Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 55

Taichang frowned slightly as he looked at the civil servants and generals lying all over the royal road.

It's a good thing that these people are willing to confess their guilt. The problem is that he can't listen to their testimony one by one like reading a memorial, and then deal with them one by one.

There are more than 200 people lying in the middle of the royal road. If they come one by one, it is estimated that they will not be able to finish it all night today.

He thought for a while, then asked, "Have you all read books?"

Of course, even if the civil servants present are not Jinshi, they are at least a scholar or something, or they are not very officials. As for generals, at least they must be able to understand military orders. If they don’t understand military orders, how can they lead troops to fight?

Everyone didn't know what the emperor was going to do, anyway, just nodded vigorously.

Taichang also nodded slightly, and then said lightly: "Then I will give you a debut topic, the topic is "On My Dirty Official Career", you go back and write it carefully, and discuss the good things you have done. Well, I will spare you from death and give you a light sentence, if you talk nonsense and try to escape the responsibility, I don't care about killing a few more corrupt officials or those who use their power for personal gain!"

What's the problem here!
Logically speaking, the emperor had to find the questions in the "Four Books and Five Classics", okay?
All civil servants and military generals couldn't help being dumbfounded when they heard the words.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help but sternly said: "What? You don't want to answer my question, do you?"

How dare we!
You are crazy, but if someone dares to say no, you will kill him without a click!
A group of corrupt officials shook their heads vigorously and said, "Don't dare, dare not."

Taichang waved his hands impatiently: "Then go back and write carefully, and submit your own articles tomorrow morning, and I will deal with them lightly as appropriate."

When everyone heard the words, they hurriedly kowtowed to leave.

In other words, just let them go back like this, isn't Taichang worried about them running away?

This Taichang is really not worried. These days, there are checkpoints and inspections everywhere. It’s really not that easy to run away, especially those who are officials, dragging their families with them, where to run, even if he ran away by himself. , The family can't run away.

These days, there is nothing wrong with your family. If you dare to run away, your family will be finished!
Just like the early court, many people know that they have committed a capital crime, but they still have to bite the bullet to come to court and run, that basically does not exist.

There was a reason why Taichang was so eager to drive people away, because he had to deal with the rest of them next.

Since these people still dare to stand up and plead not guilty, then nine out of ten they really did nothing bad.

They should be clear that if they dare to stand here after doing something bad, they are courting death!
Of course, it is not ruled out that there are still people who are lucky.

Taichang scanned around slowly, roughly nodded, and then said seriously: "I will give you one last chance, is there anyone who has come forward and confessed?"

Obviously, no, no one moved.

From the looks of it, the ones who stayed were either without problems, or those who were very scheming.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then said again: "Shi Gao, you all step back first."

What you mean by this is naturally the cronies he brought along. These people are not officials in Jinling City, so there is no point in staying here.

When Bi Maoliang and others heard the words, they hurriedly handed over their hands and resigned.

Immediately afterwards, Taichang said again: "Luo Yangxing, come on."

up guy?
What guy?
It can't be a torture tool!

Among the civil servants and military generals left behind, the expressions of several people could not help but change slightly.

They must have problems.

However, what came up was not the instruments of torture, but the small strip table and the Four Treasures of the Study, that is, the set used by the palace.

In fact, he had already had the idea of ​​making this question, otherwise he would not have thought of it all at once. However, he originally wanted to make questions for the rest of the people, so he only prepared a hundred sets of things for trial use. , there are more than 200 corrupt officials, so naturally there is no way to answer the questions on the spot.

Jin Yiwei brought things up like a long dragon, and soon, there were a hundred sets of things for trial use neatly arranged on both sides of the imperial road.

Taichang then pointed to those tables and said, "Sit down first according to your rank."

There were less than [-] people left, and they were assigned to shifts according to grades, so it wouldn't take much time to sit down in this row.

Soon, everyone was seated.

Taichang said directly: "I will also give you a debut question, the title is "Good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil". You should all know each other. Just judge the people present, who is a good person and who is a bad person." , except for yourself, everyone else has to comment, first list the names of other people, ok, just write ok after the name, don’t know, just write don’t know after the name, if you think it’s a bad person, just write it after the name Write down what is wrong with them later, and the time limit is one hour, okay, now start answering the questions."

Now, some people couldn't help but change their faces.

The so-called "If you want others to not know, unless you don't do it yourself.", there are a few more scheming people who think that it's okay if the emperor doesn't know what they did, so they dare to stand there and plead not guilty.

Question, if the emperor doesn't know, there will always be someone who knows. If someone present knows and shakes them out, it will be over!
After observing secretly for a while, Taichang knew clearly that there must be something wrong with those whose faces changed drastically, and even if no one confessed to them, they couldn't be used.

The reason why he asked this question was for the final screening.

After all, there are so many officials in Nanzhili. Now, the six ministers and even the six ministers have basically pleaded guilty. There must be someone to take over these positions. He doesn't have so many cronies, so among these people, everyone agrees. , He will basically be promoted and reused, no one will say good, and no one will say bad, so he will stay in place. As for those who have problems, no matter what the problem is, they are all dead.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about deceiving the emperor, it should be executed!
This question is not difficult to say, after an hour, everyone has finished answering the question, put down their brushes, and sat there obediently waiting.

Seeing this, Taichang waved his hands directly and said, "Okay, let's all step back."

Hearing this, everyone hurriedly bowed and left.

Taichang saw that everyone had walked out of Fengtian Gate, so he got up and walked slowly to a table, picked up a brush, and drew on the answer sheet on the table with a big fork.

This person was the one whose expression became the most serious just now, and then he walked to several other tables, drew a few forks, and then said to Luo Yangxing beside him: "Okay, put away all these test papers." , the stack with a cross on it, and the stack without a cross on it, send them all to the Imperial Study Room."

After the morning court this time, all civil and military officials in Jinling City were silent, and none of them dared to jump around anymore.

They really didn't expect that the emperor would be so ruthless, no matter what, he would kill all the high-ranking officials in Jinling City if he was caught, and he would even kill people from the nine clans!
The one who made a mistake but was not killed was very grateful to touch his own neck after returning home. Fortunately, he saw the opportunity quickly, otherwise, who knows if he will be the next one!

They were really scared, because the emperor was too decisive in killing people, as long as he thought it should be chopped off, he would cut it off without giving anyone a chance at all!
No one can bear such a killing.

It has been a long time since the Ming Dynasty had an emperor who killed as decisively as the current emperor. Taichang's performance directly reminded people of Hongwu and Yongle's second ancestors, and only those two ancestors were so decisive in killing civil servants and martial arts.

Such an emperor is really frightening, so these people dare not be negligent after they go back, and none of them dare not to do things that are a bit absurd to say about their own crimes.

Of course, it is unknown how much they will talk about, and whether they will avoid the important ones and ignore the minor ones.

Perhaps, just killing one wave is not enough, another wave has to be done.

(End of this chapter)