Chapter 378 Hai Rui checks the Xu family
Now Emperor Zhu Zailei completely believed in radio communication technology and took the initiative to build a radio room in Qianqing Palace.
Radio stations have also been established in Nanjing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Wuchang, Haojing and other places.
Whether it is the Supreme Emperor Zhu Houzhao or his subordinate officials who have important matters, they can directly contact Emperor Zhu Zailei in a short period of time.
Ming Dynasty began to enter a new era of information exchange.
This also means that the society of Ming Dynasty will undergo new changes, which will even affect the entire world.
But there are still people who realize this.
Military wars between foreign vassals and indigenous countries were frequent.
England destroyed Scotland and Ireland and established a powerful British Empire. The monarch Zhu Zaixu continued to implement a monarchical dictatorship. Without parliamentary restrictions, he began to accept the advice of Confucian ministers, rest with the people, and even began to export grain to the Ming Dynasty.
However, England still united with the Western King Zhu Zaijun to destroy France and evenly divided the French territory.
Zhu Zaijun and Zhu Zaixun, the two descendants of the Ming Dynasty royal family, seem to have no intention of vigorously developing the commodity economy. They suppress the bourgeoisie internally, develop agriculture, monopolize trade externally, export grain to the Ming Dynasty, and even use surplus labor and surplus wealth. Used in opening up territories.
The source of weapons is the Royal Industrial Company controlled by several major consortiums behind the Ming Dynasty's Central Empire.
Of course, the biggest boss behind these consortiums is Zhu Houzhao.
The King of England and the King of the West even fought with each other in order to occupy territory. Under the control of the Ming Central Empire, the two had different victories and defeats, but they finally reached an agreement through negotiations with the help of the envoy sent by Zhu Houzhao. A line was drawn between the Loire River, the Danube River, and the Carpathian Mountains. The north of the line belonged to the King of England, and the south of the line belonged to the King of the West.
Of course, Zhu Houzhao prohibited them from expanding east of the Black Sea.
However, they did abide by the agreement Zhu Houzhao asked them to reach and began to build the empire one by one to the north and one to the south.
The expansion of the British King Zhu Zaiyi was obviously more difficult than that of the Western King Zhu Zaiyi.
Because the Western King Zhu Zaiyi took the initiative to join Catholicism and took advantage of the contradictions in religious beliefs to easily unite the principalities to defeat the Ottoman Empire. In addition, the Ming Governor in Ceuta also united with the Western King in order to open the Suez Canal and prevent the Ottoman Empire from moving south.
But these are not matters worthy of much attention domestically.
During Zhu Houzhao's visit to England, the Ming Central Empire's victories in several naval battles also made the people realize that it was now difficult for overseas vassals to resist the Ming court. Even if the court asked them to donate taxes, they would not dare to violate it again.
Domestic politicians are still concerned about how they can obtain more benefits and be more extravagant in this peaceful age.
On the second day after Zhu Zailei returned from Zhu Houzhao, the imperial censor He Weibo impeached Qi Jiguang for crimes such as killing ministers without authorization and being domineering, and requested that he be brought to the Ministry of Punishment for legal action. However, he was beaten back by Yang Lin, the censor of Zuodu.
The reason why Yang Lin, the imperial censor of Zuodu, fought back was that Qi Jiguang was not considered an expert in killing, because Qi Jiguang followed the military law, and Zhao Wenhua was also killed for participating in military affairs at this time, so he should follow the military law system. As long as the Privy Council of the Guards and the General Military Law Office As long as there are no objections, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has no right to interfere.
"The Emperor's move was really cruel back then. He let military generals take charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and civilian officials serve as censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. This is equivalent to letting the military attachés control our civil servants. Now the impeachment memorial of He Weibo, the censor, cannot reach the level of heaven, and now it is not possible. I can only hold my nose and accept this loss!”
Xu Jie was helpless when he found out.
Zhu Houzhao saw that the civil servants had not caused much trouble now, and he also knew why he had appointed Wu Chen as the censor of Zuodu.
After all, officials like Yang Lin, who was a senior general of the Guards, knew military law and dared to go against the entire civil service group.
Zhu Houzhao did not kill the gentry in the Ming Dynasty like he did in England with the bourgeoisie in England. Therefore, with the help of open trade and industrial development, the power of the gentry in the country is still very large. To be precise, they are the imperial middle class. Ming Dynasty is the most developed country in the world, with the largest natural middle class.
Therefore, there were still many gentry in the Ming Dynasty, but now they had to pay taxes and be subject to more fair legal restrictions.
Ming Dynasty's maritime trade, large-scale mining, manufacturing and finance industries were all controlled by the Ming Dynasty royal family and several large chaebols controlled by the royal family. In other words, the most profitable business in Ming Dynasty was basically controlled by the royal family and several large chaebols. If these middle-level gentry want to become richer chaebols, they can only expropriate the Han people at the bottom.
However, the royal family and the large plutocrats who controlled the Ming Dynasty were naturally unwilling to allow these gentry to exploit the lower-class Han people too harshly. Therefore, Hai Rui, who represented the interests of the imperial court, would not be too polite to these gentry after arriving at Yingtian Mansion.
As soon as Hai Rui arrived at Yingtian Mansion, he strengthened the management of Yingtian Mansion. The gentry also knew that Hai Rui's temper was much more restrained than usual. Businessmen no longer gave gifts to officials, and officials no longer dared to take cards. Avoid being caught by Hai Rui and treating the sore spots.
Although these gentry were very careful, some common people still complained in front of Hai Rui, and directly complained to the chief minister of the cabinet, Xu Jie, for occupying people's fields.
Zhu Houzhao changed everything in the Ming Dynasty for so many years. Even the imperial examinations evolved into only the national higher education admissions examination and official selection examinations hosted by the provinces. However, he did not carry out land reform, let alone turn private land into public land.
Therefore, the phenomenon of land annexation still exists, and naturally there will still be conflicts between people and land.
It was just that Zhu Houzhao turned landless people into urban workers through the development of industry.
It is not surprising that local noble families like Xu Jie's family would still invade people's land in this world. Many times, people can only accept the fact that their land is occupied, just because they can still survive by entering the city to work, so they do not suffer from this Raise an uprising.
Of course, the people of the Ming Dynasty could not be content with their land being occupied, not to mention that after the popularization of education, they would be more able to use the law to proactively fight for and protect their rights and interests.
Now that Hai Rui has come to Yingtian as governor, these people are naturally more confident and immediately complained to Hai Rui.
Although in today's Ming Dynasty, there are examination laws and strict anti-corruption laws, and the official income and treatment are also much richer, but the administration is not really very clear. After all, as long as we are human, we will have selfish desires. Even though many officials in the Ming Dynasty are members of the Zhongjun Society, those who can be officials are smart people. How can they be brainwashed by one or two sets of theories? They may even be the ones who are most opposed to the theories. It is impossible to make government as clear as water as soon as possible, just as there cannot be absolute fairness in this world. However, the rights of ordinary people have also been greatly increased. They are no longer humble, and they cannot become slaves, unless they are really too lazy and willing to sell out. Dignity exists in this world.
Therefore, these gentry and officials did not dare to bully the people too harshly.
Nowadays, as the literacy rate increases, there are not many ignorant people, and the people have more and more opinions of their own. The emergence of officials like Hai Rui naturally gives the people a better opportunity to safeguard their rights and interests.
Hai Rui was naturally not afraid of power. He found out the truth and forced the Xu family to vomit out all the land they had misappropriated. He also reported the Xu family's violation of laws to the court.
Emperor Zhu Zailei saw that Hai Rui's memorandum about all the illegal acts of Xu Jie's son did not allow the arrest of Xu Jie's son, so he suppressed the matter.
The reason is simple. Emperor Zhu Zailei doesn't want this matter to get too big.
Zhu Houzhao originally sent Hai Rui to Yingtian as governor in order to teach Xu Jie a lesson. Now Emperor Zhu Zailei will naturally not care whether he wants to deal with Xu Jie's son according to the law. He believes that the people will ask him to do so. Go ahead and take care of it.
Because today's Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty that ruled the world before. The people gradually regard themselves as the masters of the empire, and gradually begin to demand the rulers of the empire to do things according to their will.
Hai Rui reported Xu Jie's son's misappropriation of hundreds of thousands of acres of private land to the local newspapers in Yingtianfu. Now that the radio was used, the "Huangming Newspaper" immediately reported the matter, so everyone in the world soon knew about it. Xu Jie's two sons were ineffective.
Yang Jisheng, the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment, wrote a memorial asking His Majesty the Emperor to deal with Xu Jie's son according to the law. After all, the evidence provided by Hai Rui was conclusive and the Metropolitan Procuratorate had reviewed it. He was waiting for the Emperor's permission before arresting him.
Emperor Zhu Zailei could not protect Xu Jie, so he had to agree to deal with Xu Jie's son according to local laws.
Xu Jie was also helpless about this. He knew that when he met a serious official like Hai Rui, even if he had a high position and authority, it would be useless. Even if the emperor was willing to help him, he believed that Hai Rui was definitely not the same as him in Yingtian Mansion. What people don’t want to see.
Of course, the only person who can help Xu Jie is the Supreme Emperor Zhu Houzhao.
Only Zhu Houzhao can still forcefully trample on the law, because Zhu Houzhao still holds military power and has a lofty status.
But Zhu Houzhao naturally would not help Xu Jie, after all, he arranged all this.
Zhu Houzhao would not trample the laws of the Ming Dynasty for Xu Jie. It is true that he is the person who truly holds the supreme power in the Ming Dynasty, but he is not willing to go against the grain and let the people of the Ming Dynasty continue to be the slaves of the emperor.
Zhu Houzhao is now also thinking about how the Ming Dynasty will go after a hundred years. If Emperor Zhu Zailei takes over his military power, what he can guess is that Emperor Zhu Zailei will become the next dictator and will have the most power in the empire. Wealth and the most powerful army.
But what if the emperors after Emperor Zhu Zailei become weak emperors who only care about their own selfish interests or are incompetent emperors? Zhu Houzhao felt that he could not rely on the subjective perception that the peaceful and prosperous lives of hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty would be wise in future generations of emperors. superior.
Moreover, Zhu Houzhao believed that as the people became richer and had higher and higher demands for dignity, they would become increasingly unwilling to have their dignity trampled on by the emperor, unless the emperor could give them more benefits, so much that they would not care about dignity. , However, once the emperor cannot give, they will definitely oppose the emperor or even overthrow the emperor.
Zhu Houzhao found that if the Ming Dynasty continued to develop like this, as people became more and more noble, the emperor would sooner or later be pulled off the altar, or turned into a symbol of etiquette.
"Forget it, just go with the flow. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Don't blame me for whoever is pushed to the guillotine in the future. If you want to blame, blame yourself for being a loser." Zhu Houzhao looked at the words that have been widely used in the daily life of officials and people. The electric lamp said to himself.
Perhaps because of his old age, Zhu Houzhao also started to be lazy. He couldn't think of a good way for a while, so he simply stopped thinking about it. Instead, he still held the military power, planning to wait until he really left this world before handing over the power. Give it to Emperor Zhu Zailei. As for how Emperor Zhu Zailei will use this power, and whether he will be pushed to the guillotine due to excessive use, he doesn't want to care.
Zhu Houzhao found that even if he was a time traveler, even if he held the highest power, he would not be able to directly control the future historical trend. This made him feel powerless, and he began to feel that controlling power was not interesting. For a while, he also had A feeling of enlightenment.
However, the Japanese country will still be destroyed. Zhu Houzhao can no longer predict and control the development direction of the Ming Empire. However, in terms of specifics, such as whether the Japanese country should be destroyed, he can still determine. After all, history has proved that if the Japanese civilization is not advanced in advance, Eliminate it. When he gets a little stronger, he will dare to annex China. If he is stronger, he will dare to annex the whole world.
Qi Jiguang's army has left Ryukyu, and an army of more than 100,000 has begun to arrive in Japan as scheduled.
At this time, the Japanese country also learned the news that the Ming army was attacking.
At this time, the actual warlord who controlled the Japanese shogunate was Oda Nobunaga, a famous military general in Japanese history.
But now Oda Nobunaga has just taken control of the Muromachi Shogunate.
Other Japanese daimyo were not convinced by Oda Nobunaga and formed a circle around him.
In general, the Japanese country at this time was still in a divided state as reported by Jinyiwei.
However, after Oda Nobunaga learned that the Ming army was going to conquer Japan, he also understood the seriousness of the matter and began to take the initiative to compromise. He sent envoys to contact the daimyo who opposed him in an attempt to unite these daimyo to fight against the Ming Dynasty.
However, although Oda Nobunaga controlled the Muromachi shogunate, he was not a shogun and could only be regarded as a powerful official. Therefore, even if these daimyo were willing to unite to fight against the Ming Dynasty, they were not willing to take Oda Nobunaga as the leader.
The Ming Dynasty has sent envoys in advance to contact some daimyo, saying that the Ming Dynasty's war against the Japanese was not to destroy the Japanese but to attack Wudao. The so-called attack on Wudao was to punish Oda Nobunaga, the disloyal usurper of power. Unjust people.
The Ming Dynasty is the suzerain country, so there is no sense of violation in proposing such a reason for war. Many daimyo who had conflicts with Oda Nobunaga really believed what the Ming Dynasty said and were unwilling to fight against the Ming Dynasty with Oda Nobunaga. Instead, they became more determined He wanted to destroy Oda Nobunaga.
On this day, Lu Ti led the navy to the Japanese port of Nagasaki on the order of Qi Jiguang. He did not encounter Japanese resistance and was welcomed by the local daimyo.
When Lu Ti came to Nagasaki Port, he did not start to implement the harsh policies required by the Ming court. After all, it was just the navy that came to Japan and it still had to establish a firm foothold.
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