Chapter 442: Building a Small Imperial Court
Chapter 442
Jinwu shrank his neck and whispered: "The state capital... there are not many officials left."
Li Yu frowned and asked, "How many officials are there?"
"Well……"
"say!"
"Yes...none of them is left."
The golden crow lowered her head.
Upon hearing this, Li Yu stood up dissatisfiedly, walked to Jinwu and said, "How did I explain to you?"
"Your Highness said that officials with milder circumstances can be put on the spot first."
"How did you do it?"
"But, Your Highness, there is no official with a minor plot!"
Jinwu said seriously: "Your Highness, even if Cao Ren is the governor of the state, even if Cao Ren is a great skill, he will raise more than 20,000 troops to rebel in the prefecture, this is not something he can do alone!
"The officials of the prefecture, dozens of people from all over the country, all participated in it, and helped the fire. They were willing to act as the front pawns of Cao Ren!
"After Cao Ren's defeat, these people transformed into a hero who offered the city for His Highness. They were both faced and three-faced, changed their ruthlessness, colluded with each other, deceived their superiors and concealed their subordinates, shameless and dirty!
"How can His Highness trust these people, and how can they be reliable?"
Li Yu looked at the golden crow in surprise. He felt that he had not seen each other for a few days. The golden crow seemed to have grown up a lot, and he spoke in a good manner.
The golden crow waved backwards.
A flying guard walked in and handed Jinwu a small box.
Jinwu took the box, opened the lid, handed it to Li Yu, and said, "Your Highness, these are all confessions given by the officials of the state government! Please take a look!"
Li Yu picked up the top confession, which was written by Cao Cen.
The more he looked, the gloomy Li Yu's face became. At the end, he slapped Cao Cen's confession on the table with a bang.
"It's outrageous! What a shameless villain!"
Cao Cen captured Jin Gui's family and threatened Jin Gui to hand over a wealth of thousands of yuan. This was shameless enough, but there was no limit to that, he was also traitorous to his wife and daughter, and he also pulled Wu Qi to do it together. Is this personnel matter?
He is simply a beast that is worse than a pig or a dog!
Li Yu asked with a gloomy face: "Where is Cao Cen now?"
"Report to your highness, you have been sentenced to death by your servants!"
"Where is Wu Qi?"
"Cut halfway!"
"Jin Gui?"
"Behead!"
Li Yu didn't expect that Jin Wu would kill Jin Gui, the victim.
He said in a deep voice: "Why do you want to kill Jin Gui?"
Jin Wu hurriedly said: "Jin Gui provided a large part of the money Cao Ren used for rebellion. It can be said that Jin Gui was one of the biggest supporters of Cao Ren's rebellion!"
"But he was forced!"
"But the emperor and the court will not care about this! If Jin Gui is let go, I will worry that the emperor will take his anger on Your Highness!"
Although he felt that Jin Wu’s worries were unnecessary, his intentions were good after all.
Li Yu sighed and said, "Jin Gui is both innocent and pitiful!"
Jinwu showed a deep expression of empathy, feeling resentful, and said, "That's true! But in order to avoid the talk of your subordinate, I can only kill him!"
In fact, Jin Wu can never kill Jin Gui, but if Jin Gui is not dead, how can Feiwei legitimately occupy Jin Gui's mansion?
Jinwu was very satisfied with the Jin Mansion.
Li Yu picked up the confessions of others and looked through them one by one.
As Jinwu said, none of the officials in the entire prefecture were clean, and all of them participated in Cao Ren's rebellion.
They rebelled Cao Ren and acted as a means of blocking the situation. It was not an exaggeration to convict them of death.
After reading these confessions, Li Yu put them back into the small box and asked, "Is this all?"
"Yes! Your Highness!"
"Seal! Send it to the capital soon and present it to the emperor!"
"Yes! Your Highness!"
Li Yu sat on the chair and murmured: "Why isn't there no one in Liangzhou Prefecture now available?"
Jinwu hurriedly said, "So Your Highness, you can't let Lord Zhang return to Pyeongchang County!"
He said seriously: "With Lord Zhang's ability, he can establish the prefecture in a short time and make the prefecture look fresh. Your Highness no longer has to worry about the trivial matters of the prefecture!"
When Li Yu heard this, his eyes lit up.
Li Yu can't understand Zhang Hong's ability very well; Li Yu can't understand Zhang Hong's character very well.
In Pyeongchang County, the two have worked together for so long and have developed many tacit understandings.
If Zhang Hong could stay in the prefecture to help him, it would be better.
But, what position do you want to give Zhang Hong?
State Governor?
I am just a Daizhou governor of Liangzhou, so how can I be appointed Zhang Hong as the governor of the state?
Seeing Li Yu's embarrassment, Lu Fang, who had been happy and silent, spoke, "Your Highness, I think that it is best to have the position of Chief Secretary Zhang as the position of Chief Secretary!"
Li Yu blinked his eyes, turned his eyes, looked at Zhang Hong, and said, "But, isn't it too aggrieved to Prefect Zhang if this is the case?"
Zhang Hong immediately knelt down, kowtowed forward, and said seriously: "If you can stay with Your Highness and do things, let alone be the chief minister, even if you are a front pawn, the empress will be willing!"
Li Yu was overjoyed when he heard this. He immediately stood up and helped Zhang Hong up, saying seriously: "If one day I no longer serve as the governor of Daizhou, I will recommend Zhang Taishou as the governor of Liangzhou to the emperor!"
Zhang Hong hurriedly said, "I thank Your Highness for your kindness!"
With Zhang Hong, the old partner, staying in Liangzhou Prefecture and helping him handle all kinds of affairs in Liangzhou, Li Yu felt much more at ease.
In the next few days, Zhang Hong began to mobilize Pingchang County officials to Liangzhou City in large numbers.
Everyone likes to use the people they are most familiar with and understand.
This is true for Li Yu.
The same is true for Zhang Hong.
Although Zhang Hong was the position of chief minister, in fact, Li Yu had delegated all the power of the provincial governor to him.
To reorganize Liangzhou Prefecture, Zhang Hong needs a group of core backbones, and his old subordinates in Pingchang County are naturally the most suitable candidates.
In just a few days, Liangzhou Prefecture completed a major blood change.
The original team of Liangzhou Prefecture has been killed by Jinwu and other flying guards.
Now the officials of Liangzhou Prefecture, such as the chief officials, Sima, and even the core officials of Sigong, Sicang, Sihu, Judicial, Sibing, Sitian, etc., were all dispatched from the Pingchang County and County Government.
This is equivalent to moving the Pingchang County and County Government to Liangzhou City and renamed it to Zhoufu.
It seems that Liangzhou Prefecture has just experienced a major personnel change.
The state capital after the reorganization is no different from before.
But in fact, it is not.
The prefecture should have served directly in the court and the emperor, while the reorganized Liangzhou prefecture served in Li Yu.
The officials from all over Liangzhou Prefecture were all clear in their hearts. Their current position was given by the King of Wu. If they wanted to be loyal, they could only be loyal to the King of Wu.
Lu Fang did nothing. He just explained the Golden Crow in a few words, and then borrowed the Golden Crow's hand to push the situation toward his ideal direction.
That is to form a small court belonging to Li Yu himself.
Now, this small court has begun to take shape.
As the victim, Li Yu still had no idea about this.
Chapter completed!