People in Zongwu: Starting with the Yin Gui Sect

Chapter 342

In the Qianqing Palace, Wu Yu, who received the report, just nodded and sent people down.

He didn't care at all that Yao Yue deliberately didn't save Cao Zhengchun, but let him die in Zhu Wushi's hands. What he wanted to know more now was what Wuming and the other two had said to him before.

If his guess came true, and Xuanhuahao was really behind Jue Wushen and the other two, then Lu Xiaofeng and the others would probably die without a disease this time.

Fortunately, there was still an immortal god and demon from the Tong family over there, so there was no need to worry about their lives.

Shaking his head, Wu Yu didn't think much about it anymore, but called Wei Zhongxian and Xu Xianchun, asking one of them to be responsible for confiscating Hulong Villa and Tianxia Diyi Villa, and the other to be responsible for Wan Sanqian's family business. Since Zhu Wushi was already dead, there was no need to keep Wan Sanqian.

"Sir, this is a secret report from Fang Zhenghua, the Imperial Horse Supervisor!"

As soon as Xu Xianchun and the other two left, Wang Chengen hurried in and handed a secret report to Wu Yu.

"Yes, Fang Daban did a great job this time!"

As soon as Wu Yu opened the content of the secret report, he was overjoyed.

The content above was very simple, that is, when Fang Zhenghua first arrived in Jiangnan, except for a few merchants, almost all merchants resisted paying taxes.

But as Fang Zhenghua went on a killing spree, one after another illegal merchants were confiscated and exterminated, and those merchants had no choice but to pay taxes after seeking help from the local government office.

And those merchants are indeed the richest group in the Ming Dynasty. Fang Zhenghua collected more than three million taels of commercial taxes in Nanzhili alone.

Then he did the same thing again, continuing to kill people in various provinces in Jiangnan. In the end, including those merchants whose houses were confiscated, Fang Zhenghua collected a total of more than 20 million taels of silver this time, which was nearly seven times more than the 3 million taels in the sixth year of Tianqi.

What does this mean? This means that even if the tax rate was only 1/30 before, there were still many merchants who chose to evade taxes.

And with Fang Zhenghua's search and seizure this time, almost all the merchants who had evaded taxes over the years were found out.

And Fang Zhenghua killed so many people at once, so naturally there were countless memorials impeaching him. However, it was their business to impeach him, but it was Wu Yu's business to approve or not.

In addition, in addition to those merchants, the secret report also mentioned one thing, that is, in the process of collecting taxes, Fang Zhenghua was not only resisted by merchants, but also attacked and killed by the forces of the underworld several times.

Fortunately, Fang Zhenghua's cultivation was extremely high. If he were replaced by an ordinary innate, he would have died long ago. But even so, many people still sacrificed for this.

"It's just courting death!"

Seeing that those martial arts sects dared to touch even the people of the imperial court, Wu Yu had already sentenced those forces to death in his heart.

"Come on, call Lu..."

Halfway through his words, Wu Yu remembered that Lu Xiaofeng had been sent by him to take back the dragon vein with Wuming and others.

But since Lu Xiaofeng was not there, it could only be handed over to the Six Gates.

"Call Guo Bujing, the right junior official of the Dali Temple, to come and see me!"

Guo Bujing, known as Guo Juxia in the martial arts world, is the chief constable of the Six Gates in the capital.

As the eunuch who delivered the order went out, half an hour later, Guo Bujing, dressed in a fourth-grade cloud goose costume, appeared in the Qianqing Palace.

Character: Guo Bujing.

Identity: Right junior official of the Dali Temple/Chief constable of the Six Gates.

Realm: Innate martial arts.

Skill: Shocking Wave Palm (lower grade of Heaven)...

"My dear Guo, take a look!"

After Guo Bujing finished his greeting, Wu Yu signaled Wang Chengen to hand him Fang Zhenghua's second secret report about the Jianghu people attacking the imperial court.

After Guo Bujing read the contents of the secret report, his face changed immediately. He didn't expect those Jianghu people to be so bold that they dared to ambush the imperial court.

It seems that he has not been in the Jianghu for too long, so that those people have forgotten the existence of the Six Gates.

After Guo Bujing finished reading, Wu Yu said: "This matter will be handed over to you, the Six Gates. Don't let anyone or any force involved in this matter go!"

"I obey your order!"

"Go down!"

After Guo Juxia went down, Wu Yu finally finished reviewing the memorial and began to close his eyes to enjoy the massage of the little palace maid.

In fact, although Wu Yu was an emperor, he did not have many memorials to review, because most of the memorials were handled by the cabinet and the Imperial Household Department. He was only needed to review them when they were undecided.

So Wu Yu actually worked less than two hours a day, and sometimes he had nothing to do for several days in a row.

It can be said that looking at the entire dynasties, no emperor had a more relaxed life than the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, workaholic emperors like Taizu Lao Zhu who were unwilling to give up power were not counted.But if you do everything yourself, what do you need the people below to do? Are they just tools responsible for execution?

As a leader, you only need to grasp the general direction. The rest of the things will naturally be done by the people below. In addition, with the Jinyiwei as your eyes and ears, you don’t need to worry about the people below pretending to obey but secretly disobeying. Even if you really mess up in the end, you can push the person in charge out to calm the public anger.

Suddenly, a eunuch came in, handed something to Wang Chengen, whispered a few words in his ear and left.

"My Lord, the Queen just asked me to bring you a book!"

"Queen? Which Queen?"

Wu Yu now has two queens in his harem, one is his own queen Yaoyue, and the other is his sister-in-law Queen Yi'an.

"My Lord, it's Queen Yi'an!"

"It's the sister-in-law, then bring it over and let me see it!"

Wang Chengen, who received the order, immediately handed the book over. Wu Yu took it and opened it. The cover was clearly marked with the words "Biography of Zhao Gao".

Wang Chengen, who was standing by, knelt down immediately after seeing this.

"Okay, my dear, there's no need to do this. The Empress's sister-in-law is not talking about you, but Wei Zhongxian!"

Raising his hand to stop Wang Chengen from kowtowing, Wu Yu threw the book aside at any time. It was obvious that Zhang Yan was worried that she would be deceived after seeing him re-employ Wei Zhongxian, so she came to remind herself, but Wei Zhongxian was still useful and could not be killed for the time being.

"By the way, my dear, has anything interesting happened in the capital recently?"

Putting this matter behind him, Wu Yu thought about asking Wang Chengen if there was anything interesting in the capital recently, and by the way, he went out of the palace to relax.

And Wang Chengen naturally knew everything, "Master, there is no interesting thing in the capital, but there is such a strange thing in Shanxi?"

"Oh, about Shanxi, tell me!"

Hearing Wang Chengen talking about Shanxi, Wu Yu immediately had a very bad premonition.

"My Lord, according to the people who fled to the capital, since August this year, that is, two months ago, there have been a lot of rats in Shanxi, and they have eaten up the crops of many farmers."

"Rats? Shanxi? Shit!"

Putting the two words together, Wu Yu immediately thought of a terrible thing - plague!

It seems that a terrible plague really broke out during the Chongzhen period in history, which not only directly led to a large number of crops being eaten clean, but also countless people were infected and died, becoming the last straw that broke the camel's back.

But shouldn't this plague have broken out in the sixth year of Chongzhen? How come there are signs so early?

"Otomo, draft an edict!"

Although he didn't know why the plague would come earlier, Wu Yu would not allow such a thing to happen anyway.