Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 116 The motivation to kill nobles

Emperor Jiajing did not want to give too much profit and was only willing to give some small profits. Wang Daoqiu persuaded Emperor Jiajing to lure him with big profits.

To be honest, Wang Daoqiu was so "nice" to those honorable men not just for the smooth advancement of the industrial zone project. He actually had an ulterior purpose in his heart, which was to give Emperor Jiajing a chance to kill these honorable men in the future. Expensive power.

Three years later, during the Gengxu Revolution in the 29th year of Jiajing, Ida used his [-] households to unite with the Duoyan Guards of the original Ming Dynasty to sweep across the capital of the Ming Dynasty with a force of [-] to [-].In just sixteen days, the Tatars burned, killed, and looted in the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Every human settlement outside Beijing was destroyed, and the sky was filled with flames.Even when Emperor Jiajing was in the palace, he was frightened to death when he saw the city of Beijing wrapped in thick smoke outside the city.

In this catastrophe, all the counties, towns, and towns surrounding Beijing were destroyed. According to subsequent damage statistics, more than 200 million people and animals were killed and robbed.

At that time, when Anda broke through the Great Wall and entered the vicinity of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Jiajing ordered the capital camp to attack.But when officials went to the Beijing camp to gather some troops, the Beijing camp, which was supposed to have 15 troops, actually had only over [-] troops.Moreover, among this group of people, the officers were all either the playboys of Xungui's own family or relatives of Xungui's family, and those who served as soldiers were mostly the nephews of the servants and slaves of Xungui's family.Even the servants who have served the noble family for many years, when they get older, the nobles arrange for them to retire in the Beijing camp.

To put it bluntly, the Daming Beijing Camp during the Gengshu Revolution not only had two-thirds of the establishment, but was emptied by nobles all the year round.Even the remaining one-third of the establishment was also used by nobles to arrange their own family members and relatives, and servants and slaves were employed.Just like in the People's Republic, Qi Tongwei arranged for all his relatives to join the police force, and even let the village's guard dogs join the police force as police dogs and eat a portion of the royal food.

What's even more awesome is that when officials opened the arsenal of 10,000+ Beijing weapons, they were ready to use those weapons to arm the young people.However, they found that in the weapons arsenal of the Beijing Camp, there were only a few hundred rusty spears that were old enough to be collected as antiques.

This means that the 10 taels of weapons and equipment allocated by the imperial court to the Beijing camp every year have actually been embezzled by the nobles in charge of the Beijing camp in the past few decades.In the past few decades, Jingying had actually not produced a single weapon at all.

Speaking of which, history novices, do you still blame Yan Song, the chief minister of the cabinet at that time, for choosing to be a turtle?Considering the current situation of the Ming Dynasty's capital garrison at that time, they left the tall and solid city walls and went to the plains on the outskirts of Beijing to fight with 10 to [-] Tatar cavalry. Is this enough to kill them for [-] minutes?

Therefore, the responsibility for causing the Gengshu Incident, which turned the suburbs of Beijing into a flat land, and more than 200 million livestock were robbed and killed, did not lie with Yan Song, but with the nobles who had been in charge of the Ming Dynasty's military power for a long time.It was those nobles who caused the Ming Dynasty's army to become the Eight Banners Army in the late Qing Dynasty.

But even so, not only were these nobles not held accountable afterwards, but they continued to firmly hold military power.For example, Zhu Xizhong, who just came out to negotiate with Emperor Jiajing, is now the governor of Beijing in the 26th year of Jiajing. After the Gengshu Revolution in the 29th year of Jiajing, he is still the governor of Beijing.Even after Emperor Jiajing died and the Ming Dynasty changed to the Longqing year, Zhu Xizhong still held the military power in the capital. It was not until his death and the Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty that he was reckoned with by the Queen of Autumn.Just tell me whether this is ridiculous or not?

In fact, I believe that with Emperor Jiajing's shrewdness, he would not have known that Zhu Xizhong and this group of nobles were just a bunch of garbage that failed to do anything and ate nothing.But even so, why did Emperor Jiajing keep this bunch of rubbish and let them control the military?To put it bluntly, it was because these nobles were rubbish that Emperor Jiajing could safely hand over the empire's sword to them.And it was also because in Emperor Jiajing's heart, it didn't matter that these garbage armies controlled by garbage couldn't defeat the Mongols, as long as they could scare the people and the sword handle could beat those "pen pens".

For his own personal gain, Emperor Jiajing allowed those nobles to pay 15 free pay for the [-]-strong Beijing camp. He allowed those nobles to turn the military camp into a place where their family members and relatives could find employment and eat royal food.Then why not give Emperor Jiajing another self-interest and let Emperor Jiajing make up his mind for another self-interest and sweep all those Ming Dynasty nobles into the garbage heap of history?

Wang Daoqiu's ideal of conquering the world requires a strong armed support, and if he continues to tolerate these officials who have lost their blood and only know how to spend their days and drinks, and control the military power of Ming Dynasty, then Wang Daoqiu's so-called ideal should be called him. It is cranky, more appropriate.

Therefore, in order to conquer the world, these nobles of the Ming Dynasty must be eliminated, and to get rid of these nobles, it requires ironclad evidence of guilt, widespread support from the people and the court, and the nod of Emperor Jiajing.

Three years later, the Geng Shu Revolution will expose all the crimes of these nobles to the world. At that time, these nobles will become street rats in Daming. Everyone shouts and beats them and slaughters them all over the house.As for Emperor Jiajing?With a group of loyal dogs and tens of millions of taels of silver, and only one choice, which side do you think Emperor Jiajing will choose?
So now Wang Daoqiu wants to help those nobles make money, so that in three years' time, they will all be worth millions of taels, or even tens of millions of taels.When the time comes and their homes are ransacked, tens of millions of taels or even hundreds of millions of taels of silver can be obtained for nothing.In this case, can Emperor Jiajing still be able to convince himself not to sell his dogs?
With this in mind, Wang Daoqiu tried his best to encourage Emperor Jiajing to offer benefits to the nobles, making him seem like old friends with the nobles.This made Emperor Jiajing a little confused, but later Wang Daoqiu assured him that after the industrial zone was opened, no matter how much the nobles earned a year, he would earn at least 100 million taels a year.Only then did Emperor Jiajing reluctantly agree and let Wang Daoqiu discuss this matter with the nobles.

The duo of money-making monarchs and ministers negotiated, and Emperor Jiajing flicked his wide sleeves, stood up and said to the nobles with a happy face: "My dear friends, I still have some state affairs to deal with. Next, my servant Wang Daoqiu will take my place. Entertain your lords!"

"The minister waits to send the emperor respectfully"

Hearing that Emperor Jiajing was leaving, the nobles also got up and saw him off respectfully.

After Emperor Jiajing left, all the distinguished officials looked at Wang Daoqiu.Everyone is a social person, so they naturally understand the meaning of Emperor Jiajing leaving on his own, but leaving Wang Daoqiu to represent him and entertain them here.So as soon as Emperor Jiajing left, all the ministers looked at Wang Daoqiu, waiting for Wang Daoqiu to give them a charter.

Watching Emperor Jiajing go away, facing the blazing eyes of all the nobles, Wang Daoqiu suppressed his inner disgust for this bunch of rubbish, and said in a harmless tone: "You nobles, if you are honest, I will not be dismissed." Having said more, I believe you all understand His Majesty’s intention of leaving the official here. Okay, all of you nobles are happy people, not civil servants who like to talk in roundabout ways. Then I will make it clear to you."

"Okay, let's make it clear! Wang Shizhong's young genius, Liuyuan Jidi, Tingbian can make Xia Yan, the former God of War of the Ming Dynasty, speechless. To be honest, those of us who play knives are probably tied together if we talk about it." Son, it's not your opponent, Wang Shizhong. Make it clear, make it clear, then Wang Shizhong, please tell us rough people about this matter, what kind of rules does the emperor have!"

Seeing that Wang Daoqiu had spoken, Zhu Xizhong, the representative of the nobles, hurried up to answer the conversation.When Wang Daoqiu faced the inquiry of Duke Cheng of the Ming Dynasty and the crowd of distinguished nobles of the Ming Dynasty who gathered around him, he did not show any stage fright. He stood there and saluted Zhu Xizhong first.Then he said: "Mr. Cheng Guo, distinguished ladies. Just now, your Majesty proposed to purchase your land by the Tongzhou Canal and Tonghui River at three times the price. All the distinguished ladies rejected it. I don't think you want to sell those lands, no." Maybe it’s because of keeping the few rents from the tenants, but wanting to take the land as a share!”

"Happy, happy, Wang Shizhong is happy. Come on, Wang Shizhong, just because of your happy spirit and not the sour smell of those civil servants, I, Zhu Xizhong, have made you my friend. Well, Brother Wang Xian, since we are all from now on Friends, can you tell me clearly, my dear brother, whether the Emperor is willing to allow us, the noble ministers, to participate in the shares?"

This Zhu Xizhong, a dignified Duke of the Ming Dynasty, was old enough to be Wang Daoqiu's father. For the sake of a small amount of money, he directly lowered his status and became brothers with Wang Daoqiu.This is really shameless.

Regardless of Zhu Xizhong's shamelessness, Wang Daoqiu still pretended to be kind and said: "Mr. Cheng, even a young man like me can see what you mean. So with your majesty's intelligence, naturally he will not disagree. The reason. Since His Majesty has seen what you all mean, if he does not agree to your participation in the shares, he will not leave the official here to discuss this matter with you nobles."

"Hahahaha, your majesty is wise." "Yes, yes, your majesty is the lord of glory!"

"Your Majesty treats us and other honorable ministers so kindly, and I, the Duke of Dingguo, will always follow your Majesty."

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Upon hearing that Emperor Jiajing agreed to their participation in the stock market and was willing to help them get rid of poverty and become prosperous, the nobles of the Ming Dynasty were happy, and they all bowed and flattered them in the direction where Emperor Jiajing left just now.

After a period of flattery and loyalty, the nobles asked Wang Daoqiu one after another, how should the shares be divided?Naturally, everyone was active on the core issue of classifying dirty things. The place was very noisy for a while, and it was impossible to hear clearly who said what.In the end, Zhu Xizhong, the leader of the nobles, came out to stop all the nobles from entangled with Wang Daoqiu.

When order was restored to the scene, no one was chattering.Zhu Xizhong asked Wang Daoqiu: "Brother Wang Xian, what does your Majesty mean, how should the shares be divided?"

"Oh, Mr. Cheng Guo, regarding the shares, what Your Majesty means is this. The palace will hold 100% of the shares, and the remaining [-]% will be divided among the nobles, according to the amount of land and money. And His Majesty is considerate of all the nobles, I am willing to put up [-] million taels of silver as the start-up capital for the industrial zone project."

"Okay, Wang Xiandi, I understand what you said, brother. Since the emperor's share distribution is fair, he is willing to take out 100 million taels of silver first. Then when we go back, we will let the tenants shovel all the crops and recruit homeless people immediately. , organize craftsmen to start building industrial zones.”

"Yes, yes, yes, Mad, those rents are only a few copper coins! Laozhi has more than 3000 acres of land in Tongzhou, and in good years he only collects more than 200 taels of rent in a good year. Catching up with floods and droughts, the imperial court The purpose is to provide disaster relief, but Laozhi can’t even collect a single rent, and he still has to spend money to relieve the tenants. Do you think this is unfair to Laozhi?”

"There's nothing you can do about it. Nothing can be hidden under the emperor's feet. If you dare to charge more rent from tenants, or if you dare not help tenants in times of disaster, you will be buried under the impeachment memorial of the official censor."

"It's true, it's true. It's really not profitable to rent this land to tenants to grow crops. It's far from building houses and renting it to merchants to open workshops."

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Wang Daoqiu clarified the core issue of viscera division, and said that Emperor Jiajing was willing to provide 100 million taels of start-up capital.These nobles immediately waved their hands and yelled like chicken blood, and they wanted to go back and shovel the crops to build an industrial zone.

The nobles were high-spirited and energetic, and wanted to destroy crops and build factories. This frightened Wang Daoqiu. He pressed his hands in the air while shouting loudly: "Nobles, nobles, please be quiet. Please be quiet, please listen to the officer, please listen to the officer..."

"Okay, okay, all of you, stop yelling and listen to Brother Wang Xian finish what he has to say."

Wang Daoqiu asked everyone to be quiet, indicating that he had something to say.The boss of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Xizhong, hurriedly came out to help suppress the scene.

After the scene became quiet again, Wang Daoqiu said with a bitter face: "Everyone, you can't shovel the crops now! This will be impeached by the official censor. Let's wait until the autumn harvest is over!"

"Hahahaha, brother Wang Xian, I saw you so nervous just now. Brother, I thought you had something important to say! It turns out that's what you are doing! Hahahaha, brother Xian, you are worrying too much. We are honorable nobles. , we don’t have to pay taxes on our land, so what? And if we build an industrial zone and a textile factory on our land now, the court will charge one yen and five taxes per piece of cotton for the commercial tax. It's silver. Let's assume that our industrial zone can weave 1000 million pieces of cotton cloth a year. Then the court can collect taxes of 150 million taels of silver a year. From not having a penny to an annual income of 150 million taels, they snickered. It’s too late, what the hell are you still impeaching? What’s more, most of the officials and censors in the imperial court are still in jail because of the violence they committed against you, my dear brother, a few days ago! So, my dear brother, you can do nothing about this. Don’t worry, we can just leave these things to you.”

"That's right, that's right. I don't need Wang Shizhong to worry about this matter. We will do it ourselves."

"It's very, very good. He can make millions of taels of silver a year, and he has the support of the emperor. Not to mention shoveling crops, I even dare to shovel the houses of those officials and censors."

"It's just that, for the sake of a million taels of silver every year, those censors are nothing. Even if they are not aware of it, secretly finding a few people in the world and killing a few officials and censors is just like playing. ?"

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Under the temptation of earning millions a year, this group of distinguished nobles who were originally second generation ancestors did not care about anything at all.In this atmosphere, Wang Daoqiu knew that his original plan was to order them to build roads first and then build factories after the autumn harvest. These nobles would not listen at all.

So with a sigh, Wang Daoqiu had no choice but to tell the nobles that the project should employ as many tenants as possible and not leave them without food and clothing.At the same time, first level the land and prepare materials. After a few days, he will recover. After going to Tongzhou for field investigation and drawing the planning map, everyone will build according to the plan.

(End of this chapter)