Weiyang Palace, East Warm Pavilion.

The red pen in the emperor's hand fell, carefully reviewed each book, everyone will easily swear that I can do something well, or easily swear that I must persevere, but in fact, how many people are persevering to do something?

It has been more than 20 years, and it has been more than 20 years since the emperor was hastily enthroned, and in the past 20 years, he has not indulged himself for a day, nor has he been perfunctory for a day.

But the emperor felt that every piece of music was not boring, he was not only looking at the music, but also looking at the world through the words in the music.

For example, when the emperor reads these words, he will imagine the environment of the place, the events in the recital, the local people's geography, and so on, and so on, and what kind of thoughts and moods the person in this recital had at that time.

Therefore, what seems boring in the eyes of others seems to be a scene and a story in the eyes of the emperor.

He didn't like to be disturbed by anyone when he was dealing with the twists, after all, it was irritating to interrupt the train of thought in his head, and his mind was jumping in and out of this twist and turn, sometimes in Gyeonggi-do, sometimes in Gangnam-do, in the midst of strategizing, but that's it.

Before the war, in order to settle the people's hearts and not affect the Northern Expedition, the emperor did not pay too much attention to the large-scale private fraud cases that had emerged in the Jiangnan Weaving Mansion, but that was only the appearance.

In such a big case, the officials involved in it, from the second grade to the seventh grade, there are no less than 1,000 people, large and small, and the entire Jiangnan Weaving Mansion has been checked and checked, as if a clean person has not been seen.

The power in the hands of the Jiangnan Weaving Mansion, so that these people can unscrupulously seek personal profits from it, the chief official of the Jiangnan Weaving Mansion is Lou Yu, nominally a subordinate official of the Ministry of Households, but in fact he has the right to act arbitrarily, his level is only a little lower than that of the Ministry of Households, and he has an economic lifeline that can affect the entire Daning.

Every year, the income of Jiangnan Weaving Mansion alone can support nearly one-fifth of Daning's taxes, such a huge number, the people of Jiangnan Weaving Mansion don't think it's much, but there are more than 1,000 people up and down, everyone picks a little, how big is that? And they dare not pick this silver from the fixed money, so they can only squeeze the mulberry farmers and merchants.

Smack.

The excerpt was slammed on the table by the emperor, and the things mentioned in this excerpt were shocking.

At first, the emperor couldn't believe that the Jiangnan Weaving Mansion could be so rotten.

This fall frightened the crown prince Li Changze, who was standing not far away, and hurriedly leaned over.

The prince was scared, and when he saw his father, he was even more afraid, once what he had planned in Chang'an this year was exposed, not to mention whether he could keep his position as the crown prince, even if he could save his life, it was hard to say.

On the surface, he stood there respectfully, but in fact, there were waves in his heart, and he was afraid that the emperor would ask with one mouth, what have you been doing in Chang'an these days? !

The snapping sound frightened the prince so much that he quickly retracted his thoughts, and his nervous palms were covered with sweat.

"I thought that treating them with kindness, diligence, and honesty would always make them put away their dirty thoughts and put aside their pickling methods, but I ignored how much the temptation of silver is to people, and the greed inherent in human nature, they have not restrained for a moment."

The emperor got up and walked slowly in the Dongnuan Pavilion, the prince didn't dare to block the emperor and hurriedly stepped aside, and when the emperor walked back, he had to get out of the way again, so he looked a little embarrassed and a little panicked, he had deliberately gone to the board, but he couldn't stop it.

The emperor glanced at him: "What are you doing?" ”

The prince was stunned: "Huh? ”

The emperor's frown: "Do you have something on your mind?" ”

The prince hurriedly shook his head: "No, no, son...... Erchen was also worried about the affairs of the Jiangnan Weaving Mansion, so he lost his mind a little, and his father forgave him. ”

The emperor glanced at him again: "Since you are worried, then you can tell me what to do about the case of Jiangnan Weaving Mansion and how to treat people." ”

"Erchen...... Erchen hasn't thought about it yet, but there is the law of the country, and everything is punished by the law of the country, the killer is killed, the prisoner is charged, and the thunderbolt is used to deter the young. ”

The emperor shook his head slightly: "These few words are really universal. ”

He returned to the chair and sat down: "Jiangnan Weaving Mansion didn't say anything in advance, I asked you to come over because I wanted to ask you ......."

The corners of the emperor's eyebrows raised, and he looked at the prince with sharp eyes: "How do you feel about staying in Chang'an?" ”

The prince was so frightened that the corners of his mouth trembled, his back tightened, and then a chill was released from the entire spine, quickly spreading throughout his body, and he knelt down with a plop: "The son did not do what his father asked him before leaving, nor did he do his part, please punish my father." ”

"What didn't you do?"

The emperor looked at him: "I heard Lai Cheng say that you go to the Dongnuan Pavilion before dawn every day, and everything is handled well, and you handle the folds selected by the cabinet properly, and there is nothing wrong with it, so why are you afraid?" ”

The prince didn't dare to raise his head: "The sons are still too slack, not as good as the cabinet lords, and even less as the father." ”

"Hmm."

The emperor paused: "Slack off?" Lai Cheng said that you only sleep for two hours a day, and I am nothing more than that, if this is also slackness, then I am also slack...... You are too cautious in dealing with people, you are weak and weak, and if I were you, I would be more radical than you. ”

This sound like a pun, the prince lowered his head, the sweat on his back was even soaked with clothes, he couldn't help thinking about how many layers of meaning there were in the emperor's words, could it be that his father was beating himself?

"I heard that when I was not in Chang'an, there was no chaos in the court, but the security in Chang'an City was a little bad?"

The prince's head lowered lower: "It's the son's ministers who are not doing things well, and they can't take care of it." ”

"I just said, it's because you have a soft temperament, so you don't have the thunder means you said, you just said a good thing, there is a national law, deal with it with the national law, and use the thunder method to deter the youngest...... You know the truth, but you're not good enough. ”

The emperor got up: "Follow me to see a few people." ”

The prince hurriedly got up: "Yes." ”

The emperor strode forward, the prince followed behind the emperor in a hurry, the posture of the two people walking was very different, the emperor still strode forward after leaving the Dongnuan Pavilion, the prince followed closely behind with his head down, and his footsteps became more and more broken.

As he walked, the emperor asked, "Do you know who you are going to meet?" ”

The prince hurriedly shook his head: "Erchen doesn't know. ”

The emperor did not ask again, nor did he explain.

He walked all the way from the Dongnuan Pavilion to the front gate of the Weiyang Palace, Chengtianmen, and walked directly to the city wall, the prince didn't know who to see on the city tower, and he didn't dare to ask, so he had to follow step by step, and when he went up the steps, he tripped and almost fell, which was even more embarrassing.

When he arrived at the city tower, the emperor walked to the edge of the city wall and held the battlements with his hands: "Come and see." ”

The prince hurriedly went to the edge of the city wall and looked out, and at a glance, the pores of his whole body exploded.

The street outside the Chengtian Gate has been sealed, and the road is closed by the soldiers of the Patrol Soldiers and Horses, who are like a forest, and outside the Chengtian Gate, the people of the Black and Suppressed Tingwei Mansion are standing, at least hundreds of people are tied up, and every two Tingwei escorts a prisoner, and these prisoners are kneeling on the ground and their heads are pressed and cannot be lifted.

"I just said that when I was not in Chang'an, there was nothing to do in the court, but the civil law and order were much worse, and there were many murders in the city, even including Yuan Toshiba, a scholar of the First Auxiliary University, including the left and right guards of the East Palace, including Lin Yaoxian, a scholar of the Second Auxiliary University, and his son Lin Dongting...... This is the first time in so many years since the founding of Daning that such a large number of major cases have occurred, and many important officials of the imperial court have been killed, and you have not found anything in the past year, so I am very disappointed. ”

The emperor glanced at the crown prince, and the prince dared to raise his head, his face was as white as paper.

"There is a national law, and it is dealt with by the national law."

The emperor spoke in a flat tone, but every word seemed to hit the prince's heart like a hammer.

"So after I came back, I gave an order to the Tingwei Mansion, telling Han Zhaozhi that if he couldn't catch someone and couldn't solve the case, I would press him on the street outside Chengtianmen and cut him, if he solved the case and arrested someone, then cut these people outside Chengtianmen, thinking that Han Zhaozhi should also be afraid of death, so solve the case very quickly, arrest people very quickly, Chang Ze ...... Look, how long has it been since I came back? The Tingwei Mansion has already arrested so many people and verified them all, what does this mean? ”

The prince's mind was buzzing as if he had just been hit on the back of the head with a wooden stick, and he didn't even understand what the emperor asked, and subconsciously leaned over: "Erchen doesn't know." ”

"You don't know?"

The emperor frowned: "You don't know, I'll tell you, this shows that there are no cases that the Tingwei Mansion can't understand, there are no people who can't be investigated, if Han Zhaozhi is a waste, I won't let him be in charge of the Tingwei Mansion for twenty years, no matter how difficult the things I gave him are, Han Zhaozhi has not disappointed me in the past twenty years, as long as I ask him to find out, he will find out, there are some things he hasn't investigated, or people who haven't been investigated, it's not that he can't find out but I haven't let him investigate, you know?" ”

The prince subconsciously knelt down again: "Erchen knows." ”

The emperor squinted at the crown prince, and the prince might not be able to learn that kind of contempt in his life.

"At the beginning of man, nature is good......."

The Emperor let out a long sigh.

He stood on the city wall and waved his hand, under the city, Han Zhaozhi gave an order, and hundreds of court captains drew their swords at the same time, standing on the city wall and looking down, the knife was cold and light, like a sparkling wave.

"Slash!"

With a loud shout, hundreds of court captains dropped their knives almost at the same time, hundreds of heads fell to the ground almost at the same time, and the scene of hundreds of headless corpses spurting blood from their necks may be a nightmare for many people in the future, at least a nightmare that the prince will linger in the future.

The emperor was expressionless.

"These people entered Chang'an from all over the world to make trouble, thinking that they could not be checked if they came from all over the world, but they forgot that all the lakes and seas were mine."

The Emperor turned.

"Changze, you also remember."

"Erchen...... Remembered. ”