I, who plundered the heavens, had a hundred thousand dead men

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"Today is the anniversary of the death of private entrepreneur Wu Dalang. To commemorate the martyr, we have updated 2 times today, and here is the first update!"

Due to Li Yang's deliberate connivance in the past six months, Gao Qiu, who is already the prime minister, has already used various methods to send those ministers who opposed him out of the capital.

Therefore, now the ministers in the entire court, except for the generals, all follow Gao Qiu's lead.

At this moment, in the court hall, Gao Qiu looked at the ministers who were already paying homage to him, pondered for a moment, and then spoke.

"Reporting to His Majesty the Holy Emperor, our government is currently in dire straits and is waiting to be revitalized, and the new army has been established not long ago. Taking the initiative to negotiate peace with Jingguo is the most prudent response to our government."

"Well, the Prime Minister has indeed thought carefully, but our Chinese dynasty is not the former Wu Dynasty, because our Chinese dynasty will never negotiate peace with other countries! Let alone take the initiative to propose peace!"

"Here comes Luo Meng, commander of the Xuan Jin Yiwei."

Outside the Jinluan Palace, Luo Meng, the commander of the Jinyiwei who had been waiting for him, quickly stepped into the Jinluan Palace with flying strides.

"My lord, Luo Meng, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, is here to pay homage to His Majesty the Holy Emperor!"

"Commander of the Jinyi Guards? What is this position?"

All the ministers in the dynasty had big question marks in their minds at this moment.

Obviously they don't know what the position of the Commander of the Jinyiwei is, nor when this organization was established, nor what its specific role is.

Because this is a supervisory agency secretly established by Li Yang.

Six months ago, Li Yang had already selected 3,000 dead soldiers from the tens of thousands of dead soldiers in the capital, and secretly formed the Jin Yiwei he planned.

Li Yang's purpose in establishing the Jinyiwei was naturally to separate his army of dead soldiers from the counter-intelligence work and establish a separate intelligence agency specifically to serve him, so as to truly monitor the world.

In the past six months, with Li Yang's deliberate connivance, Gao Qiu, who had become the prime minister, thought that he had been reused by Li Yang. He also felt that after the change of dynasties, Li Yang was just a man who coveted beauty and pleasure all day long.

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Therefore, after Gao Qiu became prime minister, he began to form cliques for personal gain and secretly embezzled a lot of money.

However, these matters were all investigated clearly by the Jinyiwei secretly established by Li Yang, and all relevant criminal evidence was also collected.

Li Yang did this in order to stand on the moral high ground and get rid of these lowly ministers in the court who only knew how to form cliques for personal gain.

And today, at this moment, it is time for Li Yang to completely close the net.

"Commander of the Jinyi Guards, Luo Meng, please read to everyone the information you have collected during this period." Li Yang, who was sitting high in the Jinluan Palace, said in a calm tone.

"Yes, His Majesty the Holy Emperor!"

"On June 5th of the first year of the Celestial Dynasty, Prime Minister Gao Qiu formed a party with the private sector and the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Rites and many other ministers to jointly embezzle the national treasury to relieve the people, and decentralized the food and salary of the garrison at all levels to a total of 5 million taels..."

In the court hall, Luo Meng, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, read out all the charges he had collected in the past.

Many ministers and Gao Qiu who were present were instantly turned cold, and their faces became extremely frightened.

"Prime Minister, do you have anything else to say now?"

"Please forgive me, His Majesty the Holy Emperor. I was just confused for a moment. I am loyal to His Majesty the Holy Emperor!"

"Gao Qiu, you have disappointed me so much. I ignored the past grievances and used you favorably to make you the first prime minister of our country. However, you secretly colluded with the ministers of the country and formed a clique to embezzle the food and salaries of the local governments at all levels below. It is really shameful.

The sin is unpardonable!"

"Come here, put Prime Minister Gao Qiu and a group of ministers into prison immediately. The evidence of their crimes will be made public to the public, and they will be paraded through the streets on another day to be executed!"

In the entire court, dozens of ministers who were related to Gao Qi suddenly cried loudly when they heard this.

However, Li Yang was completely undisciplined and casual as before at this moment, watching indifferently as the minister of the dynasty was escorted away by a large number of soldiers outside the palace.

While Gao Qiu and dozens of ministers from the Manchu Dynasty were imprisoned, armies led by Jin Yiwei also rushed to the homes of these ministers.

The arduous process of confiscating homes began.

After a whole day of searching the house was over, Li Yang quickly received the results reported from Jin Yiwei.

"Although I had known that Gao Qiu and other traitorous officials were all wealthy, the amount of money obtained from the house raid was still a bit surprising!"

"A wealth of 20 million taels of silver was found from the homes of Gao Qiu and dozens of ministers from the Manchu Dynasty. This is almost as much as the entire Wu Dynasty's annual fiscal revenue."

Yes, the Wu Dynasty's annual fiscal revenue in this era was more than 30 million taels.

Generally speaking, the Wu Dynasty's treasury was not short of money every year.

But the original Emperor Zhou Zhe of the Wu Dynasty did not spend the money in a reasonable way.

Coupled with the fact that there were too many corrupt officials in the original Wu Dynasty and layers of deprivation, a lot of the annual financial income of the entire Wu Dynasty was pocketed by the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty.

When Li Yang occupied Wudu, in order to fully and stably take over the entire Wu Dynasty as soon as possible, he did not take action against the ministers and wealthy businessmen in Wudu.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Li Yang directly raided the homes of dozens of ministers and found a fortune of 20 million taels of silver.

Soon, as the Jin Yiwei announced the various crimes of Gao Qiu and many other ministers on the imperial list, the people in the entire capital and the Central Plains also knew about this matter.

"What, His Majesty the Holy Emperor actually threw dozens of ministers into prison at once, and also found a huge wealth of 20 million taels of silver in the homes of these ministers. These people are really greedy!"

"Yes! I didn't expect that His Majesty the Holy Emperor of our new imperial court would be so courageous. He actually eliminated more than half of the ministers in the imperial court. Doesn't that mean that there are not many ministers in the imperial court now?"

As the matter continued to escalate, Gao Qiu and dozens of ministers became the target of treacherous ministers and despised ministers overnight.

And Li Yang, the new emperor, was gradually accepted by the people of the world.

And gradually became a sage monarch among the people.

And on the tenth day after Li Yang cleared out these useless and deceitful ministers in the court, at the border between Jingguo and Tianchao, the army of Jingguo suddenly launched a surprise attack on the border of Tianchao.

However, in this battle, although Jingguo dispatched 300,000 elite troops, there was nothing they could do against this important city outside the customs.

"General, China's firearms are so powerful that our cavalry has no advantage at all when facing these firearms."

After losing the First World War, Jingguo had to retreat to Jingguo territory after paying tens of thousands of casualties.

Because in this important border town, there were not only a large number of artillery deployed by Li Yang, but also many gunpowder bombs, which provided convenient conditions for defending the city.

Although there were only tens of thousands of people, Jingguo's 300,000 troops were unable to do anything.

Jingguo, the imperial capital.

When the news of the defeat of Jingguo's 300,000-strong army in its first battle south reached the imperial capital of Jingguo, Emperor Baili Hongqi of Jingguo and the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were all shocked.

"How come this country has such powerful firearms?"

"What can we do!"

"Your Majesty, the imperial dynasty has been in existence for less than a year, and yet it possesses such powerful firearms. It is really a serious problem for our country, Jingguo!"

"I suggest that all the forces of our country, Jingguo, should be mobilized immediately to take over the Celestial Empire in one fell swoop. Otherwise, when all the cities and armies of the Celestial Dynasty possess so many firearms, our country, Jingsheng, will face a very dangerous situation."

"Yes, Your Majesty, it is less than a year since the founding of the Celestial Empire."

"The number of these powerful firearms will definitely not be large. Perhaps they are only equipped in important border cities."

"As long as we go all out to capture these cities, the rest of the country will not be able to stop our hundreds of thousands of elite cavalry from Jingguo."