Domineering Daming

Most people in the court hall were startled and then changed color.Ye Xianggao's re-entry to Beijing means that he is determined to become an official. Once he comes back, many people will naturally move their positions. For the current court with clear divisions, no one likes it except the Donglin Party.

Gu Bingqian was most worried. Ye Xianggao's comeback meant that he, the chief assistant, would have to move his position.Now I can't help feeling a little regretful, today's slight disobedience to the emperor's wishes.

Sun Chengzong held the wat board and tried his best to avoid party disputes, and he rarely spoke in the court.But when he heard Ye Xianggao came back, he couldn't help but frowned.Ye Xianggao, like most Donglin people, advocated abandoning Liaodong, defending Shanhaiguan with all his strength, and concentrating on handling internal affairs.

This is completely different from what he thought!

Ye Xianggao, with a big belly and over 60, stepped in from the palace gate and walked slowly towards the main hall.

The civil and military monarchs and ministers of the Manchu Dynasty all stared at Ye Xianggao. He stood tall and still, calmly, walked to the front, raised his hand and said, "My lord, Ye Xianggao, pay homage to the emperor, long live my emperor!"

Zhu Xu looked at Ye Xianggao, who was dressed in Taifu's clothes, and said with a smile on his face, "Taifu is flat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Ye Xianggao calmed down slowly, took out a booklet from his sleeve, and said: "Although I am far away from the court, I dare not forget to worry about the country. I have summed up the thirteen rules of government affairs, and I hope the emperor will approve."

Cao Huachun had already walked down, took the booklet and presented it, Zhu Xu said: "Read."

Cao Huachun paused, opened the booklet, and said to the following: "There are thirteen failures in state administration: first, failure of official administration, second, failure of salt administration... No. 13 failure of land administration. The failure of the salt government lies in the inappropriateness of the law, and the effect of the upper and lower..."

Hundreds of words were eloquently written, and in Zhu Xu's view, all of them were general principles, and there was no specific solution.

After Cao Huachun's words fell, Yang Lian took a step forward and said, "I think what Ye Ge said is true, so I should agree to it!"

"My minister agrees."

"My minister agrees."

"My minister agrees."

The Donglin Party seems to have found its backbone. It is more enthusiastic, louder, and more people than when Yang Lian was.

Ye Xianggao has been in the cabinet for more than ten years, and his prestige is far from that of Yang Lian.Even many neutral ministers stood up one after another at this time, almost the entire court, spanning many cronies.

Although Ye Xianggao talked about the Thirteen Shus in his booklet, the government and the public are most concerned about the salt policy, so this book still asks Zhu Xu to lift the ban on the salt policy.

Zhu Xu looked at the people below who were seconding, and felt a lot of pressure in his heart.

"It seems that the strong medicine is not enough, we have to enlarge the move."

Chapter 202

Except for Sun Chengzong and Zhu Xu, almost all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty stood up.

Open the salt ban!

Zhu Xu narrowed his eyes, picked up the teacup in hand, and glanced at Cao Huachun.

Cao Huachun bowed slightly, raised his head, and looked at the main hall. The few people who were still standing in place finally landed on Wang Shaohui.

Wang Shaohui immediately understood, and stood up and said: "According to this report, I impeach Wei Guanghui, an assistant minister of the cabinet, for accepting bribes from salt merchants, withholding salt imports, colluding with salt merchants, local promotion departments, and transshipment departments to embezzle salt taxes and steal salt farms. Mingcha!"

"presumptuous!"

Wei Guanghui's face changed drastically, he turned around abruptly, and shouted at Wang Shaohui: "Nonsense, you know what kind of crime it is to frame an important official of the court!"

Wang Shaohui stood firm and unafraid, looked up with a look of death, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Dali Temple has received many plaintiffs, and they have transferred them to the Ministry of Punishment, Shuntian Mansion, and preliminary investigations have been made."

As soon as his words fell, Ni Wenhuan came out and said: "Back to the emperor, the Criminal Department has arrested a cabinet secretary and obtained many clues and evidence from him. Once it is verified later, a detailed memorial will be reported."

Zhao Han also stood up, holding a wat board, bowed and said: "Back to the emperor, Shuntian Mansion got a report from the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, and got a salt merchant in Shengyuan Inn, and found out 30 taels of cash and bank notes. 130 million taels and there are current account books. This person claims to be a descendant of Shen Li, but it has not been verified and has not been reported."

As soon as the "Shengyuan Inn" came out, Zhu Xu, who was sitting at the top, clearly felt the silence in the hall.

With a calm expression, his eyes swept across the officials, and finally fell on Wei Guanghui.

Cold sweat broke out on Wei Guanghui's old face, and his eyes flickered.Now that witnesses and material evidence are in the hands of others, sophistry is useless.

He was extremely unwilling, but he also knew that his reputation would be ruined. Regardless of the cold sweat on his head, he gritted his teeth and knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Your Majesty, this matter was not done by me alone, but Fu Changzong, the servant of the household department, threaded through it and looked at the emperor. Seeing that the minister has meritorious service, he will be punished lightly!"

After these words fell, the hall became even quieter.

Who didn't know that Fu Changzong was the emperor's uncle, and Wei Guanghui pleaded guilty in public, and then sued for a lighter punishment.

However, Fu Changzong's expression remained unchanged, he stood up and said to Zhu Xu: "My Majesty, I have already informed His Highness Xin Wang of the details of this matter."

Xin Wang frowned. Fu Changzong did tell him something cryptic about this matter, which is why he asked Ni Wenhuan and Wang Shaohui to investigate secretly, but he didn't expect that these two people could not wait to expose it at this time.

But now that he has sat down, a surge of anger welled up in his chest, he stood up and said in a deep voice: "Report to the emperor, I do know about this matter, and I ordered the two adults to investigate."

As soon as King Xin said this, everyone in the court gasped.

This is, His Royal Highness Xin Wang is intolerable to the abuses of the Yan government, or is he going to use Wei Guanghui to establish his position in the court?

Even Ye Xianggao, Gu Bingqian, Sun Chengzong and others all changed their colors, looking at Xin Wang with vague eyes.

Zhu Youjian bowed his body slightly, his expression unchanged, letting the suspicious eyes of civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty fall on him.

The corners of Zhu Xu's mouth turned up slightly, his eyes were cold and stern, and he shouted suddenly: "Come here, remove all of Wei Guanghui's official positions, and then he will be thrown into the sky prison. Order the East Factory to confiscate Wei's mansion, and strictly investigate all party members!"

"According to the order!"

Cao Huachun promised that he was restraining Dongchang at the moment, and with a wave of his hand, a group of Jinyi guards rushed out and dragged Wei Guanghui out.

As soon as Wei Guanghui came out of the palace, a minister came to his senses immediately and hurried forward and said: "Your Majesty, the courtiers colluded with the salt merchants and should be severely punished. It's just that the failure of the salt administration is imminent. I hope the emperor will open the salt ban and order the Ministry of Households as soon as possible. Judi, the transshipment department releases new salt to stabilize the price of salt and bring peace to the people."

Many people glanced at King Xin, and several people stepped forward one after another, with similar opinions.

Zhu Xu's stick was still effective. Those who dared to stand up were much less. Ye Xianggao and Gu Bingqian were silent, and Yang Lian didn't stand up again.

He smiled calmly, looked at Zhu Youjian and said, "King Xin, what do you think?"

Zhu Youjian came out again, took out the excerpts and said: "The emperor, the ministers have discussed the guidelines, salt laws and the cabinet. The ministers of the six ministries have discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the gains and losses. Please ask the emperor to make a decision."

Cao Huachun quickly went down to take it up, Zhu Xu said indifferently: "Read."

Cao Huachun was already familiar with it, so he picked up the notebook and started to read it.

"There are eight mistakes in the salt administration, first, the loss of salt introduction, second, the loss of promotion, third, the loss of transshipment, and fourth, the loss of salt merchants..."

Zhu Youjian's excerpt contains more than 800 words, most of which are Zhu Xu's meaning, and when it was passed to Zhu Youjian, it was naturally mixed with some private goods.

Zhu Youjian, Fu Changzong, Zhou Yingqiu, including Zhao Han, Ni Wenhuan and others all knew about it.But except for them, the adults in the hall were all shocked and speechless.

According to Wang Zhezi's intention, not only should the saltworks be reorganized, but also the Yanyin of the Ministry of Households should be eliminated, and then the promotion department and the transshipment department should be abolished, and the hereditary salt households should also be removed. It is to overthrow the entire salt administration and start over!

Hu Ke stood up and said loudly: "I object! The government of Yan is very important, and it will affect the whole body. Now that Xiayan is coming, we must not make a big move!"