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Chapter 138 All corrupt officials in Shanxi have been killed! Something happened again in Liaodong!

After the Shanxi merchants were exterminated, officials of all sizes in Shanxi, who were corrupt, were all killed and had their homes confiscated.

From their mansion, nearly 100 million taels of silver were obtained.

The highest among them was the governor of Shanxi.

This old guy actually embezzled more than three million taels of silver.

His annual salary is just over a thousand taels of silver.

He will make this money for two to three thousand years.

It is said that when they took him out, he cried and lay down on the silver, shouting:

He was poor all his life because he passed the Jinshi examination in Gansu.

My family used to be farmers, and we had to work hard for several generations.

He was also conscientious in the beginning, but since he was transferred to Shanxi, his bones have been softened by the gold and silver here.

From then on, he colluded with Shanxi businessmen and made a fortune by using Zhangjiakou and Shahukou, the two smuggling passes to the north.

On weekdays, the governor of Shanxi also learned the picky nature of Shanxi merchants.

The inner lining is actually patched, and I don’t usually put meat sauce on my noodles.

But it was such an official who actually found millions of taels of silver from his home.

At that time, he pointed at the silver and cried and said: He didn't spend a single tael of silver, he didn't dare to spend it.

Every night I put on my clothes and go to the bank to carefully wipe off the dust on the silver.

He even remembered the location of each ingot of silver, and he had been doing so carefully for seven or eight years.

Except for more and more silver coming in, basically no one tael of silver has ever been given out.

He was like a brave man, opening his big mouth and swallowing the money constantly, but never got a penny out.

Everyone in his family lived in poverty and had to eat porridge every day.

Everyone thought that he was thrifty, honest and self-reliant.

But I didn't expect that he was the one who was greedy the most.

Hundreds of officials, large and small, were arrested together. Only then did everyone realize that the imperial court had sent an imperial minister.

And this imperial envoy not only 'annihilated' the Tatars who were supposed to be looting their Shanxi province.

Of course, this "extermination" was said by the imperial envoy who later looted the Shanxi merchants.

In fact, everyone knows it in their hearts, and it has not been destroyed at all.

It is estimated that he was caught by Cao Zhengchun, the imperial envoy, on the way, and then used him for his own purposes.

Let them turn around and eliminate those profiteers.

After everyone understood it, they agreed with this behavior.

Then Cao Zhengchun petitioned the imperial court, and hundreds of officials gathered in various state capitals to behead him.

After these officials were killed, a very funny scene occurred.

Because there was such a big vacancy in Shanxi, everyone was originally vying to go to Shanxi to become an official.

But this time, everyone who was selected by the Ministry of Civil Affairs to serve as an official in Shanxi cried to the sky and refused to go.

In the end, he was forced to go there.

Because these officials knew very well that without Shanxi merchants, Shanxi would be a poor place. They would not be able to get any oil or water there, and they would not dare to do so.

The moment hundreds of Shanxi officials were beheaded, the people cheered.

The air above Shanxi seems to be refreshed and the smog has been cleared.

The smoke and dust that had lingered for decades or hundreds of years were all dispelled at this moment, and everyone felt that the air they breathed was brand new.

When Cao Zhengchun appeared at the gate of the Shanxi Governor's Office, the famous people who had come knelt on the street and lined up in a long queue of more than ten miles.

Millions of people in Shanxi Province were ruined by these Shanxi merchants. How many officials were sent by the imperial court, but their bones were softened by the silver when they came to this Shura field.
Even these Shanxi merchants were protected by high-ranking officials within the imperial court.

They really show a saying - money can communicate with the gods.

Even if His Majesty the Emperor wants to attack them, they will be able to learn the news as soon as possible and then come up with countermeasures.

It was not about colluding with the Tatars in the north to go south to plunder and threaten the court.

He colluded with the southeastern merchants and pirates to plunder the southeast.

Even officials within the imperial court would protect Shanxi merchants on the grounds that the generals stationed in Liaodong had no military pay and had to rely on Shanxi merchants to provide military pay. Anyway, profit is the priority, and they have plenty of ways to protect it.

But they didn't expect that Cao Zhengchun would kill them after he arrived.

Since all of them have money that can communicate with gods, Cao Zhengchun, the god of murder, told them that our family doesn't love money or women, but only loves killing people.

Of course, the most important reason is that Cao Zhengchun was loyal to the emperor and Chen Han, and had nothing to do with anyone else.

As long as it is a task assigned by the emperor and Chen Han, he will definitely implement it resolutely.

Immediately afterwards, the local police officers, except for Ma Gui, were either transferred away or had their heads chopped off.

These garrison officers even launched a rebellion.

A total of 7,000 guardsmen officers had been corrupted by Shanxi merchants for a long time. When Cao Zhengchun and others cleaned up Shanxi merchants, they knew that they would not escape death, so they fought back desperately.

Of course they suffered the inhumane massacre by Cao Zhengchun.

For these rebels, Cao Zhengchun did not give them any way to survive.

That time, just outside Taiyuan City, these rebellious officers were killed without leaving any trace of their armor.

That time, not only did Ma Gui see it very clearly, but even the Tatars also saw it very clearly.

From then on, Magui and the Tatars no longer dared to have any resistance to Cao Zhengchun.

Ma Gui even contributed more than 200,000 taels of silver from the bribes he had received at home.

Cao Zhengchun still remembered Chen Han's words.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the salary of military generals was much lower than that of civilian officials, so a large number of military generals supported the bandits just to gain money.

Now that he has money in his hands, Chen Han is still willing to let go of these generals who have made great contributions in history and let them remember the emperor's favor.

When Cao Zhengchun took out the emperor's will, announced it in front of Ma Gui, and told him that all this was because Chen Han, the loyal protector, had obtained favors for them.

That day Ma Gui knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.

The man in his forties realized at this moment that the court had never forgotten him.

So he swore allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor.

And his more than two hundred thousand taels of silver were not confiscated.

Since then, Ma Gui and his family have guarded Datong Mansion for generations, and there has never been any corruption.

Of course, Chen Han later gave him very high treatment.

From now on, the Ma family no longer needs to live through corruption.

Ma Gui himself and several of his nephews were also worthy of Chen Han's support, and they followed Chen Han closely from then on.

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at the same time.

Finally, a letter asking for help came from Liaodong.

It is said that the Jurchens in Liaodong began to act strangely again.

Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, asked the court to increase military pay.

This time he asked the court to allocate all the military pay owed to local soldiers from the fourth year of Longqing to the sixth year of Longqing.

The reason is that if they don't give it, the local soldiers may mutiny.

In addition, an additional 500,000 taels of military pay will be provided for this time to defend against the enemy.

Anyway, adding up the bits and pieces, it actually amounted to 1.2 million taels of silver.

Similar to the generals of other important nine-border towns, the Li family in Liaodong, especially Li Chengliang, is the most capable general in Liaodong. His ability is undoubtedly outstanding, but he is extremely greedy.

He himself regarded Liaodong as his own territory and made Liaodong his family's private territory.

The generals in Liaodong were either his cronies or promoted by him personally.

In this situation, the court should have found a way to remove him, but only he could control the Jurchens.

Therefore, Li Chengliang and his family have been kings and hegemons in Liaodong for decades, and no one can do anything about it.

Even in the original history, Li Chengliang was quite good at opportunism. First he sought refuge with Gao Gong, and later Zhang Juzheng supported him.

After Zhang Juzheng died, Shen Shixing, the chief minister who followed, treated them with great courtesy.

Even though Qi Jiguang, the commander-in-chief of Jiliao, was transferred to Guangdong, the position of commander-in-chief Li Chengliang of Liaodong remained unchanged. This shows how good this guy is at management...

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