beheaded more than a dozen profiteers and several high-ranking officials in the court, and the court was in an uproar.

This decree made all the officials stunned to realize that the original impression of the benevolent and magnanimous emperor His Majesty also had a time to sore the butcher's knife.

The Holy Monarch not only punishes the heart, but the Holy Monarch also kills!

Countless officials and ministers in the court were indignant, and the Golden Palace bluntly questioned, and some officials did not know what the purpose was, kneeling on the ground and crying, lamenting that the emperor was becoming more and more mediocre and murderous, and the country was not at peace.

Emperor Hongzhi was silent with a cold face, and several eunuchs carried a large number of account books and correspondence confessed by the Marquis of Shouning, as well as the confessions of those profiteers and prisoners in the imperial prison, and swung towards the middle of the Golden Palace, and the ministers turned a few pages in surprise, and suddenly the court was silent, and the Golden Palace was silent.

"I have been the emperor for seventeen years, how can I ever be thirsty for killing? How could he ever be mediocre? Your Highness, the ministers, see it clearly, and then tell me, should these people be killed? Emperor Hongzhi's icy voice echoed in the main hall.

The Manchu dynasty was silent......

Emperor Hongzhi suddenly erupted, and roared: "Isn't it true that you should be killed if you do such an unrighteous thing?" They colluded with profiteers, sold salt, messed with our Ming salt law to enrich themselves, and did not care about honesty and morality, regardless of the life and death of the people, and regardless of the society of the Ming Dynasty. ”

After a long silence, the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty knelt down on the Golden Palace, and said in unison: "Your Majesty is wise, and the ministers agree." ”

As soon as the Son of Heaven was angry, the fate of the criminals and profiteers was already doomed, and there was no possibility of turning over.

At the same time that Li Jie and other prisoners were sent to prison, Li Mengyang, who exposed the case, was released by Emperor Hongzhi.

Good and evil passed by, and Li Mengyang, who was embarrassed, pointed to Li Jie and others who were dejected and imprisoned, and laughed with tears. Choked up with tears.

Li Mengyang, who was released from prison, did not go home directly, nor did he accept the dust-washing banquet of his colleagues, but walked alone to the Chengtian Gate of the Imperial Palace, facing the Forbidden Palace City and respectfully bowing three times and nine bows.

He at the moment. I probably understood the emperor's intention to put him in prison.

Good and evil, right and wrong, even if you see it with your own eyes, it may not be accurate, after all, you will not know until the moment when the clouds are cleared.

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The Imperial Study.

Emperor Hongzhi covered his mouth and coughed in a low voice, his face flushed, and his expression was calm but could not hide the look of decadence. The little eunuch on the side hurriedly sent a delicate spittoon, and after Emperor Hongzhi spit out his phlegm. Another eunuch brought water to rinse his mouth, and after the last bow, he bowed down and offered a small sandalwood box, and when he opened the box, the eunuch took out a golden pill the size of a pigeon's egg. Emperor Hongzhi glanced at the pill with a somewhat complicated expression. Then put it in your mouth and chew it a few times and swallow it into your stomach.

It didn't take long for Emperor Hongzhi's breathing to suddenly become short, and his eyes were bloodshot. His eyes bulged out, his face became redder and redder, and his dead wood-like hands clung to the armrests of the chair, looking painful and relieved.

Several eunuchs in the study hurriedly knelt on the ground and said in unison: "Your Majesty is blessed with great longevity." ”

Qin Kan stood in front of the bookcase and watched all this quietly, his lips opened, and he stopped talking.

Long. Emperor Hongzhi's expression gradually returned to normal, his face was miraculously much better, and he didn't cough anymore, and the whole person was in good spirits and full of energy.

Looking at Qin Kan's expression of wanting to speak and stopping, Emperor Hongzhi smiled: "Do you think I shouldn't take this pill?" ”

Qin Kan said bluntly: "The minister has to admonish directly. His Majesty, the so-called Taoist elixir thaumaturgy ......"

Hiroji cut off his words. said with a smile: "The Taoist elixir thaumaturgy is just a trick of deception, and taking the pill not only cannot live forever, but mistakenly mistakes oneself and often takes it to lose one's life." ”

Qin Kan looked at him with some puzzlement, since he knew that the Dao suit was harmful, why did he look for death?

Emperor Hongzhi smiled bitterly and said: "When Emperor Xianzong, my father, was in power, he believed in Taoist Danshu, sometimes there were concubines Wan, eunuchs Wang Zhi, Liang Fang took power, Xianzong was blinded by the inner palace, and summoned the Taoist monks of the world, refining the old party in the palace, seeking immortal arts, the inner palace was full of black smoke and miasma, and the government and national policy were in a mess, and the first will after I ascended the throne was to expel the warlocks in the palace, and the inner palace strictly forbade alchemy and Taoism, and violators were held accountable......"

"Ironically, more than ten years later, I had to invite those Taoist monks into the palace again, and ask for medicine for my alchemy, I don't seek immortality, I just want to slow down death......" Glancing at the piled up transcripts on the bookcase, Emperor Hongzhi sighed gloomily: "I just want to govern the Ming Dynasty for a few more years, handle the affairs of the upper and lower levels properly, and then hand over this country to the prince completely, let him be a Taiping Emperor, and be an emperor who does not work as hard as me." ”

Looking at Emperor Hongzhi's gloomy expression, Qin Kan's heart swelled with emotion, his father's love is like a mountain, deep and speechless, but he can really feel it and touch it, pity the hearts of parents in the world, and so does the emperor's heavenly family.

After tidying up his clothes, Qin Kan solemnly waved at Emperor Hongzhi.

Emperor Hongzhi smiled: "Why is it so polite? ”

"The ministers respect Your Majesty's love of licking calves, the subjects are very lucky, there is this Ming monarch and hero, the prince is very lucky, and there is such a strict and loving father."

Emperor Hongzhi shook his head and sighed: "If the prince understands my mind as well as you do, I will also laugh at Jiuquan when I die." ”

Qin Kan is silent, his son wants to raise but does not wait, Zhu Houzhao is playing around now, does he know that his father has less than half a year to live? After many things are lost, they cannot be regained in their lives, does Zhu Houzhao understand this truth?

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Emperor Hongzhi Xuan Qin Kan entered the palace of course not chatter, after a long silence, Emperor Hongzhi said slowly: "Yanyin case, you did a good job, Shou Ning Hou and those people are complicit, I have long known the way, but I can't force Shou Ning Hou to explain those people, what I can't do, you did it, very good." ”

Qin Kan looked at Emperor Hongzhi with some shock: "Your Majesty has known those people who have already known Lu Dao?" ”

Emperor Hongzhi sneered: "Zhu Hui, the Duke of Baoguo, Fu Ji, the right deputy of the capital, and Li Jie, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites...... I already knew what these people were doing in private, I thought they would stop if they were greedy for some silver, and I didn't want to make a mess in the court, but unfortunately they were too greedy and too dissatisfied, and they dared to raise the price of salt for that bit of silver, and the common people couldn't even afford to eat salt. They forced me to get rid of it. ”

Qin Kan's heart fluctuated, it turned out that Emperor Hongzhi knew everything, he just lacked an opportunity, a person who had the ability and dared to come forward to investigate them, this huge empire was in the hands of the emperor after all, as long as the emperor's bottom line was violated, even if Qin Kan did not come out to investigate, the emperor would find Li Kan, Zhang Kan to do it, Huanghuang Ming tens of millions of people, the emperor is not short of loyal ministers, and there is no shortage of chess pieces.

"Your Majesty already knows, why don't you just issue an order to get rid of it, but ask the minister to dig up this case?"

"If there is no real evidence, how can I easily make an order? How can the will obey the court and all the officials? Emperor Hongzhi said, with a smile on his face: "I really want to know Lu Dao, Shou Ninghou, oh, no, now it should be Shou Ningbo, Shou Ningbo is the kind of person who doesn't eat soft and hard, and doesn't eat oil and salt, how did you let him enter the palace and take the initiative to confess Zhu Hui's gang in front of me?" And confessed with tears in his eyes, full of remorse, gritted his teeth at his accomplices, and wanted to get rid of him quickly, to be honest, I have known him for so many years, and it is the first time I have seen Shou Ningbo have a more righteous side than the imperial history of the court......"

Qin Kan was in a cold sweat, looked up at Emperor Hongzhi with a weak heart, quickly lowered his head, and said: "Shou Ningbo was infected by my emperor's righteousness, so he changed his mind and was reborn......"

Emperor Hongzhi obviously didn't believe his nonsense, and said with a smile: "And cut off one leg to show determination?" Is my righteousness so powerful? ”

Qin Kan Zhengse said: "Your Majesty must not be arrogant, the emperor's righteousness can be small in Zhenyu, or he can kill people without a shadow and invisible, and breaking a person's leg is really a knife to kill a chicken, ......and it is overkill."

Emperor Hongzhi interrupted his righteous and stern nonsense with a smile: "Okay, okay, don't use this kind of nonsense to deceive me, beware of me treating you as a bully." Okay, the case of Yan Yin is settled, Qin Kan, you are a talented person, in the future, you will work hard, be diligent in the king's affairs, and be a talented and loyal courtier, I will never hesitate to give him a splendid future. ”

"Thank God."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled and muttered to himself, intentionally or unintentionally: "A few days ago, I said that I broke Shou Ningbo's dog's leg, and I thought it was a joke, but I didn't expect it to really be interrupted, and it also made me and the queen have nothing to say, well, it's quite ruthless......"

Qin Kan's eyelids jumped, he was covered in cold sweat, and he fell to the ground and said in a trembling voice: "Minister, retire." ”

Looking at Qin Kan's panicked back as if fleeing for his life, Emperor Hongzhi showed a few smiles on his face.

He is not pedantic, and smart enough, and has a very good relationship with the prince, he is already a close minister of the East Palace, and after a hundred years, the prince ascends the throne, and the court may have an additional force that cannot be underestimated.

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The dust has settled on the case of salt introduction, those who should be killed are killed, those who should be degraded are degraded, and those who have meritorious deeds are ......

Emperor Hongzhi didn't know if he had forgotten the meritorious man of this case, he had promised Qin Kan in the palace the so-called promotion, bounty and promotion of knights, etc., but none of them were fulfilled, Qin Kan was afraid that the eunuch who announced the decree in the palace would find out that he was not at home and would not give him a promotion, so he sat at home and waited for several days, but he didn't even see the shadow of the eunuch.

Well, Qin Kan can not mention the matter of the knighthood, after all, Emperor Hongzhi was extremely stingy, and he did not know how many capable ministers under his rule, and there were many who were promoted, and there were really few knights, when the father of the queen, that is, the emperor's father-in-law, Zhang Luanshou Ninghou, was also opposed by the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, which led to a great unhappiness between the emperor and the ministers at that time. If Qin Kan's little contribution was knighted, the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces would have to smash the Jinluan Palace.

You can have a knighthood, but what about promotion? What about bounties?

This, you really can! - At home, it seems that they are very poor.