The opening inventory of the top ten young emperors

Jiao Fang's face changed and he knelt down immediately. He had known that he would be impeached sooner or later after Liu Jin's death, but he did not expect that the person who impeached him was Li Dongyang.
When Liu Jian and Xie Qian impeached the Eight Tigers, the Prime Minister was still timid. But now, has his true colors been revealed?
"Your Majesty, I am innocent. The Prime Minister is slandering me. I...I..."
"This matter." Zhu Houzhao looked at the memorial submitted by Li Dongyang without even looking at it, and curled his lips, "I have heard about it. It should have happened a few years ago."
"Your Majesty!" Jiao Fang was stunned.

"Master Jiao, are you resigning on your own initiative, or do you want me to dismiss you?"
This time, even Li Dongyang was shocked.
Is there anything else that His Majesty doesn't know?

Jiao Fang looked pale, and kowtowed, "Your Majesty, please have mercy on me. Since last year, I have felt that my energy is not as good as before. I want to retire and return home. Please grant me your permission."
"Yes, it's approved." Zhengde waved his hand nonchalantly, "Master Jiao, go home and pack up before returning home. I have important things to do, so I won't see you off."

"Yes, Your Majesty! Long live Your Majesty!"
Jiao Fang took off his official hat and placed it in the hands of a eunuch beside him. Then he backed out of the Qinzheng Hall, feeling distraught.

After Jiao Fang left, Zhengde stroked the memorial submitted by Li Dongyang with his fingers and looked around the court: "If there are still people like Lord Jiao who need to retire and return home, please report to the Ministry of Personnel after the court session. The Ministry of Personnel will draw up a list and submit it to me. I will approve them all at once, so as to save the trouble of reporting one by one in the future!"
His words caused a commotion in the court. Some ministers stared at the memorial in his hand, as if they had lost their parents.

Li Dongyang did not expect that the memorial he had carefully prepared would not even be read by Emperor Zhengde, and Jiao Fang was dismissed from office. He was even used as a tool to scare the monkeys by the emperor, and he felt mixed emotions.
Thinking about how he had tried every possible way to intercede for the ministers who were innocently convicted in front of the eunuch party over the years, collecting evidence of Liu Jin's crimes and appeasing the ministers, he was filled with mixed feelings.

Li Dongyang was lost in thought when he heard Zhengde ask, "Does the Prime Minister have anything else to report?"
Li Dongyang came back to his senses and said quickly: "Your Majesty is wise. I wonder what arrangements Your Majesty will make for the two of them when Xie Qian and Liu Jian return to the court."

"Let's talk about their affairs after they come back." Zhengde shook his head, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, "Lord Li, I heard that the officials of the Hanlin Academy are well-read, remember to ask them to work with the Ministry of Works to help me find out the news about the iron birds flying in the sky and the trains running on the ground.
Oh, and there's also the penicillin, which is something found from moldy oranges. Let the Imperial Academy and the Imperial Medical Bureau study it for me.
The Western medicine mentioned in the Heavenly Scroll is probably the stuff from the West that the eunuch Sanbao ordered. Find someone to investigate it for me."

For a while, one could hear a pin drop in the court.
The ministers who had just been excited about His Majesty's handling of Jiao Fang, immediately fell silent when they heard Emperor Zhengde's words, and all sighed deeply in their hearts.
Is their Majesty going to start causing trouble again?
"Your Majesty, the words of the Heavenly Scroll..." Li Dongyang was about to speak again to persuade him.
Zhengde interrupted him: "Instead of trying to persuade me, you should check how many times Liu Jin was cut by the knife today, whether he is dead or not, and what he had for dinner."
Li Dongyang was stunned, and immediately remembered that this matter was mentioned in detail in the Heavenly Scroll. If it even predicted how many times Liu Jin was cut by the knife, then this Heavenly Scroll would be too terrifying!

Is there no elixir of life in the world?
Qin Shi Huang's face darkened. Is the elixir poisonous? Will it only kill me faster if I take it?

"Show me the records in the heavenly scroll." Qin Shihuang instructed a young attendant beside him.
Soon someone presented the recorded silk.
After a quick scan, his attention was caught by several words and things that he had not paid much attention to before.

Airplane or high-speed rail?
Could it be those flying iron birds and trains that Tianjuan mentioned before?
And there are expressways - could they be similar to the highways he built for his tours?
I think in a few days he will start another tour, preparing to go to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices to the gods. This is his second tour.
So there were three more times after this, and he died on the way to the fifth time. In addition, there was an emperor named Zhu Yuanzhang in later generations who actually abolished the position of prime minister.
After glancing at Li Si, who was kneeling on the ground in silence, Qin Shihuang fell into deep thought.

The prime minister is indeed very important, but it is fine if he is still in office. The prime minister will naturally obey him, but if he dies, his successor is too stupid or too weak. If the ruler is weak and the ministers are strong, not only will they not be able to control the prime minister, they may even be used by him.
Just as Tianjuan said, if the prime minister becomes too powerful after his death and can influence the government and even the selection of the next emperor, even if Zhao Gao seeks to join forces with Li Si, he may not be able to control the situation.

It would be great if there was a way to limit the prime minister's power while allowing him to assist the emperor in handling government affairs.
Before, he just divided the military power of the prime minister and let the imperial censor to restrain the prime minister. It seems that this is far from enough. If it is true as the heavenly scroll said, weren't Fusu and the Meng family killed by Li Si and Zhao Gao?
"Your Majesty's worries may be alleviated by this humble servant. I wonder if Your Majesty would be willing to listen to what I have to say."
Li Si?
Looking at Li Si, Qin Shihuang narrowed his eyes.
What an annoyingly considerate person!

On a night in October of the 12th year of Hongwu, a large number of Jinyiwei surrounded the left prime minister's residence. Prior to this, due to the natural phenomenon and the prophecy of the heavenly scroll, Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang punished Prince of Yan Zhu Di and left prime minister Hu Weiyong respectively.
Prince of Yan Zhu Di was punished to be a gatekeeper at the city gate, and Hu Weiyong was also ordered to reflect on his mistakes behind closed doors.

However, tonight, Prince of Yan Zhu Di, who was supposed to guard the city gate, put on the gold-painted flying fish suit again and led his troops to search the residence of the left prime minister Hu Weiyong.
However, it was revealed that Hu Weiyong accepted bribes on a large scale, deceived his superiors and subordinates, formed a clique for personal gain, and embezzled taxes from all over the country.

During the half month that he served as the city gate official, Zhu Di ordered his men to keep a close eye on the officials who came to the capital to pay taxes. Finally, he discovered a clue and found the account book in which Hu Weiyong used IOUs to exchange taxes, and reported it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious. As he hated corrupt officials the most in his life, he immediately ordered a search and seizure of Hu's mansion, and found a large amount of evidence there.

With all the evidence and witnesses, Hu Weiyong was immediately thrown into jail and awaited his fate.
Zhu Di entered the palace again with the confiscated account books of the Hu family's property.

It was already late at night when Zhu Di entered the palace. Zhu Yuanzhang had specially allowed him to enter, so there were only the two of them, father and son, in the small study room in the Qinzheng Hall.
Zhu Yuanzhang flipped through the account books and kept cursing Hu, a parasite, while Zhu Di stood by in silence.
It was at this moment that a rainbow light flashed in the sky, and the Heavenly Scroll opened again.

(End of this chapter)