Zhu Zaihou glanced at the officials and the people in the hall.
Then, he slowly flipped through Yang Jisheng's memorial.
His Highness, Yan Song and his son were drenched in cold sweat. Their faces were as pale as paper.
He knew in his heart that the reconstruction funds were embezzled by Yan Shifan after the fire in the three halls of the Forbidden City last year…
Last year, there were censors who tried to impeach him, but they were all suppressed by Yan Song.
The censors who impeached him were all punished and exiled to Lingnan. They died without knowing why…
"Your humble subject is here."
"Take a look at this memorial and explain to me how to punish these vermin.”
Zhu Houxi threw the memorial on the ground.
Chief Assistant Yan Song bent down and picked up the memorial with trembling hands. After taking a few glances, his face immediately turned pale with fear.
Then, he turned around and scolded Yan Shifan loudly,
"Unfilial son! The foundation of the empire was destroyed by beasts like you!”
Then, he immediately bowed to Zhu Zaihou on the throne and said excitedly and seriously,
"Your Majesty, I believe that the unfilial son Shifan must have been bewitched by someone and lost his mind for money, or he was framed…"
"Your Majesty, please consider his first offense! I will interrogate you…"
"Lord Chief, Yan Shifan committed a crime. Are you here to interrogate him? I'm afraid you've forgotten the Ming law of evasion!”
Boom!
This was a fatal blow!
Before this, Xu Jie had been a ninja turtle for more than ten years.
He had never dared to speak to Yan Song in such a tone.
At this moment, everyone in the Yan Party was in danger!
No one dared to jump out to defend Yan Song and his son.
The little Emperor had already turned the fire on the little cabinet elder Yan Shifan.
This was undoubtedly an unprecedented storm!
This storm quickly enveloped all the officials of the Yan Party in the imperial court.
The Emperor, the Cabinet, the East Chamber, the Jinyiwei, and the West Chamber worked together to lift the curtain of anti-corruption.
After the court, Yan Shifan was taken into custody and sent to the imperial prison of the North Town Fu Division.
At the same time, apart from Yan Song, the other members of the Yan faction were also raided.
Within a day, he had earned eighteen million taels of silver.
Among them, Yan Shifan alone stole six million taels!
The amount of money he had embezzled was ten times more than the amount of money he had embezzled from the most corrupt official in Zhu Yuanzhang's dynasty!
The despairing Yan Song had aged a lot overnight, like a walking corpse.
He understood Tian Zi's methods. First, he started from the periphery of his Yan Gang, then he started to peel them step by step like bamboo shoots…
Yan Shifan was his only son and his best advisor.
The little Emperor had not touched him from the start, which made him feel even more uncomfortable.
He didn't know what kind of ending awaited him.
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After a few days of G Storm, Zhang Juzheng's reputation rose sharply.
Xu Jie and Zhang Juzheng cooperated fully. Clearing away the corrupt officials for the emperor was the most effective way for them to express their loyalty!
When Zhu Zaihou had just ascended the throne, the commoners did not think much of him.
However, when Zhu Zaihou attacked the Yan Gang…
In an instant, the implications were extremely wide.
A total of 151 officials were investigated, and another 30 million taels of silver were confiscated…
It could be said that the corruption of the Ming Empire's officials had already penetrated deep into the bone marrow.
This sudden and powerful G Storm quickly swept through the entire Ming Empire.
All the officials were afraid that Zhang Juzheng would suddenly appear one day.
Seven days later.
In the past few days, the number of corrupt officials above the fifth rank who had been beheaded had reached 66.
None of these sixty-six people were innocent.
The amount of silver confiscated from their homes was more than 500 times their salaries!
If they didn't kill these rats, the Ming Empire would be a country!
Especially Zhang Juzheng, who they secretly called Butcher Zhang.
They were more in awe of Zhu Zaihou, the young emperor on the throne.
These days, they had a little understanding of this young emperor.
Although he was only thirteen years old, he was very resourceful and had the wisdom of an emperor.
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