It was beyond the expectations of Emperor Jiajing.
After Zhu Yuanzhang massacred more than 60 people in the Huangji Palace, there were no problems with the entire imperial court's operating system.
Not only did the Qingliu Party fail to pursue the victory and completely annihilate the Yan Party, but even the Yan Party itself ceased its activities and did not take any further action.
More than sixty people died quietly, causing no splash in the officialdom.
On the contrary, around the sudden appearance of more than 60 official positions, all parties once again began a new round of overt and covert fighting.
"Why is this?" Emperor Jiajing was puzzled by this.
He originally thought that after the Great Court Meeting, what awaited Zhu Yuanzhang would be chaos in the world, with civil unrest everywhere. Unexpectedly, the civil servants seemed to be very powerful, but in the end they lacked stamina and simply collapsed.
"Is it difficult to understand?"
"Those officials are not fools. They know that we are really going to kill people, so who would be willing to be the leader?"
"Besides, we have clearly set new rules for them. As long as they act according to our rules, they can still be officials without any worries. Why should they rebel against us!"
"After all, the dead are dead, and they are still alive."
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Jiajing, and then at Zhu Xiongying who was thinking seriously on the other side. He couldn't help but began to teach earnestly: "As long as the fundamental interests of the gentry are not touched, it is actually very simple to be a good emperor. It is nothing more than two things.
Point, set the rules and abide by the rules.”
"Emperor Chongzhen is someone who doesn't know how to set rules, so all the officials under his rule are in danger, and naturally no one is willing to do anything."
"The Emperor Jiajing did have good rules and good checks and balances. Unfortunately, he took the lead in not following the rules. The eunuchs around him did the same. They took bribes and built palaces. There is a saying that what goes up leads to imitation, do you understand?"
"He himself is the biggest embezzler in the entire Ming Dynasty. Do you expect his officials to not be corrupt?"
"Even if it's just to defile themselves, they still want to be greedy."
Being reprimanded by Zhu Yuanzhang in person, Emperor Jiajing's face suddenly turned red.
But he didn't dare to refute Zhu Yuanzhang, mainly because the bruises on his body from the last time were still not gone!
"Huang Jin, you go to Zhejiang with our orders, tell Yan Song Jiajing clearly that we will not hold any trace of the bad things he did forty-three years ago, and urge him to handle Zhejiang affairs as soon as possible and come back as his chief minister."
"Tell him that with us here, as long as he continues to do things with his heart, no one can kill him or the life of the Yan family. Let him just keep his heart in his stomach."
Having said this, Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a moment, and then said: "This sentence is clearly written in the imperial edict, which completely reassures him."
"Yes!" Huang Jin respectfully accepted the order and resigned.
The imperial edict issued by Zhu Yuanzhang himself was not just a simple order, it also contained the imperial dragon spirit.
As long as it is written in the imperial edict, Zhu Yuanzhang cannot go back on it.
Zhu Yuanzhang understood this, and Yan Song must have understood it too.
Of course, what Yan Song didn't understand was that if Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to kill him, there were actually many ways...
"Grandpa Huang, I also want to go to Zhejiang and see the Ming Dynasty in this world." Zhu Xiongying said with anticipation.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while, couldn't help but grinned fondly and said: "That's fine, it will be good for you to see all kinds of things in the world."
"Just in time, Grandpa Huang will give you another task."
"Go and help Grandpa Huang find a person named Li Shizhen. Tell him that Grandpa Huang admires his medical skills and wants to invite him to become a high official in the court. Ask him if he is willing?"
"Yes, grandson promises to complete the task!" Zhu Xiongying agreed solemnly.
"Let Lan Yu follow you, and be careful on the way. Although this world is generally stable, the power of the Great Confucian should not be underestimated."
Looking at Zhu Xiongying's retreating figure, Zhu Yuanzhang gave a worried warning.
"I know, grandpa!" When he said this, Zhu Xiongying's figure had already disappeared.
"This brat!"
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and cursed, put his hands behind his back and walked to the window. Looking at the heavy snow that had drifted outside at an unknown time, he began to think about the next plan in his mind.
"After you have tamed the officials and established the rules, then it is time to clean up the officialdom."
"Anti-corruption..."
Zhu Yuanzhang chewed on these two words, and what came to his mind was a figure he had never met before, but who was famous in this era.
"Hai Rui!"
Some people say that this man was a sharp sword in the Ming Dynasty, not because he followed evil as an enemy, but because he was upright and because he did what he knew he couldn't do.
Hai Rui offended many people in his life.
From Yan Song to Xu Jie, the two chief ministers of the Ming Dynasty, he had been reckless, but why was he still alive, and his official position was getting bigger and bigger.
It's because those people couldn't find any flaws in him, so there was no other option except to arrange a high position for him and support him idle.
Such people are feared in this day and age.
Because this sword is so sharp, it not only hurts others, it also hurts itself.
Hai Ruike doesn't care what faction he belongs to, what support he has, or his friendship with the same family, as long as he violates the laws of the Ming Dynasty, he will dare to act recklessly.
There was only one thing in his heart from beginning to end, and that was the common people.
In the Jiajing Dynasty, except for Hai Rui, no one in the officialdom dared to say that they had not violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty.
Such a person was so out of tune with this era that no one dared to use him, not even Zhang Juzheng later.
But Zhu Yuanzhang dared.
He was confident that he could hold this sword and use it to cut through the first layer of haze that shrouded Ming Dynasty's officialdom...
"But we have to wait a little longer."
"We still have to see how Xu Jie arranges the positions of these more than 60 officials?"
"Let's see how much stolen money Yan Song can seize from Zhejiang this time."
"When these two things are settled, it will be time to use this Ming Dynasty sword..."
And it was at the same time that Zhu Yuanzhang was purging the officialdom of the Jiajing Dynasty.
The early years of the Ming Dynasty were also not stable.
On a newly built official road in the northeast of the Ming Dynasty, a cavalry team of 800 people was galloping from a distance.
This group of cavalry belongs to the Liaoyang Vanguard of the Northern War Zone commanded by Li Wenzhong.
They are currently carrying out a top-secret mission issued by the theater headquarters.
"stop!"
Qianhu Shen Jin, who was now a ninth-grade martial artist, suddenly pulled the reins, causing everyone to stop.
He opened the map and checked it, and quickly determined the location of his mission.
"Get off the main road and continue five miles east!" He shouted loudly, leading his men and horses to run away again.
The distance of five miles is fleeting for ordinary horses, not to mention that their mounts are the Fire Scale Horse, a new breed of horse recently developed by the imperial court.
This kind of horse is like a powerful human warrior. Its strength, speed, and endurance are two to three times greater than ordinary horses. Although it is not an extraordinary horse, it is not much different.
A few minutes later, Shen Jin finally arrived at the predetermined location with his 800 people.
This is an old forest, very quiet, nothing unusual.
But Shen Jin knew that this place would soon be different.
He glanced at the watch newly issued by the imperial court in his hand and found that it was only twenty minutes before the foreign land arrived, and the expression on his face couldn't help but be a little solemn.
"Quick, everyone dismount and establish defensive positions as soon as possible. The impact of the extraordinary beasts is coming soon. We must block these damn things at the door of the foreign land and prevent them from entering the Ming Dynasty."
"yes!"
The power of the 800 people who had the lowest level of cultivation and were extremely energetic was so powerful. In less than ten minutes, sandbags and trenches were ready, and everyone was ready with long guns and short cannons.
A few minutes later, right in front of Shen Jin and others, the space was distorted, and a huge transparent light spot began to appear in mid-air. Behind the light spot were patches of huge snakes.
The shortest of these snakes are three to four meters long and the mouth of a bowl is as thick as a bowl.
Even more exaggeratedly, some snakes have small horns growing on their heads.
But Shen Jin and others were completely indifferent to this. As combat troops active on the front line, this was not the first time they had faced these strange beasts.
Before this mission, they had successfully completed three similar missions.
After today, this number will be refreshed again.
The moment the rich spiritual energy poured into the foreign land, countless snakes sensed it. Their hungry eyes turned green and they immediately felt the smell of food from the outside.
"His, hiss, hiss!" Snakes of all sizes became excited at the first moment. The snakes squirmed, seemingly slowly, but they surged towards the node light spot where the two worlds merged very quickly.
They want to enter a new world that belongs to them, they want to hunt, and anything that stands in front of them will be torn apart.
"preparation……."
"Release!" Seeing the snakes pouring out from the space passage in groups, Shen Jin raised his hand expressionlessly, and then waved it down violently.
"Boom, boom, boom!" The sixteen small cannons that were also pulled over by Huoling began to spray artillery fire at the first time.
Today's artillery shells are no longer the same as before.
The Academy of Sciences developed smokeless gunpowder seven years ago, and then black powder was completely eliminated.
This kind of smokeless gunpowder is powerful and destructive, and the explosion does not obscure the battlefield with huge smoke and dust. It is simply a weapon of war.
Every bomb dropped on the snake swarm can take away countless lives. In just one shelling, 30% of the snake swarm was emptied.
"Continue, don't stop!" Shen Jin spoke again.
"The rest harvest the scattered ones and try not to let one escape."
"Pah, pah, pah!"
The sound of gunfire became more intensive, and within a few minutes, these extraordinary creatures with low IQs, completely defenseless, and did not even know they were hiding, felt the power of the fire of civilization.
"Hiss!" Suddenly, a hissing sound suddenly sounded from the group of snakes.
A small pure white snake shot towards Shen Jin's position like a bolt of lightning.
"Ha...!" Shen Jin looked at the little snake whose speed was comparable to that of a ninth-grade martial artist, without any panic in his eyes, because he knew someone would kill this guy for him.