Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1327, reflection

"Scar~ murder and set fire, heinous, behead!"

"Ma Sandao, murder and set fire, commit crimes, rape and plunder, commit all kinds of crimes, you will be sentenced to death for treason in this county, and execute immediately!"

"Qian Houzi, beat up adults, molested good women, robbed other people's property, this county betrays you and exiles you in Congling!"

"Yang Liang, fight, bully and bully Liang Shanshan County betrayed you and exiled you to Australia!"

"..."

At the scene of the public trial, after the trial of Sun's family was over, Zhu Houzhao did not forget those local ruffians and thugs who did a lot of evil.

Zhu Houzhao also didn't mean to be soft-hearted at all. As long as the crime was relatively serious, it was basically executed and sent to the guillotine on the spot, so that there was a river of blood on the guillotine, and corpses were scattered all over the place, piled up with the corpses of the Sun family. At the same time, it was so terrifying that many adults had to send their children home quickly, lest they would have nightmares every night in the future.

As for the general hooligans, who did not commit any major faults, Zhu Houzhao was also given a heavy sentence. Basically, they could not escape being exiled to Huangjinzhou and Australia, and many of them were even exiled to Congling, Beihai and Altai Mountains.

"Everyone, the Sun family and the gangsters under their command have been punished as they should be. The Sun family has plundered and plundered in Huairou County over the years, plundering and exploiting the elders and villagers in Huairou County by any means, and has accumulated a huge wealth."

"Now this county returns the Sun family's illegal income to the folks in Huairou County in accordance with the law. As long as you can produce enough evidence, or have certain personal and physical evidence, you can come to this county and will belong to the family. Take your property back."

The public trial lasted for a whole day, and thousands of people gathered at the scene. Zhu Houzhao also didn't eat lunch, and he was pronouncing the sentence all the time.

When it was almost sunset, the sentence was finally pronounced, and Zhu Houzhao then announced a major decision to return all the property that the Sun family had plundered over the years to the folks in Huairou County.

"Master Qingtian!"

"It's really Master Qingtian!"

"Everyone kneel down, kneel down, and kowtow to Master Qingtian!"

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, an old man knelt down on the spot, shouting, and shouting to those around him.

When the others heard it, they also knelt down and kowtowed to Zhu Houzhao.

"Master Qingtian!"

"You not only uphold justice for us, uphold justice, and avenge justice for us, you have not even forgotten our insignificant things."

"I really don't know how to thank you, please accept our prayers!"

While talking, the old man led others to kowtow to Zhu Houzhao.

To be honest, at the beginning, no one thought that the young county lord in front of him could uphold justice and justice for everyone and bring down the Sun family.

At first, everyone thought that Zhu Houzhao, like the previous county magistrates, joined forces with the Sun family and didn't care about the lives of the people in Huairou County.

But who knew that this young young man in front of him not only wiped out the cancer of the Sun family with a thunderous force, but also, unlike other officials, did not covet the property of the Sun family, and actually took all the property of the Sun family Take them all out and give them back to everyone.

This made the people of Huairou County, who were extremely disappointed with the imperial court, overjoyed and couldn't believe it.

There are still good officials in the world, and there are still good officials who are willing to be the masters of the people.

"Get up, get up!"

Zhu Houzhao saw it, and hurried down, and quickly asked everyone to get up.

"This is what I should do!"

"Actually, all of this is the fault of us officials. We didn't discover the cancer of the Sun family in time, and we didn't avenge everyone's grievances in time. This has led to everything today."

"If the cancer of the Sun family had been eliminated earlier, there would not have been so many tragedies. In the final analysis, all of this is still the fault of the imperial court. It is the imperial court who is sorry for you and the folks in Huairou County."

Zhu Hou took care of the people in front of him, and he also expressed his feelings.

The reason why the Sun family was able to run rampant in Huairou County was only relying on a small general judge and county magistrate, this big sesame official, even though his own clansmen acted recklessly and lawlessly.

How many officials like this are there in the entire Ming Dynasty?
I am afraid that in the vast land of Daming, there are still a large number of cancers like the Sun family. They tortured the common people wantonly, but because someone above provided protection, they were still unable to get rid of them, and justice was delayed. to stretch...

Huairou County Government, Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao chatted while drinking tea.

In the past, the two rarely talked about national affairs, because Zhu Houzhao was not interested in it at all, and Liu Jin was too lazy to talk about these things with Zhu Houzhao.

What I talked with Zhu Houzhao was basically things like military affairs, machinery, and electromagnetism, because these are what Zhu Houzhao is interested in.

But today, Zhu Houzhao took the initiative to chat with Liu Jin, and the conversation was about state affairs.

"Old Liu, how many cancers like the Sun family are there in our Daming?"

Zhu Houzhao was in a bad mood, obviously affected by today's public trial meeting.

At first, I just looked at the files and files, and I couldn’t really empathize with the things described above, but today I heard the complaints from the folks in Huairou County, and this is how I can understand the feeling of being tortured by the Sun family.

His beloved wife was robbed, and he wanted to uphold justice, but he was almost beaten to death; his wife was abused to death, one corpse and two lives, including the child in his belly.

Your daughter was forcibly taken away, and your legs were broken; the property you worked so hard to accumulate was taken away by despicable and shameless means, and your wife was bullied...
The common people gritted their teeth with hatred for the Sun family, and today they can finally empathize somewhat.

"Your Highness, I don't know how many there are. All we can do is to minimize the occurrence of malignant tumors like the Sun family."

Liu Jin thought about it and didn't know how to reply.

We must know that even in later generations, in the era of advanced information and advanced technology, there are still many, many such things, too many, too many evil forces that cannot be cleaned up no matter how they are cleaned, even if they are cleaned up, they will live a happy life. It will reappear in a few years.

In the final analysis, this world has a sunny side, but naturally it also has a dark side, no matter which country or dynasty it is, it is always the same and cannot be changed.

"I didn't understand why my father was so diligent before, but now I understand somewhat."

"Many times, it's not that the emperor wants to feed the common people. When there is a famine, the emperor will reduce the tax of a place, and allocate funds and money to relieve the victims."

"However, when it was actually implemented, the reduced and exempted tax was still being collected, but it was in the hands of the corrupt officials below. The silver and grain allocated by the imperial court did not reach the hands of the victims, and they were in the hands of these corrupt officials. hands."

"The end result is that the common people suffer and suffer, blaming the emperor for not caring about the suffering of the people, for not caring about their life and death, but the emperor thinks that if he does his best to rescue and relieve disasters, the common people will be able to tide over the difficulties, and the world will be peaceful."

"Only these officials in the middle, they eat the top and then eat the top, hide it from the top and bully the bottom."

"Father is extremely diligent every day. In the final analysis, it is for the common people of the world. But to be an emperor, diligence alone is far from enough, and more wisdom is needed."

Zhu Hou looked at the stars in the night sky, and what he thought in his mind was that Emperor Hongzhi was writing memorials all night at this moment, and it was extremely hard work.

Thinking about it again, those officials from all over the Ming Dynasty lived a happy life in wine pools and meat forests. As for the people at the bottom, at this moment, I am afraid they are still working hard.

After some comparison, Zhu Houzhao has his own deep understanding of the country, the emperor, and the affairs of the world.

"His Royal Highness is really amazing, Shibie three days should be admiration."

Liu Jin looked at Zhu Houzhao, and was also very surprised that he could have such a deep understanding.

Think about Zhu Houzhao in history. After he ascended the throne, he was completely opposite to his father. He didn't like to go to court, and he didn't like to deal with government affairs, but this didn't mean he didn't do anything.

On the contrary, he reactivated the factory guards, listened widely, attached importance to military affairs, and defeated the little Tatar prince abroad. These are enough to show that he has his own ideas and methods for being an emperor.

Emperor Hongzhi was diligent and frugal, but to be honest, both his means and his wisdom were mediocre, and he felt a little limped by the civil officials, and he listened to the civil officials in everything.

Perhaps to a certain extent, it has brought a stable and seemingly good situation to Daming, but it cannot fundamentally solve the problems and disadvantages that Daming is facing, and it will make these disadvantages and problems more serious, making civil servants The group continued to grow, and finally in the middle and late stages, it was too big to deal with.

What's more important is to follow the civil servant's suggestion to carry out the salt tax reform. The payment of grain is the payment of silver, which leads to the complete corruption of the frontier army and no combat effectiveness. He was dragged to death abruptly.

Perhaps Zhu Houzhao clearly saw the situation facing the Ming Dynasty and wanted to make changes and actions, but he died too early and too suddenly, and left in a hurry without completing many things. In the end, it was cheaper for Zhu Houcong , and Zhu Houcong also saw this situation, and had been fighting wits and courage with the civil officials, but he still couldn't find a solution to the Ming problem.

Now Zhu Houzhao can have such an understanding, which makes Liu Jin have to look at him with admiration.

"Your Highness, this is indeed worthy of our serious reflection and thinking of a good solution, the core of which is about the checks and balances and supervision of power!"

After thinking about it, Liu Jin also slowly narrated some knowledge and content about power checks and balances and supervision in later generations.

　Personally, I think Emperor Hongzhi’s evaluation is too high. He is actually just an emperor who does nothing. It’s just because he is good to civil officials, so these civil officials give him a high evaluation. Emperor Zhengde is actually an emperor with great ideas and achievements, but he is It is useless to be written by history, history is a mystery, and it is difficult for us descendants to know the real history!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)