Meng Jian looked at Gao Jun, who was also the right servant of the Ministry of Finance.
Gao Jun was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Xuande's reign. He was promoted step by step from the Ministry of Household Affairs to the right minister of the household department. Now that there is a vacancy for the left minister, Gao Jun will soon be able to fill the position of the left minister.
Geng Jiuchou looked at Gao Jun.
Gao Jun trembled: "It has nothing to do with the official, the official doesn't know!"
Geng Jiuchou grabbed Meng Jian's remaining ear and tried to scratch it off.
"Ask Gao Jun, ask Gao Jun!"
Meng Jian screamed.
Geng Jiuchou kicked Meng Jian away.
He fiercely picked up the old and frail Gao Jun and put the knife on his ear: "Speak!"
madman?
This Geng Jiuchou is not like a scholar, but more like a factory guard!
Gao Jun trembled and said, "I still need to ask Shen Yi about this matter."
Shen Yi was originally the Minister of Household Affairs in Nanjing and was transferred to the capital not long ago.
"You do know how to kick a ball!"
Geng Jiuchou grabbed Gao Jun's ear and slapped it hard.
"Ah!" Gao Jun kept screaming.
The ears were cut off.
Gao Jun was rolling on the ground in pain, but Geng Jiuchou put the blade on his neck: "Move it again? Try?"
Gao Jun twitched all over, shook his head at Geng Jiuchou, and did not dare to move.
But it hurts too much.
"Don't blame each other, just say it!" Geng Jiuchou slapped the tall man on the head with the blade of his sword.
Gao Jun's head was buzzing.
"This is an open ledger, and there is also a secret ledger..."
Gao Jun said that the real power of the Household Department lies in the Qing Li Department.
Therefore, the left and right ministers will all have a secret account in their hands, which is the secret account paid by the local government to the Ministry of Household Affairs Bureau.
The clear accounts are for the superiors to see, while the dark accounts are for the accounts department to see themselves.
Geng Jiuchou understood.
No wonder he has been in charge of the household department for several months, but he always feels that everyone above and below him is perfunctory.
It turned out that he didn't know the secret account.
"Who controlled the secret accounts in the past?" Geng Jiuchou wanted to find out.
"It used to be in the hands of Zhang Shangshu." How dare Gao Jun hide it.
Zhang Feng?
Geng Jiuchou's eyes flashed with anger: "Bring the secret account and check it!"
"Sir, do you really want to check?"
Snapped!
Geng Jiuchou slapped Gao Jun's face hard with the blade of his knife: "It's because of worms like you that the country has suffered losses year after year!"
"check!"
"Today I must investigate thoroughly and give the world a satisfactory explanation!"
Geng Jiuchou took the risk.
How could he completely control the household department without finding out?
Despite his recklessness, Geng Jiuchou actually had his own agenda. The emperor's order to clean up the Ministry of Household Affairs was a lie, but it was true that he was beating up the civil servants.
In fact, he wanted to completely clear up all the ministries so that the emperor could fully control the six ministries.
This is the real purpose.
The secret account is in Shen Yi's hands.
He took it out of the tiles.
Geng Jiuchou looked at him.
Shen Yi knelt on the ground: "My lord, you are not a fool in the officialdom. Don't you still know the ways here?"
Geng Jiuchou casually flipped through two pages and suddenly became angry.
"You guys are crazy! Do you dare to touch any money?"
This account is shocking.
If the report is submitted, the household department will definitely be filled with people.
"Sir, without this money, how can the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs support themselves?" Meng Jian asked him foolishly.
All the officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs lowered their heads and remained silent.
"How involved are you in the ordnance matter?" Geng Jiuchou knew that he was really breaking the news.
"Tobu was not involved at all, not at all!"
Meng Jian immediately said: "These are all filial piety. The whole household department just turned a blind eye and did not participate directly."
For example, in the fifth year of Jingtai, during an inventory of Zhejiang, the open account of the Ministry of Household Affairs stated that 120 taels of silver were paid, and the secret account stated that 780,000 taels of silver were paid!
Where's the money?
Not only the household department was corrupt, the cabinet department and the eunuchs all took their fair share.
Originally, Zhejiang's officialdom should have suffered a major earthquake.
But because he made false accounts, Zhejiang was safe and sound.
This is how you are doing, how I am doing, and how everyone is doing.
Only Daming is bad.
But who cares about the life and death of Ming Dynasty?
Change the pot and still eat.
"Meng Jian, Meng Jian, you are also a talent. You have fought pirates in Guangzhou, inspected border reserves in Shanxi, and raised military pay in Huguang. You are capable of everything."
"How could you say such innocent things?"
"The Ministry of Revenue is in charge of the world's wealth. If you turn a blind eye, the wealth of many dynasties will disappear without a trace!"
"You were born as a Jinshi!"
"Emperor Xuanzong loves you so much?"
"The current emperor believes in you so much!"
"How could you say such shameless words in such an understatement!"
Geng Jiuchou roared.
He looked around the entire household department: "When I went to the capital to resume my work, I couldn't see the incompetence in the government and the ignorance of the court, so I left the place."
"Now that I have returned to the center, I thought that the Ming Dynasty will suddenly be completely new!"
"It turns out that I was the one who deceived myself!"
"I am blind!"
"It turns out that Hun Nie is still the same Hun Nie, but there is a curtain in front of my eyes!"
"Everyone in the world knows it, but I, the Minister of Household Affairs, don't know it!"
"It's ridiculous! It's ridiculous!"
"I was in the Fengtian Palace and made bold promises to Your Majesty. Only then did I find out that I, the household secretary, was the dirtiest one!"
Geng Jiuchou sat slumped on the ground, crying.
Meng Jian knew that there was no way to survive.
He giggled a few times: "Who hasn't been young? Who hasn't had an ideal and struggled for it?"
"But, if you have ideals, can you not eat or drink?"
"Can you avoid nepotism?"
"Can you completely eliminate human relationships?"
"cannot!"
"Geng Jiuchou, I tell you, you can't!"
Meng Jian screamed at him: "If you are not greedy, can your family fill their bellies? Can you be pompous when traveling? Can you go out and stay at home without having a servant?"
"Isn't this money?"
"Whose family doesn't have a third aunt and six young masters? Which family doesn't have a straw-shoe relative? Which family doesn't have an unsatisfactory relative?"
"He comes to ask you for a position, can you accept it?"
"He came to ask you for some money. Can you not lend it to him?"
"He comes to ask you to help him, can you not help him?"
"Who in this world can be a saint? Who can not ask, borrow, help or ask? Is it possible?"
Meng Jian burst into tears and cried: "Who in this world doesn't need to be unfaithful."
"good!"
"Don't talk about personal matters."
"Just business."
"When you go to the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Rites to handle affairs, why do others greet you with a smile? Why are they willing to help you with your affairs?"
"Do you think it's because of your official authority? Is it because you're afraid of offending you?"
"no!"
"This is a favor! This is a friendship built with money!"
"Without money, who will care about your feelings and whether you want to work? Who will care whether the Ming Dynasty dies or not!"
"Everyone is just a monk ringing the clock!"
Meng Jian tore apart the so-called worldly wisdom, crushed it into pieces, and said:
"Geng Jiuchou, tell me, if the Ministry of Revenue is not greedy, where will the money come from?"
"Relying on the reward from the court?"
"Don't you think it's ridiculous? Do you mean it?"
Meng Jian smiled and cried, "Do I really want to be greedy?"
"Have I never read the sages' books?"
"Am I born to be a bad person? A bastard? Am I a corrupt official?"
"no!"
"Geng Jiuchou!"
"You are not greedy. If you are a saint, why don't you have someone to support you? Geng Jiuchou!"
"It's me, the people like Hubu, who support you! Let you be this saint!"
"Without us, you, Geng Jiuchou, are nothing!"
"good!"
"I'm greedy, I'm taking! I've abandoned the books of sages, I've forgotten my ideals, I'm not worthy of being a human being!"
"But the money is shared among everyone."
"How much will I, Meng Jian, take back?"
"Go and see my house! I still can't get enough of my second son's bride price! Even my in-laws look down on me!"
"I, Meng Jian, am greedy!"
"But I, Meng Jian, am greedy and upright!"
"I am worthy of heaven and earth!"
After Meng Jian screamed, he hit the wall head first.
Bang!
Blood splattered and the person fell to the ground softly.
Geng Jiuchou looked at Meng Jian stupidly, not knowing what to say.
Gao Jun couldn't stop crying and raised his head: "Master Shangshu, Master Meng did not lie. In order to collect the money for the bride price, his youngest daughter married a merchant."
Meng Jian, a dignified right minister of household affairs and a scholar from a Jinshi family, actually married off his daughter to a merchant. Meng Jian was stupid enough.
Geng Jiuchou didn't know what to say?
He was not that kind of upright official.
But he believed that although the emperor was cruel, he was a promising and wise king. The people in the government and the public were in full swing, and the world should take on a new look, and the Ming Dynasty would flourish.
As a result, he discovered that the world is still the same world and has not changed because of the efforts of a few people.
Meng Jian did not take much, only several hundred thousand taels of silver.
Not as greedy as a local prefect.
However, greed is greed.
"Calculate the account books, I will go to the palace to report!" Geng Jiuchou looked sluggish.
And in Guangxi.
Tao Lu was enjoying himself in Guling Tusi's village.
Gu Lingqin's family can be regarded as a semi-Chinese chieftain, but the more Chinese he is, the more he resists the Ming Dynasty.
The entire Ensi Mansion and Tianzhou Mansion were under the control of the Gu Lingqin clan, with more than 200,000 troops, and even the court had to be appeased.
Qin Shu once participated in Emperor Taizong's expedition to Annan, and was just a small commander.
Fifty years later, he became the local emperor of the two provinces.
"My lord, I am a commander appointed by the imperial court."
"Why did the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi suddenly attack the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty without any reason?"
"Is it possible to rebel?"
Qin Shu bit back.
Tao Lu smiled and said: "My Lord Governor suppressed bandits and mistakenly arrived in your company's territory."
"But the leader of your village is unwilling to let us go and even takes in the bandits."
"So the Governor was so angry that he decided to give those village masters a taste of the power!"
Tan Shu admired this guy a little, he really knew how to confuse right and wrong.
She was obviously very young, but she was happy and fearless in front of him.
Most people don't have this kind of magnanimity.
"This is an imperial decree, and the Governor is also obeying orders." Taulu added.
The implication is that even Fang Ying is just fooling his superiors.
As long as he could get by, he would turn a blind eye.
All Ming officials were like this.
Deceive the superiors and conceal the inferiors.
Qin Shu understood that Fang Ying needed his cooperation to show off.
He immediately looked at Tao Lu with admiration: "Looking at your accent, you are a local, right?"
"The student is from Yulin Prefecture."
"Then I and I are fellow villagers, have we ever gotten married?"
Tao Lu suddenly felt a chill and quickly said that he was married, but Qin Shu said: "I have a granddaughter who is about the same age as you, and she can be your concubine."
Tao Lu will never be able to deal with this.
It's not that he looks down on the natives, but the Ming army wants to wipe out the Tan family. How can he marry his granddaughter?
And Qin Shu was also cunning and scheming, and used marriage to win over Tao Lu. Just because Tao Lu was young and thought he was a young man, he used a beauty to win over him, and let such a beautiful young man work for his Qin family.
"My lord, please don't look at me looking like this. My granddaughter is very beautiful."
Tan Shu asked someone to invite Miss Sun.
Soon, a little beauty arrived. She spoke Chinese with a local accent and was well-educated.
Tao Lu knew that if he disagreed, Qin Shu would not trust him.
"Then thank you for your kindness, my father-in-law!" Tao Lu was very shameless, and he was happy to have the beauty throw himself into his arms.
Qin Shu laughed.
Having relatives makes things easier.
The two chatted happily.
"Xian grandson-in-law, can you really make the decision on this matter?" Tan Shu was still undecided.
Tao Lu promised that Chieftain Guling would send troops to Sicheng Prefecture and Qingyuan Prefecture, and all the captured items would be returned to Chieftain Guling, and the Governor's Mansion would support another two thousand firearms.
"This is the governor's order. If my father-in-law doesn't believe me, you should believe this order, right?"
Tao Lu took out the order letter: "Moreover, my grandson-in-law came to visit for the first time and brought two hundred firecrackers as a meeting gift."
A smile appeared on Qin Shu's bark-like face, and one of his big yellow front teeth was missing, but he was the emperor of the two palaces.
Firearms are a cool thing.
There are some in his village, but they are all old-fashioned stuff.
"That's all. This commander is willing to send 20,000 troops."
Tao Lu's face changed slightly and he said with a smile: "My lord, my governor would like to ask you to send 100,000 troops, and all supplies will be provided by the governor's palace."
"Good grandson-in-law, you are the grandson-in-law of my chieftain Gu Ling. You should always work for the benefit of my family."
Qin Shu just wanted to get more benefits.
He has 240,000 strong men in his hands, who can be pushed onto the battlefield during a war. He also wants to get some weapons from the Ming army, just the obsolete weapons.
Tao Lu said helplessly: "Since my father-in-law said so, my son-in-law will go to the governor again and try to get more benefits for your company."
"What do you mean by your company? It's our family!" Qin Shu feigned anger.
Taulu quickly responded.
That night, Chieftain Gu Ling entertained Tao Lu warmly and gave him two beauties to relieve his fatigue.
He returned to the governor's quarters.
Make a plan with Fang Ying.
After running back to Baishan, after some conversation, Qin Shu decided to send an army of 100,000 to help.
It was scheduled to start in three days, and Qin Shu asked his son to lead the army in person.
Tao Lu was left behind, under the pretense of being able to bond with his granddaughter, but in reality he was kept as a prisoner.
But he, as a prisoner, felt really comfortable, singing and dancing every night.
Qin Shu was extremely cautious.
Worried about being stolen by the Ming army, after the army left, they instead stepped up patrols and sent out many detective horses to confirm that Fang Ying had led the army to leave Ensi Mansion.
And that little messenger has been completely buried among the women and has no big ambitions.
The appointed time arrived.
That night, the drunken Tao Lu suddenly opened his eyes, slashed one by one, and sent the two beauties who were waiting for him on the road.
These two little beauties are Qin Shu's spies, and every move he makes will be reported.
Qin Shu also separated him from his subordinates and asked the Qin family servants to serve him.
He called several servants into the house and killed them all with one knife.
Then he got out of the room.
He has lived in this village for nearly a month and is familiar with everything.
Tao Lu knew exactly when the sentry was patrolling, and he had calculated this road tens of thousands of times. He had repeatedly deduced any possible accidents in his mind.
He quickly left the guest house.
Joining his people, he brought a thousand people, but most of them were placed outside the stockade, and only a dozen people were brought in.
"Tao Liu, go and open the village gate and welcome our people in."
"Others, follow me!"
Tao Lu planned to imitate Ou Xin and use one move to capture the thief before capturing the king.
Qin Shu was worried about letting Tao Lu live in his own home, so he simply placed him in a guest house, but Tao Lu knew the Qin family well.
He knew exactly which wall there was a dog under and what time of night there were soldiers patrolling.
They all got it out of the mouths of the Qin family servants.
Tao Lu was too young to climb over the Qin family's wall, so he simply crawled through the dog's hole and gave the dog a chicken leg that had been fed medicine.
When the dog stopped barking, he let his men jump in again.
He touched Qin Shu's bedroom all the way.
He slowly turned the door bolt with his knife.
Tao Lu overestimated his ability and underestimated Qin Shu's vigilance.
When the door latch jingled.
Qin Shu immediately opened his eyes, held the knife, and slowly approached the door.
But the moment the door was pushed open, he immediately stabbed it with a knife. Tao Lu rolled over, the tip of the knife pierced his clothes, and his chest hurt a little.
"Here comes someone!" Qin Shu shouted sharply.
Two soldiers rushed forward and pushed Qin Shu to the ground.
Tao Lu rushed up and stuffed the shoe into Qin Shu's mouth: "Don't scream!"
Qin Shu glared at Tao Lu.
Despite all precautions, Tao Lu dared to risk his life to assassinate him.
"Send the signal and let people come in!"
Tao Lu took two people to the back house and arrested all Qin Shu's family members.
Qin Shu had two sons, one of whom led troops to go on an expedition with Fang Ying, and the other was guarding Tianzhou Mansion. There were only a few grandchildren and granddaughters of Qin Shu in the old house of the Qin family.
"Son-in-law, don't be ridiculous, let me go." Tan Shu smiled at Tao Lu, and the shoe in his mouth fell off at some point.
Tao Lu wiped the sweat from his face. It was hot and nervous. One foot was wearing a shoe and the other was bare. He was so nervous that he didn't realize it.
Send the signal and wait for the army outside the stronghold to come in.
"Qinshu, you listen to the instructions but not the announcement, His Majesty's decree is to kill your entire Qin family and return Ensi Mansion and Tianzhou Mansion to a prosperous world!"
Tauru snapped.
The local soldiers who were patrolling Qin Mansion came in one after another, and Tao Lu gathered Qin Shu up: "Whoever dares to come over, if you dare to take a step forward, I will kill him!"
Qin Shu knew that he was in trouble.
But with Taolu's thousand men, the foundation of Guling Tusi could not be touched.
"Everyone, please step back. This is my family's internal matter. It doesn't matter, please step back."
Qin Shu smiled at Tao Lu and said very magnanimously: "Son-in-law, do you want to be the king of these two houses?"
"Grandpa will promise you that you will be the king of both houses."
"how?"
Taulu drew a bloody line on his shoulder.
"Whose grandfather are you?" Tao Lu spat on Qin Shu's face.
Qin Shu snorted: "Do you really have no regard for family ties?"
"Do I have any kind of relationship with you?"
"You are a wise grandson-in-law if you open your mouth, and a wise grandson-in-law if you shut up!"
"But he treats me like a prisoner and is on guard at all times!"
"Besides, have I ever accepted your granddaughter?"
"It's so self-indulgent."
"I'll tell you again, the few bitches you sent to me have been killed by me!"
"You Qinshu, just surrender and capture him!"
Tao Lu pretended to look normal and played himself up as a murderous maniac.
Qin Shu completely saw the true face of Tao Lu's hero.
He had previously thought that the child's mind had been distracted by seyu.
But I don't think it's all just pretending.
"good!"
"No talk of family ties!"
"As far as strength is concerned, what can you do with more than a thousand people under your command?"
Qin Shu is also a hero: "I will give you another chance. Let me go. I will send you out of the country as a gift. This matter ends here!"
"Qin Shu, Qin Shu, you are so naive!"
Tao Lu sneered: "I put my head on my belt and am joking with you?"
"Stop talking!"
"Let all the soldiers put down their weapons and let my subordinates in!"
"I'll give you a quarter of an hour. If it's too late, I'll kill your grandson!"
Tao Lu shouted sharply.
He has indeed learned Ou Xin's fierceness and craziness.
Qin Shu didn’t want to die.
Nor can he die.
Once he dies, and one son is away and the other is in Tianzhou Mansion, Ensi Mansion will inevitably be in chaos, with disastrous consequences.
"Okay, let people in!" Qin Shu was thinking of ways to save himself.
but.
Tao Lu stabbed him in the thigh with a knife: "What are you thinking about?"
Qin Shu was in so much pain that he couldn't stand up.
The soldiers in the courtyard kept shouting.
Tao Lu didn't understand what he heard: "If you yell again, I will stab him again!"
The soldiers suddenly stopped.
Soon, Taolu's men came in.
There are only 500 guardsmen here, the others are natives gathered from various villages. They can't enforce orders and prohibitions, so they can only make do with it.
"Go out and set fire to the entire village!" Tao Lu ordered.
Use the sky-reaching fire to tell the soldiers ambushing outside that they can take action.
Qin Shu saw with his own eyes that the stronghold he had built with his own hands was ablaze with fire. His people fled one after another, and some died in the flames.
"Kill them! Leave me alone! Kill them!"
Qin Shu's eyes were blood red and he roared like a wild beast.
Taulu stabbed his other leg with a knife.
Blood splashed on Tao Lu's face.
It looks like Shura.
"Try it!"
Tao Lu shouted sharply: "Let's see who will die first, or your family will be extinct first?"
"Drag one up and kill him!"
Tauru danced on the tip of the knife.
"I still have two sons, so what if a few of my grandchildren are dead? Kill them!"
Qin Shu yelled at his men: "Come on, kill them!"
However, the soldiers did not know whether to take action.
Because Tauru was holding a small child.
This kid was joking with him a few days ago.
He gritted his teeth, cut it off with a knife, and threw a big head in front of the soldiers.
In bad local dialect, he said: "Whoever dares to take one step forward, I will kill all of Tan's family!"
The soldiers were trembling.
Tao Lu was unyielding when he gained power: "Everyone obey my orders!"
Tao Lu was even more ruthless. He arrested Qin Shu and had to make Gu Ling Chieftain's soldiers obey his orders.
"No!" Tan Shu was not stupid.
Tao Lu stabbed him in the leg again and shouted at the soldiers: "Kneel down!"
The people in these villages.
He has never been out of the mountains in his life. He has been tamed by the chieftain since he was a child, and he listens to the chieftain's words the most.
Naturally, I am worried about the safety of the toast master.
Being yelled at by Tao Lu.
He actually knelt on the ground.
Qin Shu wanted to speak, but Tao Lu put the shoe sole into his mouth again.
"Wang Shou, take them and join our army. Go quickly!" Tao Lu asked Wang Shou to take Qin Shu's grandson. If these soldiers disobey, his grandson will be killed.
Those soldiers wanted to save Qin Shu, so they had no choice but to obey orders.
Tauru breathed a sigh of relief.
His mission was completed.
His whole body was covered in cold sweat, his hands and feet were limp, everything was just an act.
Only the ferocity when killing someone is not an act.
His father, Tao Cheng, trained his wolf nature since he was a child, starting with killing chickens, pigs, cows, wolves, and people.
But this is the first time he has done such a big thing.
Being able to do this in the enemy camp is already good enough.
The sky is misty and bright.
The fire in the village gradually went out, and there was a faint sound of killing.
Qin Shu looked at Tao Lu and asked him where the Ming army came from?
"The Governor has indeed left Ensi Mansion."
"This Ming army was brought all the way from Xunzhou Prefecture by my father."
Tao Lu finally smiled and took the shoe sole out of Qin Shu's mouth.
"Where did the Ming army come from with so many people?" Tan Shu was shocked.
"War is like a snowball. It naturally keeps getting bigger and bigger."
Tauru said lightly.
But Qin Shu was shocked: "The Ming army bulldozed all the chieftains east of Ensi Mansion?"
"Almost, there are just some little toasts hidden in the ravines. In one year at most, the whole of Guangxi will be dominated by the Han people!"
Tao Lu's face was full of pride. With this battle, his father might be able to gain a knighthood.
He is also going to Beijing to attend the martial arts lecture hall.
The future is bright.
With his achievements in this battle, he will definitely be personally summoned by His Majesty.
He needs to think carefully about how to deal with His Majesty's test.
Qin Shu was stunned for a long time and didn't react.
The chieftains had no information and no communication with each other.
Therefore, Qin Shu only thought that Fang Ying was here to beat him and take care of some disobedient little toasts.
Unexpectedly, most of Guangxi was bulldozed.
After being stunned for a long time, he struggled and knelt down: "Mr. Tao!"
"For the sake of my granddaughter, please, please leave a way for my descendants to survive!"
"My descendants are willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty!"
"I am willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty!"
Qin Shu is aware of current affairs.
Anyway, he knew that what Daming wanted was a name.
As long as he submitted, he would at most be allowed to live in the capital. His son would still be in charge of the two lands and act as the local emperor.
Because the emperor doesn't care about such border places.
"Qin Shu, you may not know yet."
"His Majesty's imperial edict is to educate Guangxi."
"Let everyone in Guangxi speak Chinese, just like in the mainland."
"No one is allowed to disobey the king's orders, and no one is allowed to have private weapons. This is the emperor's order!"
"Put away all the unrealistic ideas in your mind."
"No one will survive this battle!"
Taulu told him word for word.
Qin Shu opened his mouth wide. What does the emperor want to do?
Can the emperor like a barren land like Guangxi?
why?
"As long as we are within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, no one is allowed to exist who cannot hear the emperor's orders!"
Tao Lu respectfully knelt down in front of the Forbidden City: "Your Majesty is a holy emperor like Taizu and Taizong! Don't rub sand in your eyes!"
"As for the boy, he is just a member of the provincial government."
"There are more people like me in the Ming Dynasty than there are people in your village!"
Tao Lu smiled at Qin Shu.
Qin Shu was stunned and couldn't believe it.
That year, when the Ming Dynasty conquered Annan.
He caught a glimpse of Emperor Taizong from a distance and was still deeply impressed.
That is his great emperor like the sun and moon.
Is the current emperor another emperor like Emperor Taizong?
Plop!
Qin Shu fell to the ground.
He knew that if the Ming Dynasty wanted to take away the military power of the chieftains, no chieftain in the world would agree.
It must be fought hard.
One village after another was razed and eaten bit by bit.
This is the key to completely clearing the toast.
Suddenly!
His eyes widened: "Then my Guling Chieftain's 100,000-strong army is marching north, and it's not Qingyuan Mansion that's being conquered? But my Guling Chieftain?"
"Qin Shu, Qin Shu, you only know!"
Tao Lu laughed: "Why do you think my father came all the way to Ensi Mansion?"
"If he wants to get a title, he can only be a chieftain."
Qin Shu opened his mouth and cried loudly for a long time: "I am a sinner! I am the sinner of Guling Tusi!"
At this time, Tao Liu came back.
He said that he had agreed to join the stronghold.
The elder has already started to clear out the nearby cottages.
Tao Liu is a domestic slave of the Tao family. He grew up with Tao Lu and served him as a caring person.
And Fang Ying.
Joined Zhu Yi in Qingyuan Mansion, rescued Zhu Yi, directly killed the disloyal soldiers, and integrated the forces in Zhu Yi's hands.
Then that night, they attacked Gu Ling Chieftain's soldiers.
Killed all night.
The dead were countless.
Qin Shu's eldest son died in the army.
Then go all the way west to attack Sizhou Prefecture.
at the same time.
Tao divided his troops into multiple groups and plowed the entire Ensi Mansion and Tianzhou Mansion in half a month.
Fang Ying received the information and immediately ordered: "Try not to kill the babies. Pick some with good qualifications, castrate them and send them to the palace to serve His Majesty."
He has been doing this all the time. Ever since Dadengxia, he has been looking for qualified children and castrating them into Yeting.
Tao Cheng and Tao Lu are leaving.
Qin Shu had been executed. Before he died, he begged Tao Lu not to kill his grandson but to leave a trace of incense for the Qin family.
Tao Lu finally felt compassion for him and castrated Qin Shu's grandson Qin Yi and sent him to the palace, thus pacifying Qin Shu's heart.
And the largest chieftain entrenched in Ensi Mansion also completely collapsed.
Fang Ying, Zhu Yi, and Tao Cheng led a total of more than 400,000 troops and continued to clear Sizhou Prefecture, Anlongsi, Zhen'an Prefecture, Guishun Prefecture, Taiping Prefecture, Siming Prefecture, etc.
"When the child enters the capital, I don't know when I will be able to serve my father!" Tao Lu said goodbye to Tao Cheng.
Tao Cheng is the wolf dad.
From childhood to adulthood, Tao Lu was raised with the wolf surname.
But when we parted, I still shed tears on the spot and grabbed Tao Lu's shoulders: "A good man has ambitions in all directions, and the divine destiny is favoring him. This is a good thing that no one can ask for."
"My father wants to be knighted, and you want to take the imperial examination. My father should not stop you."
"But being a father has his own ideals and ambitions."
"I was once a father who also promoted people, but I still took the road of joining the army. During those years in Jiaozhi, I was more than willing to be a father but not enough."
"Lu'er, as a father, I'm sorry for you because I wanted to be knighted."
Tao Cheng had a heart-to-heart relationship with his son for the first time.
He had a premonition that he would never see his son again in this life.
Tao Lu burst into tears: "My father is a civil servant, and my son is a civil servant. My father wants to join the army, and my son will join the army. This is to continue my father's ambition!"
"In the days to come, my son will not be able to serve by my side, so I beg my father to take care of his health."
"You are afraid of the cold. You can't hold on just for the sake of marching. You have to think about yourself."
Tao Cheng patted his son on the shoulder and warned, "Father knows."
"When you go to Beijing, it's no better than at home. You suffer a little loss, but it doesn't matter. A man just has to endure it."
"Being a father in Beijing cannot be your wing."
"Although your in-law family is powerful, people must rely on themselves and cannot rely on the power of others! This is not what a gentleman should do."
"do you know?"
Tao Lu kowtowed to express his understanding.
"When you go to Beijing, you must study hard and don't become complacent just because of a small victory."
"Only by studying can you improve yourself. You need to examine yourself three times every day. You must never forget what your father taught you."
"My father's qualifications are very poor. I will only be a count in this life."
"But you have been smart since childhood, and your father has taught you strictly. Your future is limitless. My father hopes that you can become a famous minister, a good prime minister, a famous general, and be famous for generations to come!"
Tao Cheng kept urging him.
Tauru cried and nodded.
"When you see Your Majesty, never say hello to Your Majesty on behalf of your father!"
With that said, Tao Cheng knelt down in front of the Forbidden City: "Mistress Tao Cheng, thank you for your support! Long live my emperor!"
Respectfully perform three bows and nine kowtows.
Tao Lu burst into tears.
Because there was another imperial edict urging him to go home and say goodbye to his mother, he had to go on the road immediately.
He also had to escort important captives and some castrated children, who were to be sent to Yeting.
There are also letters sent home by soldiers of the Zhenguo Army.
And some Guangxi specialties were presented to His Majesty by Fang Ying.
He led his troops and marched northward to Beijing.
He turned back three times in one step.
I want to see my father and my hometown again. When I come back, I don’t know what year or month it will be.
In the palace.
Zhu Qiyu received the secret account sent by Geng Jiuchou.
Geng Jiuchou knelt down in the Yangxin Hall.
"Corruption is corruption. Where can there be so many reasons?"
Zhu Qiyu's tone was unkind.
But after reading Meng Jian's confession, combined with the investigation by factory guards, I felt a bit sad: "Meng Jian is selfless, taking all the blame and putting it on his own head."
"Then die."
"He is indeed talented. It's a pity that I let him serve as a governor."
"Meng Jian is dead, so there is no need to investigate further."
"Leave a name behind you."
"Oh, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver are not enough to cover expenses. What has his family done?"
Zhu Qiyu suddenly asked: "Geng Jiuchou, tell me the truth, how much does your family spend a year?"
"Reporting to your majesty, I have never calculated it, but I estimate that it will cost one million taels of silver." Geng Jiuchou whispered.
"So many?" Zhu Qiyu was surprised.
"Your Majesty, Meng Jian is right."
"Officials all have their own ostentation. For example, Wei Chen is now the Minister of Household Affairs. Compared with before, he spends tens of thousands of taels more every month just on ostentation."
Geng Jiuchou carefully observed the emperor's face and said, "Recently, the minister has taken in a concubine, and the concubine's family should also give her some money."
"There are also relatives in the family, relatives from outside the family, and they all move around during the holidays."
"All the servants and maids at home must be taken care of."
"We have to move around even if we are close relatives."
"Weichen's family is saving money, otherwise they would have received millions of taels of silver a year."
This number really shocked Zhu Qiyu.
Don't think that the servants you raise are just paper people, that they are all money-sucking caves.
Anyone who doesn't need money to take care of them will not act loyally. Some people know that they are greedy, but they have to pretend not to know.
Taming servants and controlling people's hearts is not an easy task.
"Even if the government raises salaries, it's still necessary to be greedy."
"Where can I get the money to give them several million taels of silver a year?"
Zhu Qiyu knew that as long as he was an official, he would have to be greedy.
Otherwise, how can we show that we are different from the common people?
Where does the feeling of superiority come from?
Comes from greed.
"How do you think this matter should be handled?" Zhu Qiyu asked.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Household Affairs is already infested with insects. Now that we have investigated it, we will investigate it to the end!"
"Drive out all those old guys from the Ministry of Finance."
"Recruit new people and reorganize the household department."
Geng Jiuchou wanted to be the Minister of Household Affairs.
He was also guessing the emperor's thoughts.
The fact that the emperor did not punish Zhang Feng showed that the emperor did not intend to kill everyone.
"I plan to reorganize it."
Zhu Qiyu's purpose is to seize the cabinet.
Instead of dealing with some corrupt criminals.
Just ask them to give the money back.
Who else would it be? It would still be the same corruption?
As long as the money is spit out, the treasury will be rich and everyone will be happy.
I will go to work in the newly created province.
Geng Jiuchou's eyes darkened and he knew that the emperor had no intention of taking any drastic measures.
"Please don't be anxious, Geng Qing."
"There is no conflict between the restructuring of the six ministries and the crackdown on corruption."
"The Ministry of Household Affairs is divided into six departments according to their functions: the Household Registration Department, the Agriculture Department, the Finance Department, the Munitions Department, the Warehousing Department and the Miscellaneous Department."
“The Household Registration Department manages household registration;”
“The Department of Agriculture manages the land;”
"The Financial Secretary is in charge of taxes, revenue and expenditure, salaries, etc.;"
"The Munitions Department is in charge of military pay, ordnance, etc.;"
"The Warehousing Department is in charge of warehouses all over the world;"
"The general manager takes care of other things."
Zhu Qiyu said slowly: "Take out the six departments of Qing officials and form a separate department."
The Cleaning Department is responsible for supervising local areas within each ministry.
Is it useful to regulate yourself?
Geng Jiuchou heard that the emperor wanted to use the restructuring to completely take over power.
"The right minister is the chief officer of each department, and the left minister is responsible for assisting the minister in handling official affairs."
"Set up a bureau under the department, divide the six departments into detailed bureaus, and let the doctor be the chief officer of each bureau."
Zhu Qiyu has been thinking about it for a long time.
How to take away the authority of civil servants?
Restructure and take back power.
"Your Majesty has considered it carefully, and I have no objection." What could Geng Jiuchou say?
It can only be said that the emperor was too greedy for power.
Being too greedy for power can easily lead to disaster, Your Majesty.
"We'll discuss this in the morning tomorrow. I'll let you know first." Zhu Qiyu said with a smile.
Morning next morning.
It caused huge repercussions, with most people in the DPRK and China opposed.
"I have divided the internal functions in detail, is that wrong?" Zhu Qiyu asked lightly.
There was a sudden silence in Fengtian Hall.
There is shit under everyone’s butts without checking.
The emperor is now calling for an inventory of the six departments, just waiting to see who approves and who opposes, and those who oppose will be investigated until the end.
"Your Majesty, it is indeed possible to subdivide functions."
Hu Xi smiled bitterly and said: "But Your Majesty has to investigate and reorganize the six departments. The north is at war, and the south is also at war."
"Your Majesty, human energy is limited."
"There are also many courtiers."
"Can you wait for which party to calm down before making the next decision?"
That's right.
The courtiers were all so tired that they hit the back of their heads with their feet.
He was still terrified, not knowing which day he would be killed.
The emperor simply did not treat his courtiers as human beings.
"What the old lady said makes sense."
Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "Then after the restructuring is completed, I will rest for a while. I won't bother anymore."
Who can believe this?
"This matter will be decided. The specific division will be discussed by the cabinet ministers. The restructuring will be completed before the end of the year."
Zhu Qiyu made the final decision: "Especially the Department of Cleaning and Officials. I plan to use the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Department of Supervision, and the Department of Cleaning and Officials to carry out the duty of inspecting the world."
"The specific details will be discussed by the senior ministers of the cabinet. Once the discussion is completed, submit it to me. I will discuss it after reading it."
Leave no room for courtiers to object.
"By the way, Li Jin has received another good news. His army has arrived at Helin. I am also hesitating. Should I stop and digest the territory I currently occupy?"
Digestion sucks!
Those grasslands, barren land, how do you digest them?
What's the use of occupying it!
The courtiers all slandered.
Now that there are millions more mouths in Beijing, water transportation can no longer support it.
If we continue to transport grain to the north.
I don’t know how many people will starve to death in the Central Plains.
Wang Hong knelt down with emotion: "Your Majesty, please order Uncle Xiangcheng to stop!"
Zhu Qiyu was surprised.
"Your Majesty, the pressure on Gyeonggi's food rations is huge now."
"If the border continues to be pushed northward."
"The territory has expanded, and we can't control it."
"If you don't get tired of eating, it's better to slowly digest Rehe and then try to harmonize the forest land."
Wang Yan said seriously: "Wechen persuaded His Majesty, and His Majesty knows that this year's food is not enough to eat food, and you can no longer waste it on the road.
"I haven't arrived in September, what winter?" Zhu Qiyu was layman.
Mobe in September, the cold has hit.
Yiming explained it.
Zhu Qiyu's head: "It's reckless, Wang Qing said it was exactly."
"It's time to prepare for the winter."
"Will the escape soldiers disturb the border?"
Wang Yue stood up with his legs: "His Majesty, Wei Chen thought it wouldn't."
Zhu Qiyu saw Wang Yue, and his confident Wang Yue came back.
"tell me the story."
Zhu Qiyu value Wang Yue very much.
"His Majesty, Mouse Bald Blaybives."
"According to intelligence, it is scattered, either move west, or run to the northeast to seize the territory of Wu Liangha.
"So Wei Chen concluded that he would never dare to fight."
"Instead, it is northwest, and we must prevent tiles."
"This year, Daming is not good, and Wajie must have been difficult to get better."
"The battle of Xuanzhen, although it hurts the wow, but only hurts."
After Wang Yue finished speaking, Zhu Qing agreed.
Zhu Qiyu laughed: "There is no need to worry about the northwest. There are Fan Guang, Guo Deng, Kou Shen, Wang Lai, Zhao Fu, Gong Yongji and others sit in the town.
"According to Wang Qing, let all provinces and Division in the north prepare for winter food."
"Fang Ying went to the three strategies of Guangxi, and after watching it, I didn't know how to place millions of barbarians."
Fang Ying had millions of local soldiers.
According to his expectations, the spring of next year can be completely clear and Guangxi.
The rest is slowly educating.
Within three years, Guangxi has completely become the hinterland of Daming.
Bai Gui kneeling on the ground: "His Majesty, the three strategies of Governor Fang are all good strategies, but it is difficult to implement."
"Education, those barbaric soldiers don't know even Chinese characters, how to educate?"
"Immigration, now the lack of people in Huguang, Yun Gui, Guanggui, and Fujian are missing people, and even the northwest is still missing."
"Give it to Guangxi, the governors of all places must play the chapter. Where can the center go?"
"Migration."
"It is indeed a good way to use this strategy to chaos."
"The problem is, Guotai, Guotai, Annan State. We put people over. In case of war, how can we fight foreign war with Guangxi?"
"This year, Daming must not fight anymore. Not only the food cannot be supported, but the soldiers are very tired. They should also rest and let the soldiers rest and rest."
"The three strategies are excellent, and the center cannot be implemented!"
Bai Gui smiled bitterly.
"What is Bai Qing?" Zhu Qiyu looked at him.
"There is no way for Wei Chen." Bai Gui hoeed.
Zhu Qiyu looked at Yu Qian, and Yu Qian also smiled bitterly.
It is easy for Yiping toast and difficult to govern.
"Guangxi lacks people?"
Zhu Qiyu murmured to himself: "Gyeonggi is not short of ..."
Hu Yan's face changed: "Her Majesty, please break this mind!"
Are you a tapeworm in your belly?
Zhu Qiyu smiled bitterly: "Old lady, I want the clan to go to Guangxi."
"Absolutely not!" Hu Yan was cutting down.
Yu Qian also kneeling on the ground: "His Majesty, the clan should not release the Beijing division easily, Mobei can go, Guangxi is inexhaustible."
Because of the mountains in Guangxi, it is where Tusi wrapped.
Rebellion is easy, and it is difficult.
In case of Nanming, it will have extremely harsh political impact.
Zhu Qiyu considers: "Henan and Shandong have no danger to keep, let the clan off these two provinces? Then immigrate from these two provinces to Guangxi."
"His Majesty, such immigration, I'm afraid it would take great consumption." Hu Yan felt feasible.
When talking about money, Zhu Qiyu was happy.
The section that night, the palace was counted until now, there are no specific figures. How much money do you say?
"Zhu Qing, how about resettlement like this?"
"I recruited a group of self -employed Zhuang Ding from Henan and Shanxi to recruit them."
"Then build it in Duofeng Guard in Guangxi."
"No military households are still households."
"Actually turning them into Xin Guangxi people."
"Fang Ying's barbaric soldiers did not dissolve. They all changed to regular army. After being dispersed, they were charged into the World Guard."
"Especially Nan Zhili, Zhejiang."
"Let the bachelors in the guards marry a native woman in Guangxi; marry the Han family as a wife as a wife."
"In this way, the problem will not be solved."
The millions of men were removed from Guangxi, and Toast was pretty fart.
The courtiers were stunned: "Your Majesty, how do those natives marry the Han family?"
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"If you want to make it Chinese, you can only marry a Han daughter."
"I can't bear it, I can't help it."
Zhu Qiyu was helpless: "And migrating the sabers, I don't know what happened, as long as they are willing to leave Guangxi, the problem will be unlocked."
Hu Yan knelt on the ground: "His Majesty, this policy is afraid of spending a lot. The inner puppet is indeed rich, but it is too wasteful to spend so much."
In the eyes of the courtiers, no one regards the lives of the people at the bottom.
Especially those natives.
According to the concept of the courtiers, buried it directly, once and for all.
"Just pay some money."
Zhu Qiyu's wealth: "The focus is on the women of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, I'm afraid they will be disliked, ugly and dark, and not Chinese."
That's true.
Wang Yan laughed: "His Majesty's decision before, making the criminals go to Mobei. There are many wives in these criminals.
It depends on you.
"This method is good. Anyway, there are some sinner. When I went to Mobei, I couldn't come back. It was useless to ask my wife. I just marry those natives."
Zhu Qiyu also had a deep meaning, and he wanted to disrupt the foundation of Jiangnan gentlemen.
These brutal soldiers are good candidates.
"Guangxi is also lacking in education.
"Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong are empty."
"Fill in the Zhu family of the clan, fill in."
Zhu Qiyu is also alleviating the pressure of Gyeonggi.
"Your Majesty, Shanxi can't!"
Hu Yan seriously said: "Shanxi is a place of victory, and the royal family cannot enter."
"Then go to Henan and Shandong, can you go to Hubei?" Zhu Qiyu said.
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
Chamber of Charity Hom.
"The northwestern land is rare, and Kou Shen always played the chapter to me, saying that Gansu is barren, and there are too few people."
"I plan to send some clan over."
"What do you think, gentlemen?"
Zhu Qiyu actually asked Hu Yan.
Hu Yan seriously thinks.
The place in Guanzhong has not fallen completely.
Even if there is a clan to try to rebel, the success rate is small. The key to the risk of being stained in the northwest is the risk of being stained in the northwest. It may be a good thing to let the clan go to the northwest as a gentry.
In addition to Shanxi, the north can let the clan go.
"His Majesty."
"The old minister thinks that governing the northwest and being the first governance."
"The northwestern Hu Han is mixed, mostly Hu, less for Han, and even the risk of Hu Hua."
"Her Majesty fills the northwest with the ancestral clan, but it is a good thing to twist Hu as a Han."
"It is just that the old minister thinks that when the Buddhism is moved into the northwest, and the royal family will sweep the Hanfeng to the northwest."
"If you want to rule the northwest, you will even change your teachings."
Hu Yan was very careful.
Because the northwest is very complicated, it is far from the Beijing Master, and it is not king.
The focus is on the barren land in the northwest.
Can't support too many people.
Even if immigrants have passed, the land cannot afford.
Want to manage, it is difficult and difficult.
"What about Xing Guogong?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Qian.
Yu Qian was hesitant: "Wei Chen dare not add to the beak, it is better to ask Kou Dufu and see his opinions."
"Also, immigration is not in a hurry."
"I let Kou Shen talk about how to rule Gansu."
Zhu Qiyu laughed: "Wang Qing is worried that it is right.
"Gyeonggi's food pressure is too great."
"Move it out as appropriate, see where the population is missing, you can fill it out."
I can tell.
The emperor was in a good mood.
Because he got what he wanted.
Through the restructuring, the imperial power further expanded, and the civilian group fell from the deputy emperor to the migrant worker. Can the emperor be unhappy?
It can be seen that the emperor's eyes have moved to the north.
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