Liu Jin is actually a very capable eunuch, otherwise, he would not be able to control the government. Moreover, the "penalty rice case" invented by him has largely stopped the loss of national assets.

What is a "rice penalty"? It is mainly aimed at the loss of the treasury and local storage. Before Liu Jin's reform, many officials in charge of warehousing often took advantage of their positions to embezzle grain, cloth, and other materials from the national treasury and local government warehouses, causing a huge deficit to the government. Moreover, this kind of greed for ink is gradual, and it is not easy to see it every day. After all, it is normal for food and other supplies to be somewhat depleted. As long as the methods are old, after a year, you can be greedy for a lot of ink from the treasury and the official warehouse, and moreover, the audit cannot be found out at all.

Liu Jin then thought of a trick - "penalty rice example". Specifically, when the official in charge of the warehouse takes office, the quantity of materials is strictly counted. Wait for the expiration of the term, and then tap the supplies. Excluding the reasonable wear and tear, how much is the deficit, and the outgoing warehouse officials must pay out of their own pockets to make up for it. Otherwise, just wait for the edict......

This trick is very simple and rude - I don't care what reason you use, a deficit is a deficit, and you fill the hole out of your own pocket. No matter how good your accounts are, I will only look at the results......

This trick is very effective in stopping the loss of national assets, so after Liu Jin's death, although it is notorious, this method has been retained. Ma Lin sometimes thinks that if this was also used in the reform of state-owned enterprises, perhaps many state-owned assets would not be so easily lost. You must know that when state-owned enterprises were reformed, many of the original high-level executives almost took over the factory at a price that was in tatters. If Liu Jin's "penalty rice example" is allowed to rectify them, this will never happen. Sometimes, the wisdom of the ancients can also be learned by future generations.

Of course, Liu Jin himself was not that smart, but a secretary named Zhang Cai came up with the idea for him. Zhang Cai and Liu Jin are fellow villagers, and after Liu Jin took power, he rose to such a top position as the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu by hugging Liu Jin's thigh. Of course, he also had talent, and the "penalty rice" strategy offered to Liu Jin greatly curbed the loss of imperial court assets. However, after Liu Jin fell, this goods was also finished......

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Although Liu Jin has the ability and has come up with a simple and crude trick of "punishing rice", he is not a good person. Because of excessive blackmail of officials, Liu Jin's reputation among officials is extremely bad. Except for those officials who took refuge in him, the rest of the officials were eager to eat Liu Jin's meat raw. Later, Liu Jin was executed by Ling Chi, which was the result of the promotion of hundreds of officials. If it is according to Liu Jin's own crimes, he is at most a super huge greed, and he has not committed heinous crimes such as rebellion. Ke Zhengde was only 18 years old, his ears were soft, and he was fooled by the ministers, so he naturally became angry and made Liu Jin cut Liu Jin with a thousand knives.

Before Liu Jin was killed, the young Emperor Zhengde was actually very trusting of people. For example, he believed in Liu Jin very much and entrusted all major affairs of the court and government. Later, he also believed in those civil servants too much, thinking that Liu Jin was heinous, and on impulse, he directly cut Liu Jin with a thousand knives. It was only after this incident that Emperor Zhengde realized that he was being used by the courtiers. Then, there was a little bit of a disagreement with the ministers, and they began to work against each other. And before that, Zhengde was just a newcomer who didn't care much about anything.

Of course, Zhengde is also an emperor when he is young. As an emperor, he naturally attaches great importance to imperial etiquette. The reason why Liu Jin was scratched by Zhengde was because those ministers fooled Zhengde - Liu Jin wanted to be the emperor, and said that the people called Liu Jin "Emperor Liu".

It was this slander that touched Zhengde's nerves and made him make the decision to put Liu Jinlingchi to death. In fact, if Liu Jin really wanted to rebel, he would have been killed long ago with the budding rank of Zhengde in the early days. Moreover, a eunuch who said that he was rebelling does not make sense at all. The eunuch had no sons, and he could not marry a wife normally. Even if you take the country, what are you doing with it? There are no heirs. Even a super eunuch like Li Fuguo in the Tang Dynasty controlled the abolition of the emperor at most, rather than being the emperor himself. And what was the purpose of the eunuchs to depose the emperor? Of course, it is to control the government! And Liu Jin is already in control of the government, and Zhengde trusts him very much, so he has no need to rebel at all.

Therefore, it was Zhengde who was fooled and lame by the ministers and made a wrong judgment. In addition, other cronies of Zhengde in the "Zhengde Eight Tigers" also colluded with the minister and blackened Liu Jin, which led to Liu Jin's end.

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However, at this juncture, Ma Lin suddenly sent a blue-black Galapagos tortoise, a super "turtle" that completely coincided with the "Treasure Turtle of the Son of Heaven" in the historical records, which helped Liu Jin to a great extent.

Because, the appearance of the top auspicious "Treasure Turtle of the Son of Heaven" greatly increased the prestige of the young Zhengde Emperor and consolidated his throne. And the matter of offering the "Treasure Turtle of the Son of Heaven" was precisely promoted by Liu Jin.

In this way, it makes some sense that the ministers will frame Liu Jin for rebellion in the future. Why? If Liu Jin wanted to rebel, how could he offer the "Treasure Turtle of the Son of Heaven", a Jia Rui who demonstrated the identity of the "true son of heaven"? It doesn't make sense...... If you really want to rebel, shouldn't you smear the object of rebellion?

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Of course, that's for later......

Early the next morning, when the ministers went to court, Emperor Zhengde excitedly asked the generals of Jinyi Wei to carry 9 blue-black "turtles" to the main hall, so that the ministers could open their eyes......

"Turtle!"

"It's still nine!"

The ministers lost their temper on the spot, except for the officials of Liu Jin's party who had received the news before......

The moment the giant turtle was carried up to the main hall, no minister thought that it was not the turtle's. Because, the Galapagos tortoise is too huge.

The word "Xuan" in the turtle originally has the meaning of peculiarity and red black, as well as the meaning of sky. It represents the sky, and it also has the meaning of a big metaphor.

Therefore, the huge and blue-black Galapagos tortoise is very compatible with the word "Xuan". When many courtiers saw these turtles for the first time, the word "turtle" unconsciously popped up in their minds, which was purely a conditioned reflex......

Moreover, often walking in the Forbidden City, most of the ministers have seen the turtle statue in the Forbidden City, which is comparable to that of the Galapagos tortoise. The only difference is the head of the turtle statue, which is somewhat like a dragon's head.

However, the dragon-headed turtle does not exist and only exists in fantasy. But the Galapagos tortoise, except for the lack of a dragon's head, is very similar to a turtle statue, and the courtiers have to be convinced that this is indeed a turtle......

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Moreover, the number of 9 "turtles" is also very attractive. Because, 9 represents the meaning of "Ninety-Five". And Chinese culture highly respects "9". For example, the world is divided into "Kyushu", bronzes have "Jiuding", the emperor has "Jiuqing", the imperial court officials are divided into "nine products", and the capital has "nine gates......

In short, for ancient China, "9" was a very auspicious number. Especially, when 9 becomes the number of super auspicious turtles......

The turtle is the top auspicious, not to mention the blue-black "Son of Heaven Treasure Turtle"? What's more, it's still 9 ......

Therefore, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty unanimously agreed that it was the Xuan Turtle!

Moreover, the nine turtles represent that the wind and rain in Kyushu are smooth in the world! After all, Xuanwu is the god of water and a symbol of good weather......

For a time, the ministers shouted long live, and congratulated the 18-year-old Emperor Zhengde, and the words of praise were smashed without money, so that the young Emperor Zhengde was almost lost......

It's just that among the courtiers, some of the ministers who planned to overthrow Liu Jin couldn't help but show their worries......