My Daming New Empire

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Moreover, they have no value to be used by the emperor, and they will only be less and less valued in the future.

No matter from which aspect, transporting grain from Nanyang hurt the ruling structure of Ming Dynasty.

The low food price, the common people's reluctance to cultivate land, and the drop in land price will not only affect the gentry, but will also affect the rule of Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that Zhu Di, the immediate emperor, never thought of coming here.

Fortunately, they still have a prince.

Yu Qian received the news in the evening, and Jiang Wanli escorted the two families back to Yanzhou smoothly.

This made him a little unbelievable. It was as simple as that. The Kong family didn't make a move, and someone took him away?

If he knew this earlier, why did he hide in Yanzhou and let such a great achievement fall into the hands of Jiang Wanli?

However, although he regretted it a bit, he dared not go if he was asked to take someone from the Kong family.

He is not a general, not a hawk dog like Jin Yiwei, he is a well-known civil servant who was born as a Jinshi.

If he went to the Confucian family to arrest people, I am afraid that future generations will be scolded by the literati pointing at the spine.

So he would rather not take this credit, even if what the Kong family did made him feel worthy of killing.

Anyway, this is the queen of the saint!

But for Ma Dezhong, the Kong family, which had always had an incomparably sacred image in his mind when he was a child, has been completely shattered.

In the past, he always liked to show others that he was from Qufu, and that he was from the same place as Kong Shengren.

But what this saint family brought him was not glory, but shame.

The bones of his father and mother are gone, making him feel that he has no connection with his hometown at all.

Although several members of the Ma family saw that he was now the commander-in-chief of the grandson's army, and posted them one by one, the impression they gave him made him feel sick.

Just for two taels of silver, they gave up maintaining the tomb of a family member, and even didn't even bother to collect the bones for them.

This is not a tribe, this is an enemy.

If he followed his previous temper in the water bandits' den, he wished he could pick up a knife and gun and kill all the people involved.

But now that he is Taisun's pro-army, he can't do anything arbitrarily.

The brothers who returned home with him this time are all life-long friendships with him, and he can't implicate them.

And in the capital, he still has a lovely wife. Before he left this time, he found out that she was pregnant, and he was about to have a son.

In the past, he was still young and couldn't guard the tombs of his parents, but in the future, he will support this family and let the family pass on.

However, he will not forget the revenge of digging the graves of his ancestors.He wants to go back to the capital first to deal with business, and then he will return to Shandong to seek justice with the Kong family.

Of course Feng Xiaonian knew the news immediately, so when Ma Dezhong returned to Weifang, he was sent back to the capital as the first batch.

Not only Feng Xiaonian, but even Baoding Marquis Meng Ying knew the news.They also specially summoned him, comforted him, and rewarded him with twenty silver coins as a reward for returning to camp on time.

"Now that there are no bones left of your parents, even if you file a complaint with the Confucian Mansion, at most you will be compensated with some silver taels. If you trust me, I will make the decision for you."

He is the general manager, and he is thousands of miles away from Meng Ying, the deputy commander of the First Fleet.But at this moment, he is not a rootless person in a hurry like a bereaved dog, he can feel the support from behind.

But Ma Dezhong said: "My lord, although my subordinates have a meager family, I have never had to worry about food and drink these years because I have never spent money. Now that I am used to life in the navy, I am not afraid that I will not have a bowl of food in the navy. What is the use of the money. I sue the Confucian government, not for money, but for justice."

"Then what do you want?"

"I just want the Patriarch of the Confucian Mansion to apologize to me and say: My Confucian Mansion was wrong."

Meng Ying looked at him in surprise, and said with a smile: "When you return to the capital, if you ask your commander not to leave, you can come to me. I want to see if you can win this lawsuit."

He vaguely grasped Zhu Zhanji's mind, and said to him: "Don't worry about this matter. Two days ago, the messenger had already reported your matter to His Highness. If His Highness knew about your matter, he would definitely do the same." Call the shots for you."

Ma Dezhong said in surprise: "To alarm His Highness for a mere matter, this is..."

Meng Ying said with a smile: "Your Highness is dealing with corrupt officials in Shandong this time, and there is the shadow of the Kong family behind it. Since this matter is going to be done, His Highness will definitely arrange your affairs to put pressure on the Kong family, which is better than fighting alone. It is much stronger. So after returning to Beijing, you should wait for news from His Highness first."

"Yes!"

Zhu Zhanji received the news from Feng Xiaonian on the sixth day of February. With the initial analysis, the rest of the case is just waiting to find evidence and determine the guilt.

Zhu Zhanji has no opinion on their arrest and release of most people. In any case, the implementation of the government's decree should be placed before the investigation of corruption.

The work of government departments cannot be stopped because of the investigation, that is a small loss.

From the sixth day of February, he also began to go to court with Zhu Di. This time, he was no longer a spectator. No matter who he met or what to do, Zhu Di would ask his opinion first.

Many times, Zhu Di would praise him in front of the ministers, and only after he left would he analyze the pros and cons of the plans he gave.

In today's era, although it is not like the Huang-Lao School of the Han Dynasty, which ruled by doing nothing, it is far inferior to the governments of later generations who almost have to worry about all their hearts.

The current government has no initiative other than tax collection, war preparations and procedural work.

The so-called procedural work, such as formulating the lunar calendar, building roads and bridges, guiding farmers to plant fields, etc., are all routine tasks every year.

In many cases, the ministers of various ministries only need to make preparations to the emperor, and it is enough for the emperor to know when to do something.

Only some personnel management and emergencies need to be decided by the emperor.

So in this era, if you want to be a diligent emperor, 48 hours a day is not enough.

But if you want to be a faint king, like his descendants, it's fine if you don't go to court for decades.

All officials serve the upper class when they become officials, and there is no consideration for the common people at all.

Those policies that benefit and benefit the people are nothing more than diverting limited energy to the common people after the elites of the era have served the upper class.

From the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the present, all officials studied and became officials in order to change their own situation and enter the upper class, and then they thought about the common people.

In this era when no one is equal, as a lower class person, you don't even have the right to speak or go out.

Zhu Zhanji is lucky. As a grandson, he has been a master since birth.

Since he was a child, all great Confucians, including martial arts masters, have taught him everything.

Fortunately, he retained the memory of his previous life, allowing him to face this era calmly.

He knew that those people could be relied on, and he knew which direction the tide of the times was flowing, which made it easier for him to steer the big ship of Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that the most elementary and simplest way of governing in today's Ming Dynasty is not a problem for him at all.

Zhu Di loves him very much, Xie Jin, who taught Zhu Zhanji's literary affairs, now obeys him, and Yang Rong, who taught Zhu Zhanji's marching, also praised Zhu Zhanji.