Chapter 052: Don't play cards according to the routine
The Donglin Party was suddenly arrested by six radicals, and the next day a group of Donglin Party members were in an uproar, and at this time, Zhu Youxiao's holy decree to the world also came out.
The holy decree clarified that Li Xuanzhi abused the prince, and even killed the emperor's biological mother, Wang Cairen, and denounced Yang Lian and others for bullying the young age of the Son of Heaven, interfering in the emperor's family affairs without authorization, and trying to manipulate the Son of Heaven. At the same time, an edict was issued to entitle Li Xuanzhi as Concubine Kang and officially take charge of Ciqing Palace. After all, she is the most beloved woman of Cheap Lao Tzu, and before her death, she clearly explained that the ministers wanted to give her the title of imperial concubine, even if she was crowned the imperial concubine, she could not threaten Zhu Youxiao's status.
When the ministers saw this holy decree, there was another commotion.
Although Zhu Youxiao was put on the throne by the Donglin Party, Zhu Youxiao himself is the crown prince, so his identity is legitimate. He could naturally jump out and liquidate the Donglin Party at this time. In history, when the Emperor of the Apocalypse liquidated the Donglin Party, he lived in a simple place, obviously not because he could not openly liquidate the Donglin Party, but probably because he was poisoned.
The Qi Chu and Zhejiang Party looked excited, and the emperor attacked the Donglin Party, which was naturally the most beneficial to them. However, the Qichu Zhejiang Party is much looser than the Donglin Party, which is why the Qichu Zhejiang Party cannot compete for the Donglin Party if it does not have the support of the emperor in the court.
Yang Lian and others were arrested, and the first shot of the war against the Donglin Party had been fired. Jin Yiwei and Dongchang rushed to the provinces, quickly arrested all the families of Yang Lian and others, and confiscated their assets.
After some searching, nearly 100,000 taels of silver were confiscated, all kinds of assets of unknown origin, Yang Lian, these guys, the foundation is not clean, otherwise how can they live on that little money?
Zhu Youxiao immediately asked people to build a new prison next to the Royal Military Factory, and then sent Yang Lian and other criminals to the prison for 'labor reform', including their families, all of whom were tattooed, put on prison uniforms, and went to the Royal Military Factory every day under supervision to do hard work.
The prison is still relatively rudimentary for the time being, but construction is already underway, and it will not be long before a new prison with full facilities can be built.
Zhu Youxiao personally went to the prison to inspect once, and as soon as the saint warrior Yang Lian saw Zhu Youxiao, he immediately pointed his nose and scolded: "Faint Jun, Faint Jun!" ”
"Haha!" Zhu Youxiao laughed heartily and asked Yang Lian, "Aiqing, are you very angry?" ”
Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Yang Lian was almost so angry that he vomited blood. Since they were arrested, they were first detained in the Dongchang prison, but the Dongchang agents did not try them at all, so they did not even have a chance to argue. Soon, a group of family children also came in as companions, which surprised Yang Lian and the others.
Not only did their own family come in, but even their brothers and sisters were arrested.
When these relatives saw Yang Lian and the others, they either cried in the dark, or scolded them for offending the emperor, so that they affected their relatives.
The worst is Zuo Guangdou, after one of his uncles and nephews was arrested, he tore Zuo Guangdou on the spot, pressed Zuo Guangdou to the ground and beat him fatly, and Zuo Guangdou, who was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, was unharmed. Zhu Youxiao saw Zuo Guangdou's blue nose and swollen face, and immediately ordered: "Come on, go and ask an imperial doctor to come and see him, and then arrange a separate cell for him, don't be beaten to death." ”
"Your Majesty is really kind-hearted!" Li Jinzhong slapped a sycophant.
Zhu Youxiao made an inspection and revised the prison detention system. The families of these criminals are small, and the old ones are well raised, and they do not have to participate in labor. The others were relegated to official slaves and arranged to work as coolies, squeezing the demographic dividend from them, and the system must refer to the model of the Song Dynasty.
The fact that the family members of Yang Lian and others were sat down together also caused a huge discussion in the DPRK and China. Soon the music was sent to the celebrant like raindrops.
Since Wang An was investigated and questioned by Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao promoted two eunuchs with good literary skills from the inner study hall, one as the master of ceremonies and the other as the master of ceremonies. Li Jinzhong was in charge of the affairs of the East Factory.
At this time, the celebrant basically had no power, and was limited to helping the emperor deal with the twists and turns, draft the holy decree, and so on. The palace has lost the right to manage, and at the same time, it no longer manages the imperial village and the imperial store. Although it seems that there is a lot of power to deal with the twists and turns and draft the decrees, in reality there is no power.
After all, two eunuchs with no other powers, no personnel management rights, and no military power. Their power is completely dependent on the imperial power, and Zhu Youxiao can dismiss them at any time, which is basically equivalent to two secretaries.
"Your Majesty, these hundreds of concerts are all against sitting together." The eunuch who holds the seal of the celebrant is called Li Chaoqing, a eunuch in his forties, with a very stable personality. After serving as the celebrant of ceremonies, he would sort the chapters and send them to the emperor every day.
"Throw it all away!" Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, Zhu Youxiao didn't bother to watch such a concert, and it was naturally extremely normal for the sitting system to be opposed by the ministers. Now in the Ming Dynasty, how many officials have a clean foundation?
Yang Lian and others were arrested and imprisoned, and a group of Donglin Party members began to plan how to rescue them. Seeing that the individual performance did not work, the Donglin Party began to jump up and down, and gave the emperor a joint concert.
Facing the Donglin Party, which was still dancing, Zhu Youxiao was really annoyed.
Is it easy to be an emperor?
Disposing of a few ministers is like stabbing a hornet's nest.
"Li Jinzhong, Tian Ergeng, the two of you will immediately investigate these Donglin parties for me, and as long as they are corrupt and bribery, they will be arrested and imprisoned." Zhu Youxiao called Li Jinzhong and Tian Ergeng into the palace and gave instructions to the two of them.
"Yes, Your Majesty." The two agreed, Zhu Youxiao looked at the two of them, these two seem to have a good relationship recently, Jinyiwei and Dongchang seem to be in the honeymoon period recently!
So why are you separating? Just merge and forget it.
"Whoever finds out more, I will be rewarded." Zhu Youxiao glanced at the two of them, and then said something as if inadvertently. Tian Ergeng's eyes lit up, Tian Ergeng, who had just been promoted to the commander of the Jinyi Guard, did not dare to compete with Li Jinzhong, after all, Li Jinzhong was the emperor's closest confidant. However, this time, the emperor's words were obviously going to provoke competition.
"Your Majesty." The two thanked each other, and Li Jinzhong naturally knew what was going on, since the emperor ascended the throne, he had already shown an extremely clever balancing technique.
The power of the palace eunuch was weakened, he Li Jinzhong was the commander of Dongchang, Zhang Yan was the commander of the imperial horse supervisor, and there was no eunuch in the palace who could manage the overall situation.
However, Li Jinzhong is not very worried, as long as he works hard.
After the two left the palace, Jinyiwei and Dongchang immediately played the anti-corruption card. This card is simply like a king bomb, which has a huge lethality to the Donglin Party.
Jin Yiwei and Dongchang just checked casually, and caught a lot of corrupt pigtails of the Donglin Party. Every day, Donglin Party officials were taken away for interrogation by Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and the ironclad evidence was found to be that they were imprisoned.
The Donglin Party jumped for a while, and they all cried bitterly, as if they meant to say, the emperor, you don't play cards according to the routine, and you have already 'defended too much'. How many foundations are clean these days? Is the court so little enough for them to live?
But the emperor's posture was the first time that many Donglin Party officials were scared, and for a while, except for the group of relatively honest officials of the Donglin Party, the rest of the people were in danger, for fear of being broken into the door by Jinyiwei and Dongchang's fans in the middle of the night. At the same time, they hope to find some merit to redeem the emperor's trust in them.
It's a pity that the merit was not found, and Zhu Youxiao discovered a big case. The reason why this big case was discovered by Zhu Youxiao was mainly caused by the quarterly statements of the Daming Royal Bank.
The quarterly earnings of the Daming Royal Bank are very bad, and a large amount of savings funds are used to invest in agricultural reclamation, and they will not be profitable for a while.
In order to reverse the poor profitability of the Daming Royal Bank, Zhu Youxiao thought of coinage. Although the banknotes of the Ming Dynasty have depreciated to the point of withdrawing from the market, aren't there still copper coins minted?
After doing it for a long time, Zhu Youxiao still didn't know how much silver he could earn every year from official coinage. So Zhu Youxiao asked the celebrant to seal Li Chaoqing to go to the cabinet to ask Ye Xianggao about the income of the coinage.
Ye Xianggao didn't know, and he went to inquire about it, and then he said that after more than half a year of casting, only 15,000 taels were entered.
As soon as Zhu Youxiao heard this figure, he exploded on the spot, how could the profit of minting be so low? When he's a three-year-old?