Chapter Ninety-Three: Pull out the radish and bring out the mud

After Wei Guogong Liu Lin and others were put in prison, Harrier did not resist under the torture of Jinyiwei, and soon all the fine works of the Dashun army lurking in the capital were dug up by Jinyiwei.

Moreover, the large-scale action of Jinyiwei also pulled out the radish and brought out the mud, and also dug out some Manchu Qing fine works that had been dormant for many years, as well as Jiangyang thieves, court criminals, etc., which can be said to be an unexpected harvest.

When the cabinet leader, Dali Temple, the Criminal Department, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate interrogated Liu Lin and others in three halls, the mansions of these prisoners were all confiscated, except for those hired servants and maids, the rest of the family members were all thrown into prison.

The capital has not punished so many officials at one time for so many years, and many of them are handed down from the Taizu Dynasty and passed down for more than 200 years, and the population is even more large, for example, the population of the main culprit Wei Guogong Liu Lin's family alone is nearly 1,000 people.

This is only the descendants who stay in the capital, not to mention the side clansmen scattered all over the place.

But whether to pursue the side or not, now that the regent has not given an order, the people below will not dare to be self-conscious.

The families of all the convicts add up to nearly 10,000 people, so the prison of the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and even Shuntianfu is all full, and it is still not enough.

In the end, the matter was reported to Jiang Chuan, and Jiang Chuan made a decision after a little groaning, except for the immediate family members of the convict official, all other non-blood relatives such as domestic servants and servants were dismissed.

He needs to deter the courtiers, but he will not engage in random trouble. As long as these rebels themselves and their families are severely punished and pay the price.

As soon as the king ordered, the people of the various yamen below were greatly relieved, and those who were supposed to suffer from prison were also grateful to Jiang Chuan, and the capital was the voice of the regent Renyi.

When the cabinet was busy trying cases of betrayal of the party, Jiang Chuan also sent people to Liaodong to recruit Liu Ji to Beijing.

Although the cabinet now lets Xia Junze continue to be in charge, he can't always be in charge, and the cabinet must have its own talents.

It seems that the most suitable candidate around him is Liu Ji.

Although Su Qin and Hu Zongxian are also prime ministers. But the three also have their own strengths.

After all, Su Qin was a vertical and horizontal family, although he had hung the seals of the six countries at the same time, but it was basically nominally, mainly to contact the monarchs of various countries and form a joint alliance, and he did not have much to do with internal affairs.

Therefore, Su Qin's strength is to plan from a large perspective and be good at strategy.

Although Hu Zongxian is very good at internal and external wars, he is now needed to sit in Qingzhou and restore Jiangnan.

And Jiang Chuan will give him another use in the future, so only Liu Ji is left.

Although Liu Ji is also very good at strategy, he has basically been in charge of internal affairs since he started the army in Jiangchuan until now, and he is very familiar with many of Jiangchuan's governance ideas, so he has always had a tacit understanding with Jiangchuan, so it is most suitable for him to enter the cabinet.

Although he asked Xia Junze to draw up candidates for the new cabinet, on the one hand, it was to appease him, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see what Xia Junze would do and whether he would arrange all his henchmen.

It was also an opportunity for him to examine the man's character.

Liaodong's basic policies are now on the right track, and Liu Ji will leave at this time, and nothing will go wrong. Moreover, there is Ran Wu guarding in Liaodong Town, and when the time comes, the people below will continue to implement the rules set by Liu Ji when he was there.

Moreover, the main body of officials in Liaodong are all scholars recruited by Jiang Chuan from the Hanlin Academy of the base, so there is no need to doubt the execution and loyalty.

As soon as the people who went to give the order left, Hu Zongxian sent a second battle report from Qingzhou: Jinan Mansion was conquered, the defender Qin Huaiyi surrendered, and more than 40,000 Dashun troops were captured.

When Jiang Chuan saw this battle report, he laughed and said, "Hu Ruzhen did a good job. Reply to him, the king appointed him as the governor of Qingzhou, all the military, political and civil affairs in Qingzhou have his agency, if there is a major matter, you can act arbitrarily, and you can report it afterwards. At the same time, report this battle to the General Administration Department, and report it to the Ming Dynasty, so that the whole court will know the power of our Qin army. Remember, send one to the palace too. ”

Su Qin on the side wrote them down one by one, especially when he heard the last sentence, he smiled, the lord is giving the little emperor eye medicine.

Soon, the news of Qingzhou's victory spread all over the capital, and everyone inside and outside the court was impressed. Many people lamented that the regent's handling of the rebels was a thunderous means, and this crackdown on the rogue was even more victorious.

As soon as the good news came out, Jiang Chuan's prestige was established at once through these two things, and some people in their hearts did not dare to say anything about Jiang Chuan's monopoly on the palace.

The power center of the entire Ming court has completely shifted from the imperial palace to the regent palace in Jiangchuan, and even the original plaque on the gate of the palace has changed from the Qin palace to the regent palace.

Every day, there is basically an endless stream of officials who come in and out to ask for instructions on various official duties, and the sedan chairs and carriages lining up in front of the palace are lined up in a long line.

In fact, many official affairs are not used to report to Jiang Chuan at all, just go directly to the cabinet. Otherwise, all these big and small things will come to Jiang Chuan, and Jiang Chuan will not be able to deal with it without eating, drinking, or sleeping for a day.

Many people do this to hug the regent's thighs, to show their faces in front of the regent, to get a piece of the pie in the new power system or to keep their current errands.

Although Jiang Chuan had also dealt with a lot of government affairs in Liaodong before, it was only a corner of Liaodong after all. Moreover, the power system and organizational structure of Liaodong are relatively simple.

Obviously, when he arrived in the capital and became the regent who ruled the world, he thought at first that the power structure of the capital was different from that of Liaodong, and there might be a lot of things that needed to be decided by himself.

But after he met with all kinds of officials, he was so anxious that he was too busy to eat, he finally understood the true purpose of these people, so he was furious, and strictly ordered that in the future, if there was no special urgent need to decide on a major matter, he would not come directly to the palace to ask for instructions, and he must first go through the cabinet.

Lao Tzu is not a model worker when he is in this regent, otherwise he will die of exhaustion before the world is unified.

Thinking about this, he felt that these officials were even more hateful. And it also gave birth to the idea of reshuffling the power system of the imperial court.

Although he had thought so before, the vanity of these officials now made him even more determined to implement it as soon as possible.

Let's say that since the regency of Jiangchuan, the entire palace has become deserted, all the palace doors are locked, and there are armor guards outside the palace gates, and no one is allowed to enter and leave at will without the token of the Regent's office.

Even the original eunuchs and palace maids in the palace have begun to clean up and reduce now.

Now the income of the imperial court is not much, and the expenditure of the palace is a large amount, and the daily consumption cost is as much as tens of thousands of taels of silver, and millions of taels a month.

Jiang Chuan's ability to save the life of the royal family has been exhausted, and it is impossible to let the royal family continue to consume it like this.