When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he slowly exhaled. This was the end of the matter, not to mention that he was unwilling to kill Ma Nanshan in his heart.
If Yang Xian were to find out that Ma Nanshan had embezzled money and could not pay back the stolen money, Zhu Yuanzhang would have no choice but to scare the monkeys in order to maintain law and order. But now that the stolen money could be returned, there would be a chance to turn a major issue into a trivial one.
After a while, guards escorted Ma Nanshan over. He looked disapproving. He knelt on the ground and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "I am guilty. Please deal with it, Your Majesty."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him and said: "You are so brave! You dare to cut corners in the imperial examination. You can't rebel if you want to!"
Ma Nanshan said seriously: "I will definitely not dare to rebel. Anyone who dares to rebel against Your Majesty will be beheaded by me!"
Zhu Yuanzhang's face became a little better: "Then you can do such a scandal?"
Ma Nanshan replied calmly: "Hey, this is indeed what I did."
Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he didn't even want to look at him anymore: "Can you have some dignity, you, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, if the imperial court doesn't have enough food or clothing for you, isn't the imperial salary enough for a fool like you?"
Ma Nanshan said with an unconvinced look: "It's really not enough! Your Majesty, all the brothers in the Fengyang old camp have been promoted. Zhang San and Li Si have built houses and properties, and have several wives. Just us. There is not even a decent woman left in this downfall.”
Zhu Biao on the side couldn't help but laugh. This guy also came from the army. He fought in many battles, big and small. Logically speaking, he had accumulated a lot. How could he be so virtuous?
Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was just breathing heavily, Ma Nanshan said a little aggrievedly: "Finally, your Majesty found a job for us in the Ministry of Industry, but I failed after just a few days..."
Zhu Yuanzhang hated the iron and said: "Okay... okay, do you want to say this? How greedy are you?
Ma Nanshan lowered his head and said in a low voice: "It's more than three thousand taels. The people below divided it between eight hundred taels. I took more than two thousand taels myself. I bought a house for two hundred taels, and bought property in my hometown for four hundred taels." One hundred taels, the rest..."
Zhu Yuanzhang kicked him: "Shameless, you still have the nerve to report the debt to us! Go and hand over the two thousand taels to the Ministry of Works immediately!"
Ma Nanshan hesitated and said, "Our flowers are gone. This is too..."
Zhu Yuanzhang kicked Ma Nanshan backwards with another flying kick: "Are you worthy of embezzlement? Get out! Get out!"
Ma Nanshan got up and touched his head: "No matter what we do, we will not be dissatisfied with my brother. We will just say whatever the Lord asks!"
Zhu Yuanzhang pointed at Ma Nanshan angrily and was speechless. Seeing that he was about to close his breath, Zhu Biao hurriedly stepped forward to support his father, and gave him relief with one hand. He glared at Ma Nanshan, a living treasure, and drank: "Alright?" If you don't go to the Ministry of Works and block the money!"
Ma Nanshan knew now that he would not be able to escape if he stayed any longer, so he agreed, patted his butt and left.
On the other side, the Zhongshu Provincial officials were still carefully inspecting the Enke examination room. Li Shan sighed and winked at Hu Weiyong, asking him to stare at Mananshan. This piece of shit was very muddy. If His Royal Highness were to be harmed again, The money was wasted, but it became a big joke.
Zhu Biao helped Zhu Yuanzhang sit down on a step. Although there were tables and chairs in the Enke examination room, who knew whether they would collapse.
Zhu Yuanzhang took a long time to calm down. If someone else made a mistake, he would kneel down and beg for mercy, and he would just give him a lesson. As a result, he encountered this donkey-like thing.
Zhu Biao persuaded him a few more words, and then Zhu Yuanzhang waved to Li Shanchang and ordered: "Strip him of his official position, beat that idiot fifty times, and then escort him directly to Tang He."
Li Shanchang accepted the promise and left, and Zhu Yuanzhang asked Yang Xian to be responsible for rectifying the Enke examination room.
Zhu Yuanzhang led his son back to the imperial study. When he entered the room, he saw Mao Xiang kneeling on the ground. Zhu Biao glanced at him without saying anything and went back to his seat.
Mao Xiang said: "I have betrayed the trust of the Holy One and caused such a big mistake in the Enke examination room. Please be punished by the Holy One!"
Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly: "You also go to get the thirty big boards and find out who colluded with Ma Sandao to embezzle money and bend the law?"
Mao Xiang immediately replied: "It's the Li family in the city. Their family is in the building materials business. The head of the Li family has been appointed. They embezzled a total of 6,000 taels and divided up more than 2,000 taels in Mananshan."
Zhu Yuanzhang's anger, which he had originally accepted, suddenly became choked up: "Didn't Ma Sandao say that the total is more than three thousand taels?"
Mao Xiang also twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "It seems that he was also deceived."
Mao Xiang was actually very aggrieved. He never expected that Ma Sandao could have the idea of taking bribes, so he was going to be beaten thirty times for nothing.
Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he said, "Haha, you are so brave. I thought I had just used Ma San Dao to steal a few hundred taels, but I didn't expect that they still got the big head." "
Mao Xiang continued: "Not only that, they also made off with Ma Nanshan's two thousand taels. They introduced a prostitute to Ma Nanshan, hooked up with Ma Nanshan to pay for her ransom, and then took the money and returned to Li." At home, Mananshan loses both its people and money..."
Zhu Yuanzhang held his head tiredly and ordered: "Ransom the house and behead all the key personnel in public."
Mao Xiang immediately agreed and left. Zhu Biao stood up and poured a cup of tea for his father: "Veterans like Ma Nanshan have an upright temperament. There is really nothing they can do except kill people and fight. It is really inappropriate to place them in the Sixth Department."
Zhu Yuanzhang took the tea and said: "It is true that they are upright, but the only one who can be so upright is this Masandao!"
Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and said, "Is our salary really not enough?"
Before Zhu Biao could respond, he retorted: "No matter how much you give them, it won't be enough. Instead, they will become even more greedy!"
Zhu Biao advised: "People's hearts are like this, but there are indeed officials who stick to their true intentions. They don't take bribes and bend the law, but their lives are very tight. But after a long time, they can't help it when they see their colleagues plundering money. .
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "Then add some, but you have to wait until this time the limelight passes, otherwise it will not be decent."
Zhu Biao naturally said a few words about his father, Emperor Shengming, and then the father and son began to review the memorial again.
Zhu Biao suddenly saw a memorial from Yang Jing, the Marquis of Yingyang, which said that Ming Sheng, the leader of the Xia Kingdom, was unwilling to surrender. Now he didn't know how to deal with it, so he asked Zhu Yuanzhang for instructions. The following records the recent political situation of Xia Kingdom.
Zhu Biao frowned and thought for a while. The leader of the Xia Kingdom, Ming Sheng, seemed to be about the same age as him, but he had been on the throne for three or four years.
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