After Empress Dowager Zhang left, Zhu Houzhao returned to the outer hall.
The previous matter was not over yet. His gaze returned to Zhao Gao and the others.
At the same time, he looked at the cat and said coldly,"Although Cao Zhengchun is already dead, his henchmen are still around. I will give you one day. You and Zhao Gao will capture all of them in one fell swoop and kill them!”
As soon as he said this, everyone present was shocked and could not help but shiver in their hearts.
Hiss!
Kill him just like that?
How many people would he have to kill?
At this moment, they deeply understood what imperial power was!
What was domineering?
When Cao Zhengchun was still alive, the East Chamber was so glorious!
How unbridled was he?
Regardless of whether it was the inner court or the outer court, which one of them couldn't show some respect?
This was even more so for ordinary officials. They would probably be so humble as to lick Cao Zhengchun's boots.
Even those clear streams were unable to contend with it and could only avoid its edge!
These people were all going to be killed with a single word from the Emperor!
How terrifying was this!
Was this imperial power?
He was extremely overbearing and unreasonable. He did not need any reason or excuse at all!
Once someone tried to do something they shouldn't have done, they had to be prepared to be cut in half.
"We will obey Your Majesty's imperial edict!"
The human cat nodded.
At this moment, Zhao Gao seemed to have found an opportunity. He immediately stood up and said in a deep voice,"Your Majesty, as far as I know, Cao Zhengchun's henchmen are not only eunuchs, but also many people from the court. How should we deal with these people?”
As Cao Zhengchun's old rival, Zhao Gao knew Cao Zhengchun's power very well.
He even had a lot of evidence of Cao Zhengchun's corruption and collusion with court officials.
In the past, these things could not be easily exposed.
After all, his own butt was not clean either.
Perhaps Cao Zhengchun also had something on him.
Once it was exposed, he would not have an easy time either.
It would only result in a situation where both sides would suffer.
It was precisely because of this that the two of them had been fighting for many years, but neither of them could do anything to the other. They had always been in a stalemate.
But now, it was different.
Cao Zhengchun was already dead, and he had joined Zhu Houzhao.
He could take out all the evidence he had and arrest all the henchmen related to Cao Zhengchun and throw them into the imperial prison.
"Imperial court?"
Zhu Houzhao narrowed his eyes slightly. He could tell that Zhao Gao was hinting at something.
He looked at Zhao Gao with a pair of eyes filled with a dim light. He did not say anything and just stared at Zhao Gao.
"Um…"
Zhao Gao's scalp went numb from this glance. How could he dare to keep her in suspense? He hurriedly said,"Your Majesty, this servant has a large amount of evidence and a list of names of Cao Zhengchun's cliques. Many of them are officials who bribed Cao Zhengchun in order to obtain official promotions.”
"Your Majesty, Cao Zhengchun was too powerful previously, so this servant didn't dare to take it out.”
At this point, Zhao Gao's expression became a little awkward. He suddenly thought of how powerful His Majesty was.
His heart immediately trembled. He did not dare to lie and directly said,"Your Majesty, this servant is afraid that he will grasp my secret, so…"
"Alright, I don't want to hear your nonsense. Immediately order someone to bring the name list and evidence!”
Zhu Houzhao snorted coldly. He was too lazy to listen to this guy's nonsense.
However, this fellow was still tactful.
If he had dared to lie just now, even if he didn't kill him, he would have given him a good beating.
Facing such a subordinate, he had to use both kindness and power.
If you're not honest, you have to be beaten up ruthlessly!
"Yes, yes, yes!"
Zhao Gao quickly replied. Although he looked embarrassed, he was glad in his heart.
As expected, he did the right thing.
Zhu Houzhao didn't listen anymore. This was a good thing!
Although it wasn't to the extent of not caring about it at all, it should be fine.
After saying that, he immediately ordered one of his closest leaders to leave the hall under the watch of a secret guard.
A moment later, the intelligence report came back.
Zhao Gao hurriedly handed over the information.
He placed a pile of envelopes on the table.
Zhu Houzhao frowned slightly and picked up a letter to read.
In the end, the more he looked, the angrier he became.
In the end, Long Yan was even more furious. He threw the information on the ground and said in an extremely cold tone,"Alright! Alright! He was a second-grade official of the imperial court, but he was actually hanging out with a eunuch and buying and selling official positions. How dare he!”
Zhu Houzhao was truly enraged.
Although he had long thought that he would connect with many people, after all, Da Ming's current situation was very chaotic.
The imperial court and various factions fought for power, and even many empires were involved.
But he didn't expect that there would be so many of them. Even a second-grade official had colluded with them. Had Da Ming been corrupted to such an extent?
If this kind of momentum was allowed to continue, it was likely that the other empires wouldn't even need to attack the Great Ming Empire, and the Great Ming Empire would collapse first.
Simply!
This was simply preposterous!
At this moment!
Cao Zhengchun had already been killed!
However, although the momentum he had when he was in power was not as great as when he was nine thousand years old, it was almost the same.
These officials of the imperial court traded for official positions to be promoted.
But the money that was given out, was it going to be lost just like that?
These lost officials would definitely have to be replenished from other places.
There was no need to think about it, it was all layers of exploitation. The big officials bullied the small officials, and the small officials bullied the people!
If so, how could Great Ming not be in chaos?
It was infuriating!
Corrupted!
This was the biggest problem that the people had to face.
It was also the biggest problem in the Ming Dynasty's nine thousand years of history.
Zhu Houzhao absolutely couldn't tolerate this. These were all vermin of Great Ming!
However, to Zhu Houzhao's surprise, Pei Ju, Yan Song and the others were not on this list.
But Zhu Houzhao quickly thought of it.
Or rather, they didn't need to be corrupt at all. What they really cared about was power.
Forming cliques and gaining power was their true goal.
Especially someone like Zhangsun Wuji. With the Great Tang backing him, all he needed to do was to be a spy and gain power!
It was only to prepare for the Great Tang's conquest of the Great Ming in the future.
Zhu Houzhao was not in a hurry to attack these people.
However, Cao Zhengchun's men had to be killed!
This was the only way to make them behave.
Tian Zi was furious!
A million corpses!
Faced with Zhu Houzhao's anger, both Zhao Gao and the Quicksand people lowered their heads and did not dare to look at him, afraid that the Emperor would vent his anger.
They could almost imagine that the imperial court would definitely face a huge earthquake!
Who knew how many people would have their heads chopped off because of this!
Blood flowed like a river!
It was already unavoidable!
Otherwise, he would not be able to appease Zhu Houzhao's anger.
Otherwise, Da Ming would have to be removed from Dynasty's team.
"Human cat, Zhao Gao, the two of you work together to investigate this matter. No matter what rank you are, as long as you are entangled with this matter, arrest them first and then investigate according to the law!”
"Remember, it's the person who is connected to Cao Zhengchun's incident!”
Zhu Houzhao's gaze was extremely cold as he ordered the two of them.
If it wasn't for the fact that they were afraid of killing too many people and affecting the operation of the imperial court, they would have been shocked.
At this moment, he wished he could order a thorough investigation of all officials.
All the officials of the imperial court who had problems would be thrown into the imperial prison!
Absolutely not!
But even if he only captured a portion, the number of officials involved this time still made him, the emperor, feel shocked.
If these people were allowed to continue like this, Great Ming would really be destroyed.
"Yes, Your Majesty. This servant will do his best to investigate.”
Zhao Gao said seriously.
The human cat nodded heavily.
As the two of them spoke, they prepared to stand up and leave.
At this moment, Zhu Houzhao suddenly remembered something and called out to Zhao Gao, squinting his eyes and saying coldly,""And you, you know best what kind of situation your subordinates are in. Throw out some of them yourself and hand over your wealth to the national treasury. Don't think that I'm blind.”
Since he wanted to punish corruption, it was not just Cao Zhengchun.
Instead, he wanted to completely uproot the entire eunuch party and completely clean up the problems in the internal court.
Especially Zhao Gao. Zhu Houzhao wanted Zhao Gao to know that he could only rely on the Emperor!
Those forces in his hands should be thrown away, and those that should be handed over should be handed over!
As long as he hid something, he would accompany Cao Zhengchun to prevent Cao Zhengchun from being lonely on the road.
"Yes, yes, yes, Your Majesty. This servant will definitely do a good job and will definitely not disappoint Your Majesty.”
Hearing this, Zhao Gao, who had just stood up, almost fell to the ground. He was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat and quickly agreed.
At the same time, he had already made up his mind.
When he went back, he would definitely do his best to rectify it. No matter how painful it was, he had to rectify it.
Even if his vitality was greatly injured, he would not hesitate.
He had already planned to hand over 90% of his wealth and use the rest as the organization's funds.
The Emperor should be satisfied with this!
"Go!"
Zhu Houzhao sat on the dragon throne and closed his eyes. He didn't want to talk anymore.
"Your Majesty, we will take our leave!"
Everyone paid their respects in unison and left the hall one after another.
After they had left, the two of them were about to leave.
Zhu Houzhao finally had the time to spare. He looked at his system.
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