Daming: I can’t kill such a greedy prince-in-law?

Chapter 303 Why does this guy look so familiar! (Please subscribe!!)

When he opened his eyes again, the sleepiness in Ouyang Lun's eyes had long disappeared without a trace.

Ouyang Lun hid behind the officials in front, quietly poked his head out, and looked at the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang sitting on the dragon throne.

What the hell!

Why does this guy look so familiar!

Logically speaking, this is the first time that I have met Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty!

I didn't see it during the imperial examination, so why did I feel so familiar after just taking a glance at it today?

Have you seen it from there before?

Seeing that Ouyang Lun finally woke up, the civil and military officials who were still reporting various matters immediately fell silent. Although they did not turn around to look at Ouyang Lun, they were all extremely curious about the next development.

Since he was standing at the end, Ouyang Lun could only see the backs of the officials and could not see the expressions on their faces at all. Moreover, his eyes were now focused on the old man on the dragon throne.

The more he looked, the clearer the picture in Ouyang Lun's mind became.

The clearer it became, the corners of Ouyang Lun's mouth began to twitch, and he couldn't help shouting in his heart: "Good boy! Why does this emperor look so similar to my uncle?"

"Are you kidding me? I'm not Empress Ma's cousin. It's normal to look like Empress Ma, but there's something wrong with her resemblance to Zhu Yuanzhang."

"Or maybe the old uncle is actually our emperor's father-in-law Zhu Yuanzhang?"

hiss--

When this idea appeared, Ouyang Lun took a breath of cold air.

There was a big brainstorming explosion in my head!

Boss Ma is a businessman who wants to make money. Boss Ma is a relative of the emperor and has very strong connections in the capital. Boss Ma is the cousin of Queen Ma, the uncle of Princess Anqing, and his uncle. Now he has become the emperor. ? ? ? !

My head is buzzing, and it feels like my head is about to explode.

The final conclusion is that Boss Ma is the emperor!

This guy has been hiding himself since Kaiping County! ! ?

This is so surprising!

Is it possible that Boss Ma is actually Zhu Yuanzhang’s brother? Neither the official nor the unofficial officials mentioned this, obviously not.

Could Boss Ma be the illegitimate son of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang? This is even more impossible. After all, Boss Ma’s age is also there.

Maybe Boss Ma's rebellion was successful and Zhu Yuanzhang has been killed or imprisoned by him. Now Boss Ma is the emperor. After all, Boss Ma has wanted to rebel more than once. The logic of this possibility is more reasonable.

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Thinking of this, Ouyang Lun was so excited that he clapped his hands.

This wave of operations can be said to have shocked the entire civil and military officials in the hall.

Lan Yu and others were also dumbfounded.

What is Ouyang Lun doing? Are you going crazy in the hall?

Zhu Yuanzhang was also startled, and secretly wondered if he had used too much force to scare Ouyang Lun out of his wits?

At this moment, Ouyang Lun spoke, "Uncle, you are awesome!"

"After so many years of planning, you finally replaced him and became the emperor yourself!"

As he spoke, Ouyang Lun extended his thumbs up and said, "I can only give you one word - awesome!"

"If I had known you had become the emperor, I wouldn't have had to be so resistant to going to court in the morning, haha!" Ouyang Lun laughed.

Forehead.

This guy actually regarded His Majesty the Emperor as someone who had successfully rebelled! !

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang laughed angrily again. It was rare for him to explain to Ouyang Lun, so he said loudly: "Ouyang Lun, I am your father-in-law, the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang!"

Ouyang Lun was immediately confused when he said this.

Ouyang Lun, who was still applauding fiercely, immediately stopped moving his hands.

Be nice!

This guy is really Zhu Yuanzhang! !

"Ahem, father-in-law, if my son-in-law said that what he just said was all nonsense, would you believe it?"

Ouyang Lun was so embarrassed that he wanted to dig a hole and get in.

"What do you say?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly.

Hearing this, Ouyang Lun cried out in his heart that he was finished, and he was really going to die now!

Anqing, Miaomiao, Miaoyun, Azuna, I can't help you as husbands, for making you become widows so early!

Ouyang Lun recalled his relationship with Zhu Yuanzhang in the past three years. Zhu Yuanzhang knew all about building ships, building ships and cultivating militia, not to mention collecting tuition fees! Moreover, he also thought about reselling the weapons in the Ming Dynasty's arsenal with Zhu Yuanzhang. Any one of these things would be enough to kill him seven times or eight times.

It’s hard to save the gods!

Unless a miracle happens.

At this moment, Ouyang Lun's heart was already shaking, waiting for Zhu Yuanzhang to pronounce his sentence.

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and said, "Are the people from the Criminal Department here?"

"I'm here." The Minister of Punishment quickly stood up.

"I heard that you have tried several cases of official corruption and bribery recently?"

"Yes, Li Yuanyi, the prefect of Yangzhou, He Guang, the prefect of Guangzhou, and Chen Duobao, the prefect of Shu, are all high-ranking prefects. They colluded with local businessmen and squires, set up clever names, harmed the people, and robbed the people of their wealth. The evidence is conclusive. Now, He has been arrested and brought to justice, and the prisoner has been escorted to the capital for sentencing at a later date!"

"Okay! Okay! I have repeatedly given orders that you must be honest as an official, make decisions for the people, and seek welfare. These three people are doing well. They are domineering in the local area, corrupt and bribery, and they must have done a lot of things without telling the court!"

"Humph!"

After saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang slapped Long An fiercely, "These people really deserve to die!!"

Depend on!

Ouyang Lun was so frightened by Zhu Yuanzhang's action that he almost knelt down in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Although the Minister of Justice and Zhu Yuanzhang were both talking about those three people, Ouyang Lun always felt that Zhu Yuanzhang was vying for him.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang! Why don't you just give me a knife? There's no need to scare me in this way!

Just when Ouyang Lun was thinking about whether to kneel down, His Highness Taiji's civil and military officials had already knelt down very smoothly and skillfully.

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Depend on!

Ouyang Lun saw this scene and was shocked in his heart. He had never seen so many people kneeling so smoothly. If he hadn't knelt hundreds or thousands of times, it would never have had such an effect.

If you kneel down, don't you seem to be standing out? ! !

Ouyang Lun finally understood the feeling of a tree standing tall in the forest, which must be destroyed by the wind.

"Ouyang Lun, do you have any different opinions?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked coldly.

A sharp look followed.

Plop—— Ouyang Lun knelt down without any hesitation, "Your Majesty is wise! Punish corrupt officials severely! If you find one, kill one, if you find two, kill a pair!!"

It’s not up to others, you have to kneel down when you should!

Oh my god! So scary!

Is this still the old uncle we know? No, no, Ouyang Lun, please wake up quickly. From beginning to end, he is not Uncle Ma or Old Uncle, but the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, who won the Ming Dynasty with a bowl in the beginning! !

If you still think of him as Uncle Ma, you may not even know how you died.

Hey--

Who knows?

Originally, I just wanted to fish and go home, but now it’s unclear whether I can walk out of the Tai Chi Hall alive.

In other words, although we have done a lot of illegal things over the years, we have also made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty. If we didn’t conquer the Japanese pirates in the East, we would definitely not be able to win. If we don’t make plans for Nanping and Yunnan, we can only rely on Zhu Di and Zhu Bai. We are a little kid, so we will definitely not win that easily. In the battle of Northern Xinjiang, we will try our best to protect the city of Beiping, not to mention we will develop disaster relief in Beizhili and Guangdong provinces.

And he is also his son-in-law Zhu Yuanzhang.

Taken together, these factors can somehow save your life, instead of killing yourself in the ancestral temple like the original historical trajectory, right?

but.

Ouyang Lun was still beating the drum in his heart.

If it were anyone else, they would naturally not be so decisive.

But now he is facing Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty!

The killing was ruthless.

He would never allow any corruption or bribery that would endanger the Ming Dynasty. How many of Zhu Yuanzhang's sons-in-law had a good ending?

Ouyang Lun can be said to be filled with regret now. If he had known that Uncle Ma was Zhu Yuanzhang, he would not have come to the capital even if he was killed. It was a complete act of courting death!

If it were in Beizhili, if something went wrong, he could get on a boat and escape. But this was in the palace in the capital, and he might not be able to escape even if he had wings.

I don’t know how I died in the end.

Behead?

Lingchi?

Dismembered by five horses?

Ouyang Lun shuddered, thinking that going back and forth to the ancestral temple and wiping his neck with a sword would be the best ending.

Ouyang Lun looked at Tai Chi Hall to see if there was any chance of escape, but after one glance, this idea was abandoned directly.

The only way to escape was the entrance of Tai Chi Hall behind him, but the outside was already occupied by palace guards. These guards were all masters. If they escaped, they would probably be chopped into pieces in minutes.

"Ouyang Lun, what do you think about this matter?"

what--!

Ouyang Lun was confused. You, Zhu Yuanzhang, are dealing with corrupt officials. You have to ask us what to do?

What do you mean?

Of course, it was better for Zhu Yuanzhang to ask this question than to directly ask "Ouyang Lun, do you know you are guilty?"

"Ahem, your Majesty, my son-in-law feels that corrupt officials deserve to die, but if they are killed just like this, it would be somewhat of a waste." Ouyang Lun suddenly thought of a way to make reasonable use of corrupt officials in his previous life and said.

These words immediately aroused the curiosity of everyone present, including Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Is it a waste to kill this corrupt official?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked doubtfully.

"Of course." Ouyang Lun nodded, "Excuse me, Your Majesty, why are you killing corrupt officials?"

"Needless to say, of course it is for the sake of the people. If you kill corrupt officials, no one will harm the people. In addition, it is also a warning to other officials. When you are a corrupt official, you must have the consciousness to be beheaded!" Zhu Yuanzhang's tone became more and more serious. Heavy.

Ouyang Lun nodded, "Your Majesty is right, killing a corrupt official can indeed save some people, but you can't kill all the corrupt officials, and dragging the corrupt officials to the market to see their heads is just for the people to watch. For There was almost no warning from the officials, and I believe the adults at the scene would not go to the market to watch corrupt officials being beheaded.”

"So I say that directly killing corrupt officials is a waste. We have brought them to the Tai Chi Hall and asked them to talk about their thoughts on corruption. After all, some officials did not become corrupt as soon as they became officials. Let's discuss when they started to be corrupt. The changes in their hearts are due to those temptations, and what they thought after being caught for corruption. Of course, this is also their final judgment!"

"Only by clarifying the root causes of corruption among corrupt officials can we serve as a warning!"

"I call it a public trial for corrupt officials! The most important thing is to let all current officials attend! As a warning!"

The words fell.

Wu Jingzhi was the first to stand up and said: "Your Majesty, I deeply agree with what Ouyang Prince Consort said, and you should do this!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was also attracted by the method proposed by Ouyang Lun, "Corrupt Officials Public Trial Conference!! This is a good name!"

"In that case, bring me the three people, Li Yuanyi, the prefect of Yangzhou, He Guang, the prefect of Guangzhou, and Chen Duobao, the prefect of Shu, and I will hold a public trial for corrupt officials!"

"Yes!"

The people from the Criminal Department quickly brought the person up.

As three prisoners wearing prison uniforms and shackled hands and feet were brought in, everyone in the Tai Chi Hall fell silent.

Corrupt officials were sentenced to death in Ming Dynasty at this time. Anyone who dared to get involved with them would have nothing good to do. Naturally, no one dared to speak for these three people.

"The guilty minister Li Yuanyi comes to see Your Majesty!"

Li Yuanyi, the prefect of Yangzhou, was the youngest, with unwillingness and regret in his eyes.

"The guilty minister He Guang comes to see Your Majesty!"

He Guang, the prefect of Guangzhou, looked rough. Even though he was tortured and his hands and feet were shackled, his back was still straight.

"Sinful minister. Ahem. Chen Duobao comes to see His Majesty. Ahem."

Chen Duobao, the prefect of the Shu capital, had already become white-haired and extremely weak.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw these three people, he was furious and shouted: "Li Yuanyi, you are the prefect I value most. I gave Yangzhou to you because of my trust in you. I didn't expect you to be Corruption and bribery!!”

"And you, He Guang, you turned out to be my personal guard. You didn't embarrass me on the battlefield. I asked you to read and write, and you learned well. I asked you to manage Guangzhou, but you learned to be corrupt! "

"Chen Duobao, Chen Duobao, you are also a famous scholar in Bashu, and your Chen family is a famous and scholarly family in Bashu. At your age, you are still corrupt? It's really shameful. It's a disgrace to your ancestors of the Chen family!"

Zhu Yuanzhang cursed angrily on the dragon throne.

No one in Tai Chi Hall made a sound.

"I brought you three to the Tai Chi Hall today just to show all the civil and military officials that this is the fate of being a corrupt official!"

"You three, don't be stunned. Tell us everything about your corruption and bribery. I want to know what made you give up your good future, reputation, and life for corruption!!"

"Ouyang Lun, you will be in charge of the rest! I'm a little tired."

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he sat on the dragon chair panting heavily.

Ah!

Ouyang Lun was stunned again.

What the hell?

Let me host it?

Ouyang Lun originally thought that Zhu Yuanzhang would try him and these three corrupt officials together, but now he was asked to interrogate what kind of medicine Zhu Yuanzhang was selling in his gourd.

Swish--

As Zhu Yuanzhang's order was issued, everyone's eyes fell on Ouyang Lun.

(End of this chapter)