Chapter 428: Taking People by Decree and Eliminating Them All at Once

Obviously Zhang Anshi is slightly embarrassed in this literary building.

What the hell does it matter to him who wins the clubhouse?

Right now he’s too busy earning silver to do anything else.

However, after a short period of refreshing, Zhu Di said, “The Imperial Examination will be conducted early, Zhang Qing, you stay, I have something to question you.”

Zhang Anshi nodded his head in a serious manner.

Wait for the ministers to retire.

Zhu Di stood up, habitually carrying his hands, looked at Zhang Anshi, then said, “Hey …… I these days, is more and more feel the energy is not good. How is it, how is Taipingfu now?”

“On the side of Taiping Province, it is already building ships day and night.” Zhang Anshi paused and said, “Before long, it should be effective.”

Zhu Di said, “How did this ship material come about?”

Zhang Anshi said: “Qixia merchant bank, before this had a lot of reserves, is in the Yongle five years ago, it is intended to reserve, when Deng Jian just out of the sea soon, I expected, in the future, if the imperial court want to open the sea, may be very promising, and now, indeed, all around the need for ship material, I let the merchant bank to resale out, the price …. …has gone up quite a bit.”

“In addition, it is Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, when the court went to the West, also made a lot of ship material, many of which, still in the various official warehouses, and now …… this ship to the West has been enough, so many merchants and businessmen went to buy.”

Zhu Di heard, frowned up, said: “This ship is a good thing! Nowadays, since everyone is seeking to buy ships, then why not these ship materials, let Qixia merchant bank to make their own ships for sale, why need to sell to people, teach people to earn this shipbuilding silver.”

Zhang Anshi smiled and said: “your majesty, not to mention that the merchant bank should grasp the more important things, is really distracted, if what profits are to earn, may affect their main business. This secondly, both the new government, we should let people taste the benefits, if the world’s benefits, are exclusive to the Qixia merchant bank, I thought, this is greatly unfavorable to the implementation of the new government.”

“The world, all for profit, the world is bustling, all for profit, no profit not early. What’s more, the business of the Qixia Trading Company is already big enough, only the world is more prosperous, the Qixia Trading Company’s future profits, will also rise, but if all the benefits are end away, and how come the world is getting more and more prosperous it?”

Hearing this, Zhu Di nodded and said, “I am not ignorant of everything, but I am just inquiring about one or two things.”

Zhu Di wanted to ask the words also finished, Zhang Anshi then retired and went out.

There’s no way around it, he’s just too busy.

At this time, however, the Wen Yuan Pavilion was bustling with activity.

Now that the Taiping Province has been sealed out by His Majesty, the affairs to be handled by the Wen Yuan Pavilion have mainly become the eighteen provinces.

Nowadays, although the Taiping Province and the eighteen provinces are at cross swords, but after all, they are not eating in a pot, but instead, they are much lighter.

For this year’s imperial examinations, the university professors, however, have their own views.

Hu Guang was so sorry that he purposely had someone seek out Ma Yu’s paper to look at it. After looking at it carefully, he kept nodding his head and praising, “The newborn is fearful, the newborn is fearful. This son has great talent!”

People are really talented, not to the point where you don’t recognize them.

Yang Rong is also a reader, although I do not like the pedantry of the readers, but also have the heart of the love of talent, immediately also read, then also can not help but gratified to say: “Such an article, really teach people to brighten up.”

Hu Guang said, “The world should have more people like this, in that case, why worry about the world not being peaceful?”

Yang Rong smiled and said, “The world is not to be greatly ruled by brocade articles.”

Hu Guang’s face was suddenly green and white, stumbling for half a day, and finally sighed quietly and said, “Forget it, I can’t say you.”

Yang Rong calmly said, “Not you can not show off the speed of speech, just your own heart like a mirror, in fact, have long known these reasons, only you do not want to admit it.”

Hu Guang sighed: “Yang Gong, what I can’t bear is that the new policy is a new policy, why do we need to kill all the readers? Like Ma Yu such a person, ten years of study, talent is excellent, this kind of heaven and earth nourishment do not know how many years to come out of the handsome …… can not be tolerated?”

“Hey …… the new policy is too anxious, should be slowed down, slow a few steps, to the readers should be better.”

Yang Rong then smiled and said: “The world is nothing but a word of profit. The new government to generate profits, we have to peel away the former profits of the people, what people from the past profits, in the new government will suffer, this is the unchanging reason!”

After a pause, he went on to say, “Where in the matter there is no such thing as two things, as you Hu Gong, both want the world to live and work in peace and contentment, but also hope that the world is peaceful, you and those of your friends still do not lose their own benefits, if so, then it is not called the New Deal, which is called the gods down to the dust of the earth, the sky falling gold.”

Hu Guang said, “I am not going to be able to do it, I can’t stop this from happening, and I can’t talk about you, but ……”

Hu Guang paused for a moment, looked down at the article, before he added: “But there are always later people in the world, as the old saying goes, the Yangtze River pushes forward the waves of the future, my Ming such a lot of readers, the future of the future of the later generation is even more fearful …… ”

At these words, Yang Rong was silent.

In Wen Yuan Ge, he has always been one step ahead of Hu Guang.

But with these words from Hu Guang, I don’t know whether this honest man had the intention or not.

But all at once, the vitality of Confucianism was shaken out without a second thought.

The later.

People like Zhang Anshi were only momentary, and it was not a time in history when Confucianism held the court forever.

From the Huang-Lao dispute in the early Han Dynasty to the scourge of party confinement at the end of the Han Dynasty, it is not true that Confucianism has not suffered great blows as it generally has in these years.

But what happens in the end?

Finally Confucian education through extensive preaching, countless Confucian children, there is no lack of outstanding people, may not be able to help you now, but in the future, ten years later, twenty years later, these handsome people run out, naturally there will be a day of liquidation.

They would desperately try to get into the court and accept the emperor’s conquests so as to hold on to power. They would write articles to re-establish a new public opinion. They would unite through various fellow countrymen and old friends to form an unseen and unnoticeable, yet real power.

Eventually …… everything in this world can finally come back to them again.

How many emperors and personalities have failed in the end?

Yang Rong revealed a hint of a smile as he didn’t say anything further, only saying, “We’ll see.”

Hu Guang said, “As long as a handsome man like Ma Yu is still around, I can have no worries.”

Hu Guang seemed to have sensed Yang Rong’s inner loss and couldn’t help but feel smug as well.

Two months later, the Hanlin Academy entered the book “Filial Record Facts”.

This book is a compilation of all the books on filial piety contained in ancient and modern history and biographies. The whole book consists of ten volumes, including two hundred and seven people whose filial behavior is outstandingly descriptive. Each incident is summarized and accompanied by a poem.

I implore the Emperor himself to write a preface to this book.

To put it bluntly, this is the filial son version of Spring and Autumn, pushing filial piety through a story of filial piety through the ages.

After Zhu Di made a preface, ordered people to publish, give the civil and military ministers and the State Prince Supervision and the world’s schools, ordered the world to study and read.

Zhang Anshi as the county king, of course, also received this book, every day a filial piety short story, not to read is not.

In ancient times, the repair of the book is an emperor whether the proof of the rule of literature, belonging to the actual performance, Zhang Anshi as a close minister, not only to read, maybe in the future, when Zhu Di told this allusion, they also have to be able to cope with.

If not, His Majesty is going to be angry.

After all, this is about filial piety, and filial piety in the view of the ancients is the root of everything, unfilial people naturally unfaithful, unfaithful people naturally unrighteous, unfaithful and unfaithful and unfaithful, dogs are worse than.

Zhang Anshi had to obediently read the book, and let the people published thousands of books, to the Taiping House up and down the circulation.

Zhang Anshi even wrote his own letter after reading the zhengwen, praising himself after reading the “filial piety facts” wept, remembering the grace of parents Yun Yun’s enlightenment.

It seems that Zhang Anshi still feel not satisfied, and then sent a letter, also about the use of this “filial piety facts”.

After a few days, Chen Li came to see Zhang Anshi.

“Your Highness, check it out, the head of the Taiping House, there are really quite a lot of readers on your Highness is very dissatisfied, but mostly some drunken words ……”

Zhang Anshi smiled and said, “What do you think should be done?”

Chen Li smiled and said, “Your Highness has always been magnanimous, if it were the past, you would often ignore this.”

This is the truth, Zhang Anshi in fact is not a good courageous person, as long as not to commit a real crime, Zhang Anshi in general, is not going to let the brocade guards to move people.

The discipline of the Jinyiwei is very strict, no driving sticker, and it is not easy to take people.

So Chen Li thought that this one should be similar.

Zhang Anshi, however, said, “In other places, how these people get around is their business, but in this place, Taipingfu, if we continue to indulge them, then won’t I, Zhang Anshi, become a cuckold?”

“Bastard?” Chen Li was a bit turned around.

The smile on Zhang Anshi’s face converged, and he coldly said, “Built a library, gave them books to read, served them well, took care of the law and order, and facilitated their transportation to and from the city. Turning their heads, but teach them to point at my king’s nose all day long, isn’t this no different from that bastard who married a wife and this wife is fornicating behind someone’s back?”

When Chen Li heard this, he immediately sharpened his sword. The Wuhu County King is not allowed to be a cuckold, and whoever dares to green His Highness will have to die.

So Chen Li gazed at Zhang Anshi and said, “Then what does Your Highness mean ……”

Zhang Anshi’s words were succinct: “Take them all in one net, take them all down, leave no one behind.”

Chen Li immediately said dryly, “Here!”

With that, he went off in a hurry.

Zhang Anshi, on the other hand, sat down and looked at Chen Li’s distant back, pondering.

After holding back for so long, now …… can finally do it.

Zhang Anshi’s gaze, suddenly became gloomy, changing from his usual pleasant color.

Today’s time is different from the past, now the Taiping Province, is his Zhang family’s world, if you continue to indulge in this way, let these people demagoguery, may be his Zhang Anshi’s basic disk is also to be shaken.

In that case, we’ll just have to do it.

…………

In the Forbidden City.

Zhu Di was looking down at the moment, looking at Zhang Anshi’s zhangshi, and a smile surfaced on his face.

And then, Zhu Di said, “Zhang Anshi is a filial child after all.”

Yee Lostha laughed awkwardly, this kind of superficiality, he could do it, he could write it too, okay.

However, Yiluoha still affirmed, “Yes, His Highness the King of Wuhu County is the most filial.”

Zhu Di didn’t say anything else and continued to look at the other zhangshi, and after only a few moments, he smiled again and said, “This is also very good.”

Said, lifted the Zhu Pen, in the zhangshi wrote a ‘may’ word, before saying, “Send Wen Yuange system of imperial edicts, to prepare the decree.”

Yiluoha bowed his head and answered, “Yes, sir.”

Immediately, also lost ha personally to the Wen Yuan Pavilion, will be the emperor Zhu biao Zhaoshi sent to the Wen Yuan Pavilion, but also Hanlin to be imperial decree, drafted the decree, and then issued by the Ministry of Rites.

All this, since it is a trivial matter not worth mentioning.

But in the Taiping Mansion, something is really wrong.

That night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse.

Suddenly, the Jinyiwei up and down the river began to blockade the ferry, and then began to take people around by the map.

Only a short night, there are more than three hundred readers were taken down, but not sent to the imperial prison, but directly imprisoned.

One night passed.

Many people seem to have evaporated.

It was not until their friends and relatives noticed something strange and poked around that they realized that many of the readers were taken last night.

At this point, the Shihlin was in an uproar.

This time, it can be even more serious than before. In the past, it was often the case that solid evidence of guilt was found, so arrests were made.

Even if a lot of readers for the injustice, but we actually know in their hearts, in fact, the other side did commit a crime.

But at least for the readers, even if the occasional discussion of a few painful words, still relatively safe.

Not only can they have a mouthful, but also do not worry about the punishment, but also show the bones of the wind. Or even write an article in the shade, or pointing to the sanghuaihuai a bit, the Jin Yiwei also take them no way.

Readers are very smart, the Ming Dynasty folk have a large number of against the Palace of the finger in the eye, or borrowing from the past and such diatribes can be said to be as many as possible, even if it is passed down many stories and plays are also quite a lot.

This is precisely because, really, the palace and the brocade guards are too lazy to take care of them.

But now it’s different, now it’s even taking people directly, and so many at once, enough to cause panic.

At this time, there are many more lifts into the capital, and a large number of readers running around.

All at once, it went up to heaven.

At least at this time, Liu Guan, the Minister of Rites, gave a fright.

Immediately, he headed for Wen Yuan Pavilion with several other ministers.

“Something big has happened. This is a big deal ah, now the capital has been uproar ah, I do not know why, many of the merit of the readers were taken, more than two hundred people, there are more than seventy lifts, the rest of the Xiucai can not be counted. There are four, will test high school, will not be the day will be the temple test, to do the scholar, good end, the jinyiwei suddenly take people …….”

Liu Guan back from Jiangxi, more honest than before, on the matter of the dynasty, all play dumb, but this time, he as the Secretary of the Ministry of Rites, can not really sit down.

It was really too big for him to cover up, and it wouldn’t have made sense to not say a word about it.

When Xia Yuanji found out, he was furious: “The brocade guards are so bold?”

When Hu Guang heard this, he was directly furious: “Who gave the order?”

“Who else can there be?” The one who spoke was the Hanlin University scholar, who was equally enraged at this time.

Yang Rong but appeared to be calm, more calmly said: “First do not be anxious, slowly, the brocade guard side, can say what?”

“All they said was that it was a military matter and not to be questioned.”

Yang Rong said, “Or His Majesty’s decree?”

“Unlike, it’s impossible for His Majesty not to reveal the wind of such a big matter, but if it were an ordinary Jin Yi Wei, who would dare to give such an order?”

Yang Rong sank his eyebrows and said, “You mean His Highness the King of Wuhu County?”

The crowd was silent.

Silence is acquiescence.

Yang Rong’s frown deeper, he has always been biased in favor of Zhang Anshi, this is because he can see through Zhang Anshi’s nature, and not to mention the new policy, so that Yang Rong felt that this or the solution to the future of the hidden dangers of the Great Ming.

Most importantly, although Yang Rong knew that Zhang Anshi was notorious, he had always been fairly disciplined, which was important; after all, no one wanted to believe that a reckless person could benefit the world.

But now ……

Yang Rong remained calm, glanced at the crowd and said, “Go to the audience first, state this matter, and see His Majesty’s holy judgment.”

The crowd boomed, “Lord Yang has a high opinion, he should report to His Majesty and impeach the Brocade Guards!”

It was clearly a request for His Majesty’s holy judgment, but what everyone meant was impeachment.

It can be seen this time, is considered to have provoked the wrath of the people, even more biased Zhang Anshi Jin Zhong, has not been good to say something, a sullen look.

So the group of ministers arrived at the Wenlou together in great numbers. When they saw Zhu Di, they first gave Zhu Di a big salute.

Zhu Di had actually gotten the news beforehand and also frowned.

He has inquired about the also lost ha, but the east factory side did not get any special wind, this Zhang Anshi suddenly crazy, is out of Zhu Di’s expectations.

I haven’t even raised my sword yet, and that guy Zhang Anshi, he’s already hacked his way from the Forbidden City to the Temple of Literature?

Zhu Di was full of doubts, and after a moment of contemplation, he said with a stern face, “Summon Zhang Anshi for an audience.”

The eunuchs didn’t dare to be slow and rushed to Qixia in a hurry.

After conveying His Majesty’s message, Zhang Anshi, however, looked as if he was surprised.

He mumbled in wonder, “For good reason, why am I being taught an audience at this time? I’m in the middle of copying the Scripture of Filial Piety.”

However, he still hurried to the Forbidden City, and when he arrived at the Wen Building, he saluted, “I have met Your Majesty.”

Zhu Di raised his eyes to look at Zhang Anshi, saw his face as usual, his heart is more suspicious.

Zhu frowned and said without a word, “What’s wrong?”

Zhang Anshi said with a puzzled expression, “Your Majesty please also enlighten me, I don’t know what’s wrong.”

Seeing Zhang Anshi’s resistance to denial, it seemed that some people were getting angry.

However, despite the stupidity, he did his best to hold back.

Zhu Di since he felt the anger of the ministers, coughed and said, “Readers, those readers …… committed what crime, how all of a sudden, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the jinyiwei took?”

“So it’s this.” Zhang Anshi smiled, as if he couldn’t feel that one angry gaze at all, and at this moment, with the appearance of having let out a long breath, calmly said, “Your Majesty, isn’t this acting in accordance with Your Majesty’s will?”

Chu: “……”

The ministers began to whisper and looked at Zhu Di.

Zhang Anshi said at this time, “His Majesty’s decree, I also brought, I think …… the Palace of Ceremonies, Hanlin Academy, the Ministry of Ceremonies also have archives.”

Saying so, he took out a decree and presented it with both hands, which was handed over to Zhu Di by a eunuch.