Chapter 180 The Emperor's Last Battle
This spring, Yun Zhao still sacrificed the sacrifice to the sky on the Dragon Shouyuan near Chang'an.
Officials from the Honglu Temple also went to Yan'an Huangdi Mausoleum to pay homage to Emperor Xuanyuan.
In the past, worshiping heaven and earth was a sacrificial activity that the emperor had to participate in.
This year, countless ministers wrote letters, hoping to join the visit to the tomb of Huangdi to join the three major sacrificial ceremonies of the dynasty.
These three sacrificial ceremonies refer to the worship of heaven and earth in spring, the worship of heroes in battle on Qingming Festival, and the worship of Emperor Xuanyuan in May.
Originally, someone mentioned worshipping Confucius... Later, somehow, it was left alone.
After the country was on the right track, Yun Zhao was actually not so opposed to the sacrificial matter. He even believed that any martyr who made contributions to China should accept sacrificial and enjoy blood food.
In the prosperous era, people have more free time, so they have the idea of recalling their ancestors and the heroes of the past. After their rich life, they are willing to take some time and wealth for them to miss them.
Overall, this is a manifestation of civilization.
Not only has the increase in sacrificial activities, but even the activities of the Shangyuan Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Begging for the Qaeda Festival and Dragon Boat Festival have become frequent and grand.
Yun Zhao also supported these activities, and even strongly supported them.
After material life is basically satisfied, spiritual life must keep up.
Qian Duoduo was very happy today because he had basically disappeared in more than a dozen collective farms near Xiangyang.
Many of the self-combed girls who had barely survived with her support have already walked out of the fortress they built, from the previous twenty-seven to ten, and from ten to three.
In the end, only one was still tenacious.
However, this year, it will disappear because the only remaining fortress is left with four self-combed girls, two over seventy years old, one over sixty years old, and the younger one is already fifty-two years old.
Such four old women could not support a farm covering an area of nearly 1,000 acres, so some local governments decided to take back the farm. As for the four old women, they could get enough salary to support them from the government every month until they die.
Good news came from all aspects, and these good news told Yun Zhao accurately that the Ming Dynasty was moving towards prosperity and glory step by step.
The only bad thing is the data from the Supervision Department.
The Supervision Department has sent more and more documents on corrupt officials.
There are only three cases of county or above officials handled by China in one year, among which two cases are dereliction of duty and made a wrong decision, and only one case is corruption.
By the twelve years of China, fewer cases of dereliction of duty had increased, while cases of corruption had increased by 40 times.
In the ninth year of China, after Yun Zhao promulgated the "Regulations on Self-inspection and Self-correction of Officials", the cases of such corruption have not only not decreased, but have continued to increase, and the methods have become more obscure and superb.
Moreover, this wind is spreading to the army.
Therefore, Yun Zhao formulated the "Twenty-Nine Articles in the Military" to curb the ongoing corruption problems in the military, and there were vicious incidents of soldiers killing inspectors in the Zhongtiaoshan Army.
Although the matter has been calmed down by Qian Shaoshao and has been dealt with, the influence in the army still exists. Many soldiers not only think that the two beheaded captains in the Zhongtiaoshan military camp did something wrong, but instead think that they are heroes.
For this reason, Minister of War Yun Yang has become an important target of criticism of the Ministry of Supervision and the Ministry of Law in the past.
Zhang Guozhu, Lu Xiangsheng, Han Lingshan and others believed that severe punishments should be formulated to make those officials feel fearful.
Yun Zhao disagreed because, if severe punishments and ruthless laws were effective, Zhu Yuanzhang's criminal law on peeling daylily would not have died in the middle, and there would have been no corruption in the late Ming Dynasty from top to bottom.
Therefore, in the new law of Yun Zhao formulated the "Several Provisions on Corruption in the Thirteenth Year of the Chinese Judicial Period", there were basically no regulations for those who had committed crimes and were sentenced to death.
However, although the death penalty is exempted, it is difficult to escape the life penalty.
Once a person becomes a prisoner for corruption, he not only has to spit out the embezzled money, but also has to deal with a heavy fine. If his own money is not enough to pay the fine, he will take away the property of his relatives. If his relatives' property is not enough to support the fine, then it will affect his relatives...
Generally speaking, once an official is punished, his relatives will basically go bankrupt. Except for the land, houses, and necessary rations allocated by the state, the remaining money will be confiscated.
Moreover, within three generations, his direct descendants were not allowed to study in various official academies of the Ming Dynasty, could not enter any official institution, could not participate in local elections, and could not do business alone.
In other words, once corruption is discovered, not only the officials are unlucky, but basically his relatives can only make a living by farming, and their relatives will also go bankrupt one after another.
If you punish three generations in one breath, this family will basically disappear from the world, because, in this law, Yun Zhao still left a hole, that is, whether it is married into a marriage!
In other words, if the descendants of the criminals are willing to marry into the family and change their names and surnames, they will not be punished.
The way to survive was left, but when Zhang Guozhu, Lu Xiangsheng, Han Lingshan and others read the content, they all looked bad. In their opinion, this was another form of genocide!
When Lantian Daily promoted this new law, it also published the "Supremnance Order" written by the emperor himself. Any criminal who surrendered within the publicity time of the "Supremnance Order" and actively returned the stolen goods will not be applicable to the "Several Provisions on Corruption in the 13th Year of the Chinese Judicial Judicial".
This is the greatest sincerity that Yun Zhao can show.
Almost every official of the Lantian Dynasty was appointed by Yun Zhao himself, and almost every official walked out of Yushan Academy and Yushan University Hall. Therefore, he was not only their emperor, but also their teacher.
Yun Zhao firmly believed that the officials he worked hard to cultivate and appoint were not absolute bad people, and they should still have a conscience in their hearts. Otherwise, he, the emperor and the commander, would have been too much of a failure.
So he specially sent his own 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 put their confessions into these mailboxes and then he would unpack them by himself.
The mailboxes set up in January, and in April, these letters were already piled up on Yun Zhao’s desk.
This made Yun Zhao sad.
He knew that there must be corrupt officials in the Lantian Dynasty, but he didn't expect there would be so many...
Yun Zhao suppressed his anger and spent half a month reading each letter. After that, he went to the Taoist temple in Zhongnan Mountain alone to live alone for three days.
Then he convened the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Supervision and the Ministry of Law and held a full two-day meeting.
Then, the officials who wrote the confession were taken down, dismissed from office, deprived of honor, imprisoned, exiled, and houses were searched... Even if the criminals behind them wanted to write the confession, they would 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 formed a resolution, that is, to clean and thoroughly purify the court.
The first one to be audited is the Royal!
This is something beyond everyone's expectations. No one would have thought that the emperor's first fire actually burned himself!
The royal family was very big, and the Ming Dynasty relied on the royal family to have dinner. There were no less than 400,000 people working. The royal family not only had its own official system, but also its own land, manors, hunting grounds, palaces, mountains, forests, lakes, as well as fleets, caravans, camels, shops, factories, and army...
People only know that a total of 162 people were audited from the royal system.
These people did not enter the judicial system of the Lantian Dynasty, but were included in the Yun clan law, the only clan law recognized by the Ming Dynasty's laws.
Then, these 162 people completely disappeared from people's sight.
No one would be lewdly thinking that the emperor had covered his servants, and everyone knew clearly that if possible, the 162 people would rather accept the sanctions of the Lantian Law.
With the disappearance of these 162 people, the Lantian above the Ming Dynasty seemed to disappear immediately, becoming dark clouds, with lightning and thunder.
No official can escape the test of audit.
When those officials in charge of the audit will have a mysterious smile on their faces when auditing every official. As long as one is found, new officials will immediately replace their positions. As long as there is a doubt, they will pursue them like a hyena.
At this moment, the entire Lantian Dynasty seemed to have stopped operating.
Faced with this problem, the emperor and the Prime Minister's Office seemed to have completely ignored it. They seemed to have given up the development goals of Jin Nian's national economy and people's livelihood, and must achieve the goal of cleaning the team.
For this reason, the Self-Defense Forces formed by the regiment training completely separated from agriculture, industry, and commercial production. Under the leadership of the regular military captain, they entered their own defense zone without giving any unexpected ambitions.
The emperor was angry and buried millions of corpses and bleeding thousands of miles. This is a saying that everyone knows. In the past, Emperor Yun Zhao of the Ming Dynasty was so angry that he targeted foreign enemies. This time, the emperor obviously regarded those people as enemies.
"Over the years, the Ming Dynasty has defeated countless foreign enemies, and the Ming soldiers have proved the power of our Ming Dynasty with their enemy's heads.
Now, my Ming Dynasty is invincible in the world!
I think that the Ming Dynasty finally reached the time for the peace and the rivers, swords and guns were put into the warehouse, and horses were released to the south, and the people of the world finally reached the time for light taxes and levies and enjoy a prosperous life.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, our most dangerous enemy still appeared.
These enemies are not enemies with fierce momentum holding steel knives, nor enemies who leaped on horses and burned and killed and looted the Central Plains, nor enemies who carried artillery to capture cities and land. They were our own people before, and they could even be called heroes before.
Now, they have transformed into the most dangerous enemies of the Ming Dynasty. If they do not eliminate them, the country we have worked hard to re-run the mistakes of the Zhuming Dynasty, and our people will not be able to escape from the vicious circle of enslaved and trampled again.
Chapter completed!