Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 181 Integrity Council

After the Tumubao Incident, the Ming Dynasty's political line of using civility to restrain military power and using military force to frighten civil society gradually became tilted as a group of nobles and their successors died on the battlefield. As a result, the political structure of Ming Dynasty was changed. After the efforts and changes of the civil servant groups in the past dynasties, it gradually evolved into the general tone of the noble and the military.

Although the emperor of the Ming Dynasty holds the power of life and death, he just wants to control the vast country and the country. It is not enough to rely on one emperor alone. The corresponding powers are decentralized step by step, forming a system with centralization as the mainstay and local decentralization as the supplement. The governance framework is inseparable from civil servants.

The 5000 years of dynasty changes in China can really be described in one sentence, and that is the history of the evolution of power and privilege. There are too many meanings behind it.

Back to the Ming Dynasty, which was deeply influenced by Confucianism. After being selected through the imperial examinations, no matter what their background was, as long as they passed the imperial examination gold list and finally entered the Ming Dynasty official career, after going through the ups and downs of the official career, they would eventually become More or less, he wanted to realize the idea of ​​ruling the world together with the scholar-bureaucrats.

This is the disadvantage of mixing education and privilege!
This is also unacceptable to the emperor!
Everyone knows about the imperial examinations, but little knows that there are also military examinations, which should have become an important measure to check and balance each other and compete with each other.

However, the disastrous defeat of the Tumubao Incident broke the backbone of Ming Dynasty nobles, crippled the central elite, and broke the balance of checks and balances.

So much so that the successive emperors after the Emperor Mingmen began to use eunuchs in the inner court when faced with the complex political situation, the constraints or opposition of civil servants, the suppressed nobles who were not available, and... various practical factors. Eunuchs to avoid the embarrassing situation of direct conflict between imperial power and ministerial power.

After all, power is mysterious. If everything is decided by the emperor himself, even if he wins, he will still lose in the end. This is the essence of power struggle!

"Your Majesty!! I have never done anything like that, let alone having an affair with a prisoner to create a hidden plot!!"

"Your Majesty, I am wronged!!"

"His Majesty!!"

After Sun Chuanting finished speaking his words of admonishment, several figures rushed out from the ranks of Ming Dynasty nobles. They were excited, they were sad and angry, and they were frightened. They knelt on the ground and bowed before Zhu Youxiao, shouting at the top of their lungs.

However, the civil servants who gathered outside the Huangji Gate watched the scene in front of them in silence. All the previous revelations by the emperor were painful to them.

But now that noble groups are involved, the atmosphere of the meeting has become more subtle, and even some civil servants breathed a sigh of relief.

What kind of virtue do you have? Am I not clear about it?
Looking at the kneeling nobles including Dingxi Marquis Jiang Bingzhong and Lingbi Marquis Tang Guozuo, Zhu Youxiao had no reaction on his face, but he sneered in his heart.

Eating Ming's royal food, receiving Ming's salary, and enjoying Ming's privileges, it stands to reason that when Ming is in danger, one must dare to step forward and help Ming survive the crisis.

However, there are only a very small number of the nobles who have inherited it up to now, adhering to the concept that they are born as people of the Ming Dynasty and die as ghosts of the Ming Dynasty.

Since we can't help the Ming Dynasty and can't check and balance the civil servants, then let's survive the fittest among the noble group. I don't need a group of worms who only want to enjoy privileges but don't know how to repay.

And you... are just the first batch of targets to be eliminated!
"Sun Chuanting, do you know what you are talking about?"

Faced with this situation and the gazes of all the civil and military ministers, Zhu Youxiao held the Emperor's Sword in his hand and looked at Sun Chuanting who was kneeling on the ground. "These people who are trying to impeach are all the Ming Dynasty people who are hereditary and independent of the country." Your Excellency..."

"If I don't have conclusive evidence, I would never dare to say this." Sun Chuanting, who knew what the emperor meant, said sternly at this moment: "I am fortunate to have the trust of the emperor, so I am the governor of Shuntian. If it weren't for this sudden change in the capital, I would have If your majesty does not believe what I say, you can temporarily allow these nobles to come to our Shuntian Mansion Office for trial. After the three law divisions will review it, if what I found is false in the slightest, I am willing to accept the death penalty myself. Uphold the laws and regulations!!"

Really cruel.

When all the civil and military ministers standing in the court heard what Sun Chuanting said one after another, they were all shocked and often asked themselves to be executed. It seems that such stupid young people are rarely found.

It's just that these people didn't know that all this was Zhu Youxiao's plan.

"Trial by the three judicial departments? That's not necessary!!"

Seeing that the atmosphere was almost over, Zhu Youxiao clutched the Emperor's Sword tightly and said with an arrogant expression: "Look at the chaos in the court now, the farce in the capital, the corruption in the warehouse, and the hidden stakes of the prisoners, haha, I don't know. Yes, I thought that the country of Ming Dynasty was really going to decline.

It seems that the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Section are too busy, so busy that they have even forgotten to combat corruption. If this is the case, then it is convenient for the court to set up a special Integrity Council.

I would like to see if this greed can be eradicated. As for you, please stay in Neidongchang temporarily. If what Sun Chuanting said is false, I will give you justice. But if it is true, then don't blame me. I am heartless. "

"Your Majesty~"

Seeing the emperor pointing at them, Tang Guozuo and others were frightened. They knew best what they had done in private, and they simply could not withstand the investigation.

Compared with the reaction of Tang Guozuo and others, the civil servants in the court had a greater reaction. The Institute of Integrity, a government agency that had never existed before, was responsible for eradicating corruption. What was going on!
"Let's stop courting!!"

Zhu Youxiao ignored them at all and turned around with a flick of his sleeves. At this great court meeting, Zhu Youxiao used his own way to explain his political plan.

Since the rules of the game in the power field have been clarified very early, no one can easily destroy them. Especially when the political situation is chaotic, they should seize loopholes in the rules to realize their political opinions.

"The Emperor, who was entrusted with the destiny of Heaven, said: Ever since I came to the throne, the country has been in chaos for a long time. I am well aware of the difficulty of ruling the world, and I also know the difficulties of the people of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the capital this time..."

While the civil and military ministers gathered outside the Huangji Gate were still wondering about what they heard, Liu Ruoyu, the eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, held a copy of the edict, ignored the chaos in front of him, and read aloud to himself, This central decree, which involves never increasing taxes, was promulgated and left to be studied and implemented by a department in the Ministry of Household Affairs.

The civil and military ministers, who were already shocked, had their eyes widened after learning the contents of the edict through the eunuchs, eunuchs, and Han generals singing it one after another.

Never pay?

What a joke!

Especially the dismissed chief assistant of the cabinet Fang Congzhe and second assistant Liu Yishui. After hearing this decree, they both stood there in shock, with palpitations and fear in their hearts for no reason...

(End of this chapter)