The Rise of the European Emperor

Liu Jin is actually a very capable eunuch, otherwise, he would not be able to control the government. Moreover, the "rice fine" he invented largely prevented the loss of state assets.

What is the "meter penalty"? It is mainly aimed at the loss of the national treasury and storage in various places. Before Liu Jin's political reform, many officials in charge of storage often took advantage of their positions to embezzle food and cloth from state treasuries and local official warehouses, causing a huge deficit to the officials. Moreover, this kind of greedy ink is gradual, and it is not easy to see if you are greedy for ink every day. After all, it is normal for food and other supplies to be somewhat depleted. As long as you are skilled, you can steal a lot of ink from the treasury and official warehouses in a year, and you can't find it out at all in the audit.

Liu Jin then thought of a unique trick - "Rice Punishment". The specific method is to strictly count the quantity of materials when the officials who manage the storage are newly appointed. Wait until the term expires, and then click on the supplies. Excluding the reasonable loss part, the resigned warehouse official must pay for it out of his own pocket. Otherwise, just wait for the imperial edict...

This trick is very simple and rude-I don't care what reason you use, if you lose money, you lose money, and you pay for it yourself. No matter how good your accounts are, I only look at the results...

This method is very effective in preventing the loss of national assets. Therefore, even though Liu Jin was notorious after his death, this method has been preserved. Marin sometimes thought that if the reform of state-owned enterprises had also used this method, perhaps many state-owned assets would not be lost so easily. You must know that when the state-owned enterprises were reformed at the beginning, many of the original high-level managers almost took over the factory at the price of picking up junk. If Liu Jin's "rice penalty" was used to punish them, this would never happen. Sometimes, the wisdom of the ancients can also be learned by future generations.

Of course, Liu Jin himself is not that smart, but an official secretary named Zhang Cai came up with this idea for him. Zhang Cai and Liu Jin are from the same hometown. After Liu Jin came to power, he was promoted to a top position like Minister of the Ministry of Officials by holding Liu Jin's thigh. Of course, he is also talented, and the "rice penalty" strategy offered to Liu Jin has greatly curbed the loss of court assets. However, after Liu Jin's downfall, this guy is also finished...

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Although Liu Jin is capable and has come up with such a simple and crude trick as the "rice fine", he is not a good person himself. Because of excessive extortion of officials, Liu Jin has a very bad reputation among officials. Except for those officials who took refuge in him, the rest of the officials wished to eat Liu Jin's flesh raw. Later, Liu Jin was executed by Ling Chi, which was the result of the promotion of all officials. According to Liu Jin's own crimes, he is at most a super-corrupt, and he has not committed any heinous crimes such as treason. But Zhengde was only 18 years old, his ears were soft, and when he was fooled by the officials, he naturally became angry and made Liu Jin cut into pieces.

Before Liu Jin was killed, the young Emperor Zhengde actually believed in people. For example, he trusted Liu Jin very much and entrusted him with all important affairs of the government. Later, he believed those civil servants too much, thinking that Liu Jin was heinous, and on impulse, he cut Liu Jin into pieces. It was after this incident that Emperor Zhengde realized that he had been used by his courtiers. Then, I got a little at odds with the ministers and started to confront each other. Before that, Zhengde was just a newbie who didn't care much about anything.

Of course, no matter how young Zhengde was, he was still an emperor. As an emperor, he naturally attached great importance to imperial etiquette. The reason why Liu Jin was plundered by Zhengde is because those ministers fooled Zhengde—Liu Jin wanted to be emperor, and said that the people called Liu Jin "Emperor Liu".

It was this kind of slander that hurt Zhengde's nerves and made him decide to execute Liu Jinling late. In fact, if Liu Jin really wanted to rebel, he would have been killed long ago with his early Zhengde rank. And, a eunuch,

It doesn't make sense to say that he rebelled. Eunuchs have no sons and cannot marry wives normally. Even if you win the country, what are you using it for? There are no heirs. Even a super eunuch like Li Fuguo in the Tang Dynasty, most of them manipulated the emperor's abolition, rather than being the emperor himself. And what is the purpose of the eunuch abolishing the emperor? Of course it is to control the government! And Liu Jin has already controlled the government, and Zhengde also trusts him very much, so there is no need for him to rebel.

Therefore, it was Zhengde who was limped by the ministers and made a wrong judgment. In addition, other cronies of Zhengde in the "Eight Tigers of Zhengde" also colluded with ministers and tried their best to black Liu Jin, which led to Liu Jin's death.

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However, at this juncture, Marin suddenly sent the blue-black Galapagos tortoise, a super "mysterious tortoise" that completely matches the "Treasure of Heaven" in historical records, which helped to a large extent. Give Liu Jin a hand.

Because, the appearance of the top auspicious sign "Treasure of the Son of Heaven" greatly increased the prestige of the young Zhengde Emperor and consolidated his throne. The dedication of the "Treasure Turtle of the Son of Heaven" was precisely promoted by Liu Jin.

In this way, it will not make sense for the ministers to frame Liu Jin for rebellion in the future. Why? If Liu Jin wanted to rebel, why would he offer the "Treasure Turtle of the Son of Heaven" Jiarui, who demonstrates Zhengde's status as the "True Son of Man"? It doesn't make sense... If you really want to rebel, shouldn't you discredit the target of the rebellion?

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Of course, this is something……

The next morning, when the officials went to court, Emperor Zhengde excitedly asked the generals of Jinyiwei to carry nine blue and black "xuan turtles" to the main hall, so that the officials could open their eyes...

"Mysterious turtle!"

"It's still nine!"

All the officials lost their composure on the spot, except the officials of Liu Jin's party who had received the news before...

When the huge tortoise was carried up to the hall, none of the ministers believed that it was not the tortoise's. Because the size of the Galapagos tortoise is too huge.

The word "Xuan" in Xuan Gui originally had meanings such as strangeness, scarlet black, and sky. Representing the sky, it also has a great metaphor.

Therefore, the Galapagos giant tortoise, which is huge and blue-black in color, matches the word "Xuan" very well. When many courtiers saw these turtles for the first time, the word "xuangui" popped up unconsciously in their minds, which was purely a conditioned reflex...

Moreover, often walking in the Forbidden City, most of the ministers have seen the statue of the tortoise in the Forbidden City, which is comparable to the Galapagos tortoise. The only difference is that the head of the turtle statue looks like a dragon's head.

However, the dragon-headed turtle does not exist, it only exists in fantasy. But the Galapagos tortoise, except for the lack of a dragon head, has other features that resemble the statue of the black tortoise, and the courtiers have to believe that this is indeed a black tortoise...

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Moreover, the number of 9 "black turtles" is also very attractive. Because, 9 stands for "Ninth Five-Year Honor". And Chinese culture respects "9" very much. For example, the world is divided into "Kyushu", bronze vessels have "Jiuding", the emperor has "Jiuqing", court officials are divided into "Nine Ranks", and the capital has "Nine Gates"...

In short, for ancient China, "9" is a very auspicious number. Especially, when 9 becomes a super auspicious number like black turtle...

The black tortoise is the most auspicious, let alone the blue and black "Treasure Turtle of the Son of Heaven"? What's more, it's still 9...

Therefore, all civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty agreed that it was the Xuangui!

Moreover, the nine tortoises represent that all the Kyushus in the world are in good weather! After all, Xuanwu is the god of water, a symbol of good weather...

All of a sudden, the ministers shouted long live and congratulated Emperor Zhengde, who was only 18 years old. The words of praise were poured over without money, which almost lost the young Emperor Zhengde...

However, among the courtiers, some ministers who planned to overthrow Liu Jin couldn't help but look worried...

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