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Chapter 136: To Two People (1)

"I will meet the emperor!"

The king and his ministers met not in the towering Fengtian Hall, but in the pavilion in the fields of the farm. On the left is the colorful lotus pond, and behind is the old man ordered people to reclaim it, and the slope fields where Hongshu had already planted it.

"No need to be too polite, it's not in the court!" Zhu Yunxiu raised his hand slightly, sat down in the pavilion, and said, "I'm in a hurry to see me if I have something to do in the morning."

Among the ministers, the old minister Ling Han looked at the hillside in the distance and whispered, "I heard that the Emperor..."

The Hongshu incident has not yet seen the definite yield, so only a few of the court officials know that the ministers in front of them thought that the old man was going to come out of the palace to retire.

"I fell a little and the imperial doctor said it was fine, and I was a false alarm!" Although Zhu Yunxiu said it relaxed, he was still a little scared. The old man in his seventies was a little injured enough to be fatal.

Ling Han said, "Your Majesty, I don't know whether I should say anything!"

As soon as he heard this, Zhu Yunxi knew that it was not a good thing, and it was still something he had to say.

Ling Han continued, "The emperor is pure filial, but everything must not follow the emperor's character. If the emperor wants to do farming, a few acres of land can be reclaimed in the palace, and there is no need to experience it outside the city. Stay away from the palace. If there is really something, it will be beyond the reach!"

"You also know the old man's temper. Don't tell me about this. Go and tell me!" Zhu Yunxi smiled, "Old man, I just want to be a gentleman, not a vain person. As long as the emperor and his elders live happily here, let him live!"

"Your Majesty is wrong!" Ling Han said again, "Just today, when you heard that the Supreme Emperor fell, you came in a hurry regardless of the court meeting. I dared to ask, if there was a military and national affairs just happening to be a major military and national affairs, and if you can't find the emperor, will you be delayed?"

"Besides, it is an eternal ritual for the Emperor to live in the palace. What is the reason for you to run out again and again? Could it be that the Emperor felt tired of living in the Forbidden City and wanted to start a new palace city?"

"If that happens, I will never dare to obey the order!"

Zhu Yunyu held his forehead with one hand, and the old man said this in a few words. In the eyes of these civil servants, the emperor should stay in the palace honestly and have more children and less. Ling Han said this to give Zhu Yunyu a vaccination. The implication is that you should not always run out of the Supreme Emperor's excuse, let alone think that it is better outside than in the palace, and you have the idea of ​​building a garden.

"What's the matter with you all seeing me?" Zhu Yunxi quickly changed the subject, looked at the left-level censor Yang Jing, and said, "Yang Aiqing, I see you holding a lot of official documents?"

"Your Majesty, these are all official documents that impeached officials in Z!" Yang Jing said with a smile.

There is no small matter in the land. On the one hand, it was the largest source of finance and taxation among the southeastern provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, it was also the place with the greatest resistance to implementing new policies such as calculating taxes and placing acres. In fact, the troubles of land had occurred as early as the Hongwu period. The land and population were checked, and the yellow book of household registration was also included. There were always many variables here.

However, when the post office was changed to post office, Daxing's water and land trade routes were particularly active.

"Who is it impeachment again? Is it Tie Xuan or Jing Qing?" Zhu Yunhuang asked.

Yang Jing smiled, "It's not even a matter of going back to the emperor, it's impeachment of Han Kezhong!"

"He has only been there for a few days but so many people have impeached him?" Zhu Yunxiu looked at the thick stack in Yang Jing's hand and smiled, "What has he done to be angry and resentful?"

"The emperor forgives me for being rude!" Yang Jing put the document in his hand on the table, and then picked up a document on it. "This is a memorial sent by the Qiantang County Magistrate to the Ministry of Justice and the Inspectorate. The Qiantang County Magistrate, the Censor Han Kezhong had just arrived in Zhejiang and could not do anything to comfort the gentry, but instead abused torture..."

Zhu Yunxi suddenly interrupted him, "What's going on? Don't think of these official articles. In the future, this kind of memorial that doesn't talk about the cause and effect, and you'll be labeled as soon as you come up, so don't show it to me!"

As he said that, he paused, "I am not a diligent monarch, but the memorials of a day must also be read by one or two hundred. Anything that involves certain things that require efforts or are thankless to work are all shirking responsibility for each other and turning the blame on each other. The mistakes are all for others, and the matter is difficult, and they are all hard!"

"It's hard to beat a three-stick in the business, but when it comes to the official hat on their heads, it's harder than anyone else's pen."

When the ministers heard this, they did not dare to speak for a moment. For some reason, the emperor suddenly led the words to this point. Everyone knew that the emperor in front of him was never the king who was gentle and considerate of his ministers as the old prince. Instead, in some aspects, he was even more mean than the Supreme Emperor.

In short, looking at the appearance of a virtuous monarch, it is actually the most difficult to serve.

However, the old minister Ling Han smiled and said, "Most officials in the world are just corpses. If the emperor is serious about them, he will have endless leisure time!"

This made Zhu Yunxi smile, "You should keep in charge of the Ministry of Personnel. This year's major examination of the Ministry of Personnel should be more rigorous. At least in the Ming Dynasty, there will be less people who eat or not work!" As he said that, he continued to Yang Jing, "You continue to say!"

"Yes!" Yang Jing looked solemn, "As soon as Han Kezhong arrived at the z site, he began to patrol the prefectures, counties and townships. The first stop was Qiantang County. The gentry of Qiantang County was not very satisfied with the new policy of entrusting the entourage to collect food into the acres. He heard that the censor appointed by the emperor came, so he went to file a complaint!"

"In the first time, fifteen gentry from Qiantang, led by Wu, went to the county government office, but was directly driven out by Han Kezhong. Qiantang County reported that Han Kezhong not only did not see those people at that time, but also spoke out, and dared to come to the county town again, and rebel with great disrespect!"

"The local gentry was dissatisfied and felt that Han Kezhong was deliberately bullying them. Later, when Han Kezhong was going to patrol the countryside, more than 30 landlords and more than 400 tenants in Qiantang were blocked directly in front of Han Kezhong's sedan chair. The crowd was angry and insisted that Han Kezhong give an explanation!"

Zhu Yunyu's face turned pale. Later generations may have a misunderstanding that officials were fields in the imperial power era, and perhaps this is true for ordinary people. But for gentry, even those gentry families with fame and talent at home, it is common for them to make trouble with the government.

First, the law does not punish the masses, and second, if they are sure, no one of them is willing to sacrifice their reputation and bear the infamy of cruel officials.

"How did Han Kezhong do it?" Zhu Yunsheng asked.

"The gentry surrounded Han Kezhong, but they knew that Han Kezhong was surrounded by a hundred households in the garrison. He ordered to arrest him directly on the spot. Anyone who dared to resist would be killed without any hesitation!"

Yang Jing continued, "The officers and soldiers of the garrison were like wolves and tigers, and they directly tied the gentry and their tenants back to the county town. Several of them had the fame of scholars. Han Kezhong was dismissed on the spot in the name of the censor and demoted to Bai Ding!"

"The leading gentry took off his clothes and put them in the prison cart and stood them outside the county government office to show the public! And he showed his public in the county town for ten days, and then ordered the officials to take them to the countryside and show them to the public for the people!"

"And Han Kezhong issued an announcement that the censor led the emperor to inspect the area for the sake of the new policy. Those who dare to obstruct the new policy gathering crowds to cause trouble will not tolerate them for the crime of provocation, and do not say that they are not prepared for what they say!"

"And he also forced the prefectures in various places to hand over the yellow book and fish scale book under his jurisdiction, and wanted to compare with the governor's department. Those who dared to shirk responsibility will be punished for dereliction of duty!"
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