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- The next day, a group of Jinyi guards broke into the house of Yang Tinghe, the second assistant to the cabinet, arrested Yang Tinghe on the charge of colluding against the king, and took his family members to prison.
The censor of Zuodu personally wrote to Emperor Jiajing, accusing Yang Tinghe of eight major crimes, among which collusion against the king, private release of imperial prisoners, and corruption and bribery were the most serious.
These criminal evidences are all solid evidence, and Yang Tinghe cannot escape even one of them. Among them, the crime of colluding against the king is enough to implicate the nine clans.
Since Yang Tinghe was imprisoned, he has been crying out for injustice. Unfortunately, no one in the court has cried out for him.
Even Li Dongyang, the chief minister of the cabinet who has always favored Yang Tinghe and regarded him as his successor, chose to remain silent, even if he went to court without saying a word.
Yang Tinghe¡¯s case was soon finalized. Yang Tinghe was convicted of nine major crimes. He was executed in the autumn and three tribes were punished. Lin Li used the power of the regent to personally seal the conviction.
When Emperor Jiajing saw Yang Tinghe's crime, all the civil and military officials in the court had no objection and could only nod their heads and agreed to kill him.
However, when the Empress Dowager learned that Yang Ting and Qiu Hou were to be executed, she felt a little unbearable and personally recruited Li Dongyang into the palace, hoping that he would help Yang Ting and intercede for mercy.
It¡¯s just that Li Dongyang claimed to be sick and avoided seeing him!
The Empress Dowager had no choice but to recruit Lin Li into the palace, hoping to save Yang Tinghe's life.
Lin Li did not avoid seeing her, but immediately entered the palace to meet the Empress Dowager.
"King Yue, Master Yang was the late emperor's teacher and the late emperor's minister of Gu Ming. Please see if you can be more generous." The Empress Dowager said to Lin Li politely.
Lin Li looked embarrassed and said: "Yang Tinghe colluded to rebel against the king. The evidence is conclusive. He also secretly released himself to the prison to re-offend Ye Gucheng with the intention of murdering the king. His crime is unforgivable!"
The Empress Dowager said: "Master Yang assisted the late emperor. He had no merit but hard work. He may have been confused for a moment and made a big mistake. The King of Yue is magnanimous. Can he give a light sentence for the sake of the Ai family?"
Lin Li knew that the Empress Dowager saved Yang Tinghe not because she missed her old relationship, but because Yang Tinghe was the minister appointed by the late emperor to contain Lin Li.
"If Yang Tinghe is killed, Li Dongyang pretends to be deaf and mute, and the cabinet is ineffective, the power of the regent Lin Li will probably increase unprecedentedly, and even the emperor will have to look at his face!
"I have already given Yang Tinghe a lenient sentence, otherwise he would be punished for his crime and even the Nine Clans would be punished!" Lin Li never let up!
The Empress Dowager was a little displeased when she saw that she was not able to save her face.
"No one has ever made a mistake, how could the King of Yue not make any mistakes back then!" the Empress Dowager said with a hint.
Lin Li smiled and said, "What the Empress Dowager said was about the time when I framed Gu Santong."
The Empress Dowager was stunned, not expecting Lin Li to bring it up on his own initiative.
Lin Li chuckled and said: "I know that before the late emperor passed away, he gave you the evidence of my crime against Gu Santong!"
The Queen Mother was startled and just about to deny it, she saw Lianxiang, the maid beside her, suddenly take out a wooden box.
The wooden box is the incriminating evidence that Emperor Zhengde kept for the Empress Dowager before his death.
Lian Xiang passed directly over the Empress Dowager and handed it over to Lin Li!
"My bastard, you betrayed the Ai family!" The Empress Dowager was furious and wanted to snatch the wooden box back. Unfortunately, Lin Li shattered the wooden box with one palm, turning the evidence inside into ashes.
"How dare you destroy the late emperor's relics!" The Empress Dowager was furious at Lin Li's behavior.
"The Empress Dowager, you will live your life in the harem from now on, and don't worry about the affairs of the previous dynasty!"
Lin Li stood up and turned to leave. The Empress Dowager wanted to catch up, but two young eunuchs stood in front of her.
"My little noble son, by the order of the regent, serves the Empress Dowager!" The young eunuch lowered his eyebrows, but just stopped the Empress Dowager from taking a step forward.
It was only then that the Empress Dowager discovered that the people in her palace had changed again. None of the old faces who had served her before were gone!
It was only then that the Empress Dowager realized that Lin Li had replaced all the eunuchs and maids in the palace with his own people within half a year.
A deep sense of powerlessness enveloped the Queen Mother, and cold sweat had soaked her back!
Lin Li solved the cabinet and the harem one after another, and completely controlled the power of the Ming Dynasty. Although he was not the emperor, he was better than the emperor.
Next, he relied on the experience of the time traveler to develop the country according to his own understanding. While attaching importance to agriculture, he also vigorously developed industry and commerce.
The merchants headed by Wan Sanqian began to slowly replace the status of the nobles.
Lin Li even issued a number of directives to enhance the status of merchants, liberalize the commercial taxes of the Song Dynasty, and cancel many privileges of the gentry.
The original Ming Dynasty classIn the Ming Dynasty, among the gentry, farmers, industry and commerce, the gentry had the highest status and the merchants had the lowest status. They had to rely on officials, which resulted in the unique status of the gentry class in the Ming Dynasty.
Lin Li improved the status of merchants and opened up commercial taxes. In fact, he was dividing the relationship between nobles and merchants.
Businessmen don¡¯t have to rely on officials, so they naturally won¡¯t rely on them. The contradiction between the two gradually intensifies until they completely break up.
The consequence of the rupture was turmoil, and rebellions broke out in many places in the Ming Dynasty. However, Lin Li was well prepared and sent Wang Shouren, the "firefighter". Wherever there was rebellion, Lin Li sent Wang Shouren and his "vanguard battalion"!
The first ten years of Lin Li¡¯s rule were basically spent in reform and counterinsurgency. Old interest groups were uprooted by Lin Li and new interest groups filled in. In general, Ming Dynasty became stronger in stability.
??Especially military power.
Since the "Tumubao Incident" in the Ming Dynasty, all the noble groups in the army have been wiped out, resulting in a situation where civilians are in charge of the army.
After Lin Li came to power, he consciously cultivated the backbone of the army and weakened the power of civil servants. As Wang Shouren suppressed the rebellion, a large number of loyal and brave people emerged in the Ming army.
Wang Shouren, the "saint", is selfless. Although he is a civil servant and holds military power, he never cares about his origin and always promotes capable people!
While suppressing the rebellion, Wang Shouren also spread his "Xin Xue" to all parts of the country. Slowly, a large number of "Xin Xue scholars" began to gather behind him.
The emergence of "Xin Xue" had an impact on traditional Confucian education. However, Lin Li intended to weaken the gentry class, so he did not ban "Xin Xue". Instead, he vigorously promoted it, causing an impact on both the old and new schools.
In a short period of time, the contradiction between the old and new schools will not be triggered, but Lin Li believes that it will happen in twenty, thirty, or even forty years.
With the growth of "Xin Xue", those "Xin Xue students" will one day face each other at war with traditional Confucian students.
But Lin Li should not be able to see it!
In the second decade of his rule, Lin Li basically purged the Ming Dynasty internally, while cultivating a large number of elite soldiers and mid-level officers.
With the army as his backing, Lin Li began to set his sights north!
In the past few years, although Lin Li's position has become more and more stable, he has gained less and less luck, so he has set his sights on Northern Mongolia, hoping to expand his territory, reap a huge wave of luck, and then leave!
In the eleventh year of Jiajing, Lin Li transferred Wang Shouren, who had been fighting rebellions abroad, back to the capital to serve as Minister of War, and began to plan an expedition to the grasslands to attack Northern Mongolia. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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