Wanli Youming

Chapter 435 Cleaning Up the Imperial Party

Chapter 435 Cleaning Up the Imperial Party

Time went back to the autumn of Wanli 13th year after Zhu Yijun ordered Hai Rui to resume his original post. After this incident, the Queen Mother never mentioned King Lu again.

However, Lu Shude was escorted to Beijing at this time, and was interrogated by the three courts. In the end, he was found guilty of adultery and incest, and was sentenced to execution by hanging.

"why!"

"Why are you so strict, can you be completely clean yourself?!"

On the eve of being hanged, Lu Shude reluctantly asked Wang Zongmu, the servant of the Ministry of Punishment.

Wang Zongmu said: "We are not as exaggerated as you! Even the daughter-in-law of one's own tribe is raped. Is this a human thing?"

Lu Shude sneered, and then shouted loudly: "It's not because of the system reform!"

"We must make benefiting the people one of the goals of governing the country, but as a result, fewer and fewer children are sold. I want to find a new chick to spend a lot of money, so I have to suppress this desire. I can't help but attack people in my clan, but if I didn't, how could I do such an immoral thing?!"

"You forced a person who wanted to be a saint to become a thief, aren't you afraid that you will become a thief too?!"

"According to what you say, is it wrong to implement benevolent government to the common people?"

"Also, is it wrong to suppress people's desires?"

"Besides, if this is the case, does it mean that if there are saints in this world, people need to be like grass?"

Wang Zongmu asked coldly.

Lu Shude didn't speak any more, just pursed his lips.

But he had acquiesced that Wang Zongmu's words were correct.

It didn't take long for Lu Shude's throat to be tightened by the rope that strangled him, and he couldn't speak, so he was finally strangled in the city.

Since the implementation of the system of allowing common people to report to the emperor at various post stations, the crimes of many officials and gentry have indeed been exposed in large numbers.

There are quite a few who need to be beheaded and exiled into the army, not to mention many who are just immoral. In short, there are both those written and not written in Jin Ping Mei and other classical novels of the world.

Zhu Yijun had no choice but to decree to be lenient, so that those who can be exiled into the army will be exiled instead of the death penalty, and those who can only be dismissed from the rank will not be sentenced.

Because although the Ming Dynasty needs to rectify the bureaucratic gentry, it cannot be separated from the bureaucratic gentry. They are needed to maintain local stability and coordinate the conflicts and disputes between the government and the common people.

If all the liquidation is strictly enforced, many places will completely become the world of subordinate officials and bandits and tyrants.

These forces are more brutal and direct than the sages and gentry in oppressing the people.

Unlike the gentry in the village, many people still care about the long-term interests of the entire landlord class, and appropriately provide disaster relief or call on the villagers to cooperate with the government, or use more civilized methods.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun had to be lenient and benevolent, mainly publishing newspapers and compiling codes.

But this still made many scholar-bureaucrats very unbearable, and they wrote letters to Shen Shihang, who was in power on the spot, hoping that they could stop this and save the face of scholars, saying that if this continues, the foundation of Neo-Confucianism will be shaken, and people all over the world will be more serious. I feel that science is very unrealistic.

But when Shen Shixing and others are in power, they are also mud bodhisattvas crossing the river, and they cannot protect themselves.

That's right, after the whistleblowing system was implemented, their relatives and friends were also involved.

Li Hong, the son-in-law of Shen Shixing, was reported to have cheated in the Shuntianfu Township Examination.

Fortunately, however, this matter is not yet conclusive evidence.

Although Shen Shixing resigned because of this, Zhu Yijun did not agree to dismiss him because of this, but only made an order that the children of senior officials above the fourth rank should take another subject in the college and township examinations, called Enxian Ke.

In the meaning of benevolent and virtuous children, on the basis of the original quota, a certain number of places will be allocated to the Enxian Section, which is equivalent to allowing these powerful and eunuch children to be recorded separately from those from poor families, so as to avoid the suspicion of robbing the children of poor families for advanced resources.

But in fact, it is also equivalent to the court giving extra favors to the children of Quan Huan.

Because originally the children of powerful eunuchs had to compete with the children of poor families for the fixed number of Jinshi candidates every year, but now because of the number of places alone, the admission rate is lower, and the hope for the first place in the provincial and general examinations is higher.

This is naturally a pleasure for the children of Quan Huan.

The children from poor families are also very happy, because they have a lot of places, and on the contrary, because the children of powerful eunuchs do not compete with them, it makes it easier for them to get the number one.

In general.

Zhu Yijun's decree is beneficial to the rich and poor, and the only price is that the court needs to arrange more Jinshi and raise more scholars.

If this continues, if the country does not expand, it will cause a serious phenomenon of redundant officials, which in turn will cause great financial problems.

You must know that the Song Dynasty had already implemented this system of taking care of both the poor scholars and the children of the eunuchs, but it was also because of this system that it caused a heavy financial burden. In the Song Renzong era, there was a serious problem of redundant officials. Many people were hungry and cold, and Fan Zhongyan and others had to think about reforms.

Therefore, in order to avoid this problem, Zhu Yijun had to expand and increase productivity, that is, to make the cake bigger, so that the increased Jinshi could just supplement the bureaucratic shortage that occurred after the newly added territory.

Zhu Yijun is determined to continue to expand and increase productivity, so he is not afraid to do so.

As for whether the king of later generations would rather cut redundant staff, streamline the organization, increase internal taxes, stop expansion and reduce killings, he cannot be sure.

But Zhu Yijun believes in the general trend of the world, the long-term unity must be divided, and the long-term unity must be united. After all, China is a civilization disguised as a country. His subjugation is not the extinction of civilization, but the internal change of civilization. When the emperor let his empire die quickly, but once the Han civilization is rooted in a new territory, it is difficult to become another civilization, and it will always be unified when a strongman appears.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun didn't care what the people behind him did.

He now wants to govern the Ming Empire as a civilization, to let the civilization expand, to eliminate backward civilizations, and to improve the advanced level of his own civilization. Perhaps in the future, he will completely throw off other civilizations, or even be different from them.

Less gossip.

Among the ruling ministers, it wasn't just Shen Shixing who was sued for the whistleblowing system.

Pan Sheng and Xu Xuemo were also implicated, and it was their children who were found to have committed crimes with conclusive evidence. In addition, when Jinyiwei was rectified, it was also found out that their family opened a store to collect money and even prevented Jinyiwei and Bingmasi from patrolling. Therefore, they Soon after the whistleblowing system appeared, he resigned from office.

"It's time to make room for the people behind, so as not to let the family members be spoiled even more lawlessly. It's not suitable to be the Prime Minister of Taiping for too long, or it will wear off your energy!"

After Pan Sheng resigned from office, he also directly ordered his family to prepare to move out of the official residence, and expressed his determination to resign to Shen Shixing, Xu Xuemo and others.

"Yeah, even though we are an imperial party, we should clean up from time to time, so that the police can be with us."

Xu Xuemo also said something.

Shen Shixing nodded: "That's fine. Right now, all officials and gentry are in danger. If newcomers are not allowed to be promoted to ministers, there will be more complaints and more informers!"

then.

Both Pan Sheng and Xu Xuemo were approved to resign from office by Shen Shixing Piao.

Zhu Yijun also knew the truth that running water does not corrupt households and hubs do not rot, so he agreed to Shen Shihang's proposal and let the two return to their hometowns.

Then, Yang Wei, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, also hated too much for avoiding scholars, so he resigned from office, and he was also approved.

(End of this chapter)