I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Evidence of misappropriation of disaster relief money was found in Yueming Building, and it has been handed over to the military commander.

This matter is opaque, it is one thing to say, but another thing to have it.

The soldiers and horses seized the Yueming Building, and they would always catch some difficult dignitaries. At this time, the factory guards were needed.

In short, the whole thing was secretly manipulated by Zhu Youxiao. On the bright side, it was a confrontation between the court's judicial office and factory guards and local powerful forces.

The emperor is in Fengyang, and the local judicial office, as well as the accompanying factory guards and "big shots" must perform well and be proactive in order to seek rewards.

Although the local tyrants, officials and gentry are deeply rooted, they are still too young compared with the imperial power...

The news that the Prison Secretary joined forces with the Army and Horse Division to seal down Yueming Building and arrest a large number of dignitaries and scholars quickly spread throughout Fengyang Mansion.

There is another very interesting thing here. It is said that the place where the jailer found the evidence was very close to the private room where Yan Rongxuan, the prefect of Fengyang, Chen Kangwei, the prefect of Suzhou, and Zhou Yi, the governor of Fengyang, lived.

It was because they were so close that the jailer had to suspect that the three of them were in collusion with each other. After the soldiers and horses came, they also felt that they had to be handled with caution.

It is said that these three masters originally wanted to make trouble, but as soon as they went out, they saw a noble man in white clothes, but they all became dumbfounded.

As for the identity of this noble son, there are different opinions among the market.

Some said that Emperor Tianqi made a private visit in his micro-clothes, talking and laughing to frighten corrupt officials, and some said that this was a certain wealthy person who came to Fengyang with his imperial driver.

After a few days of effort, several well-known stories began to spread among the people.

Yan Rongxuan, Chen Kangwei, and Zhou Yi were all brutally thrown into a cell by Bingma Si. Apart from the three of them, there were more than [-] other prisoners crowded there.

Chen Kangwei has the smallest official rank, and Suzhou, where the accident happened, is also under his jurisdiction. At this time, he looked at the other two with regret, and sighed:

"Futai, it's all my fault, I shouldn't ask you to talk about such things at this juncture."

Governor Zhou Yi of Fengyang is a governor of one place after all. He has been in the ups and downs of the officialdom for many years. He had expected this kind of thing. He was a little tired and had no intention of blaming him. He bowed his head and said:

"For this sake, what else is there to say? Just wait for the result!"

Yan Rongxuan, on the other hand, has a violent temper and kicked the wall angrily.

As a magistrate myself, living a carefree life is boundless happiness, why do you have to embezzle disaster relief money for these tens of thousands of taels of silver?

He has 1 regrets for getting to this stage today.

The people in the same room, even though they were all arrested and full of complaints and regrets, but listening to the chatting of these three, they all felt that their status was very high.

Before coming in, there should be three officials!

Seeing Yan Rongxuan kicking the wall, a group of people sneered and winked at each other, they didn't want to go out anyway, so why not play with them.

Several people sneered at him and said:

"You have a temper, why didn't you dare to make trouble with the soldiers and horses before you came in?"

"Bingmasi is nothing!"

Yan Rongxuan showed no fear at all, and said without shame:

"The one here is our governor of Fengyang!"

"Is it the disaster relief money you embezzled?"

When the other prisoners heard this, their faces changed suddenly. Even those who were planning to watch the show looked at them maliciously, and asked in a deep voice:

"I heard that their new arrests are all related to the lack of funds for disaster relief in Suzhou some time ago. I'm afraid they were greedy!"

"Master, I hate these dog officials the most!"

Hearing that these three officials came in because of this matter, the prisoners in the cell were all furious, and some of them punched Yan Rongxuan directly in the chest after having suffered fatal stubble.

After all, Yan Rongxuan was a civil servant, she only felt a sharp pain in her chest, she leaned against the wall, gasping for breath, unable to even speak.

Someone wanted to come forward, so scared that Yan Rongxuan shrank back to a corner with her head in her arms, but it was the prison guard of the prison secretary who heard the news and rushed over with a stick, yelling:

"What are you shouting for?"

"You are all serious offenders of the imperial court, none of you can escape, and if you shout again, you will be chained and fettered!"

"Master Ma—" A prisoner came to the fence, smiled and said:

"These three officials are all dog officials who embezzled people's life-saving money. Anyway, the court wants to deal with it, so they just give us a beating to vent their anger!"

The inspector's surname is Ma, so he is called Ma Ye.

He rolled his eyes, leaned against the fence, looked at the three lost souls inside, and clicked his tongue a few times: "Why, are you all wilting now?"

"Dog officer!"

The patrolman spit out a mouthful, and smiled viciously after thinking about it:

"Don't beat them to death. The lives of these three dog officials are useful behind the government. The common people are also happy to see them beheaded."

"That's natural, Master Ma can go!"

The prisoners sent the patrol away with a smile, and turned their heads to stare at the three high officials. Someone rolled up their sleeves and said:

"This one yells the loudest. I'm afraid it will hurt the most people. Beat him first!"

……

On the street, Mr. Liu from the previous Yueming Tower was parading around in chains to show the public.

Seeing the people who flaunted their might in the past and did all kinds of bad things have ended up like this, the people of Fengyang called God to open their eyes.

With tears in his eyes, an old man threw a stone hard, but it was still missed, and he almost fell to the ground.

A middle-aged yamen servant saw him, hurried forward to support him, and said with a smile:

"You can take it easy, you have to watch this villain being paraded through the streets by our government and brought to justice."

The old man was even more moved when he thought of his daughter who was captured into the Liu Mansion two years ago and had never been heard from since then, and asked:

"I heard that there are quite a lot of people who committed the crime this time, have they all been caught?"

"That's not true! Some dignitaries who are difficult to deal with have been escorted to Beijing by the factory guards. They were escorted away last night because they were afraid that their people would gather and cause trouble!"

As the yamen servant said, he also kicked Mr. Liu, telling him to continue walking.

The people in the neighborhood were very curious, and they gathered around asking questions. Because the servant had been treated lightly by those rich kids, his attitude was quite polite, and he answered every question.

From the mouth of the yamen servant, many people knew how big this incident was.

The Prison Secretary and the Army and Horse Division were mobilized, and nearly half of the Liu family, the Zhao family, and the big and well-known local households were ransacked this time.

But who knew that there were so many misplaced women hiding in the mansions of these big families, and in the Liu mansion alone, Bingmasi rescued more than thirty women.

When they were rescued, they all had dull eyes, huddled in the firewood shed, dirty and messy, with half-clothed clothes, and even the soldiers felt hateful when they saw it.

If the emperor hadn't come this time, they would have to continue to run rampant.

The three big fish who were arrested together were Yan Rongxuan, the prefect of Fengyang, Chen Kangwei, the prefect of Suzhou, and Zhou Yi, the governor of Fengyang.

The local officials have undergone great changes. The post of governor in Fengyang and other places was directly dismissed. Since then, the governor of Nanzhili has become a fixed post, and he also manages Fengyang Mansion. The whole group changed.

And in Suzhou, Tiqi has already galloped over to convey the official document of arresting and searching people.

Presumably in a few days, there will be a period of chaos over there, but this chaos is necessary. If there is no chaos this time, there will be no future stability.

Chapter 272 Next stop, Nanjing!

The horseshoes "clacked" on the stone road. The two old men may be too old, and they walked too slowly. They followed the crowd at the end and looked at the far away emperor, crying.

Zhu Youxiao, who was riding on a horse, was dressed in bright yellow light armor, with the emperor's sword on his waist. Looking at the young monarch, many people sighed that Daming was about to rejuvenate.

This is the vision of the real people, because they saw with their own eyes what the emperor did in Fengyang these two days.

During the famine in Suzhou, 20 of the 18 taels issued by the imperial court was embezzled, and the remaining 2 taels were also exploited layer by layer. In the hands of poor people, it was often only half a bowl of gruel mixed with sand.

Riding on the horse, Chen Ce also straightened his back unconsciously. Without saying anything, this kind of scene where the common people kneel down spontaneously to see him off is really too spectacular.

Liu Yuanbin was only in his early twenties, seeing this scene, his chest seemed to be on fire, and he was proud of being the emperor's pro-army of the Yongwei Battalion.

There is pride. If a young man of this age has no drive, how can he make contributions and become rich and prosperous?

In the past two days in Fengyang, people were being arrested everywhere, and the emperor's sacrifice to the ancestral temple became a "little matter" that was not mentioned much.

What is different from usual is that there is no chaos in arresting the people this time, and the common people often just watch from the sidelines and applaud.

Nine out of ten local tyrants who practiced lawlessness in the past have all been caught.

The figure of the emperor gradually faded away, but the cavalry team of the Yongwei Battalion was still slowly leaving the city from the south gate, and the queue of infantry behind was even longer.

The common people chatted slowly, saying something here and there.

It's strange to say that in the past, the gentlemen in Donglin were full of power and couldn't get enough to eat. The tyrants were also rampant and lawless, and the scholars had a supernatural status, all of them seemed to be small landlords.

Ordinary scholars can't even be provoked by officials in the yamen, and they can't be suppressed.

Now Wei Wei's power is pouring over the government and the public, killing innocent people everywhere, killing all the gentlemen of Yingying, but the government is getting better and better.

In Liaodong, Jiannu hadn't made any deposits for two years, Mao Wenlong went deep into the enemy's rear, Denglai and Tianjin had a steady stream of material resources, and he also contacted North Korea to gain a firm foothold.

In the Jiubian area, the outstanding military salary was gradually repaid, and the monthly salary was no longer reported to be in arrears. Even in the Zhili and Shandong areas, all the ministries made up for the previous year's salary.

Isn't this thing going in a good direction?

It is clear that Lu Xiangsheng, a Jinshi of Xinke, and his group are all talented young juniors, but the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River say that the imperial court's selection of officials is unfair.

It seems that the sages of Donglin may not be real sages, and the so-called eunuchs in the court may not all be Qin Hui who has brought disaster to the country and the people.

No matter how reluctant the people were, the emperor's team went south after all.

After leaving, what is left is Fengyang, the central capital, where the upper class reshuffles the cards, and the disaster relief money can really be implemented on the heads of the common people.

Even the factory guards who show off their might on the street, the common people are not afraid anymore.

These people are the pioneers who govern those powerful people!

……

Nanjing, the locals at this time, are more used to calling it Jinling.

There is a grand garden in the southern city, which is the mansion of Zhu Guobi, Marquis of Funing. It is named after his most beloved second wife, Zhang Yu, and it is not inferior to Wei Guogong's mansion.

The cold wind in the north was howling, and the faces of the soldiers who guarded the closed gates were flushed with cold. The central plains have been suffering from drought for years, locust plagues have migrated, refugees are everywhere, and the number of people who starve to death every day is immeasurable.

The south of the Yangtze River is still full of singing and dancing, just like in mid-spring, the garden is full of flowers and grass.

The green willow silk weaves a light smoke, the peach blossoms are like red clouds, and the mountains, rocks and streams are all dyed pink.

Delicate peach petals float on the Qingxi River, twisting and turning in the courtyard, passing through the Linglong Stone Mountain, bypassing the ancient grass pavilion, and converging under the bridge to form a Wangqing Pool.

The water in the pool is like a mirror, reflecting the pavilions in the courtyard, green willows and red peaches, as well as Zhu Guobi and Li Sancai standing on the railing in the grass pavilion.

Zhu Guobi was wearing a purple silk gown, and Li Sancai was wearing a straight-collared blue shirt that is often worn by scholars nowadays, with the breasts facing the inside.

Zhu Guobi is the seventh grandson of Zhu Qian, the general of Jingnan.

During the Wanli period, because of the blessings of his ancestors, he was granted the title of Marquis of Funing.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, Wei Guogong Xu Hongji resigned from the position of the guard of the Xunchen due to illness. Zhu Guobi was recommended by the Xunchen to lead the Nanjing Chinese Army Governor's Mansion and take charge of the garrison.

Within a few months, Yang Lian resigned in a fit of anger, but by accident, Emperor Tianqi allowed him to petition for him. Zhu Guobi had just served as a garrison in Nanjing, and he also went to Shu to complain for Yang Lian.

What Zhu Youxiao did at that time was to hide directly in Nanhaizi without even reading it. Naturally, all these memorials fell into the hands of Wei Zhongxian.

At first, Wei Zhongxian was on the cusp, so naturally he couldn't retaliate wantonly.

Later, Zhu Youxiao personally recruited and left Wei Zhongxian to preside over government affairs in Beijing. During this period, Wei Zhongxian began to bring up old accounts again, taking revenge on the gang of Donglin Party members who had petitioned for Yang Lian according to the list.

Zhu Guobi was deprived of his annual salary by Wei Zhongxian because of the memorial at that time. He went to the memorial many times, but all of them fell into the vast sea, and there was no news of him.

Obviously, either the emperor didn't know what Wei Zhongxian was doing in Beijing at all, or he knew it well, but he was deliberately condoning and acquiescing.

No matter what the situation is, it is not what Zhu Guobi expected.

He looked at himself and Li Sancai's reflection in the water in a daze, and said:

"Oh! The emperor has come to Jinling..."

Li Sancai's heart sank when he heard the words, Feiyang's expression collected a bit, and he replied in a low voice: "Yes, Marquis Funing must have heard about what happened in Fengyang, right?"

He passed the Jinshi examination in the second year of Wanli, and was awarded the head of the household department at the beginning. This starting point can be said to be something that many people can meet but can't seek.

A talent like Lu Xiangsheng, who was selected by Zhu Youxiao for second place in the second year of the Apocalypse, is now compiled by the Imperial Academy, and Li Sancai is the head of the household department as soon as he comes in. Who will believe it?

Originally, Li Sancai was also planning to flex his muscles and do something.

But it was because he was too young and vigorous at that time, and he was demoted from the capital to a local place after speaking for a certain Donglin boss who was impeached.