Chapter 180 The Emperor's Last Battle
This spring, Yun Zhao still offered sacrifices to the sky at Longshou Plain near Chang'an.
Officials from Honglu Temple also personally went to the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum in Yan'an to pay homage to Emperor Xuanyuan.
In the past, offering sacrifices to heaven and earth was a sacrificial activity that the emperor had to participate in.
This year, countless ministers have written letters, hoping to add the visit to the Huangdi Mausoleum to the three major sacrificial ceremonies of the country.
These three sacrificial ceremonies refer to the worship of heaven and earth in the beginning of spring, the worship of heroes who died in the Qingming Festival, and the worship of Emperor Xuanyuan in May.
Originally, someone mentioned worshiping Confucius, but for some reason, it was dropped.
After the country got on the right track, Yun Zhao was actually not so opposed to sacrifices. He even believed that any martyrs who had contributed to China should accept sacrifices and enjoy blood food.
In the prosperous times, people had a lot of free time, so they had the idea of reminiscing about their ancestors and the heroic spirits of the past. After living a prosperous life, they were willing to spare some time and money for them to remember them.
Overall, this is a civilized performance.
Not only the sacrificial activities have increased, but also the activities of the Lantern Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Qiao Qiao Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival have become frequent and grand.
Yun Zhao also supports these activities, even strongly supports them.
After material life is basically satisfied, spiritual life must keep up.
Qian Duoduo is very happy today because his dozen or so collective farms near Xiangyang are basically disappearing.
Many of the self-combed women who had barely survived with her support in the past have walked out of the fortress they built. The previous twenty-seven have slowly merged into ten, and then from ten. merged into three.
In the end, there was only one person left who was still stubborn.
However, this year, it will disappear, because in the only remaining fortress, there are only four self-combing girls left, two are over seventy years old, one is over sixty years old, and the one with a young mouth He is also fifty-two years old.
There is no way that four old women like this can support a farm covering an area of nearly a thousand acres. Therefore, the local government decided to take back the farm. As for the four old women, they can start from The government received a salary sufficient to support them until their death.
Good news came from all aspects, and these good news unmistakably told Yun Zhao that the Ming Dynasty was moving towards prosperity and glory step by step.
The only bad thing is the data from the Ministry of Supervision.
The Ministry of Supervision is sending more and more documents on official corruption.
China only dealt with three cases a year against officials above the county level. Among them, two cases were related to dereliction of duty and wrong decisions, and only one case was related to corruption.
By the time China was 12 years old, cases of dereliction of duty had decreased, but cases of corruption had increased by forty times.
In the ninth year of China, after Yun Zhao promulgated the Regulations on Official Self-examination and Self-Correction, this kind of corruption cases not only did not decrease, but continued to increase, and the methods became more obscure and sophisticated.
Moreover, this trend is spreading to the army.
As a result, Yun Zhao formulated twenty-nine military regulations to curb the recurring corruption problems in the military. In the Zhongtiao Mountain Army, a vicious incident occurred in which soldiers killed inspectors.
Although the matter has been calmed down and dealt with by Qian Shaoshao, the influence in the military still exists. Many soldiers not only believe that the two captains who were beheaded in the Zhongtiao Mountain military camp did something wrong, Instead, they think they are heroes.
For this reason, Minister of War Yun Yang has become an important target of verbal and written criticism from the Ministry of Supervision and the Ministry of Law.
Zhang Guozhu, Lu Xiangsheng, Han Lingshan and others believed that severe punishments should be enacted to make officials fearful.
Yun Zhao disagreed, because if harsh punishments had been effective, Zhu Yuanzhang's punishment of peeling daylily would not have died midway, nor would the top-to-bottom corruption that occurred in the late Ming Dynasty have occurred.
Therefore, in Yunzhao's new laws on corruption and corruption formulated by China's 13-year judiciary, there are basically no regulations that impose the death penalty except for the most heinous crimes.
However, although the death penalty is avoided, it is difficult to escape the living crime.
Once a person becomes a prisoner due to corruption, he not only has to spit out the corrupt money, but also has to face a heavy fine. If his own money is not enough to pay the fine, then his family members will be taken away. If the property of his relatives is not enough to pay the fine, then it will affect his relatives
Under normal circumstances, once an official is convicted, basically all his relatives will go bankrupt. Except for the land, houses, and daily rations allocated by the state that will not be affected, all remaining money will be confiscated.
And within three generations, his direct descendants are not allowed to enter various government-run academies in the Ming Dynasty, cannot enter any government-run institutions, cannot participate in local elections, and cannot do business alone.
In other words, once corruption is discovered, not only the official will be unlucky, but basically his relatives will have to make a living from farming, and his relatives will also go bankrupt.
If three generations are punished in one breath, the family will basically disappear from the world, because, in this law, Yun Zhao still leaves a hole, that is, regardless of marrying into a wife
In other words, if the descendants of criminal officials are willing to marry into the family and change their names, they will not be punished.
There is a way to survive, but when Zhang Guozhu, Lu Xiangsheng, Han Lingshan and others read the content, they all looked bad. In their view, this was another form of genocide< /p>
When Lantian Daily publicized this new law, it also published the surrender order written by the emperor himself. All prisoners who surrendered themselves within the publicity period of the surrender order and actively returned the stolen goods, At onceIt does not apply to certain provisions on corruption and corruption in the Thirteen Years of China's Judiciary.
This is the greatest sincerity that Yun Zhao can show.
Almost every official of the Lantian Dynasty was appointed by Yun Zhao himself by issuing an order. Almost every official came from Yushan Academy and Yushan University Hall. Therefore, he was not only one of them The emperor is also their teacher.
Yun Zhao firmly believed that the officials he had worked hard to cultivate and appoint would not be absolutely bad people, and they should have conscience in their hearts. Otherwise, he would have failed too much as an emperor and a division commander.
So, he specially sent his guards to set up mailboxes in secluded places in major cities across the country. He hoped that those who had committed crimes or were committing crimes could send their confessions to the police. Drop them into these mailboxes and open them himself.
The mailbox was set up in January. In April, these letters were already piled up on Yun Zhao's desk.
This made Yun Zhao sad.
He knew that there would be corrupt officials in the Lantian Dynasty, but he did not expect that there would be so many
Yun Zhao suppressed his anger and spent half a month reading every letter. After that, I went to a Taoist temple in Zhongnan Mountain and lived alone for three days.
Then the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Supervision, and the Ministry of Law were convened for two full days of meetings.
Then, those officials who wrote confessions were arrested one after another, dismissed from office, deprived of honor, imprisoned, exiled, and their homes confiscated, so that even if the subsequent prisoners wanted to write confessions, they did not dare to continue. .
However, what awaits them is an unprecedented audit work.
The emperor, the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Law, and the Congress have reached a resolution to clean up the court cleanly and thoroughly.
The first one to be audited was the royal family
This was something beyond everyone’s expectations. No one would have thought that the emperor’s first fire would be to burn himself
The royal family is very large. The entire Ming Dynasty relies on the royal family for food, and there are no less than 400,000 people working there. The royal family not only has its own official system, but also has its own land, manors, hunting grounds, palaces, mountains, forests, lakes, and fleets. Caravans, camel teams, shops, factories, and the army
People only know that a total of 162 people, big and small, were audited from the royal system.
These people did not enter the judicial system of the Lantian Dynasty, but were accepted by the Yun clan regulations, the only clan law recognized by Ming law.
Then, these one hundred and sixty-two people completely disappeared from people’s sight.
No one would think that the emperor had protected these servants of his. Everyone clearly understood that if possible, the one hundred and sixty-two people would rather accept the sanctions of Lantian Law.
With the disappearance of these one hundred and sixty-two people, the Lantian above the Ming Dynasty seemed to disappear immediately, becoming covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder.
No official can escape audittest.
The officials responsible for auditing will have a mysterious smile on their faces when auditing each official. As long as one is audited, new officials will immediately replace their duties. If there is any doubt, they will pursue you like hyenas.
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At this moment, the entire Lantian Dynasty seemed to have stopped functioning.
Faced with this problem, the emperor and the Prime Minister's Office seemed to completely ignore it. They seemed to have given up on the development goals of the national economy and people's livelihood in the Golden Year, and they must also achieve the goal of cleaning up the team.
For this reason, the Self-Defense Forces formed by regiment training were completely separated from agriculture, industry, and commercial production. Under the command of regular military lieutenants, they entered their own defense areas and did not give any unintended ambitions a chance. .
When the emperor is angry, he will lay down millions of corpses and bleed for thousands of miles. This is a saying that everyone knows. In the past, Emperor Yun Zhao of the Ming Dynasty was so angry at foreign enemies. This time, the emperor obviously will Those people are already considered enemies.
“Over the years, the Ming Dynasty has defeated countless foreign enemies. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have proved the power of our Ming Dynasty with the heads of our enemies.
Now, our Ming Dynasty has an invincible hand in the world
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I believe that the Ming Dynasty has finally reached the time when the rivers and seas are clear, the swords and guns are stored in the warehouse, and the horses are released in the Nanshan Mountains, and the people of the world have finally reached the time to enjoy a prosperous life with light corvee and low taxes.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, our most dangerous enemies still appeared.
These enemies are not menacing enemies holding steel knives, nor enemies burning, killing and looting in the Prancing Horse, nor are they carrying weapons. The artillery, the enemies who captured the city, they used to be our own people, and they could even be called heroes before.
Now, they have transformed into the most dangerous enemies of the Ming Dynasty and cannot be eliminated. If we get rid of them, the country we have worked so hard to build will repeat the mistakes of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, and our people will not be able to escape from the cycle of being enslaved and trampled again.
So, this time, I will. Declaring war on them"