In front of Li Zhongyi, Liu Chang and Zhao Jin fought to the death, not only did the two of them fall in, but also implicated nearly 100 officials.

Li Qiong saw that the wind of climbing and biting intensified, but she didn't say anything, just looked at the joke coldly.

Zhi Congruan hadn't seen such a lively scene for a long time, he squinted his eyes, and just watched Liu Chang and Zhao Jin bite each other.

Liu Jinshan was very unhappy in his heart, no matter how he said it, he was also one of the scholars. Now, Zhao Jin and Liu Chang, who are the leaders of the scholars, the more they talk about it, the more unorthodox they become, which is simply disappointing.

Li Zhongyi didn't expect that Zhao Jin and Liu Chang would bite each other in front of him, and the more they bitten, the deeper they became.

Hehe, bite, bite, bite as deep as possible, Li Zhongyi sat quietly on the dragon chair, just watching Liu Chang and Zhao Jin perform.

Wang Dahu didn't expect that things would take a turn for the worse, he excitedly took out the carbon pen and the little black book in his arms, and recorded the list of Liu Chang and Zhao Jin leaked out in front of everyone.

When Liu Chang and Zhao Jin are tired of arguing, the truth of the matter will also be revealed to the world!

Li Zhongyi touched his chin and sighed slightly, he really didn't expect that Fan Zhen's henchman Yang Jiong was actually implicated.

Once upon a time, Yang Jiong relied on the momentum of Fan Zhen and walked sideways in the political hall, and no one dared to provoke him.

Now, Yang Jiong's head is actually dizzy, and he is together with Zhao Jin and Liu Chang, which is really self-inflicted.

There is nothing to say, since Zhao Jin and Liu Chang have bitten out those people, after the dispersal of the dynasty, Li Zhongyi took advantage of the list handed over by Wang Dahu and ordered Li Yunxiao to arrest people according to the order.

Li Yunxiao was busy for another ten days and arrested nearly 10,000 people, but he couldn't fit it in the cell, so he had to arrange for people to send them one by one to Lingzhou in the northwest to serve in front of the army.

For most of the month, Li Zhongyi harvested nearly 10 million stone of grain, as well as gold, silver, copper coins and silk silk piled up in the warehouse.

Li Zhongyi looked at the thick stacks of lists in front of him, and couldn't help laughing: "I made a windfall." ”

Huang Jingsheng, who was standing on the side, also smiled happily, and he said happily: "The court up and down, everything needs to be spent, now it's okay, the food is enough, and the money is enough, and it is convenient for the emperor to do great things." It's just that the ministers never expected that these Confucian scholars and scholars would quietly amass a lot of wealth, I really don't know where they got it from? ”

Huang Jingsheng is the third envoy, the yamen who manages money, on weekdays, he only thinks that the money is too little to spend, and he can't wait to break a penny into two pennies to spend.

Now, Li Zhongyi's inner library is full, and many jewels are even piled on the ground, which is really a tyrannical thing.

Li Zhongyi said with a smile: "It's true that I've made a fortune, but similar income can't be too much in the future." ”

Huang Jingsheng nodded again and again and said, "Yes, yes, if I can make this kind of fortune every day, my old Huang will wake up with a smile even if he falls asleep." ”

The two brothers looked at each other and smiled, and the next Western Expedition and Northern Expedition, whether it was copper money or grain, were settled.

With the intensification of the crackdown on the Confucian scholars, many official positions were vacated in the imperial court almost instantly.

It's just that Li Zhongyi is not in a hurry to fill these vacant official positions, and has always turned a blind eye.

Li Yunxiao asked Zuo Ziguang with some curiosity, Zuo Ziguang smiled slightly, and said: "The corpse is a vegetarian, it is just a waste of the court's money and food, is it necessary to fill it?" ”

"Oh, I see." Li Yunxiao suddenly realized, "It's true that there are many officials." ”

"Well, some people in the yamen have almost been emptied, and there is no need for any existence." Zuo Ziguang said.

Li Yunxiao deeply believes that the more officials in the imperial court, the heavier the burden on the common people. Even if he is just a general, he understands such a simple truth.

Today's imperial court institutions, stacked beds, are particularly cumbersome. Moreover, most of the civil servants who participated in the troubles were idle officials in the idle yamen.

In other words, those who have been deprived of power, and those who have vested interests among scholars, have the determination to confront Li Zhongyi.

As for the three envoys and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which have a lot of affairs and have a lot of real power, only a few low-level civil officials participated.

After two sweeps, the officials of the imperial court were empty, and the atmosphere of the imperial court also underwent amazing changes.

Among them, the most direct change is that the efficiency of the various yamen of the imperial court has been significantly improved.

In fact, Li Zhongyi made up his mind to fight against the Wenchen clique mainly on two points: one was that the important military and political yamen were in the hands of his own people; The second is that there are too many redundant officials raised by the imperial court, which is simply as many as a cow's hair, and the financial revenue of the imperial court is overwhelmed.

On average, the annual income of at least 100 civilians is required to feed each official.

With such a heavy financial burden, Li Zhongyi really didn't want to carry it, so he simply took advantage of the reason for this purge to abolish some redundant yamen and redundant officials who had no use for birds.

Today's central body of the imperial court, in addition to the cabinet, is the six ministries and six secretaries. The original Dajiuqing Yamen was cut by three.

With fewer yamen and fewer officials, the efficiency of the entire bureaucracy has not been affected, but has increased several times.

Li Zhongyi wants this effect, there are more officials who work, and there are fewer idle and lazy people, and one official can do the things of several officials, and the efficiency will naturally be improved many times.

More than 20,000 people were arrested successively, and the warehouses of the imperial court, Li Zhongyi's inner treasury, gold, silver, copper coins and grain, were piled up.

In this way, the materials for the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition will be sufficient.

It's just that what Li Zhongyi didn't expect was that because of the arrest of a large number of officials, the business of the big restaurants in Kaifeng City also plummeted.

Among them, the most famous Huixian Building, there is a strange phenomenon that there are more shopkeepers than customers.

After Li Zhongyi thought it through, he understood the logic, the officials with a thick family background are the group of people with the most spending power.

The group of people with the most spending power is now in the stage of being suppressed, and the high-consumption places on the market will naturally shrink.

At the same time that the Wenchen group was severely attacked, the generals in the forbidden army of the imperial court were another hot scene.

According to the regulations, officers at or above the rank of capital head can apply to the military for an allocation of a house as long as they intend to marry.

In the purge of Wenchen, a total of more than 1,000 Wenchen and Confucian scholars were arrested and their homes were raided. These extra empty houses were just used to house the generals and officers of the military, and for a while, the officers were all happy.

It's not easy to live in Kaifeng!

The first difficulty is that it is not easy to have a house of your own, and the price of a house in Kaifeng is really not cheap.

Although the salary of the army is already very good, for example, in the case of a capital head, his monthly income is about 40 yuan, and his annual income is about 480 yuan.

With such a high annual income, if you want to buy a house in Kaifeng City, you must not eat or drink for at least 20 years before you can buy a house that you can barely live in.

However, the officers above the first rank are all old subordinates who have followed Li Zhongyi for many years, how could Li Zhongyi treat them badly?

On this side, the house raiding operation is in full swing, and on the other side, the movement of dividing the house is also in full swing.

The generals of the military couldn't close their mouths happily one by one, and they were happy to death.

At the beginning, they were all lowly billets whose legs had not been washed clean, and they were not qualified to lift shoes for the rich.

Now, they all have houses in Kaifeng City, although the houses are big and small, after all, they are their own nests, right?

"All stand up!" Under the order of the star officer, all the students stood up straight, put their legs together, and saluted Li Zhongyi, who walked into the classroom.

"Sit down." Li Zhongyi gently put the lesson plan sandwiched under his ribs on the lectern, pressed down with both hands, and motioned for everyone to sit down.

"In the last class, we talked about war mobilization, so can anyone tell me what war mobilization is?" Li Zhongyi is still in the old habit of asking questions before class.

Under Li Zhongyi's deliberate guidance, the discussion atmosphere in the lecture hall was particularly strong. Taking the initiative to answer questions, even if it is wrong, it will not have any adverse effects, but it can be familiar in front of Li Zhongyi.

Although Li Zhongyi had ascended to the throne, he had always served as the mountain chief of the Jiangwutang, and he would personally come to the class for one day every ten days.

The army is the foundation for Li Zhongyi to control the country and to conquer the east and the west, and there must be no relaxation in the slightest.

Of course, due to the lack of time, the class in which Li Zhongyi served as a substitute teacher belonged to the unique and most important class in the lecture hall - the general school class.

"Liu Wenda, you raised your hand the fastest today, just answer it." Li Zhongyi smiled and pointed to Liu Wenda, who was originally the commander of the First Army, as long as he studied here and passed the examination, Liu Wenda was qualified to be promoted to the rank of deputy commander of the army.

"The so-called war mobilization is the state to take emergency measures to move from a peacetime state to a wartime state, and to mobilize human, material, and financial resources in a unified manner to serve the war. Abbreviated as mobilization. Liu Wenda replied loudly, and he answered word for word, it is conceivable that he has worked hard below.

"That's right, sit down." Li Zhongyi smiled and waved his hand, and Liu Wenda immediately sat down.

"The main reasons why the past dynasties have always been in a passive situation in the face of the attack of the steppe barbarians are as follows: one is that they dare not mobilize the common people, the second is that the speed of mobilization is too slow, and the third is that the material reserves in the border areas in peacetime are not enough to cope with the fierce war ......"

The cadets of the general's class must understand the important significance of national defense mobilization, which is the basic principle set by Li Zhongyi.

Back then, after the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, many people of insight in the Qing Dynasty studied in the Japanese kingdom one after another.

In the classrooms of the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer School and the Army, everything can be taught to the international students, but the only thing is the same, how to carry out national defense mobilization, but it has always been secretive.

Military science is a strategic discipline, of which national defense mobilization and logistics mobilization are the most important of them.

However, the military instructors of the Japanese State refused to pass on this kind of strategic knowledge to the Chinese students.

Li Zhongyi didn't want his generals to only know how to lead troops to fight, but they didn't understand the importance of logistics support and army mobilization. Therefore, such a super important strategic subject is taught by him himself.