The entire operation against the troublemakers lasted for a total of ten days. In the past ten days, a total of more than 500 scholars and Confucian scholars were raided.

Li Yunxiao, who presided over the raid operation, entered the palace to see Li Zhongyi with a thick stack of materials.

After Li Zhongyi read the materials, he couldn't help but smile and said: "The results are not small, in addition to copper coins, gold and silver alone are not a small amount, and there are mountains of grain." Hehe, people who read like to hoard food. ”

Li Yunxiao knew very well in her heart that the Wenchen had a contemptuous businessman, but in fact, which of them did not have a subordinate or relative who did business?

"Grain belongs to the monopoly of the imperial court, and no one is allowed to engage in the grain business except for Li Ji Grain Company. Now it seems that these scholars have read all the books into the dog's belly, and they have actually hoarded nearly 10 million stone of food, what do they want to do? Li Zhongyi didn't intend for Li Yunxiao to answer, he took a sip of tea and smiled coldly, "They want to hoard Juqi and take the opportunity to make huge profits when the grain is not harvested, right?" ”

"Yes, the saint is none other than the emperor." The food Li Yunxiao obtained from stealing his family was enough for hundreds of families to eat for decades.

"Hmph, these so-called scholars, what they say is high-sounding, what the world rises and falls, the husband is responsible. Phew, what I did in secret was a speculative business, selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, and you dared to give me a disgusting nickname? Li Zhongyi felt very unhappy when he remembered the new nicknames given to him by Confucian scholars.

Li Yunxiao knew the disgusting nickname, but she always pretended to be stupid and refused to say it. Of course, only a fool would say that kind of insulting nickname in front of Li Zhongyi.

Since Li Zhongyi seized the military and political power, the grain monopoly system has been resolutely implemented.

In the current situation, it is still a small-scale peasant society, and agriculture is completely dependent on the weather. It is a common occurrence that there will be floods in these states this year and drought in those states next year.

Since there is a monopoly system of salt and iron, Li Zhongyi does not mind including grain in the scope of the monopoly at all. After all, the people take food as the sky, and when the people can't eat enough, that is, when the rod is revealed.

However, the system of grain monopoly was unanimously resisted by the gentry from top to bottom. They did not dare to make an obstacle openly, but they repeatedly stumbled in secret, made conspiracy tricks, and unscrupulously attacked Li Zhongyi's Li Ji grain stores stationed in various states and counties.

However, with the increasing number of transferred villages, the amount of grain in the hands of the imperial court also increased exponentially at an alarming rate.

As a result, the standing liquidation system in various places has also been fully rolled out. Today, every state of the imperial court has set up a standing position.

The nature of the so-called Chang Ping is similar to that of the Grain Reserve Bureau in later generations. In a good year, the grain is collected and put into the warehouse, and when the disaster year comes, the warehouse is opened and the grain is released, while stabilizing the price of grain, while helping the victims.

Cutting off people's financial means is more hateful than killing their parents!

After Li Zhongyi monopolized the grain trade, the problem of difficulty in collecting grain repeatedly arose in various localities. Even, in some places, relying on the high mountains and the emperor's distance, they dared to attack the grain transportation team.

However, with the gradual implementation of the transfer village, the officials and gentry in various places are much more honest than before.

After all, in areas where there are transferred villages, the squires want to incite the villagers to make trouble, which is simply the hanging of the birthday star, which is greasy!

Transferred to the village government, each of them controls the village army team, which is equivalent to holding the lifeblood of the squires from all over the country.

"Your Majesty, there are not enough cells." Li Yunxiao didn't want to interrupt Li Zhongyi's contemplation, but helplessly, there were too many Wenchen and Confucian scholars and their families who were arrested.

As a result, the cells of the Nine Commanders' Yamen, the Tiqi Si Yamen, and the Police Administration Temple Yamen were all filled with prisoners.

"Well, I don't want to dirty my hands, as long as it is found out that it is not the first evil, I will be sent to Lingzhou."

In this era, because the concept of the inseparability of leaving the homeland has become deeply ingrained, the punishment of thousands of miles away seems to be more terrible than the punishment of the cane.

"Whoa." Li Yunxiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, nearly 10,000 people were arrested at one time, and there were not even enough prison cells, which was really difficult.

Human resources are actually a very valuable resource. With so many families of scholars and so many intellectuals, it is impossible for Li Zhongyi to kill them all.

The deposition of the basic national policy of nearly a thousand years - exclusive respect for Confucianism, Confucian scholars could not figure it out for a while, and Li Zhongyi was understandable. Since they can't figure it out, let them blow the northwest wind and let their brains be sober and sober.

In the morning of the next day, as soon as Li Zhongyi sat down on the dragon chair, he saw Wang Dahu coming out of class with his head held high, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the ministers have their own music." ”

Li Zhongyi glanced at Wang Dahu and asked lightly, "What's going on?" ”

The people present were all big names in the court, and without exception, they were all Zhu Zi's ministers above the fourth grade.

Who is Wang Dahu? That is one of Li Zhongyi's only two sworn brothers, the well-known Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, holding the power of supervising hundreds of officials, he suddenly came out of the queue to play, and there must be no good things.

Just when the important ministers were nervous, Wang Dahu took out the piece that had been prepared long ago from his cuffs, and read it aloud: "Zhao Jin, the servant of the Zhongshu, and Liu Chang, the servant of the door, colluded with the Zhongshu and the subordinates of the sect, colluded with the party, and plotted against the ......."

"Ah......h

"Wow......"

Wang Dahu's impeachment has impeached more than a dozen important ministers above the third rank in a row, including former Prime Minister Fan Zhen, who has stood aside.

The important ministers who originally had a fluke mentality, their whole hearts sank suddenly, it seems that Wang Dahu wants to kill the leaders of the Confucian ministers in one go!

Li Zhongyi didn't say anything, just silently listened to Wang Dahu's impeachment list, Fan Zhen was actually listed, and he didn't expect it.

I think that at the beginning, Fan Zhen teamed up with Empress Dowager Fu to unite to deal with Li Zhongyi, but I was afraid that Li Zhongyi would become a big deal.

It's just that people are not as good as heaven, Li Zhongyi relied on the invincible iron army and epoch-making artillery to easily seize the Chai family.

Li Qiong hugged the elephant wat and closed his eyes, as if he was asleep, and he never said a word.

Zhe Congruan still kept his head down, staring at the cracks in the bricks in the hall, as if there was a huge amount of wealth hidden underneath.

Liu Jinshan held the elephant wat steadily, his eyes looked straight ahead, but he couldn't hear Wang Dahu's bullet badge.

How can I say it, Choi Jung-hoon's jump is a bad act that seriously provokes the emperor's authority. It is precisely because of that jump that Wang Dahu has unscrupulously criticized and written today, no matter what, it belongs to the Confucian scholars to blame.

Since Kong Kun was relegated to the northwest, the number of ministers who leaned on Liu Jinshan has increased day by day, and the front of Liu's house cannot be described as an unprecedented grand occasion by the busy traffic.

In the cabinet, Li Qiong and Zhi Congruan are very old, and it is obvious that the time to continue to stay in the phase is numbered.

Liu Jinshan is not only young, he has just turned forty-three this year, but he is the prime minister who Li Zhongyi single-handedly raised.

With the fall of Kong Kun, the number of Wenchen who fell to Liu Jinshan increased day by day. Fortunately, Liu Jinshan has no habit of receiving gifts, otherwise, in just one month, his family property will only exceed one million.

According to the rules of the imperial court, the ministers who were impeached by the Metropolitan Procuratorate must take the initiative to ask Li Zhongyi for leave at the first time, and temporarily suspend them to go home to participate in the service.

Suspension from office, that is, temporary departure from the post, so as not to interfere with the further investigation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"Your Majesty, the minister is wronged...... Liu Chang, the servant under the door, was the first to jump out and kneel down at the foot of the steps to shout injustice.

Zhao Jin, the waiter of the Chinese book, is not a fool, he hurriedly followed suit, and also knelt down in front of Li Zhongyi, crying and shouting grievances.

Li Qiong glanced at Liu Chang, who was crying with tears in his eyes, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, he knew today, why bother in the first place?

As far as Li Qiong knew, all Li Zhongyi's enemies had no good fruit to eat, and they were either knocked to the ground or thrown into the Eighteen Hells, and they were never allowed to turn over.

Wang Dahu's bullet chapter has not been finished, Li Zhongyi has remained silent, Li Qiong, Zhe Congruan and Liu Jinshan, the three prime ministers, are also silent, and no one helps Liu Chang and Zhao Jin ease their cheeks.

Before the establishment of this dynasty, Zhongshu Shilang and Menxia Shilang basically added the title of Pingzhangshi under the Zhongshu Menxia, that is, the minister of the ruling as ordinary people say, and they were the natural candidates in the political hall.

It's just that after the Zhaoji of this dynasty, Li Zhongyi lightly emptied the political affairs hall and turned the body that acted as the minister into a cabinet.

The change of the central organization led to the Zhongshu Shilang and the subordinate Shilang, from the prime minister with real power, to the important ministers with empty shelves, Liu Chang and Zhao Jin, who were really unwilling.

Wang Dahu is not an ordinary person, if he does not have conclusive evidence in his hand, it is impossible for him to take Liu Chang and Zhao Jin under the knife.

There are all human and physical evidence, and Liu Chang and Zhao Jin can't argue, Wang Dahu quietly entered the palace yesterday and has spread out the truth in front of Li Zhongyi.

In today's early dynasty, Wang Dahu is just following the script and going through the motions. The downfall of Liu Chang and Zhao Jin was already predestined.

Liu Chang originally thought that he was very deeply hidden, and no one knew his role in the process of Confucianism.

However, there is no such thing as an impermeable wall. There are few hard bones in the scholars of the Tiqi Division who have been arrested, and Zuo Ziguang has not yet ordered the execution, and some people are already so frightened that they confess everything they know.

After Wang Dahu finished reading the long list, Li Zhongyi said lightly: "The rules and regulations of the imperial court are by no means child's play. ”

Final word!

According to the system of the imperial court, it means that Liu Chang and Zhao Jin must immediately ask for leave and go home to participate, so as not to affect the subsequent investigation.

Liu Chang knew that something was wrong, but he still had luck, he suddenly kowtowed his head heavily, and cried: "Your Majesty, it was all instigated by Zhao Jin......

Li Qiong sighed secretly, this Liu Chang is really a villain, and before he could do anything, he took the lead in backlashing and sold Zhao Jin.

Zhao Jin was so angry that he trembled, obviously Liu Chang took the initiative to find his home and instigated him to make trouble together.

It's good now, Liu Chang actually hit a rake, and instead buckled the basin to Zhao Jin's head.

"Your Majesty, Zhao Jin secretly gave you an unusually indecent nickname...... "Zhao Jin turned his heart sideways, and he couldn't care about so much, so he simply shook the bottom and exposed it, if you want to die, you must die together."