Chapter 112 What Are You Fighting With Me Without Money?
Chapter 112 How can you fight with me if you don’t have money?
Six hours later.
The crowds at the foot of Mount Wutai were abuzz, and tens of thousands of men, women, old and children were angry...
They are attacking the isolation belt.
"Everyone go back, everyone go back, it is strictly forbidden to cross the fence!"
In the chaos, Tongzhi Yingtianfu, who still had gauze on his face, howled.
Then because the wound was affected, he quickly covered his face in pain.
On both sides of him were hundreds of government archers and even petty officials, holding sticks to block the people trying to rush past. However, there were too many of them, and their defense line was crumbling. The cause of this chaos was simple, isolation.
Behind the belt, at the open day event that was still being held, there were stacks of treasure banknotes...
They are all at face value.
No matter men, women, old or young, they can always get it in the past.
The consistent banknote is a new banknote. Currently, the consistent banknote can basically buy more than two shi of brown rice.
The monthly salary of a seventh-grade official is only seven and a half stones.
Who is not crazy?
A family of five used to be able to get more than the monthly salary of a seventh-grade official.
"Get out of the way, why can't you let me pass?"
"Throw this bitch aside!"
…
The people swarming forward shouted anxiously.
Those government officials, archers, and minor officials struggled to support themselves. Those who felt pain in their faces still covered their faces.
"You don't even get wages, why are you working so hard?"
Yang Feng sat on the Taishi chair, with his legs crossed and holding a tea cup, and said to the archers of the Yamen.
The latter's anger suddenly disappeared.
Then the defense line was instantly broken down, and even the government archers rushed to the opening day site. The unlucky colleague was caught off guard. He was still covering his face and gasping in pain. The defense line suddenly collapsed, and the swarming crowd directly pushed him to death.
Rushed down. He was so frightened that he hugged his head and curled up. It was obvious that he had experience. Then he howled in terror in the crowd and was rushed to the side. Fortunately, there was a smelly ditch next to him, and he was saved after rolling in.
To be trampled on.
However, the image can be described as horrific.
"Young man surnamed Yang, if you instigate civil unrest and provoke unruly people to cause chaos, I will sue you!"
He howled in the stinking ditch.
Yang Feng waved back leisurely.
Immediately afterwards, a group of foster girls under the age of eight rushed towards Tongzhi with their special small hand crossbows. The latter was so frightened that he quickly shut up. Even if this was for these little goblins, it was still a crossbow, and there was still no problem in shooting people to death at close range.
.
more importantly……
Less than eight years old!
It is not illegal to kill someone, and it is not illegal to commit rebellion!
Eight years old is the limit.
No crime will be punished for those under the age of eight. Anyone between the age of eight and ten will not be punished except for a few major crimes such as rebellion. Those who are guilty between the age of ten and fifteen do need to be punished, but they cannot be tried, let alone tortured. They can only be punished according to the law.
Circumstantial evidence is required to convict, and capital crimes must undergo strict scrutiny. Only when you are fifteen years old do you fully comply with adult standards.
Therefore, not to mention that these little goblins have diplomatic immunity, even if they do not have diplomatic immunity, it is okay to kill them now according to the Ming Law.
Then a little goblin walked up to him.
Because Tongzhi was still in the ditch, the two of them were almost face to face.
The little goblin suddenly took out a wad of banknotes. Before he knew it, the wad of banknotes hit him in the face. He wanted to stand up angrily, and then four crossbows hit him at the same time. He was frightened.
Immediately he didn't dare to move. The little goblin looked at him and smiled innocently, but the pile of treasure money in his hand slapped the other side of his face again. Although the force was very small, it still hurt because there was a wound there.
He called out.
The little goblin didn't care and continued to slap him in the face with the money innocently.
Pump repeatedly.
After smoking the left side, smoke the right side.
That arrogance is simply heart-rending.
"What's this?
money!
What can you do to fight with me if you don’t have money?”
Ambassador Yang held the tea cup and said with a villainous temperament.
Then he turned to the people.
"Folks, come back tomorrow and open the banknotes for three consecutive days. There will be banknotes every day. In the future, banknotes will be opened from time to time. Whenever you open the banknotes, there will be banknotes!"
he shouted.
The people who were happily visiting with their treasures cheered. Even the government archers and even the petty officials were inside. Most of the petty officials had no wages. They only came from other places, and they rarely did this for a month.
There are no local officials at all.
This is a regular banknote. If you take one, your whole family will have enough food and clothing this month.
Who cares about anything else at this time.
"Look, this is the power of money!"
Yang Feng said.
"Then you must have Your Majesty to support you. If His Majesty hadn't connived, we would have directly mobilized troops and horses. Anyone who dares to break in will be killed as a cause of rebellion. Let's see who dares to take your money?"
Zhang Xianzong said contemptuously.
"That's why I have tyrannical capital, backed by imperial power, and hold money in my hands. What qualifications do a few civil servants have to fight with me? Rules? This thing is only used to catch flies and mosquitoes, but it cannot catch falcons, let alone falcons.
, even a sparrow can break through, but they are still too naive after all, thinking that they have the right to do whatever they want if they master the rules, but in fact they are rules when others follow them, and they are a joke when others do not."
Yang Feng said.
"What do you want to say?"
Zhang Xianzong said doubtfully.
"It's okay, I'm just feeling emotional."
Yang Feng said.
Therefore, these Confucian scholars led by Liu Sanwu are still too naive.
In other words, Zhu Yuanzhang's support for them over the years gave them the illusion that they could gain enough power through rules.
In particular, civil servants in the imperial examination were gradually taking control of the imperial court...
In the past, civil servants did not come from the imperial examination. After all, Li Shanchang, who started his career under Zhu Yuanzhang, certainly could not have come from the imperial examination. They were not even Confucian scholars, and Li Shanchang came from a minor official. Although the imperial examination was opened in the early years of Hongwu, it soon failed because of Zhu Yuanzhang.
It was discovered that Confucian scholars were talking too much. It was suspended, and it was not reopened until the eighteenth year of Hongwu. This time, Confucian scholars really poured into the court. Now these civil servants in the imperial examination have controlled the officialdom, the six ministries, local officials, and the Hanlin Academy.
Basically, apart from a few chief officials, the vast majority of this secretarial team are already imperial examination officials.
The main reason is that most of those Zhu Yuanzhang killed before were not from the imperial examination.
Either the petty officials are promoted or they are conquered.
Their purge naturally made room for the civil servants in the imperial examination.
This was Zhu Yuanzhang's intention.
To fully shift to the imperial examination system, we must first clean up the old bureaucracy.
He was transforming the Ming Dynasty from disorder in the past to order in the future, from non-institutionalization in the past to institutionalization in the future, and established Confucianism in various places, and then provided him with Confucian students who would take the imperial examination and enter the court to serve as officials for him.
his official.
And it continues from generation to generation.
Confucian scholars began to imagine that they could build their utopia.
The monarch bows his head, and the scholar-bureaucrats govern the world.
but……
This is the age of imperial power!
The emperor is the only boss.
In the end, the struggle between the imperial examination officials and the imperial power began like this, and it did not end until the demise of the Ming Dynasty. The Zhu family's struggle was gone, and the imperial examination officials could only be slaves under the butcher's knife of the foreign race, and Confucianism also became
Nujia. I should tell this story to Zhu Yuanzhang in the future. I wonder if the instigator will be angry to death again. He may not realize it yet. He found that these Confucian scholars are also quite ambitious and should be after the North and South Ranking.
But by then he was already old, and although he could still hold a knife, he had no time to solve the problem.
The North and South List case was in the spring of the 30th year of Hongwu.
He died the following spring.
Yang Feng looked at the carnival-like crowd in front, but he saw an acquaintance inside. He smiled and waved, and among the crowd, Yao Guangxiao put his hands together and saluted with kind eyes...
"Master, have you come to the capital again?"
Yang Feng looked at the demon monk walking towards him.
"A poor monk is a monk who travels north and south to visit eminent monks and study Buddhism."
Yao Guangxiao said.
Zhang Xianzong quickly stood up and saluted.
He actually knew this monster monk, but Yao Guangxiao was appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang to Zhu Di, and his identity was not a secret. Everyone knew that he was a confidant of King Yan. At most, they didn't know that he had a restless soul. Such eminent monks existed in every vassal.
, they also traveled to and from the capital for the vassal princes, and had some private interactions with nobles.
This is no secret.
"I'll introduce you to an eminent monk someday when I'm free!"
Yang Feng said with a smile.
One day I will introduce Zhang Dingbian to him.
Let’s see what kind of sparks this restless demon monk and a restless former tycoon can create when they come together.
They should have a lot in common.
"How many eminent monks does the ambassador recognize?"
Yao Guangxiao said unexpectedly.
Little did he know that this eminent monk had a rebellious soul just like him.
"Of course I do. I recognize many eminent monks. Previously, I and a large group of eminent monks jointly submitted a petition to His Majesty the Emperor, asking for His Majesty's permission. These eminent monks would raise funds to build sea ships, and then go to Tianzhu and the West with the imperial envoys.
The Buddhist country is studying Buddhism. And His Majesty the Emperor has given permission. It is estimated that by this time next year, you can see the ships setting sail. In a year or two at most, you can see them returning with Tianzhu Buddhism.
At that time, let us witness the beauty of the Buddhist Kingdom in the West together, and maybe we will bring some eminent monks from India with us."
Yang Feng said.
There was no obstacle to this plan from Zhu Yuanzhang.
Although Lao Zhu was indeed not interested in Buddhism, he was very interested in contacting the Delhi Sultanate, especially after Yang Feng said they had good horses there...
Of course, the key is that he doesn't have to pay for it.
There are eminent monks who are responsible for paying, and he can send out a few envoys at most. Even the sailors who go out to sea are recruited by eminent monks with money, but the ship will be returned to him after returning. He likes this kind of good thing for free. So he got the imperial edict.
The masters have begun to raise funds to build sea ships, and the plan is to ride the north wind southward next winter.
Going to India in winter and returning in early summer, this is what the Portuguese did later.
The entire journey relies on monsoon winds and ocean currents.
You can make the round trip in one year simply by sea.
But because I have to go to Delhi, and I also have to go to those legendary holy places...
Although the Holy Land is just a ruin.
But this trip will take at least two years.
Now all the faithful men and women from all over the south of the Yangtze River are enthusiastically participating in this grand event. All the major temples are enthusiastically donating, and even the devout old ladies are donating with their pension funds, which makes Zhu Yuanzhang very embarrassed...
You all complained about paying taxes, but you all donated enthusiastically for this kind of thing.
Obviously he is still too good to the masters.
“Amitabha, ambassador’s merits are immeasurable!”
Yao Guangxiao said quickly.
As an eminent monk who is not pious enough to the Buddha, this is how he behaves.
"Prince Yan hasn't returned to Peiping yet?"
Yang Feng asked.
"The poor monk is just a monk and has no interest in worldly affairs. However, when the poor monk set off from Peiping, the king had not yet returned."
Yao Guangxiao said quickly.
He was very wary of Yang Feng.
The main reason was that this guy made him confused. He couldn't figure out what Yang Feng wanted to do. He told him that King Yan would become emperor, and at the same time encouraged Zhu Yuanzhang to suppress the vassal king. He also got close to Zhu Yunxi, which was abnormal no matter how he looked at it.
Knowing that King Yan would become the emperor, of course he should be close to King Yan, but the reality is that this guy even snatched King Yan's women. This was extremely bad in nature and caused public outrage among King Yan's subordinates. In addition, the little princess's informant also made King Yan
Two generals were lost. Nai'erbuhua and Alu Timur have been captured and are being taken to the capital. It is estimated that Lingchi is coming. Although they do want to defect, in the final analysis, it is not because of the uncertain future of King Yan that they have lost their followers.
Confidence.
And none of the other vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were as kind to them as King Yan.
The future of staying in Ming Dynasty is uncertain.
In this case, instead of enduring the harsh laws in the Ming Dynasty, it is better to go to the grassland and be free, anyway, it will be thirty degrees below zero.
It can be said that they were all forced.
Not only them, but also the other generals who were guarding them were panicking. Some people were already working secretly, trying to remove King Yan's guards. After all, for the guarding generals, a vassal king with an uncertain future was obviously not worth following.
Everyone is a military household everywhere, there is no need to be tied to King Yan.
It's not difficult to transfer him.
It can be said that His Majesty the Emperor destroyed King Yan's strength with just one simple move.
The culprit is Yang Feng.
"I heard that Your Majesty intends to let King Yan command the army to conquer Japan."
Yang Feng said.
This has actually been decided.
Zhu Yuanzhang has decided to let Zhu Di go to Xiguancheng, and then assemble the army there. Zhu Di will then lead the expedition against Japan, and the navy led by Zhu Shou has also gone south. After he and the navy led by Yang Wen reunited, they jointly loaded up in Taicang.
Supplies and soldiers, after the change of spring, he went north to Korea to attack the Japanese country as Zhu Di's deputy.
It is estimated that the imperial edict will be issued within these two days.
"Amitabha, the poor monk can only ask the Buddha to bless the king in his triumphant return."
Yao Guangxiao said.
Of course, he was in a very confused mood at this time.
Let the King of Yan attack the Japanese country. What if the crusade is completed and the imperial edict is completed, and the King of Yan simply moves the vassal state to the Japanese country? His Majesty the Emperor has made it clear that he wants to kick these vassal kings far away. The King of Jin was almost kicked to the Western Regions
, the previous assassination case of Yang Feng, to put it bluntly, was that the King of Jin was forced to protest to the emperor in this way. Although it was at the cost of being banned, it still ensured that the fiefdom was secured, and the whole family was not reduced to moving to the Western Regions to eat sand.
Now that His Majesty the Emperor is playing this trick on King Yan again, what should King Yan do? He should also follow the example of King Jin and take violent measures to protest?
He raised his head deeply and saw the strange smile on Yang Feng's face...
"Master, Mr. Yang is also going north in the spring. Are you interested in accompanying him?"