Chapter 428: Taking people under orders and catching them all in one fell swoop
Obviously, Zhang Anshi was a little embarrassed in this literary building.
Who is Huiyuan and who has a fart relationship with him?
Now he is busy making money and has no time for anything else.
However, after Zhu Di felt refreshed for a short time, he said: "The imperial examination will be carried out as soon as possible. Zhang Qing, please stay. I have something to ask you."
Zhang Anshi nodded seriously and said yes.
Wait for the ministers to retreat.
Zhu Di stood up, clasped his hands behind his back as usual, glanced at Zhang Anshi, and said: "Hey... I feel more and more lack of energy these days. How is it? How is Taiping Mansion now?"
"Here in Taiping Mansion, they are building ships day and night." Zhang Anshi paused and said, "Soon, we should have results."
Zhu Di asked: "Where did this ship material come from?"
Zhang Anshi said: "Qixia Trading Company had stocked a lot before this. It started to stockpile intentionally in the fifth year of Yongle. Not long after Deng Jian went to sea, I thought that if the imperial court wanted to go to sea in the future, there might be great potential.
But now, as expected, shipping materials are needed everywhere, so I asked the merchants to resell them, and the price... has actually increased a lot."
"In addition, in Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, when the imperial court went to the Western Ocean, it also produced a lot of ship materials, many of which are still in various official warehouses. Now...the ships sailing to the Western Sea
It was enough, so many merchants went to buy it."
After hearing this, Zhu Di frowned and said: "This ship is a good thing! Nowadays, since everyone is looking to buy ships, why not let Qixia Trading Company make these ships into ships for sale instead of selling them to others?
, teach others to earn the money for building ships."
Zhang Anshi smiled and said: "Your Majesty, not to mention that the commercial bank should focus on more important things. It is really hard to do anything. If it makes all profits, it may affect its main business. Secondly, since it is the New Deal, it
Let people enjoy the benefits. If all the benefits in the world are monopolized by Qixia Trading Company, I think this will be very detrimental to the implementation of the New Deal."
"Everything in the world is bustling for profit, and everything in the world is bustling for profit. If there is no profit, we can't afford it. What's more, Qixia Trading Company's business is already big enough. Only the more prosperous the world is, the future profits of Qixia Trading Company will be
, a rising tide will lift all boats, but if all the benefits are taken away, how will the world become more and more prosperous?"
After hearing this, Zhu Di nodded and said, "It's not that I don't understand anything, I'm just asking a few questions."
Zhu Di finished asking what he wanted to ask, and Zhang Anshi resigned.
No way, he's too busy.
At this time, Wenyuan Pavilion was extremely lively.
Now that Taiping Mansion has been sealed off by His Majesty, the affairs that Wenyuan Pavilion has to deal with have mainly become eighteen provinces.
Although Taiping Prefecture and the Eighteen Provinces are at war with each other now, they are not eating in the same pot after all, and it is a lot easier.
Regarding this year's imperial examination, the bachelors have their own opinions.
Hu Guang was very sorry. He specially asked someone to find Ma Yu's paper to read. After reading it carefully, he kept nodding and praising: "The younger generation is to be feared, the younger generation is to be feared. This boy is a great talent!"
He is really talented and learned, but you won’t recognize him until you see him.
Yang Rong is also a scholar. Although he doesn't like the pedantry of scholars, he also has a love for talents. He immediately read it and couldn't help but said with joy: "Such an article really makes people's eyes brighten."
Hu Guangdao: "There should be more people like this in the world. If this is the case, why worry about the world being unrest?"
Yang Rong smiled and said: "The world cannot be governed by beautiful articles."
Hu Guang's face suddenly turned green and white. He hesitated for a long time, and finally sighed quietly and said: "Forget it, I can't say it."
Yang Rong said calmly: "It's not that you can't be quick with your words, it's just that you have a clear mind. In fact, you already know these truths, but you just don't want to admit it."
Hu Guang sighed: "Mr. Yang, what I don't tolerate is the new policy. Why do we need to kill all the scholars? People like Ma Yu, who lived in poverty for ten years, are extremely talented. It takes me who knows how many years to be nourished by the world."
His handsomeness...couldn’t it be tolerated?”
"Hey... the new policy is too urgent. It should be slowed down a few steps. It should be better for scholars."
At this time, Yang Rong said with a smile: "Everything in the world is nothing more than a word of profit. If the New Deal wants to make profits, it must take away those who benefited in the past. Those who benefited in the past will suffer in the New Deal. This
This is an eternal truth!”
After a pause, he continued: "There is no such thing as having the best of both worlds. Just like you, Mr. Hu, you want the world to live and work in peace and contentment, but you also want the world to be peaceful. You and your friends still do not lose your own interests."
, if this is the case, then it is not called the New Deal, it is called gods descending to the mortal world and gold falling from the sky."
Hu Guangdao: "I can't do it. I can't prevent this from happening, and I can't help you, but..."
Hu Guang paused for a moment, lowered his head to read the article, and then continued: "But there are always people who come after us. As the old saying goes, the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead. I have so many scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and the future generations will be even more formidable...
"
As soon as he said this, Yang Rong fell silent.
In Wenyuan Pavilion, he has always been one step ahead of Hu Guang.
But Hu Guang’s words were unclear whether this honest man meant it or not.
But all of a sudden, the vitality of Confucianism was shaken out inadvertently.
Later people.
People like Zhang Anshi were only temporary. Historically, it was not the time when Confucianism controlled the imperial court forever.
From the dispute between Huang and Lao in the early Han Dynasty to the disaster of party control in the late Han Dynasty, Confucianism has suffered huge blows as usual in recent years.
But what happens in the end?
Finally, through extensive preaching, Confucian education has produced countless Confucian disciples, many of whom are outstanding. I may not be able to do anything to you now, but in the future ten or twenty years from now, these outstanding talents will emerge and there will naturally be a day of reckoning.
They will desperately enter the court, accept the emperor's conquest, and thus control power. They will write articles and re-establish new public opinions. They will unite through various hometown and old relationships to form an invisible but intangible force.
It's real power again.
In the end...everything in this world can finally be returned to their hands.
How many emperors and figures who were flamboyant for a while failed in the end?
Yang Rong showed a smile, but he didn't say any more and just said: "We'll see."
Hu Guangdao: "As long as a hero like Ma Yu is still here, I have nothing to worry about."
Hu Guang seemed to be aware of Yang Rong's inner disappointment, and couldn't help but feel complacent.
Two months later, the Hanlin Academy published "The Facts of Filial Piety".
This book is composed of filial piety recorded in ancient and modern historical books. The book consists of ten volumes and contains 207 people who have outstanding filial piety. Each incident is judged and linked with poems.
I sincerely request the emperor to personally write a preface to this book.
To put it bluntly, this is the filial son version of "Spring and Autumn", which promotes filial piety through stories of filial piety throughout the ages.
After Zhu Di wrote the preface, he ordered it to be published and given to the civil and military officials, the Imperial Academy and the schools all over the world, and ordered people all over the world to study it.
Zhang Anshi, as the prince of the county, of course also received this book. It is a short story of filial piety every day. It is impossible not to read it.
In ancient times, book editing was a proof of whether an emperor was civilized and a solid political achievement. As a close minister, Zhang Anshi not only had to read it, but he might also be able to deal with it when Zhu Di told the allusions in the future.
If not, Your Majesty will be angry.
After all, this is about filial piety, and filial piety is the foundation of everything in the eyes of the ancients. People who are unfilial are naturally unfaithful, and people who are unfaithful are naturally unjust. Unfaithful, unjust, and unfilial, they are worse than dogs.
Zhang Anshi had no choice but to read the book obediently, and had thousands more copies printed and circulated throughout Taiping Mansion.
Zhang Anshi even wrote a memorial after reading it, praising how he shed tears after reading "The Filial Piety" and expressed his gratitude for his parents' kindness.
It seemed that Zhang Anshi was still dissatisfied, so he wrote another memorial about the purpose of "Filial Piety Facts".
A few days later, Chen Li came to see Zhang Anshi.
"Your Highness, I have found out that there are indeed many scholars in Taiping Mansion who are very dissatisfied with Your Highness, but most of them are drunken remarks..."
Zhang Anshi smiled and said, "What do you think we should do?"
Chen Li smiled and said: "Your Highness has always been magnanimous. In the past, he would have ignored this."
This is the truth. Zhang Anshi is actually not a brave and ruthless person. As long as he does not commit real crimes, Zhang Anshi will not let Jin Yiwei touch anyone.
The discipline of the Jinyiwei is very strict. You are not allowed to drive and stick, and you are not allowed to take people lightly.
So Chen Li thinks that it should be similar this time.
Zhang Anshi said: "In other places, what these people do is their business, but in Taiping Mansion, if I continue to condone them, wouldn't I, Zhang Anshi, become a bastard?"
"Bastard?" Chen Li couldn't turn a corner.
The smile on Zhang Anshi's face faded, and he said coldly: "Build a library, read to them, serve them nicely, take care of public security, and facilitate their transportation. He turned around and taught them to point at me all day long.
Isn’t this no different from the bastard who married a wife and had an affair behind his back?”
When Chen Li heard this, he immediately sharpened his sword. The prince of Wuhu County cannot be a bastard. Anyone who dares to cheat on His Highness will die.
So Chen Li looked at Zhang An Shidao with bright eyes: "Then what your highness means is..."
Zhang Anshi's words were concise: "Catch them all in one sweep, capture them all, leave no one behind."
Chen Li immediately said crisply: "Here!"
Then he left in a hurry.
Zhang Anshi sat down and looked at Chen Li's retreating figure, thoughtfully.
After holding back for so long, now... I can finally take action.
Zhang Anshi's eyes suddenly became gloomy, changing from his usual cheerful expression.
Today is different from the past. The current Taiping Mansion belongs to his Zhang family. If he continues to indulge in this way and allows these people to deceive people's hearts, Zhang Anshi's foundation may also be shaken.
In this case, we had no choice but to take action.
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Forbidden City.
Zhu Di was lowering his head at this time, looking at Zhang Anshi's memorial, with a smile on his face.
Then, Zhu Di said: "Zhang Anshi is a filial child after all."
Yi Shiha smiled awkwardly, he could also do this kind of superficial writing, he could also write, okay.
However, Yi Shiha still affirmed: "Yes, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wuhu County is extremely filial."
Zhu Di didn't say anything else and continued to read another memorial. After only reading it for a moment, he smiled and said: "This is also very good."
After saying that, he picked up his ink pen and wrote the word "ke" on the memorial, and then said: "Send it to Wenyuan Pavilion to prepare the imperial edict and draft the decree."
Yishiha bowed his head and replied: "I obey the order."
Immediately, Yi Shiha personally went to Wenyuan Pavilion and sent Emperor Zhu Pi's memorial to Wenyuan Pavilion. There was also a Hanlin waiting for the imperial edict, drafting the edict, and then signing it to the Ministry of Rites.
All this is a trivial matter not worth mentioning.
But in Taiping Mansion, something really happened.
That night, the moon was bright and there were few stars.
Suddenly, the Jin Yiwei began to block the ferry, and then began to search for people according to the map.
In just one night, more than 300 scholars were captured, but they were not sent to prison, but were imprisoned directly.
One night passed.
Many people seemed to have evaporated.
It wasn't until their relatives and friends noticed something strange and started asking around that they found out that many scholars had been taken away last night.
At this time, Shilin was in an uproar.
This time, it is more serious than before. In the past, people were often arrested because of evidence of real crimes.
Even though many scholars complained about it, everyone actually knew that the other party had indeed committed a crime.
But at least for scholars, even if they occasionally discuss and curse a few words, it is still relatively safe.
You can satisfy your cravings without having to worry about being punished, and you can also show your character. Even if you write an article in a strange way, or criticize someone, the Jinyiwei will not be able to do anything about them.
Scholars are very smart. In the Ming Dynasty, there were a lot of people in the Ming Dynasty criticizing the palace, or using the past to describe the present. There were so many criticisms, even if there were many stories and dramas that were passed down.
This is precisely because the palace and Jin Yiwei are too lazy to pay attention to them.
But things are different now. Now they take people directly, and they take so many at once, which is enough to cause panic.
At this time, many people came to Beijing, and a large number of scholars rushed to tell each other.
All of a sudden, I went up to heaven to listen.
At least at this time, Liu Guan, the Minister of Rites, was frightened.
Immediately, he went to Wenyuan Pavilion with several other ministers.
"Something big has happened. Something big has happened all of a sudden. There is a commotion in the capital now. For some reason, many famous scholars have been arrested. Among the more than 200 people, there are more than 70 candidates, and the rest are countless.
There are four more who will take the high school entrance exam and the palace exam soon. They are going to be Jinshi. They are all good and the Jin Yiwei suddenly takes someone..."
After Liu Guan came back from Jiangxi, he was much more honest than before. He pretended to be stupid about everything in the court. But this time, as the Minister of Rites, he really couldn't sit still.
This matter was really too big for him to cover up, and if he didn't say a word, he couldn't explain it.
When Xia Yuanji found out, he was furious and said, "Jin Yiwei is so bold?"
After hearing this, Hu Guang was trembling with anger: "Who gave the order?"
"Who else could it be?" The speaker was a Hanlin University scholar, and he was equally furious at this time.
Yang Rong seemed calm and said calmly: "Don't be impatient. Take your time. What did Jin Yiwei say?"
"They only said that this is a major military matter and they should not interfere with it."
Yang Rongdao: "Or is it His Majesty's will?"
"It's not like that, it's impossible for His Majesty not to leak the news about such a big matter, but if it's an ordinary guard, who would dare to issue such an order?"
Yang Rong frowned and said, "You mean His Highness the Prince of Wuhu County?"
Everyone was silent.
Silence is the default.
Yang Rong's frown deepened. He had always been partial to Zhang Anshi. This was because he could see through Zhang Anshi's true nature. Not to mention the New Deal, Yang Rong felt that this might be the solution to the hidden dangers of the Ming Dynasty in the future.
The most important thing is that although Yang Rong knows that Zhang Anshi is notorious, he has always followed the rules. This is very important. After all, no one wants to believe that a reckless person can benefit the world.
But now...
Yang Rong remained calm, glanced at everyone and said: "Go to the audience first to state the matter, and then let's see His Majesty's Holy Judgment."
Everyone shouted loudly: "Young Master Yang, I will report it to His Majesty to impeach the Jin Yiwei!"
It was clearly a request for His Majesty's Holy Judgment, but everyone's intention was to impeach me.
It can be seen that this time, it has aroused public anger. Even Jin Zhong, who prefers Zhang Anshi, has been silent and looks dull.
So all the ministers arrived at Wenlou in a grand manner. When they saw Zhu Di, they first gave him a great ceremony.
Zhu Di had actually received the news in advance and frowned.
He had already inquired and was disappointed, but there was no special news from Dongchang. Zhang Anshi's sudden madness was beyond Zhu Di's expectation.
I haven't even picked up the sword yet. That guy Zhang Anshi has already hacked from the Forbidden City to the Confucian Temple?
Zhu Di was full of doubts, pondered for a moment, and then said with a straight face: "Summon Zhang Anshi for an audience."
The eunuchs did not dare to neglect and rushed to Qixia in a hurry.
After conveying His Majesty's oral instructions, Zhang Anshi seemed surprised.
He muttered in confusion: "You're so good, why are you teaching me to have an audience at this time? I'm copying the Filial Piety Classic."
But he still hurried to the Forbidden City. When he arrived at the Wen Tower, he saluted and said, "I have met your Majesty."
Zhu Di raised his eyes and glanced at Zhang Anshi. Seeing that his expression was as usual, he became even more suspicious.
Zhu Di frowned and said confusedly: "What's wrong?"
Zhang Anshi said with a puzzled look on his face: "Your Majesty, please clarify. I don't know what's wrong."
Seeing Zhang Anshi refusing to admit it, someone seemed to be getting angry.
However, even though he was about to move, he still tried his best to hold back.
Zhu Di felt the anger of the ministers and coughed: "Scholars, those scholars... what crime did they commit? Why were they all taken away by the Jin Yiwei all of a sudden?"
"So it's this." Zhang Anshi smiled, as if he couldn't feel the angry eyes at all. At this time, he let out a long breath and said calmly: "Your Majesty, this is not following His Majesty's will.
Act?"
Zhu Di: "..."
The ministers began to whisper and looked at Zhu Di.
Zhang Anshi said at this time: "Your Majesty's decree has been brought by me. I think... the Supervisor of Rites, the Hanlin Academy, and the Ministry of Rites also have it on file."
After that, he took out a copy of the decree, presented it with both hands, and handed it to Zhu Di by the eunuch.