Chapter 363 Poetry
At the end of the year, the Southeast Procuratorate finally caused a loss of life.
It was not the official who went down to inspect the land who was burned to death, but a Yuhang scholar named Wang who tried to collude with others to oppose the court's new policy after the cabinet meeting. As a result, he was reported by many people and the evidence was conclusive. As a result, he was too frightened and chose to hang himself before the imperial guards arrived at his home.
It was the morning of the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month.
Someone died, and it happened during the New Year, which immediately made the political atmosphere in the southeast become delicate.
This mentality doesn't seem to need special explanation... The corpse is already there, it would be a waste not to use it as a shield or weapon... People are being forced to death, so why don't the emperor and the husband stop?
Therefore, after the New Year's Day, taking advantage of the arrival of the envoys sent from Tokyo in Hangzhou, local officials in Hangzhou went to Phoenix Mountain to offer New Year gifts in the name of greetings. At the same time, they wrote a letter to impeach Yang Yi Zhong, the commander of the Imperial City, for forcing people to die, and advised Emperor Zhao to be magnanimous. At the same time, they formally suggested that Emperor Zhao and Prime Minister Lu suspend the land inspection to avoid delaying the spring ploughing.
However, Emperor Zhao and Prime Minister Lu, specifically Emperor Zhao, responded very directly and quickly.
First of all, the original case... that is, the case of Yuhang scholars who died in the conspiracy, still adhered to the original disposal strategy, all the members of the cabinet who had colluded and resisted were expelled from the cabinet, arrested and imprisoned, and then quickly exiled to the Yellow River for two years of custody and fined. As for the deceased Mr. Wang, because it was found that he held land in many places, and most of them were "held by others on his behalf", it was obvious that he was evading and resisting the country. In addition, he was the mastermind of this conspiracy, and his home was surrounded and confiscated by the iron cavalry as warned before.
As for Mr. Wang himself, he committed suicide out of fear of punishment, so he is dead.
Secondly, regarding the petitions from Hangzhou, Emperor Zhao did not express any extra words, but only publicly responded and refuted them. According to Lü Benzhong's argument in the first issue of the new Jiangnan Xingzai Dibao, the so-called Phoenix Weekly, the Emperor was just discussing the matter. Although the Emperor clearly opposed these unreasonable remonstrances and impeachments, he would never punish them for the act of petitioning. Otherwise, what was the point of running a government? What was the way to maintain the channel for speech?
At the same time, Mr. Lu also said in the newspaper that Wang's suicide was essentially a resistance to the investigation, and it was already very merciful to stop at the confiscation of his property. If someone really incited the people and tried to resist armed resistance, then it would be said that I had not warned you.
After using both soft and hard tactics and clearly expressing Emperor Zhao's determination, the sudden wave of resistance to the land inspection was immediately subsided.
However, the Wang family was the most virtuous family in Yuhang, and the fact that their family was surrounded and confiscated by cavalry after their death did indeed trigger grief among people from all walks of life in the southeast...After this incident, a large number of members of the two public cabinets, taking advantage of the smooth transportation conditions and public cabinet system in the southeast, began to submit petitions on a large scale. However, they no longer talked about land inspections and local decisions, nor did they discuss the New Deal. Instead, they focused their attacks on the Imperial City Department and the Military Control Department, pointing the finger at Yang Yi Zhong and Yu Yun Wen, and focusing the incident on the harassment and harm of the scholars and people in the southeast caused by this secret service system.
And gradually formed a trend.
In response to this, Emperor Zhao still sat firmly on Phoenix Mountain. He sent envoys to Wuwei Army to reward Wang Gui and other soldiers of the imperial camp. On the other hand, he still did not accuse them of their words and carefully approved the letters from the public cabinet.
Anyway, although there are a lot of memorials, they are more than enough to write an article with great effort, while Emperor Zhao can just respond with "absurd", "read it", "nonsense", and "got it", so it can't be said that one is more troublesome than the other.
Of course, Lü Benzhong would still meet some people on behalf of Emperor Zhao, but he pointed out directly: Anyone with a little common sense should know that if the 10,000 imperial camp troops of Wuwei Army crossed the river and went south, who could stop them? The current situation just shows that the emperor is kind-hearted and unwilling to use force.
Up to this point, there really is an attitude that the government is sitting comfortably on Phoenix Mountain, ready to fight back whenever an enemy comes and block the water with earth.
This situation lasted for about ten days. As the Lantern Festival of the ninth year of Jianyan was approaching, rumors spread that Emperor Zhao would take advantage of the spring plowing period after the Lantern Festival to send out squads of guards in an armed posture to go deep into the fields and forcibly complete the final inspection.
The reason why it is called a rumor rather than a hearsay is because many people believe that it is feasible... After a hard winter, Liangzhe Road and Jiangdong Road dare not say that the land inspection work has been completed, but the land inspection for households with favorable conditions is basically completed. Many things basically only need the final verification work, and spring ploughing is a good time.
As for the land tax, at the very least it would just be a tax increase on the relatively disadvantaged households. Do we really have to not go out for spring ploughing in order to resist this?
Moreover, in the second issue of Phoenix Weekly in the new year, Master Lu published another article, and then clearly conveyed the government's message three times: Even if there are acts of hiding land, holding land on behalf of others, etc., as long as they actively cooperate in the land inspection work, then the old things before the eighth year of Jianyan will not be investigated. However, after the ninth year of Jianyan, if the land is still hidden, or even abandoned to escape, it will be severely punished to serve as a warning to the rest.
After all this time...is it that serious?
Therefore, before the Lantern Festival, facing the resolute Zhao Guanjia on Phoenix Mountain, the households in Jiangnan East Road and Liangzhe Road almost lost the courage to continue the confrontation in the land inspection. Even the impeachment against Yang Yizhong and Yu Yunwen would have gradually stopped if they had not agreed with each other before.
However, at this moment, as a person hurriedly rushed to the southeast from Tokyo and suddenly contacted another person who had been silent locally on the way after crossing the river, the people in the southeast became more excited as if they had come back to life.
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