I am the king of the dead

This time the water was drained, and it seemed to be rewarding!

At this time, the yamen of the Ministry of Quan was locked, and it was not allowed to open unless the emperor's yellow-clothed emissary arrived, or the emperor's personal presence. It took about ten days to open the door.

Review all the title books of officials in Beijing, and this kind of review is jointly participated by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Officials, Jin Yiwei, and the Secretary of General Administration. All the title books will be reviewed with anonymity.

You can get along well in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but you may not be able to enjoy a good reputation in the Ministry of Punishment. You also have to have contacts in the Examination and Cleaning Department of the Ministry of Officials. Now there are more Jinyiwei and Tongzheng.

To be able to escape such a person from Jingcha under the condition of vague names, he must be a Minggong with good hands and eyes, at least at the level of six ministers.

But Minggong of this level, the emperor personally reviewed it, and it has nothing to do with everyone in the Ministry of Quan at this time.

At this time, Cao Yi, the right servant of the Ministry of Officials, was knocking on the table and said: "The imperial court selects talents and talents, and strives to govern together. It is to ensure the well-being of the people, not to sicken them. nuclear."

"Your Majesty ordered Jingcha, we have been here for a day, have we gained anything? Your Majesty asked, we are empty-handed, how to explain?"

Yu Shan, the right man of the Ministry of Officials, said in a low voice: "I have a copy here. It happened at the end of last year. Liu Rong, the young minister of Taipu Temple, watched the branding of official horses and sacrificed to the imperial tomb. Nearly ten thousand horses were missing. case!"

Cao Yi immediately stood up and picked up Yu Shan's memorial. The more he looked at it, the more excited he became, but soon he said rather sadly: "Liu Rong seems to have died in the Tumu Fort last year. Your Majesty also asked about this matter." Afterwards, during the orthodox years, there were quite a few people who acted like this, His Majesty ascended the throne, amnesty the world, and let the past go."

"This is the supervisor of Taipu Siqing Xia Heng, and it has been reported to the heavens."

Soon the Ministry of Officials examined meritorious officials, Si Lang, stood up and said: "I am here, a big case! Disregarding human life, and Zhao Jin, the head of the fifth-rank Shandong Press and Prosecutor Division! A major case of disregarding human life!"

While Si Lang was excited about the meritorious official, the rest of the Metropolitan Procuratorate's personnel in charge of the Beijing Procuratorate quickly locked on Zhao Jin, the head of the Shandong Procuratorate.

This person returned to Beijing due to illness, and stayed in Beijing to listen to him, planning to climb up again.

There is Li Binyan in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who is the censor of Youqian Capital, and everyone says he is upright.

Many people were staring at Li Binyan's position, so Zhao Jin went to Beijing to listen to Li Binyan's position.

As a result, a major case was discovered.

Soon, there were more and more cases about Zhao Jin, and it became clearer and clearer. When Zhu Qiyu stepped into the gate of the Ministry of Officials, all the cases about Zhao Jin were picked out, waiting for His Majesty to dismantle the name and seal. .

Zhu Qiyu looked at dozens of title books placed in front of the case, and picked up the first one.

Yu Shiyue bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the officials of the prison who beat people to death illegally require a hundred sticks, three years in prison, and ten taels of silver for burial. "

"But this Zhao Jin obviously didn't fight to death according to the law, but created a torture device of his own."

Zhu Qiyu just read one book, and his blood pressure went up.

This is a typical unjust, false and wrongly decided case. Wenxian's father died on the way south to the West. Wenxian inherited his father's military title and served as the garrison of Taicang, Nanjing.

When Zhao Jin was inspecting, he sent Wen Xian to prison under the pretext of being corrupt or stealing. This torture failed, Wen Xian was poor and had no money to bribe, so he was lynched to death by Zhao Jin.

This lynching stick board is about eight feet high, with a wooden gate on the top to fix the hands, a cowhide band on the bottom to tie the waist, and a square wooden wedge with double holes on the bottom.

The ankles of the prisoners will be in pain. In severe cases, the ankle bones may be crushed, resulting in permanent disability or even death.

Zhao Jin concealed the lynching and wrote it as a decisive beating according to the law, but Ying Tianfu's yamen wrote it as a crushed ankle bone and died of severe pain.

This Wenxian has a younger brother named Wen Rang. Wen Rang bribed the head of the prison of the Nanjing Ministry of Punishment, got the physical evidence, and wanted to go to Beijing to sue.

After Zhao Jin knew about it, he contacted the Cao thief to kill Wen Rang, but he did not do it cleanly, so he was reported by the Daming Mansion, and the stick board was sent to the capital, along with a paper full of blood.

This is still a case.

And Zhao Jin's dead souls are not limited to these two?

There was a lansheng named Kang Menghe who had just married a wife whose nickname was Tian Fanglian.

Tian Fanglian was bullied by the evil young master. Kang Menghe killed the evil young master in a moment of anger. According to the law, this slain should be beheaded. The army was sent to Guangxi.

Tian Fanglian was exiled to Guangxi with her husband, but before she left Shandong, her husband Kang Menghe was killed.

At that time, Zhao Jin inspected Jinan Prefecture and wanted to occupy Tian Fanglian by force.

After Tian Fanglian broke free, a weak woman, begging for a living, went to Beijing to report to Dali Temple, but Tian Fanglian herself couldn't survive, and froze to death on the street last year.

Why did Zhao Jin want to occupy by force?Because Tian Fanglian looks very good-looking.

This is only the second.

This table is full of things that Zhao Jin did. He was greedy for money and profit, openly extorted bribes, officials dumped food and horses, forcibly occupied people's land, bought and sold officials.

"Let Jin Yiwei arrest him, check it twice, and present it to the imperial court." Zhu Qiyu rubbed his slightly swollen forehead.

Several yamen are seriously investigating in Beijing, and every case is investigated together by the case files of several yamen.

Zhu Qiyu knew what a bureaucrat looked like, but only when he really got to the bottom of it did he realize that he was really dizzy with anger.

Lu Zhong came back after walking for about two hours, walked into the yamen of the Ministry of Officials, found His Majesty who was still watching the case, bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, I went to arrest Zhao Jin. In his courtyard, Ten gold bricks, 600 taels of gold, and 11 taels of silver according to the list price."

"Two silver bricks, 140, totaling 14 taels."

Lu Zhong has a unique skill, which is to ransack your house, no matter where your money is hidden, even if it is in the cesspit of the stable, he can dig it out.

Moreover, he can keep following the clues to find out all the hidden money.

The main reason is that Lu Zhong has a lot of informants at the broker comprador. As long as the news spreads, someone will naturally tell him the matter.

For Lu Zhong, there are no secrets in this world.

As long as His Majesty wants to know.

Lu Zhong continued: "According to Zhao Jin's salary, he would have to earn 200 years to have this much money, and I have also checked that this person has raised two concubines in Taibailou, and his spending is extremely generous."

"I haven't started to check and make up for it yet, but I have already confiscated so much, and I will go to check and make up for it later."

"By the way, this Zhao Jin, before he jumped to the Dragon Gate, his family had seventeen acres of Susukida, and his mother starved to death because he made him study."

Zhu Qiyu turned his head and asked in a daze: "This Zhao Jin's mother starved to death for him to study? Then what books did he read?"

"Read something! Into the dog's belly?"

The officials of the capital, under Zhu Qiyu's repeated actions of raising the butcher's knife, hanging, cutting, beheading, and exiling to Yongning Temple, the officials of the capital lived in the Nuan Pavilion, the official residence. All gone.

But not all officials in this world are like this.

Lu Zhong has been idle for a year. He wanders around the mansion every day when he has nothing to do, but it has never been his turn to make a move. One can imagine the environment and atmosphere of the capital.

Now the court of the Ming Dynasty can even call the emperor a king of subjugation, but it cannot take bribes and pervert the law.

This is the rule of the officialdom now.

Zhu Qiyu was scolded every day. Today the king of the country will be subjugated, tomorrow the wine pool will be filled with meat, and the day after tomorrow the country will be destroyed. He is used to it.

But at least the ministers and workers of the capital are somewhat human now, regardless of whether they are pretending or sincere, at least they are doing things diligently, not doing anything wrong, let alone breaking the law.

But officials in these places are different.

When I was in the air force all day, I always hoped to catch it, but this time I drained the water and caught one, but I was dizzy with anger.

"Your Majesty." The Minister of the Ministry of Officials looked at His Majesty's appearance and said rather worriedly.

Zhu Qiyu waved his hands and said, "I'm fine."

"I've heard that when the politics are clear, officials are often promoted because they work hard and share the country's concerns; when the politics are dark, even officials with integrity and achievements are difficult to be promoted."

"If you want to be promoted, you either have someone in the court, or you pay bribes to invite reputation."

"If you want someone in the court, you have to get acquainted with the powerful, and you need to pay bribes to invite reputation. Both of them need money. When the sky does not rain, and the land does not produce gold, power rent-seeking is the best way to make profits."

Wang Zhi bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, that is indeed the case."

What Your Majesty said is not nonsense, power rent-seeking is a very common means for officials to seek wealth. Since the prosperity of Wen and Yanwu, the officials of the Ming Dynasty have become like this when they saw that the emperor had no butcher knife in his hand.

Zhu Qiyu took a deep breath and said: "So after waiting for Jin Yiwei to check and make up, this Zhao Jinzhen will definitely punish him."

"If there are other similar people, behead them together and show them to the public. After the spring of next year, we will prepare a big plan."

The big plan is a large-scale review of bureaucrats across the country.

Jingcha and Daji are the immune system of Daming's officialdom. If it fails, Daming will really get sick.

"The minister takes the order." Wang Zhi sighed and bowed his head to accept the order.

In fact, he didn't want to be angry with His Majesty.

Hello, hello, hello everyone, it is not impossible for everyone to live with the mud, but the Beijing officials live in the official residence, which greatly limits the unspoken rules of government in the past.

If you don't raise the two sharp swords of Jingcha and Daji, how can His Majesty judge the courtiers, and how can the Beijing officials picket all the officials in the world?

"There are many courtiers like this in the world." Zhu Qiyu pointed at Zhao Jin's case and said, "If one is found, one will be investigated and dealt with. After verification, one will be chopped down. No one will be tolerated!"

Chapter 2 Zhu Zhanqian: Why do you all want me to die? !

In fact, Zhu Qiyu didn't want to make the relationship between the monarch and his ministers so difficult, but these courtiers insisted on forcing him to take up the butcher's knife.

Jingcha is an administrative method, Zhu Qiyu raised it, and naturally there is no possibility of letting it go.

"Your Majesty, the previous government was extremely relaxed, and none of the laws were revised to clarify the military and government. If you want to make a big plan, you need to first rectify the rules and disciplines. Later." Wang Zhi has been preparing for the administration of officials for a long time, so he naturally has detailed ideas.

Rules, Orders, and Laws are the three major legal principles of the Ming Dynasty. Among them, the Rules are imperial edicts, Orders are for enlightenment, Laws are the criterion, and the Law of the Ming Dynasty is the final bottom line.

What Wang Zhi meant was that first set the rules and regulations, then issue orders, and then strike hard.

Determining guidelines and disciplines and restricting orders all require His Majesty's imperial edict to guide the "Official Law" and "Official Order" of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Punishment. The ministers discussed and agreed, presented to His Majesty, and finally implemented.

Zhu Qiyu nodded approvingly and said: "Before Wang Shangshu asked for the imperial inspection, I had already drawn up the imperial edict, and after the inspection is over, I will immediately start to formulate the rules and regulations."

For example, an imperial edict cannot be violated, which is an anti-decree.

Of course, it is also possible to gather the six subjects to refute the case, as long as you have spoken the truth of the emperor.

The Beijing inspection continued, and Zhu Qiyu personally sat in the Ministry of Quan. He began to check the six ministers, the chief constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion together with the Supervisor of Rites and Jin Yiwei.

Yu Qian, Wang Zhi, Jin Lian, Hu Wei, Yu Shiyue, Shi Pu, the six ministers, Wang Wen, the chief constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Chen Xun, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion.

First of all, it is morality, which means that Hu Wei and Wang Zhi have no integrity. Hu Wei is the Minister of Rites for four generations and holds the most important power in the imperial examination. How many gifts are given?

But Hu Yi is such a person, he will support whoever is in power.

His Majesty is still thrifty, he felt keenly that the wind had changed after the king asked for the decree to move the palace last year and refused.

Hu Yan began to cut those old customs, how fast did he cut?

Before the battle of the capital was over, Hu Wei had already gone to the internal transport depot to hand over the things obtained through corruption and perverting the law for more than [-] years to the internal funds.

It was two months earlier than Zhu Qiyu's pursuit of Xishan Coal Kiln's personal interests.

Hu Wei is not a huge corrupt man, and the total amount is less than ten thousand taels of silver. Compared with Zhao Jin, who was convicted for the first time and found out 30 taels of silver, he can be regarded as very clean.

Wang Zhi has no integrity because he was born in the Langya Wang family, and the capital should be supplied by the Langya Wang family, living a luxurious life.

But since Wang Zhi moved into the official residence, the connection between Wang Zhi and the Langya Wang family has been completely severed.

Zhu Qiyu didn't intend to investigate these things. When he ascended the throne, Zhu Qiyu had already pardoned the world, and the emperor spoke well.

Besides, since Suba University, no, after Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne, those who still do not stop will naturally have the wrath of thunder.

Several six ministers, since Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne for a year, can be regarded as diligent and honest.

The poorest among them is Wang Wen, who has an official residence and no other wealth.

Since then, Zhu Qiyu has come to a conclusion, that is, no matter from the perspective of stabilizing the ruling order or effectively governing the society, the rulers and the general public do not want corruption to appear.

Of course, the forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds, such as Qianlong, who was so busy discussing crimes that the emperor couldn't ask for bribes, so he asked his officials to ask for bribes.

Xing'an bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, those big wolf dogs have been trained very well recently, but they can smell anything that smells like silver ingots or gold ingots. If your majesty suspects any Minggong, you can ask the big dogs to sniff it." I will know."

"Can you smell the smell of burrowing?" Zhu Qiyu said as he put down a case.

Xing'an nodded and said, "Yes."

"Then let's go." Zhu Qiyu nodded and said.

Since you want to pump water, then pump it clean and check it carefully.

Not only the official residence needs to be checked, but also other places.

Lu Zhong took the Tiqis and left again, changed his attire, and scattered around the capital. He transformed himself from a Tiqi into a member of the economic comprador, and went to inquire about news.

Economic compradors are the most unreliable group of people, they are mercenary, at least a little bit of scattered silver, Lu Zhong can get countless news that is difficult to distinguish between true and false.Lu Zhong is also very good at investigation, and he will always gain something.

The Jingcha is in full swing, and the people in the capital seem to have noticed some news. His Majesty may be going to kill someone again recently.

After being locked for ten days, the door of the Ministry of Quan was finally opened slowly, and a detailed list was sent to the imperial court.

Basically, there is nothing worthy of His Majesty's wrath.

Zhu Yuanzhang actually carried out the peeling and weeding of two people, Zhang Feng, the chief secretary of Guangxi, and Yu Tai, the deputy envoy of the procuratorate, were the only two.

To some extent, His Majesty is even more ruthless than Emperor Taizu Gao. How many people have been beheaded since he took the throne?