Liu Jin was actually a very capable eunuch, otherwise he would not be able to control the government. Moreover, the "finishment of rice" he invented largely stopped the loss of state assets.

What is the "rice fine"? It is mainly aimed at the loss of the treasury and warehouses in various places. Before Liu Jin's reform, many officials in charge of warehouses often used their positions to greed for the national treasury, local official warehouses and other materials, causing great deficits to the official. Moreover, this greed for ink is gradually progressing, and it is not easy to see that it is greedy for ink every day. After all, it is normal for food and other materials to be a little depleted. As long as the pharaoh is attained, he can greed for a lot of ink from the treasury and official warehouses in a year, and the account can't be found at all.

Liu Jin then came up with a trick - the "meal fine". The specific method is to strictly count the quantity of materials when the official who manages the warehouse takes office. When the term of office expires, then lighten the materials. Excluding the reasonable loss, the warehousing officials who leave office must pay for the full amount out of their own pockets. Otherwise, wait for the jail to issue an edict to prison...

This move is very simple and crude - I don’t care what reason you use, if you lose money, it will be a loss. You pay for it yourself. No matter how good your account is, I will only look at the results...

This trick is very effective in stopping the loss of state assets. Therefore, although Liu Jin was notorious after his death, this method was preserved. Marin sometimes thought that if the state-owned enterprise reform also used this set, many state-owned assets might not have been lost so easily. You should know that when state-owned enterprises were reforming, many of the original senior management almost took over the factory at the price of picking up rags. If Liu Jin had asked the "finishing rice" to punish them, this would never have happened. Sometimes, the wisdom of the ancients could be learned by future generations.

Of course, Liu Jin was not that smart, but the idea that a minister of the Ministry of Personnel named Zhang Cai came up with for him. Zhang Cai and Liu Jin were fellow villagers. After Liu Jin took power, he leaned toward a top-level position like the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Of course, he also had the ability. The "meal fine" strategy he presented to Liu Jin greatly curbed the loss of assets of the court. However, after Liu Jin fell, this guy was also finished...

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Although Liu Jin was capable and developed a simple and crude trick like "finishing rice", he was not a good person himself. Because of excessive blackmail, Liu Jin had a very bad reputation among officials. Except for those officials who defected to him, the rest of the officials wanted to eat Liu Jin's meat raw. Later, Liu Jin was executed by Lingchi, which was the result of the promotion of all officials. If Liu Jin's own crimes were at most a super corrupt, he did not commit any unforgivable crimes such as treason. However, Zhengde was only 18 years old and had a weak ear. When he was fooled by the ministers, he naturally became angry and cut Liu Jin into pieces.

Before Liu Jin was killed, the young Emperor Zhengde actually believed in people very much. For example, he believed in Liu Jin very much and entrusted all the major affairs of the government. Later, he believed in the civil officials too much, thinking that Liu Jin would not forgive him, and impulsively cut Liu Jin into pieces. It was after this that Emperor Zhengde realized that he had been used by the court officials. Then, he was a little out of the way with the ministers and began to fight against him. Before that, Zhengde was just a newbie who didn't care much about anything.

Of course, Zhengde is also an emperor no matter how young Zhengde is. As an emperor, he naturally attaches great importance to imperial power and etiquette. The reason why Liu Jin was robbed by Zhengde was because the ministers deceived Zhengde - Liu Jin wanted to be the emperor and even said that the people called Liu Jin "Emperor Liu".

It was this slander that hurt Zhengde's nerves that made him decide to execute Liu Jinlingchi. In fact, if Liu Jin really wanted to rebel, he would have been killed with his early new position as Zhengde. Moreover, it would be impossible for a eunuch to say that he was rebellious. The eunuch had no son and could not marry a wife normally. Even if he seized the country, what would he do? There was no successor. Even a super eunuch like Li Fuguo of the Tang Dynasty, he could only control the decree of the emperor, rather than being the emperor himself. What was the purpose of the eunuch's decree of the emperor? Of course, it was to control the government affairs! Liu Jin had already controlled the government affairs, and Zhengde trusted him very much, so he had no need to rebel.

Therefore, Zhengde was deceived by the ministers and made a wrong judgment. In addition, the other Zhengde's confidants in the "Eight Tigers of Zhengde" also colluded with ministers and tried their best to criticize Liu Jin, which led to Liu Jin's end.

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However, at this critical moment, Marin suddenly brought the blue-black Galapagos turtle, a super "black turtle" that is completely consistent with the "Son of Emperor Tortoise" in historical records, which greatly helped Liu Jin.

Because the appearance of the top auspicious auspiciousness of the "Son of Emperor Tortoise" greatly increased the prestige of the young Zhengde Emperor and consolidated his throne. The contribution of the "Son of Emperor Tortoise" was precisely promoted by Liu Jin.

In this way, it would be somewhat unreasonable for ministers to falsely accuse Liu Jin of rebellion in the future. Why? If Liu Jin wanted to rebel, how could he offer Jiarui, the "Son of Heaven's Treasure Turtle", a "Son of Heaven" who demonstrates the morality and "true destiny"? It doesn't make sense... If you really want to rebel, shouldn't you smear the target of rebellion?

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Of course, this is a later story...

The next morning, when the ministers came to court, Emperor Zhengde excitedly asked the Jinyiwei generals to carry nine blue-black "black turtles" to the hall, so that the ministers could open their eyes...

"Black Turtle!"

"Nine!"

The ministers lost their composure on the spot, except for Liu Jinyi's party officials who had received the news before...

The moment the huge turtle was lifted into the hall, no minister thought it was not the black turtle. Because the Galapagos turtle was too huge.

The word "Xuan" in Xuan Turtle originally has the meaning of strangeness and red and black, as well as the meaning of sky. It represents the sky and also has a very metaphor.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Therefore, the huge and blue-black Galapagos turtle is very compatible with the word "Xuan". When many court officials saw these turtles, the word "Xuan" unconsciously popped up in their minds, which is purely conditioned reflex...

Moreover, when walking in the Forbidden City, most ministers have seen the black tortoise statues in the Forbidden City, which is comparable to those of the Galapagos elephant tortoise. The only difference is that the head of the black tortoise is somewhat like a dragon head.

However, the dragon-headed turtle does not exist, it only exists in fantasy. However, the Galapagos elephant tortoise, except for the lack of a dragon, all other characteristics are very similar to the black turtle statue, which has to be believed by the courtiers - this is indeed a black turtle...

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Moreover, the number of 9 "black turtles" is also very attractive. Because 9 represents the meaning of "Nine Five Reverence". Moreover, Chinese culture respects "9". For example, the world is divided into "Nine Provinces", bronze ware has "Nine Cauldrons", the emperor has "Nine Ministers" around, the court ordered officials to be divided into "Nine Ratings", and the capital has "Nine Gates"...

In short, for ancient China, "9" is a very auspicious number. Especially when 9 becomes a super auspicious number like the black turtle...

The black turtle is the top auspicious, let alone the blue-black "Emperor Tortoise"? What's more, there are still 9...

Therefore, all the civil and military officials of the court unanimously determined that it was a black turtle!

Moreover, the nine black turtles represent the good weather in the nine provinces in the world! After all, Xuanwu is the water god and the symbol of good weather...

For a moment, the ministers shouted long live, congratulating Emperor Zhengde, who was only 18 years old, and smashed the praises over for no money, which almost made the young Emperor Zhengde almost lost...
Chapter completed!