"Going to work is like going to the grave", this is a true portrayal of the Ming Dynasty. For a long time, they would first weep and confess the aftermath, and then resolutely embark on the road to the court. All this is because of the "Guo Huan case" in which 10,000 people were killedWhat the hell is going on?How big a case can make ** like a mourner, is it more terrifying than ***? Today,Guo Guo HistoryLet's talk about this case.
In March of the eighteenth year of Hongwu (A.D. 1385), the imperial history (discipline inspection) revealed to Zhu Yuanzhang that the Beiping Political Envoy (Beijing Mayor) and the Inspectorate (Secretary of the Beijing Political and Legal Committee) conspired with Guo Huan, the head of the household department (**Vice Minister of Finance). Zhu Yuanzhang hated **, and after receiving the report, he was furious and ordered a strict investigation of the matter, and once it was verified, no one should be kept.
Soon, after some investigation and torture by the Criminal Trial Division, the results of the investigation came to Zhu Yuanzhang. The moment he saw the specific ** number, Zhu Yuanzhang was no longer angry, but trembling with fear, because the amount of ** was too big.
Later, according to the historical data, it will be summarized, and after reading it, you will know how "cow" these ** are. One: Guo Huan privately divided the taxes of Taiping, Zhenjiang and other prefectures. That is to say, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't see the money and food in these places, and he was all filled by Guo Huan, a big tiger. Two: Guo Huan privately divided the autumn grain in western Zhejiang, 4.5 million stone (4500 million catties) was only handed over to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Three: When Guo Huan and others were collecting taxes, they set up a name and collected a variety of taxes outside the law. This includes:Water feet, car feet money,It's not enough for you to pay the public grain, you also have to pay the freight for the public grain to be transported to the capital; And there isMouth money, treasury money, pu baskets, bamboo basket money, that is, the food money of the grain transporter, the warehouse management fee, and the money for loading grain to buy bamboo baskets are all excuses for taxation; The most outrageous thing is the last oneGod Buddha moneyIn order to be able to transport the country's money safely, it is necessary to worship the gods and Buddha statues along the river.
In the end, the statistics were all counted, the amount involved in the Guo Huan case reached a terrifying more than 24 million stone (22400 million catties).。You may not be able to grasp how big it is, but the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty is only this number.
According to Zhu Yuanzhang's character Guo Huan, the mayor and the secretary, there must be no corpses. But here's the problem,The main people involved in this case also include the Ministry of Rites Shangshu (** Minister of the Propaganda Department), the Criminal Ministry Shangshu (** Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee), the Ministry of War Shilang (Deputy Minister of National Defense), and the Ministry of Industry Shilang (Vice Minister of Construction).Wait a minute. What should I do with these vice-ministerial-level cadres who are all the main envoys, if they are all killed, then the officialdom is not chaotic? And they all say that they don't blame the public, so many people commit crimes, according to the ideas of the ** people at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang has to throw a mouse bogey.
As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang did not hesitate and killed him when he said he would kill him. According to the records of the "Criminal Law Chronicle", including these 7 main culprits, all the six departments at that time except for the 4 Shang and 8 squires who did not have **, all of them were involved in the case. Zhu Yuanzhang almost carried out a major purge of the six departments, and for a while, the six ministers became the commander of the light pole, and there was no one to do the work under him.
And this is just a Beijing official, Zhu Yuanzhang pulled out the radish and brought out the mud and began to investigate. Grain was transported to the capital from various prefectures and counties, thenThe main responsible persons of each prefecture and county were all killedFurther down are the rich households, grain chiefs, landlords, and the like, whether you participate or not, the world is as black as a crow, kill! Finally statistic,More than 30,000 people lost their heads in this case。If you want to say that Zhu Yuanzhang is real, he will shoot the tigers and flies together, and the rats and moths will not be spared.
Zhu Yuanzhang has indeed achieved a certain effect by killing and punishing ** in such a big way. However, due to the fact that the case is too widely implicated and the punishment is too severeAs a result, many middle-class families have gone bankrupt. "History of the Ming Dynasty" recorded: "The nuclear stolen goods were sent all over the world, and most of the people's homes were destroyed. ”For a time, public resentment boiled and the whole country was in turmoil. In order to appease the people's grievances,Zhu Yuanzhang lied that Guo Huan's case was 7 million, and then killed the chief judge of the case, Wu Yong, on the grounds of abuse of power and capital punishment.
At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang swept away the court, and the whole court was in a terrifying atmosphere of swords and swords. The Twenty-second Historical Notes recorded: "Every time the official of Shijing enters the court, he will be with his wife, and if there is nothing to do, he will celebrate and think that he will live another day." "It's sad just to think about it.
Once bitten by a snake, he was afraid of the well rope for ten years. Zhu Yuanzhang's experience when he was a child made him hate **, but like his method of handling the "Guo Huan case", it is inevitable that there will be "lazy political cadres" like Sun Liancheng in "In the Name of the People". Since something is going to go wrong with things, and if something goes wrong, I'm going to be killed, so I'm going to do nothing. This way of dealing with it really doesn't work.