"Hey, wealth moves people's hearts!" Knowing that dozens of ordinary people had also been beheaded for selling counterfeit money, Zhu Ci sighed.

In less than three days, so many ordinary people couldn't resist the temptation.

In the final analysis, the rule of law in the Ming Dynasty is slightly weak and has not penetrated into the hearts of the people.

"It's time to raise the awareness of the people of Daming about the rule of law!" Zhu Ci suddenly said firmly.

In fact, Zhu Cijiao had been thinking about this for a long time, and he had not considered it because of the internal and external troubles that had not been calmed down, but now the time has come, Zhu Cijiao decided to rebuild the Ming Law.

The law of the Ming Dynasty was built in the Hongwu period, and the successive dynasties were only inherited, and there was little rest, and many aspects were extremely unreasonable at present, and they needed to be modified to a certain extent.

On February 9, the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Ci started the road of revising and perfecting the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Ci convened the six ministries of the cabinet, the police station, and the helmsman of the court to discuss together, and each of them had a copy of the Ming law that had been passed down to the present day during the Hongwu period, and discussed and deliberated one by one, modified the unreasonable places, and improved the deficiencies.

For more than half a month, after a fierce debate, the new version of the Ming Law was finally released.

In order to make the new version of the Ming Law deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as soon as possible, Zhu Ci ordered the household department to allocate 1 million taels of silver to print a large number of Ming laws, not only for officials at all levels, but also for every dozen people in the market.

Most of the people are illiterate, and the extent of a dozen or so people in one book is already extremely widespread.

Zhu Ci also ordered the county governments to stop the literate literati and ink writers, and read the new version of the Ming law to the illiterate people page by page, not asking the people to remember much, but to leave a consciousness in the hearts of the people, and the Ming court attached great importance to the law.

At the same time, it was ordered that the county government courts should send personnel to provide legal consulting services to the people as much as possible, so as to deepen the people's understanding of the law.

The so-called Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people, this sentence first came from the Warring States Shang Dynasty and Qin Law, and in order to envelop the people, all dynasties have inherited such a saying, that is, the Ming Dynasty also has such a saying.

However, after all, it is only a statement, only a verbal one.

At the same time that the Son of Heaven violated the law and committed the same crime as the common people, there were two other sentences: the people did not fight with the officials, which also led to many people subconsciously not counting the powerful scholars and officials into the law, and they would only blame themselves for their bad luck if they were violated, and never knew how to use legal means to protect themselves.

Zhu Ci wanted to ban that kind of statement, let the people know, and the officials would also sue them.

In order to achieve this goal, Zhu Ciji secretly convened Li Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, the police station, and the criminal department to discuss the matter in the imperial study.

The Criminal Department controls the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and it also controls the courts.

When he came out of the imperial study again, Sun Ze, the secretary of the criminal department, broke out in a cold sweat.

What the emperor said just now is really shocking, and I don't know how many people are unlucky this time.

The criminal department Shangshu Sun Xue is not unaware that he has a nephew, who usually uses his name to be arrogant and domineering, although he does not commit any major incidents, but the small things are constant, and it is definitely within the scope of the emperor's rectification, in order to avoid affecting himself, after going back, he must sternly warn the kid not to lock up the kid directly, and he must not be allowed to go out to cause trouble again.

On February 12, the carriage of the prefect of Xuzhou suddenly lost control and crashed into the corn field of a common people, many people witnessed the incident at that time, and afterwards, the prefect of Xuzhou not only did not compensate, but also did not apologize, and the people who lost a lot of corn watched the prefect's carriage leave again with a sad face, and had no choice but to think that they were unlucky.

On 13 February, the son of a county magistrate in Jiangsu molested a girl from a good family on the street, causing the girl to cry in the street.

February 14th

In the one-month period from 12 February to 12 March, a large number of officials or family members of officials broke the law and reported them to Nanjing.

"Hmph, knowing the law and breaking the law, you can't change it afterwards, this group of filthy officials, who eat the court's money but sit on moths, must be punished!" Zhu Ci looked at the secret report presented by Jinyiwei with an iron face.

I don't know if I don't know this, it turns out that the Ming officials have so many violations of law and discipline, and they simply don't take Wang Fa seriously.

In the first round of governance a few years ago, although the officialdom was much clearer, officials rarely dared to do big things like corrupt officials or murder and arson, but the small things still showed their disdain for the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

Prefect of Xuzhou.

"Master, no, the state court sent you a summons, and someone took you to court!" The housekeeper brandished a court summons and ran towards the Xuzhou prefect.

The prefect of Xuzhou was dumbfounded, who dared to take him to court.

After reading the court's summons, the prefect of Xuzhou remembered that his carriage ran out of control into the people's cornfield a month ago, but just ordinary people dared to sue him for the prefect of Xuzhou, I really don't know whether to live or die!

The prefect of Xuzhou not only did not pay attention to it, but sent a housekeeper to take someone to the ordinary person's house to warn him, and asked the ordinary person to immediately go to the Xuzhou court to withdraw the lawsuit, otherwise he would bear the consequences.

After a warning, the people who were just ordinary farmers were naturally silent.

And when the housekeeper of the Xuzhou prefect left, a brocade-clothed guard spy walked in and recorded every move of the Xuzhou prefect's housekeeper just now with a sneer.

Seeing this brocade-clothed guard spy walk in, the farmer's family, who was still panicked and nervous just now, was a little relieved.

"This lord, look" The peasant knows the identity of this Jinyiwei secret agent, but after all, it is the prefect of Xuzhou, who is in a high position, and they don't have much confidence to compete, and it is just a trivial matter like losing some corn, if it weren't for Jinyiwei's sudden appearance, not only made a promise to inform the court of the recent proposition, but he said that he would not dare to bet on the safety of the family and do such a thing.

"Don't worry, the prefect of Xuzhou knows the law and violates the law, not only does he not have the slightest repentance, but after receiving the court summons, he also sent a housekeeper to threaten him, and his prefect is finished!" The brocade-clothed guard agent said categorically.

Hearing such a guarantee, the farmers were a little relieved, in fact, they were not for the benefits promised by the Jinyiwei, in fact, the prefect they could not afford to offend, on behalf of the current emperor Jinyiwei They did not want to offend, and at the same time, the emperor's proposal also made him slightly excited, and subconsciously wanted to help the emperor, so he finally responded to the matter and sued the Xuzhou prefect in court.