A group of ordinary people captured a court official and were taken directly to the capital!
This kind of thing was unheard of and unthinkable in all dynasties, but it happened in the Ming Dynasty.
In the carriage, the old man was obviously stunned for a moment.
In an official-based dynasty, even if the people had some power given by the king, they mostly used it for self-protection. Few people had the courage and perseverance to actually directly conflict with the officials.
When an official is arrested, a class is offended.
There are no emperors who have lived for ten thousand years, but there are officials who have lived for ten thousand years. The people are majestic for a while, but they leave endless troubles. It should be noted that in the future, if the people who exercise power make mistakes, they will be doomed. Even if it is tragic
Officials can ruin people's lives no matter what they do or don't do.
It is true that the people do not fight against the officials!
"Grandson, what do you think?" the old man asked with a slight smile.
Zhu Yunxi thought about it, "It's getting late, let's let Dali Temple take custody first, and the Jin Yiwei will jointly take care of it. Let's talk about it at the court meeting tomorrow. After all, this imperial edict is different from the previous one, and the world will be in uproar. Just like this, we must be more upright!"
Just now he heard that someone had come to Beijing to complain, and he was shocked. But after hearing the whole story, he felt funny and a little more serious.
There are always places in the world where the sun does not shine, and there are always injustices in the world. Those villagers risked their wealth and lives to do things that in the past were tantamount to rebellion, and we must deal with them with caution.
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"Well, I will be under the guard of the Dali Temple Jinyi Guards!" the old man said calmly, "People who come to Beijing must not neglect them. They will be given food and tea, and the place where they live must be clean!"
"My grandson obeys the order!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.
In fact, being an official in the Ming Dynasty is really a dangerous job. In the early years of the Hu Li case and the Kongyin case, the old man killed countless people with his butcher knife. Many courtiers were so frightened that they had to explain their funeral arrangements to their families before going to court.
If Zhu Yunxi hadn't come out of nowhere and made the Lan Yu case invisible, and let the old man know that his eldest grandson could control these ministers, I'm afraid the old man would continue to wield his butcher knife.
However, the old man no longer kills people. His temper has improved, and officials don’t dare to be presumptuous. Last year’s Hangzhou Kouque case is proof of this. Hundreds of officials were killed, and the human skins of several chief officials of Yingtian Mansion were made into mattresses.
Drape it on the official chair.
Today there is another incident. The villagers arrested officials and brought them into the capital directly under the imperial edict. If this kind of thing becomes the norm, will Ming officials still have a way to survive?
It's better in the north. The sky is high and the emperor is far away, so the people are a little dull and reverent to the government. But in the south, there are many people who are educated and the people know a lot, so those who are officials have a lot of headaches.
At the beginning, when the imperial edict was formulated, ministers wrote to it.
"There are many unruly people in the world. If they go to Beijing to file a complaint if something is not going their way, wouldn't that disturb the laws of the country?"
"The ministers govern the world and allow the people to take advantage of the officials, which will easily lead to disasters. If things go on like this, the monarch, ministers and the people will be like enemies and bandits!"
"The people in the countryside are unreasonable and unreasonable. If your Majesty believes in them and listens to them, I might hurt the hearts of the scholars in the world!"
In response to this, the old man's answer was very direct, "It is stated in the imperial edict that if the people's accusations against the officials are untrue, three generations of the family will be beheaded. Do you think that any unruly people would be so unreasonable that they would make false accusations even if they don't care about their own family's food?"
"Furthermore, if the world has smooth communication and the people have a place to redress their grievances, they will never be able to come before me!"
The person who best understands the hearts of the people and the hearts of officials in the world is the old man.
Some people in later generations once said that although Emperor Hongwu was a complete one-man husband, he was definitely not a common thief who loved great achievements, loved being praised for his prosperity, and having officials praise him while the people suffered!
This is also what politicians and officials hate the most about the old man hundreds of years later.
He gave the people the power to restrict and restrict officials that they had never had before, legitimizing people's resistance to injustice and making officials no longer arrogant and powerful.
The next day, before dawn, Zhu Yunxi and the old man got up.
The autumn morning is slightly cool and foggy.
In the Jinshen Hall, surrounded by the twelve eunuchs, the two changed into court clothes. Then in the Fengtian Hall, the throne was slowly raised, revealing the majestic dragon chair. The old man and Zhu Yunxi slowly took their seats at the sound of the Han general's whip.
"My ministers, long live my emperor and my great grandson!"
On the throne, Zhu Yunxi looked at the ministers who were kneeling three times and kowtowing from the palace to the square outside. He slightly raised his hands and said on behalf of the old man, "Everyone loves you!"
The courtiers behind Ping stood solemnly. They must have heard that someone else came to Beijing to complain. So they all kept silent carefully and watched what would happen.
"Last night, we heard that someone came to Beijing again to complain. This time, we directly arrested the officials who caused harm to the people!" The old man's voice was low, making people feel chills on the back. "You guys will tell us the good news all day long.
If you don't report your worries, you think the world is peaceful and the people live and work in peace and contentment. So what, have you exposed your secret?"
At this point, he snorted heavily, "You, some people always think that we are too mean to you, but even if we are so mean, there are still injustices in the world!"
The old man's voice echoed in the palace, and the heads of the ministers lowered their heads.
Zhu Yunxi, on the other hand, heard something different from the old man's words.
Although the people complained to the officials, the old man said it was an injustice without being reviewed by Dali Temple. It must have been last night, because Jin Yiwei had secretly told the old man the whole story.
"Someone is going to be unlucky again!" Zhu Yunxu said heartily.
"Where is the Prime Minister Ying Tianfu?" After the old man finished speaking, Zhu Yunxi said, "Tell me the whole story of the incident!"
In the third row of ministers, Ying Tianfu Prime Minister Cai Ying immediately came out, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, Your Highness Taisun. Yesterday evening, there was an inspection report of bows and horses outside the city. Chen Shou, a villager in Changshu, and others were tied up.
The local county officials want to go to Beijing to complain and accuse him of crippling the people."
"My lord, I dare not be negligent. I will immediately order the horsemen and archers to bring Chen Shou, his sons, nephews, nephews, and others into the city, and report this to His Majesty and His Highness, waiting for the Holy Judgment!"
This man's predecessor was made into a human skin mattress just because he prevented people from complaining. Naturally, he dare not hide anything now.
"Mr. Dali Temple, where is the commander of the Jinyi Guards?" Zhu Yunxi asked again, "Last night, the emperor's decree was sent to the guard and inquired. Is there a written record?"
He Guangyi, the commander of the Jin Yiwei, held up a file with both hands and knelt down and said, "Last night, I asked a few simple questions, and the whole story lies here. Please, Your Majesty, make a holy judgment!"
"Send it up!"
After Zhu Yunxi finished speaking, Pu Bucheng walked over, took the dossier, and quickly delivered it from the side of the imperial steps.
"Grandpa Huang, please take a look!" Zhu Yunxi took it and said to the old man.
The old man still looked at the ministers with an unkind look on his face, waved his hand and said, "We have seen it, you see." Then he pointed at the ministers and said, "Read it to them!"
"Yes!" Zhu Yunxi bowed, opened the file and read, "Chen Shou, nicknamed Chen. He is from Chenjia Village in Changshu. He likes guns and sticks and has some courage. His family has twenty acres of land and two cows. He is a patrol archer for the village!
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This person's identity is equivalent to the village defense officer in later generations.
"Last autumn, the water rose in Changshu. The emperor decreed that after the flood receded, the government organized the people to open up wasteland. The fields along the river were opened and handed over to the people for cultivation."
Zhu Yunxi knew about this. The government organized the people to manage the river, but the government did not want to provide money or food. Therefore, the large people who promised to help, after the river water receded, the land reclaimed by the riverbank was handed over to the people for farming. In addition, no food was collected for the first five years.
Tax.
"There are two thousand people in my Chenjia Village who have worked hard on the river for two months. It is reasonable to say that we should be allocated 700 acres of paddy fields. But according to the official letter from the county, our Chenjia Village can only get 120 acres, and
It’s still the fields along the river that are prone to waterlogging!”
After reading this, Zhu Yunxi frowned.
It is true that the land on the river beach is good land. But if it is right next to the river beach, it will inevitably be submerged once water comes out.
"I, the people of Chenjia Village, were so angry that I asked the grassroots to take the lead in going to the county government to find out. Unexpectedly, the county magistrate said that the people of Xujia Village, a neighboring village, have contributed more than our Chenjia Village, and the land should be given to them!"
"But in the two months on the river, there were only more than a hundred people in the Xu family, and they were all old and weak. How could we, the Chen family, be so real? We worked hard in the wind and rain for two months, and many of the descendants became sick.
I don’t know how many farm tools were damaged.”
"The grassroots people and fellow villagers argued hard based on their reasons. But the county gentlemen said that the fields on the riverbank were ownerless land, and the court was kind to everyone. There was no reason to be picky and picky. They also said that we didn't know.
At any rate, you’re pushing your limits!”
"Later, the villain paid someone to inquire in the county. There was a junior in the Xu family who was elected in the same year as the county magistrate. He privately gave the county magistrate three hundred taels of silver, and the official gave the money that should have been given to the Chen family.
Tian, gave him a Xu family."
"The common people are not convinced, but the officials say that what the government decides is the king's law and cannot be changed."
"He also said that if we continue to disobey, we won't even have the more than 100 acres of land. If we don't obey the government, we will gather people to cause chaos and defy the government!"
"In anger, the common people drank some wine with their nephews, nephews, etc., then went into the county government office and kidnapped the county magistrate against the emperor's decree."
"Afterwards, the common people were also a little scared! But now that the matter has come to this, there is no point in being afraid."
"Thousands of villagers in Chenjia Village cannot be bullied by others, and everything is no bigger than a word of truth! A common man is a rough man, and he will accept death the most. If the government is not open to the public, who will contribute to the government in the future!"
After finishing reading, the hall was completely silent.
Maybe in the eyes of these people, it is just a trivial matter, and they don't take it seriously. Throughout the dynasties, the people have done whatever the government said. The officials are the king's law, who cares about the people's principles?
Zhu Yunxi sneered, shook the file in his hand, walked down the imperial steps slowly, looked at the ministers, and said, "The day before yesterday, the emperor told me that to feed the people of the world, there is a long way to go, and it will not be accomplished overnight! Our master
Both of us, the most urgent task now is to lay a good foundation for future generations and make the Ming Dynasty politically clear!"
"But take a look at this file?" Zhu Yunxi suddenly said loudly, "What a good government says is the king's law? How much can a good government give you? It's really overbearing. The people have been wronged and they don't even want to talk about it?"
If you say it, you are a troublemaker, if you say it, you are guilty?"
"The fields cultivated by the people's sweat can be given to whomever they want? What a great official power!"
"You are really not afraid of death when you use the blood and sweat of the people for personal gain!"
Suddenly, the old man spoke from the dragon throne, "Bring Chen Shou up!"
(In this case, the characters and stories are all historical prototypes!)
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It’s so fun to watch teacher Zhang Lu’s explanation.
