Reborn as a tyrant in the Ming Dynasty

"My servant pays homage to the Emperor."

Fang Zhenghua, who had been waiting outside the palace for a long time, was summoned by the emperor. He bowed his head and walked into Dongnuan Pavilion. He walked to the emperor and bowed respectfully.

"How did the investigation go?"

Zhu Youxiao leaned on the cushions and looked at Fang Zhenghua in front of him. He didn't care about this kind of red tape. What he cared about was how many problems there were in the inner court.

In the name of the Imperial Guards, Zhang Weixian and Zhang Qingzhen organized the personal guards of the palace and imperial city, arrested hundreds of generals and guards, and discovered many problems along the way. This was only a group on the fringes of the palace. Under such a realistic situation, Zhu Youxiao definitely does not believe that there is no problem in the palace!

Zhu Youxiao didn't sleep well last night. He tossed and turned on the dragon bed. In addition to thinking about the case of Xiyuan falling into the water, he was also thinking about how to control real power.

The outside must be safe first!

If you want to truly transform the regained power into your own power, and not be led by the civil servants of other dynasties or the eunuchs, you must first clean up the surroundings and do other things at the same time. Only by following your own way can you change your destiny!

"Report to the Emperor."

Fang Zhenghua did not dare to hesitate. He bowed to the emperor and said, "After yesterday's careful investigation, the servants and the imperial horse supervisor found 137 people who have abnormal contact with outside the palace."

"The category that maintains the most contact among them is the eunuch in charge of Cao Cao Ranch in the suburbs of Beijing. After interrogation, it was found out that these criminal eunuchs stole and sold the war horses, cattle and sheep they raised under various pretexts..."

It's a talent.

Listening to Fang Zhenghua's report, Zhu Youxiao secretly approved in his heart.

We know that in the shortest possible time, we will first target a group of groups to be investigated. If we can achieve corresponding results, the next situation will open up.

Under the jurisdiction of the inner court, there are twelve prisons, four divisions and eight bureaus, which can be connected with the government offices outside the palace, a royal horse supervisor, and a military warfare bureau. They cannot escape no matter what.

Other government agencies may also have it.

But in such a special environment, if you want to have a strong deterrent effect and clear the situation by the way, you must choose a good target.

Fang Zhenghua knew exactly this, so he chose to operate on the Royal Horse Supervisor first.

Among the Twelve Supervisors, Four Divisions and Eight Bureaus of the Inner Palace, the Si Li Supervisor is the first department among the Twelve Supervisors. Its chief and the chief minister have a close relationship with each other. It is known as the inner court cabinet. In its heyday, the Royal Horse Supervisor was no less than As the Chief of Ceremony, he was in charge of the royal stables, military talismans and other items. He shared the military command with the Ministry of War and the governor, and was known as the 'Privy Council' of the inner court.

In addition, the Yumajian also manages the grassland and the Imperial Village, operates the Imperial Store, and handles finances with the household department. He is also known as the "inner steward" of the inner court. The most important point is that the Yumajian is also in charge of Teng Xiang's left and right guards. , Wu Xiang left and right guard!

"...This is the only type of criminal eunuch who colluded with the eunuchs in charge outside the palace, embezzled a total of 379327 taels of stolen silver, and occupied 7621 acres of land and 3291 acres of pasture!"

"Okay, why are they so greedy?!"

Hearing what Fang Zhenghua said, Zhu Youxiao couldn't hide his anger. These were all his money. He never expected that the slaves around him would be so greedy.

Wei Zhongxian, who was serving in front of the emperor, had his head lowered at the moment, his heartbeat could not help but accelerate a lot, and the panic between his brows could not be concealed.

"Your Majesty."

Seeing the emperor's anger, Fang Zhenghua lowered his head and continued: "The grass pastures on the outskirts of Beijing are only part of the jurisdiction of the Yuma Prison, and there are many grass pastures in the capital."

You, Fang Zhenghua, want to pierce the sky!

When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he couldn't help but exclaimed in his heart, and his eyes changed when he looked at Fang Zhenghua.

These unspoken rules belonging to the inner court, even though Wei Zhongxian was the Eunuch Bingbi, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, and the Admiral of the East Jishi Factory, and was deeply trusted and relied upon by the emperor, he had not dared to touch them lightly before.

"Then dig deep for me!"

Zhu Youxiao said coldly: "First, arrest those eunuchs in charge of the suburbs of Beijing and all those involved!!"

"The slaves obey the orders!"

Fang Zhenghua immediately kowtowed and responded. After pondering for a moment, Fang Zhenghua continued: "Your Majesty, I am involved in the investigation at the Royal Horse Prison, and the servants have not finished reporting yet."

"go on!"

Zhu Youxiao suppressed his anger and said.

It was only in the grassland under the jurisdiction of the Royal Horse Prison or in the suburbs of Beijing that such a huge deficit was found. Zhu Youxiao didn't need to think too much about anything else to know what a mess the inner court was in.

"According to the investigation by the slave, some of the arrested criminals with connections outside the palace had improper connections with the Fourth Guards Camp under the jurisdiction of the Royal Horse Prison."

Fang Zheng regained his composure and continued: "They repeatedly received instructions from the Royal Horse Supervisor and the eunuch to withhold the silver allocated by the inner court to replace weapons and firearms. During this period, they also repeatedly stole and sold the horses, firearms, and artillery under the command of the Fourth Guards Camp. They even faked the number of personnel in the Fourth Guards Battalion and took the military salary allocated by this part as their own, and according to their confessions, the stolen money was no less than hundreds of thousands of taels!!"

Another shameful thing!

Zhu Youxiao's sword eyebrows were splayed, and he showed an overwhelming power. Although he knew that the inner court must be rotten, Zhu Youxiao never expected that it would be so rotten.

This is just the Royal Horse Superintendent! !

"go on."

Zhu Youxiao said in an indifferent tone.

Ancestor, stop talking!

After hearing the emperor's words, Wei Zhongxian clearly felt the emperor's anger, and his hands hanging down trembled slightly. At this moment, he begged Fang Zhenghua in his heart to stop talking.

But Wei Zhongxian's prayer is also a luxury at this moment.

"Your Majesty, the remaining criminals are the most guilty!!"

Under Zhu Youxiao's gaze, Fang Zhenghua kowtowed and said: "According to the charges they confessed, he secretly escaped from the palace many times before, and met with some officials from the military department of the foreign court and some serving generals from the Beijing camp. There are some improper contacts, and several of them are secretly maintaining such contacts with the instructions of the supervising eunuchs of the Beijing camp."

"The Ministry of War appropriated money and food from the Beijing camp to replace war horses, weapons, firearms, silver, etc. During this period, they even participated in stealing the Beijing camp's war horses, firearms, artillery, gunpowder, etc. many times. According to their confessions, the above-mentioned stolen silver was even more One million taels!!”

Ok.

That's great.

Hearing what Fang Zhenghua said, Zhu Youxiao's breathing became heavier. A small eunuch actually did so many nasty things behind his back.

He was greedy for so much money all the time.

Shocking.

It's so shocking.

As for the above-mentioned circumstances, if Fang Zhenghua had not been promoted to the commander-in-chief of the West Police Factory through the Xiyuan drowning case and asked him to strictly investigate the inner court, he might still have been kept in the dark.

"Go!! Call all the powerful eunuchs from the Royal Horse Prison to me!"

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao looked at the trembling Wei Zhongxian with cold eyes, "Send another person to the capital camp and summon all the supervising eunuchs from the Imperial Horse Prison to the palace. If anyone dares to escape during this period, you Wei Zhongxian Just figure it out!"

"Slave, let's do it now!"

Wei Zhongxian immediately knelt down and worshiped.