On the second day, in the Xianyang Palace and the Qin Emperor's Palace, the civil and military officials who came to attend the court looked at each other. There were originally thousands of people bustling in the court, but today there were less than 200 people standing here. Where did the others go? They
Naturally, everyone knew it well. "Your Majesty is coming to court, and all the officials will kneel down and bow." Xiaodouzi's sharp voice sounded, interrupting the officials' thoughts.
"My emperor controls the heaven and the earth, and controls the universe alone. The Qin Dynasty will be immortal forever, and the sun and the moon will shine together." All the officials immediately saluted and shouted loudly in unison.
"Everyone loves you." Ying Zheng said with his usual expression, neither salty nor indifferent.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." The officials stood up, all of them looking nervous. It was obvious that after yesterday's storm, none of them had recovered yet.
"Today in the morning of the court, we will not discuss politics or state affairs. We will only talk about the way to serve as an official. Please express your views." Ying Zheng glanced at the sparse court officials in the court and said meaningfully.
Ying Zheng's words fell behind, and after a long time, the court was completely silent, with no one making a sound.
"What? Are you all mute?" Ying Zheng said with a look of displeasure on his face and a somewhat impatient voice.
"I am guilty, your Majesty, please calm down." The officials immediately knelt down and said coldly.
"The generals have returned to their posts, and the civil servants are kneeling." Ying Zheng's expression changed, and he said to the officials in the court. "Promise." The generals immediately felt as if they were being pardoned, and hurriedly thanked them, and returned to their positions, full of energy.
He stood in his original position and looked at the civil servant who was kneeling on the ground with some sympathy in his eyes.
"I'm telling you, don't think that just because you can stand in the court alive, it means you are safe. Those who are lucky will often die worse." Ying Zheng's tone was stern and he gave instructions without mercy.
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The huge court hall was so quiet that you could almost hear the beating of the officials' hearts.
"Okay, since you are silent, come on! Xuan Li Changqing comes to the palace." Ying Zheng turned aside Xiaodouzi who was standing beside him and gave instructions.
How could Xiaodouzi not understand what His Majesty meant, he immediately shouted at the top of his voice, "Your Majesty has a decree to announce that Li Changqing is here to see you."
After being informed by the herald at the door, Li Changqing quickly arrived at the Emperor Qin's palace covered in dust, and then knelt three times and kowtowed nine times to Ying Zheng.
"Pingsheng." Ying Zheng nodded and then saw Li Changqing getting up and immediately asked, "How did things go?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I have honored my duty. All 14,579 officials and nobles in Xianyang City have been arrested and brought to justice. The gold, silver, jewels, silks and satins obtained from the confiscation of their homes are simply outrageous and shocking." Li Changqing was relieved at first.
He breathed a sigh of relief, then his face twitched a little, and he couldn't help but let out a breath of cold air. "Just convert it into gold, and report the number to all the gentlemen in the court!" Ying Zheng looked at it with an indifferent expression.
The civil servants above the court sneered.
"Reporting to your Majesty, according to conservative estimates, it is worth approximately 34,610,000 taels of gold." Li Changqing answered truthfully. This was a conservative figure that he found after a night of appraisal by someone special.
"Thirty-four million six hundred and one thousand taels, is he really a good official of the Qin State, a parent official of the people?" Ying Zheng's tone was unspeakably sarcastic, but his eyes were very cold.
All the officials above the court took a breath, and even the generals on the side, Meng Tian, Wang Ben, Han Xin, and Xiang Yu, were all moved.
"This is just a corrupt official in Xianyang City. Under the Emperor's feet, they are so cruel. Tell me, how many cities like Xianyang City are there in the Qin Dynasty?" Ying Zheng stood up, glared angrily, and almost roared.
"Your Majesty, calm down, I am afraid." All the civil and military officials knelt and said in unison.
"What a fear, what a relief. Come and tell me, how should I calm down my anger? Huh?" Ying Zheng smiled instead of getting angry and asked.
All the officials fell into silence for a while, and no one made a sound.
"Your Majesty, I think that those who are so crazy, corrupt and pervert the law will not be able to shake the country's laws if they are not killed, and the people will not be angry if they are not killed." Li Changqing took the lead in speaking, his voice was as cold as a nine-nether demon, making the civil servants in the court feel like
It's like the twelfth lunar month of winter, and my hands and feet feel cold.
"I don't mean what Chang Qing said, but since they like money so much, I will let them accompany Qian forever." Ying Zheng frowned and continued in a cold voice: "Pass my decree, at noon tomorrow at the Xianyang campus,
All the prisoners were cast into bronze statues with bronze liquid as a warning to others."
After hearing Ying Zheng's cold holy will, several timid civil servants knelt on the spot and trembled.
"My emperor is a sage, an eternal sage, his achievements are endless, and his reputation is astonishing." Although the civil and military officials were frightened, they still complimented him.
Ying Zheng had no intention of paying attention to those flattering voices and immediately said to Li Changqing, "Changqing."
"I'm here." Li Changqing responded immediately.
"I order you to immediately use Xianyang as the axis to radiate throughout the Qin Dynasty, conduct a thorough investigation, and once verified, all the personnel involved in the case will be immediately cast alive in bronze statues to cleanse the world. If there is insufficient manpower, they will be transferred from the four major legions." Ying Zheng seemed to be.
Without saying anything shocking, he said directly to Li Changqing.
"I accept the order and retire." After Li Changqing saluted, he immediately left in a hurry.
"Xiaodouzi, pass on my decree and announce it to the world. From now on in the Qin Dynasty, anyone who dares to deprive the people of half a tael of money, from the court to the village officials, or who dares to covet a copper plate from the court, will be punished by having a bronze statue made alive.
Regardless of whether they are ordinary people who dare to bribe officials or officials who accept bribes from ordinary people, once investigated and dealt with, they will be punished by skinning and breaking their bones." Ying Zheng said word for word, and spoke out a list of new policies sonorously and forcefully.
But it was like a sharp blade, piercing directly into the hearts of every civil servant and general in the court. They had to be careful and alert at all times in their future officialdom.
"I obey the order." Xiaodouzi opened his mouth at first, looking astonished. Then when he saw Ying Zheng's cold eyes, he immediately woke up and took the order.
Seeing that Xiaodouzi had gone to deliver the order, Ying Zhengcai changed his mind and returned to today's topic: "Let's go! It's almost noon. Since you don't understand the way of being an official, let me teach you what it means to be an official."
road."
"No." Bai Guan said a little confused.
"Set up the driving school." Ying Zheng shouted loudly and walked out of Qinhuang Palace first.
The officials looked at each other in confusion, and then followed Ying Zheng out one by one according to their official positions.
Thousands of people in Xianyang school grounds were wearing prison uniforms and kneeling on the ground. Some of them shouted that they were wronged, some of them insulted the imperial court, and some even cursed the tyrant Ying Zheng and said they would die a good death.
In front of them, there were hundreds of large cauldrons burning with raging fire. There were specialized soldiers to keep the fire strong, and there were also people who were responsible for putting bronze into the cauldrons. The school grounds were crowded with people watching the excitement.
, there was discussion, pointing and looking at the prisoners kneeling in the middle of the school ground.
"I'll go, isn't that the gatekeeper in the west of the city?"
"Sir, you are a fool. Didn't you see that our Xianyang Ling Qi from Xianyang City is also kneeling there?"
"What is Xianyang Lingyou? Do you see the fat guy in the middle? I have seen him before. He seems to be Deng Dequan, the imperial censor. He was riding a tall horse. How majestic he was! It made me so envious.
, ranked among the three nobles?"
"Who knows what's going on? Why are all the great men of the imperial court wearing prison uniforms and kneeling here? What's cooking in the big cauldron? Is it food?"
Just as the crowd around was talking a lot, a sharp voice sounded: "Your Majesty has arrived."
[Brother Zheng wants to be mighty and domineering, and he needs votes to maintain it! The emperor also wants to explode, and he needs votes to encourage him.