Zhan Hui knelt on the ground and said, "Back to Your Majesty, you should be beheaded according to the law." ”

This is not Zhan Hui's nonsense, whether it is "Da Ming Law" or "Da Huo", when encountering Zhao Mian, who has taken so many bribes, the best result is a knife click.

In case Your Majesty doesn't want this, there are many other tricks.

For example, a thousand knives, peeling the skin and grass, razing the three tribes, and connecting the plants......

Therefore, what Zhan Hui said should be beheaded is the lightest punishment, but whenever the situation expands, it is not an ordinary thing.

How Zhao Mian should die depends entirely on how His Majesty wants him to die, it is best if the situation does not expand, if it expands, more than one will die.

In the history books, the information about Zhao Mian is really lackluster, and it is probably just a brief biography of two sentences.

Then, about Zhao Mian's death, there is only one sentence in the "History of the Ming Dynasty": Zhao Mian, the secretary of the household department, and the three sons-in-law, died with stolen goods.

Zhao Mian's death, sparse and ordinary, seems to be nothing more than the usual handling of corruption and bribery of officials during the Hongwu period.

And sitting on stolen goods, which belongs to the six stolen goods of the Ming Dynasty (prison guards, ordinary people stealing, stealing, bending the law by accepting wealth, not bending the law by accepting money, and sitting on stolen goods), the situation is the lightest, which is much lower than the law of accepting money and not bending the law.

Regarding the sentencing for sitting on stolen goods, from the lowest one below one and 20 lashes, to the highest above 500 stolen goods, 100 rods for crimes, and three years in prison, Zhao Mian can directly sit on the stolen goods to death, you can imagine how much he was greedy.

Interestingly, regarding the handling of Zhao Mian's stolen goods, Emperor Hongwu did not implicate a lot and killed a lot as in the past.

Even Zhao Mian's father-in-law, Liu Sanwu, only resigned and retired on the grounds of avoiding suspicion.

Emperor Hongwu, who killed people in the three major cases, behaved too lightly in the face of Zhao Mian's corruption and bribery, not only did he not make a big deal of it, but he didn't even inquire as usual.

Especially at this point in time, it happened to be the death of Zhu Biaoxu, the prince of Yiwen, and Emperor Hongwu completely lost his temperance, so it stands to reason that it should be the most ruthless butcher's knife.

But now, the butcher's knife did not swing it, but forbearance, as if waiting for something.

Coincidentally, a few months after Zhao Mian was executed with stolen goods, the last of the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty, the "Blue Jade Case", broke out, and Zhu Yuanzhang raised the butcher knife again to prove to the world that this butcher knife, which symbolizes the supremacy of imperial power, is still sharp.

Therefore, it is not that Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher's knife is not sharp enough, but a certain plan formulated by himself, or a kind of wooing and forbearance made in order to let Zhu Yunwen sit firmly on the throne of the crown prince.

Zhao Mian is just an insignificant pawn among civil officials, and his background is not strong, but he was lucky enough to marry Liu Sanwu's daughter and become Liu Sanwu's son-in-law.

Coupled with Zhu Yunwen's inability to balance the arrogant Huaixi nobles, Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to slaughter again in order to avoid the change of imperial power after a hundred years.

After the Lanyu case, the nobles of Huaixi were almost swept away, and most of the heroes in the court were slaughtered, which means that Zhu Yunwen can sit absolutely safely in the position of the prince.

Soon, Liu Sanwu was recalled to the imperial court, and the official was reinstated until the case of the North and South Bang in the thirtieth year of Hongwu.

Whether Zhao Mian died while sitting on stolen goods, or Liu Sanwu was taken lightly, or the outbreak of the Lanyu case, the essence behind this is all about the struggle for power.

The arrogance of the Huaixi nobles caused Zhu Yuanzhang to worry about the imperial power, and Zhu Yunwen was completely unable to control the Huaixi nobles, out of the need for the stability of the imperial power, Zhu Yuanzhang wantonly slaughtered more than 15,000 people.

Compared with the Huaixi nobles who like to jump on the grave, the methods of the civil officials are more gentle, just a slight temptation, intending to test Zhu Yuanzhang's bottom line.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang has always liked to use a butcher's knife to speak, although he made concessions for the time being out of the need to maintain Zhu Yunwen's status, but when no one in the court could threaten Zhu Yunwen's status, he also let the civil officials know what it means to be old.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the struggle between the imperial power, the nobles, and the civil officials, the Xungui group was the first to go out, and since then the strength of the court has been greatly reduced, and only a very small part is left to survive, and since then it has lost the power to confront the civil officials.

Originally, according to the development of this situation, coupled with Zhu Yunwen's trust in civil officials, the court could soon become the world of civil officials.

However, Jianwen united with civilian officials, and after less than four years in power, the Battle of Jingyan came......

Since then, a new Jing Nan Xun has appeared, and the civil and military forces have once again maintained a delicate balance.

Until the god of war came into the world, he personally conquered Mobei and completely wiped out the Xungui group......

But now it is different, Zhu Yuanzhang was overhauled, Zhu Di was made the prince, the future is completely different from the original trajectory, and it is not yet known how things will develop.

This changed history, but Zhu Yuanzhang was not in a hurry, and he didn't even have too many mood swings.

In the final analysis, he is not the original Zhu Yuanzhang, although he himself is also disgusted with this kind of behavior, but compared with his experience, this mortal greed seems a little clear and stupid.

Zhan Hui said that according to the law, it is really the cheapest way, before Zhu Yuanzhang could speak, Zhu Di angrily suggested: "Father, the son thinks that a huge corruption like Zhao Mian should be severely punished to set an example!" What's more, this matter is definitely not something that Zhao Mian can do alone, there must be a larger chain of interests behind it, from the capital to the localities, the officials involved are all raccoon dogs, and they should be killed, with the official style. ”

Zhan Hui didn't dare to speak, for fear of stimulating Zhu Yuanzhang, and if he really wanted to do what Zhu Di said, it would be another big case.

At that time, the number of people who will die is far more than what he thinks now, and the turmoil in the government and the opposition is definitely not a good thing, but Zhan Hui did not dare to persuade him, lest he get into trouble.

"Di'er, this matter will be handled by you, and it will be handled together with the Inspectorate, Dali Temple, Jinyiwei, and the Six Departments, and you can't let go of anyone, and you can't accidentally injure anyone."

"Son's Command!"

Zhu Di was a little excited, knelt down to receive the order of thanks, Zhan Hui only glanced at it, and felt that another new butcher knife was shining.

But he can't escape this matter, as the Inspectorate Zuodu Yushi, plus this matter is reported by him, no matter what he says, he can't run.

It's just that I don't know how many people are involved in this matter, and how many interest chains are working behind it, Zhan Hui felt a little panicked in his heart, and there was a sense that the mountain rain was about to come.

The development of the situation has exceeded Zhan Hui's expectations, but fortunately, it is the crown prince Zhu Di who is hosting the matter, and His Majesty does not mean to be widely implicated, so there is still room for maneuver.

At least those on the fringes should not be implicated to death, which is already the best news.

As for Zhao Mian......

Zhan Hui can only say a word of self-begging, estimating that he can't escape by peeling the skin and grass, and even with Liu Sanwu, I'm afraid he won't be able to please him.

Now there is no Queen Ma and Prince Zhu Biao to protect people, the butcher knife is raised, where is there any hope for corrupt officials to live?

Zhao Mian, the initiator, was still fishing and paddling in the Wenhua Hall at the moment, making some innocuous suggestions from time to time, not realizing that a catastrophe was coming.

And Mao Xiang, who is responsible for finding out where the stolen money goes, seems much calmer, as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, he has the most eyes and ears in the whole world, and can spy on all officials.

Although Zhao Mian said that he lived in a humble alley, there were only Liu and Chen's mother in the house, and there were no other subordinates, so that Jinyiwei could not penetrate into it.

However, Jinyiwei has been monitoring full-time for many years, and has already had a unique set of handling methods, since it cannot penetrate from the inside, it will be monitored from the outside.

Since Zhao Mian was not a key monitor appointed by His Majesty, there was only one watchman in Jinyiwei's vicinity, who was near Zhao Mian's house, monitoring the movements of Zhao Mian's home.

Looking at the thick stack of impermanence books on the table, Mao Xiao raised his eyebrows, these are all records of Zhao Mian for six years after he came to Yingtian.

For six years, the activities of Zhao Mian's family were recorded in these impermanent books, and Mao Xiang was not idle, and immediately sent Jinyi Wei to collect information on them.

And he picked up the book of impermanence that began at the beginning of this year and began to look through it carefully.

When you are suspicious, what seemed to be an ordinary behavior in the past now reveals an abnormal taste.

Mao Xiang looked at the records in the book of impermanence, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and when he looked at it again with a suspicious gaze, Zhao Mian's behavior was full of unknown deep meaning.

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