This time, Emperor Hongzhi was in a coma again.

Even the Imperial Doctor can't do anything about it.

Although Qiao Mu has the ability, she is not willing to help, she is eighty years old here, if she lets Emperor Hongzhi live for another thirty or forty years, then what else will she do, he is dead now, it just so happens that she still has time to cooperate with Zhu Houzhao for another thirty or forty years, and she will have a bright blue sky and the sun and moon.

She's had enough.

I don't want to go on any longer.

Because Qiao Mu didn't help, and the imperial doctor couldn't do anything, so Emperor Hongzhi never changed his life against the sky this time, and after hanging his life for three days with a hundred years of ginseng, he was still powerless to return to heaven after all.

ascended to heaven and died, and then opened the country to mourn.

Although Empress Zhang cannot be regarded as a direct murderer, everyone understands that the death of Emperor Hongzhi is very closely related to her, if it were not for her, then Emperor Hongzhi might not have died at all.

Therefore, even if the ministers and Zhu Houzhao did not punish her, the ministers and Zhu Houzhao were unwilling to let her preside over the funeral.

If it weren't for the fear that she wouldn't appear, the Baiguan clan would have a discussion, and it would not be good for the royal reputation.

Zhu Houzhao wanted to imprison her in Kunning Palace and prevent her from coming out to participate in the funeral of the First Empire.

Empress Zhang couldn't preside over the funeral, and the Queen Mother was too unpresence, so the specific work naturally had to be done by Qiao Mu, but fortunately, this kind of thing Qiao Mu was not the first time to do it, nor was it the first time to participate, so he was very skilled, and soon completed the funeral of Emperor Hongzhi in accordance with the rules.

And after Emperor Zhengde officially ascended the throne.

I went back to Yuling again.

Of course, Qiao Mu is just a person to go back, her thoughts and further plans have been left to Zhu Houzhao, but Zhu Houzhao's side because he has just ascended the throne and is not very old at the same time, the minister did not let him directly pro-government, so he has not been able to make any moves for the time being, but the pro-government time is only sooner or later, and Qiao Mu has already left him enough power, as long as he can successfully control those forces, even if the minister does not let him pro-government, he can quickly get those ministers done.

In the first year or two, Emperor Zhu Houzhao of Zhengde did not do anything extra, and even behaved very obediently and listened to the words of those ministers.

Of course, this is on the bright side.

In private, Zhu Houzhao has been secretly using the power given to him by Qiao Mu to collect the facts of the illegal and criminal activities of the ministers and nobles of the DPRK and China, and is also secretly cultivating personnel who can succeed these ministers, so as not to vacate the court after the execution of these people.

This lasted for three years.

It wasn't until three years later that Zhu Houzhao reached the age of eighteen and officially became pro-government, and completely mastered the part given to him by Qiao Mu, which had been transformed into the hidden power of the Jinyi Guard and the forbidden army.

Only then did he officially take action against the hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China.

It was at the Great Dynasty Meeting that year, when officials from all over the country who had reached a certain level needed to return to Beijing to report on their work, they began to liquidate them.

This is also done to save trouble.

Save one by one and review one by one.

One litter end is more convenient.

Moreover, before he started, he also specially abolished the provisions on embezzlement and spending money to atone for the crime in the punishment regulations promulgated by his father.

Brought the Great Ming Law out again.

Then, in the midst of the noise in which the ministers of the court and the central government wanted to die and said that they could not go against the will of the first emperor and that the benevolence and righteousness of the first emperor could not be destroyed, they called the commander of the Jinyi Guard and asked the commander of the Jinyi Guard to stand in front of him and face all the ministers of the court.

Read out the indictments of all.

That's right, it was the indictment of all that was read.

The ministers who can stand in the court to hold meetings are all officials above the fifth grade, and they basically have a little real power, coupled with the low level of officials in the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult for these officials not to be greedy.

After such a reading, none of the nearly 1,000 officials in the court had a clean foundation.

However, Zhu Houzhao did not rush to kill them all.

He let go of those officials who were less corrupt and the amount of corruption could only support the daily life of the officials, and not to the point of luxury, and let the Jinyi guards take them aside first.

Only then did it begin to do anything to the rest.

For those officials who embezzle more than 10,000 taels of silver at every turn, forcibly occupy thousands of hectares of private land, or do not do illegal things themselves, but have been indulging their families and even clansmen to do illegal things.

Take them all

Or exile from the house.

Or behead the house.

As for whether they will be exiled or beheaded, it depends on whether they have human lives on their hands.

However, in the end, in the end, most of them were beheaded, and only a few were exiled, after all, land is life in these years, and these officials wantonly carried out land annexation, how could they not cause death, so the result was naturally beheaded.

This purge of the court.

It was tantamount to a great earthquake of the scholars.

I don't know how many Jiangnan literati families scolded this, wrote poems and cursed, and scolded the faint king, but it turned out that they scolded too early at this time, because the second thing Zhu Houzhao did after cleaning up the court was to reduce and reduce agricultural tax, per capita tax and other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and levy one-tenth of the commercial tax and cancel all tax-free privileges.

If his previous actions only offended some officials and their families and friends, then his actions this time undoubtedly offended most of the vested interests in the entire Ming Dynasty.

This matter is a big trouble.

For a time, there was chaos everywhere.

The nobles of the DPRK and China began to get restless.

There were even some merchants who banded together to resist the introduction of the commercial tax by not selling anything.

At this time, Qiao Mu's previous layout had a role, and the chambers of commerce she built back then had already become behemoths after forty years of development, and even occupied half of the industry and commerce in the entire Ming Dynasty.

It's just that he hasn't been able to become an oligarch.

The union of those businessmen undoubtedly gave Qiao Mu a chance, in the case that others began not to sell things, her side not only sold things normally, but also discounted, the part of the market that was originally difficult to seize was naturally collapsed instantly, swallowed by Qiao Mu Whale, and by the time those businessmen reacted, their market share had shrunk by half again.

It was at this time that Qiao Mu handed over all the commercial forces in his hands to Zhu Houzhao, and asked him to transform these commercial forces into state-owned institutions, so as to stabilize and regulate the country's commerce, so that businessmen would not dare to make any more moths.

In the past, they dared to unite and not sell because they felt that they could unite most people, but now the biggest business is in the hands of the emperor, and if they don't sell things, they will have to bear the price of a rapidly shrinking market share.

How can they bear this?

can only admit to resuming business one after another, and even have to reduce the price of business, otherwise they will not be able to rob others.