"Your Majesty, I still have a lot of things to do in my yamen. I kindly ask you to go back to court as soon as possible to deal with it."
An official said.
"No, don't go back today."
"Inform the imperial kitchen to cook more food. The ministers are still hungry."
After rejecting the official's request, Zhu Youjian said to the little eunuch beside him.
"Yes." After receiving Zhu Youjian's order, the little eunuch ran out to deliver the order.
"The visitor gave a seat to an official who has passed the age of 50."
"If any of you need to relieve yourself, tell the little eunuch next to you."
Zhu Youjian said.
There is something going on in the court. The officials don't want to see Zhu Youjian's stinky face, and Zhu Youjian doesn't want to see the officials' stinky face either.
But in order to give the people an outlet, let the officials all over the world know where Zhu Youjian's rebellion was, and let the people all over the world know that their emperor had them in his heart, Zhu Youjian still let the officials stay.
Not only that, reporters from Daming News were already waiting outside the court.
The day after tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest, most areas of the Ming Dynasty will know about this and know that they have an emperor who is dedicated to the people.
Time flew by, and two hours passed quickly.
Zhu Youjian, who was sitting on the dragon chair with a sore buttocks, finally waited for the commander of the Jinyi Guards to ask for a meeting.
"Your Majesty, you have lived up to your Majesty's trust. Although the criminals have been arrested, accompanied by Mr. Lu and reporters, the 36 victims have been correctly identified. The murder instruments and fake Jinyiwei clothing were also found from their hiding places. "The Jin Yiwei commander knelt down and said.
"Bring them up."
Zhu Youjian said.
"Call the witness and the defendant." Under the message of a group of Han generals, the witness and the defendant were soon brought to the front of the palace.
What meets the eye. The red and swollen eyes of the victims' family members became even bigger, which showed that they cried less on the way back.
The defendants were burly and tied with ropes as thick as thumbs, and their faces were covered with fresh scars.
--At first glance, he was beaten by the victim's family members.
"Where is Shi Kefa? You will try this case." Zhu Youjian said.
Shi Kefa was born in Xiangfu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province. Because of his ancestor's contribution to the imperial court, he was able to inherit the Jinyi family and was called the Beijing Jinyi Wei.
In the first year of Chongzhen (1628), Shi Kefa became a Jinshi. After seeing this name, Zhu Youjian immediately thought of this anti-Qingming general who would rather die than surrender.
Although Zhu Youjian's only impression of Shi Kefa was that he was an anti-Qingming general who would rather die than surrender, this was enough.
So, with a wave of his hand, Zhu Youjian asked Shi Kefa to go to various places in the Ming Dynasty to see the lives of the lower class people as a member of the Jinyiwei Hundreds.
In the 6th year of Chongzhen, after many years of inspection, Shi Kefa was transferred back to the capital by Zhu Youjian and served as the Minister of Punishment.
Now Zhu Youjian is asking the other party to interrogate him. On the one hand, it is because, although this matter is big, it is not worthy of Zhu Youjian's lowering his status for interrogation.
Secondly, Zhu Youjian wanted to take this opportunity to take a look at Shi Kefa.
If the other party does a good job, he will definitely be at odds with the officials, and then the Minister of Punishment can go home and retire.
"As you command, Your Majesty."
Shi Kefa responded:
As an official who was promoted at a rocket speed, Shi Kefa has never forgotten what he said when His Majesty sent him out to check the details of the people: "The life and death of the country depends on the thoughts of the people, and the life and death of the people depends on the thoughts of the officials. All officials are focused on the law and discipline.
If we cannot have high demands on officials and the emperor, and always clean up the garbage among officials, the country will be ruined, the country will be destroyed, and the family will be destroyed tomorrow. "
Shi Kefa didn't care at first. After all, Shi Kefa was only in his early twenties. He was a spiritual young man. He was familiar with the books of sages. He thought that the court officials were protected by the books of sages. Except for a few, most people didn't care at all. Maybe the dog officer.
But after traveling around the world, he realized how funny his previous thoughts were.
"An official with clean sleeves", the cost of one meal has already exceeded his monthly salary.
"The official is eating at your house because he cares about you. Why do you still want to collect money?"
"It's a blessing for your family that I like your girl."
"Creating things out of nothing, buying and selling by force! Telling lies with open eyes."
The dignified prefect is actually the mastermind behind a certain gang of human traffickers.
Along the way, as Shi Kefa's experience continued to increase, he became more and more disappointed with the officials of the Ming Dynasty and the so-called sage books.
He didn't understand why, even though they were well-read sages and sages, those who were in office had already forgotten all their propriety, justice, integrity and shame.
After returning to Beijing, Shi Kefa, who was full of doubts, met with Zhu Youjian. Zhu Youjian asked him another question: "Do you know if a father and son robbed a tomb, why would the robber have the son at the bottom and the father at the top?" Looking for the wind?"
Although Shi Kefa has never been a tomb robber, he still knows things that everyone in the tomb robbing world knows.
When robbing a tomb, if it were not the father and son who robbed the tomb, then when the tomb robber entered the ancient tomb, once he got something valuable, the people watching outside would most likely kill him and silence him, and keep the wealth for himself.
So when it comes to tomb robbing, it’s best to go it alone.
If two people go there, the father must stay on guard outside and let the son go in to rob the tomb, because the father will never hurt his son no matter how tempting he is.
After thinking about this, Shi Kefa suddenly became enlightened.
All questions have answers.
Benefit!
Human nature is selfish, and it is not uncommon for husbands and wives to turn against each other and fathers and sons to become enemies for the sake of profit.
"There is a lot of gold and silver in the world, and less than 20% of the royal family, officials, landowners, and businessmen occupy more than 80%. The remaining 80% of ordinary people only occupy a mere 20%.
Even so, those 20% who are not short of money are indeed hoping to snatch 20% of the gold and silver from ordinary people all the time. --Even if it may lead to the destruction of mountains and rivers, the destruction of the country and the destruction of the family, they will not stop.”
“History always says that the country’s demise was caused by the stupidity of the last emperor!
Yes, if the country dies, the emperor has an unshirkable responsibility.
But in my opinion, the emperor only accelerated the process. At least 80% of the real cause of the country's collapse lies with officials.
The decline of a country cannot be accomplished in an instant.
Embezzling military pay, embezzling disaster relief funds, forcing officials to rebel against the people, withholding pay, and abolishing the strength of the military are all done by civilian officials who are full of benevolence, justice and morality.
If the court wants to collect taxes from those who are extremely wealthy, those civil servants will always say that the court is competing for profits with the people.
What should the court do if it has no money? Those civil servants would let the court squeeze the people to death. "
As soon as Shi Kefa figured it out, Zhu Youjian lost control and lost a lot of theories to the other party.
Later, Shi Kefa became a staunch follower of Zhu Youjian. After Zhu Youjian promoted him to the minister of punishment, Shi Kefa has been leading people to study and improve the Ming law.
It can be said without politeness that Shi Kefa is the person most familiar with Ming Law in the entire Ming Dynasty.
