Shenjing, the imperial city, Daming Palace.

In the warm heart pavilion of the upper study, the earth dragon is hot.

Emperor Chongkang only wore a white robe embroidered by the dragon, sat on the dragon chair behind the imperial case, and corrected the folds.

His complexion was as sharp as ever.

Dai Quan, the chief eunuch of Daming Palace, stood beside him, and his eyes never left Emperor Chongkang for a moment.

But you can't look at it directly, you can only see it with your peripheral vision.

This is a skill he is extremely proud of, insisting on observing with his spare eyes for decades, and he can not miss a trace of Chongkangdi's expression, and he has not yet grown into slanted eyes......

Dai Quan thinks he was born to do this.

While he was proud, Dai Quan's expression suddenly froze, and he became more and more concentrated, because Chongkangdi's complexion changed......

"Humph!"

Chongkangdi's already strict face was even more mean at the moment, under the two not thick beards, his thin lips curled up with a thick sneer, his eyes looked at the folds in his hands, and said: "These bastards are so fast, they are not two days slower than Jia Cong's six hundred miles of urgency. ”

Dai Quan naturally knew what to say at this moment, and he bowed humbly and said, "Master, is it the excerpt to impeach Commander Jia?" ”

Emperor Chongkang glanced at him, saw that the corners of his mouth were actually smiling, he gritted his teeth a little angrily, and scolded: "Yes, these self-righteous fools are all as virtuous as you!" ”

Ignoring Dai Quan's aggrieved look, Emperor Chongkang stood up, glanced at the seventeen or eighteen books on the imperial case to impeach Jia Cong, and after snorting, he walked to the window and stood still, looked at the bleak scene in the imperial court, shook his head and said: "I didn't expect that the salt merchants of the Bai family in Yangzhou Mansion would have such great courage!" colluded with Liu Zhao, a thousand households in Jinling, and dared to collect evidence of officials' crimes and privately make a roster, thinking that it was a threat. Bai Shijie's letter can mobilize 2,000 city defense battalion soldiers...... The situation in Jiangnan has collapsed so far, and I actually learned about it by relying on a Jinyi guard who had just been restored.

Go, send someone to the cabinet, pass on Motosuke. ”

Emperor Chongkang felt that the matter was serious, and ordered Dai Quan to pass on Ning Zechen.

Dai Quan was busy arranging for the Yellow Gate to invite, and before long, a small Yellow Gate respectfully led the Great Qianyuan Funing Zechen to the study.

Emperor Chongkang exempted him from the courtesy, and after allowing him to sit down, he went straight to the point and said: "The day before yesterday, there were six officials who wrote a letter to punish Jia Cong for killing Jia Yucun, the prefect of Jinling. Today, someone wrote a letter to severely punish Jia Cong for the great crime of looting Jiangnan and framing the country's righteous businessmen. What does Ning Aiqing think? ”

Ning Zechen pondered for a while, leaned over slightly, and said, "Your Majesty, no matter what, Jia Cong killed a member of the imperial court and four grades without a will and without being convicted by the three divisions, which is really inappropriate. Even if Jia Yucun was originally recommended by the Jia family, it would be even more inappropriate......"

Emperor Chongkang raised his eyebrows and reminded: "Jia Cong is not killing people, he also personally handed over all the bastard evidence of the Jia family's Jinling Twelve Rooms to me, including the collusion between them and Jia Yucun!" ”

Ning Zechen was stunned when he heard this, and smiled bitterly in his heart, he had never seen such a thing in the more than 100 years since the founding of the country.

This is considered a refusal of the six relatives, or is it like the rumors outside, Jia Qingchen is a mad dog......

He was silent for a moment and said, "Although Jia Cong's move is a righteous act to destroy relatives, it has not eliminated all evil. As for the Jiangnan Bai family...... If the evidence of the crime is conclusive, the Bai family should be killed. ”

Emperor Chongkang smiled coldly and said, "That's it? ”

When Ning Zechen heard this, his face changed, and his expression stiffened a little, but in the end, he couldn't bear Emperor Chongkang's increasingly fierce gaze, slowly got up, and then knelt on the ground, and said word by word: "Tang Yan, Zhao Yin and others are all recommended by ministers, but in just three years, they have become corrupted, and this is the fault of the ministers." Minister, please sin. ”

Emperor Chongkang said coldly: "That's all? The new party was born in response to the new law, and took the new law as its own responsibility, so that the people of the world would no longer suffer from annexation, and the imperial court would no longer have the ambition to have no money because of annexation. Because of this intention, I have allowed you to form cliques and exclude dissent...... Since ancient times, how many emperors have been able to give their courtiers so much trust? The power of the Manchu Dynasty is in your hands, but what about you? Clearly measuring the acres of land and implementing the new law, secretly unceremoniously put the collected fields into his own pockets, dignified in a province, dignified in a state prefect, and was called around by a businessman as a lackey, do you still have the face to impeach Jia Cong? I'm going to lose all of my face!! ”

When Ning Zechen heard this, he closed his eyes in pain, kowtowed heavily, and said: "Minister, live up to the emperor's grace, and be a capital crime!" ”

Emperor Chongkang's eyes narrowed, looking at the big cadre Shoufu kneeling on the gold brick, although the earth dragon in the Warm Heart Pavilion was hot, but the atmosphere was colder than the cold winter outside the window.

Even Dai Quan held his breath, and even took back the afterglow, not daring to make a single mistake.

After a long time, Ning Zechen knelt on the ground and his back was already rickety, his gray hair looked a little sad, Chongkang Emperor Fang sighed, and said to Dai Quan: "Help Yuanfu get up." ”

After he sat back in the imperial case, his tone was a little weak and tired: "This matter can't be blamed entirely on Yuanfu, the difficulty of governing the officials, from ancient times to the present, and then in the future, it will be a big problem." What's even more bastard is that corrupt officials are usually officials who can do things, and honest officials only care about inviting them to clear their names, but they can't do anything. For this reason, there is also a special bastard saying that when the water is clear, there are no fish......"

Ning Zechen pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "Your Majesty's wise opinion is indeed so. It is even more difficult to eradicate corruption than to ascend to the sky. During the time of Gaozu, even if there was the torture of skinning and filling the grass, it was difficult to stop the corruption of officials. The ministers dared to admonish that the priority now should be placed on the implementation of the new law. After the new law is completely implemented in the world and the people's hearts are settled, the imperial court can take another spicy hand and vigorously clean up the rule of officials. Only a few years have passed, and those black-hearted officials have not grown into a gate valve, as long as the court is determined to rectify it, it will be able to be flattened! When the time comes, borrowing a few more heads can also make the people want. ”

For Ning Zechen, it is his lifelong ambition to implement the new law, measure the acres of land, spread the land into acres, and cut off the foundation of the survival of the local wealthy families.

The reason why he continued to take care of state affairs despite all kinds of suspicions and even the pain of losing his son was to realize this ambition.

It is precisely because Emperor Chongkang knows this that he can tolerate Ning Zechen as the first and auxiliary ministers.

He thought about it for a while, nodded and said, "Yuanfu is very good, and he is planning a plan for the country. ”

Ning Zechen's solemn face relaxed a little, and after a few words of humility, he said: "Your Majesty, even the minister didn't expect that Jia Cong would be able to do such a great thing at his age. The young man is precocious, and the name of the world's first genius has not been falsely spread. In addition, there are the teachings of Song Chan Gong and Yan Sheng Gong, loyal and worry-free, and the minister hopes that he can contribute some strength to the great cause of the new law.

A Jinling prefect, a Jinling Jia family, and a salt merchant Bai family, although they have achieved a lot of results, they have not touched the root of the local wang clan in the south of the Yangtze River......"

These words made Chong Kangdi sneer in his heart.

Ning Zechen was obviously praising Jia Cong, but in fact, he was giving him eye medicine.

What kind of young man is precocious, the first genius in the world, a noble and noble is so outstanding at a young age, and there is the help of civil officials, and he also holds a lot of power, how can it not make people jealous?

It's just that Ning Zechen was afraid that he couldn't imagine that Jia Cong would enter almost everything since he went south into a secret fold and send it to the capital.

It is more detailed and detailed than the dense lines of Chongkangdi.

Not only that, the list of personnel from the Jinyi Guard to the general flag level is also in the hands of Emperor Chongkang.

Jia Cong will also ask the Son of Heaven for instructions on some military affairs......

In this way, in Chongkangdi's heart, the entire Jinyiwei is actually in his hands.

If the courtiers were as loyal and sincere as Jia Cong, he would not have to work so hard.

It's even more ridiculous that Ning Zechen finished taking eye medicine in front of him, and asked Jia Cong to do dirty work and infamy in the back.

Although Jinyiwei himself does this, the Son of Heaven can, but others are not qualified.

For Jinyiwei, although Emperor Chongkang originally intended it to be a sharp knife, the people under the knife were not the Jiangnan Shi clan, or rather, far more than the Jiangnan Shi clan.

He's still useful!

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongkang casually perfunctory Ning Zechen and let him retreat.

Waiting for Ning Zechen to return to the cabinet with some regret, Emperor Chongkang asked Dai Quan: "Xiao Jiu'er really took those people south?" ”

Dai Quan's expression turned grim when he heard this, although he had answered this question seven or eight times, but this time he still replied seriously: "Back to Your Majesty, Master Qing did go south with the silver army and dozens of people. Those people are all first-class good hands. After following the 30-mile road, the guards of the CRRC Mansion were warned to leave. The people below said that they were very ......"

Emperor Chongkang asked again: "Is the Wuwang Mansion really completely closed?" ”

Dai Quan nodded hurriedly and said, "Since the thirteenth day, Gu Feng, the chief guard of the palace, personally carried a coffin into the palace, and the gate of the palace has never been opened. In the secret room of the middle gate, the news came out with great effort that a faint whimper could often be heard in the inner courtyard, and it was very sad......"

After Emperor Chongkang was silent for a while, Fang said indifferently: "The six great princes, the twelve marquises, all went to the Wuwang Mansion?" ”

After Dai Quan swallowed his saliva dryly, Yu Guang saw the dangerous look in Emperor Chongkang's eyes, and replied carefully: "Yes, the founding princes, Xuanguo dukes, Chengguo dukes, etc., all went to Longshouyuan. ”

"Is the Marquis of Zhongjing still crying?"

The sneer on Emperor Chongkang's face became thicker, and the colder the gaze in his eyes became, and he asked.

Hearing this voice, in the hot Warm Heart Pavilion, Dai Quan couldn't help but shiver, and a cold breath came out of his bones.

When King Wu died, when the spiritual leader of Zhen Yuan Xun Gui was no longer there, no one could gather Zhen Yuan Xun Gui who was constantly fighting, and at that time, it was the time when Emperor Chongkang used imperial techniques to rectify them one by one.

Think about what the noble lords have done over the years, and just scavenging a little evidence of guilt can send them into a place of no return.

And the first to bear the brunt is probably the loyal Marquis Shi Ding who couldn't enter the Wuwang Mansion and cried.

After asking to understand, Emperor Chongkang didn't say anything more about Zhenyuan's heroes, and today's folds have been disposed of, and it's time to go to bed.

Not surprisingly, Emperor Chongkang ordered the brand of Fengzao Palace again.

Thinking of the female Zhaorong who had not yet been crowned a concubine, Dai Quan felt a little depressed:

The rise of the Rongguo Jia family seems to be unstoppable.

But it's normal, if you don't support the founding of the country, how can you clean up the Zhenyuan line?

This is the art of the emperor.

It's a pity that the Jia family is cheaper.

But with the nature of this king, it is not known whether it will be a blessing or a curse in the future......

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