Chapter 260: There is a fire in the harem and Concubine Shu is trapped. Do you have any clues?
There are not many people who can fall asleep tonight.
Amid the sad cries, the warm sun still rose from the horizon.
Hundreds of Beijing officials in official uniforms were holding their bodies and dignified. They walked silently through the Golden Water Bridge, came to Fengtian Temple Square, waiting for the Shang Dynasty.
The officials in the Fengtian Temple Square subconsciously looked in front of and behind them.
Compared with before, today's Fengtian Temple Square looks extraordinarily open.
Many colleagues around them are absent today.
Seeing so many empty seats in the court, Wang Shu, the Minister of Civil Affairs, felt his heart sink to the bottom.
Throughout the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 20,000 cultural officials who were directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Officials.
In Beijing, this number is 2,729.
After many cleaning of Zhu Youzheng, even if a large number of alternate officials filled the vacancies, this number also reduced to 2,144.
There are already a large number of vacant official positions in the imperial court itself, and no suitable officials can be found to fill them yet.
And last night, the Jin Yiwei arrested 1,120 officials in one go.
The whole court was half empty!
The last time the imperial court had so many official positions, it was dating back to the Tianshun period.
In September of September of Tianshun, the month of the emperor's biological mother and the emperor's son of the emperor, the emperor's death.
Emperor Yingzong ordered Menda, the commander of the Jinyi Guards at that time, to reopen the prison and investigate officials in the cabinet and court.
In the seventh year of Tianshun, the Ministry of Officials had a plan, and 1,642 officials were degraded into white body at one time, which was expelled.
The Emperor Yingzong's move is equivalent to directly expel one -tenth officials of Daming, and the impact on Daming officials is very bad.
And the Emperor Yingzong was not the first time to do such a large number of dismissions.
As early as four years of Tianshun, the Emperor Yingzong fired more than 900 officials at one time.
Therefore, Emperor Yingzong's faint monarch was fighting with the civilians for a lifetime, until he died until he died.
Unlike Zhu Qiyu, a wise king who had been in office for eight years, he did not dare to issue any order to harm the interests of civil servants in the slightest.
He can measure the world's material resources in a realistic way and win the favor of civil servants.
As long as he can be the emperor, it doesn't matter how civil servants divide the interests of the world.
Although Emperor Yingzong fired more than 1,600 officials at one time, he was targeting the entire Ming Dynasty officialdom.
With such a large site in the 13 provinces of Beijing and so many officials, it is divided into layers, and a province will only expel hundreds of officials in their early one.
Zhu Youzheng this time, although only 1,120 officials were arrested, one -third less than Yingzong in terms of number.
But the problem is, Zhu Youtang arrested all officials from the capital!
More than half of the officials in the capital were arrested, and a large number of work could not be found to do it.
The subsequent appointment of officials will still be handled by the Ministry of Personnel.
Thinking of this, the wrinkles on Wang Shu's face seemed to become deeper, and the white hair on his head seemed to become sparser.
On the other hand, Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, supported Qiu Jun with Cabinet Second, and the veteran of the cabinet Liu Dongyang. After glanced at the empty position in the upward, he talked with each other a few words and discovered the common point of the absence of officials.
"Liu Shoufu, so it seems that all the absent officials are from the two provinces of Jiangnan, Jiangnan, and the two provinces of Jiangnan?"
"Do you think His Majesty is... going to completely eliminate the Jiangnan forces in the DPRK?"
Qiu Jun asked Liu Jian with a solemn expression.
Because Zhu Youtang's cabinet was unprecedentedly composed of all northerners, the entire cabinet was spared.
Even the six Shangshu, only one of the criminal ministry Shangshu He Qiaoxin.
Liu Jian's eyes were full of worry: "It should be so. Ever since the smuggling case in the south of the Yangtze River was launched yesterday, His Majesty must have had the idea of taking care of the south."
"I just don't know why yet, but last night His Majesty asked the Jin Yiwei to arrest all Jiangnan officials in the capital."
"This is a major event that can shock the government and the public. It is good that your Majesty has such courage, but...after this incident, Jiangnan will be in chaos."
"Jiangnan is chaotic, this Jiangshan community is troublesome ..."
Li Dongyang sighed: "His Majesty's move, will he be too reckless?"
"Even if you have to deal with smuggling in the south of the Yangtze River, even if you want to open the sea to the West, you should take it slow."
"His Majesty's shot is so fast, so no room for room, the group of people in Jiangnan rebounded, it also made a headache."
"Reckless?"
Liu Jian sneered. At this time, he would never dare to underestimate Zhu Youzheng in his heart.
"Your Majesty suddenly decided to go on a personal expedition, and when he patrolled the nine borders, were you rash or not?"
"But what's the result? The Zhou clan in Xuanfu was wiped out, and hundreds of border generals were executed. Your Majesty reset the nine border towns, sealed nine generals, and regained control of hundreds of thousands of northern troops."
"Which of the coup factions in the capital, from King Xing, Yu Shen, to Xu Pu, Liu Daxia, Xie Qian... has not had his family confiscated and his family exterminated?"
"Now, do you still think your Majesty's move is reckless?"
After hearing this, Li Dongyang and Qiu Jun stopped talking.
Just looking at the empty dragon chair under Fengtianmen, there was a fear in his eyes.
...
The Hall of Nourishing Heart.
Zhu Youzheng did not sleep all night. He sat on the soft couch of the West Palace and thought about the next plan. The arrest of all Jiangnan officials is to thoroughly tear up their faces with Jiangnan smuggling group.
Since then, in the territory of Daming, I have no him!
As long as Zhu Youzheng is still in office, there will be no more Jiangnan smuggling group!
The arrest of Jiangnan officials is only the first step. What to do next is a real headache.
The most headache is how to dig out these hidden Jiangnan smuggling groups!
Although Zhu Youtang is invincible in terms of force, the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, which is still very troublesome.
During the righteousness, Xiao Jing, the newly appointed Si Li Jian Shu, came to the room and reminded: "Your Majesty, it's time to go to the dynasty. br>
Zhu Youzheng returned to God, stood up, and walked to the bed in the west palace.
Zhang Wan'er on the bed was still unconscious, but her face was already rosy, and her breathing became smooth.
Zhu Youzheng stretched out his hand and touched Zhang Wan'er's forehead, then turned around, after wearing a dynasty suit under the palace's service, he walked out of the Yangxin Temple and sat on the dragon.
The dragon chariot moved forward and stopped at Fengtian Gate.
Zhu Youzheng's face was as heavy as water, and he slowly walked to the dragon chair and sat down.
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In an instant, all the officials present knelt down and saluted Zhu Youtang.
"Long live the emperor's long live!"
Zhu Youzheng looked down, the thinning of the official stations in the court seemed a little embarrassed, as if Daming had reached the edge of the country.
"Flat body." Zhu You's face was cold, without any feelings.
"Her Majesty."
The officials in the court stood up, their hearts full of doubts and uneasiness.
First, I wonder why Zhu Youzheng arrested so many officials last night.
The second is to be curious why Zhu Youzheng will be held again today.
The cultural and military officials in the DPRK also thought that Zhu Youzheng would go to the top of the topic after the unimportant things that were not important.
But this time, Zhu Youzheng did not wait for other officials to play the state affairs, and directly shot the dragon case, suppressed the anger and roared: "Mu Bin, push them all up!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Mu Bin, who was holding a knife under the step of Zhu Youzheng, quickly ran out of Fengtian Temple Square.
A quarter of an hour later, the Jiangnan officials who were arrested by the Jinyiwei yesterday entered through the Meridian Gate and were escorted in line in front of Zhu Youtang.
Seeing Zhu Youtang, these Jiangnan civil servants seemed to see the only life-saving straw, and they kowtowed to Zhu Youtang crazily and begged for mercy.
"His Majesty, I didn't do anything! I dare not greedy for one or two silver, and I dare not do a bad thing! Your Majesty, I must be wronged!"
"Yes, Your Majesty! I have always abided by laws and regulations. I dare not do anything bad or even take a tael of silver. How could the Jin Yiwei arrest me? There must be some misunderstanding in this, Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, have mercy on me! Your Majesty, please have mercy on me! I didn't do anything, I really didn't do anything!"
"..."
In addition to his expression, these officials were a little pale, their hair was a bit messy, her clothes were dirty, and everything was as usual.
He did not undergo any inhuman torture in prison.
After all, time is so hasty, Jin Yiwei is busy catching people all night, and has not had time to interrogate these officials.
But just walking around in the imperial prison had scared most of the Jiangnan officials out of their wits.
There were a large number of officials, and thousands of people were squeezed into Fengtianmen Square. They had been knelt from Fengtianmen to the Jinshui Bridge.
Their voices begging for mercy kept coming and going, making Zhu Youtang feel disgusted.
"Please be quiet!"
Zhu Youtang slapped the dragon case hard, and there was a sudden silence in Fengtianmen Square.
Thousands of eyes looked at him with fear and expectations.
Zhu Youzheng's gaze, from the face of these Jiangnan civil servants, stroked them one by one, the voice was as cold as snow: "Do you know why you catch you?"
Thousands of Jiangnan civil servants looked at each other, and their faces were confused.
Only a few senior officials of Jiuqing quietly lowered their heads.
Among them was He Qiaoxin, the Minister of Punishment.
Zhu Youtang's eyes fell on him.
"Last night, my Xianfu Palace suddenly caught fire and trapped Shu Fei, who was already pregnant with dragon, and trapped in the palace."
"After Wang Zhi investigated, it was concluded that someone had intentionally arson, intended to murder Shu Fei and Long Yan."
"What are the clues about this case?"
After hearing this, all the civil and military officials in the capital finally understood why Zhu Youtang had launched a large-scale prison edict last night.
The harem was set on fire and the pregnant concubine was murdered.
This kind of crime is enough to destabilize three other tribes!
All the civil and military officials in the dynasty looked stern and their expressions became extremely solemn.
And those Jiangnan civil servants who were arrested by the Jinyi Guards had faces as white as paper and no color at all.
(End of this chapter)