My Daming New Empire

Because they hold the financial power of Ming Dynasty in their hands.

The Neijian in the Ming Dynasty and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which replaced the economic power of the Neijian in the Qing Dynasty, were the largest institutions in the country at that time.

After the Qing Dynasty, due to the shortage of eunuchs, Kangxi established the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with more than 3000 officials and more than [-] people under its jurisdiction.

But their power is far less than that of the eunuchs in the early Ming Dynasty.

Because the Ministry of Internal Affairs is only in charge of the economic affairs of the banner people, and today's Ming eunuchs are in charge of almost all economic affairs of the entire Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the payment of food and taxes, the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty controlled all other economic affairs in the hands of the eunuchs, including the payment of taxes to the royal treasury.

In addition, handicraft workshops and commercial activities, ranging from developing mines to planting tea and raising silkworms, are all under the jurisdiction of internal supervision.

Mining is under internal supervision, weaving is under internal supervision, silk is under internal supervision, customs is under internal supervision, ceramics are under internal supervision, tea is under internal supervision, and there are almost no internal supervision.

In addition to these, there are also a large number of internal supervisors placed in various military camps to supervise each army from top to bottom.

Then there are the inner treasury of the imperial palace, purchasing envoys from various places, tax supervisors, servants of various palaces, etc...

Twelve prisons, four bureaus, eight divisions, how many eunuchs there are in total, I am afraid no one can tell.

There are many wise people in their huge group, such as Wang Yan, whether they are marching or fighting, or the chief of the palace, they are impeccable.

There are also Zheng He, Hou Xian, Wang Jinghong, etc., all of whom are famous in history.

But compared to the large number of internal prisons in Ming Dynasty, outstanding talents are still a minority. Most of them have extreme mentality that is different from ordinary people because they have become disabled.

In other words, it has changed more or less.state.

It is not enough to have a body, but she is still lustful.

Some people like to torture people because of poor health.

Most of them satisfy their selfish desires through the control of money.

They are greedy for money and officials, not the same as ordinary people.

Because in addition to satisfying their own enjoyment, officials and ordinary people keep more money for their loved ones.

But they enjoy it more by themselves, and compare and show off without any scruples in the servant class.

Does Zhu Di know about this?of course I know.

But he doesn't care.

Because the circle of eunuchs is not big, most of the money they greedy still circulates in this circle.It can be said that if the royal family wanted to get it back, they didn't even need to stretch out their hands. They just opened their mouths and they delivered it by themselves.

Therefore, in Zhu Di's view, all the money in the world is his own, and it is better for the inner eunuchs to be greedy than to be in the hands of the common people.After all, the inner eunuchs are closer to him, and the embezzled money is no different from his own.

Therefore, the royal family is not afraid of the eunuch being corrupt, but only afraid that he will not be able to do things.As long as you are capable, I don't care how greedy you are.

And Ma Qi is one of the representatives, he can have no bottom line for money, and those gold and silver are the most important meaning for him to show off his existence.

But he was very good at being a man, he was harsh to the people, and turned to be more loyal to the royal family, and even the embezzled gold and silver were turned around in his hands, and then entered the royal treasury.

What he cares about is not gold and silver, but the satisfaction brought to him in the process of plundering gold and silver.

Zhu Di can tolerate such people, but what Zhu Zhanji hates the most is the behavior of oppressing the people without a bottom line.

In Jiaozhi, it was because he ignored the difficulties of the people in Jiaozhi and forced the people to sell their sons and daughters to make up enough gold and silver for him, which led to the 13-year rebellion in Yongle.

Also because he had no bottom line, he forged a big enmity with Huang Fu, the political envoy of Chengxuan at the time, and both sides wished for the other's death.

Also because he has no bottom line, Zhu Zhanji vetoed his original intention to serve as the guardian of Osaka, but later he became a transshipment envoy to transport grain from Nanyang to Daming.

Although he is a slave of the royal family, he is a direct slave of Zhu Di.

He didn't directly offend Zhu Zhanji, the heir who hadn't taken over the family business, and Zhu Zhanji couldn't punish him for his fault.

But Zhu Zhanji would never believe this matter without Ma Qi's hands and feet.

Moreover, even if he has no hands or feet, Zhu Zhanji still needs someone to stand up to.

So let's count him as unlucky this time!

Only by disposing of a well-handled internal prison official, those officials who dare to take action against the people's living food, can they be held accountable according to the law.

Only Zhu Zhanji, Jin Kuo, Li Liang, and Yang Zhangde were left in the room.

Zhu Zhanji sighed, and after a long silence, he said: "You don't have to get too involved in the affairs of Lin San and these people. Your energy is mainly for me to investigate who has stolen the food, resold it, and the buyer? who is it?"

Yang Zhangde said softly: "Your Highness, what if officials above rank three are involved?"

Although Jin Yiwei is responsible for supervising all officials, he has no right to investigate officials of the third rank and above.Of course, this is not certain, the key depends on who is in charge.

When Ji Gang was the commander, even those super-rank nobles were afraid of seeing him, and even the first-rank governors were beaten to death by him.

"No matter who it is, check it out for me." Zhu Zhanji sneered, and said: "Grandpa Huang is going to go to war, and I sent my father and king away. If I don't make a big fuss, how can I let you go?" Are people afraid of me?"

Yang Zhangde fully understood that this case just gave His Highness the opportunity to kill chickens and scare monkeys. Now that he wants to supervise the country, he naturally needs to form a deterrent force. This is a good opportunity.

With such a purpose, he has no worries when investigating the case.

"Then Weichen will send Lin San and the others back to Shandong tomorrow..."

"No, you can't leave Yingtian Mansion. I need you to help me shine a knife in the capital. This case is not complicated. You just need to send some good investigators. I will arrange for Li Liang to contact Gu Zuo in a while. , let him send someone to go with you tomorrow."

Jin Kuo reminded: "Does Your Highness want to send someone to contact Liu Zhong, Commander of Qingzhou Weidu, and let him protect the investigators?"

He was arranged by Zhu Zhanji to preside over the overall situation at home. Now that there is a corruption case, although Zhu Zhanji did not blame him, he will inevitably question his ability.

He wanted to be more positive, but he also knew that he couldn't get rid of the suspicion, so he hated Ma Qi to death.

"How do you know that Liu Zhong is not involved?" Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said, "I will arrange for the First Fleet to send a fast boat to send investigators to Jiaozhou, and then the Second Fleet will send a 1000-man musketeer Teams protect investigators."

Jiaozhou, also known as Qingdao in later generations, is an important port for receiving Nanyang grain. Although most of the grain transported to Qingzhou is loaded on riverboats in Laizhou Bay, and enters the inland through tributaries such as the Mi River and the Bailang River, but throwing It is correct to start with Jiaozhou, the most suspected Laizhou Navy.

Zhu Zhanji is not afraid of collusion between the internal eunuch and local officials. What he fears most is that his Laizhou navy will also be dragged into the water.

If this is the case, Zhu Zhanji will definitely clean up the moths in the army first.

He was busy with his affairs. Now that he had met Tang Sai'er and the others, and they were bewitched by him, they were going to take a group of people to the Ural Mountains, so today's main purpose has been achieved.

He also asked Gu Zuo to arrange for people to go to Shandong, so he didn't stay here for long at Jinyiwei.

When he was about to leave, he remembered that Lin San and the others were poor and white, and now they didn't go to the Ural Mountains for anything. Even if they had food at home, they couldn't worry about the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled.

He then told Li Liang: "You will give Lin San 500 silver dollars in person in a while, so don't let anyone blackmail them. Let them use the money to settle their families and prepare various tools."