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Chapter 887 Is there even one good person left in the Ming Dynasty court?
Zhu Biao and Hu Weiyong stared blankly at Li Shanchang and Yang Shaofeng.
Hu Weiyong even muttered unconsciously, "It seems there are no close friends among the nine generations? Then what about Prime Minister Li? Ten generations?"
Zhu Biao smacked his lips unconsciously and whispered, "It has to be Prime Minister Li, he's even more ruthless than my brother-in-law."
Hu Weiyong glanced at Zhu Biao and replied with disdain, "The Imperial Son-in-Law? The Imperial Son-in-Law is at best good at causing trouble. When it comes to ruthlessness, he is far inferior to Prime Minister Li."
In terms of sheer whimsy and the ability to cause trouble, all the officials in the entire Ming Dynasty court combined couldn't compare to Yang the Madman.
But in terms of official competence, political maneuvering, and ruthlessness, at least ninety out of a hundred officials in the Ming Dynasty court were more capable than Yang the Madman.
Not to mention Li Shanchang, who was the head of all officials.
Zhu Biao hummed in agreement, then suddenly looked at Li Shanchang and Yang Shaofeng and said, "I just remembered something."
“My brother-in-law once told my younger brother that punishing someone without teaching them is cruelty.”
"It's not very ethical to frame someone and send their entire clan to Liaodong on any fabricated charge."
"In my opinion, it would be better to have my father issue an edict first, saying that the titles such as 'remnants of the Great Yuan' are now prohibited, and that all scholars must register with the government and be ready to be summoned by the court at any time."
As Zhu Biao finished speaking, Li Shanchang and Yang Shaofeng nodded unconsciously.
well.
Very good.
Since those bastards like to call themselves remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, let's first prohibit them from calling themselves remnants of the Yuan Dynasty.
Since those bastards would rather die than eat Ming grain, and would rather play the "indulging in the beauty of nature" trick than come out and become officials of the Ming Dynasty, then put a noose around their necks and tell them in broad daylight that this noose may be tightened at any time.
By employing this two-pronged approach, even if we can't force them all to rebel, we can at least annoy them.
well.
This perfectly matches His Highness's consistent image of black sesame dumplings.
Hu Weiyong was completely dumbfounded.
You bunch of wicked seeds!
Just one question: besides myself, is there any other good person in this Ming Dynasty court?
The key point is that if I don't express my opinion when you guys do this, wouldn't I seem like I'm not fitting in?
Hu Weiyong was internally ranting when a sudden inspiration struck him. He laughed and said, "Speaking of the manpower shortage, I suddenly remembered that besides the scholars and gentry who like to call themselves remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, as mentioned by the Prince Consort and Prime Minister Li, there are actually two other groups we can work with."
Hu Weiyong pondered for a moment before slowly saying, "The combined number of these two groups is probably over a million?"
"Even if only half of these hundreds of thousands of people are men, and only 30% of those men are suitable to work as laborers, there would still be at least a hundred thousand to two hundred thousand."
"With so many laborers, whether you send them to Liaodong or Dengzhou, it wouldn't be a small number, would it?"
Yang Shaofeng's eyes lit up immediately.
Hu Weiyong, that idiot, only knows how to focus on young and middle-aged laborers, but he doesn't understand the importance of female laborers at all.
If he really manages to bring over a million people, how many female laborers will I have to swindle from him?
No, I can't say it's a trap, because female laborers are still considered a burden. I'm helping Hu Weiyong.
Where can you find someone as good as me?!
Yang Shaofeng was pondering wildly in his mind, while Zhu Biao and Li Shanchang frowned deeply.
The two groups together number over a million.
Who are these two groups of people?
It's definitely not a Korean, nor is it short or ugly.
It couldn't even have been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, Hu Weiyong wasn't stupid. He should know that the most important thing for the Ming Dynasty right now was to get rid of the Yuan Dynasty. They simply didn't have the time to deal with any other vassal state.
Similarly, the current Ming Dynasty fleet is not yet capable of launching a long-distance expedition across the sea to conquer countries and capture people.
So, these million or so people are inside the Ming Dynasty?
Li Shanchang's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stroked his beard, saying, "Yes, there are indeed two or even three groups of people we could mess with."
Yang Shaofeng looked at Hu Weiyong, then at Li Shanchang, puzzled, and asked, "What does Prime Minister Li mean?"
Li Shanchang first pointed south and softly uttered two words: "Dali".
"The population of Dali is not small."
"Although Dali is also predominantly Han Chinese, the Han and Hu peoples have lived together for hundreds of years, and Dali has always existed as an outer vassal state. In order to bring Dali into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, we must first relocate people to Dali to change their ethnicity."
“Move the people of Dali to Shandong and Liaodong, and then move people from the Ming Dynasty to Dali.”
"Similar to Dali, there are also the Dongman people of western Hunan."
"The legend of the Dongman people in western Hunan has been around for several hundred years."
"We even fought a war with the Song Dynasty and ceded territory to them."
"Now that we are in the Ming Dynasty, it is time to solve the problem of the Xiangxi cave barbarians."
"And Luchuan."
"Luchuan's current strength is not that great."
"But Luchuan is, after all, located in our Great Ming Dynasty. If we continue to leave it unattended, it may become a scourge sooner or later."
After a slight pause, Li Shanchang added, "I suspect that Governor Hu did not intend to abduct the people of Dali and the Dongman of Xiangxi to be forced laborers, but rather to forcibly relocate them to Shandong and Liaodong."
"Just like the gentry and scholars in Jiangnan, they first moved people there so that they could settle in Shandong and Liaodong for generations."
"It won't take too long."
"In just twenty or thirty years, these people will become Shandong people or Liaodong people."
"After two or three generations, no one will remember Dali, Xiangxi Dongman and Luchuan anymore."