Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 217 The Great Purge

Zhu Youxiao was born in a petty bourgeoisie family in his previous life, with a wealthy family and a high level of education, so he was not very angry about social issues. The three views conformed to the mainstream, and he could maintain a basic job even when the relationship between doctors and patients became more and more tense. Literacy and integrity, and he is essentially an intellectual class.

Therefore, he did not want to kill these forces that represent resistance to development and reform and are also leaders of Ming culture. From the bottom of his heart, Zhu Youxiao is very willing to coexist peacefully with them, and therefore, he From the very beginning, it was as possible to reach a compromise with these vested interests through peaceful means.

But when he became the emperor now, he found that his thoughts were a little naive. Sometimes the butcher knife was his only choice, and the law and tolerance were going away from him. Zhu Youxiao didn't know how many people he would kill or purge in the future.

In the face of absolute military strength, it took only a moment for the Kong family to be eradicated, but people always naively thought that such a situation would not happen, so Kong Yinzhi chose to fight, which forced Zhu Youxiao to choose Bloody purge.

After Yanshenggong's mansion was destroyed, the water in the entire Qufu city was always red.

The formerly prosperous Confucian Mansion suddenly became desolate and desolate, and those arrogant slaves of the Confucian Mansion no longer haunted the streets and alleys.

Of course, it is impossible for the common people in Qufu City to see the respected Duke Kong Yan in their eyes again.

However, no one questioned the imperial guards guarding outside the Confucian mansion because of this, and the students in the county were also ordered to stay in Xiangxue.

Ordinary people, including the tenant farmers of the Confucian family, did not have any sympathy for the Confucian family. Although His Majesty's butcher knife killed many people in front of them, for them, it has nothing to do with them. It is difficult for people to speculate on the ruling class Internal conflicts and struggles are often not even cared about, and they are at most speculative after dinner.

Because it has nothing to do with them.

Kong Wenshi came to Zhu Youxiao, and he already knew about the execution of the Kong family.

But at this moment, Kong Wenshi didn't feel the slightest bit of pity or regret in his heart, on the contrary, a sense of joy rose in his heart unconsciously.

A joy that had been suppressed by him for decades, because of the shackles of the clan and etiquette, he was relieved of Yan Shenggong's oppression of the concubine's children for many years, and from now on, he no longer had to carry a clan behind his back Dashan, and for some family, he had to bear the responsibility of crimes that he did not commit.

However, he seems to have no time to enjoy a free life.

Kong Wenshi felt a sense of gratitude to the emperor who was still lying on the spring bench in front of him, leaning on the red emerald green beside him, like a rich and noble son, and bowed reverently to Zhu Youxiao: "Sin Min Kong heard the poem and met His Majesty."

"Do you know why I promised to see you?"

Zhu Youxiao looked at Kong Wenshi, who had been aged for ten years in a trance, and asked, looking at the broken skirt in front of him.

Kong Wenshi replied: "The criminals are stupid, please make it clear, Your Majesty."

"Based on your perjury for Kong Yinzhi, I can't forgive you for deceiving the emperor, but I heard from Wang Chengen that you want to testify again to expose Kong Yinzhi's crimes, so I summoned you. The rebellion of Kong Yinzhi has been exposed, but the case of mutilating a young girl has not yet been closed, and you are still needed as a witness. Spread the world; if you disobey one of these two things, your wife and children will suffer the same fate as you. If you do what I am satisfied with, I will spare you Ling Chi and give you a whole body to die. I will also have someone to take care of your wife and children."

When Zhu Youxiao said this, Kong Wenshi couldn't help tearing up his eyes, and knelt down excitedly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, Long En, please rest assured, Your Majesty, I know what to do."

"Get up", frankly speaking, Zhu Youxiao doesn't hate this somewhat stubborn Kong Wenshi now, and even admires him for being able to let go of his personal grievances against Kong Yinzhi and give false testimony for him. It shows that Kong Wenshi is a broad-minded person, and such a person can become an important minister if he makes good use of it.

But it is a pity that Kong Wenshi is indeed guilty of deceiving the emperor. Zhu Youxiao must kill him, and he is also a descendant of the Northern School of Confucius. The door exists, and as long as it exists, the scholars and people in Shandong will still turn to them.

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The task of arresting other Northern Confucians and Confucian local officials was entrusted to Shandong governor Yuan Keli and his governor Biaoying.

Although Yuan Keli's Governor's Standard Battalion was not as powerful as the imperial guards, they were also from the frontier army who had fought against the Tartars in the Denglai area. Therefore, it was possible to pack up a few officials in the interior and deter the guards. The number of people was not large, so Zhu Youxiao transferred two guards. Zhu Youxiao was not sure whether the Kong Department had placed his own people among the military officers in Shandong, but from the incident of Qin Botong beheading the patrol censor Zhang Dongen Judging from it, Zhu Youxiao is very glad that he let the imperial guards dispatch.

Otherwise, maybe he, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, would really fall into the hands of Kong Yinzhi, and Kong Yinzhi might really be able to survive from the dead.

The imperial guards were ordered to control the major government offices and Confucian officials and gentry, but they did not arrest or try them. After all, the imperial guards were mainly responsible for external military operations, and internal suppression was only an auxiliary function. Moreover, this kind of brush The matter of political prestige is better left to the governor Yuan Keli.

After all, the next thing Yuan Keli has to do is to promote the integration of officials and gentry, and Zhu Youxiao wants to let the officials and gentry in Shandong know how powerful Governor Yuan Keli is.

The officers and soldiers of the Governor's Biao Battalion rushed into the room of the left chief envoy Gu Tingzhuo in one order.

Shandong Dongcheng announced that the chief envoy was originally in Jinan Prefecture, but Gu Tingzhuo, the chief envoy of the left, also brought a group of close officials of his chief envoy to Yanzhou on the grounds that His Majesty came to Qufu. He lives in Luo Maojin's magistrate's yamen.

Gu Tingzhuo and Luo Maojin were sitting in the gazebo drinking tea and playing chess. Yansheng Gong Kong Yinzhi escaped Yuan Keli's interrogation, and they were relieved that Kong Wenshi was the one who was blamed. After all, once Kong Yinzhi was convicted and ransacked his home, they These two cannot escape the relationship.

But the two of them didn't dare to meet Zhu Youxiao again, so they hid in the Yanzhou mansion, gave Zhu Youxiao a confession memorial, and never dared to come to Qufu City again.

However, the two never expected that when they thought that the weather would be calm and His Majesty would go to the south of the Yangtze River in disappointment, suddenly a large group of imperial guards broke into Yanzhou City, and the defenders of Yanzhou City did not dare to act. The resistance immediately opened the city and let the imperial guards in. As soon as the imperial guards came, they surrounded the magistrate's yamen.

Until now, when the officers and soldiers of the Governor's Biao Battalion came, Gu Tingzhuo and Luo Maojin had already been hungry for two days and two nights.

"According to His Majesty's will, Gu Tingzhuo, the Zuo Buzheng, and Luo Maojin, the prefect, colluded with Kong Yinzhi to plot a rebellion. They will be dismissed immediately and arrested by the governor pending trial!"

(End of this chapter)