Chapter 165 Destroying the Fang Temple

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

Chapter 165 Destroying the Fang Temple

Condemn to death and confiscate the home

Emperor Hongzhi said these four words in an understatement, and the hearts of everyone present seemed to tremble, and they even doubted their hearing in a daze. This, these four words actually came from the mouth of His Majesty today?

Your Majesty has always treated scholars and officials favorably. When did you ever say that you would have the ministers' homes confiscated and executed?

Not to mention that there are two high-ranking officials in the border areas, one is a second-rank official, and the other is a second-rank official.

Xia Yuan, who was standing in the corner acting as a little transparent person, was also startled. Damn it.

Looking at the Ming Dynasty, going forward, there is Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor who was prone to big cases and tens of thousands of heads falling to the ground;

There was Emperor Jianwen, who was merciless to his relatives and whose great advantage collapsed;

There was Emperor Yongle who fought against the enemy and made decisive killings;

Xuande who had his second uncle roasted by fire;

There are still 500,000 people who can't carry the brainless Zhu Qizhen who unjustly killed Yu Qian.

Going back further, there is the Wanshou Emperor who refines elixirs and cultivates Taoism. He is devoted to mystical cultivation. He competes with his ministers as if he were refining poison. He drags his ministers out to make trouble when nothing happens.

There was Emperor Wanli who confiscated the homes of the ministers who had assisted him in ascending to power and worked hard to reform.

Later, there was Chongzhen, the king who killed seven governors, more than ten governors, and finally the queen and his daughter, and also killed himself.

Such words as confiscating one's family and punishing one with death would not be shocking if heard from any emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but it would be unbelievable to hear it only from Emperor Hongzhi.

This emperor is famous for his generosity and benevolence. He treats his ministers like a spring breeze and like family members. He has never done anything like dragging a minister out to fight in court. Now he wants to have his minister's house confiscated and sentenced to death?

But it's quite refreshing.

Xia Yuan looked at the report in his hand. If the content on it was true, it would be such a relief.

Good guy, he still far underestimated the situation in Guangdong. When he first wrote the policy, he only focused on the officials of Qiongzhou Prefecture.

Who would have known that the whole of Lingnan was rotten to the core, with officials protecting each other, and from top to bottom, almost desperately exploiting the people and trying desperately to make money.

There is no rooster crow for thousands of miles, and the bones are exposed in the wild.

This is no longer a description, but a reality.

There are a lot of shocking contents recorded in the memorial, and just picking out a paragraph can break people's defenses.

[The humble men and others were walking in a hurry without taking a closer look or entering each state capital. However, they saw that in all states and counties, large areas of fields and farms outside the city had been turned into wasteland. There were countless dead people along the roadside. 】

[People suffering from hunger and waiting to die are everywhere, and there is no place where people are giving out porridge for disaster relief. 】

[Last year, there was a great famine in Lingnan. In places where the price of grain and rice was low, there were only three to five taels per liter, and in places where the price was high, there were tens of taels. People ate each other. 】

[This year, when humble people come here, there are also those who eat each other. 】

[After inquiring by the humble and other people, the reason for the extremely high food prices is that the government and businessmen in Guangzhou, prefectures, cities and counties colluded to deliberately raise food prices to make money.]

[I humbly asked the innkeeper of Leizhou Inn how he viewed the rebellion of the barbarians in Qiongzhou, and he replied angrily: Not to mention others, even we also want chaos.]

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One by one, after reading the contents of the report, Xia Yuan instantly understood the cause of the commotion in front of the palace.

In this situation, according to his knowledge, King Chen Sheng of Guangdi should have been king for a long time, and the great Chu was rising, rising up everywhere, and the flames of war ignited the entire Lingnan.

But it turned out that it was just a chaos in Qiongzhou. Is this a distortion of human nature or a loss of morals?

It can only be said that the people of Lingnan are giving too much face to the court this time, but the uprising is not far away, I'm afraid it will happen in just a short time.

While everyone was either deep in thought or in a trance, Emperor Hongzhi, who had his back turned to everyone, spoke again: "The magistrate of Qiongzhou Prefecture is a general judge and a common judge.

If he has a temple, or his ancestors had a temple, destroy the temple in his hometown; if he dies in a rebellion, his family will be confiscated and his family will be exterminated. If he is lucky enough to survive, he will be taken to the capital for trial, and then his family will be confiscated and his family will be exterminated.

All officials in the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Qiongzhou Prefecture will only confiscate their homes and not exterminate their clans, and the rest will be the same."

Magistrates, general magistrates, and magistrates, including all the officials under their jurisdiction. Since they are officials, they must at least be magistrates of states, magistrates of counties, and promotion officials. Otherwise, they are just officials.

Emperor Hongzhi touched his upper and lower lips, and at least twenty or thirty people in the entire Qiongzhou Prefecture were lured in. Three officials were about to have their homes confiscated and their families exterminated, and about twenty minor officials were about to have their homes confiscated, and all of them had their ancestral temples destroyed.

Destroying a temple is no small matter.

First of all, I dare not say all of the more than 20 people, but at least most of them are Jinshi.

Secondly, in this era, once you get a Jinshi, you will be honored and your ancestors will be honored. The local folks in your hometown may think that playing and playing is not enough, and they will give you a great deal.

For example, engrave your name on the local Jinshi Square.

The emperor ordered it to be destroyed. He didn't mean to find someone with a small shovel to scrape off a small advertisement and deduct your name, but to destroy it together with the Jinshi Square.

As for what Jinshifang is, to put it simply, for example, if a minister appears somewhere and has accomplished something, and then the people in his hometown feel that it makes them look good, they will jointly report his achievements to the court, and the court will approve and build a Jinshifang for him.

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If Jinshi comes out of this place in the future, they can have their names engraved on the square. The Xiangxian Temple is almost the same thing, but you can only enter after you die. These people must not have entered now, but there is no guarantee that their grandfathers and great-grandfathers will be inside.

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If it does not touch the emperor's bottom line, the emperor will never issue such an order, and even if it touches the bottom line, he may not issue it.

Just because this kind of edict is too harsh.

Who knows how many names were engraved on that square, who knows how many people were worshiped in that temple, but the emperor ordered them to be destroyed together.

Imagine that because of you, the Jinshi Square or the Xiangxian Temple in your hometown were destroyed. From now on, the entire hometown will definitely regard you as an sworn enemy.

Oh, there is no future, because these people will not escape death, and some of them will have their homes confiscated and their families exterminated. Genocide means the entire family, immediate relatives, and entire families are implicated. Those who deserve to be beheaded will be beheaded, and those who deserve to be expelled from the army will be expelled from the army.

, the remaining female family members served as official prostitutes.

But there are also collateral relatives, uncles, aunts, cousins, cousins, etc. These people will incur the hatred of the people in the hometown because of you, and they will not be able to stay in the hometown.

And you yourself, even if you die, will never be able to stand up again. If you leave your family tree, you will be written down in the book by people in your hometown, even your own relatives, and be scolded forever.

One can imagine how cruel such an edict is.

Xia Yuan didn't quite understand the meaning of destroying the ancestral temple, or whether it was the confiscation of homes and annihilation of clans that made him feel more cruel. He couldn't help but wonder whether to destroy the nine clans or the three clans.

But except for him, no one else in the temple could understand the cruelty and horror of destroying the temple.

The destruction of ancestral temples has happened less than a handful of times since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

But today's majesty, today's tolerant and benevolent majesty, wants to issue such an edict.

Whether it is the three cabinet ministers, Wang Shu, the Minister of Personnel, or Ma Wensheng, the Minister of War.

At this time, these civil servants who were born as Jinshi and scholars all had the same thought in their hearts.

This is absolutely impossible!

Once the emperor issued such an edict, once his majesty set this example, he would have an excuse to follow this example if he wanted to punish officials in the future.

From then on, there will be an extremely sharp knife hanging above the heads of officials all over the world, the knife that officials in the world fear the most.

Even ministers like them, who consider themselves loyal and upright, feel scared if they

"thump."

"thump."

In the entire Jinshen Palace, the sound of people falling to their knees could be heard. All the most respected officials in the court touched their heads to the ground and said sincerely: "Your Majesty, the destruction of the temple is of great concern, and I am afraid that it will attract people.

Scholars all over the world will criticize him, and public opinion will be fierce by then.

And the rest of the people in that square and the temple are in an unreasonable disaster. Their relatives, their descendants, and themselves will even have resentment towards the imperial court, and for the sake of the world, I sincerely ask your majesty to take back the order!"
Chapter completed!