Chapter 489 Ask Lao Zhu for Money
Zhu Su hurriedly responded to Tian, ​​because he didn't want to get too involved with these criminals, making people think that he was trying to snare power.Although Fang Xiaoru is a naive politically, there is a saying that is correct, Mao Xiang does have the appearance of the eagle watching the wolf.

Although Zhu Su believes that even if Mao Xiang is the resurrection of Sima Yi, it is absolutely impossible to escape Zhu Yuanzhang's palm.

But we must also prevent him from slandering in front of Lao Zhu or even Zhu Biao, saying that he is benevolent to officials and has the heart of coveting high positions.

The fact that the prisoners were dispatched to Liaodong, Yunnan, soon no one cared about them anymore. After all, what happened next could be called earth-shattering: Emperor Hongwu ordered the prison officials involved in the empty seal case to be questioned. Officials involved in corruption who were captured during the Kongyin case were all officially punished.

Lao Zhu even created a very creative punishment for this.As long as the gold and silver involved in the case exceeds 60 taels, they must be directly peeled and stripped!

What is peeling and pulling grass?It is to peel off the human skin completely, make it into a bag, fill it with straw and hang it for public display.

Within a few days, all the gates of Yingtian City were covered with creepy human skin puppets.A huge stone tablet was placed at the entrance of each major government office, with sixteen characters written on it:

Your salary, your salary, the people's fat and people's ointment.

The people are easy to abuse, but the heavens are hard to bully.

On the back of the stele, there is another grass puppet of a corrupt official who has been stripped of its bark and real grass. When every official takes office, he has to take a tour of these two "scenic spots" in his yamen, thinking that he will warn himself.

This is customized by Daming, and it will never be easy.

The mass-produced dolls of corrupt officials really frightened the surviving officials. Every day they went out to go to the government, they had to write a suicide note, for fear that they would be caught by Jin Yiwei and used as raw materials.If Ping'an came home from Yamen, he would hug and weep with his wife, step over the brazier to get rid of bad luck, and even become a scene in Ming Dynasty.

In private, officials generally commented that the emperor was a bit too cruel.

However, unlike the officialdom, there is not much discussion among the people about torture such as peeling and pulling grass, as in history.The reason is that before execution of every batch of officials who are peeled and weeded, they will conduct a public trial according to the method Zhu Di used before, and put all the dirty things done by those officials under the sun and make them public.

If you can find the sufferer, you have to find the sufferer face to face, so that you can make compensation.

This approach convinced the common people that the emperor was not simply cruel.Although the common people seldom read books, they are not stupid.Through repeated public trials, they also knew that the reason why the emperor did the flaying and weeding was to deter those corrupt officials.

To put it bluntly, it is for the sake of the people.

Therefore, unlike the eccentricity of the officialdom, the folks support the imperial court's move with enthusiasm. Even if some people feel unbearable and shed tears of sympathy for those grass puppets, they will be woken up by the people passing by: The guy who hanged him is a corrupt official!What is there to sympathize with!
You shed tears for him, those poor people who were forced to death by corrupt officials, have any corrupt officials ever shed a tear because of this?
After hearing this, public opinion suddenly surged like a mountain, drowning all the civil servants who were still trying to stir up public opinion.

The civil servants were terrified. This was the first time scholars like them had lost control of the weapons of public opinion in the world.

Now they can only hope that something will happen to Chao Gang.After all, the empty printing case involves a lot, and there is a huge shortage of officials.Even if the suspension of the court is caused by this, it is not impossible.If there is such a big mess, they can take advantage of the situation and persuade the emperor to stop punishing the company for the sake of world affairs, and give them a good officialdom.

However, even such a small extravagant wish is destined to be impossible for them to realize.At the time of this employment, the former Prime Minister Li Shanchang, who had already retired, stood up and temporarily took over the household department that was almost slaughtered, maintaining the operation of the court.

Li Shanchang is the assistant examiner of the Enke Examination. Speaking of it, he also has some connections with the newly established taxation department.Coupled with his prestige as the first minister of the founding of the country, even if he does nothing but sits in the household department, he can easily maintain the daily operation of the household department.

Moreover, in the imperial prison, officials from the old Huaixi line who were innocently imprisoned because of the Hu Weiyong case, and because of the previous death protection of the prince Zhu Biao, had to escape the catastrophe and were relegated to various places. Under his command, he provoked the mainstay of the government.

The operation of the Ming court, not only did not slow down because of the empty printing case, but it became more efficient than when the Qingliu officials were in power.

……

"This is the end of the empty seal case." Zhu Su and the three brothers Zhu Biao and Zhu Di walked on the road to the palace.Zhu Biao said to Zhu Su with a smile. "This time dad took advantage of the situation and accomplished a lot in one go."

"It not only eliminated those former officials, but also cracked down on corrupt officials. It was like a big wave washing sand, and real useful court officials were selected. At the same time, the power of the cabinet was also increased, and the experience of the cabinet ministers also increased. It seems that to It is also within sight to completely replace the Ministry of Education."

"Well, I hope that after this case, Daming can really become one." Zhu Su also sighed.It's not easy, after killing so many people, these days, he feels that the whole Yingtian Mansion is full of eerie aura, almost every few steps he takes, he can see a dangling human fur doll.

When I first saw him, Zhu Su still vomited, but afterward he got used to it.

But after Lao Zhu killed him like this, the whole Ying Tian felt really different.The officials worked hard, and the common people were beaming and vigorous. They all said that with such a good emperor who made decisions for the people, the lives of the common people would gradually get better.

In the Ming Dynasty, a prosperous age can be expected!

"By the way, big brother, do you know how much money Daddy gave out this time?" Zhu Su suddenly asked Zhu Biao. "The commercial taxation of the Taxation Department has been extended to the merchants of Quanyingtian, not only the relatives of officials. I read the financial report, and the commercial tax alone has already brought in hundreds of thousands of money this season."

"There are also gold and silver treasures copied from the homes of those corrupt officials and old riches. Even if there is a need for the poor to find them and return them, the big ones must still be eaten by the inner treasury in the palace."

"How much money is there in Curry now? Is there 2000 million?"

"Twenty million?" Zhu Biao was taken aback. "You have such a big mouth! Where did you get so much money? Besides, if you ask me this, is there bad water hidden in your stomach?"

"Coveting father's money, what do you want to do with it?"

"Hey." Zhu Su sneered, and cried poorly: "How can this be called coveting. Isn't this repairing newspapers, promoting new learning, and the Imperial College, all of which need a lot of money?"

"There is also the mass-produced steel that the third brother is researching, the new artillery that Mu Ying is researching, as well as shipbuilding and military training. Which one does not require money? I am also helping them..."

"Brother, you don't know. These days, my brother, I used my own money to fill these big holes. It rained the other night, and my brother's bedroom leaked!"

"I don't even have the money to repair tiles! Tell me, there has ever been a prince like me!" Zhu Su cried poorly.

"And me, the Xiuchun knife in my hand was chopped off when I was executed in South Street last time!" Zhu Di also saw the needle and joined the ranks of crying poor.

"I want to ask dad for a hundred and eighty weapons and armor. Isn't this too much?"

"These days the outside of the womb is moving money into the inner treasury every day, dad must have this money!"

Zhu Laosi has been staying in the palace every day recently, and with a single mouth, he betrayed Lao Zhu's current status of being very rich.

(End of this chapter)

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