It's just that these people didn't mean to greet Lu Ning, they ignored him and walked outside the palace gate.

Seeing the style of this car, Lu Ning suddenly thought of a word: Fengluan Chunen car.

It turned out that in the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty wanted to be lucky with a concubine, not to sleep in the concubine's bedroom, but to use this kind of car to take the concubine to His Majesty's dormitory, and send it back after the work.

Could it be that this person entered the palace from the outside to serve Zhu Yuanzhang? Since she is Zhu Yuanzhang's concubine, she should stay in the palace after the matter is over, why should she send it out?

He suddenly thought of another possibility, that is, this woman was a family member of the convict.

According to the rules of the imperial court, after the criminal official is beheaded, the female dependents must be confiscated into the court as slaves.

Maybe this woman was confiscated into the palace according to the rules, but I don't know why she was forgiven by Zhu Yuanzhang again.

Maybe she was not greedy enough and wanted to ask Zhu Yuanzhang to forgive her, but she didn't fulfill her wish, so she cried out of the city aggrievedly?

In his impression, Zhu Yuanzhang is definitely not a faint tyrant, and it is impossible for him to do anything to rob the people's daughters.

The reason why I saw the scene outside the city happened, apart from the above explanation, there is no second possibility.

But these things are not within his control, so he didn't care about walking to the Juxiang Pavilion and asked the eunuch Xiao Songzi to report it for himself.

After a while, Xiao Songzi came out and said to Lu Ning.

"Grandpa Lu, Your Majesty is very happy to hear that you have successfully completed the errand of relocating the people of the big locust tree, and I will announce you to go in and talk."

After entering the Juxiang Pavilion, Lu Ning made a big salute, and Zhu Yuanzhang was in a good mood.

"Zi'an, I heard that you successfully completed this errand, we are very happy, calm down, raise your head and tell us to take a good look at you."

Lu Ning Shane stood up and raised his head.

found that Zhu Yuanzhang's face was full of red light, and in an instant, there was an old man who was over half a hundred years old, and suddenly became a sturdy man in his thirties and forties.

I don't know what the reason is that he has the effect of rejuvenation.

I saw that he was full of energy, and his every move was with great confidence.

"Taller, darker, thinner! But now that I'm more capable, there's never been a time when we trust you more than we do now. Tell us more about what happened. ”

There is nothing to hide, and many things he reported to Zhu Yuanzhang in the form of a recital.

This time, I just talked about some missing details, and I will continue to describe them.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was solemn and he said.

"This group of dog officials, they actually did these things that lost their conscience, Zi'an, you don't have to feel sorry for us, no matter how high an official is, or what kind of royal relatives, as long as it hinders my Ming Dynasty, we will not be soft, that Kang Concubine is to blame, and she can't complain about others."

"Yes!"

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly paced slowly in the living room with his hands behind his back, and only turned around and asked Lu Ning for a long time.

"You said that we used a lot of means to prevent corrupt officials. Embezzlement of 60 taels is punishable by death, and the law is not unstrict. Why do you think there are still those officials who are greedy? ”

In the past, someone changed the accounts and embezzled money from the state treasury, and Lu Ning once suggested that he change the lowercase numbers to uppercase numbers.

Although this has formally isolated the cases of fraudulent accounts, it cannot prevent corrupt officials from appearing in the adult body.

Lu Ning thought about it and said.

"My nephew has something to say, but he doesn't dare to say it."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the palace maids and eunuchs serving on the left and right, and said.

"You all quit the cabinet for us, pass the order, who dares to eavesdrop on our conversation, leak the secret, and behead all over the house!"

There were a lot of leaks before, but Zhu Yuanzhang had the intention of taking precautions this time, and after an order, all the eunuchs and palace maids walked away.

"Now, there is no Your Majesty, and there are no courtiers, only our pair of uncles and nephews who are very close to each other, if you have anything to say, you can speak freely, and we will never punish the crime with words."

Lu Ning slightly organized his language before speaking.

"Uncle, in fact, there are deep-seated reasons for corruption, and although strict punishment and strict laws can effectively stop corruption, it cannot be fundamentally eradicated."

"Why is that?"

"This is because it is human nature to maximize profits, and it is by no means completely restrained by a sentence of courtesy, righteousness and shame in the acquired education, and it is necessary to find the most fundamental reason."

Zhu Yuanzhang thought of the words he said about maximizing benefits and said.

"We also have a deep understanding of what you said, which is also the reason why we have stripped the skin of those officials who have embezzled and harmed the people since we came to power."

Lu Ning's eyes widened as well.

"Uncle has seen it too?"

When the army first started, Zhu Yuanzhang was still in charge of several troops of the late Chuyang King Guo Zixing.

"Their troops are laxly disciplined, and when some people break through a city, they are involved in robbing people's women."

"According to military discipline, we originally planned to put them all to death, but we still need these soldiers to fight, not to mention that some of them are related to the late King of Chuyang, and in desperation, we have no choice but to issue a military order, all women in the army, who have been married and married, will immediately return to the original husband's family, and those who are not married are allowed to stay."

"At that time, when the army was first established, the good and the bad were mixed, like Hu Dahai, how many soldiers were strict in military discipline who did not take women?"

In the eyes of those people, the uprising against the Yuan is by no means for the benefit of the people, but to be promoted and rich, and by the way, to find beautiful women for themselves. This is what you call profit maximization. If we had the authority we have now, we would have slaughtered those bastards right away. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's handling of it is naturally a helpless move, after all, presiding over justice also requires a certain amount of strength.

For example, now that he is the emperor, he has zero tolerance for those things that harm the common people.