Chapter 192: The Four Great Cases of Hongwu
"Why did the eldest brother suddenly ask that?" Zhu Su also straightened his complexion.
"You have been recuperating in this village for the past few days, but you don't know."
"Dad, these days, Zhulian is really too wide." Zhu Biao frowned.
"It's not just those nobles and bureaucrats who are very close to Hu Weiyong."
"Even some officials who have nothing to do with Hu Weiyong on weekdays were also branded by my father as Hu Dang and dismissed for questioning."
"The brocade guards rode out in all directions, and the Gyeonggi bureaucrats and people were all panicked. Every day, new 'Hu Dang' is 'confessed'. It was only a few days since that night's incident, but now there are more than 1,000 people imprisoned in the prison. ”
"There are even officials who came to the court, and their father was convicted on the spot in Fengtian Temple."
"Now the officials of Yingtian, every morning is like going to the execution ground! There are even officials who left suicide notes in front of the court and shed tears with the old and young in the family to say goodbye. When have all dynasties ever seen such a ridiculous thing? ”
"If you can get away with it, you will even have to hold a banquet to celebrate......"
Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Su's somewhat surprised face, and smiled bitterly: "Originally, eldest brother, I was still in a dilemma how to help you cover up your killing of Zhu Xian. ”
"It's good now, now that everyone in the DPRK and China is in danger, no one cares about what you do."
Hearing Zhu Biao say this, Zhu Su showed an embarrassed smile.
Lao Zhu's wave of hatred is indeed very thorough.
Slaughtering a prince of the Hou Mansion was originally a big event.
But against the backdrop of his father's "big moves" in the past few days, it has completely become a background board that no one cares about......
I was ready to pretend to be sick and couldn't come out, but I didn't expect that there was not even a royal history who came to the door to ask the teacher.
This made Zhu Su a little hurt, and he always felt that the sword he stabbed out that night was a little unintelligent......
"So, big brother, do you think that the reason why my father is so connected is because I told him certain things?" Zhu Su looked at Zhu Biao and said.
“…… Not bad. Zhu Biao nodded.
"Let's not talk about the side, let's just say that Hu Weiyong's main crimes, including 'plotting to assassinate the Duke of the State', said that Hu Weiyong bought off the Fushou of the Xu family of the Duke of Wei and wanted to do wrong."
"But before Hu Weiyong bought Fushou, my father had already warned the Xu family to be careful of Fushou!"
"If you don't already know it, how can you be such an unpredictable prophet? Nowadays, there are rumors that Dad can have a prophetic prescience because he has a destiny. But according to my thoughts, this must be your handiwork. ”
Zhu Su's sweat, this little advantage of the traverser, Lao Zhu is more slippery than himself. is helping to copy poems and pick up girls, and he is pretending to be a high-ranking child.
Now it's just used on himself, relying on the things he said, and directly pretending to be the Prophetic Destiny King.
"I did tell my dad something." Zhu Su sighed, although Zhu Biao had heard some of the Ming history of the later generations before, but there were some things that Zhu Su wanted to hide for His Holiness, and when he told Lao Zhu, he deliberately avoided this kind-hearted eldest brother.
However, looking at the big brother's situation of breaking the casserole and asking to the end, he will definitely not be able to hide it.
It seems that today I have to be a storyteller for the first time in a long time.
"Big brother guessed right, I did tell my father before about the 'four major cases' that had a great impact in the history of the Ming Dynasty."
"The four major cases?" Zhu Biao was slightly stunned. "Which four major cases? Talk to Big Brother! ”
"The so-called 'four major cases' ......" Zhu Su sorted out his thoughts a little and told Zhu Biao eloquently.
In later generations, the four major cases were also called the "Hongwu Four Major Cases". They are the Hu Weiyong case in the thirteenth year of Hongwu, the "empty seal case" in the ninth or fifteenth year of Hongwu, the Guo Huan case in the eighteenth year of Hongwu, and the Lanyu case in the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu.
The essence of the four major cases was actually initiated by Lao Zhu, in order to eliminate people he considered a threat to his court, the famous four purge massacres.
Among them, the "Hu Weiyong Case" and the "Blue Jade Case", also known as the "Hu Lan Prison", are the beginning of Lao Zhu's killing of the founding heroes, and they are also the main source of Lao Zhu's name as a "tyrant" in later generations.
"You...... Are you saying that Dad initiated these four major cases, and slaughtered a total of 780,000 people? ”
Zhu Biao's face was horrified, his father, who had always been regarded as a role model by himself, would do such a thing!
Massacre tens of thousands, what is this?
This is a tyrant! It's a lone husband!
How is this possible, the father who has high hopes for himself and patiently teaches?
Seeing that Zhu Biao's heart was shaken, Zhu Su hurriedly spoke for Lao Zhu: "Big brother, don't drill the tip of the horns!" ”
"Don't you know what Dad did these things for in history?"
"There is no doubt that Hu Weiyong's case is to abolish the prime minister system and consolidate imperial power."
"There is no doubt that the empty seal case and the Guo Huan case are aimed at abolishing harsh government, punishing corrupt officials, and purging the dynasty."
"As for the Blue Jade case...... Isn't that for your son Zhu Yunwen? Dad did that, not because he was worried that your son would be suspicious after he took the throne, so he took the infamy himself and cleared up all the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals who might become a threat for my eldest nephew? ”
Seeing that Zhu Biao's face loosened slightly, Zhu Su hurriedly continued:
"You don't see that my father has killed so many officials, but for the real common people below, Emperor Hongwu is definitely a good emperor who is rare to see in the ages!"
"Dad himself killed so many corrupt officials with infamy, what is the picture? Isn't the picture able to return a clear blue sky to the people's heads? ”
"In history, in the end of the Hongwu Dynasty, officials did not dare to be corrupt, and officials did not dare to bully the people. In the book, not only Xiaoyu's law, but also hoped that the people would know the law and not be deceived by the officials, but also compiled many corrupt official deeds into it, in order to be vigilant with people. ”
"Dad ordered all the county government offices in the Ming Dynasty to set up a 'ring stone' in front of the door, and wrote 'Erfeng Erlu, the people's fat and people's ointment. The people are easy to abuse, and the heavens are difficult to deceive', appointing the governors of the government, prefecture, and county, often personally summoning banquets, and giving them two pieces of silver and cloth, telling them: These silver and cloth are for them to "raise integrity", and after taking office, they must be kind to the people and not be mean. ”
"Even if you don't know these things, you should know that although my father is in the ninety-five, what kind of life he lives on weekdays! In addition to a few sets of dragon robes that support the scene, my mother is still weaving cloth for Daddy's shoes in person on weekdays! ”
Every day for breakfast, he only uses vegetables in front of him, plus a dish of tofu. Xu Xingzu, the cook in the imperial dining room, how unpalatable that dish is cooked, you and my brother haven't tasted it! Daddy can't afford to eat good food? He was afraid that he would be greedy! As soon as it goes down, the people below will take the opportunity to welcome it, and it will be in vain! ”
"Where the dragon chariot should have been decorated with gold, he ordered it to be replaced with brass; The dragon bed in the palace is not as carved as the bed you and I am sitting on! And the wasteland in the Imperial Garden, which my father tended to himself......"
"You said it yourself, the so-called Ming Jun and Holy Monarch throughout the ages, which one of them can do this to the point of his father?"
"From ancient times to the present, which tyrant can live the life of an emperor like a father?"
Zhu Su gushed endlessly, breaking his fingers like a few treasures. Finally, he slapped his hand on the bed board, looked directly at Zhu Biao and said.
(End of chapter)