The blood eucalyptus of the Chu Wangfu shocked the entire Ming Dynasty, and after the emperor learned of this, he was greatly "furious" and directly abolished the position of Zuo Liangyu's prince Shaobao as a punishment.

The officials of Wuchang Mansion said on the surface that they would be dismissed on the spot and would never be used.

But in fact, if Jinyiwei found out the stain, he directly solved it on the spot, and as for the remaining officials, they temporarily took their posts, and after the new officials took office, they were removed from their powers.

It's just that this temporary official, Lao Zhu, was not transferred here at all, so these people were nominally dismissed, but in fact, because of the vacancy of officials in Wuchang Mansion, they have more power and positions, which can be regarded as an alternative kind of open and degraded and secretly promoted.

And the victim of this eucalyptus, the king of Chu, in order to "protect" the bloodline of the king of Chu, Lao Zhu asked Jinyiwei to send all these remaining bloodlines into the city for protection.

As for the wealth of the King of Chu, it was transported to the capital and kept by the royal family.

I have to say that Lao Zhu made a move on the King of Chu this time, and his appearance was ugly, and the excuse was even more crude, and he could be seen through at a glance.

But now that Daming is crazy about lack of money, Lao Zhu still cares what outsiders think of him.

He has great righteousness, and now he still has soldiers in his hands, and some time ago he exempted half of the Ming Dynasty's taxes, and he also made up for the arrears of the feudal towns in various places.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty, the people's heart, and the military heart are all available, and it is no longer the stormy appearance when he first came.

Now that he directly and forcefully moved the King of Chu, he wanted to see who dared to jump out without long eyes and say that he was not.

Anyway, after the war is settled, he will reform the Ming sooner or later, and now he will jump out and destroy them directly, and he will deal with them again in the future.

In the entire Chu Palace, there are about two million taels of gold and silver copied out, all kinds of rare treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and as for the land deeds, there are countless more.

When they saw these riches, Pei Lun and Ding Xiuren were a little stupid, they thought that the King of Chu would be rich, but they didn't expect it to be so rich.

In the face of such huge wealth, even Jinyiwei was a little unable to control it, and Jinyiwei, who did not have any losses when he fought with Ma Shixiu, because he had a private heart in the face of these wealth, was finally cut down by Ding Xiu more than 200 people, so as to stop the greed in their hearts.

In the end, this wealth was divided into three, of which 500,000 taels were allocated to the governor Hou Sui, so that he could serve as a military salary for Zuo Liangyu's department.

Then he took out another 500,000 taels, and left it with the land deed copied from the palace of the king of Chu to the governor of Huguang to resettle the victims.

"This star really wants to retire"

In the end, the remaining more than one million taels, in order to facilitate transportation, most of the remaining ones were some gold jewelry with higher value and smaller footprint, and then Wang Guoxing personally brought 10,000 elite soldiers from the capital to escort them back to the capital.

In short, the fall of the king of Chu not only greatly alleviated the financial crisis of the imperial court, but also directly calmed the disaster in Huguang.

Because of the fertile land of the King of Chu, coupled with the tax exemption policy promulgated by Lao Zhu for one year and the local relief, the chaos in Huguang, which was originally full of victims, gradually subsided, and under the governance of local subordinate officials, the people's livelihood has even begun to be restored.

After all, after natural disasters and wars, the population of Huguang has been greatly reduced, with the land of the king of Chu, plus the 500,000 taels of relief silver left by the imperial court, the people of Huguang are not rich, but at least they can barely survive.

After solving the King of Chu, Ding Xiu and the others did not return to Beijing, but took Jinyiwei and went directly to Sichuan secretly.

With the cooperation of Long Wenguang, the governor of Sichuan, he directly took down Zhu Zhishu (shu), the king of Shu, confiscated his home, and then sent directly to the capital for confinement.

And the wealth in Zhu Zhishu's mansion is only a lot more than that of Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu.

However, because Sichuan has been plagued by disasters for many years, and this is the hardest hit area by soldiers, the nearly three million taels of silver copied from Zhu Zhishu's mansion were not transported to the capital again, but were also divided into three, and all of them were left in Shu.

One million taels of them were directly sealed, as the treasury silver of Shudi, and could not be moved.

The remaining more than one million taels were given to Qin Yiming, the Sichuan general soldier who was re-promoted by Lao Zhu, to retrain the army to quell the troubles.

Qin Yiming is one of the good generals in the late Ming Dynasty and has outstanding combat ability, but he is most famous not for his ability to fight, but for being Qin Liangyu's nephew.

As the only heroine in history who can be recorded in the official history as a woman, Qin Liangyu's ability is absolutely undoubted.

Although she is now 68 years old, she has fought countless battles in her life, and she has single-handedly trained the white pole soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

Now that she is watching, the trained recruits must not be much worse in combat power.

After Ding Xiu and Pei Lun solved the King of Shu, they dealt with the next vassal king non-stop.

Although because of the lessons of King Chu and King Xiang, the rest of the vassal kings were a little wary, but dealing with them was Lao Zhu's meaning, even if they were on guard, what could they do?

Unless they dare to rebel directly, they will either hand over all their land and wealth and become an idle prince.

Or, he was directly killed by Jinyiwei, and then sent his bloodline to the capital for "protection".

In the past few months, Ding Xiu and Pei Lun have hardly been idle, and after destroying the vassal king, the gold and silver were almost transported to the capital one by one, and they never stopped at all.

And the gold and silver copied from the palace are much faster than the money from taxes, but in just a few months, the originally poor Ming Dynasty, the treasury has become full, and the wealth in the treasury is even comparable to the prosperous era.

Chongzhen in the palace almost blew himself up when he learned that he had copied so much silver from the homes of these vassal kings, and he worked hard to get money everywhere, but he didn't get much money to make people angry.

As a result, these vassal kings were so rich that they scolded Chongzhen angrily in the palace.

If it weren't for the last accidental scolding on Lao Zhu's head, so that Lao Zhu, who was already angry, caught him and beat him fatly, it is estimated that he would be able to scold for a day.

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And when Ding Xiu was searching for the wealth of the vassal king, Lao Zhu was not idle.

Because Daming's finances are rich, Lao Zhu has also begun to do things in a big way.

The content on the annotation of Tiangong Kaiwu, as long as he felt that it was useful to Daming, he began to instigate Song Yingxing to tinker, anyway, there is Daming's financial support, and if he makes a mistake, he will be supported by Daming, and it will be a great achievement.

On the contrary, just as there are many disasters today, the last thing Daming lacks is the homeless people who have nothing to do.

So Lao Zhu, who is very fond of these things, keeps recruiting people from the Ordnance Bureau, at first he still only needs craftsmen, but later because he has more things to do, he simply accepts as long as he is a craftsman, even if he is a mason, or even a craftsman, as long as he is strong.

Anyway, there is no shortage of money for the invention now, and he wants as many people as he comes.

And this led to the expansion of the scope of the Ordnance Bureau, and even in the end, it directly became an independent department.

But Lao Zhu didn't care at all, but had the intention of continuing to expand the Ordnance Bureau.

The reason why he did this is not only because the annotations on Tiangong Kaiwu are about technology, but also about the future.

What's more, Song Yingxing really made good things according to the above experiments.

First of all, the flintlock pistol that can be mass-produced, in addition to supplying a batch to Jinyiwei, the rest has begun to be equipped in large quantities in Beijing.

Compared with the arquebus, the flintlock pistol not only saves a lot of time required to ignite the arquebus, but more importantly, as long as a little protection, then the flintlock pistol can achieve the effect of waterproof, although it is not completely waterproof, but compared to the arquebus that is discarded when it encounters water, the flintlock pistol can be fired in heavy rain as long as it is properly protected.

When the two sides are fighting, one side can use muskets and the other side can't, even if the one that can use can only fire one shot, for the army, this is definitely enough to kill the advantage.

In addition to firearms, in terms of people's livelihood, Song Yingxing also figured out what so-called local steelmaking according to the annotations, which made the quality of steel extremely high.

Among the many things that Song Yingxing came up with, the one that surprised Lao Zhu the most was the cement.

This thing is used to build bridges and pave roads, it is simply an artifact, and when Lao Zhu saw the effect of this thing, he instantly thought of a hundred uses of this thing.

After knowing that the cost of this thing was low, Lao Zhu directly asked the Ordnance Bureau to hand over the formula of cement to the Ministry of Industry, and then asked the Ordnance Bureau to continue to develop and build weapons, while the Ministry of Industry made cement in large quantities.

Originally, because of the lack of money, many projects in the Ming Dynasty were stalled, but now that he has money, Lao Zhu also feels that there is no urgent need to build fortifications.

Now after the cement thing is out, Lao Zhu instantly found what to do, that is, to build roads, and build roads on a large scale in the territory of Daming.

Now there are many displaced people, and there is not much land to settle them for a while, so they can just use work for relief to build roads.

Anyway, Daming is not short of money now, if it is just relief, Daming's finance spends so much money in vain, not to mention, let these people be idle, and it is easy to cause trouble, so simply let them build roads.

Although it is easy to have accidents when such a large project is carried out during the war, those accidents are because they are forced laborers, not only do they not give money, but they also have to let the people bring their own food to work, and it is strange if there is no accident.

But he is working for relief, which can be regarded as recruiting workers, and finding something to do for these people who have been homeless due to the disaster, the two are fundamentally different things, and there will be no problems at all.

Of course, the premise is that the officials in charge of this matter will not be greedy for ink, otherwise the people will not be paid and will not have enough to eat.

When the time comes, the cash-for-work will be the same as forced labor, and the people will definitely still have to make trouble.

Therefore, the official in charge of this matter not only had to pick out an honest and fair one, but also sent a large number of brocade guards to supervise in secret.

Otherwise, this originally win-win good thing is likely to become the origin of the disaster, this kind of thing Lao Zhu has seen too much, so we must be cautious.