Chapter 694: The Storm of Integrity

The menacing ministers fainted collectively after being slapped in the face. After all, the imperial power is the highest right, and once this supreme power still has absolutely strong strength in hand, any provocation is a joke for the imperial power. In fact, Chen Xie has been restricting imperial power, and in many cases does not support Zhu Cihong's willfulness. But on the issue of anti-corruption and supervision mechanisms, Chen Xie will naturally not budge. The gentry class, represented by the Ming civil official group, had to dig into the corners of the empire when there was a threat of imperial power, and when there was no threat of imperial power, they were naturally more unscrupulous.

Corruption cannot be eradicated as long as there is human society. This is determined by human nature. In a country that claims to be the world's beacon, it seems that government officials are subject to very strict supervision, but in fact, if you look at the general election, you can see that it takes a lot of investment to be elected president, so why is this not a disguised transaction between power and capital?

Objectively speaking, there is no conclusion as to which ideology is better. It can only be said that human society, on the whole, has been developing towards a more perfect system. Of course, the essence has never changed. The harmony of the world and communism are just the products of human beings.

Well, Chen Xie has a deep hatred for corruption, because this phenomenon is absolutely a cancer for a country. It has a powerful destructive power for the stability of the entire social structure. The Ming Dynasty was a privileged society, and the relationship between people was legally determined (. Privileged societies don't engage in privileges, are you talking about the past? It can only be a certain process on the role of changing this society and reducing the role of privilege.

That's all! Objectively speaking, the countries closest to communism in modern society are probably a few countries in Northern Europe. However, as far as the current stage of human society is concerned, their kind of high-welfare country is really a bit of a death. It is human nature to indulge in leisure and hard work. There is no mechanism to limit this nature, but to allow this nature to spread in society.

Uh, that's a bit of a stretch! Straight to the point. A pilgrimage meeting began vigorously and ended quietly.

Zhu Cihong, who was supported by Chen Xie, felt the pleasure of power brought by the position of emperor for the first time. Excited. He slowly calmed down, and now he is very cool, so what about after losing Chen Xie's support? When I thought about it at a deeper level, a lot of things came to the little emperor's mind, which were intricately entangled.

The emperor and the civil official clique are both beneficiaries and defenders of the traditional order, and Chen Xie is an external force that separates you from the two. The three are like a Ming Dynasty version of Wei Shu Wu, and the most powerful Wei is Chen Xie, who is outside the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, you can see the benefits of Chen Xie's wandering in the periphery, and the ontology of the Ming Dynasty is the structure of the upper class society between the monarch and the minister. The relationship between monarchs and ministers is a symbiotic relationship of consistent interests, and it is also an irreconcilable relationship of contradictions of interests. (laughs.) Have you ever studied Ma Zhe? Have you studied Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory? ）

When there is a balanced relationship between the monarch and the minister, the country is stable and upward, and once it is out of balance, it is likely that uncontrollable phenomena will appear, bringing huge losses to the country. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of heroes is like killing chickens, Zhu Di's punishment of the nine clans is not enough, and there is also a ten-clan clan, and there are any changes in the civil fort and the like. This is all caused by the excessive power of the monarch. What about the excessive power of the ministers? During the penultimate period of the emperors at the end of the Ming Dynasty. When the state was basically in the hands of the civil servants and the gentry clique, it was not until Zhu Youzhen changed it. It was too late, and instead of being able to change it, it tore apart the relationship between the monarch and the minister, and accelerated the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason for this is that Zhu Youzhen simply killed Wenchen, and the timing he chose was still a very fucked up time.

The history of the late Ming Dynasty was studied by later generations. There are various statements, and whether they are correct or not depends on which seat you sit in. History is a thing that comes after it is adjusted according to the needs of interests, and it is difficult for later people to see the true face. That's pretty much it.

If Zhu Cihong and the Wenchen Group had a higher vision, they might really be able to figure out a truth, that is, Chen Xie has been constantly making enemies of the interests of the entire Ming Dynasty, or constantly transforming the country. Through the guò imperial power to limit the power of the subject, through the guò subject power to counter the imperial power. In the process of constant balancing, little by little, this interest class is weakened. Little by little, the original attributes are transformed. Of course, this is the past, and now Chen Xie has accelerated his speed, so such a direct means will appear at the court. Unreasonable and brutal suppression, disobedience to war, disobedience to bite.

This is a change after Chen Xie's mentality has changed, because he doesn't know at what point in time he will wake up Wu Qi again and leave this time and space. After a period of peaceful evolution, Chen Xie reverted to the simple and crude style of the past. It's your business to accept or not, and it's my business to do it or not.

The court meeting is over, and it is not even the usual practice for the cabinet chief assistant to make a recent summary report. The power of the combination of imperial power and violence was too great, and at the beginning of this anti-corruption storm, the ministers of civil and military affairs united and planned to carry out a powerful counterattack. This is the essence of the matter, so the more essential thing is that this counterattack has just emerged a little bit, and it is slapped back by a stronger force.

The scale of the anti-corruption campaign has not weakened since the Great Pilgrimage, but has expanded. The freak of the Independent Commission Against Corruption was originally a combination of two complementary and subordinate forces, but after this internal rectification, a deeper gap has emerged between the two forces. The Jinyi guards and chamberlains, who represented the status of royal servants, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which represented the interests of Wenchen, fought each other in the course of this operation, and the hatred deepened. As the maker of this matter, Emperor Zhu Cihong happily watched these people constantly stab each other in the process of self-preservation. The storm is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more people are being involved.

On the second day of the Great Dynasty Meeting, martial law was imposed in Beijing, the new army entered the city, the cavalry entered the city, and all streets were blocked by soldiers. In the next half month, there were continuous arrests, eunuchs + civil officials + small officials, and more than 800 people were arrested in one go. This is still the result of Zhu Cihong's restraint according to Chen Xie's instructions. As the chief cabinet minister, Zhou Yanru has undoubtedly been affected. A month later, preliminary statistics revealed that in the past three years, household officials had colluded with internal servants to bribe the Independent Commission Against Corruption and jointly embezzled as much as 8 million taels.

Jingshi Caishikou, a good place to kill people, in the so-called days of the Autumn Queen, for half a month, more than 300 heads were cut off in this place. Among them, seventy percent of the chamberlains and thirty percent were officials. To Wenchen's surprise, this time Zhu Cihong did not engage in Zhulian. (To be continued......) R1292