As for the businessmen who were going to be cleaned up by the East Factory, Lao Zhu didn't take it to heart.

In the eyes of those in power, businessmen were just fat sheep raised in captivity.

It doesn't matter if the court is not short of money, once the court is short of money, the first object to move is often them.

After all, businessmen are not allowed to engage in politics, they have no power in their hands, and those in power do not pinch them as much as they want.

Nowadays, although those businessmen have befriended and bought a large number of officials, for Lao Zhu, this is nothing at all.

As long as Jinyiwei verifies it, from top to bottom, first clear their protective umbrella, and then kill these businessmen easily, they don't even have the ability to resist at all.

After a few good days, I don't know what my surname is, reselling prohibited materials, and even fornicating with slaves, do you really think that the court can't help them?

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Cao Huachun was not surprised when he heard Lao Zhu say this, but cautiously asked, "Your Majesty, what charges should those businessmen who fornicated with slaves be dealt with?" ”

"What to do with ......"

Lao Zhu didn't think about it, and said in a somewhat abrupt tone: "Fornication with slaves, treason and surrender to the enemy, punish the nine clans." ”

The Ming Dynasty spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build the Great Wall, and it was not just to defend against foreigners.

In addition to the castles built at the critical passes, there are many simple walls on the Great Wall that are no more than three meters high and made of mud, which can be chiseled apart with a little effort.

And these walls are different from those cities, these simple and low walls are not used to defend against foreign invasions, but to block the foreign economy.

Whether it was the Mongols before them, or the later Warat and the current Jiannu, they were all nomadic peoples.

As nomads, salt and iron are their scarce resources and necessities.

These materials are definitely not enough on their own, so they want to obtain them in large quantities, and without fighting, their only way is to buy them through the mutual market in Daming Border Town.

Therefore, the Ming can be said to have a firm grip on their economic lifeline, and when the Ming is unhappy, they can sanction these tribes on the grassland at any time by closing the mutual market.

In the case of the Great Wall, once the Ming Dynasty closed the mutual market, even if those grassland tribes wanted to dig the Great Wall and secretly smuggle, they could be discovered by the Ming soldiers who patrolled regularly, so it was said that their trade routes could be completely blocked.

At that time, before Jiannu rose, he didn't have the strength to argue with Daming at all, and it can be said that just dragging them to death.

But it was precisely because of these unscrupulous businessmen, for the sake of profit, that they bribed the guards of the border town and smuggled countless materials to Jiannu, which allowed Jiannu to survive the famine and have a chance to rise.

It can be said that these businessmen will definitely have to pay a lot of responsibility for the rise of Jiannu, not to mention that they directly fornicated with Jiannu and betrayed Daming.

Da Ming lost so many soldiers and died so many soldiers for this, Lao Zhu felt that it was not an exaggeration to punish the nine clans of these merchants.

It takes time to get from Jizhou to Shanxi, so Lao Zhu has not been in a hurry to do it in the past few days, but has stayed in Jizhou, giving people the feeling that he wants to stay in Jizhou and defend Jizhou City.

After the next batch of supplies from the imperial court arrived, Lao Zhu allocated 100 artillery pieces to Zhou Yuji, and gathered the soldiers to mobilize morale, and then asked Zhou Yuji to drive directly to the mouth of the Jieling.

In order to worry about startling the snake, Lao Zhu calmed down, calculated the time, and when Zhou Yuji was almost at the mouth of the Jieling, he suddenly arrested some officials in Jizhou directly with the momentum of thunder.

Zhao Guangluan, the new governor, didn't know what was going on at all, after receiving the news of Dongchang's arrest, he was stunned for a moment, and then without the slightest hesitation, he came directly to Lao Zhu to inquire about the situation.

"Minister Zhao Guangluan, I have seen Your Majesty."

Zhao Guangluan first saluted Lao Zhu, and after Lao Zhu asked him to get up, he asked directly to the point: "Your Majesty, ...... minister"

"It's for the officials who have been arrested, right?"

Lao Zhu didn't wait for Zhao Guanglu to finish speaking, he directly interrupted his words and threw him a few copies, "Let's watch this first, after reading it, you will know why you arrested them." ”

"Yes."

Zhao Guangluan looked at Lao Zhu's expression was a little wrong, knowing that something must have happened, so he didn't dare to say much at the moment, and directly took over a few copies of Lao Zhu's throwback.

This memo was sent by Dongchang, and it was written with evidence of the officials' dealings with the merchants, including evidence that they received bribes, and what they did for the merchants after receiving the money.

Even on the fold, the family property of these officials is clearly written.

After Zhao Guanglan read it, the whole person couldn't help but be shocked, on the one hand, he was shocked by the details of Dongchang's intelligence, and on the other hand, he was shocked by the greed of these officials.

He Zhao Guangluan was born in a famous family, and he has been a wealthy family for generations, and he has accumulated a lot of wealth over the years, and he can be regarded as quite wealthy.

When he came to Jizhou to take office, because Jizhou lacked soldiers and salaries, and the location of Jizhou was extremely important, before taking office, he sold almost all his land and mansions, and in the end he only scraped together 10,000 taels of silver.

But according to the situation written on this note, those officials who have received bribes from businessmen can reach 3,000 taels with a single bribe, and their family wealth can easily reach hundreds of thousands of taels, which is simply shocking.

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, is there any evidence for this? ”

Although Zhao Guangluan's face was a little incredulous, he knew in his heart that this matter was eighty percent right, so he couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart, the officials were corrupt to this point, no wonder Daming would fall into such a situation.

With these silverfish, even if they, the officials who do practical things, take out all their family resources to supplement the court, they can't compare to their corruption.

"Dongchang has already handed the fold here, how can there be no evidence."

Moving officials is different from moving businessmen, and if you want to move officials, even Dongchang must have evidence.

Well, even if this evidence is fabricated, it must be there.

Of course, the evidence this time was not fabricated by Dongchang, the people of Jinyiwei had already stared at Jizhou, and spent a lot of silver taels in Jizhou, so most of these evidences, except for those infiltrated, were bought by them with real money.

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After all, there is something good at the top, and there is an effect at the bottom.

They are greedy for money, and their subordinates are naturally greedy, so it is not difficult to get evidence under coercion and temptation.

Lao Zhu looked at Zhao Guangluan, and then said, "In addition to these officials, there are some businessmen to arrest. ”

"We originally planned to let Jinyi Wei arrest people, but now that you're here, I'll leave it to you."