Chongzhen said these words calmly, and it seemed that all of a sudden it stabbed the weakest place in Wang Jiayin's heart.

After Zhao'an, he was forcibly isolated from his subordinates by the imperial court, which made Wang Jiayin's heart full of pressure, and he was deliberately cautious in order to protect himself and his subordinates for many days, and suddenly made him want to say something at this moment.

"There is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are still starving to death. Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road. Isn't this the result of the court's poor use of people, which led to the rampant corruption of officials in the world? Wang Jiayin suddenly raised his head and boldly mocked Chongzhen.

"Rude, stand down." Lian Shanxiang immediately took a step, stopped in front of Chongzhen, and scolded Wang Jiayin, his right hand was also pressed on the handle of the knife.

Regarding Chongzhen's summoning of the leaders of these exile army, Lian Shanxiang actually disapproves. In his opinion, these people are wild and untamed, and if they collide with the emperor during the interview, it will be a big basket.

For this reason, he not only personally guarded Chongzhen's side, but also arranged for several subordinates to guard the door. Now Wang Jiayin really has a problem, and he dares to be rude in front of the emperor.

When even Shanxiang stood up as if facing the enemy, several pro-army guards also heard the movement in the room and rushed in.

Wang Jiayin suddenly knew that he was impulsive, and he immediately stopped moving, not wanting to be mistaken for what he wanted to do to the emperor.

Chongzhen, who was sitting there, looked at the two leaders of the Wandering Army in front of him with interest, unlike Wang Jiayin, who immediately stopped his movements after hearing the reprimand, Shen Yikui made a defensive posture almost instantly.

However, this defensive posture was not aimed at him, but at Wang Jiayin beside him, obviously he did not want to be implicated in this incident. After all, if the Emperor had been bumped into when he summoned them, he would definitely not have been able to get out of it.

Zhu Youzhen stretched out his hand and pressed it on Lian Shanxiang's arm, and said to him: "Don't be so nervous, people just speak louder, and there is no malice." Stand down, and don't be so alarmed. ”

Hearing Chongzhen's order, the guards who rushed in immediately looked at each other a few times, and retreated in an orderly manner, but this time they did not close the door.

Under Chongzhen's order, even Shanxiang had to retreat behind Chongzhen again, and Wang Jiayin finally calmed down at this time, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Wang Jiayin and said: "You have killed so many corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Shaanxi, are the people of Shaanxi living a good life?" What did your subordinates do after they broke through the county seat, do you really know nothing? ”

Wang Jiayin bowed his head and was silent, and Shen Yikui was also a little uneasy when he stood on the side. Looking at the appearance of the two, Zhu Youzhen knew that this conversation could no longer continue.

Zhu Youzhen immediately changed the topic and said, "Since you have the idea of continuing to serve in the army, then I can give you a chance.

Since last year, we have moved a lot of people to the island of Taiwan, and these immigrants have been getting along well with the plains area, but it is said that they have not been happy with the people in the mountains.

Although we have a Sihai camp in Taiwan, because of the vast territory of Taiwan, this number of people is not enough to cover the entire settlement in Taiwan.

So we need a soldier with military experience to go to Taiwan and form an army to protect immigrants. Since you have made this request, are you willing to go to Taiwan to form this army? ”

Hearing Chongzhen's proposal, Shen Yikui quickly lowered his head, for fear that the emperor would call his name. The reason why he was able to take the training was because he heard that after the training was completed, most of them would be arranged to serve as officials in the Jiangnan area.

After enduring the inconvenience of a few months, he was able to go to the most prosperous Jiangnan region of the Ming Dynasty to serve as an official, which was obviously an acceptable quid pro quo.

But Taiwan, what the hell is that. Although it is also in the south, isn't it just a desert island hanging overseas?

This island has existed for many years, and it has never been incorporated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so it can be seen that it is not a good place. Although they had recently heard that gold had been found on the island, they had plundered many large families since they raised their armies, but they were not short of money.

Most people just want to be able to carry this money safely and find a comfortable place to live the rest of their lives. Instead of running to a desert island and dealing with wild people.

As for Wang Jiayin, he was in a dilemma, although he put forward a request to return to the local army to join the army, but he never thought of going to a desert island to join the army.

As long as he is assigned anywhere on the mainland, if he sees that the situation is not good, he can abandon his post and return to his subordinates. But when he was sent to an overseas desert island, he couldn't grow wings and fly back.

But now under Chongzhen's gaze, he also knew that he couldn't back down, otherwise he would be taunting Chongzhen.

Wang Jiayin didn't think about it for a long time, but he felt as if a century had passed.

"The minister is willing to accept this appointment and go to Taiwan." In the end, Wang Jiayin didn't want to challenge the emperor's bottom line, and chose to accept Chongzhen's suggestion.

Hearing that Wang Jiayin took the initiative to resist this pit, Shen Yikui finally breathed a sigh of relief on the side, as long as he didn't drive him to the desert island, he didn't mind that others would go.

After leaving the Army Military Academy, Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting in the carriage, thought for a while, and said to Wang Chengen beside him: "Don't go back to the palace first, go to Wensi Academy to have a look." ”

Wang Chengen agreed, then opened the front window and spoke to the coachman. When he sat back in his seat, he said to Chongzhen with some worry: "Your Majesty, that Wang Jiayin just now doesn't seem to be a good person.

He seems to be very resentful of the imperial court, even if he is sent to Taiwan like this, the minister thinks that he may not be able to make him change his ways. Isn't it..."

Zhu Youzhen shook his head and refused: "No matter what he thinks, what he will do in the future, he can't damage the credibility of the imperial court." ”

Hearing Chongzhen's coming to inspect, Xu Xingsheng hurriedly led someone out to greet him. In the conversation with Xu Xingsheng, Chongzhen learned that the Wensi Institute has recently developed a lot of new gadgets.

For example, more efficient gear cutting machines, thread-cutting machines, 24-spindle spinning machines using animal power, etc.

After entering March, the capital suddenly became lively. First, because the examination for recruiting personnel from the Customs and Excise Department and the Prime Minister's Yamen is approaching, the high salaries of Customs staff still attract many students from disadvantaged families.

The second is because the gentry from all over the country have arrived in the capital to prepare for the so-called national gentry conference.

The people of the capital, who have already experienced the National Merchants' Congress, have obviously some receptivity, and know that the form of this meeting is to let everyone sit together and discuss affairs.

The address of the gentry meeting was the venue where the merchant representative meeting that had been set up in the Ten Princes' Mansion was held.

This gave the people of the capital some illusions, feeling that these gentry who came to the capital for meetings were actually no different from those merchant representatives.

A few days before the gentry meeting, the students of Yenching University, who had been sent to Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan to conduct social surveys, also began to return to the capital one after another.

These students have survived the most difficult winter in their lives, and the students who can enter Yenching University to study are considered to have a good family background.

After all, a scholar from a poor family will not give up the imperial examination career that will change his fate. Only those scholars who have no worries about food and clothing, but have no talent for the imperial examination, will choose to enter Yenching University to study, trying to take a shortcut to the south.

Of course, with the development of Yenching University and the scholarships set up by the Inner Government, some people from poor families but quite talented in natural sciences have also been recruited into the university one after another, but these people are not the mainstream of the source of students after all.

The living conditions are acceptable, and the young and vigorous students have not been completely wiped out by the society, and most of the students are still quite bloody. Otherwise, there would not be so many young scholars who were attracted by the justice advocated by the Donglin Party.

Just as they were easily instigated before, believing that the imperial court's policy of unified grain purchase and marketing was a vicious government that harmed the gentry and plundered the people's wealth, they did not hesitate to kneel in front of the palace gate and ask the emperor for his order to abolish it.

During the social survey for more than two months, many students were also frightened by the tragic situation of the victims they witnessed.

Many students began to change their previous position, from opposing the imperial court's excessive interference in the grain trade, thereby distorting the real price of grain.

It was to support the imperial court's interference in various transactions in the grain market, so that more people could buy food to survive the year of famine.

Maybe some people read the Four Books and the Five Classics, but they just use these Confucian classics as a stepping stone to enter the official career. But there are also people who really regard the benevolence and righteousness in the book as their own life guidelines.

For these people, they are even willing to give their lives in order to stand up for the morality they stand for. Although there are very few such people, the voice among the Ming scholars in the past is not loud.

However, now with Chongzhen's support, these people's ideas have been deliberately selected and continuously published in the Daming Times, so that their voices have been amplified exponentially.

Suddenly, a group more radical than the previous Qingliu appeared in Daming. What are the claims of this group? They advocated that the four people were equal, and that except for the emperor, who was above all the people, the rest of society should be inferior.

The prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, and there should be no distinction between high and low in front of the law, and only the severity of the crime. All offences shall be brought before the competent department for trial, and no one else shall interfere.

The right to protect women and children from being violated, and the daughter should also have the right to inherit the family property after the death of the male in the family, and the clan should not encroach on the property of the deceased under the pretext of extinction.

The imperial court should once again strictly enforce the law prohibiting usury, and prohibit gamblers from pawning their wives and children to pay off gambling debts or usury, and severely punish those who forcibly kidnap people as payment for debts, and so on.

Some of these propositions came from the mouths of folk scholars, and some were issued by Chongzhen in the name of folk scholars. In any case, by the time the gentry conference was held, public opinion in the capital was obviously very lively.