Chapter 948: An Ally Is Needed
Zhu Zhanji was stunned for a moment, in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was born poor and suffered from the extortion of corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the Yuan Dynasty since he was a child, so after he ascended the throne, he set off an "anti-corrupt officials" campaign across the country, and the spearhead was directly aimed at corrupt officials at all levels from the central government to the local level.
He killed officials who embezzled more than 60 taels of silver. When he discovered that Yu Shi Yuwen Gui was hiding more than ten letters asking for advancement, he immediately sent people to investigate the central ministries and local governments. The results showed that the corruption from top to bottom was extremely strict, and he was furious and immediately issued an edict to the world: "In order to cherish the lives of the people, the officials who commit corruption of more than 60 taels will be executed, and they will never be lenient." He also said: From local counties and governments to the six central ministries and Zhongshu provinces, as long as there is corruption, no matter who is involved, we will never be merciful and investigate to the end.
Secondly, start the knife from your own side "high-level cadres". At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, among the six subordinate departments of Zhongshu Province, including officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, a large number of old officials of the Yuan Dynasty were retained, as well as some heroes who started the rebellion. They have no fear of perverting the law for bribes. Zhu Yuanzhang punished these officials, and Prime Minister Hu Weiyong stole authority, organized chaos, shook the sect, slaughtered loyalty, and had evil deeds, and was executed by Hu Weiyong and Chen Ning on the same day on charges of "perverting the law and slandering the virtuous" and "harming the government". At the same time, the anti-party was purged, and more than 30,000 people were killed. So he made "Showing the Traitorous Party" and announced it to the world. This case Zhu Lianman cited excuses to pursue his friendship, including the first hero of the founding of the country, the Korean Gong Li Shanchang and a large number of generals were all affected by the Zhulian, implicated more than 30,000 people to death, known as the Hu Weiyong case, this case killed the Manchu civil officials frightened, since then the prime minister has been abolished, and the power has been handed over to six ministries.
The general Lan Yu has commanded the army many times and has also made meritorious contributions many times, and Zhu Yuanzhang has given him great gifts. Lan Yu became more and more arrogant, raising many Zhuang slaves and righteous sons, taking advantage of the situation to be domineering. Lan Yu once forcibly occupied Dongchang Mintian and was questioned by the imperial history, and Lan Yu was furious and drove the imperial history away.
When Lan Yu returned from the north and south, he arrived at Xifeng Pass at night, and the officials guarding the pass failed to open the door in time to accept it, so Lan Yu destroyed the pass and broke in, and the emperor was very unhappy when he heard about it.
Some people said that he had an affair with the concubine of the Yuan Lord, causing the Yuan Concubine to commit suicide in shame, and the emperor blamed Lan Yu for this. At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to seal Lan Yu as the Duke of Liang Guo, but because Lan Yu had these mistakes, he changed the Liang character to Liang, and ordered people to engrave these mistakes on the hereditary certificate. Lan Yu still did not change his ways, he spoke arrogantly when serving the emperor at the banquet, the lieutenant general of the army was promoted and retreated, and the power was in his hands, and Zhu Yuanzhang blamed him many times. After Lan Yu returned from the Western Expedition, he was named the crown prince and the prince, and Lan Yu was unwilling to be under the Song and Ying dukes, saying: "Can't I be a prince!" After that, Zhu Yuanzhang mostly did not adopt his advice, and Lan Yu became more and more unhappy.
In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, Jin Yiwei commanded Jiang Zhen to denounce Lan Yu's rebellion, and after being imprisoned, the prison said that Cao Zhen, Marquis of Jingchuan, Zhang Yi, Marquis of Heshou, Zhu Shou, Marquis of Dingyuan, He Rong, Dongxiao Bo He Rong, Zhan Hui, Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, and Fu Youwen, the Servant of the Ministry of Households, rebelled, and planned to launch a rebellion when Zhu Yuanzhang borrowed the field. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was consolidating and strengthening the centralization of power, was deeply disturbed, and arrested and imprisoned him for the crime of treason, and was stripped of his skin and grass, his house was raided, and the three ethnic groups were exterminated. In order to warn the ministers, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to the world and issued a decree (a judicial document in ancient China. ) for the "Records of the Rebels". It is known as the "Blue Jade Case" in history.
After a series of killings, no one in the Manchu Dynasty dared to question the emperor, let alone today's actions, thinking of this ancestral glory, Zhu Zhanji's forehead jumped a few times, obviously a little frustrated, and sighed: "Mr. Wang, did you say that I have failed too much as the emperor?"
Wang Zhen shook his head and said: "Your Majesty is different from this, Hong Wuye has killed the entire world from the troubled times, and the means must be vigorous and resolute, even the Yongle Emperor is the same, they are the founding emperors, and the military generals who are flying and domineering have to do this to consolidate the emperor's power, Your Majesty is in the prosperous era and ascends the throne as the emperor, if you follow the means of the two ancestors of Hongwu and Yongle, it will inevitably make the officials of the world cold, and it is indispensable to cheapen the King of Han?"
Zhu Zhanji raised his eyebrows and said: "Is it because I am not the founding monarch that I let these civil servants bully me, I want to be Li Shimin, but I don't want to be coer......ced by "Wei Zheng" from time to time?"
Wang Zhen's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, his face was filled with excitement, he hesitated for a moment, and said: "The emperor is the lord of the world, how can he let a group of civil servants bully, as long as he uses a little means, he can influence these civil and military generals?"
Zhu Zhanji's eyes lit up and said, "Mr. Wang has an idea?"
Wang Zhen nodded and said, "Exactly?"
Zhu Zhanji was overjoyed and said, "Mr. Wang, come quickly!"
At this moment, Wang Zhen had a bit of a taste of pointing out the country, and the ambition that had been hidden in his heart for many years seemed to be being realized little by little, which made him feel a little unreal, and he said after a while: " In the eyes of the minions, these ministers can do such things to coerce the emperor, in addition to their audacity, they are scholars like that Wei Zheng, and use the articles of the saints to accuse His Majesty, if His Majesty also has such a group of scholars around him, they can cite the scriptures and classics, and can refute the words of those foreign ministers, so that they can no longer stand on the moral high ground, do they dare to question His Majesty so confidently?" The world is so ignorant, His Majesty is just one person, even if there are thousands of reasons, how can they fight those who read, they sell their reputation, accuse Majesty with moral articles, and in the end they have fulfilled their name, but they left this sewage and dirty water to Majesty, the world does not know, over time, even if Majesty is a wise monarch through the ages, I am afraid of ......?"
Zhu Zhanji's heart was moved, his temperament was gentle, but there was still a bit of blood in his bones, when Emperor Yongle was just forced to take away his nephew's country, but he was scolded by those scholars, if it weren't for Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng, who were pretentious scholars, how could Emperor Yongle raise the butcher's knife again and again, and end up with the reputation of a murderous demon king, but Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng, Tie Xuan and others all stand on the commanding heights of morality, and have achieved the reputation of loyal martyrs through the ages, in the final analysis, the Yongle Emperor is just one person, and there are thousands of readers, but the emperor is not alone and can compare, so the emperor is fundamentally unbalanced in the moral balance, and now Wang Zhen's words are undoubtedly a reminder to him, all along, the reason why scholars stand on the moral high ground to accuse the emperor, because they have been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood, familiar with the classics of the saints, in the words of the saints, Under the cloak of the article, the emperor is blamed, so that the emperor has to accept their accusations, if, as Wang Zhen said, there is such a group of scholars around him, they also know the Four Books and the Five Classics, and defend me with the words of the sages and moral articles, so that the balance of morality is inclined to me, am I still afraid of their accusations?"
Zhu Zhanji's face was full of excitement, as if God had opened a window for him, allowing him to see more, farther sky, he began to bow his head and ponder, although Wang Zhen's method is a good method, but it is not easy to implement, although the emperor is the lord of the world, he owns the whole world, but there are very few people who can use it, because most of the officials in the world are scholars, they can help the emperor, but it may not be easy to use, moreover, the emperor lives in the deep palace, and there are many inconveniences in using foreign ministers, so although Wang Zhen's idea is good, it is also a difficulty, unless this person can read the words of the sage, and live in the palace, and the emperor is useless and threatened, only in this way can the emperor use it with confidence?"
"Is there such a person?" Zhu Zhanji's brows flashed, and suddenly his heart moved, and his eyes stared at Wang Zhen: "There is such a thing, that is a eunuch?"
Wang Zhen had never been seen by the emperor like this, and he was slightly apprehensive in his heart, and he dared to shout: "...... the emperor?"
This emperor immediately woke Zhu Zhanji up from his thoughts just now, he exhaled heavily, glanced at Wang Zhen, and suddenly shook his head and said: "No, Hong Wuye has already set the rules, eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics, as a descendant of the Zhu family, how can he break the rules of the ancestors?"
Wang Zhen looked at the emperor and shook his head for a while, nodded for a while, a little inexplicable, but he was smart and didn't dare to say half a word, who knew that that sentence interrupted the emperor's train of thought and caused a fatal disaster, before the big thing was done, he didn't want to die.
At this moment, a eunuch hurriedly rushed in and whispered, "Your Majesty, ...... the ministers outside?"
Zhu Zhanji was taken aback, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he said, "What's wrong with the minister?"
The eunuch was obviously taken aback by Zhu Zhanji's cold tone, and his originally trembling body trembled more and more, and he stammered: "The ministers outside the noon gate are about to rush in, do they want to give a promise to Your Majesty?"
"Bastard...... Zhu Zhanji was immediately furious when he heard this, and shouted: "Are those guards dead people, are you dead people, let people bully them to the home, don't you know how to resist?"
The eunuch said with a face full of grievances: "Slave, the slave is here to ask His Majesty what to do, those officials are all officials?"
"Speech Officer...... Zhu Zhanji said angrily: "You go quickly, mobilize Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi to arrest people, whoever dares to make trouble, will arrest whom?"
"Yes!" The eunuch responded, and immediately gathered more than 100 Dongchang fans with an edict, and went to the Jinyi Guard to ask for more than 100 Jinyi Guards, a total of more than 200 people, and went to the noon gate in a mighty way.
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