Chengqian Palace.

"Your Highness, those two have been recruited."

Li Wen, who got the good news, came to Zhao Ming as soon as possible to report the good news.

Zhao Ming immediately showed joy when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What about the list?" Did you get it? ”

Li Wen smiled and took out two booklets from his arms and handed them over respectfully.

"Your Highness, the slave maid went to get the list as soon as she got the news, and now that the human and material evidence is there, you can let those who read a pot drink!"

Zhao Ming took the list and hurriedly opened it and looked through it, but it wasn't until he flipped through the two lists that the smile on his face just now slowly faded.

Li Wen was puzzled when he saw it: "Your Highness, is there anything wrong with this list?" ”

Zhao Ming shook his head, and then asked, "Have you read this list?" ”

Li Wen shook his head: "The slave maid sent it to you as soon as I got it, and I didn't open it and read it." ”

Zhao Ming nodded, then sighed and said: "The list is true, who took how much silver when, where, this list is clearly recorded, as long as a little investigation can catch the evidence."

The problem is, the fish are too small! ”

"The fish is too small?" Li Wen wondered.

Zhao Mingdao: "There are a lot of civil officials in this list, and it can be said that people from the six ministries have a share, but there is only one point, it is absolutely impossible for Prime Minister Zhang He not to intervene in this matter, but there is no him in this list."

Even among the three Shangshu whose hearts belong to Lao Wu, there is only one Shangshu Wu Yuan who has just ascended to the throne on this list.

And the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs are also all gone.

This is equivalent to us getting a lot of money, and in the end we only caught a big fish, the Ministry of Rites.

It's still a big fish that doesn't have much use! ”

Zhao Ming sighed, and Li Wen's face showed an angry look.

"Your Highness, could it be that those two people still have a concealment and did not give us the most important list? The slave and maid will go to retry them, and they will definitely get the list of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and the Ministry of Labor! ”

Zhao Ming waved his hand and said:

"Okay, don't waste your efforts, I'm afraid this list is already all.

As for Zhang He, how could those treacherous and cunning things let themselves have a handle in the hands of others.

I also take it for granted that an old traitor like them, who has been able to stand in the court for many years, must be cautious enough.

Otherwise, they would have fallen long ago, and it would have been whimsical to try to pull them into the water based on this alone. ”

"That'...... So what now? ”

Li Wen was a little numb.

Zhao Ming threw Ming Dan in his hand to the ground with a snap, and said coldly:

"Arrest someone! Small fish are also fish, since they have eaten my bait, then hand over their lives.

If I can't get the big fish, I'll get rid of the small fish next to the big fish, so that the next time I catch the big fish, there won't be so many trash fish in the way. ”

Li Wen was stunned, and immediately nodded heavily: "The slave understands Your Highness!" ”

After saying that, Li Wendang turned around and left.

Soon, the Imperial City Division was ordered by the prince of the prison country to arrest the Hedong army, and the case of corruption and ink caused a stir in the entire capital.

Nearly 100 officials involved in the case are all over the six departments of the imperial court, and these days the Imperial City Division is arresting people everywhere non-stop, and soon the dungeon of the Imperial City Division is full, and even the prison of the Criminal Department has to be used.

Originally, Li Wen thought that it would be more troublesome to borrow a prison from the Criminal Department, after all, the Criminal Department was still the book, and that was the person of the Fifth Prince.

But when the Imperial City Division passed, the Criminal Department only checked the official documents and confirmed that all the formalities were complete, and then directly lent out the prison of the Criminal Department.

came to the Criminal Department, and the Imperial City Division also arrested more than a dozen officials in the Criminal Department by the way, and directly imprisoned them in the prison of the Criminal Department.

However, in four days, the 137 officials involved in the case, from Wu Yuan, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to an ordinary official in a certain department, were all arrested and brought to justice.

In the morning of the next day, Zhao Ming directly read out the charges of these people in public, plus there were all the human and material evidence.

These officials involved in the Hedong military salary corruption case were sentenced to dismissal, dismissal, raids, and exile of the three ethnic groups for thousands of miles in the northwest.

The perpetrators themselves were all beheaded.

Wu Yuan, the official secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who has the largest official position, was directly guilty of one degree because of his official position.

Not only was he dismissed and beheaded, but his family members also directly razed the three clans, and all the clansmen within the nine clans outside the three clans were deprived of all their fame, and they were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination within three generations.

It can be said that this Rite Department Shangshu, who has just taken office not long ago, has single-handedly ruined the future of the entire family.

Before he had time to live a good life with his new Shangshu, he was affected in the blink of an eye.

After the clansmen outside the Wu Yuan clan heard the news, what they felt was nothing but grief and indignation, and what was left was just an indescribable special emotion like a dog.

This big move of the imperial court directly led to vacancies in many departments of the six ministries, which directly affected the operation of the imperial court, which is naturally not possible.

But in this world, there is a lack of everything, that is, there is no shortage of people who want to be officials, and after the prince and a cadre of civil servants led by Prime Minister Zhang He pulled left and right for three days, the vacant positions were divided between the two of them with a share of fifty percent.

The prince's power in the court has once again increased on a large scale.

However, it is still at a disadvantage.

This loss of manpower is nothing more than a temporary pain for Zhang He, who has been in the ups and downs of officialdom for decades.

Now the position is given, but it's hard to say whether those people will be able to sit firmly under the ass.

In this court, as long as he doesn't get in one day, how many henchmen he wants is just a matter of effort.

And after the gradual resumption of operations in various departments, an urgent and important matter is on everyone's desk.

The border troops in Hedong are still making money.

More than ten days have passed since I received the news.

Those generals who want to come to Hedong have also been surrounded by the big head who loves you for at least half a month.

If you don't solve it, I'm afraid you will starve to death in your own mansion!

In the end, after discussion, the court sent Li Wen as the imperial court's envoy, ordered the Imperial City Division and sent 3,000 forbidden troops to escort the new army along the way to the border pass to distribute military salaries to appease the border army soldiers.

As for where the new military salary came from, it is necessary to ask the more than 100 officials whose homes were raided.

Many of these officials were born in the southeast, and their family assets were already quite rich, plus they were already greedy for half of the military salary, and finally raided their homes, Zhao Ming actually found that after taking out the new military salary, he could still have more than one million taels of silver left into his purse.

Of course, on the surface, it was charged into the emperor's internal funds, because a large part of the military salaries were lent to the national treasury by the emperor's internal funds.

Now that these people are greedy for the money that has been copied from the house, it will naturally go to the inside, and the officials will not agree, especially the household book.

But when Zhao Ming took out the documents that the household had borrowed from the Ministry of Finance over the years, everyone shut up.

Today, the emperor's inner money is the largest creditor of the household.

If it weren't for the emperor's internal funds to support it, how would the taxes of the Great Song Dynasty be smaller and smaller year by year to support this big country.

And the biggest impact of this salary is not only on the civilian side, but also on the side of the border army, and the same is true on the Ding family's side, most of the Ding family members are military generals, but many of them have been surrounded.

Some of them were even killed directly by the angry troublemakers, but it is unknown whether these troublemakers were really so angry.

This time, the loss of the Ding family is also not small.

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(End of chapter)