After the seventy-six village sages were hung on the railing at Chaozong Bridge, the background of His Majesty the Emperor's trip back to the palace was undoubtedly a lot more hideous. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

But it's also a lot quieter.

At least there was no one in the crowd who greeted him in Andingmen who dared to admonish him, no matter how resentful those gentry officials were, they had to admit the reality, the era of the lord and the sage had passed, and then they had to live tremblingly under the rule of a bao monarch, and now the only thing they could hope for was that this bao monarch's tu knife would not be cut on their heads.

However......

It's impossible.

"It's spectacular!"

Yang Feng stood on the Chengtian Gate and shouted.

On the square south of the Jinshui Bridge below him, there were densely kneeling officials and nobles wearing prison uniforms and shackles, lying there with their heads bowed and waiting for the emperor's final ruling, among which the first was Zhou Kui, the grandfather of the country. This old guy did not die in the hands of Li Zicheng, in fact, the prince of Chongzhen in history was cornered, and he once went to find him, and then he was sold to Dolgon, he and the prince's teacher Xie Sheng ignored the cry of Princess Kunxing and insisted that it was fake, and then Dolgon was satisfied to cut down the fanatics who dared to pretend to be the prince of the previous dynasty.

Well, Scholar Xie is kneeling beside him right now!

"Didn't you expect me to come back?"

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

There was silence below, and Zhou Guozhang still looked at his son-in-law with affectionate eyes.

In fact, there is always only one word in your eyes, that is, profit, you never care who the emperor above your head is, no matter who it is, as long as you can continue to make money in the official position, you will not care what kind of person he is, whether it is a rogue, or a slave. Therefore, when Beijing was in crisis, you didn't care whether you lived or died at all, because in your opinion, it was just a change of emperor, and your money was still waiting, and even if you went to flatter it, maybe the official position was still waiting.

Then the rebellion really came, and you were dumbfounded.

Fortunately, Jiannu came again, for the sake of your interests, even if you knew that they were a foreign race, you did not hesitate to throw yourself into Dolgon's arms, but I didn't expect Dolgon to be defeated by me again in a blink of an eye, if I was still the same as before, it is estimated that you would not hesitate to throw yourself into me again. However, I am not the same as before, I want to move the interests of you, and you immediately put aside the grace of the Ming Dynasty and the grace of my past twenty years, and then picked up a knife and pointed it at me.

How ironic!

I really wanted to laugh, laughing at myself for being stupid and naïve, and being confused by the books of the sages and sages, not knowing that the courtiers who spoke all kinds of great truths in their ears were actually despicable villains, and they didn't believe in the books at all, but they tricked me into taking it as a way to govern the country.

I have been deceived for seventeen years.

was deceived so that the family was ruined, the wife was separated by being deceived, and the mountains and rivers were broken!

Now I'm back.

I see.

I'm going to make you pay! ”

He shook his fist and yelled like a mustache in a speech.

And at this moment, the forward clouds in the sky above his head finally obscured the sun, and the whole square was dark, and at the same time, a lightning bolt suddenly crossed in the clouds, followed by a terrifying explosion and thunder resounded throughout the city of Beijing, and the sinners who knelt on the ground were so frightened that they immediately cried, but the lightning and thunder were still constantly shrouded in the sky above the city, and in the background of the clouds and lightning, Yang Feng stood on the city wall like a demon god, looking extremely terrifying.

"Are you scared?"

Yang Feng roared viciously.

"The rest of your life will be in fear!"

Then he yelled down.

Suddenly, a lightning bolt pierced through the clouds as if it was aimed, with unparalleled power right next to Zhou Guozhang, like a god's spear pierced on a newly erected iron pillar, poor Zhou Guozhang and Xie Daxue, and more than a dozen nearby officials were frightened and screamed, but then the second lightning fell in the same place, in the terrifying lightning, Zhou Guozhang simply fainted directly to the ground, and then convulsed a few times and actually foamed at the mouth.

"The gods have punished!"

The soldiers on the surrounding walls immediately screamed, and then they all knelt down.

Well, there's really just a lightning rod there.

The palace was often struck by lightning, and Yang Feng certainly didn't want this kind of thing to happen again after moving in, so he was currently installing lightning rods on a large scale, but the outside world didn't know the purpose of this thing, as for why he was clever enough to thunder at this time......

It was the end of summer, and there were thunderstorms every day.

The heavenly thunder undoubtedly increased his might, and looking at the emperor's hideous face in the lightning, those officials all trembled and bowed their heads.

"Spread my will, all those who donate silver to the rebellion, regardless of the official gentry, will pay the same amount of silver taels to me, and the limit is one year, and those who cannot hand in the amount within one year will be punished for the crime of great rebellion, and those who have paid it themselves will be exiled to Taiwan, and their families and clansmen will be pardoned. All those who are slave officials will pay the atonement money to me according to the amount set at the beginning, and the period is the same as one year, and those who cannot hand in the same amount within a year will be punished according to the crime of great rebellion, don't think that I dare not kill people, Taizu punished 30,000 people with Hu Weiyong's case, and I didn't dare to compare with Taizu but it was still okay to kill 20,000 people. ”

Yang Feng said viciously.

The officials below were already crying.

Although they actually knew about this kind of disposition, they still had a trace of illusion after all, after all, there were too many people implicated in this way, and the officials of Beijing and Shandong provinces, plus half of Henan Province, were basically all wiped out, which was a very terrifying number. There must be people here who can't make up enough money, at that time, it may not be a problem to kill tens of thousands of people in the prison, this is not an ordinary courage and ability, in their opinion, there may be room for maneuver, after all, the emperor also needs someone to deal with government affairs.

But now all illusions are gone.

They can only bear this result silently, and then go back and desperately make money with their nine clans, fortunately, the emperor is the nine clans, if they are punished alone, then everyone will have to go back and close the door and hang the whole family, but since it is the nine clans, it is not so dangerous, how can the nine clans not be able to make up tens of thousands of taels of silver together.

"Your Majesty, how to deal with all these officials who have taken the imperial court and local government affairs?"

After Yang Feng finished shuang, he was about to face Li Shoufu's melancholy gaze, saying that he was indeed cool, but Li Yutian had to follow him to wipe the pi shares, although there were originally six ministries, but in fact, many institutions other than the six ministries did not have any, and now after returning to Beijing, he had to face the problem of a serious lack of officials, and as a result, the emperor took all the officials, although it was not paralyzed, but the backlog of official affairs was inevitable.

Beijing is okay, but it's really troublesome.

Officials from all over the country have taken it.

And Li Yutian will definitely not find an official to fill the vacancy.

This is not the past, in the past, the bank only controlled a few counties, and just picked local officials, but now it has suddenly increased by two and a half provinces, and even the various institutions in Beijing are not satisfied, how can there be extra places to fill in.

What's more, the local government still has to divide the land, which originally requires a large number of officials who are familiar with the locality, but now that the county has ordered the prefect of the prefecture and even the governor and the Taoist to arrest all the people, where can I find someone to divide the land? Originally, the local officials relied on the support of the gentry to carry out their work, but now that the fields of the gentry are divided, they have already calculated it if they do not rebel, how can they support the work of local officials, in short, the head of Li Shoufu at this time is big.

"What's so hard about that?"

Yang Fenghun said nonchalantly.

"I only arrest officials and do not arrest officials, just promote officials from among the officials, the army in various places temporarily maintains law and order, and those who dare to make trouble will not be forgiven, and then the officials will send assessment teams to various places to conduct examinations on officials, and those who pass will be interviewed by me, and those who pass can be appointed as local officials."

He went on to say.

"But the clerks are also mostly gentry."

Li Yutian reminded him.

Promoting officials to officials is indeed a temporary means of solving the problem, but the problem is that most of the officials are also from the gentry, and it is impossible for them to really preside over the work of dividing the fields for the emperor, and they will definitely sabotage it.

"Then choose those who have no land, and the gentry are not all landlords, and there are those who rely on industry and commerce for food."

Yang Feng said.

"But if the officials are local officials, I'm afraid there will be problems."

Li Yutian said.

"Officials who are officials in different places should not be greedy? The officials are local officials, at least he still has a concern, once he is too greedy, once he steps down, the villagers will not let him go, and even they will pay more attention to the benefit of Sangzi, and will not be like those old men who are officials in other places, like locusts to clean up and change places. ”

Yang Feng said.

"That's just as well!"

Li Yutian said.

"But they still won't support the division of fields."

Then he said.

"You're not finished, did I say let the local officials preside over the division of the fields? I don't need those local officials to divide the land, I will send someone to be responsible for it, and I will also set up a separate Huangzhuang in the local area, and then use the Huangzhuang to manage the land in various places. ”

Yang Feng said.

Of course, he will not expect those local officials to divide the land for him, both officials and officials are hooked up with the gentry, these people are willing to preside over him, he still doesn't dare to use it, who knows which one deliberately planted mines for him?

So this kind of work has to be done by his cronies.

He is going to set up a separate agency similar to the Land Bureau, that is, what he called Huangzhuang, which will manage the land of the whole country, and the work of dividing the fields will be taken care of by the Huangzhuang, and the person in charge of the Huangzhuang will be handed over to Wang Chengen, and the officials of the Huangzhuang will be selected from those righteous people and his students, and Tian Jianxiu's Jinyiwei Secret Service Department will be responsible for providing military support, so that they can form small detachments similar to the Tugai Task Force, which will be responsible for the work of dividing the fields in various places.