The officials held their breath and looked at the woman standing at the front with strange eyes.
Princess Yan Xu Miaoyun,
From the day he came to Yandi, Xu Miaoyun's reputation as a virtuous man became famous throughout the Ming Dynasty.
This feeling is very strange. It is obvious that there is a familiar person in front of me, but she feels completely different from usual, making people feel familiar and strange at the same time.
Xu Miaoyun's eyes did not dodge at all, and slowly swept over the faces of every official in the palace, looking carefully and slowly.
Wherever they looked, the officials couldn't help but lower their heads, not daring to look at him, for fear that they would follow in Mr. Huang's footsteps.
Compared with the old foxes in Beijing, the officials in Yandi must be too far apart. If it were in Beijing, Xu Miaoyun's power grab would not be so smooth.
But in Yandi, this one move shocked all the officials.
Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth, apparently unresponsive to the situation in front of him.
Xu Miaoyun saw that there was no more thorns to cause trouble, so she said,
"Huanbu, Tian Hongkai, Zhao Hui, Yu Ruida, Jiang Maosheng..."
Xu Miaoyun named more than twenty names in a deep voice. All the officials whose names were called were stunned and did not understand the deep meaning of the princess's move.
For a moment, the officials had strange expressions. They looked at the officials who were called out with envy in their eyes, thinking that this was the new leadership team established by the princess.
Xu Miaoyun's voice was smooth, and he named a dozen more names in succession. When the open space in the middle of the palace was occupied by about forty officials, the atmosphere in the palace became quiet again.
The gazes of the officials who were not named around them also gave the officials standing in the main hall the illusion that they were the direct descendants of the Princess after being named by the Princess.
The atmosphere in the palace was polarized. Officials whose names were not called looked depressed, while those whose names were called were beaming.
Xu Miaoyun paused, and after making sure that no one was left behind,
Said lightly,
"Under Your Majesty's law, officials who have embezzled sixty taels of silver will have their skins peeled off, but His Highness Shengsun is kind and has abolished corporal punishment, so he will not skin you anymore.
Qiu Fu, lead the men to behead all these corrupt officials in front of the palace, and show their heads to the public."
As soon as these words came out, the officials standing in the palace opened their eyes wide in disbelief.
Beheading officials who embezzled more than sixty taels of silver was Ye Hongwu's method, but what year was this from? !
According to this method, the number of officials beheaded by Yandi has not exceeded one hand for more than ten years!
To put it bluntly, isn't the princess using the sword of the previous dynasty to kill the current officials? !
"Empress, is there any misunderstanding? I am wronged!"
A decent-looking official begged for mercy and shouted that this was the office of Shuntian Mansion Yamen. Even he himself didn’t know when he had been embezzled, so why was he pulled out directly by the princess?
Xu Miaoyun looked at the official and said directly,
"Master Zhang, in order to help the herdsmen allocate their land, you took dozens of cattle and sheep from the herdsmen.
In exchange, it would be enough for sixty taels of silver. Why do you say you are not greedy? "
"this!"
Shuntian Mansion's breath stopped when he heard this, and he was stunned on the spot. He had collected dozens of cattle and sheep.
But, is this considered corruption? !
In the process of operating power, there will inevitably be benefits, and the greater the power, the greater the benefits.
Take the most famous money-making money as an example. In the process of coining money, it is inevitable that there will be broken silver and leftover goods. No one wants these things, so the officials in charge of coining the money just took them. Can this be said to be corruption? ?
This income is a bit gray and difficult to define, but it is more inclined to additional benefits. I am afraid that even Lao Zhu, who can't tolerate sand in his eyes, can't define Huo Hua as corruption.
Furthermore...
Lord Jiantai of Shuntian Mansion came to his senses and was not convinced by Qi Dao.
"Princess, I have collected dozens of cattle and sheep from the herdsmen, but these cattle and sheep were not collected before the work was done, but after the work was done.
The herdsmen gave me the cattle and sheep in gratitude. How could this be considered corruption?
If the princess wants to stop my official position and tell the truth, there is no need to bring out these things to ruin my reputation! "
As soon as Mr. Zhang said this, the eyes of all the officials in the main hall flashed wildly.
First there was Mr. Huang's matter, and then there was Mr. Zhang's matter, which put all the officials in Yan's territory in danger.
Logically speaking, the princess should be given a slap and a sweet date, a tug and a slap to calm her emotions.
But the princess came up and slapped her twice. Who can bear this? !
Xu Miaoyun didn't have time to decide the case here, so she looked at Qiu Fu, frowned and asked,
"What are you doing standing still?"
Qiu Fu came to his senses and led his men forward to escort a group of officials. When the guards of Prince Yan's Mansion grabbed their hands, these officials suddenly came back to their senses. They were shaking wildly and struggling violently. They also knew that if they didn't struggle, they would be in trouble. He really becomes a dead person.
For a moment, there were voices begging for mercy and cursing in the main hall, but Xu Miaoyun remained expressionless from beginning to end. She was just doing things step by step, without any emotion at all.
In the chaos, the begging for mercy and cursing suddenly stopped, and a splash of blood followed the direction of the bricks on the ground and flowed into the main hall.
Everyone opened their eyes wide and stared at the blood, slowly seeping into the palace.
The remaining officials were shaking uncontrollably.
I'm scared, I'm really scared now,
Sixty-two cuts of greedy silver, this is more like an angry remark of Lao Zhu, and the main target of this method is to target the officials in the capital. There are very few places where this method is applied.
Mr. Huang was unjustly crippled, and Mr. Zhang died unjustly.
Xu Miaoyun could know how much each official was greedy. This information naturally came from King Yan and King Jin, but why did King Yan and King Jin turn a blind eye?
Because these two people know that if the water is clear, there will be no fish. It is normal for those with power to have a gray income. As long as they can do things and don’t go too far, the leaders will not bother to pursue them.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had already proved with practical actions that this method was not effective. If he pressed too hard and killed too hard, he would not only fail to kill all the corrupt officials, but would also create more and more corrupt officials, which would be counterproductive.
Therefore, the most appropriate approach is to focus on three and missing one. The method of combating corruption must be strict, but some gaps must be left in the implementation process.
Xu Miaoyun is now forcibly killing a group of people, not just to establish his authority, but to completely eliminate corruption in a wartime state.
The shortcomings of wartime economic policies that Mr. Huang mentioned just now are all correct, but the most critical point was not addressed by Mr. Huang.
The most important factor in wartime economic policy was corruption.
Just imagine that all the grain reserves of farmers and herdsmen were confiscated and then distributed by the government on a regular basis.
Those who receive food are officials, and those who distribute food are also officials.
In the process of collecting grain, Xu Miaoyun could not do everything, and every process in every place was supervised in place.
This will give officials an opportunity to get their hands dirty.
