Yang Feng's every move in the capital was actually under the close attention of many people, and the news that he led his troops to rush into the Chengguo Mansion and arrest Zhu Chunchen immediately spread throughout the entire capital like a whirlwind.

Before those people could come to their senses, Yang Feng ordered Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Guozhu, and Hu Dawei to lead 30,000 soldiers of the Beijing battalion to dispatch at the same time, and with lightning speed, they went straight to dozens of grain stores in the capital that took advantage of the opportunity to raise prices, and all these grain stores and grain depots were sealed and confiscated, and more than 20,000 stones of confiscated grain were investigated and punished.

For a while, the Jingshi was shaken, and many people were stunned while being surprised by Yang Feng's boldness.

"Your Majesty...... Yang Feng is unreasonable, you have to make decisions for Weichen! ”

"Yang Feng is acting so arrogantly, he is going to isolate himself from the world, you can no longer shield this traitor!"

In the Qianqing Palace

Zhu Youxiao looked at the nobles, martial artists, and some relatives who were kneeling in front of him or crying bitterly or scolding, and only felt a burst of disappointment, looked at them and said slowly: "You are all imperial relatives and relatives of the country, but look at what you have done?" Hoarding, rampant lawlessness, bullying men and women, you are digging the foundation of the Ming Dynasty! I want to ask you, what good will it do you if the Ming Dynasty is destroyed, will you be able to get a higher title than you are now after the new dynasty is established? More benefits? ”

Zhu Youxiao's words can be said to be heart-wrenching, and Daming treats these nobles very kindly. Not only is it generous, but also the status is very noble, compared to those who need to study hard for ten years and kill thousands of soldiers immediately, it can be said that they were born with a golden spoon.

It stands to reason that these people should be the most loyal to Daming, but now it is these people who are constantly digging the corners of Daming, they are hoarding, they are bullying and dominating the market, and they are putting on a posture of not digging Daming down, which also makes Zhu Youxiao feel deeply disappointed with them.

At this time, an old man in his sixties wearing a python robe cried and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister also knows that what he has done over the years has disappointed His Majesty, but the old minister has no choice, there are hundreds of people in the old minister's Hou Mansion, and the cost of eating horses and chewing every day is very large, so that he wants to do some small business to subsidize the family, but he never thought that he was seized by Yang Feng, he is going to cut off the livelihood of the old minister's family!" ”

"Woo woo woo ......"

The old man actually cried as he spoke, and when he cried like this, the more than ten nobles around him all knelt on the ground and wept, as if the building was about to collapse.

"You ...... You ......"

Seeing an old man in his sixties crying like this for a grain store, Zhu Youxiao shook his head helplessly, he finally understood what Yang Feng said to him before, the nobles of the Ming Dynasty have degenerated into a group of moths that eat and wait for death like most of the local gentry and wealthy merchants, they only know how to constantly ask for the imperial court, but they don't know how to repay the imperial court, and in the long run, the Ming Dynasty will eventually be dragged down by these moths.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao's eyes began to become stern, he looked at the sixty-year-old man in front of him and said: "Marquis Jianchang, your Hou Mansion has been deeply favored by the country for generations, and the first generation of Marquis Jianchang also followed Emperor Chengzu to experience the martyrdom, at that time, Emperor Chengzu also praised your ancestors as rare generals in the Ming Dynasty, but now?" If the first Jianchang Marquis Quanxia knew about it, would he jump in anger when he learned that his descendants had fallen to the position of running a rice shop for a living? ”

"And you!" Zhu Youxiao's sharp eyes turned to the nobles on the side, "Your ancestors are all people who have made great contributions to the country, and the imperial court has also given you a hundred years of wealth as a reward, but if you are still so ignorant and still so unscrupulous to dig the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, then I can only consider cutting off your title." ”

Zhu Youxiao's voice was not loud, but for these nobles, it was like a thunderbolt, shaking them all to jump.

The reason why these nobles can unscrupulously bully and dominate the market in the capital, buy low and sell high to do business, is not because they are all staring at the title of so-and-so uncle or so-and-so marquis. They are the most noble group of people in the name of the Ming Dynasty, and the relatives of the country are talking about their group of people, as long as the Ming Dynasty exists, they can enjoy wealth forever.

But now I listen to Zhu Youxiao's meaning is to cut off their titles, that is, they will no longer be able to enjoy the benefits of superiority from now on, and they will become commoners like those mud legs who are usually looked down upon by them.

In an instant, everyone's faces instantly turned pale, many people's bodies were trembling, and the contemporary Jianchang Marquis, who was in his sixties, collapsed to the ground with his eyes rolled over, and for a while, a panicked shout and cry sounded in the entire hall.

If the cry of these people just now still has the element of drama, then the cry now is out-and-out heart-wrenching, once there is no title on the head, these people will immediately change from the high nobles to the grass people they despise the most on weekdays, such a contrast is absolutely unbearable for ordinary people.

In front of Jianchang Hou, who was unconscious on the spot, Zhu Youxiao's face showed a look of disgust. In fact, Zhu Di knighted the generals who had made great achievements after the success of the Jingnan, in order to leave a force that could compete with the civilian clique, but what he didn't expect was that people would fall.

After the heroes of the original generation passed away one after another, their descendants who were born with a golden spoon have long lost the decisiveness and courage of their ancestors, and they have long been destined to have a lifetime of worry-free food and clothing, and what they think about every day is how to make money, how to enjoy themselves, and where is they still in the mood to fight with those civil officials who have real power.

Seeing that the Wuxun group was too uncompetitive, the emperors of later dynasties had no choice but to support another group of people to fight with the civil officials, and these people were the so-called eunuch group.

Zhu Youxiao took a deep breath, turned his head to the eunuch behind him and said, "Wang Tiqian, read out my will!" ”

"Whoa!"

Wang Tiqian responded, stood up and took the holy decree that had been prepared long ago from the hands of the little eunuch behind him, and read it aloud: "Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says: Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, is arrogant and lawless, vainly trying to manipulate the price of grain in the capital to make a fortune in the country, and openly disobeys the orders of the imperial court. All the people in the Chengguo Gong line moved out of the Chengguo Mansion within three days! Chin this! ”

"Whoa......

Hearing this, everyone was in an uproar, Zhu Youxiao just said that he would consider cutting off some people's titles, and as soon as the words fell, he raised the butcher's knife, and everyone saw it clearly. This holy decree has just been prepared, which shows that Zhu Youxiao has already made the decision to eliminate Zhu Chunchen before this.

Thinking that the title that had been inherited by Zhu Chunchen for nearly two hundred years was gone, a chill surged in everyone's hearts, and for the first time, they felt that the title left by their ancestors was not so stable.

After reading the will, Wang Tiqian looked at the earth-colored nobles in front of him, and his heart swelled with happiness. Even those ministers in the court were polite when they saw him, because these ministers still relied on the right to wear red in the hands of him, the eunuch with the palm seal.

But these nobles are different, these nobles who have long been unmotivated always look disdainful of them eunuchs, which also makes Wang Tiqian's heart hold a fire. Well, now, once these people don't have the skin that their ancestors gave them, I'm afraid these people are not even as good as the civilians in Beijing.

"Wang Tiqian......" Zhu Youxiao's voice sounded beside him.

Wang Tiqian, who was taken aback, hurriedly bowed down and said, "Back to the emperor, the slave is here!" ”

Zhu Youxiao said lightly: "Intended purpose!" ”

"Whoa!"

Wang Tiqian hurriedly waved his hand, and the two little eunuchs hurriedly carried a small table and came over and placed it beside him, and laid out the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

I saw Zhu Youxiao sneering and glancing at the nobles kneeling in front of him, and said without hesitation: "Jianchang Marquis Wang Jishen, Yongning Marquis Lu Kuanliang, Fengxian Marquis Yao Guangkuan...... The faithful Bo Jiao Lian and others have many lawlessness on weekdays, and now they do not respect the laws of the imperial court and hoard Juqi without authorization, causing trouble in the capital, and now all these people's titles have been reduced by one level, Qin this! ”

"Dong ......" Wang Jishen, the Marquis of Jianchang, who had just woken up, rolled his eyes and leaned back after listening to Zhu Youxiao's words, and then someone shouted loudly: "Come on, the Marquis of Jianchang has fainted again......

No one paid attention to the Qianqing Palace, which had become chaotic, and the news that Zhu Youxiao had cut off the title of the Duke of Chengguo and reduced the title of all the nobles behind all the grain stores that had tripled the price of grain to follow the trend today quickly spread throughout the capital.

Not only that, the next day's "Pravda" also reported the details of this incident, which caused a sensation in the whole city of Beijing, and people were surprised that Zhu Youxiao was so decisive at the same time, they also had a deep taboo against Yang Feng, who was bound to report it, Zhu Chunchen just refuted his face with his front foot, and he arrested Zhu Chunchen with his back foot, and also eliminated his title, which was even more uncomfortable than killing Zhu Chunchen.

Under Yang Feng's almost unreasonable strong bomb pressure and Zhu Youxiao's tough attitude, this trend of rising grain prices was quickly suppressed, and the officials who were still secretly watching quickly put away the careful thoughts, and honestly began to build temporary houses outside the city to resettle the victims in accordance with the orders of the imperial court, and Yang Feng purchased a large amount of grain at a flat price from the hands of the grain merchants to help the victims.

At the same time that the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly a six-hundred-mile expedited letter was sent to the cabinet, and then soon appeared on Zhu Youxiao's dragon case.

It turned out that just this year, there was a serious drought in southern Fujian, and the fields were full of terracotta, and many villages even had eaten up the bark of grass roots.

A group of pirates led by Zheng Zhilong took advantage of this opportunity to lead a fleet to attack Zhangpu in Fujian, plundering Kinmen, Zhongzuosuo (now Xiamen) and Jinghai and Jiazi in Guangdong.

Fujian Governor Xia Dayan had no choice but to truthfully report the situation in Fujian to the imperial court, and asked the imperial court to send troops to exterminate this group of bandits as soon as possible.

After receiving this 600-mile expedited letter, Zhu Youxiao did not dare to slack off, and gratefully summoned the cabinet to come to discuss.

Zhu Youxiao's face is very ugly, the matter in the capital has just subsided, and now there is a big mess in Xiamen, how can he be happy? He said in a deep voice: "Zhuqing, Fujian is in turmoil again, but the officers and soldiers of Fujian have even suffered defeat, and Xia Dayan has no choice, so he asked the court for help, I don't know what good plan you have for the elders?" ”

Gu Bingqian pondered for a while before saying: "Your Majesty, this matter cannot be delayed for a long time, we need to send a capable general with elite soldiers to quickly exterminate this group of bandits, otherwise if this group of bandits becomes a climate, there will be endless troubles." ”

Zhu Youxiao agreed: "Gu Ge's words are indeed the words of Lao Cheng to seek the country, but I don't know who to send to preside over the overall situation?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Huang Liji stood up and said to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, the minister is responsible for raising one person, this person can fight bravely and abnormally, and it will definitely be no problem to defeat a mere Zheng Zhilong." ”

Zhu Youxiao was slightly stunned, he had already guessed who Huang Liji was talking about, and sure enough, he heard Huang Liji speak: "The person the minister said is Jiang Ningbo Yang Feng, Jiang Ningbo has been on the battlefield for a long time, and even Jiannu is his subordinate defeated, so it is naturally not a problem to clean up a bandit." ”

Although he knew that Huang Liji's recommendation of Yang Feng to Fujian was uneasy and kind, Zhu Youxiao couldn't say anything against it, after all, Yang Feng's courage today can be said to be famous, who doesn't know that Yang Feng is very good at fighting.

"Your Majesty, the minister seconded the proposal!"

After Huang Liji finished speaking, Gu Bingqian and several other pavilion elders glanced at each other, and they also spoke out in support.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were looking at him, Zhu Youxiao smiled bitterly, Yang Feng has been busy with disaster relief for most of the month, and he hasn't even slept a little, and now he wants to send him to Fujian to exterminate pirates, which is too unkind.

Seeing Zhu Youxiao's hesitant appearance, Huang Liji was afraid that his boss would not agree, so he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the situation in Fujian is critical, if you don't send a capable general to go there quickly, I'm afraid that Fujian will be eroded." ”

Hearing Huang Liji's words, Zhu Youxiao's heart moved. He knew that Huang immediately had selfish intentions, but his words were right, if he did not send people to quell the rebellion of the pirates as soon as possible, then Fujian would be in danger of erosion.

After pondering for a long time, Zhu Youxiao said: "In this way, I will find Yang Feng first and ask him what he means in public." ”