Jiang Jin knew about this the next morning. When he learned about it, he was extremely shocked and rushed to the palace to see Zhu Yicheng, but Zhu Yicheng didn't see him at first, so he hung him for three full hours and waited until noon to let him in.

When he saw Zhu Yicheng, Jiang Jin bowed his head and asked for his crime.

Although one night passed, Zhu Yicheng's anger still remained unresolved. He could not understand why these officials were so greedy and were not afraid of death.

Let me ask, Zhu Yicheng's salary to officials is not low, not to mention that compared with the Ming Dynasty, even the Qing Dynasty's salary is far from comparable. You should know that the salary to officials in the Ming Dynasty now includes the maintenance of integrity. Even the lowest-grade officials have enough monthly salary to live a very good life. Some high-grade officials can even be at ease to be a rich man.

But even so, some officials were still insatiable and even extended their hands to Taicang's reserves. This was something that Zhu Yicheng could never allow, and it was even more intolerable. In the Fujian case, Zhu Yicheng raised his butcher's knife and killed a group of people and sentenced them to a large number. He originally thought that the administration would be much better, but who thought that after these years, the Taicang case was exposed. The nature of the Fujian case was even worse than that of the Fujian case.

"You think I will not follow Taizu's actions back then, so I will do whatever I want?" Zhu Yicheng's cold words sounded, making Jiang Jin sweat profusely.

Zhu Yuanzhang's methods of corrupt officials were the most cruel and resolute among all emperors in history. Zhu Yuanzhang even used the torture of skinning and putting on grass to punish corruption.

Such torture is unprecedented and even more frightened by corrupt officials. However, even so, they did not kill corrupt officials. Once Zhu Yuanzhang died, the punishment would be lost. The corruption in the Ming Dynasty lasted for more than one year.

"Emperor, as the chief military aircraft, I have failed to observe this matter clearly. I am guilty!"

"You are so guilty!" Zhu Yicheng cursed bluntly: "The Military Affairs Office knows nothing about such a big deal... No! I even suspect that there is a connection within the Military Affairs Office. What do you, the Chief Military Affairs Office, do for?"

Jiang Jin did not dare to make more distinctions. At this time, he said more and made mistakes. It would be better to kowtow honestly and confess.

After being with Zhu Yicheng for so many years, Jiang Jin knew Zhu Yicheng's temper and personality very well. If Zhu Yicheng wanted to deal with him strictly, he would not see him at all, and would not scold him. Since he saw him and scolded him again, it means that Jiang Jin still has a place in Zhu Yicheng's heart, and there is a possibility of dealing with this matter.

Sure enough, Jiang Jin guessed correctly. Zhu Yicheng scolded him so hard that he was so cruel that he was fined two years of salary.

Although the two-year salary was a large amount, it was nothing to Jiang Jin. After hearing this, Jiang Jin finally relieved his heart and kowtowed and thanked him.

"I have asked Zeng Yishu to verify this matter, and this matter needs to be investigated to the end!"

"I understand that I will definitely cooperate with Lord Zeng to investigate the matter and will never let anyone go."

Zhu Yi was quite tactful when he saw Jiang Jin, and in other words, Jiang Jin was just a mistake in this matter. As the chief military minister, he was jointly and severally responsible but not the main responsibility. In addition, Jiang Jin has always been very cautious about money and never stretches out his hands randomly, so Zhu Yicheng still knows this.

After finalizing him, Zhu Yicheng asked Jiang Jin to get up and gave him a stool. He then asked the Military Affairs Office about Northwest Military Affairs and other matters, and then asked Jiang Jin to leave.

After leaving the side hall, Jiang Jin realized that his back was completely wet, which was all scared of this.

When Jiang Jin thought of something like this suddenly happening, he couldn't suppress his anger. He quickly walked towards the Military Affairs Office, and at the same time made up his mind that this matter must be given to the emperor and the world.

The Taicang case did not mobilize the masses like the Fujian case. That was because the war in the northwest was about to begin. Zhu Yicheng did not want to affect the military preparations of the northwest due to investigations at this time.

At the same time, Zhu Yicheng thought that the Taicang case was definitely a major case, and even a serious case involving collusion between superiors and subordinates. If the news leaked, then the corrupt officials below would know what would happen. If they took a single bet and burned Taicang and reported it on the grounds of a fire, it would be too late even if Zhu Yicheng cut all these officials off their heads. The war in the Northwest that had been prepared for a long time would definitely be affected.

Considering this, this matter was temporarily blocked, and only a few bigwigs from the Military Affairs Office knew about it. Moreover, Zhu Yicheng handed over the investigation of the case to Zeng Yishu not only because he was familiar with Taicang, but also because the news leaked. He directly passed the Censorate and the Third Division, and came forward in the name of the Minister of Military Affairs and the Imperial Force, and the Jinyiwei cooperated with the investigation.

Back at the Military Affairs Office, Jiang Jin summoned the ministers of military affairs to hold a secret meeting in private, and then each took action.

Although Zhu Yicheng asked Zeng Yishu to investigate this case, it was related to the major case of the Military Affairs Office. Jiang Jin, including other military affairs ministers, must first check it out from his side to figure out how deeply the personnel of the Military Affairs Office were involved in the case.

A few days later, the self-inspection of the Military Machinery Department was found. The two military aircraft were indeed involved in the case with three ordinary officials, but these people were not involved in the deep. They just wanted to hide the truth because of the bribery and cover up the officials in Taicang.

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, the Military Affairs Office has not detained these people for the time being, but has taken measures to restrict their actions to make them guilty and meritorious.

This was approved by Zhu Yicheng. Zeng Yishu then took the Jinyiwei to Shanxi and Shaanxi to inspect the situation in Taicang there. Sun Jiagan went to Zhili and Henan to inspect. Even He Xianzu was sent to Shandong, Jiangsu and other places to find out the real situation in Taicang.

If you don’t check, you won’t know. If you check, you will be shocked.

In less than half a month, news came from all over the country. Jiang Jin was frightened after seeing it. He never expected that the local officials and Taicang were so bold that they used their power to manage Taicang to privately resell grain, using inferior products as good ones, causing huge deficits.

In just Shanxi and Shaanxi, nearly half of the grain storage in Taicang disappeared. Even if the remaining reserves account for only one-third of the new grain, the rest are old grain from a few years ago.

Zhu Yicheng set up Taicang to store grain in the local area, adjust the market, and prepare for national demand. There are rules for the storage of grain in Taicang. The rules for how much new grain is imported every year and how much old grain is replaced are all set. The imperial court spent a lot of money and manpower to purchase grain storage. Now Taicang has become like this, which is simply shocking.

These borers colluded with their rights to swallow up a large amount of food and the amount of food purchases, which was nearly one million yuan. In addition, Taicang's annual maintenance funds also go to many unknown places. In just a few years, these money was astronomical.

The situation in Zhili, Shandong, Jiangsu, Huizhou and other places is slightly better, but it is not optimistic. If this continues, Taicang in these places may be the same as Shanxi and Shaanxi.

What is even more infuriating is that not only the officials of Taicang were involved, but also many local officials and even inspectors of the censors. That is to say, from top to bottom, from point to surface, a network of interests has been formed. These people colluded with each other and swallowed them up, and the seriousness is simply outrageous.

When the preliminary results were reported to Zhu Yicheng by the Military Affairs Office, Zhu Yicheng was furious after seeing them and kicked the cases in front of him down.

The emperor never made such anger. Jiang Jin and other military ministers were so scared that their faces were as dark as the emperor, and they quickly kowtowed and apologized.

"Okay! OK! My court has become riddled with holes. The censors I sent to supervise the local area have become the protective umbrella for these people? Even my center has their own spy. The talents of these people really cannot be underestimated. They are even more Jinyiwei than the Jinyiwei!"

Zhu Yicheng laughed furiously, and all the ministers below were frightened, especially Zhang Ran, the commander of the Jinyiwei. Although the functions of the Jinyiwei are gradually changing to intelligence agencies, the Jinyiwei still has the function of supervising all officials, but he knows nothing about this matter and is simply a dereliction of duty.

"Your Majesty, please tell me if you are going to do this next step." Jiang Jin gritted his teeth and asked.

"Kill! Kill them all!" Zhu Yicheng squeezed out a few words from his teeth without hesitation. These officials must be killed! He wanted to see who dared to continue to stretch out his hand after chopping these people's heads?

In recent years, the court has been busy with war and national development. It originally thought that officials would be frightened by bloody heads after the Fujian case and restrained them. But who would think that the greed of these people was far beyond their imagination. Zhu Yicheng was not a cruel monarch, nor was he an emperor who regarded human life as a must. But now, he has made up his mind to have zero tolerance for corruption.

I gave the officials generous salary and treatment, and the purpose was to raise integrity, but whoever wanted to raise integrity became greed. If I hadn't been doing it myself and was extremely familiar with government affairs, I saw the problem in a few simple sentences in Yue Zhongqi's memorials, and at the same time, I noticed something was wrong after comparing the information, and then I revealed this.

Let me ask, if Zhu Yicheng had not paid attention at that time, or if he had changed to an emperor who was lazy, the lid would not have been uncovered at all. By then, if a major event happens to the country and Taicang cannot produce food, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Jiang Jin and the others looked at each other, with a little hesitant.

Zhu Yicheng wanted to kill all these people. For Jiang Jin and the others, these people did have a way to kill them, but it seemed a bit too much to kill them all at once. After all, these people were both serious and small, and once these people were wiped out, both Taicang and local governments would inevitably be affected.

For this reason, Jiang Jin gritted the bullet and explained the matter to Zhu Yicheng. He originally thought that Zhu Yicheng would go out of the net, execute the first criminal and let the accomplice go, but who would have thought that Zhu Yicheng's attitude was extremely firm this time. He would rather affect the preparations for war in the northwest because of this incident, and would not tolerate it even postpone the time of the troops.
Chapter completed!