Cao Cao: ?? Have you been taken away by a lonely ghost, and you can still say this?

Hu Hai: We just can't govern the country, and we're not stupid? This Zhu Yuanzhang killed so many people, why is he called Mingjun, more people than I killed.

Wei Zifu: It's not just about the brutal side, it's also about the merits.

Qin Shi Huang: Hu Hai! You are not a fool or a fool, people scold you, you have to praise you for the other party, and even say that you are happy, directly reward others, you don't even know how to refer to a deer as a horse, it has become a joke for the ages, and you still have the face to say others!

Wu Zetian: Don't be too angry with the First Emperor, there are a lot of incompetent emperors, not only your family, isn't it better to think like this.

Yang Jian: ......

Sima Yi: ......

Zhao Kuangyin: Understood! Got it! The Empress's words made us all sad.

Qin Shi Huang: After a beating, I was comfortable, this kid was so angry with me.

Yang Jian: This is good, this is good, my family is still young, and it is a good time to be beaten.

Yang Guang: ......

Yang Yong: This is me at that time, it's so pitiful!

Li Shimin: I'm going to beat up the young slaves!

Li Zhi: Mei Niang, you have led out this battle, poor me in another period!

Zhang Yanxi is also straightforward, Her Majesty the Empress said that the bear child suffered today, and he may suffer every day in the future.

"Overall, this is a fault of Zhu Yuanzhang."

"Lan Yu relied on military merits to ascend to the top, this person has no family heritage, he is not a big family, and his personality is also vulgar, and he has no intersection with the civilian official group."

"It's just that his personality is not very good, he is short-tempered, and he rushes against the authority of civil officials and Zhu Yuanzhang for personal gain, not to mention that he is not qualified to rebel, frankly speaking, Lan Yu doesn't look like a conspirator."

"Of course, self-pollution is not ruled out to alleviate the suspicion from the imperial power, Sima Yi has done this, this one is quite capable of acting."

But after the Lan Yu case, "the heroes will be exhausted one after another", which shows that the important thing in the Lan Yu case is not that Lan Yu rebelled and shook the master, but that all the heroes should be destroyed. ”

"This seems to be done once and for all, but according to today's point of view, this is pure lazy and lazy government, a simplistic willful nonsense, and Zhu Yuanzhang's self-righteousness, if there is no Yan Wang Zhu Di, the world may have been torn apart!"

"This blue jade case is also the opposite of Zhu Di's ascendancy."

Zhu Yuanzhang thought that he had cleared all possible internal and external threats, but he did not perceive the real threat lurking inside, and later, his fourth son, Zhu Di, launched the "Battle of Jingyan" and ousted his grandson from the throne, resulting in the life and death of his grandson becoming a mystery. ”

"How could this have happened without a large-scale purge of heroes? To put it more bluntly, his momentary kindness eventually contributed to the disaster, which indirectly led to the unfortunate fate of his grandson, but if it weren't for Zhu Di's accession to the throne, this Ming might also have died. ”

"The people killed in the above two cases were mainly court officials, but in the early Ming Dynasty, there were more than these two cases, and there were four major cases in total."

"The third case is called the Empty Seal Case, which occurred in the fifteenth year of Hongwu."

"This blank seal refers to a blank document that has been stamped in advance and is used to facilitate the handling of official business."

"This has been a practice since the Yuan Dynasty, but Zhu Yuanzhang believes that this is a felony of officials colluding with each other and deceiving their superiors."

"He ordered the investigation and punishment of all officials who used empty seals and the execution of them as embezzlers, and the case involved the political department, the criminal department and other institutions across the country, and hundreds of officials were killed."

"Since the Yuan Dynasty, there has been a system in which local governments have to send people to the household department of the capital every year to report on local financial revenues, and after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he still used this system, and this system failed to attract the attention of the top level due to its defects, so it was used until Zhu Yuanzhang knew about it."

"At that time, the local treasury had to hand over a certain amount of money and grain to the state treasury every year."

"And the account details must be completely consistent with the household department after the audit before settlement, if one of them does not match, must be rejected in situ and re-registered, and then stamped with the original local government agency to be completed."

"In this way, it caused a lot of waste, and the transportation was not developed at that time, and it even took half a year to travel to the capital from remote places."

"It's not like sending an email or WeChat like this now, if it doesn't match the reconstruction, it will inevitably delay a lot of time, so some smart officials will prepare some blank documents with a big seal in advance before coming to the household department, ready to use, over time, everyone also follows this trick, and it also saves time to run back and forth, and this habit has not been explicitly prohibited."

"The reason for this custom is that the money and grain handed over by the local government to the central government will inevitably be lost during the transportation process due to the long distance, so the figures between the two sides will not match when they are sent to the household department to receive them."

"And how much is lost on the road, the escort officials can't know in advance, only after the household department declares, in order to avoid sending back to rebuild, so the escort officials will fill in the actual number in the blank official document prepared in advance according to the data provided by the household department, and then report."

"Originally, there was nothing wrong with this, but then Zhu Yuanzhang accidentally found out."

"Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he heard this, thinking that this was a felony of bullying the monarch in collusion between officials, and ordered a strict investigation, and finally beheaded all the officials in charge of money and grain from the head of the household department to the local government at all levels, and the deputy was given a hundred canes, and then sent to the army to be sent to distant places, and tens of thousands of people were killed in this incident."

After the occurrence of the empty seal case, Zhu Yuanzhang adopted the policy of "using half a seal and cashiering to prevent it", and gradually began to widely implement the implementation of half seal survey to prevent counterfeiting and standardize the management of documents. ”

Because after the "empty seal case" and "Hu Weiyong case" occurred one after another, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the next step would be to severely punish corrupt officials and corrupt officials. ”

"And at this juncture, the household servant was arrested, this is Guo Huan's case."

"This incident happened in the eighteenth year of Hongwu, and Guo Huan was a household servant who was responsible for managing the country's finances."

"He used his power to collude with local officials such as the Beiping Chengxuan Political Envoy Department and the Criminal Prosecution Department to embezzle taxes and grain in various places, and collect additional fees under various names."

"Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Criminal Trial Division to interrogate Guo Huan and his accomplices and verify the amount of money they embezzled."

"It turned out that this case involved 12 political departments across the country, and lost 24 million quintals of grain and 7 million taels of property."

"This case implicated senior officials such as Zhao Mao, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Huidi, the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, and tens of thousands of people were killed."