"His Majesty!"
"Your Majesty!"
The ministers and palace people exclaimed, and Zhu Yuanzhang stood up with a sword in his hand, like a king with angry eyes.
Anger filled his chest, and he could only vent his anger by killing people. But when he looked around, his eyes were a little depressed.
kill?
It has been a long time since he killed someone himself. Before he became emperor, he even hated killing people, but in order to survive, for the sake of territory and for wealth, he had to kill.
But after becoming the emperor, for the sake of imperial power, the stability of the court, and the morals of the world, he killed more people than he had killed during the twenty years of war.
He is the emperor, no matter how angry he is, he cannot directly kill people! No matter how angry he is, he cannot lose his sense of proportion.
It had been so many years since he had lost his temper like this. Even when Chen Youliang's hundreds of thousands of troops were marching south and Yingtian Mansion was in danger, he was talking and laughing to him. Even then, when he first joined the army, Haozhou was besieged and there was no food left.
He had never been like this. Even back then, when he was rolling among the dead and covered in blood, he had never been like this.
"Your Majesty!" Pu Bucheng called softly.
"Your Majesty!" the ministers called softly.
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Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the dragon chair with a pestle knife in one hand, his eyes lowered, "Get out!"
Then, he raised his head again, his eyes blazing, "Get out of here!"
In an instant, he was the only one left in the huge palace. On his old face, the anger was deep in his heart. For a moment, he seemed much older and depressed. Even the eyes of the Ninth Five Supreme Being sitting on the dragon throne were full of anger.
Wronged.
"Why are you fooling us like this?" The old man secretly resented, "Why are you fooling us like this? We worked hard to conquer the Ming Dynasty and became the emperor with fear, but you used it to deceive and fool us? This is me Zhu
The Ming Dynasty of our family, this is the Ming Dynasty that we thought would last for generations to come!”
"You are greedy, you are traitorous, you are evil!"
"Justice for the people of the world, as well as our imperial power, can be your way to make money!"
"You have no Ming Dynasty in your heart, no us, no people, only your official positions! The power in your hands!"
"Thankfully, we are still complacent, thinking that with my support, the people of the world will be less wronged! Now it seems that by letting them complain, I have actually harmed them!"
"What will the history books say about me, Zhu Chong? What will the history books say about me? I am a big joke! I am a big fool! I am a bastard who only seeks fame and reputation, and is a bastard who has high ambitions but low power!"
"Historical books will definitely write that I am a cruel lord who loves to kill his subjects. History books will also write that I am a thief king who treats the people of the world as slaves!"
"We just want to make the world a better place. Why do you all have to go against us?"
"Corrupt officials, powerful ministers, cliques, nobles!"
"Now, even these humble officials are starting to take our words seriously and start harming the people?"
"What kind of emperor are we being? It's so aggrieved!"
Thinking about it, the old man looked at the blade in his hand and said again what he had asked countless times, "Why can't we kill them all? How come we can't stop killing these stupid idiots who harm the people!"
Even as the Ninth Five Supreme Being, there are some things that he will feel unable to deal with.
Born into a poor family, he is well aware of the harm caused by evil officials. If the officials of the Yuan Dynasty had had a little bit of people's hearts, his family would not have died of illness and starvation. If the officials of the Yuan Dynasty had had a little conscience, the world would have
Not that many people will die.
After becoming the emperor, he set strict demands on himself and all the officials in the world. It was nothing more than to make them have a conscience, a sense of responsibility, and to understand the hardships and sufferings of the people.
But in the past twenty-five years, this is what we have gained?
He is a perfectionist and an emperor with a sense of moral superiority. He spurns those emperors in the past who used the people's wealth to support them, and were arrogant and extravagant. Even Emperor Qin and Han Wu, and even Emperor Taizong and Yuan Shizu of the Tang Dynasty, were all thieves of the people in his heart.
He was cruel to the palace people and harsh to the officials, but he never harmed the people, never abused the people's power, never built palaces, and never enjoyed debauchery.
He did everything he asked of himself, but he was powerless to deal with these evil things in the world.
He understands that there is no fish in clear water, and he also knows that being an official for thousands of miles is just for money.
He just wants those who are officials to have some conscience!
At the same time, he knows the meaning of the word "official" better than those who are officials.
At first, when the great scholar Song Lian was giving lectures to his son, he listened outside the window and remembered it deeply.
Officials have existed since ancient times. As the old saying goes, Yao and Shun were officials in the world. Yao and Shun were the officials of all people in the world, not the masters of all people in the world. Officials are not lords!
The meaning of this official is not only management, but also care and care. The word "official" means "guarantee", plus the word "dui" (according to the Kangxi Dictionary).
, the Jewish people! The Jewish people, the people!
Officials are people who protect the Jewish people!
The word "guan" is added next to the word "人", which means "GUARD". The implication is that as long as officials are still individuals, they cannot forget that they are from the common people.
A handful of grass is added to the head of the official character, which is the root of human life.
These scholars who are full of knowledge, these people who enjoy the salary of the Ming Dynasty and enjoy the support of the people not only forget that they are born in the common people, but also add cursive to their official names.
They have become officials who care less about human life than human beings.
"kill!"
The old man has only one word in his mind.
During these years of fighting in the north and south, he had a way to deal with even the fiercest enemies. But he had no way to deal with these inhuman officials.
If there is no other way, don’t use any other method, just use the simplest method.
kill!
Kill them all!
Just like farming, if there are weeds, they must be uprooted.
It depends on whether you grow faster or I grow faster.
"We Zhu Zhong!" The old man raised his head and looked at the five-clawed golden dragon above the caisson of the main hall, which seemed to be about to break through the sky. "We, Zhu Zhong, are a single man, but we are not a thief!"
"Let Jiang Yu come in!" the old man shouted.
A moment later, the commander of the Jin Yiwei ordered Jiang Yu to crawl in and kneel on the ground.
He was terrified to death. There had been such a big mistake in the capital. As the leader of the Jinyiwei who oversaw all the officials, he could not absolve himself of the blame.
The Jinyiwei were the emperor's personal soldiers, serving as the emperor's eyes and ears. However, right under the emperor's nose, in the most virtuous place in the world, their eyes and ears had turned into decorations.
"Your Majesty!" Jiang Wei's voice trembled, "Listen to the holy teachings!"
"Come here!" the old man whispered.
Jiang Wei crawled on the ground like a dog and reached the old man's feet.
Boom! The old man kicked me!
Ah! Jiang Qi felt pain and screamed in his heart.
The old man's big foot stepped directly on one of Jiang Wei's hands and crushed it repeatedly. The force was so strong that Jiang Wei's finger bones almost broke.
"Does it hurt?" the old man asked with a sneer.
"No...it doesn't hurt! Well..."
"Doesn't it hurt?" The old man still sneered, exerted force on his foot again, and put the knife in his hand on Jiang Wei's neck, "Does it hurt?"
"Your Majesty, it hurts! It hurts!" Jiang Wei replied in horror.
"No matter how painful it is for you, how can you be as distressed as I am?" As he said that, the old man dropped the saber in his hand, and with a pop, the saber penetrated Jiang Yu's palm directly.
Blood instantly spread on the gold bricks and slowly flowed along the cracks in the ground.
Jiang Wei twitched twice, but did not dare to shout, struggle, or speak.
"I handed over the Jin Yiwei to you and asked you to be my eyes and ears. Are you blind or deaf?" the old man asked sternly, "If it weren't for your dog being useful, I would have chopped you up today!"
"Master, I am guilty!" With the saber still in his hand, Jiang Wei begged for mercy.
Although he is an official and a minister, he is no different from the emperor's servant. Everything he has is given by the emperor, and his life and death depend on the emperor's thoughts.
"Save your life first!" The old man nodded Jiang Wei's head with his foot, "You know what to do, and you also know what to do in the future!"
Jiang Wei narrowly escaped death and said, "I understand that I must satisfy my master!"
"Only when the world has nothing to hide can I be satisfied. Only when everything in the world is within my ears can I be satisfied!" the old man said again.
"I understand!"
"Also, take care of the royal guards everywhere. If you are blind in the capital, they are also blind in the local area?" The old man continued angrily, "Kill those who deserve to be killed. What are you keeping a dog that can't bark?"
"I obey the decree! I will do it now!"
The old man lowered his head slightly, "Who is most involved in the case of arresting people who came to Beijing to accuse people?"
Jiang Wei was sweating, "According to the confessions of the prisoners, this has become a common practice. All the officials in charge of public security and prisons in Yingtian Mansion know that every year they share the local filial piety, and most of it is given to Chen Ji, the Prime Minister of Yingtian Mansion! Later, the local government
The emperor directly handed the money to the Chen Mansion, and Chen Ji ordered each department to handle it, and reward him according to his merits afterwards."
"At most, it only involves Chen Ji?" The old man frowned.
"I'm afraid the criminal didn't tell the truth, so I'm going to go and interrogate him personally!" Jiang Wei quickly changed his mind.
"The court officials haven't been involved yet!" The old man murmured, "That's right, after killing so many people, those who survive now are all still somewhat conscience-stricken!" Then he added, "The name Chen Ji, such a
Sound familiar?”
"He is the nephew of Ye Sheng, the Marquis of Jingning. He was appointed as a scholar and has no talent or knowledge. It was because of the Marquis of Jingning that he achieved the official position of Ying Tianfu Cheng."
"Ye Sheng!" The old man sighed, "You don't know people well! You're stupid!" He said with a sneer, "I remember that he used to have a good personal relationship with Hu Weiyong! At first, thinking that he had some merits in the past, I spared him once.
I didn’t expect that besides making careless friends, he also has such a nephew who is not a human being.”
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Ming Taizu was actually a very contradictory person.
On the one hand, he has a strong sense of moral superiority and hates evil. On the other hand, he is cruel.
On the one hand, he cherished the people, but he also indulged his sons in their behavior.
He is an independent man, not a thief. I think this sentence is the most appropriate!
These words come from the book "Dragon Bed, Emperor Ming".
This chapter has been completed!