Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Outside the palace gate, Wang Shi, Wu Yong, Yu Ji and other ministers stood outside. They stopped crying and just stood aside eagerly waiting for Li Wei to come out.

Wang Shi made up his mind to show off this traitor today!

After Li Wei accepted the order, he resigned, but what was different from when he entered was that he was surrounded by hundreds of pro-military households who had been banned in the Wei Palace.

Wang Shi and others who were guarding the palace gate were immediately refreshed when they saw him coming out, waiting for him to step out of the palace gate.

Li Wei slowly came to the door and stood there, shouting to Wang Shi and others: "Hey, your lords haven't left yet?"

"Humph!"

Wang Shi sneered and stared at him with an unkind expression. The ministers also did the same, waiting for Li Wei to step out of the palace gate and stage a group fight.

Li Wei curled his lips and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has an order, and you are ordered to leave as soon as possible and return to the Yamen. Don't mess around here and delay political affairs. Anyone who violates the order will be arrested and prosecuted!"

After Li Wei finished speaking, there was a sudden commotion among the officials.

"Your Majesty really has this intention?" Yu Ji was a little doubtful.

And Wang Shi directly rebuked: "Nonsense, I think you are falsely passing on the imperial edict. I want to see your Majesty and impeach you for being such a traitor!"

"I advise you to get out as soon as possible, otherwise I will be rude and arrest anyone who doesn't!"

Li Wei was no longer polite and shouted directly.

"How dare you, we are innocent, why do you arrest me!"

"That's right, you traitor, don't be too arrogant!"

When they heard that Li Wei wanted to arrest someone again, the ministers immediately became excited and shouted and cursed.

Li Wei sneered: "Huh, since you don't listen, then don't blame me!"

As he said that, he scanned the group of people and quickly locked on Wang Shi at the front: "Catch him!"

"Yes!" Baihu, a pro-army soldier, had already received the order and immediately accepted the order, waving his hand for his pro-military guards to rush forward.

The ministers were shocked when they saw this, and Wang Shi even shouted anxiously: "How dare you! Let me go! I want to see His Majesty!"

"Let Master Wang go quickly. Master Wang is the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. How can you arrest him at will?"

Wu Yong and several other people next to him all yelled at him.

Li Wei glanced at them and immediately pointed his hand: "There are still others, arrest them too!"

The expressions of those who had spoken out suddenly froze, and they shouted in panic: "How dare the traitor do this?"

However, the guards didn't care about this. After hearing the order, they rushed up to several more people and captured the ones who yelled.

The ministers took a few steps back in panic and kept shouting:

“How audacious, how audacious!”

"Your Majesty, don't favor such a treacherous person!"

"There are others, arrest them too!" Li Wei shouted again. Zhu Yuanzhang had already said it anyway, so he didn't have to be polite.

Seeing that he had arrested more than a dozen important officials in the court, the officials were immediately frightened and backed away. The voices of scolding gradually disappeared, and they all looked at him in confusion.

Li Wei then slowly walked out of the palace gate, ignoring Wang Shi and others who were struggling and shouting while being escorted by the guards. Instead, he came to these trembling ministers, put his hands on his hips, and shouted extremely arrogantly:

"Who else?"

The ministers looked at each other in shock, and for a moment no one dared to say anything.

Prison is not a good place. Once you enter, you will inevitably be punished. Now they don't know that there are new gadgets in the prison. If they had seen these new gadgets, they would have escaped long ago!

Seeing that there was no movement from them, Li Wei snorted with some disdain and cursed: "If you have nothing to do, get out of here and don't block my way!"

The ministers remained silent at his arrogance and cruelty. After a moment of silence, some finally gave in due to timidity.

"Since it is His Majesty's will, I will return to the Yamen first."

As soon as this person finished speaking, everyone immediately found the steps.

"Yes, we are following His Majesty's will."

"Let's go, let's go..."

Whether they were afraid or had other ideas, a group of people dispersed from the palace gate one after another.

Li Wei took a leisurely glance at Wang Shi and the others, and Wang Shi suddenly said angrily: "Li Wei, don't be complacent. When His Majesty learns that you are so messy, I will definitely wait for your release, and I will definitely punish you severely!" "I know, I know, stop screaming." Li Wei waved his hand impatiently, "Okay, take them with me."

"Yes!"

The guards escorted Wang Shi and more than a dozen court officials, and went to the imperial prison with Li Wei. After arriving at the imperial prison, they handed over to the guards such as Chen Su and locked up all the ministers.

The guard completed his task and resigned.

"You try these officials. Convict the guilty ones and let the innocent ones go."

Li Wei summoned Chen Su and gave him a few casual instructions. Although these people were arrested with Zhu Yuanzhang's permission, they did not commit any serious crimes. They still had to attend to the government affairs of the court, and these people could not be detained for too long. .

However, Chen Su's thoughts changed sharply when he heard this. The adults can say what they want, but he cannot listen to what they want.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Su suddenly understood the "deep meaning" of the Lord. Anyone who opposes the Lord is naturally guilty, and only those who obey the Lord will be acquitted.

"Yes, sir, don't worry, I will definitely examine it carefully!" Chen Su said respectfully after understanding this.

Li Wei didn't know that he had such complicated thoughts in his heart, so he nodded lightly and left the prison.

When he went back, he specially ordered a group of guards to take him with him. This time he was almost beaten by the officials, which made him more vigilant. He had offended too many people. Although things like Yangzhou would not happen in the capital, he was beaten by others. A meal is normal. The guard still has to be with you, and you can't suffer the immediate loss.

Three days later, the scenery on the Qinhuai River was beautiful, but what happened at this time really ruined the scenery.

Thousands of officials, gentry and their families were escorted by Jinyi guards in a long row by the river, with an executioner guarding each person with a knife.

There was no good place for Zhang Zongyi's body. He was dying, lying on his knees without any movement.

Zhao Ben's face was pale and he was trembling all over. He deeply regretted participating in the impeachment of Li Wei.

Wang Shi was among them, still shouting injustice and making his final struggle.

He never expected that less than half a year after being promoted to minister, he would be in a situation where he would be beheaded.

After more than a dozen courtiers captured by Li Wei were imprisoned a few days ago, Chen Su understood what he meant. Those who were more hostile to him would be severely interrogated, while those who were relatively good-tempered would be coerced and lured into submission.

Under his operation, the arrested ministers and principals of the Criminal Department accused Wang Shi of accepting bribes, bending the law for personal gain, and even exposed his illegal activities in the local area.

According to the law set by Zhu Yuanzhang, although Wang Shi was not greedy, it was enough to be beheaded.

In fact, these officials are more or less unclean. If they are all investigated and dealt with strictly, according to the current law that embezzlement of sixty taels will result in beheading, no one can escape, but Chen Su followed Li Wei's "intention" treated differently.

"My lord, the time has come for execution!"

The captain in charge of the execution came forward to report.

Chen Su looked at Li Wei, and Li Wei waved his hand to signal him to give the order. Chen Su immediately stopped hesitating and shouted loudly: "Execution!"

"Yes!"

Xiaoqi turned around and returned to pass on the order. When the prisoners learned that they were about to die, they suddenly screamed, begging for mercy and cursing, all mixed together.

Then as the executioner's knife fell one after another, these sounds soon stopped abruptly.

Thousands of people were beheaded, and the bloodstains stained the river bank red. Fortunately, Li Wei had already been on the battlefield twice, and his ability to bear these things was greatly increased, so he only frowned at this spectacular and horrifying scene.

"Sir, the execution is over!" Chen Su reported to Li Wei after waiting for confirmation from his subordinates.

Li Wei nodded lightly, thought for a while and said to him: "You have contributed a lot to this case. I will report it to the Holy One later and promote you to the rank of Jinyi Guard Qianhu."

"Thank you, sir!"

Chen Su was immediately shocked and raised his hands in thanks.

This Chen Su was ruthless and ruthless, and he was really suitable to be a royal guard. After the matters at hand were finished, Li Wei wanted to get out of it as soon as possible and just left Chen Su and a small number of guards in the Zhenfu Division to deal with it.

He spent a lot of money to train these thousands of guards, so they can't be handed over in vain. Moreover, the Jinyi Guards generally don't need so many people to handle cases, and those firearms and equipment are even more of a waste.

After telling Chen Su to clean up the place, Li Wei turned and left.

Thousands of officials and gentry were killed, including three ministers of the dynasty. What Li Wei did immediately silenced the officials in the dynasty. Those officials who were released "not guilty" by Chen Su did not dare to say anything after they came out. .

However, this was just the beginning. After killing these officials, the Jinyiwei followed Zhu Yuanzhang's order and began to arrest the relatives and friends of these officials and gentry in the name of pursuing their uncles. These people's homes would be confiscated at the least, and at worst they would directly kill the killers. , for a time, there was a rumbling up to the court and down to the people, and countless officials and gentry families were ruined and people were killed. (End of chapter)