The corners of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth hooked up a sneer, and he made a gesture to the palace people next to him.

The palace man understood, stepped forward and took out a piece of paper, and read it aloud:

"In the eighth year of Hongwu, Tongshan County, Hanyang Mansion...... and other land account books, all of which are blank prints, not the original books. ”

Yan Shiqin suddenly raised his head, glared at the palace man, and said, "It's impossible to ......"

"Impossible? This is all the result of the interrogation of those officials who went to Beijing by my personal guards, could it be that they sacrificed their lives to bite you? Zhu Yuanzhang sneered.

Yan Shiqin was dumbfounded, and suddenly, he turned his head and looked at his subordinates.

He saw them bow their heads in shame.

He finally let go like a deflated ball and was escorted down by General Dahan.

In the crowd, Yan Xincheng, who was already a member of the ministry, gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.

However, he looked at the immobile Yue Guogong in front of him several times, but in the end he still didn't go out.

Giving advice now is tantamount to sending you to death.

Your Majesty has smashed the inkstone, don't you see that no one in the prime minister's imperial history dares to admonish?

The household officials were swept away in an instant, and even those who were not directly responsible were arrested and put in prison.

Is it scary? No, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that it was not enough.

"Arrest the county of the world, the people of the main seal, all of them will be arrested!"

Shuffle, the real big shuffle.

All the officials had ugly faces, and for the first time His Majesty showed his fangs in front of them. Even if it was the previous order of "embezzlement of sixty taels and beheading", it was not so shocking that one of the six did not leave one from Shangshu.

Yan Ling's face was a little gloomy.

Without him, one of his own people is in it.

Fortunately, at least life is worry-free.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet entered a state of rampage, and all the people killed in the empty seal case were the chief officials and those who were mainly responsible for the seals of various prefectures and counties. Although Yan Shiqin was arrested and imprisoned, the pain of flesh and skin is indispensable, but death will not die.

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Night.

Zhu Yuanzhang's study was still brightly lit, and there was a fierce quarrel inside.

"Father! The official of the empty seal is indeed suspected of deceiving the superiors and subordinates, but all the people who hold the seal in the country are killed, and it is inevitable that the killing is too much! In the opinion of the sons, it is enough to hit fifty boards and be imprisoned for three years! ”

"Biao'er, Biao'er! You're just too kind! When you become the emperor, you may be a generation of benevolent monarchs, but now is still our era! We are the king of pioneering, and we need to kill and purge the court; When you ascend the throne, it will be time to implement benevolent government! Let's kill it now, for your future peace! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking in one breath, and when he saw that Zhu Biao was about to speak, he immediately stopped:

"Okay, don't say much about this matter, let's decide. Your mother didn't come to persuade us, she understands this truth! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said so, and Zhu Biao had no choice but to stop persuading.

"By the way, Biao'er, we transferred that Yan Ji to be a subordinate official of the Prince's Mansion some time ago, what do you think of this person?"

"Yan Ji? He is loyal, well-read and quick-witted, and he is indeed a material that can be made. ”

"Hmm. Train him well, and after a hundred years, you can entrust him with important tasks...... Don't worry about anything else, some people, we'll take care of it for you. ”

"My father was in his prime, and his sons didn't dare to think about him."

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Yan Ling's conjecture was not wrong.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not kill Yan Shiqin.

He killed a lot of people, the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, more than one hundred and forty prefectures, more than a thousand counties, the people of the main seal (generally the county prefect), all were killed, the officials of the thirteen divisions of the household department, and one did not stay, only Yan Shiqin later successfully proved his innocence, although there was a crime of not being strict, but he did not directly participate in it and survived.

After the general books of the prefectures and counties were beaten with a hundred boards, they were used as military frontiers, and the officials of the household department and the officials of the provincial inspection departments were also convicted.

Although Yan Shiqin survived, he was still responsible for the mistakes of his subordinates. He was beaten fifty boards, his buttocks were blurred, and then he was sent to his hometown in Zhejiang to prepare for the widow, which was convenient for Zhu Yuanzhang to see Yan Ling's face.

On the day he left, Yan Ling didn't come, after all, he was the prince of the country; Yan Ji didn't come either, the prince's mansion officials have a bright future, and he doesn't need to destroy his future; Yan Xincheng didn't dare to come, at that time, the people in the government and the opposition were panicked, and it was difficult to say that if you went to see you off, you would be remembered by the emperor.

He sent only one servant and brought some things for his use.

Yan Shiqin held the package handed by the old slave, which contained only some food and a small amount of silver, which was Yan Xincheng's only savings, enough for him to live a little better in the army. During the Hongwu years, he was not greedy or occupied, and it was already good to be able to make a living, but he couldn't save anything at all.

Tears rolled down his eyes.

Ten years of cold window, decades of hard work, ruined in one fell swoop.

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The bloody storm of the Kongyin case has just ended, and all the officials are trembling under Zhu Yuanzhang's obscenity, and only one person is active in the political arena with his head held high.

Hu Weiyong has become more and more arrogant in recent years.

He used to be a very cautious person, he worked hard, constantly pleased Zhu Yuanzhang, and finally rose to the top to get to where he is today.

In the original history, Hu Weiyong did not ascend to the position of Zuo Prime Minister until the tenth year of Hongwu and monopolized power. However, in this time and space, due to the fact that the position of Zhongshu Zuo Cheng has been occupied by Yan Ling for a long time, he has been promoted to the right prime minister at a very early age, and officially worshiped the left prime minister in the seventh year of Hongwu, and he has been a great minister, and now it has been four years.

It is now the fifth month of the thirteenth year of Hongwu, and the empty seal case has been over for some time, although its aftermath still intimidates the ministers.

To say that Hu Weiyong did not profit from it is false.

He carefully walked among the emperor and the officials of the Criminal Department, quietly helping some officials whose crimes were not so serious to reduce their sentences, and thus won their gratitude.

His henchmen have grown stronger and stronger as a result.

He finally lost his former caution.

After so many years of hard work, he finally got to the throne, which is a bitter beginning for him, and now he has great power, if he doesn't make good use of it for his own benefit, then he has been in vain for decades?

Therefore, he constantly extended his tentacles, used his position to support his henchmen, grabbed money, and expanded his power.

In fact, Zhongshu Province should have two prime ministers on the left and right and two prime ministers on the left and right of Zhongshu, but Xu Da, the right prime minister, and Li Wenzhong, the right minister of Zhongshu, have been leading the troops for many years, and there are actually only two people in Zhongshu Province.

He is actually very jealous of Yan Ling, after all, there is nothing simple with Zhu Yuanzhang who came from that era.

But he soon found that this Zhongshu Zuo Cheng didn't seem to be as difficult to deal with as he imagined.

He once intercepted the music privately, but Yan Ling ignored it.

Later, he learned that Yan Ling's hometown in Mingzhou had begun to build a tomb for him; When he went to court, it could also be seen that Yan Ling's sickness became more and more obvious, and he coughed from time to time.

Only then did Hu Weiyong know that this guy was already old and sick, and he had lost his previous courage and courage, and he just wanted to spend the remaining few years in peace.

He was relieved.

He felt that the gap between this guy and Xu Da's unpopular guy was still quite big.

Xu Da once reported his evil deeds to Zhu Yuanzhang, and then the bold Hu Weiyong directly bought Xu Da's porter to assassinate him, but was denounced by the porter.

What's even more unexpected is that Zhu Yuanzhang finally chose to calm down, which undoubtedly greatly boosted his arrogance.