After Yu Qian came to Qianqing Palace, Zhu Jianshen offered him a seat, and then showed Yu Qian a series of texts by Jin Yiwei.
After reading it, Yu Qian was quite frightened and said to himself: "Your Majesty, I know Li Bing, he will not do such a thing."
"Yu Taibao, what's the use of knowing him by yourself? It's better to have Jin Yiwei secretly investigate and come up with the final conclusion and evidence."
"What does your Majesty mean?"
"There are only two possibilities, one is yes and the other is no. In my opinion, the possibility of no is greater, but it is not impossible that yes is possible. In this case, we can only secretly investigate things that will be detrimental to the court's new tax system. If it turns into something beneficial, you can look for some officials in the capital and prepare to fill the vacancies."
After hearing this, Yu Qian sighed. He knew what Zhu Jianshen meant, but this kind of unscrupulous approach before achieving the goal was really not the way of a king. He didn't agree with it, but in the end he still couldn't say anything to persuade him. biquge.biz
Zhu Jian knew Yu Qian well and knew that he was hesitant to speak.
But relying solely on kingly methods to accomplish things is completely impossible. Take Xu Youzhen, for example. He is a villain, but to deal with villains, villains are the most suitable. This is why Yingtian Mansion, which is the most difficult to handle, proceeds so quickly. .
Zhu Jianshen and Yu Qian talked about Wang Wen again.
What Wang Wen did in Fujian was indeed impressive. Although Wang Wen did not report the secret things, Zhu Jianshen infiltrated through Jinyiwei's system and learned more about it.
It looks calm on the surface, but the struggle inside is also very fierce.
Zhu Jianshen did not publish the memorial to impeach Wang Wen, but he dismissed all the officials Wang Wen impeached.
One year after leaving Beijing, Wang Wen was like a chicken in Fujian. He impeached hundreds of officials from various places, from the third-rank chief official to the sixth-rank minor official. Zhu Jianshen sent the capital to inspect the censor. After verification, all these officials were also dismissed.
The Ming Dynasty was not like the Song Dynasty, which demoted officials and then demoted them again. The political system of the Ming Dynasty was much more bloated than that of the Song Dynasty. The dismissed officials had no chance to get back up because there was still a group of people behind them who had not arranged work.
Zhu Jianshen knew that the period of the Ming Dynasty he lived in was an explosive period of national destiny. The Ming Dynasty had been established for a hundred years and was in its middle period. If no enterprising king appeared, all that was waiting for him would be decline. This seemed to be a curse of the dynasty.
If you want to make it through, you can't do things according to the inevitable development trajectory of history, you have to take an unusual path that goes against common sense.
Zhu Jianshen's ideas coincide with Yu Qian's ideas to a certain extent, but they also have major differences on certain issues, but this difference has not yet erupted.
Zhu Jianshen chatted with Yu Qian for a long time this time.
The two even talked about Cao Jixiang, Zhu Yi and others who have been at sea for two years...,
They haven't said so many words in a long time.
As Zhu Jianshen got older and had more and more imperial power, he communicated less and less with Yu Qian, because before he had to obtain Yu Qian's consent, but now Zhu Jianshen does not need it.
The reputation he had accumulated before he was very young, coupled with the fact that he had always put Xu Youzhen in front of the stage, clearly did what he wanted to do, but instead placed it on Xu Youzhen's head. His reputation became worse and worse, while his own reputation became worse and worse. Getting better and better.
I didn't learn any good qualities from Yu Qian, but I learned scheming tricks from Xu Youzhen.
Of course, this does not mean that Yu Qian, who has moral standards, is not good. It can only be said that for an emperor, his own moral standards are too high, which is not a good thing.
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Luoyang, in the governor's office.
There were only Liu Hong and Li Bing in the room.
Li Bing's face was gloomy. He picked up the tea on the table and took a sip. After calmly putting it down, he said slowly: "Does Mr. Liu believe him?"
"It doesn't matter whether we believe it or not. What matters is whether His Majesty believes it or not."
"We don't want to know too much about the nature of some things. Governor Li, pick a few people who have no impact on the overall situation and become obstacles. We will arrest them and suppress them in advance. Then we will conduct a secret investigation and find them." Really murderous."
Li Bing smiled softly: "Okay, I will give you a list. You can arrest people according to the list."
After Liu Hong heard Li Bing's words, his heart moved, but his expression was normal and he nodded.
The list given by Li Bing this time is not all small fish and shrimps. The third-grade official Shen Shi is the first person on the list. There are more than ten other officials at all levels. These officials are all officials with real power. If these people are If he doesn't follow Li Bing, his opponent's route will not be viable.
After Liu Hong got the list, he boarded the Shen Mansion of the Chief Minister at night.
The bewildered Shen Shi was taken down, and then he went to Kaifeng Mansion's Governor's Office to seal all of Shen Shi's cases and transfer them to the Luoyang Governor's Office.
Other officials were also arrested in two days.
Liu Hong and others interrogated many officials overnight, and of course Zheng Wanheng was not left behind.
After several days of cross-examination and investigation, Zheng Wanheng still insisted on Li Bing as always. Even if their relatives were threatened, Zheng Wanheng would not change his confession.
The officials headed by Shen Shi refused to admit that the waste of farmland had anything to do with them.
Although no evidence was found that they were indeed related to the farmland occupation case, Liu Hong discovered that this group of people had indeed colluded together, and was preparing to give Li Bing a heavy blow during the autumn harvest.
Refusing to pay grain taxes and commercial taxes, Shen Shi also had a list of people he contacted. During the first autumn harvest of the imperial court's new tax system, all the people on the list refused to pay.
This list is the top priority this time.
Liu Hongren copied it and gave one copy to the emperor and the other to Li Bing.
Li Bing was overjoyed after getting the list. He discussed with Guangning Bo Liu An and mobilized troops overnight to detain all these people. The crime was that he colluded with Shen Shi in an attempt to counter the imperial government's national policy of the new tax system.
When Zhu Jianshen received the list, he was also dumbfounded.
If you refuse to pay during the autumn harvest, the court will be caught off guard, and the impact on the new tax system will be fatal.
Li Bing should have known about this matter, but he had no idea how to solve it, so he thought about bringing up a major case of abandoned fertile land, bringing all these things to himself, and then the Jinyiwei would arrest people and deal with the new people. All the officials responsible for the tax system's autumn harvest were captured, and this list may just be an unexpected surprise for Li Bing.
But Zhu Jianshen still doesn't believe that a person who has been poor since he was a student would do such a thing.
So how did Zheng Wanheng do it?
So many instruments of torture could not pry his mouth open. Zhu Jianshen was curious and asked Liu Hong to continue to investigate the matter secretly. He could not tell Li Bing how to investigate and what the findings were.
He was very curious about how he could do this kind of thing without anyone noticing.
Late at night, Luoyang, governor's office.
In the study room.
Li Bing held a file in his hand and threw the papers in it one by one into the brazier in front of him. The flames burned more intensely as the papers were added. There was another person standing beside him, it was Qiu Qiu, the inspector. Hong.
"Sir, you really let me go..."
"Once this file is burned, this secret will no longer exist. As long as Mr. Qiu can do his best for the new tax system in the future, I will never bring up the old matter again."
"Thank you, sir..."
"And the children of the Zheng family, take good care of them and don't treat them badly..."
"Yes, sir."
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