Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 106 Touched My Bottom Line!
The next morning.

As is the custom in the early morning court every three days, all civil and military officials bow down to the emperor in the Xuanzheng Hall.

"All ministers and workers, today there is a book to play, and there is no book to retreat!"

"Qizou Your Majesty, Yuhuatian, the governor of the West Factory, was attacked by a group of bandits on his way to Liaodong yesterday, causing heavy losses. I hope His Majesty will investigate this matter clearly!"

When Zhu Houzhao heard the words, he nodded and said, "My dear friends, what do you think?"

In the morning, hearing such news made him feel unhappy. Although Yuhuatian from Xichang was a little arrogant, he was loyal to Zhu Houzhao, and he was injured on the way to Liaodong.

It's up to the owner to beat the dog!

Yuhuatian's injury is like slapping Zhu Houzhao in the face. There are still people who provoke him like this, and they are also bandits with 6000 people. If there is no one behind this, Zhu Houzhao would not believe it.

Zhu Houzhao's question immediately made these officials look at each other in blank dismay. Many of them knew that this group of bandits was the product of the protection of local forces, but no one dared to speak out.

Therefore, all the officials turned their attention to Liu Jian, the chief assistant of the cabinet. After all, he was the chief assistant of the cabinet and the leader of the civil servants.

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, if the emperor asks a question, the person with a higher official position will be the first to answer. The people behind him will only supplement or second the opinion. Most of them say that ministers do not speak in the court. If someone behind him speaks loudly, it will disrupt the court. rules.

However, when the court discusses important matters, people with low status can speak, then some officials are in the middle, and finally it is the turn of the big bosses to finish.

Because if they say something wrong, the lower-ranking officials will take the blame for them. However, if they can convince the emperor, it will be a great achievement. This is the unspoken rule in officialdom.

Moreover, the incident of banditry in Liaodong this time had a greater impact on the imperial court. Bandits appeared under the eyes of the emperor, and they blatantly attacked the people in Xichang.This is tantamount to provoking Zhu Houzhao!

If the imperial court does not act again, Zhu Houzhao's face will probably be slapped.

"Your Majesty, I thought that we should first send Jinyiwei and an army, whether it is the Shenji Battalion or the Fifth Army Battalion, to capture the bandits and wipe them out immediately. They must not be allowed to become popular!" Liu Jian, the chief minister of the cabinet, said to him .

Hearing Liu Jian's remarks, Zhu Houzhao's heart is actually contradictory. This guy is obviously making trouble with the court. Anyone can think of the idea he said, but you are the people I called. If you follow this If it is not painful or itchy, then everyone will reach a consensus.

For Zhu Houzhao, what is there that these civil servants don't understand?

In fact, many people are worried that Zhu Houzhao will continue to clean up the remaining bandits and clean up the little power left by the local powerful families.

These aristocratic families had all kinds of relationships in the Ming Dynasty, and even existed intertwined. Don't look at Zhu Houzhao who offended these aristocratic families by punishing and killing corrupt officials before, but this does not mean that Zhu Houzhao will All the aristocratic families in the world were killed.

Besides, after the previous period of reform, the results achieved were not too obvious. Punishment of corrupt officials only cut off a small part of these people. The biggest contradiction in the feudal dynasty was the contradiction between private land rights.

Of course, those aristocratic families who have not been killed are also worried. One day in the future, the emperor will slash at them with the butcher's knife. They all know very well that now they are blood-sucking insects of Ming Dynasty, and what they suck is the blood of the old Zhu family. But it's just for survival.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Houzhao's royal family is the largest family in the entire Ming Dynasty. Who else has a family bigger than their Zhu family?
Even if the other forces are united, they are not half as strong as the Zhu family. The internal struggle of the court is, to put it bluntly, a struggle between the lands.

The whole world is not the land of the king, and the shore of the land is not the royal family!
For such a situation, Zhu Houzhao actually understands it, but if he understands it, he is still happy to do it with the lives of other people to supplement the continuation of the Ming Dynasty.

This is also what Liu Jian and others are worried about. After all, the feudal imperial power at this time is too great to be controlled.

If Zhu Houzhao was allowed to kill again, the entire Ming Dynasty would perish.

But what should we do about the six thousand bandits?
This is not a small number, even five or six hundred is easy to deal with, but more than 6000 bandits, to put it bluntly, these are some rogues, and it is simply not something that large-scale officers and soldiers can deal with.

"Mr. Liu Ge, you should know what I'm going to say, instead of being perfunctory like this?" Zhu Houzhao said, his face gradually turned cold.

He had no interest in playing peek-a-boo with these people at all, and these six thousand bandits were nothing in Zhu Houzhao's eyes.He could behead all the people in Hulong Mountain Villa by mobilizing at will, but what he meant was that there were people raising tigers in Liaodong, and that was what made him unhappy.

These aristocratic families and local tyrants really didn't die enough, how dare they join forces to resist the rule of the old Zhu family?

This is not a good thing for Zhu Houzhao. This time, if there is another large-scale massacre as someone said, they will be terrified and will not fight against the court. Only then will they kneel down obediently and surrender at Zhu Houzhao's feet.

"Don't those bandits want to be as good-looking as those big families in the south? They are all a bunch of idiots, what is a little land? Overseas trade has obtained so many valuable things, but they still come up with these useless things. It's so stupid. The point where it can be cured!"

You must know that since the sea ban policy was launched, Zhu Houzhao knew that the big families in the south had made a lot of money, but it was also the case that those big families in the south supported Zhu Houzhao so much.

For those who are open to money, as long as they can make money, who would be greedy to deal with the imperial court's policies?

Zhu Houzhao ordered that those who wanted to take national dividends and annex the fields of the common people had already ransacked their homes.

When Qi Jingtong faced these aristocratic families who had absorbed enough of the people's support and support, Qi Jingtong showed his cold-blooded and ruthless self, and the entire southeast region was crying out for his death.

When the aristocratic families there were talking about Qi Jingtong, they all gritted their teeth in hatred, but standing behind Qi Jingtong was Zhu Houzhao, who could bring him down?

Even if they framed Qi Jingtong first, he had devoted all his energy and devoted himself day and night to the naval cause. There was no fault found on him at all. At least he was very strict in running the army and there was no way for him to fall into the hands of the civilian Yushitai.

The civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty had many relationships with the aristocratic families in the southeast coast, but they really dared to challenge Zhu Houzhao, and almost all of them had their homes ransacked.

How many civil servants in the imperial court are clean?Basically, the people Jin Yiwei resisted were caught one by one.

Of course, these are the unspoken rules of the officialdom. Everyone of them knows that, and Zhu Houzhao is also very clear in his heart. If he is not happy that day, someone will be in trouble.

However, this time, these bandits touched Zhu Houzhao's bottom line. They dared to make tigers a threat. Then this time, I will be really rude, and they will all die.

"His Majesty."

Liu Jian seemed to have something to say.

He felt that if the emperor set off a big wave this time, it would be a very troublesome matter. One radish and one hole, if the radish was pulled out and the mud was pulled out, another group of officials would probably fall down.

This was not what he wanted to see.

(End of this chapter)