Lao Zhu also wanted to kill all the corrupt officials here, but he had no evidence. If Lao Zhu has ten thousand pairs of eyes and can keep a close eye on all these officials, then Lao Zhu will definitely not let go of any corrupt official here.
"Don't worry." Lao Zhu became angry again and said in a cold voice: "I will kill one when I see one, and kill a pair when I see two. I will kill all the corrupt officials in the world. You are not the first, and you will not be the last. .”
When Guo Huan saw the dead end, his face turned ferocious and he completely fell into madness, "Your Majesty, officials have been corrupt since ancient times. There are so many corrupt officials in the world. Are you finished killing them? Are you finished killing them!"
"I will kill one by one, but I don't believe that there will be a bright future." Lao Zhu took a deep breath and made the final decision to Guo Huan, "Here comes someone."
"Here." The guards outside the palace came in as ordered.
"Drag Guo Huan down and punish the three tribes by peeling daylilies."
"Follow the order."
Guo Huan was dragged away by the guards. He kept struggling and shouted unwillingly: "Your Majesty, you can't kill all the corrupt officials in the world. You can't kill them all..."
After Guo Huan was taken away, Lao Zhu's anger did not subside, but intensified.
"Guo Huan said that I gave him too little, and he would not be able to survive without corruption. I ask you, do you think I gave him too little?"
The officials bowed their heads and remained silent, no one dared to speak.
After a while, Lao Zhu saw no one answered, so he continued: "If anyone feels that the salary I gave him is too small, he can leave now. I will never hold him accountable and will give him an extra half year's salary. Is there anyone willing to leave? ?”
Lao Zhu sat firmly on the dragon chair, looking at all the officials intently, and waited for a long time to have a cup of tea.
Then he said: "It seems that there is no, or no one is willing to leave, which means that the offer I gave is not small. Since no one is willing to leave, then if anyone dares to embezzle in the future, I will definitely punish him severely. In addition, Guo Huan and the others can't do such a big thing. There must be someone above the court who is colluding with him. Since I asked you to leave just now, don't blame me for being unkind."
"There is a strict investigation by the Division, and I will interrogate you personally. Retreat from the court!"
The DPRK retreated, but the officials were not as relieved as before.
, but moved away mechanically with their own thoughts. People who had connections with Guo Huan felt even more uneasy, and even regretted not simply resigning just now.
"First Evolution"
Everyone is still looking lost and no one has noticed anything strange about them, but they really don't have the slightest confidence in whether they can get away with it in front of the emperor.
A storm broke out in the early morning and swept across the entire Ming Dynasty. I originally thought that the early morning scene was the peak of the entire incident. After all, a second-level official was convicted and imprisoned. But then Baiguan realized that it was just the beginning, and it was far from the end.
In the following days, officials were imprisoned almost every morning because of Guo Huan's involvement. Later, it even developed to the point where officials were arrested every day. While some officials were still sleeping, their doors were broken open, dragged out of their beds, and thrown directly into prison cells where they were tortured.
For a moment, all the officials were afraid of being under Lao Zhu's butcher's knife, and they were in panic all day long.
Under such high-intensity pressure, even those officials who had nothing to do with Guo Huan couldn't stand it and had to look up to find a way to end all this. Those officials who had evil intentions were desperately trying to find a straw to catch them.
In an instant, hundreds of officials rushed to the East Palace like a tide. The East Palace now looks exactly the same as when Fengtian Palace went to court. Six ministers and ministers from each department gathered in front of Zhu Biao.
"Your Highness, more than a hundred officials have been arrested in Guo Huan's case so far. That's enough." Ren Ang, the Minister of Rites, advised Zhu Biao sincerely, "Why don't Your Highness the Prince just report to the Emperor and end it here? "
Zhu Biao has no choice. He doesn't dare to get involved in this matter now. As far as Zhu Biao knows now, this is not the first time that Guo Huan and others have stolen official grain. It was just because the quantity they had stolen before was small and they were cautious, so they were not discovered. I don’t know why they are crazy this year. Even though the harvest is bad and the entire Ming Dynasty is in short supply of food, they still dare to steal and sell like crazy.
This matter is no longer just a matter of corruption, stealing and selling official grain. Compared with the recent days when people generously donated grain to Henan, Guo Huan’s
What humans do is simply inferior to animals.
Faced with the officials' pleading, Zhu Biao was helpless, "My father is now determined to get to the bottom of this case and will not let any corrupt officials go. Not to mention being alone, even my mother is here." Even now, I can’t persuade my father.”
When all the officials heard this, they all looked sad and felt sad. They all scolded Guo Huan in their hearts for being too greedy, and even if he wanted to die himself, now he was dragging everyone down. However, now Guo Huan has been imprisoned in prison, waiting for the case to be concluded, and he will be sentenced to skinning daylilies. No matter how much they hated Guo Huan, they couldn't rush into the prison and beat him up.
Wang Huidi, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, sighed and said: "Your Highness, even if you can't persuade me, you still have to find a way to persuade me. Now the prison of the Ministry of Punishment is almost full of the Gonggun princes above the court, and the court is already in turmoil. If things continue like this, I’m afraid even the world will be unstable.”
"Yes, Your Highness, all the officials are in panic all day long. How can they think about handling government affairs? If the government's decrees are not smooth, I'm afraid the world will also start to turmoil."
Faced with the officials' persuasion, Zhu Biao was not as tough-tempered as Lao Zhu after all, so he nodded in confusion and agreed.
After Baiguan left with hope and satisfaction, Zhu Biao suddenly realized that he hadn't even thought about how to mention this matter to his father, so why had he rashly agreed to it?
But now that the matter was over, he didn't have the face to call the officials back, so he had to bite the bullet and come to find his father. As soon as he arrived outside the palace gate, he saw the old eunuch standing outside.
When the old eunuch saw Zhu Biao arriving, he quickly took two steps forward, stopped Zhu Biao, and asked, "Why are you here, Your Highness?"
Zhu Biao nodded and said, "Is your father here? I came to see my father for something."
"It's true that the Emperor is here," the old eunuch said hesitantly, "but why would His Highness come to see the Emperor at this time?"
"What's wrong? Is there any inconvenience?" Zhu Biao asked doubtfully.
The old eunuch looked back at Jinshen Palace, sighed and said to Zhu Biao: "Your Highness, please listen to the old slave's advice. If Your Highness doesn't have anything too important, you'd better come back at another time. Now the Emperor is working for Guo Huan is furious about the matter."
