Although the general of the Xu family was strange, he did not dare to disobey. He quickly ordered a few guards and followed him to chase away the people.【】
As soon as Ming'er returned to the carriage and sat down, the sounds of guards shouting and driving away could be heard from outside. The more Ming'er thought about it, the more uneasy she felt, and she couldn't help but feel a little upset.
She was young and had never personally experienced the major cases of Hu Weiyong and Li Shanchang during the Hongwu period that had brought disaster to the ministers of the court. However, as a member of a family of ministers, she was familiar with these major cases. Can she jump into the whirlpool at this time? The country
So what about the Duke? Hu Weiyong’s case alone has implicated how many noble families and how many high-ranking officials in the dynasty have been implicated?
Yang Xu borrowed a house from Wang's consort, such a private matter, Wang's consort would not tell it, and Yang Xu would not be able to tell anyone, and it had only been a day, how could he possibly find out about this place unless he was someone who was interested? Give advice to Yu Shi Duan
I'm afraid the family came to ask Yang Xu with bad intentions. Discouraging the emperor from committing murder in the court and accepting the request of the prisoner's family to speak out for him are two completely different things.
Ming'er comes from a family of Xunchen and has a very keen sense of politics. Not to mention her political literacy, a woman as careless as Su Ying and a girl like Xie Yufei, not to mention Zi Qi, are not as good as her.
It is knowledge that has been accumulated over many years due to one's life experience and status. Others have to struggle all their lives, and if they are lucky enough to survive, they can only sum up this knowledge through countless lessons. She has been exposed to it since she was a child.
"No, we have to find him immediately and remind him! Although that stinky guy is quite clever, there are many ways to kill people with soft knives in the officialdom. He is a newbie, and he accidentally has someone sell him out?"
Ming'er, a lady from a wealthy family, could not walk around the streets looking for men. After leaving the house that Wang's consort lent to Xia Xun, she immediately returned to Dingguo Palace and asked her nephew Xu Jingchang to look for Xia Xun. At this time, Xia Xun had just left.
Imperial Palace, rushing to the Ministry of Punishment.
Xia Xun consciously did not want to get involved in the inevitable political purge brought about by the change of dynasties from the beginning. If one person is guilty, his whole family and even the whole clan will be implicated, even like Jing Qing. In the anger of the emperor, even the people in his village will be implicated.
Shouldn't it? Xia Xun thinks it shouldn't be done, but if he thinks it shouldn't be done, it doesn't necessarily mean he has to correct it.
A man knows himself well, so he has to think carefully about how important he is. Just like when he was in Jinan City, the city was full of hungry people, and countless people died miserably. He had food in his hands, but it was only enough to protect himself. He was poor and could only take care of himself. He had no control over it.
He knew the energy of the Emperor very clearly.
What's more, what he thinks shouldn't be measured is based on the values of later generations. He can't use these to convince people of this era. Just like some people use the thinking mode formed by modern education to criticize the ancient three wives and four concubines.
Like a stallion, who knows that unless his eighteen generations of ancestors have always been poor, they have also lived in this way. Different eras, different environments, have different understandings. Use your wishful thinking to evaluate the values of another era.
Isn't it a chicken talking to a duck?
As a law enforcer, Xia Xun's reason prevails over his emotions in most cases when doing things. He knows very well that even in modern times, it is impossible to prevent the families of political prisoners from being implicated.
Although modern times do not lead to serial beheadings, how many political prisoners have been beheaded in modern society?
The difference is only in the severity of criminal laws in ancient and modern times. As for crimes that are not as serious as family members or even unfair treatment, it is the same in ancient and modern times. It is still the same in modern times. Six hundred years ago, with the understanding of a modern person, you would have said it to others stupidly.
?Does silly x have the right to travel through time?
But reason is one thing. A person cannot always let reason control his actions. The new list of traitors has expanded to fifty-three people. The situation is getting worse and worse. Xia Xun is really a little bit unbearable.
Angry, he entered the palace just to persuade the emperor to stop. It was necessary to shock him, but he should not continue to expand. In this way, as long as the emperor did not speak, Chen Ying and Ji Gang would continue to arrest him and torture him.
Although Zhu Di was full of anger, he did not just focus on catching the traitors. He just asked someone to do it. From his height, there were too many major things to deal with, and it was impossible to focus on this all day. Putting aside modern times,
For example, even if a bureau-level leader wants to reorganize a few ordinary employees who have no power to resist, and just give orders to the human resources, accounting, office and other trusted departments, he will lower his status and go to that person in person.
How unlucky are you? Or do you want to know how to fix it? What’s more, he is the emperor of a country.
The bizarre record in the history books about the emperor happily moving a chair to watch the execution in person is just the imagination of those fools who thought the emperor worked in the fields with gold hoes, and the bizarre legend about the emperor setting up a frying pan in the Golden Palace to fry people
, and it is directly grafted on the story of King Yama of the underworld who bombed the little ghost.
When Xia Xun rushed to the palace, Zhu Di was busy selecting people to join the cabinet and sending envoys to inform the countries about his accession to the throne.
It is generally believed that the cabinet system was originated by Zhu Di, but this is not the case. It was Zhu Yuanzhang who abolished the prime minister, established the cabinet, and created the cabinet system and decentralization of power. Zhu Yuanzhang was very proud of his initiative and specifically wrote it in the "Ancestors' Instructions", that is,
The "Ancestor Instructions of the Emperor Ming" instructs the descendants and subjects: "Since ancient times, when a country established a legal system, it was always the king who received the order from the beginning. From now on, the descendants can only abide by the established laws to stabilize the world.
The king who created the world rose from humble beginnings, had experienced hardships in the world, and was aware of the good and evil of people. He was afraid that the kings of later generations would grow up in deep palaces and not be familiar with the world. The men who first emerged from the mountains and forests were proud of their own growth. There are even traitorous ministers.
, inquire about the rights and be wise. The superiors cannot observe but trust in them. They change the ancestral laws to bring chaos to the country and bring harm to the world. Therefore, they think hard day and night, and the legislation is delayed, and it will never be published."
What he means is that the founder of the country came from among the people and was well aware of the sufferings of the people and the various shortcomings of the government. Therefore, he established a relatively complete system. Later generations grew up in deep palaces and were easily deceived and deceived.
The emperor's system had to be slightly changed. However, after Jian ascended the throne, although he had not yet established a prime minister, state affairs were completely in the hands of Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng, and the cabinet system existed in name only.
Now Zhu Di plans to re-establish the cabinet. In the past few days, he has successively selected some officials to participate in sorting out the memorials in the four years since the founding of the dynasty. This is actually an inspection and training process for them. Zhu Di plans to select five to seven people.
They jointly formed the cabinet and participated in military and state affairs. Now he has met two people, Xie Jin and Yang Rong. Xie Jin is the person who wrote the "Edict of Dengji" and is very talented. Yang Rong reminded him to visit the ancestral mausoleum first and then succeed to the throne.
People are thoughtful and considerate.
In addition, he also met Hu Jing, Huang Huai, Yang Shiqi, Hu Yan, Jin Youzi and others. However, he planned to continue to inspect these people. Because of the busy state affairs, he planned to let Xie Jin and Yang Rong into the cabinet first, and several others.
Join one after another.
In addition, he also informed the foreign countries about his ascension to the throne, such as Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, Annan... In addition to the coastal countries, there were also Hami and other foreign countries in the Western Regions, including the more distant Timurid Empire.
, he also knew about the great empire that was once prominent in the West.
In addition, he also planned to arrange for people to investigate the situation of Tatar and Oara. These two northern countries were the biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty in his opinion. During the process from the split to the establishment of these two countries, the Ming Dynasty was busy with civil war, which had a great impact on their country.
The size, the number of troops, the leader in charge of the political power... He didn't understand all aspects. He was going to arrange for Xia Xun's Feilong and Ji Gang's Jinyi to do it separately. Although they were both Jinyi guards, one was overt and the other was covert.
, each has its own leader. This arrangement is also a test of his ability to handle these two secret spy organizations.
Xia Xun met Zhu Di who was busy, and Zhu Di immediately told him about the matter. Xia Xun did not want the secret flying dragon spy he created to spend all his energy on finding Zhu Yun, the useless person. Although the emperor
This matter was the most important thing. Xia Xun immediately agreed, and then suggested to Zhu Di that the power had been established, and the "breaking" power of breaking and then establishing was almost the same. Now that all the officials were panicking, it should be enough.
After a few days, Zhu Di was no longer as angry as he was in the first two days. After thinking for a moment, he nodded.
Xia Xun was overjoyed and quickly agreed, then tentatively asked: "Both Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai have been captured, and all the traitors listed at the top of the 'Treacherous Traitors List' are in custody. What does the Emperor plan to do with them?"
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Zhu Di glanced at him and asked, "What do you have to say?"
Xia Xun hurriedly said: "What the emperor hopes most is not to kill a few stupid scholars, but to return the hearts of the world's scholars. Therefore, I believe that we should vigorously fight for those who can fight for it. Even if they cannot serve the emperor, they can still fight for it."
There is no need to kill them all. After the incident of Jing Qing's assassination, if the emperor can still be tolerant to them, not all scholars will be stupid because of reading. There will always be sensible people who will surrender to your majesty's mind and be willing to do it.
For His Majesty’s use.”
Zhu Di glanced at him again, and Xia Xun quickly folded his hands and lowered his head.
Jing Qing's assassination has been widely implicated. Chen Ying and Ji Gang have arrested a large number of people. Jian Ji's ministers are now eager to distance themselves from them and avoid them. No one is willing to intercede for them. They have already fled when the disaster is approaching.
. And Xia Xun did this, which was obviously a thankless effort. Once someone imitates Jing Qing and pretends to surrender and actually commits an assassination, how can Xia Xun not be implicated? He is a minister of Conglong, has outstanding achievements, and is now a very popular minister.
, if it is for any selfish reasons, there is obviously no need to do this.
"He is planning for me!",
Thinking of this, Zhu Di felt a little warm in his heart. He put down half of the memorial, his expression softened, and he said to Xia Xun: "Okay, then you go there and the dignified Duke comes forward. I will give them enough face to express my gratitude."
Does it satisfy my sincerity? Those who are willing to plead guilty will be lenient and their officials will be reinstated. Those who are stubborn will be sent to exile even if their crimes are not justified. I will never spare them!"
"I obey the decree."
Zhu Di glanced at him again and said: "But... there are three people, you don't need to pay attention to them."
Xia Xun did not ask the names of the three people. In court, Zhu Di hated Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai the most, especially Fang Xiaoru who almost caused him to kill his son through a divorce plan. Outside the court, he hated Fang Xiaoru the most.
It was Tie Xuan who carried his father's soul to the top of the city as a shield bearer. If he tried to intercede for these people, he would definitely be in trouble. He quickly responded: "I understand!"