"Your Majesty, in fact, the Dongchang and Jinyiwei have already obtained evidence of Zhao Qiaowei's hunting and killing the victim's family. Compared to treating Zhao Qiaowei with corruption and bribery, it should be easier for civil servants to accept the crime of murder to punish Zhao Qiaowei for beheading and displaying it to the public, right?" Wang Chengen said in confusion.

"Oh!" Zhu Youjian sighed and said, "I don't know it either! But now that the Ming Dynasty's administration is so corrupt, it is because civil officials think that corruption and bribery are the norm in the officialdom. Therefore, I deliberately punished Zhao Qiaowei for corruption and bribery, and I wanted to kill this unhealthy officialdom."

Although Wang Chengen was just a masturbation, he was not a fool. He quickly figured it out that the emperor killed Zhao Qiaowei was just the second, and his main purpose was to rectify the administration!

"Your Majesty is wise!" Wang Chengen said with sincerity.

"It's not wise!" Zhu Youjian said angrily: "Just killing Zhao Qiaowei, the civil officials criticized the court. Are there any emperors who are more depressed than me in all dynasties?"

"I am guilty of death!" Seeing the emperor furious, Wang Chengen hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to apologize.

"Forget it, it's not your fault, I'm just complaining."

Although Zhu Youjian was an emperor, he showed a helpless side at this moment.

...

Since early November, Zhu Youjian ordered the five major yamen of the Inner Government, Duzhijian, Imperial Horses, Dongchang and Jinyiwei to form a joint investigation team to thoroughly investigate the imperial village, more than half a month has passed.

During the past half month, many corruption cases broke out every day, which made Zhu Youjian very upset. He expected that the administration would be very bad in the late Ming Dynasty, but he never expected that it would be so bad.

At the beginning, Zhu Youjian was furious about these corruption cases that broke out, but now he is numb. He just asked the joint investigation team to find out the corruption victims, and to recover the stolen goods thoroughly. He must not let the people's wealth and cream collected by these borers be lost in vain.

The large-scale corruption that broke out in the imperial village made Zhu Youjian deeply understand what "human nature is evil when it is first"!

With the phenomenon of corruption, Zhu Youjian even more shocked was that the exploitation and persecution of the people by eunuchs and officials was even more outrageous.

For example, Bai Yi, an eunuch in Guanzhuang of Maqiao Royal Village, abducted as many as 168 young girls, only seven rescued by the Jinyiwei, and the remaining 161 young girls have all become shocking white bones in the dry well.

The Baoding government was very dedicated at the beginning to see the continuous disappearance of young girls in the local area. It was found that the culprit was Bai Yi, the eunuch of Guanzhuang in Maqiao Royal Village. However, when Bai Yi gave Baoding prefect Zhao Qiaowei bribes 100,000 taels of silver, the nature changed drastically.

As the parent official of Baoding Prefecture, Zhao Qiaowei not only did not make decisions for the people under his rule, but instead joined forces with Bai Yi to cover up this horrific case of missing young girls, causing Bai Yi, a demon on earth to continue to be at large and persecut more innocent young girls.

In order to cover up the truth, Zhao Qiaowei was even more crazy. He not only threw the parents of the missing young girl into prison, but even planned to kill people in the name of "plague" and killed the parents of the missing young girl and hundreds of other prisoners together.

Although Zhao Qiaowei's conspiracy failed, it can also be seen that Zhao Qiaowei's evil has reached the point of lawlessness and trampling on human nature.

The main reason why officials are so desperately exploiting the people is not only because of their greed, but also because of the lack of supervision power in the court.

Without supervision, they always try every means to find opportunities to collect the wealth of the people. The people of Shuntian Prefecture are suffering from the eunuchs in the imperial village, and local officials have been there for a long time.

They hold absolute power, and if this power is used a little, it can bring them a lot of wealth.

Therefore, each of them is extremely rich, just like Bai Yi bribed Zhao Qiaowei with 100,000 taels of silver. This was a particularly huge bribe in the history of corruption in the Ming Dynasty. However, after investigating Bai Yi's property, he found that 100,000 taels was only one-tenth of Bai Yi's property.

Of course, Bai Yi's wealth is just an exception, because Bai Yi's jurisdiction discovered a large amount of iron ore, and Bai Yi, a dog, concealed it and secretly dug iron ore to cast iron tools to Datong to sell it to the Mongolians, thus accumulating millions of family assets.

Now that the Bai family has been confiscated and beheaded, not only has millions of wealth fallen into Zhu Youjian's treasury, but the iron ore of Maqiao Royal Village is also included in the jurisdiction of the inner court.

After summary, the joint investigation team investigated 38 imperial villages, 14 palace villages and 23 official places, and found a total of 235 corruption cases, and 33 eunuchs from Guanzhuang were seized. As for other officials who embezzled, accepted bribes, favoritism and abused the law, there were as many as 356.

The dirty silver and atonement silver recovered by the joint investigation team were as high as 6.67 million taels. If the land, shops and other real estate that were confiscated from corrupt officials, the total amount of money to be earned at least tens of million taels this time.

Thinking of this astronomical figure, Zhu Youjian wanted to immediately attack all the officials in the capital, like Li Zicheng, and squeezed out 70 million taels from these officials.

But it was just a thought. Zhu Youjian only had the army in his hands. He was now undergoing a major reorganization under the leadership of Li Banghua and Fan Jingwen, and had not yet formed combat power.

In fact, the Four Guards in history were also a very awesome army. After Emperor Chongzhen came to power, the Four Guards were reorganized into the Yongwei Battalion, with Cao Huachun as the eunuch in charge, and promoted Sun Yingyuan, Huang Degong, and Zhou Yuji as the general. They all won great victories against the Qing army.

It’s a pity that the Ming Dynasty was already rotten to its core. Yongwei Camp, a unit with only 6,500 people, was still unable to save the Ming Dynasty’s defeat. Sun Yingyuan, Huang Degong, and Zhou Yuji, the three commanders of Yongwei Camp, also fought hard and died, fulfilling his loyalty to the country.

At this time, the Four Guards and Battalions had not yet been reorganized, so Zhu Youjian only dared to attack the imperial village under the inner court, and most of the corrupt officials dealt with were eunuchs in the inner court. If Zhu Youjian rashly attacked bureaucrats and gentry, he would have to destroy himself without the support of a strong army.

After the treasury received tens of millions of assets, Zhu Youjian became extremely wealthy. Looking back at the beginning of Zhu Youjian's ascending the throne, the treasury had only two million taels of silver and fifty thousand taels of gold. However, after destroying Wei Zhongxian's group, the treasury earned five million taels of taels of money, and the total assets reached 7.5 million taels.

However, Zhu Youjian spent a lot of money afterwards. He first rewarded his army in Dongjiang Town for 500,000 taels, and then he took out one million taels to build a military academy. In addition, the food, clothing and expenses of tens of thousands of people in the palace in the few months of ascending the throne, he used two million taels at once.

Originally, there were only more than 5 million taels left in the treasury, but fortunately, after the investigation of the imperial house, the treasury was replenished again, and the current silver reached an unprecedented 11.67 million taels.

This silver bill is enough to support Zhu Youjian's two-year expenses. Within two years, Zhu Youjian would not have to worry about lack of money. Many reform plans can also be accelerated and carried out drastic.
Chapter completed!