Zhu Houyan sat high on the dragon throne, his eyes filled with fire.
Under the dragon throne, the ministers knelt on the ground, trembling.
"Regarding the matter of corruption, I will definitely investigate it to the end!" Zhu Houjin said.”
"Greed Mo Qianliang, confiscate his family and banish him!”
"Anyone who embezzles more than five thousand taels will be executed!”
"Greed Mo Wanliang, skin the Dragon Grass!”
"For embezzling 100,000 taels of silver, your entire family will be executed!”
"For taking 500,000 taels of silver, he will be executed by a thousand cuts and exterminate the three races!”
"Retreat!"
Zhu Houzhen slapped the dragon table and left angrily.
All the civil and military officials in the court knelt in the court and did not dare to move.
Those who were timid and didn't dare to be greedy at home heaved a sigh of relief.
As for those greedy people, they felt that the sky was about to collapse.
"This…What should we do…"
Some officials had already written their wills in their minds.
Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong had just entered the royal court and were clean, so they didn't feel much burden.
However, Xie Qian and Yang Yiqing, who had already experienced three dynasties, felt uneasy.
As the old saying goes, in the Ming Dynasty, other than Hai Rui, there was no official who wasn't greedy.
However, some officials could still do things when they were corrupt, while some officials could only do bad things when they were corrupt.
Moreover, in such a dark environment, some officials were corrupt just to do their jobs better.
What Zhu Houjian needed to do now was to clean up the government and rectify the rules!
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Palace of Heavenly Purity.
Sitting on the dragon throne, Zhu Houjin said coldly,""Shen Lian and Cao Zhengchun are here!"
Not long after, the Jinyiwei commander, Shen Lian, who was dressed in a flying fish suit, appeared in front of Zhu Houyi.
Cao Zhengchun, the supervisor of the East Chamber, was also with him.
"Shen Lian greets Your Majesty!"
"This old servant Cao Zhengchun greets Your Majesty!”
Zhu Houjin was filled with anger because of the lack of money in the national treasury. At this moment, he did not have a good expression.
"Cao Zhengchun! Shen Lian! I order the two of you to capture Qian Ning, Wei Bin, and the others immediately!”
"Seize the family property and purge all the eunuchs inside and outside the palace!”
"Also, seize Yan Song and Yang Tinghe's money and bring it all back to the internal court!”
"From now on, the Jinyiwei and the foreigners of the East Chamber will thoroughly investigate all the details of the capital officials!”
"Three days later, I want to see the information of each of them on my Dragon Case. How many taels of silver were embezzled and where the money was embezzled must be clearly recorded, understand?”
"I am Shen Lian, Your Majesty!"
"This old servant, Cao Zhengchun, obeys the decree!"
Zhu Houcong rubbed his temples and said,""You can leave first. Tell all the cabinet elders to come and see me.”
"Yes, sir! Your Majesty!"
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Outside the Golden Water Bridge, Yang Yiqing and Xie Qian looked at Yang Tinghe, who was tied to the Golden Water Bridge, with sorrowful expressions.
"Brother Ying Ning, I wonder if it's a good thing for my Great Ming for His Majesty to make such a big fuss…"
Xie Qian looked at the backs of the officials who left and said with some emotion.
"That's right, Brother Yu Qiao. It was a good thing to thoroughly investigate corrupt officials, but how many honest officials were there in the imperial court?”
"Your Majesty is so radical that it is bound to cause a counterattack from these officials. At that time, I wonder if Your Majesty can control the current situation.”
Yang Yiqing also said,"Investigating the corrupt officials should be done slowly. It's too radical. Going too far is as bad as falling short…"
Just as the two of them were talking, Cao Zhengchun walked towards them with a smile on his face.
"Two Pavilion Elders, His Majesty has decreed that the two Pavilion Elders will go to the Palace of Heavenly Purity to narrate.”
Seeing Cao Zhengchun's smiling face, the two Pavilion Elders 'hearts tightened.
His Majesty had just flown into a rage in the court, and now he wanted them to go and narrate the story. This…
Without giving them any time to think, Cao Zhengchun said," Please go, my lords. We still have to inform Xu Jie, Xia Yan, and the other elders."”
Cao Zhengchun then left.
Yang Yiqing and Xie Qian looked at each other with uncertainty in their eyes. They did not dare to delay any longer and immediately headed to the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
When they arrived at the Palace of Heavenly Purity, Zhu Houcong paid no attention to the two of them after they bowed. Instead, he continued to read the memorial in his hand.
Yang Yiqin and Xie Qian, who were left out, did not dare to say anything and stood at the side with their hands down.
After a while, Xia Yan, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng also arrived at the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
At this moment, Zhu Houjin seemed to have just seen the six pavilion elders and said,""My beloved ministers are all here.”
The young eunuchs in the palace brought six armchairs and placed them behind the six Pavilion Elders.
However, the six Pavilion Elders didn't dare to sit down. They all declined,""I dare not."
"If I want you to sit, then sit. You are all my important ministers.”
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Everyone did not dare to decline and carefully lowered half of their buttocks.
At this moment, Zhu Houjin slowly said,""Yang Yiqing, zhen asks you, how much farmland does Great Ming have?”
Yang Yiqing was the chief assistant of the cabinet, so he naturally knew everything about Great Ming. He quickly said,"Reporting to Your Majesty, excluding some areas with extremely harsh natural environments, Great Ming has a total of 800 million mu of cultivated land.”
"I have 800 million mu of cultivated land, but the annual tax is only 5.1 million dans of grain." Zhu Houjin asked with a smile.”
"Don't you think that this tax is a little ridiculous?”
At the end of his speech, Zhu Houxin's voice was like thunder!
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