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Chapter 1428

Liu Xu's words frightened all the officials again, even more harshly than before.

It didn't matter that everyone in the Agriculture and Food Department was killed, but the sentence "Justice is not absolute, it is absolutely unjust" was what frightened them the most. This meant that Liu Xu no longer followed any rules, let alone any evidence. He was trying to implicate the nine clans, so he might as well directly implicate the entire officialdom.

Once an official commits a crime and other colleagues find out about it and do not report it... then the whole yamen will explode collectively, and everyone will die together. This method of implicating the entire yamen has never been seen before, and it is impossible to crack it...because official corruption can be hidden from others, but it cannot be hidden from colleagues in the same yamen at all.

Once these colleagues know that their lives may be in danger because of other colleagues, it is inevitable to report them directly, and they will definitely be killed!
This constitutes an extremely terrifying conspiracy. Under the threat of the official implicated order, no yamen can completely form a monolithic situation, and no official dares to share the same fate, because this is a situation where they must die together. .

From now on, corruption can only be an extremely secretive behavior of individuals. We will never dare to have collective corruption in the entire yamen, otherwise it will be directly reported to the higher authorities by countless officials who are afraid of death the next day.

So no one in the ancient emperors could have imagined such a powerful means of preventing corruption?
In fact, this method is not difficult to think of, but the difficulty lies in how to implement it.

First of all, the deterrence of the official implication order is too great, which will put all officials in constant fear of danger, which will very likely cause the entire bureaucratic class to rebel. Generally speaking, except for the founding emperor, the other emperors were not strong enough to control the entire court, let alone the ability to withstand the rebellion of all officials in the world.

Especially in this situation, even if you are upright, you may be inexplicably implicated and die. In the end, there is a high probability that the whole world will turn against you, and the entire dynasty will be finished.

And even if the officials don't rebel, if I just mess it up for you, there's nothing you can do about it.

Then this comes to another problem, that is, the life span of emperors is limited. They can only live for decades or even ten years, or a few years. Once the powerful founding emperor dies, the remaining emperors It is simply impossible to continue to implement it, and then nothing will happen.

Not to mention that Liu Xu had no intention of stopping here.

Both problems do not exist for Liu Xu. Everyone in the world has rebelled. At worst, Liu Xu will kill everyone. He will still live forever, so in his hands, the deterrence of this officialdom order is The power is infinite.

The only person in history who resorted to the implication method was the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. After all, he killed tens of thousands of corrupt officials, and he did not care at all about implicating a large number of officials, including the officials who died in three major cases. As many as tens of thousands of people, many of whom were innocent, so Zhu Yuanzhang really did this, so Zhu Yuanzhang was still quite clean when he was alive.

As for the founding emperors who had the ability to do this, most of them did not have the courage to play such a trick. Not to mention that this kind of implicated order had already touched the moral bottom line to a large extent, and most emperors were unable to use it.

He walked up to the father who was kneeling on the ground and angrily scolded him and said coldly, "You dare to talk to me like this, you will die. But I consider that your only son is dead, so it is understandable." , so I want to see if what you said is the truth."

"Liu Tian, ​​bring me his son's soul!" Liu Xu said again to his godson. Liu Tian smiled, and then pulled him from a tree. A frightened soul was pulled directly from the tree. He came out and brought it to his father!
"Son!" When he saw his own son, his father wailed and rushed over to hug him, but he ended up hugging him empty-handed and getting nothing.

The son could only look at his father blankly, with tears in his eyes.

"Liu Tian, ​​I'm too lazy to interrogate this soul. Just pull out his past and show it to me!" Liu Xu said. Liu Tian nodded, pulled his hands, and a huge projection appeared in front of everyone. It was impressive. It shows the life of this son. The first half of his life passed quickly, and after he became an official, many specific scenes were projected. As expected, this son was quite honest. Faced with the solicitation of many colleagues, the benefits brought to his door, and the naked temptation of several beauties, he was all I withstood it, and really didn't take any bribe.

It's just that he never reported the crimes of his colleagues until the projected picture arrived a few minutes ago, when the angry Liu Xu asked everyone to confess their crimes. The son originally wanted to take a step forward, but was severely beaten by a hand. of hold.

When everyone looked at the owner of this hand, they suddenly discovered that this person was none other than his biological father.

"Son! It was my father who harmed you! It was my father who tricked you!" Seeing this scene that he regretted so much again, the father burst into tears.

Obviously, it was precisely because of his last pull that his son's last chance was taken away.

"Father, it's not your fault!" The son looked at his father and comforted him in a low voice.

From this point of view, Liu Xu did indeed kill an innocent person by mistake. At least this son did manage to emerge from the mud and remain untainted.

There was another commotion among the officials in the palace. One official took a deep breath, knelt down, and said with a face of ecstasy, "Your Majesty, I didn't expect that you have such power and can see the past and the future clearly. Isn't that the world in the world?" Is there no secret that I can hide from you, Your Majesty?”

"Furthermore, I see that this child who was innocently killed is really pitiful, and those officials who are themselves honest should not be implicated by those guilty officials. Therefore, I beg your majesty for your compassion. If such a case happens again in the future, please Then use your magical power today to reveal the past of all the officials involved. Wouldn’t it be nice to kill all the corrupt officials while still leaving those good officials who are honest and self-reliant?”

"And this is also the way of justice. I don't believe that you are really willing to kill those truly good officials by mistake!" After the official finished speaking, the other officials' eyes lit up and they immediately knelt down and prayed to Liu Xu. In the future, when encountering such a situation, I will use my magical power to directly identify corrupt officials and good officials, leaving those good officials alive.

This should be a very reasonable prayer. After all, those good officials who emerged from the mud and remained untainted did not make any mistakes and should not be killed!
But just when these officials were smiling and thinking that their request would definitely be agreed, they saw Liu Xu sneer and said, "Everyone, put away your dirty little thoughts. Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking, as long as I can Distinguish between good officials and corrupt officials, then good officials can continue to be untainted, and there is no need to report corrupt officials like you who are complicit in corruption, then my officialdom order of impeachment will be a joke!"

"..." The officials at the scene were numb again, if their thoughts hadn't been exposed so nakedly.

"I'm not afraid to tell you that even if I have the ability to investigate the past of all of you, I can easily distinguish honest officials from corrupt officials, but I just don't do this. Again, justice is not absolute, it is absolutely unjust. If you If these officials who are involved don’t report this to me before they find out about this, I will kill them all.”

"Everyone from top to bottom in the yamen who was involved but did not report it will be killed! No one will be spared."

"I would rather kill ten by mistake than let go of a thousand!"

(End of this chapter)