Zhu Su was anxious to respond to the sky, just because he didn't want to be too involved with these criminals, making people think that he was snaring forces. Although Fang Xiaoru is a simple man in politics, there is a sentence that is true, Mao Xiang does have the appearance of an eagle and a wolf.

Although Zhu Su believes that even if Mao Xiang is Sima Yi's resurrection, it is impossible to escape the palm of Zhu Yuanzhang's hand, and he will only be cooked by a rabbit and a dead dog in the future.

But he also had to prevent him from slandering in front of Lao Zhu or even Zhu Biao, saying that he was a benevolent official and had the heart to covet a big position.

The convicts were assigned to Liaodong, Yunnan, and soon no one cared about it anymore, after all, what happened next was called earth-shattering: Emperor Hongwu ordered that all the convicts involved in the empty seal case in the edict prison, as well as the corrupt officials who were involved in corruption obtained during the interrogation of the empty seal case, be punished canonically.

Lao Zhu even innovated a very creative punishment for this reason. As long as the gold and silver involved in the case exceeds 60 taels, it is necessary to directly peel the skin and pull the grass!

What is peeling and weeding? It is to peel off the human skin completely, make it into a bag, fill it with straw and hang it for public display.

Within a few days, all the gates of Yingtian City were full of creepy human fur dolls. At the gates of the major yamen, a huge stone tablet was also placed, with sixteen characters written on it:

Erfeng Erlu, the people's fat and people's ointment.

The people are easy to abuse, and the heavens are difficult to deceive.

Behind the stele, there is a corrupt official straw puppet who has been stripped of the skin and grass, and when every official takes office, he must visit these two "scenic spots" of this yamen, thinking that he is self-alarming.

This is customized for the Ming Dynasty, and it will never be easy.

This mass-produced corrupt official straw puppet really frightened those surviving officials, and they had to write a suicide note every day when they went out to the office, for fear of being arrested by Jinyiwei as raw materials. If he went home safely, he still hugged and cried with his wife, and he had to cross the brazier and get rid of bad luck, so that he became a scene in the Ming Dynasty.

Privately, officials also generally commented that the emperor was a little too brutal.

However, unlike officialdom, there is not much discussion about torture such as skinning and pulling grass among the people, as in history. The reason is that before the execution of each group of officials who have been stripped of skin and grass, a public trial will be carried out in accordance with the method used by Zhu Di before, and all the pickled things done by those officials will be put under the sun and made public.

If you can find the sufferer, you have to find the sufferer in person, so that you can compensate for it.

This made the people believe that the emperor was not simply brutal. Although the people rarely read, they are not stupid. Through public trials again and again, they also knew that the reason why the emperor did the thing of peeling the skin and pulling the grass was to deter that group of corrupt officials.

To put it bluntly, it is for the sake of the people.

Therefore, unlike the centrifugal detachment of officialdom, the people's support for the imperial court is extremely fanatical, even if some people can't bear it, and they will be scolded by the people passing by: The guy who hanged his head is a corrupt official! What is there to sympathize with!

You shed tears for him, but have any corrupt officials shed a single tear for the poor people who were forced to die by corrupt officials?

When this was said, public opinion was suddenly overwhelming, drowning out all those civil officials who were still trying to stir up public opinion.

The civil servants were terrified, and this was the first time that they, the scholars, had lost control of the weapons of public opinion in the world.

Now they can only hope that something will happen to Chaogang. After all, the empty seal case involves a wide range of officials, and there is a heavy shortage of officials. Even if it causes the court to shut down, it is not impossible. If there is such a big basket, they can take advantage of the situation to persuade the emperor to stop punishing them for the sake of the world's major affairs, and give them a hello, hello, everyone, and good officialdom.

However, even if it is such a small extravagant hope, they are destined to have no way to achieve it. At the time of this appointment, Li Shanchang, the old minister who had already been appointed to the office, stood up and temporarily took over the almost slaughtered household department to maintain the operation of the imperial court.

Li Shanchang is the deputy examiner of the Enke exam, and he also has some connections with the newly established tax department. Coupled with the prestige of his first minister, even if he doesn't do anything, just sitting in the household department, he can easily maintain the daily operation of the household department.

Moreover, during the edict and prison, the officials of the old Huaixi lineage, who were innocently punished because of Hu Weiyong's case and because of the death of the crown prince Zhu Biao, were also reinstated one after another, gathered under the command of the old boss Li Shanchang, and provoked the pillars of the government.

The operation of the Ming Dynasty was not delayed because of the empty seal case, but it was more efficient than when the Qingliu officials were in power before.

……

"This is the end of the empty seal case." Zhu Su, Zhu Biao, and Zhu Di walked on the road to the palace. Zhu Biao said to Zhu Su with a smile. "This time, my father took advantage of the trend and accomplished a lot of things in one go."

"It not only purged those old officials, but also cracked down on corrupt officials, like a big wave sweeping sand, and selected the real court officials. At the same time, the authority of the cabinet has also been raised, and the experience of the cabinet ministers has also increased, and it seems that it is expected to completely replace the Zhongshu Province. ”

"Well, I hope that after this case, Da Ming can really twist into a rope." Zhu Su also sighed. It's not easy, killing so many people, these days, he feels that the entire Ying Tianfu is full of ghosts, and almost every few steps, he can see a hanging human fur puppet.

When I first saw it, Zhu Su vomited, but then he vomited and vomited, but he got used to it.

However, Lao Zhu killed like this, and the whole Yingtian felt really different. The officials are conscientious and conscientious, and the people are beaming and vigorous, and they all say that with such a good emperor who is the master of the people, the life of the common people will gradually get better.

The Ming Dynasty is prosperous!

"By the way, big brother, do you know how much profit my father made this time?" Zhu Su suddenly asked Zhu Biaodao. "The commercial tax of the Department of Taxation has been extended to merchants all over the day, not only the relatives of officials. I looked at the financial report, and the business tax alone has already entered hundreds of thousands of yuan this quarter. ”

"There are also gold and silver treasures copied from the homes of those corrupt officials and old wealthy, even if there are bitter masters who need to return them, but the big head must still be eaten by the inner treasury in the palace."

"How much money does Necuri have right now? Is there one or two million? ”

"One or two million?" Zhu Biao was taken aback. "You're so big with a mouth! Where did you get so much money? Besides, if you ask me this, is there bad water hidden in your stomach? ”

"What do you want to do with your father's silver?"

"Hey, hey." Zhu Su laughed and cried: "How can this be called covetousness." Isn't it a lot of silver to repair the newspaper, carry forward the new learning, and Guozijian? ”

"There is also the mass production steel that the third brother is researching, the new artillery that Brother Mu Ying is researching, as well as shipbuilding and military training, which one does not require money? I'm also helping them to ......."

"Big brother, don't you know, these days, my brother and I are taking my own money and putting it into these big holes. It rained that night a few days ago, and my brother's bedroom was leaking! ”

"There's no money to repair tiles! You said, have you ever become a prince like me! Zhu Su cried poorly.

"And me, the embroidered spring knife in my hand was cut last time when I was executed on South Street!" Zhu Di also saw the stitches and joined the ranks of crying poor.

"I want to ask my father for a hundred and eighty blades of armor, isn't that too much?"

"These days, the outside of the womb moves money to the inner treasury every day, and my father must have this money!"

Zhu Laosi has been guarding in the palace every day recently, and with one mouth, he sold Lao Zhu's current situation of being very rich.

(End of chapter)