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  Chapter 153 151【Punishment】

   "Mr. Li, please sit down." Zhao Han smiled.

  Li Banghua said anxiously: "How can I sit still? The Zou family cannot be copied. Once the house is copied, the scholars of the three counties will be renounced."

  Since Li Banghua did not sit down, Zhao Han sat down by himself: "I know that Mr. Nangao (Zou Yuanbiao) has disciples all over the world. Mr. Li is also a direct disciple of Mr. Nangao."

   "I'm not pleading for my teacher's family," Li Banghua could only explain patiently, "The Zou family really can't move!"

  Searching Zou's house is tantamount to stabbing a hornet's nest, Zhao Han is of course very clear.

  Zou Yuanbiao himself, together with Zhao Nanxing and Gu Xiancheng, are called "Three Monarchs of Donglin". Zou Yuanbiao's only son, Zou Sui, died of illness while working in the frontier. Zou Sui's two sons and a nephew were sacrificed by King Jinqin to kill the Tartars.

  In any case, the Zou family is really loyal and patriotic.

  The three juniors of the Zou family were distributing money to raise bravery, and they walked faster than the governor at that time. They set off from Jiangxi to Beijing, and the Tartars hadn't left yet. They fought the Tartars with real swords and guns until they died for their country.

  Zou Yuanbiao's lineage has actually been cut off, and it is only his adopted descendants who have taken refuge in Zhao Han.

  Famous all over the world, with many disciples, unparalleled loyalty, this is the Zou family of the East Gate, and now Zhao Han ransacked their home.

   Within the jurisdiction, it is estimated that many spectators, including the low-level scholars loyal to Zhao Han, will stand up to defend the Zou family.

   If you are playing computer games, the negative effect of checking the Zou family is likely to be "minus one in stability".

  Zhao Han suddenly sneered and said: "Mr. Li, what do you think I can occupy the land of the three counties? What do you rely on? Do you rely on the gentry?"

   "It depends on dividing the land." Li Banghua knew it very well.

  Zhao Han asked again: "The Zou family destroyed the land administration. Before dividing the land, they secretly donated thousands of acres of land to Qingyuan Temple. This is to dig the foundation of my rule. How can I forgive it so easily?"

Li Banghua sighed and said: "If it's really just for Tianzheng, why would the Zou family be seized now. I actually understand what Zongzhen is thinking. It's nothing more than suppressing the gentry. But there must be a limit to the suppression. The gentry have already donated their land. They Step back, we can't keep pressing, otherwise we will inevitably lose our morals."

   "They are retreating? They are forcing me to do it!" Zhao Han was furious, "They are all reaching out to my General Military Mansion!"

   Li Banghua persuaded: "It is true that it is easy to form cliques with private relatives, but as long as it is controlled within a certain limit, it will be conducive to the loyalty of the gentry."

  This is a matter of ideology. In order to win over the gentry and powerful factions, the soldiers of the past dynasties will not stop this kind of in-law relationship, and the lord will even take the initiative to marry the rich.

  For example, Liu Xiu, the son of the plane, first married Yin Lihua, a wealthy daughter, and after only one year, he married Guo Shengtong, the niece of King Zhending.

   Li Banghua was really thinking about Zhao Han. After the gentry got married like this, they would definitely be more loyal to Zhao Han.

Zhao Han didn't appreciate it, and said, "Are they loyal to me? No, they are loyal to the family's future. I don't want to create a situation that is only three counties, and the officials under the rule are already intertwined! They want power, Just do things honestly, I will promote them instead of corrupting my subordinates! Mr. Li, do you want to create a Jishui party in Ji'an? You have suffered from party struggles in Beijing, and you still want me to rule Can the ministers and officials eat it again?"

  This is a word of condemnation, Li Banghua said angrily: "I have no intention of forming a clique, and I never want to be the leader of the Jishui Party!"

   "If you don't do it, they will force you to do it!" Zhao Han fixed his eyes on Li Banghua.

  Li Banghua was thinking a lot, and suddenly sighed, not knowing what to say.

   "General Town!"

  Liu Zhu hurriedly came to report: "Outside the commander-in-chief's mansion, hundreds of scholars gathered, clamoring to come in to intercede with the Zou family."

  Zhao Han sneered and said: "The Zou family really has face. I arrested people yesterday, and today they can gather so many people."

   Li Banghua sat on the spot, feeling that he was not a human being inside and out. He was sandwiched between Zhao Han and the gentry, and it seemed that it was wrong to speak for either side.

  Zhao Han went out and came outside the General Military Mansion. Hundreds of scholars saw him coming, and collectively bowed to each other and shouted: "Please forgive me!"

   "Hahahahaha!"

  Zhao Han changed his face and became extremely fast, how could he still be angry? He said with joy on his face: "I like you very much that you can come today."

  A scholar said happily: "The general town is willing to release the Zou family?"

Zhao Han walked among these scholars and said with a smile: "You guys can come to petition today, it can be seen that you have recognized me, Mr. Zhao, from the bottom of your heart. Otherwise, it is not a petition together, but a secret conspiracy. If you can win the hearts of the gentlemen, How can I be unhappy if it is enough to rule the world? It's just..."

Suddenly the topic changed, and Zhao Han sighed: "The Zou family took the lead in undermining the land administration. As the head of the three counties, I can't bend the law for personal gain, right? Don't worry, everyone, if you act according to the law, you will definitely not wrong the Zou family, and of course you will not." condone crime."

  Juren Liu Tongsheng suddenly stood up: "Dare to ask the general town, can there be a contract in advance that the land cannot be transferred before the land is divided? If there is no prior agreement, it will be punished without teaching."

   "Is that a gift from the Zou family?" Zhao Han sneered and ordered, "Bring the monk from Qingyuan Temple!"

   Not long after, soldiers escorted more than a dozen monks, all of whom were senior officials of Qingyuan Temple.

  Zhao Han said to Zen Master Benji, the abbot of Qingyuan Temple, "Does the food in the prison meet the Zen Master's wishes?"

  Zen Master Benji is already over seventy years old, he put his palms together and said: "The five grains in the world are nothing but things that satiate the stomach, and there is no difference between whether they are good or bad."

   "Very good, the Chan Master is really profound in Buddhism," Zhao Han ordered, "Order the prison guards, and the monks of Qingyuan Temple, from now on, only rice bran and wheat bran will be fine."

  Zen Master Benji looked at Zhao Han with a helpless expression on his face, and the other monks also had no temper, all of them withered like eggplants with frost.

  Finally, Zen Master Benji couldn't help but said: "Zongzhen, if you only eat rice bran and wheat bran, people will starve to death."

  Zen Master Benji left his name in later generations only because of two things he did.

  Firstly, Wang Yangming gave lectures in Qingyuan Temple. Since then, Qingyuan Temple has integrated Zen and Confucianism, and the academy in the temple has existed for more than a hundred years. Zou Yuanbiao and Guo Zizhang, the two inheritors of mind theory, welcomed Zen master Benji as the abbot. The original intention was to coexist the temple and the academy. After Zen Master Benji gained a firm foothold, he moved the academy out.

  Second, Xu Xiake came to Jishui for tourism, and Zen Master Benji entertained Xu Xiake, so it was written in "Xu Xiake's Travel Notes".

  Zhao Han was surprised and said: "Will people starve to death if they eat rice bran and wheat bran? I have seen that many people in the world eat bran. Are they not human beings? Can't every Buddha be reincarnated?"

  Another monk said: "General Town, if the people only eat bran, they will starve to death."

   "You also know that people will starve to death?"

Zhao Han suddenly said angrily: "Qingyuan Temple occupies nearly 10,000 mu of land, and now it has thousands of mu of land donated by the Zou family. Can you monks eat it all? Why don't you share it with the poor people at the foot of the mountain? There is a saying in Buddhism, saving lives Mingsheng built a seven-level pagoda, how many lives did you save? The monastery gave usury to the peasants, forcing the peasants to sell their sons and daughters, what kind of Buddhism do you practice!"

  Zen Master Benji put his palms together hastily: "Amitabha, the poor monk doesn't know about this, so he must be strictly restrained from now on."

   "No need," Zhao Han said, "All the monks in Qingyuan Temple, who don't have a certificate from the court, will return to the common people. Monks with certificates, each will give you three acres of land, and you can cultivate it yourself if you want to eat in the future!"

   All the monks were speechless for a while as if struck by lightning.

  In the temples and Taoist temples in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, at most one out of ten monks and priests was a legal monk, and the rest were all illegal monks and Taoists without certificates.

  Zhao Han ordered those fake monks to return to vulgarity. He did not have the suspicion of slandering the Buddha. Instead, he followed the law and maintained the purity of Buddhism.

Zhao Han then said to the hundreds of scholars: "This Zen master Benji was welcomed by Mr. Nangao (Zou Yuanbiao) and Mr. Qingluo (Guo Zizhang) to be the abbot. This monk is double-faced and three-handed. After gaining a firm foothold, he immediately crossed the river and demolished the bridge. Blatantly disobeying the entrustment of Mr. Nangao and Qingluo, he drove the academy away from Qingyuan Temple. He also forcibly occupied countless mathematics fields as temple fields. Donated to the academy!"

   Zhao Han began to sow dissension: "Occupy the school land as temple land, and take the school food as monk food, you scholars turn a blind eye!"

  Most scholars don't know about this.

  Because Monk Benji chose a good time, he took advantage of the reconstruction of Bailuzhou Academy and merged the academy in Qingyuan Temple with Bailuzhou Academy. At that time, the teachers and students were very happy, and the monk even pretended to donate money, which won the praise of countless scholars.

  But now, it was exposed by Zhao Han on the spot - a monk confessed last night, otherwise Zhao Han would not know.

  Hundreds of scholars have been distracted and glared at the monk one after another.

  That is a field of study that has been accumulated for more than a hundred years. If you think about it on your knees, you know that the area is very large, and it is actually occupied by these monks!

Zhao Han stared at Zen Master Benji: "The Zou family didn't want to give all of the property to the farmers. They risked offending me and secretly donated thousands of acres to Qingyuan Temple. Are they fools? Or is it true?" Believe in the Buddha?"

   "The poor monk doesn't know about this." Zen Master Benji was still pretending to be stupid.

  Zhao Han asked with a smile: "Who wants to say it?"

  Last night, during the overnight interrogation, a group of middle-level monks were tortured to extract confessions, and these high-level monks were allowed to listen to the screams all the time.

   It was false not to be afraid in my heart, and immediately a monk knelt down and said: "General Town, the land donated by the Zou family, the land rent from the Zou family will be divided into half and half with Qingyuan Temple."

  This news was tortured out last night.

  Zhao Han asked Liu Tongsheng with a smile: "Liu Juren, the land rent is split in half. Is this a donation to the monastery, or is it maliciously concealing the land?"

   "This..." Liu Tongsheng was speechless.

Zhao Han said to the rest of the scholars: "All the land of your family has been divided up. The Zou family has kept thousands of acres of land, and rented it to the monks. You who don't have a few acres of land, instead run away Come to intercede for the Zou family who have hidden thousands of acres. What is this for? Forgive me for being stupid, I really can't figure it out."

  Hundreds of scholars looked at each other, feeling cheated.

   Don’t worry about scarcity but inequality. Everyone has divided the fields. Why does your Zou family hide thousands of acres?

   Immediately, some scholars turned and left. Zou Yuanbiao did leave a blessing, worthy of the admiration of local scholars, but it was not to the point where the scholars took advantage of the Zou family.

  Li Banghua stood at the door, watching all this silently, he knew that the Zou family was completely ruined.

  Zhao Han not only ransacked Zou's home, but also ruined Zou's reputation.

   Punish your heart!

  (end of this chapter)