After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 579
And even if Zhu Di knew the truth, it didn't matter, Emperor Yongle couldn't be shallow enough to reveal the truth to others.In other words, Qin Yu told him the truth, and he would keep his mouth shut.

He even took the initiative to cooperate with Zhu Yuanzhang to play this big game of chess.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang played the game, Qin Yu was the creator of the game. It stands to reason that the fewer people who know the truth, the better the game will be played.The fewer people who know the truth, the easier it is to succeed.

But any one more person who knows the truth will be detrimental to the overall situation of the chess game.

But Qin Yu believed in Emperor Yongle.

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"Your Majesty, Huang Lun, the servant of the Ministry of Commerce, impeached Zhang Zhong, the weaving bureau of the Jiangnan Road Weaving Bureau, saying that he had been in office for half a year, and had embezzled and accepted 2000 million taels of silver." In the imperial study, Yang Xian took out a memorial and handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang, saying, "In the memorial In this book, Zhang Zhong has collected all the evidence, and His Majesty can interrogate witnesses at any time if he wants to verify it."

Hurrah!Zhu Yuanzhang thought coldly, they are really impatient to start biting now.

And he also extracted a lot of information from this impeachment memorial.

One: The person impeached was Huang Lun, the minister of the Ministry of Commerce. In other words, the power of the feudal aristocracy had penetrated into Shen Wansan's Ministry of Commerce.There are also people from the feudal aristocracy in the Ministry of Commerce.

This is also easy to understand, after all, the Ministry of Commerce is now a fat vacancies.They will not let go of any department that can get money.Not all feudal nobles are so stupid that they will cling to their one-third of an acre of fertile land.

Now the new nobles, Li Shanchang and the others have also joined the ranks of scrambling for the commercial cake.Is there any collusion between them and Huang Lun?Involving new nobles and old nobles made the situation even more complicated.

Second, since the steam turbine spinning machine was put into use on a large scale, the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau has been making money every day, and has become a proper gold-absorbing department, which they are eager to snatch.

No wonder the earliest impeachment took place in the weaving bureau of the textile industry.

Third, Zhang Zhong spent 2000 million taels in half a year, which is simply an unbelievable figure.In the past, those corrupt officials were basically corrupted by tens of taels and hundreds of taels, and tens of thousands would be the top of the sky.

And Zhang Zhong actually got 2000 million! !
The increase in the amount shows that the productivity of the Ming Dynasty has really stepped up to a new level.

Fourth: The whistleblower is from the Huang family. The Huang family recently wanted to get in touch with King Yan and show their favor to King Yan, but they were rejected.

They wanted to win Zhang Zhong so eagerly because they wanted to use this matter as a certificate of honor for King Yan.It proves that they have the ability and strength to help King Yan snatch the prince.

Because Zhang Zhong loyally supported the prince.

Biao'er used to be too stable as the crown prince, so he didn't deliberately manage his power.But since he was abolished, some people have stood up to support the prince and formed his influence.

Just an impeachment memorial, which contains so much information.However, Zhu Yuanzhang saw all these things clearly and knew them well.

"Good guy, he embezzled 2000 million taels in half a year, even we admire him a little bit!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.At the same time, he knew very well that it was absolutely impossible for such a huge sum of 2000 million taels to fall into Zhang Zhong's pocket. Most of it was probably given to the Lu family who supported the prince.

Huang Lun reported that he was greedy for 2000 million taels of ink, and there was also a way to get the emperor to follow the vine and find out about the Lu family.These two forces are biting desperately!
Said: "Since the evidence is convincing, let him be dealt with."

"Two tigers!"

"The end is here!" Erhu stepped forward.

"Send someone to confiscate Zhang Zhong's home, and all properties under his name will be confiscated." Zhu Yuanzhang ordered, "In addition, Zhang Zhong must be severely tortured to recover the money in the account."

"After the recovery, he will be executed Ling Chi, the Yi tribe."

"Observe the decree!" The two tigers led the decree.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew well that the 2000 million taels of silver might not be recovered.Because it was not in his hands, but fell into the hands of the people behind him.

Zhang Zhong absolutely did not dare to confess the people behind him, his family members might still be in the hands of others.

Therefore, even if he was tortured, he would keep his mouth shut and even commit suicide in prison.

But the chase still has to be chased.

Seeing the back of the two tigers leaving, Yang Xian's mouth twitched.The emperor actually sent Jin Yiwei to ransack the house! ?
Home raids are a lucrative job, and there are many officials in charge of raids - they can all benefit from it.For example, what was actually seized was 1000 million taels, but the officials could report that it was only 10 taels.

The emperor generally knew about this, so he usually left such errands as house raids to his trusted ministers.

However, Emperor Zhu gave Jin Yiwei to ransack the house instead of giving it to other ministers.

In other words, all the wealth obtained from the raids will all fall into the national treasury or the emperor's internal treasury.

As we all know, Erhu is a loyal dog beside the emperor.

He will not be greedy.

If other officials are sent to copy, the social wealth is actually transferred from one feudal nobleman to another nobleman.But now it's in the treasury.

Seeing Yang Xian's expression, Emperor Zhu wanted to say: In the future, when we ransack the house, we will send Erhu himself.

This is about money!

Money is the root of everything.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Yan has met with members of the Huang family." At this time, a secret agent stepped forward and whispered in Zhu Yuanzhang's ear, "His Royal Highness King Yan had a wife and concubine who celebrated her birthday the day before yesterday, and the Huang family sent someone to congratulate them."

"King Yan and that man had a secret conversation in the garden for half an hour."

Dier, can you finally stop wanting to be a prince?Zhu Yuanzhang sighed in his heart: Once you express your opinion, there will be more people who will depend on you, and you will have more followers, so that we can deal with them more conveniently.

But I hope you don't do anything stupid.

"Yang Xian, you should step down first." Zhu Yuanzhang said to Yang Xian.He looked at Yang Xian with scorching eyes. This person is the Prime Minister of Zhongshu and has a high position. Those feudal nobles want to use their skills to help the princes win the heir. He is an important target to win over.It is estimated that many people are already trying to win him over, so he is also very important in this game of chess.

This person is a capable minister, and he probably knows the truth that he can protect himself wisely by not standing in line at the cusp of the storm.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang boldly guessed that Yang Xian had not clearly stated to them so far which prince he supported as the prince.Although Yang Xian is eager for quick success, he is also a fine individual.

"Minister, obey the order!" Yang Xian retreated respectfully.

"Your Majesty, the ministers of the court and the central government have been moving frequently with each other recently." At this time, Mao Xiang came in again and reported to Zhu Yuanzhang, "It's all walking around on the surface, especially those senior officials in the court."

"For example, Li Shanchang, Song Lian, Gao Qi, Feng Sheng, Geng Bingwen, Tang Shengzhong..."

(End of this chapter)