Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 45 Beheading All!

"I am also a third-rank official appointed by the imperial court. It is not in line with the imperial system for the two cabinet elders to mobilize troops and come to arrest people without your majesty's consent?"

"I want to report this to Your Majesty."

At this moment, Liu Jian, how could he want to talk nonsense with him?

"Come on, quickly take this person down!"

"As ordered!"

"Which one of you dares? I am an official appointed by the imperial court. You have no right to arrest me."

Liu Jian fixed his eyes slightly, stepped forward and said, "The left servant of the Ministry of Officials corrupted the law and bought official positions without permission. Are you guilty?"

"A few cases in the criminal department, you still don't know well?"

When Pang Shan heard this, his face lightened slightly: "You, you are talking nonsense!"

"nonsense?"

"Come here, bring the prisoner up."

After the words fell, the housekeeper who had met with Liu Jian and the others was dragged in with a distressed expression.

"I ask 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, I will try to remind you of it."

"I heard that Jin Yiwei has developed a new set of punishments, and there is a lack of targets for experimentation. Then I will let you taste the taste of the new punishments first."

Hearing Liu Jian's words, the housekeeper's face changed drastically, and he said in fear, "I'll say it, I'll say it now."

Everyone knows the insidiousness of the East and West factories, especially the imperial dining room incident some time ago, which made the East and West factories even more famous.

But if he was taken into the Jinyiwei for interrogation, the steward would know his fate, and if he could come in but not come out, the consequences would be as good as death now.

When the housekeeper said what he wanted to confess, Pang Shan's entire fat body suddenly limp on the hand.

"Hehe, come here, search the property of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and don't let go of any suspicious places."

"Pang Shan, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, the housekeeper and others are all escorted to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment for strict interrogation!"

"As ordered!"

As a result, many officers and soldiers rushed into the house of Pang Shan, the Minister of Civil Affairs, and began to thoroughly search his property.

Liu Jian secretly arranged for his subordinates to suppress the movement to a minimum. If they startled the snake at the beginning, it would be difficult to handle the subsequent matters.

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

More than 800 officers and soldiers actually suppressed the movement. Except for Pang Shan's house, the streets and other places were quiet, and there was nothing unusual at all.

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

Boxes of sealed silver taels quickly piled up in the courtyard, large and small jade treasures, emitting a seductive light under the moonlight.

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

These are the people's fat and people's ointment collected by Pang Shan. How many people have to shed blood to piece them together?

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

Liu Jian's face was furious, and he opened the account and list.

Li Dongyang on the side couldn't help but take a breath when he saw these accounts and lists.

In the accounts, there are detailed records of all the bribes collected by the Minister of the Ministry of Officials over the years and the favor fees collected for helping people solve "difficulties".

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

It involves a wide range and covers a large number of people, which can be described as shocking.

"A small minister can actually do this!"

"If all these moths are not caught and brought to justice, the entire Ming Dynasty may be destroyed."

Li Dongyang was very angry.

Liu Jian held the accounts and the register tightly and said: "Since we have carried the black name of the villain, let's carry this blame to the end!"

"Come here, send this list to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and let the people in the Ministry of Criminal Justice continue to arrest people on this list. They must all be arrested and brought to justice."

"You tell the Ministry of Justice that if something goes wrong, the cabinet will take care of it."

"No matter who they are, as long as they are involved in the list, they will all be arrested!"

"As ordered!"

At the same time, in the Minister's Mansion of the Ministry of Punishment.

Zhong Hong flipped through the list that had just been delivered, and was extremely shocked.

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

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

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

When this order was passed down, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of War dispatched all possible troops and government officials.

In Nuoda's capital city, 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 flipped through the memorabilia sent by the Ministry of War, their expressions were particularly gloomy.

Among the arrested officials, there were more than 300 senior officials of the second rank, more than a dozen of the third rank, and hundreds of officials from the fifth rank to the sixth rank.

The total amount of silver taels he was greedy for actually reached 3000 million taels, which is shocking.

You must know that these uncopied coins are many times more than the Ming Dynasty's annual fiscal revenue.

If you don't delve into this matter, you really don't know how many people in Ming Dynasty are living in dire straits?
Liu Jian and Li Dongyang looked at these numbers and sighed deeply.

With this 5000 taels of silver, at least I can give His Majesty an explanation.

Zhong Hong, Minister of the Ministry of Justice, sat on one side and spoke first: "The two elders, these corrupt and bribe-taking people are now in prison. I don't know how the two elders should deal with them?"

Liu Jian's eyes narrowed slightly, and after pondering for a moment, he said: "Since the evidence of the crime has been verified, let's kill them all!"

"Cut all of them?"

Zhong Hong looked shocked and asked worriedly: "Mr. Ge, as the saying goes, the law does not punish everyone, not to mention the large number of people involved in this matter, if all of them are to be executed."

Before Zhong Hong could finish his words, Liu Jian said coldly: "Master Shangshu, please don't forget that this is the system established by Emperor Hongwu back then. Emperor Taizu hated corruption the most."

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

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

At this point in Liu Jian's words, Zhong Hong also understood his difficulties, and cupped his hands and said, "What the old man reminded is that the subordinates just follow orders."

After Zhong Hong, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, returned to the government office from the cabinet, he immediately ordered all those involved to be sent to the execution ground for beheading.

The originally spacious execution ground had enough space, but after the thousands of people were escorted there, it seemed a bit crowded.

Zhong Hong, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, was personally responsible for the beheading. Following his order, the terrified officials burst into tears.

Yes, they were so frightened that they peed their pants.

There were screams in unison, and with the word "cut", thousands of black heads all fell to the ground.

Outside the execution ground, the common people who came to watch applauded.

East Factory.

Officials, big and small, came to meet Cao Zhengchun.

"Godfather, save us!"

"This cabinet is so deceptive that it doesn't take your godfather seriously."

All the officials knelt down in front of Cao Zhengchun and burst into tears.

Starting yesterday, people from the Cabinet and the Ministry of Punishment began to arrest North Korean and Chinese officials.

"Today, in front of the people of the world, more than 1000 officials were all beheaded."

"Daddy, I think this is the cabinet trying to eradicate dissidents!"

When Cao Zhengchun heard this, his brows were tightly knit together.
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