Metropolitan Inspectorate.

At this point, it's overcrowded.

"Wailang Kou Xiang, a member of the Henan Qing Officials Division of the Contemptible Household Department, is hereby surrendered!"

"The contemptible people also surrendered, and the Ministry of Rites Taifu Temple ......"

"And the ...... of the despicable"

……

Yushi Fan Zhun watched the officials all rushing to turn themselves in, his mood was becoming more and more irritable, and he hurriedly shouted loudly: "Go to the back and line up, and those who want to turn themselves in will line up!" ”

At this time, a middle-aged man in a soap-colored silk shirt lined up: "I turned myself in for my family, and my family is Sun Sui, the left attendant of the Criminal Department!" This is 12,000 taels of ill-gotten gains, specially handed over to the imperial court! ”

"Sun Shilang has also benefited from King Ning!"

In the crowd, some officials couldn't help but stir up.

However, when these officials were still surprised, another person in line came over: "I also turned myself in for my family, and my family is the general political secretary Zuo Tongzheng ......."

As a result, the officials who also surrendered themselves became a sensation again: "I can't imagine that the closure of the General Administration Department is also ......"

But these officials were not surprised yet, and Kang Jiu, a protégé of the Cabinet University Shi Kang Hai, also appeared in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

When the other officials saw the doorman of the old family of the pavilion appearing, they all avoided it.

Kang Jiu also came to Yushi Fan Zhun with his hand.

Yushi Fan Zhun also put on a smiling face: "Brother Kang, what kind of advice does Elder Ge have, why do you want to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate in person, what are the orders to let the lower officials and others go to your mansion to listen to the training in person!" ”

This Kang Jiu didn't dare to be the prime minister (the Ming Dynasty cabinet scholar was regarded as the prime minister by the people of the time) because he was a doorman, so he dared to hold the university in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and only bowed his hand and said:

"Don't dare to hide it from the adults, Xiaomin surrendered on the orders of my family, this is my family's ill-gotten wealth from King Ning, and please count it!"

Yushi Fan Zhun almost didn't come back to his senses, and after being stunned for a while, he smiled awkwardly: "I have always heard that the pavilion is always a minister of learning, and he is highly respected, how can he also accept the benefits of King Ning, or five thousand taels?" ”

Kang Jiu only smiled bitterly, and did not explain that it was precisely because his family was relatively poor that he had only made up five thousand taels for a while, otherwise he would not have only taken out five thousand taels to make up the number.

……

At this time, Zhu Houzhao, who was standing in the front hall of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in civilian clothes, couldn't help but shake his head when he saw this scene.

Yan Jing of the East Factory Inspectorate couldn't help but ask Zhu Houzhao at this time: "Your Majesty, do you want the East Factory to bring them to the Inspectorate for organization and questioning?" ”

"No need, they're not sorry for the organization, they're sorry for the way of the saints taught to them by Sage Kong, a group of profit-seekers, and their names are so worthless for a while!"

Zhu Houzhao said a word, and then asked Xu Jing who came with him: "You estimate, at this moment, how many taels of silver can there be?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, no less than 30 million taels."

Xu Jing has always had amazing mental arithmetic, and as soon as Zhu Houzhao asked, he immediately answered.

Zhu Houzhao nodded, thinking that Li Zicheng had copied almost all the homes of civil and military officials in the entire city of Beijing, and a total of more than 70 million taels were copied, and now these civil and military officials have turned in a lot of ill-gotten gains, and it seems that the officials of the Ming Dynasty are indeed not poor.

"The silver is more than enough, according to the will I gave you, you now start to hand over the business of the Royal Bank and the business of the Royal Tax Administration to others, and you will be responsible for setting up an investment bank, this bank is called the World Investment Bank, Daming will invest in infrastructure all over the world in the future, understand?"

Zhu Houzhao said to Xu Jing.

"The World Investment Bank?"

Xu Jing couldn't help but read it out.

"Yes, it is the World Investment Bank, with the gold and silver reserves of the entire world today, it may not be able to meet the interests of our Daming Infrastructure Construction Bureau;

Therefore, this is a long-term process of making money, and the establishment of the World Investment Bank is to lend to those who can't afford to pay the money, and when the time comes, they will either repay the usury owed to me Daming, or mortgage the harbor and minerals to me Daming! ”

Zhu Houzhao only said one purpose, and there was another purpose that he did not say, that is, if the local officials in the country want to accomplish good political achievements, they must also build infrastructure, and to build infrastructure, they can only borrow money from the banks controlled by the central court, and when the time comes, the local government will incur debts from the central court, and it may even lead to the local debt ratio continuing to increase due to the increase in the degree of infrastructure construction, so that it will be convenient for the central court to control the localities economically.

After all, the territory of the Ming Dynasty will definitely become wider and wider in the future, and the use of economic means to control the local area is undoubtedly the most effective way.

Although Zhu Houzhao didn't say it, Xu Jing also guessed this benefit, and hurriedly said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the minister will definitely run the second bank of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded and didn't say anything more.

……

At this time, there were still many civil and military officials who came to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to turn themselves in and pay money.

Seeing this, the more upright Zuo Du Yushi Cheng Cai couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "God, when did King Ning buy so many officials, even if he is a vassal king, how can he have so much wealth, even if he buys so many officials, how can his rebellion fail?" ”

The failure of King Ning's rebellion has been spread to the capital, so Cheng Cai asked this, and Guo Dongshan, the left deputy capital of his side, couldn't help but smile when he saw this:

"Where is this King Ning who has bought so many officials, and His Majesty has bought so many officials! I hate the people in my forest, most of them are sanctimonious gentlemen, once they encounter self-interested things, they all reveal their original forms, sigh, sigh! ”

Cheng Cai also had to echo: "That's right, if this continues, these officials will voluntarily humiliate their reputation, and then it will appear that Your Majesty is wise, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will be unbearable, so that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty can only look at the ears of His Majesty!" ”

……

"Alas!"

Zuodu Yushi Hanghuai also looked at all this helplessly in front of him, and thought to himself:

"It's really that the Manchu Dynasty has no civil and military ministers! What's even more regrettable is that if this continues, because of the same interests, the civil and military officials in Beijing have formed the same party as His Majesty, and the Zhongjun Society will undoubtedly be stronger, and then our gentry will have a more difficult time! Those gentry who followed King Ning or responded to King Ning's rebellion are afraid that this time not only will not be tolerated by His Majesty, but will also not be compatible with these civil and military officials! Your Majesty kills people, when did you start not using your own knife?! ”

As Hang Huai expected, after most of the officials in Beijing's civil and military affairs invested in the establishment of the Ming Infrastructure Construction Bureau and the World Investment Bank in the name of surrendering their ill-gotten gains to the imperial court, it also meant that these officials would be tied to the interests of the Ming Emperor and even the Ming court and the country represented by the Ming court.

And the last thing these officials want to see is naturally that some ambitious people want to mess up the world and affect the construction of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, there is no doubt that these officials, like Emperor Zhu Houzhao, will definitely crack down on the gentry who rebelled with King Ning, in order to warn other gentry and vassal kings who want to mess up the world.

In this, the right capital Yushi Tao Harmonic first inscribed the book in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, asking the left capital Yushi Hanghuai to go to the court with him, and to severely punish King Ning and his rebels!

At the same time.

Other officials also began to denounce King Ning and the officials and gentry who rebelled with King Ning in the major Ming official media, scolding these people for forgetting their ancestors and betraying their loyalty, and demanding that the imperial court severely punish these people!

Even, these officials, as well as the scholars, students, and ordinary people who represented their will, petitioned one after another, hoping that the imperial court would severely punish these people who tried to cause trouble in the world.

Zhu Houzhao naturally complied with the will of the people, and approved the Metropolitan Procuratorate to file a case against King Ning and the officials and gentry who rebelled with King Ning, and demanded that the Criminal Department severely punish these traitors.

……

Thereupon.

Sun Sui, the left attendant of the Criminal Department, was promoted by Zhu Houzhao to the secretary of the Nanjing Criminal Department, and was granted the special trial of the case of King Ning and all the personnel of King Ning's betrayal of the party.

Of course.

For the officials who participated in the suppression of the rebellion of King Ning, they were also rewarded and promoted.

Wang Shouren was awarded the title of Xinjian Bo, and Gao was promoted to Beijing as the secretary of the military department.

And Wu Wending was promoted to the governor of Nanzhili, replacing Yan Song.

Yan Song was transferred to Beijing to replace Sun Sui and served as the left attendant of the Criminal Department.

The 80,000 officers and soldiers trained by Wang Shouren in Jiangxi were also transferred to Beijing for reorganization, and preparations were made to reorganize them into the Guards Army.

The governor of Jiangxi was served by Wang Tingxiang, who followed Wang Shouren to participate in the pacification of King Ning's rebellion.

After Sun Sui went south, he did only one thing, which was to kill people and raid his home.

Now he has officially betrayed the entire gentry group, after all, he has invested in the Daming Infrastructure Construction Bureau, and has become a common interest of His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao, and he has become Zhu Houzhao's eagle dog.

And the local government did not mind following the wishes of Sun Sui, the representative of the central court, and severely punished the officials and gentry who rebelled with King Ning, because they also happened to use this to enrich the local treasury.

After all, they also knew that in the future, if the central court wanted them to build infrastructure in the local area, if they wanted not to be subject to the central court, they had to have enough silver reserves first, otherwise they could only borrow money from the banks of the central court at that time.

……

The words turned back, Jiangxi, when the rebellion of King Ning had just been quelled.

Xu Zhan, the prefect of Jiujiang and the secretary of the rebel party department, was desperately rushing to Nankang with his soldiers and horses at this time, and he was still fighting under the banner of Wang Shouren, the governor of Jiangxi, he really hoped that King Ning could be defeated more slowly, so that his defection could be meaningful.

However, contrary to his wishes, Xu Zan was ambushed by the officers and soldiers specially left by Wang Shouren when he came to Nankang, so Xu Zan was captured.

As soon as Xu Zan saw Wang Shouren, he knelt down, he knew that he was ambushed because Wang Shouren already knew about his defection to King Ning, so he had to beg for mercy now:

"Lord Futai, spare your life! Xiaguan, Xiaguan is really confused for a while! Xiaguan wanted to take the opportunity to paralyze King Ning, so he had to pretend to take refuge in King Ning, in fact, Xiaguan's heart has always been in the court! The lower officials just want to protect the people! ”

Coincidentally, Xu Zan also used the same reason as the civil officials in the capital at this time.

However, for this kind of civil officials and gentry who directly rebelled, they were naturally no longer tolerated by the entire society of the Ming Dynasty.

"Governor Xu, you and I are also ministers in the same palace, or in the same year, the only thing this official can help you now is that before Your Majesty's will is issued, give you a chance to commit suicide, you can choose to jump into the Ganjiang River to commit suicide now, this official should not see it, so as not to suffer from Ling Chi again!"

Wang Shouren said.

Seeing this, Xu Zan couldn't help but hesitate a little, and moved to the side of the boat step by step, but after a while, he knelt down again, snorted, and said: "Xiaguan, Xiaguan is afraid of cold, this, this water is too cold!" ”