Since Zhu Houzhao became the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, he has encountered many people who opposed him, but most of the time it was a dispute between ideas and values, such as corrupt scholars such as Wu Kuan and Cheng Minzheng.
They did not purely engage in political activities that were only for their own benefit, but they just felt that the country could not act like the prince.
This is the first time that something like this has happened.
Zhu Houzhao wandered around the palace for a long time, and suddenly an idea came to his mind. He also wanted to have a conversation with this kind of people. The so-called knowing your enemy and knowing yourself. There will probably be more of these people in the future.
"Liu Jin, go and pass the order and ask Mou Bin to bring the prisoner. Don't torture him. I don't like him entering the palace covered in blood. By the way, bring Zhang Mian with him."
After all, he is the soul of the 21st century,
He would not be lenient on how to deal with criminals, whether they were exiled or beheaded, but he would not tolerate goosebump-inducing torture, such as burning people with red-hot iron or pricking their fingernails with needles.
I used to feel pain just watching TV series.
Liu Jin was slightly startled after hearing this. The prince's decree was quite special.
It's just that he arrived a little late. Jiang Guan had already been tied up and whipped twice, but he was a ruthless person and didn't say a word.
Liu Jin was afraid of bleeding, so she quickly informed Mou Bin, "Commander Mou, tell people to stop. His Highness said, kill whoever deserves to be killed, but don't torture him."
Jiang Guan also heard this sentence, and felt relieved after hearing it. Although he said nothing, the pain was not fake.
"Your Highness actually wants to see him?" Mou Bin was a little surprised.
"Just follow the orders. Can we guess His Highness the Crown Prince's thoughts?" Liu Jin looked at Jiang Guan with a sinister smile, "I just gave him an advantage."
Zhu Houzhao found a pavilion with good ventilation in the palace and sat down. The weather was no longer hot at all, and it would even be cold outside in a while, and he would have to stay indoors at that time.
When people brought him there, he was playing with wooden swords with Mei Huaigu and others, and he was sweating all over, as if it was a way to let off steam. Then he took the handkerchief from the hand of the palace maid, wiped it, and came to the two people led by Liu Jin.
"Your Highness... people have arrived."
The prince motioned for him to step aside, and then glanced at the two people.
Zhang Mian has a narrow head and a wide face. He is fat and ugly. Jiang Guan, on the other hand, has broad shoulders and a round waist, and looks strong.
Given their status, if it hadn't happened this time, they still don't know when they would have met the prince.
Zhang Mian was bent on begging for a living. When he saw the prince, he began to cry and confess, "Your Highness! The guilty minister was confused for a moment and allowed Jiang Guan to deceive his mind. The guilty minister heard about Jiang Guan's gossip that day and immediately expressed his disapproval. Participate! Please be magnanimous, Your Highness, and spare the life of the guilty minister."
Zhang Mian was arrested first, but he confessed everything, so he was not beaten much. There was a long mark on Jiang Guan's chest.
Zhu Houzhao glanced at Liu Jin and said,
Liu Jin was agitated and said, "My slave, you are a little late."
"Forget it, I think this man is in good spirits." Zhu Houzhao ignored Zhang Mian and said to Jiang Guan, "Zhang Mian started begging for mercy when he got here. What about you? Don't you want to beg for mercy?"
Of course Jiang Guan also knelt down.
He doesn't think about himself, but also thinks about his family. If he is still unruly at this time, isn't he just waiting to be punished by the Nine Clan. ….
"The guilty minister Jiang Guan pleads guilty and is executed. I beg the prince to grant me death!"
His hair is still disheveled and he still smells bad. For a court official, he ended up like this. Most people should be like Zhang Mian.
But this Jiang Guan was much calmer.
What a desperado.
"You don't need to be in a hurry to die. After living for so many years, you don't care about taking a few more breaths. As the old saying goes, people are kind to their words when they are about to die. Jiang Guan, you have just wanted to die. You must have no scruples about what you say. Now I I’ve given you this opportunity, don’t you have anything to say?”
[To be honest, I have been using @ recently.
The energetic prince.
His face was rosy, and beads of sweat had just appeared on his forehead. This reminded him of how high-spirited he was when he was a teenager, and he never imagined that it would end like this.
"Your Highness, what do you want to ask?"
Zhu Houzhao really has a question, "You are also a Jinshi and have read the books of sages. The books of sages say that the people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the most important. Do you think that I am investigating Taipu Temple and its subordinate officials for harming the people?" Is this the right thing to do or wrong?”
It seems unnecessary to ask such a question to such a prison officer.
Jiang Guan also found it difficult to answer this question for a while. Zhang Mian was annoying people nearby and said, "What your Highness did was certainly right!"
"Shut up! I didn't ask you!"
Jiang Guan sighed, "Your Highness, why bother asking the guilty minister such a question. The guilty minister is already a capital offender, right or wrong, what's the impact?"
"You can't answer because you know that being an official must serve the people. This has been your principle since elementary school. People like you talk about benevolence and morality and shut up about morality and justice, but when it comes to the people, he doesn't look down on those people. People. Is what I said correct?"
Jiang Guan raised his eyes. He had always heard about this prince, but this time he actually saw it. He didn't understand, "Your Highness, did you call the two guilty ministers here to reprimand them in person?"
"No, I... want to save your lives, but I want you to be the housekeeper."
These words made Jiang Zhangmian tremble. He was a man whose heart was exhausted, but suddenly he had hope of living, and suddenly there were more things he cared about.
Jiang Guan was a little moved when he heard the first half of the sentence, but gave up on the second half, "Your Highness, you'd better kill me. I don't want to be a mahu."
interesting.
"Even you don't want to suffer the suffering of Mahu, but you are appointed as the young minister of Taipusi Temple, but you are opposed to my efforts to alleviate the suffering of Mahu."
Jiang Guan said: "Your Highness is still a young man. There are some truths that are not written in the books of saints, and the elders and ministers may not tell them to Your Highness, so Your Highness does not know. But Jiang Guan is about to die, and there are some things that Jiang Guan can say. Let your Highness listen. Your Highness knows that it is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. As the saying goes, you are among me and I am among you. Jiang Guan is not the only one in the court who is like this. Your Highness will not be able to get rid of them all if he wants to. In the past Later, Your Highness will also know that everyone in the world reviles Jiang Guan, but everyone in the world will be Jiang Guan."
Liu Jin's expression changed. This Jiang Guan was dying, and his speech was very bold. ….
"Jiang Guan! Don't be so arrogant! You are so shameless, and you still want to implicate others until you die?"
Liu Jin probably thought that the prince would be angry again when he heard this.
But unexpectedly, Zhu Houzhao just sighed and said, "What you said is quite right. You are in me, and I am in you...the world's bad things are caused by these eight words."
"Your Highness..." Eunuch Liu was a little worried about the Crown Prince's mood.
But Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and said, "I'm fine. You have to die before you tell the truth."
Jiang Guan didn't expect that the prince actually listened to his words.
In fact, Liu Jin's rebuke was correct. How could he, a guilty minister, arrogantly say, "There is no way to get rid of him." But what surprised him was that the prince said he was right.
"Your Highness is wise and wise, and you are the only one who has ever seen a guilty minister in his life."
"When these words come out of your mouth, they should not be flattering, so I will not believe them. But although you are right, I still want to kill you." Zhu Houzhao suddenly felt that Jiang Guan was a bit like a modern man. The deputy wanted to protect his shadow, but he still couldn't survive. After all, he was not respectful in front of the prince, so how could he do it without killing him?
"As for you Zhang Mian... I hate you even more than Jiang Guan. He is a real villain and you are a hypocrite. But if I don't kill you, you can become a horse household from now on. Do you think Jiang Guan can't You are smart, and you don’t know how to ask for mercy when you come to the East Palace, but I tell you that life sometimes suffers more than death. Jiang Guan is an open-minded person, and he will be relieved in the future."
"The guilty minister Jiang Guan, I pay my respects to His Highness the Crown Prince of Ming Dynasty and thank His Highness the Crown Prince for granting death!"
This guy even shouted this out of anger.
Zhu Houzhao felt a little depressed, as if he was tired, so he just let it go
Waving his hand, "Liu Jin, follow the order."
"yes!"
After everyone left, Zhu Houzhao called over the other eunuch Gu Dayong. He lay on the brought recliner and ordered, "Go and inform the cabinet. Ask them to appease the ministers and don't worry about me being too harsh." , that Zhang Mian sincerely begged for mercy, and I have spared his life. As for other people who have really harmed the people, they will all be dealt with according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty and will not be forgiven."
"Yes." Gu Da nodded carefully, not daring to express his anger.
"If you send the imperial edict to the Imperial Guards again, if you want to use torture in prison, you must ask for an edict before doing so."
These two sentences reached the cabinet,
Liu, Li and Xie, the three pavilion elders, all felt a little sad in their hearts.
Liu Jian, in particular, is the one who understands the prince the best. "Well, the country is in a difficult situation and there are rats all over the place. Your Highness is also in trouble. Especially this second decree is even more benevolent and righteous. Your Highness..."
The old man in his sixties actually had red eyes.
People who have not experienced those times have no idea of the horror of Jinyiwei's prison.
Qu Shishu, a poet in the late Ming Dynasty, said: "In the days of Wei and Cui, anyone who belonged to the evil gang was Fan Tiqi. If one belonged to Ti Qi, he would be sent down to suppress him. His soul would return to the water and fire. It was so cruel that it was unspeakable. If he could be transferred to the judicial department, he would not hesitate to go to heaven. The joy is also.
That is to say, although they are all in prison, if they can be transferred from the imperial prison to the justice department and locked up somewhere else, it will be as happy as entering heaven.
In particular, veterans like them all experienced the Chenghua Dynasty, and the factory guards at that time were very harmful.
Now that the prince has such a will, it can be seen that although he is strict with his ministers, he is kind and righteous in his heart.
"I must praise Your Highness for this move!" Li Dongyang said firmly every word.
But Xie Qian thought of another story. The East Palace has never done anything meaningless. This time, it suddenly made such changes in terms of punishment in prison. It seems that His Highness was because the ministers in the court petitioned Your Majesty to resume morning and afternoon dynasties.
In the final analysis, Hongzhi was still liked by literati. On this point, no matter how clever Zhu Houzhao was, he could not defeat Hongzhi.
But this time Dong Gong's move was hard but soft, soft but hard. Since ancient times, it is rare for someone to record his benevolence and righteousness while going on a killing spree.
And both of them make sense. Benevolence and righteousness are due to the restriction of torture, while killing is due to their oppression of the people.
awesome.
However, Xie Qian has also learned to be smart. In the past, he would tell the story of his methods to see the prince, but this time he just thought about it in his heart and did not ruin what Liu Ge Lao and Li Ge Lao said.
In fact, he didn't expect the most critical part.
Why is the prince so sure that the ministers in the court will praise him?
This is what Jiang Guan said, seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, everyone does this.
The people who benefited from the restriction of torture were the officials in the court, and the Jin Yiwei was here to deal with them. And those who want to be killed are those grassroots officials who have done evil... anyway, they are not killing us. .
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