On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fourth year of Jianwen, Fujian Xing was sparse, saying that the regent was not an ordinary prince and could not be used in the ordinary prince's ritual system, so the regent was asked to reform the system. Xiao Yu played it accurately. Since then, civil and military officials can no longer call Xiao Yu the prince, but to call him the king or His Royal Highness, Xiao Yu called himself alone, and the crown of the East Pearl was changed from eight to nine, which was equivalent to the crown prince, crowning all kings, second only to the emperor's twelve. Lin Yinping was promoted from the princess to the queen, and Xiao Xuan was promoted from the prince to the crown prince.

Now more than a month has passed since Xiao Yu took office as regent, and in this month, Xiao Yu has completed the high-level rectification of the Eastern Capital Center by taking advantage of the change of days. A large number of officials were dismissed from their posts, and even some of the "stubborn people" were beheaded all over the house, and all their family wealth was confiscated, which also allowed the poor "northwest barbarians" to really see the wealth of the princes of the Eastern Capital.

In fact, Xiao Yu is still the first salute and then the soldiers, on the second day after the restructuring, Xiao Yu issued a fundraising edict in the name of the cabinet, which probably means that the army has been fighting for many days, lack of pay and food, and now the national disaster is at the head, so please donate generously, and will not forget each other in the future, and the first assistant Sun Shiwu and the second assistant Lan Yu of the cabinet took the lead in donating 100,000 silver. But even so, except for Qi Yu and Zhang Yu, the vast majority of the magnates in the eastern capital still complained bitterly, the highest donated 20,000 taels, the low one was only a few hundred thousand, perfunctory meaning is extremely heavy, everyone is crying poor, and some people even take out their belongings and houses to sell on the street, and some people go to the gate of Wanshou Garden to cry and complain that they eat all the moldy rice for three meals a day, and they have a lot of money?

Do the princes of the Eastern Capital really have no money? According to the files of the Dark Guard Mansion, most of the powerful people who can have a head and face in the east have a net worth of more than one million taels of silver, and even more, such as the mansions of the major princes, have a wealth of more than 10 million. One-third of the world's wealth is concentrated in the Eastern Capital, although this is a slight exaggeration, but the wealth of the Eastern Capital can also be seen.

So next, Xiao Yu let these unclear magnates see the regent's thunderous rage. He first secretly ordered Li Rusong and Qu Cang to investigate and punish several officials who were not big or small according to the files of the Secret Guard Mansion for many years, and then took advantage of this matter to pull out the radish and bring out the mud, and began to purge it on a large scale, with Zhang Haijiu, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Duanmu Ruisheng, the secretary of the Dali Temple, and Tang Chunyu, the governor of the right capital of the Secret Guard, to thoroughly investigate the corruption matters in the Eastern Capital.

For a while, a large number of officials were dismissed, and several princes and magnates were directly thrown into the secret guard prison, Xiao Yu issued an order again, "Anyone involved in this case will have their family property confiscated and removed from their official positions. ”

There is a good saying, it is called thousands of miles to be an official only for money, and a few of these officials are clean, and the evidence is conclusive, it is enough to go to the execution ground several times. Therefore, Xiao Yu was also ruthless, and he should have gone to work, and he should have taken his home, and in just half a month, he got a total of more than 70 million taels of silver.

In this turmoil, Xiao Yu did not take the initiative to kill, so half of them just lost their official hats and money bags, and their lives were saved, as for the other half, they were already on the blacklist of the secret guards before Xiao Yu entered the Eastern Capital, so in this purge, they were listed as several major crimes, or they were beheaded all over the house, or the men in the family were exiled to Xiliangzhou as slaves, and the women were confiscated into the Teaching Division, so it was not miserable.

Xiao Yu originally wanted these people to die in the chaos of the army for no apparent reason, but he never thought that the east would surrender without a fight, and the king would enter the city, so naturally there would be no talk of the rebellion, so Xiao Yu had to take this opportunity to deal with it separately. It's just that the rabbit is anxious and bites, these deep-rooted magnates are not so easy to handle, and the family has raised good warriors, and some of the magnates began to fight to the death when the secret guards came to the door, and then soon Sun Zhihua personally led 3,000 troops into the city to brutally suppress the rebellion. The massacre lasted for a day and a night, and in the end, Min Xing had to transfer another 3,000 iron cavalry into the city to continue suppressing it. There is no suspense about the outcome of the victory, all the families of those who dare to resist have been killed, and the heads of the leaders are hung on the twelve gates.

The first big shock after Xiao Yu entered the Eastern Capital lasted for three days and three nights, killing rivers of blood, and people were executed in front of the noon gate every day, so that the people who loved to watch the excitement were numb, and the entire Eastern Capital was frightened, and the little emperor in the deep palace really saw Xiao Yu's iron and bloody wrists. It was only at this time that Qin Xian really understood a truth, for Xiao Yu, killing people is not terrible, and there is no need for too many scruples, maybe this is called courage, an emperor who fights all the year round is very different from an emperor who is raised in the deep palace and grows in the hands of women.

It wasn't until Sun Shiwu personally went to Wanshou Garden to meet the regent and had a deep conversation with the regent that he stopped this turmoil that was gradually expanding.

Although this turmoil violated the original set of not wanton killing to a certain extent, but in general, the advantages outweighed the disadvantages, first of all, enough seats were vacated and used by Xiao Yu to appease the hearts of the people in the northwest, and secondly, Xiao Yu contributed 70 million taels of silver, even when Dazheng was at its peak, the annual tax was only 20 million taels of silver, and the 70 million taels of silver plus Xiao Yu's old foundation, as well as the remaining silver of the household department, were about 98 million taels, which was enough to support the Northwest Army for nearly ten years, which allowed Xiao Yu to really get rid of the previous financial predicament and have enough confidence to carry out the next reorganization of the army。

No matter what happens in the eastern capital, Wanshouyuan is still calm.

The lake is secluded, the ancient cypress is verdant, and in the hot summer season, Wanshouyuan is undoubtedly the best summer resort.

In the shade of green trees, there is a blue-tiled and white-walled building hidden in it, which is the Ruijingxuan, which has recently become famous in the entire Eastern Capital. Just because the regent does not live in the Eastern Capital, but lives in the Wanshou Garden for a long time, Rui Jingxuan replaces the original imperial study and becomes the center of the entire empire, and every day you can see Zhu Zi Gongqing coming from the Eastern Capital.

There are five guests in today's Ruijingxuan, all of whom are high-powered first-class and second-class ministers, including Sun Shiwu, the new head of the cabinet who has gray hair, Lan Yu, the second assistant Tianguan Lan Yu of the year, Wei Ban, the governor of the left army, the governor of Minxing in the right army, and Xu Lin, the governor of the capital who has just withdrawn from the northwest.

It can be said that at present, the real people of the Eastern Capital and the court have all gathered.

Xiao Yu, who was dressed in stone blue clothes, sat on the couch with a calm expression, and he couldn't see that it was his order that turned the Eastern Capital upside down, and said with a light smile: "Scraping together, I have scraped together enough 10,000 taels of silver, such a big windfall, I can't put it in the treasury to cover the dust, let alone sit and eat the mountains, so the lonely king decided to use it to rectify military affairs, so as to fight against the Jiangnan rebels in the future." ”

Since it involves military affairs, Xu Lin, as the first person in the military, was the first to speak: "Your Highness, since the minister took office as the governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, looking at military affairs, the military system is chaotic, the forbidden army, the border army, and the local army are confused, the official positions, scattered ranks, and honors are confused, and the responsibilities of the military department and the metropolitan governor's office are confused. ”

The confusion between the three made Wei Ban and Min Xing's faces not look good, after all, during Xu Lin's absence, the two of them were the nominal military speakers.

Xiao Yu said thoughtfully: "From today onwards, the battalion and the palm seal officer will be abolished. ”

In fact, after the canonization of the governor of the five armies, the camp system has existed in name only, and now it is just a redivision of each person's belonging, so Xu Lin and the others did not have any surprised looks, just waited for the following.

Xiao Yu continued: "The original Xiliangxing Battalion was assigned to the Left Army and was commanded by Wei Ban. The original Shaanzhou camp was assigned to the right army and was commanded by the Min line. The original Huzhou camp was assigned to the former army and was led by Zhuge Gong. The original Xihexing camp was assigned to the rear army and was led by Han Xiong. The original Shuzhou camp was assigned to the Chinese army and was commanded by Lin Han. ”

"The rest of the border troops that are not in the camp, as well as the ten regiments and three thousand battalions of the prime minister, including the lonely tiger battalion, are all assigned to the forbidden army and are in the hands of the lonely relatives. ”

Xu Lin promised in a deep voice.

Xiao Yu thought for a while and said: "Just now, the Metropolitan Governor said that the official positions were confused, so all loose ranks and honorable officials should be abolished, and only the official positions should be discussed, and the forbidden army and the border army should be under the same system, if anyone has any objections, let him come to the Lone King." ”

Xu Lin promised again.

Xiao Yu turned to look at Lan Yu and Sun Shiwu, "As for the local army, Gu means to follow the example of the northwest and set up a capital command envoy, but it involves the political envoy department, the inspection envoy department, and the general political envoy department, and the cabinet also needs to draw up a charter." ”