Outside the city is the Qinhuai River, the natural moat of Yingtian Mansion.
Standing on the city wall and looking far away, at the dock of the Qinhuai River, the honor guard of Zhu Yunxi's grandson was boarding the ship, surrounded by dense escorts and palace attendants.
Going to Hangzhou, the waterway is more convenient than the land. The old man gave a royal boat for the emperor's grandson to use when traveling. When boarding the boat, the sails on the royal boat were raised high and filled instantly.
The wind gradually blows, and the sea and sky are all covered with sails. Looking to the southeast, the remaining green is Zhongshan Mountain.
There was a buzz of people on the river, and it was a little cold at the top of the city.
As an elder looks around, the figures will always be far away.
It is difficult to think about our country, our country, and our world, and our pride and indignation are accompanied by sadness.
I just hope that the world will be safe, one family will say goodbye, and thousands of families will be reunited.
I hope again that there will be no long way to go, there will be no injustice in the world, and thousands of families will be happy.
"Why!"
On the wall of Guonan City outside Yingtian, the old man sighed slightly and waved his hand gently to the fleet of boats sailing on the Qinhuai River outside the city.
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The wind blew by, and the old man's half-white hair fluttered in the wind. Even though he was the Ninth Five Supreme Being, his figure looked a little desolate at this moment.
"Your Majesty, the wind is strong!" Pu Bucheng gently put a fur cloak on the old man and said softly, "You have been looking at me for a long time. Come back! Before leaving, His Highness Taisun specially told his servants that everything would be safe for them."
Take good care of your body!"
"I wanted to have a peaceful New Year!" The old man still looked into the distance and sighed, "I wanted to have a peaceful New Year and get him married in a grand way. I didn't expect that in this world, there would be no leisure time!"
After saying that, the old man turned around and walked towards the steps down the city wall.
"Your Majesty!" When the old man reached the steps, Liu Sanwu, who was waiting there, said, "For the Hangzhou case, I thought it would be enough to choose a capable minister. There is no need for His Highness to come in person, the Crown Prince is the foundation of the country...
..."
"Didn't I say this before?" The old man waved his hand and said impatiently.
"Having said that, I have to say that even if there is a major case, the crown prince's personal presence can serve as a good place for heaven's kindness and punish Xiaoxiao to show his kindness. But after all, the crown prince is the foundation of the country and cannot leave the capital easily!" Liu Sanwu, a scholar in Shushe, said bluntly,
"If you think that if there is a long-term rule, wherever a major case occurs in the future, your grandson will have to come in person, isn't it putting the cart before the horse?"
The old man walked slowly towards the city wall, "Are you blaming us?"
"I don't dare!"
"We know what you are thinking, but it's okay for him to go this time!" the old man said thoughtfully, "This incident in Hangzhou will not only affect the officials of Hangzhou, but also cause a great shock to Yingtian Mansion. Get rid of harm for the people.
It is up to him, the crown prince, to do the things that the tyrant does, and it is his grandfather who does the things that the tyrant does to kill officials!"
Liu Sanwu's feet went weak and he almost lost his footing as he followed the old man.
"I'm telling you this because you are also the master of Zuo Chunfang Zhan Shifu and Taisun's teacher!" The old man continued, "This case is by no means an isolated case. Over the years, people all over the world who have complained have been arrested in the capital.
How much! There is such a thing in Hangzhou, but not elsewhere? I must investigate this matter. For the sake of you being Taisun’s teacher, I will also say hello to you in advance!"
As he said that, the old man turned around and said in a cold voice, "You are all disciples and former officials all over the world. I say just in case, just in case it is found that your students were in the same year. Don't lick your face and go to your grandson to beg for mercy. I'll see.
In front of my grandson, I have turned a blind eye to many things!"
Liu Sanwu was so frightened that he did not dare to say anything after bowing.
The emperor is right. Hangzhou cannot be the only one in the world to have such a thing. If nothing happens, everyone will be fine. If something happens, the emperor will settle the accounts.
Liu Sanwu himself had a very upright character and was a traditional Confucian official. He was upright as an official and upright as a person. However, a person has a circle and a person has connections. Although the emperor's words did not sound good, he gave them to him for the sake of his great grandson.
He and his ministers have the greatest dignity.
At the same time, through Liu Sanwu's mouth, he warned the officials of the court that when it was time to distance themselves from the local authorities, they should do so quickly. Don't go against the wind and be implicated, which will make it difficult for His Highness the Grand Sun to do so in the future.
The unjust case of the Zhao family is not an isolated case. When criminals are involved in officialdom, everything is not simple. Sun Xiaozhong is a small patrol inspector who framed the people for trivial matters. There has never been a shortage of such heartless beasts throughout the ages. But so many officials, secretly organized
It became an invisible net that prevented people from going to Beijing to complain, but the matter was serious.
They dare to do this now that the emperor is alive, but if it happens in a few years...?
It has only been less than 30 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. If it had been a few more years...?
The imperial power is now at its peak, and the atmosphere is good now, but what if...?
What Emperor Hongwu hated most in his life was not only greed, but also evil. Besides evil, there was also cheating.
From the founding of Hongwu to the present day, in the Kongyin case, Hu Weiyong case, and Li Shanchang case, the court and local officials were like cutting leeks, killing one crop after another, totaling tens of thousands of people, and everyone in the official position was afraid of themselves.
Knocking on the que has become a topic of conversation after dinner in the capital, and the emperor's grandson's visit to the capital has ignited public opinion in the capital. The people are watching the excitement and are not afraid of big troubles. At the same time, because they are ordinary people, they sympathize with the Zhao family and grit their teeth.
The officials in the capital were cautious for fear of being implicated. From the night of the knocking ceremony to the early morning of the next day, when the emperor's grandson left the capital, the Jinyiwei had arrested more than ten subordinate officials of Yingtian Mansion, all of whom were in charge of public security in the inner and outer cities.
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After the emperor's grandson's royal boat was launched, Ying Tianfu governed the subordinates, and the officials of the Procuratorate were not spared.
The atmosphere of the Spring Festival dissipated in an instant, and everyone seemed to have returned to the years when the emperor was very murderous and the number of people was high.
Jinyiwei's efficiency was extremely fast, and the emperor's imperial case was filled with confessions overnight. Every piece of evidence was unknown until he checked it, and he would be shocked if he checked it.
In the Fengtian Hall, the silence of the standing ministers was so silent that you could almost hear a pin drop. The ministers lowered their heads, and no one dared to speak at this time. The ears were filled with the rustling sound of the emperor reading the book, and the rattling sound of the emperor's teeth.
"Hmph, let's just say that the Zhao family's unjust case is by no means an isolated case, look at it!"
The old man sat behind the imperial court, looked at the ministers in the palace, raised the confessions of the prisoners in their hands, and sneered repeatedly, "Since the seventh year of Hongwu, people from Shandong, Henan, and Hebei have come to Beijing to complain to the imperial court several times! In the 12th year of Henan,
During the flood, more than thirty people came at one time!"
"Then people from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huguang and Guangxi came to complain! Even my hometown, Fengyang, people came to, but I didn't know anything about it!"
Wow, those confessions flew into the air like snow flakes and fell down one after another.
The old man growled, "The officials of the Ming Dynasty are so damn good at being officials! They are all human beings who crawled out of a pile of knowledge, and they are all ghosts and ghosts!"
As he said that, the old man picked up another confession and read it out, "This is the confession of Zhang Zhenye, the censor of Yingtian Mansion. I will read it to you. At the beginning, the soldiers were stationed at the city gate. They searched everywhere in the city and found out and complained.
People, let’s talk about the capital prison first.”
"If the local government hears that a citizen under his rule has come to Beijing to complain, he will pay a large sum of money and take care of the person who complained!"
"You're so fucking smart about making money!" The old man laughed angrily, "You didn't report the people who complained after you were found, but you actually notified the local government to come and get money! This bunch of seventh-grade subordinate officials in Yingtian Mansion are really fucking crooked.
Come on! They shouldn’t be in charge of the capital, they should be officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs!”
As he said this, the old man was very upset. He picked up the tea bowl and took two sips. When he let go, the enamel tea bowl was smashed into pieces.
"Your Majesty!" The ministers knelt down and apologized.
The old man didn't even look at them, and continued to read the confession in his hand, "For example, in the 20th year of Hongwu, seven members of the Zhou family in Yanzhou, Shandong, went to Beijing to file a complaint because the Lu Palace occupied their fields. The Yanzhou Prefecture and the Lu Prince's Palace sent a total of three
One thousand one hundred taels will be divided among the troops and horses of the Patrol Division..."
King Lu of Yanzhou, the ninth son of the emperor, had a fiefdom in Yanzhou, Shandong.
He was originally the favored prince of the old man. He was good at poetry and courteous, and was often praised by the old man. But after arriving in Shandong, he became obsessed with elixirs for some reason, and died of poison at a young age.
In anger, the old man was given the posthumous title of "Huang".
But that was the old man's son after all, a son he could be proud of when he didn't go astray. But just such a son, privately, invaded people's fields, causing people to come to Beijing to complain. What's even more annoying is that his own son
Joined forces with local officials and spent money to buy back the people who complained.
A breath of air stuck in the old man's chest, like a stone, making him dizzy.
"Grandson..." He muttered something in his mouth before remembering that Zhu Yunxi had already left Beijing at this time.
The old man was speechless for a long time, feeling that none of the courtiers in the palace liked him.
"It's a good thing that this bastard died early, otherwise we would have been completely embarrassed by him!" The old man cursed in a low voice as he looked at the confession, "Publish an order to demolish the temple of his mausoleum, three years...
.... Prince Lu’s Mansion is not allowed to worship him for five years!”
In anger, the emperor wanted to directly remove his title, but he remembered that King Lu died early in the 22nd year of Hongwu and had a son who was just babbling, so he suppressed the anger in his heart.
Then, the old man picked up the confession again and said, "Later, more and more people complained. When local officials discovered that people under their rule had left the country and were suspected of entering Beijing, they would quickly go to Beijing and inform the people leaving the country of their names, identities, household registration records, etc.
, to facilitate Yingtian Mansion’s arrest.”
"All of them are. In accordance with the instructions of the inspector, His Majesty has ordered the world that people can go to the capital to complain. As officials in the capital, we can do good to our colleagues, but we cannot be their pawns!"
"Yingtian Mansion can investigate, but cannot come forward to pursue. In this way, people from all over the country are stationed in the capital guild hall all the year round to deport the complainants back to their hometowns!"
"Every year, various guild halls send filial piety money to Yingtian Mansion, conduct patrols, conduct military inspections, and inspect various departments, ranging from several thousand to one thousand."
"For example, in the 19th year of Hongwu's reign, there was a fire in the Suzhou Silk Factory, killing seven workers. The wealthy businessmen of Suzhou Prefecture rewarded each department with as much as ten thousand taels of silver!"
"Let's talk about your grandma!"
With a bang, Zhu Yuanzhang pulled out the sword on the case and kicked the imperial case over.
This chapter has been completed!