Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Knowing that Auntie Zhu doesn't like red tape, after the three of them saluted, Ma Shiying, the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, made the report.

"Reporting to Jian Guo, this time, a total of 530 corrupt officials from the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of War, and [-] family property of four corrupt officials were seized.

In addition, there are 20 corrupt officials and 42 dirty officials who received double fines, and most of them have paid all the fines.

A total of 470 taels of silver were confiscated, and there were 680 other properties, as well as several assets that were temporarily difficult to value, such as jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings. "

Hong Niangzi and Xie Xuelong, as those who participated in this raid, knew the result a long time ago, so they were naturally not very surprised.

The expressions of Lu Zhenfei and Zhang Youyu on the side changed.

Lu Zhenfei was surprised and a little bit excited, apparently he did not expect that the imperial court could confiscate four to five million taels of silver in one go.

It should be noted that the one-year tax silver collected by the Hongguang Dynasty Household Department was only 900 million taels.

And this time the house raids directly caught up with half of Hong Guangchao's annual household income.

With this amount of money, the imperial court will inevitably have a better financial situation in the future.

While Zhang Youyu was shocked, he was a little nervous and scared.

Because he had worked as the minister and minister of the Nanjing household department for a period of time, and some officials of the household department had some relationship with him, so he was worried about being involved.

But he didn't know that this time, when the corrupt officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War were being investigated, Zhu Yuxi had already told him that the punishment should only be imposed on the corrupt officials themselves, and that those who were involved would not be investigated at all.

Leaving aside those petty officials, there are more than 100 corrupt officials investigated and dealt with this time. If they are allowed to bite other officials, most of the entire Nanming officialdom will be involved, and everyone will be at risk.

This is the way to create chaos, and Aimee Zhu will naturally not do it.

In the future, she will have plenty of time to deal with the remaining corrupt officials.

After hearing this, Auntie Zhu nodded in satisfaction, and asked, "After confiscating so many properties, I'm afraid that the family members of those corrupt officials have lost their residences? Wouldn't this cause a group of refugees to be born in Nanjing?"

The red lady said: "That's true, but these people are currently guarded by the Nanjing garrison, and it will not affect the public security in the city."

Aunt Zhu pondered for a while, thinking about how to deal with the family members of these criminals.

Ma Shiying saw that Zhu Yu was in trouble, so he said: "Jianguo, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, many men who commit crimes here will be exiled, and women who are sent to the Jiaofang Division may as well be handled as usual."

Auntie Zhu was instinctively displeased when she heard that the woman was going to be imprisoned in the Jiaofang Division.

Although Jiaofangsi is not a brothel or a brothel, it is also a place where women are reduced to low status and entertained with sensuality.

However, according to the laws and customs of Ming Dynasty, the family members of these prisoners were indeed to be punished together—these family members were not ignorant of the corruption of officials, and enjoyed the proceeds of corruption by officials, so they should be punished.

At this time, Hao Guangming said: "You might as well exile them all to Qiongzhou, anyway, you still need to enrich the population of Qiongzhou Island at this time to open up wasteland and mine."

Aunt Zhu suppressed the softness in her heart when she heard the words, and said, "Let's all exile to Qiongzhou Island with the criminals, but tell the escorts not to treat the prisoners too harshly on the way, and if anyone is sick, he must be treated. Solution to Qiongzhou Island."

After hearing this, several courtiers in the hall, including Hong Niangzi, couldn't help saying: "Jianguo is merciful!"

Afterwards, Auntie Zhu said again: "Half of the proceeds from this confiscation go to the Ministry of Finance, and half go to internal funds.

In addition, the remaining non-gold and silver assets are also sold by the Ministry of Finance.

The palace will send people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate to supervise, and sometimes send people to check the accounts. I hope that there will be no more corruption in the Ministry of Finance under Ma Qing. "

Ma Shiying immediately stated: "I must keep myself clean and manage the officials of the Ministry of Finance well."

Auntie Zhu nodded and mentioned another matter.

"Currently, the chief officials of all ministries of the imperial court are basically ready. I plan to hold a meeting in the Hall of Martial Heroes in the future to confirm the cabinet members."

After hearing this, Ma Shiying and the others besides the red lady couldn't help showing strange expressions, either looking forward to it, or apprehensive, or contemplative.

Auntie Zhu didn't say any more, she just asked everyone to retreat.

The power of the cabinet will be weakened by Aunt Zhu, but to what extent it will be weakened will have to be measured during her governing time after assuming the throne.

In short, it is impossible to abolish the cabinet all at once.

However, it is absolutely impossible for cabinet ministers to have as much power as before - after she ascends the throne as emperor, Ming Dynasty will definitely centralize power even more.

Because for a long time to come, Da Ming will need her and Hao Guangming as the leaders...

In the afternoon, Auntie Zhu brought Liu Shuying and Linglong to the Jinyiwei Yamen in Nanjing.

Jin Yiwei Li Siming, Xu Zhihu, Lu Chaoming and others from Sichuan immediately led a group of Jin Yiwei to kneel and pay respects.

"For a lowly position, see Chitose, Supervisor of the Country!"

"Flat body."

"Thank you Jianguo!"

Afterwards, Auntie Zhu stood under the eaves of the Jinyiwei yamen compound, and began to question and lecture.

The Jinyiwei of the Hongguang Dynasty was also rebuilt, and in less than a year, there were high-level changes due to involvement in party struggles.

Feng Kezong, who was in charge of Jinyiwei at first, was dismissed because he improperly handled the "Tongfei case" and failed to meet Zhu Yousong's wishes.

Afterwards, Qu Shangzhong, who was responsible for handling the "Tong Concubine case", was in charge of handling the "Tong Concubine Case". However, he was criticized by the court officials and dismissed because he went to the other extreme and tortured Tong Concubine to death.

When Aunt Zhu entered Nanjing, Jinyiwei also lacked high-level officials, and it was Ma Jixiang's turn to lead the Jinyi school lieutenants.

But Ma Jixiang has long been on Aimee Zhu's blacklist, and is also Gao Qiqian's godson, so Ma Shiying was dismissed from his post and exiled to Qiongzhou Island when he handled the case of Gao Qiqian's conspiracy.

The vacancy of Nanjing Jinyiwei's top management made it easy for the Jinyiwei from Sichuan to take the position, and then took control of Nanjing Jinyiwei.

After some questioning and lectures, Aunt Zhu understood the situation of Jinyiwei in Nanjing.

The total number of them is currently only a few hundred, and their quality is uneven, and they don't have much ability to handle affairs at all.

Therefore, Aunt Zhu asked Li Siming to take charge of the Fusi of Nanjing Jinyiwei North Town with the position of a thousand households, and asked Xu Zhihu to take charge of the Fusi of Nanjing Jinyiwei South Town with the position of a thousand households.

For the maids and eunuchs in the Nanjing Imperial Palace, Aimee Zhu also let Lu Jiude, Linglong and Liu Zhu rectify these days.

Because the Hongguang Dynasty was less than a year old, there were not many famous eunuchs around Zhu Yousong, except Gao Qiqian and Lu Jiude, Han Zanzhou and Cai Zhong are currently alive.

Among them, Cai Zhong came from Fu Wang's mansion and was Zhu Yousong's real confidant, so Auntie Zhu asked him to accompany Zhu Yousong under house arrest.

Another great eunuch is Han Zanzhou.

In view of the good reputation of this person, Zhu Yuxi had no other capable eunuchs to use, so she asked him to manage the eunuchs in the palace together with Lu Jiude.

Only the palace maids were handed over to Linglong and Liu Zhu, and asked them to manage them according to the example they had in the Shu Palace.

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In a flash, it was May [-]th.

In the middle of the morning, the ministers and ministers appointed by Aunt Zhu came to the Hall of Wuying one after another.

There are both the former Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party, as well as some people outside the two parties.

These people basically know about Aimee Zhu's supernatural powers and have seen all kinds of miraculous things that Aimee Zhu brought from later generations. Therefore, even if they used to fight to the death because of the party, they don't dare to argue about the past in the same hall now.

The vast majority of people's minds are spent trying to figure out what Aimi Zhu wants.

Because they know very well that today's Ming Dynasty Hall can no longer be controlled by them relying on party struggles.

He Tengjiao entered the Hall of Martial Heroes and took a look around, and found that he was still the most familiar with Yuan Jixian, so he went over and stood beside him, and asked, "Does Ji Tong know how the cabinet ministers are selected today? Is it still the same as before?"

Yuan Jixian said in a low voice: "If Ting Tui, the people in front of me will not be the only ones who will come, and the Sixth Division will also be there.

But now people from the six subjects are completely excluded. It can be seen that the law for selecting cabinet ministers this time is different from the past. "

He Tengjiao looked around and found that there were indeed not many people here, except for those from the Six Departments, they were from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and not even the three temples and nine ministers were present.

He was recalling Aimee Zhu's behavior, and said, "I guess, with the formation of a cabinet this time, Jian Guo may become a dictator of the Sacred Heart."

Yuan Jixian looked strange when he heard this, and was about to answer when he heard the official's shout——

"The supervisor is here!"