Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 64: If officials can’t make a living, scholars are worse than dogs!
In one day.

Prince Yu was ordered to recuperate.

Eight hundred and ninety-nine officials from Shuntian Prefecture were arrested.

More than ten thousand Jinyiwei blocked all the roads in the capital, and then searched the whole city for the man.

Anyone who dares to resist will be executed on the spot.

Rivers of blood flowed from the gates of thousands of mansions, and tens of thousands of people were thrown into prison.

Although the Beizhenfusi Prison was large, it was sufficient to detain the convicted officials, but it was not capable of detaining their families.

Jinyiwei Commander-in-Chief Lu Bing, holding the imperial edict, visited the East Factory, the Ministry of Justice, the Dali Temple, and the Censorate successively.

The Eastern Depot and the Three Judicial Departments transferred the Dark Prison and the Sky Prison to the Imperial Guard for temporary management.

Even so, there were still not enough cells, so Lu Bing visited the Shuntian Prefecture Yamen and the 24 county yamen under its jurisdiction, including Wanping and Daxing.

The Imperial Guard took over the prisons in all prefectures and counties near the capital and filled them with prisoners.

In the end, Lu Bing was forced into a corner and had to arrest people, try cases, kill people, and ransack homes at the same time.

For ten whole days, the West Market Archway was muddy and the sky above the capital was filled with wisps of blood. The people in the capital always had a faint smell of blood lingering around their noses for a long time.

During this period, the routine work of various ministries and government offices continued as usual, and official documents were drafted and approved as needed.

However, all officials, big and small, in the capital would say goodbye to their families before reporting to the government office.

But unlike the Hongwu period of Emperor Taizu Gao, when officials always had one coffin at home, now every household in Beijing has several coffins.

Emperor Taizu Gao only prosecuted one official when judging a crime, but the current emperor often prosecutes the entire family, using brutal and bloody methods.

Such ferocious power caused many civil and military officials to want to meet the emperor together. However, in the restaurant where the officials were discussing, thousands of Jinyiwei and Tiqi rushed in and arrested everyone.

According to the imperial decree, no matter whether the officials who intend to force the emperor to abdicate are honest or corrupt, they will be sentenced to death for treason!
Thousands of Beijing officials were killed, and nearly 30,000 of their families were implicated. The huge machine of the Ming Dynasty did not stop running, but instead ran wildly.

News continued to trickle into the cabinet.

Zhang Juzheng, who was temporarily in charge of cabinet affairs as the second assistant to the cabinet, and the two cabinet ministers Li Chunfang and Chen Yiqin, who were assistants to the cabinet, knew far more than the court officials.

Beijing is miserable! Nanjing is even more miserable!
Zhu Qi, one of the Thirteen Guards of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, arrived in Nanzhili in person with the imperial edict. The Xiaoling Guard and the Nanjing City Garrison Yamen were mobilized by the imperial order to blockade the inside and outside of Nanjing City.

The Jinyiwei used the method of catching turtles in a jar to arrest people everywhere in Nanjing City.

Perhaps it was because it was closer to the Shilin base, not only officials were resisting, but even the Shilin were resisting.

Countless scholars stood guard at the doors of Nanjing officials, openly resisting the Jinyiwei's arrests.

At first, the Jinyiwei found it difficult and a bit hard to deal with, but when the Jinling scholars saw this, they became more and more aggressive and even took the initiative to collide with the Jinyiwei with their bodies.

Amid the collision, “someone” shouted “rebellion”.

When dissatisfaction rises to the level of rebellion, all conflicts undergo fundamental changes.

Zhu Qi had no more scruples and ordered all his Jinyi soldiers to draw their Embroidered Spring Swords and kill without mercy!

Hundreds of scholars with great achievements were splattered with blood like chickens and dogs being slaughtered. The scholars in Jinling calmed down and subconsciously rushed towards the Confucius Temple.

He tried to use the tablet of the Great Sage to protect himself, but the Jinyiwei was right behind him, slaughtering those Jinling scholars who ran slower.

Witnessed by countless civilians, the Jinyiwei chased the criminals street by street.

Scholars liked blue shirts, but that day, all the blue shirts in the city turned bright red.

When the scholars from Jinling rushed to the Confucius Temple, something truly horrifying happened. In front of the Confucius Temple stood teams of Xiaoling guards who were fully armored and holding spears, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

Some Jinling scholars tried to force their way in, but those long spears stabbed them mercilessly, piercing through them. With the Xiaoling Guards blocking the way in front and the Jinyi Guards chasing them from behind, countless Jinling scholars completely collapsed, knelt down and surrendered.

Despite the hard work, the Jinyiwei counted the identities of these scholars and reported to the Yuxi Palace, stripping the scholars of their titles and honors for treason. For three generations, they were not allowed to take the imperial examinations and enter officialdom.

The emperor is approved!

The history of Nanjing City records: "In the 40th year of Jiajing, at the beginning of April, the Jinling scholars were in turmoil and plotted a rebellion. The Jinyi Guards killed more than a thousand scholars and stripped more than ten thousand of their official titles. There were tens of thousands of others left, and the rebellion was finally extinguished."

Without the stupid and cowardly scholars standing in front of them, the corrupt officials in Nanjing City would no longer have a chance to hide.

Nearly 1,200 officials from Southern Zhili were killed, and 40,000 people were implicated.

When the official turmoil in the two capitals gradually came to an end, the Jinyiwei massacred the two capitals, beheaded 2,200 officials, and implicated more than 70,000 people.

Incidentally, more than a thousand scholars with outstanding achievements were killed, and the honors of nearly ten thousand scholars were stripped.

The magnitude of the case was comparable to the "Hu-Lan Case" in which Emperor Taizu Gaozu massacred two Huaixi nobles, Hu Weiyong and Lan Yu.

but.

The number of officials and population during the Jiajing reign was far greater than the number of founding heroes and their families.

After so many officials in the two capitals died, there was no vacancy of officials or shortage of people in Shuntian Prefecture and Yingtian Prefecture.

There are always many more people than officials.

Each official in each government office performed his or her duties well, and his or her work efficiency was several times higher than before.

During the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there were too many officials and staff, as can be seen from the picture.

The memorial submitted by Prince Yu, who was leading the ministers, was submitted directly to the Yuxi Palace in his capacity as a prince, bypassing the Tongzhengsi and the Cabinet.

When the cabinet learned about the memorial that contained the intention of forcing the emperor to abdicate, they knew that the emperor would be furious.

Although it is said in "Strategies of the Warring States: Wei Strategies" that when the King of Qin was angry, millions of corpses were buried and blood flowed everywhere.

But none of the three cabinet elders thought that the emperor would recreate the wrath of the King of Qin.

Zhang Juzheng sighed quietly, and Li Chunfang and Chen Yiqin looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.

Before becoming cabinet ministers, their first identity was a scholar, and they knew best how much scholars could bear grudges.

Ten thousand years before the Emperor's death, the scholars and intellectuals were trembling with fear under such fierce power and dared not say a word.

But after ten thousand years, the emperor will probably be labeled as a tyrant like Emperor Taizu Gao.

After arresting, trying, and executing people, and even stripping those scholars of their official titles, Zhang Juzheng and the other two did not take what had happened to heart at all.

The awe of officials in the two capitals, the panic of officials in the thirteen provinces, and the anger of the literati in the Ming Dynasty are not worth thinking about at all.

Those who have ever rebelled have always been farmers. I have never heard of intellectuals causing such a commotion.

Huang Chao might have done that, but I am in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, not the Qianfu period of the Tang Dynasty.

After the major case, there was only one person that concerned the three ministers, Zhang, Li and Chen.

Zhang Juzheng took out the account book of officials whose property was confiscated given by the Embroidered Uniform Guard and spread it out on the table. Li Chunfang and Chen Yiqin came over immediately.

Shuntian, thirty-five million taels of silver.

Yingtian, forty-five million taels of silver.

(End of this chapter)