Emperor Ming's grandson

Chapter 23 How to solve the empty seal case?
Mao Xiang did not answer, but at this time, silence was already the answer.

"Oh, interesting, really interesting!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely angry and laughed back: "The whole world has hidden such an important matter from me. If my eldest grandson hadn't known about it and told us, would we have been kept in the dark for the rest of our lives? We are really alone. 'ah!"

Killing intent suddenly rose from his heart.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's inner anger had reached its peak.

Facing the furious Zhu Yuanzhang, Mao Xiang quickly knelt down and kowtowed, letting the blood on his forehead flow on the bluestone, because he knew very well that there was no use in explaining anything at this time, and the only right thing to do was to hurry up. Admit your mistake.

"Your Majesty, I am punished by death! I am punished by death!"

At this moment, Zhu Biao also arrived.

Zhu Biao already understood the cause and effect of the matter. At this time, he saw that his father's anger was about to lose control. If he did not step forward, I am afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would really go on a killing spree.

After all, for Zhu Yuanzhang, corruption among civil servants and cliques for personal gain were the two most intolerable things for him.

The former comes from Zhu Yuanzhang's painful memories of the Yuan Dynasty officials' oppression of his family during his childhood; the latter is Zhu Yuanzhang's most untouchable incarnation as the embodiment of imperial power.

"Father, have you forgotten what the Queen said?"

Hearing Zhu Biao's words, Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. He glanced coldly at Mao Xiang, who was kowtowing.

"Death penalty? It's not your turn to die yet."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes became sharp: "I will spare your life first, and I will go with the Jin Yiwei to investigate this matter thoroughly. Which ministries, temples or local yamen are involved? Who are the officials involved? If we can't find out, I will let you go." Meet the eldest grandson."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Mao Xiang breathed a sigh of relief. Although the Hu Weiyong case made the Jinyiwei famous, it also offended too many people. He also vaguely felt that his situation was not good, and he might be pushed out by the emperor at any time to calm the anger of the officials in the court. .Fortunately, the emperor did not hold Jin Yiwei too accountable for not reporting the matter, and for now he was only investigating, not arresting people immediately.

In fact, if Empress Ma hadn't repeatedly warned that the "big case" would cause great trouble to the eldest grandson, Zhu Yuanzhang would have already ordered the Jin Yiwei to start arresting people, and then started a new round of big cases. .

But when Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it, it was Da Sun who told him the truth to avoid being deceived, but what if he backhanded a bunch of Da Sun's enemies?
Even a stranger would never repay kindness with hatred, let alone his own grandson. There is a saying that a tiger's poison will not eat its seeds.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt a sense of gratitude to Zhu Xiongying in his heart.

——Thanks to our eldest grandson! If our eldest grandson hadn't told me, I would still be deceived by these traitors!

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang suppressed his anger and just asked Mao Xiang to dispatch Jin Yiwei to investigate, instead of immediately launching a major case.

However, due to a combination of circumstances, Zhu Xiongying reduced the turmoil in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, this is beneficial to the entire Ming Dynasty. Although officials need to be purged, the "cutting leeks" model of purge is still unnecessary. After all, although there are many people who want to be officials, if a qualified local official is trained, It still takes a lot of time. Once these people are wiped out, the entire Ming Dynasty's state machine will inevitably have operational failures.

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang had calmed down, Zhu Biao advised again: "Father, killing is useless, let's find a way to solve the problem." Since Zhu Yuanzhang had given up on killing people at this time, his natural idea was to solve the problem.

"We're not going to kill anyone. Let's talk about it. What can we do?"

Unfortunately, no one answered.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked around at his surrounding ministers and suddenly felt a little lonely.

If Mr. Liu Bowen of Qingtian or Song Lian, the first civil servant of the founding of the country, were here, I think they could provide him with some countermeasures. Unfortunately, there is no capable civil servant around him now. But who can blame him?
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the surrounding ministers who were shrinking like quails with their heads lowered, and was furious again.

"What's the point of raising these drunken and rice-bags like us?"

These close ministers of Zhu Yuanzhang, the so-called "Four Auxiliary Officers", were established after the dismissal of Zhongshu Province in the 13th year of Hongwu's reign. The official names are the Four Auxiliary Officers of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, and their status is ranked between Gong and Hou. , and then the governor, and the incumbents of the fourth auxiliary officers were required to take turns on duty within a month to assist the emperor in handling government affairs. This was a small experiment by Zhu Yuanzhang in the official system.

Zhu Yuanzhang's expectations at that time were very good. He said, "The ruler of the world must be able to rule the world without auxiliary ministers. The auxiliary ministers must be honest men. Yesterday, the ministers were common people. Now they assist the emperor to take charge of the people's lives. They stand out and show their ancestors." "The celebration between heaven and man is flourishing in drama." However, in fact, these selected scholars did not have the ability to assist the emperor.

Because of this, just this year, Zhu Yuanzhang imitated the old system of the Song Dynasty and re-established the grand masters of Diange, namely Huagaidian, Wuyingdian, Wenhuadian, Wenyuange, and Dongge, but now only Wenhua The number of bachelors in the palace is full, but the others are empty.

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly, turned to the chamberlain and ordered: "In passing on our decree, we ordered Shanxi Chief Envoy Si You to participate in politics, Wang Jing, to return to the capital and become a bachelor of Huagaidian, and Dong Lun, a bachelor of Zuo Chunfang, to be transferred to a bachelor of Wenyuange. Follow me around."

As soon as these words came out, although they were not very harmful, they were obviously very insulting. The faces of the four assistant ministers were burning. Although they had no idea, they could not help but feel uncomfortable in their hearts.

At this time, Wu Yuan, one of the four assistant officers, suddenly raised his head.

Wu Yuan, courtesy name Xingchuan, was born in Putian, Fujian Province. He served as Quanzhou Luxun in the late Yuan Dynasty and as professor of the Imperial College in the third year of Hongwu. He was a scholar who read poetry and books.

"Do you have an idea?"

Wu Yuan shook his head and whispered: "Fundamentally speaking, things like empty seals are caused by the distance being too far and the communication is not smooth. It is an unsolvable problem for us, but His Highness Prince Yu has great magical powers!"

Wu Yuan's meaning is very obvious. To untie the bell, you must tie the bell. We are all mortals. You ask us, isn't this embarrassing us? Just ask His Highness King Yu directly!
When his subordinates frankly admitted that he was indeed not good enough, Zhu Yuanzhang had nothing to say.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little embarrassed that he had to rely on Da Sun to solve the problem. After all, Da Sun had to recruit troops to help people like them above to prevent disasters, and he had to pay a huge price to find medicine, but he couldn't help at all. superior.

But now Zhu Yuanzhang really can't think of any good countermeasures for a while, so he can only hope that Da Sun will come up with a good solution.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked towards the tombstone and asked across the sea of ​​yin and yang.

"Dasun, what is your solution to the empty seal?"

Everyone, including Zhu Biao, Wu Yuan and others, pricked up their ears at this moment and stared closely at the Yin Yang Qi Hai, which had obviously grown in size.

(End of this chapter)