"A bunch of borers...shameless...shameless..."

Zhu Youxiao's roaring voice rang in the imperial study room.

Zhu Youxiao, who had changed his gentle temper in the past, pointed at Guo Yunhou, who was kneeling on the ground and scolded angrily: "I have been ascending the throne for nine years. I thought I had never seen most of the things in this world with my own eyes, at least I had heard of them. But what I saw and heard today was beyond my understanding. Guo Yunhou, you are the Minister of Revenue!

Sweat continued to seep out from Guo Yunhou's forehead, kneeling on the ground, and the robe on his body had already been wet with sweat. At this time, he no longer expected the emperor to spare him.

He took a deep breath, reached out and took off the black hat on his head, raised his hands high, and cried, "Your Majesty, I know that the situation is not good, I have to bear the holy grace. I ask Your Majesty to punish you."

"Punishment?"

Zhu Youxiao sneered, ignored the black hat in his hand, and said coldly: "Your black hat will naturally not be able to be saved, but before taking off your black hat, I also want you to take off the black hats of a group of people!"

Guo Yunhou's already bitter face turned pale in an instant, and he knew what Zhu Youxiao was talking about.

His black hat would definitely not be able to be saved, but before he was dismissed, he would have to be a villain and to remove all the officials of the Ministry of Revenue who had corrupted the money. This would make the matter serious.

In the feudal era, the favorite thing that officials liked to do was to keep warm.

As the saying goes, fellow townsmen, in the same year, whenever something happens to a colleague, as long as it does not endanger their own interests, officials will always take care of each other unconsciously. This is also a hidden rule.

Now Zhu Youxiao asked Guo Yunhou to get out of here before he found out all the officials who had received benefits from the Ministry of Revenue. This pushed Guo Yunhou to the opposite side of all the officials of the Ministry of Revenue, which was equivalent to just taking on hatred with many officials of the Ministry of Revenue. This is a very bad thing for an official.

Seeing Guo Yunhou kneeling on the ground without saying a word, Zhu Youzhao's gloomy voice sounded: "What, what's the problem with Guo Qing? If Guo Qing doesn't want to do it, I won't make things difficult for you. I will let Dali Temple and the Censorate do it later."

Guo Yunhou didn't understand what Zhu Youxiao meant when he heard this. If he was unwilling to do it, it would be as simple as losing his post and dismissing him. It was not impossible for speculators or even exiled. In the spirit of a fellow Taoist who died of a dying fellow Taoist, he immediately made a choice.

"It's not difficult... It's not difficult... I'll go back and pull out all the worms, and I'll give Your Majesty an explanation to the court tomorrow."

"Okay... I believe Guo Qing will do this, so you can go now."

"Here... I'm going now."

Looking at Guo Yunhou's rather lonely figure in the cold wind, Gu Bingqian, who had been standing aside and silently, bowed to Zhu Youxiao and said, "Your Majesty, Shangshu Guo has served the imperial court for more than 20 years, and he has no contribution and hard work. The old minister begs Your Majesty to be kind and let him return home with a decent amount."

“Decent?”

Zhu Youxiao sneered at the memorial in his hand and glanced around the faces of Gu Bingqian and the three cabinet masters.

"I can give him decent, but I want to ask you. Who will give decent to the people who are forced to leave their homes and die of hunger and cold in the cold wind?"

"One million taels of silver...one million taels...how did they... dare to give all of these silver? Could it be... don't they know that these silver is life-saving things to those people?

You are all people who read the books of sages. Don’t you often say that the people are the most important to the country and the king is the least? That’s how you treat the people?"

Zhu Youxiao's angry more and more, and in the end he almost sprayed his saliva on the faces of Gu Bingqian and the other two, but the three of them couldn't reply yet, so they could only bite the bullet and take them all.

"In my opinion, Marquis of Jiangning, Xia Dayan, Ding Youwen and others said a lot in the memorial that such corrupt officials are not enough to calm the anger of the people, and not enough to correct the law of the country.

Gu Aiqing, you tell Dali Temple, the Censorate and the Ministry of Justice that any cases involving corruption and ink migration this time must be severely punished. If anyone dares to shelter those corrupt officials, he will be punished with the same crime as those corrupt officials!"

Gu Bingqian looked at Han and Zhu Guozhen with a bitter face. They knew that Zhu Youxiao was really angry with those people this time, otherwise he would not have such a great murderous intention.

Seeing Gu Bingqian and the other two silent, Zhu Youxiao sneered: "Why... do the three dear ministers still want to plead for those corrupt officials?"

Gu Bingqian swallowed, smiled bitterly and bowed: "Your Majesty, those people deserve it, so the old ministers will naturally not ask them to plead for mercy. However, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places were originally quite barren and had limited output. Those local officials probably had never seen you so much money, so..."

Zhu Youxiao interrupted him: "So they can be greedy... can put the silver used by the imperial court to migrate the people into their own pockets, right?"

Hearing this, Gu Bingqian didn't know how to plead, so he could only nod his head bitterly: "Since Your Majesty has made up his mind, the old minister will follow His Majesty's will."

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao's face soothed a little: "Well...then I'll have a good time."

After Gu Bingqian and the other two left Zhu Youxiao, they joined forces to leave the imperial study room and came to the corridor of Wenhua Hall. Han Du could no longer help asking: "Mr. Gu, do we really want to do such a ruthless move?"

Gu Bingqian glanced at him: "What else can you do if you don't take any ruthlessness?"

"This is related to the lives of dozens or even hundreds of people!" Han Dong was a little anxious. Although he has always been known for his selflessness, it was the first time for him to deal with so many officials at once.

"Hundreds of people..." Gu Bingqian snorted: "Why don't you think about the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who were destroyed by them?"

"Well……"

Hearing this, Han Yu was also hoarse.

After a long time, he sighed helplessly: "You can't live if you commit a crime."

With the issuance of Zhu Youjiao's imperial edict and the supervision of the cabinet, the Censorate, the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple immediately formed the Three Divisions to conduct a trial. Under the leadership of Guo Yunhou, dozens of officials involved in the Ministry of Revenue were arrested.

Beijing, Zhengyangmen

In a gorgeous flying fish suit, accompanied by an embroidered spring knife around his waist, Tian Ergeng, who was riding on a horse, looked back at the city wall behind him, turned around and shouted to the hundreds of Jinyiwei behind him.

"Brothers, I won't say much else. I will follow me to Shanxi to do a job. If you do your job well, you will naturally benefit you. It's no problem to get promoted or make a fortune. If you mess up the job, I won't punish you. You can wipe your neck as soon as possible and apologize to Your Majesty. Let's go now..."

"Here!"
Chapter completed!