In the Ganqing Palace, the lights were brightly lit.

In early spring, the city of Peiping was shaking with cold wind, making people tremble.

However, the coldness of the body is covered by the fiery and shock of the soul.

He died of illness in the 31st year of Hongwu at the age of 71. He was posthumously named "Emperor of Kaitian Xingdao Zhaoji and established the great sage, benevolence, righteousness, martial arts, and handsomeness". He was buried in the Xiaoling Mausoleum of Yingtian Prefecture. He actually came back!

Is there anything else in the world that is more ridiculous than this?

Hot man, he's back!

Compared with this incident, the so-called rebel Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor, the Sichuan Zhang Xianzhong proclaimed himself emperor, the Qing Dynasty ravaged the border, Li Zicheng attacked the capital, etc.

All of them are nothing!

The ministers are not without doubt about the authenticity of Zhu Yuanzhang's identity!

However, the ministers present were not idiots.

Although they visited the royal ancestral temples relatively rarely, they were too familiar with the images of Taizu and Chengzu hanging in the ancestral temples.

After the initial shock, they recalled the portrait of the ancestral temple and compared the person sitting on the dragon throne.

Not to mention that they are exactly the same, they can only be said to be 70% or 80% similar!

But that's enough!

With the same face and the same decisive killing, no one would believe it if the other party was not Emperor Taizu!

Moreover, the other party also explained his origin.

Be blessed by the ancestors of the human race and gain the magical power to travel through time and space.

It is precisely because of this that he traveled through time and space for more than 200 years from the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty to the 17th year of Chongzhen.

The ministers were both shocked and suspicious of this explanation.

They would rather believe that Emperor Taizu, who had become an immortal, came down from heaven to save the Ming Dynasty that was about to collapse on earth.

I don’t want to believe the so-called blessings of the ancestors of human race.

Of course, all of this was just flowing in the hearts of the ministers and had not been said.

Whether they accept it or not.

Emperor Taizu returned to the world, took over the imperial power, and saved the world.

No one can tolerate any doubts!

But he said that Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting on the dragon throne, said something and shouted loudly at the outside of the hall.

"Mao Xiang, come in!"

Just when Zhu Yuanzhang gave his many grandsons, Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian, he had secretly ordered Mao Xiang to leave the imperial city.

What to do?

Of course it is to collect evidence!

"I'm here!"

Sure enough, as soon as Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, the door of the hall was pushed open, and Mao Xiang walked in with a bunch of things.

"I will give these ministers a thought to you all the things you found!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were full of murderous aura and swept past the ministers present.

Hearing his words, the ministers present shuddered for no reason.

In the hall, the blood of the chief minister Wei Zaode and his fellow disciples had not yet dried, and they seemed particularly vulgar.

"Abide by the order!"

Upon hearing this, Mao Xiang grinned and showed a cruel smile.

This scene made the ministers' eyes twitch.

"Wei Zaode, the chief assistant of the cabinet, has a total of 187,000 taels of silver and 8,000 taels of gold. There are five houses in the capital, twelve shops, three manors outside the city, and 12,800 acres of high-quality fertile land."

"According to the investigation by the Jinyiwei, 90% of all property was obtained after he passed the exam and took office, and it took only five or six years!"

"Zhang Jinyan, the Minister of War, has a total property of 165,000 taels of silver and 6,000 taels of gold. There are three large houses, ten shops, two manors outside the city, and eight thousand acres of high-quality fertile land."

"Wu Guan, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, has a total property of 123,000 taels of silver..."

Mao Xiang opened a book and read it out loud, with names and their respective property lists.

For a moment, the entire Ganqing Palace seemed to have suddenly dropped twenty degrees.

The officials standing below were so scared that they trembled and almost fainted.

Others don’t know about Emperor Taizu’s heroic deeds, but will they still not know about it?

Those who embezzle sixty taels of corruption, peel them as grass, and hang them in the county government to serve as a warning!

During the 31st year of Hongwu, six large-scale anti-corruption campaigns were launched, such as the Guo Huan case, the empty seal case, and the grand edict case.

According to incomplete statistics, during the thirty-one years of Emperor Taizu's rule, as many as 150,000 corrupt officials were killed.

No wonder I didn't show up in the whole day just now.

It turned out that I went to collect evidence and search the house!

This is killing the chicken to scare the monkey!

"Damn it!"

Hearing Mao Xiang's thoughts, the property lists of civil and military ministers in the court, Chongzhen, who was standing under the imperial stairs, couldn't help but be furious.

His eyes turned red, as if he wanted to choose someone and devour him.

The ministers who were already frightened by the frightened birds below were even more shocked.

Zhu Youjian was so angry.

What happened before is still vivid in my mind!

He, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, tried his best to give up his face and begged these ministers to donate their money and recruit soldiers.

Not only that, he also took out the only 4,000 taels of silver in the royal private treasury.

As a result, in more than half a month, only 20,000 taels of silver were raised.

Fortunately, he thought that all the ministers were honest officials and had no strengths.

Unexpectedly, now only one prime minister, the total property of all the property has exceeded one million taels!

This is just the asset of his family, not including the family in his hometown!

If the total of hundreds of civil and military personnel in the court was calculated according to Wei Zaode's standards, wouldn't the total amount of property be tens of millions of taels?

These guys cry in front of themselves on weekdays, and both of them pretend to be very noble.

Unexpectedly, they are much richer than the emperor!

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian only felt that he had been deceived!

I even recalled the Emperor's words: There is no good thing for civil officials in the world!

Afraid of power but not virtue!

Sure enough, Emperor Taizu was right. I am not competent at all!

"The Emperor's ancestor is right. When dealing with corrupt officials, he should confiscate the three tribes of the family!"

Thinking of this, Chongzhen had red eyes, a ferocious face, and roared loudly.

"Hmph, this is the good official you chose!"

On the dragon throne, Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly and glared at him.

In an instant, Emperor Chongzhen, who was angry, stopped.

Looking back, Zhu Yuanzhang looked down at the ministers below.

"We killed them and raided their homes. I guess you have no objection, right?"

There was a silence below, and there was death silence.

Everyone looked at the respectable, awesome and terrifying figure on the platform, trembling.

The terror that was dominated by the Ming Dynasty's Great Prize finally came back to the world after more than two hundred years.

In the middle of Hongwu, officials were corrupt and abused the law, and the powerful merged the tyrants, and the food was getting rid of the grain.

In order to maintain the rule, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang compiled typical cases of "transgressions by officials and people" into a volume, imitating the system of Zhou Duke's "Dao Gong". In the winter of the 18th year of Hongwu, 87 of "Dao Gong Suan" was published, and 43 of "Dao Gong Sanyi" was published, promulgating the world and ruling subjects.

‘This is the foundation of the superiors and subordinates and the treasure of the subjects. If you publish the world, you must have it. If you dare to be disrespectful and do not accept it, you will not be the people I governed and moved outside of the country and will never be ordered to return!’

Holding a great edict has many benefits.

If the imperial court strictly controls population movement, and businessmen who travel more than a hundred miles must issue a pass.

If you come to Beijing with a great imperial edict, you are not allowed to intercept it.
To be continued...