Chapter 117
"His Majesty!"
"The Emperor!"
The ministers and palace servants exclaimed, and Zhu Yuanzhang stood up like a glaring Vajra.
Anger filled his chest, and only by killing people could he vent his anger, but when he looked around, his eyes were a little depressed.
kill?
He hadn't committed suicide in person for a long time. Before becoming emperor, he even hated killing, but in order to survive, for territory and wealth, he had to kill.
But after becoming the emperor, for the sake of imperial power, the stability of the court, and the atmosphere of the world, he killed more than twenty years of war and the people he killed.
He is the emperor, no matter how angry he is, he cannot kill people directly! No matter how angry he is, he cannot lose his composure.
He has not been so ruthless for many years. Even when Chen Youliang's army of hundreds of thousands of troops went south and Yingtian Mansion was in danger, he was talking and laughing. Even when he was in the beginning of his army, Haozhou was besieged and had no food, he had never been like this. Even when he was rolling in the pile of dead people and was covered in blood, he had never been like this.
"Emperor!" Park Bucheng called out lightly.
"Your Majesty!" the ministers called out softly.
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Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the dragon chaise with one hand, his eyes drooped, "Get out!"
Then, he looked up again, his eyes burst into light, "Get out!"
In an instant, he was the only one left in the huge palace. Anger was pressing down on his old face. In a moment, he seemed to have grown a lot older and deeper. Even the Jiuwu Supreme sitting on the dragon throne showed a deep grievance in his eyes.
"Why, fooling us so much?" The old man secretly hated, "Why, fooling us so much? We fought to conquer the Ming Dynasty and became this emperor with fear. We were actually deceived and fooled by you? This is the Ming Dynasty of our Zhu family, and this is the Ming Dynasty that we thought will be for generations!"
"You are greedy, you are traitorous, you are evil!"
"The justice of the people in the world and our imperial power can all be your way to get money!"
"You have no wise mind, no us, no people, only your official positions! The power in your hands!"
"We are still complacent, thinking that the people of the world can suffer less grievances with our support! Now it seems that if we ask them to complain, it will hurt them!"
"How can we write about the history books? Zhu Chong! It's a big joke! It's a big fool! It's a fucking fame and a bastard with a low eye!"
"The history books will definitely write that we are a cruel lord who is a bloodthirsty minister. The history books will also write that we are the thief king who treats the people of the world as slaves!"
"We just want to make the world better. Why do you all want to fight us?"
"Corrupt officials, powerful officials, forming cliques, and nobles!"
"Now, even these minor officials have begun to treat our words inappropriately and start to harm the people?"
"What kind of emperor are we the ones? So frustrated!"
Thinking of this, the old man looked at the blade in his hand and said again, and asked countless times, "Why can't you kill? How can you kill these stupid fools who harm the people!"
Even as the Supreme Lord of Nine Five, he feels powerless to deal with some things.
He was born in a poor family and knew the harm of evil officials. If the government in the Yuan Dynasty had a little bit of human heart, his family would not have died of illness and starvation. If the officials in the Yuan Dynasty had a little bit of conscience, so many people would not have died of death in the world.
After becoming emperor, he strictly demanded himself and the officials of the world. It was nothing more than making them feel a little conscience and responsibility, knowing the difficulties of the people, and knowing the sufferings of the people.
But this is what I have received in the past twenty-five years?
He was a perfectionist, an emperor with a sense of moral superiority. He despised those emperors who used the wealth and luxury of the people in all dynasties. Even the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, even the Emperor Taizong of Tang Yuan Shizu, were all traitors in his heart.
He was cruel to the palace servants and harsh to the officials, but he never harmed the people, abused the people's power, built palaces, and enjoyed debauchery.
He did everything he asked for, but he was powerless to deal with these evil things in the world.
He understood the truth that water was clear and there was no fish, and he also knew that being an official for thousands of miles was just for money.
He only hopes that those who are officials can have a little conscience!
At the same time, he knew better than those who were officials, the meaning of the word "official".
When the great scholar Song Lian gave lectures to his son, he had heard it outside the window and remembered it deeply.
Officials have existed since ancient times. An old saying goes, Yao and Shun are the officials of the world. Yao and Shun are the officials of all the people in the world, not the master of all the people in the world. Officials are not the masters!
The meaning of this official is not only management, but also care and favor. The character of official is one, one is one is one is one is one is one is one is one is one is one is one is one is one is one is one. (Dui, the Kangxi Dictionary has annotations)
, it is like the masses! It is like the masses, it is the people!
Officials are protecting people who are like the crowd!
The character "Official" is added with the character "Han" as a prostitute. The meaning is that as long as an official is still an individual, he cannot forget that he is from the common people.
Add a handful of grass on the head of the word "Official", which is a sutra that cares about human life.
These scholars who are full of knowledge, those who eat the salary of the Ming Dynasty and enjoy the support of the people, not only forget that they are from the people, but also add the name of their official position.
They all become officials who take human lives and are not human beings.
"kill!"
The old man's mind has only one word.
After fighting in the north and north for many years, he has a way to do even the fierce enemy. But there is no way to do these officials who are not human.
There is no way, there is no way, just use the simplest way.
kill!
Kill them all!
It’s like farming, when weeds have to be rooted.
It depends on whether you grow fast or I pull it fast.
"We Zhu Chong!" The old man looked up and looked at the five-clawed golden dragon on the caisson in the main hall, which seemed to be about to break through the sky. "We Zhu Chong are a single man, but not a thief!"
"Let Jiang Yan roll in!" the old man shouted.
A moment later, Jiang Qi, the commander of the Jinyiwei, rolled in and crept in and knelt on the ground.
He was frightened and desperate to die. The capital made such a big mistake. As the leader of the Jinyiwei, the chief of the Jinyiwei who supervised all the officials, he could not refuse the blame.
The Jinyiwei was the emperor's personal army. As the emperor's eyes and ears, but just under the emperor's nose, the most wise land in the world, their eyes and ears have become decorations.
"My name!" Jiang Yan's voice trembled, "Listen to the Hadith!"
"Get over!" the old man whispered.
Jiang Yan crawled on the ground like a dog and reached the old man's feet.
Bang! The old man kicked!
Ah! Jiang Yan was in pain and shouted in his heart.
The old man's big feet stepped on Jiang Yan's hand and repeatedly crushed them. The force was so strong that almost broke Jiang Yan's finger bones.
"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, and pressed his feet again, putting the knife in his hand on Jiang Yan's neck, "Does it hurt?"
"Your Majesty, it hurts! It hurts!" Jiang Yan replied in horror.
"No matter how much you feel, can I feel sorry for you?" As he said that, the old man fell down with a slash, and the sword directly penetrated Jiang Yan's palm.
Blood instantly spread on the gold bricks and slowly flowed along the cracks of the ground.
Jiang Yan twitched twice, not daring to shout, not daring to struggle, not daring to speak.
"I hand over the Jinyiwei to you and let you be my eyes and ears. Are you blind or deaf?" The old man asked sternly, "If it weren't for your dog, I'll cut you off today!"
"Master, I am guilty!" The saber was still stuck in his hand, and Jiang Yan begged for mercy.
Although he is an official and a minister, he is no different from the emperor's slaves. Everything he has given is given by the emperor, and life and death are even more in the emperor's thoughts.
"Save your life first!" The old man nodded Jiang Yan's head with his feet, "You know what to do, and you know what to do in the future!"
Jiang Yan escaped from death, "I understand, I will definitely satisfy my master!"
"Only the little one in the world can satisfy me. All things in the world are in my ears, so that I can satisfy me!" The old man said again.
"I understand!"
"Also, take good care of the Jinyiwei in various places. You are blind in the capital, and they are also blind in the place?" The old man continued to angrily, "If you should kill, you won't be able to kill dogs. What are you keeping?"
"I obey the order! I will do it now!"
The old man bowed his head slightly, "Who is the highest case involving arresting and complaining to the people in Beijing?"
Jiang Yan was sweating all over his head, "According to the confession of the criminal, this matter is a common practice. All officials in Yingtian Prefecture in charge of the security and prisons know that they distribute the local filial piety money every year, and gave the Yingtian Prefecture Chief Chen Ji! Later, the local government directly handed the money to the Chen Prefecture, and Chen Ji ordered the departments to do it and rewarded it later on."
"The highest is only involved in Chen Ji?" The old man frowned.
"I'm afraid the criminal didn't tell the truth, so I'll go and examine him personally!" Jiang Yan quickly changed his words.
"The ministers of the court have not been involved yet!" the old man murmured, "Yes, after killing so many people, those who survive now have some conscience!" As he said, he said, "The name Chen Ji sounds so familiar?"
"He is.........Yes Sheng's nephew of the Marquis of Jingning. He was appointed as an official of the Imperial College. He had no talent and knowledge. He relied on Jingning Hou to achieve the position of Yingtian Prefecture Chief...!"
"Ye Sheng!" The old man sighed, "I don't know how to recognize people! I'm stupid!" As he said, he sneered, "I remember that he had a good personal relationship with Hu Weiyong before! At the beginning, he thought of some of his past contributions and spared him once. Unexpectedly, in addition to being careless in making friends, he also had such a nephew who was not a human being."
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The Ming Taizu was actually very contradictory.
On the one hand, he has a strong sense of moral superiority and hates evil. On the other hand, he is very cruel.
On the one hand, he cherishes the people, but he also indulges his sons in such a way.
I think this sentence is the most appropriate!
These words come from the book of Dragon Bed and Emperor Ming.
Chapter completed!