi.Those royal guards come and go, come and go, what exactly is the emperor going to do to Zhejiang?
Many of them have never seen such a big change in their lives.

So in the end, the fierce resistance was not stifled in the bud, and people poured into the government, hoping for governors, inspectors...or anyone, can someone come forward to make a decision for them?

There was also the rightful Jin Yiwei, people were angry and terrified of him, but when the scimitar really came out, the air froze again.

"Zhong Cheng!"

Beside Mao Yuwen, Wang Qiong finally stood up. As soon as he appeared, many people started calling his name.

After that, Peng Ze and Tan Wenyi all appeared.

Today's incident is bad in nature, but the scholars hate the factory guards, not them, and they are not so bad that they want to kill officials. These people have read books to some extent. The killing and looting of money, anyway, let's talk about it first.

"Jiwu Gong!" A tall and straight scholar stood out from the crowd. He wore a square scarf and looked imposing. "In the past few days, Jin Yiwei has seized Hangzhou City, and Mr. Huang and Mr. Li have been arrested one after another. I They are all students from prefectural schools and county schools in various places. In the past, I was fortunate enough to listen to Huang and Li's lectures. Now that the court is arresting people like this, if there are not treacherous ministers who deceived the Holy Majesty, we would not believe it!"

The so-called treacherous officials are naturally the factory guards.

Peng Ze knew in his heart that these young people didn't understand the real court. They thought they had wronged, but the emperor didn't know about it.But in fact, if the trouble continues, it is really possible to handle a major case since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

"What's your name?"

"The late student Xiao Miao, a member of Jiaxing Mansion, was lucky the year before last, and just won the Juren."

Things in Zhejiang have evolved to such a degree that it is already the gentry class's opposition to Kaihai, not a matter of a few smuggling businessmen.Because of the symbiosis of interests, coupled with the slightly bloody actions of Jin Yiwei in the past few days, it actually angered this entire class.

Because Mao Yuwen killed all the famous people.

Objectively speaking, Daming gave considerable preferential treatment to scholars. As long as he was a juren, he didn't have to pay taxes, didn't have to do hard labor, and didn't have to kneel when he met the county magistrate. Everyone knew this.

In addition, Juren also has a granary grain.There are about 12-18 taels per year in different regions.This is basically double the income a farmer earns from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

What's more, once Juren encounters Enke, the imperial court will send another sum of money, that is, travel expenses. This money is included in the local tax and service system, which means it belongs to the government's expenditure.

The matter of travel expenses is actually very interesting. It can be seen that government orders are not allowed in the Forbidden City and that public opinion is in the hands of scholars.

First of all, there is a clear record in Hongwu 17th about raising people's travel expenses: the Chinese style of raising people is issued with a public certificate, and the official will go to the Ministry of Rites to print papers for examinations in order to cope with the rent and foot strength.The "grain to give" refers to money and food subsidies such as granary rice.

However, during the Jiajing period, a man named Huo Tao recorded that: Chenghua had no travel expenses before Chenghua.

What do you mean?
The imperial court has made it clear that there is such expenditure, so why do they still say that Chenghua had no payment before?
It seems inconsistent, but anyone with life experience can understand after a little thought that the money given to you by the government stipulated by the court is not something you can just take if you say you can.

So after a long time, the gentry and the government have actually formed a symbiosis of interests.

On the other hand, since Orthodoxy and Chenghua, the matter of raising people's travel expenses has gradually been exposed, and officials have continuously reported to the court, saying that we have "big Confucianism" and "village sages" here, and they cannot participate because they have no travel expenses. I hope that the imperial court will pay attention to the imperial examination.

In the subsequent years of Hongzhi and Zhengde, there were always such voices, and the rules set by the Hongwu period in the Jiajing period were reiterated again.The famous Yang Jisheng got 30 taels of travel expenses to take part in the examination after winning the Juren, but he used the money to donate a Sanguan to his elder brother.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty like Wanli, the cost of this part doubled several times compared with before.Of course, in terms of the absolute amount, there is only a difference between a dozen taels and a few hundred taels, which cannot crush a country, but there is actually a problem that can be seen.

Why did Juren even have a problem of travel expenses that could be solved in the eyes of the court, and this problem was solved better and better as time went on, while the problem of life and death of so many tenants and poor peasants was getting worse and worse?

The essence of this problem is that different classes have different capabilities in the game of social resources.

That is to say, the stronger the richer, the weaker the poorer.

Closer to home.

The gentry are a relatively powerful group in the Ming Dynasty system, and they have continuously won battles for hundreds of years, even if it is a matter of travel expenses, they can all win.

To put it bluntly, they also think that it is up to them to govern the country.

How do you say that sentence, to bring peace to all generations, this is the ultimate ideal of literati.

And now they also have a request,
Mao's language can't be counted on, so they count on Wang Qiong, Peng Ze, Xiao Miao's sincere words, "Dehua Gong, Jiwu Gong, four people including Gongsun Dao, Yan Zixiao, Yu Ruifeng, and Ren Qing were killed in the street yesterday. This matter is really appalling, we have nothing else to ask, but I implore the two superiors to sue the court for the four, and ask the court to punish the traitors! Give me a bright future!"

At this time, the matter of opening the sea seems to be not so important.

The battle itself has become the protagonist, and the content of the battle has disappeared.

This is a sign of intensification.

Neither Wang Qiong nor Peng Ze could say this well. They could neither agree nor refuse.

In the end, it was Peng Ze who said: "The court has its own opinion on whether this matter is right or wrong. But you shouldn't gather crowds to cry and break into the government. If you report to the capital, what will the capital think? If you can still trust me, then Listen to the old man's words, go home and live in peace. The imperial court has never ordered to kill people."

When Mao Yuwen heard it, the last sentence was too soothing and should not be said.

Sure enough, someone raised his voice, "Since the imperial court has no intention to kill people, how should the lives of these four people be counted?"

"We can't go back, we have to make a fuss and let the court know!"

And at this moment, Gu Dayong has brought Jinyiwei to appear here one after another. When more than 80 Jinyiwei and [-] Dongchang Fanzi appeared with knives,

The faces of many scholars changed drastically again.

Peng Ze was in a hurry, "Deputy Envoy Mao, what are you going to do?"

Mao Yuwen's face remained unchanged, "Mr. Jiwu's temper is really good, and he can forgive those who forcibly break into the government. If he is sent home like this, and nothing happened, what is the majesty of the court, and where is the majesty of His Majesty?"

Peng Ze said, "Do you dare to commit murder here?"

"The envoy didn't say murder, but the envoy will not let anyone go!"

Peng Ze had no choice but to say, "Zhongcheng!"

He knelt down, right in front of Wang Qiong.

Seeing Peng Ze knelt down, all other officials in the yamen also knelt down, "Zhongcheng! The lives of hundreds of people are at your fingertips. If there is a big case of murdering scholars in Zhejiang, the whole country will be shaken and the world will be shocked." Not stable!"

Xiao Miao, who was talking before, also started to get nervous. He and a few classmates cuddled together. At this moment, he started to be afraid, but he still had to pretend to be calm. After all, if he was afraid, he would lose his face.

Wang Qiong was caught in an extreme struggle.

Some of the people who asked him for help were for themselves, and some were for the country of Daming.For the sake of one's own people, one will not have any political future in this life, even if one keeps hanging around in this yamen, one does not care about one's political future for the people of the Great Ming Dynasty.

But he cares.

What happened in Zhejiang this time will undoubtedly come into the emperor's sight.

He had to consider his position in the emperor's heart.

To put it bluntly, do you want to be with these literati, or with the emperor.The former is famous in history, and the latter is on the rise.

"Please ask Zhong Cheng to avenge justice for the four people in Zhejiang!"

"Please ask Zhong Cheng to avenge justice for the four people in Zhejiang!"

……

Wang Qiong was deeply disturbed by these noisy and chaotic calls.

"quiet!"

Mao Yuwen squinted his slender eyes. At this time, his people had already arrived. It was not a problem to control this place, and the time was not urgent, so he also wanted to see what Wang Qiong would choose at this moment.

No matter how many conspiracies and schemes there were before, it was finally attributed to the choice at this time.

What kind of person is Wang Qiong?

Wang Qiong, courtesy name Dehua, was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. He was a famous minister in the mid-Ming Dynasty.But he has a bad reputation, Qingliu is ashamed to make friends with powerful people, but he is good at making friends with powerful people.And he is more good at swearing, like the famous Sanyang cabinet, Li Dongyang, Yang Ting and these Qingliu ministers, he all swears very hard.Because he felt that this group of people had high morals and had no level of officialdom. For example, he had criticized Li Dongyang for facing floods and droughts, so he knew how to reduce money and food, and there were no measures to deal with the aftermath.

"...No matter what, this is also my governor's yamen!" Wang Qiong spoke slowly, and there seemed to be a fire in his eyes for some reason, "I am the governor of Zhejiang appointed by the imperial court! Scholars from all over the world usually study Confucius Meng, you should know more about the superiority and inferiority of the upper and lower..."

The corners of Mao Yuwen's mouth curled up.

"...The following offends the superior, and the heavens will not tolerate it."

"...The king is the guide for the ministers, and it is for the great righteousness!"

Peng Ze and the others began to turn pale.

There are so many people!What is this for!
Mao Yuwen raised the knife in his hand, there was no need to say anything else, he would not kill so many people, because it was unnecessary, but none of these people could leave.

"Jin Yiwei listens to the order, take them all!"

(End of this chapter)