Daming: My grandfather is Emperor Hongwu!

Chapter 149 There is no absolute, only relative.

The so-called catastrophes are all made by themselves.

The old man, Emperor Hongwu, can be called the emperor who has zero tolerance for corrupt officials throughout the ages.But even so, in the world of officialdom, the rolling heads can't stop the officials from being greedy for money.

Of course, not everyone, before the catastrophe strikes.With the determination and courage of servant Xu Jinshen, Daming's Ministry of Punishment was wiped out overnight.

One of the two servants who were in charge of inspections by the inspectors in various places died and the other was arrested.Among the other ministries, only Yuanwailang, one of the doctors involved in the Sheji case, did not escape.And those clerical staff who usually work in the Yamen, etc., were all sent to prison.

Overnight, the prison in Fusi in Jinyiwei Town was overcrowded.

Not only were these people imprisoned, but their family members were also locked up and imprisoned, waiting to be released.

After a night of commotion, the officials who went to court at dawn, when they walked out of the house, they all remembered the various major cases in the past few years.

Hu Weiyong case, Guo Heng case, Kong Yin case, etc.

The emperor in the Forbidden City either didn't kill people, or he couldn't hold back his knife once he started killing people.The emperor will not stop until the sky is dim and the earth is dark, and the blood flows into rivers.

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Just after dawn, Jin Yiwei's fellow acquaintance Jiang Yu entered the palace and reported to Zhu Biao.

"Why have so many people been arrested?" Zhu Biao looked at the list in his hand, there were hundreds of names densely packed, "Almost all the officials of the Ministry of Punishment have been arrested?"

Jiang Yu bowed and said, "The Zhen Fusi is arresting and interrogating at the same time. You also know that those officials have no ethics. After two whips, they will scramble randomly. Some things and nothing will be pulled out. many!"

"What do you mean there is nothing?" Zhu Biao said angrily, "What did you say?"

"It's what they did in private these years!" Jiang Yu whispered, "I heard that several officials from the Ministry of Punishment who have been transferred to other places are also involved, and Mao Dutang has already sent people to arrest them! "

"He, Mao Xiang, is really not afraid of big things!" Zhu Biao frowned, "And Zhan Hui, these two people together, it's just like..."

"In addition to the Ministry of Punishment, the Imperial Academy has two masters who were also arrested!" Jiang Yu looked at Zhu Biao's face and continued, "After all, that idiot Zhang Kangnian confessed that he chose officials through the Imperial Academy's network!"

After saying that, he paused, "Speak more, my minister!"

Zhu Biao sighed, "Say it!"

"The matter of Zhang Kangnian's selection of officials and going out of his way is probably more difficult than the matter of the Ministry of Criminal Justice!" Jiang Yu said, "The matter of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the case in Changshu, the people who dealt with it were arrested, and the Zhou family, a wealthy businessman in Changshu, was arrested and killed. Killing, that's about it. But the selection of officials by the Ministry of Officials, once it's real."

"I understand!" Zhu Biao closed his eyes in pain.

Why doesn't he know the stakes and stakes in this, there are two things in everything.The person surnamed Zhang took part in the selection of officials as a bachelor of the Imperial Academy, and someone helped him talk about Xiang.That must have happened before.

The old man hated such things to the bone.

It's fine if you don't know, once you know, all the old things will be dug up, the relevant people will be found out, and everyone will be killed.

The officialdom of Ming Dynasty, in the 16th year of Hongwu, was destined to usher in a catastrophe.

Zhu Biao didn't feel pity for these violators. What he cared about was that once the old man went on a killing spree, the cruel officials would stir up trouble.Such a killing will affect many innocent officials.

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"Grandfather, why don't you eat?"

At the dinner table, Zhu Xiongying frowned deeply, looked at the old man with the memorial in his hand, and asked in a low voice.

"Hey, how can we still eat!" The old man sighed, "My dear grandson, come here!"

Zhu Xiongying put down the bowl and chopsticks, went over obediently, and was held in the arms of the old man.

"Look!" The old man's callused fingers pointed at the memorial in his hand, "It's densely packed with names, hundreds of them!"

"All of them, corrupt officials?" Zhu Xiongying asked, "But because of the case of the Ministry of Criminal Justice?"

"That's right, not all of them!" The old man gritted his teeth, "Behind every name is a case that we don't know about. Those who are greedy for ink, those who help others talk about crimes, those who cover others, and those who help others cover up, Those who colluded with each other, and those who pretended to be ignorant!"

"How many years has it been since the founding of the country!" As he said, the old man sighed, "Our Daming, how did it become like this? These officials, why are they so unafraid of death? Don't they know that there is only one head, and if it is lost, it will not grow. come back?"

Zhu Xiongying understood why the old man sighed like this.

Taking the case of the Zhou family in Changshu as an example, it seems that a few petty officials exercised power, but it can only be four words when it is investigated deeply, and the officials and officials protect each other.

Officials in this era are not only a kind of power, but also a kind of system.When they want to give the green light, when they hold their hands high, no one can restrain their behavior.

Among them, it is not seen that some of them deliberately did this.For some things, some officials look at favors and face, thinking of being in harmony with the past.So it led to the emergence of a series of subsequent things.

"We have repeatedly asked the officials to seek their own government in their positions, but why can't they do it? Why can't they kill people who take benefits in private and do things in private!" The old man frowned deeply and sighed.

"Grandpa, don't feel sorry for him!" Zhu Xiongying comforted him, "Rule of man is inevitable!"

"Rule by man?" The old man thought for a moment, "What do you mean!"

"It's people who rule the world!" Zhu Xiongying laughed. "As long as you are a person, you have selfishness, and you will inevitably be biased. When you have power in your hands, you are superior, so naturally you can do whatever you want?"

"You are right!" The old man pondered again, and said, "We are the emperor, but it is the officials of the world who do things. We have two eyes alone, and we can't keep an eye on them." Then he sighed again, "We When I was a child, I suffered from corrupt officials and those high-ranking officials who did nothing, and after I became emperor, I thought about how to make all officials in the world virtuous!"

Hearing the old man's rambling, Zhu Xiongying felt a little sour in his heart.

Although the old man is the emperor, he is indeed an emperor with clear love and hate.He has a deep stubbornness about the views of officials in the world.But at the same time, a little too much.
He thought he could kill the lawless, and if he couldn't, he couldn't kill it.

He thought that the officials would be able to hold the mirror high and do what should be done.No, no.

He wants to create a country where officials are responsible for their duties, work diligently, and officials are as clean as water.No, it's impossible.

"Rule of man!" The old man said the word again, pondering, "All dynasties and dynasties have been ruled by man, this method is not acceptable! The official system is corrupt, and the people no longer trust the court, let alone the emperor. That's how we came here back then. "

"But why don't people use it? How to use it?" The old man continued, "We have established a method. Officials who embezzle 50 taels will peel off their skins and fill them with grass to light up sky lanterns, but they still go their own way, like leeks, cutting waves one after another. !"

As he said that, he sighed again, "It seems that there are not many corrupt officials in this world, but I can't help but dig deeper! If you catch one, you will pull out a long list!"

Zhu Xiongying smiled, "Grandpa, the legal system is not good. Think about it, the legal system is dead, but people are alive! Laws need people to implement them!"

The old man suddenly laughed at himself, "According to what you say, there is really no other way!"

"Grandfather! In fact, my grandson wants to say that there is no absolute justice in this world, only relative justice!" Zhu Xiongying said seriously, "There is no absolute in anything, only relative!"

(End of this chapter)