Nowadays, people in the official circles of the capital are in panic. Many officials don’t know if they can come back after leaving home in the morning. Many middle-level officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs have been taken away from the Yamen directly by Dali Temple with arrest warrants.
Officials all held real power, so the daily work of these two ministries actually came to a semi-standstill. After a while, even Huang Xiaotian, the dignified Minister of Household Affairs, was double-regulated by Nanchang.
This double rule is different from the other double rule. Naturally, the emperor can no longer use torture to extract confessions. He just invites Huang Xiaotian to the yamen for tea and questioning, because although Gao Yifei has bitten many people, he has no real evidence.
It's all about talking nonsense with red lips and white teeth, so as long as Huang Xiaotian grits his teeth and doesn't speak, Nanchang can't do anything to him.
Huang Xiaotian is a capable person and has a high prestige in the Ministry of Household Affairs. He can be said to be the leader of the entire Ministry of Household Affairs. Hu Shangshu is just a decoration. Ever since Huang Shilang was hired away by Nanchang, the Ministry of Household Affairs has really stopped working.
No one took care of the coming and going of taxes, money and food, and no one even collected the taxes from Suzhou and Hangzhou into the treasury.
A large number of officials in the Ministry of Industry were also detained. Liu Ziguang took this opportunity to purge the Ministry of Industry again. All non-direct officials were removed and filled with students from the Academy of Sciences and last year's engineering scholars. Therefore, the shortage of staff in the Ministry of Industry was not serious.
, but the newly added officials need an adaptation period to become familiar with the environment and work. During this period, the work efficiency of the Ministry of Works will inevitably decline seriously.
The two yamen of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of War suffered relatively low levels of damage, but many people were arrested. Qi Zhenming and Yuan Chonghuan were also dissatisfied with this matter, but since major anti-corruption cases were handled strictly by the emperor, they only
Ability stares.
Some of the corrupt officials who were caught refused to let go, and some confessed when they couldn't hold it in any longer. Not only did they expose the fact that money was embezzled during the river embankment project, but they also exposed all previous corruption and perversion of the law.
In order to make meritorious deeds, more corrupt officials were exposed, and the scope of the crackdown was once again expanded. The two yamen of Dali Temple and Nanchang were out of manpower. The prisons in the capital were overcrowded, and even some people who had committed petty theft had to be imprisoned.
Let people go out to make room for corrupt officials.
It is really not possible to continue like this. There will be no functioning yamen in the capital. Even Liu Ziguang realized that something was wrong and ordered to stop further expanding the scope of the investigation. He would only deal with the Jiangdi case. All other cases were involved unless the crime was extremely heinous.
He refused to register the case. As soon as he relented, the tense atmosphere in the capital was relieved. More and more people came to intercede and run away. The capital was so big, and the bad men in Nanchang and Dali Temple didn't just pop out of the cracks in the rocks.
There are also three friends, three aunts and six mothers-in-law. They can get in touch with each other no matter what. If others don't say anything, they just say that Liu Ziguang's top general, Sun Gang, has been asking for mercy from his relatives in his home in the past few days. People don't dare to come directly to ask him for help.
, so he had no choice but to give gifts to his relatives and beg him to be accommodating and make the big things trivial. The people who came to plead were all relatives and no outsiders. Sun Gang had no choice but to go back to his hometown as little as possible.
There were also people who came to the Marquis Zhenwu's house to plead for mercy. Qian Qianyi and Qi Zhenming would not come, but invitations from Wei Guogong and Yuan Chonghuan did come. Liu Ziguang did not dare not to give them the respect of these two great military gods, but when they arrived
Now I can't stop. I can't go to the palace and say to the emperor: There are too many corrupt people, and I don't dare to arrest them anymore. I can't arrest all the people who have already been arrested, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will be doomed. That's not the same as slapping yourself.
My own slap?
After finally getting rid of the two big bosses, Liu Ziguang couldn't help but fell into deep thought. Clearing out the officialdom gave him a sense of accomplishment, but the consequences were also extremely serious. The center of the imperial court was already on the verge of collapse. As the central government, he had real power.
Minister, he must be responsible for this situation. To be precise, he was frightened by the devil he summoned. He did not expect that corruption in the court was so common. On average, one out of every three officials would not behead the capital.
He was wrong to kill. If it weren't for Jiangnan's abundant financial and tax resources, such a corrupt court would have been unable to support it long ago. This reminded him of a famous saying from later generations: If you don't fight corruption, the country will be destroyed, and if you fight corruption, the party will be destroyed.
After thinking for a long time, Liu Ziguang finally compromised. He did not have the power to completely change the Ming Dynasty's officialdom. He could only focus on the big ones and let go of the small ones. He would deal with a group of representative big bugs first and leave the other minor characters alone.
At this time, the interrogation work has come to an end, and a large box of confessions was obtained. That afternoon, Liu Ziguang took this box of confessions to the palace to meet the emperor. He wanted to communicate with the emperor before going to court the next morning, so he came to the imperial study room.
At that time, I saw Zhu Youxiao having a lively conversation with a young relative who was about thirty years old. This man had three beards and a fairy-like spirit. He was very handsome. Seeing Liu Ziguang coming, Zhu Youxiao said: "Liu Aiqing, come here."
Meet my new teacher Mr. Huang."
Liu Ziguang knew that the emperor hired a new teacher. Zhu Youxiao's education level was relatively poor when he was a child. He learned some vulgar things from the market from eunuchs and maids. He read very few books, such as statecraft and other knowledge.
He had never studied at all, so after he officially ascended the throne, he hired many teachers to learn culture. Liu Ziguang was very supportive of this, but the previous ones were all traditional old masters, far less young and famous than Huang Zongxi.
"Mr. Huang, I have admired you for a long time. Your name is like thunder in my ears." Liu Ziguang took the initiative to salute Huang Zongxi very politely, but Huang Zongxi just looked at him, nodded slightly, and then continued to talk to Zhu Youxiao. It seemed that Liu Ziguang was talking to him.
There is just air in front of me.
It has been a long time since anyone dared to despise Liu Ziguang like this, but he was not angry. He knew that scholars all over the world looked down on him. On the one hand, it was because he was a warrior and could not even write calligraphy well or write poems.
Poetry, he can't even make a drinking order. What's more important is that an illiterate like himself actually became the deputy examiner of Chunwei, and also set up Laoshizi's engineering examination, so that some craftsmen can become dignified Jinshi. It's really degrading to the gentlemen.
!Although he conquered many places, fought against corruption, built up a large-scale industry, and brought a lot of benefits to the people, and even many people worshiped his memorial tablets among the people, in the eyes of the majority of scholars, Liu Ziguang was still illiterate.
Just a martial artist.
Liu Ziguang has heard of Huang Zongxi's name. He is a great scholar with the same reputation as Gu Yanwu. As a scholar, it is normal to be a little arrogant. Liu Ziguang didn't care. He waited for the right opportunity to display his charming personality that won people over. He impressed Huang Zongxi just like Gu Yanwu.
At once
Is it ok, so even though Huang Zongxi was very rude, he still smiled and bowed to Mr. Huang very politely, and then said to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, this is the confession from the trial of Dali Temple and Nanchang. Please give me your permission."
After reading it, Wei Chen still has something to say."
Zhu Youxiao has always been very concerned about anti-corruption matters, but today he seemed to be uninterested and said: "Liu Aiqing, leave the box here for now. I will take a look after class."
Hearing what Zhu Youxiao meant, it seemed that he was not very interested in this matter, so Liu Ziguang had no choice but to say: "Then I will leave first." Then he respectfully withdrew. As soon as he left the imperial study room, he heard Zhu Youxiao's words.
Yu Xiao said enthusiastically: "Mr. Huang, let's continue talking."