Zhu Qi's life was booming, and the officialdom that had experienced huge waves during this period finally calmed down for a while.

The only waves were Zhu Liangzu whipped to death in the hall, and then the officials were trembling and dared not speak.

It was not a day or two that officials of the Ming Dynasty had a hard time. In the past, those officials were peeled and filled with weeds at any time, and there were not a few who were hanging at the gates of the Guanya.

However, this time the empty seal case involved too much and killed too many people, which made people feel a little scared. Even the officials who submitted their resignations lined up to the Secretariat to submit their resignations.

Zhu Qi's reputation has completely broken into pieces.

Some of the smaller officials will be trembling when they see Zhu Qi passing by during the morning court and don’t even dare to say anything.

Those officials with relatively large positions, such as Li Shanchang, were respectful when they saw Zhu Qi, for fear of causing Zhu Qi to be unhappy and to be in trouble, etc.

Zhu Qi didn't expect that there would be such an effect, but it was true that he killed his cousin and his cousin.

Then the officials were arrested one by one, interrogating, beheaded, and exiled.

In addition, it is to fight wars on the battlefield.

Although I really did nothing, I was playing soybeans throughout the whole process and was living with others, but to outsiders, this is not the case!

In the eyes of those outsiders, they are the ones who dominate these things.

It is natural to be a little afraid of yourself.

Zhu Qi didn't have much thoughts, after all, he didn't have much intersection with those people in the officialdom.

Even if he went to the morning court, Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to go, so he would pass by himself. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say that, so he would sleep in at home.

Basically, I was asked to go to the morning court because of the craftsman firearms and other reasons that I let me go over and listen.

However, Zhu Qi looked very lazy, but it was not the case in the eyes of those officials.

At this time, the Jinyiwei had all been spread out and intelligence was collected.

Most of the corrupt officials who have not been dug up were targeted by the Jinyiwei at this time.

Sometimes on the first morning, people were still working in the government office, but in the afternoon, they were taken away by the Jinyiwei.

And who are the leaders of those Jinyiwei? Isn’t it the Liao King Zhu Qi?

So Zhu Qiren sat at home and the pot came from the sky.

As for Zhu Yuanzhang's side, after dealing with Zhu Liangzu, he also began to take serious action and wanted to deal with the nobles in Huaixi.

This Huaixi nobleman is a very famous political group.

They were called generals and civil officials near Huaixi who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to work hard all over the world.

Later, it was not limited to the region of birth.

It has a status like the Guanlong Group during the Tang Dynasty.

Such interest groups naturally pose a great threat to the rulers.

Wu Zetian killed a piece of Guanlong Group without leaving any armor. Zhu Yuanzhang obviously would not wait for the king of later generations to come to Huaixi Group like Guanlong Group.

Zhu Yuanzhang had to take care of the clothes the people wore, and also formulated various rules and regulations to ensure prosperity for generations.

How could such a huge interest group be left to the king of future generations to deal with under his nose?

In the past, Zhu Yuanzhang would not touch the Northern Yuan Dynasty if he had to rely on these nobles to fight against the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

However, after the incident involving Zhu Liangzu, Zhu Yuanzhang had already seen how these nobles were arrogant and domineering.

If they are not suppressed and allow them to continue to develop freely, they don’t know how far they will develop in the future.

But to tell the nobles bluntly that it is unrealistic to let them put down their power and restrain themselves one by one.

What's more, Zhu Yuanzhang is not a gentle person. If he really doesn't suit his wishes, he will not get any benefits.

Zhu Yuanzhang's idea was not unknown. For example, Liu Bowen talked about this with Zhu Qi.

The main reason is that Zhu Qi had known many military officers before and had received a lot of credit for those military officers. Liu Bowen specifically reminded Zhu Qi not to get too close to those military officers in recent times, so as not to cause trouble in the end.

Zhu Qi was naturally like a garlic:

"What the teacher said is, Xiao Wang thinks so too."

Zhu Qi felt that he didn't think so much, but Liu Bowen made a brilliant plan. Since he reminded him like this, he would definitely not be wrong.

As expected by Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang soon put several generals in prison.

It was not those famous historical generals, they were just small characters, but it was also a blow to the nobles of Huaixi.

In fact, the Huaixi nobles have indeed restrained a lot, and the most important one is the leader of the Huaixi nobles, Li Shanchang.

He directly submitted his resignation and wanted to retire and return home.

This matter was still what Li Shanchang's son, and Li Qi came over to tell him.

His son Li Shanchang not only retired and returned home, but even married a new wife after he returned, and was less than 20 years old.

I miss him, Li Shanchang, who is decades old, and he still wants to be a groom.

Li Qi was naturally very angry, but Li Shanchang was his father, so he had nothing to say.

However, Zhu Qi could see clearly that Li Shanchang was really not disrespectful to the old man, but just to reassure Zhu Yuanzhang.

What was Zhu Yuanzhang most afraid of?

Isn’t it just that the group of people under their command who relied on their achievements and began to be arrogant and domineering and seek power and usurp the throne?

Li Shanchang's reputation is so slandered that he will definitely not be much better outside.

At least those Confucian scholars who claim to be innocent and noble will not look down on him, but they can also reassure the emperor.

Li Shanchang is indeed a smart person. He almost lived in his old age in history. Unfortunately, he was later involved in the Lan Yu case.

To put it bluntly, I still haven't completely retired. If you say that if you retreat like Tang and Xu Da, you will really not care about anything in the future and no officials will move around, how could there be so many things?

Of course, this also has a lot to do with Li Shan's life longer than Zhu Biao.

After all, Tang He and Xu Da were both walking in front of Zhu Biao.

However, Zhu Qi just listened to these things as news, but he still felt that they had nothing to do with him.

But I don’t know that the entire officialdom is now full of storms...

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In February of the 11th year of Hongwu, the Secretariat.

Hu Weiyong sat on the chair of the Prime Minister of the Secretariat, looking at the various documents in his hand.

Since Li Shanchang submitted his resignation and went back to marry his new wife, Hu Weiyong, who was previously under Li Shanchang, naturally became the leader of all officials.

He is also the only prime minister in the Secretariat.

But Hu Weiyong's original official position was the right prime minister. After Li Shanchang resigned, he should have replaced him and become the left prime minister.

But strangely, Zhu Yuanzhang did not promote Hu Weiyong's official position to the left prime minister, but instead allowed him to stay in the right prime minister.

Hu Weiyong was naturally a little nervous about this. After all, Li Shanchang had retired to the backstage and enjoyed his old age, and he could not improve himself.

Moreover, so many officials have been killed during this period, and most of the officials in the three provinces and six ministries have suffered.

Many generals and nobles were also arrested, and it was obvious that the emperor was cleaning up the officialdom.

But then I thought about it, Hu Weiyong believed that he had not done anything out of the ordinary and had never done corruption and bribery.

After all, from the beginning, Hu Weiyong did a good job when he followed Zhu Yuanzhang and his official position was quite good, so he naturally had no shortage of gold, silver and jewelry.

Moreover, Hu Weiyong is not very interested in gold, silver and jewelry, and his interest in power is the greatest.

Because of this, Hu Weiyong felt that he would definitely not be the target of the emperor's cleanup.

Moreover, he is so capable and can understand the saint's will. Basically, he can understand what Zhu Yuanzhang wants to do without saying anything, just like dealing with the matter of Xiao Mingwang.

Didn’t it just tell me?

Zhu Yuanzhang also neglected Hu Weiyong for several years because of this matter, but did he still let him enter the Secretariat and become the prime minister?

So Hu Weiyong felt that as long as he did his own good things, he would not embezzle and accept bribes, and would reveal any handle, it would be very safe.

At this time, he became the leader of all officials, so he was naturally very happy. Last night, he invited a banquet for many officials, and everyone ate and drank to enhance their feelings.

Gu Li

As for what you said about forming a clique for personal gain, Hu Weiyong didn’t think so, it was mainly to enhance the relationship between colleagues, and no party was established!

The officials below naturally congratulated Hu Weiyong, not to mention that they had cursed Hu Weiyong until then, and they were flattered.

Those who were unable to get along with Hu Weiyong also avoided their favors and did not dare to reach the edge.

Hu Weiyong felt that Liu Bowen should admit defeat when he saw him.

Liu Bowen and Hu Weiyong have always been inconsistent because Liu Bowen is the leader of the Zhejiang Party.

The biggest enemy of the Huaixi Party is the Zhejiang Party.

Although there were not many Zhejiang Party members in the court since Yang Xian was overthrown many years ago.

But as long as Liu Bowen is still active in the officialdom, Hu Weiyong is a little reluctant.
To be continued...