At this moment, many officials in the court looked at the Emperor in disbelief.
Zhao Zheng's performance today was too shocking.
These people were subordinates of the Eastern Palace when the former emperor was still in power. They had always followed the Crown Prince, Zhao Zheng, and naturally knew what kind of character Zhao Zheng had.
He likes leisure and hates hard work, and he doesn't like politics…
To put it bluntly, the Zhao Zheng of the past was a silkpants. If not for the fact that the previous emperor had only left this one child, the throne would definitely not have been his.
However, Zhao Zheng today was simply impressive.
He actually thought of using such a move to deal with a minister…
First, send the factory guards to investigate the officials. With the current atmosphere of the court, which official would dare to say that his buttocks were clean? Wasn't it accurate to check?
After Zhao Zheng collected the evidence of the officials 'crimes, he would bring it to the court and make trouble…
Although this move was simple and direct, the effect was too good.
The ministers were unable to crack it!
At this time, Zhao Zheng had an excuse and a name to deal with the courtiers. No one could say anything to object.
Because their buttocks were indeed dirty!
The Great Xia Dynasty's punishment for corruption and bribery was still very severe.
When Emperor Gaozu first established the country, he had set a rule: All officials who take bribes of more than 100 taels of silver shall be sentenced to death!
This rule was written in << Da Hao >>, and almost everyone in the Great Xia Dynasty knew about it.
If the Emperor wanted to punish corrupt officials, who would dare to oppose it?
Don't get yourself involved.
If they really wanted to blame someone, they could only blame these officials for being too unscrupulous. They even dared to blatantly commit corruption and even stored the money in the bank!
……
The entire court fell silent.
Only Zhao Zheng's voice continued,
"Censor Zhang, I heard that you have countless beautiful wives and concubines in the capital. You have six houses and a lot of silver in Desheng Bank. Not long ago, a merchant surnamed Lu gave you 100,000 taels of silver…Censor Zhang, you really have a way of making money!”
"Not only that, Imperial Censor Zhang's younger brother has a thousand mu of fertile land under his name. I want to ask, how many commoners did you force to death to obtain this thousand mu of fertile land?”
Hearing this, Imperial Censor Zhang was instantly paralyzed with fear. He no longer had his unyielding appearance from before.
"Your Majesty, this, this minister is terrified, this minister is guilty…"
" Of course you're guilty!!"
"You said that I am not worthy of serving the court. I wonder if you, Censor Zhang, are worthy of the black veil on your head?" Zhao Zheng snorted coldly. The country has been generous to you, but in exchange, I treat you as my confidant and you treat me as an enemy?”
Zhao Zheng said the last sentence to the officials.
Immediately.
All the officials knelt down.
"We dare not!"
Looking at all the important officials kneeling on the ground, Zhao Zheng suddenly felt an evil fire.
"Feng Zhong!"
"This old servant is here."
"Censor Zhang Zhen, you've deceived the emperor and are corrupt beyond measure!" Zhao Zheng said angrily. He ordered the East Chamber to confiscate his family! Zhang Zhen himself had skinned the grass! Hanging at the Meridian Gate! Within the nine clans, the men were all executed, and the women were sent to the Education and Spinning Department for life as slaves. If they were pardoned, they would not be pardoned!”
Censor Zhang was so frightened that he immediately begged for mercy,
"Your Majesty, please spare my life…"
He was only forty years old this year, and there were still countless good days waiting for him. He had just taken in a sixteen-year-old concubine yesterday, and she was so beautiful. He hadn't even had the chance to enjoy it. He didn't want to die like this!
Moreover, this punishment was too heavy. The Zhang family did not have many descendants to begin with. With this, the Zhang family would be completely destroyed.
Seeing the Emperor's cold expression, Censor Zhang knew that it was useless to beg the Emperor. He quickly turned to look at Li Yan.
"Prime Minister Li, Prime Minister Li, save me…"
Hearing this, Li Yan's expression didn't change, but in his heart, he was cursing Censor Zhang for giving him a hard time.
Zhao Zheng, who was sitting on the dragon throne, looked interested. He wanted to see what Li Yan would do.
Zhao Zheng didn't want to touch Li Yan yet because Li Yan had a lot of power in the imperial court. If he touched him, it might cause a commotion in the imperial court.
However, Li Yan wouldn't be able to last long.
Now that Zhao Zheng had 10,000 strong troops, he could speed up the cleaning up. He would first kill Li Yan's underlings, then kill Li Yan.
On the other side, Li Yan thought for a moment and stood up.
He had no choice but to step forward. This Censor Zhang was also Li Yan's underling. He had already begged Li Yan. If Li Yan remained indifferent, how would the people below look at him?
"Reporting to the emperor, Zhang Zhen deserves to die for corruption. There are laws in this country, but what crime has his nine families committed? I think the emperor's punishment is too much. I hope the emperor will think twice.”
Li Yan was quite smart. He knew that Zhang Zhen could not be saved, so he could only try his best to protect Zhang Zhen's clansmen.
In this way, he could be considered to have given his little brother Zhang Zhen an explanation.
"The nine clans are innocent?" Zhao Zheng stared at Li Yan." Then Minister Li, tell me, what are the people whose fields were taken away by his family guilty of?" Which of his clansmen hadn't benefited from him? The younger brother of the family obtained more than a thousand acres of fertile land. The people in the clan were sheltered by him and claimed to be powerful and domineering in the local area! This was truly the case when one person attained the Dao, chickens and dogs ascended to heaven! Since he had taken the benefits, he naturally had to suffer the hardships together!!”
"This…"
Li Yan was speechless and looked at Zhao Zheng in surprise.
In the past, he never knew that the Emperor had such eloquence.
This emperor was really making him more and more unable to see through.
What Li Yan didn't know was that before Zhao Zheng transmigrated, he had even participated in a debate competition in university. He had competed with Zhao Zheng in terms of eloquence.
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The first chapter.
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