The next day, the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, for those who are officials in the government, they have to start the hard work again after the winter vacation. In fact, as far as most officials feel, going to work is not terrible.
Nothing will happen, but going to court in the morning will be too painful.
The morning dynasty of the Ming Dynasty starts at the beginning of every morning, which is seven o'clock in the morning when converted into hours. Ordinarily, seven o'clock in the morning is not too early, but they still have to rush from their residence to the palace, and then slowly walk outside Fengtian Hall, which is equivalent to a residence.
In Shunyi, I have to walk a long way to work in the center of Peiping every day, and the work time is not nine o'clock but seven o'clock. If it is snowing in winter, it will be too sour.
Of course Yunxi also knew the pain of the officials, so after going to court today, he announced: "My beloved ministers go to court every day..., it is very painful. From tomorrow on, the morning court will be postponed to the middle of the morning."
Yunxi's decree won the praise of all the officials, who all praised Yunxi for being "sympathetic to the courtiers." Even the rigid Confucian officials did not mention the "ancestral system" - it was too painful to get up early to go to court.
, especially in winter.
Of course, Yunxi would not just announce this edict. Although he walked around and talked with Xiyao every day these days, he was also thinking about important matters in the court.
"The Emperor of Fengtian carried out the edict and ordered all prefectures, Zhili Prefecture and Tongguo County, to follow the example of Tianfu. Hangzhou Prefecture abolished subordinate staff, replaced police officers, and set up corresponding officials. The "Yingtian Hangzhou Second Prefecture Reorganization Record" will be issued tomorrow.
, for officials everywhere to imitate and implement, I admire this."
"Yingtian Hangzhou Second Prefecture Restructuring Record" is the restructuring experience compiled by Yunxi by Lian Zining, Hu Guang, Xia Yuanji, Huang Huai and others. Yunxi compiled it into this book. This was very normal in the Ming Dynasty.
Back then, Zhu Yuanzhang wrote a "Stupid Tutorial" on how to be a qualified local official. As long as all local officials followed Zhu Yuanzhang's Tutorial for Dummies, there would be no problem. It's a pity that not every local official is a workaholic.
Yunxi plans to write a new tutorial for fools based on the actual working hours of most local officials now, and is organizing people who have been local officials for a long time to write down their daily work for reference.
"The Emperor Chengyun issued an edict saying that every government in the world should add the post of promotion officials according to the size of the city and have jurisdiction over the police. I admire this."
The Tongpan was a rank 6 official. Yunxi found that the previous rank of Tongpan and the county lieutenant to manage the police was too high, so he changed it to a rank 7 official.
"The Emperor of Heaven has issued an edict to establish county captains in every county in the world to be in charge of prisons and judicial affairs. I hereby express my gratitude to you."
"According to the imperial edict of Emperor Chengyun, Xia Yuanji is appointed as the prefect of Xi'an, with the additional political title, and I highly recommend this."
"The Emperor Fengtian Chengyun decreed that all prefectures, counties, and cities in the country are prohibited from accepting refugees and beggars except in the event of military disasters, floods, droughts, etc. Any such people will be exiled to the frontiers."
There are not many refugees and beggars in this era, and the local government should be able to control it. If the emperor of the late Ming Dynasty suddenly issued such a decree, it would either be ignored by the local officials, or the Ming Dynasty would be unstable.
Yunxi issued five more edicts in succession, and the ministers were not surprised: this was very normal for an emperor who issued five edicts on the first day he came to court.
And most of the decrees were natural and everyone had expected it. Only Xia Yuanji's sudden appointment as the prefect of Xi'an made people confused. However, it had nothing to do with most people, so everyone didn't bother to think about it.
On the first day of the morning court, most people would not have anything to report, so after Yunxi issued these decrees, he had nothing to do and announced the court.
The next day, the 17th, was the same. Yunxi announced several more decrees. In the eyes of the officials, they were all trivial matters and no one cared about them.
On the third day, Yunxi did not announce his decree. Everyone thought that nothing would happen today. Just when they were about to disperse after hearing the word "retreat from the court", they suddenly heard Yin Huanghuai of Yingtian Prefecture stood up and said: "I have this report.
."
Everyone's attention turned to Huang Huai. In fact, those who noticed that Huang Huai came to the morning court this morning felt something was wrong: Although Ying Tianfu Yin was a capital official, he was also a local official and did not have to go to court except for the court meeting. Since he was going to court, he must be
Have something to say.
Sure enough, Huang Huai said loudly: "Your Majesty, the late emperor clearly stated in the "Laws of the Ming Dynasty" that officials were prohibited from keeping slaves and maids. However, now the powerful families in the capital are keeping dozens or even hundreds of slaves. I ask your majesty to strictly enforce this rule.
Punish those in Beijing who violate the rules."
Yunxi said: "I understand, Jian Yi."
"I'm here," Jian Yi said as he stepped out of the queue.
"The Imperial Procuratorate is ordered to send a censor who is present in the capital and will have no duties next month to verify the situation, and order the families who keep the slaves to return them to their native places," Yunxi said.
The keeping of slaves cannot be banned in this era. Zhu Yuanzhang was not able to completely ban it, and Yunxi was even less likely to do so. But since someone has brought it up, let's give a few warnings.
Jian Yi agreed and returned to his original position.
Yunxi was about to ask Huang Huai and the imperial censor to work together to win the first prize, but Huang Huai suddenly said: "I still have this memorial."
"On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, I was at the Yingtian Mansion Office to listen to the report from the police in charge of Zhongcheng Fenshu. Liang Guogong's Mansion beat three slaves to death and asked me, Yingtian Mansion, to exile the families of these three slaves to the northwest.
I inquired carefully and found out that these three people were beaten to death for slandering the Lord, and interrogating the family members of the people who were beaten to death also found out that this was indeed the reason."
"Your Majesty, I have read the "Da Ming Code" several times, but I have never seen that the "Da Ming Code" stipulates that people who employ common people can slander their masters and execute their slaves in the name."
"What's more, even if the slaves themselves are guilty, such a crime will not affect their families. The Duke of Liang has nothing to say if they are expelled from the palace and the ministers cannot control them. But to exile them to the northwest is even more contrary to the Ming Law."
"I ask your Majesty to deal with Liang Guogong's two violations of the Ming Law."
"Moreover, since I took office as the magistrate of Shangyuan County in the first year of Jianye, many of the servants of the Duke of Liang have committed illegal acts, and the people in the capital are afraid of the power of the Duke of Liang and are unwilling to complain to the Prime Minister. So I searched many places and found someone who was willing to complain.
People from the Duke of Liang's Mansion. There are matters involving Lan Mingxuan, the eldest son of Duke Liang. I dare not make my own decision, so I ask your Majesty to handle it."
Impeachment of Liang Guogong's palace? All the officials present whispered among themselves. Who doesn't know that Lan Yu's second son Lan Lian died for Yunxi? Who doesn't know that Lan Siqi is more favored in the palace than the real princess? Who doesn't know that the current princess
Liang Guogong Lan Zhen is very capable of using soldiers to fight, so he is highly valued by His Majesty?
"Huang Huai just wants to ask His Majesty to punish the powerful people in Beijing. It is probably because the powerful people in the capital have done too many illegal things and they can't bear it. But how do you choose to target the Lan family?"
"Hey, the servants of the Lan family do guard their honors. Many of the Lan family's forces are engaged in illegal activities. Although it is not a big deal, they buy things at low prices and bully the people, but since His Majesty set up patrols, the patrols have also taken care of these trivial matters; although they
I dare not take care of the people of the Lan family, but I will always report the matter to the superior. I guess Huang Huai has seen the most illegal things in the Lan family, so he chose the Lan family."
Lan Zhen was quite confused at this time. He usually didn't take care of his family, so he didn't know that his own servants were the most bullying in the capital. This was quite inexplicable at this time.
However, since Huang Huai came to remonstrate like this, it could not be groundless. His servants and even his son Lan Mingxuan had indeed done something illegal. He hurriedly went out and said: "Your Majesty, the servants in my house have violated the law. I will investigate it carefully after I return.
I will be severely punished later. Please forgive me for not being strict in running the family."
"As for my eldest son's illegal acts, I will also severely punish him. Please exempt my eldest son from the punishment according to the eight-point agreement. I am willing to compensate the people's losses tenfold."
Before Yunxi could speak, Huang Huai said: "Liang Guogong, do you know what your son has committed? Because he fell in love with an antique, but the family was unwilling to part with it, so he let his slaves take it home. Moreover, the antique was not popular enough to be robbed.
Already committed suicide."
"It was New Year's Eve when they committed suicide. It was such a tragedy to commit suicide on what was supposed to be a festive day."
Everyone present was in an uproar. It is said that the person who committed suicide committed suicide. Although the cause was that he was robbed, he was not killed after all. Modern laws may be a little more severe, but it will still be within the sentencing range of robbery; but ancient punishments were more concerned with favors.
, robbery leading to suicide will be punished as near homicide.
Yunxi also hesitated. The Eight Treatises were officially included in the criminal law starting from Cao Wei. There were eight kinds of small crimes that could be directly pardoned, while major crimes needed to be convicted by the emperor. Yunxi thought that all the crimes involving Lan Mingxuan were
If it wasn't serious, he could be pardoned directly; but after hearing Huang Huai's words, it was not easy to pardon him directly.
After thinking for a while, Yunxi said: "In this case, I order Yingtian Mansion to investigate the case clearly and report it to me. As the eldest son of the Duke, Lan Mingxuan will be replaced by the steward of Liang Guogong Mansion to attend the court hearing at Yingtian Mansion."
"Instruct Liang Guogong Lan Zhen to straighten out the family tradition, but not to impose excessive punishment on the servants without authorization. After Ying Tianfu interrogates the servants' violations of laws and disciplines, Liang Guogong's Palace will hand over the servants involved to Yingtian Mansion for punishment."
"After all the criminals are punished, Liang Guogong's government will not be allowed to keep slaves and will return all their property to servants who have signed a contract."
Lan Yu immediately said: "I obey the decree." He felt that the situation was not good, and Yunxi's treatment was very fair, so he hurriedly agreed.
Huang Huai naturally had nothing else to say and bowed to accept the order.
Yunxi added: "Not only the Duke of Liang, but also other families, whether they are nobles or high-ranking officials in the court, if they are servants and their children do something illegal, they will also be severely punished."
Huang Huai once again received the order.
Then Yunxi immediately announced his withdrawal from the court. He was afraid that some officials would remonstrate on the spot, so he retreated directly.
As he expected, there were two censors who wanted to remonstrate on the spot, but they could only look at Yunxi's back and suddenly sighed a few times before going back to write the memorial.
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Thanks to the book friends for the vegetables in the garden, this is a wonderful reward.