The impact of the cancellation of the transportation department has not yet subsided, and a month later, the prisoners detained in Yangzhou began to enter Beijing one after another.

There are officials of four or five grades here, and there are also salt merchants of one million taels.

The people of Beijing have watched a good show, and there are long prisoner cars entering the city every three or five days, and generally at this time there are always people throwing some stones, rotten cabbage, etc., but because of the number of times, there are many people,

In the end, the price of Jingshi's cabbage was raised.

Under the guidance of the court's deliberate public opinion, the common people already knew that they were all corrupt officials and profiteers, and naturally everyone shouted and beat them, but when they really came to the court, it was not the unanimous opinion to execute them.

Not to mention the feelings of the officials of the other transportation divisions and the salt section promotion divisions in various places, that is, the officials who were not directly involved were more resistant to the emperor's killing because of this.

Of course, moral factors such as leniency cannot be ignored, but the main reason is that everyone is not clean.

The lips are cold, the emperor has successfully cleaned up once, and he wants to clean up a second time, so one day he will clean up on himself.

Originally, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and now Yangzhou, is this situation still unclear?

So what followed the prisoner car was actually a request for leniency from the emperor.

These swords are not only Beijing officials,

That is, such as the imperial history of the local provinces, the governors and three divisions of some provinces are also sparse.

Zhu Houzhao was going to laugh angrily when he saw it in the palace,

"At the beginning, I imprisoned Yongkang Hou and Nanningbo, and I didn't see such opposition from officials across the country, and there were so many fathers-in-law in the palace, let alone anyone who came out to uphold justice! It wasn't until I started interrogating the salt officials that I found out that I had raised so many teachers! ”

"Your Majesty is angry."

"Rest your anger, tomorrow, go to the Fengtian Temple for the morning. I want to see if the decree works. ”

If there was no such differential treatment, Zhu Houzhao would not be like this.

But it's too obvious,

Previously, the Marquis of Yongkang was arrested, not without opposition, but the amount was small, and as soon as the emperor insisted a little, many people would forget it, so there was no storm in the court, let alone the climate.

It's good now, committing the same crime, the same treatment, and dealing with the problem.

The Jinyiwei Criminal Office arrested all 46 people from the Yunsi Yamen this time, and in addition, there were also local officials such as the Yangzhou prefect, Tongzhi, and the county, more than a dozen people.

plus the Beijing officials who were implicated in this and were arrested before.

and the officials who were gradually picked up as the eucalyptus deepened,

Including other officials who have been impeached in the Salt Transport Department and the Salt Section Promotion Division, it is easy to break through the number of more than 200 in total.

In fact, impeachment is okay, because the impeachment of Ming officials is commonplace.

It is true that the main thing is that the officials who have recruited their own crimes, and there are not a few of them involved in the sale of illicit salt, and this kind of person has no choice but to kill, what else is there to say?

But when the real person was caught in Jingshi and convicted and beheaded,

Dozens of officials from all walks of life, such as the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, the Six Sections, the Six Divisions, the Wailang, the Director, and the Guanglu Temple, Qin Tianjian and other officials, went to the Song Shu like a hill to admonish the emperor.

What he said is nothing more than a reason to kill too much and shake Yangzhou officialdom.

The Zhao and Song dynasties rarely killed scholars and doctors, but when they arrived in the Ming Dynasty, they wanted to kill Wenchen at every turn, which also angered the emperor. On the afternoon court of Fengtian Palace, Zhu Houzhao moved all the songs.

"Where is the household department of Shaanxi Qing Shilang Zhongtang Youning?"

Above the main hall, hundreds of civil and military officials were lined up left and right, and those who couldn't stand had already arrived outside the hall.

The emperor sat on the dragon chair, and every word he shouted had to be passed on by the eunuch to the outside so that people could hear it.

By the time Tang Youning knelt down with the wat board in his hand and his official robe, Zhu Houzhao had been waiting for him for a while.

And then there was a 'pop' sound,

The emperor threw the song to the ground,

"It is a holy decree that all officials involved in smuggling in the salt class shall be punished with death. The chapters and sentences you wrote are chaotic, the words are absurd, I can't shake the foundation of the court by killing these people, is it because these corrupt officials are supported by these corrupt officials? Without them, I would have died today?! It's ridiculous. I didn't approve your letter, so I took it back and read it again! ”

It has been a long time since the Son of Heaven has been so angry with a courtier,

In the Fengtian Palace, from the scholars to the six-rank petty officials, all their hearts tightened.

"Where is Zhou Yaoren, the Qintian Supervisor?"

As before, Zhu Houzhao threw the song on the ground and reprimanded: "I kill corrupt officials and protect the people." How did Heaven produce a vision because of this? You are also talking nonsense, the same, take it back and self-reflect! ”

The emperor called three or four in a row,

Finally, he pushed out all the notes in front of him, and ordered, "Liu Jin, read the name and let these people receive it!" ”

Then the emperor said to his officials with full of anger: "Emperor Taizu said back then that Yuan Yileng lost the world. I didn't understand it when I was younger, but now I do. It is because the imperial court is too tolerant of these corrupt and derelict officials, so they can oppress the people at will! I now ask you, if you tolerate these people, who is the stern side of the court? It's the people!

”

He shouted the last two words extremely hard.

So much so that the echoes reverberated back and forth in the temple.

After a short pause, Zhu Houzhao stood up, and his voice was slightly lower, "Water can carry a boat or overturn a boat." This sentence is still taught by scholars, that is, you are not scholars, and who of you does not know this sentence? But why did you forget the phrase 'you can also overturn' at this time? ”

"I, often introspect, shouldn't I kill so many people, but a salt government yamen in the imperial court has almost become a den of smuggler salt dealers, they deceive the court at the top, and oppress the people from below, these people can you still find a reason not to kill from them, do you want me to be Ming to lose the world?!"

The Emperor's words hit many people like a hammer.

Many people sighed with emotion and sighed.

“…… and their heirs are desolate, and they lose the way of kings and ministers...... There is a division of poison and abuse, so the people's hearts rebel, the world rises up, so that the people of China, the liver and brain of the dead are smeared, and the flesh and blood of the living are not protected......"

Zhu Houzhao read this paragraph is Zhu Yuanzhang's "Fengtian Discussion of the Northern Expedition of the Yuan Dynasty".

"When I first supervised the country, I thought that the weakness of the imperial court was in the treasury, and the treasury was empty, so I did not provide relief for the famine. From time to time, there were constantly Tatar borders in Gansu and Datong frontier areas, and I reorganized my troops and prepared salaries, and the Tatars were defeated in the first battle of Huamachi; At the same time, there were some local officials who neglected to maintain their administration, and I replaced a group of people who were in the prime of life.

It is now becoming more and more clear that the trouble in the heart of the Ming Dynasty is not in Tartary, nor in the lack of financial resources, but in the ...... The imperial court is in this Fengtian Temple! Among the courtiers whom I talk to every day! If you loosen a little here, the Ming Dynasty will loosen a piece, if you are all loose here! The people of the Ming Dynasty sold their sons and daughters, and they couldn't continue, and when the time came, they would rise up, so that we would die without a place to be buried! ”

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

……

One after another, there were voices from courtiers calling him anyway.

The emperor was so excited, it didn't seem good for the courtiers not to make a statement, and many people didn't know whether they were really moved or falsely moved, anyway, the tears of a big man crying and crying also came down.

"The Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs are still in addition to the British Princess,"

The four old men are all out of the ranks, "Weichen is here." ”

Zhu Houzhao sniffed, looking like he couldn't hold back his tears, he leaned sideways and stretched out his hand to point at them, "The people brought back by the Jinyi Guard, I have all handed them over to you, this case, carefully investigated, carefully examined." Selling illicit salt is digging the root of the wall of the imperial court, this sentence is what I said. I still want to say that the person who eats the food of the court and smashes the pot of the court, I just want to see his head cut off. Liu Jin, Mao Wenwen, you two are the supervisors! ”

Liu Jin didn't expect that he still had this errand, now it's okay, Wenchen offended him before, he has to find a good way to get back to the field.

"Slave obeys!"

Zhu Houzhao turned around, his brows furrowed, and his eyes were firm, "I am the Son of Heaven, and I rule the people by inheriting the will of Heaven." Today, I hereby decree that I want to kill these officials who don't know their fathers and have no integrity, if this way is not right, everyone in the world can come to kill me! ”

Where is the reason why anyone has caught Jingshi and released it or disposed of it gently?

Unless he, Zhu Houzhao, is not the emperor anymore!

Every time I move a civil official, it is difficult, and I always feel a little aggrieved when the emperor is deserved.

Whether the Yun Division will withdraw or not has been comprehensively considered, but as a result, whether these people kill or not is still at the level of discussion, what are you kidding, the Yun Division is gone, what are you keeping them for, as offerings?

And for Li Dongyang and other important ministers in the court,

So many of these kinds of music will make the emperor angry, in fact, they expected,

The key is to let Liu Jin and Mao Wen supervise the review, which is really unexpected!

Han Wen is the head of the household, and the first person to be called by the emperor was Tang Youning, the Qing official of Shaanxi Province. was so angry that he called this person over first and scolded him.

"Your Majesty, the monarch of heaven, the weight of the authority can also be comparable to that of the Hongwu and Yongle emperors back then, if you want to write a book, at least the reason is sufficient, and the logic is smooth. And think about the consequences! Now that the celebrant supervisor and the brocade guard supervisor are reviewing, isn't this even more deadly? ! ”

Originally, there was no such thing, after all, he Han Guandao was also a virtuous minister who had declared that he was outside, and he definitely didn't want the situation to expand, so maybe things wouldn't be so bad, at least not like the celebrant eunuch, who was a human head if he was a little bit dirty.

But now, dozens of officials, large and small, suddenly made His Majesty feel that things had become bigger. That's different.

Mao Wenwen became a supervisor and was a little confused. But his smart lady Xu Xueyun knew that "dozens of officials are sparse, which will make Your Majesty feel that someone is behind your back." Even if you don't, in fact, you can read the words 'officials protect each other'. In short, Your Majesty will begin to wonder if there is anything hidden here, hence the section where you and Gonggong Liu have become inquisitors......"

"So I would say that this time they really shot themselves in the foot." Mao Wenyu smiled lightly, and there was some sarcasm in his words.