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  Chapter 152 150 [Rectify the interior]

  In the garden, the spring is warming up, and the flowers have opened one after another.

  Pang Chunlai came over with a cane, which was more like a wayfinder, lest he couldn't see clearly and tripped over stones.

   "Sir, please sit down." Zhao Han helped him make tea.

Pang Chunlai sat down, didn't pick up his teacup, and said straight to the point: "Those scholars have been cured, not only Jishui scholars, but also scholars from Luling and Anfu counties. The gentry from the three counties are converging. Since the bandits ravaged Nanzhi, They really believe you can get things done."

  This statement seems to be very contradictory. The northwestern bandits spread across the southern Zhili, tearing off another fig leaf of the imperial court. Scholars in Ji'an felt that Zhao Han could do something, so they really wanted to take refuge in him, but why do they need to punish these people?

   No contradiction!

  The gentry are trying to steal the fruits of the rebellion, not to overthrow Zhao Han, they also need Zhao Han to lead, but they want to control more power.

  Zhao Han asked: "What do you think of this case, sir?"

  Pang Chun said: "We must be severely punished, otherwise the prestige of the General Military Mansion will be discredited. The missionaries are sent by the General Military Mansion and the Datong Association. What are they trying to do?"

   "What else?" Zhao Han asked again.

   "No, this is my proposition, and it must be severely punished!" Pang Chun said.

  Zhao Han asked Xiyue to send Pang Chunlai away, and brought another teacup, and soon Li Banghua came in.

  Li Banghua looked a little tired, and sighed: "Brother Pang, I actually didn't want to argue with him."

  Zhao Han asked: "What does Mr. Li think?"

Li Banghua said: "It's wrong to insult women, let alone a female missionary teacher, but the death penalty must never be imposed. Now, the scholars from the three counties have returned to their hearts, and only a few are still harboring ulterior motives. In such a situation, one case cannot be Let the scholars of the three counties be dissociated from their virtues, and if they can't bear it, they will make big plans. I think that they should be dismissed from the position of mayor, ordered to pay money, and fined ten acres of land as a warning."

   "I understand." Zhao Han said.

   Sending Li Banghua away, Zhao Han couldn't help but sigh.

  Whether it was Pang Chunlai or Li Banghua, Zhao Han was very disappointed.

  Pang Chunlai is from the perspective of the general military mansion and the lower-level scholars, and has deep fear of the gentry class. His insistence on severely punishing criminals is purely to maintain the prestige of the General Military Mansion, but also to attack those gentry who try to control power.

  Li Banghua focused on "stability and unity", and still felt that the upper-class scholars were more worthy of relying on, and they would be needed to govern the world in the future. Now that the scholars have returned to their hearts, they should take the opportunity to speed up their development and occupy the entire Ji'an Mansion as soon as possible.

  In it, there is also Li Banghua's hard work. It was his earnest persuasion and personal persuasion that made the scholars of the three counties gradually recognize Zhao Han.

  However, neither Pang Chunlai nor Li Banghua took the victims seriously!

  A good prostitute, so what if she becomes a missionary? It's not that he hasn't been slept with before, it's no big deal to be slept with again, the other party is a juren.

Chen Maosheng was immediately invited in, and excitedly said upon meeting: "You must be hanged according to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty"! A prostitute is not a good person if she is a good one? If a woman from a good family is insulted, look at what these scholars say! Also, that is a missionary, These **** don’t pay attention to the missionary! If this person is not hanged, what will the missionary do in the future?”

   "Very good." Zhao Han expressed his satisfaction.

  Chen Maosheng finally looked at the problem from the perspective of the victim, instead of purely focusing on tactics and the overall situation like Pang Chunlai and Li Banghua.

   In other words, Chen Maosheng can empathize with him, and he has been slept by gentry countless times. If any gentry dares to come to sleep with him now, this guy must be desperate.

  In Chen Maosheng's view, good prostitutes also have dignity, and good prostitutes don't want to be raped.

   After Chen Maosheng was sent away, Fei Chun was invited in again.

  Zhao Han asked: "What do you think?"

Fei Chun said: "Our grain store has already been built, and several granaries have been repaired. However, the landlords who surrendered voluntarily did not have their grain confiscated, which left a hidden danger. It is already February, and there is no harvest. The land was divided after the autumn harvest last year. Although the peasants are not going to starve, they are still short on food. Luling, Jishui, and Anfu, the grain merchants in the three counties are connecting together, stockpiling grain and not releasing goods, and wanting to deliberately raise the price of grain in the city. usual trick."

  Zhao Han was a little surprised that Fei Chun said this.

Fei Chun said: "When Mr. Li was in charge of the grain business, those grain merchants and landlords still gave face. After Mr. Li left office, I took full charge of the grain business, and these **** started to mess around. In order to stabilize grain prices, I released half of the stored grain in the warehouse! The gentry of the three counties, whose land was confiscated, can no longer lend usury, so they can only manipulate the grain market to make money. Even if they offend the General Military Office, they will do it. , that is, with the most food in the family as the main force, we must take advantage of this case to rectify it!"

  The **** decides the head, Fei Chun is in charge of money and food, and what he sees is the money and food crisis.

  Send Fei Chun away, and then invite Fei Ruhe in.

   "You know everything, right?" Zhao Han asked.

  Fei Ruhe nodded and said, "Understood."

  Zhao Han asked: "What do you think?"

  Fei Ruhe sneered and said: "Most members of the mission team are from Luling County, and they joined our team very early. Bullying them is bullying us outsiders and our brothers and sisters who started the riot!"

   Well, this old man is more direct, and he clearly stated the contradiction between the elder sect and the Jishui sect.

   Then, Xiao Huan was invited in again.

   "What does Da Liang think?" Zhao Han asked.

  Xiao Huan directly took out a copy of the materials: "Please take a look at the chief."

  Zhao Han opened it, and immediately sneered.

   Zhao Han's political secretary, Liu Fang, and his younger brother married the daughter of the Zou family in Jishui.

   Zhao Han's military secretary, Huang Shunde, and his nephew were engaged to the Liu family in the suburbs of Ji'an.

  The General Military Mansion experienced Zuo Shan, and his son was engaged to the Xiao family in Luling.

  The General Military Mansion took care of Huang En and married the niece of Jishui Zhou's family as the continuation.

  This list is very long, with more than 30 listed. Among them, Zhao Han's General Military Mansion has eight people on the list, and those gentry are everywhere!

  Once Zhao Han really becomes the emperor, countless high-level officials will be related by marriage to the gentry of the three counties.

  These gentry have many children themselves, and they are also officials under Zhao Han. Will they have the final say in the entire court in the future?

  Zhao Han asked: "These people on the list, are there any signs of corruption?"

  Xiao Huan shook his head and said: "No, the investigation of corruption is tight, and no one dares to reach out. However, they married the gentry and received many gifts from the women. Although the gentry lost their land, they had a lot of money and food at home."

   "What do you think should be done?" Zhao Han asked.

  Xiao Huan replied: "All those on the list will be dismissed!"

  Zhao Han shook his head and said, "It's too rough."

  These people really didn’t violate the law, they were just getting married, how could they deal with all of them across the board?

   Moreover, some hope must be given to the gentry, at least let them have something to look forward to, otherwise it will be broken.

  …

  The next day.

  Huang Shunde was called to Pang Chunlai's office, and respectfully saluted: "Master Pang is well."

  Pang Chunlai's real job is to be the head of the official department of the General Military Mansion, which is equivalent to Zhao Han's official secretary.

  Pang Chunlai smiled and said: "Huang Zhangshu has worked hard."

   "It's not hard to work for the general town." Huang Shunde said quickly.

  Pang Chunlai said: "This is the transfer document. You can go to the Anfu County Government to handle business in the future."

  When Huang Shunde saw his new position, all thoughts were lost, and he stammered, "I...I, Mr. Pang, what did I do wrong?"

Pang Chunlai sighed and said: "As the chief secretary of military affairs of the general town, don't you think you talk too much? And you like to show off. The general town has endured these things and thinks you are an old minister. You, your nephew and What kind of marriage is the Liu family?"

   "Did you make a mistake in getting married to the Liu family?" Huang Shunde couldn't understand it at all. He thought it was a glorious thing to get married to a rich family.

"You have no brains at all, and you are still in charge of the military affairs of the General Military Mansion?" Pang Chunlai sneered, "I went to Anfu County, so I can do things well, and I can be promoted if I do well. The general town still remembers you in my heart. "

  Huang Shunde left the office in a daze, but saw Liu Fang waiting outside, and seemed to be called in for a lecture.

  Huang Shunde suddenly remembered that Liu Fang's younger brother was also married to a rich man!

  Endless fear struck, and Huang Shunde finally woke up at this moment. He was involved in political struggles in a daze.

  The resentment in his heart dissipated in an instant, and Huang Shunde didn't have any ideas, he just wanted to go to Anfu County to take office as soon as possible, so as not to be involved in disasters. By the way, my nephew is not old enough, he is just engaged to Liu's family, he has to go back immediately to dissolve the engagement, hope it can be remedied!

  Liu Fang couldn't help it. His younger brother was married to Zou's daughter, just when Zhao Han personally led troops to surprise Yuanzhou.

  Liu Fang really couldn’t cry. He belongs to the lower class of scholars, and he can’t even pass the exam for scholar. His family is very poor, relying on his shrewdness and fearlessness of hard work, he was promoted all the way to become the government secretary of the General Military Mansion.

  If Zhao Han can win the world, Liu Fang can be at least six ministers, and it is not impossible to become a cabinet minister.

   Just because my younger brother got married to a rich family, his future was directly ruined?

  In one day, all eight officials of the General Military Mansion were transferred and demoted. This matter attracted everyone's attention.

   With a quick mind, he quickly summed up the common points, those are all people who are married to the big clan!

  As for the officials outside the general military mansion, Zhao Han didn't move for the time being, and didn't bother to move, just write it down in a small book.

  He doesn't move, it doesn't mean the person involved is not afraid, this signal is too obvious.

  The next step is to divorce wives on a large scale, and those who are engaged should quickly withdraw their engagement. The gentry involved were so angry that they went to the county government to file a lawsuit, saying that it was unreasonable for their daughter to be divorced.

  February 28th.

   Xiao Huan took the officials, followed by Li Zheng and five hundred soldiers, and went straight to Zou's house outside the east gate of Jishui by boat.

   "The back door and the side door are all fenced up, and no one is allowed to let go!" Xiao Huan ordered.

  The Zou family was panic-stricken, and an old man was helped out: "Master Xiao, this...how did this happen?"

Xiao Huan took out a document: "Order of the General Military Administration, the Zou family in the east gate of Jishui, destroyed the government of dividing land. At the beginning of October last year, more than 6,000 mu of land from the clan was donated to Qingyuan Temple as a temple farm. I haven't come to the government to report! What does your Zou family want to do?"

  The old man quickly explained: "So that Master Xiao will know, this old man believes in Buddhism..."

   "Don't talk too much, Qingyuan Temple is also being searched," Xiao Huan sneered, "If you believe in Buddhism, you can share a cell with the abbot of Qingyuan Temple, and you can slowly discuss Buddhism in prison!"

  Qingyuan Temple outside Jishui County is the ancestral home of the Qingyuan School of Zen Buddhism.

   Not only that, when Wang Yangming was an official in Jiangxi, the first place to give lectures was Qingyuan Temple, where the Buddhist hall was used as the lecture hall. Therefore, Qingyuan Temple not only has great influence in Buddhism, but also the integration of Zen and Confucianism is deeply respected by scholars.

  East Gate Zou family, the dead Zou Yuanbiao, had disciples all over Ji'an, even Li Banghua was a student of Zou Yuanbiao.

  What are these guys trying to do together?

  Even if there is no chaos, it should be suppressed as a model!

  Seeing that Zou's house was ransacked, Li Banghua was so frightened that he hurriedly came to see Zhao Han: "General Town, you have used too much force, how can you govern like this!"

  (end of this chapter)