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Chapter 216: Majesty Damaged
"No one is willing to answer, right? In the face of the national crisis, we neither think of solutions nor are reasonable, do not defend the border and do not receive money. They just accuse me of being immoral and disloyal. This kind of behavior is purely to cause pain to my relatives." The enemy is quick, which is more beneficial to the enemy than to the court, which is extremely annoying!
I thought that the person who roared at the meeting must have something to do with that Jurchen, and he often did things that harmed our Ming Dynasty.The Jin Yiwei escorted them to Dali Temple to be judged by the Three Laws Division. Anyone who violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty would confiscate their homes and guard the borders! "

Hong Tao knew that these people did not dare to fight. The top management of the plan to abandon Liaodong had long known about it. The bosses and backbones of various factions in the court had also received the news. They had been discussing it secretly for more than a month and had reached a unanimous conclusion.

The announcement at the court meeting is only the final result, not a discussion. Anyone who stands up to oppose at this time is a straggler who is not well-informed and not important enough, and cannot make waves at all.

I don't want to confront the big factions directly for the time being, so I don't have to be so polite to these people, let alone worry that there are people behind them who want to not only kill people but also hurt their hearts.

Don’t you want to be beaten in exchange for your reputation?Don't you want to get ahead by contradicting the emperor?I won't let you get what you want. I won't kill you or humiliate you, but I'll stab you at the most painful place.

First of all, the reputation must be ruined. As long as the Jin Yiwei wants to investigate, there will be basically no one in the civil and military circles who can do both, and they will be more or less involved in corruption.It's useless no matter how clean you are, there are always people in your family and clan who are doing you no good.

Then they ran out of money and worked one by one, not actively making money, but very enthusiastically.Just fish it out, the more the better, clear it all out at once, leaving one or even several generations of your family to work in vain, and the next generation will have to bear infamy.

"Your Majesty is aware of everything, and four ministers and nine officials were arrested by the court and have been imprisoned by Dali Temple!"

Is it enough to just retaliate at the court meeting and conduct a strict internal investigation within the system?Anyone who thinks so is extremely contemptuous of Emperor Jingyang's IQ and extremely overestimated his character.

Just when the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty secretly rejoiced that they had not escaped disaster by being the first to be the first, and were 12 more vigilant about the emperor's ruthlessness. The headline on the front page of "Half Moon Talk" made them feel what it meant to be bone-chilling.

Regarding the various battles that occurred in the court, all dynasties have adopted the practice of not spreading family scandals to the outside world. Only when they cannot hide it, they will selectively announce it to the outside world to show their integrity.

For example, if a certain high-ranking official commits such and such a treasonous crime, the emperor will enforce the law impartially and deal with it seriously, and will never condone it.The most typical example is Zhang Juzheng, who was impeached for corruption and extravagance just after his death. He recruited power and established a party. He befriended the eunuch Feng Bao and controlled the government. His three sons were all high-ranking. He seized titles and ransacked his family.

However, this time Emperor Jingyang did not follow the usual practice and actually revealed all the reasons why these more than ten officials were investigated and how they planned to deal with them, so that the people all over the country knew the truth.

Although the courtiers do not like to see these officials who have been investigated and punished, it is sad to see a rabbit die and a fox hurt its own kind. If you do this in the future, the risks of being an official will be greatly increased, and it is inevitable that you will be the next one!
""Half Moon Talk" is alarmist and sensational!"

How to do it?It was obviously difficult to ask the emperor to order the ban on "Half Moon Talk". The main reason was that they were not lying. We couldn't tell the emperor that we were afraid.The emperor has always been one who doesn't let go of rabbits, and if he wants to destroy "Half Moon Talk", he will probably have to pay a very high price, and no one can afford it for the time being.

In fact, even if "Half Moon Talk" is really shut down, the impact it will have on the people will be difficult to recover. People like to read this kind of jokes about punishing corruption and enforcing the law impartially. The more it is covered up, the more troublesome it will be.So another newspaper with the same reputation as "Half Moon Talk" spoke. Its stance and views were as antagonistic as ever, its wording was ruthless, and its methods were very clever.There is no rhetoric or fancy rhetoric. Instead, we grasp the root of the problem and refute it.

It is true that more than a dozen officials were imprisoned for contradicting the emperor at that time, but after preliminary verification by the Sanfa Division, most of them were innocent and had not committed corruption and perversion of the law. They should be released when the emperor's anger subsided. It is difficult for the officials to be reinstated. It is very possible to return to your hometown after becoming an official.

Will the Sanfa Division eventually go against the emperor's wishes and sentence these more than ten officials lightly?The answer made Hong Tao very depressed. Not only did they give a lenient sentence, but they also did not fine the family.

The reason is very simple. According to the Ming Dynasty Law, none of these officials could be charged with the crime of being exiled and confiscating their homes. Not only could they not be punished according to the decree, but they also asked the emperor to be tolerant and generous to his ministers.If you don't like it, demote him to a commoner and let him go back to his hometown. There is no need to shout and kill him because of friction at work.

Can you agree to such a blatant group fight against Hong Tao?He really agreed. In the end, only one of the more than ten officials was confiscated and confiscated by the army because of a mere few hundred taels of silver, two houses in his hometown, and [-] acres of land.The rest of the people were all demoted to common people and ordered to return to their hometowns to reflect behind closed doors. None of them were even hired.

If you want to ask why Hong Tao became so good-tempered, he swore to be honest in front of the civil and military officials of the court, but within a month he swallowed back what he said.Without it, the situation was forced, and a mole appeared.

After a lot of effort, they finally used their interests to reach a consensus with the civil service group and the Xungui group, making them reluctantly agree to abandon Liaodong.If they fall out over this matter, all the previous work will be in vain, seriously affecting the implementation of the entire plan.

The investigation report that Jinyiwei handed over to Dali Temple was a drain on the fire, causing Hong Tao to suffer a hidden loss.They actually found no evidence of corruption and bending of the law by those officials. There were only some unnecessary indiscretions and sidesteps, which were not enough to convict any official.

This is really difficult to handle. Of course, the Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Punishment have not found any evidence, and there is no evidence. How can the Ming Dynasty's highest legal investigation and enforcement agency handle a false case so blatantly.That is not only irresponsible to the handling officials, but also extremely disrespectful to the emperor. This is absolutely not allowed!

Of course, the Sanfa Si and the Jinyiwei were also very considerate of the emperor's emotions. The results of the first trial were thrown back, but the second time there was an additional fish that slipped through the net and was found to have irrefutable evidence, which met the standards of being confiscated and confiscated.

If the emperor is still not satisfied at this time, he may come back twice and get another ironclad proof of corruption and perversion of the law, but it will only be one, not more.Everyone understands politics. Win-win-take-all approach is unrealistic. The right path is for everyone to take a step back and the world will be brighter.

Of course Hong Tao would not imitate Emperor Yingzong, who insisted on defending the entire official system by himself. Faced with this result, he could only hold his nose and agree.But he was more vengeful than Emperor Yingzong, and believed in the principle that revenge should not last overnight.

Afterwards, he first called Chen Ju to ask about the progress of the investigation into Jinyiwei. When he didn't get a satisfactory answer, he immediately cursed and kept him under observation. Then he ordered Wang An to take charge of the affairs of the East Factory and immediately began to investigate Jinyiwei's senior officials.

(End of this chapter)