"Yes, Jinyiwei and Dongchang are my knives, they are royal knives, if there are no knives, they will be even more unscrupulous!" Zhu Youxiao nodded.

Wei Bao knew that Zhu Youxiao didn't care about anything as he imagined, in fact, although Zhu Youxiao spent a lot of time on carpentry, he was still very concerned about the court situation, and it was not a situation in which Wei Zhongxian covered the sky with one hand.

The reason why Zhu Youxiao didn't treat Wei Bao's sin as soon as he came up today was also because Wei Bao contributed several sums of silver to Ouchi's internal money in the past two months! This made Zhu Youxiao very happy, he had never had so much silver in his hand.

Wei Bao has contributed more than 500,000 taels of silver in two months, such a large amount is like an astronomical amount for Zhu Youxiao.

"Your Majesty, you must realize the threat of the "Wild Historical Records" to the imperial power, especially after the impeachment of Gonggong Wei by a minister of the Donglin Party, "slandering the emperor" and "plotting rebellion" are directly linked, they are not only slandering Gonggong Wei, but also slandering Your Majesty! Therefore, Weichen believes that it is imperative to replace the inefficient factory and health system with an efficient text prison! Your Majesty should fully realize the importance of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Dali Temple, and do not let the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Dali Temple be just decorations when the three law divisions are tried. ”

"Literal hell?" Zhu Youxiao repeated it in his mouth.

Wei Zhongxian, Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji, and Feng Quan repeated these three words in their hearts.

Wei Bao didn't have to solve the problem that Zhu Youxiao wanted to punish him for leading people to beat Jinyiwei, but he actually didn't want to bring out this magic weapon.

Wei Bao had actually thought about how to weaken the factory health system for a long time.

If Wei Bao was a eunuch or an emperor today, he would definitely not do this.

But today Wei Bao is a minister, and it is natural that he does not like the factory guard system, and no one likes to have a sword hanging over his head.

In the original history.

In the Shunzhi Kangxi era, the literary prison stopped at "slandering the dynasty".

In the Yongzheng period, he began to crack down on powerful ministers with literary prisons, and Nian Qianyao started his conviction with the words "Xi Ti Chaoqian".

Qianlong expanded the "slander of the emperor" to "questioning the virtues of the monarch", and added the nonsense of the mentally ill to the "great rebellion", successfully creating the largest and most complete speech control in history.

Qianlong is indeed very smart, good at "drawing inferences from one example", "insight into the subtleties", subjects can only praise Qianlong as a holy lord who never makes mistakes, royal life is a perfect moral model, no suspicion, discussion, inquiry, and even sycophants must be in accordance with the designated template, free play will lose the head.

Similarly, the Qing Dynasty is also the most perfect rule in the world, the subjects of the Qing Dynasty should only praise, should not miss the previous dynasty, the hairstyle, clothes, and system of the Qing Dynasty cannot be doubted.

Even the fate of the people of the Qing Dynasty is to the extreme, and there should be no complaints.

The relationship is close, and it is called a friend, which is also a capital crime.

At this time, who needs such an inefficient institution as factory guards?

Although the factory guard does not follow the usual procedures of the criminal department, there are also necessary procedures, which require human and physical evidence, and human evidence may also initiate stubbornness to die without recruitment, and physical evidence may not be done in detail, leaving people with handles, resulting in people who want to kill cannot be killed, and those who want to be arrested cannot be caught.

That's why it's called inefficiency.

It will be much easier to write in prison, turn over the civil officials' homes, take out all the things with words and paintings, and do it according to Qianlong's ideas, eight out of ten are crimes that should be punished by the clan, and when the time comes, Qianlong can do whatever he wants.

Hu Zhongzao wrote an ode after the death of the queen, and there is a sentence: And the flower has felt that it is not stalked. Originally, this was a normal mourning poem, but in Qianlong's view, this was slandering the queen for interfering in politics.

There was a sour literati who thought that some people looked down on him, and gathered students to beat people. Qianlong thought that "the style of opening up the party" and made a decision.

What is particularly frightening is that the mentally ill are not exempt from their crimes, or even from the crime of joint sitting. Your relatives and friends are crazy and write rebellious words, and you are responsible.

You are also guilty if you are blind and have not seen it, or if you are illiterate and cannot understand it.

The madman Ding Wenbin, who thought he was the emperor of Great Xia, said that Yan Shenggong was his father-in-law. This kind of madman is just a random stick in other dynasties, but in the Qianlong Dynasty, it became a rebellion, Ding Wenbin himself Ling Chi, and his illiterate brothers were also beheaded.

The blind Zhuo Tianzhu, because he collected his grandfather's poetry collection, the case supervisor also determined that "the blind eyes did not see the rebellious sentences in the poetry collection", but in the end he was still killed.

Looking at it this way, Wei Bao felt that Wei Gonggong's case against Yang Lian was too unsuccessful.

With Makqin, who still uses what shotgun.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty brought its own Eight Banners nobles into the customs, just like bringing tens of thousands of their own people, and they were all their own people with the attributes of agents, and they were placed in key positions to manage the Han officials to death.

At this time, the Han landlord class shouted that they were deceived, and they really thought that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was engaged in extensive management like the Great Yuan.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were Shangyu spare places, that is, sticky rods and blood droplets, all of which were proper secret agencies.

It's just that "bringing your own basic plate into the customs" has weakened the demand for and dependence on pure secret service agencies.

The Military Aircraft Department is a small circle of governance, small black house decision-making, and secretarial politics.

That is, the bureaucracy was directly kicked out, and the emperor went to another place to form another team to make decisions, and the bureaucrats involved were basically "secretarial", and almost all of them had no decision-making power.

The fundamental reason for the collapse of Chongzhen's control over the ministers is Chongzhen's character flaws.

At the end of the dynasty, it was a common phenomenon for bureaucrats to empty the imperial court, and if they wanted to prosper, they had to pull one group to fight another.

But Chongzhen's character flaws are obvious, and he is unwilling to be responsible but lets the courtiers speak for him, so whoever speaks according to the emperor's will Once the courtiers criticize him, Chongzhen will not speak or even be executed, who would dare to mess with Chongzhen?

In the past, the prime minister had a lot of power, which made it easy to divide the relationship between the prime minister and ordinary courtiers, allowing them to check and balance each other.

Cabinet ministers and chiefs and assistants are not the heads of the hundred officials in the legal system, but rather the "secretariat", which are only the products of first-class organs.

Then there is no need for the cabinet ministers to offend the courtiers, but it is easier to unite, and once the emperor's level is poor, it is easy to become a bare-bones commander.

Until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, it did not set up the same spy agencies as the Ming Dynasty, such as the East and West Factories, Jinyi Guard, etc.

However, there are similar institutions or systems.

At the beginning of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the world had not yet sat firmly, and Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and the Nanming regime were all in great trouble.

If the external troubles have not been eliminated, it is natural that there is no mood to get rid of the internal strife. Therefore, when Emperor Shunzhi was in power, there were no secret agencies.

In the Kangxi period, the world sat firmly, the Southern Ming Dynasty was wiped out, Zhu Youlang was killed, and only the Zheng family was alone overseas, but it had become the end of the strong crossbow, and it was difficult to threaten the Qing Dynasty.

The days are good, the external troubles have been eliminated, and it is time to get rid of the internal strife.

So, Kangxi engaged in a system, that is, the secret folding monograph system.

Before that, if you want to play the emperor, you must first reach a certain level, and you can't play from the ninth grade, and these petty officials from the eighth rank often play for the emperor, so the emperor can't see it at all.

Secondly, you have to go through the central ministries and the cabinet, for example, if you want money, you have to go through the household department, then through the cabinet, and finally hand it over to the emperor.

There is going to be a war, and the border is urgent, so you have to tell the Ministry of War, and then hand it over to the cabinet, and the cabinet will give it to the emperor. In this process, many excerpts have been lost.

Because maybe the cabinet thinks that this needs to be told to the emperor? How dare you tell the emperor about this? Can you tell the emperor about this? As a result, the emperor was out of sight.

Naturally, the emperor was not very clear about the situation below.

Kangxi's method, to put it bluntly, is to bypass the ministries and cabinets and hand it over directly to the emperor.

Local officials of a certain grade or above may hand over the secret at any time.

There is no limit to the content of the secret fold, reporting disasters, asking for peace, inviting merit, asking for guilt, complaining, impeachment, and even thinking about the emperor.

In this way, local control is greatly strengthened.

And it reduces the risk of cheating, because no matter how good one person is, it is impossible to get all the officials.

There are always people who are not of the same heart as you, and the emperor will know if you tell you a secret piece of paper.

The Qing Dynasty strengthened imperial power and did not rely much on spies.

Because he learned the lesson of the eunuch chaos of the Ming Dynasty.

Yongzheng engaged in the Military Aircraft Department, and the Minister of Military Aircraft was similar to the emperor's secretary, with no fixed position and no fixed rank.

Directly under the leadership of the emperor, the decree did not go through the cabinet, but was issued directly to the minister by the military aircraft department.

The Minister of Military Aircraft knelt down to play the transcript, which was a loyal servant of the proper emperor.

The Military Aircraft Department was not abolished until the third year of Xuantong, and the Qing Dynasty was about to be finished at that time.

As for controlling public opinion, it is really unprecedented. This is what the literal prison does, and people who have committed crimes sometimes don't know why they have committed crimes, just because of a certain sentence or a certain word, they have committed taboos.

The key is that this taboo is not explicitly stated, saying that you have committed it is a crime.

Of course, Wei Bao won't have nothing to say so much, and bringing out a text prison is enough in Wei Bao's opinion.

Otherwise, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is indeed too soft.

"Wei Aiqing, you can tell me in detail." Zhu Youxiao said.

Wei Bao nodded: "Your Majesty, take the current Yang Lianzuo Guangdou case as an example." Yang Lian's recital actually suspected that the emperor was not holy, and he was originally violent and rebellious, and he was mad, and it was not an exaggeration to set a big rebellion. As for Zuo Guangdou and others, they are all friends, and they can be beheaded together, so why bother chasing what dirty? Your Majesty can punish the crime as he wants, and there is no need to fabricate charges! Just start with their words and deeds. Let the entire courtiers of the Ming Dynasty know that contempt for imperial power is a major crime of the highest rank in the world, and it cannot be oversentenced. ”

"Good!" Zhu Youxiao stood up excitedly and said, "That's good! ’

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wei Bao hurriedly said modestly.

Wei Zhongxian, Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji, Feng Quan and others frowned secretly.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Wei Zhongxian: "Father-in-law Wei, what do you think of Wei Aiqing's advice?" ”

"It's easier said than done, the reason why Donglin is so arrogant is mainly because it has a huge local power, and it's easy in the capital, once it spreads to a wider area, who will enforce it?" Wei Zhongxian said: "When the time comes, it will become everyone denounces each other, and everyone in the entire Ming Dynasty is at fault, and when the time comes, the effect will be canceled out, and there will be a lot of trouble." ”

"What Father-in-law Wei said makes sense, Wei Aiqing, have you thought about these things? Who will carry it out? Do you rely only on your Duchayuan and Dali Temple? Zhu Youxiao asked.

"The Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate all have to rely on it, as well as local yamen. Disrespect to His Majesty, disrespect to the royal family, disrespect to the court, and disrespect to the Ming Dynasty are all serious crimes, and they are punishable by death, exile and imprisonment at the worst level. It's just that the first emperors of the past dynasties were too indulgent to civil officials and officials, and let them say whatever they wanted, and things deteriorated step by step. Wei Bao said: "In normal criminal cases, Dongchang and Jinyiwei are generally not used, and this kind of matter involving a wide range of people and mainly scholars among officials and ordinary people should be led by the Metropolitan Procuratorate." ”

Zhu Youxiao was happy, nodded frequently, and then discussed some details with Wei Bao.

Wei Bao explained to Zhu Youxiao in detail.

There are two kinds of literary prisons, one is a cultural extension of the feudal era and orthodoxy, and the other is a means of political persecution of political opponents.

The former seemed to be reasonable under feudal ethics at the time, while the latter seemed very absurd, and there was a sense that there was no excuse for the crime that was wanted to be added.

The literal prison is nothing more than thought control, mainly in order to maintain the mainstream ideology promoted by the ruler and suppress other ideas that do not conform to the mainstream.

Since Qin Shi Huang burned books and pit Confucianism, there have been more or less successive dynasties, mainly to maintain the dominance of Confucianism, and there may be other schools in the middle, but they do not occupy the mainstream.

"Your Majesty, if you want to comprehensively strengthen your rule over all parts of the Ming Dynasty. It must be brainwashed and punished. It is necessary to let everyone only know to be loyal and obedient to the people, and not to be dissatisfied, even if there is dissatisfaction, they cannot show it, and the final effect is that everyone does not dare to have opinions and automatically shut up. Regardless of the reason for the struggle, the form in which it manifests itself is that the person who is attacked is convicted for his speech, writing, thoughts, etc., which do not meet the requirements of the ruler. Wei Bao said: "Weichen please take the main responsibility of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and send a cabinet minister to take the lead, and fire the first shot first." This first shot, it is best to take the case of Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others as an example, don't talk about any bribery, bribery, it is difficult to find out the real evidence, to be honest, if you want to pull out Xiong Tingbi for accepting bribes, even if you get the confessions of Xiong Tingbi and Wang Wenyan, it is not enough to believe it! There will be a lot of discussion among officials and people. Just sue them for words! Put the ordinary manuscripts of Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others and the articles and letters exchanged in private, mark out the key points, and picket them generously! If you commit a minor offense, you will be dismissed from office and taken from office, and you will never be used, and if you commit a serious crime, you will be killed. Weichen felt that he should not kill people at will at first, and it was not too late to kill again when he encountered fierce resistance. Wei Bao said.

The more Zhu Youxiao listened, the happier he became, and nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, it seems that Wei Aiqing has thought it through, and what he said is very good!" I think it's possible. ”

After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he looked at Wei Zhongxian, Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji, Feng Quan and others, "What do you think?" Tell me, don't don't speak, you are all my favored courtiers. Grandpa Wei, you talk about it first. Let's see, which cabinet minister should be sent to take the lead? Let's start with the impeachment of Yang Lian Zuo Guangdou! ”

Wei Zhongxian glanced at Wei Bao, and then followed the emperor's meaning and said: "Your Majesty, the old slave thinks that what Master Wei said is extremely true, this is an excellent method, but I am afraid that the matter will be too big and there will be chaos in various places." ”

"Grandpa Wei is too worried, what kind of mess can he have? They offended me and the dignity of the court, can they still say it? Could it be that if they are spoken, they will lead people to rebel? I don't believe that the subjects of the Ming Dynasty are so unreasonable! Zhu Youxiao said.

"What Your Majesty said is that the old slave is mainly afraid, really serious, just afraid that everyone has a handle, especially officials, how to grasp this degree?" Wei Zhongxian said.

Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Bao: "Wei Aiqing, tell me about it." ”

"Wechen has just said that everything is impeached in accordance with the law, and it is best not to kill people easily, and to imprison, exile, and dismissal from office. When it really comes to the crime of homicide, it needs the approval of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple before it can be executed. In this way, there is no fear of being out of shape. Wei Bao said.

"Hmm." Zhu Youxiao nodded, and then Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji, and Feng Quan said: "A few of you ministers also talk about it." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister also thinks that Lord Wei's advice is very good, it is time to kill the prestige of some people who despise the saint and the Ming court, they have already regarded not being afraid of death, casually insulting Your Majesty and the Ming court as a kind of prestige, which is absolutely wrong! This trend is long overdue! Gu Bingqian said.

Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji and Feng Quan saw that Wei Zhongxian and Gu Bingqian all said this, and they strongly agreed.

Zhu Yanxi smiled and nodded: "Okay, then who among you will lead the way?" Shousuke said. ”

Gu Bingqian was shocked, he knew the harm of this kind of thing, once it was launched, the world would be in chaos, and it would offend all the readers! This is something that will leave an infamy in history.

Gu Bingqian was hesitant and didn't know who to say.

Several other cabinet ministers are the same, they can enter the cabinet, which one is not a human spirit? They are all very shrewd, no one wants to bear this kind of infamy, and besides, this is the emperor's knife, which is a thankless task.

"Your Majesty, since this matter was raised by Lord Wei, it is better to let Lord Wei take the lead with full authority." Feng Quan couldn't help but say.

Wei Bao frowned, although he brought it up, but Wei Bao mainly wanted to erase the fact that he beat Jinyiwei today, and by the way, to improve the status of the Metropolitan Procuratorate!

If he engages in literary prison, there must be many officials who will be dismissed, and he can take advantage of the chaos to sell another wave of officials.

Wei Bao suddenly discovered that in fact, Wei Zhongxian didn't want to be chaotic, he didn't want to fight with the Donglin Party, and it wasn't that Wei Zhongxian couldn't do anything with the Donglin Party, but he wanted to be chaotic, the more he messed with the silver, the faster he got it, the more people got it, and these officials who came out of his hands were like kites, led by him with an invisible thread.

Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Bao: "Wei Aiqing, what do you think?" ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen will not hesitate to go to the soup for Your Majesty! And this thing can make Wechen famous all over the world, it is promoting Wechen, how can Wechen not be happy? But Weichen only has a fifth-grade official rank, and the official rank is too low to sue the fourth-grade official and the third-grade official, and it will even involve a second-grade official or above in the future! Therefore, the leader should at least be an official of the second grade or above. Wei Bao said.

"That's right, there are several second-class members of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple! Didn't you say just now that the Metropolitan Procuratorate was in charge of this matter? Then a few left and right imperial histories are responsible. Feng Quan said.

Several other ministers nodded in agreement with Feng Quan's words.

Wei Bao shook his head and said: "By all means, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple are both law enforcement yamen, and the people who enforce the law are here to adjudicate and judge, and it is absolutely inappropriate to use the people of the law enforcement yamen to guide and file a lawsuit!" ”

"Then find a scholar or a squire from the six departments." Gu Bingqian said.

"Lord Shousuke, this matter must also be brought out by a minister! Otherwise, the prestige is insufficient, and in the opinion of the following officials, Lord Feng Quan is very suitable. Wei Bao said: "Lord Feng Quan is a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and he has recently entered the cabinet, and he needs to establish his reputation in the world. ”

Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, and Huang Liji looked at each other when they heard this, and made eye contact, several of them were people in their fifties and sixties, only Feng Quan was just thirty years old, Feng Quan came up with Wei Zhongxian's thigh, several of them did not regard Feng Quan as their own, Wei Bao pushed Feng Quan out, and they stopped talking.

"No, no!" Feng Quan hurriedly said, "I can enter the cabinet, it is already His Majesty's love, and I often cause criticism, how can I pick this head?" Isn't that roasting me on the fire? ”

Wei Bao glanced at the emperor, and then at Wei Zhongxian, and saw that the expressions of the two people were flat, knowing that he had found the right person, looking for Feng Quan, several ministers had no opinion, Wei Zhongxian and the emperor had no opinion, only Feng Quan was a soft persimmon with no foundation.

"Master Feng, don't be modest, entering the cabinet at the age of thirty shows your ability in itself! How much you have to take as much as you have to take as much as you have to take risks, and now is the time for you to repay Your Majesty with practical actions! Wei Baolang said: "To put it mildly, if you put all the positions of Lord Feng on me today, I will be the first to rush out and impeach Yang Lian Zuo Guangdou!" If they commit repeated crimes, they should be dismissed from office and never used! ”

Wei Bao repeatedly emphasized that Yang Lian Zuo Guangdou would be dismissed from office and never be used, because he didn't want Yang Lian to die, as long as Yang Lian didn't die, he would be considered to have fulfilled his promise to Yang Xue.

Moreover, Wei Bao also knew that in the original history, Yang Lian and the others did not have to die at the beginning, and they were all dismissed by Wei Zhongxian, it was these people who were unwilling, and they had to do things jointly every day without official positions, and Wei Zhongxian had no choice but to kill the killer.

Therefore, erasing the official positions of Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others should be the most in line with the emperor's and Wei Zhongxian's wishes now.

It can not only stand up, but also prevent things from suddenly going out of control.

Feng Quan was half dead by Wei Bao's anger, and said in his heart that Lao Tzu had already entered the cabinet, you were a person who became a five-grade official at the age of fifteen, and you are still unwilling and trying to compare with me, why are you? Wei Bao, Wei Bao, where did Lao Tzu offend you? What are you doing just biting me and not letting go?

"Your Majesty, the minister's qualifications are still shallow, not enough to be this leader, please Your Majesty Mingjian." Feng Quan had no choice but to ask Zhu Youxiao for support.

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