There is a bright moon hanging high in the sky, and the queen Zhou Keer in the window is sewing clothes, Zhu Youzhen knows that this is sewing clothes for herself, although she has told the queen, she still has to insist on sewing the shirt for the emperor by herself.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the queen's slightly red and swollen eyes, and his heart was slightly tight, a little pinched! There is an urge to enter the house! There was a sour smell in his entire respiratory system, and he longed for a long talk with the queen to get the comfort of his loved ones! He had something to say to his queen, and he thought about the beautiful scenery of the dignified and graceful queen dancing in his arms! The last time I was on the castle tower, in the middle of the battle, the happy scene of myself and the queen for a moment is still vivid!

But the emperor did not go in, and went out of the courtyard on tiptoe, and struck himself heavily on the head! He wants to reconcile with the queen, but he can't calm the dissatisfaction with the queen in his heart! He is a man who desires perfection but cannot be perfect, who cannot see his own problems and loves to be angry with others, especially after regaining supreme power! What is suppressed in his heart is a hundred years of loneliness! A hundred years of anger, more than a hundred years of desire to prove yourself!

I plan for the country! For the well-being of the people! How can you be obsessed with your children's private affairs? You can't understand me! Let time tell!

The emperor didn't know why he was angry, and he left the queen's courtyard in a rage!

As soon as he returned to the upper study, Yang Siqing came to report that Sun Shenxing asked to see him, and the emperor didn't think about it, "Let him come in!" ”

Sun Shenxing's eyes were a little red and swollen, the emperor could see that it might be caused by staying up late, and knew that his pressure was not small, and it was already a draining matter and a lot of emotional fetters for him to purify the internal team of the Yanguan! The old man is nearly seventy years old, and the pressure he is under can be imagined!

"The old minister came to see him late at night, disturbing the rest of the Long Live Lord, and I was deeply afraid!" Sun Shenxing saluted Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen nodded, "Boss, please sit down and talk, I didn't sleep, and I was also thinking about whether I wanted to talk to you." Did you start investigating Cui Yingyuan, Lu Xiangsheng and Man Gui? How's that going? Does anyone protect them? Are there many people who want to impeach them? How's the action of purging the internal team of the speaker? ”

Sun Shenxing knew that the emperor was in a hurry, and he didn't beat around the bush, "Your Majesty, in addition to the fact that there are more people who participated in the impeachment of Lu Xiangsheng, there is no one to protect Cui Yingyuan and Man Gui for the time being, and no one has participated in the impeachment of them, and there is no progress in the internal purge of the speech officials, and after listening to the opinions of several old ministers who are more trusted, most people are difficult to find any bad deeds in the short term, and the speech officials are not like foreign officials, it is not easy to investigate, and it is difficult to find any substantive evidence of guilt in the short term." The purpose of the old minister's coming is to ask the emperor how to grasp the direction of this Jingcha plan and the intensity of the rectification, the prince has already told the old minister that the emperor is going to do something to Wei Zhongxian's clansmen tonight! And said that it was the news obtained from the confessions of Cui Yingyuan, Lu Xiangsheng and Man Gui, and the old minister probably understood what the emperor meant, but the emperor may have figured out the knife of Cui Yingyuan to muddy the water inside Jinyiwei! And then expose more inside information, but the old minister has the responsibility to remind the emperor that if he does this, it is very likely that the entire Ming officialdom will be muddy! When the time comes, there will be false accusations and indiscriminate biting! Everyone will be confused for their own benefit! The area involved is large! It will paralyze the imperial court in an instant, wow! Have you thought about these, Your Majesty? Do you want to suspend all the more than 27,000 officials in Beijing from their posts under shuanggui? ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded and smiled faintly, but this smile was full of contempt! "It seems that I handed over the Jingcha plan to Sun Aiqing, this move is the right move! Yes, that's what I mean! I'm going to suspend all 27,000 people! When I ascended the throne, didn't I just grant amnesty to the world? The prisons are very empty, they should be able to accommodate these people, right? ”

Sun Shenxing knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, if the water is clear, there will be no fish!" You yourself have said that all official corruption before the date of the issuance of the proclamation will not be prosecuted? If all the officials are arrested, who will run errands for the imperial court? What will officials from other places think, as the so-called officials protect each other, these officials in Beijing have a wide range of local connections! Will it be an uncontrollable situation at that time? ”

Zhu Youzhen's eyes stared at the lampshade in front of him, took the lampshade away, turned on the lamp, and looked at the beating firelight, "I have already thought about it, if you want to reform, it is better to revolution, Daming has no time to wait!" I don't have time to wait, a little bit of reform is like scratching the itch in my boots! To no avail! Only by using thunder to rectify the rule of officials can they know what kind of emperor I am! What will happen to officials in the field? United? Rebel? The whole Ming is not controlled? The princes of various places cut the male mastery? These moths lying on my body, on the people! Do they have the courage? If you have, just come and wrestle my wrist! ”

Sun Shenxing looked at the smile on the emperor's handsome face, and felt a chill in his heart, why did such a handsome young man say so coldly? He couldn't tell whether the emperor was a wise monarch or a tyrant! But one thing he can be sure of is that the emperor's methods are very similar to those of Jinyiwei!

"Your Majesty, even if you have made up your mind, at this scale, when will these cases and officials be cleared up? The team of speech officials themselves is still being rectified, and there are less than 300 people in total, if you rectify it according to this strength! Could it be that there are no 30 people left in the Yanguan himself, and he relies on 30 people to verify the cases of nearly 30,000 people? Sun Shenxing touched his beard unconsciously, he didn't know what the emperor thought!

The emperor smiled slightly, took his eyes away from the dancing firelight, and looked at Sun Shenxing, "I will give you a direction, Wei Zhongxian's remnant party is very powerful!" It must all be eradicated! At least on the surface, anyone who has anything to do with Wei Zhongxian, anyone who is related to him, must be questioned! In extraordinary times, don't use the civil service to judge cases, and don't respond to people's differences! Treat those civil officials, as long as they get a confession from Wei Zhongxian's remnants! Just die! It is the same to rectify those who are officials and those who are soldiers! Don't be soft! First collectively check the family property, if the property and income do not match, don't ask, kill a batch first, and keep explaining! These people are the spire of this officialdom! Starting from these people, those who are involved with them a lot, and who are exposed many times, will be put to death! I will give you an indicator, more than 27,000 people, according to the grade to list a table! In each level, the one with the least number of accusations left a thousand! Fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth level, I will give you 6,000 indicators, officials above the third grade, leaving 500 people, this is the indicator I give you, don't reveal a little rumor to the outside world! That's my strength! ”

Sun Shenxing seemed to be listening to the most ridiculous thing in the world, when the emperor said that he would kill officials, it was as if he was talking about how many bowls of rice he would eat at night and what clothes he would wear tomorrow. "Your Majesty, two questions, the first one, will the official who has been accused a lot be a clean official who is usually decent and unwilling to go along with others!? What is the basis for this criterion? Second, among the officials above the third grade, there are as many as three or four hundred relatives of the emperor, what should we do with these people? If these people don't move! Could it be that there are only more than 100 officials above the third grade left? Only one percent of the officials above the third grade of the Ming Dynasty were killed? ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen looked at Sun Shenxing as if he was admiring a work of art, and Sun Shenxing's heart was furious, and the emperor put the lampshade on again! Stepping out of the throne, he came to Sun Shenxing and squatted down, "First of all, I'm here to tell you the first question!" Because this time it is a unified action for the entire officialdom! They didn't have time to react! They don't know what I'm going to do, they're in the light, I'm in the dark! Therefore, once these people collectively fall into shuanggui, they will be imprisoned for months and will fall into a crazy situation! Will bite indiscriminately! Will it be a Qing official who bites? Of course, there will be, but I can tell you very clearly what human nature is! Human nature is that the closer you are, the more people will bite you! The contradiction of interests is the core of a contradiction! For example, there are ten people, and one of them is a Qing official! Since this person is usually a clean official, he will not have too much contact with people! Even if you want to falsely accuse him, there are no more conditions! He must have been accused the least number of times! Moreover, the other nine people knew that the Qing official would not be untrustworthy! Attention won't be on him either! You say, is this person the least accused? ”

Sun Shenxing nodded, "But, Your Majesty, you can't guarantee that some corrupt officials will hide it!" He's probably also because he's so thoughtful! Let people mistakenly think that he is a clean official, and slip through the net! ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded and patted Sun Shenxing's shoulder, "You have seen it very thoroughly, which proves that I didn't choose the wrong person!" Yes, yes, the possibility of corrupt officials slipping through the net will not be impossible! But even if these people slip through the net, it can at least show that they have very few friends! They are very capable! To be able to get out of such a big storm! Can the ability not be strong? By the time the new officials come in, the purpose of this Jingcha plan has been achieved! At least the rulers will have a new look! At least all the officials have been hollowed out, and the imperial power will be more stable! There is nothing left to stop my plans for reform! ”

Sun Shenxing's head hurt a little, the sweat kept falling, he didn't know why he would discuss with the emperor how to kill, what was the result of this, he didn't know, he just felt like an accomplice, like an executioner who had read the books of sages for so many years in vain!

Zhu Youzhen smiled, "I will now answer the latter question, don't be soft on the emperor's relatives and relatives, these people will also be severely punished for corruption and perversion of the law!" It's just that the clan is involved, don't kill it first, and detain it en masse! Home can be copied! Don't kill people, you know? ”

Sun Shenxing's sweat kept falling, and his eyes were already blurred, as if he was taking a bath, "Your Majesty, these people are all members of His Majesty's family!" And the royal family in the world is all one family! All surnamed Zhu! Break bones and tendons! This will definitely leave a solid mouth for the vassal kings! It's going to be a mess! Not to mention this strength, even if you move a royal family, it will cause chaos in the world! ”

Zhu Youzhen took out a handkerchief and wiped Sun Shenxing's sweat, "Boss, you don't have to worry about this!" Your mission is to uphold the law! The law of the land is like a mountain! We just have to occupy this mountain! The people of the world will not listen to them! The key to doing this qiē well lies in the secret! And now that Jingshi is in a food shortage, if these people are not moved, where will the food come from? Do you want to watch the Jingshi people eat people? One month! I will close the Jingshi for a month! Within a month, you're going to get things done! ”

Sun Shenxing sat on the ground in a daze and muttered, "More than 27,000 people!" Your Majesty, you will give the old ministers a target of 6,300 people!? Kill more than 20,000 people at once? What will the world become? ”

Zhu You looked at Sun Shenxing, who was distracted, smiled, and sat down beside him, "I don't know either!" ”

Sun Shenxing found that the emperor was sitting beside him, and hurriedly knelt down again and said, "Your Majesty, there is nothing the old minister can do about this errand!" There is absolutely nothing the old minister can do! Lao Chen is not Bao Qingtian! Long live the lord even if he gave the old minister the dragon head! Lao Chen still can't do it! What about the queen's family among these royal relatives? What should I do if there are those people from the concubine's family? If the old minister did this, he would be crushed! It's all gone! ”

Zhu Youzhen pulled Sun Shenxing to sit down beside him, "Boss, when did you become timid?" Where did you go when you stopped the imperial grandfather from making King Fu the crown prince? When you're done with this, you'll join the cabinet to assist me! Don't worry about the rest, your children and grandchildren will always be in the scope of the Eastern Investigation Division or the Western Investigation Division! In the future, a hundred years from now, I will personally wear linen and filial piety! You are my master, you said you would help me! ”

Sun Shenxing cried and covered his face, "Your Majesty, please, the old minister really can't afford such a big thing!" This thing is to be scolded by the history books of the ages! The old minister is unwilling~! Besides, the emperor's method doesn't need the old minister, right? Just let the Jinyi Guard and the Imperial Forest Army be able to do it? Why do you have to let the old minister be this sinner? ”

Zhu Youzhen crossed his legs, took a cigarette pouch from the dragon case, smoked it, like an old man, and looked at Sun Shenxing who was crying faintly, "Teacher, don't cry, I have already selected you!" Although this method is a bit crude! But fast! Moreover, you can be impartial only if you keep your heart! Any idea why this is done? With your nearly fifty years of officialdom experience, you can always have a general idea of loyalty, treachery, good and evil! If you don't take the lead, let me take the lead myself? Let everyone in power know that there are no friends in officialdom! Whoever has more friends dies faster! Let everyone dare not form a party in their consciousness! If you have done this, not only are you not a sinner, but you are also a hero of the Ming Dynasty! ”