"Yes, what you said is that Zheng Ni takes the family of Jiangnan officials as hostage. If we are scolding him strictly, we may only be trapped by Zheng's thief."

As the Empress Dowager Borjigit said again.

"I heard that this insidious idea was offered by the thief Zhu of Qingjiang. This thief is really a confidant of my Qing Dynasty!"

"The Queen Mother is wise!"

Feng Quan immediately complimented.

"I have been an official for so many years and have read poetry and books, but I have never seen such a vicious plan like this. This poisonous plan can be said to be a fireworks under the cauldron. If an official from Jiangnan still loyally serves in the Qing Dynasty, then his family will be punished and sent overseas. Even if the emperor defeated the pirates after the spring, these pirates will hide in Taiwan. Although the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty are stronger than those of the land, they will not fight for water. In this way, even if Jiangnan is recaptured, the family of the officials of Jiangnan will still be trapped in the hands of the thieves and are dominated by the thieves. This method is really hateful!"

"No, only the thief Zhu can offer such a vicious plan."

Borjigi's head was praised.

The reason why she always calls Zhu Mingzhong the poison is because among the Manchus, when she mentioned this person, she wanted to eat his bones, and not to mention that this person cut off his head and cut off his head, and after cutting off his head, he built his body into a "Beijingguan" by the Yellow River. Such atrocities are simply "sensational". It is precisely because of this that many bannermen in this capital wished they could eat his bones, cursing him to die every day. Even Borjigit was in the palace and knew from the mouths of the palace maids how vicious this person was.

"So, I think that the poisonous plan offered by the thief of Zhu is extremely vicious. Nowadays, all the officials in Jiangnan are in panic. Every day, there are people who abandon their official positions and flee south on the grounds of a sudden illness. In the long run, I am afraid that all the officials in Jiangnan must escape."

Looking at the Empress Dowager, as a member of the "Northern Party", Feng Quan, who had severely defeated the Southern Party's momentum by relying on a fatal blow to Chen Mingxia and other Southern Party a few years ago, how could Feng Quan miss the opportunity in front of him? So he suggested.

"If you want to stop the officials in Jiangnan from fleeing south, you must practice strict laws. If you abandon your official position and flee, you will behead you and your clan members will be filled with people!"

After the simple six-character suggestion, Feng Quan sneered in his heart. After this incident, the Southern Party may not be able to recover its vitality for decades. Those who stayed in the capital and local officials were held by the thieves to Taiwan as a tyrant. As for those who fled south, after the beginning of spring, after the emperor went south to pacify the thieves, they could also be handed over to local officials for strict investigation. At that time, even the seeds of study in Jiangnan would be implicated.

Humph!

The Southern Party will be able to settle now!

"Such a big thing is naturally not something that my wife can do."

Borjigit interrupted Feng Quan and did not agree with his suggestion, but looked at him and said.

"Now, Zhu Zhe has made up his treacherous plan, and all the officials in the court are in panic. Feng Quan. You are the chief minister of the court. The emperor is now in Jinan. You still have to support the affairs in the court. At that time, you will have to worry a lot!"

"yes."

Although the Empress Dowager did not immediately agree to his suggestion, Feng Quan took this opportunity to ask for instructions.

"Empress Dowager, I don't know how many local officials abandoned their posts and fled. In my opinion, the new official can be appointed by officials who are not from the Liangjiang River. In this way, people's hearts can be calmed down. I also ask the Queen Mother to give me kind instructions."

Because the emperor was not in the capital, at this time, Feng Quan had to ask the Empress Dowager for an order.

"This kind of military affairs is not something that my wife can do, but it should be discussed by the ministers in the court!"

Although he doesn't ask about Chaozheng in normal times, Borjigit naturally knows Feng Quan's character and knows that he will take the opportunity to attack the Southern Party. However, there is no better way now.

Seeing that the Empress Dowager had let go of power, Feng Quan continued to say when he was a little proud.

"The Empress Dowager, the Minister of Personnel, Jin Zhijun, is from Jiangnan. In my opinion, although the Secretary of Jin will not abandon the emperor's kindness, it is better to transfer it away."

Although he has successfully severely damaged the Southern Party through the suppression of Chen Mingxia and others in several years, for Feng Quan, such as Jin Zhijun and others, it is still a thorn in his eyes.

But what disappointed Feng Quan was that as soon as he proposed this suggestion, he saw the queen mother beat him up, and then listened to the queen mother saying.

"I am a little tired now, so let's just do it!"

As the queen mother, Borjigit naturally knew Feng Quan's selfishness. Not only did she not agree immediately, she understood a meaning from Feng Quan's words, that Jin Zhijun and others had to be summoned. So after Feng Quan left, she ordered someone to summon Jin Zhijun.

Jin Zhijun, who was already in a panic because the Empress Dowager Zhao saw Feng Quan, naturally did not dare to delay any delay, so he went straight into the palace.

"...This kind of vicious plan must be called vicious. Not only will it trap our Jiangnan officials in a dilemma of loyalty and filial piety, but it also traps the court in a dilemma. If the court implements national laws and makes Jiangnan officials abide by their duties, our officials will abandon their official positions after they have received the emperor's grace. However, in this way, their families will be robbed by thieves. At that time, Jiangnan officials will be loyal and filial, and will not be willing to deal with official affairs, which will damage national affairs..."

As a Jiangnan native, Jin Zhijun knew that even if he spoke a flower, he could not change the reality that many Jiangnan officials would abandon their official positions and escape. He knew that he would never be able to escape, but now he only had one thought, which was to keep everything in front of him as much as possible.

"So, according to my opinion, you might as well express kind words to comfort the Jiangnan officials in the capital and local areas. The Ministry of Personnel can reward them. At the same time, the court will slowly deal with this matter. Nowadays, it is necessary to be lenient with people's hearts rather than implementing ruthless laws, which will only cause confusion."

"What Kim Zhijun said is that this person's heart is in chaos, and the rest are in chaos..."

Borjigit nodded slightly to show his agreement and asked again.

"This is nothing to be awarded, even if it is rewarded, it is not necessary to reward his family, but this matter has not been resolved in the end. Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety are in a dilemma. What if someone chooses to be filial and abandons his official position and escapes?"

"When I returned to the Empress Dowager, I dismissed his official position and demoted him to the people."

Fearing that the Empress Dowager misunderstood her meaning, Kim Jee-jun hurriedly explained.

"If you practice harsh laws, you are afraid that people will lose their hearts and dismiss their officials and demote them to the people, can people's hearts be determined?"

"I heard that most local officials in Zhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places come from Jiangnan, and there are countless officials from Beijing who are from Jiangnan. If they are just demoted to the people, then they will flee south one after another, what will happen?"

Borjigit smiled slightly and said:

"Jin Zhijun, I know that you are from Jiangnan, but you are always my minister of the Qing Dynasty."

The Queen Mother's words surprised Kim Zhijun and hurriedly defended herself.

"What the Empress Dowager said is very much. I am naturally a minister of the Qing Dynasty. Naturally, the Qing Dynasty is the priority in everything. But I think. This is the most urgent task to stabilize people's hearts, not bewitched by the poisonous plan of Zhu thieves. The reason why Zhu thieves offered this plan was to disrupt the hearts of our people in the Qing Dynasty. If the court ordered the officials in Jiangnan to severely denounce the hearts of Jiangnan, they would only be afraid that the hearts of Zhu thieves would be chaotic. At that time, the poisonous plan of Zhu thieves would naturally be completed. Therefore, I would say to comfort people's hearts, but this is only one of them. If you want to solve this problem, you have to assist other methods."

"Support other methods? Kim Jeong, tell me your methods."

Borjigit looked at Jin Zhijun and asked in confusion. He thought about Feng Quan's previous method, and then contacted Jin Zhijun, and then he was blindly calm. He thought to himself that he was indeed a Han Chinese, and even at this time, he was intrigue. However, this was just for my Qing Dynasty!

The Queen Mother asked this, which made Jin Zhijun feel relaxed. He thought in his heart: It’s time to talk about this to the Queen Mother, no matter what, he has to deal with it.

"The Empress Dowager, the reason why the court and the officials in the court are in a dilemma is that the viciousness of Zhu's plan is that he not only plundered all the officials' families as hostages, but also moved them to Taiwan. Taiwan is located outside the sea and away from the mainland. Our soldiers of the Qing Dynasty are good at land wars, but not good at water wars. In this way, even if the emperor pacified Jiangnan in the future, the families of Jiangnan officials were still trapped in the hands of the thieves and were dominated by the thieves. Zheng and Zhu were originally from pirates, so they lost Jiangnan. Once they retreated to Jiangnan, how could we do anything to them?"

Jin Zhijun's words were neither too fast nor too slow, and he had to consider every word, for fear of making the Queen Mother unhappy.

"The reason why Zhu Thief's plan is vicious is that his poisonous plan to remove firewood from the bottom of the pot has caused all the officials from Jiangnan to be in a dilemma of loyalty and filial piety. Under such a poisonous plan, how can people not be anxious? Even if the ministers accept the emperor's favor, they will be anxious when they think about their family members..."

Kim Zhijun's words were heard in Borjijit's ears, which made her nod slightly. She knew that what she was telling the truth, so she comforted her.

"Jin Zhijun, the Qing Dynasty will never treat loyal ministers unfairly. I and the emperor naturally know your loyalty. Tell me, since Zhu Zhe's poisonous plan is so vicious, how can we break the law?"

Although this problem is serious, Kim Zhijun has long been confident in his mind, or in other words, he doesn't know what else to solve the problem in front of him.

Facing the Queen Mother's inquiry, Kim Zhijun said with a serious look on his face.

"Reporting to the Empress Dowager, I think that since the Zhu thief can use such a poisonous plan to remove firewood from the bottom of the pot and try to move all the families of the officials and civilians in Jiangnan to Taiwan, then our Qing Dynasty can also use the trick to remove firewood from the bottom of the pot! Break the poisonous plan!"

"Oh? How can I remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot?"

Borjigit looked at Kim Jee-joon and asked hurriedly.

"Taiwan!"

Facing the Queen Mother's gaze, Kim Zhijun quickly replied.
Chapter completed!