Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 45: All beheaded!

"I am also a third-rank official appointed by the imperial court. The two patriarchs are so inspiring and moving people without His Majesty's consent to come to take people. Isn't it a bit inconsistent with the imperial court system?"

"I want to report this to Your Majesty..."

At this moment, Liu Jian, where is he in the mood to talk nonsense with him?

"Come on, take this person down quickly!"

"As ordered!"

"Who dares? I am a high-ranking official of the imperial court, you have no right to arrest me..."

Liu Jian's eyes stared slightly, and he stepped forward and said, "The Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Officials corrupted the money and bent the law, and bought and bought official positions without permission. Do you know the crime?"

"You still don't know about several cases in the Ministry of Punishment?"

Hearing this, Pang Shan's face changed slightly: "You, you are talking nonsense!"

"nonsense?"

"Come on, bring the prisoner up."

The voice fell, and the housekeeper who had followed Liu Jian and the others to meet before was pulled in with an embarrassed expression.

"This officer asks you, do you know this person?"

The housekeeper looked at Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, and his expressions changed slightly. When he looked at Pang Shan, he lowered his head in fear.

"No, I don't know."

"do not know?"

"Well, this officer will find a way to remind you."

"I heard that Jinyiwei has developed a new set of punishments, and they are lacking the target of the experiment, then I will let you taste the new punishment first."

Hearing Liu Jian's words, the housekeeper's face changed greatly, and he said with sincerity: "I said, I will say it now."

The insidiousness and ruthlessness of the Dongxi and Dongxi factories are well known to the world, especially the incident in the imperial kitchen a while ago, which made Dongxi and Dongxi factories famous again.

But if he is brought into Jinyiwei for interrogation, the housekeeper will know his fate, and there will be no exit, and the consequences might not be as good as death now.

When the housekeeper said what he was going to confess, Pang Shan's entire plump body suddenly slumped and handed it over.

"Hehe, come here, check the property of the Minister of Staff, and don't miss any suspicious places."

"Pang Shan, the servant of the Ministry of Personnel, the housekeeper and pedestrians, etc. are all escorted to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, and the interrogation will be stricter!"

"As ordered!"

As a result, many officers and soldiers poured into the house of Pang Shan, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and began to thoroughly confiscated his property.

Liu Jian secretly arranged for his subordinates, and he must suppress the movement to a minimum.

In Liu Jian's eyes, this mere servant of the Ministry of Officials is really nothing, and there is really a tiger behind him.

In fact, more than 800 officers and soldiers also suppressed the movement. Except for Pang Shan's house, the streets and other places were relatively quiet, and there was nothing extraordinary at all.

Liu Jian and Li Dongyang stood outside the mansion, watching these soldiers confiscating their property with deep eyes.

Boxes of sealed silver taels were quickly piled up in the courtyard, and jade treasures large and small exuded a seductive glow in the moonlight.

The faces of Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others became more and more gloomy.

These are all the people's fat and people's cream that Pangshan has collected. How many people have to shed how much blood to put them together?

Not long after, a soldier walked up to Liu Jian quickly and presented a list of accounts to Liu Jian.

Liu Jian was furious and opened the account and list.

When Li Dongyang on the side saw these accounts and lists, he couldn't help gasping.

On the account, the bribes received by all the people and the favors received when helping people solve "difficult problems" are recorded in detail.

On the list, there is also a detailed list of officials who secretly colluded with him. .

The breadth of its involvement and the number of people it covers are astounding.

"A small Shangshu can actually do this!"

"If all these worms are not brought to justice, the entire Ming Dynasty will be ruined."

Li Dongyang was very angry.

Liu Jian held the account and roster tightly and said, "Since we have carried the black name of the wicked, let's carry the blame to the end!"

"Come here, send this list to the Ministry of Punishment, and let the people of the Ministry of Punishment continue to arrest people on this list. Be sure to arrest them all."

"You tell the Ministry of Punishment that something happened, and the cabinet will bear it."

"No matter who it is, as long as it is involved in the list, arrest them all!"

"As ordered!"

At the same time, in the office of the Minister of Punishment.

Zhong Hong looked at the list just sent, and was extremely shocked.

Unexpectedly, there is such a dark side in today's court, these people are simply worms stored in the court.

"Come here, according to the people on the list, arrest all these officials one by one!"

"If there are not enough people, go to the Ministry of War to mobilize people. Don't let anyone suspicious."

When this order was passed on, the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of War dispatched all the troops and yamen that could be called up.

In the capital of Connaught University, hundreds of personnel from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Punishment handled the case.

In less than a day, the officials involved were arrested and brought to justice.

cabinet.

Liu Jian and Li Dongyang looked at the memorial book sent by the Ministry of War, and their expressions were particularly gloomy.

Among the officials who were arrested, there were more than 300 high-ranking officials, more than a dozen of the third rank, and hundreds of people from the fifth rank to the sixth rank.

The sum of the silver taels of his greed for ink has reached as much as 30 million taels, which is shocking.

It should be known that the silver taels that were not copied were many times more than the financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty in one year.

If you don't delve into this matter, you really don't know how many Ming people live in dire straits?

Liu Jian and Li Dongyang looked at these numbers and sighed deeply.

With 15,000 taels of silver, at least I can give His Majesty an explanation.

Zhong Hong, the minister of punishment, sat on the side, and said first, "Two patriarchs, these corrupt and bribery people are now in prison. I don't know how the two patriarchs should deal with them?"

Liu Jian's eyes narrowed slightly, and after a moment of indulgence, he said, "Since the evidence of the crime has been verified, let's all be executed!"

"All cut?"

Zhong Hong was startled, and asked worriedly, "Elder Ge, it is true that the law does not blame the public, not to mention that there are so many people involved in this incident, if all of them are executed..."

Without waiting for Zhong Hong to finish his sentence~www.wuxiahere.com~ Liu Jian said coldly: "Master Shang Shu, don't forget, this is the system set by Emperor Hongwu back then, and Emperor Taizu hates corruption the most."

"This is a big taboo. No matter who commits the crime of embezzlement, it must not be forgiven lightly."

"This is the ancestral system of my Ming Dynasty, and it is also the bottom line for you and me to be officials!"

When Liu Jian said this, Zhong Hong also understood his difficulties, and said, "Elder Ge reminded me that the subordinate officials obey orders."

After Zhong Hong, Minister of Punishment, returned to the government office from the cabinet, he immediately ordered all the people involved to be sent to the execution ground for execution.

The originally wide execution ground had enough space, but when the thousand people were escorted, it seemed a little crowded.

The minister of punishment, Zhong Hong, was personally responsible for the beheading. Following his order, the frightened officials all burst into tears.

Some have been scared to pee their pants.

The screams sounded in unison, and with the word "cut" shouted, thousands of black heads all fell to the ground.

Outside the execution ground, the people who came to watch them applauded one by one.

.....

East Factory.

Officials large and small came to meet Cao Zhengchun.

"Godfather, save us!"

"This cabinet is really deceiving too much, and it doesn't take you godfather seriously."

All the officials knelt down in front of Cao Zhengchun, weeping.

From the very beginning of yesterday, people from the Cabinet and the Ministry of Punishment began to arrest DPRK and Chinese officials.

"Today, more than a thousand officials were beheaded in front of the world."

"Godfather, I think this is the cabinet eradicating dissidents!"