Together, it is difficult to suppress the murderous intent.

However, Lao Zhu did not take action directly, to investigate corrupt officials and rectify the matter of the powerful and inferior gentry, it is advisable to do it quickly rather than slowly, and if you want to do it, you must use thunderous means to comprehensively rectify it.

So Lao Zhu relented and asked, "The officials below, how many corrupt people are there?" ”

Cao Huachun was silent for a moment when he heard this question, and then said with a little hesitation: "According to Jinyiwei's tip, the minister inferred...... The officials below are ten officials and nine greedy. ”

"It's just that some officials are less greedy, and some officials are more greedy."

Regarding the situation of the Ming officialdom, Cao Huachun said that the ten officials and nine greed are definitely a bit conservative.

After all, everyone is greedy, as long as you are not greedy, how can this officialdom tolerate it.

Therefore, there are absolutely very few officials who are not greedy for a penny, and those officials who are not greedy are generally divided into two categories.

One is that the background is amazing, and no one dares to move, and the other is that he was directly squeezed out to the poor countryside to be a small sesame official, or more seriously, he didn't even do it.

Hearing Cao Huachun say that ten officials and nine greedy, Chongzhen's face was a little ugly, he didn't doubt Cao Huachun's inference, he just felt that the officials under his rule were almost all corrupt officials, which made him very shocked, and his original good mood disappeared in an instant.

Unlike Chongzhen, Lao Zhu didn't have much reaction, he shook his head slightly and said, "Ten officials and nine greedy, it's normal." ”

For the human nature, Lao Zhu has never had much expectation.

In his view, the way to eradicate corruption among officials is to rely on strict laws to supervise them, not on their self-discipline.

And now the officialdom of Daming has long collapsed, and those officials have a lot of silver as soon as they stretch out their hands, and no one cares about them.

In this case, there are a few people who can resist reaching out.

Lao Zhu closed his eyes and thought for a moment, and then said in a surging voice: "Let Jinyiwei continue to expand, and then go and collect evidence of the corruption of those officials below." ”

"If you are short of money, make a list, and let Wang Chengen allocate it to you from the inner treasury."

"If there is a lack of accountant person, go to the household department to find it yourself, no matter who you want, we will let the household department release people."

"If you lack equipment, you will go to the Ordnance Bureau for approval, and we will give you special approval."

After saying these words, Lao Zhu slowly opened his eyes, looked at Cao Huachun and said, "In short, just one sentence, what you want, we will give you." ”

"It is imperative that Jinyiwei has all the evidence of corruption of those officials in the shortest possible time."

"If this can't be done, let's ask you."

"Minister...... Got it. ”

Cao Huachun paused for a moment, and then responded directly.

With such great support, Lao Zhu is obviously preparing to wait for the time to be ripe and wipe out all the officials.

In this matter, there is no room for him to refuse, either agree to come down, or abdicate to make way for Xian, he has no choice.

Seeing that Cao Huachun agreed, Lao Zhu didn't say much, just asked him to leave and do things.

Now, the net has been cast, just waiting to close the net and give those low-level officials a big change of blood.

At that time, without the protection of officials, the remaining powerful and inferior gentry were just lambs to the slaughter.

For this set of operations, Lao Zhu is very familiar, and the only question now is who to find to arrest those corrupt officials when the time comes.

Lao Zhu silently circled a few candidates in his heart, and then put this in his heart in advance, ready to test their attitude when the time comes, and then make a decision.

"There's not a moment to spare."

After arranging this matter, Lao Zhu had to find a book for Bi Maokang from the simulator, so Lao Zhu sighed silently.

Being an emperor here is much more tiring than he was at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, after all, he still had a good son in the early Ming Dynasty to share government affairs with him, and there were many brave and warlike brothers who could help him conquer the world.

But he is now at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he has nothing, he has to deal with political affairs by himself, and he has to fight the war by himself.

If it weren't for the simulator for him, if he was asked to clean up the mountains and rivers little by little, it is estimated that he would be exhausted to death when he was cleaned up.

"Forget it, finish it early, go back early."

It has been almost half a year since Lao Zhu came to the end of the Ming Dynasty, although it is still the Ming Dynasty, but after all, it is too far away from his time and space, and he has been out for so long, he misses his time a little.

However, Lao Zhu was the founder of the country after all, and his heart was extremely strong, he just sighed for a moment, and then suppressed the thoughts in his heart and began to buy books in the simulator.

Speaking of which, there are still a lot of books on firearms in the Ming Dynasty, and Lao Zhu doesn't know which one is useful, so he directly bought all the famous ones.

For example, Xu Guangqi's "Fire Attack Strategy" and "Gunpowder Making Law", Mao Yuanyi's "Wu Bei Zhi", as well as a series of books on firearms such as "Western Law Divine Machine" and "Fire Attack Essentials" written by Westerners Tang Ruowang and Xu Guangqi.

"The Sword Comes"

In addition, because Xu Guangqi's writings also involved agriculture and mathematics, Lao Zhu simply bought most of Xu Guangqi's works.

When the time comes, the firearms will be given to Bi Maokang, and the non-firearms will be given to Song Yingxing, anyway, there are annotations in these books, and both of them will definitely be able to use them.

It's just that after buying this large pile of books, the simulator actually recommended a book to him for the first time.

[Do you want to buy a detailed history of the first industrial revolution?] 】

[Purchase requirements: Simulation points reach more than 1 million.] 】

[Price: 1000 simulation points.] 】

"What kind of book is this?"

Lao Zhu looked at the book that the simulator took the initiative to recommend, and was a little surprised.

You must know that ordinary books, the price is uniformly 100 point simulator, and this book that I don't know what the content is, can actually be sold for 1000 points, and it is recommended to him by the simulator on its own initiative, and there are even purchase requirements.

Lao Zhu thought about it for a while, anyway, it was only 1000 analog points, which was not expensive at all, so he bought it directly.

Compared with other books, this book is extraordinarily thick, nearly ten centimeters high on the table, and the thickness of one book is worth a dozen other books.

"Isn't it because it's so thick, that's why it's sold so expensive?"

Lao Zhu looked at such a thick book and couldn't help but ridicule in his heart.

It's just that when he opened the table of contents of this book, he was instantly stunned, and when he came back to his senses and looked back, as Lao Zhu read more content, his face became more serious.

After Lao Zhu quickly flipped through the book and read the book for a while, Lao Zhu closed the book and sat in place for a long time.

Looking at Lao Zhu's reaction, Chongzhen was a little puzzled in his heart, he didn't know what kind of book this was, looking at the expression of the great grandfather, it seemed to be extremely shocked.

It was the first time he saw this look on the face of the great grandfather, you must know that since Lao Zhu came to this world, even though he was not very satisfied with the situation of the Ming Dynasty, he didn't pay much attention to it, no matter what he did, he had an attitude of being in control.

But now, there was such a shocked expression on the face of the great grandfather, which couldn't help but make Chongzhen very curious, what was written in this book.

"Grandpa, what is written in this book?"

Lao Zhu's hand pressed on the book, it seemed that even in the heavily guarded palace, Lao Zhu was a little worried that this book would be seen.

After hearing Chongzhen's words at this moment, Lao Zhu came back to his senses.

He slowly took his hand away, then glanced at the detailed history of the first industrial revolution, and then was stunned for a moment before he said with a wry smile: "This is the key to changing the world." ”

Originally, from the annotations of the previous books, Lao Zhu had seen a lot of advanced technology, and it stands to reason that he shouldn't be so shocked.

But the problem is that those annotations are all hammers and mallets, and most of them are evaluations of the content of the book, and there are not many things that are really useful and can be realized immediately.

But this history of the Industrial Revolution is different, the book is extremely detailed, and everything in the book seems to have been written down by someone else.

Lao Zhu can conclude that this book and those books with annotations are definitely not products of the same era.

If everything recorded in this book is true, and it is implemented in full accordance with the content of this book, then Daming's science and technology will definitely usher in a qualitative leap, directly leading the whole world for hundreds of years.

In the same way, if this book is obtained by other forces, then they can also be hundreds of years ahead of the Ming Dynasty.

The gap of hundreds of years is definitely qualitatively crushing, and it can be said unceremoniously that whichever force has this book can become the strongest hegemon in the whole world, there is no one!

"No wonder this book costs a million analog points to buy."

Lao Zhu had a slight realization in his heart, if he could get this thing from the beginning, then no matter what his identity was, he could lead Daming to prosperity with his eyes closed.

And the reason why the threshold of one million points is set is probably because if he can get one million points, Daming is basically on the right track, and even if he has this thing, it is just the icing on the cake, so that he can have a lot of time left.

"It seems that there is not much time left for us."

After thinking about it, Lao Zhu pushed the detailed history of the Industrial Revolution to the side, and then said: "See for yourself." ”

"Oh."

Chongzhen honestly took the book, but after he turned it, a look of fear instantly appeared on his face.

"Grandpa, this ...... This ......"

Chongzhen couldn't say anything in shock, although he was not good at being an emperor, but that didn't mean he was stupid.

He only flipped through a part, and he could already see how much change this thing could bring to Da Ming.

And as an emperor, what I like is stability, not change.

So the changes that this book is about to bring are so big that Chongzhen feels a little frightened, and even in his mind, he has the idea of destroying this thing as soon as possible, as if it had never appeared before.