9-32 There is still a long way to go

Now the officialdom in the capital is panicked, many officials do not know if they can come back in the morning and at night, there have been many middle-level officials of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household who have been taken away directly from the yamen by the Dali Temple, and the officials who have been taken away are in real power, so the daily work of these two ministries has actually entered a semi-suspended state, and after a while, even the dignified Huang Xiaotian, the head of the household department, has been shuanggui by the South Factory.

This shuanggui is different from his shuanggui, and the Son of Heaven naturally can't play torture to extract confessions anymore, just inviting Huang Xiaotian to the yamen to drink tea and interrogate, because although Gao Yifei bit out a lot of people, he didn't have any real evidence, and he was all based on red mouth and white teeth, so as long as Huang Xiaotian gritted his teeth, he didn't speak, and Nanchang couldn't do anything about him.

Huang Xiaotian is a capable member, and his prestige in the household department is also very high, he can be said to be the leader of the entire household department, Hu Shangshu is just a decoration, since Huang Shilang was invited away by the South Factory, the household department has really stopped working, and no one cares about the taxes and money and grain work that come and go, and no one even receives the taxes from Suzhou and Hangzhou.

Liu Ziguang took this opportunity to purge the Ministry of Industry again, and all non-descendant officials were removed from the black yarn and filled in with students from the Academy of Sciences and last year's engineering scholars, so the shortage of personnel in the Ministry of Industry is not serious, but the newly supplemented officials need to adapt to the environment and work, and the efficiency of the work of the Ministry of Industry will inevitably decline seriously during this period.

Qi Zhenming and Yuan Chonghuan were also very dissatisfied with this matter, but because the anti-corruption case was strictly handled by the emperor, they could only stare dryly.

Some of these corrupt officials who were arrested did not let go, and some of them confessed when they could not hold on, not only the fact that they had embezzled money in the current river embankment project, but also recruited all the things that had been corrupted and perverted the law in the past, and in order to make meritorious contributions to the crime, more corrupt officials were exposed, so that the scope of the crackdown was expanded again, the manpower of the two yamen of Dali Temple and Nanchang was insufficient, and the prisons in the capital were overcrowded, and even some people who had committed petty theft and theft had to be released to make room for the corrupt officials.

Even Liu Ziguang realized that something was wrong, and ordered to stop further expanding the scope of investigation, and only handle the case of Jiangdi, and no case would be filed unless it was a heinous crime involving other aspects, others don't say it, just say that Liu Ziguang's top general Sun Gang's family has not stopped pleading relatives in the past few days, and people don't dare to come to him directly to beg him, so they have to give gifts to his relatives, begging him to open up the old man's net, and turn big things into small things and small things. The people who came to intercede were relatives and no outsiders, and Sun Gang couldn't say anything, so he had to go back to his house as little as possible.

There are also people who come to intercede in the Zhenwuhou Mansion, Qian Qianyi and Qi Zhenming will not come to the door, but the worship posts of Wei Guogong and Yuan Chonghuan came, and Liu Ziguang, the face of these two military gods, did not dare not give it, but now he can't stop, and he can't go into the palace to say to the emperor: There are too many corrupt people, I don't dare to arrest them anymore, and those who have been arrested can't do it, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will be finished. Isn't that tantamount to slapping yourself?

Finally perfunctory away the two bigwigs, Liu Ziguang couldn't help but fall into contemplation, purging the officialdom made him feel a sense of achievement, but the consequences caused by this are also extremely serious, the center of the court is already on the verge of collapse, as the minister who holds the real power in the court, he must be responsible for this situation. To be precise, he was frightened by the devil he had summoned, but he didn't expect that corruption in the court was so common, and every three officials would not be killed by one out of every three officials. If it weren't for the abundant financial and tax resources in Jiangnan, such a first-class imperial court would have been unable to support it a long time ago. This can't help but remind him of a famous saying in later generations, if you don't fight corruption, you will lose the country, and if you fight corruption, you will lose the party.

After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Ziguang still compromised, he didn't have the strength to carry out a comprehensive exchange of blood in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, so he could only grasp the big and let go of the small, deal with a batch of representative big moths first, and put the other small feet away.

At this time, the interrogation work has come to an end, and the confession alone has made a big box, this afternoon, Liu Ziguang took the box of confessions into the palace to face the saint, and wanted to talk to the emperor before the next morning, when he came to the imperial study, he saw Zhu Youxiao and a thirty-year-old relative talking very happily, this person has three locks of beard, fairy wind bones, very chic, seeing Liu Ziguang coming, Zhu Youxiao said: "Liu Aiqing, come to meet my new teacher Mr. Huang." ”

The emperor invited a new teacher Liu Ziguang knew, Zhu Youxiao's education level was relatively poor when he was a child, and he followed the eunuchs and palace maids to learn some vulgar things in the market, and he read very little books, and he never learned anything like governing the country, so after he officially ascended the throne, he invited many teachers to learn culture, which Liu Ziguang was very supportive, but the previous few were traditional old masters, far less young and famous than Huang Zongxi.

"Mr. Huang, I have admired you for a long time, your name is like thunder." Liu Ziguang politely took the initiative to bow to Huang Zongxi, but Huang Zongxi just looked at him, nodded slightly, and then continued to say something to Zhu Youxiao, as if Liu Ziguang was just air in front of him.

It's been a long time since anyone dared to despise Liu Ziguang like this, but he didn't get angry, he knew that the world's scholars looked down on him, on the one hand, because he was born as a martial artist, he couldn't even write well with a brush, and he couldn't even fill in words and poems, and he couldn't even make a wine order. Although he went to the east and the west, fought corruption and advocated honesty, set up education, set up industry, and sought a lot of benefits for the people, and even many people in the people worshiped their tablets, but in the eyes of the majority of scholars, Liu Ziguang was still an illiterate martial artist.

Huang Zongxi's name Liu Ziguang has heard of, he is a university scholar with the same name as Gu Yanwu, scholars, it's normal to be arrogant, Liu Ziguang doesn't care, and when he has the right opportunity to display his personality charm that is popular with people, he will also impress Huang Zongxi like he did to convince Gu Yanwu

Okay, so although Huang Zongxi was very rude, he still smiled and bowed very politely to Mr. Huang, and then said to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, this is the confession of the interrogation of Dali Temple and Nanchang, please have something to say after the imperial tour." ”

Zhu Youxiao has always been very concerned about anti-corruption matters, but today he didn't seem to be interested, and said: "Liu Aiqing, put the box here for the time being, and I will see it after I finish class." ”

Listening to Zhu Youxiao's meaning, he didn't seem to be interested in this matter, so Liu Ziguang had no choice but to say: "Then Weichen will retire first." Then he respectfully retreated, and as soon as he walked out of the door of the imperial study, he heard Zhu Youxiao say with great interest: "Mr. Huang, let's continue." ”