Zhu Youjian took the list and looked at it. They were worth about 500,000 taels of silver, which surprised Zhu Youjian. These relatively honest people all had such wealth. Just imagine how corrupt the Ming officials were.

Zhu Youjian's eyes were strange. He looked at these members of the Ming Dynasty and suddenly made an unexpected move.

"Crack..."

He tore all the list in his hand apart in a few seconds, and immediately scared Li Banghua and others to kneel down on the ground. They all thought the emperor was angry and wanted to punish them.

"Your Majesty, the old ministers are aware of the crime, please punish me."

However, to their surprise, although the emperor's face was gloomy, he did not get angry.

"I am calm, as a minister of the Ming Dynasty, I should consider the people and the court.

I didn't expect that you could even embezzle so much money and embezzle so much land.

You will hand over all the occupied fields and hand over half of the money to the Ministry of Rites. For your sake, I will let you go this time.

I hope this is the last time. If anyone dares to make this mistake, don’t blame me for being merciless and will be killed."

"The Emperor let us go? That's that simple?"

Several cabinet members were a little suspicious of their ears and quietly communicated with each other with their eyes. Then they confirmed that the emperor not only let them go, but also left a lot of money for them, and did not take them all away.

Their inner gratitude to the emperor is absolutely impossible to express in words. Compared with Wei Zaode and others, the emperor is so kind to them.

Several cabinet members all touched the ground with their heads and kowtowed repeatedly. Some were already in tears and were ashamed:

"Thank you, the emperor, for forgiveness of the criminals, and the criminals will never make this mistake."

Seeing them crying with gratitude, Zhu Youjian raised his hand:

"Everyone is calm. Just know your mistakes and you can correct them, but I am only targeting you a few of you, and other ministers do not have this treatment."

"Thank you Lord Long's kindness, long live my emperor."

Several important officials of the cabinet hurriedly got up, stood by with their hands respectfully, waiting for the emperor's context.

Zhu Youjian:

"Ministry of Revenue, what are the statistics on the land and population of the capital now?"

Fan Jingwen, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, hurried forward and bowed and replied:

"Report to the emperor, the land has been measured. Due to the epidemic isolation, the population has not been fully counted yet. We will complete the statistics as soon as possible."

Because of the epidemic, demographic statistics must be difficult for the time being. You can understand Zhu Youjian, but he did not blame Fan Jingwen.

Due to the plague in the capital, many people have died, the population has dropped sharply, and there are many vacant houses.

The task now is to plant the fields first, so the people cannot rely solely on food relief.

Zhu Youjian pondered for a moment and said:

"The Ministry of Revenue must overcome difficulties and try to register all the population as much as possible. All the people and refugees who are currently staying in the capital will be registered for them and settled in the capital.

After the demographic statistics are released, we will start to divide the land for them. As for how much land per capita, you must consider allocating it carefully."

"According to the order, the Ministry of Revenue firmly implements the emperor's will."

Although Fan Jingwen had some objections to allocating land to the people and all refugees in the capital settled.

But he could understand when the population was greatly reduced.

Seeing that the Ministry of Revenue had no objection, Zhu Youjian said again:

In addition, I have important things to discuss with you. Tomorrow, Li Yan will lead a large army to start conquering the remnants of the bandits.

Yan Yingyuan will go out with the team. I have already appointed him as the general and prefect of Yangzhou. You will issue the documents at that time.

For Li Yan and Yan Yingyuan's bandit suppression operation, your departments must provide strong support, and we must not delay the process of unification of the Ming Dynasty because of personal selfishness.

As long as Li Yanyan Yingyuan needs you, you must help them unconditionally and ensure that military supplies are provided on time and in full."

Li Banghua and other cabinet members bowed again:

"Don't worry, my elders, we will definitely support General Li Yan with all our strength. I believe that the Ming Dynasty will soon recover all lost land, but..."

I feel that these people still have a hard time hiding, Zhu Youjian said:

"Just what? But it's okay."

Although they didn't dare to object to the emperor's words now, after hearing that Yan Yingyuan was promoted to the prefect of Yangzhou after he heard that Yan Yingyuan was directly promoted to the prefect of Yangzhou, Li Banghua and others expressed concerns.

"Prince, please think twice. Yan Yingyuan has no achievements or political achievements. He will be promoted directly from a rankless county to a fourth-rank official, which may cause unnecessary speculation."

"Yes, I hope the emperor thinks twice. There is no precedent for this. I am afraid that the ministers will not accept it. How do the new officials arrange it..."

They all felt it was too incredible that the appointment of Yan Yingyuan by the new cabinet of the Ming Dynasty still had differences with Zhu Youjian.

A small official has such a large promotion span, so would the officials from Nanjing still have to join the cabinet?

When appointing Yan Yingyuan, Zhu Youjian had already thought that the cabinet would have objections, after all, the promotion span was too large.

Yan Yingyuan led the people of the whole city to kill so many soldiers and generals from the east, and finally died in battle. After all, it has not happened yet and there is no chance to happen.

But he was Zhu Youjian, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, a modern man who traveled through time.

It wasn't the somewhat indecisive Emperor Chongzhen. Does it require the cabinet's approval to appoint a general?

He felt a little unhappy, and Zhu Youjian's face slightly sank, and his tone suddenly became stern:

"Li Banghua, so when I formed the cabinet, you didn't seem to be qualified to be the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty Cabinet, and you guys were also not qualified to enter the cabinet.

Why didn’t you see you objecting at that time, and didn’t hear you talk about any achievements and achievements? Let’s talk about what achievements and achievements you have made to enter my Ming Cabinet.

Also, I appoint an official. No matter where you are, you only need to issue an appointment document. There is no need to object, nor are you qualified to object.

I, this is notifying you, not discussing with you, wouldn’t I pursue your corruption and abuse of power, and would you just repay me like this?"

The art of an emperor is to use both kindness and power, which not only makes the ministers feel kindness, but also makes them tremble.

How can a true emperor let ministers control their thoughts and decisions?

Emperor Chongzhen, who worked hard for half his life, was led by his ministers by his nose because he did not understand the emperor's mind, which led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen was driven to the shelves, and Tianqi suddenly died and had no children. It was King Xin Zhu Youjian's turn to take over.

He was just an ordinary prince and had never been taught about the emperor's skills, which led to some problems in his mind and personality in the face of great pressure.

Zhu Youjian's tone was cold, and his face suddenly changed, which made Li Banghua and others feel cold on their backs, and they sweated coldly, and they all fell to the ground.

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"The emperor is wise, the uncle is ignorant, I hope the emperor will forgive..."
Chapter completed!