Shanghu County, outside Li Jin's mansion.

"Berwyn, what do you think of Li Jin?"

After Zhu Yuanzhang walked out of Li Jin's mansion, his heart was very entangled.

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's original temper, he should have been furious a long time ago, arrested a corrupt official like Li Jin, and peeled the daylily.

But after Li Jin's defense, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he was a little hesitant, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

After Liu Bowen heard Zhu Yuanzhang's question, he instantly understood Zhu Yuanzhang's inner entanglement.

In Liu Bowen's view, although Li Jin is greedy for money, if it is really as Li Jin said, greedy for money for the people, then Li Jin is indeed a great talent.

Moreover, under the governance of Li Jin, Shanghu County is indeed a qualified official for the people to have no worries about food and clothing.

For corrupt officials, Liu Bowen is certainly not as angry as Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang was oppressed by corrupt officials since he was a child, causing Zhu Yuanzhang's parents to hang themselves in front of him.

Most of his elder brothers also starved to death because of the exploitation of officials.

This kind of revenge for killing his father is also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang hates the rule of the Yuan Dynasty and hates corrupt officials.

However, Liu Bowen himself is from a scholar family, and he has long been accustomed to this situation, and he does not have a grudge against corrupt officials.

On the contrary, he attaches more importance to the ability of this official, as Li Jin said, if the Qing officials are all like Lu Mingyi, then this kind of Qing official should be killed the most.

However, since Zhu Yuanzhang hates corrupt officials, as his courtier, Liu Bowen naturally has to be consistent with the emperor.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Li Jin is difficult to figure out, and what to do depends on how he will act in the future."

Liu Bowen's words were equivalent to mud, and he didn't say anything, which only made Zhu Yuanzhang more entangled.

Or Queen Ma is honest after all, and said:

"Heavy eight, even if you want Li Jin, you have to get the secret recipe for mirror making from Li Jin first."

"Now that the Daming treasury is empty, the inner hall is even more unsustainable, and we still have the prince, but we haven't added new clothes for a long time."

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang had to sigh and say:

"Let the dog officer live a few more days, and we will kill him sooner or later."

There was no way, Zhu Yuanzhang also wanted to kill Li Jin, but Li Jin gave too much.

As Queen Ma said, although the Ming Dynasty has been established in recent years, the southern and northern expeditions have continued, and the treasury of the Ming Dynasty has long been empty.

As soon as Mongolia in the Northern Yuan Dynasty was not destroyed, Zhu Yuanzhang could not sleep well for a day.

Not only the Northern Yuan, but also Gansu in the northwest, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places in the southwest, there are remnants of the Yuan Dynasty.

In order to go out for the army, Zhu Yuanzhang used all his pants as pawns, and his inner money was even poorer than he could open the pot.

Queen Ma usually even has to weave cloth by herself to subsidize her internal money, which is really beyond her means.

Now that Queen Ma has finally found a profitable business, she doesn't want Zhu Yuanzhang to kill Li Jin like this.

Queen Ma had already thought that when she returned to Yingtian, these mirrors would definitely be able to make a lot of money.

You should be able to have a good year this year!

Liu Bowen also interjected at this time:

"Your Majesty, it's time to return to Yingtian, I'm afraid that now the court has accumulated a lot of government affairs that you need to deal with."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked around, glanced nostalgically at the surrounding high-rise buildings, and sighed:

"This is what the prosperous world looks like!"

"Although it is good to go to Shanghai, it is fundamental to be a genius."

Liu Bowen continued to admonish.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and returned to Beijing tomorrow.

.....

Early in the morning, Zhu Yuanzhang took a carriage to Yingtianfu.

After a night of thinking, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to keep Li Jin first, and wait until he returned to the capital and investigated Li Jin clearly, and then made plans.

After settling the house money, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the bill in his hand, and a flash of inspiration seemed to have thought of something.

On the way back, he kept urging the guards to speed up, and it seemed that he was like an arrow.

looked at Liu Bowen next to him dumbfounded, and thought that something big had happened in the DPRK.

Within a few days, Zhu Yuanzhang finally returned to Yingtian.

Hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang returned to Yingtian, Li Shanchang personally led hundreds of civil and military officials to welcome Zhu Yuanzhang.

These days, Zhu Yuanzhang has made a private visit to Weifu in the south, and all the big and small government affairs of the DPRK and China have been handed over to Li Shanchang.

However, Li Shanchang has been by Zhu Yuanzhang's side for so many years, so he naturally knows what things he can manage and which things he must not touch.

As the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, Li Shanchang is indeed above one person and under ten thousand people, and now he is a very popular minister with unlimited scenery.

But only Li Shanchang knew that when he was the prime minister under Zhu Yuanzhang, he was just a decoration in the court.

Zhu Yuanzhang's desire to control power made Li Shanchang tremble in the position of prime minister, and he didn't dare to go beyond it at all.

Fortunately, after Zhu Yuanzhang left, Daming did not change much, otherwise Li Shanchang would have asked Zhu Yuanzhang for help.

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's carriage from a distance, Li Shanchang hurriedly stepped forward to greet Zhu Yuanzhang.

After Zhu Yuanzhang got out of the car, Li Shanchang immediately bowed down and said:

"The good guy met the superior, and the superior micro-service private patrol was hard work!"

Behind him, the civil and military officials also bowed down and saluted Zhu Yuanzhang.

Li Shanchang called Zhu Yuanzhang the superior, not the emperor, to show that he was different from other courtiers.

At the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang's uprising, Li Shanchang always called Zhu Yuanzhang the superior, and now there are no more than three people in the court who are qualified to call Zhu Yuanzhang the superior.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that all the officials were there, although he was covered with dust, he was still in good spirits.

"You Aiqing, you have worked hard in the past few days when we are away."

"Now follow us to the Fengtian Temple, we have something important to say."

Hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang had something important to say, Li Shanchang subconsciously looked at Liu Bowen.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, most of the old brothers who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world were Huaixi children.

These people are all Huaixi people, and they are either fellow villagers or relatives with each other, forming an extremely powerful force in the court, and the Huaixi magnates.

Zhu Yuanzhang deeply realized the terrible nature of these Huaixi magnates, and once something happened, it would even affect the Ming Dynasty, and Prime Minister Li Shanchang was the leader of the Huaixi magnates.

In order to balance the forces in the court, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to cultivate another force as the opponent of the arrogant generals.

And the candidate he picked was Liu Ji and Liu Bowen.

Liu Bowen is a native of Zhejiang, Qingtian, and belongs to eastern Zhejiang, with the secret help of Zhu Yuanzhang, now Liu Bowen has become the leader of the scholars in eastern Zhejiang.

With the formation of the party in eastern Zhejiang, Huaixi and eastern Zhejiang were also secretly promoted by Zhu Yuanzhang, and a completely antagonistic situation was formed.

Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang are also incompatible and mutually restrictive.

Even if this is not what Liu Bowen wants, but under Zhu Yuanzhang's will, he can only be a flag obediently.

The two forces in the court fought with each other, which was exactly what Zhu Yuanzhang wanted.

It was under Zhu Yuanzhang's layout that the arrogance and arrogance of the Huaixi magnates were gradually suppressed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

However, these people remembered their hatred for Liu Bowen, and they were still grateful to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang proposed that there was something important to say at this time, and Li Shanchang suspected that it was Liu Bowen who made another small report next to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Liu Bowen didn't know what Zhu Yuanzhang's idea was, and when he saw Li Shanchang's unkind gaze, Liu Bowen also smiled.