The entire crackdown on Confucian scholars continued for ten days. In these ten days, more than 500 civil officials and Confucian scholars were confiscated.

Li Yunxiao, who was in charge of the house search, came to the palace to meet Li Zhongyi with a thick stack of materials.

After reading the materials, Li Zhongyi couldn't help but smile and said, "The results are quite good. In addition to copper coins, gold and silver alone are not a small amount, and there are also mountains of grain. Haha, scholars like to hoard grain."

Li Yunxiao knew very well that the civil officials despise businessmen. In fact, which of their families does not have a business servant or relative?

"Grain is a specialized business of the imperial court. No one is allowed to engage in food business except Li Ji Grain Store. Now it seems that these scholars have read all their books into the dog's belly and have actually hoarded nearly ten million stones of food. What do they want?" Li Zhongyi did not intend to let Li Yunxiao answer. He took a sip of tea and smiled coldly, "They want to hoard goods and take the opportunity to make huge profits when the food is not harvested, right?"

"Yes, the wise are the emperor." The food Li Yunxiao obtained from scouting the house was enough for hundreds of families, and they had eaten for more than ten years.

"Hmph, these so-called scholars say that they are so magnificent. Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. Bah, they secretly do speculative things and sell dog meat with the title of sheep. They dare to give me a disgusting nickname?" Li Zhongyi felt very unhappy when he thought of the new nicknames from Confucian scholars.

Li Yunxiao knew the disgusting nickname, but she always pretended to be stupid and refused to say it. Of course, only fools would say that insulting nickname in front of Li Zhongyi.

Since Li Zhongyi took over the military and political power, the food monopoly system has been firmly implemented.

Under the current circumstances, it is still a small peasant society, and agriculture relies entirely on the weather for its own income. It is common for hundreds of military states in the world to experience floods this year and droughts next year.

Since there is a salt and iron franchise system, Li Zhongyi does not mind including food in the scope of the franchise at all. After all, food is the most important thing for the people. When the people are not full of food, they are the time to rise up.

However, the system of grain monopoly was unanimously resisted by officials and gentry from top to bottom. They did not dare to make jokes openly, but they repeatedly made secret tricks and unscrupulous attacks on Li Ji Grain Store, which Li Zhongyi was stationed in various prefectures and counties.

However, with the increasing number of jobs in the village, the amount of food in the imperial court has also increased exponentially at an astonishing rate.

As a result, the regular liquidation system in various places has been fully unfolded. Now, every state of the court has set up a regular liquidation position.

The so-called regular warehouse is similar to the nature of the Grain Reserve Bureau in later generations. In the bumper years, more grain is collected into the warehouse. When the disaster year comes, the warehouse will be opened and grain will be released, and while the grain prices are stabilized, the disaster victims will be helped.

Cutting off people's wealth is more hateful than killing parents!

After Li Zhongyi monopolized the transaction of grain, various places had frequent problems of harvesting grain. Even some places dared to attack the grain transport team because of the high mountains and the far away emperor.

However, as the transfer of the village chief gradually came to fruition, officials and gentry in various places became much more honest than before.

After all, in areas where there is a village official who has changed jobs, the gentry wants to incite villagers to cause trouble, which is like a birthday boy hanging himself and living a life!

When they changed their jobs to the village chief, each of them had the village army, which was equivalent to grasping the lifeline of the gentry from all over the country.

"Your Majesty, there is not enough prison cells." Li Yunxiao didn't want to interrupt Li Zhongyi's contemplation, but he had no choice but to arrest too many civil officials, Confucian scholars and their families.

So much so that the prison cells of the Nine Gate Admiral’s Office, the Tiqisi Office and the Police Temple Office were all filled with prisoners.

"Well, I don't want to dirty my hands. As long as I find out, I will be sent to Lingzhou."

In this era, the concept of being unable to leave homeland has been deeply rooted, and punishments that are thousands of miles away seem even more terrible than punishments for scepters.

"Here." Li Yunxiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He arrested nearly 10,000 people at one time, and there was not enough cells. It was really difficult to deal with.

Human resources are actually a very valuable resource. It is impossible for Li Zhongyi to kill so many scholars and so many intellectuals.

The Confucian scholars could not understand the basic national policy that had been dismissed for nearly a thousand years, and Li Zhongyi could understand it. Since they could not understand it, let them blow the northwest wind and let their minds be clear and clear.

During the morning court the next day, Li Zhongyi stood firmly on the dragon throne when he saw Wang Dahu coming out of the shift with his head held high and said loudly: "Report to the emperor, I have a memorial."

Li Zhongyi glanced at Wang Dahu and asked lightly: "What's the matter?"

All the people present were big figures in the court, and without exception, they were all important officials of Zhu Zi of the fourth rank or above.

Who is Wang Dahu? He was one of Li Zhongyi Weiyi's sworn brothers, the famous left censor of the Censorate, holding the power to supervise all officials. He suddenly came out of the list and made a memorial, and there was no good thing.

Just when the important officials were uneasy, Wang Dahu took out the memorial that had been prepared from his sleeve and read it loudly: "Zhongshu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu Shishu, colluded with the rebels, and made ill-intentioned plans. There is evidence to investigate..."

"ah……"

“Wow…”

Wang Dahu's bullets impeached more than a dozen important officials of the third rank or above in a row, including former Prime Minister Fan Zhi, who had already stepped aside.

The important officials who were originally lucky in their minds suddenly sank their hearts. It seems that Wang Dahu is trying to catch all the Confucian leaders in one place!

Li Zhongyi didn't say anything, but just listened silently to Wang Dahu's impeachment list. Fan Zhi was on the list, and he didn't expect it.

Thinking back to the beginning, Fan Zhi and Empress Dowager Fu joined forces to deal with Li Zhongyi, fearing that Li Zhongyi would become a big deal.

However, man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. Li Zhongyi easily captured the Chai family's territory with his invincible iron army and epoch-making artillery.

Li Qiong held Xianghu, closed his eyes, as if he was asleep, and he didn't say anything.

Zhe Congruan lowered her head and stared at the bricks on the ground in the hall, as if there was a huge amount of wealth hidden underneath.

Liu Jinshan held the elephant stool steadily and looked straight ahead. However, he could not hear a word of Wang Dahu's pendant.

How to say it, Cui Zhengxun's jump was a bad act that seriously provoked the emperor's authority. It was precisely because of that jump that Wang Dahu was unscrupulously criticized today. No matter what, it was all the blame for the Confucian scholars.

Since Kong Kun was demoted to the northwest, the number of ministers leaning against Liu Jinshan has increased day by day. The Liu family's door was described as bustling traffic, and it is impossible to summarize its unprecedented grand occasion.

In the cabinet, Li Qiong and Zhe Congruan were old and obviously had only a handful of time to stay in the court.

Liu Jinshan is not only young, but just turned 43 this year, and he is the prime minister promoted by Li Zhongyi.

With Kong Kun's collapse, the number of civil officials who fell to Liu Jinshan's death was increasing day by day. Fortunately, Liu Jinshan did not have the habit of receiving gifts, otherwise, his property would probably exceed one million coins in just one month.

According to the rules of the court, ministers impeached by the Censorate must take the initiative to ask Li Zhongyi for leave as soon as possible, temporarily suspended from his post and stayed home for participation.

Suspension is to be accepted, that is, temporarily leave the position to avoid interfering with the further investigation of the Censorate.

"Your Majesty, I'm wronged..." Liu Chang, the assistant minister of the disciple, jumped out first and knelt down at the stairs to shout for justice.

Zhao Jin, the Minister of the Secretariat, was not a fool. He quickly followed suit and knelt down in front of Li Zhongyi, crying and shouting for justice.

Li Qiong glanced at Liu Chang who was crying with tears in his eyes. He couldn't help but sigh secretly. If he had known today, why would he have been there?

As far as Li Qiong knows, no Li Zhongyi's enemies can eat them well. They are either knocked down to the ground or thrown into the Eighteen Hells and will never be able to turn over.

Before Wang Dahu's spelling was finished, Li Zhongyi remained silent. Li Qiong, Zhe Congruan and Liu Jinshan, the three prime ministers, did not say a word. No one helped Liu Chang and Zhao Jin and others to relax.

Before the establishment of this dynasty, the Minister of the Secretariat and the Minister of the Secretariat would basically add the title of Pingzhangshi of the Secretariat, which is what ordinary people call the minister of the prime minister, and is a natural candidate in the Political Affairs Hall.

However, after the dynasty began to begin, Li Zhongyi easily underestimated the political affairs hall and the agency that acted as a minister of power turned into a cabinet.

The changes in the central organization led to the Minister of the Secretariat and the Minister of the Secretariat, who had real power, becoming an empty minister. Liu Chang and Zhao Jin were really unwilling to do so.

Wang Dahu is not an ordinary person. If he does not have conclusive evidence in his hands, he will not be able to attack Liu Chang and Zhao Jin.

With both personal and physical evidence, Liu Chang and Zhao Jin were not allowed to argue. Wang Dahu quietly entered the palace yesterday and had already spread the truth in front of Li Zhongyi.

In today's morning court, Wang Dahu just followed the script and went through the motions. The collapse of Liu Chang and Zhao Jin was already a destined thing.

Liu Chang originally thought that he was hiding very deeply and no one knew the role he played in the process of troublemakers.

However, there is no airtight wall in the world. The scholars in the Tiqisi who were caught in the Tiqisi were not very hard-working. Before Zuo Ziguang could order the punishment, someone was so scared that he confessed everything he knew.

After Wang Dahu finished reading the long list, Li Zhongyi said lightly: "The rules and regulations of the court are by no means a joke."

The final result!

Following the court's system, it means that Liu Chang and Zhao Jin must ask for leave immediately and go home to attend the investigation to avoid affecting the subsequent investigation.

Liu Chang knew something was wrong, but he was still lucky. He suddenly kowtowed heavily and cried: "Your Majesty, it was all instigated by Zhao Jin..."

Li Qiong sighed secretly. Liu Chang was really a villain. Before he could do anything, he turned against him and sold Zhao Jin.

Zhao Jin was so angry that his whole body was trembling. It was Liu Chang who took the initiative to find his home and encouraged him to make trouble together.

Now that Liu Chang turned around, he actually turned around and put the shit pot on Zhao Jin's head.
Chapter completed!