Father can be an enemy to the country

Liu Sanwu's 'high talk' made Kaiji, a northerner, twitch at the corner of his mouth. Qiansheng Kaiji also served as an official in the Yuan Dynasty, so he couldn't refute it. He could only sneer and make up his mind to handle the case impartially and never sympathize with these southern barbarians.

Tang He didn't feel much at all. Firstly, Huaixi was at the junction of the north and the south, so he could be considered a northerner or a southerner. Secondly, without their founding heroes expelling the Tartars, how would there be a place for these scholars to roam? Therefore, Huaixi Xungui is full of superiority in front of everyone.

"This is the first time I heard someone talk about using power for personal gain and committing fraud in such a noble way!" He then slapped the table and yelled loudly: "Cheating in the examination room is a scandal that will top the world in any dynasty, and it will be a major case that will break the sky. ! Do you know that you have also violated the king's law by saying that Po Tian?!"

"I know, but just like helping the rebels in the late Yuan Dynasty also violated the royal law, we still have no hesitation," Liu Sanwu said with a sacred expression on his face:

"There is always something more important than the laws of one generation."

"What?" Tang He asked.

"For example, faith and morality..." Liu Sanwu replied slowly: "I don't understand if I talk too much, but you just need to know that we are not seeking selfish interests and have a clear conscience."

"Then what are you planning?" Tang He really didn't understand the brain circuits of these people.

"Of course it's to fight for a chance of survival for our sect..." Liu Sanwu said, a look of regret finally appeared on his face: "It's just that after this failure, I'm afraid it will be replaced by evil ways for twenty years."

"The evil ways you are talking about are referring to His Royal Highness the King of Chu's Guozi University, right?" Tang He stopped bragging and glaring. He knew that with Liu Sanwu, a religious lunatic and a fanatic, it would be useless to bluff. Let’s communicate calmly.

"You can say that."

"But as far as I know, the Four Books and Five Classics are also studied in Guozi University, and Lao Shizi Confucianism is placed in the most important position." Tang He asked in confusion: "I was ordered to visit Mr. Song before his death. , he also told me that Guozi University is the future of Confucianism. Don’t you regard Mr. Song as the leader of the alliance? Why don’t you believe him? "

"Those are the words Taishi of the Song Dynasty said against his will under the coercion of Lao Liu for the sake of his descendants!" Liu Sanwu, who had always been calm and unfazed, broke his guard when he heard this. The muscles on his face were twitching and he said full of resentment: "Sixth Prince The pressure is too great. Song Taishi will not be saved in his later years. We don't believe anything he said at Guozi University!"

"Good fellow, what people say personally doesn't count. You have to approve it." Tang He was amused: "This is even more powerful than the emperor."

"It's not us who are great, but my teaching." Liu Sanwu regained his aching calmness and said: "Guozi University is under the banner of 'taking in everything and applying what you learn'. It raises those miscellaneous studies to be on par with Confucian classics. The situation. The King of Chu used the power in his hands to introduce those miscellaneous students into the imperial examination, and everyone knows Sima Zhao's intentions. If the chaos is not corrected in time, the one who will destroy our holy religion must be the King of Chu!"

He emphasized again at the end: "Whoever cannot see this is blind; whoever sees it and does not admit it is a traitor. Song Lian is no exception!"

"I think you're just a lunatic!" After Tang He had finished asking all the questions, he waved his hand and asked the Jin Yiwei to take him down.

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The other officials involved in the case, although not as fanatical as Liu Sanwu, also held the same view - I broke the law, but I was not wrong. You can punish me with royal laws, but you cannot accuse me morally.

They even criticized the officials who interrogated them in the court. Their stance was too unstable and they were not pure disciples of Confucius and Mencius at all. We should immediately repent and join them in dying for the survival of the Holy Religion.

These guys really felt that their actions were not shameful but glorious, so they all confessed to their actions and did not hide it for their comrades, for fear that their glorious deeds would be buried.

Therefore, not only did the nearly 100 officials involved in the case not slip through the net, but many officials who usually shared the same goals with them but did not participate in the imperial examination fraud this time were also dragged into the water by them.

So the list of criminals finally placed in front of Boss Zhu included as many as 250 people...

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned. He looked through the densely packed names repeatedly and asked the prince: "Are you sure you weren't tortured to extract confessions? To force them to bite their comrades?"

"There are punishments. But after they confessed, the presiding officer felt that it was too easy for them to recruit them, so they used torture to see if they were cheating." The prince was also speechless and said: "But after the torture, the confession remained the same... "

"That's it." But Zhu Yuanzhang still puzzled: "But do so many people need to participate? There are not so many people including the inner curtain officers, outer curtain officers, and supervisors in the entire Gongyuan, right?"

"Indeed, no." The prince said helplessly, "But those criminal officials said with certainty that those people were his accomplices, and the judicial department could only list the names of those people."

"Is this okay?" Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is this a grudge against them?"

"No, they are all old friends and fellow villagers of the prison officers. They are so distant that they are not even close to each other." The prince spread his hands.

"Isn't this just a disease?" Zhu Yuanzhang gave up the idea of ​​exploring the psychology of these prisoners. He is only responsible for sending them to the West.

"Looks like we have to go on a killing spree again. How many years has it been since we stopped?" But he was still very depressed. He picked up his ink pen, ticked the list, and sneered:

"We thought that by killing Hu Weiyong, deposing the prime minister, and withdrawing from the Central Publishing House, these civil servants would be honest, at least they would not be as unscrupulous as before. But now it seems that we were wrong. They are still the same, dead Don’t repent! And act even more arrogantly and stupidly!”

The more Zhu Yuanzhang talked, the angrier he became, and he even remembered Hu Weiyong and said:

"It's really hard to compare people to each other, and to compare goods with others. At least Hu Weiyong has always behaved himself, but they are so crazy that they don't even follow the rules, and they are so stupid that they can't even do superficial things!"

"Father, calm down." The prince tried to persuade him from the side: "This is also due to the frequent turnover of court officials in recent years. Except for a few departments, the chiefs of each government office have generally been in office for less than a year. They have not yet learned how to be a minister. Being dismissed from office can lead to punishment, ranging from dismissal to being beheaded. The same is true for newly replaced officials...the more novice they are, the more incompetent they are, and the more incompetent they are, the easier it is to be found guilty. This is a vicious circle."

"That's because these civil servants are getting worse every time. What can we do?" Zhu Yuanzhang said in a dull voice: "They have become ministers, do you still need us to teach them how to be officials?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the prince and said, "You want to plead with them again, right?"