Jiajing Chengming

Because the emperor loved the people, Zhu Houcong brought a large number of refugees with him when he went to Beijing this time.

However, when Zhu Houcong was on his way to Beijing, his escort officers and soldiers discovered that there were many anonymous posters posted on the stone walls and trees along the official road.

"Natural disasters continue, all because of treacherous officials in power. We should dismiss Zhang Fujing and Gui E, and then the heavens will not warn us!"

The contents of these notices were surprisingly consistent, all of them using natural disasters to intimidate Zhu Houcong and asking him not to use reformists such as Zhang Cong and Gui E.

According to the ideas of these wealthy and luxurious families, if Zhu Houcong had a little respect for God's will, he should have seriously considered employing Zhang Cong, Gui E and others.

Of course, Zhu Houcong also understood that these wealthy and luxurious families were also using God's will to demonstrate to him that they still could not tolerate the attitudes of Zhang Cong, Gui E and others.

If Dayou continued to use people like Zhang Cong and Gui E, they would take advantage of natural disasters to continue causing man-made disasters.

In Zhu Houcong's view, this was due to the fact that the court's ability to handle civil movements was not strong enough.

The wealthy and luxurious still have absolute power at the grassroots level, and their ability to undermine grassroots construction and disrupt grassroots order is as strong as their ability to assist grassroots construction and maintain grassroots order.

This is what gives them such confidence.

If there were more of their own people among the people, or more conscious and educated people, it would not be so easy for these wealthy and luxurious people to post anonymous notices everywhere, incite the people and challenge the imperial power.

"Your Majesty, I resign!"

Zhang Cong, wearing the imperial cloak, also saw the contents of the notices and submitted a self-accusing memorial to Zhu Houcong requesting dismissal from office.

He also didn't know whether the emperor would be moved by this.

Therefore, he had to take the initiative to resign to show his appreciation.

After all, this involves the safety of the entire country and the safety of many ordinary people.

Zhu Houcong crossed out Zhang Cong's memorial of self-accusation and request for dismissal from office.

"Everyone is guilty, but I am the one to blame."

"If God really wants to warn me, he should warn me directly, instead of making the people suffer at the cost."

"I will not be intimidated by their tricks, nor will I really give up supporting you in clearing the land."

Zhu Houcong said, "Bring Yang Yiqing here!"

Soon, Yang Yiqing, dressed in prison clothes, was brought before the emperor.

Zhu Houcong asked Yang Yiqing: "Do these exposés have anything to do with you?"

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Zhu Houcong then asked someone to give the anonymous post to Yang Yiqing.

After Yang Yiqing read these notices, his eyes widened and he kowtowed:

"Your Majesty, please forgive me! Even if I cannot tolerate Lord Zhang, I will not resort to such means of intimidation and deceiving you!"

"Besides, I have been assisting Your Majesty for so many years, and I have long known that Your Majesty is a strong and iron-fisted emperor who cannot be deprived of his will. Naturally, I know that such means will not scare Your Majesty at all. Instead, it will only make Your Majesty more determined to fight him and punish his arrogance."

"So, I will never do that!"

"You really do know me well."

"These can't scare me."

"But if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have decided to survey the land now."

Zhu Houcong started laughing when he said this.

Yang Yiqing bowed his head hurriedly: "I am guilty. I have made Your Majesty mistakenly believe that everyone in the world is like me. No matter how despicable and shameless I am, I still dare not act in a rebellious manner!"

"Okay!"

"I don't blame you. To put it bluntly, it's because I didn't blame you too much because I had people like you and Fei Hong who were relatively sensible."

"Now I just need to know that it's not you."

Zhu Houcong smiled and waved his hand.

Yang Yiqing kowtowed with tears in his eyes: "Your Majesty is wise!"

Zhu Houcong ordered: "Take Yang Yiqing away first!"

"Yes!"

"I'm leaving now!"

After Yang Yiqing was taken away, Zhu Houcong continued to say to Zhang Cong: "The more they threaten me not to use you, the more they prove how afraid they are of you and how much they are afraid that I will support you in thoroughly surveying the land in the world."

Zhu Houcong gritted his teeth when he said this: "And I want to do what they fear the most!"

"Send an order to allocate 100 Jinyi Guards, both visible and invisible, to protect Minister Zhang Fujing on a daily basis!"

Zhu Houcong suddenly gave Huang Jin an order, and Huang Jin nodded in agreement.

Zhang Cong also hurriedly expressed his gratitude.

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The annexation of land is still the main way for wealthy families to expand their family income.

If the imperial court really wanted to thoroughly survey all the land in the world, it would be hitting their biggest weakness.

Otherwise, in history, Zhang Juzheng, who surveyed all the land in the world, would not have been so hated by the wealthy and powerful people in the world.

Lu San, a commoner, followed the call of Yan Song, the former governor of Henan, and reclaimed more than 50 mu of terraced fields in the mountainous area of ​​Dengfeng, Henan Prefecture. A powerful slave brought the officials of Dengfeng County here and found Lu San and said:
"This is our Dai family's land. If you want to cultivate it, you must sign a lease agreement! Since you are from the same hometown, I will charge you 70% of the rent!"

Lu San was very surprised after hearing this: "Oh my God, this is the order issued by the former inspector, Mr. Guo, saying that this is an unowned wasteland and authorizing us to reclaim it. How did it become your Dai family's land?"

"The official has issued a certificate of the county government's household registration as evidence. Do you still want to seize it by force?"

The slave asked with a sneer.

Lu San's face was full of anger: "You are the ones who are occupying by force!"

"You still dare to quibble? Lock him up!"

At this time, the constable brought by the slave shouted, and together with several of his accomplices, they locked up Lu San.

"You are going too far!"

Coincidentally, at this time, the brothers Gao Jie and Gao Gong, who were preparing to go to Henan Prefecture to meet the emperor, saw this scene.

These two brothers have always had quick tempers, especially Gao Gong.

So, Gao Gong stood up and scolded him at this time.

The Dai family slave couldn't help but frown and asked the two people: "Who are you? Do you want to meddle in the affairs of our Dai family?"

"They are descendants of the Gao family. Their father is now serving as a military officer in Shaanxi."

The constable replied to the Dai family's slave.

After hearing this, the Dai family slave could no longer act recklessly, and could only gently remind Gao Jie and Gao Gong: "My two lords, as the saying goes, well water does not interfere with river water. Please do not ask too much about our Dai family's affairs!"

"Please help me, gentlemen. I was ordered by the inspector to reclaim the wasteland here, but they wanted to seize it after I finished the reclamation, saying it belonged to the Dai family."

Seeing this, Lu San also started crying.

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The constable slapped Lu San in the face and then scolded him: "It's clearly written in black and white that it belongs to the Dai family. What are you talking about here? Get out of here!"

So the constables took Lu San away.

Gao Jie and Gao Gong were so angry when they saw this, but they couldn't stop it by force.

After all, they are just students and have no right to directly interfere with public affairs.

However, Gao Jie and Gao Gong had already planned to directly block the road and file a complaint to the emperor to expose the matter.

The incidents of wealthy and luxurious families encroaching on government farmland have occurred frequently in Dengfeng and Xinzheng recently.

However, a good policy originally implemented by the former Imperial Censor Guo Honghua turned out to be an opportunity for wealthy and luxurious people to expand their property.

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"Who stopped me to complain?"

When Zhu Houcong heard someone stopping his carriage to complain along the way, he asked about Huang Jin.

Huang Jin replied: "I heard that they were two students."

"Student?"

After hearing this, Zhu Houcong could not help but recall the incident during the Qianlong period when a scholar stopped the emperor's carriage during his southern tour and gave him advice. As a result, Qianlong confiscated the entire family's property on the grounds that the local scholar had interfered in state affairs.

Therefore, Zhu Houcong also thought for a while that there might be some so-called local celebrities who were willing to sacrifice their lives and felt that letting people post anonymous notices to express their political demands was not enough, so they wanted to directly interfere in the government.

"Yes, they are two brothers, one is called Gao Jie and the other is called Gao Gong. Their father is Gao Yongxian, the deputy governor of Shaanxi."

Huang Jin replied.

High arch?

Zhu Houcong was slightly stunned. (End of this chapter)