Yu Huatian took the Emperor's Sword and left the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
What Yu Huatian wanted to do was to shake the empire. The commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guards, the governor of the Divine Arms Battalion, the governor of the 12th regiment of the Guards Army…
Which one of them didn't hold a high position?
These people were all captured and imprisoned in a single day. How could it not cause an earthquake in the officialdom?
This was equivalent to changing all the eunuchs left behind by the previous emperor!
Who was Liu Jin? In history, eunuchs who wanted to be emperors!
Who were the Eight Tigers?
The eunuchs that the previous emperor favored were extremely powerful.
The new emperor wanted to cultivate his own power, so he had to keep these official positions.
The Jinyiwei had to be re-elected, and the eunuchs around him had to be loyal to the Emperor. As for the Eight Tigers Eunuch Party that had become powerful in the previous dynasty, there was no benefit in keeping them.
Why did Zhu Houzhao leave Cao Zhengchun and Yu Huatian behind?
Because they still had some use and value. As for those who had no value, Zhu Houzhao's eyes were cold.
All the civil and military officials in the court finally understood that every emperor had his own courtiers!
Even if it was the Governor of the West Hall, Yu Huatian, wanting to take down all these people would cause a chain reaction. Now that Zhu Houzhao had given the Emperor's Sword to Yu Huatian, he had the right to act first before reporting to the court officials…
It was to suppress this chain reaction!
Use the imperial power to suppress all resistance!
What Zhu Houzhao wanted was speed! Ruthless! He didn't want those eunuchs to react!
Arrest, trial, property search, and filling up the national treasury with property were all done in one go!
Yu Huatian was a very intelligent and powerful martial artist. This also determined that he was a very proud person.
From Zhu Houzhao's understanding of Yu Huatian, he was also a man who cared about the world. Perhaps he was not satisfied with the fatuous political system. He hoped to change the imperial court at that time by grasping the power of " below one person but above ten thousand people ".
Yu Huatian, the supervisor of the West Military Bureau, was not just a domineering person. He had a kind of intimidating power to the officials in the court, and he also had a kind of coldness and elegance that was difficult to get close to. Yu Huatian was spotless and had an extreme obsession with cleanliness. He did not even allow a crease to be on his elegant and gorgeous clothes...
A huge political earthquake set off a storm in the capital.
And the eye of this storm was the emperor of the empire, Emperor Zheng De!
The eunuchs left behind by Emperor Hongzhi were extremely terrified, but they were powerless to resist. Faced with the crushing power of the imperial power, they had no choice but to panic!
"Empress Dowager, save me!"
"Empress Dowager, save me!"
In Cining Palace, several eunuchs knelt on the ground and wept bitterly. The eunuchs that Zhu Houzhao had eliminated this time were all old people in the palace. Many of them had held important positions under the Empress Dowager.
During the reign of Emperor Hongzhi, Empress Zhang was in charge of the harem, and all the eunuchs listened to her every word.
The Empress Dowager looked troubled.
"This is all because of your foolish actions. Even if you come to beg this widow, this widow cannot make decisions for you.”
"I beg the Empress Dowager to plead for us, I beg the Empress Dowager to plead for us!”
In the imperial eunuch system, there were twelve prisons, four divisions, and eight departments, collectively known as the twenty-four yamen.
Emperor Zheng De dismissed nearly half of the managers in one go, and seven of them had already been captured by Yu Huatian. They were taken to the West Hall prison and interrogated.
Many eunuchs were recorded before they could hide their property.
Among these eunuchs, the one who embezzled the least amount of silver was at least 100,000 taels of silver, while the one who embezzled the most amount of silver was more than 500,000 taels of silver.
The most incomprehensible thing was that the eunuch of the Needlework Bureau had twenty-three concubines, thirty-two sons, and seventeen daughters. It could be said that he had a lot of children and grandchildren!
……
In the Cining Palace, the Empress Dowager looked at the eunuchs kneeling in front of her. She turned to Zhang Suying and said,""Suying, what do you think this widow should do now that this has happened?”
"Aunt, this matter is something that cousin ordered, so aunt naturally has to hand it over to cousin to handle. If this matter is not something that cousin ordered, aunt will naturally handle it herself.”
The empress dowager was very pleased to hear her niece's answer.
"That's right. In the harem, if a woman can do something, don't disturb a man. However, if a man wants to do something, don't interfere. Otherwise, it will put him in a difficult position.”
As soon as the empress dowager finished speaking, her kind gaze instantly became stern.
"Men, tie these people up and hand them over to Yu Huatian!”
"We will obey the Empress Dowager's orders!"
The eunuchs wailed and begged for mercy, but the Empress Dowager had made up her mind. Since it was the Emperor's order, she had to support it. She could not make things difficult for the Emperor.
She was using her actions to teach Zhang Suying how to be the master of the harem.
One day, when she became the empress, the first thing she would do was to manage the harem well. She absolutely could not cause trouble for the emperor. The emperor was already tired enough from handling government affairs in the previous dynasty. She could not let the emperor worry about the affairs of the harem.
If he couldn't even handle the affairs of the harem well, how could he be called the master of the harem?
The second thing was that he absolutely could not ask about the Emperor's orders. Otherwise, he would make things difficult for the Emperor. In that case, it would affect his position in the Emperor's heart.
……
In the Palace of Heavenly Purity, Zhu Houzhao was reading the memorial that Yu Huatian had submitted.
Within two days, seven eunuchs had their properties confiscated, and the amount of property confiscated exceeded four million taels. This was even more than the empire's treasury!
These eunuchs were already so greedy. Then, what kind of family property would the ministers in the court have? Many aristocratic families had existed for thousands of years!
Other than the ministers in the court, how much wealth did the vassal kings have?
On Zhu Houzhao's Dragon Book case were the wealth of the officials and aristocratic families that Cao Zhengchun had investigated.
However, Cao Zhengchun had only investigated a part of it. Those officials were more cunning than the eunuchs. They hid their wealth deeper. It was not possible to dig out the wealth of these aristocratic families in a short time.
Zhu Houzhao looked at the names of the aristocratic families and the officials on the table and was furious!
You have been officials for generations!
Han Dynasty, you are officials!
Eastern Jin, you are officials!
Tang Chao, you are officials!
In the Song Dynasty, you will still be officials!
If the empire falls one day, you will still be high officials and enjoy wealth!
What about me?
If the empire is destroyed in my generation, I will be the king of the country. Do you want me to hang myself on a mountain of coal?
Zhu Houzhao was unwilling!
Why should I?
Why can you be officials for generations? Why can you drink my blood and eat my flesh?
Pa.
Zhu Houzhao placed the memorial on the table.
Initially, Zhu Houzhao thought that he was in a prosperous era after he transmigrated to the Empire. However, the more he saw, the more disappointed Zhu Houzhao became. The Empire was already beyond cure and could not be cured without strong medicine!
The corrupt officials in the court rode on the back of the empire, buying and selling official positions, clearly priced!
The aristocratic families rode on the back of the empire and refused to pay taxes!
The vassal king rode on the back of the empire, and his tail was too big to fall!
The empire can still hold on now, but if this situation doesn't change, how long can my empire hold on?
Just wait, when I have the time, I will sweep you all away!
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