Domineering Daming

Zhu Xu looked at the little girl and snorted coldly: "Sister-in-law, this girl will die if she doesn't clean up. I will hang her in Qianqing Palace for ten and a half months, and I will release her when she is honest."

Xiao Yongning immediately pursed his lips and gritted his teeth.When she was young, she was often punished by Zhu Xu in this way. She is so old, if she is hung up again, she will lose her face!

She wouldn't go even if she was killed, but she couldn't resist Zhu Xu, so she could only look at her mother pitifully.

Empress Dowager Zhang glanced at Zhu Xu angrily, and said, "Sit down for me, you are used to her temper, you can all be less angry and I can do it a little!"

Zhu Xu smacked his mouth, and Queen Mother Zhang spoke, so he had no choice but to give up.

Zhang Yun saw some clues, and leaned close to Zhu Xu's ear and whispered: "Your Majesty, Yongning is still a child at heart, so there may not be someone he likes, let's wait and see."

It stands to reason that Yongning is only 17 years old, so there is no need to worry at all, but Empress Dowager Zhang is anxious, and Zhu Xu is also worried that this girl will cause trouble for her sooner or later.

After thinking about it, Zhu Xu also sighed, this girl already has enough headaches, he still has two on his side, I don't know what will happen in the future.

Empress Dowager Zhang looked at Zhu Xu's haggard face, and said to Zhang Yun: "You make arrangements, don't let him work day and night, Mr. Sun Ge is very good at doing things, let him do it."

Zhang Yun quickly agreed, not daring to talk too much.

But Zhu Xu heard something different from Queen Mother Zhang's words, took a sip of the soup, and said with a smile: "Is it because of the first assistant that the imperial sister-in-law took away those clans?"

During the vigorous anti-corruption campaign by the imperial court this time, several county kings were involved in the case and were expelled from their ranks. Naturally, this branch of the clan lost an unknown number of people.

Empress Dowager Zhang frowned and looked at Zhu Xu, and said, "They are all from the same bloodline of the great ancestor, you... Forget it, I don't care, you can figure it out."

Zhu Xu had a headache, but he couldn't explain it.

The clan of the Ming Dynasty is rotten to the bone, it has been hundreds of years, can it not be rotten?Zhu Xu would feel strange if he was not involved in the case.

But in the eyes of outsiders, even the Empress Dowager Zhang, Zhu Xu was too cruel to the clan and wanted to kill them all.

Zhu Xu shook his head secretly, he really had no feelings for the Ming clan, even hated it, and that was the reason why he sat idly by.

Xiao Yongning looked at Zhu Xu deflated, rolled his eyes, secretly happy.

This meal did not taste like the New Year at all, and Zhu Xu left the Compassion Ning Palace and returned to Kun Ning Palace not long after.

On the way, Zhu Xu was still thinking about what Empress Dowager Zhang said, and asked Zhang Yun, "Do you also think that I am too ruthless and treat the clan too much?"

Zhang Yun has always been cautious about government affairs, not daring to contaminate the little princess. He hugged the little princess, looked at Zhu Xu's haggard face, and said softly: "I don't know what to see from the outside, I know that the emperor has his own thoughts in his heart."

Zhu Xu laughed, put his hands behind his back, looked at the dark sky, walked slowly a few steps, and said: "From tomorrow, Xi'er will stay in Qianqing Palace for two hours, and all the princes will attend and study in the South Study Room. "

Zhang Yun has been the queen for many years, and knows what Zhu Xu's arrangements mean, so she responded in a low voice.

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The most grand festival of the Ming people is the Lantern Festival, and with the deliberate promotion of the imperial court, the Lantern Festival is already the most grand festival in the Ming Dynasty.

The cabinet ministers who rarely showed up in previous years, especially the Chief Assistant Sun Chuanting, actually appeared at the Lantern Festival.

At the lantern festival, he not only guessed the lantern riddles, but also set up lantern riddles on the spot to interact with many young people. He even went down the river and walked around the city on a light boat.

Even though Sun Chuanting had numerous criticisms, he still had many supporters. His appearance pushed the atmosphere of the Lantern Festival to a climax.

The elders of the other courts and the ministers of the five ministries also seemed to intend to give people the feeling of "officials and the people enjoying together", appearing in different directions and different routes, promoting the enthusiasm of the Lantern Festival.

This year, especially the Lantern Festival, has eased the resistance of the people to a certain extent.

The morning newspaper is full of articles, and the reform trend of next year is released without rest during the New Year, especially the clear steps of land division, which makes many people look forward to it and wait hard.

There are too many landless people in Daming, and every year most of the harvest is given to the owner as rent, and then the family barely survives with enough food.

Now, the imperial court is going to divide the land!They want land!

I don't know how many people stared at the government's every move with their eyes wide open. I don't know how many people went to the government every day to inquire about every bit of the situation.

Most of the ordinary people were tenant farmers of the gentry, and their reaction was naturally in the eyes of those big gentry households who had not yet sold their land to the court.

I don't know how many gentry followed suit, scratching their heads and trying their best to keep these tenant farmers.

Daming's territory is unprecedentedly vast, and it has become a place with a large population and a small area. Whether it is moving out of the Shanchuan area with the most disaster victims, or the rich Jiangzuo, they will all face a problem.

With the "equal distribution" of the land by the imperial court, underpopulation is a big problem!

Fuzhou Mansion, a large courtyard.

The family's surname is Jiang, and there have been three scholars in the past four generations. The family is really well-to-do, and the folks have as many as seven hundred acres of land under their family name. Small status.

With the wave of acquisitions by the imperial court and the increase in intensity, these big gentry families are also facing tremendous pressure.

On this day, at the family meeting, four sons and an old lady were sitting in the hall and talking.

The third child said: "Mother, these fields are not ours in the first place, why don't we return them, so that the yamen will not come to the door every day to make trouble."

The fourth child said: "Yes, the yamen said that if we resist the 'New Deal', our family will not be eligible to be an official, and the second brother will be deprived of his official position."

The second child is a pawn in Fuzhou Prefecture. Although he is a low-rank official, he has entered the officialdom and is somewhat respectable.

The second child didn't speak, his brows were tightly knit, and his face was cold.Last year, he might have been promoted to a county to be the magistrate, but he was put on hold by the Governor's Council because of the matter of their family's fields.

The boss is a middle-aged man in his 40s. He looked at the old lady and said, "Mother, if you don't want to sell it, then rent it to the imperial court. It will save you worry and effort. Every harvest will have money and food..."

The old lady leaned on a cane, looked at her sons, slammed the cane with a gloomy face, and said angrily: "You bastards, do you know that this is our family's ancestral property, ancestral property! If you sell it , What do you want me to eat? Do you rely on you?"

Chapter 1522 The East Wind Has Come

The old lady had a stern voice and reprimanded her loudly.

The expressions of the four sons remained unchanged. They were all in their 40s, each had a family, and especially each had a career outside. They were not afraid of anything, and they did not want to be hindered by the old lady.

The third child looked at the old lady and said dissatisfiedly: "Mother, you say that, it seems that we are so unfilial, how should we behave if it spreads?"

The old lady looked at the third child and snorted coldly.

The fourth child was also dissatisfied, and said: "Mother, we didn't force you, even if you don't give it to the court now, our tenants are all on the government's land distribution list, and they will have their land in at most two years. No one grows at all.”

The boss said directly: "Mother, Qi'er has just entered the third year of high school and is about to take the university entrance examination. As long as she passes the entrance examination, she will definitely have a county magistrate in the future. That has a bright future. You must not ruin the future of your grandson..."

The old lady was furious when she heard that, she slammed her cane and stood up, staring at her sons coldly, and said with an angry smile: "Okay, okay, you all have stiff wings, don't listen to my mother! Let me tell you a word, if you want to sell the land, wait for me to die!"

The old lady swung her cane, turned around tremblingly and left.

The four brothers all had ugly expressions on their faces. They looked at each other as they watched the old lady leave.

The second child is an official and quite prestigious among the four brothers. After a moment of silence, he said: "The land deed is in the hands of the mother. Since she doesn't want to sell it, there is nothing we can do. Just wait."

The other three brothers are also in the same situation, my mother has always been arbitrary, and the four brothers can't persuade her at all.