Daming: From the Son of Heaven to the Leader of Comprehensive Martial Arts

After all, each prefecture and county has a limited number of places, and these prefectural capitals have exhausted their minds in order to be drafted into the palace.

Who doesn't want the Mother of Nations to come from their own state?

Who doesn't want the queen to come from their own family?

Therefore, the beautiful girls recommended by various states and counties can be called national beauty and heavenly fragrance.

After 180 beautiful women entered the palace, another 180 were selected, and these [-] were carefully selected by the female officials.

In the end, the queen mother personally selected them, leaving only these 18 people.

However, every step the show girls take is startling.

During the many selections, many beautiful women were rejected, and finally missed the palace and were sent back to their original places.

In the end, the women left behind are all virtuous and virtuous, skilled in playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and their appearance and figure are impeccable without any blemishes.

Zhu Qizhen looked at the beautiful women standing in front of him. These beautiful women came from various states and counties, with handsome looks and different beauty, each with its own merits.

"It's better to bring all these women into the harem. The Ai family likes them so much when they see them. Let's keep them all. Serve the Ai family first, so the Ai family can tell them about the etiquette of the harem first."

The queen mother didn't seem to be moved when she saw Zhu Qizhen, so she waved her hand.

The female officer led the eighteen beautiful girls to retreat.

Originally, the queen mother planned to select one or two of these women to serve the emperor tonight.

But when these women appeared in the Palace of Compassion and Ning in full dress, the Empress Dowager was a little embarrassed because she liked every girl.

Who is allowed to go and who is not allowed to go?

It would be better to leave them all in the Compassionate Ning Palace and teach them the etiquette in the palace.

Of course, the most important thing is that it is convenient to try changing the emperor's woman every night. Whoever's belly improves first will be made a concubine first.

After these women entered the Compassionate Ning Palace, they all lowered their heads, not daring to look up at the emperor.

They naturally knew that they entered the palace this time to serve His Majesty the Emperor.

However, just now, before entering the Compassionate Ning Palace, the female officer warned them severely that they must not behave abnormally when they want to see His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress Dowager.

These women are naturally very afraid, but also very excited.

emperor!

These two words, before them, were people who would never have dared to think about them!

Unexpectedly, one day, they would be able to hear the voice of the emperor and see the true face of the emperor. How could they not be excited?

What's more, they have gone through many selections, and only they themselves know the heart-pounding thrills.

"When they first enter the court, let them live in Xiwan next to the Palace of Compassion and Ning, where the scenery is beautiful."

"I would like to obey the Queen Mother's order."

The female officer replied respectfully.

These show girls have been different from court ladies since they entered the palace. Show girls exist exclusively for the emperor, and they need to live in the palace, while court ladies have female officials.

Only after Xiu Nu was canonized as a concubine can she have her own exclusive palace.

After the beautiful women moved into Xiwan, the eunuchs of Xiwan would go to the Qianqing Palace every night to receive orders. If the emperor rested, the eunuchs of Xiwan would hand over the plaque.

Let the emperor flop his cards and go to bed.

These plaques recorded Xiunu's name, birthplace, date of birth, when she entered the palace, and what she was good at...

When the emperor finds the show girl on the brand, the eunuch will prepare in advance to let the show girl bathe and change clothes, so that the show girl can accompany the king at any time to drive and serve the emperor to bed.

Chapter 18 Make sure the emperor turns over tonight

Early in the morning, the sun rises.

Under the service of the maids, Zhu Qizhen changed into a dragon robe, hung a sword at his waist, and prepared to go to court.

One day for three days, this is the rule Zhu Qizhen set for himself.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, there were many emperors who had not been in court for several years or even decades.

It can be said, it can be said that one dynasty in three days is already very diligent.

And Zhu Qizhen also warned himself that he must be a diligent emperor, at least before eliminating internal and external troubles, he must be diligent.

Otherwise, I am afraid that my throne will not be stable.

Outside the Meridian Gate, civil and military officials had gathered here early, waiting for the emperor to drive.

woo woo woo

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped! ...

The trumpet sounded, eighteen whips sounded, and the Meridian Gate opened wide.

Hundreds of civil and military officials entered the court one after another, boarded the Xuanzheng Hall, and ranked in the court class.

"See Your Majesty, long live my emperor!"

"Everyone loves to be flat!"

Zhu Qizhen sat on the ninety-five throne, looking down at the court officials.

"If you have a book, you can play it early, and if you don't have a book, you will retreat!" Wei Zhongxian shouted loudly.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the servants have been ordered to prosecute officials all over the world. In the past three months, they have punished more than [-] corrupt officials and seized more than [-] million yuan of silver outside the capital."

"All the dirty silver has been transported outside the palace, please be reminded by Your Majesty."

"I am here to return the decree to return the Emperor Sword."

Cao Zhengchun walked out of the imperial court, raised his hands high above his head, and held the Tianzi Sword.

Logically speaking, except for the Xuanzhi eunuch next to the emperor, other eunuchs could not be in the court, but Cao Zhengchun and Yuhuatian were exceptions.

Because Cao Zhengchun is now an imperial envoy who is ordered to thoroughly investigate corrupt officials all over the world. As for Yuhuatian, although he is an eunuch, he has made contributions to the grassland and is already among the famous generals.

"Sixty-seven million?"

There was an uproar in the courtroom.

In just three months, sixty-eight million yuan of dirty silver was confiscated. You know, this is the treasury revenue of the Ming Dynasty for nearly ten years, which is shocking.

"Has my Ming Empire become so corrupt?"

Zhu Qizhen went up against the crime and was furious.

Before, the two or three million taels of disaster relief money made him burnt out, but now, to punish corrupt officials, the stolen silver that was filled into the treasury was as high as sixty-eight million taels.

The Ming Empire is so corrupt, how can he not be angry?

"Your Majesty calm down, I deserve death for my crimes."

The emperor was so angry that he bled for thousands of miles, and all civil and military officials hurriedly pleaded guilty and knelt down.

Above the main hall, all civil and military officials were silent and did not dare to speak, and they all felt a sense of oppression, as if a storm was about to come.

Everyone was waiting, and there was no sound above the hall.

"My dear friends, follow me out and have a look, how huge is the sixty-eight million taels of silver!"

Zhu Qizhen's face was gloomy and murderous, he waved his sleeves and walked out of the Xuanzheng Hall.

"According to the order!"

The civil and military officials were sweating coldly and followed closely behind the emperor.

Outside the Meridian Gate, the boxes of silver were already packed like a mountain.

What's more, Jin Yiwei hangs Qiushui Yanling knife on his waist, and is still dragging boxes of sealed silver in a carriage, entering Baiyu Square continuously!

Horse-drawn carriages passed the Jinshui Bridge.

There are a total of 180 carriages, and each carriage has more than a dozen boxes with seals.

These silvers include 50 taels and 100 taels of horseshoe official silver, 20 taels and [-] taels of fine ingot silver, and one and five taels of horn silver.

Jin Yiwei placed nearly [-] large boxes neatly outside the Meridian Gate, and they piled up into a silver mountain with a width of more than [-] meters and a height of four to five meters.

Glittering and spectacular!

Gold and silver jewelry, antique calligraphy and painting, countless.

"Until today, I didn't know that more than 6000 million taels of silver is so much!"

Zhu Qizhen was also surprised.

I never thought that once the corruption was investigated, the treasury would be filled.

"In just three months, the corrupt officials found out were able to embezzle so much money from Mo Daming. It really opened my eyes!"

"If there is no severe punishment, how can the world be clear?"

"My Great Ming Empire, how can it be said that it is a bright and bright universe?"

Zhu Qizhen's Longyan was furious, and the grandeur of Zulong exploded, overwhelming all civil and military officials!

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

All the officials knelt down.

"From now on, if you have 1000 taels of Tanmo, you will be chopped at the waist; if you have 1 taels of Tanmo, you will be killed; if you have 10 taels of Tanmo, you will be copied and chopped; if you have a million taels of Tanmo, you will be exterminated from the nine clans."

"This decree, write it into the Great Ming Law Code!"

Zhu Qizhen's face became more and more gloomy.

These corrupt officials are really damned, they have been corrupted for nearly ten years' tax revenue of the Ming Empire!

Zhu Qizhen was furious, and his majestic voice echoed in the Meridian Gate, breathtaking.

Civil and military officials knelt down on the ground, trembling all over.

Cao Zhengchun secretly investigated corruption and was ruthless. Tens of thousands of people have been punished in this large-scale cleansing, which has already caused a major earthquake in the officialdom, but after all, the Beijing officials have not been investigated and dealt with.

Now that His Majesty has issued an order, is this going to launch an anti-corruption storm in the capital?

Civil and military officials looked at each other!

"Disperse!"

Zhu Qizhen was so angry that he left in a huff.

Watching the emperor's back going away, many officials' feet were weak, and when they stood up and wanted to leave, they almost fell to the ground like a puddle of mud.

The emperor killed foreign officials, but they were already frightened, the central ministers were restless, like thorns on their backs.

In their view, today's emperor is more decisive than the former emperor Zhu Zhanji. He is not afraid of infamy and dares to kill civil servants. He is a young hero who is not afraid of being stained with blood.

In the eyes of literati, perhaps, this is a tyrant at all!

……

In the evening, the Compassion Palace.

"Excuse me, Queen Mother, is there something important to call son-in-law here?"

Zhu Qizhen came to the Palace of Compassion and Peace, and greeted Empress Dowager Sun.

"Ai's family asks you, in the past three months, Ai's family has heard from the eunuchs of the Qianqing Palace that His Majesty often reviews memorials until late at night. Is this true?"

Empress Dowager Sun took Zhu Qizhen's hand and asked with concern.

"After Qi reported to my mother, it is a troubled time. First, there were wara soldiers who invaded Datong, and now they have to investigate and deal with corrupt officials all over the world, clean up the government, and also measure the world's land and reform the tax system... Inside and outside the government, there are complicated government affairs. The minister only hates the lack of skills in avatars."

Zhu Qizhen was deeply moved.

Being an emperor is still very tiring.Especially wanting to be a wise emperor is even more tiring.

"Emperor, before your father was alive, he had to do everything by himself. He was too tired. In just a few years, his body collapsed, so he died young."

Empress Dowager Sun sighed softly, the sadness in her tone could not be concealed.

"Listen to what your mother said, don't work so hard. As an emperor, you have ministers, a cabinet, an east factory, and a west factory. You don't have to worry about everything, you have to do everything yourself."

"Otherwise, raising such a large group of courtiers, is it to let them eat dry food?"

Empress Dowager Sun felt sorry for her son and kept teaching him.