It was Liu Yourong, the official in charge of the discipline of the prisoners in the Guozi Prison, who immediately had a headache when he saw the scene in front of him.

In addition to the sacrificial wine, the other officials of the Guozijian were selected from among the people who failed to pass the entrance examination. Once you enter the Guozijian and hold an official position, you can no longer take the Jinshi examination, nor can you hold other official positions.

So in this era, Guozijian has long since lost its size at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. First, the teacher has no way out, so he only eats in the Guozi Prison and waits for death; The second is that it is becoming more and more difficult for prisoners to be judged, resulting in few people being willing to go to this country with many rules to be a prisoner.

In order to keep these prisoners, the prison rules of the Guozijian were relaxed and a little chaotic. Liu Yourong is a good gentleman on weekdays, as long as these prisoners are not too excessive, he will turn a blind eye and let them go.

However, today he received an order from the Ministry of Rites, so that he had to come to find two people to go back, and when he received the news and rushed to the restaurant, he happened to find that the two were fighting in the restaurant.

"You people are really bold, just a few days after the national funeral, you started drinking for fun, do you still know how to write etiquette and shame? Do you really want to get rid of your school status, so that you will be more sober? ”

Liu Yourong rarely scolded several prisoners, making these people start muttering in their hearts, did the prisoner take the wrong medicine today.

After a lecture, Liu Yourong spoke: "Lu Wanling is a sycophant in the middle of the court, Your Majesty has a message, demote him to a third-class prisoner, and he is not allowed to go out for 3 months. Jiaxing Gongsheng Qian Jiazheng criticized the courtiers, demoted him to a second-class prisoner, and was banned from going out for 3 months. There are also a few of you who violated the prison rules and went out of the prison to drink without permission, and went back to receive a fine of ten bamboo grates. Is it all clear? ”

Lu Wanling, who originally thought that Wei Zhongxian would be catastrophic after the fall, suddenly smiled, and he nodded again and again in agreement, as if he was afraid that Liu Yourong would regret it.

And Qian Jiazheng said with a pale face: "Lord Jiancheng, is there anything wrong in this, I am holding a book of loyalty to His Majesty, how can I be a courtier?" It must be the traitorous party of the DPRK and China who deceived the Son of Heaven and forged the holy will, right? ”

Liu Yourong was too lazy to continue to talk nonsense with this student who couldn't get out of the horns, he just said impatiently: "Your Majesty personally refuted your article this morning, saying that you have nothing to say, full of ignorance, and take the gossip on the streets and alleys as the truth. And asked Guozijian how he taught a student like you who did not distinguish between truth and falsehood, and who was so happy with his achievements. For the sake of the two of you, the prisoner of the country has been fired by His Majesty from the sacrificial wine to the instructor, do you still feel that you have been wronged? ”

Liu Yourong paused for a while, watched Qian Jiazheng sit down weakly and did not continue to defend himself, and then continued: "You two can do it yourself." ”

After saying this, he turned and left. Guozijian has successively dismissed officials such as sacrificial wine and priests, and he also wants to go one step further and become a priest.

Liu Yourong left, and several prisoners who accompanied Qian Jiazheng to drink suddenly felt that the future of this Qian Sheng seemed to be not good, so they hurriedly said goodbye and left.

When there were only two people left in the room, Lu Wanling suddenly laughed, and when he saw Qian Jiazheng turn to look over, he said: "I've been worried about it for so many days, for fear that it will really be guessed by you and fall into your hands." It's a pity that God doesn't bless you, Qian Jiazheng. ”

Looking at Lu Wanling's arrogant and smug appearance, Qian Jiazheng just glanced at him resentfully, and then said fiercely: "Lu Wanling, don't be complacent, I think after Wei Zhongxian falls, how long can you be proud, let's see." ”

After Qian Jiazheng finished speaking, he left the room without looking back, leaving Lu Wanling behind him who was smiling proudly.

The aftermath of this court meeting did not end there, and Jiangnan Shilin, who had expected Chongzhen to attack the eunuchs after he ascended the throne, was greatly disappointed in the performance of the new emperor. The bureaucrats who had previously attached themselves to Wei Zhongxian's power breathed a sigh of relief.

Judging from Zhu Youzhen's handling of Wei Zhongxian, everyone felt that Chongzhen was seeking peace in the court, and did not want to raise a big case such as the Donglin Party.

Middle and high-level officials such as Li Kuilong, the left deputy capital imperial history, after sensing Chongzhen's intentions, changed their previous attitude of not daring to do things, and began to clean up the officials who jumped out of their subordinates and wanted to overturn the case for Donglin.

Because of the death of the apocalypse and the accession of the new emperor, the government and government were semi-paralyzed, and finally began to resume operation. The public opinion of the government and the opposition, which was originally vigorous and violent, was quickly suppressed.

After taking control of the twenty-four yamen and factory guards in the palace, Zhu Youzhen finally felt that he had a sense of security in the palace.

The cost accounting of the three major halls was almost half completed, and Li Yongzhen, who presided over the construction of the three major halls, embezzled the project money and accepted bribes from businessmen gradually surfaced. Li Yongzhen was in a hurry, and bribed Wang Tiqian, Tu Wenfu, and Wang Chengen with 150,000 taels of silver, hoping that the three of them could help him cover up the past.

But the three eunuchs turned around and confessed to Zhu Youzhen and handed over the bribe. Zhu Youzhen immediately ordered Dongchang to take care of Li Yongzhen, and confiscated Li Yongzhen's savings, totaling more than 570,000 taels of silver.

Under Li Yongzhen's confession, nearly 100 officials were involved in the three major halls, including some officials from the Inner Court, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Households, and the amount involved was as high as more than 220 taels of silver. Zhu Youzhen ordered that the officials should be dealt with separately according to the amount of embezzlement.

After the three palace cases, Zhu Youzhen was finally interested in starting to take stock of the family wealth left to him by the apocalypse. There were originally more than 270 taels of silver in the inner treasury, plus more than 190 taels of confiscated property of the corrupt officials in the three major halls case, plus 300,000 taels of silver that Wei Zhongxian voluntarily repaid when he left, totaling about 4.9 million taels of silver, but there were still nearly 70 taels of silver owed to the merchants in the construction of the three major halls.

In the household department of the outer dynasty, there are less than 3 million taels of silver, which is the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, which is less than the family property of a big salt merchant in the south of the Yangtze River.

Looking at these sorted out financial revenues, Zhu Youzhen was speechless, at the end of this dynasty, being rich is really not an adjective. Whether it is Shanxi, Jiangnan, Anhui, Fujian and other places, there are at least hundreds of businessmen whose assets exceed the Ming treasury.

Zhu Youzhen leaned back in the wide chair, feeling a little exhausted. The 4.9 million taels of silver in the inner treasury seems to be a lot, but compared with the Ming Dynasty, which now costs money everywhere, the silver in the inner treasury is not enough to subsidize the income and expenditure of the household.