Liu Jin did whatever he wanted in the court. .

Zhu Houzhao was not in charge of affairs, and he was the one who was in charge of all matters in the court. The cabinet votes could no longer hinder him from the power, because Liu Jin was in charge of the last pass and was responsible for Zhu's criticism. If he was not satisfied with the cabinet votes, he would re-program according to his own ideas.

Liu Jin has a good ability to do things and is more courageous in making decisions than Xie Qian. Once he decides, he will do his best to implement it, which makes Xie Qian tired of dealing with it.

Civilian officials of the court were successively replaced, and Xie Qian became the chief minister of the cabinet, and he had no say in personnel appointments and removals.

Xie Qian tried to explain to Zhu Houzhao, but Zhu Houzhao did not attend court for several consecutive days, and even if he went to the Qing Palace to submit a petition, he could not meet the emperor. In this case, Xie Qian knew that he could not control the court, so he could only retreat and try to intervene more in the affairs of the six departments of the court to prevent Liu Jin from further taking over power.

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The third day of the second month, afternoon.

Liu Jin came out of the palace and before he could return to his mansion, he saw Qian Ning waiting on the roadside.

Liu Jin got off the sedan chair, looked at Qian Ning with his squint eyes, and asked, "What is Qian Qianhu doing? He doesn't even bring a follower on the roadside. Are you afraid that someone will not be bad for you?"

Qian Ning smiled and said, "My father-in-law is smiling. Everyone is slight, so where will anyone harm him? However, the father-in-law should increase the number of manpower when entering and leaving, and protect him carefully."

Liu Jin raised his hand to stop Qian Ning from continuing and said, "If you have anything, just say it directly. Our family is tired for a day and is about to go back to rest. You should also go with Your Majesty earlier."

Qian Ning came over and said, "Dadonnacle, the villain got news here that the officials who returned to Beijing for this year have prepared a generous gift for their father-in-law and asked him to be able to be compatible in the Ministry of Personnel's assessment, but I don't know if my father-in-law can help..."

Liu Jin looked at him disdainfully: "Why, do you look down on our family?"

"There is no such intention."

Qian Ning hurriedly argued, "The local government alone is only a criterion, and the local government is 1,200 taels of silver, and the county magistrate is 400 taels. I wonder if my father-in-law is satisfied with the price?"

Liu Jin didn't expect that the officials below would be so filial to them, and asked in surprise: "It's not about buying and selling official titles, can they afford such a large amount?"

Qian Ning smiled and said, "There are only a lot of people, and those local officials are rich. The Hongzhi Dynasty is prosperous and the people are safe. Without rich people, it is richer for officials and gentry. Now they know that you are in power in the court, so they want your father-in-law to take care of them in terms of assessment."

Liu Jin frowned slightly: "Xu Jin, the Minister of Personnel, does not have a good relationship with our family. This old man is over 70 years old. Our family is planning to let him retire, but I don't know who should be promoted to the Minister of Personnel?"

Qian Ning was shocked when he heard that Liu Jin was about to take down a minister of the Ministry of Personnel. He finally understood why those officials had to find connections to bribe Liu Jin after entering Beijing, because Liu Jin's power is not restricted now, just like Liu Jian and Li Dongyang before.

Although Liu Jian and Li Dongyang were in power, they only suppressed the imperial power. All matters in the court were carried out in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Ming Dynasty.

But Liu Jin's rule is different. Liu Jin is not a civil servant, he does not understand etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame. His rules are that those who follow me will prosper and those who go against me will perish. If you don't have money, you won't want me to do things.

"The bank should be collected or not. After all, the Ministry of Personnel must pass the first level of the Sili Supervision Bureau. As long as our family can handle the matter, there will be no problem."

Liu Jin seemed very confident, "Then our family summoned the old man Xu Jin and had a good talk with him. If he didn't know the truth, I would have some ways to get him to take him off from the Minister of Personnel, and then change to someone who is easy to do."

Qian Ning smiled and said, "Yes, yes, my father-in-law is careful and the money he should collect will be given to my father-in-law for a lot of money."

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The number of officials who took the nine-year major exam and the three-year minor exam arrived in the capital at the beginning of the year was about 120. These people had official positions from high to low, which was only the first batch of Zhengde.

Officials are changing in the court, and the local officials are being purged in an orderly manner. Liu Jin's power gradually spread from the capital to the local area. Liu Jin did not have direct subordinates to serve in the local area. In principle, those who are willing to surrender will be considered "his own person" whoever gives enough money.

But not every official has bribes.

A small magistrate, with an annual salary of only 40 taels, went to the capital to take the big exam but had to pay 400 taels of silver. This amount was a bit too large.

However, the amount of oil and water that an official has in addition to his salary is all well-known in the officialdom. If the addition of this oil and water is not enough, you can only not think of a way.

Some officials did not pay bribes after entering Beijing, so they could only seek help from relatives and friends in the capital, or found someone to return to their office to "borrow" or even sell their ancestral property...

A kind of "Beijing debt" has been bred in the capital. Rich businessmen around the capital provide loans and lend money to local officials in Beijing. These officials borrowed the money and then bribed Liu Jin.

Liu Jin was corrupt and abused the law, almost to the point where both people and gods were angry. Many officials were unable to pass the assessment of the Ministry of Personnel because they had no money to clear the situation. Not only did they not get promotions, some were even fined, even demoted and dismissed.

The impact caused by Liu Jin was getting bigger and bigger. When Xie Qian found out, he was nervous but had no choice but to do anything, because Liu Jin was careful and no one could provide evidence of Liu Jin's corruption and abuse of power.

The bribes given to Liu Jin were sent to Liu Jin through some special channels, rather than asking for them by himself. Liu Jin's interference in the assessment of the Ministry of Personnel was also secretly carried out. Even if the Minister of Personnel Xu Jin disobeyed Liu Jinyang, it was still useless because Liu Jin held the power of Zhu Ci.

No matter what kind of assessment you make, you can make any changes when you arrive at Liu Jin, and the assessment of the Ministry of Personnel will become a piece of paper.

If it were another emperor, officials would have submitted memorials and impeached them long ago, relying on public opinion to force Liu Jin to step down and even be questioned.

But unfortunately, Zhu Houzhao didn't care about the court affairs, and it was difficult for the court officials to not talk about the emperor. Even if he saw him occasionally, no one dared to complain, because even if Zhu Houzhao accepted it after hearing it, he turned to scold Liu Jin and ignored it. Afterwards, Liu Jin would not let go of the ministers who impeached him, and he issued an edict to imprison him at all times. The only one who really had immunity in the court was Xie Qian.

Others all hoped that Xie Qian would complain, and even instigated Xie Qian to complain in front of Empress Dowager Zhang, but unfortunately Xie Qian knew that the emperor would be required to alienate Liu Jin in the final analysis, otherwise everything would be useless, so he ignored the proposals of the court officials. Xie Qian's first principle of doing things is to protect himself, and the rest is to uphold justice. If there is a conflict between self-protection and upholding justice, he would rather be a fence-bearing person.

Xie Qian's attitude left the civil servants helpless.

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In the first year of Zhengde, the political trend in the court and the middle school changed drastically.

Before, civil officials such as Xie Qian could still confront Liu Jin and not let Liu Jin do anything wrong. However, after Liu Jin and Qian Ning established a leopard house and made Zhu Houzhao completely addicted to Yile, Liu Jin's power grew increasingly. In addition, after Liu Yu and other treacherous slandered Liu Jin's plan to follow Liu Jin's will, so that Liu Jin gradually took over the power.

But in the northwest, a storm slowly calmed down.

Under the leadership of Shen Xi, Wang Shouren's investigation into the problems of money and grain in the three sides had been revealed.

Before the fourth day of the second month, more than 300 civil and military officials from the three sides took the initiative to "plead guilty" at the official post where Wang Shouren was located and returned the stolen money, with a total of about 600,000 taels.

But this is only about one-tenth of the money and food greedy on three sides. It is good if the corrupt official can take out two or three taels of greed, and the big head is still in the hands of Zhu Hui, Zhang Heling and others...

Even so, Wang Shouren's errand can successfully handle the court, and he does not want to continue investigating, which will cause trouble.

After the officials confessed their crimes, they didn't pay much money, mainly because they were afraid of taking on even greater charges. They thought that Wang Shouren would be free if he no longer pursued him, but they didn't know how much they were greedy, so they had already posted a number here in Shenxi.

Shen Xi knew who was lucky, but Wang Shouren didn't care, and Shen Xi couldn't have a chance for the time being.

On the sixth day of the second month, Wang Shouren went to the Sanbian Governor's Office to thank him and prepared for leaving Yansui.

Shen Xi met Wang Shouren in the main yamen. When he heard that Wang Shouren was dissatisfied, he couldn't help but say, "Brother Bo'an left like this? I'm afraid that the corruption in the three sides is far from this?"

Wang Shouren didn't expect Shen Xi to suddenly spread the problem and asked curiously: "Zhihou thinks the case has not been settled yet? Aren't you unwilling to expand the case before, for fear of involving more people?"

Shen Xidao: "Whether it is settled, Brother Bo'an knows better than the lower level. The officials in the three sides are lucky. The result is only to be able to communicate with the court. However, the difference between the money and grain allocated by the court and the amount of money and grain that the court allocated is too big. If Brother Bo'an doesn't ask many more people for punishment, he will not only fail to return to the court, but will not only have it. It is better to provide Brother Bo'an with a list and let Brother Bo'an completely reveal the shady situation?"

"this……"
Chapter completed!