The news of the quelling of the rebellion in Gansu was delivered to Tang Feng a few days later. Although he is still just a duke, he is equivalent to regulating the country. All major events of the Ming Dynasty court were decided by him, and the good news presented to the emperor was naturally delivered to him through the yamen.

To be honest, Tang Feng was still very confident in defeating those anti-army forces, but he didn't expect everything to go so smoothly. In just over half a month, the anti-army was completely suppressed, which really made Tang Feng happy. Now that the financial power of the Ming Dynasty was already in the hands of Tang Feng, he immediately made a decision to let the treasury take out all the remaining silver, and after the army passed by triumph, he would reward the soldiers who made meritorious service for the country.[]

Although the officials of the Ministry of Revenue were really unwilling to do so after learning about Tang Feng's intention, after all, once the treasury is completely empty, it will be very unfavorable to the court. If something happens to other provinces, the court will have to be anxious. However, Tang Feng's attitude was very tough and told them that they had their own way to fill the treasury. Since he had made up his mind, the officials did not dare to sing against him and had to act according to their fate.

Another thing that Tang Feng is very concerned about is that the anti-military leader Li Zicheng, who was captured alive. Tang Feng was still a little afraid of the endorsement of the Ming Dynasty in history, but he didn't expect that it would fall into his hands now. He wanted to see what this historical celebrity looked like, so he ordered Man Gui and others to take him with him when he returned to Beijing in triumphantly. As for the surrendered soldiers, Tang Feng was not sure what to do. After all, they were all the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they were more forced to embark on the road of rebellion. He didn't want to really kill all these people, so he could only let them go first.

Now Tang Feng is most concerned about the country's financial affairs. If he is not in charge of the country, he doesn't know that the firewood and rice are expensive. After learning more, Tang Feng realized that the Ming Dynasty's finances could no longer be described as being stretched. A large country with a huge population of 100 million or 200 million has less than one million silver in the treasury, which Tang Feng couldn't believe.

Although the Ming Dynasty has never stopped internal and external troubles for many years, either natural disasters have occurred here or riots have aroused troubles there, Tang Feng firmly believes that this must not be the reason for the imperial court's poverty. You should know that in the later Qing Dynasty, even if the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, the wealth the imperial court still had was far greater than that of the Ming Dynasty in his hands. What is the key to the problem?

Tang Feng didn't need to think about it to know the problem, which was the old and conservative thoughts and the royal family. It was precisely because of the suppression policy of the Ming Dynasty in the early stage that the commodity economy was extremely underdeveloped, so that private capital was completely stagnant, and at most it was just to buy some land, so that the country could not receive enough taxes at all. In addition, the maritime ban was closed and there was basically no contact with overseas countries, so foreign trade was naturally gone, and it completely disappeared in open source.

The royal family made the court's expenditure extremely large. In two hundred years, the Zhu family's dragon sons and grandsons had hundreds of thousands. They did not work for production and had to rely on the court to support them. They also relied on their own identity to occupy land and did not pay taxes, which made the people displaced and eventually embarked on the road of rebellion. In fact, Tang Feng had already understood this a few years ago and had also suggested to Chongzhen that he wanted to reduce the cost of these royal families, but in the end the emperor refused him for stability.

As for the opening of sea and commerce, although Chongzhen opened a hole and opened Suzhou to the sea, he also made considerable contributions to the continued operation of the court, but the long-standing concept made it extremely difficult to unload the sea ban. Later, with the continuous chaos in the country, no one focused on opening of sea and commerce.

Now that Tang Feng has become a political leader, he naturally does not want to continue along the same path. He must make some changes, otherwise even if he has the advantage of knowing the future direction, it will be difficult to completely change history. At best, it is just to extend the lifespan of the Ming Dynasty, which is not what Tang Feng wants to see.

But how could he change his concept for two hundred years? Even if he now holds the power of the country, he will only have the failure if he really becomes an enemy of the entire class. Wang Mang at the end of the Western Han Dynasty was the representative of it, because his reforms were too radical, which made him stand completely against the ruling class. In the end, everyone betrayed his relatives and could not even save his life. Tang Feng didn't want to do this, so he could only boil a frog with warm water.

But the current situation in the Ming Dynasty does not allow him to use moderate means to reform. However, in this case, there will only be more people who will object, and then nothing will be achieved. In this way, we must find a breakthrough point. After this victory in the Gansu war, Tang Feng decided, that was the royal family.

The emptiness of the treasury is a concern for all officials in the court, because it is related to their salary. The salary of officials was originally low, which forced many people to embezzle. Now, once the treasury is fully exhausted, they will definitely be very concerned. At this time, if Tang Feng proposed to reduce the cost of the royal family, for his own interests, many people would probably agree with his proposal.

Of course, as a royal family who thinks he is superior and has strong superiority, it is impossible to submit easily. In their opinion, the money of the Ming Dynasty court is his own, and the lives and deaths of the people and officials are not at all under their consideration. At that time, someone will inevitably take the lead in causing trouble, and this will be an excuse for Tang Feng to further eliminate them completely.

As long as they dared to challenge the court, Tang Feng would attack them in the name of the court. It turned out that Tang Feng was still worried about whether his prestige was enough to deal with them, but the victory in Gansu made his doubts disappear. Because of this victory, Tang Feng's status became stable and no one dared to speak anymore. In the army, Tang Feng also had extremely high prestige, which was enough to mobilize the military troops of the garrison stations of other provinces to use for his own use.

So in mid-December, Tang Feng made the world clear with the emperor's intention. From next year, the cost of the children of the Ming Dynasty's royal family will be reduced by half. This can be said to have caused a thousand waves, and the entire Beijing city was boiling.

Originally, because of Chongzhen's funeral, many royal families from other provinces came to the capital to attend the funeral. Of course, this is not because they respected and remembered the emperor. They came here just to go to Beijing to spend money. In addition, the new year is coming soon, and the royal families also happened to get money and goods for next year from the clan mansion, which was a win-win situation.

But unexpectedly, in less than a few days, the situation suddenly changed and something happened. The dignified Long Zi Longsun actually made a young man who had just become a Duke and wanted to reduce his expenses. How could the arrogant royal family to bear it? Immediately, these people jointly filed a lawsuit with the court.

However, this is obviously impossible to hurt Tang Feng. Although there is an emperor, an empress dowager, and a cabinet, in the current court, Tang Feng has already controlled everything. How could the real top leader be held accountable for the complaints of these people? This joint bullet was sent to the Tongzhengsi Department, and the officials there took Tang Feng's case.

Tang Feng just smiled contemptuously and did not care too much about it. It was not that he was magnanimous, but because he knew that once things could not be done, these royal families would not just let it go. They must have a step back and might do something bigger, so that they can have enough reasons to deal with them. However, not caring does not mean that they are not prepared. In the past few days, all the staff of the Jinyiwei have been dispatched and started to stare at the every move of the royal families. Any changes will be made, and the information will be sent to Tang Feng as soon as possible.

Seeing that the joint impeachment they were waiting for was gone, these noble and low-key royal families felt something was wrong. They obviously had never noticed the changes in power in the court, and they thought that their identities were still so noble and no one dared to provoke them. The reality woke them up fiercely, which made those clever clans begin to carefully examine Tang Feng, and soon they got many half-truth and half-false statements from the people.

It turned out that Tang Feng had so many pasts, but these were not the key points. The key points were the role he played when the new emperor passed away. This was a very suspicious person. Now the royal family found Tang Feng’s mistakes. Regardless of whether it was true or false, they immediately ordered their servants to spread this statement and described Tang Feng as a sinner who disrupted the world of Ming Dynasty. At the same time, these people personally took the servants straight to the clan’s mansion, forming an extremely rare protest team at the yamen.

Although the clan mansion controls the dragon sons and grandsons of the whole world and the royal relatives, the power is actually pitifully small. There are only twenty or thirty soldiers in the yamen. Now they are surrounded by hundreds of clan members, which makes the officials inside feel anxious. Those masters are not something they can handle, and they can even kill themselves, but they dare not hurt a hair of these masters. This makes the officials of the clan mansion blame the court, so why would they have such an offensive decree?

Fortunately, these royal children also knew the law of the king. This is Beijing City, so they dared not be too presumptuous. They just surrounded the clan mansion and threw some stones, bricks, and tiles into it from time to time. No major incident happened. But this was already chaotic enough. There were no figures on the entire street where the clan mansion was located. Who dared to stay here? Isn’t this a fight?

News was sent to Tang Feng's current office. In order to facilitate handling political affairs, Tang Feng also had his own office room outside the palace with cabinet officials, and had been dealing with affairs here for several days. After reading the secret report of Jinyi's spy, Tang Feng sneered disdainfully: "I think they can have any means, but it is just the method used by the students during the May Fourth Movement. In terms of momentum, they cannot compare with the May Fourth Movement at all."

Despite such disdain, Tang Feng could not come up with a way to deal with these people. Although it was inappropriate for them to do so, their identities were still there. If they were forced to take them down, even if they could cover up the sky with one hand, there would inevitably be people who would be dissatisfied. These people still have considerable power in the local area. If they cannot find a legitimate reason, it will be difficult to attack them.

But this is not a problem for Tang Feng. Since he cannot attack them from the right way, then use some tricks. There are a lot of evil methods in the history of the country for Tang Feng to choose. He looked at Bai Liangfeng who sent the message and said, "Admiral Bai, are there people who are loyal and capable enough in the Jinyiwei and have good martial arts skills?"

"Yes, as long as the Duke of the Kingdom gives instructions, there are some brothers in our Jinyiwei who are willing to share the worries of the Duke of the Kingdom. I wonder what Duke of the Kingdom asked us to do?" Without any hesitation, Bai Liangfeng intervened. In fact, he had guessed what Tang Feng meant, but it was not easy to point it out in front of Tang Feng.

Tang Feng smiled with satisfaction, let him approach him, and then whispered instructions. Bai Liangfeng nodded repeatedly, and finally asked again: "Duke, do you need the people who informed the Five City Military and Ma Si to take care of him?"

Tang Feng nodded slightly: "It's good. If those people don't take me seriously, don't blame me for not showing them mercy."

The sky gradually darkened. In front of the yamen of the sect mansion, the people in the sect were also a little tired, and their throats were a little hoarse because they kept scolding. The sect mansions were even more tired and might not be able to lift their hands. There was no way to do that. One day they came to the sect mansion, which was a physical work, and they really couldn't keep an eye on them without a good physique.

It was almost too late, and everyone was no longer interested in shouting and scolding again. Several familiar royal relatives greeted each other and agreed to leave after a quarrel tomorrow. It was obvious that they were still very satisfied with the court's silence. They thought they had taken advantage of the court and were not afraid of someone to settle the accounts after the fall. Moreover, no one interfered in their behavior all day, which further showed the court's reason, or Tang Feng was already afraid of the spread of his own remarks. This made everyone look more despised by the court, and they only thought about how to force the court to change their minds and even gain more benefits from it.

At this moment, no one noticed that a few people who were dressed in a very different manner from their servants suddenly mingled in. After being tired for a day, these servants were casually scattered and sat on the ground. In addition, these servants were not familiar with each other, so they actually mingled in very easily.

Seeing that those people had already left, the fish and wood mixed with pearls each gave a wink and quietly leaned against the wall of the clan mansion. This action seemed very inconspicuous to others. Perhaps these people were ordered by their master and planned to give people some more trouble before leaving. The followers rubbed their sore shoulders and arms, and were a little glad that their master did not have such a request. If they went on again, they would be powerless.

At this moment, the people suddenly shook their hands and ignited a mass of things in their hands, and then threw them into the wall with great force. When everyone looked at the wall in surprise, the people suddenly turned around and ran out, leaving only a group of children and followers like stupid gooses.

Those fireballs made by unknown things were actually very powerful. They lit up the debris in the walls of the sect mansion. The fire quickly rose up, and bursts of screams came from inside. The door that had been closed suddenly opened, and dozens of officials from the sect mansion escaped.

At this time, the clan members realized something big, and after a glance at each other, they wanted to leave. Although the clan mansion was not a big yamen, it was an official yamen after all. Now it was lit, which was not a trivial matter. Although these people have different identities, they also knew that this was not something they could afford, so after they woke up, everyone wanted to leave and not let the disaster follow them.

Just as they were about to leave, a large number of steps suddenly came from all over the world, and thousands of soldiers rushed over with water dragons and weapons. Under the command of a general first, some soldiers holding water dragons went to put out the fire, while more people surrounded the royal families and entourages who had not yet left.

"What are you going to stay?" Someone bit the bullet and stepped forward to negotiate.

The general who led the troops was covered with frost. In fact, he was not without tension. After all, the people he was facing were not ordinary people. He did not speak, and the royal families were a little scared. Most of them were twenty-stop at the age of twenty-shouro and had not experienced any major storms. Although they were noble, they were also a little scared at this time.

But those ordinary soldiers did not have so many concerns. They had already received orders to not allow one person here to escape. The soldiers didn't say much, but showed off the weapons in their hands and completely looked at the harsh and weak royal families and their followers. When those people looked at the shiny weapons, they immediately did not dare to say anything.

"Come on, take these suspects who dare to burn the clan's mansion back to me and make a decision after I report to the superiors!" The general ordered coldly. Seeing that the other party was convinced, he became a little bolder.

Suddenly, the soldiers stepped forward, tied the people with their hands and took them out. The flames that had just burned there were also extinguished, but the black smoke did not dissipate for a while, and it looked a little scary.

It was not until these people left that a few cold-looking people came out of the darkness. After a sneer, they looked at their backs. They went straight to the Beizhenfushi. They had to report the situation to the higher authorities in a timely manner. This time they made a lot of contributions, and I believe that the adults must be rewarded.

The officials of the clan mansion were grieving and didn't know what to do...
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