Chapter 123 The Storm of the Forbidden City

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, March 1631 AD.

Capital.

The court has been very lively recently.

Because the second assistant of the cabinet Wen Tiren and the chief assistant of the cabinet Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren used this year's imperial examination to make an argument and criticized Zhou Yanru and his followers, hoping to move to Zhou Yanru to become the chief assistant of the cabinet.

Wen Tiren was recommended by Zhou Yanru to enter the cabinet, but interests were involved. They fought with the enemy first and then internally. However, this is already the current habit of the Ming Dynasty officialdom.

There are not many people who do things sincerely and serve the country and the people. They are quite enthusiastic about fighting each other. They are all fighting for the interests of all parties.

Now there are the chief assistant Zhou Yanru, the second assistant Wen Tiren, and Wu Zongda, He Rutong, Qian Xiangkun, and Li Shimin, a total of six people.

Zhou Yanru was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, and Wen Tiren was in charge of the Ministry of Personnel.

In other words, Wen Tiren controls the promotion and appointment of officials, and as long as he defeats Zhou Yanru's people, he can arrange his own people!

Zhu Youjian watched on the surface and then secretly leveraged the force to attack.

Isn’t Wen Tiren trying to suppress Zhou Yanru?

To deal with people, they will be able to produce evidence of guilt.

Zhu Youjian used this to expand the situation and asked the Dongchang and Jinyiwei to search for more evidence of criminal crimes from related people, so as to pull out a carrot and bring out a pile of mud!

"Your Majesty, all the evidence of those people's crimes has been found."

Cao Huachun came to see Zhu Youjian with a lot of evidence.

Zhu Youjian looked at it and said, "The time is almost over. Close the Internet! Remember, you are not allowed to embezzle when raiding your house. Now I need money. The country is in danger. Whoever is greedy for me will deal with it!"

Cao Huachun nodded: "I understand!"

In the past, Jinyiwei searched the houses of the East Factory and embezzled them a lot. Zhu Youjian warned them that they would restrain themselves.

On that day, the Jinyiwei dispatched to arrest many officials, both of whom were from Zhou Yanru or were implicated by them.

Zhou Mansion.

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Zhou Yanru was so angry that he threw the teacup on the ground: "Wen Tiren, you are so amazing!"

He believed that it was all done by Wen Tiren, and it was too much, involving too many people, including one of the national relatives, who was Zhu Youxiao's national relatives.

At this moment, Wen Tiren was a little confused. He didn't expect that so many people would be involved and the situation would be out of control.

"Is there anyone else dealing with Zhou Yanru?"

"Hmph! It's already like this, there's no way out, it's a good thing for me!"

As a result, it is very powerful to himself, and Wen Tiren can insert more of his own people.

Zhu Youjian did not target Wen Tiren, and accepted most of the candidates for Wen Tiren's nomination, and he arranged some of the positions himself.

The officials dealing with this time were basically confiscated. The proceeds from the confiscated houses were quickly summarized and reported to Zhu Youjian by Cao Huachun.

Looking at the list of money, Zhu Youjian sighed in his heart: "It turns out that he still sent money to the corrupt officials' homes!"

The target of the house search was investigated by the Dongchang and Jinyiwei in advance. Those who had no money did not search the house, and they would not get anything if they were raided.

House searches are not only the property of those people in the capital, but also the fields in their hometowns.

The amount of land has not yet been released, but there must be a lot. Those who are officials do not have to pay taxes on their homes, and they have a lot of land that they conceal.

"Give these proceeds from the search of the house to the Ministry of Revenue, and let the Minister of Revenue use it to provide relief to the victims and promote corn, potatoes and sweet potato planting!"

Zhu Youjian did not put the money obtained from the house raid into his private treasury. Where can the country come from? What he wants to do is save the entire Ming Dynasty.

"Yes." Cao Huachun responded, thinking that Your Majesty is really doing his best for the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Youjian asked: "How is the progress of the property and evidence of royal family members, relatives, nobles, ministers, etc."

The Ming Dynasty was short of money and asked these people to donate. They were stingy and pretended to be poor. Zhu Youjian was going to use them to find evidence to search the house.

This matter is really difficult for Cao Huachun, because Zhu Youjian even had to investigate his own relatives, and he planned to destroy his relatives for justice!

Cao Huachun could only do it, "I have found some..."

Zhu Youjian thought for a while and said, "List out enough people to search the house first and take a look."

the next day.

Wenhua Hall, cabinet discussions.

Zhu Youjian was furious: "I didn't expect that there were so many corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, and the country's worms must be dealt with strictly! In addition, the officials were rectified and corrupt officials were cleaned up, and the court was filled with blue sky!"

Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren and others became active, thinking about how to use Zhu Youjian's "angry" to bring down more people from the other party.

So on the second day, Zhu Youjian saw many memorials of impeachment, and censors directly took out evidence to impeach some people when they went to court!

Zhu Youjian liked this, he was handing him a knife.

A few days later, the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang were dispatched to arrest people and search their homes.

The cabinet's six people including Zhou Yanru, Wu Zongda, Wen Tiren, He Rutong, Qian Xiangkun were all arrested.

Especially Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren are the most people, and they both sparked sparks and fought to the death.

Zhu Youjian was not all those who had evidence of guilt, for example, this time he involved some generals and officials guarding the border. The border cannot be chaotic, and these people cannot move now.

The movement was mainly caused by officials in the capital, as well as members of the royal family, nobles, national relatives, etc.

This time, Zhu Youjian destroyed his relatives for justice and confiscated the property of his father-in-law Tian Hongyu. His official position was dismissed and he was ordered to return to his original hometown to be a farmer.

Concubine Tian cried and begged Zhu Youjian for this matter. Zhu Youjian said: "I am just dismissed from office. It is because of your love."

At the same time, he also told the concubines in the palace that they would strictly require their parents' families to take the initiative to hand over the corruption and abuse the law, or to give it to the court, so that they could not be punished, but if they could not investigate, they would not be so light.

This was useful. Not long after, Zhu Youjian's relatives donated some money, but not much, and they also cried to Zhu Youjian for being poor. While crying, they also made a statement that as long as Zhu Youjian needed, they could take out all their property.

Zhu Youjian sneered!

This storm of rectifying the rule of the capital lasted for more than a month.

Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren and others felt that they could not continue like this, and they had already suffered heavy losses.

"Mr. Wen, let's stop, don't you see that? Your Majesty seems to be using this to suppress us. If we continue, we will have no good time..."

Zhou Yanru found Wen Tiren to "seek peace".

Wen Tiren also realized that it might have been exploited by the emperor, so he did not refuse.

Soon, the memorial to impeach corrupt officials was gone, and Zhu Youjian knew that they had a "armed" battle.

"You stop just by saying that?"

Zhu Youjian won’t stop, otherwise it would be easier for him to take the initiative to do things next time.

Let the Jinyiwei continue to find evidence and continue to search the house!

Some things that officials have, especially those in Beijing.

Zhu Youjian temporarily moved only the officials in the capital, including royal family members, nobles, national relatives, etc.

There are only a few places, so the place cannot be messed up. The most common local officials are dealt with in Shaanxi and Shanxi, where there are Liu Bei, Zhang Hao, Wu Zetian and others, and Zhu Youjian is more at ease.

After about half a year, Zhu Youjian began to stop. The memorials of impeaching Dongchang and Jinyiwei to commit evil deeds piled up like a mountain. The officials' resistance in this matter used their power to put pressure on Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian felt that it was almost done, so he seized a lot of money, and at the same time he also let Li Shimin control the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works. Zhu Youjian stationed a lot of people in these two institutions, and there were also people recommended by Li Shimin. The factions such as Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren had no impact on the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works.

There are only five other cabinet ministers left in the cabinet, including Zhou Yanru, Wu Zongda, Wen Tiren, Qian Xiangkun, Li Shimin, etc.

He Rutong fell down in this storm. Although he was not dead, his home was confiscated.

The money obtained from the house search was mainly used to promote corn and other crops and provide relief to the victims.

In Shaanxi, Liu Bei now controls military and political affairs here, and while providing disaster relief, he encircles and suppresses the rebels.

Zhang Hao and Wu Zetian were also promoted. Zhang Hao was no longer the prefect of Pingyang Prefecture, but the governor of Shanxi, and Wu Zetian became the prefect of Huayang Prefecture.

In addition, Qin Liangyu was transferred to Shanxi and appointed as the general of Shanxi. Shortly after taking office, Zhang Hao, Wu Zetian and others were greeted by her.
Chapter completed!