Chapter 122: Anti-corruption and anti-crime
The time is gradually coming to the late autumn, and the people of Beizhili are still in full swing in the construction of various urban infrastructure projects, and a large number of jobs provide more nutrients for the people at the bottom, making the coming winter not so terrible.
However, for the ruffians and hooligans in the capital who have been in the capital by the Donglin Party, the coming cold winter has become the most difficult day.
A vigorous anti-corruption and anti-crime campaign has begun under the auspices of Zhu Youxiao.
Jin Yiwei began to attack everywhere in the capital, as long as it was a ruffian hooligan, he would be arrested first. At the same time, the search for the ruffian boss Qingwolf who had been arrested in the slaughterhouse began.
That night, the green wolf was captured in a brothel.
At the same time, hundreds of ruffians and hooligans were arrested, and Jinyiwei obviously did not stop there, but began to continue to arrest.
In this arrest operation, as long as there are ruffians and hooligans who disturb the people, all of them are within the scope of arrest. Therefore, in the process of arresting, Jinyiwei won the support and cooperation of the people, and pulled out the ruffians and hooligans all over the capital one by one.
"Your Majesty, what should you do with these green skins?" Tian Ergeng asked Zhu Youxiao for instructions, and in a few days, thousands of people had been arrested, and the number of ruffians and hooligans in recent years was staggering.
"Those vicious ones are dragged out and shot! If there are others that can be transformed, let's go to labor reform! Let them mine and build roads. Zhu Youxiao instructed that there must be a large number of extremely vicious among these ruffians and hooligans, who were born to eat this bowl of rice, and they can't be changed no matter how hard they are reformed through labor, so they simply shot them to death, so as not to keep them for harming the people in the future. The other is that if you take the wrong path when you are young, you can correct it, and you can release it after a few years of labor reform, and it is all free labor!
"Yes, Your Majesty." Tian Ergeng immediately screened these ruffians and hooligans according to Zhu Youxiao's instructions, and as for any criminal evidence, there was no need for it at all. Whether these ruffians are vicious or not. It's still very easy to tell. It's really not possible to ask a few fortune tellers to look at their faces, and they will know which ones are dangerous to society.
However, with Jinyiwei's rich experience, it is obvious that there is no need to ask a fortune teller. With experience and instinct, they can see what these ruffians are.
At the request of the emperor. Those ruffians and hooligans who were released and might continue to endanger the society and harm the common people were all locked up together and thrown into the prison of the Zhenfu Division the next day. The rest, which seemed to have the possibility of reform, were thrown into the labor camp.
The capture of these ruffians is only a small matter in itself.
However, immediately after the feedback from the factory guard. But it made Zhu Youxiao happy. To his great surprise, after these ruffians were arrested, the people of the capital applauded and praised the emperor.
"These green skins extort money from the people and ask for cards from the vendors, which has already aroused the resentment of the people. Especially in the past ten years, the number of these green skins has been increasing, and the harm is very serious. When Tian Ergeng reported public opinion, he explained to Zhu Youxiao. Zhu Youxiao nodded, these things seem small at the national level. In the common people, it is the thing that feels the most intensely.
At the same time, Wei Zhongxian also turned into a mad dog and began to bite people like crazy. With the cooperation of Shen Yun, a cabinet scholar, more than a dozen Donglin Party officials were impeached in less than three days.
Previously, Sun Shenxing impeached Fang Congzhe, in fact, it was the Donglin Party that drove Shen Yu out of the cabinet in order to use his strength, but unfortunately later with Zhu Youxiao's questioning of Li Kezhuo, the rhythm of the Donglin Party was disrupted, and then Zhu Youxiao did not go to court again. These pieces are left in the middle again, and the matter is not over.
As a result, Shen Wei was still stuck in the cabinet like a nail, which made the Donglin Party uncomfortable.
Shen Yan, as an official of Fang Congzhe's faction, once gave lectures to ministers such as Wei Zhongxian in the palace. can also be regarded as Wei Zhongxian's 'teacher', and the two sides have formed an alliance. In the impeachment of the Donglin Party this time, Shen Yan also made a lot of efforts.
Because the Donglin Party was indeed unclean, the Donglin Party soon suffered heavy losses, and on the third day, Zhou Jiamo was impeached. Zhu Youxiao pushed the boat down the water and ordered to be questioned.
On the Donglin Party's side, they aimed their firepower at Shen Yun.
Wei Zhongxian's talent in this area is extremely high, and under the strategy of playing the anti-corruption card, the Donglin Party is naturally losing and retreating.
It is true that some of the Donglin Party officials are not corrupt. But most of the Donglin Party members were still corrupt. And the kind that doesn't do anything if it's corrupt.
Especially the bigwigs of the Donglin Party, the foundation is even more unclean.
It is basically impossible for an official to accumulate millions of taels of family property by donating land from the people. Where did you get so much land to give to them! It's not all up and down, digging into the corners of the country.
The first unlucky one is Li Sancai, and the second one is obviously Zhou Jiamo.
After the impeachment of one crime after another, Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered the seizure of Zhou Jiamo's property. The factory guards and Jingying were soon dispatched to conduct a comprehensive raid on Zhou Jiamo's official residence and the mansion of his hometown.
Now the Donglin Party bigwigs are all anxious. But in the face of the anti-corruption card, there is simply no solution. can only continue to gather fire and sink down. But under Wei Zhongxian's left kick and right block, these offensives were resolved one by one. This made the Donglin Party extremely annoyed, and Sun Shenxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, felt very faceless, so he simply resigned.
"Since Aiqing wants to resign, I won't keep you." Zhu Youxiao was happy to push the boat smoothly and approved Sun Shenxing's resignation. When Sun Shenxing learned of the approval, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then found that the emperor didn't care about the strikes of the Donglin Party at all.
The strike is just right to promote the disobedient ones up.
Now the Donglin Party is too open, and there are loopholes everywhere. It was very easy for Wei Zhongxian to attack the Donglin Party. However, the Donglin Party only had a few targets for attack, and it simply became a one-sided situation.
Within half a month, more than 40 Donglin Party members entered the labor reform bureau. At the same time, Qi Chu Zhexuan Party Ma Tsai was also supported.
As soon as Zhou Jiamo was arrested, Wei Zhongxian asked Wang Shaohui to go up, and the crackdown on the Donglin Party was basically operated by Wei Zhongxian, but these personnel appointments must be approved by Zhu Youxiao. Therefore, Wei Zhongxian came forward to implement Zhu Youxiao's will, and the power was still in Zhu Youxiao's hands.
It's just that this kind of court party dumping is too brain-consuming, Zhu Youxiao is too lazy to preside over it personally, he only needs a satisfactory result, that is, to get a group of obedient officials to come up.
The factory guard's house raiding activities were launched again, and this time the house raiding activities were carried out on a larger scale. More than 40 officials were raided at one time, although many of them were minions of the Donglin Party.
In Zhou Jiamo's home, a large amount of assets were indeed confiscated. Among them was a passbook of the Royal Bank of Daming, which contained more than 1.2 million taels of silver.
In addition, Zhou Jiamo's family still has a large amount of land, more than 100,000 acres. Much of this land was contributed, and the tenant rent charged was lower than that of the land. But Zhou Jiamo was copied, and the title deed was written in Zhou Jiamo's name, and these lands could be directly confiscated.
These lands are basically paddy fields, distributed in Hanzhong, Sichuan and other places, so they are relatively valuable, and one acre of land can be sold for more than a dozen taels of silver.
The other Donglin Party minions also copied a lot of oil and water. More than 500,000 yuan of silver was confiscated, and more than 800,000 acres of land were donated. There are both drylands in the north and paddy fields in the south.
It's just that this casual raid, Zhu Youxiao's pocket bulged again.
In particular, the land that has been copied is the more valuable thing. Most of this land was donated to the private land in the names of these officials in order to avoid taxes.
"It just so happens that there is almost no silver in the inner pocket, and those who can integrate these lands into the Huangzhuang will be integrated, and all the others will be sold for silver." Zhu You proofread Yang Guorui and ordered. The assets of the officials seized were handled by the Royal Bank, and the core of the Royal Capital was the bank.
In this seizure, the silver plus those antique jades amounted to almost 2 million taels of silver.
After Yang Guorui made a rough estimate, the land was worth more than 6 million taels, but disputes were likely to arise in the process of sale. Although the property rights are in the names of these officials, the actual right to use them is in the hands of the landlords and peasants who donated the land.
So in fact, it would be good to be able to sell it for two or three million taels of silver, and no one even dared to buy some land. Only those hard-line elites in Beijing who dare to buy these lands can deal with the landlords who donate their land.
Naturally, there is no problem with Huangzhuang, but not all land is suitable for annexation to Huangzhuang. At present, Huangzhuang is mainly in the north of Zhili, and has not expanded in the south, so it is very inconvenient to manage.
The anti-corruption activities against the Donglin Party are still ongoing, Zhu Youxiao does not need to pay too much attention to it, and Wei Zhongxian is obviously doing a good job.
Wei Zhongxian was not in the position of the celebrant at this time, so Wei Zhongxian's activities were through the hands of Li Chaoqing and Qian Guoxing, and he could not pose any threat to Zhu Youxiao.
The repeated crackdown on blackening soon appeared in the "Daming Daily".
As the corruption charges of the fallen Donglin Party officials were announced, the reputation of these fallen Donglin Party officials immediately became infamous.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, because of the strict gap between the rich and the poor, the people themselves had a prejudice against these officials. Even if these Donglin Party officials only embezzled a dozen taels of silver and were found out, they would make the people applaud and scold these corrupt officials.
In addition to the mainstream media "Daming Daily", there are also many diametrically opposed rumors circulating in the market. The term 'eunuch' has begun to circulate, and rumors of what eunuch party is causing chaos and harming loyalty and goodness have begun to spread everywhere.
In the face of Father-in-law Wei's blow to the Donglin Party, the bigwigs of the Donglin Party sacrificed their ultimate weapon - rumors! (To be continued.) )
PS: Today's state is a little poor, and the codeword speed is very slow.