Returning to the Ming Dynasty as a Corrupt Emperor

Transmigrated to the Great Ming Dynasty, I became Emperor Zhu Youxiao, the Carpenter Emperor. Well then, I'll hide behind the scenes; I'll take the blame, and you all go die.

Chapter 430: Killing the Chicken to Frighten the Monkeys

Changing your house would violate court rules and is not something an emperor should do, so I cannot change it for you.

But I can't bear to see you in difficulty and without food to eat, so I reward you with some of the emperor's private money so that you can live a good life.

This approach takes into account both legal principles and human feelings, achieving multiple goals at once. It may seem like a beautiful story, but the story behind it is not that simple.

If someone impeaches Wuqing Hou Li Gao by saying how rich and wealthy his family is, then who is Wuqing Hou Li Gao?

This is the crime of deceiving the emperor. You are deceiving the emperor. What do you want to do?

In Zhu Youxiao's view, it was no problem for these civil servants of the Ming Dynasty to find such loopholes and handles, and the charges would definitely be exaggerated.

Whoever has the loudest voice has prestige, and this time they will definitely not miss such an opportunity.

Just wait and see what they can come up with.

As expected by Zhu Youxiao, Chen Hong went to read the imperial edict, and the imperial edict was also sent to the Wuqing Marquis Mansion.

For a while, public opinion was in an uproar.

On one hand, people praised the emperor for his kindness and kindness, while on the other hand, they cursed the Marquis of Wuqing, asking, "How much land do you have? How many businesses do you have? How much money do you have? How dare you come to His Majesty and cry poor?"

It would be fine if it was a normal thing, but now you go and cry poor and ask His Majesty to reward you?

That money is for building our house! You, Marquis Wuqing, are really going too far. You must not let me go!

Your Majesty is so kind and benevolent, yet you actually deceived Him?!

As a result, petitions impeaching Wuqing Hou flew into the court one after another. This time, public opinion all turned to Zhu Youxiao, targeting Wuqing Hou for the crime of deceiving the emperor, which was unforgivable.

Of course, after this charge was shouted out, the impeachers themselves didn't take it seriously. The reason was simple: they usually shouted the same thing during impeachment proceedings, and even more fiercely, often even mentioning someone harboring ill intentions. It was just a passing remark, no one took it seriously. This time, they just shouted it out to express their loyalty.

But something happened that no one expected. After the memorial was sent to the palace, His Majesty was furious and became extremely angry.

Rumor has it that His Majesty lamented that his love for so many years had been misplaced.

This immediately brought the matter to the forefront.

His Majesty was so angry that he fell ill and hid in the palace and refused to come out. At the same time, he ordered the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Dali Temple to investigate the case to see if Wuqing Hou Li Gao was deceiving the emperor.

In fact, the weather was too cold and Zhu Youxiao didn't want to get up early, so he used this excuse to hide in the harem and accompany Empress Zhang and his son every day.

Sometimes when he was annoyed by the crying of the baby, he would go to find Concubine Yuan and Concubine Tian. With the warm jade in his arms, he would not miss his homeland.

The Queen's chubby son has already been born, but these two women's stomachs haven't reacted yet. This isn't good. Zhu Youxiao will try hard to get them pregnant too. No matter who gets pregnant, she'll give birth to a daughter first, making them a pair.

As for the noise outside, Zhu Youxiao was prepared to let the bullets fly for a while, and wait until things reached a certain extent before coming out to clean up the mess.

Anyway, we must not let Wu Qinghou off easily this time. This is a very good chicken to kill to scare the monkeys.

Since he's here, it's time to deal with him. After all, noble relatives are much easier to manipulate than nobles. They didn't rise to power through military merit, nor do they have many connections in the capital. Instead, they became queens because their daughters became queens. With this kind of inheritance, it's hard to tell how many generations of relatives there are.

Take the Li family for example. They were the empress of Emperor Longqing, followed by Wanli and Taichang. By the time of Zhu Youxiao, it was the fourth generation, and they were almost out of the fifth generation.

The grace of a gentleman will be cut off after five generations. Although the Ming Dynasty did not advocate this, it did not mean that Zhu Youxiao could not do so.

Zhu Youxiao felt no guilt. These nobles and relatives spent their days eating, drinking and having fun, and did nothing to benefit the country and the people, so he didn't feel sorry for getting rid of them.

Under such circumstances, the Wuqing Marquis Mansion was naturally in danger of disaster and its reputation plummeted.

The emperor did not trust him, so the civil officials stepped on him violently.

Everyone knew that the Wuqing Marquisate was finished this time and had shot itself in the foot.

At the same time, some people are worried about whether His Majesty is in good health.

After all, you are still too young.