"Some people, when you kill one, they start to yell, kill two, they are even more yelling, but when you kill one hundred, ten thousand, or one hundred thousand, their mouths will suddenly close and they will never dare to say anything again!"

Li Xiake sat in the hall of the East Factory, his voice clear and slow, without any emotional ups and downs: "And you will see that the more you usually shout those who are loyal to the country, the softer your knees will be, incredibly soft, and even astonishingly soft."

Li Xiake laughed and said, "Brother Cao, look at the dynasty, how many people are not greedy for life and fear of death?"

Cao Shaoqin was a little unbelievable about Li Xiake's remarks: "Brother Li, I have also handled many cases. If you don't mention anything else, some scholars are indeed very backbone. I still admire this. I don't agree with this when you say they are all cowards."

Li Xiake smiled and said, "That's because you killed too few people and there are too many officials who have framed them!"

Cao Shaoqin smiled and lowered his head without saying a word.

In order to dominate the court in recent years, he has listed many charges, and has sent all the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty, as long as they are unclean people, who can be killed or not, tortured them all to imprisonment. Some of them have tortured and tortured them in order to make these people surrender.

During his arrest, some people surrendered, while others never bowed their heads until death. Although Cao Shaoqin was angry with these people, he really admired their hard bones in his heart.

There is a kind of person who even the enemy will give him a thumbs up to express his admiration. Although the Ming Dynasty is a bit unreasonable, there are also many people with true character and integrity.

"Don't suppress them all. Now there are many officials in the court who want to rely on you. Don't reject them. As long as these people surrender to us and help us deal with the other scholars, hehe, I'm afraid they are more cruel than our Dongchang!"

Cao Shaoqin agreed deeply: "Yes, when a traitor deals with his own people, he is indeed more cruel than anyone else!"

Li Xiake's murderous nature made Cao Shaoqin shocked: "It's easy to fight them, but if all these scholars are killed, the country will have big problems."

Li Xiake smiled and said, "Take it slowly, don't worry! You kill too many times and kill too quickly, which is difficult to deal with, but as long as you follow this idea, you will not have any problems in a prosperous dynasty!"

The two discussed this matter for more than ten days, thought of solutions to the subsequent matters one by one, and then started to take action.

At the suggestion of Li Xiake, Cao Shaoqin controlled Yingzong and began to obey the emperor's orders on the grounds that Yingzong was "in ill and difficult to take charge of the government", but in fact, he implemented his own path as an official. He, a powerful lord of the Dongchang who specialized in frame-up, actually proposed the idea of ​​"reforming the administration of officials, punishing the punishment and rewarding, and upholding justice", which caused all the civil and military officials in the court to run away in horror, thinking that Cao Shaoqin was crazy about gaining and losing his mind.

This is not the end. After advocating the rectification of the administration, Cao Shaoqin also proposed the decision to "measure the land of the world, regardless of the government and the country, all the taxes will be paid."

At this time, there were many officials in various places doing business, but these people basically did not pay any taxes and silver for their business. Especially in southern provinces, transactions that produce large quantities of goods such as tea and silk are almost impossible to receive any taxes, and even the taxes for salt tea monopoly are almost gone, which is pitiful.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a pitiful lack of commercial taxes. It was said that the rich people were hiding, and the rich local gentry were fat, but the national treasury was so empty that even mice were too lazy to enter.

The agricultural tax is not low, but it collects taxes from the powerless and powerless civilians. The taxes from local wealthy families cannot be collected. Even if they are collected, it is just a meaning and can be almost negligible.

When Cao Shaoqin proposed to "reorganize the administration", no one of the civil and military officials had reason to object, but when he was about to collect commercial taxes and measure the land in the world, many people immediately jumped out because this greatly touched their interests.

At this time, I saw the benefits of being a treacherous and powerful minister!

You don’t agree? Well, let’s catch it!

Do you object? Arrest you too!

Anyone who objected? Hit me! Hit them hard! Their butts were so full that they could not attend court for half a year!

And whoever objected, check the person first and entered his home for a search. Once the family income and salary were not equal, they immediately mentioned the Dongchang for interrogation, which was almost accurate.

Just beating and arresting people is not enough. Cao Shaoqin has attracted many children of Confucianism. Under the guidance of Li Xiake, these officials began to criticize these officials who hindered reform and reform, list their crimes one by one, and finally launched a vigorous publicity campaign, promoting all the family income and common people of these people who opposed the reform, and let the storyteller compile jokes and spread them all around the world.

In any era, there were many people who hated the rich, and the people of the Ming Dynasty could not avoid the common people. Although there was a huge class gap at this time, many people did not dare to point fingers at the officials and commented on them, but after listening to the propaganda, many people hated the corrupt officials of the dynasty and cursed privately.

"For these people, arresting them and killing them is not the solution to the problem. Only by messing with them will they be afraid, hehe..."

On the Dongchang Parliament, which is routine every day, Li Xiake sat at a large desk specially created by someone. After listening to his subordinates’ reports on recent events, he laughed and said, “Aren’t these hypocritical guys the most shameless? Now let’s pull off their faces and let everyone see their true faces. Tsk tsk, this must be very interesting!”

There are regular meetings held every day in the East Factory, and they have been customized by Li Xiake. They have been off for one day every ten days of work, and are also custom-made by Li Xiake. Even the huge oval-shaped office work in the East Factory Hall was ordered by the carpenter to customize it.

The people from the East Factory were not used to the meeting method formulated by Li Xiake at the beginning, and they did not dare to be on par with Li Xiake. However, after a long time, everyone got used to it. After all, there was a main seat on this conference table, so it cannot be said that it was inseparable from the high and low.

"Since we have rectified the administration, let's start with ourselves. Jia Ting, Lu Xiaochuan, you guys hand over all the silver and other things you embezzled. And Brother Cao, you can take out all the money and treasures you received."

Li Xiake sat on a specially made ring chair and scanned the leaders of the East Factory in the hall: "You said you are all eunuchs, children without children, why do you need so much money? Do you hatch eggs? It's almost enough! I'll increase your salary to ensure that you can't starve to death, which is enough for your daily expenses, but it's impossible to be big-handed, unless you want to go against me."

Li Xiake will take out a wine jar and pour a glass of wine for everyone: "A person will die sooner or later when he lives. You have enjoyed wealth and glory. It is meaningless to enjoy it all the time. It is better to do something practical."

He chuckled softly, "I don't let you enjoy it, you can't let others enjoy it. But there is one thing you must remember for me that when investigating the case, you can't do anything to frame or assassinate it. Be realistic, what should be, what is it. We must be upright in everything we do, and we cannot embarrass our Dongchang!"

Li Xiake picked up the wine glass and said to everyone: "If you can do it, then drink this glass!"

The faces of about ten people in the hall were not good-looking, and even Cao Shaoqin looked painful: "You really handed over them all?"

Li Xiake said: "What's the use of things outside of them?"

Cao Shaoqin nodded and said, "That's right!"

He drank the glass of wine that Li Xiake had filled in one sip, put down the glass and shook his head and smiled: "I didn't expect that my children from the East Factory and I will be the day to be a clean official!"
Chapter completed!