Zhu Biao didn't say anything more, and Shangshu of the Criminal Department also withdrew to deal with the finishing matters, after all, so many people in the household department still need to be taken into custody, and many wives and children of household officials have already come to find them outside.

Zhu Biao flipped through the account books of the account department, and the most greedy person in it was Yang Siyi, and Lu Chang was just as the Shangshu of the Criminal Department said, most of his share was distributed to the people below.

Zhu Biao read it carefully, tomorrow morning he will hand over the list to his father, and now every decision of Zhu Biao will change the fate of these thousands of people.

If you count their families, it is the fate of tens of thousands of people, including men, women and children, the more Zhu Biao looks at it, the more frowning he becomes, but the matter still has to be dealt with, and the damned people will not be able to escape this catastrophe after all.

After seeing the criminal department Shangshu leave, the three Zhu Fan brothers also walked out from the other side, the impact of the scene just now on them was quite big, they only thought that it was the problem of the household officials embezzling taxes and grain, but they didn't expect that it was so widely implicated.

They walked to the elder brother's side, looked at the brazier at his feet, where only black ashes remained, and Zhu Li said: "Big brother, shouldn't that account book be looked at by the emperor?" ”

Zhu Fan immediately bumped into him and said, "Big brother, how to do things is taught by you, less and more talking." ”

Hearing this, Zhu Li hurriedly said to Zhu Biao: "Big brother, I didn't mean that, I just wanted to ........."

Zhu Biao drew a circle on the list again and said: "Okay, where will I say my father, you are not allowed to go out and spread it around, this matter involves a lot, and it is not something that should be dealt with at this time." ”

The three brothers nodded, and Zhu Di looked at the list that Zhu Biao kept drawing and said, "Big brother, do you have to kill these paintings?" ”

Zhu Biao nodded and sighed and said: "The household department is very important, the corruption here is directly involved in the people, every stone of grain they are greedy for is watered by the people with sweat, maybe when they collect the grain tax, they collect these few stones of grain, and force a family to sell their sons and daughters." ”

The three brothers didn't say much, silently looked at the ink pen in the brother's hand, and kept swaying on the list, moving quickly and quickly, as if they had already had a goal.

Zhu Di looked up at his brother, only to see that his face was calm, and there was no wavering in his eyes, as if he was just writing a splendid article, and he felt a chill in his heart inexplicably.

An hour later, Zhu Biao finally put down the pen in his hand, and the three brothers also breathed a sigh of relief, they watched their names circled one by one, as if they saw a person's head flying into the sky.

Zhu Biao himself spent half an hour checking it again, and if the person's head was cut off, he would not be able to come back, in Zhu Biao's eyes, there were actually many people who were guilty, but they were not dead.

Zhu Biao closed the account book and got up and stretched, the muscles and bones on his body crackled a few times, and said to his younger brothers: "Let's go, you have also run out to play for a day, and tomorrow you will honestly go to morning class, if you skip class again, my father will not spare you." ”

The three brothers nodded obediently, and went out of the house together, Zhu Biao stepped out of the door of the household under the support of everyone, and now it was almost time, and the sky was completely dark.

As soon as he walked out of the gate, he saw the Shangshu of the Criminal Department walking quickly, and said after arching his hand to Zhu Biao: "Your Highness, there are thousands of people gathered in front, all of whom are the families of the household officials, and they are kneeling at the crossing and waiting to see Your Highness, and it has no effect for the ministers to send people to disperse. ”

Zhu Biao shouted coldly: "Ridiculous! Is there a husband and son in this palace who have wronged them? They took the tax grain from the household department and went home, didn't their families eat it too? Knowing that the way is not right, I don't dissuade it, what's the use of pleading now! ”

Zhu Biao ordered forcible expulsion, which is about the law, at least on the surface, the majesty of the law must be guaranteed, otherwise how will it be implemented in the future.

Could it be that every time the officials are purged and governed, only a large group of people kneel and plead for mercy will open the net, what kind of system will it become? As long as this trick works once, it will never be over.

The criminal department Shangshu led the officials to begin to forcibly expel them, Zhu Biao listened to the crying of women and children in his ears, frowned slightly, and when it was almost over, Zhu Biao led people out, and there were still dozens of people wailing and crying on everyone, stubbornly resisting the drag of the errand soldiers.

As soon as they saw Zhu Biao, they crawled on the ground and shouted: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, please show mercy to Your Highness and bypass the life of my son (husband), we will send all the food back, and we will make up for the lack of how much we smash the pot and sell iron, please Your Highness be merciful!" ”

Zhu Biao didn't speak, and Zhu Di on the side stood up and shouted: "They violated the law of the Ming Dynasty, how can you be forgiven if you return the proceeds of corruption, and their punishment will have its own holy decision tomorrow!" ”

Those old and weak women and children seemed to have lost all hope, and they began to cry desperately, Zhu Biao was in no mood to entangle with them, he would naturally save those who could be saved, and those who could not be saved could only blame them for being too greedy.

All the way back to the palace, Zhu Biao asked people to send his younger brothers back to their house, and walked a few steps to the imperial study, at this time his father should still be dealing with government affairs.

However, it is also possible to go back to rest early, after all, I heard last night that my father and the emperor had reviewed the chapter to the son, and today there was such a thing in the court, and I couldn't stand it every day.

As soon as I walked a few steps, I saw the eunuch waiting in the imperial study carrying an ever-bright lantern to greet him, and after saluting Zhu Biao, he said: "Prince, the saint has already ordered the slave and maid to wait here, please go to the imperial study when you come back." ”

Zhu Biao nodded, all the way to the door of the imperial study, because he had already been instructed, Zhu Biao went in directly without passing it, and Liu Jin and others guarded the door.

When Zhu Biao went in, he saw his father under the lamp watching the recital eat a bowl of supper, Zhu Biao walked forward and saluted, then got up and said: "You should also take a rest, Erchen heard that you also reviewed the recital last night, which is not good." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang put down the bowl in his hand and said with a smile: "Our standard has grown up, and I know that I feel sorry for him, but we can't sleep even more when national affairs are handed over to others." ”

Zhu Biao shook his head helplessly, and put the account book in his hand in front of Zhu Yuanzhang: "The son has probably sketched out, how to deal with the emperor and ask his father to make a decision." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the account book and looked through it, and the more he looked at it, the more he sneered: "They are all so bold, let's hand over the country's money bag to them, but they regard this as their own own?" The top and bottom are actually greedy for food taxes, they really deserve to be killed! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang took a cursory look at it, and the number of places outlined by his son was a little too small, but he also knew that if he wanted to maintain the normal operation of the household, this was the best result.

Zhu Yuanzhang put down the account book and said: "Just deal with it according to you, these more than 500 people are directly beheaded to show the public, as for the head of the household Yang Siyi and other more than 20 people!" ”

Zhu Biao nodded silently, the lives of five or six hundred people were gone under his own strokes, although he knew that they deserved it, but he still felt a little unbearable in his heart.

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