My Daming New Empire

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He turned to Li Liang again and said: "I will find out the six major grain merchants who traded with Ma Qi and all the personnel involved in the transaction. The grain merchants in Ningbo asked Zhu Zhen to seize all the grain shops of the six major grain merchants.

In addition, the grain merchants in Shandong asked Yixin to do it.The grain merchants in Hebei were arrested by Yongkang Hou Xu'an.Where are the grain merchants in Henan from? "

Xu An, Marquis of Yongkang is the son of Xu Zhong, a famous general of Jingnan. His father died of a stroke.

Ma Qi quickly said: "Your Highness, Henan grain merchant Fan Chengxian is from Kaifeng."

"Since there is a water village of the First Fleet of our Navy, let Yu Mengkui, the commander of the Kaifeng Water Village, arrest them. Order, I will arrest all of their families, young and old, and not let a single one go. All family property According to the rules, keep [-]%, and the rest will be turned over to the treasury for confiscation."

"Your Highness, should it be turned over to the national treasury or the internal treasury?"

"If you don't give those civil servants some benefits, do you think they won't shout?"

The treasury is given to the Ministry of Households, which means that the court has an extra fund that can be used.But if it enters the inner treasury, it will become the private property of the royal family.

Zhu Zhanji doesn't care about these petty profits. In his opinion, the Ming royal family has occupied too much funds.

The imperial court had no money for disaster relief, so Zhu Di often opened the inner treasury "generously" and took out money for disaster relief.It sounds like the common people are thinking of the good of the emperor, but in fact, this is a great waste of resources.

The royal family has monopolized all the commercial activities of Ming Dynasty, the internal treasury is full of oil, and the national treasury is empty. Even if Zhu Zhanji is the future emperor, he sometimes feels that he can't see it.

In addition to the real objects, Zhu Zhanji is not going to put the silver in the warehouse anymore. Since the two banks are controlled by the royal family, it is better to put it directly in the bank, which will play a greater role.

Li Liang was about to go to Xie Jin to write the grandson's decree, walked to the door, turned around and asked, "Your Highness, what happens after you are arrested?"

Zhu Zhanji thought for a while and said: "I will be detained on the spot first. After the trial of the case, the principal culprit will be executed. Each family member will be given 500 taels of silver, and all will be exiled to Beihai to herd sheep."

Such restless people, Zhu Zhanji is still not at ease exile them overseas, and the future prisoners are mainly sent to the north.

Each family left some property for them to prepare for the winter, and it was up to them whether they could survive.

Anyway, the north is vast and sparsely populated, so people are needed to supplement them, and they are not afraid of their rebellion.

After Li Liang left, Zhu Zhanji said to Sun Lin of the Counseling Department: "Put Ma Qi in the inner prison, but don't treat him harshly. A pot of wine and a serving of meat and vegetables every day until the case is over."

Ma Qi knelt down and kowtowed, "Thank you Your Highness for your pity..."

Seeing his rejoicing appearance, Zhu Zhanji sneered secretly in his heart. When the case is over, the use value is over, and it is time to "go on the road".

Now that it is at the juncture of "reign change", the eunuchs in this palace have formed a huge force. If he wants to make everyone return to his heart, how can he let go of this opportunity to kill chickens and scare monkeys.

Ma Qi was escorted out again, Zhu Zhanji got up and stretched. "Liu Wan, go and order Liu Chenghui to prepare a meal, and then go see where Grandpa Huang is. After dinner, I want to talk to him."

At this time, Sun Lin also packed up the confession on the table. Suddenly, he froze for a moment, and stopped Zhu Zhanji who was about to leave. "Your Highness."

Zhu Zhanji didn't move, turned his head back and asked, "What's the matter?"

"This Shandong grain merchant's surname is Kong...would it be..."

Zhu Zhanji's body shook, as if a bright lamp was lit, and he suddenly realized.

The Kong family, the Kong family, how could they forget the Kong family!

In later generations, the Kong family has lost their privileges, but in this era, they are the well-deserved first family!

In the Song Dynasty, the Confucius family was granted the title of Yan Shenggong Mansion, but their rank was very low, and they were only honorary official positions.

But in the Yuan Dynasty, Yan Shenggong became a third rank.

In the Ming Dynasty, in order to highlight the Han family, Zhu Yuanzhang named Duke Yansheng the first rank, the head of civil servants.

Although they have not entered the officialdom, their influence in the officialdom is not weak at all. If there is anyone who can bring most of Shandong's government together, they are probably the only ones.

Although Zhu Di has now cut their title of Duke Yansheng, their influence has not disappeared.Moreover, they now have even more reason to "revenge" the court in this way.

Zhu Zhanji turned around, walked to the case a few steps, and picked up the case file of Ma Qi's confession.

Zhu Zhanji didn't care who these six grain merchants were at first, because the status of merchants in this era is very low.

So Zhu Zhanji didn't read the appendix of the confession, but now, he opened the appendix of the confession, and saw clearly that the proprietors of the two grain merchants in Shandong were both surnamed Kong.

This time, the logic of the whole case can be explained, and the attitude of Shandong officials can also be explained.

Even if Zhu Gaosui is willing to stand out, the Kong family may have played some role in the back.

Although Zhu Zhanji thought about how to treat the Confucian family in the future, how to turn respect for Confucianism into belief, and how to treat Confucius differently from the Confucian family.

But he didn't expect that before he started supervising the country, he would run into the Kong family.

He stared at the names of the two for a long while before saying, "The plan remains the same!"

Sun Lin, who was always sinister and vicious, trembled at this moment, and said in a trembling voice, "Your Highness, this is the Kong family!"

Zhu Zhanji sneered and said: "Confucius is Confucius, and the Confucian family is the Confucian family. It is impossible for one person to let the children and grandchildren lie on the merits of their ancestors to enjoy the blessings. Also, the Confucian family is noble. Shang is definitely not the main branch, do you still have to worry about the two side branches? I want to see if they will come to compete with me for the two side branches!"

Sun Lin thought about it too. With the family background of the Kong family, even if he was doing business, he would only let the side branch take the lead. He didn't have to worry too much about dealing with the two side branches.

When Zhu Zhanji came to the door, Li Liang's assistant Tao Chang quickly put the cloak on his shoulders for him.He is also a rare tall man in this era. It may be for this reason that he was selected by Li Liang to serve Zhu Zhanji up close.

Zhu Zhanji did not participate in the open and secret fight between Li Liang and Liu Wan. It would be better for them to have some conflicts. If they were all of one mind, Zhu Zhanji would be worried that they would unite to deceive him.

Liu Chenghui went to the West with Zhu Zhanji for three years.When he was away, even though Ma Xin had a higher status, Liu Chenghui was put in charge at the beginning because of his young age, and she was kept in charge for the next three years.

In some respects, she is very similar to Gracia, his wife in the previous life. She not only doesn't care about Zhu Zhanji's lust, but even helps him to abuse him.

Moreover, she is tall, knows medical skills, can afford it, can put it down, and can really help Zhu Zhanji solve many trivial matters, and no concubine in the palace dares to bully her.

No one dared to say that there would be no problems with their bodies, not to mention that there were children and there was a female doctor by their side, so they felt much more at ease.

Although her status is low, she has a lot of power in the palace because she helps Zhu Zhanji manage a group of women from various countries.

When she came back from Western Ocean, she was already pregnant. She was a little later than Ma Xin and the other two concubines, and she was only six months old now.

With two traitors around, Sun Xian naturally knew what she was doing along the way.

Originally, she wanted to put on airs as a grandson concubine in front of her, but she was pregnant, and Sun Xian didn't dare to do small tricks. According to Zhu Zhanji's instructions, he arranged three side halls in Yongfu Palace.

Because Zhu Zhanji has many concubines, the general Chenghui only has two rooms, and it is Liang Yuan's treatment to arrange three rooms for her.

Although she has been pregnant for six months, she is 1.8 meters tall and her belly is not obvious, which does not affect her actions.

Seeing Zhu Zhanji, she helped Zhu Zhanji take off the cloak and said: "Your Highness is late for dinner again today. I have a dragon seed in my body, but I dare not treat you slowly. I have already used the dinner, but now I can't accompany Your Highness." Let's eat together."

"It's okay. It's the first time I've been in your room when I came back from Xiyang. It would be nice to have you talking with me."

Liu Chenghui is not allowed to go to bed when she is pregnant. Although Zhu Zhanji came to her room for dinner today, he would not stay here to sleep.

The two sat together, Zhu Zhanji was eating, and she was talking about the recent training situation.