I'm really not the carpenter emperor
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For some reason, after hearing this, Wang Er actually felt unprecedentedly relaxed. He leaned against the side of the carriage, suddenly thought of something, and asked:
"My good man, may I ask your name?"
"My surname is Zhou, as long as you know this!"
After an unknown amount of time, the carriage finally stopped slowly. Wang Er lifted the curtain and subconsciously stretched out his hand to block it. Through the setting sun, he saw a busy port.
Many warships under the Ming flag were patrolling back and forth. As far as the eye could see, merchant ships from all over the world gathered, unloading and loading at the port.
Officers, sailors, businessmen, noisy, busy scene.
"This is Penglai Water City, the largest port in Ming Dynasty, isn't it beautiful?" The man surnamed Zhou jumped off the carriage and gave Wang Er a guide.
Wang Er, who has lived in the interior for a long time, has never seen such a scene.
As the sun was setting, he couldn't help but stare blankly at the sound of seagulls above his head, and Daming's warship riding the wind and waves on the sea.
"nice."
A man surnamed Zhou sat on a boulder and said:
"Hehe, every time I come to Penglai, I feel that the world is really beautiful. Wang Er, why do you need to worry about those past events?"
"The past, let him pass. Since Tianjia has given you another chance, you must seize it. This is a grace that others can't ask for."
Then he solemnly said:
"When you arrive in Liaodong, you have to work hard. The court has arranged for you. No one knows you there. It is not difficult to change your appearance. With your ability, you will have better development."
"However, in Shaanxi, can you let go of everything?"
While speaking, the man surnamed Zhou looked forward as if nothing had happened.
"Liu Si from Jinzhou, Liaodong, both of his parents died since he was a child..." Wang Er didn't notice anything, received Lu Yin, and read a sentence casually.
Then he looked at the sea level in the distance and said with a smile:
"What can we not let go of? Wang Er is already dead, and he died of rebellion. He has to blame himself. If there is no emperor's grace, even Liu Si would not be here now."
Hearing this, Jin Yiwei surnamed Zhou put down his murderous intentions and patted him on the shoulder.
"Do it well, Liu Si, I will look for you." Jin Yiwei surnamed Zhou finished speaking, got into the carriage, turned around and left.
Liu Si asked, "How did you find me?"
Hearing this, the latter smiled lightly, and gave him a side face: "There is no one in this world that Jin Yiwei can't find."
"The small banner officer of Fusi in Beizhen, Zhou Kui."
"Jin Yiwei." Liu Si murmured, breaking out in a cold sweat.
Obviously, the emperor sent a Jinyiwei to see him off, and he also planned to kill him halfway. Fortunately, his performance won the trust of Jinyiwei Xiaoqi Zhou Kui.
Liu Si breathed a sigh of relief and looked into the distance.
In the whole world, could it be that the kings and lands have always been forced to rebel, and if there is a way, who would be willing to take the risk.
Now he has completely let go of those things in Shaanxi in the past, and even has some expectations for his future life in Liaodong.
I heard that the imperial court rewarded the soldiers for their meritorious service very generously. I wonder if this is true?
……
In Shaanxi, the situation in Baishui has been calmed down with Zhu Youxiao's visit.
Sun Yizhi, the magistrate of Baishui County, and Fang Zhou, his teacher, were dead. Qiao Yingjia, the governor of Shaanxi, hit the muzzle of a gun. He was punished for multiple crimes and was beaten with eighty sticks.
Who would have imagined that Qiao Yingjia looked so weak that he was not killed by the eighty-killing stick, and he was thrown into the street by the Yongweiying to fend for himself.
Later, Zhu Youxiao also learned from Qiao Shi that Qiao Yingjia was torn alive by the angry hungry people in Baishui County.
Even the Yongwei Battalion couldn't bear to look at such a bloody scene.
The hungry people who rebelled in Baishui County were forgiven, the culprit Wang Er was killed, Zhong Guangdao was exiled to Datong to serve as an army, under the command of Xu Yongshou, the deputy general of Datong, and he was never allowed to return to Baishui.
Because both of them are lonely and have no family at all, so there is no way to get involved.
As for Sun Yizhi, the magistrate of Baishui County, and Fang Zhou, the master who were said to have died at the hands of the hungry people, their crimes are so deep that they cannot just be dismissed as such.
Because "Bai Shui Juyi" was the first earth-shattering rebellion of hungry people in the Tianqi Dynasty, it was of great importance, and the court also tried its best to deal with it.
In the end, Master Fang Zhou, as a bewitcher, was sentenced to a very high punishment of razing the three clans, while the county magistrate Sun Yizhi gave a lenient punishment and only killed the nine clans.
Zhu Youxiao ordered the Ministry of Industry to rebuild Baishui County, intending to reopen the Silk Road on land.
Recently, with the surrender of various Mongolian tribes and the northward relocation of Lindan Khan of the Chahar tribe, there has been almost no war in the northern part of the country. The ministers of the DPRK and China are also discussing whether the Silk Road should be reopened.
And Baishui is located on the main road of the Silk Road. Although there are many difficulties in reopening the Silk Road, Zhu Youxiao is also aware of its significance to Ming Dynasty.
So far, the matter of Baishui has come to an end.
But this is only what the world sees, and this is what Zhu Youxiao wants them to see.
When the whole world was praising the emperor's wise and decisive handling of this matter, Zhu Youxiao had no intention of leaving Shaanxi.
The officials in Shaanxi were horrified to find that Emperor Tianqi seemed to use this incident as an excuse to come to the place. As for what to do next, it was self-evident.
The emperor and the brave guard battalion have left Baishui, but the liquidation in Baishui City is not over yet.
The Shaanxi Supervisory Office came to Baishui to investigate all the family members and properties of the county magistrate Sun's family and master Fang's family. Taiyuan General Gaoye sent He Renlong to Baishui City to maintain law and order.
For several days, Baishui City was filled with human heads and blood flowing like rivers.
Fang and Sun were implicated by the imperial decree of the supervisor, killing more than 300 people in total.
Chapter 841 Rectifying Shaanxi
After Zhu Youxiao arrived in Xi'an, he did not enter the city, but stopped twelve miles outside the city, where the Yongwei Battalion set up camp.
Hearing this incident, the civil and military officials of the imperial court in Xi'an were all uneasy.
The emperor had already arrived outside the city of Xi'an, and they didn't come out to welcome them now, nor did they come out to welcome them, and it was obvious that they came by taking advantage of the rebellion of the hungry people in Baishui County.
The camp of the imperial army stretched for two or three miles, and more than 1 people came and went in the camp. From time to time, teams of cavalry rushed out of the camp and went to the distance, not knowing where they were going.
At a glance, it is full of gold and iron horses, and the horseshoes step on the land of Shaanxi, which has suffered from natural disasters and wars, playing a restless Chinese tune.
In the very middle of the camp, a large tent with the Nine Dragon Flag erected high stood quietly, and the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion, armed with steel guns, patrolled back and forth, creating a chilling atmosphere.
The story of Qiao Yingjia, the governor of Shaanxi, has been reported back to Xi'an. The arrival of the emperor has made the officials of the province's highest court jurisdiction in this provincial capital city even more frightened.
The new governor of Shaanxi has not yet drawn up a candidate. Before the emperor Jinkou Yuyan, he will be appointed as the Chief Envoy of the Political Envoy, and the Chief Envoy of the Procuratorate and the Procuratorate. , the two highest-ranking civil servants.
In addition, there are magistrates, magistrates, and magistrates of 31 counties in six prefectures and [-] counties in Xi'an.
These officials are all gathered in the Jiulong tent at this moment, holding their breath and not daring to breathe, secretly speculating about the emperor's next will and their own future fate.
The civil servants gathered on one side, and the military generals of the guards who belonged to the Shaanxi Command and Envoy Division gathered on the other side.
Although this incident was attributed to civil officials, the hungry people rebelled, and the garrison of Baishui County did nothing, so that the hungry people easily seized the county seat. This is also the fault of their generals.
The Shaanxi officialdom, which had been fighting endlessly, was all twisted into one rope with the arrival of one person.
In other words, temporarily boarded a boat.
Even though the boat was tattered and seemed about to be overturned by the strong wind and waves from the capital at any time, they still had to curl up on it.
"See Your Majesty!"
At this time, the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion outside the tent half-kneeled and saluted.
A sound of footsteps came into the Jiulong tent accompanied by the sound of iron armor and leaves intersecting. Zhu Youxiao, who was dressed in bright yellow armor, walked into the tent in front of everyone.
Chen Ce, the governor of the Yongwei Battalion, followed behind him as always.
Sitting on the throne in Kowloon, Zhu Youxiao naturally knew the purpose of coming to Shaanxi this time in his heart. Originally, the strife between the parties, whether it was the eunuch party or the Zhejiang party that had revived in recent years, had the disadvantages of ancient feudal parties.
Like eunuchs, the incompetent Shaanxi governor Qiao Yingjia is the best example.
Zhu Youxiao has to say that when dealing with the Donglin Party, these oils and salts are not allowed, and the eunuchs who are loyal to him are really easy to use.
But after Donglin was purged from the imperial court, especially now that the imperial power had been captured by himself, the disadvantages of the eunuch party had already surpassed his advantages.
At present, the eunuch party and the Zhejiang party still need to check and balance each other in the court, but at the local level, it is necessary to appoint truly capable officials.
The corruption and incompetence of an official will have extremely bad consequences for the people of a place.
When such officials accounted for the majority of local officials, the court's decrees could not be fully implemented, and the situation of overt obedience and overt violation would not stop.
The news of Wang Er's "uprising" in Baishui sounded the alarm for Zhu Youxiao.
It is no longer possible to sit in the Forbidden City, wait to see the survival of the fittest among the various parties, and then slowly replace people.
Coming down this time, I want to start cleaning up the corrupt officialdom in the local area, and use iron fists to let my will be carried out in this land.
If it doesn't work to kill one, then kill ten or a hundred.
All in all, Zhu Youxiao will not leave unless Shaanxi is turned into what he wants.
"It's all here."
Zhu Youxiao said: "Sit down, please sit down."
As the words fell, more than a dozen soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion entered the account one after another, and neatly arranged the stools they had prepared long ago on both sides.
"Thank you Your Majesty—"
Then, sit side by side.
People sat down, but their hearts were suspended. No one knew who the emperor was going to deal with this time, and everyone had ghosts in their hearts.
"Baishui County, I just came back from there, don't you high-ranking officials have anything to say to me?"
After one sentence, the atmosphere in the tent suddenly dropped to freezing point.
"Cui Zhi, as the chief envoy of Shaanxi, you are in charge of the province's people, finances, fields, households, and money. Sun Yizhi has collected taxes in Baishui County for three and a half years, and you don't know about it?"
Cui Zhi's heart skipped a beat, thinking that what should come is still here.
However, Sun Yizhi was dead, so everything could be blamed on him. After all, a dead person could not speak, nor would he make excuses.
He hurried out of the queue and fell to his knees with a plop.
"Your Majesty! It is true that the imperial government's officials to abolish taxes and miscellaneous taxes have been issued to the states, prefectures, and counties a few years ago, but he, Sun Yizhi, dares to ignore the official documents of the chief envoy's yamen, and still act mischievously in Baishui."
"I have known about this for a long time, but Sun Yizhi is good at hiding and has not been able to find real evidence, so..."
"Nonsense." Zhu Youxiao snorted coldly, "Although I have never been a chief envoy, I also know that the province's land records and tax records are all in the chief secretary's office."
"Come here, show me the field and tax books!"
Not long after, Chen Ce brought the two booklets with his own hands.
Zhu Youxiao just flicked it casually, and then suddenly threw the booklet on the ground, "Look for yourself, from the third year of the apocalypse to the seventh year of the apocalypse, is the taxation of Baishui County normal?"
Cui Zhi quickly picked up the booklet and flipped through it randomly, but he didn't even bother to read it carefully.
Big beads of sweat kept rolling down his forehead, soaking the book, and Zhu Youxiao's patience had long since dissipated, "Okay, don't read it."
"I didn't know how to check before, but now I'm cramming, what's the use?"
"I checked, and half of the tax books and the household department in the 31 counties of Xi'an do not match. I am afraid that Baishui County is not the only one that collects taxes in private."
"How did you become the chief envoy?"
As he spoke, Zhu Youxiao clenched his right hand and slammed it hard on the table.
"Incompetent governor, incompetent political envoy, how can Shaanxi not be in chaos?" Zhu Youxiao waved his big hand and shouted: "Come here, take off Cui Zhi's official uniform, and ransack his home."
"Throw it into the street and let him fend for himself!"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty has something to say!" Cui Zhi saw the light behind him, and he knew that the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion had entered the account.
Hearing the heavy footsteps approaching again, he was in a state of confusion, just trying to protect himself, fell down on the ground in panic, and kept yelling.
"Your Majesty, it is Li Hong, the commander of the capital, and Sun Yizhi, the county magistrate, who have joined forces to secretly collect taxes, embezzle military salaries, and share accounts with each other!"
"Your Majesty is clear, Your Majesty is clear!!"
Chapter 842 Ancestral Law
"and many more."
Zhu Youxiao said: "What you said is true?"
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