This is what the "Punishment Regulations" provide.

"All the military and civilians are in service.

and those who are powerful in the trial of the remnants, and civil and military officials, prisoners, crown officials, intellectuals, undertakers, yin and yang, doctors, the elderly, and people.

He who does not distinguish between the rod and the rod commits a capital offense.

They all ordered to transport charcoal, bricks, rice, etc. to atone for their sins. ”

What does that mean?

No matter who commits a felony such as rebellion or rebellion and must be put to death, all other crimes, regardless of flogging, rods, imprisonment, exile, or capital crimes, can be atonemented and released by paying a prescribed amount of charcoal, bricks, rice, and other goods.

This regulation is a complete subversion of the law of the Ming Dynasty, and it means that the Ming Dynasty will become a paradise for the powerful and the rich, as long as they do not rebel, do not kill their fathers and mothers, then whatever they do, they can spend money to atone for their crimes, corruption and so on.

Anyway, the money from embezzlement is definitely enough to atone for the crime.

You can use the rest on your own.

What a bargain.

Such a good emperor is not admired.

So who do you admire?

Do you admire Emperor Hongwu who peels the skin and grass?

These ministers are not stupid.

No matter how much those ministers and literati admired and praised Emperor Hongzhi, the ancient Ming Jun and the saints who came out once in five hundred years, as long as they are familiar with history.

can be clearly understood.

The Ming Dynasty died due to a lack of money.

Under the wise leadership of Emperor Hongzhi, Ye Qi, the head of the household department, reformed and opened the Chinese law, and conveyed the benefits of the salt monopoly to the interests of the Hui merchants, which led to serious slackness in border defense. The civil officials kept asking the emperor to reduce the money and grain in the Jiangnan area in order to ease the people's strength, and Zhu Youzhu always approved it again and again, but in fact, who did not know that the richest and richest in the Jiangnan area.

On the one hand, the salt tax has been damaged, and on the other hand, the taxes of the richest part of the country have been damaged.

Emperor Hongzhi, no matter how thrifty he is, he has a fart.

It's a pity that this guy is an emperor who is better than a woman, he was fooled by those civil officials outside, and he was fooled by those eunuchs inside, and he basically didn't have any opinions of his own, and later he also wondered why he was so thrifty and did so many things that benefited the people of the world, why the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was still so empty.

Then the minister told him that he was a eunuch for corruption.

Hehe, it's the eunuch who is corrupt.

How many eunuchs can be corrupt?

The big head is not still on the officials and gentry.

It's a pity that Emperor Hongzhi is just a fool.

really did it to the eunuchs around him, as well as the eunuchs guarding the towns all over the country.

In the end, the eunuch is just an eagle dog raised by the royal family, and he can kill if he wants to, and there is no difference between fattening and killing thin, no matter how big the power is, it can't turn over the palm of the emperor's hand.

Their presence is more of a check and balance.

and help the Emperor gather information.

Lest the emperor, who could only live in the palace in the capital, become blind, and the ministers could only know what he was told.

Although these eunuchs may not all be loyal, obedient, and truth-telling, some of them tell the truth, so that the emperor can receive some information that is not handed over by hundreds of officials, and know the real situation of the people.

Now that those eunuchs have been given by Emperor Hongzhi, and the East and West Factories and Jinyi Guards have been suppressed by the civil officials, how much can he, the emperor, know more about the real situation of the people outside?

It's not what the minister said yet.

All he could know was something.

These stupid acts of Emperor Hongzhi.

Directly led to the further fall of imperial power.

The power of the civil service has risen further.

If most of these civil officials are good people, it can be similar to the cabinet system, constitutional monarchy or something, and transition to a better direction, but unfortunately, most of these civil officials are insatiable, treat the country as a large company, and desperately dig into the wall to make money.

The right without too many constraints is the tiger.

This is the case with these civil servants.

The most terrifying knife they will hang over their heads is after the removal of the Great Ming Law.

It's like a wild horse on the loose.

Completely out of control.

It can be said that Emperor Hongzhi was at the expense of the future national fortunes of the entire Ming Dynasty, in exchange for the respect of the civil official group for him, and in exchange for the praise of the Ming Emperor through the ages.

But he didn't even understand this until he died.

I really think I am so wise and holy.

Qiao Mu originally planned to return to the palace to implement his plan when Emperor Hongzhi died and Emperor Zhengde ascended the throne, but now it seems that some things must be done in advance, and some preparations that have already been made must also start planning in advance.

One of the most important points is to contact Zhu Houzhao and cultivate him with the emperor's mental skills.

For this reason, Qiao Mu specially transferred a bionic robot back, disguised the robot as a peerless master, secretly appeared in front of Zhu Houzhao at night, accepted him as a disciple, and taught him according to his aptitude from the place he was interested in.

Train him in the direction he wants.

Of course, that's only part of the story.

In addition, Qiao Mu also specially mobilized a lot of insect robots to protect Zhu Houzhao's biological mother, that is, Zheng Jinlian, the palace maid who had been hidden in her palace by Empress Dowager Zhou.

Prevent Zheng Jinlian from being killed.

This is also Qiao Mu's preparation for returning to the palace after the death of Emperor Hongzhi, mastering the palace power, and befriending Zhu Houzhao.

As for why Zheng Jinlian is Zhu Houzhao's mother, not Queen Zhang on the surface.

Of course, there is a reason for that.

The palace was under her watchful eye all the time.

Something dirty going on inside.

How could she not know.

Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang have been married for three years, still childless, and the ministers of the court and the central government are all writing to let him open the harem and extend the heirs, but Emperor Hongzhi was not obedient, but began to ask God and Buddha with Empress Zhang, lit incense and prayed, and successfully gave birth to a healthy prince in the fourth year of Hongzhi.

Of course, this is an external statement.

The real situation is that the Empress Dowager Zhou forced Emperor Hongzhi to be fortunate to the palace maid in her palace, and successfully made a palace maid named Zheng Jinlian pregnant, but at this time, firstly, because she did not know whether she gave birth to a man or a woman, and secondly, Empress Zhang was unwilling to treat the child of this palace girl as her own son.

However, with the entry of the fourth year of Hongzhi, the ministers asked the emperor to draft to enrich the harem, and the twists and turns of the heirs became more and more numerous, more and more eager, and the Empress Dowager Zhou also said that if she was unwilling, she must draft to enrich the harem.

After weighing the two phases, Empress Zhang had no choice but to agree to record the child born by Zheng Jinlian into her name and serve as the emperor's concubine.

And this child is Zhu Houzhao.

This is also the main reason why Empress Zhang didn't get the slightest news of her pregnancy in the third year of Hongzhi, and then suddenly announced that she had given birth to a son in the fourth year of Hongzhi, because they hadn't negotiated it before, and they didn't know whether they were born a son or a daughter, so there was no news about it.

If it's really Empress Zhang's pregnancy.

I am afraid that on the day when the pregnancy was confirmed, Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang hurriedly notified the ministers to prevent them from continuing to play and enrich the harem.

It will be delayed until the child is born.

The news was announced to the public.