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Chapter 1220 The unwillingness of Empress Dowager Qian of Xiaozhuang (End-Part 2)

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    This time Emperor Hongzhi fell into coma again.

    Even the imperial doctor can do nothing.

    Although Qiao Mu is capable, she is not willing to help. She is already eighty years old. If Emperor Hongzhi is allowed to live for another thirty or forty years, what else will she do? He is dead now, and she still has time to follow him.  Together with Zhu Houzhao for another thirty or forty years, we can bring back a clear sky, sun and moon to the Ming Dynasty.

    She has had enough.

    I don¡¯t want to continue to suffer any longer.

    Because Qiao Mu did not help and the imperial doctor could do nothing, Emperor Hongzhi could not change his fate this time. After relying on century-old ginseng for three days, he was still unable to save his life.

    When he ascends to heaven and dies, he will mourn the founding of the country.

    Although Empress Zhang cannot be regarded as the direct murderer, everyone understands that the death of Emperor Hongzhi is closely related to her. If it were not for her, Emperor Hongzhi might not have died at all.

    Therefore, even if the ministers and Zhu Houzhao could not punish her, they were not willing to let her preside over the funeral.

    ¡°If it weren¡¯t for the worry that she wouldn¡¯t show up, the officials and clan would discuss it, which would bring bad reputation to the royal family.

    Zhu Houzhao even wanted to imprison her in Kunning Palace and prevent her from coming out to attend the funeral of the late emperor.

    Empress Zhang cannot preside over the funeral, and the Queen Mother has no sense of presence, so the specific work naturally has to be done by Qiao Mu. Fortunately, this is not the first time Qiao Mu has done this kind of thing, nor is it the first time he has participated, so he is skilled  Very quickly, the funeral of Emperor Hongzhi was completed according to the rules.

    And after Emperor Zhengde officially ascended the throne.

    Went back to Yuling again.

    Of course, Qiao Mu is just a person, and her thoughts and further plans have been left to Zhu Houzhao. However, because Zhu Houzhao has just ascended the throne and is not very old at the same time, the ministers have not allowed him to directly take charge of the government, so he has not been able to do so for the time being.  He made some moves, but it was only a matter of time before he took charge, and Qiao Mu had already left him enough power. As long as he could successfully control those forces, even if the ministers did not let him take charge, he could quickly get rid of those ministers.

    In the first one or two years, Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao did not do anything extra. He even behaved very obediently and listened to the words of his ministers.

    Of course, this is on the surface.

    Privately, Zhu Houzhao has been secretly using the power given to him by Qiao Mu to collect illegal and criminal facts of the ministers and nobles of the DPRK, and is also secretly training people who can replace these ministers, so as to avoid executing these people and leaving the court empty.

    This kind of life lasted for three years.

    It was not until three years later that Zhu Houzhao officially took over the government at the age of eighteen, and completely mastered the part that Qiao Mu had given him, which he had transformed into the hidden force of the Imperial Guards and the Forbidden Army.

    Only then did he officially take action against all officials in the DPRK.

    It was during the imperial meeting that year that officials from all over the country who had reached a certain level needed to return to Beijing to report on their duties, so we began to liquidate them.

    This is also done to save trouble.

    It saves you having to arrest them one by one and interrogate them one by one.

    It¡¯s so convenient to have one nest.

    ¡°And before taking action, he also specifically abolished the provisions on corruption and spending money to atone in the sentencing regulations promulgated by his father in advance.

    The Ming Law was moved out again.

    Then, in the midst of the commotion in which the ministers in the court said that they could not violate the will of the late emperor and that the benevolence and justice of the late emperor could not be destroyed, he called the commander of the Jinyiwei to come up and asked the commander of the Jinyiwei to stand in front of him and face all the ministers in the court.

    Read out everyone¡¯s charges.

    That¡¯s right, everyone¡¯s charges were read out.

    The ministers who can stand in the court for meetings are all officials of fifth rank or above, and they basically have some real power. In addition, the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty is relatively low, so it is difficult for these officials not to be greedy.

    After such a reading, none of the nearly a thousand officials in the court had a clean foundation.

    However, Zhu Houzhao did not kill them all.

    He treated those officials who had less corruption and whose amount of corruption could only support the official's daily life and did not reach the level of luxury, let them go lightly for the time being, and asked the Jin Yiwei personnel to take them aside first.  .

    Then he started to attack the others.

    "For those officials who embezzle more than ten thousand taels of silver at every turn, seize thousands of hectares of people's land, or who have not done much illegal things themselves, but have been indulging their families and even their tribesmen to do illegal things.

    Get them all

    Or have their homes confiscated and exiled.

    Or copy it??Beheading.

    As for whether it is exile or beheading, it depends on whether they have any lives on their hands.

    But in the final analysis, most of them were beheaded, and only a few were exiled. After all, land is life these days. How could these officials wantonly carry out land annexation without causing any loss of life, so naturally the majority of them were beheaded.

    This is a great purge of the court.

    It is no different than a gentry earthquake.

    I don¡¯t know how many Jiangnan literati families cursed at this, wrote poems and cursed, and cursed the emperor. However, it turned out that it was too early for them to curse at this time, because the second thing Zhu Houzhao did after cleaning up the court was to reduce agricultural taxes.  Various taxes such as Ding tax and Ding tax were imposed, and one-tenth of the commercial tax was levied and all tax-free privileges were cancelled.

    ¡°If his previous behavior only offended some officials and their families and friends, then his behavior this time will undoubtedly offend most of the vested interests in the entire Ming Dynasty.

    This matter has become a big deal.

    For a time, everywhere fell into chaos.

    The nobles and nobles in the DPRK began to feel restless.

    There are even some businessmen who have joined forces to resist the introduction of commercial taxes by not selling anything.

    At this time, Qiao Mu¡¯s previous layout came into effect. After forty years of development, the chambers of commerce she built had already become behemoths. They even occupied half of the entire Ming Dynasty¡¯s industrial and commercial business.

    It¡¯s just that I have never been able to become an oligarch.

    The combination of those merchants undoubtedly gave Qiao Mu an opportunity. When others stopped selling things, she not only sold things normally, but also offered discounts. Naturally, the remaining part of the market that was difficult to capture was instantly  It collapsed and was swallowed up by the Arbor Whale. By the time those businessmen reacted, their market share had shrunk by more than half again.

    It was at this time that Qiao Mu handed over all the commercial power in his hands to Zhu Houzhao, asking him to transform these commercial powers into state-owned institutions to stabilize and regulate national commerce so that businessmen would not dare to make any more mistakes.

    In the past, they dared to unite and not sell things because they thought they could unite most people. But now the largest commercial organization is in the hands of the emperor. If they don't sell anything, they will have to bear the price of rapidly shrinking market share.

    How can they bear this?

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