Jinyiwei went around to arrest people and seal up warehouses, especially the warehouses of Shanxi merchants. Almost all of them were sealed up, and no less than a thousand people were implicated.
At the same time, Datong, Xuanfu, and even Taiyuan Prefecture have also begun a large-scale inspection. As long as they have transported food to the Mongols, regardless of their official position or background, they will be escorted back to Beijing to await their punishment.
During the recent period, Yuan Bin has been extremely busy every day. Since the emperor returned to Beijing, there have been a series of rebellion cases. Before the house confiscation was finished, another major case of collaboration with the enemy and treason has emerged.
Jin Ying also kept his heels on the ground. His main task was to track down Wang Zhen's gang members. He thought that at most a hundred people would be involved, but he didn't expect that more than 3,000 people had been investigated and the situation was still spreading.
Imperial Study Room.
Zhu Qiyu was reporting one by one: "... Among the five cabinet members, Miao Zhong is seventy-nine years old this year and has resigned three times. Chen Xun's leg disease has become more and more serious. He usually rides in a sedan and has trouble walking.
It is very difficult. I have already consulted the cabinet for its opinions. After Miao and Chen retired and returned home, they ordered Yu Qian, the left minister of the Ministry of War, and Hanlin Xiu Zhi Shang Ren to join the cabinet and participate in politics."
Zhu Qizhen nodded and said: "Both of them are good, let's just settle on it!"
Zhu Qiyu took out another memorial and said: "This one is the candidate list of vacant officials to be selected by the ministers and the Ministry of Personnel. Due to time constraints, only officials above the fourth rank are currently being selected. It will take some time for those below the fourth rank.
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Zhu Qizhen read it carefully after taking it, and then said: "Let the cabinet draft an edict, and then submit it to the Secretary of Ceremonies for approval."
After doing this, Zhu Qiyu hesitated for a moment, and finally plucked up the courage to say: "Brother Emperor, I have one more thing to say, I don't know whether to say it or not."
"Just say what you want to say, why are you still so coy about it?"
Zhu Qiyu thought for a long time and then said: "There are really many people involved in the recent cases. People in the capital are panicked and the shops are closed. If this continues, my brother is worried..."
"What?" Zhu Qizhen raised his head and asked, "Do you think my killing is too heavy?"
Zhu Qiyu hurriedly knelt down and said: "I just feel that the main culprit must be severely punished, but it should not be too involved, otherwise everyone will be in danger and there will be many people who want to be around!"
"There are many people who want to be there, haha!"
Zhu Qizhen shook his head with a smile and said: "I always believe in one sentence, if you don't do anything wrong, you won't be surprised if you knock on the door in the middle of the night. No matter how much is involved, they deserve what they deserve. If these people don't get what they deserve,
Is the punishment fair to those traders who abide by the law? Is it fair to the people who keep their peace and abide by the law? I want everyone in the world to know that if you make a mistake, you will be punished. Otherwise, in the future, everyone will just think about punishing and not punishing everyone.
If you take advantage of my loopholes, won't this world be in chaos?"
These words made Zhu Qiyu sweat profusely, and he said: "Brother Huang is right in teaching me, it's my brother who simplified things."
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."
At this time, Jin Ying walked in with an account book, saw Zhu Qiyu, and hurriedly retreated.
"Get up!" Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said, "Think more when you encounter something. Don't just look at the surface. Some things are far more complicated than what you see."
"My brother has learned a lesson!"
After Zhu Qiyu left, Jin Ying hurriedly walked in.
"Your Majesty, these are the persons involved in the recent investigation. Please take a look!"
Zhu Qizhen only glanced at it and put it aside, saying: "Show me what's the use of this? I'm here to ask you, how much money was copied?"
"Oh, oh!" Jin Ying hurriedly picked up another account book and said, "Wang Zhen has many mansions in the inner city. A total of sixty warehouses of gold and silver were found, and there were more than a hundred jade plates, corals, etc.
There are more than 20 trees six or seven feet high, and countless other treasures."
"Sixty warehouses?"
Zhu Qizhen was stunned for a moment, wondering what unit of measurement this is?
"Just tell me, how much is it specifically?"
"One million taels of gold and twenty-five million taels of silver. If we include the mansion, acres, jewelry, antiques, etc., the total value is approximately..."
At this point, even Jin Ying couldn't help but swallowed, and then said the result: "Sixty million taels of silver!"
Bang!
The teacup in Zhu Qizhen's hand fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
"Fuck his ancestors!"
I saw him standing up suddenly, his face flushed red, I don't know whether he was excited or angry.
"Sixty million taels, sixty million taels!"
"The Ming Dynasty's annual income was only a few million taels, but he actually embezzled 60 million?"
"Jin Ying, tell me, how did he do it?"
"What do Dongchang and Jinyiwei do for food?"
Jin Ying stood aside and didn't dare to say anything. How did Wang Zhen climb to this position step by step? Who are you asking?
Return to Dongchang and Jinyiwei. Both Dongchang and Jinyiwei are in Wang Zhen’s hands, okay!
"Damn it, it was really cheap to kill him with one knife. I should have cut him into pieces with a thousand cuts. For one tael of silver, I cut him six thousand times!"
Jin Ying couldn't bear it anymore and reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, it's sixty million knives."
"I know!" Zhu Qizhen calmed down his excitement and asked again, "How is the investigation of Wang Zhen's remnant party?"
Jin Ying picked up the account book and flipped through it, and said: "After investigation, there were more than 3,000 people involved in Wang Zhen's bribery to buy officials, embezzling people's land, creating unjust, false and wrong cases, suppressing colleagues in the officialdom, etc. After a preliminary trial, these were
The people were classified, and among them there were more than 500 people with serious crimes. More than 5 million taels of silver were obtained from the confiscation of their homes. There were also house deeds, gold and silver jewelry, jewelry and jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings that could be converted into silver of about 5 million taels. The total was about
Ten million taels of silver, the specific amount has not yet been calculated."
Zhu Qizhen's calm mood became excited again, damn, another ten million taels!
This is 70 million taels, making a fortune!
I am now as rich as the country... No, the whole country is mine...
In short, everything is easy to do if you have money!
Martyrs' Shrine?
What a joke!
If this money is invested in basic education and scientific research, wouldn’t Ming Dynasty take off!
Zhu Qizhen seemed to see a brand-new Ming Dynasty. On the ground were armored forces dominated by tanks. Fighters roared past in the sky. On the vast sea, aircraft carrier formations were patrolling the Pacific coast...
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty?"
Zhu Qizhen came back to his senses, looked at Jin Ying in front of him, and asked: "Is there anything else?"
"It's like this. I went to Yuzhou and found that more than half of the fertile land there was owned by Wang Zhen. Now that Wang Zhen is being executed, these fields should be confiscated. However, as a result, the people are unable to cultivate the land.
It has become a problem, and I am a little unsure about how to deal with it, so I have to ask the emperor to make a decision himself."
Zhu Qizhen nodded, indeed, this is a problem.
If all the land is confiscated, although it can be rented to the people, this will be equivalent to losing half of the land in Yuzhou, which is very detrimental to local development.
"Let's go and check it out. If that bitch Wang Zhen got it by clever means, then give the land back."
"Your Majesty, the slaves have been checked, and all the owners whose owners can be found have been returned, and most of them have been unable to find their owners..."
As for why they can’t be found, of course the person is gone.
"Also, most of the officials in Yuzhou are Wang Zhen's party members. In recent years, relying on Wang Zhen's power, they have done a lot of harmful things. The servants have taken it upon themselves to make their own decisions and have been taken to the prison of the Ministry of Justice. The vacant officials
It needs to be filled as soon as possible."
Zhu Qizhen nodded and said: "As for the vacancy of officials, King Tan is already taking care of it."
"Back to the Emperor, I have inquired. Due to the severe vacancies of officials in recent times, His Highness Prince Xi can only prioritize. Local officials like Weizhou do not know how long they will have to wait." p>
Zhu Qizhen pondered for a long time and asked: "Jin Banban, you have been in the palace for many years, and I want you to recommend someone."
"What kind of person does the emperor need?"
"A person with a flexible mind and the common people in his heart!"
Jin Ying thought for a while and said: "Yu Qian, the left minister of the Ministry of War!"
Zhu Qizhen grinned angrily and said: "The governor of the state is from the fifth level. If you ask Yu Qian to be the governor of the state, wouldn't it be overqualified and underused?"
Jin Ying thought for a while and said: "I feel that the Hanlin Academy members all meet the emperor's requirements."
"Those Hanlin..."
Zhu Qizhen suddenly thought of someone and said quickly: "Go and call Shang Ren over!"