Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 419
For court officials, Zhang Qingfeng has no right to arrest them, so he can only report to Emperor Wanli and let Emperor Wanli arrest them.

When Emperor Wanli heard that Zhejiang Party officials had privately forged royal bank drafts worth tens of millions of taels of silver, he suddenly trembled with anger.

Tens of millions of taels of silver, it is equivalent to snatching tens of millions of taels of silver from him.

Emperor Wanli did not disappoint Zhang Qingfeng either.

After Zhang Qingfeng reported the list of officials involved, Emperor Wanli immediately sent a large number of Jinyiwei to arrest the officials involved.

Zhang Qingfeng reported many officials involved. Except for some major officials who were indeed involved in forging counterfeit banknotes, he reported the names of all Zhejiang Party members who were dishonest and corrupt. Not involved.

Since Zhejiang Party officials dare to forge counterfeit banknotes so brazenly, they must be punished.

As for implicating innocence, sorry, there is no innocence.

The bad deeds of these officials, Zhang Qingfeng, have been investigated long ago. Even if they didn't participate in it, getting them down would be doing justice to the heavens.

The Jin Yiwei went out to arrest court officials, which soon caused shock in the government and the public, and the people were also talking about it.

Ordinary people only know that many official mansions were rushed in by Jin Yiwei and arrested people.

Only people in the officialdom know that these arrested officials are basically members of the Zhejiang Party.

Many people don't understand why Jin Yiwei suddenly arrests officials, which makes many other officials who have not been arrested by Jin Yiwei feel anxious all day long.

Several cabinet ministers even entered the palace to ask Emperor Wanli why he wanted to arrest people like this, but they did not even see Emperor Wanli's face.

Fortunately, the next day, the Daming Daily published the whole story on the front page.

Daming Daily has now become the most authoritative official newspaper in Ming Dynasty, with even higher authority than Royal Daily.

When the Daming Daily reported the cause of the incident, the common people couldn't help but be speechless when they clapped their hands and applauded.

Tsk tsk, tens of millions of taels of silver, this is a huge case.

If this incident is true, it would not be unjust for so many officials to be arrested.

At this time, many court ministers also knew that the Zhejiang Party officials had secretly done such a thing.

The government and the opposition have different reactions to this incident.

When Donglin Party officials saw the list of arrested officials, they all applauded. In decades of party struggles, the Zhejiang Party is undoubtedly the most ruthless in suppressing the Donglin Party.

The Zhejiang Party represented the interests of big landlords and wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River. Although the Donglin Party was born in the south of the Yangtze River, most of them were middle class and small and medium landlords.

When the Donglin party members first stepped into the political center, they were so high-spirited, and everyone was full of ambition to serve the country.

However, before they had time to realize their ambitions, they were ruthlessly attacked by local parties such as the Zhejiang Party, the Xuan Party, the Chu Party and the Qi Party, and they were almost crippled over the decades.

Now the Zhejiang Party, the largest party hostile to the Donglin Party, was almost wiped out in one fell swoop. No wonder Donglin Party officials applauded.

Compared with the Donglin Party, other parties such as the Qi Party and the Xuan Party, after learning about what happened to the Zhejiang Party, although it is not clear whether the case of counterfeiting counterfeit banknotes is true, they still feel a sense of sadness.

Emperor Wanli handled the counterfeiting case very quickly. Under the interrogation of Jin Yiwei, most of the Chu Party officials quickly admitted the crime. As for those who refused to admit guilt, they were quickly found out for other crimes.

Afterwards, Jin Yiwei searched the property of these Zhejiang party officials.

In order to prevent Jin Yiwei from filling his own pockets, Emperor Wanli also sent Dongchang and Royal Security to jointly supervise.

After several months of ransacking the homes, Jin Yiwei finally confiscated more than 800 million taels of property from these officials' homes.

This number was subsequently published in the newspaper by the Ming Dynasty Daily. When they saw this number, the government and the public were in an uproar.

No one expected that these officials had so much property.

The final result of these officials was also very satisfying. Most of them were beheaded, and their families were sent to various islands in Southeast Asia.

For this result, the people of Ming Dynasty all clapped their hands and applauded.

In this case, Emperor Wanli deterred all court officials with extremely strong means.

At least after this incident, no official dared to openly confront Emperor Wanli again.

The prestige of Emperor Wanli is rising again among the people.

When talking about Emperor Wanli, many people said that he was a good emperor who could do something.

The Wanli Emperor in this life, because of the existence of Zhang Qingfeng, at least there were no disaster victims.

No matter where there is a disaster, or even if there is no disaster, you can apply to the Royal Bank for immigration. As long as you apply for immigration, you can immigrate overseas. Whether it is Japan, Ryukyu or Taiwan, you can choose any island in Southeast Asia.

In this way, the people at least have a way to survive, and they will not starve to death or rise up because of lack of food.

Zhang Qingfeng also appeared, and the people of Ming Dynasty did not have any uprising in ten years.

Moreover, the large-scale promotion of high-yield crops a few years ago has further alleviated the problem of famine among the people in the north, which gave the people a glimmer of hope for the government and the emperor.

However, although Emperor Wanli's prestige among the people was rising day by day, his health was getting worse and worse.

The time enters 1619 AD.

After people sent by Zhang Qingfeng secretly stirred up dissension, North Korean general Cao Song was forced to rebel.

With the secret support of the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Song's army defeated the royal army several times larger than himself by relying on advanced weapons, and then invaded the Korean palace, killed the Korean king's family, and the core members of the royal family were also implicated. , almost none survived.

When the news reached Ming Dynasty, there was an uproar in the ruling and opposition parties. When Emperor Wanli heard the news, although he was ill, he immediately ordered the Royal Fleet stationed in Tianjin to send troops to attack Cao Song immediately.

After receiving the order, the Royal Fleet immediately set off from Tianjin and quickly headed towards North Korea.

At the same time, a clipper ship also quickly headed to Nagasaki, Japan, requesting to be stationed in the Nagasaki Royal Fleet to launch an attack on southern Korea.

In this attack on North Korea, the Royal Fleet mobilized more than [-] soldiers and hundreds of large ships at one time.

The speed of action and the high efficiency left everyone speechless.

This also makes many people wonder whether the Royal Fleet has long been ready to send troops to North Korea, otherwise how could it be possible to send troops so quickly?
More than a month later, the Royal Fleet landed in North Korea from two directions, and then launched an attack on Cao Song's army.

A few months later, the Ming Dynasty's [-] troops swept away all other Korean forces including Cao Song's troops, forming a virtual occupation by force.

Faced with the fact that the Korean royal family had no heirs, Emperor Wanli immediately ordered his two sons to rule the Korean peninsula, and divided Korea into North and South parts, named North Korea and South Korea respectively.

After the Ming army completely controlled North Korea, North Korean nobles and officials could only agree with the arrangement of the Ming emperor.

No one expected that in less than a year, North Korea would change.

Soon, the time entered 1620 AD, and Emperor Wanli's condition worsened day by day. Under such circumstances, everyone believed that Emperor Wanli had reached the end of his life.

Even Emperor Wanli himself thought so.

(End of this chapter)