After a period of rigorous interrogation and the revelation of many clues, in addition to these big bosses, many departments of the court were exposed.
As a result, about 150 officials and officials, large and small, were captured.
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In addition to a few senior officials, many petty officials below gave full play to the traditional skills of petty officials and great corruption, and devoured state funds inhumanely.
Many project orders issued by the Shangshu Province were secretly devoured by certain people after they were issued and before the national funds were released from the treasury, which brought the traditional skills of the bureaucracy to the extreme.
Most of the senior officials were unaware, but there were some who knew the inside story but did not stop it. Instead, they secretly took advantage and existed as their patrons.
In a rage, Su Yonglin issued the highest directive, to sentence him to death if he could and would not tolerate it.
Under such instructions, the joint team of the three judicial divisions conducted extremely severe interrogations and penalties on criminal officials and accomplices.
Cao Kai, the former right minister of the Ministry of Finance, was sentenced to twenty years in prison. The whole family was sent to Jishi Prefecture in the border area. He was not allowed to return if he was pardoned, and his descendants were not allowed to take the imperial examination for three generations.
Zhou Jiang, the former Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, was sentenced to twenty years in prison. He was sent to Jishi Prefecture in the border area. He was not allowed to return if he was pardoned. His descendants were not allowed to take the imperial examination for three generations.
Chen Jichang, the former left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was sentenced to death. He was sent to Jishi Prefecture in the border area. He was not allowed to return if he was pardoned. His descendants were not allowed to take the imperial examination for four generations.
His criminal clan member Chen Miao was executed for embezzling 5 million yuan from the Yellow River Project. The rest were sent to Jishi Prefecture to do hard labor in order to repay the national money.
Huo Jianbai, the minister Youcheng, was sentenced to be dismissed from his post and imprisoned for four years. All the family officials were dismissed and deposed as common people. His direct descendants were not allowed to take the imperial examination.
His criminal nephew Hoge was executed, and the clan members who assisted him in corruption were also executed. The rest were all sent to the border state of Jishi to do hard labor and repay the embezzled national funds.
Han Xianling, the right minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was sentenced to dismissal from his post and imprisoned for four years. All family officials were dismissed and deposed as common people. His direct descendants were not allowed to take the imperial examination.
His brother Han Jue, who committed the crime, was executed. His relatives and friends who were implicated were executed, and the rest were sent to Jishi Prefecture in the border area.
Wailang Yeluyi, a member of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was first executed for corruption. Those who were involved in the three ethnic groups were executed, and the rest were sent to Jishi Prefecture in the border area.
Finance Minister Wailang Yelu Yixing, Shangshu Provincial Member Wailang Sun Yixin, Shangshu Provincial Director Yelu Hudugu, etc. were punished for the main crime of corruption or accessory crimes. Those with minor crimes were punished by Zhili, and those with serious crimes were punished by the three clans.
The most harsh and shocking punishment was that of Kong.
The two branches of the Kong family, Kong Fan and Kong Zhi, were destroyed. These two people were beheaded in public. Many men in their families were executed for participating in crimes, and the rest were all sent to Jishi Prefecture.
The main branches of the Kong family, Kong Zheng and Kong Li, were basically destroyed.
As the speaker of the Kong family, Kong Zheng knew the family's ills without reporting them, and as a high-ranking official of the empire, he engaged in malpractice for personal gain. Therefore, he was sentenced to thirty years in prison, which basically declared the end of his political and physical life.
As the magistrate of Qufu County and the person in charge of the affairs of the Kong family, Kong La knew the family's ills and failed to report them. He ignored the country's favor and was sentenced to twenty years in prison. Like Kong Zheng, he had no future.
After the family members were examined, it was found that those who had committed crimes were either executed or sentenced to prison terms. The rest were all sent to Jishi Prefecture because they were too implicated.
No one in the entire Kong family was forgiven, and even the branches scattered in other places were ordered to be wiped out by Su Yonglin because of these connections. No one was left.
Those who have relations and cooperation with them are basically subject to strict scrutiny. Anyone with problems will be caught without mercy, and all traces of the Kong family in Shandong will be wiped out in one fell swoop.
Of course, all the properties of the Kong family, including money and real estate, etc., have entered the state treasury, all shops have been confiscated into the state treasury, all tenants have been registered as civil servants, and all servants in the family have become good people and returned to civil registration.
Because of the special situation, the whole process did not even take more than a month. The Kong family and almost 15,000 of their servants were dismembered by the violent machine of the imperial court within a month.
The related upper class society in Shandong was also dismembered by Ming Ting in the next three months, and everything was eaten and digested, leaving only one survivor.
The emperor lightly wiped out the Kong family within Shandong Province, as if the family had never existed.
All traces of the Kong family in Qufu County, where the traces were most serious, were also wiped out. Even the family's collection of books was escorted to the Zhongdu National Library for collection. The Kong family's ancestral home was also demolished, and all the items inside were escorted to Zhongdu. .
Su Yonglin plans to open a national museum in Zhongdu City in the future, and put all these things in the museum for people all over the world to visit, so that they can understand this absurd but reasonable period.
This will be a piece of history, a testimony, a trace of culture, rather than a symbol of power or religion.
After all, these things that were once kept secret were not made by the children of Kong, so they should eventually return to the group of their true creators and become a part of culture, not a part of power.
From this moment on, the Kong family and the feudal power they represented came to an end. In contrast, in the anti-corruption storm represented by the handling of the Kong family, officials who were found to have committed crimes were punished. Ming Ting dealt with it without mercy.
Once a crime is committed, at least two generations of direct descendants are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, and at the most serious level, four generations are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, which is basically equivalent to the destruction of the family.
A large number of criminals were exiled to the frontier military town of Jishi Prefecture, where they would perform the most arduous and cruel labor under the supervision of the border guards. In this way, they could earn hard-earned money to repay the national treasury as punishment for their corruption and violation of the law, and it would serve as a warning to the monkeys.
Su Yonglin used this anti-corruption storm to declare to the world that if you commit crimes in the Ming Dynasty, you must be prepared to implicate your descendants. Before you choose, you must first think about your descendants!
With such a decision in mind, Su Yonglin ignored any objections and dispatched the Yanyun Corps of the Zhongdu garrison to search and escort the criminals in large numbers in the capital, and hunted them all down.
Interestingly, when Su Yonglin sent people into the Kongfu Mansion in Zhongdu to ransack the house, more than fifty Confucian scholars appeared outside the Kongfu Mansion in Zhongdu. They had messy hair and bare feet, lying on the ground and crying, and were not allowed to go and search the house. judicial officers entered.
Whenever a judicial officer wanted to enter, these Confucian scholars would rush forward and hug the legs of the judicial officer tightly, preventing them from entering, crying something like "If Confucius does not exist, the country will not be a country". Attracting a large number of onlookers.
Kong Maojie, who presided over the liquidation, immediately ordered judicial personnel to arrest all the more than fifty Confucian scholars and throw them into prison.
But this did not stop the actions of the Confucian scholars. Soon, more than a hundred Confucian students appeared at the door of the Confucius Mansion to prevent the judicial officers from liquidating the Confucius Mansion.
Kong Maojie personally sat in the Kong Mansion and arrested them all.
But these Confucian scholars are obviously not afraid.
A Confucian scholar who was caught in front of Kong Maojie yelled at Kong Maojie.
"You have done something that no one has done for thousands of years. This is disrespectful to the saint! The spirit of the saint is in heaven! He will punish you! He will punish you!"
Kong Maojie had a cold face and showed no emotion.
"The saint didn't come to save me when I was about to starve to death. From then on, I didn't believe in the saint. If he comes, he will come. If he comes, I will fry him in the pan."
The Confucian scholar was stunned and couldn't say a word until he was tied up and taken away.
Su Yonglin was not sure whether this was someone's secret instigation or a spontaneous act by these Confucian scholars.
He prefers the latter, because what he is exploring is the foundation of all Confucian scholars. The sorrow of the rabbit and the fox can make some people lose their minds and even risk their lives to protect their own interests.
Regarding this kind of behavior, Su Yonglin used to be inclined to use political means to attack and kill people, but now he thinks about it, doing so only postpones the problem.
It's better to let them emerge together, clean them together, and deal with them all together.
In the final analysis, this is a revolution, not a power struggle. What is important is liquidation, not attack.
Therefore, Su Yonglin now prefers physical means.
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