Boss Zhu is reading and replying to posts with great interest.
For a workaholic like him, reviewing memorials is usually a kind of enjoyment. He can do it all day long without feeling tired.
But there were exceptions, such as when he saw long articles that quoted chapters and quotes, and he felt as if his head was as big as a bucket.
First, his own education is not high, and it is very difficult to read those long speeches. Second, he has many things to do every day, and he strongly feels that there is not enough time, so he hopes that the minister can use the shortest time to explain what he wants to say clearly. Only in this way can he improve his skills.
his work efficiency.
For this reason, as early as the beginning of his accession to the throne, he repeatedly asked ministers to "state the facts and not redundant matters" when presenting him.
This means that ministers must speak directly, concisely and concisely when submitting their memorials. If anyone dares to make long speeches and say useless things, then I will fuck your mother!
However, in recent years, there has been no precedent for a minister to be punished because the content of the memorial was too lengthy. Therefore, the ministers went their own way and began to show off their literary talents in the memorials and indulge in indiscriminate remarks, which made Boss Zhu's blood pressure soar.
Today, Boss Zhu received another memorial that was as thick as a book... He made a rough estimate and found that it was 18,000 to 20,000 words long.
If he had finished reading this thick volume, Zhu Yuanzhang probably wouldn't have to do anything else today.
Looking at the signature of the memorial again, it was revealed that the head of the Punishment Department was Ru Taisu.
"Damn, you're a habitual offender..." Zhu Yuanzhang cursed secretly. In fact, Ru Taisu had a very good character, was not partial to others, had integrity, and was very capable. He had quite a political voice when he served as a local inspector, so Zhu Yuanzhang took him
He was promoted to Minister of Justice.
But I didn't expect that this person had a very annoying problem, that is, he liked to write and talk about things.
It was just a matter of posting random posts, but every time he made them stinky and long, with thousands of words, which made Boss Zhu extremely annoyed. For this reason, he was directly demoted from the Minister of Criminal Affairs to the chief executive.
Unexpectedly, Ru Taisu still went his own way, writing Wan Yan Shu whenever he had nothing to do.
So when he saw the name, Boss Zhu threw it directly to Wang Min, the Zhongshu Lang on the side, and asked him to read it to him.
Zhu Yuanzhang read other memorials while listening to Wang Min recite them. Almost an hour passed, but Boss Zhu didn't hear a single useful sentence. It was all a lot of nonsense with difficult semantics, complicated and long-winded meanings!
Boss Zhu was so angry that he threw his notebook on the table, which made Wang Min tremble.
"Damn it! We have repeatedly emphasized that if you have something to say, say it straight and don't fart! Otherwise, you will be punished! This Ru Taisu just turned a deaf ear. It seems that if you don't give him a show of strength, you can't stop this unhealthy trend!"
Then he ordered the people around him: "Bring Naru Taisu to us!"
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The prince picked up Lao Liu and when the carriage returned to the Meridian Gate, he encountered poor Ru Taisu being tortured...
Now I have played more than 20 times, and my buttocks are all broken.
Seeing His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's carriage, the eunuch who was conducting the execution quickly stopped his imperial staff, and the eunuch who led the executioner, armed with a knife, knelt down to greet him.
The prince opened the curtain, glanced at the green-robed official lying on the ground, and asked, "What's going on?"
The prison eunuch said with a strange smile: "Back to your highness, this officer is the head of the punishment department, his name is Ru Taisu. Because the memorial he wrote was too long, he angered the emperor, so he ordered him to have a forty imperial staff."
"Ru Taisu, I know." Zhu Zhen on the side suddenly said: "I will drink with you from a golden cup, but you will not forgive me with a bare blade."
The prince did not understand the meaning of Lao Liu's two sentences, but he still followed his words and said: "Look, the King of Chu knows that he is a good official. You should suspend the execution first and wait for me to persuade my father."
"Hey, the prince is really kind-hearted." The prison eunuch agreed hastily.
Of course, the prince had no intention of discussing it with him. He gave the order directly...
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Zhu Biao asked people to take Zhu Xiongying back to Chunhe Palace, while he and Lao Liu went to Wuying Palace.
In Wuying Hall, Boss Zhu has put his unhappiness behind and continues to read and reply to posts with great interest.
Until Eunuch Wu reported that the prince had brought His Royal Highness the King of Chu back.
Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang look up from the papers, laughed happily and stood up to greet him.
"Lao Liu, why did you come back?"
Zhu Zhen kowtowed to his father, stood up and said, "It's nothing, I just miss my father. Come back and have a look."
"Nonsense, even if I miss your cow, I won't miss your father." Boss Zhu was very self-aware. He pinched his son's chin and said, "Good guy, the food is good."
Zhu Zhen was not happy, thinking that he didn't eat your food...
"Allow me to interrupt first." Fortunately, the prince changed the topic and said: "Father, because the memorial was too long, did Xing Zhen give Ru Tai a royal cane?"
"Ah, his writing is not as long as usual, and the useless prose is too complicated, which makes him upset." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "But if he just talks too much, we can hit him twenty times at most, but there are still false words in his memorial.
, Clever writing confuses the truth, I am very disgusted with it.”
As he said this, he found Ru Taisu's memorial and paged through it for a long time before he finally found the sentence: "There are only a few talented people who have survived in the past few years, and now they are pedantic and Confucian officials."
"Look, what are you talking about?" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily: "What do you mean by 'talented people'? There are only one or two who have survived by chance in recent years. The officials appointed now are either pedantic Confucian scholars or vulgar officials.
?’ What is he alluding to? The empty seal case?”
"We ordered people to call Ru Taisu and ask him to tell us which of the more than 200 people in the Criminal Department are pedantic Confucian scholars and which are vulgar officials?"
Boss Zhu continued: "Naru Taisu didn't expect us to ask this question, so he hesitated and said, 'There are so many officials in the Ministry of Punishment, and I don't know them all, so I just spoke in general terms and didn't accuse anyone specifically."
"You said that he didn't even know the officials of the Ministry of Justice, so he dared to talk nonsense here. It's useless!" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily: "Let's push him out. The imperial staff is forty, and you two can say whether he is wronged or not.
"
"I don't know." Zhu Zhen was very honest.
"It's not too unfair to say so." Zhu Biao sighed softly: "But Father, please note that his words are just a comment made by scholars to express their feelings, and the purpose is to elicit the following content. As long as he does not mention names, it should not be taken seriously.
real."
"There is no content behind him." Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.
"Let me read it before we talk." Zhu Biao quickly flipped through the thick memorial.
But the harmful power of nonsense literature is fair to everyone. Zhu Biao also felt short of breath after reading it, and wished he could slap Naru Taisu in the mouth...
It was estimated that the prince would not be able to finish it in a while, so Zhu Yuanzhang pulled Zhu Zhen aside and asked him about his experience during this period with a smile.
Zhu Zhen then repeated what he said to the prince to Boss Zhu.
Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's expression changed greatly, he held his arms around his neck and whispered: "I will see your mother and concubine later. If you are in danger in Kaijing, especially the matter of Huo Bing Yuanshi, just ignore it and ignore it."
