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Officials from Jinan Prefecture and even Shandong's Political Department poured buckets of ice water on the 'cold', and they also avoided the limelight for the time being.

Of course, this is only temporary.

The effect of Qian Lan's desire has been produced, and the internal loosening and disintegration of these corrupt officials and moths have been disintegrated.

Although Lin Feng was not a member of Qin Kewang's inner circle, he knew some inside information. Now Lin Feng wrote a letter to Qin Kewang for help, will Boss Qin help or not?

Obviously, Qin Kewang didn't know that Lin Feng had been arrested, otherwise he wouldn't be so entangled. The question now in front of Qin Kewang is whether to save Lin Feng.

If you save it, it is very risky, and if you don't save it, it will make his descendants feel cold. It's hard to do it if everyone is at risk.

Qin Kewang really hoped that Lin Feng could die violently overnight, so there would be no way to investigate. But this is obviously impossible.

The Son of Heaven is in Tai'an, who dares to risk the condemnation of the world to send someone to assassinate Lin Feng? If you don't get it, you will be considered to have assassinated your father, and that is the crime of stealing your family and exterminating your family.

Qin Kewang chose to stand still, intending to see how things developed.

As it stands, the situation cannot be said to be good, but it is not too bad. As long as Lin Feng is not arrested and imprisoned, everything will be said.

But Qin Kewang obviously overestimated his control over people's hearts. Except for the absolute descendants such as the envoy and the prefect of Jinan, the rest of the officials began to prepare for a retreat to a greater or lesser extent.

Most obviously, there were far fewer officials who gave filial piety to the Yamen of the Governor's office.

This is a hurry to clear up the relationship.

Qin Kewang didn't have anything to say about this. At this point, it is normal to seek self-preservation.

The only thing he can do is to make sure that he doesn't take the initiative to reveal his flaws.

Unfortunately, it didn't take long for this apparent balance to be broken.

One of Qin Kewang's cronies, Cai Lin, a fellow of Jinan Prefecture, took the initiative to report the corruption and misconduct of a group of officials in the Shandong Political Division. There are more than 60 people on the list of whistleblowers.

Cai Lin's move happened very suddenly, without any warning before.

When Qin Kewang reacted, Song Shu had already been delivered to the Son of Heaven.

Cai Lin was obviously prepared, and there was a detailed record of Qin Kewang's greed for ink and silver for disaster relief, and his cooperation with the Cui family and the Japanese in smuggling.

If Lin Feng's report just opened a door, Cai Lin's letter is evidence to convict Qin Kewang and others.

Of course, Cai Lin himself is not clean, but he did not hesitate to sell Qin Kewang and others in order to make a conviction, hoping to be able to treat him lightly.

Although this kind of behavior of the dead friends is not dead and poor, although it is hated by the allies, it makes the Jinyi guards happy.

Now they don't have to be restrained anymore, and they can go to Jinan Mansion to get people justifiably.

Tai'an was not far from Jinan Mansion, and the cavalry of Jinyiwei soon came to Jinan Mansion to pick up the officials involved in the case and returned to Tai'an in the starry night.

More than 60 high-ranking officials were dismissed one after another, causing a major earthquake in Shandong.

The Son of Heaven decided to personally interrogate these scum who were greedy for ink and fat themselves, and treason against the country, and after Xie Shen's persuasion was fruitless, he had to go to Zhu Houzhao.

Among these officials, the only impression that Zhu Houzhao had was that Qin Kewang, the political envoy of Shandong.

Just looking at the resume, Qin Kewang's resume can be described as very beautiful. He has served as a senior official in the local area, and has also held important positions in Beijing. It is a dignified second-class jinshi and a good poem.

But it is such a person with an almost perfect resume who made the act of greedy ink for disaster relief, selling salt privately, and treason against the Japanese.

The most ridiculous thing is that Zhu Houzhao also gave Qin Kewang a plaque of 'the minister of the humerus', but now it seems to be a naked mockery.

The two met in the prison, but there was too much to say through the prison door.

But because there are so many things to say, there is no way to talk about them for a while.

Now, Qin Kewang has nothing to hide.

Zhu Houzhao asked him and he replied, no more, no less, no hurry.

Seeing that Qin Kewang was so at ease, as if what he had done was taken for granted, Zhu Houzhao really wanted to immediately pull out the embroidered spring knife from the waist of the brocade guard beside him and slash at Qin Kewang's neck.

But he couldn't.

Although he is the Son of Heaven and has the power to rule over sentient beings in his hands, these people still have to be punished in a canonical way to warn future generations.

Otherwise, Da Ming Law will really become a dead letter.

The collusion between officials and businessmen is a stubborn disease that plagues the Ming Dynasty, and the Shandong Political Department is just a microcosm.

If there is Qin Kewang, there will be Liu Kewang and Wu Kewang.

Finding a solution to the problem is the priority.

Of course, before that, it is also very important to punish these corrupt officials and bad gentry.

After Qin Kewang confessed, Zhu Houzhao officially issued an order and ordered Jinyiwei to arrest the Tongwu Hao clan, including the Cui clan of Qinghe.

Compared with the officials, there are more Hao people involved in the case.

These gentry often have their families at their core, cooperating with the ronin samurai to make huge profits by smuggling the sea trade on a large scale.

Because of the government's care, smuggling continued for several years without being banned, which had a bad impact on the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

The imperial power is not lower than the county, and the Son of Heaven and the scholars rule the world together.

These seemingly beautiful words seem so ironic now. Zhu Houzhao was thinking, why do you have to share power with the scholars?

What are the results of sharing? It is the traitorous behavior of these literati who have no bottom line, good and undisciplined.

Perhaps in the hearts of these officials, it doesn't matter at all whether they are in trouble or not, what matters is that they have a full pocket. The imperial court allowed all kinds of preferential treatment for civil officials and gave them the right to exempt from land taxes, but in exchange for such a reward, everyone had to take a good look at it.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao remembered Xie Shen's suggestion that civilian officials and soldiers, craftsmen, and businessmen share power, and felt that he could give it a try.

Previously, the New Deal had already elevated the status of soldiers, craftsmen, and businessmen in some respects.

Although from the current point of view, the status of these three is still not comparable with that of the literati, but they are still developing on the right path.

Zhu Houzhao felt that reform was imperative. Previously, he had always believed that corrupt officials and traitors were just an example. But now it seems that this is because of the civil service itself.

If the system is not changed, it will be useless to kill all the corrupt officials and traitors in the Ming Dynasty. Because there will always be newcomers who are blackened on top.

Only by properly supervising officials can this situation be avoided to the greatest extent.

Previously, Zhu Houzhao had been evading this problem, believing that the system left by his ancestors was not perfect, but at least it was sufficient.

But he is now waking up to the fact that the system is like a chronic poison that will not kill immediately, but it will make people die slowly.

It has been more than 100 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and if it is not treated with fierce medicine, I am afraid that it will really go to extinction.

Governing the country does not allow the slightest assumption, and it is indeed his mistake in the first place.

The treatment of these officials and landlords is very simple. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, it is enough for these people to be killed ten times.

Zhu Houzhao did not spread too widely, and ordered these officials and landlords to be beheaded for public display. His wife and children were exiled and distributed to Qiongzhou Prefecture, and all his property was returned to the state treasury.

For a time, the mouth of the vegetable market in Tai'an was full of blood, and dozens of people were beheaded every day for serious crimes.

Their heads were hung from the gates of the city as a warning not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

As for Lin Feng and Cai Lin, who had made meritorious contributions to the report, they were demoted to the first level and beheaded to exile, but the reduction of officials to the people will never be hired, which can be regarded as a punishment for their crimes.

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It was a good time for Mount Tai to seal Zen and make it like this, which Zhu Houzhao didn't want to see anyway.

But this incident in itself cannot be said to be an absolutely bad thing. At least Zhu Houzhao recognized the shortcomings of the Ming officialdom and strengthened his determination to support merchants, craftsmen, and soldiers to check and balance civilian officials.

This is actually Xie Shen's ultimate goal.

Only by making Zhu Houzhao believe from the bottom of his heart that civil officials are the cancer of the Ming Dynasty can the Ming Dynasty be saved.

Take a look at those dynasties in history that emphasized imperial examinations and light military generals, which one was not beaten into a hornet's nest by foreigners.

The Tang Dynasty was originally a superpower of all nations, but since Wu Meiniang abolished Guanlong to support the Han people, the combat effectiveness of the army has been greatly reduced, and it has become a soft persimmon that everyone is bullying and bullying. The Anshi Rebellion was only the outbreak of accumulated contradictions, and the reason for this was the loss of the status of the warriors.

Looking at the Song Dynasty, which prides itself on being economically unrivaled, the imperial examination system reached its peak, the civil officials completely suppressed the military generals, and there were almost no military generals in the Privy Council.

Those who are soldiers even have to tattoo words on their faces, saying that thieves are matched with troops, which is simply a great shame.

But the emperor of the Song Dynasty was so distrustful of the generals that he finally got out of Di Qing and was scolded.

The result is also obvious, anyone from Western Xia, Liao, Jin, and Mongolia can step on the Song Dynasty. The strength of the economy has a fart use, there is no strong military strength, and no matter how rich you are, you will make a wedding dress for the enemy country and foreign races.

The Yuan Dynasty was ruled by aliens and bypassed. In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination became a tool for the emperor to clamp down on the people. In the end, the emperor found that he could not control the tool, but was led by the nose by the tool.

The Ming Dynasty was also the dynasty with the highest power of scholars, and the emperor was often helpless, which was naturally the pot of the imperial examination.

The great changes at the end of the Ming Dynasty were also somewhat related to the imperial examination system. People who want to get ahead send their children to study, and even military families will send a child to study, hoping to get rid of the embarrassing living state completely.

In this case, how many people will focus on training their children to learn martial arts and read military books?

The eldest sons who inherited the status of military households and continued to serve as soldiers had to be mixed and completely became the slaves of the officers.

If this deformed model is to be changed, it must start from the roots.

The simplest is to elevate the status of the generals so that they can see hope.

Of course, the direct promotion of the rank of military commander will make the ruler uneasy. Therefore, the method adopted by Xie Shen was to mix the generals with craftsmen and merchants to improve their status, so that the Son of Heaven would not have too much heart.

This is important, because if the king does not trust, the reform can be terminated at any time, and the repeated pain will be even more harmful than the original slow death.

As the helmsman of the New Deal reform, Xie Shen must be well balanced, and must not let the reform deviate in the slightest, because once it deviates, it is likely that it will be difficult for any manpower to pull it back.

Zhu Houzhao assured that he would delegate power to Xie Shen, and Xie Shen would take on this responsibility and complete the tasks assigned by the leader.

Judging from the current situation, Shandong's major case can be used as a flashpoint.

The most important thing is to weaken the inextricable links between the civil servants and the local gentry. Only in this way can the imperial power be touched from the closed local politics, and the decrees of the imperial court will not exist in name only.

He is an official in politics and a gentleman.

These eight words can basically summarize the relationship between civil officials and gentry.

So if you want to weaken the connection, you still have to start with the imperial examination.

The most important one is that it is necessary to abolish the preferential treatment of tax exemption for scholars with meritorious names such as juren and jinshi.

The so-called one person attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven.

As long as you pass the examination to raise people or jinshi, and countless clansmen come to donate land, how much will the court lose in taxes?

However, the imperial court did not dare to move, because it would move the whole body, and once it moved, it would be criticized by countless civil officials.

Xie Shen decided to be this villain.

In fact, there was no such rule at first, but the civil servants were a group that was very good at seeking benefits for their own group, and after several discussions, the system was finalized.

If you want to move the cheese of the civil official group, you must make a fuss about the system, pointing out that it is unreasonable to exempt meritorious scholars from paying taxes, and supplemented by the thunderous hand of the Son of Heaven to silence the civil official group.

Of course, all this needs an entry point, and this Shandong accident is very suitable.

Officials and gentry are in cahoots, snakes and rats are in a nest, greedy for silver, chaotic salt laws, and co-ordination, and their reputation is completely stinky.

Why are such tyrants and inferior gentry exempt from taxes?

Even if Xie Shen wanted to make a compromise and concession, it would only be exempt from taxes when the official was in office, and he had to pay taxes after leaving office, and the amount of land must be strictly checked, and heavy fines would be imposed if he was found to have contributed by his clansmen.

It's actually very easy to operate after making up your mind. After all, the amount of land under an official's name is limited, and the possibility of thousands or even tens of thousands of acres of land appearing is very low.

Even if you are from a wealthy family and there are tens of thousands of acres of land in the clan, it is also the whole clan, and it is impossible to belong to one person. It would be nice to have a few hundred acres in each house, let alone spread it on individuals.

This requires a long-term follow-up of the land in the names of these officials, and if there is a spike, it is immediately investigated, unless it is a large-scale purchase, otherwise it is basically a contribution.

After severely punishing a few cases of killing chickens and setting an example to monkeys, it can have a deterrent effect, and later people will have to weigh it carefully if they want to follow suit.

Of course, this process takes time.

But Xie Shen waited. He is still very young, and Zhu Houzhao is also in his prime. If it had been a few years ago, Xie Shen might have been worried, after all, Zhu Houzhao had no queen.

In case Zhu Houzhao really dies one day, his successor may not have a good face for him.

But now that it's okay, Zhu Houzhao already has an imperial heir, and everything is developing in a stable direction.

Xie Shen could have cultivated the little prince from a young age and instilled his own values in him, just like he did to Zhu Houzhao.

If it weren't for Xie Shen's association with Zhu Houzhao since he was a child, Zhu Houzhao would not have given power to Xie Shen so much, and unconditionally supported Xie Shen's new policy.

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