"Who else knows about these things......"

"Only His Royal Highness, the Fu Set of Scripture and Sun Chuanting, the Chief Soldier Cao Wenzhao, and the ministers know."

On the second day of the second month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, when a box full of smuggling records was placed in front of Zhu Youxiao, his face could be said to be gloomy and dripping.

Lu Wenzhao, who was kneeling in the Heart Cultivation Palace, also kept beating drums in his heart, and Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on the couch, had a cloudy and uncertain expression.

He had only seen a small part of the book, but it was enough to make his face so ugly.

Since he was told by Zhu Youzhen that the Son of Heaven should not be angry on the night of his succession to the throne, he has only seen a handful of ugly faces.

But for now, if he can even hold back his expression in the face of this kind of thing, then he is not Zhu Youxiao, but Zhu Yuanzhang......

"This matter ......" After taking a deep breath to calm down, Zhu Youxiao's eyes flashed, as if he was thinking about what to do.

It's not that he's indecisive, but that there are too many people involved in this box.

From the seventh year of Longqing to the forty-first year of Wanli, the record of forty-one and a half years involves not only the so-called ten masters of the Jin Dynasty, but also a large number of officials who served in Shanxi and Shaanxi in the past forty-one and a half years.

Among them, some are already important ministers in Beijing, some have returned home from begging, and some have died......

And this is only the tip of the iceberg, the number of civil and military officials involved in the entire box is no less than 1,000.

This is only the officials with names and surnames, and in addition to the officials, there are also the officials who participated.

More than 1,000 officials are involved in smuggling, which accounts for 1 percent of the Ming officialdom.

If you add the officials and the families of the officials, I am afraid that no less than 100,000 people will be implicated.

100,000 people...... What is this concept?

Even in the three major Hongwu cases at the beginning, the total number of people involved was only 50,000 or 60,000 people.

Among these 50,000 or 60,000 people, there are only more than 1,000 officials, but most of them started to be corrupt as officials during the Yuan Dynasty.

The three major cases can be said to purge the forces of the previous dynasty and the nobles of the current dynasty, and deter the civil servants of the current dynasty.

But now Zhu Youxiao has to face a different situation, these thousands of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and nearly 100,000 dependents are poisonous insects raised by the Ming Dynasty.

They lay on Da Ming's back to suck blood, sucking away three entire generations of emperors, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Among these thousands of officials, even if only one-third of them are officials in the DPRK and China, the forces involved are still not to be underestimated.

Zhu Youxiao must want a means and method to stabilize the parties in order to justifiably attack this group of people......

"Among the Yanshan students, how many students are in the first batch and have reached the age of twenty?"

Zhu Youxiao asked Lu Wenzhao, but his eyes kept looking at the box placed aside.

"About ...... More than 2,000 people ......"

Lu Wenzhao groaned and said the number of students who had reached the age of twenty, but Zhu Youxiao did not give any orders after hearing it, but seemed to be in a daze.

At this moment, in the entire Heart Cultivation Palace, only Lu Wenzhao and Zhu Youxiao, Wei Zhongxian and others were driven out.

They stood at the gate of the Qianqing Palace in big furs, holding small hand warmers in their hands, looking at the red walls and white snow glazed tiles, each of them calculating.

In terms of power, among the five major eunuchs at this moment, the most powerful is undoubtedly Wei Zhongxian.

His eunuch Wen Chen accounted for two-fifths of the number of Chinese officials in the dynasty, while Donglin alone accounted for one-fifth, the Qi Wang Party alone accounted for one-fifth, and the non-party and small parties accounted for one-fifth.

In other words, in the court, his words are more important, and in the current situation of the neutrality of the Qi Wang Party, he can be said to be chasing after Donglin.

Since the Lantern Festival, in just half a month, Donglin has been framed and framed by him one after another, causing dozens of people to flee, and most of them are Beijing officials.

Now in Donglin, there are only a few hundred people left in the court, and as long as the crackdown continues, the power of the eunuch party will ......

Thinking of this, Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but feel a little fluttery, and he also took the opportunity to take a look at Wang Chengen, Cao Huachun and Liu Ruoyu.

The number of the five eunuchs was a bit too much, and Wei Zhongxian always felt that it was time to change, but he was a little afraid of Zhu Youzhen, and he was undecided for a while.

Naturally, his ill-intentioned eyes were clearly seen by Cao Huachun.

There is a reason why Zhu Youzhen likes to keep Cao Huachun in the capital, Cao Huachun has more eyes and means than Wang Chengen, and the inner court is so deceitful, as long as he has support, he is like a fish in water.

Glancing at Wei Zhongxian's eyes, Cao Huachun sneered in his heart.

In his opinion, Wei Zhongxian is just a dog that can be abandoned at will, either abandoned by the eunuchs or abandoned by the emperor.

Compared with him, Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen are more important.

Cao Huachun is in charge of the imperial store and Wang Chengen is in charge of the officialdom, and the importance of these two places is greater than that of the household processing department.

Wei Zhongxian needs to be pulled up and held down, and if the two of them want to talk about real power, it is enough for Zhu Youzhen to pull them, no matter how the people below are, it has nothing to do with them.

The five eunuchs actually have to be subdivided, that is, three factions.

Wei Zhongxian, Wang Tiqian's faction, Cao Huachun's faction, Wang Chengen's faction, and Liu Ruoyu's impartiality, he is like a mediator arranged by Zhu Youxiao between the two sides.

This is also the reason why as Wei Zhongxian's ambitions became bigger and bigger, Cao Huachun did not take action to clean him up.

The first is that it is unnecessary, and the second is that he doesn't want the emperor to think that he can be arrogant with the support of the king of Qi.

Although Wei Zhongxian can be abandoned at any time, he is the emperor's person after all, and he Cao Huachun ......

Thinking of this, Cao Huachun glanced at the Qianqing Palace, and in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao, who had been muttering for a long time, finally opened his mouth:

"Wait for my brother to come back, didn't he say when he would come back?"

"Your Highness said that you are going to go to Jiayuguan first, and then inspect the entire Hexi from Jiayuguan to the east, and by the way, check the Yellow Book of Hexi, and then see which places can be reclaimed."

Lu Wenzhao answered Zhu Youxiao's question honestly, and Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly when he heard this.

At present, he urgently needs his younger brother to return to Beijing to help with ideas, and he is not sure whether the ability of Yanshan students is enough to act as a grassroots official.

If it is sufficient, then it is natural to raise the number of officials in the DPRK and the central government to make up for it.

It not only gives Yanshan students the best training position in officialdom, but also gives some non-party and small party officials a way to rise.

With a small party in power, it will naturally go to compare with the five parties of Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun, and Kunming, and then the so-called eunuch party will not need to exist.

As for Donglin and Zhu Youxiao, they never wanted to completely exterminate them, but they ......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao looked down at the notes on the dragon case.

What is written on these notes is all the words of the capable ministers in Donglin.

Zhao Nanxing, Yuan Keli, Sun Chengzong, Zuo Guangdou, Li Tengfang, Chen Yuting, Wei Dazhong, Yuan Huazhong, Zheng Sanjun, Li Banghua, Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua......

Looking at this remark from Nengchen, Zhu Youxiao also felt a headache.

He can directly approve the resignation of those Donglin officials who are inactive, but he can't approve this group of people as well.

As for why they resigned, the reason Zhu Youxiao also understood that the eunuchs had gone too far, and Wei Zhongxian had gone too far.

In less than half a year after the eunuch party raised its head, Donglin was made from a scale of hundreds of people to more than 100 people, on the other hand, although the eunuch party was also taken down, but after all, they were numerous and looked harmless.

"We have to give Donglin a balanced disposal ......"

Zhu Youxiao muttered to himself in his heart, then glanced at the box next to him, thinking that this was a good handle.

However, if this handle is used, the resulting shortage of officials will become a problem.

There is no need for newcomers, and it will be party officials who will be re-instated, so the problem has come back.

Can Yanshan students use it?

"Send someone to send a message to my brother, and be sure to return to the capital before October."

"Commandment."

After calculating the graduation time of the first batch of Yanshan students, Zhu Youxiao ordered Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao should also give it.

However, after responding, Zhu Youxiao also asked about Nanyang:

"Haven't the many princely states of the South Seas been cleaned up?"

"Long live, there is a miasma in the dense forests of the South Seas, and although some small countries look small, their population and national strength are not weak." Lu Wenzhao explained the situation in Nanyang to Zhu Youxiao:

"Aceh and several other small countries in Sumatra have a million people and 50,000 armor."

"On the island of Java, there are no less than a million natives, and other large and small countries have a population of one million and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses."

"The situation in Nanyang is more complicated than His Highness thought, so it is not easy to encircle and suppress these small countries and princely states that do not obey the king."

"Five days ago, Governor Huang Long Zeng went to Shu, and I Ming joined forces with Siam and Gan Pozhi to take the Malacca Peninsula north of Sumatra."

"Although the island of Sumatra in the south is also under control, the remnants of Aceh are hiding in the dense forest, and our army is still encircling and suppressing them."

"As for the land of Java, at the moment the army is only holding Batavia, not eastward."

When Lu Wenzhao said this, he was afraid that the emperor would think that the cost of fighting Nanyang was too great, so he also said some good aspects:

"The good news, though, is that there is more arable land in Sumatra and Malacca than we thought."

"There are more than 3 million mu of arable land in Sumatra and more than 1 million mu in Malacca, totaling more than 4 million mu."

"According to estimates, there should be no less than 2 million mu above Java, plus Polo and Luzon, and there should be no less than 10 million mu of cultivated land that has been developed in Nanyang."

"Are there really so many?" Hearing Lu Wenzhao's words, Zhu Youxiao paused and looked at Lu Wenzhao suspiciously.

"There are indeed so many, since I brought farming technology to the south during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and now more than 200 years have passed, and it is not surprising that it has been cultivated like this."

Lu Wenzhao replied honestly, and at the same time said:

"It's just that because of the war, the natives of Sumatra and Malacca suffered heavy losses, and the soldiers and horses of Siam and Gan Badz were corrupted, and more than ten cities were wantonly slaughtered."

"More than a million people were killed in Johor, Aceh and many other princely states......"

Lu Wenzhao's words made Zhu Youxiao look at him meaningfully, and then asked:

"What about the capture of Huanglong......

"About ......" Lu Wenzhao also knew that some things were useless no matter how vague they were, so he could only respond:

"More than 234,000 taels of gold, more than 4,797,000 taels of silver, and 72 boxes of rare treasures were seized."

"In addition, in the places that have been laid, there are nearly 5 million acres of cultivated land in the terra nullius, and Shen Tingyang's political envoy hopes to increase the relocation of the people from Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili."

"Please long live the land endowments of the six southern provinces this year according to the grain income, and transfer them to the old port political envoys, so as to open up the South Seas."

The series of seizures made Zhu Youxiao stunned, he never thought that he could get so many things by fighting Nanyang.

In particular, if an ownerless cultivated land of more than 5 million mu is resumed, the taxes collected will be enough to feed 40,000 soldiers and horses.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao no longer mentioned the question just now, but picked up a note and pretended to say:

"This matter, let Huang Long do it himself, Gan Pozhi and Siam are my Ming vassals after all, and sometimes it is not good to be known by the courtiers if they do too much."

"Jin Yiwei also blocked the news tightly, so as not to lose the face of Siam and Gan Xiaozhi."

"The minister is clear." Lu Wenzhao responded, and Zhu Youxiao also continued:

"Let Huanglong increase the development of the South Seas, and the local natives can also use Wang Hua to teach."

"Yes!" Zhu Youxiao's "benevolent" appearance made Lu Wenzhao beat the drum in his heart, and when he was playing the drum, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said:

"Didn't my brother say anything in this land of the South Seas?"

"His Royal Highness said that the division after the Nanyang was laid has been decided, and the drawings are placed in the Qingong Palace, and the ministers will also bring it." After that, Lu Wenzhao took out the drawings in his sleeve and presented them with both hands.

Zhu Youxiao took it unhurriedly, opened it and looked at it, and nodded with great satisfaction.

In general, all the lands of the South Seas are under the jurisdiction of the Old Port Cheng Xuan Administration, Luzon is Luzon, Sumatra is the Old Port Province, Malacca is Palembang Province to the north, and Java is Nanhai Province.

As for the islands of Poro, Guinea and Sulawese, they are divided into Nakayama, Dongsan, and Sansan.

That is to say, the old port Cheng declared that the government department had jurisdiction over the land of the seven prefectures, and Zhu Youxiao also saw Oceania in the south of Dongshan Mansion.

The place was marked by Zhu Youzhen as a land to be developed, and some notes were also written.

[Its land is tens of thousands of miles, seventy percent of the drought cannot be cultivated, the desert is raging, and the arable and livable land is scarce, when the South Sea is reclaimed, and then slowly the ......]

Zhu Youzhen's remarks made Zhu Youzhen's interest in this place drop to a low point, after all, even Zhu Youzhen said so, which can only show that the national strength of the Ming Dynasty cannot develop this place for the time being, and it needs to wait until the South Seas are lush to slowly figure it out.

"Ten copies of this painting were copied and sent to the Sixth Ministry and the Cabinet, as well as to Shen Tingyang."

"The division of the old port is enough according to the plan of this drawing."

"As for the land west of the river, it is also according to the arrangement of my younger brother, Mei Zhihuan is the political envoy, and the Hetao is directly under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi."

"Yes......" Lu Wenzhao responded, and cautiously stepped forward to take the painting, and Zhu Youxiao also continued to instruct:

"As long as the people of Jiangxi, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces are willing to relocate, then local officials must not stop it."

"It's just that the yellow book of the old port, let Shen Tingyang do a little better."

"By the way, tell Huang Long to send the gold and rare treasures to the interior, and the silver will be handed over to Shen Tingyang."

"No matter how they spend this money, in short, they will stabilize Nanyang for me in the shortest time."

"The minister's decree ......" Lu Wenzhao returned the salute, while Zhu Youxiao waved his hand to signal that he could retreat.

"The minister retired ......"

Lu Wenzhao returned the salute and stepped back, but when he walked out of the gate of the Qianqing Palace, he nodded with Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen, and only left after saying hello.

With him leaving, the five eunuchs also re-entered the heart cultivation hall of the Qianqing Palace.

After they entered the Heart Cultivation Palace, Zhu Youxiao had already done it himself and put the box of books under the couch.

So when they saw Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao patted the ashes on his hands and explained to them:

"Spread the word to the world, the resumption of the great victory, the celebrant drafted the holy decree, and promoted the resumption of the set of scriptures and the passage of Sun Chuanting to the military department."

"Let the merits of the rest of the people be given false titles and loose ranks by the cabinet according to the previous officials."

Zhu Youxiao did not interfere too much in the merits of all the generals in the First World War, mainly to transfer Sun Chuanting to the capital.

This time, Zhu Youxiao only felt that he lacked some people around him to talk about military affairs, and it happened that Sun Chuanting's current exploits were embarrassing in the northwest, so it was better to transfer him back to Beijing.

"Slave maid to receive the decree ......" Cao Huachun and Wei Zhongxian and others responded, and then ordered someone to draft the decree and issue it.

Half an hour later, when this holy decree was delivered to the cabinet, Ye Xianggao couldn't help but be surprised: "It's over? ”

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi broke the fire and fell on the Heichuan Beach, the resumption has ended, the will of Long Live is here, Hexi has a province, and Shaanxi directly governs the Hetao."

The eunuch of the celebrant replied to Ye Xianggao respectfully, and the content of his words made the other ministers sitting in the cabinet fidget.

After the battle, does that mean that the king of Qi is going back to Beijing?

If King Qi returns to Beijing, I am afraid that the situation in the capital will change again......

Wei Guangwei and the others looked a little unsightly, while Ye Xianggao exhaled a long breath.

"I'm finally coming back...... If you come back, the old man will be able to beg for a rest. ”

Ye Xianggao sighed in his heart, and what he was thinking about was to beg for resignation.

Next to Ye Xianggao, Zuo Guangdou also looked at him after hearing the other party's long breath.

Ye Xianggao's thoughts, in fact, most of the ministers knew.

If he begs for a leave, then the position of the first assistant to the cabinet may cause a series of deceit.

The current capital is like a powder keg, and everything is pressing.

It's not that Ye Xianggao doesn't want to deal with it, it's just that the plan he handled doesn't meet the plan that Zhu Youxiao wants.

Ye Xianggao also knew that in some things, Zhu Youzhen's words were better than his, so he could only keep this powder keg for Zhu Youzhen to find a way to clean it up.

This is not to say that he wants to harm Zhu Youzhen, but this powder keg, with his ability, is indeed impossible to solve.

It's just that Ye Xianggao didn't know that Zhu Youzhen not only didn't come back for a short time, but also asked people to send a bigger powder keg to the capital.

If he knew, I'm afraid he would have to go up and down again and ask for his resignation.

"Let the world declare the matter to the world, and let the people be happy and happy......"

After being silent for a long time, Ye Xianggao chose not to vote, and directly agreed to the holy decree as the first assistant of the cabinet, wanting the world to feel the joy of the great victory.

Other cabinet members didn't dare to say anything about his approach, after all, this holy decree was related to Zhu Youzhen.

The silence of the ministers made Ye Xianggao take a special glance.

Judging from the attitude of the hundred officials, compared with the situation at the beginning when a group of party leaders such as Fang Congzhe, Sun Ruyou, Zhu Guozuo, and Shen Yan opposed and impeached, the current party officials are somewhat cowardly.

Such cowardice is not a good thing, because it represents a lack of party cohesion.

If party cohesion is insufficient, there may be a situation in which one person is in two boats and flatters the two parties.

In other words, the crackdown on the party cannot be targeted as it was in previous years.

"Forget it, let's leave it to King Qi to solve it himself......"

Glancing at the complicated situation, Ye Xianggao didn't want to think about it anymore, because if he thought about it for a second more now, he felt a headache.

Without the opposition of the hundred officials, the eunuch of the celebrant took the holy decree agreed by the cabinet and the six departments to the Ministry of Rites and chose to announce it to the world.

Soon, a horse and a fast horse sent the news to the Ming Dynasty, the two capitals and sixteen provinces, except for the old port is too far away, most of the provinces have received the news of the victory of the sweep in about ten days.

For a time, the whole country celebrated, and the people lived more comfortably because they had no burden of salary.

In the words of later generations, it was the news of a great victory, which successfully promoted the consumer economy of the two capitals and 15 provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, some people are happy and some are sad, and when some people hear this information, they are not only unhappy, but their faces are very ugly.

This kind of person is nothing more than Fang Congzhe, Sun Ruyou, Zhu Guozuo, Shen Yun, Qi Shijiao and others who are waiting for a comeback opportunity after going into the wilderness.

However, compared to their unhappiness, in a team that was escorted to Dali, Yunnan, the old man who learned the news of the victory of the sweep set laughed loudly.

"Good, good...... I knew it would work, and now I'll see how you're going to move the people. ”

Holding the notice, Yang Lian, who was sitting in the prison car, smiled, and was not uncomfortable because he was sitting in the prison car.

But when he said this, a brocade guard rode forward on a fast horse, came to him and said:

"You've become an outsider, Your Highness and Banzai are probably having a headache now."

The person who spoke was Lu Xiu, who was also transferred to Yunnan by Zhu Youzhen, and went with him, along with Shen Lian and Lu Xian.

As Zhu Youzhen's earliest team in Jinyiwei, the three of them were sent to Yunnan at the same time, obviously not just to protect Yang Lian on the road.

Yang Lian also understood the truth, so he put down the notice, leaned on the prisoner car and said to Lu Xiu:

"His Royal Highness and Long Live don't have a headache anymore has nothing to do with the old man, the old man is now a white body, and after going to Dali, he will cultivate the land and grow vegetables, and be an ordinary person."

"Compared with the affairs of the DPRK and China, the old man is more concerned about what the three of you are doing in Yunnan?"

"Don't start any war, so that the old man can't even eat rice......"

Yang Lian had something to say, and Lu Xian, who was behind, shouted: "Yang Du, please rest assured, even if the three of us have no food, you won't have nothing to eat." ”

"That's not sure, if you lose the battle, I'm afraid the old man will not only have nothing to eat, but will also be implicated."

Yang Lian grabbed his head that hadn't been washed for a few days in response, and Lu Xiu didn't say anything when he saw this, just subconsciously held the handle of his knife, and said:

"It's not enough to fight, but it's not necessary to find out the news."

"The news is not complete, how can His Highness use troops against Donghu and Annan......"

(End of chapter)