The inner court was the territory directly controlled by Emperor Zhu Youxiao himself.

To increase the functions and power of the inner court naturally means to strengthen the imperial power and strengthen Zhu You proofread the control of all aspects of the Ming Empire.

Now that the internal court's control over foreign trade is strengthened, Zhu Youxiao naturally wants to control the Ming Dynasty's foreign trade in the hands of himself, the emperor.

"This Zhu Youxiao is really cruel. All the Shanxi merchants who resold them in Zhangjiakou Fort were confiscated! Now the inner court has set up a Maritime Department in the border town. From now on, the vassals, powerful people, military towns, and gentry will still be controlled by the inner court!"

Tongzhou.

After learning that the Shanxi merchants were robed, the official and gentry immediately waved their sleeves and gritted their teeth.

"Who said no, but now he is the emperor. The generals from all over the nine sides of the border cannot really rebel for the sake of the Shanxi merchants. After all, they can support their family members and have so much land to eat empty wages. It is also the power given to them by the emperor. If anyone rebelled, the emperor would cut off the military salary and would not purchase the food they had in their hands to sell it to the Mongolians, and then gather the whole world and the army loyal to the Ming court to fight for peace! If it weren't for Qin Liangyu, Qi Jin and other guests' help, the court would not be able to copy the Shanxi merchants."

Xu Shilin agreed.

"You are right. There are still many people who are loyal to the emperor in the world. There are many of us literati and officials. They have grown up Zhu Youxiao's arrogance to do whatever he wants. But I still don't understand why Sun Chengzong was willing to pay Zhu Youxiao three million taels. He is not afraid of being attacked by court officials, and he is really willing to give up his family's wealth and offer it to the emperor? Three million taels is not a small amount! The reason why Sun Chengzong was willing to do this is definitely something I don't know. Otherwise, even if he is loyal to Zhu Youxiao, he would not be able to make so much money for Zhu Youxiao."

The gentry said and asked Xu Shilin: "I asked the people you sent to Su Song to see if they found out what they found?"

"Some clues were found. Sun Chengzong was honest and self-disciplined during his tenure. However, in Songjiang Prefecture, we found that among the several prominent families of Songjiang Prefecture, the Xu family purchased cotton and shipped cotton yarn the most last year. However, the five wealthy local businesses, except for the Xu family, Gu, Lu, Zhu, and Zhou, did not increase the shipment volume. In a small way, the three million and two huge sums paid to the emperor should come from the Xu family and the Xu Guangqi clan in Shanghai."

Xu Shilin started talking.

After hearing this, the official and gentleman was silent for a while, then suddenly swept a porcelain bottle directly on the ground with one sleeve, regardless of the sound of the porcelain being broken, and shouted: "Why should the Xu family give so much money to him Zhu Youxiao! Zhong is not so loyal! Why should he use so much wealth to support the emperor? He is so loyal that he loses his wealth to raise soldiers for the emperor? He wants to be a dog for the emperor's family? Do you have the backbone of our scholars and officials?!"

"The young one is also puzzled. This is almost equivalent to the annual income of Taicang Silver. Even if Xu Guangqi himself is willing, their family will not give up so much at once. Judging from the scale of their cotton purchases this year and the number of cotton yarns they go to sea, they should have made a lot of money in the transaction, but making three million taels can only be the majority of the profits made by the Xu family this year. They don't have to devote most of the profits to the emperor!"

Xu Shilin frowned and replied.

"So I have to figure out why the Xu family is willing to pay millions of dollars to the emperor! I can't figure it out now, but I really can't figure it out! But I don't believe that a merchant family in the Xu family will be a loyal family! I must find out clearly!

Zhu Youxiao must have the imperial skills we had never thought of, which made Xu Sun and others so loyal. If they didn't figure it out, otherwise more scholars and officials would be willing to become lackeys in the imperial family in the future! If that was true, it would be terrible. We scholars and officials would be slaughtered at will as they were in the early Ming Dynasty!

And it has already begun. Zhu Youxiao now has the confidence to copy Shanxi merchants and torture a nest of corrupt officials in the Ministry of War. The reason is that he now has lackeys such as Fang Congzhe, Wei Zhongxian, Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi!"

As the official and gentry said, he asked again: "How did I ask you to do what Xu Guangqi did before?"

"It's probably going to be news."

Xu Shilin replied.

"That's good. Now that the Shanxi merchants have been sent torture, the Ministry of War and other officials have been tortured. The resentment of the people in the world has already boiled. Then, using Xu Guangqi's affairs, it will force the emperor to break up completely with the people in the world. If they are forced to force the people in the world, they may really repeat the incident of the fall of the Martial Temple again."

The official and gentleman sneered and started to speak.

...

"Will people in the world be dissatisfied with my handling of corrupt officials? I am afraid that the ones who are dissatisfied with it are not the people in the world, but corrupt officials in the world! All these memorials of Zhang Heming and Wang Zuo's pleading for mercy are refuted! The details of their corrupt ink were published in the Huangming Pao for comment! At the same time, their greedy ink details were carved into inscriptions, erected in Xiaoling Mausoleums everywhere, and other imperial tombs and Taimiao, and then written into memorials, and saved one in the Taimiao and burned one. I don't believe that the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, especially Taizu and later people, really think that these corrupt officials should not be killed!"

After receiving the memorial for Zhang Heming and Wang Zuo's plea and was unable to punish the doctor, Zhu Youxiao asked him to forgive these people for their death sentences because of the reasons of compassion for important officials, he immediately refused and asked the cabinet to refute these memorials when the bill was drafted.

The cabinet ministers naturally dare not disobey.

As a result, Zhang Heming, Wang Zuo and other civil servants were still taken to the execution ground.

Zhang Heming was crying and tears were gone. He didn't expect that he could really not escape death.

"Your Majesty! Why are you so cruel and cruel? I am just greedy! Who in this world is not corrupt? Who in this world does not love money? You are so mean and greedy, and you still keep our greed for ink stigma in future generations. Are you really not afraid that the people in this world will be separated from you?!"

Zhang Heming shouted as he said, "Aren't you afraid?"

Wang Zuo, the Minister of Works, kept crying, even after he knelt on the execution ground, he was still crying: "Your Majesty, please spare me! Everyone has always done this for the false reporting of the project payments by the Ministry of Works. I am just following the routine! Your Majesty, I will not die! I am willing to return all the silver I embezzled, just ask Your Majesty to spare me for my life. I have only saved the money back to my hometown and did not dare to spend a penny!"

Wang Zuo said that, and then shouted again: "Your Majesty! It really doesn't work. You can kill me. Don't write bad things that I have done on the monument and erect them in the imperial tomb and the Taimiao!"

"The time has come, kill!"

Huang Kezhang, the Minister of Justice, had already asked for love for these civil servants, but Zhu Youxiao refused, so he had no choice but to continue to implement the order of Emperor Zhu Youxiao.

Therefore, Huang Kezhang issued an execution order after the time came.

Click!

Click!

Click!

Immediately, the guillotine fell down, and all the officials such as Zhang Heming and Wang Zuo were beheaded in half, while the rest of the officials who were under corruption were also beheaded and executed.

For a moment, blood flowed into a river.

Then, these officials with more embezzlement will be peeled and placed in the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works to become a new landscape.

The officials who reorganized the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works did not dare to extend their hands at will after seeing the new landscape of their yamen, which finally basically fell into the hands of the officers, soldiers and craftsmen below.

...

"Hmph! How could this tyrant be so mean and ungrateful!"

Officials of the Donglin Party started to speak up as Zhang Heming and others were executed.

"Why didn't God accept him!"

Practicing state affairs also agreed.

When Zuo Guangdou saw this, he said, "You guys are careful about your words! For example, if you rely on your family slaves Wei Zhongxian, Xu Xianchun, etc., there are lackeys Fang Congzhe, Xu Guangqi, etc., even Sun Chengzong paid him three million yuan! It can be seen that when you are today, we can no longer do anything to him."

"That's true. If it's just a corruption campaign, it would be fine. Qian is worried that this tyrant is not satisfied with these things. Today, he is not only cruel but also Yang Guang's ambition, but now he is in charge of the Shanxi merchants. He obviously has the goal of keeping the financial path in his hands while holding the financial path in his own hands. He also set up a foreign trade bureau and has the ambition to manipulate the money law in the world! Our scholars and officials will find it difficult to threaten the emperor by controlling the food and fodder of the world!"

Qian Qianyi started talking at this time.

"Yes! I'm afraid that the emperor will repeat the new policy at the beginning of Wanli, launch the test and prepare for the success of the test, and clear the land of Zhang Juzheng, even more cruel than Zhang Juzheng at the time, such as levying commercial taxes to seize the benefits of our gentry as the official profit! Do you know that this time Sun Chengzong could pay the emperor three million yuan, which was the silver that Xu Guangqi's clan gave to the emperor behind it! Although Zuo didn't know why the Xu family offered silver, the benefits of the people in the world had flowed into the treasury, which was a fact!"

Zuo Guangdou agreed at this time.

"How can the emperor win profits from the people! How can the Xu family do this!"

After hearing this, Zhou Shunchang stood up excitedly.

"No matter what the reason for the Xu family is, whether Xu Guangqi is willing to flatter the emperor for his personal power or not, we have to stop the Xu family from doing this. If the Xu family insists on making profits for the emperor, then the Xu family is not worthy of my Jiangnan gentry! It is not worthy of doing business in Jiangnan! We should expel the Xu family from the Jiangnan gentry! We will not allow him to gain a foothold in Jiangnan!"

Zuo Guangdou started talking and asked everyone again: "What do you think?"

"Very good!"
Chapter completed!