Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

"His Royal Highness."

Mao Xiang turned around upon hearing the voice, looked at the person who came and immediately bowed and saluted.

The person who came was none other than Crown Prince Zhu Biao, who had hurried over after hearing the news. Because he was in a hurry, he didn't even smooth out the wrinkles on his court robes. Normally, this would never happen to Zhu Biao.

"Mao Xiang, what on earth do you Jinyiwei want to do? Who gave you the courage to beat officials in front of Chengtian Gate?" Zhu Biao glanced at Fang Xiaoru who had fainted and said with a grim expression.

After receiving the imperial edict, his subordinates hurriedly took Fang Xiaoru away to heal his wounds, and the Jinyiwei did not stop them.

Mao Xiang just bent his body further and further and buried his head lower and lower, but he never uttered a word.

At this time, a eunuch came out from the imperial city and announced the cancellation of today's morning court with the emperor's will.

Mao Xiang had said nothing before, but this imperial edict seemed to say everything.

After hearing the imperial edict, the officials kneeling outside Chengtian Gate kowtowed and shouted loudly.

"We want to see His Majesty!"

"We want to see His Majesty!"

As the shouts of officials echoed in his ears, Zhu Biao's face became uglier and uglier. I hardly recognize this father.

But the current situation still needs him to deal with. Zhu Biao knows his father's temper very well.

Kneeling like this outside the Fengtian Hall would not only fail to achieve any effect, but would have the exact opposite effect.

Because in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, this was a provocation.
It's a palace coup!

Zhu Biao looked at the officials and advised them, "The court has its own system. Please go back today, everyone."

"If you have any grievances, please write them down and submit them."

All officials remained unmoved.

Seeing this, Zhu Biao knew that nothing could be done, so he stopped trying to persuade her and turned around and walked towards the palace.

As long as Zhu Yuanzhang can be persuaded, all problems will be solved.

The eunuchs who accompanied the Eastern Palace were left here to continue persuading the officials.

"My Lords, please go back."

"My lord, my lord, why do you have to do this?"

"My Lords, please stand up."

And all the officials just kept repeating that sentence.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you have to decide for us."

Fengtian Temple.

Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting alone on the dragon throne with an angry look on his face. When he saw Zhu Biao coming in, he raised his head.

"Biao'er, what do you think they want to do?"

Zhu Biao looked bitter and said, "Father, let's stop here."

Old Zhu thought his son would stand on his side.

After hearing what Zhu Biao said, Zhu Yuanzhang became even more angry. He waved his hand and said, "We must eradicate all evil. There is no need to discuss this matter any further."

In Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, these officials should all be killed. Even if some of them were implicated, it was a necessary sacrifice for the entire Ming Dynasty. As he said before, it is better for officials to cry than for ordinary people to cry. Officials in the Hongwu Dynasty should have this awareness.

Zhu Biao, however, firmly opposed this, from the previous Minister of Revenue Lu Chang to the current Yuwailang Huang Jing who was unjustly killed.

Zhu Biao knew that he could not convince Zhu Yuanzhang no matter what today, so he turned around and left without saying a word.

Perhaps it was because he was so angry that he even forgot about etiquette.

But Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting on the dragon throne, looked at Zhu Biao's departing figure, and a smile appeared on his originally angry face.

Old Zhu was very satisfied with Zhu Biao's performance.

Seeing that he had someone to succeed him, Lao Zhu felt extremely relieved.

You must know that when the Jinyiwei was first established, it was only used to collect intelligence and monitor officials. This was Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention.

It was because of the Hu case that Zhu Yuanzhang expanded their functions. In addition to gathering information, the Jinyiwei also set up their own interrogation and detention system.

The significance of this matter is very important. Punishment has existed since ancient times, and every dynasty has had a department to handle judicial affairs. However, the Jinyiwei established by Zhu Yuanzhang this time is equivalent to another set of systems outside the normal judicial trials of the country, which completely bypasses the normal system. The harm this has is very great.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew clearly what extrajudicial punishment meant, so the Jinyiwei could only be a temporary measure, something Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to do at the moment.

Because of the vast territory of the future Ming Dynasty, it was destined to become the largest empire in history, the largest in every sense.

By then, both the court situation and the domestic situation will be the most complicated in history, and one can imagine the severity of the challenges that an emperor will face.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to use the Hu Weiyong case to thoroughly cleanse the officialdom, so he expanded the case.

The purpose of doing this is to make a warning to those who come later so that they dare not act rashly in the future. If they have any ill intentions, they will remember the bloody rain in the 13th year of Hongwu.

As for the Jinyiwei, Zhu Yuanzhang would disband it when he thought it was time to do so, take back its judicial power, and completely drive it underground.

The appropriate time was naturally after the Hu case, when the court ministers' disgust and anger towards the Jinyiwei reached its highest point. At that time, when Zhu Biao stood up to oppose in front of civil and military officials, he would take this opportunity to agree to Zhu Biao's proposal.

By then, Zhu Biao will undoubtedly gain the support and admiration of scholars all over the world.

The love of the parents is far-reaching.

Zhu Yuanzhang's starting point was good, and he had the same idea in his original time and space.

Finally, he also disbanded the Jinyiwei, took out the torture instruments from the Jinyiwei's exclusive prison, the Imperial Prison, and burned them all in front of the civil and military ministers to show his determination not to re-activate the Jinyiwei.

Unfortunately, just like Pandora’s box, once the genie is let out, it never wants to go back into the bottle.

Because the Jinyiwei are so useful.

In the original time and space, after Zhu Yuanzhang abolished it, Zhu Si came to power in the Yongle Dynasty and immediately re-employed it, and it continued to be used until the end of the Ming Dynasty.

You have to know that this is an institution that is completely under the command of the emperor and not subject to any legal constraints. As an emperor, there will always be one or two people who don't like it.

However, killing these people in the normal way would not work, because killing always requires a crime, and it is impossible to kill someone casually. The most important thing for an emperor is his own reputation, and the emergence of the Jinyiwei makes up for this deficiency.

Because it can bypass the three formal judicial institutions of the Ministry of Justice, the Dali Temple, and the Censorate and fabricate charges at will.

If the case is handed over by the emperor personally, then the people involved in the case will definitely be put to death.

Often, the confession is already there before the person even reaches the Imperial Guards, and all that is needed is a signature. The Imperial Guards are not worried at all that you will not sign or seal, and will beat you up at the least, or even do it themselves at the worst.

You know, this will cause serious damage to the judicial system.

The Jinyiwei's knife is so sharp that Zhu can grasp it, but his descendants may not be able to do so. (End of this chapter)