At this time, Zhu Houzhao did not know about the Jiangnan gentry's plot to slaughter the Tax Bureau, and he had just obtained the results of the assessment of the magistrates from Ma Wensheng, the first assistant to the cabinet.

But to the surprise of Zhu Houzhao and the cabinet ministers and officials of the ministry, most of the results of the evaluation of the officials in the Nanzhili area according to Song Kai, the imperial historian, were upper, even if they were the most upper.

There is no governor in the Nanzhili area at present, so the most powerful official in Nanzhili is the governor of the imperial history.

The Imperial Inspector is regarded as a Beijing official in the archives of the Ministry of Officials, and is a Qincha sent by the central court to patrol various places in the local area, but because the Imperial History is resident in the place, it is also attributed to the local official in terms of geography.

But there is no doubt that the power of the patrol imperial history is very great, and he can manage the military, government and civil affairs in the local area, and is also responsible for the assessment of these magistrates, especially Nanzhili!

Therefore, Song Kai was responsible for the overall assessment of the magistrates in the Nanzhili region.

However, the purpose of Zhu Houzhao, Ma Wensheng, and others in carrying out the large-scale assessment this time is to evaluate the officials in the Jiangnan area, punish the local officials who are ineffective in collecting taxes and cracking down on the powerful and powerful, and even crack down on one or two faint officials in the Nanzhili area, so as to enhance the sense of presence of the central imperial court in the Jiangnan region.

But now, the evaluation results reflected by Song Kai are that there is no official in the Nanzhili region who is incompetent and needs to be removed and dismissed!

"How is this Song Kai's evaluation?"

Zhu Houzhao rubbed his face, the results of the big plans about the local officials in various places in the past few days have been sent to the ministry and the cabinet one after another, as the emperor, he will also personally see it, after all, he also has to take this opportunity to get acquainted with these officials who are close to the people, and because of this, he has been a little tired recently, his eyes are red, and he has to rely on rubbing his face to refresh himself.

Wang Shu, who was already ninety years old and was also tired of fighting with his eyes, arched his hand to Zhu Houzhao and said: "This person is good at governance, during his tenure as the imperial history of Nanzhili, the number of social studies in Nanzhili has increased by more than 100, and the evaluation is also considered to be in the upper middle." ”

Upper middle in the assessment?

Zhu Houzhao didn't know if he was overly worried, and wondered if it was true that the upper and lower officials of Nanzhili were not stupid and incompetent, or because he knew that the imperial court was going to rectify the rule of officials, he was restrained?

At this time, it was already late at night, and the sassy north wind was blowing the window lattice, and the cabinet ministers and the eunuchs who had stayed up for several nights were yawning, Wang Shu squinted his eyes, Zhu Houzhao saw this, and felt that it was better not to be in a hurry to dwell on this matter, so he was only ready to ask the last question: "What about the other political envoys?" ”

"There are fifty-four people who are above Huguang, one hundred and two who are in the middle, three hundred and seventy-four who are middle, ninety-four who are poor, and twenty-four who need to be blamed!"

"Twenty-seven on the mountain, three hundred and sixty-two in the middle, eighty-six in the middle, fifty-three in the poor, and nine to be blamed!"

……

Zhu Houzhao didn't wait for the cabinet ministers to finish reporting, so he waved his hand: "Don't read it!" It seems that this Nanzhili's patrol is really a good man! ”

And at this moment, the sound of hurried broken steps came from outside, and then, Zhu Houzhao heard Guo Rong reply outside: "Emperor! Jin Yiwei received an urgent report from Jiangnan that the Zhenjiang Prefecture Tax Bureau and the Suzhou Prefecture Chongming County Tax Bureau were looted by water bandits and pirates! The tax supervisor and his soldiers were all killed! No one was spared! All the undelivered treasury silver has also been robbed! It is expected that soon, there will be an urgent delivery to the military department! ”

As soon as he heard the news, Zhu Houzhao was stunned on the spot!

Ma Wensheng, the first assistant to the cabinet in his twilight years, eagerly began to personally rummage through the previous recitals, while Jiao Fang had already found it, and handed it to Ma Wensheng first, and then came to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, it is the tax bureau that Nanzhili asked to be removed from before Song Kai, the imperial historian!" ”

"I know!"

Zhu Houzhao responded, then waved his hand and said, "Let's go back and rest!" ”

Seeing this, Ma Wensheng and Wang Shu all surrendered, and in the end, Liu Jin was still standing behind Zhu Houzhao.

Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao also let Liu Jin go down to rest, and at the same time let Guo Rong go back first, he decided to let himself be quiet.

For a while, in addition to the flying snow that swirled around the bright galaxy and the red wall hidden in the dark night, Zhu Houzhao was only surrounded by the little queen who stood at the Qianqing Gate and wrapped herself like a snowman.

Zhu Houzhao didn't notice the little queen, he was only thinking nonsense now.

I don't know why, Zhu Houzhao began to find that he didn't seem to be an emperor, but a god of death.

Because he has always been making death, harvesting the lives of others, he is a butcher, and in the next life, he is even a criminal who will go to an international court.

Now he seems to be tired of this kind of killing, but he seems to be addicted, he can't seem to stop the killing, if he wants the evil to be punished and justice to be served.

Once because of the death of Emperor Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao chose to rebel against the ten clans of the party; And because of the death of the people of Sanyuan County, Zhu Houzhao chose to punish Lu Zhonghe and other ten tribes; And now the people of the two tax bureaus are being slaughtered, it seems that it is also because of themselves, because they have rejected the request of the Jiangnan gentry.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but secretly think that Ma Wensheng's willingness to choose to compromise and meet the interests and needs of the gentry group may not be really cowardly, and people may really want to prevent more innocent people from paying for it, because no matter how sharp your knife is, you can't stop the greed of the gentry group.

But justice always has to be served, human lives always have to be repaid, and the Ming Empire still has to be revitalized, no matter how brutal and murderous his king is at the moment, it is better than letting aliens and thieves slaughter thousands of miles after more than a hundred years.

"Let's go, go back to sleep!"

Zhu Houzhao saw the little queen, pinched her and put her in Guanyin's pocket, soft face, and took the little queen back to the Qianqing Palace, after washing for a while, Zhu Houzhao took the initiative to take the little queen into his arms, "Tonight, let me sleep with you!" So warm! ”

……

Early the next morning.

Zhu Houzhao summoned Ma Wensheng and Wang Shu again, and said, "What do you think about what happened last night? ”

"Back to Your Majesty! The minister thought that the post of governor of Nanzhili could be added, so that the patrol could be checked and balanced, so that the imperial court could control the place! ”

Marven replied.

"What Shoufu said is very true, and the minister also thinks that it should be so, the reason is naturally that the Jiangnan region is not quiet, and the water bandits and pirates are in great trouble, so a governor is set up to lead the army to encircle and suppress the water bandits and pirates, and at the same time supervise the local officials, and picket the illegal officials to force the people to be thieves!"

Wang Shu didn't reply.

"Since this is the case, let Jingshi University sacrifice wine Wang Shouren as the governor of Nanzhili and the right capital of Yushi, and the soldiers of Yingtian, Su, Song, Hu, Chang, and Ning!"

Zhu Houzhao actually had the same idea as Ma Wensheng and Wang Shu, that is, to send a governor to divide the power of the governor, and at the same time strengthen the central court's control over the localities, in addition, to let the governor investigate the patrol and other officials of the Southern Zhili, as well as the slaughter of the tax bureau.

And the reason why Zhu Houzhao let Wang Yangming take this post is naturally because Wang Yangming is decisive in handling things, not to mention the successful arrest of Zhang Yu and other rebels who went against the party into Beijing, but also said that the fact that he was able to decisively lead the army to quickly attack Queen Ning Houlu and quell King Ning's rebellion in history is enough to prove that Wang Yangming can take on major things!

In addition, there is another reason that the Wang family behind Wang Yangming is one of the shareholders of the Royal Bank, and the Royal Tax Bureau is the main reserve account of the Royal Bank, so the income of the Royal Tax Bureau, that is, the Jiangnan Commercial Tax, determines the income of the Royal Bank, and also affects Wang Yangming's interests.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao did not have to worry that Wang Yangming would be bribed and used by Jiangnan officials.

However, Zhu Houzhao not only wants to send Wang Yangming, he also has to go himself!

"Your Majesty, why did you go to Jiangnan?"

When Ma Wensheng heard Zhu Houzhao say that he would personally take the First Division of the Guards to Nanjing to pay homage to the Tomb of Filial Piety, he couldn't help but feel greatly surprised.

"I want to go and see, this Jiangnan is still not my world! You don't have to care, I have my own opinions, but your external caliber must be that I am just going to worship the filial piety tomb! However, the first assistant Ma Wensheng and Liu Jin, the palm print, and Wang Shu, the secretary of the ministry, will go with me, so that they can deal with the reform of the government during the plan at any time, especially in the Jiangnan region, and they will be checked and approved! ”

Zhu Houzhao said that he left the cabinet and the celebrant duty room, and only instructed Gu Dayong: "Go and pass on Qiu Yue and Guo Ronglai!" ”

……

Three days later.

Emperor Zhu Houzhao of the Ming Dynasty prepared to go to Nanjing.

The little queen couldn't help but pout: "Can the emperor's brother not go?" ”

"No, you can't!"

"Can Brother Emperor take me with him?"

"Not either!"

"Hmph, ignore the emperor's brother!"

Seeing that the little queen rubbed her eyes and ran away, Zhu Houzhao just smiled faintly, and then turned around and left the Qianqing Palace.

At noon on this day, Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty left Beijing with the first division of the Guards.

However, when Zhu Houzhao just left the city, he saw a blue-robed official kneeling outside the city gate and shouting:

"Jiang Wei, the director of the Ministry of Rites, please return to the palace, don't disturb the place, and stop patrolling the south of the Yangtze River!"

Zhu Houzhao didn't expect that there would be a driver to stop him when he went out of the city, so he hurriedly ordered someone to bring this Jiang Wei over.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help asking, "Why did you stop me?" ”

"The minister is for the people of the world and stop Your Majesty, Your Majesty is the Ninety-Five, you should live in the main palace to rule the world, I hope that Your Majesty will be sympathetic to the people's feelings, stop the southern tour, so as to avoid disturbing the place and increasing the burden on the people!"

Jiang Wei said.

"Where are you from?" Zhu Houzhao asked again.

"Chen Suzhou is often an acquaintance!" Jiang replied slightly.

Zhu Houzhao thought it was no wonder, so he said again: "I have made it clear to the world that the pastoral officials in various places do not have to take over, and the violators will be punished!" How can it disturb the place! And I went to the south of the Yangtze River to worship the filial piety mausoleum, this is the righteousness of benevolence and filial piety, how dare you stop it! ”

"The ministers are not allowed to sacrifice to Taizu, but for the sake of the people of the world, please ask Your Majesty to return to the palace, and choose important ministers and nobles to go to Jiangnan to worship, you don't have to go in person!" Jiang Wei replied.

"I am a plague god or a demon, as soon as I leave the capital, the people of this world will not be able to live! Do you want to say that I am a tyrant and will extort tyranny as soon as I get there?! Zhu Houzhao asked coldly.

"Don't dare! The minister just asked His Majesty to return to the palace! Jiang replied slightly.

"You think so, what else don't you dare, pass the decree, and dare to stop me, for the crime of trespassing on the royal driver, immediately beheaded!"

Zhu Houzhao said and returned to the imperial chariot.

And Jiang Wei still knelt on the ground and shouted: "If Your Majesty insists on going out of the city, the minister will not be able to kneel!" ”