Chapter 217 Carnival in Jiangnan, Zhu Youtang returns to Beijing!
As soon as Yu Shen received the approval from the Director of Ceremonies, he had Zhu Youqian's imperial edict sent to South Zhili, Zhezhou and Ganzhou.
At the same time, Zhu Youtang defeated Tumubao and was captured by the Oara people.
The news that Yu Shen was in danger and elected Zhu Youqi as the emperor to fight against Oala also spread throughout the Ming Dynasty.
When this imperial edict was quickly delivered to the hands of the gentry, wealthy businessmen, landlords, local tyrants, officials, nobles and other privileged classes in the Jiangnan area.
The privileged class in the entire Jiangnan region celebrates with gongs and drums just like the Chinese New Year!
The happiest people are undoubtedly the scholars in the Jiangnan area.
This year is originally the year of the provincial examination, and every student is preparing for the exam this fall.
The Jiangnan area is wealthy, and only where there is money can good education be developed.
The aristocratic families in the Jiangnan area have accumulated a terrifying amount of wealth through continuous smuggling, tax evasion, commerce and other means of making money for hundreds of years.
And these aristocratic families, after they become rich, do not feel sorry for their investment in the education of their sons.
Because they know that in order to maintain the favorable policies in the Jiangnan region, there must be more Jiangnan people in the DPRK.
Jiangnan people’s investment in education, take the number of academies in each region as an example.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were 287 private academies in Ganzhou.
And Shuzhou, the richest state in the southwest, known as the land of abundance, only has 63 academies.
After investing a lot of resources, the cultural level of scholars in the Jiangnan area was comparable to that of people from other places.
However, due to the existence of the north-south ranking system, many Jiangnan scholars who failed the exams were among the best in the northern and southwest regions.
As time went by, people in Jiangnan began to complain about the North-South ranking system.
Obviously their cultural level is high, why do they still give official quotas to the poor people in the north and southwest?
That's not fair!
Because of this, Jiangnan people have a deep obsession with abolishing the system of dividing the north and the south.
And the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not a fool. How could he abolish the north-south ranking system and let the Jiangnan people dominate the court?
So once the Ming court issued an imperial edict to abolish the north-south ranking system, it would definitely mean that the emperor was completely ignored by the civil servants in Jiangnan.
In the history of the Ming Dynasty, the first time in the history of the Ming Dynasty that the North and South divisions were abolished was announced. It was during the Jingtai period. Due to Qian's leadership, Zhu Qiyu was forced to agree.
And this second time, this time because of Shen's leadership, Zhu Youqi was threatened to agree.
In the imperial examination in the second year of Jingtai's reign, there were a total of 201 Jinshis, 174 of whom were from the south.
With such inspiring examples in front of us, how can the scholars in Jiangnan not be happy?
"Hahaha! Finally, the system of dividing the north and the south has been cancelled. This year should be the year when our southern scholars rise!"
"It should have been cancelled! Lord Yu Qian back then Well done, it’s only fair to cancel the north-south ranking list!”
“Those northerners and southwesterners can’t pass the exams for us southerners, and giving them Jinshi places is a clear favoritism to them! ”
"Master Yu Shen is really a good official, an upright and upright official. We want to write a biography for Master Yu Shen and pass on Master Yu Shen's good name."
"Yes, yes, yes, We want Lord Yu Shen, like Lord Yu Qian, to become a good and upright official from generation to generation!"
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The scholars in Jiangnan jumped with excitement, and the noble families in Jiangnan, He even smiled from ear to ear.
They had already accumulated a huge amount of wealth through smuggling by sea.
Then they use this wealth to do business, annex land, collude with officials, and eventually form huge families.
These Jiangnan aristocratic families lived a relatively prosperous life during the Hongxi and Xuande years.
But after six years of orthodoxy, they found that everything had changed.
Emperor Yingzong was actually planning to attack them.
In order to protect their own interests, these Jiangnan aristocratic families have made a lot of efforts, but they have all failed.
Seeing that the smuggling industry they relied on for a living was about to be wiped out by Emperor Yingzong.
Thank God, the Tumubao incident happened!
Emperor Yingzong was captured, Zhu Qiyu came to power, and Yu Qian took power. All crises disappeared, and their smuggling boom came again.
The Jingtai period was the time when these wealthy Jiangnan families who made their fortune through smuggling lived the most prosperous life.
Yu Qian completely opened the door to these smuggling groups, allowing them to smuggle unscrupulously.
At the same time, various taxes were reduced and reduced, allowing these Jiangnan nobles to make a lot of money.
Faced with such a good official who knows how to benefit his hometown, why don’t the wealthy families, landlords, gentry, and noble civil servants in Jiangnan respect and love him?
In the eyes of these privileged classes in Jiangnan, Yu Qian is like a living Bodhisattva and their true God of Wealth.
Later, Emperor Yingzong was restored, and the good days of the Jiangnan nobles came to an end.
Under the rule of Emperor Yingzong, the harder it was for them to make money, the more they resented Emperor Yingzong.
At the same time, they missed Yu Qian and Zhu Qiyu more and more.
They say Yu Qian is the hero who saved Ming Dynasty, then Yu Qian is the hero who saved Ming Dynasty!
Because the right to speak is in their hands, the history books are compiled by them, and all interpretations belong to the Jiangnan gentry.
Ordinary people have no channel to speak out and no right to speak!
So they built temples, monuments and ancestral halls for Yu Qian. Even after Yu Qian was killed by the Yingzong Emperor, he still had to build his tomb and pay homage to him every year.
That's because how much they long to return to the prosperous age of Jingtai!
Go back to the prosperous days in the south when officials could corrupt at will, smuggling groups could smuggle at will, landlords could annex land at will, and Jiangnan scholars occupied the entire court!
And now, the appearance of Yu Shen will once again bring these Jiangnan nobles back to the prosperous age of their dreams!
Now in the eyes of these Jiangnan nobles, Yu Shen is already a great hero second only to Yu Qian!
"It's great! It's great! Mr. Yu Shen is taking us back to the prosperous age of Jingtai!"
"In the prosperous age of Jingtai, the name of the new emperor has been decided. It should be It’s said to be the prosperous age of Jingyuan.”
“Yes, yes! Master Yu Shen takes care of us like this, we will definitely do it. We can’t let Master Yu Shen feel cold! We must spread the heroic deeds of Master Yu Shen!”
“Master Yu Shen was ordered to save the Ming Dynasty from fire and water, and continue the country for the Ming Dynasty!”
"Master Yu Shen, you have the power to recreate the Ming Dynasty!"
"Quick! Hurry up and send someone to erect another statue for Lord Yu Shen next to the statue of Lord Yu Qian in Qiantang County, Hangzhou Prefecture!" , How could they not express anything when such a great hero was born in their hometown?”
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The Jiangnan nobles laughed from ear to ear, and the officials in the south were equally happy.
The only regret is that the capital of Ming Dynasty was not changed from Beijing to Nanjing.
However, they have also received the news. When the situation is completely stabilized, they will start to move the capital.
When they thought that their long-cherished wish to move the capital for nearly a hundred years was about to be fulfilled, the officials of the Six Ministries of Nanjing were so moved that they wanted to cry.
They are finally no longer dispensable sinecures, they are finally beginning to enter the center of power in the Ming Dynasty!
In the next month, the entire Jiangnan area was silent in the joy of carnival.
In this month, Yu Shen's defense of the capital is gradually improving.
A large number of soldiers continued to gather around the capital.
At this time, the number of troops around the capital had reached 250,000.
There were only 50,000 of them, the border troops brought by Cao Li from Liaodong.
The other 200,000 people are all people that Yu Shendong pieced together and transferred from various places.
At this time, Yu Shen had already spread the news that Zhu Youtang was captured by the Oara people.
The people of the Ming Dynasty who did not know why, because there were examples of Emperor Yingzong being captured, did not doubt his existence and believed him to be true.
So at this time, the defense work around the capital was done on the scale of the capital defense battle.
In order to prevent Zhu Youtang from returning to Beijing, Yu Shen spent a lot of money.
Except for the 10,000 horses that he asked the Ministry of Industry to rush to make, all the soldiers who were transferred to the capital by him were given one tael of silver first.
Yu Shen got this money from Zhu Youtang's internal funds.
Subsequently, Yu Shen formulated a complete reward mechanism.
All officers and men in Beijing, kill a thief, receive a reward of ten taels of silver, and raise the general flag!
Kill two thieves, reward twenty taels of silver, and be promoted to a hundred households!
Kill the deputy general, reward one hundred taels of silver, and get promoted to a thousand households!
Those who can kill generals and capture flags will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver and promoted to commander!
As long as we can prevent Zhu Youtang from returning to Beijing, even if it means emptying out Zhu Youtang's internal funds, what's the harm?
The last time this kind of reward appeared in the Ming Dynasty was during the defense battle of the capital organized by Yu Qian.
The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty have always been extremely stingy in their treatment of soldiers. On weekdays, they could not even guarantee that the food and wages that the soldiers deserved could be paid out on time.
Yu Shen was so generous all of a sudden. It was really to prevent Zhu Youtang from returning to Beijing, and he did everything possible.
After mobilizing a large number of soldiers and horses, Yu Shen came up with the idea of the East and West factories and Jin Yiwei.
Yu Shen still remembers how ferocious and domineering these factory guards were during Zhu Youtang's rule, suppressing the officials in the capital to death.
Yu Shen is simply salivating over the powerful power of the factory guards.
Not only the level of force of the factory guards themselves, but also the intelligence network of the factory guards.
Because the factory guards took orders directly from the emperor, Yu Shen asked Zhu Youqi to give the order with the intention of mobilizing some of the remaining factory guards in the capital.
But what surprised Yu Shen was that the factory guards didn't listen to Zhu Youqian's orders at all.
Even if Zhu Youqi had ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he could not mobilize the soldiers of the factory guards.
In the capital, no matter who gave orders to the factory guards, they would be ignored.
This made Yu Shen very angry. He was very depressed when he saw that the factory guard couldn't eat this piece of fat.
He wanted to rectify the factory guards, but he ran out of time.
Because at Juyongguan, a battle report came.
The Supreme Emperor Zhu Youtang led his troops back to Beijing!
(End of this chapter)