Chapter Ninety-Three: The Guardian of the State

On the eighth day of the fifth month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, there was a very heavy news from the Jingshi, and the current Holy Emperor Chongzhen issued a decree to approve Yu Xiaotian's move to clear the monarch's side.

On the ninth day of the fifth month, after the trial of the Dali Temple, the Criminal Department, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, a total of 26 people, including Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian, Liu Yuliang, Xue Guoguan, and Zhang Qiping, were found guilty of corruption and other crimes.

Each of them listed a large list of crimes, collected a large number of crimes during their reign, and on the ninth day of the fifth month, posted their crimes in the form of a public notice to the world, and Chongzhen issued an order at the same time on the same day to abandon these twenty-six people from the city.

After these 26 people were convicted that day, they were immediately dragged into a prison cart and pulled outside the Xuanwu Gate, where they were beheaded at noon.

Yang Sichang and others were all dressed in clothes, tied up in the prisoner car, and slowly pulled out of the prison of the criminal department all the way, along the way quite a lot of Ming people heard the news and ran to the street, sending them off, and the messy corpses and rotten vegetables were thrown towards them like rain.

Yang Sichang's face was full of filth, and he was beaten by the people's stones, but he still pretended to be calm, shouted that he was wronged, and scolded Yu Xiaotian for being a rebel and thief.

But now their gang has already been stinky by Yu Xiaotian, and it has been made smelly, just by passing Guò Lu Xiangsheng, the common people hate these guys to death, where will anyone think that they are wronged, they all think that it is not enough for them to die ten thousand times.

At this time, Gao Qiqian had already been frightened into a pile of mud, hanging in the prisoner car, crying in a mess, and that Zhang Qiping was even more pale, his eyes were dull, and he muttered all the way: "Didn't you say you wouldn't kill me?" Didn't you say you wouldn't kill me? Why do you want to kill me? Why do you want to kill me, I have already descended, I have descended ......"

These more than 20 people have different expressions, but they all have one thing in common, that is, they are not reconciled and unwilling to die, thinking that they are very wronged.

Yu Xiaotian didn't come forward to watch the beheading in person, he didn't have any interest in this kind of thing, although this struggle ended in his victory, these people were just some victims, if he still rushed to watch the beheading at this time, it would be a little too low for his status, these people are losers, shaking their prestige in front of the losers, it doesn't mean anything to him.

On the tenth day of the first month of May, Chongzhen then issued an order to fight hard to defeat the Jiannu army in Xiaotian, and obtained an unprecedented victory in Jinghai, and killed the Jiannu chief Dolgon on the spot, which was indispensable, so he was promoted to the position of the left governor of the Chinese army, with the Chinese military governor as the leader and the remaining four governors, and the general leader of the world's soldiers and horses.

At the same time, Yu Xiaotian was crowned with the title of General of Shangzhu State, making one of them the highest rank in the current military general sequence of the Ming Dynasty, and the military attache of Zhengyipin.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian was also promoted to the post of Taibao, with the responsibility of supervising the state, and could be in the cabinet to supervise state affairs.

In addition, there was also news from the Jingshi, saying that the current saint is unable to see things for the time being because of perennial fatigue, accumulated hard work, and poor health, and will no longer go to the court to listen to the government for a period of time in the future.

This is tantamount to openly admitting Yu Xiaotian's control over the government, and Yu Xiaotian will basically have the final say in all matters in the future, while the original cabinet has become the actual administrative body, although it has decision-making power, but it must be approved by Yu Xiaotian, the superintendent of the state.

This series of actions of the imperial court soon began to spread, and the news heard by officials and people everywhere, and they were immediately shocked, and many officials immediately scolded Yu Xiaotian for being a rebel minister and thief who usurped power. If such a martial artist is allowed to supervise the country, then what do they want these civil officials to do?

Besides, the Ming Dynasty has never set up any post of supervising the country, and Yu Xiaotian is just a military general, and he has nothing to do with the emperor's eight poles, so why should he be in charge of the country?

So the officials from all over the country immediately began to put on the table, strongly stating that this move was inappropriate, and said that Yu Xiaotian was a chaotic minister and thief, and he must be punished.

However, there are also some local officials who have sniffed out a glimmer of opportunity from it, thinking that this is the best time for them to serve Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian entered the Qing Dynasty in Beijing this time, and successfully attacked the Beijing Division, and controlled the capital, which has become a fait accompli.

If Yu Xiaotian only kills some ministers, then it will not be good for him, and whoever will definitely seize power at this time, it is obvious that Yu Xiaotian succeeded in seizing power this time, and he has hollowed out the current saint and become the de facto ruler of the Ming Dynasty.

For this matter, it depends on how the officials in various places look at it at the moment, of course, they can not recognize the actual control of Yu Xiaotian at present, but they are facing a problem, Yu Xiaotian has now openly represented the Ming court, and if he does not listen to him, it is equivalent to no longer accepting the control of the imperial court, which is equivalent to no longer recognizing the leadership of the imperial court over them.

In this way, in the future, who they will be officials for and who they will do things for, they will lose the legal basis, they can never say that the current court is illegal, they will no longer listen to the holy decree of the court, and each of them will set himself up as kings!

Therefore, some officials can see from this that no matter whether they are happy or not, Yu Xiaotian's actual control of the court situation has become a fait accompli, and no one can change this fact whether they listen to it or not.

Unless one of them can stand up now, gather a group of troops and horses to go north, and expel Xiaotian from the Jingshi, then no one can change this fact.

However, the news of the 100,000 army of Jiannu in the Yu family army has already spread all over the Ming Dynasty at this time, and it has been decades since the rebellion of the wild boar Pinurhachi, but no one in the Ming Dynasty has never obtained such a record, which shows the ferocity of the Yu family army.

What's even more terrifying is that after they defeated the Jiannu army, they still have the strength to overcome the officers and troops of the road, and they drove all the way to attack the Beijing Division, which is even more terrifying.

Those officials and generals in the world, ask yourself, even if they are given tens of thousands of troops, can they do this? Therefore, even if they were given the guts, they would not dare to raise troops at this time and brazenly go north to come to the side of the Qing monarch again, and use force to expel Xiaotian from the capital and the imperial court.

So these holy decrees, although the Ming Dynasty and the opposition suddenly scolded Xiaotian, but there were really few people who dared to jump out and summon the world's soldiers and horses to go north, and come to the Qingjun side again, just verbally scolded, but there were not many places to make a substantive reaction.

After Yu Xiaotian received the post of supervising the country, he immediately began to make intensive adjustments to the officials of the Ming court, and there was a major earthquake in the entire court officialdom, many people were deposed and driven out of the court, and Yu Xiaotian promoted a large number of officials, enriched into the court, and led the affairs of various ministries.

These officials who were promoted naturally made it clear that they would listen to Yu Xiaotian's call and serve Yu Xiaotian in the future, and a considerable number of them were unknown people in the officialdom before, or they were younger, but this time they were all promoted to important positions by Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian has moved the officialdom of the court so much, undoubtedly to support his own power in the court, he does not hide this kind of thing, and directly puts it on the table to do, although it has caused the dissatisfaction of many old officials, but now Yu Xiaotian wants power and power, and he has soldiers, and his fist is the biggest in the world, and he can't accept it.

In just a month or so, the personnel of the major yamen in the entire Beijing division were basically adjusted by Yu Xiaotian, some officials were driven out, and some officials were absorbed, and at the same time, Yu Xiaotian filled in some of the clerks he had cultivated in Fujian for so many years into these major yamen official offices.

These scribes who belong to the Xiaotian Seawolf system are not from the imperial examination, so if they are entrusted with important tasks at this time, it is obviously not justified, so they can only temporarily arrange some inconspicuous positions, and their grades are relatively low, and they were all very unvalued positions before.

But in fact, the officials of the major official offices and yamen in the imperial court know very well that these people who have recently been filled into their yamen by Yu Xiaotian are actually their real principals.

These people are all people from Yu Xiaotian's lineage, and they are most trusted by Yu Xiaotian, in fact, they are placed in the yamen of the major government offices, which is to let them serve as Yu Xiaotian's eyes, ears and mouthpiece.

What these people say, in fact, is what Yu Xiaotian wants to say, what they want to do, in fact, is what Yu Xiaotian wants to do, although their official position is humble, but they speak with great weight, many things Even the officials in charge do not dare to make decisions without authorization, they must first ask these people's opinions before making a decision.

And Yu Xiaotian didn't find out until this time that the person in power was really having a hard time, and all kinds of massive problems were swarming in front of him every day, piling up in front of him, making him so tired that he couldn't fart.

Now he has a thorough understanding of why there are so many faint kings in history, and if he wants to be a Ming monarch, he really has to pay a lot of energy, and there are so many things in this world that even if he gives birth to three heads and six arms, he may not be able to deal with it.

So Yu Xiaotian hurriedly recruited Lin Yiyang, Lu Tong and others, and ordered them to set up a secretariat, which was responsible for helping him screen and deal with various affairs. In this way, his life can be regarded as better.