"A swarm of moths...... Shameless...... Shameless......"

Zhu Youxiao's roaring voice sounded in the imperial study.

Changing his gentle temper in the past, Zhu Youxiao, who was so angry that his face turned red, pointed at Guo Yunhou, who was kneeling on the ground, and reprimanded angrily: "I have been on the throne for nine years, and I think that even if I have not seen most of the things in this world with my own eyes, at least I have heard of them, but what I have seen and heard today is still beyond my cognition. Guo Yunhou, your household secretary is a good one! ”

Sweat continued to seep out of Guo Yunhou's forehead, who was kneeling on the ground, and the scarlet robe on his body had already been wet with sweat, and by this time he no longer expected the emperor to spare himself.

He took a deep breath, reached out and took off the black gauze hat on his head, raised his hands high, and sobbed: "Your Majesty, the minister knows that he is not good at doing a bad job, and he has a bad grace, so please ask Your Majesty to punish him." ”

"Reprimand?"

Zhu Youxiao sneered, ignoring the black gauze hat in his hand, but said coldly: "Your black gauze hat naturally can't be kept, but before you take off your black gauze hat, I also want you to take off the black gauze hat of a group of people!" ”

Guo Yunhou's already bitter face turned pale in an instant, and he knew what Zhu Youxiao was talking about.

His black gauze hat will definitely not be able to keep it, but before he is dismissed, he will be a villain again, and all the officials in the household department who have corrupted the money will be dismissed, so that the matter will be serious.

In the feudal era, the favorite thing that officials liked to do was to keep warm.

As the so-called fellow villagers, peers, and colleagues, whenever something happens, as long as it does not endanger their own interests, the officials will always take care of each other unconsciously, which can be regarded as an unspoken rule.

Now Zhu Youxiao asked Guo Yunhou to get out of the way, and before he got out, he found out all the officials who had received benefits from the household department, which pushed Guo Yunhou to the opposite side of all the household officials, which is equivalent to taking over hatred with many officials in the household department, which is a very bad thing for an official.

Seeing Guo Yunhou kneeling on the ground and not making a sound, Zhu Youxiao's gloomy voice rang out: "What, is there anything embarrassing about Guo Qing?" If Guo Qing doesn't want to do it, I won't embarrass you, and I'll let the people from Dali Temple and Ducha Yuan do it later. ”

Guo Yunhou didn't understand what Zhu Youxiao meant when he heard this, if he didn't want to do it, it wouldn't be as simple as losing his official position and resigning, and it was not impossible for speculators to even be exiled, in the spirit of dying and not dying and poor, he immediately made a choice.

"It's not hard...... It's not hard...... The minister will go back and find out all those moths, and tomorrow he will give His Majesty an explanation to the court. ”

"Good...... I believe that Guo Qing will handle this matter well, so you can go. ”

"Whew...... The minister is gone. ”

Looking at Guo Yunhou's rather lonely and depressed figure in the cold wind who walked out of the gate, Gu Bingqian, who had been standing silently, bowed to Zhu Youxiao and said: "Your Majesty, Guo Shangshu has served the imperial court for more than 20 years, and there is no merit and hard work. ”

"Decent?"

Zhu Youxiao sneered and raised the fold in his hand, and his eyes swept around the faces of Gu Bingqian's three elders.

"I can give him dignity, but I want to ask you. Who will give dignity to those who are forced to leave their homes and die of hunger and cold in the cold winds? ”

"A million taels of silver...... A million taels...... They...... How dare they give all this money to the ink? Don't...... Don't they know that the silver is a lifesaver for those people?

You are all people who have read the books of the sages, don't you often say that the people are the second best for your society, and the king is lighter? That's how you treat the people? ”

The more Zhu Youxiao said, the more angry he became, and in the end, he almost sprayed the spit stars on the faces of Gu Bingqian and the others, but the three of them couldn't fight back, so they could only take it all hard.

"In my opinion, Jiang Ninghou, Xia Dayan and Ding Youwen have said a lot in the excerpts, such corrupt officials are not enough to be angry with the people, and not killing them is not enough to correct the law of the country.

Gu Aiqing, you tell Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Criminal Department that all cases involving the migration of corrupt ink must be severely punished this time, and whoever dares to shield those corrupt officials will be guilty of the same crime as those corrupt officials! ”

Gu Bingqian glanced at Han Yi and Zhu Guozhen with a bitter face, they knew that Zhu Youxiao was really provoked by those people this time, otherwise he would not have such a big murderous intent.

Seeing that Gu Bingqian and the three of them were silent, Zhu Youxiao sneered: "What...... Do the three Aiqing still want to intercede for those corrupt officials? ”

Gu Bingqian swallowed his saliva, smiled bitterly and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, those people deserve it, and the old minister will naturally not mention them to intercede." It's just that Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places are originally quite barren and have limited output, and those magistrates probably have never seen so much silver from you, so they ......"

Zhu Youxiao interrupted him: "So they can be greedy...... You can put the money that the court used to move the people into your own pocket, right? ”

Hearing this, Gu Bingqian didn't know how to plead, so he could only nod bitterly: "Since Your Majesty's mind has been decided, the old minister will follow Your Majesty's will." ”

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao's face softened a little: "Hmm...... Then there is Lao Aiqing. ”

After Gu Bingqian and the three of them said goodbye to Zhu Youxiao, they walked out of the imperial study together, and came to the corridor of the Wenhua Palace, Han Yi couldn't help but ask, "Lord Gu, do we really want to be so ruthless?" ”

Gu Bingqian glanced at him: "What else can you do if you don't be ruthless?" ”

"This is about the lives of dozens or even hundreds!" Han Yi was a little anxious, although he had always been known for his iron-faced selflessness, it was the first time for him to deal with so many officials at once.

"Hundreds of people...... Gu Bingqian snorted lightly: "Why don't you want to think about the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who were ruined by them?" ”

"Uh......"

Hearing this, Han Yi was also dumbfounded.

After a long time, he sighed helplessly: "You can't live if you do your own evil." ”

With the issuance of Zhu Youxiao's decree and the urging of the cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple immediately formed three divisions for trial, and under the leadership of Guo Yunhou, dozens of officials involved in the case of the household department were all arrested.

Beijing, Zhengyangmen

Dressed in a gorgeous flying fish suit, accompanied by an embroidered spring knife at his waist, Tian Ergeng, who was riding on a horse, looked back at the city wall behind him, turned around and said loudly to the hundreds of brocade guards behind him.

"Brothers, the official doesn't say much else, this time I went to Shanxi on an errand with the official. After the errand is done, it will naturally have your benefits, and it is not a problem to be promoted and make a fortune, if the errand is messed up. This official will not punish you, wipe your neck and apologize to Your Majesty as soon as possible, and set off now......"

"Whoa!"

Hundreds of brocade-clothed guards responded in unison, and almost at the same time, they raised their horses, and hundreds of war horses galloped towards the west along the official road......