"I don't have it!"
Wang Wen hurriedly replied.
Zhu Yijun continued to say to Wang Wen: "Taizu asked you not to go to the countryside, so he didn't ask you not to ask about civil affairs. Besides, I have already issued a decree that officials can inspect the countryside to ask about the people's customs; besides, you said you are quiet and quiet. You are inactive and don't want to disturb the people, but why are you so inactive that in the cold winter months, other people are at home playing with their children, but the people under your command are still quarrying roads for Haoyou?"
Wang Wen was speechless for a moment.
After a while, Wang Wen argued again: "That minister is just lazy, but Your Majesty, I really did not accept any bribes."
"I think you are being lazy on purpose!"
"If you were really lazy and didn't want to be this official, why didn't you resign earlier? Or even, you didn't have to be this official in the first place."
"Do you think I'm as easy to deceive as a three-year-old child?!"
Zhu Yijun said and asked Wang Wenlai.
Wang Wen glanced at Wang Xijue.
"Don't look at Mr. Wangge. I know that you are a relative of Mr. Wangge, but this does not mean that Mr. Wangge has the obligation to protect you."
Zhu Yijun said something at this time.
Wang Wen suddenly cried and said: "Your Majesty, it is clear that I am just lazy and a little stupid, and I was played by the officials below."
"It doesn't matter whether you admit it or not. You have to bear the responsibility for the failure of the New Deal to be implemented."
As Zhu Yijun spoke, he looked at the other Huayin County officials who were escorted with Wang Wen: "And you, you know that the corvee has not been executed, but you don't want to report it, right?"
"Your Majesty, please forgive me!"
"I dare not report it!"
At this time, the county magistrate Chen Yinghong came back.
Zhu Yijun chuckled: "I think it's not that you don't dare, it's that you are unwilling. First, there is a whistleblower system, and second, if those officials below can cooperate with the powerful to capture the people for service, how can they not dare to get your approval first?"
"First, kill Wang Wen, the first offender who disobeys the decree, on the spot!"
"The rest of the assistant officials will be detained by the pro-military guards first, and then the government office will arrange for alternate officials to temporarily fill various official positions in the county."
Zhu Yijun gave orders at this time.
Nowadays, there are many people waiting to become officials in the Ming Dynasty. Especially after Hai Rui reformed the civil service system, Zhu Yijun ordered all prefectures and above to prepare a group of alternate local officials, in order to prevent officials below the prefecture from being filled first when there are vacancies. Officials should be replaced immediately, so that when the court sends out official officials to serve as chief officials, there will be no one to manage these places.
And this kind of official system in the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as a combination of the two methods of earth flow.
Wang Wen and Chen Yinghong were then taken into custody.
And Wang Wen was pressed on the wooden stake used for beheading.
"Your Majesty! I dare not be lazy anymore. Please give me a chance!"
Not long after, Wang Wen's neck was cut off by Wei Peng, and a human head fell off.
Zhang Daoxian and others happened to see this scene when they were being escorted.
Therefore, as soon as Zhang Daoxian and others saw Zhu Yijun, their legs softened and they knelt in front of Zhu Yijun.
Zhang Dao
"I remember that you served as Chief Secretary and Councilor for one term?"
Zhu Yijun said something else at this time.
Zhang Daoxian replied yes.
"Then it stands to reason that you know the national policy?"
Zhu Yijun asked again.
Zhang Daoxian nodded: "Clear!"
"Then your Zhang family doesn't have money to hire people?!"
"You have to collude with officials, disrupt national policies, and force the people to serve your Zhang family. If you don't know, you think you are the emperor!"
"Chen Lard was deceived and forgot about the majesty of God. In order to save some money, he forgot about new gifts and did not regard the common people as human beings. He felt that it was nothing to ask the common people to contribute in this winter. Anyway, their strength is now It is inexhaustible, and the common people will not be dissatisfied because they were captured by the government during their leisure time to give more strength to a right-wing minister like me. They will act boldly, but forget to consider the interests of the country and the nation. Let the people take advantage of the slack to consume more and learn more about the policies."
Snapped!
Snapped!
When Zhang Daoxian said this, he slapped himself, and then another slap: "I deserve to die, I really deserve to die!"
"You do deserve to die!"
"Who can use the power of the people? The imperial government!"
"Before, only the imperial government could organize the people to contribute in their spare time for the country's long-term plan or for the long-term peace and prosperity of the area under their jurisdiction. You are just a family. What qualifications do you have to use people's power? What's more, now even the court and government have to use people's power. You have to sign a deed to hire slaves, so you'd better just let the government be your Zhang family's minions and let the people serve the Zhang family. What's the difference between you and the government forcing your people to be slaves?"
As Zhu Yijun spoke, he asked Wang Xijue: "Mr. Wang Ge, whose world do you think belongs to this world?"
"Your Majesty, naturally this is your Majesty's world, and it is also the world of everyone in the world."
Wang Xijue replied.
Zhu Yijun said again: "Since it is my world and the world of everyone in the world, what qualifications does the Zhang family have to serve the people of the world privately?! Does he regard himself as the master of the world and the Zhang family as the royal family of the world? "
"Your Majesty, yes, this is a conspiracy to commit treachery."
Wang Xijue replied in a deep voice.
Zhang Dao
"Don't you even have the slightest sense of kindness to your fellow humans?"
"Even if you give those people a salary of one copper per month, the nature is different!"
"In this way, I can still treat you as the fact that the Zhang family hired them, and I will not punish you according to the conspiracy, or even deal with you without any reason."
At this time, Zhu Yijun suddenly expressed his sorrow to Zhang Daoxian.
Zhang Dao Five hundred thousand silver dollars to atone for your sins!”
"late!"
"Even if you give each enslaved people a salary of 10 taels and 20 taels a month now, it will be useless."
Zhu Yijun suddenly became serious again, and said: "Behead him! Since he admits that he deserves to die, let him die, and then hang his head in the county seat, so that other big families in the city will remember it!"
"Remember, it is easy for the people to be abused, but it is difficult for God to bully you!"
Snapped!
Zhu Yijun suddenly shouted loudly and slapped his palm on the table.
"yes!"
Zhang Daoxian was dragged down and pressed against a wooden stake that had just dyed red in the snow.
Wei Peng raised his knife and dropped it.
A bright red human head fell to the ground again.
Zhu Yijun then looked at Zhang Daoke who was dripping water under his clothes: "Are you scared?"
Zhang Daoke trembled and nodded: "Your Majesty, please forgive me, this matter has nothing to do with me, it was all done by my brother alone."
"Since we now know how to be afraid, why didn't your brother know how to be afraid when he did the treasonous thing of enslaving the people?"
Zhu Yijun continued to ask.
"My lord, my lord, my lord, I forgot to be afraid."
Zhang Daoke replied with a crying face.
Zhu Yijun sneered: "I forgot to be afraid. It seems that the impression I gave you is too gentle. I need to deepen your fear of the imperial power."
"Cut it too!"
"In the Zhang family, all men over the age of sixteen are guilty of enslaving their compatriots while having no loyalty to the emperor, refusing to inform the family leader of his rebellion, and even acquiescing to the family leader's treasonous intentions, so they are all to be executed!"
"Men under the age of sixteen can be regarded as not yet sensible and incapable of distinguishing right from wrong, but they have the benefit of being enslaved to the common people and serve as a warning, so they are only exiled to Luzon as a people;"
"All the female relatives did not kill them because they did not know the clan's foreign affairs and it was difficult to go out. However, they also had the benefit of enslaving the people. As a warning to others, they were all exiled to Luzon as a people."
Zhu Yijun then issued an order on how to deal with Zhang Daoke and the entire Zhang family.
"Your Majesty! Please spare me the death penalty. I don't want to die. I really don't want to die!"
Zhang Daoke burst into tears because of this, and many other people in charge of the Zhang family also sobbed and cried.
But the power of the emperor is like thunder and lightning, how can it be easily overturned.
Soon, Zhang Daoke and other men in charge of the Zhang family were beheaded.
However.
At this time, Jin Shen Yu Shangsi, an in-law of the Zhang family and the former left minister of the Ministry of Punishment, who came over after hearing that something was going on with the Zhang family, shouted outside: "Yu Shangsi, the former left minister of the Ministry of Punishment, wants to see your majesty!"
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said: "Let him come!"
Not long after, Yu Shangsi walked up to Zhu Yijun on his bloody porridge with a sad face.
Zhu Yijun looked at the silver-haired Yu Shangsi: "What does Yu Qing want to say?"
Yu Shangsi said: "Your majesty, even if the soldiers and the people are guilty of lawlessness, can't they get a little mercy? Such killings will bring peace to the world!"
"They enslave the people and don't want to do Tianhe?"
Zhu Yijun asked back, stood up again, looked at Yu Shangsi and said: "You gentlemen in the countryside, if you can seriously preach the new etiquette and the new policy to the people for the imperial court, I need to be here at the foot of Huashan Mountain today. Kill so many people?!"
"You are unwilling to sincerely let the people know about the new etiquette and new policies, forcing me to use divine punishment! It can be seen that what caused all this today is that you are unfaithful and unjust, have no king and no father, and have forgotten your responsibilities!"
After Zhu Yijun asked, he pointed at Yu Shangsi and started talking again with a sullen face.
After hearing this, Yu Shangsi trembled, knelt down, lowered his head and cried: "I am so embarrassed by what I said!"
"snort!"
"You can save yourself if you know how to be ashamed of yourself. Otherwise, the favor of the court will be in vain."
Zhu Yijun left here after saying that.
Zhu Yijun then continued to lead his own army towards Xi'an.
And the news that he would go to places incognito to check on people's sentiments during his personal expedition also spread further and further in this direction.
As a result, many right-wing bureaucrats became increasingly panicked.
At the same time, Li Ruhua, the censor of Shaanxi Province, came to the place where Zhu Yijun was temporarily stationed to ask for an interview.
After Li Ruhua met Zhu Yijun, he admonished Zhu Yijun: "Please, for the sake of the longevity of the emperor's destiny and the peace of the world, please stop disturbing local politics through personal conquests!"
(End of chapter)
