Chapter 226: Woe to the Country's Woman
The officials held their breath, and their eyes looked unfamiliar like the woman standing at the front,
Princess Yan Xu Miaoyun,
From the day he came to Yandi, Xu Miaoyun's virtuous name was famous throughout the Ming Dynasty.
This feeling is very strange, obviously there is the familiar person in front of her, but she gives people a completely different feeling from usual, which is familiar and strange.
Xu Miaoyun's gaze did not evade at all, and slowly swept the faces of every official in the palace, looking meticulously and slowly,
As far as the eye could see, the officials couldn't help but bow their heads one after another, not daring to look at them, for fear that they would follow in the footsteps of Lord Huang.
Compared with those old foxes in Beijing, the officials in Yandi must be too far behind, if this is in Beijing, Xu Miaoyun's move to seize power must not be so smooth.
But in Yandi, this hand alone shocked the officials,
Zhu Gaoxu's small mouth opened, and he obviously didn't react to the situation in front of him.
Xu Miaoyun saw that there was no more thorn in the head, and said,
"Huan Bu, Tian Hongkai, Zhao Hui, Yu Ruida, Jiang Maosheng..."
Xu Miaoyun called out more than 20 names in a deep voice, and the officials who were called by name were all stunned in place, and they didn't understand the deep meaning of the princess's move.
For a while, the expressions of the officials were strange, looking at these officials who were called out, their eyes were full of envy, and they only thought that this was the new leadership team built by the princess.
Xu Miaoyun's voice did not fluctuate, and he named out more than a dozen names in a row, and when the open space in the middle of the palace was occupied by about forty officials, the atmosphere in the palace was quiet again.
The eyes of the officials who did not name the names around them also gave the group of officials standing in the main hall an illusion that they were pointed out by the princess, which was the descendant of the princess.
The atmosphere in the palace was polarized, the officials who were not named were full of chagrin, and the officials who were named were beaming.
Xu Miaoyun paused, and after making sure that one would not fall,
said lightly,
"Your Majesty's law, the officials who embezzle sixty taels of silver, strip the skin of the grass, but His Royal Highness the Holy Sun is benevolent, and the corporal punishment is abolished, so I will not skin you.
Qiu Fu, lead people to behead all these corrupt officials in front of the palace, and show the public,"
As soon as these words came out, the officials standing in the temple opened their eyes wide, full of disbelief,
Beheading officials who embezzled more than 60 taels of silver is Hong Wuye's law, but what year is this old yellow calendar? !
According to this method, the number of officials beheaded by Yandi has not exceeded one hand for more than ten years!
To put it mildly, isn't the princess Niangniang using the sword of the previous dynasty to behead the officials of the present dynasty?!
"Niangniang, is there any misunderstanding! Weichen is wronged! ”
A decent looking official begged for mercy and shouted, this is the platform of the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion, even he doesn't know when he was corrupted, why was he directly pulled out by the princess.
Xu Miaoyun looked at the official and said directly,
"Master Zhang, in order to help the herdsmen divide the land, you collected dozens of cattle and sheep from the herdsmen.
In exchange, it is enough for sixty taels of silver, and you say that you are not greedy, where do you start? ”
"This!"
Shuntian Mansion Zhentai heard that his breath was stagnant, and he was stunned in place, he collected dozens of cattle and sheep,
But, is this corruption?!
In the process of power, it will inevitably benefit, and the greater the power, the greater the benefit.
Take the most famous fire money consumption before, in the process of minting money, it is inevitable that there will be broken silver and remnants, and no one wants these things, and the officials in charge of minting money will accept them easily, can this be said to be corruption?
This income is a bit gray and difficult to define, but it is more inclined to additional benefits, I am afraid that even Lao Zhu, who can't tolerate sand in his eyes, can't define fire consumption as corruption.
Besides...
Lord Shuntian Mansion came back to his senses and said unconvinced,
"Princess Niangniang, I have collected dozens of cattle and sheep from the herdsmen, but these cattle and sheep are not collected before the errand, but after the errand.
How can the cattle and sheep that the herdsmen have given me out of gratitude be considered corruption?
If the princess wants to stop my official and say it directly, there is no need to make these things and stink my reputation! ”
As soon as Lord Zhang said this, the eyes of the officials in the main hall flashed wildly,
First there is the matter of Lord Huang, and then there is the matter of Lord Zhang, so that everyone in the Yandi territory is in danger.
It stands to reason that the princess should slap and give a sweet date, pull and beat to calm her emotions,
But the princess came up with two big slaps, who can stand this?!
Xu Miaoyun didn't have time to judge the case here, looked at Qiu Fu, frowned and asked,
"What are you doing?"
Qiu Fu came back to his senses, led people to escort a group of officials, and was caught by the guards of Yanwangfu, these officials came back to their senses violently, trembling wildly, and struggling violently, they also knew that if they didn't struggle again, they would really become dead.
For a while, there were begging for mercy and cursing in the main hall, but Xu Miaoyun was expressionless from beginning to end, she was just doing things step by step, without a trace of emotion at all.
In the chaos, the cursing for mercy stopped abruptly, and a splash of blood flowed into the main hall along the direction of the bricks on the ground.
Everyone's eyes widened, staring at this stream of blood, slowly seeping into the palace,
The rest of the officials couldn't control their swings,
I'm afraid, I'm really scared now,
Sixty taels of silver are embezzled, this is more like Lao Zhu's angry words, and the main goal of this law is to target Jingguan, and there are few places where this method is applied.
Lord Huang was wrongly deposed, and Lord Zhang also died unjustly,
Xu Miaoyun can know how much each official is greedy, and this information naturally comes from King Yan and King Jin, but why do King Yan and King Jin turn a blind eye?
Because these two people know that when the water is clear, there is no fish, and it is normal to hold power and a little gray income, as long as they can do things, as long as they are not too excessive, the leaders are too lazy to pursue it.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had proved with practical actions that this method would not work, if he forced it too tightly and killed too hard, not only could he not kill the corrupt officials, but it would make more and more corrupt officials, which was counterproductive.
Therefore, the most appropriate way is to encircle the three missing one, and the law against corruption should be heavy, but there must be some gaps in the implementation process.
Xu Miaoyun is now forcibly killing a group of people, not just to establish authority, but to completely eradicate corruption in a wartime state.
The shortcomings of the wartime economic policy that Lord Huang said were all right, but the most critical point, Lord Huang did not point out.
The biggest lifeline of wartime economic policy is corruption.
Imagine that all the grain stocks of farmers and herdsmen are collected, and then distributed by the government on a regular basis.
It is the officials who receive the food, and the officials who distribute the food.
In the process of collecting and collecting grain, Xu Miaoyun cannot be exhaustive, and the process of every place is supervised in place.
This will give officials a chance to get their hands on it.