"Bang!"

On the fifth day of the ninth lunar month of the ninth year of Xianjia, when the sound of gunfire rang out in the Persian region, it also represented that the 70-year peace in the region had been broken.

The Ming army's offensive was like a tsunami that broke out, and it was irresistibly rushed towards the positions of the Persian frontier.

In just one morning, the originally clean and tidy frontier defense line became a prison.

The soldiers in the trenches were quite miserable, the projectiles flew over their heads, and the rain that was rare to see drenched their clothes.

Squatting in the bomb holes, they could clearly smell the putrid stench of human remains in the air, and any soldier who tried to get up and fight back would be torn to shreds by bullets.

Although the officers continued to order counterattacks, the Persian soldiers were desperate and powerless to resist under the fire of the Ming army, which was eroded by hundreds of paces.

A fifteen-year-old Persian boy pulled out his wooden whistle and before he could blow it, a cannonball killed him.

For the Persians, they are like a piece of meat, and everyone who stands up will be killed by a barrage, and they will not be able to fight back even a little.

Finally, when the sound of the charge horn got closer and closer, the Ming army finally broke the defensive line, and the Persians hiding in the trenches walked out of the anti-artillery holes with their hands raised.

They had two choices, the first was to become a civilian servant of the Ming army, so that they would not be held accountable after the war, and they could also go to the four provinces of Tianzhu in the Ming Dynasty and get ten acres of land for each family.

Such a choice made most Persians choose to surrender without hesitation and become a people.

For them, who becomes the Shah actually has little to do with them.

The so-called faith, for the ordinary people of this era, is an existence that can be abandoned with only ten acres of land.

On the evening of the fifth day of the lunar month, the Aminem-Andikon defense line collapsed, and the Ming army drove straight in.

On the sixth day of the first month, the Ottoman defense line in Mosul collapsed, and Yue Zhongqi led 50,000 Ming troops into Mosul.

On the tenth day of the first month, Zhu Bomu led the army to capture Mashhad, the second Persian defense line was broken, 30,000 of the 60,000 Persian army fled, 20,000 surrendered, and 10,000 were killed.

On the 15th, Yue Zhongqi captured Fancheng, and Nian Qianyao, the general army of the Ganges, captured Adana.

On the 20th, Li Sizhen, the Duke of Qin, captured Kerman, and Yongwang Zhu Heping captured Amadan, and the main force of the Ming army was less than 800 miles away from Isfahan.

On the first day of the first month of the tenth year of Xianjia, on the day when the people of the Ming Dynasty celebrated the New Year, Zhu Bomu led his troops to capture Yazd and joined forces with Li Sijian's troops, at this time they were less than 500 miles away from Isfahan.

Upon hearing the news, Persian Shah Tahmasp II led tens of thousands of nobles and guards to flee west to Qazvin.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Isfahan was captured by the Ming army, and at this time the Safavid Persian dynasty had less than a quarter of its controllable territory.

On the 12th, when the Ming army was short of people, Zhu Bomu ordered a large number of Persian peasants to be recruited as people's husbands, and gave them a reward of 20 acres of land per household after the war.

At the same time, Zhu Bomu opened the Persian granary and used the grain as the wages of the hired people, and hired the laborers at the price of one bucket per person per day.

This move caused a large number of poor peasants at the bottom of Persia to sign up, and the supply lines of the Ming army were extended.

On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Bomu led his army to Qazvin, and Tahmasp II surrendered the city, and the whole of Persia surrendered.

After the news reached the Ming Dynasty, it was already February 12, and at this time, the Xianjia Emperor was not satisfied with a Persia, but was ready to plan the territory of eastern Ottoman.

He summoned Tian Wenjing, the first assistant of the cabinet, but Tian Wenjing said that "the beginning of the war was less than three months, and the military expenditure was 20 million, and the country should be slowly planning ......."

Emperor Xianjia did not like it, reprimanded Tian Wenjing, and at the same time canonized the surrendered Tahmasp II as the "King of Persia", and the treasury contributed 3,000 taels of silver to build a palace for him in Anxi City.

On the 13th, Emperor Xianjia divided Persia into three provinces, and set up Dawan Province, Kushan Province, and Persian Province from east to west.

At the same time, Emperor Xianjia ordered Zhu Bomu to continue to march westward, appointing Yan Jiayin, the eldest son of the Duke of Lu and a servant of the household department, as the political envoy of Persia, Li Wei, the prefect of Yangzhou, as the political envoy of Guishuang, and Sun Jiagan, the servant of the criminal department, as the political envoy of Dawanbu.

Emperor Xianjia ordered three political envoys to select 30,000 officials from the 100,000 reserve officials selected by Enke last year to go to the three provinces, and arrest all the nobles involved in the former state as labor reforms.

At this time, about 10 million students in Daming participated in the Enke exam every year, but only 20,000 were selected as officials every year.

In order to reserve officials, the imperial court specially set up a "reserve official", that is, there is no official position, and he receives five taels of money every year to wait for his post.

This attack on Persia and the Ottomans was also an attempt by Emperor Xianjia to solve the increasing problem of princes.

On the first day of the first month of March, Emperor Xianjia ordered the Ministry of Works to send people to the three Persian provinces to survey the site and draw drawings for the construction of the railway in the three provinces.

On the seventh day of the first month of March, Zhu Bomu, the general of the expedition to the west, received a holy decree and continued to command the army to the west.

On March 15, Zhu Bomu led his army to regain the Kurdistan region and march towards Asia Minor.

At such a critical moment, a large number of nobles who had been captured in the three provinces of Persia gathered to raise troops, the supply lines of the Ming army were cut off, and the army left a small number of troops to be stationed there, and then led the troops back to suppress the rebellion.

In May, the rebellion was quelled, but by this time the military expenditure of the Western Expedition had reached 46 million taels.

On the second day of the first month of June, Tian Wenjing, the head of the cabinet, advised the emperor to stop the Northern Expedition, so as not to squander the treasury saved by the emperor.

The emperor was furious and wanted to dismiss Tian Wenjing, but the crown prince Zhu Bohai also went up at the same time, saying that the move of the western expedition had affected the people and should be stopped.

Emperor Xianjia did not believe the words of the crown prince, but when he looked through the documents of Jinyiwei, he found that the price of private grain had risen by 20% compared with before the war, and such a huge grain deficit was obviously not caused by the first war of the Western Expedition.

What made him feel even more wrong was that the military expenditure on the Western Expedition was too large, and the big ones were somewhat unreasonable.

On the tenth day of the sixth month, Emperor Xianjia sent Jinyiwei to the three provinces of Persia to check the details of military expenditures with Zhu Bomu.

On the first day of the eighth month, the commander of the Jinyi Guard sent Ma Chaofeng to the city of Persia (Qazvin) and compared the documents of the governor's palace and household department of the five armies with the documents of the army at the front.

Faced with the emperor's suspicions, Zhu Bomu, the general of Zhengxi, had to temporarily hand over military power and check the military expenditure with Ma Chaofeng.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, under the verification of the evidence collected by the two of them, they discovered the tricks in military spending.

Profiteers, this is not a special product of a certain period or region, it is a special group of people who have always existed in the world.

If such a group wants to implement their ideas, they must find a backer to rely on.

Facts have proved that in the face of huge interests, there are always some people who are carried away by interests and dare to earn any money, even in wartime, there are many such people.

In the Western Expedition, although Zhu Bomu had prepared five medical battalions in advance to protect the lives of the soldiers, the extremely poor battlefield medical environment still prevented many soldiers from receiving timely treatment, and finally their condition deteriorated and they died.

When he was on the battlefield, Zhu Bomu didn't have the energy to take care of all aspects, but when he released his military power and walked out of the tent, everything he saw made him almost grit his teeth.

During his investigation, many of the medical supplies that came in from the rear were not guaranteed.

Not only are there a large number of counterfeit and shoddy products in medical supplies, but also a large number of food and daily necessities.

Some soldiers ate expired canned food, collapsed directly with acute gastroenteritis, and died of pain on the march.

Among the large quantities of expired cans seized, Zhu Bomu saw that the oldest cans were cans produced in Yongchang for 24 years, more than ten years ago.

For these things, the officers and men in the army have long complained, but their reports have been stopped layer by layer.

As the commander of the army, Zhu Bomu didn't know it, which made him ashamed to wield his knife and cut his hair to apologize to the soldiers.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, Zhu Bomu and Jinyiwei both commanded Ma Chaofeng to return to the capital with a train full of evidence.

When the train reached Anxi, it overturned, and several carriages containing evidence were set on fire.

Zhu Bomu was so angry that he reported to the Qianqing Palace by telegram.

Emperor Xianjia, who learned about these filthy things, slapped the table angrily, and immediately summoned Tian Wenjing, Zhang Tingyu, and Zhu Bohai, and asked them to immediately set up a Jingcha team to arrest all the officials, businessmen, and their families of the nine clans involved in the case, and leave no one behind.

Soon, a huge Jingcha operation began.

More than 200,000 Jinyi guards joined forces with the 800,000 soldiers and horses in the local area to arrest the officials involved, and on the 11th night of the lunar month alone, more than 700 officials were dismissed.

Among them, the highest official positions are Zu Zeqing, the governor of the Five Armies, Wu Shilin, and Haicheng Boyan Zuyi.

On the twelfth day of the lunar month, the grandson of the old British Duke Zhang Shize, Xin'an Bo Zhang Zhaoyi was arrested.

In addition to them, in the next two months, Jin Yiwei arrested a total of 32 criminals and nobles, and 457 civil officials above the fifth rank.

Among them, what made Emperor Xianjia the most angry was Liu Shen, the chief official of the Zhengliupin of the "State-owned Huangdian Armament Medical Factory".

He replaced all the 50,000 catties of fine cotton used to make first-aid kits and triangular scarves with second-hand cotton, some of which carried viruses such as pyonates and tetanus, and even picked them up from the garbage heap, and made them into first-aid kits and sent them to the battlefield.

Such behavior directly led to the deterioration of the injuries of many soldiers, some of whom were directly amputated for frostbite, and even more seriously sacrificed.

That's not all, he also bribed some officials in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to sell a large number of counterfeit medicines and obtain a lot of benefits from them.

In addition to him, a large number of state-run officials have been found to have cut corners.

Zhang Miaoxin, the official in charge of the "state-owned Huangdian Canning Factory", made canned food from moldy and stinky beef, and poisoned the food eaten by the front-line soldiers, vomiting and diarrhea.

Zhang Xicheng, the chief official of the "state-owned bagged rice factory", mixed moldy rice with vacuum rice.

Shi Liru, the chief official of the "state-run vacuum vegetable factory", made a large number of rotten vegetables into vegetable packets and sent them to the front.

These are just a few of the state-owned factories, and in addition to the state-owned, the private sector is also very unclean.

In order to support the private sector, each ministry will allocate part of the orders to private factories as appropriate when placing orders, and this has led to many private factories being involved this time.

Qian Shengxing, a businessman in Suzhou, did not dry dried tofu when making it, cut corners, and put less salt and soy sauce, which caused a large amount of dried tofu to become moldy before it reached the front line.

Afraid that the matter would be exposed, he immediately moved around and bribed hundreds of officials, and finally not only exempted him from responsibility, but also got an order worth 100,000 taels of silver.

Wu Defu, a merchant in Hangzhou, was responsible for making 100,000 shovels for the Western Expeditionary Army, and 30,000 of them were made of pig iron, which bent when touched.

Ma Hengqing of Songjiang Prefecture was responsible for making 50,000 pairs of military shoes for the army, but he also cut corners, and the shoes he made were broken as soon as they were worn, and the workers in the factory had a disturbed conscience and specially questioned him, but he also shamelessly said: "Anyway, I don't use it, I care about him."

These were considered big at that time, and the other private businessmen who committed crimes were more than 30,000 people from large to small, implicating more than 100,000 family members and nine clans, which was known as the "crime of Yisi" in history

Such a result made Emperor Xianjia angry, especially the words of Ma Hengqing, a merchant in Songjiang Mansion, who was even more angry and fainted on the spot.

When he woke up, he immediately demanded that Ma Hengqing, Qian Shengxing, Zhang Miaoxin and other officials involved in cutting corners be punished with "Ling Chi", all three tribes were beheaded, and the four tribes and nine tribes were exiled to the three Persian provinces.

Since the Ming Dynasty had not had a punishment for Ling Chi for many years, in the face of the more than 5,000 nobles, businessmen, and officials who were about to be Ling Chi who had committed extremely serious crimes, the officials of the Criminal Department could only find out a master who had lived from the Apocalypse to the present from the internal files of the Yamen.

After that, they arrested 100 heinous murderers from prison and demanded that 100 murderers learn the art of "Ling Chi" within three months.

If you learn the craft, you can be sentenced to life at that time, and if you can't learn it, you will be beheaded immediately.

In March of the 11th year of Xianjia, after three months of study, 42 people finally passed the assessment, and then more than 5,000 nobles, merchants, and officials were executed.

At this time, Emperor Xianjia's physical condition was not optimistic, since he was fainted by Ma Hengqing, his physical condition plummeted, and there were headaches from time to time.

Therefore, in order to deter the hundred officials, Emperor Xianjia ordered 5,000 prisoners to be bound to Chang'anmen Square, and ordered officials above the fifth rank in Beijing and the 15 provinces of the Central Plains to come and check.

The number of officials who visited the day was as high as tens of thousands, and in the face of the cruel scene of Ling Chi, many officials were in a trembling war, and if there was no one to support them, they almost wanted to collapse.

This incident greatly shocked the hundred officials, but at the same time, it also dragged down the body of Emperor Xianjia.

In May of that year, Emperor Xianjia divided Kurdistan and parts of Asia Minor into two parts, and at the same time canonized them to Wei Guo and Xu State, and appointed Wei Wang Zhu Yicheng and Xu King Zhu Bowen into vassals.

In the same month, Emperor Xianjia summoned Zhu Yiming, the son of Qi, to Beijing.

At the end of June, Zhu Yiming arrived in the capital, and Emperor Xianjia had a long talk with him, and explained many matters to the crown prince Zhu Bohai, and then dismissed everyone.

On the second day of the seventh month, Zhu Yixuan, the emperor of Xianjia, died in the Qianqing Palace at the age of 62, and the 45-year-old crown prince Zhu Bohai became the emperor.

On the third day of the new year, before Zhu Bohai had time to deal with the national funeral, an uprising broke out again in the Persian region.

He promoted Nian Qianyao to the governor of the Western Army, ordered him to suppress the rebellion, and appointed Yue Zhongqi as the governor of the Southern Army.

When the appointment was issued, Zhu Bohai was just about to issue an order to summon the vassal to enter Beijing, and the matter of slapping Daming in the face again appeared in the Indian area.

On the fifth day of the seventh month, friction broke out between the border of Deyang County and Zhou State.

Since the elites of the Zhou State were all in the north, this friction ended with the victory of Deyang County, with more than 100 dead and wounded on both sides.

After this incident broke out, Zhu Huifang, the king of Zhou, led an army of 40,000 to the south to conquer Deyang County.

Zhu Jinkui, the king of Deyang County, asked Zhu Jincheng, the king of Shu, for help, and Zhu Jincheng saw this and led an army of 30,000 to block the Zhou State from entering the border of Deyang, and the two sides were tense.

Zhu Bohai can't remember the grievances between Zhou Guo and Deyang Junguo clearly, but this kind of thing still makes him feel that his face is swept and he is a little uncomfortable.

He issued a holy decree to reprimand the three parties, ordered the three countries to withdraw their soldiers and horses, and at the same time sent Si Jincheng, the small Western supervision envoy, to lead the troops to reprimand.

On July 17, the Three Kingdoms received the Holy Decree and withdrew their troops under Jin Cheng's order.

A wave has not settled, and another wave has risen.

On July 20, hundreds of officials and nobles joined forces with Shang Shu, believing that there were many people who had been framed in the previous "crime of Yisi", and asked the new emperor to retry the case.

In the face of the threat, Zhu Bohai didn't think about how to deal with it, and Zhu Yiming, the son of Qi who had been staying in Beijing, scolded the hundred officials, and reprimanded the ministers with "The mourning period of the Daxing Emperor has not passed, and the ministers are forcing the palace, which can be regarded as a conspiracy against the court".

Afraid of the strength of the Qi State, the ministers had to give up, but everyone knew that the Prince of Qi always wanted to return to the Qi State, so he didn't care, but secretly accumulated strength.

In August, the feudal lords entered Beijing one after another, and the ministers stopped a little.

On the first day of the ninth month, Zhu Bohai led the vassals, ministers, and nobles to escort the Xianjia Emperor to his burial, and drafted the "Emperor Zhongzongkang" for him in the Ming Tower.

With the capital of all the feudal domains, Zhu Bohai set the name of the year as "Shaoqing", and at the same time continued to appoint Tian Wenjing and Zhang Tingyu as auxiliary ministers, and announced the inventory of the imperial store.

After the national funeral, Zhu Bohai stayed in Beijing for several months, and took the opportunity to find Tian Wenjing, Zhang Tingyu, Zhu Yiming, and Zhu Bomu to discuss the national policy.

Tian Wenjing believes that in order to restore the domestic economy, King Qi Wen adopted a series of political and economic measures, one of which was to adjust the public-private, labor-capital, and production and marketing relations in the market economy.

Such an adjustment did not matter, but the Chengping period during the Yongchang period led to the emergence of a solid interest group within the imperial shop.

After Emperor Yongchang cracked down on such behavior many times, but when the Ming Dynasty in the Xianjia period pointed the finger at the outside, these interest groups developed rapidly.

At the same time, the private economy of the people has also been interfered with by the nobles, so that a situation has been formed between the state-run civil officials and the private nobles.

The state-run faction is lying on the body of the emperor to suck blood, while the private nobles are oppressing the people.

Both of these were great harms to the Ming Dynasty, and their performance in this western expedition showed that they were not satisfied with obtaining ordinary profits in normal ways, and tried to use the power in their hands to do mischief.

The private elite faction mainly engaged in bribery and tax evasion, while the state-run civilian faction made huge profits by stealing state-run property, cutting corners, and stealing national economic intelligence.

They inflicted heavy losses on the imperial court financially, so their actions had to be curbed.

After Tian Wenjing raised the problems and phenomena, Zhang Tingyu suggested that the "anti-corruption and anti-bureaucracy" action should be set off within the imperial store.

In the private market, the "anti-bribery, anti-tax evasion, and cutting corners" three-anti policy.

In addition, it is also necessary to carry out the three positive behaviors in the army, such as "correct troop quota, correct discipline, and correct thinking."

and the three-rise policy of "raising salaries, military salaries, and wages" in the overall market.

After that, Zhang Tingyu carefully made the policy content and formulated a general policy with Tian Wenjing, Zhu Yiming, Zhu Bomu and others.

After the policy appeared, Zhang Tingyu and Tian Wenjing gathered a group of honest officials, and then made more detailed requirements and terms for the policy.

Until the bell of the New Year rang, the first year of Shaoqing officially arrived, and this policy of governing the country was also announced to the world, known as "Shaoqing New Style" in history

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