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.
From the beginning, Xia Xun consciously did not want to get involved in the inevitable political purge brought about by the change of dynasties. 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 his weight. 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 hand, 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.
Just 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, and different civilizations, 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 a modern person’s understanding, you would have said it to others stupidly.
***?Does silly x have the right to travel through time?
But reason is one thing, and a person cannot always let reason control his actions. The new list of traitors has expanded to fifty-three people. Looking at the situation, it is getting worse. Xia Xun is really a bit unsettled.
After losing his temper, he entered the palace just to persuade the emperor to stop. The shock was necessary, but the expansion should not continue. From the looks of it, as long as the emperor didn't speak, Chen Ying and Ji Gang would continue to arrest him and torture him.
more than.
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, financial planning, office and other trusted departments, he will lower his status and go to see it in person.
How unlucky are people now? Or do you want to know how to correct them? Let alone 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 that the emperor worked in the fields with gold hoes, and the bizarre legend about the emperor setting up a frying pan to fry people in the Jinluan Palace
, 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 knew the good and evil of people. He was afraid that the kings who would protect him in future 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 themselves. There are even traitorous ministers.
, inquire about 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 legislate later, so that they will never be published."
What he means is that the founder of the country came from the people and was well aware of the sufferings of the people and the various abuses 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 Jianwen ascended the throne, although he had not yet established a prime minister, state affairs were entirely 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 of the four years of the Jianwen Dynasty. This is actually an inspection and training process for them. Zhu Di plans to select five to seven people from them.
They jointly formed a cabinet and participated in military and state affairs. Now he has chosen two people, Xie Jin and Yang Rong. Xie Jin is the person who wrote the "Edict on Dengji" and is very talented. Yang Rong reminds him to visit the ancestral mausoleum first and then succeed to the throne.
People are thoughtful and thoughtful.
In addition, he also took a liking to Hu Jing, Huang Huai, Yang Shiqi, Hu Yan, Jin Youzi and other people. 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 the others.
People joined one after another.
In addition, he also informed the foreign countries of his ascension to the throne, including 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 in Tatar and Oara. These two northern countries were, in his opinion, the biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty. During the process of the split of these two countries to their establishment, the Ming Dynasty was busy with civil war and was facing them.
The size of the country, the number of troops, the leader in charge of the political power... all aspects are unknown. He plans to arrange for Xia Xun's Feilong and Ji Gang's Jinyi to do this separately. Although both are Jinyi guards, Yi Ming
In the dark, each has its own leader. This arrangement is also a test of his ability to handle these two secret espionage 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 Yunwen, the loser. Although the emperor most
This was the important thing. Xia Xun immediately agreed, and then suggested to Zhu Di that the authority had been established, and the "breaking" power of breaking and then establishing was almost the same. Now that all the officials were in panic, 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 asked tentatively: "Both Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai have been captured, and the traitors listed at the top of the 'Treacherous Traitors List' are all 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 what can be fought for. 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 obey 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. Jianwen's old ministers are now eager to distance themselves from them and avoid them. No one is willing to intercede for them. They will 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 the memorial that he had read half of, 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.
Doesn’t it show my sincerity? For those who are willing to plead guilty, I will be lenient and reinstate them to their original posts. For those who are stubborn, even if the crime is not justified, they will be sent to exile and will not be spared!"
"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!"