Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 327 A Comprehensive Examination
Among the generals who conquered Luchuan and put down the Miao Rebellion, Liang Ping and Fang Ying were among the best.

But thinking of these two people, Zhu Qiyu began to sigh hard while lying on the bed.

The emperor is most afraid of this kind of person, and he can't see a clear stand, but he has the ability and military exploits, and he has to reuse it.

Zhu Qiyu still decided to let these generals, as pioneers, lead the Nanjing Jingying to try to recover Jiaozhi.

It would be best for the Nanjing Jingying to take down Cochin, but if they couldn’t, they would send the Beijing Jingying over.

Seeing Zhu Qiyu sighing uncontrollably, Qianxue not only did not comfort her, but instead asked like fuel on the fire: "Husband, before Ningyang Hou Jin offered more than a hundred castrated prisoners of war, and later Uncle Jingyuan also sent them over." Nearly [-] castrated Miao people.

These more than 300 people have been left there without any care.

Wang Cheng sent people to urge him several times. Should he be killed, released or kept?You need to give an explanation quickly. "

"Oh my God!"

After Zhu Qiyu finished listening, he really covered his face with his hands, and the fire became even bigger.Why are there problems everywhere? Killing these people is a bit cruel.It is not appropriate to let these people go.

Keep these people?If they are not well-raised, they will waste money and food.

After yelling and calling for a while, Zhu Qiyu moved his hand away and looked up at the concubines.All the concubines were staring blankly, but no one planned to come over to comfort him.

Zhu Qiyu could only sigh, and told Qianxue: "Forget it, let Wang Qin bring all the 300 people over tomorrow, and I will pick them myself.

Now you come here one, two or three people, and help me to get rid of the fire. "

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On the second day, after resting, Zhu Qiyu came out to attend the small court meeting.

Half a month has passed since the last small court meeting.

Zhu Qiyu looked around, and found that the complexions of the ministers were getting better and better, all of them were rosy and full of spirits.

It's no wonder that except for Zhu Qiyu who is still worrying from time to time recently, the life of the ministers is really good: the wars in the four directions of the Ming Empire have gradually subsided.

The emperor formulated a three-year tax exemption plan, of which the first year has already survived.

Replacing Daming Treasure Banknotes with Jingtai Tongbao went smoothly.

The pro-emperor army in Beijing has been wiped out, the number of Beijing troops has been greatly reduced, and the pressure on water transport has been greatly reduced.Xu Youzhen also managed the river successfully, and the water transportation in the Shandong section has been fully restored.

Moreover, the court's efforts to increase income and reduce expenditure have achieved initial results, and all civil and military officials have received full salaries.

Most importantly, eight of the emperor's favorite concubines are pregnant, more than half of them.

This is a big reassurance for everyone.The eight favorite concubines must give birth to one or two princes no matter what.

With the prince, everyone has more confidence to act.

Although Zhu Qiyu himself is not in a hurry, the important ministers in the cabinet are already planning to change the crown prince.

Especially Wang Wen, Jiang Yuan, and He Wenyuan were the most active.

This is also the commonality of civil servants. They all want to occupy a position with the next emperor so that their families can continue to be rich.

Zhu Qiyu didn't know that his family's trusted officials thought so much and so far.

Zhu Qiyu only cared about whether he and his favorite concubines could have enough to eat, so he said straight to the point: "According to Dongchang's report, as the emperor's return to Beijing is approaching, Wang Zhenyu's party is ready to spread rumors in the city, Build momentum for the restoration of the Supreme Emperor.

Although he should still be the Supreme Emperor, Wang Zhen almost overthrew the country and was a sinner of the country.It is not the turn of Wang Zhenyu's party to talk about the restoration.

Ladies and gentlemen, how should we deal with these rebels? "

Everyone present looked at each other in blank dismay.Although there have indeed been some rumors and gossips in Beijing recently, everyone does not believe that Wang Zhenyu's party really has such courage.

I'm afraid it's just someone acting in the name of Wang Zhenyu's party.

The problem is that the emperor gave it a certainty as soon as he opened his mouth.The emperor said that it was Wang Zhenyu's party that was causing the chaos, who would dare to speak up.

As for the emperor's move, what was his intention?
I don't know, even Wang Wen and He Yi are at a loss as to what the emperor wants to do.

This is also Zhu Qiyu's fault. Originally, he planned to slaughter pigs until the end of next year. Now that the situation has changed and life is getting worse, he decided to make another windfall on the spur of the moment.

It is possible to understand the emperor's mind, but the emperor's questions must be answered.

A group of ministers recommended Wang Wen to come out to answer questions.

Wang Wen bit the bullet and replied: "The position of heaven has been determined, how can it be changed again. For those who promote the restoration of the Supreme Emperor, His Majesty should make an example of others, so as to set the record straight."

Zhu Qiyu shook his head: "There's no need to kill anyone, just go into exile, let's choose Mengyang. In order to avoid Luchuan's rebellion, we should move more Han people to Yunnan.

Those exiled into the army like this are sent to Yunnan first.

I asked Dongchang and Jinyiwei to do it, confiscated these people's property, and deported them from Beijing within three days.

This is the list of people who ransacked the house, please pass it on for a look, if there is no problem, the Ministry of Punishment will issue a driving note. "

Wang Wen took the driving note and looked at it with Chen Xun.

I don’t know, I’m scared.

Good guy, the list given by the emperor is densely packed with dozens of people, including the nephew of the Wang family, Jin Yiwei Qianhu Wang Lin, Wang Shan and others.

There are Wang Zhen's cronies, Jin Yiwei Zhenfu Zhou Quan, Xiaoqi Zhang Botong, Seng Lu Si You Jueyi Gong Ran, Dao Lu Si You Xuanyi Wang Daohong, craftsman Shen Cheng...

Although these people's official positions are not high, but relying on Wang Zhen's power and favor, they went in and out of Wang Zhen's mansion and leaked confidential matters.

So this group of people are very rich.

Many of them helped Wang Zhen manage property on his behalf, and handled smuggling matters with Wala.

After Chen Xun and Wang Wen read it, they passed the list to others.

After watching it, everyone felt cold in their hearts. The emperor's move was a plan to kill three birds with one stone.

The first is to comprehensively eliminate Wang Zhen's remaining party, to characterize Wang Zhen's collusion with the enemy and traitorous country, and at the same time to completely conclude the crime of negligence for the overlord's appointment of traitors, misleading the country and harming the people.

The second is to deter the emperor's faction, so that these dissatisfied people will not jump up and down and make trouble because of the emperor's return to Beijing.

The third is to confiscate property and make a fortune.All the important ministers present could see that, according to the previous agreement reached between the monarch and his ministers, the family property of these people on the list should all belong to the emperor.

Eunuchs, Jin Yiwei, monks, Taoists, and craftsmen, all the proceeds of these house raids belong to the internal funds.For other civil and military officials, wealthy businessmen and tycoons, the proceeds from the confiscation of their homes belong to the imperial court, which was agreed long ago between the monarch and his ministers.

Now that things are done according to the agreement, the ministers have nothing to say.

It's just a pity that these four No. 50 people, even if only 5 taels of property were copied from each family, the total would be more than 200 million taels.A huge sum of money, just like that, all went into the emperor's pocket.

Wang Wen looked around at the crowd and saw that there was no objection, so he replied to Zhu Qiyu: "I report to your Majesty, I have no objection. After returning for a while, I will order the Ministry of Punishment to issue a driving letter."

(End of this chapter)