Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 175
Taichang made it known to the world for the first time since he ascended the throne, and the whole Ming Dynasty was excited about it.

Because the first article of his edict is to clean up the eunuch party, regardless of the capital or the locality, all eunuch party officials will be dismissed and investigated according to the crime.

To be honest, the eunuchs are still honest in the capital. After all, with him as the emperor suppressing them, the eunuchs dare not act too recklessly in the capital.

The place is different, the mountains are high, the emperor is far away, and there are people covering the court, so all eunuch officials sent to the place are unscrupulous and lawless!

For example, when Yunyang governed Xue Zhen, he directly replaced the magistrates, prefectures, and counties of Shangzhou, Xi'an Prefecture, and Hanzhong Prefecture, blatantly embezzled disaster relief funds and food, and also extorted and extorted money, regardless of the life and death of the victims. .

This is not an isolated case, and this is basically the case wherever eunuch officials go.

There's no way, from the Cabinet Master to the Six Ministers to the Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, they are basically all greedy, and Eunuch Wei also likes money, so if they want to get promoted and get rich, they have to be greedy!

They basically scraped the ground three feet, knocked the bones to suck the marrow, sucked the common people dry, and then donated a lot of money to them in exchange for promotion, and then went to other places to continue to scrape the ground three feet, knock the bones to suck the marrow!

This situation has begun to spread throughout the Ming Dynasty, and eunuch party officials are like locusts crossing the border, causing people's resentment to boil everywhere they go, and they turn against the sky!

Now, the emperor has announced to the world that the eunuchs will be eliminated, and the common people are naturally jubilant.

However, some contents in the imperial edict are not liked by scholars, or by officials, families and local tyrants in certain interest groups.

For example, the Metropolitan Procuratorate implements new policies to supervise local officials at all levels to strictly prevent corruption.

Being an official for thousands of miles is only for money, and many people become officials because of money.

If the emperor does this, they are still greedy!
Another example is that when the two capitals are merged into one, Nanjing will no longer have an imperial court, but will be directly controlled by the governor of Zhili.

Although the small court in Nanjing is small, it has a lot of interests involved.

The emperor did this, they don't know how many opportunities for corruption have been lost!
What new business policies are there to encourage business and improve the status of merchants.

This is simply cutting off their money. If the merchants can't let them bully them, where can they grab so much money!

In short, many things are like this, some people are happy and others are sad.

The common people are happy with Taichang doing this, but many interest groups are not happy.

Of course, at this moment Taichang doesn't need to care about these interest groups at all, because he controls almost all the soldiers and horses in the world at this moment, even if they refuse to accept, they can't do anything against him.

After such a drastic transformation by him, the Ming court finally showed a thriving appearance.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate began to strictly investigate corrupt officials, the Ministry of Rites began to encourage running schools, the Ministry of Officials began to select talents, the Ministry of Industry began to develop ships with all its strength, the Ministry of War began to comprehensively plan how to recover Liaodong and put down the southwestern rebellion, and the Ministry of Households began to encourage merchants Doing business to increase taxes, the Ministry of Criminal Justice began to organize the investigation of serious cases, important cases and unsolved cases over the years, and so on.

All the yamen are performing their duties and operating at full capacity.

As for the achievements they have made, many of them cannot be seen immediately. Of course, some of them can be seen quickly.

For example, the Metropolitan Procuratorate's strict investigation of corrupt officials, the first step is to check the assets of corrupt officials of the eunuch party, and this will quickly produce results.

It's a pity that corrupt officials these days basically don't keep too much money in their hands to recruit people to investigate. They all like to turn money into fields.

It can be said that there are eight hundred corrupt officials in the eunuch party, but the amount of money copied is less than three million taels.

This amount of money can be said to be a drop in the bucket, because he has not yet paid for his military achievements in suppressing the rebellion in the Southwest.

Although the heads of the southwestern chieftain soldiers are only 50 taels, but there are too many of them!

The 20 chieftain soldiers are all dry, which is tens of millions of taels!
Fortunately, these corrupt officials of the eunuch party bought a lot of land. Among them, Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family alone purchased more than [-] mu of land, and other officials added up to hundreds of thousands of mu of land, as well as houses. , jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and so on.

If all these are sold, there will still be 1000 million taels, but it will take time to turn them into cash.

After the strict investigation by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Southwest counter-insurgency military merit reward was obtained. Immediately afterwards, good news came from the Ministry of War.

On this day, Taichang was discussing with Wang Zheng, the newly-appointed left servant of the Ministry of Industry, the plan for the transformation of the wheel and steamship. Lu Xiangsheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, suddenly walked in with an excited face and clapped his hands: "Your Majesty, what a joyful event!"

Taichang raised his head and said curiously: "Jiandou, what is it that makes you so happy."

Lu Xiangsheng excitedly said: "Governor of Denglai, Yuan Keli, hastened to report at [-] miles away. Liu Aita, commander of Jiannu Nansiwei, sent his younger brother Liu Xingren to secretly go to Beiwo City to ask for surrender!"

Liu Aita, commander of the Southern Four Guards, please surrender!
Hearing this, Taichang jumped up and said excitedly, "Really?"

Of course he knew the importance of the Southern Four Guards. Jiannu's so-called Southern Four Guards were Haizhou Guard, Gaizhou Guard, Fuzhou Guard and Jinzhou Guard!
If the South Four Guards can be recovered, there will be only two large cities in Liaodong, Liaoyang and Shenyang. By then, the recovery of Liaodong will be just around the corner!

Lu Xiangsheng quickly took out the report of Yuan Keli, governor of Denglai, and explained: "According to what Yuan Keli said, this matter is probably true."

Taichang opened the newspaper and saw that Liu Aita, Nurhachi's son-in-law, was originally a Liao citizen who was taken captive by Jiannu.

Liu Aita already had an opinion on the matter of Jiannu torturing and killing Liao people. After Jiannu returned from a big defeat last time, he became even more cruel to the Liao people. Liu Aita fell out with Jiannu Dabeile Daishan when he couldn't bear it. up!
Is this credible?
What if Jiannu played Zhou Yu's bitter trick against Huang Gai?
You know, it is rumored that Jiannu read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a military book, and it is not impossible for them to play this trick.

Taichang thought about it carefully, and then said to Wang Zheng: "Liangfu, there is no need to discuss, within one month, eighty wheels will be changed."

Ah!
Wang Zheng was taken aback when he heard this.

Eighty wheels, that would require 160 sets of steam engines!

Other things are easy to say, but rubber is not enough. If all the steam engines produced are used to transform wheeled ships, other machine tools, waterwheels, etc. will have to stop and wait for the next batch of rubber.

Alas, there is no way, the emperor must have comprehensive considerations, he can't make trouble for the emperor.

Wang Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then decisively cupped his hands and said, "My minister obeys the order."

Taichang then said to Lu Xiangsheng: "Jiandou, send an urgent message at [-] li, so that Qi Jin can speed up, and must return to the capital within a month."

Another batch of equipment for the Shenji Battalion is about to be completed, and Qi Jin is leading the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to the capital. It should be no problem to come back in a month.

Lu Xiangsheng cupped his hands without hesitation and said, "My minister obeys the order."

Taichang then said to Cao Huachun: "Go, order Luo Sigong to prepare five hundred brocade guards masters. Tomorrow morning, follow me to Beiwa City."

Ah!
Beiwa City is the front line of Liaodong, and the sea route is less than [-] miles away from Jinzhouwei, which is too dangerous.

Alas, Your Majesty, you don't have to work so hard, do you?
Cao Huachun was also taken aback for a moment, then cupped his hands and said, "Your maid obeys the order."

(End of this chapter)