Daming: My grandfather is Emperor Hongwu!

Chapter 144 Thunder (1)

Even though it was time for the imperial city to be locked, the old man gave an order to keep the door open for the ministers who were about to enter the palace.

For an emperor like the old man, never talk to him about the rules.In his heart, he always puts work first.Any rules must give way to work.

"Is everyone here?" In Kunning Palace, the old man asked several times.

"Return to the emperor's words!" Pu Guochang said, "Almost all the ministers have arrived, but" he said, quietly observing the prince Zhu Biao.

"Only what?" The old man said angrily, "You slave, are you starting to speak indistinctly too?"

Pu Guochang has served the old man all his life, knowing his temper, he hurriedly said, "There is still Korean Gongshang on the way!"

Zhu Biao was next to the old man, and laughed in a low voice, "Grandpa Han is getting old, so it's hard for him to call him into the palace so late!"

"Late?" The old man snorted, "We heard that Li Shanchang often reads at home in the middle of the night!"

Zhu Biao smiled and said nothing.

Zhu Xiongying watched with cold eyes, and could guess a thing or two about the conversation between the two in front of him.

The Korean Duke Li Shanchang is gradually fading out of the center of power in the court, which is a happy thing for everyone.After all, with the temper of the old man, it is impossible for the leader of the Huai official group to wield enormous power.

But there are some things that you can't just quit if you want to.

In fact, the biggest root cause of Hu Weiyong's case was the old man's attack on the Huai people's bureaucratic group.And Li Shanchang, even if he retreats bravely now, he has to arrange many things and many people.

The old man felt that Li Shanchang was a little slow to retreat.

The prince Zhu Biao felt that the old man was too harsh on Li Shanchang.

In fact, how to treat Li Shanchang is now in the old man's mind.On the one hand, this meritorious official represents the bureaucratic group of the Huai people. There are too many former students and old officials, which is against the balance of the court.

But in some respects, in terms of state affairs, Li Shanchang, the big housekeeper who has been in charge of internal affairs for a lifetime, is really indispensable.

The lights in the palace became brighter again, and the palace people who knew that the old man was angry were more cautious.

After half a stick of incense, Pu Guochang came in, "My lord, everyone is here!"

"Go!" The old man got up and said to Zhu Biao, "Go to the front!"

Zhu Biao nodded and followed behind the old man.

But just a few steps away, the old man refused to turn around, walked up to Empress Ma, stretched out his hand to pull Zhu Xiongying, "Grand grandson, come with us!"

"It's getting late, Brother Ying is going to bed!" Queen Ma said.

"What's the point of sleeping in front of such important national affairs?" The old man frowned. "In the future, the whole country will be his. It's better for him to learn a little bit early now than to be caught blind later!" As he said, he pulled Zhu Xiongying over, "Come on. , dear grandson, follow us!"

"Okay!" Zhu Xiongying was pulled by the old man, and he couldn't refuse even if he wanted to.

The old man dragged Zhu Xiongying to the outside, and Zhu Biao quickly followed him.

"Go away, don't get so close to us!" The old man said to Zhu Biao.

Zhu Biao sighed aggrieved slightly, and pulled some distance away.

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"The minister waits to meet the emperor!"

"Meet the prince!"

"Kowtow to see His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun!"

The place to meet the courtiers is the Spring Harmony Palace of Prince Zhu Biao, and the old man led Zhu Xiongying in with great strides.

The old man was tall and had big steps. Zhu Xiongying swung his short legs and struggled to keep up.

Li Xin and Chen Jing, ministers of the Ministry of Officials.The servant of the Ministry of Punishment Kaiji, the left and right governors Zhan Hui, and Tang Yougong were all present.At the front of them is the white-haired veteran Han Guogong, Li Shanchang.

They knelt on the ground, and their predecessors were endless.

The old man strode past them, first he held hands and let Zhu Xiongying sit down beside him, then he looked at these courtiers, and didn't let them get up, but kept his face sullen and didn't speak.

The hall was quiet, as if under the light of daylight, Zhu Xiongying noticed that the temples of Shangshu Kaiji, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, were faintly covered with crystal sweat.

Zhu Biao stood beside the old man, peeking at the old man's face, "Get up!"

Everyone dared not, and lowered their heads even more.

"The prince told you to get up, why are you still kneeling?" the old man shouted.

"I wait and thank Your Majesty Long En!"

"Thank you for what we are doing, the prince asked you to get up!"

"The minister waits to thank the prince!"

This scene made Zhu Xiongying a little funny.

At the same time, it also moved Zhu Xiongying's heart.

Because the old man doesn't usually have a good face towards the prince Zhu Biao, but when outsiders are around, he always gives the eldest son the greatest face and the greatest support.He loves this son to the core.

All the ministers got up and stood slightly bent over with their hands down.

"Come on, please give the Korean Lord a seat!" Zhu Biao said again.

"Don't dare, I dare not sit in front of the emperor and the crown prince!" Li Shanchang said hastily.

"If I tell you to sit, sit down!" The old man looked at the other party, and found that the other party was old, and his tone gradually softened, "Why do we feel that you are getting older every time we see you now?"

"The minister is dying!" Li Shanchang said with a smile, "It is indeed old!"

"Hey!" Seemingly thinking of this subject's past achievements and friendship, the old man's tone became a little softer, "Then it's not so old? Is there something to worry about at home?" As he spoke, he paused, "Let's ask the imperial doctor to take a good look at you later, and then let the inner library send you some supplements!"

Speaking of this, he sighed, "Old Li, we have been busy all our lives, and we have only had a good few days. You should cherish your body!"

Li Shanchang was grateful, "Chen, thank Your Majesty for your kindness!" He said, cupping his hands and saying, "I am a down-and-out scholar, it is my honor to meet Your Majesty!"

"What are you talking about between us!" The old man laughed, "Just have it in your heart!"

As he said that, the old man's smile restrained, and he looked at everyone majestically, "You know everything?"

"My lord is guilty!"

"I apologize!"

After the old man's words fell, among the courtiers, Li Xin, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment offered to help, and quickly knelt down again.

"The ministers and other officials are missing!"

"The minister is not strict!"

"Okay!" The old man waved his hand and frowned, "Do you know what is annoying us the most?"

As he spoke, he paused, and continued, "What annoys us the most is you people, who kneel down and plead guilty whenever something happens!"

"Apologizing for the crime? It's all gone. Don't look for the root cause, don't look for the source, don't think of a way, just know how to plead guilty. We gave you high-ranking officials and rich salary, and the Ming Dynasty raised you. Is it for you to plead guilty?"

Several courtiers were dripping with cold sweat, not daring to breathe.

The emperor in front of him was notoriously talented, but at the same time he was also notoriously difficult to serve, and even more notoriously difficult to mess with.

"Department of Punishment?" The old man continued to ask, "It's from your yamen, let's talk about it one by one!"

"Your Majesty!" Kai Ji, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, said, "Hearing that His Majesty delivered the decree, I hurried to the Yamen to read the relevant documents on this matter!" As he spoke, he took out two written documents and handed them to the eunuch next to him.

"Of these two copies, one is the document file that was supposed to be sent to Changshu's procuratorate to behead the prisoner."

"One copy was sent to the Ministry of Punishment by the Procuratorate of Henan Province, saying that there was no such person in the investigation, let alone the writing of the case!"

Holding the two documents, the old man sneered and said, "Oh, so, it's really what the surname Zhang said. A small official deliberately sent a document that should have been sent to Changshu to Henan!" As he said, Looking at the archived documents, the official seal printed in the middle of the gap, he was even more furious.

"Who gave him the courage to cheat so crazily in broad daylight?"

The seam is the edge between each page of the written document.In order to prevent people from abusing the official seal, when the yamen stamped it, each page was staggered, and the seal was printed on the edge of these pages.

Now, the archive in the hands of the old man only has half of the mark.

In other words, when it was stamped, it was archived and sent to Changshu, and stamped together.

However, the text was sent to the Henan Press Office, and it was obvious that someone deliberately wrote it wrong on the cover of the book.As a result, the official sent the text and sent it to Henan.

"Who is in charge of this matter?" Zhu Biao asked.

"This case is under the jurisdiction of the school team under the jurisdiction of the Lang Zhong of the Punishment Department of the Ministry of Criminal Justice!" Kaiji said, "The person who handles it is his secretary! His name is Chen Guangxin. He was born as a scholar in the third year of Hongwu, and he has been working as the secretary of the Ministry of Criminal Justice."

"Oh!" The old man suddenly sneered, "Just now we heard people say that such a scandal happened in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but they wanted to pick it up but were afraid of going to war. People's hearts are unstable, so we can only pinch our noses to admit it. Now it seems that it is a bunch of nonsense!"

"Where the relationship is too deep will not be found for a while, it's because you don't want to find out!"

"I'm guilty!" Kaiji hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, "I really don't know about this matter, I just accepted the Ministry of Punishment not long ago."

When he was talking, Pu Guochang came in and whispered something in the old man's ear.

Zhu Xiongying leaned forward and vaguely heard the word Jin Yiwei.

"Don't talk yet!" the old man said to Kaiji, who quickly kept his mouth shut.

The old man looked at the officials and said, "It's recruited over there, let Mao Xiang come in and talk!"

(End of this chapter)