Chapter 122 The greatly stimulated emperor 【Seeking monthly ticket】
Li Huan looked straight and said to Zhu Houzhao: "Back to Your Majesty, what I have brought is the charges against Shi Hao and others."
As he said this, Li Huan took one of the piles from Gao Feng. This pile was as thick as a book. It was really a thick pile. Zhu Houzhao was stunned when he saw it.
There were so many charges against more than a dozen officials at once. No wonder Zhu Houzhao was stunned when he saw it.
How many evil deeds did these people have to do to get the interrogating officials to record so much?
He picked up a copy casually, which was the crime of Lu Wenhua, the doctor in the household department. When he opened it and looked carefully, Zhu Houzhao's expression soon became extremely ugly. Then he turned over a few more pages, and even his breathing became a little faster.
With a bang, Zhu Houzhao threw the crime on the ground and said angrily: "Okay,
good,
He is really a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. He is a sixth-grade doctor. In just a few years, he has embezzled more than 200,000 taels of silver. He is so courageous. According to Taizu's rules, how many times will he have to peel off the skin and make grass?
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He took another copy and glanced at it, Zhu Houzhao quickly threw the crime on the ground again.
Li Huan just glanced at it and saw that it was an indictment on Chen Qi, a foreign minister from the Ministry of Industry. Although this foreign minister from the Ministry of Industry was not as corrupt as Lu Wenhua, the wealthy man from the Ministry of Finance, he was not much different.
The Ministry of Works is in charge of the supervision of many large-scale projects in the Ming Dynasty. If you are willing, you can get huge benefits from any of them, whether it is cutting corners or embezzling project funds.
According to Chen Qi’s own explanation,
He could remember several large incoming and outgoing payments,
He got nearly 60,000 taels of dirty silver from it by manipulating it, leaving aside those that he couldn't remember or had too many times.
It is impossible to describe everything in detail, but the total amount of money he embezzled is probably at least 70,000 to 80,000 taels.
"Shuoshu, they are all Shuoshu,
It would be a light thing to confiscate their home. If Taizu were here, he would have to kill all nine of their clans."
Seeing Zhu Houzhao venting, Li Huan handed another file to Zhu Houzhao and said: "Your Majesty, this is the property confiscated from the homes of these officials. The total is about 653,800 taels of cash, real estate, and shops.
, jewelry, etc. are not included.”
As he spoke, he looked through the valuations of those properties, shops, jewelry and other items, and then said: "According to Jin Yiwei's inventory, leaving aside gold and silver, the rest are worth nearly five hundred thousand taels."
"Nearly 1.2 million taels, they really dare to reach out!"
Even though Zhu Houzhao was mentally prepared, when he found out that the confiscated property amounted to millions, he still couldn't help but get angry.
"They deserve to be killed, they really deserve to be killed. It is my decree to make these people's crimes known to the public, tell them to the world, and kill them all!"
Liu Jin on the side suddenly said: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid that the cabinet may not be able to pass it!"
Zhu Houzhao sneered and said: "What reason do they have for not allowing it? Do they dare to protect these heinous people?"
As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao said to Liu Jin: "Liu Daban, please immediately order someone to convey my decree to the cabinet.
Let the cabinet draft a decree according to my wishes."
Zhu Houzhao wanted the cabinet to personally draft a decree to kill all the criminal officials. To be honest, Li Huan was really not optimistic about it.
If the cabinet really drafted this decree, it would be strange if all the officials would not fall out at that time.
You can tell this just by looking at Liu Jin's expression. Obviously this is not an easy task.
Liu Jin took a deep breath and said: "I will handle it myself, and I will definitely ask a few cabinet ministers to draft an edict for His Majesty."
It could be seen that Zhu Houzhao was not in a good mood, and he waved his hand towards Liu Jin after hearing this.
When Liu Jin left, Zhu Houzhao said to Li Huan: "Qing family, come with me for a walk!"
Li Huan bowed in response and followed Zhu Houzhao, looking at Qiu Ju beside him. Gao Feng and others looked over, with questioning meaning in their eyes.
Zhu Houzhao walked in front, Li Huan and others walked behind, Qiu Ju and Gao Feng came forward.
Li Huan glanced at Zhu Houzhao and whispered: "Brother Qiu, Brother Gao, why do I feel that your majesty is not in a good mood? Who has offended your majesty?"
When he met Zhu Houzhao before, Li Huan had noticed that Zhu Houzhao was not in a good mood, but he didn't know why.
Qiu Ju whispered: "Brother Li, you don't know something. The Queen Mother summoned His Majesty today and taught him a lesson for a long time. She repeatedly told Your Majesty to listen to the opinions of the elders in the cabinet and stay away from treacherous people..."
After Qiu Ju finished speaking, he glanced at Li Huan secretly.
When Li Huan saw Qiu Ju's reaction, he couldn't help but realized that the treacherous villain in the Queen Mother's mouth could not be him.
So Li Huan opened his eyes wide and pointed at his nose, meaning, could it be that I am the treacherous villain?
Seeing Li Huan's actions, Qiu Ju nodded towards Li Huan.
Li Huan couldn't help but smile bitterly. He didn't expect that he would become a treacherous villain to the Queen Mother. It's not the Queen Mother's fault. If you just look at Li Huan's actions, it's not uncommon to be misunderstood as a sycophantic villain.
Who allowed Li Huan to suddenly gain the emperor's favor and take down so many officials as soon as he took over the power? I am afraid that during the reign of the late emperor, there may not have been so many officials taken down by the Jin Yiwei in three to five years.
How old is Li Huan? It would be difficult for anyone to have any sense of trust once they hear Li Huan's age. The most direct feeling is that Li Huan is a lucky minister of the emperor.
Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe, Liu Jian, and Xie Qian were all trusted ministers left by Emperor Hongzhi to the emperor. Li Huan immediately removed Liu Jian and Xie Qian from their posts. Due to emotions and reasons, the Queen Mother emotionally favored those people.
The old minister is not surprised.
Zhu Houzhao was walking in front, but that didn't mean that he couldn't notice the movements of Li Huan, Qiu Ju and the others behind him.
Besides, in front of Zhu Houzhao, Qiu Ju, and Li Huan, they did not dare to hide their little actions from Zhu Houzhao, so their voices were just lowered slightly, so Zhu Houzhao heard the conversation clearly.
Zhu Houzhao paused, glared at Qiu Ju and said, "Talk too much!"
Qiu Ju couldn't see that Zhu Houzhao was not really angry, but he cooperated and slapped himself on the mouth a few times: "Your Majesty is teaching me that this old slave talks too much, and I will punish myself."
Zhu Houzhao glanced at Li Huan and said: "The Queen Mother just has some misunderstandings about Li Qing. Besides, the Queen Mother just mentioned it casually. She also said that Liu Jin, Qiu Ju, Gao Feng and others led me astray.
, none of them are good slaves!"
Obviously Zhu Houzhao was trying to comfort Li Huan, and Li Huan was quite moved.
It seems that even though Li Huan knew that the Queen Mother was displeased with him and even regarded him as a treacherous villain who deceived the emperor, he didn't care too much.
The influence of the harem on the court in the Ming Dynasty was almost negligible. Starting from the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the harem was strictly prohibited from intervening in politics. It can be said that there was no chaos in the harem in the entire Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Houzhao smiled and said: "The Qing family has saved my life. Besides, can I still not be able to tell what kind of people the Qing family is?"
Li Huan bowed slightly and said with a smile: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your protection!"
With a wave of his hand, Zhu Houzhao said to Li Huan: "Go hunting with me!"
Zhu Houzhao's sudden decision was really unexpected. He was truly worthy of being a righteous emperor, and he always made decisions as he thought.
Seeing the expressions of Li Huan and others, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but said: "What? Do you also advise me to stay in this imperial city and not go anywhere?"
Li Huan smiled and said: "What did your Majesty say? Since Your Majesty wants to go hunting, I will accompany you!"
Gao Feng, Qiu Ju and others nodded and said: "Brother Li is right, I will arrange your majesty's departure from the palace soon."
Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and said: "Go, but don't make it too public, lest it spread to my mother and she will nag me in my ears again."
Soon the Emperor Luanjia left the Forbidden City. There were ceremonial guards in front of him to clear the way, and palace guards were accompanying him. There were even Dongchang fans who were urgently transferred, and the imperial guards in Jinyi were patrolling around just in case.
Li Huan rode on the divine horse and followed Luan Jia. The mighty procession passed through the long street. On both sides of the long street, people were dispersed to kneel on both sides.
It has to be said that the Emperor Luan's trip was really noisy. If he made such a big noise just to relax, Li Huan somewhat understood why the ministers in the cabinet and the civil and military officials in the court were so disgusted with the emperor's frequent
has left the palace.
Of course, disturbing the people and safety are only part of it, or they are the excuses used by the officials to restrain the emperor and make him stay in the palace.
The real reason is probably that an emperor who can't stay in the palace makes them feel uncontrollable.
Perhaps it was the desire of the cabinet and officials to control the emperor that gave Zhu Houzhao the idea of building a world of his own outside the imperial city, and the Leopard Room came into being.
It took nearly an hour before the emperor's team finally arrived at the royal hunting ground.
At this time, the royal hunting ground has been blocked by the Jinyiwei. Qian Ning, a member of the Jinyiwei Qianhu, is watching the Emperor Luanjia, who is slowly approaching, with a hint of hope.
Especially when he saw Li Huan accompanying the Emperor Luanjia, Qian Ning could not help but feel endless envy and jealousy in his heart.
It would be great if I could replace Li Huan and serve the emperor.
Inexplicably, Qian Ning had such an idea in his mind, but he quickly suppressed it. Now he is just a member of the Jinyiwei family. He is not even a senior member of the Jinyiwei. How can he command the Jinyiwei at the same distance?
Compared to Li Huan who was only one step away.
Even compared to Li Huan's official position among the Imperial Guards, what really made him envious and jealous was the emperor's trust and respect for Li Huan.
Even if Li Huan is just a pawn, with the emperor's respect and trust, he can still achieve great success.
Just when Qian Ning was thinking about this in confusion, a voice came: "Your Majesty has arrived."
Qian Ning's spirit was shaken, but he and the other Jin Yiwei officials behind him respectfully bowed to Luan Jia who stopped.
Qian Ning, who was lying on the ground, could only see one foot stepping out of Luan Jia and landing on the ground. Even if he raised his head slightly, he could only see the emperor's lower body.
It can be seen that the emperor is really here to hunt, and Zhu Houzhao looks very heroic in his neat and elegant outfit.
After looking at the Jin Yiwei officials who were greeting him and the officials responsible for managing the royal hunting grounds, Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and said, "I'll be fine without any courtesy!"
After saying that, he ignored the crowd and Zhu Houzhao turned his attention directly to Li Huan and said, "Li Qing, let's compete later to see who can hunt more prey."
Li Huan couldn't help but smile and said: "Your Majesty, why don't I let you first..."
Zhu Houzhao suddenly said like a hairy hedgehog: "The Qing family is indeed very strong, but I am not bad either. If the Qing family gives in, what's the point of me winning?"
As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and said: "Come here, take my rouge horse and get my treasure bow!"
Qian Ning originally wanted to show his face in front of Zhu Houzhao, but he didn't expect that Zhu Houzhao didn't even look at them. He just stood there with his head bowed, watching helplessly as Li Huan and Zhu Houzhao joked around like ordinary friends, and even the emperor
I'm not angry either. Qian Ning looks jealous.
It's a pity that no one paid attention to him as a small Qianhu. Even Li Huan only showed a little surprise when he saw Qian Ning, but he didn't pay too much attention.
After all, Qian Ning can be regarded as Liu Jin's person, and he still has a relationship. It is not surprising that he was temporarily transferred to be responsible for maintaining the safety of the royal hunting ground.
Soon a group of extremely powerful war horses were brought over. Zhu Houzhao got on his horse and took a treasure bow from Gao Feng. He smiled at Li Huan and said, "Li Qing, do you want me to find you a divine horse?"
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Li Huan smiled and said: "Your Majesty, if you lose, don't blame me."
Zhu Houzhao flicked his riding whip and immediately rode his horse towards the hunting ground. Gao Feng, Qiu Ju and several palace guards quickly drove their horses to follow.
Li Huan also took a shot and drove his horse away to the hunting ground.
The steward who was responsible for taking care of the hunting ground couldn't help but sigh when he saw this situation: "I have always heard that Mr. Li has your majesty's favor. When I saw him today, I realized that this is more than just a favor."
The steward was obviously a frustrated official. After all, being the head of the Royal Hunting Ground was not an easy job. Generally speaking, someone sent to manage the Royal Hunting Ground must be a loser. Naturally, he was extremely envious of Li Huan for being favored by the Emperor.
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But what the chief said to Qian Ning made Qian Ning feel even more unhappy.
The royal hunting ground is quite large and contains various wild animals, including quite a lot of hares, deer, foxes and other prey.
Just like Zhu Houzhao had shot two hares and a deer at this moment, Zhu Houzhao was so happy that he excitedly said to Gao Feng and Qiu Ju: "It seems that my luck is quite good. Li Qing is very strong."
It’s true, the key is to be lucky enough to find prey.”
Seeing that Zhu Houzhao was in a good mood, Gao Feng chuckled and said, "Your Majesty is right. I wonder if Brother Li can't even find the shadow of his prey right now."
"Hahaha, what I said is right. Come and find prey with me. I will definitely beat Li Qing this time."
After half a day, Zhu Houzhao and his party had entered the depths of the hunting ground. The trees were tall and the forests were lush, and there were more prey.
A dozen or so guards were scattered around, paying attention to the movements around them at all times to prevent any accidents.
Although Jinyiwei and Dongchang had already sent people to check before the emperor came to the hunting ground, no one dared to be careless in the slightest.
Zhu Houzhao had a look of exhaustion on his face. Looking for prey in this dense forest, drawing a bow and shooting arrows was not an easy task.
What's more, for a person like Zhu Houzhao who doesn't have much martial arts, he can persist for such a long time because his innate physique is not weak.
Riding on the horse, Zhu Hou looked at the many prey hanging on the horse and couldn't help but smile: "The time agreed with Li Qing is almost here. I will send a signal to Li Qing later and we should go out."
Suddenly, a roar came faintly. The sound was not too far away, so Zhu Houzhao and others could hear it clearly.
Hearing the roar, a dozen or so guards immediately surrounded him, taking care of Zhu Hou in the center.
Qiu Ju whispered to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, the sound sounds like a bear, and it sounds like there are more than one bear. It seems that he is fighting something."
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help showing a bit of surprise when he heard this and said: "Come with me and have a look."
The expressions of Qiu Ju and others changed, and they looked confused: "Your Majesty, no, the bear is so fierce that even an ordinary person cannot defeat it. Although we have a large number of people and are not afraid of the bear, there is no need to risk it."
That risk, after all, Your Majesty’s dragon body is the most important..."
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help frowning. Although he was playful, it didn't mean that he couldn't listen to advice and ignored the overall situation. Naturally, he knew that what Qiu Ju said was for his consideration, so Zhu Houzhao had a look of hesitation on his face.
At this time, a voice came from not far away: "Your Majesty, there are ministers guarding you. If you want to take a look, just go and take a look."
Upon hearing that voice, Qiu Ju, Gao Feng and others' eyes lit up, and their faces showed a look of relief. Even the palace guards breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Huan, dressed in powerful attire, strode over from the dense forest. Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but be startled when he saw this, and said in surprise: "Where is your horse, Li Qing? Why did you come here on foot?"
Li Huan smiled and said, "That thing is too much of a hindrance in this forest. Fortunately, I can just walk on foot."
Looking at Li Huan, Zhu Houzhao suddenly reacted and said with a touch of emotion on his face: "Li Qing, you didn't go hunting at all, but you stayed with me all the time, right?"
Li Huan was stunned. He didn't expect Zhu Houzhao to think of this so quickly.
Indeed, Li Huan is really not so ambitious as to go hunting. Although the safety of this royal hunting ground is guaranteed to a certain extent, no one can guarantee whether there will be any accidents.
The emperor really had an accident in the dense forest. It would be strange if those cabinet and civil and military officials who wanted to smash him, Li Huan and the Eight Tigers to pieces could miss such a good opportunity.
I'm afraid that all of them will not be able to escape liquidation by then.
Therefore, just in case, Li Huan abandoned his war horse and secretly followed Zhu Houzhao and others. Seeing that Zhu Houzhao calmed down his desire to hunt, and because he wanted to see the bear fighting in the distance, Li Huan
Only then did Huan stand up.
Looking at Li Huan's expression, Zhu Houzhao knew that he had guessed correctly. His face was full of emotion and he said: "I am so lucky to have you!"
Li Huan smiled and said: "This is just my duty. It is my blessing to gain your majesty's trust."
Zhu Houzhao suddenly looked into the distance and said: "Come on, let's go back. It's okay not to watch the excitement. After all, Xiong Zhi is not easy to provoke. If those ferocious creatures are frightened, Li Qing will have to take action. Li Qing will do it for me."
Your safety has been secretly guarded, how could I betray you and let Li Qing take risks?"
"Roar!"
At this time, the roar of the bear bears was getting closer and closer. Unexpectedly, Zhu Houzhao was about to leave, but the bear bears seemed to be driven away by something.
Li Huan saw two black bears, one large and one small, roaring and panicking. Behind them were a group of ten or twenty crazy wild boars.
Seeing those wild boars, Li Huan finally understood why the three bears were driven away. The wild boars went crazy, and even black bears, tigers and other ferocious beasts had to retreat.
The expressions of the others also changed. They thought it was just a bear, but they never expected that there were so many crazy wild boars.
Li Huan immediately said to Qiu Ju and others: "You protect His Majesty while I take care of these things!"
As if they were aware of Li Huan and the others, the wild boars abandoned the three bears and came roaring towards Li Huan and the others, but they regarded Li Huan and the others as targets of attack.
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but said to Li Huan: "Li Qing must be careful."
Li Huan laughed and said without looking back: "Your Majesty, don't worry."
While he was talking, Li Huan bumped into one of the bears head-on. This bear was the strongest among the three black bears and should be the male bear in the family of three.
Xiong Zhen, who weighed a thousand kilograms, stumbled back a few steps after being hit by Li Huan, and then lay on his back with a thud.
However, Li Huan reached out and grabbed the other female bear as if nothing was wrong, and punched the female bear hard on the chest. The terrifying force directly shattered the black bear's heart.
With a pop, the female bear didn't even have time to struggle before she stopped moving.
As for the other little bear, Li Huan flipped his hand and slapped him away, breaking a small tree. He twitched a few times and lost his breath.
Obviously, Li Huan didn't hold anything back when he made a move. He hit a black bear with one move and defeated them all with three moves. But the real test was the dozens or twenty wild boars coming towards him.
Looking at the densely packed wild boars, Li Huan couldn't help but frown. However, Li Huan took the knife in his hand and jumped up. Along with the streaks of blood, the sword skills he learned from Chen Yida had been completely transformed by Li Huan.
own things.
Every stroke of the knife seemed to be perfectly natural and perfectly placed.
At this moment, Li Huan felt like the butler who was trying to untie the cow. With just one strike of the knife, the neck of a crazy wild boar was easily cut off.
Zhu Hou looked at Li Huan standing there in the distance, but not a single wild boar could cross the line where Li Huan was standing.
In just a few dozen breaths, Li Huan killed all ten or twenty wild boars with his sword. Drops of wild boar heads rolled off, and the spurting blood stained the area several feet away.
All red.
After exhaling a breath of turbidity, Li Huan sheathed his sword. He jumped down in front of Zhu Houzhao and said calmly: "Your Majesty, I have killed the bear bear and the wild boar. Your Majesty can rest assured."
However, at this time, Zhu Houzhao opened his eyes wide and said to Li Huan full of expectation: "Li Qing, I want to practice martial arts, how about you teach me!"
Although Li Huan killed two tigers in three strikes in the previous episode, which left a deep impression on Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Houzhao didn't think anything of it at that time.
But this time, Zhu Houzhao watched up close how Li Huan looked so relaxed when he easily killed three bear bears and killed ten or twenty wild boars with his sword.
At that moment, Zhu Houzhao was really stimulated by the martial arts displayed by Li Huan's Yun Danfengqing, and the idea of practicing martial arts came up in his heart.
When Zhu Houzhao said these words, Li Huan was stunned. The emperor actually wanted to practice martial arts and had to teach him himself!
Looking at Zhu Houzhao, Li Huan subconsciously said: "Your Majesty, you..."
Zhu Houzhao stared at Li Huan eagerly and said firmly: "I want to practice martial arts! I'll let you teach me, Qing family!"
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