Chapter 183

Zhu Yijun stood up and, in the end, did not tell Zhang Siwei his disposal result, just to let Zhang Siwei die in ignorance.

Zhu Yijun returned to the side hall of the Wenhua Hall, thinking over and over again. On a balance, he kept putting weights on it. He picked up the last and largest weight. In his eyes, this weight was Zhang Juzheng's reputation. He put the weight on the balance, and the balance tilted significantly.

No matter how Zhang Juzheng cut himself off from the historical process of the Great Ming, he was highly bound to the new policies, and his party members were all over the world.

Zhu Yijun's final choice was still the Great Ming.

The Emperor sent Feng Bao to the Ministry of Justice to announce the decree.

The Emperor's final result was to imitate the old case of Wang Jinglong, sending Zhang Siwei and the other 24 culprits to the Jiekuyuan, and interrogating the remaining families clearly. Those who were innocent were all exiled to Lu Song. Throughout the Ming Dynasty, their descendants were not allowed to participate in the imperial examinations and would never be recorded. He adopted Yin Zhengmao's suggestion, increasing the punishment for the principal offenders and reducing the punishment for the families.

Before Yin Zhengmao's five-masted ocean-crossing ship left, a total of 1,200 exiled culprits were all sent on board, heading towards Lu Song.

The remaining five hundred or so still had to be sentenced to beheading.

Even though Zhu Yijun had already been lenient once, there were still more than five hundred people who needed to be questioned by Xu Xing and beheaded together.

Zhu Yijun's disposal was very fast, so fast that Zhang Juzheng did not have time to see the Emperor, and the culprits had already been sent out of the capital. Wang Chonggu, Lu Diaoyang, and others persuaded Zhang Juzheng not to remonstrate again. This was the result of the Emperor's repeated weighing.

For the families of Zhang Siwei, Wu Dui, Fang Fengshi, and others, for Zhang Juzheng, for the court officials, and for the Great Ming, this might be the best result.

Zhang Siwei, Wu Dui, Fang Fengshi, and the other 24 accomplices were all sent to the Jiekuyuan.

The memorials Zhu Yijun received showed that the court officials finally stopped discussing the Zhang Siwei case. There were not even many memorials blindly venerating the ancient and the three generations, which made Zhu Yijun feel very strange. He had questions, so naturally, he had to ask.

When they were shouting opposition every day, the young Emperor felt the court officials were noisy. When the court officials stopped shouting, Zhu Yijun suspected they were harboring evil intentions.

And Zhu Yijun got an answer that was not an answer from Wang Chonggu: if the punishment is not known, the power is unfathomable.

The name of the punishment should not be too clear. Power is at its most unfathomable when it is not used. Exterminating three degrees of kinship, nine degrees of kinship, and collective punishment has a great deterrent effect. Its greatest deterrent is when it is not used.

The relatives of Zhang Siwei, Wu Dui, and Fang Fengshi are the tacit lines between the Emperor and the court officials. It is conceivable that if a similar case really happens again, these relatives will all lose their lives. And the Emperor not taking action means he holds the initiative completely in his own hands.

This answer from Wang Chonggu can answer some questions and can be considered an unexpected joy of this case.

While Zhu Yijun was still busy questioning the five hundred or so culprits, a memorial entered the capital, directly exploding the entire capital!

Countless people were discussing it.

The leader of the literary world, Yunyang Governor Wang Shizhen, submitted a memorial impeaching Zhang Juzheng for indulging in illegal acts. A student of Jiangling County beat the Jiangling County Magistrate Li Yingchen, and the mastermind behind beating the court official was Zhang Juzheng's brother-in-law, Wang Hua.

This immediately made the court noisy and lively!

The specific conflict and process, according to Wang Shizhen's memorial, were as follows.

Zhang Juzheng demanded that Huguang local land measurement and return of land be carried out. Jiangling Magistrate Li Yingchen strictly implemented the land measurement order, presided over the land clearing in Jiangling, and announced the farmland. Local student Xu Shiyan was unconvinced and beat the drum to complain. Li Yingchen held a trial, re-checked Xu's farmland, and took yamen runners to measure it again, which was exactly the same.

Xu Shiyan made a scene in the courtroom, and Li Yingchen sent Xu Shiyan back to the county school. This matter should have ended here.

But the next day, Xu Shiyan made a scene in the courtroom again, and Li Yingchen sent yamen runners to send the student back to the school again.

On the fourth day, Magistrate Li Yingchen went out and was surrounded by students and beaten up.

Li Yingchen reported to Yunyang Governor Wang Shizhen. Wang Shizhen arrested all the students who caused trouble. This arrest was not a trivial matter. It was discovered that among the students who beat the court official, there was Zhang Juzheng's brother-in-law, Wang Hua. This case was immediately presented to the court.

The content of the memorial was basically that Zhang Juzheng demanded land measurement on the surface, but did not let the court measure his own family's farmland. What is this if not seeking personal gain? Indulging family members in illegal acts, the evidence is ironclad.

"Teacher, what is going on? Can your brother-in-law fly?" Zhu Yijun looked at the content of the memorial and said, slightly puzzled.

"I truly do not know. Wang Hua is indeed my brother-in-law, but this case is definitely not done by my brother-in-law. I will wait until I have investigated it clearly before reporting to Your Majesty." Zhang Juzheng was also a bit confused. He didn't know what had happened. The order for land measurement was given by him, and Jiangling Magistrate Li Yingchen was his disciple.

Before Li Yingchen measured the land, he specially asked him, and he gave a very clear answer: treat everyone equally.

How did this happen?

Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said: "Bring everyone to the capital for questioning."

"I obey the decree." Zhang Juzheng was silent for a moment and left to obey the decree.

When a powerful minister's family beats a local official, the best way to deal with this is to turn a big matter into a small one and a small matter into nothing. Wang Shizhen, as Zhang Juzheng's fellow examinee, still had the ability to help with this little favor.

Zhang Juzheng and Wang Shizhen had a very good personal relationship. There were as many as fifteen letters between Zhang Juzheng and Wang Shizhen.

But ever since Zhang Juzheng governed, he refused to let Wang Shizhen work in the Hanlin Academy, but let him be a governor outside. Wang Shizhen became more and more dissatisfied. The earthquake in Yunyang, Wang Shizhen's memorial on the earthquake, attributed the cause of the earthquake to the power of ministers, which officially severed their relationship.

Wang Shizhen's grandfather was Wang Zhuo, a famous minister during the Chenghua, Hongzhi, and Zhengde years, who served as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of War. Wang Shizhen's father, Wang Yu, served as the Governor of Jiliao during the Jiajing years. The defense area of the Governor of Jiliao included the capital, Northern Zhili, and Liaodong. Wang Shizhen could be said to be noble for generations, a family of officials, and thought highly of himself.

And Zhang Juzheng's father failed the provincial examination seven times and was a famous old scholar in the ten miles and eight villages.

The gap between the two was very large, but before Zhang Juzheng governed, their relationship was still quite good. Wang Shizhen even celebrated Zhang Juzheng's mother's birthday. But as Zhang Juzheng governed, their status became disparate, and their relationship was no longer close.

Of course, there was still some sentiment left. Zhang Juzheng asked Wang Shizhen to turn a big matter into a small one and a small matter into nothing, and this case would have been fooled away.

But Zhu Yijun insisted on bringing this case to the capital for questioning, and it immediately became different.

On one side is a court official executing court policies and being beaten by students, and on the other side is Zhang Juzheng's brother-in-law being a participant. Zhu Yijun really wanted to see what happened.

This way of handling exceeded everyone's expectations. Logically speaking, Zhang Juzheng was not in Jiangling, and he didn't know what happened specifically. It was so rash to transfer the local case to the Northern Embroidered Uniform Guard. If it was really Wang Hua who refused to measure the land and gathered students to beat the court official, how could Zhang Juzheng get off the stage?

But Zhang Juzheng actually agreed directly, leaving the court officials at a loss.

When there were undercurrents in the court, the Embroidered Uniform Guard Commander Zhao Mengyou sent fifty cavalrymen to Yunyang to propose that the culprits be brought to the capital for questioning.

The court officials' response to writing to Wang Shizhen was already very fast, but the Embroidered Uniform Guard's speed was even faster. The court officials' letters had not yet reached Yunyang, and the Embroidered Uniform Guard had already arrived in Yunyang, wanting to bring all the culprits back to the capital.

Wang Shizhen was also a bit confused. He never expected that the court would handle it like this. The Embroidered Uniform Guard asked for the culprits, and Wang Shizhen was overjoyed. His memorial was just a shot in the dark, but it attracted the court's attention. He hurriedly handed over all the culprits.

The culprits were still in prison. All the culprits were tied to the backs of horses, and the Embroidered Uniform Guard rushed back to the capital.

When the Embroidered Uniform Guard left, the letters written by the court officials to Wang Shizhen had just arrived in Yunyang. Wang Shizhen only then knew that the Emperor had issued the decree himself, and he was truly overjoyed. Wang Shizhen thought that the young Emperor was finally going to move against Zhang Juzheng, so he accepted the impeachment and wanted to turn this small case into a major one.

The "skinning and exposing the bones" technique finally succeeded! Zhang Juzheng was finally going to fall!

The credit for bringing down Zhang will fall into his, Wang Shizhen's, hands!

The Embroidered Uniform Guard spent twelve days going back and forth, returned to the capital, and sent all the students who were shaken to pieces into the prison.

Zhu Yijun came to the Northern Embroidered Uniform Guard Yamen with the Grand Secretary. Zhao Mengyou interrogated the case. The Minister of the Grand Court of Revision Lu Guangzu, the Minister of Justice Wang Chonggu, and the Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate Ge Shouli and Hai Rui were all present for the joint trial of the three judicial offices.

The case is really not complicated. It is that the court wants to measure the land, and the local gentry are very dissatisfied with the results of the land measurement. Students are students, and the county government dare not do anything to the students, so they drummed up the students to make trouble.

"Are you the Grand Secretary's brother-in-law?" Zhao Mengyou looked at the culprit Wang Hua in front of him, who looked like a thief, and asked curiously.

"Yes! I am a disciple of the Jiangling Wang clan, Wang Hua, the younger brother of the Grand Secretary's second wife, Wang. I tell you, you'd better let me go immediately, otherwise you will look good! My brother-in-law is the Great Ming's Grand Secretary!" Wang Hua was full of confidence and roared in the courtroom.

Zhao Mengyou shook his head and said: "Bring the witness."

A person walked out from the back hall, bowed and said: "I have seen the Embroidered Uniform Guard Commander, and all the officials. In the 2nd year of Wanli, I entered the capital with my sister."

"At that time, the Emperor issued a decree for my brother-in-law to pick up my uncle and aunt to enter the capital, and my sister brought me to the capital to study. Now I am studying at the Quanchu Guild Hall, and I have been studying for two years. This year, I plan to take the provincial examination in the autumn, and I have already signed up."

Wang Hua was indeed in the Jiangling County Government in the 2nd year of Wanli, but in the 2nd year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun issued an edict for Zhang Juzheng's father to enter the capital on the grounds of seeing the elders, and then kept Zhang Juzheng's parents in the capital for leisure. Zhang Juzheng's second wife, Wang, was originally serving her parents-in-law in Jiangling. After her parents-in-law entered the capital, Wang also came to the capital together.

This Wang Hua also followed his sister to the capital, studied at the family school of the Quanchu Guild Hall, and also signed up to participate in the imperial examination.

Zhu Yijun laughed directly.

The true and false Monkey King, which one is the real Wang Hua?

"You are talking nonsense! I am the real Wang Hua!" Jiangling Wang Hua said angrily: "I want to see my brother-in-law! I must tell my brother-in-law! Someone is impersonating me!"

Beijing Wang Hua bowed again and said: "I am studying at the family school of the Quanchu Guild Hall. My classmates and teachers at the family school can testify. I have also participated in poetry gatherings, and the students at the poetry gatherings can testify. When the Emperor visited the Quanchu Guild Hall last time, he also saw me."

Jiangling Wang Hua pointed at Beijing Wang Hua, his hands shaking violently, and shouted hysterically: "Wait until my brother-in-law arrives, you will all die! I tell you, I am the real Wang Hua. Do I still need to prove that I am Wang Hua!"

"Unreasonable!"

Zhang Juzheng, who was behind the screen, was stunned. How did he have two brothers-in-law?!

Zhang Juzheng walked out, looked at Jiangling Wang Hua, and said with a smile: "Oh, are you really the Grand Secretary's brother-in-law? Do you have any evidence?"

"Do I still need to prove that I am myself? Ridiculous! Wait until I see my brother-in-law, I will make you look good!" Jiangling Wang Hua was still clamoring.

Beijing Wang Hua bowed and said: "Brother-in-law."

"I have seen the Grand Secretary." Several officials bowed again.

"Are you my brother-in-law?" Jiangling Wang Hua said blankly.

"Uh, I am Zhang Juzheng, but I am not your brother-in-law. He is your brother-in-law, and you are my brother-in-law. Do I need to prove that I am myself?" Zhang Juzheng was not angry and explained.

Beijing Wang Hua had been in the capital for two years. Zhu Yijun went to the Quanchu Guild Hall for a meal and even saw Beijing Wang Hua once. How could this be fake?

"Where is my sister? I want to see my sister!" Jiangling Wang Hua roared loudly.

Zhang Juzheng finally noticed something wrong and asked: "Why do you say your sister married me? I have never seen you."

After detailed questioning, Zhang Juzheng understood what was going on. Jiangling Wang Hua's sister was sold by his father, who lied to him that she had married the famous Jiangling person Zhang Juzheng, and then bought him a student status, telling him to study hard. Jiangling Wang Hua had been claiming to be the Grand Secretary's brother-in-law for more than two years.

Zhang Juzheng took his brother-in-law back behind the screen.

Zhu Yijun said with great emotion: "As the saying goes, when the false is taken for the true, the true becomes false; where there is nothing, the nothing becomes something."

"I heard that there are brokers who impersonate the relatives of officials and go around cheating. Seeing it today, it is indeed like this."

This kind of trick is not rare in later generations. They set up a posture in the local area, using various rhetoric to show that they have a big background, a hard backing, and wide connections. Not only were small officials cheated, but even the Left and Right Administration Commissioners of Yunnan could be cheated.

These brokers let the high-level local officials who have been trapped stand for them, attract more officials to approach, and continuously form circles to seek personal gain.

The soil for this kind of liar is the officials who are mentally calcium-deficient. These officials who are used to kneeling deeply believe in unspoken rules and scramble to treat the brokers as capable people and deliberately cling to them.

The existence of this kind of liar is mainly because the Great Ming's indulgence has become a common practice, causing unspoken rules to be greater than surface rules.

Jiangling Magistrate, Huguang Administration Commission, Surveillance Commission, Yunyang Governor Wang Shizhen, etc., as long as they asked Zhang Juzheng slightly, the situation would be clear, but this kind of thing is really hard to ask.

"At first, I thought Wang Shizhen wanted to use the beating of court officials by the Grand Secretary's brother-in-law to drum up the Zhang Siwei case. It seems that Wang Shizhen is just purely stupid." Zhu Yijun stood up and intended to leave.

The relatives of Zhang Siwei were punished collectively, and the court was discussing it. Wang Shizhen used Zhang Juzheng's brother-in-law's crime to make a fuss to persuade the Emperor to practice benevolent government and not involve a wide range of people. This guess is reasonable.

But after a long time, Wang Shizhen was not that powerful. He just thought he had caught Zhang Juzheng's handle and made a big fuss.

Since Zhu Yijun had already asked about this case, there would naturally be a decree. After the trial by the three judicial offices, on the 13th day of the seventh month, Zhu Yijun issued a decree: students gathering to beat officials is a great damage to the law and discipline. Order the relevant departments to investigate the prison thoroughly, and do not be lenient. The Great Ming Law clearly stipulates it, and I dare not violate it.

According to the Great Ming Law, anyone who gathers people for matters, beats or binds the officials in charge and public servants, tax collectors, etc., will be punished regardless of whether they are the principal or the accomplice. Those belonging to the military guards will be sent to the extreme border to serve in the army; those belonging to the government offices will be sent outside the border to be civilians.

All these students will be exiled to the extreme border, and the place of exile chosen in the end is Danning Wei, which is currently short of people.

On the 15th day of the seventh month, the ghost knocked on the door. Zhang Siwei and the other 24 principal culprits had been sent to the Jiekuyuan, and the remaining 517 were beheaded to show the public.

Those exiled to Lu Song were all family members and party members who had no crimes, such as Zhang Siwei's concubines, outside mistresses, and their families. The scope of exterminating three degrees of kinship was really too large, so large that even the relatives of the outside mistresses could not be spared. More than 1,200 people were exiled to Lu Song, and none of them participated in Zhang Siwei's business and case.

And those five hundred or so were all involved in the smuggling to Altan Khan, especially the smuggling of various firearms and gunpowder, all of which were sentenced to beheading.

This even included Wang Chonggu's cousin Wang Chongya, the provincial examination champion of Shanxi in the 28th year of Jiajing, a scholar in the 32nd year of Jiajing, and Assistant Commissioner of the Shaanxi Surveillance Commission. This time, he was also on the list of beheadings. Wang Chonggu personally supervised the execution and destroyed his relatives for justice.

Zhu Yijun personally supervised the execution and came to the Meridian Gate. Waiting until the noon time, Zhu Yijun looked at the long execution ground and said to Feng Bao: "Take it."

Take it, take their heads.

The little eunuch passed the heavenly decree to the Meridian Gate. Three hundred and twenty great Han generals held the hook-sickle spears in their hands and shouted: "Take it!"

Wang Chonggu was slightly dazed and signaled the executioners to start the execution.

The executioners took out the bone-prying knives, inserted them into the necks of the culprits, twisted them gently, and with a crack, the spine was pried open. The culprits had already lost the ability to struggle. Then the executioners raised the butcher knives in their hands and fell down fiercely.

Head after head was cut off.

It was truly a river of blood.

This was not the end. The bodies of these culprits would be hung on long poles erected by the Tonghui River, and stone tablets would be buried under the poles, with the crimes of each culprit engraved on them.

Without exception, the crime of these people was "colluding with the Hu people."

In the future, whenever anyone enters the capital and passes by, they will be able to see these long poles, corpses, and stone tablets. This is the end of colluding with the Hu people.

Altan Khan's strength is inseparable from the party members in the northwest. If it were just iron pots, salt, cloth, and tea, Zhu Yijun would never have started a massacre. But these guys sold steel, fire feathers—steel is hundred-refined steel that can be used to make cannons, iron is not iron pots but iron armor, fire is gunpowder, and feathers mean arrows.

These are all items strictly forbidden by the Great Ming to leave the border, all of which were sold to Altan Khan by the Shanxi party in the northwest.

After Zhu Yijun finished supervising the execution, he returned to the side hall of the Wenhua Hall, leaned on the grand master's chair, hummed a little tune, and kept writing and drawing at the large desk.

"Your Majesty, the Grand Secretary is requesting an audience outside the hall." Zhang Hong reported in a low voice.

"Proclaim." Zhu Yijun nodded and said.

"I pay respects to Your Majesty. Is Your Majesty's holy body peaceful?" Zhang Juzheng bowed. Private dialogue does not require great etiquette. This is the privilege Zhu Yijun gave to his close ministers.

"I am peaceful. Teacher, sit." Zhu Yijun finished the picture in his hand.

"Your Majesty, those 1,200 people exiled to Lu Song..." Zhang Juzheng mentioned the family members who had been pardoned again.

"Oh, Teacher is now just like those scholars, sluggish. People have been sent away by me. Does Teacher still want to snatch the Han people from Minister Yin? Minister Yin is the Koxinga!" Zhu Yijun interrupted Zhang Juzheng's spell. He didn't feel it was a grievance. He also saw the river of blood. These five hundred people hanging on the bank of the Tonghui River were enough to achieve the effect of intimidation.

This was not the first time Zhang Juzheng had nagged about this matter. He always felt that the Emperor had been wronged, even if 24 principal offenders were sent to the Jiekuyuan, 517 accomplices were beheaded, and 1,200 family members were exiled.

It was still the Emperor who was wronged.

"Your Majesty." Zhang Juzheng wanted to say more.

"Teacher, the Great Ming is no longer the Great Ming of the Hongwu years. It cannot afford to toss. Emperor Taizu Gao and Emperor Chengzu Wen had to suffer some grievances when they were emperors. In the 19th and 20th years of Yongle, the first and second years of moving to a new home, the three great halls, Qianqing Palace, and Kunning Palace were all burned down. Emperor Chengzu Wen relied on military achievements to win the country." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said.

Could Zhu Yuanzhang suffer grievances when he was emperor? The Duke of Yansheng of Yanzhou entered the capital and played a trick of not paying homage to the court three times. It was only on the fourth time that he arrived in Nanjing. Zhu Yuanzhang did not do anything to the Duke of Yansheng's family and gave the title of Duke of Yansheng to the son of that generation of Duke of Yansheng.

When Zhang Juzheng heard the Emperor say this, he could only stop this topic completely.

The Great Ming Imperial Palace has been burned four times so far. The three great halls, Qianqing Palace, and Kunning Palace are all disaster areas. For the first few times, whether it was heaven's anger or political struggle, Zhang Juzheng could not say well, but this fire burning the palace was indeed man-made.

"Your Majesty, the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Revenue made a budget for the reconstruction of the palace. Why did Your Majesty not approve it? The Minister of Justice is terrified." Zhang Juzheng mentioned the main business.

"It's too expensive. Rebuilding the palace will cost 3 million taels of silver. Or, just forget it." Zhu Yijun didn't want to repair it, nor was he unable to repair it, but it was really a bit expensive.

Zhang Juzheng reminded very tactfully: "Your Majesty, this time 24 families were raided, and more than 4 million taels of silver were raided, which is more than enough."

This is just silver. There are also a large amount of farmland confiscated as official land, some handicraft workshops were also confiscated by the court and belonged to the Ministry of Works, and more than 700 musicians were filled into the Jiaofangsi.

Zhu Yijun took out a table and said: "What is not good to do with more than 3 million taels of silver? If it is used for land measurement, it will definitely be able to clarify the Great Ming's farmland. If it is used for leveling the post roads, it can completely repair the post stations and level the road surface. If it is used for the canal, it can be used for at least ten years."

"The palace will not be repaired. Just leave it like that. Anyway, it can't be seen from the outside that it was burned. Just build two walls to block it. 100 taels of silver is enough."

"I plan to measure land, level post roads, reclaim wasteland, dredge waterways, invest in shipyards, etc., totaling twelve items. Teacher, take a look?"

After Zhang Juzheng finished reading the table made by the Emperor, it was indeed a expenditure table based on the practice of reality. Each item was very clear, with target expectations, supervision, and acceptance.

"Your Majesty, the accounts are not calculated like this. The court has money to do these things." Zhang Juzheng said very earnestly: "Your Majesty, our Great Ming has money now."

Zhu Yijun shook his head again and said: "Teacher doesn't always teach me to be thrifty? Is there anything wrong with this? What the Huangji Hall can do, the Wenhua Hall can also do. I live in the Baoji Division quite well. The Wang Wang Xiyuan is good, surrounded by water on all sides, and only connected by two bridges. Didn't my grandfather live in the Wang Wang Xiyuan for twenty-four years?"

It is precisely because the young Emperor lives in the Wang Wang Xiyuan that Zhang Juzheng is anxious!

That place in the Wang Wang Xiyuan is not suitable for living!

Emperor Shizong lived in the Wang Wang Xiyuan for more than twenty years. The Great Ming's national affairs were increasingly decadent. Even the land measurement that was executed halfway was not done, and the school administration was not managed. Whether it was martial or not, as long as it didn't hit the palace, it was fine. Zhang Juzheng was most worried that the young Emperor would live in the Wang Wang Xiyuan for decades and simply ignore state affairs.

The Emperor is clearly not desperate yet. At such a young age, why live in the Wang Wang Xiyuan?

This palace must be rebuilt! It must be built!

"Your Majesty, inside this palace, a new steel-concrete structure is used. This requires steelmaking, lime burning, and stone lacquer wood grain. If this can be done, then the Great Ming official factory will have one more type of civil engineering factory besides shipyards, wool factories, ordnance factories, and coin casting factories. Your Majesty, in the future, building cities, dredging waterways, leveling and hardening road surfaces, etc., will all be used." Zhang Juzheng argued strongly, how can it not be built!

"Teacher makes sense." Zhu Yijun thought for a while. In order to prevent himself from being whipped in the coffin after death, even if his mausoleum is not large, he must have a steel-concrete outer wall!

"No, no, no." Zhu Yijun waved his hands repeatedly and said: "Teacher is wrong. This leveling of the road surface can also build an industrial chain. Repair the post road from the Beijing Camp to Xifengkou and Danning Wei to Liaodong, and harden the road from the capital to Xuanfu and Datong. This project volume is enough. I was almost led around by Teacher."

"Your Majesty, this palace must be repaired!" Zhang Juzheng directly played an unreasonable card.

It is he, Zhang Juzheng, who is governing. The young Emperor has not yet taken personal charge. If he doesn't agree, he will find the Holy Mother to issue an edict!

"Can it not be repaired?" Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng with wide eyes and asked.

Zhang Juzheng was really not scolding his apprentice. He said helplessly: "Your Majesty, the Huangji Hall is also the face of the court. Li Yashi holds this matter every day and says yin and yang, pointing at the mulberry and scolding the locust, saying Chen Xuehui. This is indeed the Emperor's home, but it is also the face of the court, isn't it?"

"Will I not be scolded for engaging in large-scale civil engineering! I have already been scolded beyond recognition. If I am scolded for engaging in large-scale civil engineering, wouldn't I be a monarch of a perished country?!" Zhu Yijun asked with his hands spread.

"No." Zhang Juzheng said very confidently. The court officials are more anxious than the Emperor. If the wedding is held on the foundation, they will commit collective suicide to apologize.

Zhu Yijun said very confidently: "Then the budget must be reduced."

"Your Majesty, 3.12 million taels is already the limit. The Minister of Revenue has broken three abacuses. It is already the lowest budget." Zhang Juzheng said very confidently: "If it is reduced again, we can only be harsh on the craftsmen."

At first, the budget for rebuilding the palace was 6.5 million taels of silver, which was directly rejected by the Emperor. The national treasury had a total of 7 million taels of silver. If Wang Guoguang didn't take it, Wang Chonggu couldn't take it, and everyone below couldn't take it, right?

Zhu Yijun suspected that the court officials were fooling the Emperor and embezzling huge amounts of money. In fact, Wang Guoguang really didn't calculate too much. He had to remove all the precious wood and other things, which became 3.12 million taels. It really couldn't be reduced anymore.

Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "Then okay, rounding off the zero is always okay, 3 million, no more. Zhang, bring the memorial."

The confrontation between Zhu Yuanzhang and the Duke of Yansheng has been written in detail in the previous book, so I won't write it. Analyze specific things specifically. Those without crimes will be exiled, those with crimes will be beheaded, and the principal offenders will be sent to the Jiekuyuan. The political goal is to realize the cleaning of the party members in the northwest. Ask for monthly tickets, Aowu!!!!!!!!!!!

(End of chapter)