Chapter 306 Jin Yiwei’s violent law enforcement
The emperor wants to visit the lake.
It will inevitably take a lot of trouble, and the lives of the people of Nanjing will naturally be affected by it.
Officials in Nanjing may not necessarily do well in government affairs such as training the army, organizing city defenses, and benefiting the people and strengthening the country, but they are still very good at asking Emperor Zhu Hou to take care of a good snow.
By the time Zhu Houzhao left Yuyuan, the entire city of Nanjing was completely new. The snow-covered roads had been cleared and covered with soft loess.
There was no common person on the road that the royal driver had to pass. The officers and soldiers wearing new armor stood neatly on the roadside. The whole city of Nanjing seemed to become quiet all of a sudden, so quiet that the only sound was the sound of snowflakes falling on the ground.
Zhu Houzhao could guess that in order to achieve this effect, the officials of Nanjing City must have spent a lot of people and financial resources, and it also greatly affected the lives of the people of Nanjing.
But now that Zhu Houzhao has decided to be a foolish king for the time being, he naturally cannot consider these things and cannot take the interests of the people at heart.
You should just focus on enjoying yourself.
This time, Zhu Houzhao naturally did not ride a horse, but sat in a carriage and horse-drawn carriage covered with thick felt, slowly heading towards Xuanwu Lake.
Because Zhu Houzhao did not ride a horse, the officials accompanying him no longer had to ride with him. They even came in sedans or carriages with Zhu Houzhao's permission.
At this time, the officials were naturally very grateful to Zhu Houzhao, and they no longer had to worry about being embarrassed because of their lack of riding skills.
The snow scene of Xuanwu Lake is not bad, the sky and water are the same color, and the top and bottom are white. However, Zhu Houzhao did not take a boat, but changed to a sedan and chariot and only walked on the shore of Xuanwu Lake. All the officials got off the sedan and got off to follow.
"Your Majesty, look at the beautiful scenery on the lake, and the delicate plum blossoms standing on the isolated island are extremely beautiful!"
"Your Majesty, I have already prepared a painted boat, and there is a beautiful lady inside waiting for tea!"
"Your Majesty, why don't you take a trip on the boat?"
Wang Xianchen suggested something from the side. Zhu Houzhao just smiled and refused to go into the lake. He just picked a plum blossom and threw it into the water: "Wang Qing, I heard that you are an outstanding poet, so you can go out for me first and take a boat ride." Go to the other side and bring me the beauty who is holding plum blossoms on the island. Before you come back, write a good poem."
Wang Xianchen was a little surprised and felt a little nervous: "My lord, I don't dare. This lake has not been visited by the emperor for the first time. How can I dare to be the first?"
"This is an imperial edict!"
Zhu Houzhao said coldly, and immediately Qi Jingtong and Guo Rong on the side drew their swords.
Seeing this, Wang Xianchen could only hold his hands in his hands: "Yes, I obey the order!"
Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly and stood on the shore, watching Wang Xianchen board the boat.
Wang Xianchen got onto the boat tremblingly, and told Mei Ji on the boat: "Don't open the plug, Zhu Houzhao didn't come up!"
After Wang Xianchen finished speaking, he glanced at Zhu Houzhao on the shore.
Seeing that the boat was fine, Zhu Houzhao felt a little at ease, thinking to himself that these Nanjing officials and gentry did not dare to stage a drama of falling into the water for him.
Not long after, Wang Xianchen brought back the beauty holding plum blossoms. The beauty only asked Wang Xianchen: "Father, what should I do if this foolish king refuses to come to paint the boat?"
"Then you stand on the boat and don't come out later. You just want your majesty to come to the boat to meet you! I believe that the foolish king will not remain indifferent after seeing my daughter's beauty."
As Wang Xianchen said this, he stood at the end of the boat and headed towards the shore.
At this time, Wang Xianchen's daughter Wang Yunniang had unveiled her veil and held plum blossoms in her arms to salute.
When the officials on the shore saw this, they all whispered: "It is indeed a beautiful country. Who thought of this? I'm afraid your majesty's soul will be taken away!"
At this time, Wang Xianchen also raised his hand to Zhu Houzhao and said: "Your Majesty, the poems I just wrote are all in this woman's mouth. Your Majesty can let her read it."
"Okay, let her read it!" Zhu Houzhao nodded.
Wang Yunniang then started to read.
Zhu Houzhao looked at the other officials who were all fascinated. He thought that in this era when there was no profession of voice actors, these officials were fascinated by just a nice female voice, but as a person on the Internet, he People who have lived in this era have never seen anything, so they just wave their hands: "The poem is too bad, please shut up this woman!"
"Your Majesty, please shut up immediately, your poem is too bad!"
The eunuch Fojun shouted.
Wang Xianchen immediately blushed with embarrassment and suddenly felt like he had been slapped.
Wang Yunniang couldn't help but shut her mouth.
Wen Zhengming almost laughed out loud.
At this moment, Jin Yiwei Liu Shi ran up: "Your Majesty, Mr. Wang Ge has arrived in Nandu and is waiting to meet you outside Hongwu Gate!"
Zhu Houzhao nodded: "Guo Rong, send a few good watermen to seize the painting boat where Wang Yushi is! Before taking it away, explore the bottom of the boat."
"Obey!"
After Guo Rong finished speaking, he ordered a few people to go.
As a result, several Jin Yiwei jumped into Xuanwu Lake and came towards the painting boat.
Wang Xianchen didn't hear clearly what Zhu Houzhao and the Jinyi guards said on the shore. Seeing these Jinyi guards swimming over, he was a little panicked: "Your Majesty, what are you doing? I, I don't understand."
"Your Majesty, there is something wrong with this ship!" As soon as a royal guard finished speaking, he felt his throat tightening and he was immediately floating on the water, with blood pouring out.
Zhu Houzhao looked back at Xu Pengju and Li Zan: "What do you want to do?"
"Your Majesty, I don't know!"
Xu Pengju and Li Zan were so frightened that they knelt down, and other Nanjing officials also knelt down.
"Hurry, swim away quickly, this plan has been exposed! Hurry!"
Wang Xianchen panicked. As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a chill on the back of his neck. He stretched out his hand and touched it. It was full of blood, and he fell to the ground.
Guo Rong had quick eyes and quick hands and fired a shot, killing Wang Yunniang on the spot as she tried to attack her from behind. Immediately, he ordered: "Be careful underwater! There is also a painting inside the boat!"
At this time, Qi Jingtong also brought a dozen tall Jinyi guards to take care of Zhu Hou in the middle, and they were close to each other.
The assassin hiding in the dark also knew that it was impossible to assassinate Zhu Houzhao, so he did not plan this step at all. He only hunted and killed the people on the boat and some officials and gentry on the shore.
They are silencing them!
Zhu Houzhao's first reaction at this time was that he didn't know which of the officials and gentry kneeling in front of him were involved in this matter, and which of them would be killed. The only thing he could be sure of was that the beauty holding plum blossoms on the boat must be involved in this matter. thing.
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao ordered: "Protect the beauty holding plum blossoms. If she is killed, commit suicide!"
"Yes!"
Guo Rong immediately stood up from the shore, turned over, put on his duck-foot shoes, and skimmed the water. It seemed that the assassin in secret knew his purpose, and shot four or five sharp arrows at him first, but Guo Rong then He had already fallen into the water, and with a twist of the blade, the sharp arrow was deflected and only entered the water.
The Jinyi guards on the shore were holding short crossbows or muskets to control the water surface in the Huafang area. All the beauties on the Huafang were shot or wounded before taking the next step. Anyone who dared to take the lead in the Huafang area on both sides of the bank was immediately shot in the head. .
At this time, Guo Rong and the Jin Yiwei in the water had already begun to fight with the assassin who was trying to sneak attack on the plum-embracing beauty.
Zhu Houzhao and Baomeimei both looked at the water, seeing blood emerging from the water from time to time, and seeing the blade stirring up waves in the cold water.
Zhu Houzhao smiled playfully at the beauty.
ah!
But at this time, a scream came, an official was hit by an arrow, and he was killed on the spot!
Firearms and gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty were strictly controlled and numbered, and it was difficult to master the use of new firearms without professional training. The old firearms, namely matchlocks, were not suitable for assassination at all and could not be used for assassination in water. Therefore, it was difficult to play this game. This kind of assassination can only be done by crossbow arrows.
Zhu Houzhao did not feel any regret when he saw this official being killed, because all those who were assassinated at this time were accomplices.
ah!
Another scream!
An official and gentry also fell to the ground on the spot and died of anger!
Mei Ji, who was still alive in the boat, was also killed by a secret assassin with one arrow! They died of anger one after another!
"These people are so ruthless in killing their own people!"
Zhu Houzhao thought to himself.
The boat began to sink.
Only the Jin Yiwei were left around the boat. It was obvious that with the help of the weapons of the Jin Yiwei on the shore and the heroic fighting of the Jin Yiwei in the water, the assassins were no match.
The beauty holding plum blossoms was also brought ashore, but she was held tightly. Even her throat was pinched by Guo Rong to prevent herself from swallowing poison and committing suicide.
Wen Zhengming consciously stood on the outside, but was not killed by the assassin, which made Zhu Houzhao very relieved.
"Assassins can sneak into such an important place as Xuanwu Lake! You are doing a good job!"
Zhu Houzhao scolded the Nanjing officials who were still alive on the shore, and returned the same way under the protection of Qi Jingtong and others.
Looking at the dozens of officials and gentry who had been killed on the shore, Zhu Houzhao only sighed: "I disappoint you! I'm so sorry!"
"Send a message to Wang Shouren! Let him come to Mochou Lake to see me." After Zhu Houzhao said that, he saw that Xu Pengju was not around. He couldn't help but look back and saw Xu Pengju behind him, so he hurriedly called over: "Wei Guogong!"
"Your Majesty, yes, what are your orders?" Xu Pengju hurriedly trembled and ran over.
As soon as Xu Pengju came closer, Zhu Houzhao smelled the smell of urine and couldn't help but block his nose with his hands: "Go to Yuyuan to save people! That is your Xu family's property. It would be a pity if it was burned!"
Xu Pengju couldn't understand, but he still listened to the order.
An hour later, as soon as Xu Pengju arrived at the Qinhuai River, he heard a loud bang, and soon saw a fire in his Yuyuan, which turned half of the sky red.
"This, this, who did this! Put out the fire quickly, find someone to put out the fire!" Xu Pengju shouted in a hurry.
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Zhu Houzhao was already upstairs at Shengqi in Mochou Lake and said to Wang Shouren: "The water in the south of the Yangtze River is really deep. I have become a foolish emperor. They still want to get rid of me and replace me with an emperor."
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"Your Majesty's move is just to deceive the Duke of Wei and others. Who doesn't know your Majesty's methods? They are also taking advantage of your tactics. They know that Your Majesty is pretending to be a fool, so they try their best to please Your Majesty, and then lure you to the water. Come here. A man fell into the water and contracted the disease. When the time comes, all the ministers can say is that it was caused by your majesty playing in the water;
This plan is perfect, and there are beauties to lure it. Your Majesty, you can suspect that the food is poisonous, you can suspect that the ministers have evil intentions, and you can worry about assassination, but there are only a few beauties on the boat, and the lake is calm, so you should not be able to I suspect that there is fraud in this, but His Majesty's wisdom is not comparable to theirs. I believe that Your Majesty must have seen some flaw! ”
Wang Shouren replied.
"I'm not that smart, and I'm not even as smart as these people who are doing tricks behind the scenes. I thought that by pretending to be discouraged and imitating Li Longji, I would be able to make these people relax their vigilance, but I didn't expect that they wouldn't know how to do it at all. I believe, it can be seen that I am not as cunning as these people, I am just more sensitive to lake tours! I hate lake tours! I also hate it when others suggest me to go lake tours!”
After Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, he ordered: "Publish the edict that anyone who advises the emperor to visit the lake in the future will be killed without mercy!"
Wang Shouren was very horrified and thought, so it turns out that His Majesty the Emperor hates visiting lakes? In the early years of Zhengde, didn't His Majesty once swim across the lake with Xueshi Yang, but that time Xueshi Yang fell into the water and died of illness as a result.
The more Wang Shouren thought about it, the more horrified he became, and he thought to himself: "Your Majesty is so sensitive about visiting the lake now. Could it be related to Xueshi Yang's visit to the lake?"
Wang Shouren thought about it carefully and became frightened without realizing it.
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"Your Highness, the Xuanwu Lake incident has failed, but fortunately all those involved in the case have been silenced. Only one Wang Yunniang was saved by the Jin Yiwei!"
On a flower boat on the Qinhuai River, a boatman knelt in front of a curtain, while the person inside the curtain kept covering his face and refused to show his face. Moreover, he was dressed as a daughter, and his only voice sounded like a drake:
"Fortunately, she, Wang Yuniang, was willing to participate in this matter with her father only because her cousin Gan Yi wanted to divorce his wife. He wanted to kill Gan Yi, including his whole family, and even those who had contact with Gan Yi. A living mouth!”
"Yes!"
The boatman replied and said: "My subordinates thought that the emperor would return to Yuyuan after the incident at Xuanwu Lake was exposed, so he used the informant we arranged in the Duke's Palace of Wei to enter the kitchen in the name of delivering oil and salt, and took the opportunity to break into the kitchen. Entering the Yuyuan Garden, he burned down the Yuyuan Garden, but still failed. The emperor did not go to the Yuyuan Garden, but to Mochou Lake!
The Xu family does not dare to be careless now. At the emperor's request, Xu Pengju transferred all the children who were not born in the family (the concept of children born in the family is please Baidu, I will not explain it here). Now the area around Mochou Lake is occupied by the emperor's personal family and the three generations of the Xu family. Check the old man. ”
"How reckless! Even if Zhu Houzhao returns to Yuyuan, you may not be able to threaten him by burning down Yuyuan. Now it will only increase his vigilance! I have said it countless times, don't act rashly, don't act rashly, you are not very sure Don’t talk about the assassination lightly, why don’t you understand?”
The boatman hurriedly handed over his hands to apologize: "Your Highness taught you a lesson!"
"Go ahead. After destroying Gan Yiman's family, don't return to Jiangnan within three years!"
After the man said this, he added: "I have to leave Jiangnan for a while! This is the medicine left for you. It only lasts for three months. Come to the old place to find me within three months!"
"Thank you, Your Highness!" the boatman said and then retreated.
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Zhu Houzhao looked at Wang Yuniang, who was biting her thin lips and looking lonely and cold: "Tell me, why did you murder me with your father?"
"Because you are a foolish king!" Wang Yunniang replied.
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but laugh: "You can say that I am a tyrant, but if you say that I am a coward, it would be biased!"
"You are the foolish king! My cousin said that as soon as you came to Jiangnan, you slept with the wives and daughters, took property, seized the houses of public honors as your own den, and made the people of Nanjing miserable! My father couldn't bear that the Ming Dynasty fell to the foolish king. He also wanted to do harm to the people, so he let me lure him with sex, but I didn’t expect that you, a foolish king, would be so vigilant!”
Wang Yunniang spoke loudly.
Zhu Houzhao told Guo Rong: "Go and find out, who is her cousin?"
However, at this time, Liu Shi ran up: "Your Majesty, the latest news I received is that within the day before yesterday, all fifty-seven members of Suzhou Prefecture's student Gan Yi's family were killed!
At the same time, forty-six students from Suzhou Fuxue were also killed!
Seventeen members of Suzhou Xinde Literary Society died suddenly one after another!
According to the discovery of the local Jin Yiwei, all those killed were related to Gan Yi! It is estimated that the memorial from the Suzhou prefect will be submitted soon. ”
"Shut up!"
Guo Rong said something first.
"One hundred and twenty lives! These dark forces are really straightforward in their work!"
When Zhu Houzhao was talking, Wang Shouren glanced at Wang Yunniang: "Your Majesty, the clue is broken!"
Zhu Houzhao did not answer, but he knew that Wang Shouren was right. Fifty-seven members of a family were killed. It might be a vendetta, but not only the family but also everyone related to them were killed, which shows that the murderer really just wanted to silence them.
"Cousin!"
Wang Yunniang's cry with sorrow further proved this point.
But Zhu Houzhao also looked at Wang Yunniang and ordered: "Watch her carefully! After her mood recovers, ask her about her cousin!"
As Zhu Houzhao spoke, he asked Wang Shouren: "Has Nanjing's city defense and surrounding areas been completely taken over by the Guards?"
"Your Majesty, we have taken over completely," Wang Shouren replied.
"Tomorrow, I will meet with all the ministers from the south of the Yangtze River at Mochou Lake. It is a beautiful and wealthy place, but murders occur frequently. In the markets, fights, beatings, murders, robberies, thefts, and market dominance are common. The rich get richer. , the poor are getting poorer, roads and bridges are not built as densely as in border towns, and taxes are not as high as those in Guangdong and Guangxi. This is the fault of the politicians!”
Zhu Houzhao gave an instruction and stated the purpose of his court meeting.
As an emperor, he naturally would not focus on solving this assassination case, but he also discovered that no matter whether he was a faint emperor or a wise emperor, as long as he ruled the empire, there would be people who were ambitious or dissatisfied with the status quo. If you feel disloyal to yourself, instead of being like this, you might as well follow your own heart, no matter who is wise or foolish, and make it difficult for anyone who wants to make you feel bad.
Zhu Houzhao could see this assassination case. This was a plan arranged by the local forces in Jiangnan in advance. They were waiting for him to come to Jiangnan to teach themselves a lesson. Naturally, they were worried that they would do what they did before when they came to Jiangnan in person. The tax administration in Jiangnan was also reformed and the imperial government's control over Jiangnan was strengthened.
However, Zhu Houzhao didn't know if other forces were involved, because based on his understanding of the Jiangnan gentry, it was not possible for these literati in Jiangnan to be able to kill people so simply.
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"Most of the world's taxes come from Jiangnan, and look at what Jiangnan has done to you! Since you can't manage it well, I will take charge of it myself!"
Zhu Houzhao continued: "After hearing Wang Shouren's decree, I decided to establish the Jiangnan Special Management Zone, with Yingtian, Suzhou, Songjiang, Huzhou, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Shaoxing prefectures as its jurisdiction, and ordered Wang Shouren to supervise it." Study in the south of the Yangtze River and rectify the military and political affairs in the south of the Yangtze River for me!”
"I accept the decree!"
Wang Shouren stood up and replied.
In the past few days, Zhu Houzhao has given him instructions, and he also knows what His Majesty the Emperor wants him to do. Among them, the most important thing to do is to perform the court functions, rectify the commercial order in Jiangnan, eradicate all local forces that hinder Jiangnan trade, and let the interests flow to the south. The people and the court were concentrated.
The officials in Nanjing also looked horrified at this moment. They did not expect that the emperor, who had begun to indulge in his own indulgence these days, would suddenly make such a big move and establish a Jiangnan Special Management Zone, which would also be in charge of the richest areas in the world. These several prefectures.
"Wei Guogong Xu Pengju, Pengcheng Bo Zhang Qin, and Fu Qiang Bo Mao Rui were in charge of military affairs in the south of the Yangtze River. The Nanjing Army and the Fourth and Seventh Divisions of the Guards were temporarily designated as the First, Second, and Third Divisions of Jinyiwei." Jin Yiwei, follow Wang Shouren's instructions to rectify the public security and trade order in Jiangnan! Li Zan, the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, is responsible for the political organization and logistics of the third division! ”
After Zhu Houzhao said this, all the above-mentioned officials came forward to receive the order.
Several other officials were okay, but Xu Pengju didn't know what he was going to do. He asked Li Zan in a low voice, somewhat confused: "Li Butang, what is your Majesty doing?"
"Your Majesty wants to kill people, and your Majesty wants you to be His Majesty's sword!" Li Zan replied.
"Kill?"
Xu Pengju couldn't help being shocked, and almost collapsed to the ground in fear: "Your Majesty, you want me to kill someone? But I don't even dare to kill a chicken!"
"You are the noble representative of Nanjing, the first aristocratic family in Jiangnan, and even one of the only princes since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. If you don't use His Majesty's sword to kill for His Majesty, His Majesty will only kill you! The British Duke and Cheng Guo You should know what the fate of the father-in-law will be," Li Zan said.
"What do you mean by this?" Xu Pengju asked.
"The British Duke made His Majesty's sword and killed the ministers of the court for His Majesty. Now the British Duke Zhang Lun's reputation in the government and the public has become the first noble of the Ming Dynasty. But the Duke of Guo was exterminated by His Majesty because he colluded with the civil servants and refused to be His Majesty's sword. ! ”
When Li Zan said this, Xu Pengju suddenly realized it. For a moment, he broke out in sweat, secretly wondering who His Majesty wanted to kill.
Zhu Houzhao did want to kill people, but now he cannot kill people casually. According to the original intention of governing the country according to laws, he must legislate first and then kill people.
The outline of the constitution stipulates that legislative power lies in the hands of the emperor.
Therefore, there is no contradiction between Zhu Houzhao's desire to govern the country according to laws and his sometimes desire to rule the world alone.
Zhu Houzhao asked Wang Shouren to formulate for himself the most stringent laws in history to crack down on evil and eliminate evil. No matter who it is, as long as it hinders commercial trade, engages in malicious competition, malicious business operations, forms gangs, evades taxes and avoids taxes, and prevents people from free trade, they will be punished. Kill it!
Wang Shouren is a military strategist, good at military management, and he is as strict in enforcing his laws as he is in enforcing military laws. What's more, the three armies he currently holds in his hands to rectify Jiangnan, except Xu Pengju's Nanjing Army, the other two are originally regular army.
"Wei Guogong, you lead the first division to rectify the Yingtian and Zhenjiang areas. Peng Chengbo, you lead the second division to rectify the Susong Changwu area. Fu Qiangbo, you lead the third division to rectify the Hangjiahu area! You are responsible for suppressing it with force. Li Butang is responsible for informing you in advance! I will patrol at any time!”
After Wang Shouren said this, all these officials took the order and left.
But at that time, the local forces in the prefectures above Jiangnan did not take this seriously. A few green men still went their own way outside Nanjing, knocking down farmers who were going to the city to sell cotton yarn privately and beating them on the ground.
Pengcheng Bo Zhang Qin happened to lead his troops out of the city. Without saying a word, his Jin Yiwei directly obeyed the order and went up and hacked these green skinned men to death on the spot!
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"Robbery!"
In Zhenjiang Prefecture, a merchant pointed at the robbers who were driving away in a boat and shouted. At this time, Jin Yiwei happened to arrive in a boat. He immediately chased after him and shot all the robbers on the boat to death!
Coincidentally, Zhu Houzhao's newly expanded Jinyiwei is playing the role of law enforcers throughout Jiangnan, using violence to regulate business order and maintain public security!
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