The commanders of the Imperial Guards, Pei Dahu, Lin Yu, and Wu Xiao, were ordered to secretly enter the customs, go to Junzhou, Huguang, arrest Cheng Guogong and Song Yingxing, and escort them back to Shenyang to await the fate of the Supreme Emperor.
Chengguo Gong Jin Dajiu is the uncle of the current Daqi State, the brother of the Empress Dowager Cisheng, and the cousin of Jin Yinghe of the Ninth Corps. Except for Sun Chuanting and Ma Shiying, among the civil and military ministers of Daqi, no one is more powerful than Jin Guojiu. .
As soon as the Supreme Emperor took action, he announced the fate of the Jin family's party.
Born in an imperial family, decisive in killing, mean and ungrateful, with no family ties at all, this was certainly not something that officials like Pei Dahu could understand.
"Your Majesty, Uncle Jin Guo may have been deceived by others. After all, it was his first time to supervise the construction project. As for the four million taels of loopholes, it was probably caused by local profiteers."
"You want to see people alive, and you want to see corpses when dead. Liu Xingzuo has already sent a message to the Fourth Corps in advance. As long as Qin Jianxun doesn't want to rebel, he won't stop you from arresting people. You go on this trip, just be careful of the servants!"
Just be afraid, if the Fourth Corps, Jin Dajiu, Song Yingxing and others don't know, then we will be in big trouble.
"Old Pei, many ministers in the government and the public have attributed your Imperial Guards to the rear party. Now the rear party is doing evil and taking the lead in corruption. I have to question it. I will give you this opportunity today to draw a clear line between you and them and give you a chance. , you have to be successful, otherwise I won’t be able to save you, and it will be hard to defend yourself! You will end up like them, do you understand?”
Pei Dahu felt sad in his heart and in a daze, as if in a dream. However, knowing that the stakes were so important, the servant leader had no time to feel sad for others, so he quickly took the lead in expressing his loyalty to the Supreme Emperor.
"I risk my life to bring these people back to Shenyang."
Pei Dahu and the other three selected a dozen more elite guardsmen, hurriedly packed up, left Shenyang, and headed for Shanhaiguan at starry night.
Shortly after the Imperial Guards set off, the Supreme Emperor summoned Zhang Dong and told the spy leader to go to Henan to collect evidence of the local chamber of commerce's exploitation of farmers and to see what was going on with the money shop's deficit.
"Inspect secretly and find out whether the Ninth Corps has anything to do with this matter. Regardless of whether it does or not, don't disturb Jin Yinghe. I have always been worried about this group of foreign mercenaries..."
The Supreme Emperor still only spoke half of his words as a habit. Zhang Dong understood it and asked no more questions.
As soon as the spy leader walked out of the Dazheng Palace, he turned back and looked up at the Supreme Emperor with a troubled expression on his face.
"Your Majesty, this matter is of great concern. I, I am worried..."
Liu Zhaosun interrupted directly: "What? You don't dare to go?"
Zhang Mazi's forehead was shining, his face was slightly red, and he was excited:
"Thirteenth Master, why don't you dare to go! I'm just afraid of disturbing the situation. Not only will we lose our lives, but we will also delay the military and national affairs!"
"If there is really a snake in the grass, I will cut him into pieces. Several other regiments have returned to Shenyang. They can't make waves!"
When Liu Zhaosun said this, he stepped forward and patted Zhang Dong on the shoulder:
"Zhang Mazi, I never thought that one day I would attack my former brother. What the hell is this!"
Zhang Dong hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, it's all their fault! It's only been a few years, and everyone has become like this. They have forgotten the bloody battle in Saarhu and who brought them here. They are all pigs." I am obsessed with oil, especially that Song Yingxing. A dog cannot change his habit of eating shit. He was spared life last time, but now he is taking the lead in corruption. I don’t know how much money he has embezzled..."
Zhang Mazi became more and more excited as he spoke, so much so that Liu Zhaosun had to wave his hand to calm him down.
"So what Senti Huang Delun and the others are doing now is very meaningful. Officials are like crops in the field. If one crop is destroyed, there will be another crop, and the next crop will be fertilized carefully and watered more since childhood. If you cultivate it carefully, you will definitely have a good harvest.”
Except for a small number of technical prisoners of war, most of the second-generation ruling class of the empire are native Qi people, mainly children of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce and farmers. These children are generally between ten and sixteen years old. The oldest of the Na wave has already Join the army and become a recruit of each major corps.
Like the growth experiences of Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang, these children have received various brainwashing educations since they began to learn to speak. Whether it is school textbooks or books and newspapers published by various provinces, they all promote loyalty to Daqi and the myth of Emperor Liu Zhaosun. .
For example, in the childhood education textbooks used by children in various provinces of the empire, it is clearly written that the people of Daqi have a civilization history of 6,000 years. From the beginning of Dayu's flood control, Qi people appeared in the heart of the empire (Junzhou), and later assisted After Dayu controlled the floods, part of the Qi people moved to Korea, Japan, and Yinzhou, and the other part moved to Shandong. With the evolution of history, they later established vassal states, which was the Qi State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period... ·
In the vast land of the empire (currently in the textbooks used by children, the Daqi territory marked covers the entire East Asia), elephants exist in Daqi, lions also exist in Daqi, and almost all rare birds Alien beasts all exist in Daqi.
The historical account of Emperor Wuding is even more exaggerated. The textbook says that when the Emperor was ten years old, he encountered bandits on the road and killed one hundred and eight bandits in a row. When he was eleven years old, he invented the flintlock gun. At the age of twelve, Emperor Wu Ding invented the Hongyi cannon. At the age of fifteen, he invented the hot-air balloon. At the age of eighteen, he invented the steam engine. At the age of nineteen, the hot-air balloon flew to Hetu where the Jian slaves were entrenched. In the sky above Ala City, a series of indiscriminate bombings blew Huang Taiji, who was still resisting, to pieces...
In short, there are countless heroic deeds about the Supreme Emperor.
In addition, instructors and representatives from all walks of life will regularly go to schools, workshops, chambers of commerce, and other places to carry out education on remembering hardships and remembering sweetness. Each time, people who have experienced it will tell how they were oppressed by landlords and evil gentry in the pre-Ming Dynasty. If you were to be knocked to the bone and sucked out the marrow by the dog emperor of the Ming Dynasty, how could you not survive? Then compare the benefits that Daqi brought to the people. People in Daqi are almost the same as in heaven.
At the climax of every reminiscence of sorrow and sweetness, an old woman with an unclear accent and squinted eyes would come to the stage and shout to a group of audience members:
"Folks! Young and old men, the days of happiness are yet to come!"
After such repeated and intensive brainwashing, the vast majority of the imperial elites became the most loyal minions of Emperor Wu Ding.
Although not all of the new generation are die-hard fans of the empire, most of them are beneficiaries of the totalitarian system composed of the "Qi Dynasty Land Acquisition System".
Out of their own interests, these people must also actively defend the Daqi regime.
There are only individuals who betray the class, not classes who betray their interests.
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Liu Zhaosun originally planned to go back to Huguang in person, have a good chat with his subordinates who have not kept up with the times, and strive for a drink to relieve the military power, or follow the example of Yuan Chonghuan in the original plane and join his camp and kill them. Will.
However, Liaodong is in a troubled time, and the main focus has to be on the northern border. Everything needs to be done by oneself without any slack.
Therefore, he asked Pei Dahu, Zhang Dong and others to go south to get people.
At the same time, the First Corps, the Second Corps, the Third, the Sixth, and the Eighth Corps all received news of returning to Shenyang in order to ensure that the great purge movement could be successfully completed.
In Shenyang in June, the sun was scorching, and it was getting hotter day by day. Liu Zhaosun did not return to Kunning Palace for several days in a row, and only spent the night in Dazheng Palace. This alienation from the harem made all the concubines, especially the Empress Dowager Cisheng Terrified and uneasy.
Rumors that the Supreme Emperor intended to rectify his relatives and nobles spread in the palace, and no one could stay away from it, including Emperor Wu Ding's beloved Jin Yuji.
In mid-June, Empress Dowager Cisheng sent someone out of the palace to ask Sun Chuanting, the chief minister of the cabinet, how she should plead for mercy so that the Supreme Emperor could be more lenient with her brother and keep Jin Dajiu alive.
Sun Chuanting ignored the Queen Mother's plea, as if he had not heard it. Obviously, the cabinet did not want to be involved in this battle between imperial power and relatives.
Jin Yuji knew that her brother was guilty, but when she thought that the North Koreans under Jin Dajiu did not know about it, many people were even killed in the accident, and they were charged with treason, etc., Jin Yuji couldn't bear it and ignored those around her. People dissuaded him, so he came to the Dazheng Palace overnight to plead with the Supreme Emperor.
Emperor Wu Ding was making out with his concubine Chen Yuanyuan, but was interrupted by Jin Yuji. He said with some displeasure:
"What's the use of coming to me now! I told him the year before last that he should do a good job in Junzhou and focus on Tianxin City, and don't think about doing anything auspicious!"
What Emperor Wu Ding wanted was for Qi to prosper for thousands of years, not to see five-legged toads or crows painted in gold.
However, Jin Dajiu has been addicted to this method and has no knowledge or skills. He has allowed his men to drain their food and wages and had to cut corners. This time the corner frame collapsed and hundreds of people died. In fact, it was just the tip of the iceberg.
"When I asked him to go to Junzhou in the first place, I asked him to supervise it. It would be better for him to collude with Song Yingxing to deceive me! Substituting inferior products for good ones is just a fake."
Jin Yuji knew that her brother would definitely die, but she still persuaded with a glimmer of hope:
"Your Majesty, for the sake of Jin Dajiu's life and death for Daqi, please spare him this time. At least, don't kill those innocent people."
Liu Zhaosun was furious and pushed the Empress Dowager Cisheng away: "Daqi has become like this. Half Hu Guang and a Henan dare to extort four million taels of silver from the people! How many children are starving to death, and how many old people are starving to death. I am bedridden, and the Chamber of Commerce cannot afford the medicine! In this situation, who else is innocent! Are you innocent? Am I innocent?"
Jin Yuji was speechless and could only cry bitterly.
"If I spare him now, will Liu Kan still recognize this uncle after he takes charge? If he does, how much money will he need to reward in the future to satisfy your Jin family? Otherwise, you will give up all the land of Qi to your brother. ,what do you think!"
Jin Yuji has never accepted any favors, nor does she do anything for outsiders. She has never even given the pillow blow to the Supreme Emperor, so she can have a clear conscience.
Unexpectedly, his brother turned out to be his weakness. My brother had been in Huguang for less than three years. Not only hundreds of people had died, but he had also incurred such a huge deficit. Four million taels was equivalent to Daqi's treasury income for half a year.
Jin Yuji knew that it would be useless to talk anymore, so she fell silent, her face turned ashen.
"I just got the news that Tianxin City has owed 100,000 soldiers and civilians near Junzhou in recent years. Guess how much it is, four million taels. I don't even know how they spent the money! This hole, Let Jin Dajiu, Song Yingxing, and Lei Jiangtou fill it in, and don’t think about the treasury taking the whole responsibility! In the Huguang officialdom, except for Zhu Youxiao and Qin Jianxun, everyone else must be dismissed. Jin Dajiu will be escorted back to Liaodong, and I will personally interrogate him!"
After Liu Zhaosun finished speaking, he was so angry that he sat on the Grand Master's chair and gasped for air. The imperial concubine Chen Yuanyuan, who was standing far away, couldn't hide the joy on her face. She came over with a cup of tea and handed it to the Supreme Emperor.
"Your Majesty, don't let your anger slip. There are a lot of thieves in the world today."
The Supreme Emperor felt his mouth was dry, so he took the tea and drank it in one gulp.
His uncle's greed far exceeded his expectations.
And that Song Yingxing, when I spared his life, I thought that this person would be acquitted of his crimes, work conscientiously, and work well for Daqi. I didn't expect that this guy was still so interested in money and property. It was like what Zhang Mazi said, a dog reformer. Can't eat shit.
Liu Zhaosun calmed down a little and said calmly:
"The previous emperor had the world in his heart, half of Hubei, and hundreds of officials, large and small, but he was the only one who was not greedy, had a breeze in his sleeves, did not seek glory and profit, and devoted himself to planing wooden boards, playing ink fountains, grinding glutinous rice, and striving for his Luban dream , I am deeply gratified.”
When Chen Yuanyuan heard this, she couldn't help but laugh out loud and gloated:
"What your Majesty is saying is that I met Zhu Youxiao in the capital back then. He is a dedicated man. As the saying goes, a dedicated man..."
Liu Zhaosun smashed the case in front of Chen Yuanyuan into pieces with one punch:
"Jin Dajiu, Jin Yinghe and others occupy three-thirds of the world of Daqi. If they fall, the sky of Daqi will collapse. When the time comes, you should cry."
Chen Yuanyuan was ashamed and frightened, her face turned pale with fright, and she was speechless.
"Don't think that I don't know about the bad things that the Chen family did in Liaodong. Because you and Empress Dowager Zhang look alike, and because Liu Kan regards you as his mother, I will spare you and tell your brothers and uncles to restrain themselves." Be restrained, otherwise, you will end up like your uncle!"
Liu Zhaosun was full of murderous intent. After being furious at the Queen Mother and the Concubine, he returned to Cining Palace in a depressed mood.
The Eastern Queen Mother Yang Qing'er came with the little emperor.
Yang Qing'er changed her mind to intercede for Jin Yuji and rescue her uncle.
However, before arriving at Dazheng Palace, I heard that the Supreme Emperor had left, so I had to move to Cining Palace.
"Your Majesty, the Ai family has heard about the deficit in Huguang. I heard that there was a deficit of four million taels in Junzhou. Is this amount accurate?"
Liu Zhaosun raised his head and looked at Yang Qing'er, and then at the Taichu Emperor Liu Kan standing next to him. Liu Kan quickly greeted the Taichu Emperor.
"I pay my respects to my father. I would like to ask if your father is doing well."
Emperor Wu Ding looked at Liu Kan, who had just turned seven years old. Seeing the young emperor's delicate features, he immediately thought of the dead Zhang Yan. Seeing Yang Qing'er's serious expression, he thought she was gloating about Chen Yuanyuan's misfortune, so he treated her coldly. Liu Kan replied.
"Blessings from me."
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