"The things in Weibei have gone a little too far......"

"Slaves are guilty......"

In the inner court and the imperial garden pavilion, when Zhu Youxiao's voice sounded, the Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian knelt down one after another.

Regarding their actions, Zhu Youxiao unhurriedly picked up the teacup and took a sip of tribute tea, and then said:

"From now on, remove Wei Liangqing and Hou Guoguang from all official positions, and return home."

"Long live Ron! Long live Thanks! ”

When the Ke family and Wei Zhongxian heard about the disposal, they began to thank them again and again, and kept making excuses.

Zhu Youxiao did this, which is equivalent to protecting the two in disguise, although after being removed from their official positions, their henchmen will definitely be liquidated, but Zhu Youzhen is no longer easy to track down the two.

As long as the lives of the two are saved, everything else can be retrieved from other places.

Wei Zhongxian and Ke Shi, who thought of this, just breathed a sigh of relief, but heard footsteps behind them, and then saw Zhang Yan pass the two of them and said to Zhu Youxiao in front of the pavilion:

"Hooray......

"What's the matter with the orb?" Seeing Zhang Yan coming, although the sweet period of newlyweds has passed and there have been many new loves, Zhang Yan is the queen after all, Zhu Youxiao still asked in a good voice.

"Long live, if the rest of the accomplices in the Weibei case are indulged, how will the people of the world view the imperial court?"

"You often say to your concubines that you want to get close to the King of Qi, everything the King of Qi does is for the court and the Zhu family, but now you stand up to shield the accomplices, if this matter is known to the King of Qi, I am afraid that you will be disappointed a lot."

No one thought that Zhang Yan, who had always been a little estranged from Zhu Youzhen, would come to persuade Zhu Youxiao at such a time.

Regarding Zhang Yan's words, Zhu Youxiao's expression froze slightly, and then he frowned and said:

"The inner court is not allowed to interfere in politics, you have overstepped."

"The concubine is not to interfere in politics, but I just want to tell you that being close to a virtuous minister and staying away from the minor is what a wise king should do." Zhang Yan was very eloquent, and without waiting for Zhu Youxiao to speak, she added:

"The people are saying that the current is the rule of the apocalypse, the prosperity of the apocalypse, but long live your apocalypse is happening under the prosperity of the apocalypse."

"During the Wanli period of Emperor Shenzongxian, the people also called it Wanli New Style, Longwan Prosperous Era, but as a result, Emperor Shenzongxian abandoned the government, favored the traitors, and forced the people to change from praise to verbal criticism of the court."

"Such a recent example is placed in front of Banzai, doesn't Banzai understand?"

Zhang Yan's questioning made Zhu Youxiao's expression a little ugly, but she continued:

"The concubine thought, Banzai is clear and knows, and the reason why Banzai knowingly committed it is that she thinks that you can cover up this matter so that the people will not know."

"But long live, don't forget, the hundreds of officials above the court, as well as the living officials, are staring at Banzai, if you connive at the accomplices, they will be lucky, and the history books will also record a story of your connivance with the eunuch villain."

Zhang Yan's words made Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family scared to death, but at the same time, they hated her to death.

Zhu Youxiao was a little choked by what Zhang Yan said, and was about to say something, but saw Wang An coming from the stone road.

He waited for a few seconds, and Wang An walked to the pavilion and said:

"Long live, His Royal Highness the King of Qi asked the slave maid to tell Long live, if you want to shield the accomplices, you can first think about the starving people who died in the Huaibei hunger."

Think of the starving people who died......

To be honest, Zhu Youxiao didn't particularly care about the dead starving people, otherwise he wouldn't have set the tone of the Huaibei hunger case so lightly.

At the moment, Zhu Youzhen's words are more like telling Zhu Youxiao that for things like Huaibei hunger, it is enough for him Zhu Youzhen to endure it once.

It is true that if Zhu Youxiao opened his mouth, then Zhu Youzhen would not blame Wei Liangqing and Hou Guoguang, but the relationship between the two brothers may also have some cracks.

Zhu Youzhen is saying in disguise that only one brother and slave can choose.

"Hooray......

As soon as the Hakka heard Zhu Youzhen speak, she immediately pleaded with Zhu Youxiao sadly, and Wei Zhongxian knew that it was best for him not to ask for mercy at this time, because he was not as close as the relationship between Zhu Youxiao and the Hakka family.

The Hakka pleading made Zhu Youxiao's face cloudy, and everyone was waiting for him to speak.

The more time passed, the more nervous the hearts of the Hakka couple became.

After a cup of tea, Zhu Youxiao finally sighed: "That's it......"

He looked at the Hakka with a hint of apology, which made the Hakka desperate: "This matter is up to the younger brother." ”

"Hooray!" The Hakka family climbed forward and tried to hug Zhu Youxiao's legs, but Zhu Youxiao suddenly got up and walked out of the pavilion.

"Hooray—"

The poignancy of the Hakka family made Wei Zhongxian feel sad in his heart, and Zhang Yan left with the palace people without even looking at it.

However, Wang An and looking at the tragic situation of the two, they felt indescribably comfortable.

However, after looking at it twice, Wang An also turned around and left, and conveyed Zhu Youxiao's meaning to Zhu Youzhen.

After Zhu Youzhen learned the news, the meeting in the study of King Qi's mansion had ended, but he himself changed the anger in the study, and sat leisurely in the pool of King Qi's mansion at the moment.

Yang Ru was playing the piano, Yang Yuan loved to make incense, and the two brothers Cao Bianjiao and Cao Dingjiao were rowing, looking at Zhu Youzhen from time to time.

Obviously, they couldn't figure out why Zhu Youzhen, who was so angry and scolded hundreds of officials a second ago, could be so leisurely at this moment.

Lu Wenzhao knelt on the deck, while Zhu Youzhen stood at the bow of the boat, feeling the lake breeze blowing on his cheeks.

After a while, he said: "There are 110,000 Yanshan students this year, and after graduating from Enke ten days later, 30,000 people will go to the Supervision Division, 30,000 people will go to the Soldiers and Horses Division, the Ya Servants, and the Dali Temple, and the remaining 50,000 people will enter the Imperial Horse Prison, and enter the Imperial Inspectorate to inspect the imperial history of the local area." ”

"Yes......" Lu Wenzhao bowed his head in response, and Zhu Youzhen also glanced at him sideways:

"Wen Zhao, there won't be too many opportunities, if you don't care about things......

"Humble duty understands!"

The sun at noon was very hot, but Lu Wenzhao's hands and feet were cold, he knew very well that this was Zhu Youzhen's last chance for him, because this was the third time that Jinyiwei had attacked Jinyiwei's interior and the Imperial Horse Prison.

There are only three things, and three is already the extreme.

Because of this, after Lu Wenzhao got off the ship, he closed the door for ten consecutive days, and Enke of the imperial court suddenly changed the time, from September in the past three years to March.

This caught many students who were ready to participate in Enke off guard, and those who didn't know why could only complain, while some people who knew Enke smelled the cats.

Some students who were still rushing to the capital to participate in Enke scolded when they learned about it, and for this reason, Zhu Youzhen had to let people spread the word that there were two Enke this year, and Enke in October was as usual, which made many students not run in vain.

Ten days passed quickly, and with the arrival of Enko, this year Enco was even larger.

Originally, many people had already moved into the East and West Cities, so the examination room of Enke was actually built last year.

Covering an area of 600 acres, enough to accommodate 150,000 people, the examination room was built in Cuiming Lake, fifteen miles north of the capital.

When the last candidate entered the examination room, the prelude to the eighth year of the Apocalypse was also opened, and more than 134,000 candidates made Zhu Youzhen, who learned the news, frown.

"Most of the candidates are still on the road this year, and if they all arrive, I'm afraid the exam room will not be enough to deal with it."

Walking in the examination room, Zhu Youzhen was followed by Gu Bingqian, Gu Bingqian explained as he walked, and Zhu Youzhen also spoke:

"Since it is not enough, we will build two more examination rooms in Xicheng and Dongcheng respectively."

It is said to be an examination room, but it is actually the same as a small city, but the difference is that this city does not have wide streets, and it is all a foot wide road.

A candidate's examination room is about four square meters, although it is not large, but compared with the examination room that once had less than two square meters for one person, it is actually considered large.

"Your Highness, you can actually build an examination room above the state capital, and then select the first class into the capital and take the ......"

"Nope."

Gu Bingqian's idea is to share the pressure and reduce the time wasted by students, but Zhu Youzhen's consideration is not to let the nepotism of "students and teachers" form in the locality.

Enke invigilates the exam every year by Zhu Youzhen, so if the folk students who are examined are judges, they are naturally him.

The appearance of him alone directly undermined the nepotism that could occur in Enko.

If he is left unchecked, then his hard work will be in vain.

What's more, Enke has actually saved the students from waiting for several years, and all that remains is a year of travel fatigue.

One year's time, even from Hexi to the capital, is enough.

He would rather spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to build an examination room than give the local government more power.

With this in mind, the few days of Enko ended successfully, and after the end, the number of people who were admitted to become officials also greatly increased.

Of the more than 134,000 people, 627 of whom were selected, will all become local officials, while the rest will be awarded some official positions by virtue of their achievements.

Since the scribes were also included in the official system of the Ming Dynasty, not many people resisted.

However, it is inevitable that some people feel that they did not do well in the exam and are ready to find a job in the capital, waiting for Enke in the second half of the year while working and studying.

Zhu Youzhen didn't care about this, 130,000 Enke candidates were enough for him to finish the things at hand.

Enke candidates are being allocated, but compared to this large-scale Enke, everyone's eyes are focused on the matter of the Shaanxi civil uprising.

"Bang!"

When Zhang Zhijie, who was asleep, heard the sound of kicking the door, he hurriedly pushed away the maid next to him, and as soon as he wanted to get up, he felt a cold thing against his neck.

"Governor Zhang, please come with us."

In the middle of the night on the fifteenth day of March in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, when the sound of breaking the door sounded, the cold sound came into the bedroom through the crack in the door.

Zhang Zhijie, the prefect of Pingyang, who was wearing a middle coat, had a withered face, and looked at the young brocade guards standing at the door, dressed in crimson robes, only to feel weak in his hands and feet, and his whole body was cold.

Seeing that he did not move, the brocade guards immediately set him up and walked towards the temporary residence of the Supervision Division.

It's just that before he went to the Supervision Department, Zhang Zhijie explained everything on the road.

From the gentry who colluded with him to the merchants who bought and sold grain stamps, everyone was shaken out by him, and this included the eight families of Jin merchants who were well known to later generations.

Among the eight families, the heads of each family are Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, Huang Yunfa and other eight people.

Fan Yongdou and other eight super-rich imperial merchants were veritable traitors, and long before the Jianlu entered the customs, they often traveled back and forth inside and outside the pass, and connected with the border army to sell contraband to the Hetao Department, Tumut Department and other Mongolian enemies.

At a time of increasing political corruption and social turmoil in the late Ming Dynasty, the merchants' unique keen sense of smell made them see the rise of Jianyu and their ambition to unify the world.

As a result, after Huangtaiji subdued the Tumut Mongols, the Jin merchants finally bordered the territory of the Later Jin, so they began to use trade to finance the Jianlu.

In addition to normal trade, they secretly transported military supplies to the Jianguo, provided various information in the customs, and engaged in political trading.

After Jianyu entered the customs, Shunzhi did not forget to establish a great cause for himself in the Central Plains, and held a banquet in the Forbidden City, personally summoned them, and gave them clothing.

At the banquet, Shunzhi wanted to give them official rewards, and the eight families were flattered and tried their best to resign. As a result, Shunzhi named them "Imperial Merchants" (subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs).

Fan Yongdou was ordered to preside over trade affairs and "give Zhangjiakou as the world's inheritance", and the other seven families also had their own rewards.

Since then, Fan Yongdou and others have obtained political and economic privileges that other businessmen cannot enjoy.

Fan Yongdou not only procured goods for the royal family, but also relied on the royal prestige to open up his wealth and start trading all over the world.

In addition to operating the salt industry in Hedong and Changlu, he also monopolized the market for ginseng and other valuable medicinal materials in Ussuri and Suifen in Northeast China, so he was also called "ginseng business" by the people.

In the blink of an eye, Fan Yongdou became a great imperial merchant with millions of riches, the best of the eight families.

The importance that Jianyu attached to the Eight Great Merchants was determined by their contributions to the Qing court.

It's just the existence of the eight Jin merchants, but it doesn't mean that the eight Jin merchants betrayed the country at the end of the Ming Dynasty, because before Huang Taiji subdued Tumut, the Jin merchants couldn't contact the Houjin at all, and the Houjin at this time had been founded for more than ten years.

The merchants in North Korea and Qilu, as well as the merchants in Jiangnan, were actually accomplices in disguised funding for the construction of prisoners to enter the customs.

However, no matter who collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, none of these people could escape......

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"Oh no, no, no...... Sun Chuanting's guy is going to do it! Zhang Zhijie in Pingyang has been arrested! ”

In Taiyuan in April, when Wang Dayu, one of the eight families of the Jin merchants, broke into the courtyard, the other heads of the other families who were already sitting in the courtyard frowned.

"Panic what! No matter how capable he Sun Chuanting is, can he ignore the resistance of my eight thousands of shops and hundreds of thousands of guys, and directly arrest us? ”

"Besides, many ministers in the court are already waiting for me, and he, Sun Chuanting, is just a vicious dog barking wildly under Zhu Youzhen!"

In the face of Wang Dayu's fright, Fan Yongdou, the head of the Fan family, who controlled the salt and iron trade among the eight families, also stood up and reprimanded.

When the people of Shaanxi changed, Fan Yongdou realized that something was wrong, although the matter was not so big at that time, but he also captured some information through his keen sense of smell.

First of all, there are too many yamen involved in the Shaanxi civil uprising, and it is inevitable that it will also involve the corruption of the imperial horse supervisor and the Jinyi guard, and secondly, the disaster victims have spread too widely.

These signs are all showing that an unprecedented strict investigation is about to break out, and as a businessman whose hands and feet are not clean, Fan Yongdou has long begun to use his connections and connections to protect himself.

"Bang-"

"Jinyi Health Supervision Department handles the case, please come with us!"

When the gate of the courtyard was kicked open, a team of brocade guards dressed in armor, with a waist pinned to the waist, and holding a Yanling knife, walked into the Fan family's courtyard.

Fan Yongdou also felt nervous after seeing the Supervision Division Qianhu wearing mountain armor.

"Under Fan Yongdou, dare to ask Qianhu what crime we have committed?"

Fan Yongdou, who faced Jinyiwei of the Supervision Division, could still raise a trace of courage, but the next words of Jinyiwei of the Supervision Department made several people desperate.

"What crime have you committed?" The Supervision Department sneered:

"Perennial smuggling of ordnance and tea to the Hetao Department and Tumut Department, and bribing border troops and officials in Shanxi, what kind of crime do you say?"

"It's not a matter of the victims......" Hearing the words of the Supervision Division Qianhu, Fan Yongdou's face turned white all of a sudden, and the rest of the people were also stunned on the spot.

They all thought that it was the outbreak of the incident of buying and selling food stamps with corrupt officials and they were implicated, but they didn't want Zhu Youzhen to move out of the case of the three ladies at this time, and the evidence of the smuggling of the eight of them.

If it is just to buy and sell grain stamps, according to the law of the late Ming Dynasty, at most it is to fine silver and return grain, but if it is smuggling......

For a while, the heads of the families collapsed to the ground, and when the thousands of households of the Supervision Department saw this, they also waved their hands and motioned for everyone to take them away.

The dispatch of the Supervision Department of Thousands of Jinyi Guards blocked the shops, mansions, and courtyards of the Eight Great Families in Shanxi in just one day and night.

Fan Yongdou and the others were paralyzed on the ground like dead dogs, and after being dragged out of the courtyard by Jinyiwei, they were locked in the prisoner car.

Obviously he has been locked in the prisoner car, but Fan Yongdou still had a chance and whispered to the thousands of households in the Supervision Department:

"My lord! You spare my life and give me a way to live, and my Fan family is willing to pay 300,000 taels of silver! ”

"Huh? 300,000 taels is indeed a lot, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to spend it if I have silver. With that, Qianhu of the Supervision Department motioned to Fan Yongdou to look ahead.

When Fan Yongdou looked in front of the prisoner car, he knew that he was finished.

Because in the prisoner car in front, the eunuchs of Huangdian and Huangzhuang in Taiyuan Mansion, as well as the thousands of households in the Fusi Thousand Households of Nanzhen were all imprisoned.

These powerful people have been arrested, so what else can he talk about as a businessman?

Fan Yongdou collapsed in the prisoner car, and if nothing else, their fate would be the guillotine on the edge of the Yellow River......

"Slash!"

"Poof—"

At the Yumen ferry port of Pingyang Prefecture, with Sun Chuanting's order, a row of more than 100 officials in prison uniforms ushered in the head-on knife in crying.

Hundreds of heads tumbled down the low slope and into the Yellow River, and the corpses were carried down by the executioner.

Hundreds of executioners spat on their hands and turned their heads to look behind them.

I saw that behind them, in front of Sun Chuanting, thousands of officials in prison uniforms were paralyzed on the ground, and the soldiers of the Gongwei battalion had to drag them to the edge of the Yellow River before they could be tortured.

These thousands of officials are just officials in Pingyang Prefecture, and they haven't even been completely arrested.

"There are nearly 10,000 officials in Pingyang Prefecture, and there are more than 1,000 people who have committed capital crimes, which is really ......"

Standing next to Sun Chuanting, Guan Fumin didn't know what to say, but Sun Chuanting said with a cold face: "This is just a drop in the bucket." ”

"There are not a few such people in the Ming Dynasty, and now the officials are killing more than half of them, and they will not wronged many people."

"How many people are in exile for crimes?" Sun Chuanting turned his head to ask Guan Fumin, and Guan Fumin also said:

"6,732 people in Yan'an Prefecture, 4,627 people in Pingyang Prefecture, 1,437 people in Xi'an Prefecture......"

Speaking of this, Guan Fumin paused: "At present, we have only inspected these three prefectures, and there are still more than ten prefectures that have not been inspected. ”

"Just in these three prefectures, there are more than 3,600 officials who have committed capital crimes, and after more than ten prefectures and counties have been inspected, I am afraid that there will be no less than 30,000 officials who have committed capital crimes, and no less than 1 million exiled officials and their families will be involved."

"Do what Your Highness order." Sun Chuanting was not sad or happy, obviously he had already guessed how damn these officials were.

Zhu Youzhen did not choose to exile these 30,000 people according to the previous practice this time, all because the scale of this time was too large, and he needed Sun Chuanting to kill chickens and monkeys.

Even if this kind of thing can only be managed for a period of time, this period of recuperation can also give the people a breather.

"Governor, the corrupt books have been calculated......"

While Sun Chuanting was chatting with Guan Fumin, a staff member handed over several thick books.

Sun Chuanting took a copy and opened it, and immediately clenched the book with both hands.

[Corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Yan'an Prefecture embezzled more than 9,236,000 stone of grain stamps, and 1,274,600 ...... of people's industrial and silver stamps]

"Bastard!"

In the land of a mansion, nearly a quarter of the money and grain distributed by the state treasury were corrupted, how could Sun Chuanting not be angry?

"After inspections by the Supervision Department and us, no less than 70,000 people in Shanxi and Shaanxi should have starved to death ......."

The staff spoke again, and this sentence completely ignited Sun Chuanting.

"These powerful gentry, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are all damned! Damn it! ”

Sun Chuanting slammed the document on the table, and the officials and staff also lowered their heads.

Judging from Sun Chuanting's emotions, he was so angry, so His Royal Highness the King of Qi who saw these documents was probably ......

"Send the document to the capital, and ask Your Highness to quickly send Enke to inspect the three provinces, and preferably the remaining five provinces affected by the drought."

"Yes......"

The officials and the people responded, while Sun Chuanting looked at the rows of corrupt officials who were taken to the edge of the Yellow River and beheaded, the gentry were strong and strong, but he couldn't swallow the breath in his heart.

After holding it for too long, he even felt a little sour in his nose and moist eyes.

At this moment, he has the same idea as Zhu Youzhen in the past.

Obviously, the Ming Dynasty is expanding its territory and stabilizing people's hearts, but why are there still so many corrupt officials and corrupt officials to pull back?

Did the Ming Dynasty do them any good when it fell? As an official, do you only know about corruption?

I have been writing for many years, but in the end, the people still have nothing to eat and are homeless.

For a while, Sun Chuanting didn't know what he was doing for so many years......

It's a little late, sorry sorry

(End of chapter)