I, the Ming Dynasty, can still save me

Chapter 666: Clan rebellion
After hearing this, Translator Li was slightly startled, secretly saying that the rumors he heard were indeed correct.

Now the Emperor of Ming Dynasty is vigorously carrying out reforms. I heard that among the six departments in Beijing, the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Industry have all been changed.

Originally this was nothing.But now there are rumors that the emperor intends to abolish the Six Ministries of Nanjing, and even abolish Nanjing's status as the capital. It is even rumored that the emperor's final purpose is to divide Nanzhili into multiple chief secretaries.

Originally, Translator Li was not interested in this, but after they landed in Shanghai County, people kept discussing this matter along the way, and they understood it even if they didn't want to know.

But at this point, they had no choice but to follow the officials from the Ministry of Rites to live in the Siyi Pavilion, and then patiently waited for Yuan Keli's summons.

And taking advantage of this opportunity, they were finally able to stop, take a good rest in Nanjing, and enjoy the most beautiful and beautiful capital city in the world.

But compared to others who wanted to visit Nanjing, Desheng, the Dutch East India Company envoy, was most concerned about vaccination against cowpox.To him, this was a complete surprise.

But if what the Ming Dynasty officials said is true, then this technology may be promoted in Europe, which will not only save tens of millions of Europeans, but also bring huge profits to the Dutch East India Company.

So the next day he asked Li Translator to take him to the doctor's hall in the outer city of Nanjing to check the status of cowpox vaccination.

But they didn't know it when he went there, and it really shocked them.

Because it was not only them who were interested, it could be said that as soon as the notice from the imperial court came out, all the families with children in Nanjing rushed to the doctor's hall to have their children vaccinated with cowpox.

So many people instantly exceeded the carrying capacity of the doctor's hall, causing traffic and traffic around the doctor's hall.The cries of children and the scoldings of the little officials who maintained order could be heard all the time.

That's not all. With the obvious effects of the first wave of cowpox vaccination, word of mouth spread that the imperial court had a way to prevent smallpox. It soon spread in Nanzhili and surrounding prefectures and counties, leading to people coming to the doctor's hall. More and more people are getting vaccinated.

In the end, Ying Tianfu Yamen sent special personnel to maintain order, and stepped up efforts to ask surrounding prefectures and counties to send doctors to study and help. Later, doctors' halls were opened in each prefecture and county to be responsible for vaccination.But even so, there is still an endless stream of people coming to South Zhili for vaccination.

So when Desheng, Li Translator and others came over to take a look, they found that there was still a huge crowd of people. Under the order maintained by the government office, there were dozens of queues all the way to the back, with no end in sight.There were only a few family members gathered on both sides of the team, making the whole scene very noisy and chaotic, but orderly.

Seeing such a scene, Desheng was immediately interested in learning about cowpox. Instead of learning how to prevent smallpox here, it would be faster to make a request to the governor or emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

So the two wanted to leave, but before they could walk a few steps, Desheng discovered a large temple next to the doctor's hall.

What makes him even more strange is that people who have been vaccinated from the doctor's hall will go to this temple to kneel and worship inside, and those who are able will even burn a stick of incense.

Before Desheng came, he had heard that the Ming Dynasty believed in many gods, and would also deliberately choose those who were useful to them to believe in.Thinking of this, he became interested, and took Li Translator with him to find out and see which god was still in charge of curing smallpox.

Seeing Desheng like this, Translator Li had no choice but to go in and take a look.

But when he saw it, he was really shocked. What was enshrined in this big temple was not a god or a bodhisattva, but an immortal tablet, and the name on the tablet was not someone else's, but the name of the current emperor.

He hurriedly asked and found out that the people who had been vaccinated against cowpox, in order to thank the emperor, felt that it was a supreme merit that he could find a secret recipe to prevent smallpox and protect the people from the suffering of smallpox, so they spontaneously set up a memorial tablet for the emperor.

After the Southern Zhili government knew about it, they felt that it was understandable and strongly supported it, so they built a temple and a doctor's hall next to it.From now on, every time people are vaccinated, they can spontaneously pray to the emperor, which can be regarded as gratitude to the emperor.

Moreover, according to Li's translator's inquiries, many people said that Nanzhili was very restrained and only set up a memorial tablet for immortality.

After the other chief ministers discovered that cowpox could indeed prevent smallpox, they called the emperor the reincarnation of Buddha. This time, he wanted to save the suffering and revive the Ming Dynasty.

Combined with the emperor's various measures after he ascended the throne, many people believed it to be true and built temples and built Buddha statues for the emperor.This can't help but make it difficult for the government to handle it, and they don't know what to do.

This not only surprised Li Translator, but also stunned Desheng, the special envoy of the Dutch East India Company.Isn't this acknowledging that the Ming Emperor is their living saint?And this was not canonized by the emperor, but recommended by the people spontaneously.This made him even more curious about the Ming Emperor, and he wanted to rush to Beijing to meet this "living saint" emperor.

After the plan to explore cowpox was shattered, Desheng and others continued to wander around Nanjing.The more they walked around, the more prosperous the city became, with all kinds of goods from the Ming Dynasty gathered here.The price was several times lower than the price in Europe, which made everyone in the mission see the business opportunities.They all started purchasing mode, eager to transport their purchases to Batavia immediately, so as to make a huge profit.

After nearly half a month like this, the Ministry of Rites finally sent news that the Governor-General of South Zhili was going to receive the Dutch East India Company mission and asked them to go to the Governor-General's Palace of South Zhili immediately.

Desheng and others heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this. After waiting for half a month, they finally got the news, so they immediately packed up and rushed to the Nanzhili Governor's Mansion.

In the current Governor's Mansion of South Zhili, Yuan Keli, Governor of South Zhili, is discussing matters with Qiu Weizhen, Shangshu of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, Guo Guangzhan, Yin of Yingtian Prefecture, Li Dan, counselor of the South Zhili Navy, and others.

"Zhu Ruimiao, a member of the Qi clan, and Chen Ding, a member of the Jiangyin County of Changzhou, secretly conspired to rebel and commit rebellion. The crime cannot be pardoned. I have already explained this matter to the emperor. However, their accomplices must still be circulating among the people. The Ministry of War wants to cooperate with them. Ying Tianfu cooperates and arrests all suspicious persons. No one can be let go.

In addition, other members of the common people in Qi usually idle around, using their status as clan members to contradict the officials and act unscrupulously.He actually wanted to rebel this time, which was really treasonous.Ying Tianfu sent someone to keep an eye on me. If they find anything unusual, you don't have to be polite. "

"Please rest assured, Mr. Governor, Zhu Ruiyao and his son are treasonous and want to commit treason as members of the clan. After the incident, people from humble positions have been keeping an eye on it for a long time, but the Qi Shuren lineage and others also know that this matter is of great importance, so It’s also calmed down a lot.”

Seeing Yuan Keli speak, Yingtian Mansion Yin Guo Guangzhan immediately stood up and accepted his words.

He is also overwhelmed now. He was already so busy promoting new crops, building water conservancy projects, making preparations, and promoting cowpox that he was dizzy.Now there was another major case of clan rebellion. Although he had already prepared for this and secretly arranged to capture the culprit, it still frightened him.

Yuan Keli, the governor of Southern Zhili, nodded slightly when he saw this assurance. He never expected that not long after he took office, a major case of clan rebellion would occur in Southern Zhili. It really brought him a big "surprise" .

And when he got to know the mastermind, he suddenly felt that no matter what this lineage did, he would not be surprised, because the Qi people were really guilty and committed many crimes.The Nanjing officialdom also deeply hated the Qi people. Now that they saw that they were rebelling, there was an endless stream of people writing impeachment petitions.

It turns out that the ancestor of Zhu Ruiyao, the mastermind this time, is Zhu Su, the king of Qi.After she was granted the title of Queen of Qi by Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, she committed many evil deeds and harmed one party.Killing people wantonly in the fiefdom.Including magistrates, commanders, thousands of households, palace officials, scholars, military households, etc., nearly five hundred people died at his hands.

But even so, Taizu couldn't bear to depose him. In the end, Emperor Jianwen came to the throne and deposed King Qi to a commoner.

Subsequently, during the Battle of Jingnan, Chengzu restored his title to the king for a time after he ascended the throne, but Qi King Zhu Su still refused to change his ways, which made Chengzu intolerable, and finally demoted King Qi to a commoner.Later, the descendants of King Qi were arranged to live in Nanjing during the Jingtai period and became the "Qi common people", enjoying the preferential treatment of "having common people's food but no title".This means that the descendants of King Qi can continue to receive a salary, but they will not be granted a title.

In this way, the common people of Qi have no worries about food and clothing, but there are a bunch of young masters who are doing nothing every day, and their numbers are increasing day by day.And because of his clan status, the entire Shuntian Mansion had no choice but to turn a blind eye.

But seeing this, they became even worse and worse.Even in the 45th year of Wanli, a disturbance occurred that shocked the government and the public.

Zhu Ruixuan, a common man in Qi, and others went crazy under the influence of alcohol. They led hundreds of slaves to beat and insult Zhang Sanjie, the head of the household department. They pulled out his hair and beard, destroyed his crown and clothes, beat him repeatedly, and humiliated him several times.There were thousands of onlookers at that time, but because of their clan status, they did not dare to come forward to rescue him.

Therefore, the entire Shuntian Mansion officials hated the Qi people and tried to make things difficult for the Qi people, but they could not touch the root cause.

But now it's really just a pillow for sleep, and Qi clan Zhu Ruiyao is plotting a rebellion.After he married Chen Ding, a student in Jiangyin County, Changzhou, he became dissatisfied with the court's injustice to the Qi common people.

He planned to rebel in Nanjing with the title of "Miao Yi of King Qi". He first contacted Hu Wu, a thief with more than a hundred men in Nanjing, and asked him to go to Changzhou to join Chen Ding.Hu Wu was also very naive. Not only did he believe it, he also personally robbed Zhu Ruiyao's house to raise funds, and sent the stolen money to Chen Ding four times.

And just in July this year, Chen Ding was discovered and arrested by Changzhou Prefecture because he was too aggressive in befriending gangsters.Zhu Ruiqiao then planned to ask Hu Wu to transport weapons to Changzhou to cause rebellion.The plan was to lead more than 200 gangsters to break into the Changzhou Prefecture Prison, fish out Chen Dingjie, and then start an uprising on the spot and invade Nanjing.

However, all the plans had been known to Ying Tianfu for a long time. Zhu Ruiqiao's conspiracy failed and he was forced to flee and was eventually arrested in Zhenjiang.

(End of this chapter)