Half a month has passed in a blink of an eye, and Zhang Lingyang's holy decree has finally arrived in Guangzhou.

In fact, there is no need for a detailed trial of such a serious smuggling case of collusion between officials and businessmen as the Guangdong City Bo Division, and according to Zhang Lingyang's intentions, all officials who accept bribes of more than 100,000 taels or more, as well as those merchants who give bribes, will all be questioned and beheaded.

Even Li Meiren's cousin Li Ya was not spared.

However, unlike other convicts, although Li Ya was beheaded, his family members were pardoned.

After all, it is also Zhang Lingyang's relatives who are cornering, if the result of other trials is like that of other prisoners, all the female dependents in the family are charged to the Teaching Division, and the men are sent to Siberia, Zhang Lingyang still can't do it.

As for Tailing, the third son of the governor of Guangdong, Tai Ling, was executed by Ling Chi, and Tai En himself was also ordered by Zhang Lingyang to allow him to return to his hometown.

Although Tyne himself has not committed any crimes, and it can even be said that he has suffered a complete unwarranted disaster, but after all, he is guilty of lax supervision.

Both for their families and for the areas under their jurisdiction.

The ancients said that the Qi family ruled the country and leveled the world, and in Zhang Lingyang's view, there was also a certain amount of truth.

If your own house is restless, how can you govern the country?

Just like Tyne, Tyne did not learn from the turmoil in Jiangxi ten years ago, which led to today's incident.

The difference is that ten years ago it was Tyne's cheap brother-in-law who was doing mischief under his banner, and today it is his own son who wants to kill him.

From this, it can be seen that the tutor in the Tyne Mansion is not qualified at all.

Even, so at this time, Zhang Lingyang added another article to the "Great Zhou Statute", that is, if there is anything illegal in the family of an official, the official will be punished regardless of whether he knows it or not. If they know that their family members have committed illegal acts and conceal them and do not report them, they will be punished with the same crime as the prisoner.

Once the regulations were promulgated, they frightened officials in various parts of the Great Zhou.

No one who is an official dares to guarantee that his family has not done anything wrong.

Even a big guy like Liubu Jiuqing doesn't dare to guarantee it.

These eunuchs who are officials and eunuchs, who are not big families?

is like Zheng Yongji, the first assistant of the cabinet, although he only has two sons and one daughter under his knees, Zheng Yongji's family has eighteen people.

If Zheng Yongji's clansmen begged Zheng Yongji to come to Zheng Yongji after breaking the law, what do you say Zheng Yongji is protective? Or is it evasive?

If you protect yourself, the result is obvious, and you will be punished with the same crime as the prisoner.

But if you choose to report to the official, others may praise Zheng Yongji's righteous act of killing his relatives on the surface, but behind the scenes, he may not know what to say?

Therefore, it is not so easy to kill relatives in righteousness.

Even if he chooses to pretend to be deaf and dumb, then the position of the first assistant to Zheng Yongji's cabinet is also the end.

Therefore, no matter how you choose, it is an extremely difficult problem.

But Zhang Lingyang promulgated this law.

In the Gongchen Palace, Zhang Lingyang said in front of a group of ministers: "Since your people depend on you to live, then you have the right to restrain them."

If you can't even do that, you might as well submit your resignation. ”

In a word, Zhang Lingyang was speechless to those ministers who originally wanted to advise.

In feudal society, what is important is to hide relatives and relatives. But Zhang Lingyang just wants to break this rule.

According to Zhang Lingyang's original words, that is: "As an official, I let you benefit the people, not let you do evil."

Originally, your relatives and clansmen took advantage of your position to obtain huge benefits. Without violating the laws of the Great Zhou, I will not hold you accountable.

But if you don't even care about the corruption of your clansmen under your banner, then I will let the Jinyi Guard come and ask. ”

The reason why Zhang Lingyang chose to do this is naturally his reason.

Originally, through the position of these officials, their relatives and clansmen sought a lot of interests that did not belong to them in the first place.

If they are allowed to be corrupt and pervert the law again, will the people at the bottom still have a way to live?

Once the people at the bottom have no way to live, the first unlucky ones are not these officials, but Zhang Lingyang, the emperor, but Zhang Lingyang's descendants.

What's more, Zhang Lingyang had previously ordered the Royal Bank of the Great Zhou to make a secret statistics, but the results showed that more than ninety percent of the wealth of the Great Zhou was concentrated in the hands of less than one thousandth of the gentry and magnates. The remaining 10% of the wealth belongs to the people at the bottom of 999/1,000.

Of course, the biggest beneficiary of this is naturally Zhang Lingyang, the emperor himself.

But even if the royal wealth is discarded, the wealth in the hands of the gentry and magnates still accounts for eighty percent of the entire Great Zhou.

You know, this is not the age of capital.

If it really comes to the era of capital, Zhang Lingyang can't imagine whether the people still have a way to live, and will the incident of sheep eating people happen in Da Zhou?

As a result, you can think of it with your ass, and it will be.

Therefore, even if it is not for himself, not for the benefit of the whole country, or for his own children and grandchildren, Zhang Lingyang still has to put a layer of shackles on the gentry and magnates.

And the shackles that are now put on the officials are only the first one, and they cannot really restrain the expansion of their interests.

If you want to truly restrain their interests, then whether it is the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the clan customs in various places, and those bad habits in the officialdom, they must be completely changed.

But this will only improve the situation that is now gradually deteriorating.

And if we want to completely change this situation, we must still do it through education.

After all, knowledge changes fate.

This law promulgated by Zhang Lingyang in the court caused a great sensation in the entire court and the opposition.

But there are people who don't believe in evil and challenge the majesty of the court on this cusp.

Half a month after the promulgation of the law, the nephew of the governor of Jingbei openly bought and sold in Wuchang City, and wantonly devoured the people's property.

I don't have to say that after Zhang Lingyang knew about this incident, he directly ordered the execution of the nephew of the governor of Jingbei, and the governor of Jingbei himself was removed from all positions.

In less than a month, the Great Zhou court successively dismissed two feudal officials, which made the entire Great Zhou court and the opposition cry for a while.

The officials inside and outside the capital, as soon as they received the news, knew that this time their Emperor His Majesty was really moving, how could they dare to think about anything else, and the first time they returned home one by one, they ordered to restrain the children of the family.

As for the contrarians or duplicitous? Although he did not put these people, who were very likely to be affected by his own clansmen, he was not clear about the disposition, and he was directly removed from the family tree.

In the following month, Zheng Yongji, the first assistant of the cabinet, removed the names of eight people who were not very peaceful from the family tree, and he has nothing to do with Zheng Yongji again......