Huang Daozhou was slightly surprised when he heard this. Perhaps he didn't expect Zhu Ma to come up and ask this question.

Then he asked, "I heard that the governor claimed that he was inspired by the will of heaven and had great supernatural powers to go to future generations. Is it true or false after four hundred years?"

Zhu Mai smiled and said, "It is true that you can come from the will of heaven to come and go to the next generation. But the statement that was known for four hundred years before is not accurate.

Because since this palace has this supernatural power, the time and space we live in is different from the history of later generations.

It was like this palace. In history, one arm was cut off by the former emperor and later controlled by the Qing emperor. Three years later, he died of depression and illness.

For example, in the Battle of Yangzhou, the city was destroyed in four and a half days, and the Qing Dynasty slaughtered the city for ten days and killed 800,000 people of our Ming Dynasty.

Another example is the Hongguang Dynasty. In the middle of May, the Qing army was at the city. Hongguang fled in a hurry, and Zhao Zhilong, Zhu Guobi and others surrendered in the city.

For example, after the city of Nanjing was destroyed, he returned to his hometown to lead troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty. He was defeated and captured. The Qing captives repeatedly persuaded him not to surrender and were bravely executed in March next year... All of these things did not exist because of the arrival of our palace.

Therefore, most of the history we know in the next four hundred years should not happen again.

Of course, learning from history can help people know.

This palace invites Mr. Shizhai to serve as the Minister of Rites, so that he believes that Mr. can do his best for the Ming Dynasty and benefit the people."

Past insights told Huang Daozhou that what Zhu Ma said was too incredible and should not believe it.

But no matter how he looked at it, he didn't think that Zhu Ma was lying.

Besides, he has also seen the so-called "magic weapons" such as speakers, walkie-talkies, and electric lights, and it is indeed beyond the Ming Dynasty.

So, what Zhu Ma said is true?

Then he thought of another thing that he would never want to see and asked: "Is it because the Qing emperors had stolen the capital of China in history?"

Zhu Mai was silent for a moment and said firmly: "With this palace here, the Qing emperors will definitely be defeated!"

Now it was Huang Daozhou's turn to remain silent.

Because he had almost believed Zhu Mai's words, and because of this, he felt that his three views and even his life's learning had been greatly impacted.

He didn't want to face it, but he knew he had to face it.

If he followed his previous cognition, he would not want to see the heroine come to the court. Because in today's world, women are emperors, which does cause more trouble than men, which will cause more uneasiness and turmoil in the country.

But if Zhu Ma is really inspired by the will of heaven and can be connected to future generations, it would be different.

Although Huang Daozhou was a great Confucian scholar in the late Ming Dynasty, his thoughts were different from the Neo-Confucian scholars of the Song and Ming dynasties and Yangming's Heart Studies. Instead, he advocated Confucian scholars of the Han and Song dynasties, attached importance to the resonance of heaven and man, and regarded Zhou and Confucius as the respect.

He was even influenced by the study of prophecies and divination.

So, after being silent for about a quarter of an hour, Huang Daozhou bowed and said, "I wonder if the grass people can see the magical powers of the country's interactions with future generations?"

Zhu Mai smiled and said, "Of course."

I went back to the next generation and came over soon, but brought another batch of walkie-talkies to me.

Then, she showed the video of Chongzhen's edict to Huang Daozhou.

Even though Huang Daozhou was demoted to the people several times because of his confrontation with Chongzhen, and even reconciled Xuelong and was exiled to Guizhou for opposing Yang Sichang, when he saw Chongzhen's edict video, he still couldn't help but think that Chongzhen had already died in his country.

I feel inexplicably moved, my eyes are moist.

After reading it, he immediately knelt down to Zhu Mai and said, "Huang Daozhou is willing to take the post of Minister of Rites!"

"Mr. Shizhai asked me to get up." Zhu Mai helped Huang Dao Zhouxu up and said, "I'll let you take care of the matter of the ascension of the palace."

After Huang Daozhou got up, he asked: "I don't know if the supervisor has any requirements for the throne ceremony?"

Zhu Ma did not expect that Huang Daozhou would ask this question, but when he thought about it carefully, Huang Daozhou's thoughts and behavior were somewhat non-mainstream than Confucian scholars in the Ming Dynasty, so it was not uncommon to ask this question.

She then said: "Etiquette is just like my Emperor Ming ascended the throne, but I hope that all aspects will be simplified as much as possible. First, avoid spending too much energy on our palace and ministers, and second, avoiding the need to waste the people and their money."

Huang Daozhou heard this and praised: "The country is wise."

Zhu Meiyu smiled and said, "To facilitate work, this palace has solar table lamps and reading glasses from later generations, so I gave it to Mr. Shizhai."

Although Huang Daozhou couldn't understand what it was, he also knew that since it was brought by Zhu Ma from later generations, it must be a treasure.

Thank you immediately: "Thank you for the reward of the State."

Afterwards, Zhu Ma asked Linglong to take Huang Daozhou to choose reading glasses...

After Huang Daozhou left, Zhu Mai not only sighed: "I didn't expect that it would be so easy to convince a Confucian scholar. It should be noted that he had been confronted by my father several times in court. The father loved and hated him.

How many summons and exiles are there."

Hao Guangming said: "Actually, with your current situation in the Ming Dynasty, many things will no longer follow common sense. Because your power, prestige and ability have become so powerful that you have changed secular concepts."

Zhu Mei nodded, "This makes what I have to do easier."

"But there are more things you can do."

···

On May 14, Gu Yanwu walked out of the courtyard under house arrest.

Looking back, Gu Yanwu couldn't help but sigh when he saw those colleagues and minor officials who were locked on iron chains and pulled them to the Ministry of Justice's prison.

An hour ago, in the courtyard where they were under house arrest, the officials of the Ministry of War and the minor officials underwent a very clear interrogation.

However, the imperial court recruited the private accountants and only took three days to check the accounts of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War.

Through the accounts, evidence of corruption among these officials was easily obtained.

In addition, a few days ago, there were still several officials who were not strong-willed and were so scared that they collapsed on the floor and had their filling leaks when under house arrest. Many confessions were questioned.

After the testimony was held in court, these corrupt officials could not make excuses and could only bow their heads and confess their guilt.

Gu Yanwu really didn't expect that the princess of the regent would have such great courage and investigate the corrupt officials of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War with such a wonderful method.

Looking back, there are probably only two emperors, Hongwu and Yongle, who were so courageous to investigate and punish corruption.

Shaking his head at the backs of those corrupt officials, Gu Yanwu sorted out his clothes and returned to his residence...

Wuying Palace.

Jie Xuelong is reporting to Zhu Mai the results of the review of the Ministry of Revenue and the corrupt officials of the Ministry of War.

"After trial, there were 87 people who had confirmed evidence of corrupt officials from the Ministry of Revenue, from the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, to the deputy envoy of the Ministry of Revenue warehouses of the ninth rank.

Among them, twenty-one was sentenced to beheading, fifty-three were sentenced to exile, and thirteen were sentenced to be demoted to the people.

Those who behead and exiled will be searched, while those who have been demoted to the people will need to pay twice the fine of the silver they have greedy for within a time limit. Those who have exceeded the deadline will be forced to recover the fine of the silver."

Speaking of this, Jie Xuelong stopped.

Zhu Ni asked casually: "There are only 115 officials in the Ministry of Revenue, right?"

Resolved Long Dao: "There are twelve official positions vacant, so there are actually one hundred and three people."

Zhu Mai couldn't help but sigh and shook her head, "One hundred and three officials, eighty-seven of them are corrupt.

The remaining dozens of people may not be all clean. Perhaps they are just greedy and are just more secretive. I didn’t check this time.

As the country's money bag, the Ministry of Revenue is full of corrupt officials. It would be strange if the state affairs are not corrupt."

Jie Xuelong said: "Even when Taizu was alive, corruption could not be eliminated. Only by constantly purging and eliminating corrupt officials can we correct the official atmosphere."

Zhu Mom nodded.

Hao Guangming on the other side was thinking, fortunately Jie Xuelong did not put the blame on the emperor. If Jie Xuelong did this, Hao Guangming would suggest that Zhu Ma change to the Minister of Justice.

"What is the corruption of officials from the Ministry of Revenue?" Zhu Ma asked.

Jie Xuelong said: "There are currently 578 officials from the Ministry of Revenue, and as many as 499 corruption people are involved!

After trial, fifty beheaded and four hundred and forty-nine exiled were sentenced to beheading, all of whom were confiscated!”

When Jie Xuelong reported, Zhu Ma was also looking at the relevant case review records.

Hearing this, he said, "There are probably more than a hundred of these minor officials who should be beheaded?"

Judging from the case trial records, most officials accept bribes, while officials directly use stealing, misappropriation, trafficking and other means to embezzle the state's treasury and other assets. According to the current Ming Dynasty laws, they will be more verified than officials.

Of course, if the law in Hongwu was strictly judged, it would be light for these people to beheaded, and most of them would be peeled off daylily.

Jie Xuelong said: "Previously, the state supervised the country said that in this trial, the main focus should be on house search and exile. Therefore, although there are many minor officials who are seriously punished, in order to avoid excessive killing, Gan Tianhe only took the most serious blame.

The top fifty people were sentenced to beheading.”

Zhu Meiyu frowned and said, "I have said that, but that is to let you operate within the scope permitted by the law.

How can those who clearly deserve to be sentenced to beheaded?

If there are too many criminals killed, there will be Gan Tianhe. How innocent are the people who are hurt by their crimes? Will there be Gan Tianhe if there is no one to let corrupt officials harm the people!"

At the end of the day, Zhu Ma was both stern.

Although Jie Xuelong was an old minister, this was the first time he saw Zhu Mai's speech and harsh expressions.

Even though he did not intend to favor those officials who committed crimes, he still trembled in his heart and hurriedly knelt down to apologize, "It was the minister who misinterpreted the holy intention and asked the state to punish him."
Chapter completed!