Chapter 122: Fight against corruption
Time gradually approaches late autumn, and the people of Zhili in the North are still busy building various urban infrastructure projects. A large number of jobs provide more nutrients for the lower-level people, making the coming cold winter less terrible.
However, for the gangsters who are already in the capital of the Donglin Party, the coming cold winter has become the most difficult day.&1t;/p>
A vigorous anti-corruption and anti-gang operation has begun under the auspices of Zhu Youxiao.&1t;/p>
The Jinyiwei began to attack everywhere in the capital. As long as it was a gangster, they would be arrested first. At the same time, they began to search for the big gangster who controlled the slaughterhouse.&1t;/p>
That night, the green wolf was arrested in a brothel.&1t;/p>
Hundreds of gangsters were also arrested at the same time. The Jinyiwei obviously did not stop here, but began to continue to arrest.&1t;/p>
In this arrest operation, as long as there are gangsters who disturb the people, they are all within the scope of the arrest. Therefore, during the arrest, the Jinyiwei obtained the support and cooperation of the people and pulled out all the gangsters in the capital.&1t;/p>
"Your Majesty, how to deal with these green skins?" Tian Ergeng asked Zhu Youxiao for advice. Thousands of people have been arrested in a few days. The number of gangsters these days is simply shocking.&1t;/p>
"Those vicious people are dragged out and shot! Others that can be renovated will be taken to labor reform! Let them go to mining and build roads." Zhu Youxiao instructed that there must be a large number of vicious people among these gangsters. They were born to eat this bowl of rice, but no matter how hard they were to reform, they would just shoot them to avoid being kept to harm the people in the future. The other is to take the wrong path when they were young. Those who can still be corrected. They can be released after a few years of labor reform. They are all free labor!&1t;/p>
"Yes, the emperor." Tian Ergeng then screened these gangsters according to Zhu Youxiao's instructions. As for the evidence of crime, it is not necessary. It is very simple to distinguish whether these gangsters are extremely vicious. If it really doesn't work, ask a few fortune tellers to look at their faces and know which ones are harmful to society.&1t;/p>
However, with the rich experience of the Jinyiwei, it is obvious that there is no need to hire a fortune teller. With their experience and instinct, they can see what these gangsters are.&1t;/p>
According to the emperor's request, all the gangsters who were released may continue to endanger society and harm the common people were locked up together and threw them into the jail of the Pacification Department the next day. The rest of the rest seemed to be transformed, and they were thrown into the Labor Reform Bureau.&1t;/p>
Capturing these gangsters is just a small matter in itself.&1t;/p>
However, the situation reported by the factory guards immediately made Zhu Youxiao very happy. To his surprise, after these gangsters were arrested, the people in the capital applauded and praised the emperor.&1t;/p>
"These green skins have long caused public grievances to the people and those who sell their goods. Especially in the past decade, the number of these green skins has increased continuously, and the harm is very serious." Tian Ergeng explained to Zhu Youxiao when reporting on public opinion. Zhu Youxiao nodded. These things that seem very small at the national level are actually the things that are the strongest in the people.&1t;/p>
At the same time, Wei Zhongxian also turned into a mad dog and began to bite people wildly. With the cooperation of the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, more than ten Donglin Party officials were impeached in less than three days.&1t;/p>
Previously, Sun Shenxing impeached Fang Congzhe, but in fact, the Donglin Party drove Shen Yi away from the cabinet in order to leverage its strength. Unfortunately, as Zhu Youxiao accused Li Kezhuo, the rhythm of the Donglin Party was disrupted. Then Zhu Youxiao stopped attending court again, and these memorials were left again, resulting in the matter being left alone.&1t;/p>
As a result, the slump was still stuck in the cabinet like a nail, making the Donglin Party very uncomfortable.&1t;/p>
As an official of Fang Congzhe's faction, Chen Wei once taught Wei Zhongxian and other internal officials in the palace. He is also considered Wei Zhongxian's "teacher". The two sides have formed an alliance. This time, Chen Wei also put a lot of efforts into impeaching the Donglin Party.&1t;/p>
Because the Donglin Party is indeed not clean, the Donglin Party soon suffered heavy losses. On the third day, Zhou Jiamo was impeached, and Zhu Youxiao followed the flow and ordered the crime.&1t;/p>
On the Donglin Party, it aimed its firepower at Shen Yan.&1t;/p>
Wei Zhongxian has extremely high talent in this area. Under the strategy of playing anti-corruption cards, the Donglin Party is naturally retreating step by step.&1t;/p>
Among the officials of the Donglin Party, there are indeed some who are not corrupt. However, most of the Donglin Party members are still corrupt. And they are the kind who are not doing things even if they are corrupt.&1t;/p>
Especially the big bosses of the Donglin Party, their foundation is even more unclear.&1t;/p>
If an official relies on private land to accumulate millions of taels of property, it is basically impossible. Where did so much land be devoted to them? They are not all working hard to dig out the national corners.&1t;/p>
The first one is unlucky, Li Sancai, and the second one is obviously Zhou Jiamo.&1t;/p>
After impeachment of crimes, Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered the search of Zhou Jiamo's property. The factory guards and Jingying were dispatched soon to conduct a comprehensive search of Zhou Jiamo's official residence and his hometown.&1t;/p>
Now the big bosses of the Donglin Party were all anxious. However, when facing the anti-corruption card, they were simply unsolvable. They could only continue to concentrate on fire and sank. However, under Wei Zhongxian's left and right blocks, these offensives were resolved one by one. This made the Donglin Party extremely angry. Sun Shenxing, the Minister of Rites, felt very embarrassed, so he simply submitted a memorial to resign.&1t;/p>
"Since my dear is going to resign, I won't try to keep you." Zhu Youxiao was so happy that he approved Sun Shenxing's resignation memorial. After Sun Shenxing learned of the approval, he couldn't help but be stunned. Then he found that the emperor didn't care about the strike of the Donglin Party.&1t;/p>
It's time to go on strike and don't come up obediently.&1t;/p>
Now the Donglin Party is too open, and there are loopholes everywhere. It makes it very easy for Wei Zhongxian to make trouble for the Donglin Party. The Donglin Party has only a few targets of attack, which has become a one-sided situation.&1t;/p>
Within half a month, more than 40 Donglin Party members entered the Labor Reform Bureau. At the same time, Qi Chuzhe Propaganda Party Masses were also supported.&1t;/p>
As soon as Zhou Jiamo was arrested, Wei Zhongxian asked Wang Shaohui to ding. The crackdown on the Donglin Party was basically done by Wei Zhongxian, but these personnel appointments must be approved by Zhu Youxiao. Therefore, Wei Zhongxian came forward to implement Zhu Youxiao's will and power was still held in the hands of Zhu Youxiao.&1t;/p>
It’s just that this kind of court party struggles too much, and Zhu Youxiao is too lazy to preside over the leadership himself. He only needs a satisfactory result, that is, to get a group of more obedient officials to come up.&1t;/p>
The factory guards' home search activity was launched again, and this home search activity was even larger. More than 40 officials were searched at one time, although many of them were minions of the Donglin Party.&1t;/p>
At Zhou Jiamo's home, a large amount of assets were indeed seized, including a passbook of the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty, which contained more than 1.2 million taels of silver.&1t;/p>
In addition, Zhou Jiamo's family also has a large amount of land, which is as large as 100,000 acres. Many of these lands were invested, and the rent collected was lower than the land tax. However, Zhou Jiamo was copied, and the land deed was written with Zhou Jiamo's name, and these lands can be confiscated directly.&1t;/p>
These lands are basically paddy fields, distributed in Hanzhong, Sichuan and other places, so they are relatively valuable. One acre of land can be sold for less than a dozen taels of silver.&1t;/p>
The other Donglin Party members also copied a lot of oil and water. The money they found was more than 500,000 yuan, and the land they invested reached more than 800,000 mu. There were both dry land in the north and paddy fields in the south.&1t;/p>
But after just a random search of the house, Zhu Youxiao's pocket bulged again.&1t;/p>
Especially those lands that were copied are relatively valuable. Most of these lands are donated and the lands placed in the names of these officials are for tax avoidance.&1t;/p>
"It just so happened that the treasury was almost out of money. If the land could be integrated into the royal village, it would be integrated, and the others would be sold for silver." Zhu Youchao ordered Yang Guorui. The assets of the officials found were handled by Royal Bank, and the core of Royal Capital was the bank.&1t;/p>
This time, the silver plus those antique jade wares are almost 20,000 taels of silver.&1t;/p>
After Yang Guorui made a rough estimate, the land was worth about 60,000 taels, but disputes were easily arising during the sale. Because although the property rights were under the names of these officials, the actual use rights were in the hands of the landlords and farmers who contributed the land.&1t;/p>
So in fact, it would be good to be able to sell two or three million taels of silver. No one even dared to buy some land. Only those tough and powerful people in Beijing dared to buy these lands can deal with the landlords who invested the land.&1t;/p>
The imperial village is of course fine, but not all land is suitable for incorporation into the imperial village. Currently, the imperial village is mainly in northern Zhili, and has not expanded in the south, so it is very inconvenient to manage.&1t;/p>
The anti-corruption activities of the Donglin Party are still going on, and Zhu Youxiao does not have to pay too much to pay for the phone number. Wei Zhongxian obviously did a good job.&1t;/p>
Wei Zhongxian did not serve in the Sili Supervisory Office at this time, so Wei Zhongxian's activities were to be handled by Li Chaoqing and Qian Guoxing, and they could not pose any threat to Zhu Youxiao.&1t;/p>
The repeated crackdown on gangs was soon launched on the Daming Daily.&1t;/p>
As the corruption charges of the fallen Donglin Party officials were announced, the reputation of these fallen Donglin Party officials was immediately stinking.&1t;/p>
In the late Ming Dynasty, due to the serious gap between the rich and the poor, the people had a sense of prejudice against these officials. Even if these Donglin Party officials only embezzled more than a dozen taels of silver and were caught, the people would applaud and criticize and despise these corrupt officials.&1t;/p>
In addition to the mainstream public opinion media of Daming Daily, there are many completely opposite rumors circulating in the market. The word "eunuch party" has begun to spread, and rumors of the eunuch party causing chaos and harming loyalty and kindness have begun to spread everywhere.&1t;/p>
Faced with the attack on the Donglin Party by Eunuch Wei, the bigwigs of the Donglin Party have used their ultimate weapon - spreading rumors! (To be continued...)&1t;/p>
ps: The status is a bit bad today, and the codec is very slow.&1t;/p>&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!