"Your Majesty, I still have something to report.”
"Speak! Don't hide anything!"
Yang Shiqi took out an account book." This was given to me by Wang Jin later. It might have been meant to make my work more difficult.”
'But he didn't expect that…'
"This is the account book handed over by Qin Kewang, the Governor of Water Transport who was killed previously!”
"It is clearly recorded that in the 23rd year of Hongwu, he used the loss of grain ships as an excuse to build 300 warships from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War to transport grain to Beiping!”
"Then, from the reports of the various grain chiefs, none of these warships were used to transport grain.”
'He used them to transport his goods and befriend the officials in the court!'
"Most of them have already been killed by His Majesty. But there's only one who's still at large!"
Yang Shiqi looked at Lu Wu and sized him up.""Lord Lu, what do you think?"
Lu Wu's face suddenly turned pale! His body trembled.
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled coldly and snatched the account book. After flipping through it, he asked in confusion,"What's this yellow and white rice?"
"Imperial Grandfather, this is the secret code."
"A stone of yellow rice is one tael of gold, and a stone of white rice is one tael of silver," explained Zhu Yunhao.”
"It says here that Qin Kewang gave Lu Wu five thousand stones of yellow rice and ten thousand stones of white rice.”
"That's five thousand gold taels and ten thousand silver taels!”
Lu Wu had intended to quibble, but he never expected Zhu Yunhao to be so familiar with the slang of " yellow rice, white rice ".
His heart trembled and his legs trembled.
"Your Majesty, this account book might be fake." Li Guan hurriedly spoke up to protect him.”
"Fake?"
"Turn around and take a look at his current situation before you tell us if this account book is real or fake.”
Li Guan turned around and saw Lu Wu kneeling on the ground. His lips were trembling, and he was even foaming at the mouth and twitching in fear.
Useless thing!
Li Guan cursed in his heart.
Yang Shiqi was full of jealousy as he looked at him. He should be the one standing there impassioned.
"We had a rule before. If you embezzled sixty taels of silver, you will be beheaded.”
"Let's say this to the ministers once more. If you want to get rich, don't be an official.”
"Otherwise, you will be our enemy!"
"Even if we are blinded by others and can't detect the truth, the heavens are watching!!”
"Your salary is the people's fat. The people are easy to abuse, but the heavens are hard to bully!”
"Don't look at how happy you are now. Be careful not to make a list next year.”
"Throw Lu Wu into the Imperial Guards prison and torture him severely.”
"Don't let anyone off."
The convulsing Lu Wu seemed to have heard Zhu Yuanzhang's ruthless judgment, and he trembled even more violently.
"You have the guts to be greedy, but you don't have the guts to accept it.”
"Look at how cowardly he is now. Coward!”
" We've wasted so much time grooming you.'
"Pull him down."
Zhu Yuanzhang kicked him angrily and turned to look at Zhao Mian, the Minister of Revenue."The Ministry of Revenue is already so rotten. Don't you know that?”
Zhao Mian suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and fell to his knees." I…I really don't know."”
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Yang Shiqi, who shook his head."We didn't find any trace of Lord Situ in all the accounts.”
"At least he gave us a way out and left us some face.”
"Zhao Mian has failed to govern his subordinates. He will be fined a year's salary and stripped of all other positions, leaving only the position of Minister of Revenue!”
"Li Guan, you don't distinguish right from wrong and plead for mercy!”
'Pull out the Meridian Gate Staff 20 times! Play seriously.
"Get lost!"
Zhu Yuanzhang had come to the Ministry of Revenue today to make a bellyful of anger. He hated the officials of the Ministry of Revenue so much that he gritted his teeth. Seeing that the matter had been resolved, Zhu Yunhao turned around and left.
"Where are you going?" Zhu Yuanzhang stopped him.”
"Let's go home."
"You want to leave after stirring up such a big matter?”
When the two of them walked out of the door, Zhu Yuanzhang kicked his butt." If you do this a few more times, my heart won't be able to take it."”
"Royal grandfather is old but still strong. Grandson admires him greatly.”
'Stop flattering me! It seems that I should be more prudent next time. When you ask for the Jinyiwei, I should mix in and see what you want!'
"It's good to be mentally prepared."
"How can I hide this little trick from you?" Zhu Yunhao laughed.”
"If your father was here, he would definitely scold you.”
Zhu Yuanzhang asked the Jinyiwei to protect him in secret as he strolled slowly on the street." Your father was taught silly by the old masters.”
" He always tells me that the heavens are merciful and hope that I can show mercy to those corrupt people.'
"But he didn't think about it. Did these people have a trace of pity when they slaughtered the people?”
"I caught you red-handed, so you knelt on the ground and cried.”
"Who are they acting for?"
"Believe it or not, if we let them go today, they will dare to be even more greedy for you tomorrow!”
"Pin 'er, you're stronger than your father. You can tell right from wrong.”
"Let me tell you, after being the emperor for twenty-four years, I've seen it clearly. The Yang side was to act strictly according to the dogma of the Four Books and Five Classics, to be loyal to the monarch and love the country, to uphold justice and evil, to bless the common people, and to be famous in the world.”
" The dark side is the selfish, unscrupulous people who prey on the people and rob them without any bottom line just to satisfy their own greed!'
" I don't trust them. What I'm doing is using power and a butcher's knife to suppress their Yin to encourage their Yang.'
"If you want to rule the officials, you have to have your own way.”
"Think carefully!"
Zhu Yunhao was full of admiration for Zhu Yuanzhang. This Emperor Hongwu had truly understood human nature to the extreme.
It was also because of his methods that the Great Ming Dynasty recovered from the devastation of the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty in a short period of time. The number of households had already reached 60 million!
"Come, let's go see Ying Tian."
"I like this kind of fireworks."
"Yes, sir!" Zhu Yunhao said very sincerely," I'll hold you?”
"Hold him?" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed out loud. He was no longer the mighty and domineering Emperor Hongwu. He was just an ordinary grandfather.
"Come, come, hold me. I'm old.”
"Let's go!"
"Alright!"
An old man and a young man walked forward amidst the laughter.
Meanwhile, Zhu Yunwen was silently watching the backs of the two people in the Ministry of Revenue. She was so jealous that she even began to tear her court clothes.
It was like this every time. Zhu Yunhao could easily get what he had been searching for.
Why?
"Someone come!" He roared in exasperation.
'Make me a portion of the Ministry of Revenue's food!'
"I'll eat something good today too!"
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