In the Temple of Fengtian.

Hu Weiyong knelt down and asked for his resignation, begging the emperor to let go of the prisoners in the empty seal case.

Zhu Yuanzhang still looked at Hu Weiyong's performance expressionlessly.

The prince hadn't cultivated yet, so he suppressed his anger and glared at Hu Weiyong, but he couldn't hide his eyes when he wanted to slash a person.

When the father summoned this fang in the Wuying Hall that day, the crown prince was also present.

In front of his father, Prime Minister Hu Cheng's humble and ugly state like an ant can be witnessed with his own eyes.

By the way, Hu Weiyong also knelt down and asked for his resignation that day, but the nature of the two times was completely different.

Last time, it was begging; This time, it's a threat.

Zhu Biao suddenly thought that even the empty seal case this time was actually confessed by him. It was Hu Weiyong who revealed to his father that the local yamen would talk to Li Shanchang every year, and his father brought them all to Beijing, and then seized the evidence of the crime and wanted to catch them all.

As a result, his father really concentrated on dealing with the Korean Gong gang, and he actually dared to fight against the water on the spot?!

It's really face-stabbing and bold!

This is not over, and there is a scene that he did not expect......

After seeing Prime Minister Hu Cheng kneeling on the ground to resign, the officials of Zhongshu Province behind him actually knelt on the ground.

This is Zhongshu Province, accounting for three-quarters of the court's officials.

There were a handful of people left in Yushitai, Dali Temple and other places, and when they saw that everyone was kneeling, it was not a matter for them to stand, so they also knelt on the ground.

"I beg the emperor to be light!" The entire left half of the court said in unison.

Although the noble generals on the right half did not follow, their eyes lit up one by one, and they had a sense of schadenfreude. But I don't know whose calamity they are glad about, and which calamity they are happy about.

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Facing the prime minister and hundreds of officials who were like forcing the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled coldly, and was just about to open up.

"Father, my son has something to say!" But listening to Zhu, the king of Jin standing under the golden platform, suddenly shouted his fists.

"Speak." Zhu Yuanzhang suppressed his anger and bowed slightly.

Erchen thought that what Hu Xiang said was wrong, and if he didn't have a very short vision, he had bad intentions. Either way, it means that he is not suitable to be the prime minister anymore. Zhu took a deep breath and pointed at Hu Weiyong and said:

"The son asks his father to fulfill Hu Xiang and remove his right prime minister of Zhongshu Province!"

"......" Baiguan raised his head and glared at the third child angrily. If it weren't for his status as a prince, I don't know how many people would have jumped out and sprayed.

"Oh?" Zhu Yuanzhang's expression moved, and he pretended to scold: "How can you talk to the prime minister like this?" ”

"Your Majesty, it's okay, I'm going to resign as a minister." Over there, Hu Weiyong couldn't help but ask: "I just don't know where His Royal Highness the King of Jin saw that the ministers are very short-sighted and ill-intentioned?" ”

"It's up to you to turn black and white upside down and refer to a deer as a horse!" King Jin sneered and said:

"You say that the reason why you have a bad habit of empty printing is because the distance is too long, and it takes months or even a year to go back and forth to the ministry. But the actual situation is that if you have the paperwork to go to the official post, you can arrive in Nanjing City from the most remote states and counties in the Ming Dynasty in one month at the latest, how can it take so long?

"And the more than 300 convicts arrested this time, seventy percent of them are from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huguang, Shandong, and a journey of ten days and half a month at most. It's definitely not that it's too late, right?

"Your Royal Highness is still young, I have not been in contact with specific government affairs, I don't know that the accounts of the court and the local government are extremely complicated and contradictory, there is no possibility of complete matching, many times it is not possible to modify it once or twice, it needs to be revised repeatedly." Wu Bingcheng, the head of the household, hurriedly explained.

"There are a lot of them from around Nanjing, and it will take a few days at most, so it's no problem to revise them repeatedly." The third child persistently asked.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin, the officials of the surrounding prefectures and counties are indeed in time, but everyone does this, and they follow bad habits in order to save trouble." Wu Bingcheng explained again that he didn't believe that he couldn't argue with a hairy boy.

"Is it really to save trouble?" The third child sneered and said, "Do you believe this?" You little Jiujiu, you can't even deceive this king, let alone deceive your father!

"Your household department, as well as the local officials in charge of tax accounts, are busy with this all year round, but at the end of the year, when the accounts are reconciled, they can't even reconcile the accounts. Are you a bunch of rice buckets?

"If the accounts can't be reconciled, you won't be held accountable, and let you go back and change it, it's enough to give you face. You still dare to come to the capital directly with empty printing paper, and discuss accounts with the gongs and drums in front of you.

What is the meaning of this kind of confused account that is shaped by need? Do you think your father is a fool, or are you so stupid that you can't even make fake accounts? ”

"Or is it lawless, too lazy to dig out the hollow to make false accounts?" His Royal Highness the King of Jin looked at each other like electricity, forcing him to look at each other.

"This ......" Wu Bingxin didn't expect His Royal Highness the King of Jin to be so young, so sharp-toothed and sharp-tongued, and he saw the case extremely thoroughly, and the words he said hit the nail on the head, so that he couldn't force his words for a while.

"Wu Shilang, shut up." Seeing that Wu Bingxin was not hit, Hu Weiyong glared at him sternly. "Wrong is wrong, stop quibbling."

"Yes......" Wu Bingxin lowered his head.

"Your Highness, they are indeed at fault, but they are not guilty." Then Hu Weiyong bowed his hand to the King of Jin and said: "As the minister said, since the establishment of the country, there has been no law of empty seals. The emperor rules the world with the law, and he can't be punished without teaching. ”

"That's where the king wants to scold you." Who knew that the King of Jin became more and more courageous the more he fought, and pointed the finger at him and said:

"The dignified prime minister, there is no distinction between public and private, and the public is confused, which is really confusing! Don't you know that the law of the land is different for the people and for the government? For the people, nothing is forbidden by the law! But for the government, the law is prohibited without authorization! ”

"Is it forbidden without authorization by law?" Hu Weiyong was stunned for a moment, and quickly used his brain, but he was only a shallow learner, and he couldn't remember which sage's famous words were this.

'Is it forbidden without authorization by law?' Boss Zhu and the prince glanced at each other, and they both saw the light in each other's eyes, and they were obviously inspired by the third child.

"That's right. The government is in control of the life and death of the people, and it can easily bankrupt people, so it must use its power in strict accordance with the law of the country, and only exercise the power granted by the law, and cannot do it on its own because the law does not provide for it.

"I have just founded the Ming Dynasty, and there are many wastes waiting to be rebuilt, and the legislation is also very imperfect, and there are too many blanks and omissions. When officials find loopholes, they should help the imperial court improve them, rather than exploiting loopholes.

"If this time my father forgives these corrupt officials who are obviously malicious, colluding and embezzling state funds, there will definitely be other officials in the future who are bent on studying the loopholes of the law and deliberately exploiting loopholes to do evil! Anyway, as long as the law doesn't prohibit it, you won't be punished for piercing the sky!

"In the long run, the government will be corrupted, the people will not be able to make a living, and the mistakes of the previous dynasty will be repeated!" After King Jin finished speaking, he clenched his fists at his father and said loudly:

"Therefore, please severely punish the offender who does not lend a loan, so as to deter Xiaoxiao and set an example! Let the officials of the world no longer dare to exploit the loopholes of the imperial court! ”

(End of chapter)