Emperor Ming Dynasty

The chief envoy was suspected of murder, which immediately caused an uproar in Guizhou.

Taking advantage of this chaotic opportunity, Jin Yiwei quietly sealed off his home and obtained the vital ledger.

Zhang Keyou didn't dare to be negligent, he arranged people on the surface, but actually sent Jin Yiwei to escort him secretly, for fear that something might go wrong.

After all this busy work, when they arrived in Beijing, the cabinet was completely speechless.

The entire Guizhou Province was completely ruined, and the relief supplies worth 100,000 yuan were still in the second place. The key is that there are still shortfalls over the years, all of which have been filled in the relief of the victims.

A rough calculation puts the value at over a million.

What an exaggeration.

You know, the total tax for the entire Guizhou province is only around one million a year, and this group of corrupt officials directly eats up the taxes of the people in Guizhou for a year.

"Kill, only kill."

The atmosphere in the side hall was rather silent.

The cabinet ministers all lowered their heads, occasionally raised their eyes to look at the emperor, their lips moved, but they dared not make a sound.

At this time, the emperor looked at the memorial with a blank expression on his face.

From the top, up to the governor, down to the county magistrate, almost nothing was missed, and everything was covered.

The governor alone took [-] yuan, the chief envoy [-], and the inspector [-]...

Ten thousand prefects and five thousand prefects.

The salary equivalent to several years was swallowed in such a blatant manner.

Moreover, the officialdom is extraordinarily peaceful:
A group of natives and rioters, who have just recovered for a few years, are not worthy of the imperial court's relief and appeasement.

On this account book, the situation in Yunnan is still recorded.

Of the 100,000 yuan silver dollars and 200,000 tans of grain transshipped from Kunming, only [-]% of them actually got it, and [-]% of it was lost.

Even this is still a conscience price. If it was in the reign of Chongzhen, [-]% to [-]% would be considered good.

This bad habit of the previous dynasty still exists.

However, the emperor was relieved that the Guizhou garrison did not participate in it.

Although there are reasons why warriors have no right to participate in this feast, the main reason is that civil servants still look down on these warriors.

Although he is the general soldier, but Wang Xiang was only born in martial arts, and he was also born as Wang Yingxiong's servant, standing at the lowest end of the chain of contempt.

This kind of personal dependence will not decrease with the rise of the latter's official position and status, but will become more restrictive.

For example, in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, even if Yue Fei was in Jinghu, he had to respectfully pay his respects when he encountered the Han family passing by.

Without him, he was born as a tenant of the Han family. He just rented and planted the land of the Han family, and he was tagged with it, which would never be removed for a lifetime.

When it comes to Wang Xiang, three festivals and two longevity, ice respect, charcoal respect.There is no way to avoid this.

A house slave also wants to share money with us, and it's very beautiful.

And fearing Wang Yingxiong's status as Minister of the Household Department, this kind of corruption is even more afraid to pull him.

However, does Wang Xiang really not know?
"What Zhang Keyou said, all the women and children in Guizhou know about the corruption and food disaster. I'm afraid they know it too, but they dare not say more."

Not to mention the different ways of civil and military affairs, but to seek his own government in his position, Wang Xiang, as the commander-in-chief, mainly guards the place.

It is not his task to impeach civil officials for corruption. Even if he succeeds, he will not get any benefits. Instead, he will offend the relatives and friends of those corrupt officials.

After flicking the flute with her index finger, Zhu Yixi uttered a word: "Know how to measure."

That's okay, it saves a lot of money, and it's not easy to mess up when the army suppresses it.

"Let the Ministry of Officials prepare officials to go to Guizhou."

"Yes!" Zhao Shu agreed, but raised his head and asked, "I don't know how many people are there?"

"All."

The emperor sneered: "All the palm print officers are ready for me."

"Your Majesty, how will these people be sentenced?"

Zhang Shenyan cupped his hands forward and asked the question that everyone was most concerned about.

"Is Daming law just a display?"

Zhu Yixi said displeasedly: "Grandpa wrote everything clearly, what crime and punishment, just do it, do you want me to teach you?"

"I dare not wait—"

The cabinet group of four immediately knelt down and remained silent.

If the punishments in the early Ming Dynasty were really followed, these people would have to be skinned and cramped, and they would die badly.

But apart from the Hongwu period, even Emperor Yongle, who was as cruel as Emperor Yongle, never carried out such cruel methods, it was too devoid of humanity.

After all, since Hongwu, laws and regulations have been abolished, corruption is not a problem at all, and being caught is nothing more than demoting an official.

This situation of law prohibition and abolishment reached its peak in the Wanli period. Merchants could wear silk openly, and even ordinary people could also make bright yellow clothes.

Turtles don't even have to wear cuckolds...

If everything is imitated by the ancient times, and even dealt with according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, there will be more than a million people involved in the beheading of the Ming Dynasty at this time?
Daming law is out of date...

Several people in the cabinet had anticipated this situation long ago, and just bowed their heads in silence, expressing their attitude indirectly—it was not appropriate.

Because they understand that if they object at this time, they will add fuel to the fire and make the situation worse.

"Ok?"

Zhu Yixi frowned unhappily, and squinted at a few people: "What do you mean? You want me to write with a knife on your neck?"

Several people still did not speak.

"That's all, let's kill them all, and let the family members be exiled to Yunnan!"

The emperor suddenly restrained his expression and said calmly.

With this appearance, how could they not understand that the emperor had no intention of skinning and cramping, and only thought of the death penalty from the beginning.

Zhu Yixi can be sure that if he asks the Ministry of Punishment to judge the sentence, he will be sentenced to exile at most.

From skinning and cramping to beheading, it seems that each takes a step back, and both parties are easier to accept.

If you can't tear down the roof, open the windows.

"The laws and regulations are abolished!" Zhu Yixi sighed: "In troubled times, heavy codes must be used."

Of course, skinning and cramping is a bit inhumane. Although it is very resentful for the common people, for the ruling class, the loss outweighs the gain.

The emperor never ruled the world alone, and had to rely on a bureaucratic system composed of civil servants.

For the common people, corrupt officials must die, and the worse the death, the better, in order to relieve their hatred.

For the monarch, corrupt officials are not terrible, as long as they can do things, what is terrible is stupid officials.

Because stupid officials must be corrupt officials, and they will do bad things even more, and the damage caused is several times that of corrupt officials.

In the Ming Dynasty, the gentleman in the officialdom was even more terrifying.

"Civilian officials are not greedy for money, and military officials are not hesitant to die. I am guilty of both."

The emperor suddenly sneered, and said to several people: "This is where the former dynasty fell."

He flicked his sleeves without leaving a gust of wind.

The top and bottom of the cabinet can only wipe the emperor's ass.

Up and down Guizhou, the number of officials who were killed for crimes reached 350, including 89 palm-printing officials, and all the prefectures and counties of Guizhou were wiped out.

Raising grass and beating rabbits, a group of native officials also swept a lot.

The Ministry of Officials urgently dispatched hundreds of people to serve, and even ordered many people to temporarily replace them.

All the officials were escorted to Caishikou and beheaded in batches.

All of a sudden, there were huge crowds of people, and the common people cheered for joy, saying that the Holy King is coming.

The next day, the Daming Gazette published a headline on the front page: Civil officials love money, military officials are afraid of death, how can the Ming Dynasty not perish?

Then the voice changed, and the blame was thrown on Donglin Gang. Guizhou is full of Donglin Party remnants...

In addition, the cabinet also took advantage of this opportunity to carry out reforms in Guizhou, in order to completely cut off the soil of the chieftain's rebellion.

Three birds with one stone.