Chapter 157: Lao Zhu's shortcomings
Lao Zhu's purge was in full swing, and the implication was even more serious than Li Qing imagined, and the blood on the execution table was covered with a thick layer of blood scabs.
The Marquis of Dingyuan, Wang Bi, was wiped out; The two sons of Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, were beheaded and died; Song Guogong Feng Sheng was a little better, he was given death, and his family was fine......
In this big case caused by Lan Yu, Lan Yu did not die, but his network in the army was almost completely cut off.
Now, even if Lan Yu really has the intention of rebelling in the future, he will not have that ability.
The implication of this purge is so great that even Wenchen, who has always been at odds with Xungui, also feels that his lips are dead and his teeth are cold, and he can't help but feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.
The ruthlessness of today's emperor is really terrifying, and they are all cautious and dare not show the slightest mistake.
Fortunately, fortunately, the emperor is old, as long as he stays up for a few more years, and when the grandson takes the throne, their spring will come.
Wenchen clamped his tail and behaved diligently.
The purge did not last long, only a month, but there were a lot of people killed, and the vitality of the nobles was greatly damaged, and the domineering spirit was gone.
On the second day after the purge, a speech official impeached Zhu Yuanzhang for indiscriminately killing meritorious heroes, impeached Jinyiwei for abusing power and perverting the law, and confronted Lao Zhu in front of the court's civil and military forces.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang, who has always been decisive in killing, did not treat the person for capital crimes, but only beat him with twenty canes.
After another two days, a large number of officials avoided the important and trivialized, and tried their best to impeach Jinyiwei, they understood that Jinyiwei would not die, and they would not be better.
Moreover, together with the commander of Jinyiwei, Jiang Zhen was impeached, and he also took the trouble to list all kinds of crimes, saying: It was all done without the emperor.
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he heard this, and immediately put Jiang Zhen in prison and was convicted by the Criminal Department.
This time, the efficiency of the Criminal Department is not much slower than that of Jinyiwei, and in only five days, Jiang Zhen was convicted, and the evidence of the crime was piled up with the imperial book case, and everything was fatal.
Even Jiang Zhen peeked at the widow taking a bath when he was a child.
Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he directly exterminated his nine clans, and destroyed Jinyiwei's torture tools again, not only that, but directly withdrew the Jinyiwei institution.
And let it out: The king of the future, no more brocade guards!
After a big turmoil, Wenchen became the winner, and Xungui also breathed a long sigh of relief, and everyone understood the emperor's attitude.
That's ———— for that!
Li Qing came to Zhao Prison again, Lan Yu, who had been in the prison, didn't know what was going on outside, and when he saw him coming, he sighed softly, "Will my family be implicated?" ”
"No, it won't."
"Thank you." Lan Yu gave a long stroke, "Let's go." ”
Li Qing nodded.
Out of Zhao Prison, Lan Yu bathed in the sun for a while, and walked eastward, but was stopped by Li Qing.
"Isn't your house west?"
Sappy: ???
Li Qinghan said with a smile, "You don't know yet, the Jinyi Guard is gone." ”
"Jinyiwei is gone?" Lan Yu couldn't react a little, "This... Does it have anything to do with me? ”
"Of course there is!" Li Qingdao said, "The Jinyi Guard is gone, and my official position as a pacification envoy is naturally gone, so how can I judge you?" ”
The words are almost clear, no matter how stupid Lan Yu is, he understands the meaning.
There was disbelief on his face, "The emperor has not cured my sin?" ”
"I didn't say that." Li Qing spread his hands, "You go home first to rest for a day, and tomorrow morning, enter the palace with me, and the emperor will decide what to do." ”
"yes, okay." Lan Yu's heart is full of happiness for the rest of his life after the catastrophe, this feeling of near-death is both beautiful and fearful, "Brother......"
"Let's go back and rest." Li Qing smiled, "See you tomorrow." ”
Lan Yu nodded, looked at Li Qing's back, and stopped for a long time before walking home.
On the same day, he called the surviving righteous sons, ate and drank, and dissolved the relationship with them.
Both for themselves and for their good.
Lan Yu looked at his family members who were crying with joy, his heart was complicated, and when he thought about his previous arrogance, he was even more remorseful.
Thankfully, he still has a chance.
……
The next day, early in the morning.
Li Qing and Lan Yu rushed to the palace together.
Along the way, Lan Yu was in a nervous mood, he knew that he couldn't die, but when he thought of facing Lao Zhu, he was still worried.
Li Qing was secretly amused, I have to say that Lao Zhu's majesty of the Son of Heaven is indeed awesome, and even a bastard like Lan Yu is afraid, which can be seen from this.
When the two came to the imperial study, Zhu Yuanzhang was teaching Zhu Yunwen to deal with the music, and the grandfather and grandson were very close.
Zhu Yuanzhang made up for all his debts to Zhu Biao.
"Long live my emperor."
"Hmm." Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say anything about flattening down, and continued to teach his grandson, until half an hour passed, and his eyes shifted to the two of them.
At the same time, the face turned cloudy.
"Lan Yu, are you guilty?"
"The minister is guilty." Lan Yu said respectfully, "If the emperor wants to kill or chop, the minister has nothing to say." ”
Li Qing secretly held his forehead: Are you biao?
Can you die if you admit your mistake?
Sure enough, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't get off the stage by him, and he pulled out the sword hanging on the pillar and was about to cut him.
I don't know if it was discussed, or if Zhu Yunwen was clever, he hurriedly knelt down to intercede for Lan Yu.
To put it mildly, Lao Zhu finally put down the sword in his hand.
Zhu Yuanzhang said hatefully, "For the sake of Yun Wei's intercession for you, and your contribution to Sheji, we can not kill you, but the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime is inevitable, you say, how should we punish you?" ”
"Your Majesty!" Li Qing was afraid that Lan Yu would commit another crime, so he hurriedly said, "The minister is also guilty." ”
"You are guilty." Zhu Yuanzhang scolded: "Let's let you try the case, Jinyi Wei is all scattered, you haven't tried it yet, slack off on official business, and you will be fined for half a year!" ”
Li Qing was speechless: Capitalists don't take you like this, how can you deduct half a year's salary at every turn?
However, he knew Lao Zhu's intentions, and at the same time, he also understood that the money deducted would be supplemented to him in other ways.
Lao Zhu ignored Li Qing and said angrily: "The lawless lord intends to rebel, although you are not involved in it, Lanyu, they are discussing it in your mansion, and the court staff is fifty!" ”
As he spoke, he gave Li Qinglian a look.
Li Qing reluctantly surrendered his hand, "Your Majesty, Lan Yu has already realized his mistake, and the fifty court staff will inevitably ......"
"Okay, you still dare to intercede for him...... Zhu Yuanzhang said hatefully, "Someone is coming, fifty court canes for each person." ”
Li Qingxin said: Lao Zhu, you can do it, Lan Yu is already grateful to me, and I don't need to use this bitter trick.
But at this moment, he couldn't speak, so he had to be full of resentment and was taken down by the guards with Lan Yu.
After the fifty boards were played, Li Qing didn't have a fart matter, and Lan Yu was fine, but they still had to pretend, and the two of them were carried out of the palace by the little eunuch.
As Li Qing expected, when he arrived home on the front foot, Xiao Guizi on the back foot arrived.
not only made up for a year's salary, but also said that the emperor added the share of the town to the marquis's salary.
Lao Zhu's attitude made Li Qing very satisfied.
gave the reward money, received the order to thank him, and was about to go back to the backyard, but Xiao Guizi stopped him, "Master Hou, the emperor still has something to do with you." ”
"What's the matter?"
"The emperor asked you to study hard, and you were limited to a month to study a national policy that benefits the country and the people."
Li Qing smiled bitterly and nodded, "I know, tell the emperor, I will study hard." ”
In fact, he has long thought about the national policy of benefiting the country and the people, and the reason why he has been holding back and not saying it is not that he doesn't want to, but... If you say it, Lao Zhu will not agree.
Now he is no longer the young man who didn't understand Ren and had empty ambitions.
The implementation of a national policy must be carried out from above and below, and the monarch and the ministers should be united, but more importantly, the will of the emperor.
Lao Zhu is an iron-blooded emperor, and it is not a problem to pass up and down, and the monarch and ministers ...... I didn't dare not follow him, but he couldn't change Lao Zhu's will.
He had followed Zhu Biao for so long before, and he had a basic understanding of Daming's maladministration, and he had also admonished him euphemistically, but he was rejected by Lao Zhu.
It is true that Zhu Yuanzhang is a great emperor, but he also has shortcomings, among which the biggest shortcoming is his lack of knowledge.
Yes, Lao Zhu doesn't have great insight.
The main reason is that Zhu Yuanzhang's background is too low, which leads to his lack of vision, and even many times, he is a little stubborn.
Many of his so-called golden rules are too conservative, which seriously affects the development of the Ming Dynasty and even drags it back.
The reason why the Ming Dynasty is still getting better and better is because the war has stopped, the people have been recuperated, and the national strength of the Ming Dynasty has shown an upward trend, which has covered up these malpractices.
But if you let it go, it will be exposed in two generations, but Lao Zhu doesn't listen to him!
So far, there is only one inflation theory, which Lao Zhu listened to in his heart and strictly implemented it.
That's it, Li Qing is already very satisfied, and if he stabilizes the currency, he stabilizes the economy.
He has been in Daming for so long, and he only mentioned such a useful national policy, but the impact of this national policy on Daming is immeasurable.
The ancients were not fools, and emperors like Zhu Yuanzhang were not, and they wanted to carry out drastic reforms when they came up, which was simply wishful thinking.
How can the rules be so easy to break?
The pillow is higher, maybe in a dream.
Therefore, Li Qing waited a little longer, waited for Lao Zhu to hang up, and handed over these national policies to the successor.
Right now, Lao Zhu has paved the road for him, and Zhu Yunwen has no foundation, so he can only use him, the minister of orphanage.
When the time comes, there will be Li Jinglong in the court, and there will be Lan Yu in Wu, and his relationship network, which looks inconspicuous, will be particularly important with Lao Zhu's purge.
Li Qing sighed lightly: "May everything be as I wish." ”