Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 54
Chen Yunfu did not expect Zhu Yuanzhang to play such a trick.

This is too, too dark.

At this moment, Chen Yunfu truly felt what a dilemma is, and what it means to advance is a cliff and retreat is an abyss.

It seems that no matter what you choose, it is a dead end.

At this time, Chen Yunfu suddenly thought of the conversation he had with his colleagues in his previous life.

You can regard Chinese politics as a game. This game has its own unique rules. Everyone works within the rules. You can have your own personality and values, and you can be allowed to do what you want independently That person, but you can't break or challenge this rule.

Once the political rules are broken, it will bring structural turmoil, and many people will suffer because of it.

You think that what you are doing is correct, but you don't know that once the stability is broken, everyone and all walks of life will be affected.

Because politics is at the core.

Chen Yunfu felt that he had done nothing wrong. He did not challenge the rules, let alone try to break them. His remonstrance and Zhu Yuanzhang's actions were also within the rules.

I say mine, you don't have to listen.

This is equivalent to holding a collective vote. I obey the common decision of democratic centralism, but I reserve my personal opinions.

No one can fault it.

But Chen Yunfu overlooked one point, the most important point.

Political games do have their rules, but in ancient times, there were emperors.

The emperor does not need to follow the rules, the emperor makes the rules.

Play how you want.

Look at the moment, Zhu Yuanzhang is showing his supreme authority as the emperor in front of Chen Yunfu, showing off to Chen Yunfu the brilliance of the artifact in his hand.

Whoever he wants to live can live, and whoever he wants to die can die.

Shao Zhi suffered an indiscriminate disaster.

If Zhu Yuanzhang did not have the power to follow the law, then what Chen Yunfu did before could be called harming Shao Zhi, and what has it to do with Shao Zhi.

It was Chen Yunfu who ignored this point and Zhu Yuanzhang's ability to follow the law, which made it seem to some people that it was Chen Yunfu himself who brought his prospective father-in-law's family into a desperate situation.

This is not surprising, because Chen Yunfu really did not expect it.

Now, Zhu Yuanzhang is standing outside the game, while Chen Yunfu and Shao Zhi are both in the game. Chen Yunfu must break this game, otherwise, he will be trapped in this game all his life.

Chen Yunfu raised his head, and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with a pair of pure and clean eyes.

He saw it, saw the anger, appreciation and expectation in the latter's eyes.

At this moment, the breaking of the situation itself has surpassed the case, and it has risen to a thought conversation between Chen Yunfu and Zhu Yuanzhang.

Success or failure depends on this fight.

"In the ninth year of Hongwu, some people from Shaanxi went to Beijing with a great edict, but they were blocked by evil officials along the way, and they failed to do so. This matter was reported to Cen Guangwen, the supervisor of Shaanxi Provincial Highway at that time. Your majesty still remembers it."

Just when everyone thought that Chen Yunfu would rack his brains to defend himself, they didn't expect Chen Yunfu to say such a thing suddenly.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect it, but he still responded.

"However, I remember that I also made a reply at that time and cut off the legs of those evil officials."

"Yes, the case file of this case is still in the Zhaomo Institute." Chen Yunfu said loudly, his voice no longer trembled or feared: "The inspiration point of the case is that a few people are fighting for land with the local area, and it is only ten Mu Susukida, but because of this incident, the chief envoy of Shaanxi lost six heads. In His Majesty's heart, the common people are far greater than the officials.

After the case, every household in Shaanxi offered a living shrine to His Majesty, and wrote to His Majesty the emperor that he would live forever and burn incense and worship day and night to express his gratitude to His Majesty for his kindness and generosity. "

A blush rose on Zhu Yuanzhang's face, but he still waved his hands and said, "I know it's not easy for ordinary people, so I just did what I should do."

"Because His Majesty cares about the people, all the people respect him. Where His Majesty ordered the flag to point, countless soldiers Wu Jianer struggled to kill, and they had the heart to die for His Majesty."

Chen Yunfu spoke loudly, circling the beams: "All the people in the world know that only His Majesty can put an end to separatism, drive away tyranny, create peace, and create a prosperous world!

The hopes of hundreds of millions of people belong to His Majesty, and His Majesty has done it, and opened up my great future.

From then on, all living beings in the world are blessed by the emperor's grace and inherit peace. Whoever does not appreciate His Majesty's kindness, whoever does not respect His Majesty's virtues, ministers dare not speak for the people of the world, but only speak for themselves.

Without the protection of Your Majesty and my Ming Dynasty, I would have starved to death in the countryside when I was young. Without Your Majesty’s kindness, I would still be reciting scriptures and worshiping Buddha in Tianjie Temple. Therefore, I can only be grateful to Your Majesty. It is the coexistence of the people of the whole world. "

There was a little emotion in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, he didn't expect that he had such a high status in the eyes of the common people all over the world.

I just did what I had to do.

Born in the head of Guizhou, until today he ranks in the ninth five and dominates the world. As Chen Yunfu said, it is indeed the people who have been able to achieve it.

That's why after ascending to the throne, the Great Edict and the Great Ming Law were promulgated, in order to make the life of the common people better and no longer be bullied by corrupt officials.

"You don't have to flatter me so much, no matter how much you flatter me, I will still kill the people I should kill."

Zhu Yuanzhang wiped away the excitement in his heart, and brought the topic back, but at this moment, he saw Chen Yunfu showing a smile.

The smile disappeared in a flash, but Zhu Yuanzhang was sure that he saw it for real.

"Since His Majesty is so kind to the people, why do you want to do the act of harming the people?"

"Chen Yunfu, you are presumptuous!"

At this time, Zhu Biao couldn't sit still, and immediately stood up against the table, angrily pointed at Chen Yunfu and scolded: "No one in the whole world knows the depth of the kindness of the father to the people. You dare to say such slanderous words. Unforgivable crime!"

Zhu Yuanzhang also did not expect that Chen Yunfu dared to say such a thing, he did not intend to live.

Okay, you kid want to play, I will play with you.

"Say, I really want to hear how I have harmed the people. If you can't tell, I won't even leave the whole body for you."

"May I ask your Majesty, the woodcutter in the suburbs singing folk songs and chopping firewood was beheaded because he stepped out with his left foot first when he went out. Is it wrong or not?"

This is all about what, Zhu Yuanzhang was amused, and said: "Injustice."

"Does the government act like this to harm the people?"

"Yes."

"The minister has doubts." Chen Yunfu pointed to the outside of the hall behind him, then pointed to Shao Zhi beside him, and asked Zhu Yuanzhang: "Then Weng Junbo's family embroiders a female red at home, and Shao Shilang's children read a book at home. , was beheaded by an imperial decree, wronged or not!"

Good boy, wait for me here.

Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes: "No injustice, they are family members of sinners, and they spent and enjoyed the money obtained by corrupt officials, so naturally there is no injustice."

"According to His Majesty, if a friend of my minister invites me to dinner, I will find out after the meal that my friend stole the money for the meal. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, I will be beheaded for robbery. Should I be executed for the same crime as robbery?"

"Are you a friend, not a relative?"

"In the 13th year of Hongwu, there was a son in Shandong whose family was poor. He cut his meat to feed his mother, and then stole other people's property to support him. They are also relatives, why not punish them with the same crime of robbery?"

What Chen Yunfu did was the work of the Zhaomo Institute of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he read too many case files.

"Before the founding of the country, His Majesty personally told the Duke of Han that 'the law of implicating others is too inappropriate!'. Therefore, in the law of the Ming Dynasty, except for the crime of treason, there has never been any implicating family members. Why now, instead of punishing his family members?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said with some sophistry: "That's because the family members of the sinners do not belong to our Ming people, and the Ming law naturally does not protect them."

"According to this argument, the family members of criminals are not the citizens of Ming Dynasty. In the future, even the family members of criminals who fight, steal and steal should be punished by the three clans!"

"Even the family members of sinners are first of all the people of my Ming Dynasty, the people of Your Majesty!" Chen Yunfu pointed to the official robe he was wearing, and said sincerely: "I was still in my infancy when I was born. I can't admit it yet, but the imprint of being His Majesty's subjects has already been engraved in my bones!
But today, I have received the favor of the emperor and become an eighth-rank official of the imperial court. When I take off my official clothes in the future, I will still be a citizen of Ming Dynasty. This brand will be buried in the grave with me!
Live as His Majesty's subjects, and die as the people of Ming Dynasty, this is the country and family of the subject, which can never be changed.

The ministers are ordinary people, and so is Your Majesty.

Put on the gown, the subject is an official, and your majesty is the king, take off the gown, the subject is just a citizen, and so is your majesty.

We always come from the people and go back to the people.

The people His Majesty wants to kill today are basically the people of Daming first, and then the family members of some sinners. If there are no sinners, they are still my people of Daming. Just like my ministers, they will never change! "

Live as His Majesty's subjects, and die as the people of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty is the country and family of every citizen of the Ming Dynasty, and it will never change.

These words were deafening, impassioned, and Zhu Yuanzhang's heart was agitated, and the hands wrapped in the imperial robe clenched fists unnaturally.

What he thought of was what he had said to Tang He, Xu Da, Li Shanchang and others on the eve of Wu Yuannian's enactment to the Central Plains.

"The difference between Huayi and Yidi is as different as clouds and mud. No one has ever heard that Yidi stole China and survived forever."

At that time, Li Shanchang asserted that once the edict to the Central Plains is published, it will surely be echoed by the world.

why.

Because everyone is Chinese!
The slogan of expelling the barbarians and restoring China can inspire the national hearts of all Chinese in Kyushu and all over the world!
The time has come.

Now Chen Yunfu has also remonstrated with Zhu Yuanzhang in this way.

Weng Junbo's family and Shao Zhi's family are Chinese first and foremost, and they are the people of Ming Dynasty.

They were killed for no reason just because they were related to Weng Junbo and Shao Zhi?

What's the difference between that and the woodcutter whose head was beheaded when he went out with his left foot.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep breath to suppress his excitement.

In this conversation, Chen Yunfu won.

To win is upright, to win with awe-inspiring atmosphere.

If he was still using his status as emperor to play with the rules, it would appear that he was too narrow-minded.

"Baoxiang, burn these two imperial edicts."

Zhu Yuanzhang handed Baoxiang the two imperial edicts that had not yet been stamped with jade seals, and then laughed loudly.

"What a Chen Yunfu, what a handsome young man, you are right, without the sinners, they are still my citizens of Daming, this point will not change from life to death.

I agree, pardon them, the world will be big in the future, and all my Ming people will go wherever they can't go, let them! "

Pardon his life and grant him freedom.

My citizens of the Ming Dynasty, there is nowhere to go.

What Zhu Yuanzhang bestowed was not only a life, but also the dignity of being a human being.

With a thud, Chen Yunfu grabbed the ground with his head and wailed with a choked voice.

"Thank you, Your Majesty Ron!"

Well, they all survived.

(End of this chapter)