Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

If you ask further down, you can't ask anything.

Except for those officials who really had confidence in their hearts, or those who simply broke their cans, the rest of the people who had no confidence in their hearts, but were unwilling to lose, started a series of actions.

However, this is exactly what Emperor Chongzhen expected-to muddy the water so that he can catch fish.

Looking at Xu Xianchun and Tian Ergeng who were standing there, Emperor Chongzhen knocked on the table and said, "Let them go. After you go back, inform Wei Liangqing that you wait for the three of you to prepare the Jinyiwei, and follow my orders tomorrow." .”

After Xu Xianchun and Tian Ergeng bowed to answer, Emperor Chongzhen waved his hands and ordered the two to retreat, and he also turned back to the harem.

When the court meeting was held the next day, Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "Where are the people? Where have all your loves gone?"

The Minister of the Ministry of Officials came out of the class with a magnificent and strange expression and said: "Qizou Your Majesty, there are different numbers of colleagues in each department resigning."

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "Show me all their resignations."

After someone took the resignation letter from the Ministry of Officials, Emperor Chongzhen looked at it one by one.

After reading more than a dozen letters, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly smiled and said, "Cao Yubian, the imperial censor of the capital of Yushitai, please resign?

Governor Shuntian Youdu Yushi Wang Yingzhi resigned?

Shen Yongmao, Minister of the Ministry of War, resigned? "

After a sneer, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "Who else has not had time to report their resignation? Huh?"

Most of the rest in the court are villains who are called "eunuchs" and "traitors". Who will jump out at this time to find trouble?

Emperor Chongzhen thought about it, and felt that his temper tantrum was unreasonable.

After a sneer, Emperor Chongzhen went on to say, "Since you are asking to resign, then resign. Xu Xianchun, where is Tian Ergeng?"

Xu Xianchun and Tian Ergeng bowed after leaving work together: "The minister is here."

Emperor Chongzhen swept dozens of memorials on the imperial case to the ground, and said: "Take people by name, and all of them will be imprisoned for trial. After the Beijing inspection, the innocent will be released, and the guilty will be handed over to the judge."

Fang Zhuangli rushed out of the class before Xu Xianchun and Tian Ergeng Yingshi said: "Your Majesty, I think it is impossible. Now only in the capital, dozens of officials have resigned. If it is extended to Daming, there should be more How many?

The minister thinks that the only solution for now is to let these officials go back instead of arresting many officials at once, otherwise the government and the public will be shaken and the world will be uneasy. "

Emperor Chongzhen sneered and said, "If they are caught, they are all habitual problems. Who will give them the courage to fight against me in this non-resistance style?"

Seeing that Fang Zhuangli still wanted to speak, Emperor Chongzhen interrupted: "The officials have worked hard these days, and have given away all these bastard officials, and then selected capable ones from the six walking Jinshi to be released as magistrate.

The competent county magistrate was promoted to the state official, the state magistrate was promoted to the first level of Buzheng envoy, and the first level of Buzheng envoy was promoted to the official position of various ministries.

As for these bastards..."

After a pause, Emperor Chongzhen continued to sneer and said, "Wang Chengen, draw up an edict."

After Wang Chengen bowed to answer, Emperor Chongzhen pointed to the memorial on the ground and said: "He has issued an edict to prison to await trial, and all officials among the nine clans will be dismissed. The imperial examination is not allowed to be an official within three generations. Level [-]. The teacher will be fined for half a year."

After Wang Chengen sorted out all the memorials on the ground and wrote down the names, he ordered the little eunuch to give these memorials to Xu Xianchun and Tian Ergeng.

After Xu Xianchun and Tian Ergeng went out to get people, Emperor Chongzhen continued to sneer and said: "Officials are public tools. They regard public tools as child's play. If you want to be an official, you will do it. Once you are dissatisfied, you will want to return to your hometown. Who taught you that bastard?" thing?"

In less than a day, Jin Yiwei Ti was riding around in the whole capital again, causing a big scene of flying dogs and dogs jumping around.

Cao Yubian was chatting with Wang Yingzhi in the study at this time.

Wang Yingzhi smiled and said to Cao Yubian: "Your Majesty's actions are very popular, and what he is doing is also an upright conspiracy, but he still underestimates the scholars in the world."

Cao Yubian sneered and said: "Mencius said: "If the king treats his ministers like brothers and feet, then the ministers will treat him like his heart; The king is like a bandit. "

Now Your Majesty uses the factory guards heavily, and regards us as gentlemen like eunuchs and villains. Isn't it just in line with Yasheng's saying that the king treats his ministers like dirt?

In the former Song Dynasty, Su Xueshi's "Fan Zeng Lun" also said that if they agree, they will stay, and if they don't agree, they will leave.

Now that the Son of Heaven is acting recklessly, we should retreat to the rivers and lakes and worry about it. "

Just as Cao Yubian finished speaking, a voice came from outside the door saying: "You don't need to be far away from the world to worry about your Majesty, you should go to the imperial prison to worry about yourself!"

The faces of Cao Yubian and Wang Yingzhi changed drastically.

As soon as the voice outside the door fell, the door of the study was pushed open with a creak, and Xu Xianchun came in shaking a folding fan.

Cao Yubian said angrily: "Hawk dog! We are already old, and you are going to be imprisoned? What do you think of the national law?"

Xu Xianchun felt that he didn't have any need to argue with a dying person, so he sneered and said, "Since the two of you are together, it will save Xu a lot of effort, both of you, please?"

Cao Yubian and Wang Yingzhi snorted coldly, but they didn't take it seriously, and followed Xu Xianchun's brocade guards outside.

Only when they went to the courtyard and saw that their relatives and servants had been driven into one place, and seals were affixed to each room, did Cao Yubian and Wang Yingzhi truly realize that Emperor Chongzhen must have played a cruel hand .

But thinking about the resignation letters submitted by dozens of colleagues this time, the two felt confident again.

Xu Xianchun looked at the two men's forced self-calmness and found it funny, but he didn't say a word, he just waved his hands and ordered the two to be taken to the imperial prison, and then took the other Jin Yiwei to the next family.

Before noon, the cells in the imperial prison were basically full of these ministers and their families.

After all the people who handed in their resignations gathered together in the prison cell, Cao Yubian's expression changed again and again and he whispered: "Everyone has been taken to the imperial prison? What does the emperor want to do today?"

Without waiting for anyone else to answer, the jailer outside the prison door suddenly shouted: "Shut up! If you dare to make noise again, everyone will have ten lashes!"

Cao Yubian said angrily: "Even if we are ordered to go to prison, we are still officials ordered by the court. How dare your little jailer abuse lynching?"

Hearing this, the jailer sneered, took out his whip, dipped it in salt water, opened the cell door, and lashed at Cao Yubian.

The whip used by Jin Yiwei for execution is the same as the whip used in the former Sui Dynasty, with barbs on it.

As soon as the whip went down, apart from a tear in the clothes, even the skin and flesh on the body were brought out with small eyes.

What's even more deceitful is that the jailer was also stained with salt water—the salt water entered the skin along the way, and the pain was simply added to the pain.

That hot feeling is too beautiful to describe in words.

Cao Yubian was beaten and rolled all over the floor, howling constantly, but none of the people around him dared to go over.

After pumping a full ten whips, the jailer smiled and said, "You're going to quit your mother's office, why are you talking about court officials? Besides, there are too many court officials who died in the imperial prison. Not bad for you."

But after finishing speaking, the jailer sneered again: "Lord Cao, these colleagues are really loyal, and no one helped you. Hehe, what a colleague, show loyalty..."

After speaking, the jailer laughed wildly and left the cell.

At this time, a group of officials nearby hurried forward to help Cao Yubian up, and all of them gathered around to whisper their health and denounce the jailer's brutal behavior.

Although Cao Yubian was in extreme pain, his heart was already utterly cold.

After ten lashes, none of the people next to him offered to help, or stretched out his hand to help. They only came to show some courtesy after they were all whipped.