Wanli Youming

Chapter 427

Chapter 427

After hearing this, Zhang Jing nodded in agreement.

Because in order to mingle with the scholar-bureaucrats in the southern capital, he also bought usury IOUs worth 3 taels of silver from these scholar-bureaucrats, and now they are all in his hands.

Zhang Jing can imagine that even he, an idle eunuch who is not in the inner circle, can get a usury loan of 3 taels of silver at the beginning when the loan shark is more fragrant than gold in later generations.

It can be seen how much money the entire bureaucratic class in Nandu has invested in it, and how much money they are planning to seize from the common people across the country by taking advantage of the Qing army's hooking up the army.

But now, the problem is that Zhu Yijun's ruling class guessed their intentions, and forced them to brake with the order of strictly prohibiting the Qing army from hooking up the army.

Even, the imperial court did not hesitate to rectify Jinyiwei, let Jinyiwei arrest many people, and killed many bureaucrats to stop it, which led to all the early investment of these bureaucratic gentry in the southern capital.

Especially those who hold a large number of usury IOUs like Zhang Jing.

of course.

Zhang Jing himself didn't care, because he was ordered to spend money to get close to the scholar-bureaucrats, so it was considered a loss of the emperor's money.

Just to let the scholar-bureaucrat think of him as one of his own, he still had to pretend that he didn't know his real purpose, so he went to find Qiao Yinfu on this day with a dejected look on his face:

"Isn't it possible to make money from the beginning of the rectification of military affairs? But now, no one has come to write off the accounts to me, and a bunch of usury IOUs have been thrown into our hands!"

"Elder-in-law, it's not our fault, it's Qi Penglai who is too cunning!"

"Nowadays, it's better to just take the IOU and go to the debtor to pay back the money, or maybe you can get some money back. Unlike us who are already in debt, we have to eat extra money to pay back the debt."

"Since we haven't seen any ships coming south, we have had to drive our slaves out of the house to save money!"

Yang Yingkui complained helplessly to Zhang Jing, and Zhang Jing also pretended to have a helpless smile and said: "How do you ask me to go to them to pay back the money! I can afford to offend the one who borrowed these loan sharks? Besides, this is illegal. IOUs for interest cannot be seen!"

Zhang Jing lowered his face and said intentionally: "However, you are right. If you want to blame, you can blame him. Qi Penglai is really not a thing. If you don't talk about rectifying military affairs, you won't make life easier for the world! Such cruel officials Traitor, why didn't God kill him with lightning!"

"It's useless to say these things. Now the imperial court encourages people to sue officials and has set up an informant system. There are special Jinyiwei in each post station who are responsible for sending informants to Beijing."

"In this way, not to mention that the Qing army can't do anything about the Qing army's hooking up the army, I'm afraid that even the usual gatherings will have to be more careful."

"Everyone in the world will be in danger!"

Yang Yingkui sighed as he spoke, and slammed his fist on the table, saying: "In this way, you supervise me, and I supervise him. Everyone has to be afraid, so everyone will be suspicious." !"

Zhang Jing nodded.

This is indeed the case. After Zhu Yijun ordered the establishment of an informant system for the convenience of the common people, it really made the bureaucrats and gentry all over the world very disturbed.

They are not worried about the people reporting them, because the people rarely know their details, as long as they don't directly bully the people, the people will basically not report them.

What they are worried about is that among their colleagues, in order to improve their own fame and status, they are willing to expose the problems of their political opponents in the name of the common people to help themselves to a higher level.

However, although the bureaucratic gentry feel uneasy because of the informant system, there will still be bureaucratic gentry who can't control it and want to do evil.

Because Lu Shude didn't want to pay a high price to buy a young girl as a concubine, but wanted to have a good night and enjoy the blessing of a pear tree crushing a begonia, he did what Cao Cao did, raped his wife of a young clansman, and forced her into the house , and threatened that if the tribe dared to report, he would be expelled from the tribe, forcing the young tribe Lu Heyou to accept the reality, and at the same time promised him [-] acres of land.

But Lu Heyou was not willing to suffer this humiliation, and his wife was also very chaste, so he directly chose to hang himself, and at the suggestion of Zuo Shaoqing Hua Cheng, a political opponent in Nanjing Taichang Temple who was also dissatisfied with Lu Shude, he entrusted overseas Chinese businessmen with a lot of money to invest in foreign post stations. The first case was to sue Lu Shude for incest and rape.

Although Lu Shude advocated Confucianism and hoped that people in the world would "eliminate human desires and preserve the principles of nature", but like many scholar-bureaucrats, when their own desires ignited, it was difficult to control them, especially in the clan, and he thought he was the elder of the clan. The people of the clan live on their own, so they completely forget the sage's etiquette and the emperor's guidelines for the country's laws, and even because they suppress their inner desires too hard to show the image of a moral gentleman on the outside, in front of the clansmen with absolute status, they compare It's not as good as a beast.

However, what Lu Shude obviously forgot is that there are really people in this world who are unwilling to be wronged.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun found out about this through a secret report, and immediately ordered Lu Shude to be dismissed from his post and locked up in Beijing.

"The former Guangxi You Buzheng Hu Zan colluded with bandits and slaughtered 56 households in a village, and colluded with subordinate officials to seize 24 mu of land."

"Qi Fengchang, the former Shanxi Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, became an official and returned to his hometown. After returning to his hometown, he killed his son with a stick, because he was afraid of leaking the ashes."

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Zhu Yijun knew a lot of bureaucratic scandals and bad things like Lu Shude through the whistleblower boxes of the major post stations, so that Shen Shixing reported two more cases to Zhu Yijun that day.

Zhu Yijun shook his head after hearing this: "They all say that government is based on virtue, but according to this situation, I'm afraid no one can use it. What do you think, Master Shen?"

Shen Shixing couldn't help lowering his head for a while: "Your Majesty, after the prosperity of business, selfish desires are more difficult to restrain, so it is inevitable; but the world is not without gentlemen, at least they are not all decent people!"

"Your Majesty is the ruler of the world. If you can manage yin and yang, discern loyalty and evil, and uphold the righteousness of the world, you won't be able to bring order to the world!"

"In addition, the so-called rectification, if your majesty upholds morality, I believe most people in the world will still uphold morality and uprightness, but I ask your majesty to be lenient so that people in the world have a chance to correct. After all, no one has made mistakes, and mistakes can be made If you change it, you can become a sage!"

"Master said so."

"I encourage the evildoers in the world to reform themselves, but I think that the discovery of so many destructive and heinous things through the informant system shows that although the carnivores in the world are all learning benevolence and morality, they are also talking about benevolence and morality , but in essence it must eat people?"

"Because of the strict control of the imperial court, they can't eat common people from other villages. They can only eat the weak in their own family or the weak in the village. Anyway, those who are weaker than them must be eaten by them."

"And if the court wants to stop this kind of evil, it must follow its desire and satisfy their desire to be a master."

"Because the new ritual may not only bring about their loss of money and land, but also the higher and higher cost of cannibalism."

"What do you say, Master Shen?"

After Zhu Yijun said that, he looked at Shen Shixing.

He admitted that what he said just now was speaking from the standpoint of the ruling class, but he had to admit that this was the way to govern in Ming Dynasty, and the real needs of the entire ruling class had to be considered.

For the ruling class of Ming Dynasty, which is dominated by the landlord class, the loss of economic interests is indeed nothing. The most unacceptable loss is the difficulty of enslaving people at low cost and being a master.

This is what Zhu Yijun needs to pay attention to.

(End of this chapter)