Reborn as a tyrant in the Ming Dynasty

If you want to solve the long-standing shortcomings of Ming Dynasty, you must have enough patience, and you must not make decisions lightly when encountering problems, otherwise you will easily be led by the nose.

Things are never finished. Even if you finish this one, there will still be the next thing waiting, and the surge and trend hidden behind it will change with the changes of the current situation.

"Every one of them is endless!"

Inside Dongnuan Pavilion.

There was a bit of annoyance in Zhu Youxiao's eyebrows. He stared at the memorial on the imperial case and said with a hint of dissatisfaction: "I'm looking for something to do. That's restlessness, isn't it? The Ming Dynasty is in today's situation, just like These guys who are in their positions and not doing their jobs are inseparable!!”

Liu Ruoyu, who was serving in front of the emperor, lowered his head at the moment and did not dare to say anything else.

"Go, send someone to summon Wei Banban to see me!"

"The slaves obey the orders!"

Staring at Liu Ruoyu's leaving figure, Zhu Youxiao's eyes sharpened. He had a lot of things to do. He had just identified a few important tasks not long ago, but some people from the outer court always wanted to use various methods to test them. .

The memorial that was previously retained was about the three imperial inspections of Xinhai, Dingsi, and Guihai in Wanli. It pointed directly at the Donglin Party members. In recent days, many memorials have been published.

Zhu Youxiao knew very well what these people were thinking.

Everyone has ghosts in their hearts!

They want to use this kind of thing to test their own attitudes, and secondly to take the initiative. After all, many of the things that happened in the past were caused by them without their knowledge, and they suddenly caused waves of turmoil. No one can do it. Accept this situation.

The Donglin Party is also good.

Even if you are an eunuch.

Or other parties.

As long as they are involved in party strife, no one is a good person. Even if there are some people among them who have certain abilities, there is no guarantee that when they do something, they will be affected accordingly and then make decisions. Things that go against your will.

In order to reverse the Ming Dynasty, for Zhu Youxiao, the Ming emperor, in addition to strengthening the imperial authority and ensuring his own safety, he must find ways to pour cold water on party strife and restore stability to the chaotic government. Only in this way, it is clear Only the planning and deployment that needs to be done can play a corresponding role.

Otherwise, the order will still be chaotic. Even if the clear plans and arrangements are good, the constant back-and-forth and push-back will eventually ruin all the hard work!

"Your Majesty, Cui Chengxiu, the Minister of Punishment, would like to see you."

While waiting for Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch on duty outside the palace walked into the palace and informed his emperor of the situation, which made Zhu Youxiao narrow his eyes slightly.

"Declarate it."

Zhu Youxiao calmly said that Cui Chengxiu came to the imperial court at this time, and it could only be about the gunpowder smuggling case. In fact, Zhu Youxiao had given up hope on the truth of the case, because he had known what was going on for a long time.

It is unrealistic to catch all the scum of Shuoshu in one fell swoop, not to mention that the time span is so long, and what was done before was so secretive. Only God knows how many people are involved behind this.

However, this does not prevent Zhu Youxiao from using the gunpowder smuggling case to kill a group of people. As long as the people can be involved, as long as they have violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao will have no psychological burden at all to kill them.

If these rat scum are not killed, it will be impossible for Ming Dynasty to change for the better!

"Cui Chengxiu, I would like to pay my respects to Your Majesty."

"But has the gunpowder smuggling case been investigated?"

Zhu Youxiao didn't have a good impression of Cui Chengxiu, but he couldn't do without such a person when dealing with some things. After all, not everyone could do some dirty and tiring work.

Since the Ming Dynasty was passed down to Zuo, there will inevitably be some scandals inside. If you want to deal with these scandals, you must use unconventional means, so you can't do without cruel officials.

With cruel officials like Cui Chengxiu, Zhu Youxiao has no psychological burden at all.

Because they have one characteristic, that is, they are extremely greedy for power and position, and they dare to do anything even for their own benefit.

Zhu Youxiao valued this, so he reused Cui Chengxiu.

If one day comes, Cui Chengxiu cannot figure out his own intentions and fails to accomplish what he wants to do but cannot expressly say, then he will not be far from destruction.

As for these thoughts, Cui Chengxiu will never know.

"Your Majesty, I have already investigated everything."

Cui Chengxiu's expression was serious, he held a memorial in both hands, bowed respectfully and said: "The gunpowder smuggling case is deeply involved. In addition to the previously arrested suspects such as the Li family, Hou Guoxing, Ke Guangxian and other traitors have also been investigated. He is not involved in this case!"

"His Majesty previously ordered the Western Police Factory to rectify the inner court. The executed eunuchs and eunuchs of the inner court who served in the War Bureau were the biggest culprits. I followed these clues to investigate, and accidentally discovered that the Wucheng Military and Horse Division, the Wucheng Inspector The city censor and even some people from the capital camp are also involved."

"I was afraid of arousing suspicion, so I did not arrest these suspects. However, during the previous bandit riots in the capital, Lu Xiangsheng, who was co-organizing the food and salary for the capital camp, accidentally broke up some eunuchs and eunuchs in Tianshou Mountain, and even the hereditary guards of Zhuling Guard. , were involved in the theft and sale of treasures. At that time, I suspected that these people might also be involved in the gunpowder smuggling case, so I personally took people to interrogate these people, and sure enough..."

Listening to Cui Chengxiu's bright situation, Zhu Youxiao, who was leaning on the cushions, raised the corners of his mouth slightly. Cui Chengxiu perfectly explained what it means to be a smart person.

The attitude that I had expressed implicitly before was actually understood without deviation at all.

In the gunpowder smuggling case supervised by the Ministry of Punishment, Cui Chengxiu did not easily identify the main and accomplices. Instead, he characterized it as an important group case and clearly detailed it into corresponding levels involving the inner court, the capital, the capital, and the local area. That is to say, everyone involved in it , they are all traitors who deserve to be executed! !

Killing is not difficult, what is difficult is how to use righteousness to kill!

It is true that Zhu Youxiao is the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and he can kill whoever he wants, but this cannot avoid the fact that some people will take advantage of this matter and spread some rumors to confuse the public.

Once such a trend occurs, no matter how many people are killed, the expected goal will not be achieved. After all, once doubts are formed, it will be difficult to repair them.

Even if it can be repaired, the cracks will still exist.

"I have thought of countless possibilities, but I have never thought of this possibility."

Zhu Youxiao calmed down, looked at the memorial that was presented to him, and said in a cold tone: "Eating from Ming Dynasty, but always thinking about smashing Ming Dynasty's pot, I am really too kind to them, I made them feel okay Such unscrupulousness, well, it’s really great, these damn guys, if I don’t kill them all, I won’t be able to silence everyone!!”