Liu Mingzhi was naturally not qualified to go to Jinluan Hall from the harem with the emperor, so he could only go around the Linde Hall and then transfer to Jinluan Palace.

After taking a look at the silent and unoccupied Gong Dao, Liu Mingzhi planned to take out the letter that Huyan Yunyao had given him and take a look.

No matter what the result is, I have to give someone an answer no, but after digging for a long time, I have touched the armpit and I can't find the existence of the letter.

I thought I had misplaced the cuffs, but I looked carefully on the other side and found no trace of the letter.

Liu Dashao thought about it for a moment and was a little surprised: "It's broken, could it be that the letter was returned to the emperor with a silver ticket?" ”

Liu Mingzhi's face was a little strange, in case the content of the letter was really what he thought, it would be over.

Rubbing his cheeks, Liu Dashao looked at the sky in confusion: "Write a love letter to the emperor, what is the charge of molesting the emperor?" ”

After thinking about it for a long time, there didn't seem to be any charges in the big dragon law, and Liu Mingzhi breathed a sigh of relief.

swayed around the two palace gates and rushed towards the Jinluan Palace.

When Liu Mingzhi arrived at the Jinluan Palace, it was almost overcrowded, even the officials of the seventh grade came, and all the officials in Beijing of the Great Dynasty Association had to go to the Hajj to see them, and Liu Mingzhi was full of cyan officials who served behind the position of the rear of the crane before, and many people Liu Mingzhi had never seen it!

"Your Majesty is coming!"

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Li Zheng sat on the dragon chair with a majestic expression: "No courtesy, enter the ranks!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Baiguan began to find his place and knelt down, and the Ping Dynasty suddenly became the Great Dynasty Guild, something terrible must have happened.

"Senior brother, why did your dignified Doctor Yinqing Guanglu sit in such a back position?"

Liu Dashao glanced at Huyan Yunyao on the right: "That's the lord, I am looking at the official position in the court, and the household member Wailang is not much taller than you Liupin Hanlin Bachelor, where do you sit here?" ”

"Also, come on, senior brother, I hope that one day you will be ranked first!"

"I've taken your good word!"

Liu Mingzhi glanced at it and finally saw a few classmates from Jiangnan, Qin Bin and Yan Huai'an, all of whom seemed to be on duty in the Hanlin Academy!

"I got a secret report from the border gate, and there was a big problem in the mutual market........... Tens of millions of silver, one-third of Dalong's annual taxes, I opened the business road for the sake of enriching the people, not to let you and others fill their own pockets, and you are not afraid of tens of millions of silver to death! ”

The emperor looked angrily at the civil and military officials below, and his tone trembled a little.

"Tens of millions of taels of silver? How is this possible? ”

"Nothing is impossible, as long as you are bold, it is possible, do you know how much money the household has entered in more than three months just for taxes? Twelve million taels! ”

"My God, the tax is 10 million taels of silver, and according to what Your Majesty just said, the amount of money they have to fill their pockets is up to four times the tax!"

"Isn't that tens of millions of taels of silver?"

"I didn't expect these merchants to be so rich, and I didn't know that I didn't usually open a business road, but as soon as the business road opened, I understood that these merchants' families gathered together for a few months to pay taxes on the top of the silver top and half of the country's taxes for a year!"

"Your Majesty!"

Li Zheng looked at the imperial historian Xia Gongming and nodded: "Xia Aiqing, please speak!" ”

"Your Majesty, if it is really as Your Majesty said, the officials of the mutual market privately raised the price in the name of the court's business to enrich their own pockets, and the minister suggested that the three law divisions be formed to investigate this case, and tens of millions of taels of silver will damage not only Dalong's taxes but also the interests of the people!"

"What Xia Aiqing said is reasonable, once the price rises, the merchants will raise the price, and the small merchants will be squeezed out of the border market, and the price will be raised, and the things that the merchants ship back to Dalong will also increase in price, and the things that the people buy when they sell the goods for five taels of silver will cost ten taels of silver, so that the people can cut the meat to make up for the remaining five taels of silver?"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

"Shengming? I am not holy at all, the border guard officials are only four rank officials, and they play tricks to play with me and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, I know very well and understand that there are not a few people who accept the silver of the town guard officials in the mutual market, how dare they do whatever they want without your support! ”

As soon as the emperor's words fell, the expressions of many officials were a little stupid, obviously because the emperor said that his feet hurt!

The emperor slowly walked down the steps and looked at the civil and military officials with different expressions: "Since I ascended the throne, I have always emphasized the benevolent government of light and followed the instructions of Emperor Taizu to put the people first, but you and the others are all ministers in two classes, that is not the prince of Hou Ye Guogong who was killed in the sea of blood, and that is not the general who is immediately famous!" There are also a few Shangshu who are not two Jinshi, you touch your conscience and ask, since I ascended the throne, why have I used the heavy method! ”

"But where are you? Do you think that I am too merciful, you can be lawless, I don't dare to use the heavy law, but I don't want to use the heavy law, if once the investigation is carried out, all of you here, the prince, the county king, the clerk, the first rank of the chief of the nine ranks, you have a few clean, according to the law of the dragon, you are not sorry to die even if you are razed by the three clans! ”

"Your Majesty, the ministers are guilty!"

Liu Mingzhi looked at the civil and military officials who were lying on the ground and kowtowing around him, and hurriedly lowered his head, did he have a meow Young Master Ben did anything wrong!

"Twenty-seven years, after the death of the first emperor, it has been twenty-seven years since I inherited the great treasure..... The six cruel punishments, Yi Sanzhu Jiu after the matter of the King of Shu, I also abolished, in addition to beheading the public, the most serious punishment seems to be only exile! ”

"I thought that you would be able to follow my benevolent government with your heart, apply benevolent government to the people under your rule, be diligent and love the people, even if you don't lose your virtue, but you, again and again, provoke my face, provoke the royal dignity, provoke the laws of the dragon, a small four-grade official dares to embezzle tens of millions of taels of silver, do you and other first-grade officials plan to change the dynasty, you and other crimes cannot be punished!"

"Your Majesty, please calm your anger, the ministers know their mistakes!"

Li Zheng's body trembled a little, and he leaned on the guardrail above the dragon steps, coughing a few times in a row.

"Intended!"

Mr. Zhou stepped forward solemnly: "Yes!" ”

"From now on, the car split, Ling Chi, cannon branding, Zhu Lian, waist beheading, corpse splitting, embezzlement of 2,000 silver car split, embezzlement of 5,000 Ling Chi.......... The dereliction of duty dismembered the corpse! ”

"Your Majesty, no!"

"I originally thought that a person who committed a crime would not be blamed for his family, but in troubled times, he should be punished heavily, you say that I am Shengming every day, but I know that if this continues, Dalong will really become a troubled world, and the six-hundred-year foundation left by Emperor Taizu will also be destroyed, and the punishment of Yi Sanzhu and Jiu will be restored, and the Dali Temple of the Criminal Department will send the law to the state capitals of Dalong!"

The civil and military officials looked at each other speechlessly, and even looked at each other with frightened faces, knowing that the emperor was really angry this time, and no one dared to speak out and admonish!

"Your Majesty, please take back the punishment of Yi Sanzhu Jiu!"

Xia Gongming looked at the emperor with a sad face.

"Your Majesty, although Yi Sanzhu Jiu can warn civil and military officials, but it is too cruel for one person to commit a crime and the whole family is involved, and ignorant children are not more important, and being punished because of their father is not in line with the legacy of the first emperor!"

"Xia Aiqing, I respect you as a veteran of the two dynasties, and I have always tolerated you, because I respect you as a person, you are upright and strict with yourself, but can you guarantee that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are as upright as you?"

"This, the old minister is incompetent! But the old minister never wants His Majesty to repeat the laws of the three punishments! ”

Liu Mingzhi glanced at Xia Gongming, who was kneeling on the ground, and slowly came out of the ranks: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Your Majesty and Lord Xia should each take a step back, and they should add rebellion and usurpation!" ”

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