After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 276 Collective Resignation
"Your Majesty, calm down." Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's anger, Zhan Tong said hastily, "Don't be angry with the dragon body because of those people who harm the people."

"Of course we won't be offended by them. Who are we? They don't have the ability to piss us off." Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly, "We just hate that our knives are not sharp enough to kill them all."

"As for why there are so many officials who harm the people, the ministers don't know why there are so many officials who have been banned repeatedly." Shangshu Wang of the Ministry of Punishment said in a report, "Perhaps, this is the greed of human nature."

"The so-called wealth touches people's hearts, and the white money is in front of them. It is difficult for anyone to be indifferent." Liu Bowen said, "So like Bao Zheng in the Song Dynasty and Di Renjie in the Tang Dynasty, clean and honest officials are rare."

"Okay, I'm too lazy to discuss this with you." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "We just want to ask you, this empty printing case, more than 500 people have been killed, and more than 1000 black apples have been exiled. Have there ever been insufficient staff in the government offices of various places? What is it used for?"

"Your Majesty, no." Liu Bowen replied honestly.

"So, you have seen it with your own eyes now?" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Some people said before that 'officials who can reach the county guard are all cultivated for decades' and 'officials are not reborn from the grass', which is completely letting go. His mother's pig shit, toad, dog stinky fart."

"We have punished more than 1000 black sheep, how come there is no shortage of officials?"

"The sentence that Mr. Qin said is wonderful. The world will never lack talents, especially officials."

"Officials are like water in a pond. If you scoop up a ladle, the rest of the water will immediately fill in."

"So once the water is dark, we will scoop it up without hesitation."

"The emperor is wise." The three ministers did not dare to refute, so they had to say one after another.

"Your Majesty..." Liu Bowen stepped forward, hesitating to speak.It seems that there is something to say, but dare not say it.

"You can say whatever you want, we forgive you for your innocence." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Since the empty seal case was announced to the world, there have been some rumors among the people." Liu Bowen said, "They said that it is not easy to be an official under Emperor Zhu, and it is easy to lose your life if you are not careful. Being an official under Emperor Zhu is true. It's bad luck for eight lifetimes."

"Hahahahaha!" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed when he heard the words, and the smile was extremely presumptuous, "It's not easy to be an official under our hands, but I haven't seen a few resigning on their own initiative? On the contrary, many people fought for the official position and fought for it. .”

"In our opinion, it's not that it's not easy to be an official under our hands, but it's not easy to be a corrupt official under our hands."

"However, this rumor is a good thing, and it proves our determination to punish them."

"In addition, these rumors were deliberately released by someone."

"Their purpose of releasing such rumors is obvious. They want us to be more lenient to them so that they can fish and feed the people in the future. But they are thinking too much in doing so, and we will never let those scourges go lightly."

"Two tigers!"

"The end is here."

"Immediately send someone to investigate who spread the rumors, and after the investigation, all beheaded."

"According to the order."

Liu Bowen, Wang Yongji, and Zhan Tong three adults trembled in their hearts when they heard the words.

With the emperor's imperial decree, I don't know how many people's heads fell to the ground.The holy decree was just a sentence from the emperor, but many people's lives were lost in practice.But also blame those people for being stupid, playing tricks like rumors and nursery rhymes in front of Emperor Zhu?

Emperor Zhu can see through your plot without even thinking about it.

……

"Report to the Emperor." At this time, an eunuch came in from the side door, holding a stack of memorials in his hands, and said: "This is a memorial submitted by more than 30 officials from the Ministry of Households at the same time."

Zhu Yuanzhang took the memorial and picked up the top one to check.

After reading it quickly, I picked up another one. After reading several times in a row, I suddenly smiled: "We just said that there are not many resigners, and now the resigners are here."

"This is the resignation memorial submitted collectively by more than 30 officials affiliated to the household department."

When Liu Bowen, Zhan Tong, and Wang Yongji heard the words, they immediately mourned for those officials: Isn't this hitting the muzzle of a gun?
Threatened by resignation, it is okay to change to other emperors, but it is Emperor Zhu who is on your head.

What do you think about being tough with Emperor Zhu?

The emperor just wanted to check who spread the rumors, but now there is no need to check.

"Let all those officials who have resigned come to see us." Zhu Yuanzhang said with a big wave of his hand.

"According to the order."

Soon, more than 30 officials from the household department all came to the imperial study.All the ministers knelt down in black, and all knelt down in front of Emperor Zhu.

Before meeting the emperor, each of them was determined.

Then after seeing the emperor, he didn't dare to speak, and he didn't even dare to breathe.

The murderous aura on Emperor Zhu's body, the mighty power of Tian, ​​made them feel overwhelmed in an instant.

"We know why you resigned." It was Zhu Yuanzhang who spoke first, "First, the new ministers we promoted were all former deputies of various ministries. You are only deputies of deputies. You are not promoted, and you feel unwilling."

"Secondly, the officials who were beheaded in the air printing case have a lot to do with your household department. Many of them are old acquaintances of yours, and you are so cold-hearted."

"Thirdly, you were all promoted after the founding of Da Ming. You have never fought the world with us. You don't know what kind of person we are. You don't know us too well."

"Fourth, you have long been dissatisfied with the public land system we have implemented, and now they have exploded together."

After hearing this, all the officials dared not speak.

Without any interrogation at all, Emperor Zhu analyzed their motives clearly and clearly.

"Okay, let's not talk nonsense with you anymore." Seeing the silence of the crowd, Zhu Yuanzhang continued, "Since you want to resign, then we will fulfill you and all will be played."

All accurate?

The ministers were dumbfounded when they heard this.

Didn't the convener tell them before coming?The emperor would never agree to their collective resignation.

Because after they collectively resigned, the Ministry of Household Affairs could no longer operate.The Ministry of Household Affairs is one of the most important departments, and the emperor would never let this kind of thing happen, causing the government to fall into chaos.

However, the reality slapped them in the face, and the emperor directly agreed to their resignation.

And it was very swollen.

"Please think twice, Your Majesty." At this moment, Liu Bowen stood up and said what they wanted to say but didn't have the guts to say for the ministers, "If all the officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs are gone, how should the Ministry of Household Affairs be run in the future? ? Isn’t the government affairs of the court in chaos?”

Of course he knew that even if all these people left, the government would not be abandoned, he said that on purpose.Liu Bowen was jealous and merciless towards officials who harmed the people. Otherwise, he would not be the censor Zhongcheng who supervised all officials: "Besides, the emperor just split up the household department. Without them, the split people may be even more difficult to operate."

(End of this chapter)