Although the affairs of King De and the Yansheng Mansion came to an end, the scientific examination of the clan, the training of the clan in the examination, the establishment of the Inspection Division and the Qingtian Division all meant that they would continue to stay in Shandong for a while.

In the days that followed, Zhu Youzhen and Hong Chengchou discussed for days and days on the establishment of the Inspection Division and the Qingtian Division.

Hong Chengchou greatly appreciated Zhu Youzhen's establishment of the Inspection Department and the Qingtian Division. Although the Ming Dynasty sent a patrol to the imperial history in various provinces, and the inspectorate and the ministry were also responsible for inspecting local officials, but after all, the inspectorate and the ministry were only one person, and the inspectorate and the ministry were also far away in Beijing, and the court was really powerless to control the corruption of local officials.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was better, because of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's strict torture law, the corruption of officials was not so bad, and after Taizu, the corruption of officials could no longer be controlled. By the time of Chongzhen, it was almost to the extent that there were no officials and no greed. Whether it is a court boss or a local official, if there is a little power in his hands, he is desperately trying to get money in his pocket. If we add up the amount of silver embezzled by officials across the country every year, it is estimated to be dozens of times the revenue of the state treasury......

Countless amounts of money have entered the pockets of these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and hundreds of people have been bullied and exploited, living a life of starvation......

In fact, with the vast land of China, if the officials rule the Qingming Dynasty, if the local government of the imperial court is powerful, it will be a year of famine, and too many people will not starve to death. After all, the population of the whole country during the Chongzhen period was only sixty or seventy million on the official side, and counting the hidden population, it was only more than 100 million.

And if the high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn are fully promoted, the era of the Xiaoice River has not passed, and even if the weather is still cold, there is no problem in feeding this more than 100 million people.

The problem now is that wealth and grain are seriously unevenly distributed, and the vast majority of grain wealth is occupied by the gentry and merchants and corrupt officials, while the poor people have no food and clothing, and the imperial treasury is empty.

That is to say, the main contradiction in the Ming Dynasty at present is the contradiction of the serious uneven distribution of land wealth, and the contradiction between the gentry and landlord class and the vast number of hired peasants and poor people, and this contradiction is basically irreconcilable. The gentry class is extremely greedy, eager to take away the last grain of the people's only land, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are eager to take away the last copper plate of the people, and the ordinary people have no power to resist in the face of power, they can only be slaughtered by others, and they can only take risks to rebel if they can't bear it, so there are uprisings in various provinces one after another, and there is another time and space to overthrow the army of displaced people in northern Shaanxi.

After experiencing the soul tour, Zhu Youzhen saw the current situation of Daming very clearly, and he knew that it was powerless to change the status quo by just tinkering. The power of the gentry class is too strong, controlling the court and controlling the place, and it can't rely on the court officials who represent the gentry to deal with the gentry? This is where Zhang Juzheng's failure to change the law lies.

Therefore, if you want to completely change the Ming Dynasty, you must overthrow the gentry class, at least completely abolish the privileges of the gentry class, and the force that Zhu Youzhen can rely on is not only the army in his hands, but also the broad masses of the people, the poor and hungry clans, and the poor scholars, all of whom are also members of the people, and they are forces that can be relied on.

There are many things, I don't know how to do them when I stay in the deep palace, and only when I come out, only when I go deep into the people, can I find a way.

And Zhu Youzhen's series of behaviors also frightened the Shandong gentry and officials a lot. The officials of the Jinan Prefecture were disposed of, and the officials of the other prefectures and counties trembled, lest the emperor's thunderous anger fall on their heads.

Qingzhou Mansion, Dongchang Mansion, Laizhou Mansion, within half a month, more than a dozen officials have asked for resignation, and even some state and county officials could not wait for the imperial court to reply, so they hung up the seal and left. If you run away directly, you will certainly be questioned by the court and even lose your reputation, but if you continue to stay, you are likely to die, and these officials are still clear about how to choose.

Not only the officials, but also the officials of the yamen in various places were also panicked, and the officials of Jinan Mansion were killed by hundreds, which deeply shocked them, it turned out that it was so dangerous to be an errand in the yamen.

Unlike officials, many of the positions of officials come from the inheritance of fathers and sons, and many officials have been officials for generations, and when they leave the yamen, they don't know what to do, and they don't even know where to go.

Since the emperor wants to suppress corruption, then he has to find a way to save himself, so overnight, many yamen fires, many files in the yamen were burned, the treasury was on fire, and all kinds of bizarre things happened one after another.

When the news reached Jinan, Zhu Youzhen was furious, he didn't plan to do anything to other prefectures and counties, but he didn't expect these officials to go too far!

Zhu Youzhen immediately issued an order to assign personnel to various prefectures and counties to deal with these fires, and all officials who caught fire were removed from their posts and imprisoned. I couldn't find any evidence of their corruption in the yamen, so I sought evidence from the people, and Zhang Bang let the people enthusiastically expose it. These officials have done too many evil things and oppressed too many good things on weekdays, and now that the emperor has sent Qin to investigate the case, there must be people who take the initiative to stand up and report them.

Since these officials have taken the initiative to jump out, let's have a thorough cleanup in Shandong!

However, this disrupted Zhu Youzhen's plan and forced him to stay in Jinan City for a longer time. Moreover, there are a total of 6 prefectures and 15 prefectures and 51 counties in Shandong, and each prefecture has several prefectures and counties, and the localities are too large and there are too many officials, and Zhu Youzhen cannot send enough manpower to the people in his hands at all. Unless poor scholars are recruited on the spot, even if they are recruited, they cannot be used all at once, at least after a period of training, they can become a qualified official.

But since there is a problem, it has to be solved, even if you stay in Shandong for a year, you have to clarify the things here!

If there are not enough officials, they will be recruited on the spot. Zhu Youzhen issued an order to hold the Enke examination again, recruiting officials for all people in Shandong, regardless of whether they are scholars or not, as long as they are literate and hyphenation, understand some arithmetic, even if they are domestic slaves, they can also participate in the examination, and those who pass the examination will be awarded reserve officials, and after becoming officials, they will immediately leave the lowly status and become ordinary people.

Scholars are people, and lowly people such as domestic slaves and happy households are also people, Zhu Youzhen decided to give everyone a chance, as long as they are talents, they are willing to use them, and they are not eclectic!

Of course, it is not too right to read and write in the lowly books, and the main force of real recruitment is still those who read, those who are hopeless and destitute in the imperial examination, and even a larger number of children, only they are willing to be officials.

After passing a batch of examinations, Cao Bianjiao, Liu Wenbing, and others were immediately put in charge of training, and after a month or two, they were sent to various prefectures and counties to do things, and the accompanying army was responsible for providing military assistance.

Of course, in this way, the troops in his hands were not enough, so Zhu Youzhen issued an order and ordered Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Jiliao, to send 20,000 Praetorian Guards to Shandong. And Zhu Youzhen's series of decisions also made the court officials in Beijing shocked and inexplicable!