Qiming 1158

Chapter 850 It's a pity, not everyone is Sun Ziyi

Sun Ziyi from the Privy Council and Xin Qiji from the Staff Council had old friends during the war and fought side by side. They had always had a good relationship, so they walked together when they left the palace.

Out of trust in Xin Qiji, Sun Ziyi told Xin Qiji about his feelings.

"What a family with a long heritage of the Kong family, going back five years, I can't imagine that I can be an official of the same dynasty as them, or even the same official position, and it is even more impossible to think that there will be a day when it will be destroyed.

The Kong family's influence in Shandong is huge, and even I have heard of it at the beginning. At the time, my family's industry even cooperated with the Kong family branch, and the cooperation was quite pleasant... Now it seems that it is the so-called impermanence. . "

As one of the officials who knew the inside story, Xin Qiji just smiled at Sun Ziyi's feelings.

"When they did those things that violated the law and discipline, they should have thought that today will come. According to the Ming law, there is no problem with your Majesty's handling of Kong. , I thought it was appropriate."

"It's not inappropriate, but I think what Cao Kai said before he was dragged down makes sense."

Sun Ziyi looked at Xin Qiji: "You'an, you have also read the Confucian classics. Seeing the collapse of the Kong family, don't you have any other feelings about this matter?"

"What else is there but pleasure?"

Xin Qiji smiled and said, "I am wholeheartedly for Your Majesty, wholeheartedly for the Ming Kingdom, and have no other worldly desires. For this matter, I will only applaud, and hope that such corrupt officials will never appear again."

"You...you can't think that all the scholars in the world are you, right?"

Sun Ziyi smiled helplessly and asked, "Don't you worry about the fear of the scholars he said, so you collectively petition to forgive Kong? I don't think such a thing will happen.

Given the weight of the Kong family among the scholars in the world, I think it is very possible, and once the matter becomes serious, it will be difficult for His Majesty to deal with it, and it will not end well. "

"So what? Shouldn't the perpetrators be punished? Just because of their special status, can they be put down lightly?"

Xin Qiji said that Sun Ziyi did not know that Shandong had been cleaned up by Su Yonglin. The foundation of Shandong officials, including the Kong family, had been destroyed, and the original upper-level social network in Shandong had been torn apart by Su Yonglin.

It can be said that this is not a top-down political action, but a bottom-up revolutionary action initiated by Su Yonglin himself.

Before the Zhongdu Shandong faction was able to mobilize the power of scholars to resist, Su Yonglin had already removed the foundation for them to launch a resistance action, so that even if the resistance action could be launched, it was basically impossible to cause any turmoil.

Because their base camp is over, the social resources they can mobilize no longer exist, and the money, grain, iron tools, population, and other materials necessary for the rebellion are no longer under their control.

All they have left now is their own body, and a mouth that can speak well. The most they can do is to talk and talk, and they have nothing else to do.

They are just lambs to be slaughtered. Su Yonglin is worried that he has no reason to kill them all. Now if they jump out on their own, wouldn't it be good?

And Sun Ziyi obviously hasn't realized this, so his worries are not unreasonable.

Xin Qiji was just persuading.

"Public Prime Minister, don't think too much. I thought that His Majesty will handle this matter strictly in accordance with the law, and there will never be any case of favoritism. We will just sit back and watch the outcome."

Sun Ziyi looked at Xin Qiji, shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"You are so calm. I'm afraid there are not many people in the court who are as calm as you."

"I didn't do anything against the law and discipline. My hometown in Jinan had nothing but the ancestral house and the old servants who guarded the ancestral house. All the family property has been handed over to the court. I only live on my salary. Rob, walk upright, sit upright, what's there to worry about?"

Xin Qiji held his head high, his righteousness awe-inspiring.

Sun Ziyi was immediately speechless.

He saw what Xin Qiji did, so he admired Xin Qiji very much.

When Su Yonglin captured Jinan, Xin Qiji scattered all his family wealth and organized the army to join Su Yonglin. After Su Yonglin conquered the Central Capital, he proposed to buy back the property of Xin Qiji's hometown and return it to him as a reward for his credit.

Xin Qiji accepted.

But after taking back the property, he gave the property back to the court, saying that he no longer needed the property of his hometown, and only left the ancestral house and the old servant who guarded the ancestral house, and the rest did not need to be left.

He has already dedicated this body to the Ming Kingdom, and has nothing else to desire. He only hopes to make achievements and make a career. With the salary given by the court, he can already live a good life and does not need more things.

Before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, many officials in Zhongdu purchased land in the land of Yanyun and brought their families over to settle down.

At that time, Su Yonglin did not explicitly prohibit officials and businessmen from buying land, so many people did so. Sun Ziyi also followed suit and bought some land and settled down in Zhongdu.

But Xin Qiji never bought anything from the beginning to the end. As a high-ranking official of the empire, he has no private property, only the mansion of the chief of staff given to him by Su Yonglin.

In addition to Xin Qiji, there were also a group of senior officials and generals who did not buy land at that time, and Sun Ziyi didn't care about them, and only regarded them as Gao Fengliangjie.

It was only after the promulgation of the Ming Law that Sun Ziyi realized that they had foresight and that what they did was right.

"You'an's integrity, I admire, I can't be so pure and few desires, I like to drink and eat meat, I like fun things, this is indispensable, the only thing I feel fortunate is that I didn't let my children go to office with my grace ."

All dynasties and dynasties have had the yin official system. An official who has achieved a certain status in an official position can be one or two of his immediate family members to serve as an official directly, without having to pass an examination.

Su Yonglin did not reject this system at the beginning of the founding of the country, so there were many yin officials in the imperial court who belonged to the Shandong family and the Yanyun family.

This is also a helpless move at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China due to the lack of officials who had to do so.

But Sun Ziyi did not. His son was 16 years old at the time. He rejected Enyin and chose to let his son study and prepare to take the imperial examination.

As a result, Sun Ziyi's son did not pass the first imperial examination in Hongwu's second year, and his name fell to Sun Shan. Sun Ziyi was frustrated, but he still did not agree with Su Yonglin's Yinguan's suggestion, and insisted on asking his son to continue his studies. Anyway, he was still young.

It now appears that he made the right choice.

Now that the court is so chaotic, it is indeed not a good time for my son to become an official. If he does not have a brain, who knows if he will be implicated in this wave of political turmoil?
Xin Qiji also felt that Sun Ziyi was a lucky person. Su Yonglin commented at the revival meeting that Sun Ziyi was not highly educated and conscious, but he had the characteristics of knowing how to advance and retreat and what to do, which made Su Yonglin like Sun Ziyi very much.

Now it seems that Sun Ziyi's various actions can allow him to accurately avoid some political storms as a non-Fuxing member, and it has to be said that it is his ability.

It is a pity that not everyone is Sun Ziyi, and not everyone can restrain their own desires, know how to advance and retreat, and know what to do.

Therefore, they could not escape Su Yonglin's purge after all.

It is justifiable to clean up according to the law.

You don't need to fabricate evidence and reasons, you can deal with them directly and make them look good.

What else can I say?

On the second day of June in the third year of Hongwu, Emperor Su Yonglin of the Ming Dynasty officially announced in Zhongdu that he would conduct a thorough investigation of the entire bureaucratic system in Zhongdu, and clean up corrupt officials and lawbreakers. .

Then he immediately issued the order to the Ministry of Justice, Dali Temple, and the Supreme Court, and ordered the three judicial divisions to form a joint handling team to deal with the matter seriously.

Sentencing must be severe and not lenient, otherwise it will not be enough to reflect the majesty of the law, and it will not be enough to make this group of worms feel the seriousness of the law.

Kong Maojie, the Censor of the Right Capital, Shen Ge, Minister of the Ministry of Justice, and Jiang Chengyue, the Minister of Dali Temple, led their respective teams to form a joint three judicial divisions, and tried several senior officials of the Ming Dynasty who were indicted by Su Yonglin with the highest legal authority.

(End of this chapter)