Chapter 456: Killing Ring (Part 3)

"The three divisions of the Yamen, the trial of the officials of Licheng County, Jinan Prefecture has ended, and about seventy percent of the people who have been convicted of corruption and bribery have committed various crimes, and the rest are either honest or have no chance of corruption.

Jin Yiwei was in charge of the punishment of 100 households, and Chang Wei said.

"According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, how to deal with it will be dealt with." Zhu Youzhen said.

"Wechen understood." Chang Wei bowed and retreated.

The Da Ming Law is very strict with the offender officials, and they are often beheaded and exiled, and after Taizu, the Da Ming Law is no longer used to deal with the offender officials, such as for corrupt officials, at most they are dismissed from office, and there are few more head-killers.

Zhu Youzhen mentioned the Daming Law, indicating that he was determined to clean up the officialdom in Shandong, and Chang Wei naturally understood this.

"Your Majesty, the cabinet sent a note." Wang Chengen walked in with a stack of musicals.

"It's another persuasion to let the Confucius family go lightly." flipped through a note and glanced at it, and Zhu Youzhen casually threw it aside.

From the time Zhang Shize led his troops into Qufu County to ban Yan Shenggong Kong Yinzhi, the court and local officials poured in like a tide, all advising them not to be rude to Yan Shenggong's Mansion. These officials quoted scriptures and scriptures to explain all kinds of truths, but the purpose was only one, to persuade the emperor that the Yansheng Mansion was a descendant of the saint, and to move the Yansheng Mansion was to be disrespectful to the saint. Many officials may have been trying to gain fame and reputation, and even angrily denounced Zhu Youzhen in their recitals, saying that Zhu Youzhen did not respect the Holy Teacher, which was simply mediocre.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen will not be accommodating to these officials who seek fame and reputation, and anyone who dares to be rude in the performance of his duties will be directly dismissed from office. In a short period of half a month, more than 20 officials were dismissed, including many high-ranking officials of the third rank or above.

After dismissing these officials, Zhu Youzhen ordered someone to send the evidence collected and interrogated by the Yansheng Mansion to the Beijing Imperial Court, and when they saw the shocking charges of the Yansheng Mansion, many officials were silent and had no words to defend the Yansheng Mansion.

However, there are still many officials chattering, saying that Kong Yinzhi's mistake is a personal act, and he can be removed from the title of Duke of Yansheng, and the direct successor of the Kong family should be chosen as the Duke of Yansheng, instead of completely canceling the title of Duke of Yansheng, Zhu Youzhen naturally ignored this. Once the decree to abolish the Yansheng Mansion has been issued, how can there be any reason to change it?

"This is to persuade me to leave Shandong as soon as possible, the southern tour to worship the ancestors, and the officials who committed crimes in Shandong can be tried by the Inspectorate, and the cabinet has decided that the left deputy capital Yu Shi Cao Yubian will lead the team to Jinan, well, or the cabinet elders will jointly sign up." Flipping through a note again, Zhu Youzhen shook his head slightly, it seems that the officials in the court are all scared by themselves, afraid that they will kill in Shandong.

"It seems that the princes of the court are afraid of the recurrence of the situation in northern Shaanxi." Hong Chengchou sighed. Shandong is too close to Beijing, and if Zhu Youzhen kills the officials and gentry in Shandong, it will inevitably cause a shock in the world.

"Since Cao Yubian is coming, then he will pass on the decree and execute the offending officials tomorrow." Zhu Youzhen said coldly.

If Cao Yubian led the team to Jinan, according to the rules, he would have to hand over the officials involved to the Inspectorate for interrogation, after all, this is the duty of the Inspectorate. Although Jin Yiwei can also interrogate officials, most of them are aimed at Qin criminals, not ordinary criminal officials.

But since the matter has come to this point, Zhu Youzhen will not let the Inspectorate take these prisoners lightly, and simply move out of the Daming Law and deal with the matter. As for whether he will gain the reputation of a tyrant because of excessive killings, Zhu Youzhen doesn't care.

On April 10, the fourth year of Chongzhen, at the entrance of the vegetable market in Jinan City, on a high platform, more than a dozen executioners dressed in red and with bare arms stood with knives, and a group of soldiers escorted more than a dozen prisoners to the high platform, holding the prisoners to their knees.

"Execution!" Liu Wenbing, the deputy commander of the Jinyi Guard, who was in charge of supervising the beheading, saw that it was already noon, and threw a bamboo stick on the stage.

The executioners raised their arms high, and the ghost-headed knives fell fiercely, blood gushing and heads rolling.

On the side of the execution table, looking at the beheaded head, Zhu Ciyi closed his eyes in fright, only to feel a cool breath from the back of his head directly to the soles of his feet. And the other clans watching him next to him were so frightened that they peed their pants.

The scene of killing the head is really cruel!

A row of convicts knelt down and were beheaded, and another row of convicts were pushed onto a high platform, where they were beheaded for more than a dozen rounds, and more than 200 officials were killed. Among them, the highest position is the political envoy and the probationary envoy on the left and right, and the lowest official position is only the Liufang Warden of Licheng County, who does not even have an official body, but is just an official with a little power, but he is fortunate to be beheaded on the same stage as the Sanpin Minister.

Around the execution platform, the people watching were crowded, all applauding for the killing of the criminal. In recent years, there have been droughts year after year, and the winter is very cold, but the government has never slackened its expropriation, and the people have become more and more miserable, and they have long been dissatisfied with the government. Now that the emperor has come, he has begun to investigate the rule of officials and dispose of these corrupt officials, and naturally everyone applauds.

"Have you heard, since last year, the emperor has issued an order to stop levying salaries, but the money and grain we paid have not been reduced much, and they have been embezzled by these corrupt officials."

"It's good to kill, these officials deserve to die, and they won't be wronged if they are all killed!"

"Not only the officials, but also the leaders of the county government will be killed a lot."

"These officials should be killed, bullying the people is their bullying!"

"I think in the future, there will still be those officials who dare to be corrupt again, and dare to fish the people again!"

Around the execution platform, the people were talking a lot, and they were all applauding the killing of corrupt officials.

On the side of the execution platform, looking at the beheaded people and listening to the discussions of the people, most of the clans watching were already colorless.

They have just passed the examination, and many of them are full of ambition, knowing that they will soon be officials and will soon be masters, and many people are looking forward to a happy life in the future. And today's Guan Chop taught them a hard lesson, telling them that even if they really become officials, they should not get carried away, they can't do what they shouldn't do, and they can't stretch out their hands, otherwise they will be like these beheaded officials in the future.

Zheng Sanpin's political envoy said that he would kill him, what are these ordinary clans? And after becoming an official, he lost his clan status.

"After the training and training, you will be assigned to each yamen to observe the government, and after passing the probation period, you will officially become an official, everyone has to start from an ordinary official, but Nian Er and other clan identities will be given the status of the nine officials, but it is the work of the officials, as long as you do a good job, you can be promoted after a year or two, and it is not impossible to become the chief county commander is the county order.

However, you must remember that when you are an official, you must not be corrupt or bribe-taking, and you must not prey on the people, otherwise you will be killed today, and the official will be the end! After returning to the school, the instructor in charge of training admonished the clan.