Daming: My grandfather is Emperor Hongwu!

Chapter 12 Exhortation
In Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Zhu Xiongying finally heard the whole story clearly.

To be precise, it was a group of people, a group of officials who joined forces to deceive the old man.

These officials, down to the prefectures, states and counties, up to the central ministers of the six ministries of the DPRK and Central Committee, there is a long list.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang established the rules.Every year, the chief ministers of each province, the subordinate prefectures, prefectures and counties must send people to the household department in Beijing to report the revenue and expenditure accounts of the local finance and the amount of all money and grain, and transport money and grain to Beijing and send them to the national treasury. Browse.

But this sounds simple, but it is difficult to do.The difficulty lies in the account book for the old man, according to the old man's rules.The money and grain books of the chief secretaries of various places, the money and grain books of the subordinate prefectures and counties, and the account books of how much food and grain received by the household department should all have the same amount.

The purpose of this is to prevent corruption.If one of the three parties' ledgers does not match the other two, officials are in trouble.The magistrates who went to Beijing had to go back to the local area to strictly examine the amount of money and food, and then send it to the capital for reconciliation and registration.

At this time, the transportation is inconvenient, and the local officials and the capital are far away, so it is really unbearable.Besides, there is a more important point.When transporting money and food into the capital, the money and food must be lost.No one knows how much wasted when they didn't go to the place. The amount received by the household department is definitely different from the amount received by the local officials when they set off.

Therefore, these officials came up with a way.

All officials who came to Beijing, no matter where they came from, carried a blank account book that had been stamped by the local officials.Then after entering the household department, copy the account books collected by the household department. The numbers of the three parties are the same, and then hand it over to the old man, and everyone will be happy.

This is an unspoken rule in the officialdom, and the household department has known it for a long time, but it doesn't interfere.Local governments take it for granted.

To put it simply, this is bluffing!Everyone was afraid of trouble, so they simply took advantage of the loopholes in the law.

To say that these officials, doing so is not necessarily a heinous crime.After all, the distance is long, the money and food are wasted, and the officials really can't afford to bother.

In fact, this is not the first initiative of the officials. Since the Song Dynasty, the officials have done this, and it has remained the same until the Yuan Dynasty, and it has been the Ming Dynasty.Since there is no prohibition above, the following will pretend to be stupid and stunned, pretending not to know.

But I am afraid of the word "real" in everything, and the old man is a real emperor.

Zhu Yuanzhang and others, the emperor who was killed in the sea of ​​blood.His temper is the most stubborn and stubborn, and he will not tolerate any sand in his eyes.And all his life, what he hated the most was when others lied to him.

So after knowing this, he was furious and wanted to kill all the officials involved in the case from top to bottom.

"Collude to deceive us?" The old man gritted his teeth, "Dasun, should you kill these people?"

Zhu Xiongying thought about it, "It should be killed!"

Immediately, Zhu Biao's sharp eyes drifted over.

"However, my grandson thinks that it is not advisable to kill them all!" Zhu Xiongying changed the subject, "Grandfather, just now my father also said that this is the practice of the previous dynasty, and it is a bad habit for thousands of years. My Ming Dynasty, It is not explicitly prohibited. It would be biased to kill them all directly!"

It wasn't that Zhu Xiongying excused those officials, but that there were too few officials in the Ming Dynasty at this time, and it was indeed not easy to be an official.

The salaries of Ming officials set by the old man are pitifully small, only enough to feed and clothe the officials.Thinking about a hundred years later, Hai Rui, a generation of upright officials, didn't even have the money to buy meat for his old lady, so he knew what it would be like to have less salary.

Putting this aside, the old man has the same temperament as the king of Hades, and he will not allow officials to make mistakes at all.The world is at peace at the beginning, and a thousand wastes are waiting for prosperity.But there is a huge shortage of officials in various places. If there is another wave of killings, it will be like Zhu Biao said, no one will work.

Furthermore, those who deliberately cheat are indeed damned.But many of them are just keeping silent under the unspoken rules, drifting with the crowd, and the crime is not dead.

"If, at the beginning of the founding of the country, the emperor's grandfather abolished this rule and strictly prohibited it, the officials would be deceiving the emperor if they did so again, damn it! But you didn't prohibit it, and no one in the court said about it. Officials It's just following the old rules"

"It's okay if we don't prohibit it?" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily, "The first thing an official pays attention to is his virtue. They have no morals if they cheat. They have no virtue, no conduct, and even no conscience. Why should there be five people and six officials?"

"Don't be serious!" Zhu Xiongying thumped the old man's back and said with a smile, "According to what you said, the number of people killed cannot be counted. Think about it, thousands of people were involved from the household department to the local area. Officials at all levels of the Ministry, officials of the Chief Secretary, as well as local chief officials, the Supervision Department with supervision responsibilities, and the inspection department inspecting the censors. Could it be possible that they were all killed in one go?"

"Kill!" Zhu Yuanzhang said categorically, "We should be killed if the partner fools us!"

However, he glanced at Zhu Xiongying in surprise, and nodded approvingly, "Although you are young, you know so much. Knowing the responsibilities of officials at all levels is rare!"

"Then there will be no one to do the work!" Zhu Xiongying laughed, "Who will manage the people in the world for you, who will collect money and food for you, and who will manage the people for you? An official, from obtaining fame to becoming a qualified official What an official, how many years of work!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's anger still persisted, "We all know what you said, but we just can't swallow it! Using the bad habits of the previous dynasty to fool us, the Ming emperor, is not courting death, what is it doing?"

"If you want to say that they are wronged, they are not wronged. After all, they did something wrong on purpose." Zhu Yunxi beat the old man's leg instead, and said with a smile, "But if all the brains are killed, there must be wronged. According to the law, even the Son of Heaven cannot kill at will!"

"Officials have made mistakes, so they should be carefully investigated. Among them, those who have committed the most heinous crimes should be quickly killed as an example, but some of them are just following orders. Whether it is demoted or fined, it is punished according to the law. But because You were so angry that you were all killed, isn’t it justified?”

Speaking of this, Zhu Xiongying raised his head and looked at the old man with clear eyes, "Grandfather, you are a generation of heroes who expelled the Tartars and rebuilt China, and your achievements are comparable to those of the Qin Emperor and Han Wu. The Son of Heaven has a heart for the world and tolerates all things. If you make a small mistake , but the ring of massacres, massacring thousands of people at every turn, will inevitably be criticized by future generations!"

"Which one do we care about? Whoever likes to say what they want!" Zhu Yuanzhang's face softened, but his mouth was not forgiving.

After looking at Zhu Xiongying for a long time, he suddenly sighed, "This child has a kind nature, and if he can say such things at such a young age, he will definitely be the holy son of our Zhu family in the future, a benevolent and righteous monarch!"

Don't look at Zhu Yuanzhang being merciless to anyone all his life, but when it comes to his heirs, he especially hopes that his descendants will be a wise and kind emperor, not as quick-tempered and irritable as he is.

Zhu Biao looked at his son with approval.

What is commendable is that since his son is so young, he knows that he can't kill people indiscriminately because of anger.Even if you are guilty, you must distinguish between primary and secondary, and you cannot kill them all.

He applauded here, but he didn't expect the old man's white eyes to come over suddenly.

"Look, you're not as good as this kid!" The old man didn't have a good look at his son, "I've been talking about it all morning, and I know what to tell us is bad, and I can't say anything else!"

Zhu Biao, "."

For a long time, he didn't say a word, but the old man turned his finger on him again and scolded him.

"Decree, Minister of the Ministry of Households, Minister in charge of money and food audit, Yuanwai Lang who checked, and Lang Zhong who made the book, all be executed!" Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, "The chief officials who are in charge of money, food and seals in all places shall be executed. Supervision Department, according to the inspection Secretary, censor, etc. have committed the crime of negligence, and they will be fined for three years and fifty rods!"

"My son obeys the order!" Zhu Biao let out a sigh of relief. Compared with the old man who wanted to kill everyone in the morning, this is already a very good result.

"Have you guys finished talking about the important military affairs? The porridge and buns are cold!" Empress Ma laughed outside the door.

Zhu Yuanzhang hugged Zhu Xiongying in his arms and waved his hand, "Dinner is ready!"

(End of this chapter)