Soon, in the Fengtian Temple.

Zhu Biao sent the corrected account book, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the account book on the imperial case, and did not show happiness, and his originally flat face became even colder.

The post road in the north is developed, but it will take a few days to re-stamp a seal at the earliest, and the household department will send the corrected account book to the Fengtian Temple in less than an hour.

It shows that the officials of the household department did not check it at all.

He doesn't like to be deceived, and he doesn't like officials to be perfunctory, in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, many people will die under every perfunctory official.

His eyes were cold, staring at Zhu Biao, and he said coldly: "As the crown prince, haven't you discovered anything?" ”

"Father is saying that the household department did not check things?"

"Spread our will, and thoroughly investigate the household department!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said word by word, and there was endless coldness hidden in his words.

Mao Xiang immediately withdrew from the Fengtian Temple.

At this time, on the imperial wall of the six duty rooms, a certain prince was copying the Zhaojian record, which was not a one-time task, but a daily task set by Zhu Yuanzhang, and it had to be copied on the palace wall.

Avoid consuming paper.

Zhu Rong was copying it, and saw Mao Xiang rushing into the household duty room and shackling the household officials, Liu Jiu saw this scene, and threw the wolf pen to the ground.

"Your Highness, still ...... Or do you copy it yourself......"

"Hurry up!"

Zhu Yu urged Liu Jiu.

Mao Xiang didn't seem to see Zhu Rong being lazy, ignored them, and took all the officials of the household department away, Zhu Rong couldn't help but sigh again, the Hongwu Dynasty is really a cold and desolate dynasty.

The reason why the inspection school was reused by Zhu Yuanzhang is largely due to its high efficiency.

In an instant, a piece of white paper with the official seal was placed in front of him, and Zhu Yuanzhang looked at it calmly, his eyebrows raised, and his eyes slightly straightened, as if he had seen something eye-opening.

"What is this?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, it is the account book prepared by the prefectures and counties......"

"Who are they?"

"The officials of the household department have been detained, and the prefects of the provinces who have entered Beijing, Zhou Su, the secretary of the household department, and those prefects have confessed...... Before Li Wang, the prefect of Guangyuan, left Beijing, he met Liu Bowen and resigned soon after. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes gradually widened, Liu Ji knew about the empty seal, and did not enter the palace to report, but helped his old friend escape, this strategist he had been visiting, at this moment, is no longer his friend.

"Liu Bowen put us together again!"

Under the palace wall at this time, Zhu Yu felt that some unknown change was taking place in the palace, the eunuchs walked with their heads down, not daring to speak, the officials deliberately kept their distance, and walked towards the Fengtian Hall with broken steps, as if everyone was trembling.

Liu Jiu was the most sensitive to the changes in the palace, he stopped his pen, turned his head, and looked at Zhu Rong blankly.

"Your Highness, why are they all gloomy?"

"Hurry up and copy it, this king has already written two words, why did you write half of the wall."

The palace was full of panicked footsteps, as if the entire imperial city was alarmed, Zhu Yu wrote two words, and he was in no mood to copy the book, so he threw away the pen.

left the palace and came to Liu Ji's house.

When Zhu Yu saw Liu Ji, he said, "I have bad news and want to tell Mr. ”

Liu Ji seemed to have guessed: "Your Majesty taboos the prince to interfere in politics." ”

"Father has already found out what I told my husband last time, is there a way for my husband?"

Liu Bowen was surprisingly calm, he knew Zhu Yuanzhang best, "If Your Majesty found out before, I have two ways, now Your Majesty has found out, peeking at the fall of a leaf, and knowing that the age is about to twilight, this is no longer the sin of the empty seal, King Qi should not underestimate Your Majesty too much." ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang got into trouble, although he didn't know a few big words, he had heard too many strategists' strategies, and he was the opponent of the most powerful hegemonic warlord of this era, and he already had no less judgment and vision than Liu Bowen.

Actually, Zhu Yu also knew that the purpose of his visit was just to see Liu Ji.

"Is the gentleman afraid?"

"What is this for?"

"It's okay, will Lord Liu have a time when he is not calm?"

Liu Ji didn't answer him, he just tidied up his clothes, and at the moment when Zhu Yu's words fell, two inspectors walked in and asked Liu Ji to take him into the palace.

Zhu Yu also returned to the palace together.

When he arrived at Fengtian Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang carried his hands on his back, and did not look at Liu Ji, his cold gaze stayed on the golden beam of the dome, this palace has gone through several wars, and it is still intact, his voice is low, "Since the founding of the country, have we killed many people?" ”

Liu Bowen replied: "Not a lot." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head, "Then why are there still people who violate the law one after another?" ”

Liu Bowen was silent, Zhu Yuanzhang's regulations were copied from the Yuan Dynasty's regulations on the payment of money and grain, and the officials also copied the response methods of the officials of the Yuan Dynasty.

Who would have thought that the Yuan Dynasty could do it, but not here in Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang just turned around and turned his back to Liu Bowen: "Should they be killed?" ”

Liu Bowen said: "It should be killed." ”

Liu Bowen is not a simple person, when Han Lin'er was besieged in Anfeng, Liu Bowen persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang not to save him, although he disregarded his life, he looked at the overall situation.

Because, he is a counselor.

Strategists are people who use some means to achieve their goals, and simple literati are not enough to describe them, and powerful scholars may not be able to be strategists.

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes narrowed into a line, ignoring everyone in the hall, his gaze fell on Liu Ji's face, staring into his eyes, "When did you know?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to know whether Liu Ji was secretly manipulating the government.

Before Liu Ji, Zhu Rong looked up at Zhu Yuanzhang, "Erchen copied Zhaojianlu on the wall of the Hubu Palace, Zhou Su reprimanded me, Erchen wanted to take revenge on him for making trouble, and saw that Hubu was using a blank seal, so he asked Mr. to solve his doubts." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression remained unchanged, it was really like what this bad son had done before.

Mao Xiang took the charge at this time, walked in quickly, reported the results of the interrogation to Zhu Yuanzhang, and caught all the officials involved, from the household department to the tax collectors, all confessed.

The coldness on Zhu Yuanzhang's face increased a little, "Okay, even the officials know that after a few years, only we, the emperor, don't know!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang first felt extremely angry, and then fearful, what if this incident was a rebellion?

Isn't the seal on his Zhu Yuanzhang's head?

Are these officials at fault? Yes, at least one of the crimes of deception must be punished, and all of them will unite to deceive one of us.

Liu Bowen shook his head.

But this person is Zhu Yuanzhang, and any emperor of the Kai Dynasty will feel panic, uneasiness and anger whenever he sits in this position.

So many officials, together to deceive the emperor!

In three days, tens of thousands of school guards rode fast horses from the capital and rushed in all directions.

This incident shook the court, and even Queen Ma didn't care about the ban of the back court, so she went to Fengtian Hall in person.

But Zhu Yuanzhang saw no one.

Zhu Biao came to Fengtian Hall and saw Zhu Yuanzhang, "Father, a scholar in Ninghai handed you a letter of sparse music. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to see it, but suddenly thought of something, and said: "What did you say, so that you can come to see us in person and read it to us." ”

Zhu Biao opened the sparse music, skipped the honorific words and read:

"The grass people view the founding kings of the past dynasties, and they did not unite the people's hearts with benevolence and virtue, and lost the people's hearts with punishment, and rewarded and punished them in an orderly manner, so that they perished...... Over the past few years, there have been many executions, and the offenders have followed each other, the good reasons and persuasions are unknown, and there is no difference between good and evil...... The matter of the empty seal, the grass people thought that it was an expedient measure of the officials, and the state and county were far away, and they needed to be reported through the yamen at all levels............"

Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more angry the more he listened, and raised his hand to ask Zhu Biao to stop.

This scholar, named Zheng Shili, pleaded with thousands of words, but Zheng Shili did not have the far-reaching vision of Liu Bowen after all, and he could see the reason behind it, what Zhu Yuanzhang really punished was not the empty seal case.

It's a bully!

Mao Xiang reported expressionlessly: "Zheng Shili's brother is also an official of the empty seal. ”

It turned out that he wanted to exonerate his brother.

Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly: "Send him to the distance!" ”

The sunset was crimson, the weather was exceptionally dark, and on this day, Zhou Su, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was executed.

Escorted to the noon gate, Zhou Su looked at the shackles on his body, and then looked up at the civil and military officials around him, he will be executed today, all the officials of the household department.

Zhou Su knelt down and said, "Come on." ”

The inspector raised his sword, and a head fell, but his eyes were closed.

The heads of more than a dozen chief officers fell to the ground.

The last civil servant cried so hard that the inspector kept him for the last minute to let him catch his breath, and at last he was carried with his clothes, and the civil servant screamed in fright, and the inspector cut off his head.

The officials looked at the mess all over the place, with different expressions, the civilian officials were indifferent, and the military attachés shouted refreshment, but none of them left early.

In addition, officials from more than 1,170 prefectures and counties will be escorted to the border.

The empty seal is far from over!

The inspectors and schools continued to arrest and arrest officials in various places, and the officials were executed or escorted to the border areas, and such days would last for two or three months.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood at the head of the wall of Nanjing City, and looked around, the officials were unkempt, dressed in prison clothes, and the bracelets and anklets were connected together to make a clanging sound, like a merchant team heading north.

The people went out of the city to see this desolate and grand scene.

Zhu Yu's gaze was fixed on these officials, watching them gradually become smaller and disappear at the end of the official road.

Zhu Biao didn't come today.

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head at this time, his eyes fell on Zhu Rong, and he frowned: "We haven't asked you yet, why didn't you report it, but asked Liu Bowen instead?" ”

Zhu Yu was stunned for a moment and said: "Father, it is said in the Zhaojian record that the prince cannot interfere in politics. ”

"Hu Weiyong!"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly.

In front of the trembling hundred officials, there was an official, and the black gauze hats on the heads of the other officials were only black, but this official had an auspicious cloud pattern.

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's summons, this official did not slow down and took a step forward.

Zhu Yu had already seen Hu Weiyong.

The princes were not allowed to go to the front hall, and he rarely saw the officials of the court, but among the Chinese officials of the court, facing Zhu Yuanzhang, there was only Hu Weiyong who had Liu Bowen's calm bearing.

Hu Weiyong seemed to know what Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

He replied directly: "Back to Your Majesty, Liu Bowen did not participate. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang grimaced and said coldly: "But he didn't report to us, didn't he agree with us on the Tuntian Law?" Let him wear sins in Yingtian Tuntian! ”

When the Ming Dynasty first opened the country, the people were short of green and strong, and Liu Bowen suggested that the prisoners detained by the Criminal Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate should be released to open up the wasteland.

As a result, there is a scene of Mintun.

Zhu Yu was not happy, and this hole card was turned out from the bottom of the box again, but Liu Ji told him in advance, if His Majesty summons you, don't intercede for me.