Chapter two hundred and ninety-six you rebel
Sun Chuanting is very good, do you think?
As soon as Zhu Cixuan opened his words, Chongzhen's face changed: "What, what do you say, say it again to me!"
The fool also heard that Emperor Chongzhen was going to go wild. But Zhu Cilang just bit the bullet and said, "Father, I have something that I have always been hiding from you."
"Say." Chongzhen seemed to notice something was wrong.
Zhu Cilang thought for a while, and then replied seriously: "What Father and Sun Chuanting did in Shaanxi. In fact, this is all instructed by his sons."
Fortunately, there were no other outsiders in the Ganqing palace, and the palace maids and eunuchs were all cleared. Only the old slave Wang Chengen accompanied Chongzhen, and Wang Chengen was so scared that he shivered when he heard this.
Chongzhen shook his body even more, barely holding onto the table, and his eyes looked bloody red when he looked at Zhu Cilang: "Say, you give me word by word, make it clear."
As soon as he said that Zhu Cilang was willing to go out: "Father, before Sun Chuanting left the capital, his son minister had a long talk with him. He killed court officials in Shaanxi, destroyed officials, cut off royal relatives, and dismissed scholars. All of these were the son ministers who asked him to do."
"Disappeared son! You, you, you, your son!" Emperor Chongzhen pointed at Zhu Cilang angrily, his whole body trembling. He was already angry: "The country's fortune for more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed in the hands of you, your son. What do you want to do? A son, are you worthy of your ancestors, are you worthy of your country and country! A son!"
Emperor Chongzhen said five rebellious sons in one breath. It turned out that all this was done by Zhu Cilang. He killed officials, ate wealthy families, cut off royal relatives and relatives to the people, and canceled the preferential treatment of scholars. He beat local tyrants and divided the land, which almost caused chaos in Shaanxi. He even asked Sun Chuanting to kill two prefectures and five prefectures, 1,231 descendants of Zhu were demoted to common people, 25 juren, 111 scholars were demoted to fame and fortune. He killed 276 wealthy households and 1,506 households.
Not to mention the rebellion everywhere in Shaanxi. Although Sun Chuanting cleared one by one, the sequelae left behind for Shaanxi are also serious.
Who knew that all Sun Chuanting did was instructed by Zhu Cilang. Why, did Zhu Cilang want to rebel against the Ming Dynasty? He is the prince of the old Zhu family, and did he rebel against himself?
What's so bad is that Sun Chuanting is also funny? Why did he listen to the prince? Zhu Cilang has no right to govern him? Why did Sun Chuanting obey this rebellious son? Could it be that Sun Chuanting was also flattering the prince and wanted to be reused after Zhu Cilang ascends the throne in the future?
"Why, what did you say to Sun Chuanting?" Chongzhen looked at him coldly.
Chongzhen himself knew that Sun Chuanting would never obey Zhu Cilang so much for his career. Sure enough, this rebel son used some method to convince him.
Sure enough, Zhu Cilang said shamelessly: "For the Ming Dynasty, the Father, and for the country of our Ming Dynasty."
If it weren't for the fact that his son was young and ignorant, Emperor Chongzhen would have really slapped him at this moment. In fact, Emperor Chongzhen did stretch out his hand.
Zhu Cixuan's mouth jumped involuntarily, and he saw it too. Fortunately, Chongzhen finally tried hard to restrain his anger: "Speak."
"Father, the bandits have been cleared out year by year. Not to mention anything else, the bandits have never stopped rebelling since the Tianqi period of the First Emperor. In recent years, the court has exhausted all its methods, how much money and grain have been poured into it, and how many loyal ministers have buried their bones in the battlefield. But, the bandits have been wiped out?"
This is really shameful, Zhu Cilang is right. For decades, since the Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Tianqi Emperor, the bandits have started to rebellion endlessly. The court tried every means to clear out, recruit peace, reduce taxes, and resettle refugees. What methods have never been used. How much tax is filled in every year, the treasury has filled in the blanks.
As a result, why are there more and more bandits? What is the reason and what should we do to completely cut off bandits? No one has any good idea. He is winning many times and is watching the bandits be wiped out. But it won't take long to go back to life and become more severe.
What was going on? Emperor Chongzhen's anger subsided a little: "What do you mean is that Sun Chuanting burned, killed, looted, and there were no bandits doing anything wrong?"
Zhu Cilang shook his head: "I don't know, my son doesn't know."
Emperor Chongzhen turned and became furious: "You!"
You don’t know that you even let Sun Chuanting do these crazy things. You are a rebellious son, are you crazy?
Unexpectedly, Zhu Cilang shook his head and said, "I really don't know, but there is one thing that I know. The reason why the bandits cannot be defeated is because they were not found. It's like a person is sick, and heals the headache and the feet, although it can be temporarily relieved. But father, have you ever thought about why they get sick?"
Chongzhen was stunned and didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Zhu Cixuan answered for him: "If we find the cause of the disease, he was suffering from a cold and headache, and because of a nail and a foot pain. If we put on a cotton coat and put on shoes, will he still get sick?"
It was like a candlelight appeared in the boundless darkness, and it was like an oasis appeared in the scorching desert. This was an extremely simple truth, but there were so many talented people in the court, but no one could see it clearly.
In other words, even if someone can see clearly, no one dares to say it out due to various interweaving interests or other reasons.
Now Zhu Cixuan said that he had said everything to Emperor Chongzhen. He still risked being deposed and turned the whole of Shaanxi into earth and the whole city of Beijing into earth.
The Ming army was defeated repeatedly, and the bandits were unable to defeat them. In the end, Emperor Chongzhen was very angry. Why was all this? He couldn't understand why he was diligent enough, and the eunuch party was eliminated. He also learned from the wise kings in history to humbly accept advice and listen to honest advice. But in the end, why was this result?
What Chongzhen didn't know was that his humble acceptance of advice gave the Donglin Party members the opportunity to do whatever they wanted. It's right to humble acceptance of advice, but you have to learn to distinguish right from wrong.
Chongzhen lived in Beijing since childhood, but he did not know much about the sufferings of the people. Only by going deep into the people and experiencing the sufferings of the people can one be a good emperor.
Emperor Chongzhen was finally moved. Now he was no longer angry, and replaced by confusion and endless confusion: "Son of the Emperor, then tell me, did you ask Sun Chuanting to do something in Shaanxi? Even if you found the cause of the disease?"
Zhu Cilang still shook his head: "I don't know, but I have to try it. Father, you don't know that our Zhu family has millions of descendants, and the people of the world have long been overwhelmed. Can so many royal relatives afford it? Also, those so-called scholars in the world have exempted taxes and labor service because they think of some fame. Why do they impose their privileges on innocent people? There are many wealthy and unkind landlords and gentry who seized land and displaced the people. Father doesn't know, but let's not talk about anything else, just in our Beijing city, there are people who have rich and rich lands. Where did these land come from? Father has thought about it. These are all robbed the land in the hands of the people. How can we not rebel if the people have lost their land?"
Chapter completed!