Zhu Cixuan had done this before and proposed it to Chongzhen. However, Chongzhen did not think much at that time. He always felt that the money used to search officials to fill the treasury was a destruction of the country.

The court was so poor that he wanted to search the officials' homes and confiscate the treasury. In such a court, no official would be willing to serve you. Isn't this shake the foundation of the country and cause turmoil in the court?

The Ming Dynasty was not the emperor alone, but the emperor led tens of millions of officials in the system to combine. Do you think you have a long life when you attack your own people?

This kind of thing should not be too urgent, but should be thought twice. Zhu Cilang once felt that if he was too impatient, it would cause a series of chain reactions. Everyone is in danger and the government system is facing paralysis.

The corruption of officials in the capital is complicated and the case is investigated too much and involves too much, and major events will happen.

Chongzhen has been worried, and Zhu Cilang has also worried. It is right to use heavy sanctions in troubled times, but you must not be too hasty.

In fact, both Chongzhen and Zhu Cilang were wrong. Judging from the search for Zhu Chunchen and Zhang Jinyan, it seems that there was no shock in the court.

Perhaps, these ministers all have a ghost in their hearts. No one dared to stand up and say anything about Zhu Chunchen and Zhang Jin's corruption and abuse of power. This crime is a matter of death. At this time, if you stand up and plead for these two, is it because you have any secrets that you and these two have? Well, let the Jinyiwei check it out.

Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang killed 150,000 corrupt officials, and many important officials in the court were killed. However, it did not cause turmoil in the court.

Of course, this is a large part of the reason for Zhu Yuanzhang's personal charm. Although Zhu Yuanzhang killed so many officials, others were still afraid of his reputation and no one dared to rebel.

The power of Chongzhen was not lost, and the military and political power was still in the hands of the emperor alone. It seemed that nothing was wrong with killing corrupt officials and punishing corruption.

Emperor Chongzhen, who tasted the sweetness, thought this was a good idea. These corrupt officials were simply chickens waiting to be slaughtered. After only two officials were investigated, they made more than five million taels of silver.

Look at the civil and military officials in the court. If they kill them one by one, wouldn’t they be rich?

What should I do if I kill them?

This is easy to deal with. The Ming Dynasty has the most undesirable officials. Kill a group of people and recruit another group of people.

A bold idea was brewing in Emperor Chongzhen's heart. He was considering when to take out the punishment of Emperor Taizu's skin of daylily and try it out.

Zhu Yuanzhang often used extra-judgment to the issue of corruption among officials. A typical example is skinning and solid grass. However, this punishment does not stipulate in the "Da Ming Law". Zhu Yuanzhang created the law in the form of the "Da Qie". The scope of application of this punishment is corrupt officials. They make the peeled human skin into drums or fill it with straw into human skin. The scarecrow stands at the door of the yamen or the door of the local land temple to warn successor officials not to be corrupt and abuse the law.

This kind of torture has a strong deterrence to officials. During the Ming Dynasty, officials were relatively honest during the Zhu Yuanzhang period.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very direct in dealing with corruption. For example, the magistrate of Jianchang County accepted 400 guan and was executed by Lingchi; the magistrate of Kaizhou was corrupt and harmed the people, and local elders went to Beijing to report him. He asked his subordinates to arrest the people who complained on the way and detained them to death. The incident happened and was sentenced to public orders; the magistrate of De'an County accepted 10 pieces of silk and cloth from the subordinates and 80 guan and the magistrate went to arrest him, but he even took an iron fork to resist arrest and was executed by Lingchi; the magistrate of Laiyang County received 100 guan and was executed by Lingchi.

Such examples abound.

Huguang, Zhu Cixuan, who had no worries, began to order the 12th Regiment Battalion to continue westward to Sichuan. He decided to take over Sichuan and completely wipe out Zhang Xianzhong's vitality.

Attacking Sichuan is not an easy task. The road to Sichuan is difficult, and it is not easy to talk about as difficult as climbing to the sky.

The Bashu area is the most geographically hidden and safest country. Its main body is the Sichuan Basin, known as the "Nation of Tianfu". Looking around, the north is Micang Mountain and Daba Mountain, the west is Longmen Mountain, Qionglai Mountain, Daxue Mountain, the south is Daliang Mountain, the east is Dalou Mountain, Wuling Mountain, and Wushan Mountain. It is truly dangerous to block all sides.

The first is the Taurus Road, which is the well-known "Swordmen Shu Road". The towering Swordmen guards the throat of entering Shu, occupies the important roads of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and has a dangerous terrain. It has always been a place that military strategists must fight for. According to the Warring States Period, King Hui of Qin wanted to swallow Shu, but he had no way to enter Shu, and lied that he gave him a gift of gold bull and five beauties to the King of Shu. The King of Shu believed it to be true and sent the five powerful men around him to split the mountain to open the road, enter Qin to welcome the beauties, and transport the Taurus to open the Shu road, which was called the "Talent Bull Road", also known as the "Swordmen Shu Road".

If you want to get Sichuan, you must go down Jianmen Pass." However, Jianmen Pass can be said to be "one man should be the pass, but ten thousand men will not open." Jiang Wei, the general of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms, blocked Zhong Hui's 100,000 troops with 30,000 troops here. It took a long time to stand up. Li Bai's poem says, "Ah, it's so dangerous! The difficulty of Shu is as difficult as climbing to the blue sky!", which refers to the danger of Jianmen.

The second is Yinping Road. The Yinping Ancient Road has been a dangerous and rugged road since ancient times. In the past dynasties, except for local farmers walking, this road was used only if necessary war needs. The most dangerous place on Yinping Road is Motianling. The slope of the ridge is relatively slow in the north and west, while the cliffs on the south side are steep and cliffs, and there is no way to feasible.

The third is the Yorikang Road, which is named because it wants to cross the Yorikang Mountain. The Yorikang Road is worse than the Yinping Road - "The horse gang cannot walk the Yorikang Road, and the second brother is behind the back of the winding road. Walking on the stream and jumping on the stone tiles, climbing the ladder over the cloud stack, shaking the second frame, and hanging the heart is the sharp. Difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, and difficult to walk..." This folk song that has been sung for thousands of years is a true portrayal of the Yorikang Road. To take this kind of road, marching and fighting can basically be ignored.

When Zhu Cixuan entered Sichuan, he encountered huge obstacles. The main obstacle was that the road was rugged and difficult to move.

Zhang Xianzhong was very smart and arranged heavy troops on the way to enter Sichuan.

The 12th Regiment Battalion tried to enter the palace several times, but all returned without success. Once, outside Jianmen Pass, he almost fell into the trap of the enemy. Later, Zhu Cilang realized that the person guarding Jianmen Pass was actually Li Dingguo, a powerful general under Zhang Xianzhong.

After Zhang Xianzhong's death, Li Dingguo surrendered to the Southern Ming regime. At the beginning of the sixth year of Yongli, Li Dingguo sent 80,000 troops to attack Hunan. He first captured Yuanzhou and Jingzhou, and then attacked Guilin, Guangxi, defeated the Qing army, forcing the commander of the Qing army, and the King Kong Youde of Dingnan to commit suicide. Li Dingguo occupied Guilin in early July, and then went straight to the four prefectures including Liuzhou and Hengzhou, with the troops pointed towards Changsha.
Chapter completed!