"Daming is short of people, and we also have this matter in our hearts." Lao Zhu frowned slightly. "But one yard is one yard, this thing is this, those corrupt officials and dumb officials are another thing."

"Do you want to use my lack of people to persuade us to kill fewer people?"

"Hmph, according to our opinion, those corrupt officials can't be counted as people at all. Kill a corrupt official, and you can live hundreds of people! For the sake of our Ming people, we must kill all these corrupt officials! ”

"So that the people may multiply in peace and not suffer from the scourge of these people!"

Lao Zhu's words were awe-inspiring, his perception of corrupt officials has never changed, and he is still the same Zhu Chongba, who was killed by Yuan Ting decades ago and is inseparable from those corrupt officials and corrupt officials. Now when I heard Zhu Su and Zhu Biao pleading for those criminals, I instinctively felt a little reluctant.

"Corrupt officials are naturally guilty of unforgivable! Like Zhao Quande, Li Yu and others, don't say that you just cut off your head and abandon the market, that is, your father wants to peel them all and grass them, and my eldest brother and I also raised our hands in favor of you. Zhu Su said.

"But a corrupt official is a corrupt official, and a mediocre official is a mediocre official, and they cannot be mixed up. Although the mediocre officials also have the suspicion of sitting idly by and ignoring the matter of the empty seal, so that the matter is big, it is not considered to be abusing power for personal gain after all. Punishment is naturally necessary, but if all of them are killed like those corrupt officials and main culprits, it will inevitably make future generations say that my sentence is unclear and too cruel. ”

"Besides...... It's been a year since I told you about the empty seal case, and you haven't dragged it out for so many days before you started this case? If those mediocre officials are guilty, aren't you also guilty if you sit back and watch the empty seal for a year? ”

"Let's ......" Lao Zhu was stunned when he heard this, and was accused by his son, which made him quite unable to come to the stage. Didn't we let Mao Xiang collect evidence this year, so that we could really catch it all......"

"Is it the same as in history, the anti-corruption is not clean enough, and then it is tossed and turned?"

"Moreover, Hu Weiyong had just been taken care of at that time, and there was indeed a shortage of officials in the DPRK and China, which allowed these mediocre talents to live for an extra year......"

"There is a shortage of officials in the DPRK, and it is the same now." Zhu Su said. "Now, my Ming Dynasty has newly restored Yunnan and Liaodong, and in the future, I will expand my territory and exalt my prestige outside the territory."

"Which of these places has not been owned by China for a hundred years? They not only need to be conquered by force, but also need to be constantly educated and irrigated with our Chinese culture. ”

"Even, education is more important than conquest, only in this way can we truly turn raze into summer and become the territory of our China. Reading and literacy is not a day's work, which is not a few years of hard study, to achieve success. My Ming Dynasty is now short of people and officials, who are you going to send to educate the outside world? ”

"It's better to let these mediocre officials go. No matter how mediocre they are, they are also well-educated people and people of China, as long as they can educate one or two barbarians outside the territory to agree with my Daming, then it will be counted as my Daming's earnings. ”

"Wouldn't it be more appropriate to let them suffer outside the territory and continue to contribute to my Ming Dynasty than to kill them with a single sword?"

Lao Zhu frowned and pondered, Zhu Biao saw Lao Zhu hesitating, and also hit the railway while it was hot: "Dad, what the fifth brother said is very right." ”

"'Everything is in the interests of the Ming Dynasty'!"

Zhu Biao's words made the balance in Lao Zhu's heart tilt instantly, and in the end, it was the position of the emperor that prevailed, and Lao Zhu finally nodded and said, "...... Okay, since that's the case, let's pinch our noses and spare those mediocre officials. ”

He thought about it, and he added: "The corrupt officials involved will not be spared, and those nine clans who were originally punished will all be changed to distribution." After all, they are also our Chinese people, even if they are sinners, they are much better than those barbarians outside the territory. ”

"Father Emperor Shengming!" Zhu Biao and Zhu Su glanced at each other, and at the same time bowed to Lao Zhu.

said that the old Zhu Songkou was happy, and Zhu Su only felt that everyone was happy. Now that the population of the Ming Dynasty is extremely scarce, if Lao Zhu is allowed to raise a big case, it will be an unbearable pain for the Chinese nation. It is better to let these people exert their last residual heat for future generations, even if they go to labor reform to be a coolie, it is much better than killing them with a knife.

Zhu Su left the palace gate and stopped by the carriage at the door, Fang Xiaoru was like an ant on a hot pot, and he was in a hurry. Seeing Zhu Su come out with a happy face, his heart was relieved, and he asked with anticipation: "Master, I don't know ...... father."

"Don't worry. My father has decreed that as long as he is not involved in corruption, he can be exempted from capital crimes, so as to distinguish him from the main culprit. ”

"However, if you turn a blind eye to the matter of the empty seal, you will still be punished. It is inevitable to go to work and torture the rod, and in the future, it will be distributed outside the territory for the Ming Dynasty. This is already the most lenient treatment. ”

Zhu Su looked at Fang Xiaoru with some apologies.

Fang Xiaoru listened carefully, tears were already pouring out. "Being able to save my father's life is already a great grace of the emperor! Disciple...... No, grass people, grass people thank Your Majesty for the grace of heaven! He leaned down and bowed his head firmly in the direction of the palace.

Zhu Su saw it in his eyes and felt a lot of emotion. Fang Xiaoru's father, Fang Keqin, the prefect of Jining, is one of the most controversial officials involved in the empty seal case.

Fang Keqin was diligent and thrifty, and during his tenure as the prefect of Jining, he refused to accept even a glass of water from the people when he visited the county. Although he was pedantic, he adhered to Confucian conduct and was respected by the people.

It's just that after all, he didn't have any outstanding talent, and he didn't see the disadvantages of the empty seal, nor did he find out that his subordinate officials used the empty seal for personal gain, so he was implicated and was arrested and put in prison.

Like Zheng Shili's brother Zheng Shiyuan, they all belong to the Qing officials who are virtuous, but they have little ability, and they failed to find out what their subordinates did with empty seals, so they were implicated.

Lao Zhu said that they were "mediocre officials", but he was not wrong.

"If you think about it tomorrow, the holy decree will be transmitted to the Jinyi Guardian Prison." Zhu Su got into the carriage and beckoned Fang Xiaoru to sit down together. "When the time comes, you can take your father to the teacher's mansion and live in peace for a few days. Next, it may be distributed to Yunnan or Liaodong. ”

"Although there is no way to be an official again, if the imperial court wants to expand its territory, it still has to use a literati like him to educate the barbarian people."

"This is also the cornerstone of being my Ming Dynasty, in my opinion, it is even more meaningful than being a court official."

Fang Xiaoru naturally knew Zhu Su's proposition, and nodded when he heard this. "Thanks to the teacher's kindness, the disciple will definitely persuade his father to study and learn new things, so that he can spread and educate me for the Ming Dynasty."

"Actually, the disciple has also seen it over the years. My father and son are not suitable to be officials at all. Fang Xiaoru said this, showing a wry smile. The character of a disciple and a father is only suitable for studying knowledge and being a gentleman. If you are an official, you may be guilty of a nerd coma at some point, and you will bring disaster to the country and the people. ”

"The dismissal of the official is also a good thing for my father. At least he won't suffer the people under his command because he doesn't know what is going on. ”

This incident actually made Fang Xiaoru self-aware, and Zhu Su's eyes were strange. His evaluation of his father and son is indeed accurate, Fang Keqin is okay, he Fang Xiaoru has become one of the most trusted "three fools" of Emperor Jianwen in history, and he asked Emperor Jianwen to do something to "restore the ancient system", not to mention the loss of money and labor, and in the end, even the emperor was repeatedly advised by the three stinkers of them, and lost the throne.

It's really not a material to be a big official.

Let's be honest and learn.

"Xizhi, I have something I want to entrust to you." Zhu Su remembered something, so he sat up straight and said to Fang Xiaoru, Fang Xiaoru immediately listened respectfully, and only listened to Zhu Su:

"I want you to prepare for the establishment of our Guozijian newspaper office, so that the newspaper can grasp the mouthpiece of Shilin and spread new ideas."

In the future, this newspaper will inevitably be the first position in the fight between the new and the old. You are academically solid and good at arguing, and you are just right to be the first editor-in-chief of this newspaper. ”

(End of chapter)