A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 536 Severe Punishment

The emergence of anonymous reports and real-name reports suddenly divided officials. Unscrupulous officials began to worry about whether they would be prosecuted.

Or some people who want to get promoted and make a fortune start to report the lawbreakers.

Because the Daqian court was so powerful, even though many people were very resistant to this reporting system, this decree was still promoted. But in places where the imperial court is weak and the emperor is far away, it is difficult for those officials to say.

This can only rely on the imperial censorship system.

Chao Cuo received strong support from the emperor and began to appoint and dismiss scholars who were willing to obey him, and dismissed officials who were incompetent or incompetent. This approach quickly aroused dissatisfaction among many people in the court.

Many officials even think that how can ordinary people compare with their officials? What's wrong with the people being wronged? They are just like weeds, how can they be compared with nobles like them.

The prime minister actually punished those people for their own reasons. He was too overbearing and treated officials harshly!

When Wang Yi learned about it, he was furious. He directly reprimanded: "You wantonly oppress the people, kill and take away lives, and violate the laws of Daqian. What is wrong with the imperial court asking for your life?"

Seeing Wang Yi supporting the prime minister so much, many officials suddenly fell silent. But their silence does not mean that they do not oppose the reform. Instead, he felt that directly confronting the Prime Minister was to hit the stone with an egg.

The prime minister with the emperor's support can easily persecute these people and then confiscate their homes and exterminate their families. They couldn't resist at all.

Seeing this, these people began to change their direction, began to flatter the Prime Minister, and helped the Prime Minister build momentum. Those officials, noble families and powerful people are very familiar with this method.

Since normal methods can't kill you, then flatter you, elevate you, hold you high, and make you respond to everything, making you look more powerful than the emperor.

He wanted to use this method to drive a wedge between the prime minister and the emperor, and make the emperor feel that the prime minister's achievements would shock the emperor.

Then take the initiative to depose the prime minister, or directly kill him. There were many successful examples of this approach in the Xianhuai period.

Next, people all over the world began to praise Chao Cuo's reputation and help Chao Cuo improve his reputation. Then the officials began to make messages. The world only knew about the Prime Minister Chao Cuo, but not about the Emperor!

There are even more heart-wrenching remarks, the important affairs of the country, whether it is the military or the sacrifice, the kindness and power should come from your majesty, but now the kindness, power, rewards and punishments all come from the prime minister, and I don’t know whether the surname in this world is Wang or Chao.

These messages began to spread widely in Luoyang City, and soon became common knowledge to passersby. The entire atmosphere in Luoyang became tense under this message.

On the surface, there seems to be no change in Luoyang City, but directly beneath the calm water, there is an undercurrent surging.

This method is very insidious and vicious, and can be said to be the most heart-wrenching conspiracy. However, this method has been successful in other countries where the Wang family is not the emperor.

The emperor would definitely have doubts and be wary of Prime Minister Chao Cuo. But if it is the Wang family, the Wang family is fully confident that they can secure the throne.

Because of these messages, Chao Cuo came to the palace to apologize to Wang Yi. What surprised those secretly hiding conspirators was that instead of punishing Chao Cuo, Wang Yi once again expressed his strong support for him.

Chao Cuo burst into tears of gratitude.

Although Chao Cuo had a high reputation and it seemed that all the officials above the court had become his supporters, Daqian's army was still in the hands of the royal family. Chao Cuo was very measured and never wanted to taint military power.

What's more, many officials in the court are from the royal family. These people support Chao Cuo now because the royal family supports him. If the royal family does not support him, these public officials will immediately stop supporting Chao Cuo. The royal family knew very well that although Chao Cuo was now in a high and powerful position, all this was due to the emperor's trust.

After seeing this situation, the officials, nobles, and powerful people in the world were silent for a while. They never expected that the royal family would be so confident.

what's the situation? You are actually indifferent. Have you forgotten that the three families will be promoted?

Do you no longer want to be the emperor?

Seeing the further expansion of royal support, Chao Cuo became more comfortable handling government affairs. Chao Cuo also began to use those Fuso silver mines to trade with nobles and noble families.

Fuso's silver mountain range is very large and its reserves are very high. It is too slow to rely solely on the imperial court to mine. After the royal family took out the silver mine, a large number of nobles and noble families came to cooperate.

The royal family divided these silver mines and then let these nobles bid on their own. Silver mining lasted twenty years for the first time and then ten years. The auction was resumed ten years later.

Although he did not obtain ownership of the silver mine, the mining rights for twenty years were still a huge fortune.

Because the number of silver mines is limited, those nobles no longer have the idea of ​​​​uniting. The imperial court easily broke up this loose alliance.

In Shangyang Palace.

Wang Yizheng was quickly flipping through the memorials on the table. After sorting out the official affairs, the efficiency of the court's work had been significantly improved, and various matters that had been mutually exclusive were also properly resolved.

At the same time, the financial situation of the imperial court has become much better, the problem of official corruption has been greatly reduced, and the occupation of land by nobles, powerful people, and official families from various places has become almost unheard of.

On the other hand, after the imperial court divided the development of Fuso Silver Mine, those nobles immediately invested a lot of manpower and financial resources in mining and excavation.

Because Fusang was far overseas, it was difficult to transport people from Daqian. These nobles led their servants to other islands in Fusang to capture slaves, and then escorted these slaves to mines for mining.

A large number of Japanese slaves were sent into the mines, and coupled with the technology brought by Daqian, these silver mines developed very quickly. A large amount of silver was mined and then smelted into silver ingots, which were then transported back to the country on imperial ships.

Most of these silver ingots will be sold to the court, and a small portion will be used to make various jewelry or other items.

The silver ingots would be transported to the Mint, resmelted, mixed with several other metals, and then minted into silver coins through minting machines. The imperial court was able to obtain a large amount of silver ingots from Fuso every year, which could be used to mint millions of silver coins.

With these silver coins, the imperial court's financial revenue finally improved a lot.

After completing these reforms, the court had money and food in its hands, and then began the most important step in the reform and restructuring. Chao Cuo's current restructuring is basically to optimize the previous system and strictly implement it, but the fundamental contradiction has not been resolved.

If the problem of large numbers of people and limited land cannot be solved, the reform will not be considered a success, and at most it will be just a paper poster. Next, Chao Cuo began to formally implement the development order.

(End of this chapter)