Chapter 782 The real power

The court's instructions were swift.

In just a few days, Yunzheng received instructions from the court.

It was allowed to implement the method of dividing one person into one mu in Fuzhou as a pilot for tax reform in Daqian.

After receiving the court's instructions, Yun Zheng couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

As expected, the imperial court still didn’t dare to follow!

Alas, the third child just doesn’t have the courage!

The goal is to weaken the clan and the clan anyway, so why not take a two-pronged approach?

Isn't he short of money?

By forcing those aristocrats and clans to quarrel with the court, wouldn't he just be able to ransack homes and make money?

Sooner or later, it will be promoted nationwide.

The third child cuts one knife today and another tomorrow, which is purely based on the mentality of the clan and the clan.

After complaining in his mind for a while, Yunzheng immediately called Tuohuan and Ji Ran: "According to the previous plan, order all counties and counties to immediately organize personnel to educate the people about the new tax system and re-measure and register the land!"

Ji Ran had a headache and worried: "If the order from the state government is passed on, most of the officials below will be perfunctory or even passive in their work. Moreover, so many people have resigned before..."

"What are you afraid of?"

Yunzheng interrupted Ji Ran, "If the sky falls, won't I still be here? By the way, tomorrow is the deadline set by the king. Have all the officials who resigned have arrived at Jingyang Mansion?"

"Everyone has arrived."

Ji Ran nodded helplessly and asked, "Does the prince want to summon them?"

Did they all arrive early?

Yun Zheng smiled and immediately ordered: "Please wait before issuing orders to all counties! Tomorrow at noon, I will host a banquet at the Governor's Mansion in honor of those officials who have resigned, so they must attend on time!"

"Yes!"

……

The next day, noon.

Yunzheng hosted a banquet at the Governor's Mansion, and all the officials who had previously resigned showed up on time.

"Master Hu, what do you mean by this prince?"

"How would I know!"

"In my opinion, with so many of us resigning, the prince wants to appease us!"

"Not necessarily! This prince is an iron-blooded prince. Maybe he wants to treat us to a meal of deprivation!"

"No way? I'm just waiting to resign. No matter how domineering he is, he can't kill us all!"

"That's right, the court has its own laws. Even if he is a prince, he cannot act so wantonly! Does he still have a reputation?"

"Don't underestimate the domineering power of this prince. Do you all know the fate of Cui Wenjing, the prince's servant?"

"I heard that when this prince was in Suizhou, he connived with bandits and beat most of the officials in the county to death..."

Before Yun Zheng showed up, a group of officials gathered together and started talking.

Some people were worried that they were being treated to a decapitation meal, while others were whispering to everyone about Yun Zheng's past glorious deeds.

Many people are still a little afraid of the prince Yunzheng.

Let’s not mention that Yun Zheng is a horse-riding prince who has personally raised a knife to fight Beihuan people several times. Let’s just say that when Yun Zheng was getting married in Sifang County, he beat the prince’s attendant until he vomited blood in front of the prince Yun Li. Nothing can be done to him.

Several people present had witnessed Yun Zheng's domineering behavior with their own eyes.

However, some people disagreed and firmly believed that Yun Zheng did not dare to do anything to them.

Fuzhou is so big, can Yunzheng manage it by himself?

In the end, don’t we have to rely on officials like them to govern?

If you are good at killing officials, which official will dare to work for Yunzheng in the future?

Just as everyone was talking about it, Ji Ran walked in slowly.

Seeing Ji Ran, everyone saluted.

"You don't have to be polite."

Ji Ran chuckled, "The prince is waiting for you in the back hall, please come with me!"

With that said, Ji Ran led everyone towards the back hall.

Hu Shicheng, who was relatively familiar with Ji Ran, walked quickly to Ji Ran and asked in a low voice: "Master Ji, why is the prince hosting a banquet for us?"

Ji Ran turned to look at Hu Shicheng and asked doubtfully, "Didn't the person who sent you the message tell you?"

"I told you!"

Hu Shicheng replied: "But the person who sent the message only told the official that the prince wanted to talk to me because of my resignation, and didn't say anything else."

Yunzheng just wanted to talk to them about this kind of thing, so Hu Shicheng naturally didn't believe it.

Hu Shicheng had a ghost in his heart, and he felt even more uneasy when he heard the comments from his colleagues just now.

Now he just wants to know what Yun Zheng's intentions are so that he can make preparations in advance.

Seeing Hu Shicheng's uneasy look, Ji Ran sighed secretly and said perfunctorily: "I only know that the prince wants to talk to you. I don't know the rest."

Hearing Ji Ran's words, Hu Shicheng was even more flustered.

Under the leadership of Ji Ran, everyone finally came to the back hall.

As soon as they entered the back hall, Hu Shicheng and the other three officials were stunned.

In the back hall, Yunzheng and Tuohuan were sitting there leisurely. In front of them, more than ten people were kneeling on the ground.

Hu Shicheng recognized at a glance that his wife, concubine and only son were all kneeling on the ground, trembling all over.

In front of them, there were two large boxes.

There is still some dirt on the box.

Hu Shicheng recognized it at a glance. It was his box containing gold and silver.

Finished!

This is indeed a deprivation meal!

Hu Shicheng felt like the world was spinning and he sat on the ground with a gray face.

His wives, concubines, and sons were all arrested, and even the boxes were dug out, but he didn't receive any news.

This is already obvious!

When he left for Jingyang Mansion, Yun Zheng had already sent people to his house to fetch people. Everyone in his house was probably under control!

All his secrets are no secrets in front of Yunzheng.

He knows best what he has done.

After a long time, Hu Shicheng struggled to get up and knelt down, wailing with a look of despair on his face: "I know my guilt, please forgive me. I am willing to work for you and repay your kindness..."

As Hu Shicheng's words sounded, the other three officials also knelt on the ground with a bang, kowtowing in despair and begging for mercy.

Their situation is similar to that of Hu Shicheng.

The family members or their confidants who knew about their evil deeds were all captured by Yun Zheng and knelt down here.

Those boxes contained evidence of their crimes!

All the evidence is there!

Yunzheng didn't even give them a chance to quibble!

What a drastic measure!

Looking at the scene in front of them, everyone couldn't help but fell into a daze.

Yunzheng What does this mean?

Killing a chicken to scare the monkeys?

Or, don’t you have any deeper meaning?

Everyone was thinking constantly and even forgot to salute Yunzheng.

Yun Zheng didn't care about them, he just raised his eyes and glanced at a few people. There was no trace of anger on his face, but there was a bit of smile on his face. He waved his hand and said: "Kneel down to the side! Don't delay this king's banquet for all of you. !”

Saying that, Yunzheng clapped his hands again and introduced Tuohuan and Wei Yu to those officials who did not kneel down. Then he asked everyone to sit down and ordered people to serve food and drinks...