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After Gao Ming learned that Xiang Nan had pardoned Gao Kun and the female family members of the Gao family, he was relieved.

It is already a rare grace for the Gao family to leave behind a ray of incense.

So he said everything he knew.

Xiang Nan then followed suit and uncovered a group of remnants of high-ranking ministers.

Afterwards, Gao Xiang, Gao Kun, and the backbone of Gao Xiang's party were publicly punished for malpractice, embezzlement, perverting the law, harming the people, and harming the public.

And after death, the head was pickled with lime, and spread to the ten ways of the whole country as a warning.

The elimination of Gao Xiang's party effectively deterred the officialdom in the rich dynasty, and made those who were lucky enough to become uneasy and curb their greed.

The downfall of many corrupt officials also won the hearts of the people for Xiang Nan.The common people are all grateful, Qi Kua Xiangnan is a wise king and lord who helped them punish corrupt officials and gave them justice.

As for the money looted by these corrupt officials, it will be filled into the national treasury.

Among them, the money seized by the Gao family alone was as many as 300 million.There are also hundreds of thousands of mu of fertile land and hundreds of shops, which can be said to be a big rat.

No wonder.After all, he has been the prime minister for 20 years. The so-called clearing the magistrate for one year, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver, not to mention that he has let go of greed.

When Gao Ruyi learned that her father and second brother had been beheaded, and that the remaining third brother was sent to the frontier with the Gao family, she couldn't help being very excited, and shed tears for many days.

Crying that Xiang Nan is really ruthless. He would not have become the prince if he hadn't been supported by the Gao family.Now that he ascended the throne as the emperor, not only did he fail to repay the Gao family, but instead repaid his kindness with hatred, it was really heartless and ungrateful.

After Xiang Nan learned about it, he felt disgusted, demoted Gao Ruyi to a commoner, and sent him to the cold palace.

He was extremely kind to save Gao Zhen's life.

Gao Ruyi is still not satisfied and doesn't know how to be grateful, so don't blame him for being ruthless.

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After punishing Gao Xiang and his party, Xiang Nan issued an imperial edict.

"The case of Gu Ruhui is really higher than Ming's deception of the Mongolian court, and he was jealous of the loyal and good. Now it has finally come to light. However, the virtuous minister has passed away, and I feel ashamed. I hereby pardon Gu Ruhui's crime. I will posthumously grant the title of Zhongguo Duke and give him the Zhongxiao Mausoleum. To comfort the loyal soul, the Lord will carry it out!"

Chai Mu and Gu Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the imperial decree.

Zhang Meiniang learned that Gu Ruhui had been rehabilitated, but was worried that Xiang Nan would track down Concubine Gu Shu.

At that time, her position as queen mother, as well as the Zhang family behind her, may be liquidated.

For this reason, she was terrified and woke up from nightmares every night, making it difficult to fall asleep.

After Xiang Nan learned about it, he went to visit him in person.

"I heard that my mother has been feeling unwell recently. Have you arranged for an imperial doctor to treat her?" He asked.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern. Ai's family is fine." Zhang Meiniang's eyes flickered, and she didn't dare to look at Xiang Nan.

"Empress Mother, regarding Prime Minister Gao's matter, I've really been very merciful." Xiang Nan said, "Gao Ruyi, if she hadn't been ungrateful and slandered her behind her back, I wouldn't have demoted her to the cold palace.

If you really don't want to part with her, how about Erchen release her? "

"I'm not for her. She doesn't know how to be grateful, and she slanders His Majesty in private, so she deserves to end up like this." Zhang Meiniang waved her hand, she didn't care about Gao Ruyi's life or death.

"Your Majesty, before Prime Minister Gao died, do you have anything to say?" Zhang Meiniang asked tentatively, "I heard that he did what happened to General Gu?"

Xiang Nan nodded, "He personally confessed that he was the one who framed General Gu for rebellion, which resulted in the unjust case of the whole family of Gu and Chen being wiped out."

"What else did he say?" Zhang Meiniang asked again.

"It's nothing more than nonsense." Xiang Nan curled his lips, "How can a dying person have good things to say?"

"Yes, yes." Zhang Meiniang nodded after hearing this.

"Mother, take good care of your body and tell me if you have anything to do." Xiang Nan comforted, "Without your 20 years of teaching and support, I would not be where I am now. My son will firmly remember this, Never forget."

He had never met Concubine Gu Shu and had no impression of her.But all these years since he came here, he has always had a good relationship with Zhang Meiniang.Moreover, Zhang Meiniang did her best to support him to ascend the throne.

The so-called people are not grass and trees, who can be ruthless.Naturally, Xiang Nan didn't want to embarrass her.

Seeing what he said, Zhang Meiniang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

These days, she was worried that Xiang Nan would investigate the cause of his biological mother's death, so she was anxious.Now that she understood what Xiang Nan meant, she no longer pursued what happened back then, which made her heart trouble go away.

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After eradicating the traitors and stabilizing the court, Xiang Nan then began to implement educational reforms.

For example, schools are set up in ten townships across the country, and tuition fees and textbook fees are waived, so that every child can read as much as possible.And include this in the assessment of officials, so as to stimulate the enthusiasm of officials.

For example, in Xizhou, Danchi, and Shuobo in the west; Miaojiang in the southwest, Mohe in the north, Bohai, and Koryo in the east also set up Confucius Institutes to recruit local children and scholars, spread the teachings of sages, and allow them to come to rich To participate in the imperial examination.

For example, publish books such as "Basic Mathematics", "Basic Physics", "Legal System", "Nature", and gradually increase these subjects in the future imperial examinations, so as to select comprehensive talents instead of a group of partial talents who only know what they know. .

For example, the implementation of simplified characters, punctuation marks, Chinese pinyin, etc., lowers the threshold for people to learn.

There are a lot of traditional characters, the number of characters is extremely large, such as the word "法", which is "灋" in traditional characters, with 21 strokes.The simplified "law" has only eight strokes, which greatly simplifies the difficulty of learning.

For example, mathematics, physics, chemistry, legal system and other subjects were added to Taixue, so that people can see the world with their eyes open, instead of being blinded by Confucianism.

Such educational reforms will naturally cost a lot of money.Fortunately, Xiang Nan confiscated the property of so many corrupt officials, so he had the money to promote such a big plan.

Otherwise, he is also a clever woman who can't cook without rice.

With Xiang Nan's vigorous promotion, more than [-] schools have been built across the country, which can benefit hundreds of thousands of students.In time, the literacy rate of the Rich Dynasty will be greatly improved, and the quality of the people will be more guaranteed.

The rulers of all dynasties like to use the policy of "fooling the people" to prevent the people from thinking, making the people rich, not letting the people be idle, making them busy in production and exhausted, so as to facilitate the rule.

But Xiang Nan knows that the more educated, richer, and more leisurely the people are, the easier it is to control them.

Even the boss knows that the newcomers who have just joined the job and the elderly who are about to retire are the most difficult to manage.Only middle-aged people who have been employed for many years and have seniors and juniors are the easiest to manage.

Because those who don't have permanent property don't have perseverance, but those who have permanent property have perseverance.

If the people have nothing, and the barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes, they will not be willing to be ruled.It is a common thing to be cornered and forced to go to Liangshan.

Therefore, in ancient times, people often rose up, but in modern society, this phenomenon has almost disappeared.