"It's getting more and more lively......"

In October, when it was already a little chilly in the north, a man in the carriage looked out the window at the hot construction site and said this sentence with a sigh.

This is Fufeng County, Fengxiang Prefecture, and the construction site that is being built is the Zhangfeng Railway in the southern section of the Northwest Railway.

The railway from Zhangjiakou to Fengxiang has been repaired to the territory of Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi, although there is still a thousand miles away from Fengxiang Mansion, but because it is a multi-section construction, many railway subbeds in Xi'an have started construction very early.

As a region with coal and iron mines, Shaanxi did not have to wait like other places, and since the Shanxi and Shaanxi sections were separated by the Yellow River, and the imperial court did not have the technology to build the Yellow River bridge, there was no need to worry about the connection.

From Weinan to Baoji County, Fengxiang Prefecture, it is only more than 400 miles, and one-third of it has been repaired at present, and it will be completed in about two years.

At that time, if the railway in Shanxi is also completed, the Zhangfeng railway will be fully opened to traffic.

The whole line of this railway is open to traffic, and I guess I can go......

Yang Shiqi let out a breath of turbidity, he knew very well why Zhu Gaoxu made himself the political envoy of Shaanxi, to put it bluntly, it was to let himself repair the Zhangfeng Railway.

"Sir, if this Zhangfeng Railway is built, we should be able to go home by then, right?"

But the problem is that Yang Shiqi has this background in Jiangnan, and he can be used as a lubricant for the imperial court and Jiangnan to lubricate the relationship between the two sides, so it is not easy to find a person to replace him.

Although Zhu Gaoxu did not kill them, and did not even issue a decree to explain why they were dismissed, most of their family property was indeed seized by Xichang and Jinyiwei, gold and silver banknotes were stored in local banks, antique calligraphy and paintings were shipped to the capital, and local farmland and mansions were distributed by local yamen.

The difficulty in finding what he said was not because of how confident he was in his ability, but because of his special identity.

The staff looked at the overseers who were riding horses on the construction site, and said with a frown:

Officials in Jiangnan and other places are now slowly absorbing students who graduated in Jiangnan, but this is a gradual process, and it is still Yang Shiqi and a few of them who can come to the stage to support the field.

Although the reason given by the Naval Governor's Office was that the soldiers were older, everyone was aware of the collusion within the Navy with the vassal states of Kunlun Continent.

Ji Gang dealt a heavy blow to Jiangxi, western Zhejiang, Jiangdong and other officials, and it is difficult to recover until now.

Therefore, when he mentioned Zhu Yuanzhang, many people had already begun to panic.

"Among them, Emperor Taizu Gao mentioned the corruption of officials, and said that corrupt officials cannot be killed endlessly."

Such an answer made Yang Shiqi relax: "Since this is the case, let's finish the last two years......

"It's okay, the two sons are very obedient." The staff replied based on the news from the people below.

The 20,000 naval soldiers trained by Yang Zhan in Ceylon made up for the shortage of the Little Western Ocean, and at the same time, more than 14,000 navy soldiers trained in the Second Prefecture of Denglai in Shandong Province were also successfully put on duty, replacing the guards and horses of the Old Port, Manraka, and Luzon in the South Seas.

His sudden sword movement made the atmosphere in the entire hall suddenly suppress.

"Flat!"

When Zhu Gaoxu sent Yang Zhan there, everyone guessed that Yang Zhan had drastic reform of the navy, but they didn't expect Yang Zhan to hit the main artery with one sword.

I saw Zhu Gaoxu looking at the body of the long sword in his hand, as if he was looking at the long sword, and he seemed to be looking at the ministers.

"Class!"

In the same car, Yang Shiqi's staff spoke cautiously, and he also nodded:

"As long as the court can promote a few people to replace me, but it's hard to find such people."

On this day, the court will look extremely weird, and the strange atmosphere makes the ministers already feel that something is wrong when they wear heavy court clothes.

"The railways are mainly in the north, and the north is controlled by the New Deal, and this time they are afraid that they will be broken."

At the same time as the carriage left, there was also a lot of turmoil within the navy.

"I didn't believe it at the time, and even felt that Emperor Taizu Gao's laws on official corruption were too strict."

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly pulled out his long sword, and the ministers' hearts tightened.

In the midst of the mountain cry of the ministers, a footstep sounded slowly.

Zhu Gaoxu begins with Zhu Yuanzhang, and this emperor is undoubtedly a nightmare in the hearts of the entire Ming Dynasty officials, followed by Zhu Gaoxu.

The ministers got up one after another, but when they looked up, they saw Zhu Gaoxu, who was wearing a crown robe and standing on a golden platform, with a four-foot long sword pinned to his waist.

His words fell, and soon the carriage drove in the direction of Chang'an County, Xi'an.

If you talk about ability alone, Zhu Gaoxu can completely choose a few people from the New Deal faction and Bohai graduates to replace Yang Shiqi, after all, he is old and can no longer keep up with the times.

"I recently flipped through the history books, and at the same time, I also recalled the incident of accompanying Emperor Taizu Gao in the Wuying Palace."

"Hmm......" Yang Shiqi bowed, but asked again: "Nothing happened in my hometown, right?" ”

"Your Majesty Xie......"

On the 10th day of October, the navy began to readjust its internal ranks, and the navy of the 17 Guards and Three Guards, with 98,200 men, was laid off 34,265 soldiers at once, and more than one-third of the soldiers were eliminated.

On the third day of the news transmission to Beijing, Zhu Gaoxu issued an order to strip 36 naval attachés of their ranks, but did not exile them.

Time passes little by little, and the winter solstice will come with the arrival of the winter solstice on the 21st day of the winter month.

"Recently, the number of people in and out of Shaanxi has increased a lot, and it seems that the imperial court is ready to attack that group of people."

"Poof!"

Although he did not say the reason, it was clear to everyone that these 36 people were probably the main personnel who caused the major reshuffle within the navy.

Although the king could wear a sword in the court, Zhu Gaoxu's habit was never to wear a sword.

Honglu Siqing's voice was still solemn, and under his command, the ministers entered the class one after another, holding the wat board and singing long live.

Today's weather was not good, and the gloomy sky made the hall look slightly dim, all lit by a few candles in two rows.

"But in this way, once the New Deal faction is weak, then it can also support the young and strong faction to appear, and you can get out of it."

Because the bureaucracy of the Yuan Dynasty was extremely corrupt and the officials were corrupt, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang paid great attention to the political style of the Ming Dynasty, and even reached the point of overkill.

On the one hand, he advocated honesty and demanded that officials at all levels abide by discipline and law, be honest and love the people, and on the other hand, impose heavy penalties on officials who violate the law in order to deter officials from embezzlement.

During the Hongwu period, if an official committed a crime of embezzlement, he was punished by skinning.

Before the outbreak of the Guo Huan case, the empty seal case and the Hu Weiyong case occurred successively, Zhu Yuanzhang gradually adopted the method of extrajudicial punishment in order to solve the corruption of officials, and it became more and more serious, and set up a brocade guard to strengthen the monitoring of officials, but even so could not stop the corruption of officials.

Because of this, he sighed and said: "I am only sparse and thin, and the way of control is exhausted!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu has now suddenly brought out Zhu Yuanzhang and the issue of corruption, which shows that what he wants to discuss today is probably an issue related to corruption.

As expected, Zhu Gaoxu's next words made many people sweat.

"The imperial court built the railway, originally for the people of the world and the affairs of the world, such a major matter, but I don't want to let everyone go, and the amount of corruption is so large that even I can't believe it."

"Last month, Jiang Huai, the prefect of Longchuan Prefecture, the political secretary of Yunnan, played a concert, and Wang You, his cousin and nephew, Wang Ji, the secretary of the Nandian County Gongfang, embezzled the Longchuan Railway and created false accounts, and in less than 10 months, they embezzled more than 84,000 yuan from the total amount of the Longchuan Railway."

"Most of the money they are greedy for ink has been deposited in hundreds of batches into the passbook of the heir of a certain lord's family, do you say...... Wang Zuo? ”

As Zhu Gaoxu spoke, the eyes of the ministers turned to a sixty-year-old military attache and a forty-year-old military attache standing in the corner.

One of them was Wang Zuo, the Bo of Shunchang, who was a general who defected to the Yan army in the Battle of Jingyan, and was also knighted by Zhu Di after the war.

The other person is Wang Zuo, the governor of the Navy Governor's Mansion, and after Yang Zhan went to Xiaoxiyang, he was responsible for staying in the Navy Governor's Mansion.

At this moment, Wang Zuo, the governor of the navy, looked confused, so everyone turned their attention to Wang Zuo, the governor of Shunchang.

"Your Majesty, the minister has been wronged!"

Suddenly, King Zuo of Shunchang Bo knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, but no one in the temple dared to intercede for him.

No one could have imagined that he was so bold that he could corrupt 84,000 yuan alone.

Innocent people have nothing to do with him, and most of the people who have relationships are not clean themselves, for fear of being implicated.

In this case, Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the temple and walked down the steps step by step.

With his burly figure of more than six feet, wearing a crown suit and holding a long sword, he was full of momentum, and the ministers knelt down one after another, even generals like Zhu Neng and Chen Chang were no exception.

"Your Majesty, this is the Fengtian Temple after all......"

At the critical moment, Xia Yuanji stepped forward and knelt down and stopped in front of Zhu Gaoxu, for fear that Zhu Gaochu would cut Wang Zuo when he went up.

Zhu Gaoxu stopped, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but his next words made everyone's hearts hang again.

"Wang Zuo is just one of them, and there are not many people who are greedy for money and grain in the northwest, northeast, and Liangjing railways."

"I don't want to kill, I think you are all the former ministers of Emperor Taishang and Emperor Gao, give you ten days to self-examine, and hand over greedy money and food."

"Of course, you can also choose not to pay, but in ten days I will send someone to find out everyone."

"I'll find out!"

When the words fell, Zhu Gaoxu slammed the long sword in his hand to the ground, and the sound of the long sword and the gold bricks smashing together overwhelmed the ministers.

When they looked up again, Zhu Gaoxu's figure had disappeared, and at this time, Wang Zuo's shouting was heard.

"Your Majesty, the minister knows that he is wrong! Your Majesty! ”

Wang Zuo was held in mid-air by four Han generals and carried out directly.

His hoarse shouting was to no avail, and the sound made many unclean officials and ministers sweat profusely and lose their spirits.

"Uhh

Suddenly, a miserable scream hit everyone's hearts like thunder, and everyone rushed out before Honglu Siqing had not yet sang.

I saw that Shunchang Bo Wang Zuo, who was still full of scenery a word ago, was actually thrown directly from the royal road by the Han general from the Fengtian Temple Square at this moment.

He was lying on the square of the Fengtian Temple, and the whole person was motionless.

On the square of Fengtian Temple, many officials who came to participate in the great court meeting saw this scene with their own eyes, some were so frightened that they collapsed directly to the ground, and some knelt on the ground, looking away from Wang Zuo.

No one knew whether he was dead or alive, and it wasn't until a few words that the imperial doctors of the Houtai Hospital arrived here, but Wang Zuo was already dead and couldn't die anymore.

"Mother, it's really bad ......"

In the crowd of military attachés, Wang Zuo, the governor of the navy, scolded secretly, and people who were familiar with him looked at him one after another.

Although the deceased was the greatest, Wang Zuo was indeed taken aback, and when he was called by name, he was still thinking about how his relatives in Longchuan, whom he didn't know at all, were corrupt.

Fortunately, it was a false alarm, otherwise it would have been him lying there.

"Scatter!"

When Honglu Siqing's voice came, everyone realized their rude behavior just now.

Maybe there is a ghost in his heart, maybe he is frightened by today's situation, in short, the ministers left Fengtian Temple one after another after Honglu Temple announced the dispersion of the dynasty.

At the same time, Xichang began to confiscate the mansion and family property of Shunchang Bo Wang Zuo, and Zhu Gaoxu also sent Zheng He to Daming Palace to explain to Zhu Di.

For Wang Zuo, Zhu Di is no longer impressed, he gave Wang Zuo the title just to buy people's hearts, and now the generals of the Southern Army in Jinnan are almost dead, and it doesn't matter whether Wang Zuo is dead or alive.

"You tell the second child, I will send Wang Yan to ask from the Yan Mansion, if someone is unwilling to pay, I will also deal with it, after all, I have to leave a way to live."

In the Heart Cultivation Hall of Daming Palace, Zhu Di explained to Zheng He, and Zheng He also responded when he heard this, and then withdrew from the Heart Cultivation Hall with Zhu Di's acquiescence.

After he left, Zhu Di set his eyes on Wang Yan: "Did you participate yourself?" ”

"Slave maid...... Wang Yan wanted to speak and stopped, and finally nodded: "Take some." ”

Wang Yan was not afraid of Zhu Di, but afraid of Zhu Gaoxu, so he dared to tell Zhu Di and hoped that Zhu Di would protect him.

If Zhu Di is not guaranteed, Wang Yan doesn't think that Zhu Gaoxu will let go of himself because of his love over the years.

"If you are greedy for ink, hand it over, and you can go for me, and let the group of people below also hand over the money and food for greedy ink, so that I can intercede with the second child."

Zhu Di closed his eyes, his tone was very heavy, and he even used the self-title of "I", which shows the seriousness of the matter.

"Slave and maid, thank Your Majesty for your grace!"

Hearing this, Wang Yan knelt on the ground and bowed five times and bowed three times, then got up and walked out, and informed the generals of Yanfu to go.

A big court meeting instantly changed the atmosphere of the entire Beijing city.

Even the civilians in the outer city could feel the changes in the city, and for a while everyone was cautious, for fear of offending those who should not be offended.

It's just that they don't know that the group of people they can't afford to offend are crossing the river at the moment, and it is difficult to protect themselves......

The atmosphere in Beijing soon spread with the dispatch of the West Factory, and Zhu Gaoxu gave the courtiers a chance, but it did not mean that he would give the people below a chance.

Soon, tens of thousands of guards began to operate in the north, and many officials were arrested in full view, even the small overseer in charge of the project.

"Caught the wrong person! The wrong person must have been caught! ”

"That's right! We're just little overseers, why arrest us! ”

"Shut up!"

On the Pingyang section of the railway, Wang Fatzi, who had bullied the old workers and young people, was arrested and taken away by Jinyiwei, and even his two followers were also taken away.

For a few months, the three of them ate a lot of brains, but at this moment they were taken away like dead pigs.

They kept "crying out", but in exchange for a severe slap, they even knocked out several of their rotten teeth due to excessive sugar consumption.

A new group of officials took over the Binh Duong Province and the Binh Duong section of the railway, and in the face of the officials who stood in front of them to appease them, the old workers and the young people looked at each other.

They didn't know how long the official would be clean, but they knew they could at least breathe a sigh of relief......

The storm continues, from Beijing to Liaodong, Shanxi, Shanxi, and even the Bohai Sea.

At the same time, batches of gold and silver were also taken to the Yamen of the Master of Ceremonies, and more than a dozen carts of gold and silver were transported here every day.

Many people originally had a wait-and-see mentality, but as the crackdown became more and more severe, they also calculated the account books one after another, and came to the celebrant with the account books and gold, silver and copper coins to confess.

Time passed little by little, and with the arrival of the first day of the lunar month, thousands of Xichang wrestlers and Jinyiwei in Beijing also began their activities.

Zhu Gaoxu gave these former heroes a way to live with the answer, but if they chose to gamble, they could only blame themselves.

"Qi Guogong Qiu Song, surrendered to the dirty silver of 169,827 26 dollars and five cents."

"Taining Hou Chen Gui, surrendered to 143,600 ...... of dirty silver"

"With Anhou Huozhen, surrendered to the dirty silver of 122,000 ......"

"Anton Bo Li Qi, surrendered to 115,200 ...... of dirty silver"

"Xu Qin, Duke of Wei, surrendered himself to 109,000 ...... of dirty silver"

"Chicken Siber Richard......

"Heishui Bo Li Chi......

"Hornburg Room Wide ......"

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Gaoxu, who had been out of the dynasty for a month, listened to the names and amounts of people from Yishaha's mouth, and the handrails in his hands were clenched so tightly that he made a sound.

He had thought that these people would receive money and food, but he did not expect that there would be so much.

"Your Majesty, there are two dukes, seven marquises, and fourteen earls, in addition to sixty-nine officials from the six prefectures and six ministries, as well as sixteen eunuchs in the Daming Palace and the inner court except for Wang Yan."

"Greedy ink and dirty silver...... Four million seven hundred seventy-five thousand four hundred twenty-seven two hundred and twenty-three cents. ”

With a "bang", the gauntlet of the chair was broken by Zhu Gaoxu, and Yisha was startled, and after reacting, he hurriedly put down the document and stepped forward to spread Zhu Gaoxu's hand.

After confirming that Zhu Gaoxu was not injured, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Majesty, don't get angry."

He cared about Zhu Gaoxu, but Zhu Gaoxu still couldn't calm down after hearing this.

It has only been seven years since the railroad was built, and these officials may have taken less than a third.

In other words, in seven years, everyone embezzled no less than 10 million taels, and this was enough to build another six or seven hundred miles long railway.

"How are they...... That's a good job! ”

Zhu Gaoxu laughed angrily, and he was worried: "Some people don't know that it is the money of the railway, if they know, they will not dare to be corrupt." ”

"It's just an excuse!" Zhu Gaoxu smashed his fist on the dragon case, and the pen and ink on the dragon case shook a lot.

"Tell Hu Lun and Liu Mian, give me a good check!"

Zhu Gaoxu resisted the idea of smashing things, and his whole breath trembled slightly.

Seeing this, Yisha hurriedly went to do it, and at this time, Zheng He also walked into the hall and said, "Your Majesty ......"

"You want to intercede?" Zhu Gaoxu's eyes were not good, and it was the first time that Zheng He was looked directly at by Zhu Gaochu with this kind of gaze, and he couldn't help but lower his head.

"Your Majesty, after all, you promised the Emperor and the ministers......"

"What did I promise?" Zhu Gaoxu asked Zheng He rhetorically, but Zheng He was stopped by him.

Indeed, Zhu Gaoxu never said that he would be let go if he handed over the dirty silver and surrendered and confessed, but everyone felt that he valued affection and righteousness, so he subconsciously felt that there would be nothing wrong with handing over the dirty silver.

"Go down first, I'll think about it myself."

Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth to see off the guests, Zheng He had no choice but to withdraw from the Qianqing Palace, and saw the queen Guo Yan who came in a hurry at the palace gate.

"Her Royal Highness ...... Queen"

Zheng He saluted, and Guo Yan saw that his expression was not good-looking, so he probably guessed the situation inside.

"It seems that Your Majesty doesn't want to see anyone now, and in that case, I won't go in."

"As for you, don't worry too much, Your Majesty must still be reluctant to attack the heroes."

"Besides, even if he doesn't care about himself, he has to take care of the emperor."

"Let Your Majesty be quiet alone, you go back and return to the Emperor first."

Guo Yan appeased Zheng He, Zheng He nodded when he heard this, and left the Qianqing Palace.

Guo Yan didn't leave, since she couldn't go in, she went to the palace next to her to rest, waiting for Zhu Gaoxu to be less angry before entering the Qianqing Palace.

Time passed little by little, and soon two hours passed, and Yizha also returned to the Qianqing Palace.

It's just that when he came back, Zhu Gaoxu stared at the "General Map of the Four Yibin Suits in the World" without saying a word, standing in front of the map with his hands behind his back.

After a while, the eunuch on duty outside the palace suddenly spoke: "Your Majesty, Wang Yi, Duke of Shenguo, Chen Chang, Marquis of Zhaozhou, and others knelt at the gate of the Qianqing Palace and begged to see Your Majesty. ”

"Your Majesty......" Hearing this, he also spoke carefully, for fear that Zhu Gaoxu would still be angry.

"Nope!"

Zhu Gaoxu replied with a dark face, which made Yisha's mood sink.

Seeing this, the eunuch on duty immediately walked out of the palace road of the Qianqing Palace, passed through the palace gate, and saw Wang Yi and others kneeling at the gate of the Qianqing Palace.

The youngest of them is also in his forties, and the eldest Wang Yi is in his sixties, and almost all of them are generals of the Bohai family.

They knelt in front of the palace gate and watched the eunuch on duty coming.

"Everyone, please go back, Your Majesty doesn't want to see anyone......"

"This ......" Hearing this, Li Lost and the others turned their eyes to Wang Yi and Chen Chang.

The two of them didn't look good, and they couldn't see Zhu Gaoxu, how did they know what kind of crime Li Qi, Richard and others would be sentenced to.

"Please tell Your Majesty, and the ministers are here to wait for Your Majesty to summon you......"

Although Wang Yi also felt that this matter was embarrassing, for the sake of the lives of the brothers, he still made a bold face to this shift of eunuchs.

"Shen Guogong, you are too tormenting to me, I will pass it on to you now."

The eunuch on duty was taken aback, and hurriedly turned around and walked quickly towards the palace gate.

After a short time, he returned to the Qianqing Palace, knelt on the gold brick and said, "Your Majesty, Shen Guogong said that they were waiting for your summons at the palace gate. ”

"Then let them wait slowly!"

Zhu Gaoxu still carried his hands behind his back, looked at the map in front of him with a gloomy face, and stood behind him without saying a word.

It wasn't until the sun went down that he glanced out the window and said, "Your Majesty, it's snowing for the first time......

Zhu Gaoxu didn't respond, which made Yishaha feel worried.

As for Wang Yi and others at the gate of the Qianqing Palace, they also looked extremely weak and crumbling under the wind and snow......

(End of chapter)