After Zhu Qi said something, the prince's eyes were red. The officials behind him were all old-fashioned and had no acting skills, so how could he stand up?

Needless to say, the scene was very touching. Zhu Di was the only one who was young in acting and howled twice. He didn't know what to say. Forget it, let's stand.

The prince Zhu Biao pulled Zhu Qi and Zhu Di and walked towards the city gate together, wanting to take them to see his father.

The gate of this city is called Xuanwu Gate, facing north, and it is the road directly into the imperial city.

Although Li Shimin's Xuanwu Gate changes were ahead, the naming of the palace was all in particular. Feng Shui masters had to see it, and they could not change it easily.

For example, this Xuanwu Gate is called Xuanwu Gate, no matter which dynasty or the imperial city is established, it must be called Xuanwu Gate.

After passing Xuanwu Gate, all the officials naturally could not enter the inner palace. The task of welcoming His Highness the King of Liao and His Highness the King of Yan was also completed, so they naturally dispersed.

The prince Zhu Biao pulled Zhu Qi and Zhu Di into the imperial city and walked all the way inside. There were no officials behind him. He frowned, looking like he had some heavy worries.

Zhu Qigang wanted to ask what happened, but Prince Zhu Biao frowned and said:

"Third brother, fourth brother, something happened!"

When Zhu Biao heard what he said, Zhu Qi was heartbroken and remembered for no reason what Liu Bowen said to him.

Zhu Yuanzhang summoned himself so quickly to return to Yingtian from Liaodong, but he was afraid that there was something trouble waiting for him!

Mom, I really got the idea to Liu Bowen. When he saw the frowning of the prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Qi knew that things were not small, but I was causing trouble, right?

After thinking about it, I didn't do anything.

Zhu Qi asked quickly:

"Brother, what's the matter?"

Prince Zhu Biao sighed and said:

"Do you still remember that two years ago, I asked you to go to Dingyuan County to investigate Zhu Huan's oppression of the people?"

Zhu Qi nodded, of course I remember this.

Zhu Huan said that he was his distant cousin, but he was greedy and became the magistrate of Dingyuan County through his relatives.

Then he started to collect taxes randomly, and he would get one for thirty taxes, and he would get one for thirty taxes when he went to Dingyuan County.

After being imprisoned by Zhu Qi, his relatives were killed for justice and executed in Caishikou on the street to serve as a warning to others.

The officialdom also discussed this a lot, but few people knew that Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was also on the scene at that time.

Zhu Di said in confusion:

"Then Zhu Huan died, is it because someone overturned the case for him? Isn't it possible to falsely accuse the third brother? My father was also at the scene at that time!"

Prince Zhu Biao shook his head, showed a exhausted expression, and sighed:

"It's not for this, but Zhu Huan, the tax increase documents posted in the yamen announcement, were allocated by the provinces and ministries.

My father arranged for someone to investigate at that time. At the beginning, he said that it was the official of the Zhili Provincial Administration and did not dare to offend Zhu Huan, so he helped to approve the official documents."

Zhu Qi asked:

"Did the officials of Zhili Prefecture Department handle it?"

Prince Zhu Biao nodded and said:

"The ones that should be killed will be killed, and the ones that are exiled will be dealt with, most of them will be dealt with."

Zhu Di asked again:

"Isn't it time to close the case? How could there be an accident? My father is so anxious to call us back, is it also related to this?"

Crown Prince Zhu Biao smiled bitterly at Zhu Di and said:

"It would be fine if the case was just closed like this, but a few days ago, the mother of the former Zhili Provincial Administration official sued the emperor with a blood letter, saying that this was a complete unjust case!"

Zhu Di snorted dissatisfied and said:

"What kind of unjust case? Zhu Huan can get the tax increase document issued by Zhili Prefecture Department. The stamp of Zhili Prefecture Department is clearly clear. He is Zhili Prefecture Department, but he can't escape the relationship, right?"

Zhu Di was filled with righteous indignation, while Prince Zhu Biao said:

"After that being said, the imperial silence written by the woman was something I had never thought of."

Zhu Qi looked at the expression of the prince Zhu Biao and thought to himself what else could this be, which made this final case a wrongful case?

I heard the prince Zhu Biao say something that made Zhu Qi feel deadly:

"The Zhili Prefectural Officer sent to Zhu Huan was a document with Kongyin!"

When Zhu Qi heard this, he was shocked all over. He was like a bolt from the blue, and a famous historical event emerged in his mind - the Celestial Case!

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Taking advantage of his efforts to go to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao explained what happened later in detail.

The woman was thinking about saving her son, but she didn't think so much about it.

Just say that the government offices have issued empty seals in this way, so why should they be punished for this? They insist that their son is innocent.

It is pitiful to all parents in the world. In order to save their son, this mother dared to file a bloody complaint and complain to the emperor. Her feelings are precious.

But the state has national laws and family rules, not to mention that such a big thing happened in Dingyuan County, how could it be possible to give mercy outside the law?

But Zhu Yuanzhang also discovered some clues. When he sent someone to investigate, why didn’t anyone talk about the empty seal?

I originally thought it was just an empty seal document that Zhu Heng wanted to take advantage of his royal relatives.

Now, Zhu Hengkong's seal of documents was not only Dingyuan County, but the entire government office had such a habit?

Zhu Yuanzhang was angry. In his eyes, there were not many officials who were in charge, especially those in the local area.

It’s not that Zhu Yuanzhang was prejudiced, but that during his growth process, he came into contact with officials from the Yuan Dynasty.

If you can have a good official, you will really see a ghost. These grassroots officials with ideals and ambitions really have no living soil in the Dayuan officialdom.

Everyone is corrupt, but you don’t want to keep going? The boss and leader cannot make you advance.

As for the matter of empty seals, it is purely for the convenience of reconciliation between the central and local governments every year.

Otherwise, the tax data reported by local governments will not match the central government's statistics, and local officials will have to go back and calculate again.

This is a little better in Zhili area. If you go farther away, like Shaanxi, Guangdong and Guangxi, it will take half a year to go back and forth.

Then the official stopped doing anything and wasted his time on the road every day.

Therefore, since the Yuan Dynasty, we have developed the habit of empty sealing documents.

Local officials who go to the Ministry of Revenue to reconcile accounts will carry documents with empty seals with them, and then they can modify them on site when they find that the data cannot match, saving the trouble of round trips.

This is the origin of the habit of empty seals, but it also has great loopholes. For example, this Dingyuan incident was because officials in Zhili issued empty documents, which gave Zhu Heng an opportunity to take advantage of it.

If everything was done in accordance with the rules and regulations, how could Zhu Heng get the text with the Zhili seal so easily?

So the hollow seal has its convenient place, but it also has huge potential for cheating. It was precisely because Zhu Yuanzhang saw that officials could use this loophole to engage in corruption. So after learning about the habit of hollow seal, he was furious. This was clearly fooling the emperor. Could it be that he really treats the emperor as a fool?

In the past, the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty did not care about these things because the Yuan Dynasty did not take much care of things, and the entire official was very loose, just to make money in the Central Plains. They did not care about these administrative things, otherwise the Yuan Dynasty would not have been corrupt so quickly, and would have been opposed by the people so quickly.

But Zhu Yuanzhang is different. He is a model of model workers in all dynasties.

I really care about the people, the country, the country, from morning to night.

How could such a thing be allowed to happen?

So it was originally just a bad thing for local officials in Zhili area, which suddenly affected local officials across the country.

Especially the officials of the Ministry of Revenue, how could they not know the things that the local area uses empty seals to fool?

And they also want to save trouble and avoid the trouble of reconciling the accounts and not being good.

It is also possible to collude with local officials to obtain benefits.

No matter which reason it was, it seemed unforgivable to Zhu Yuanzhang, so when Zhu Qi left Yingtian Prefecture and went to Liaodong to fight.

There was a huge uproar in the entire Yingtian Mansion. At this time, there were already dozens of officials arrested. These were only officials from the six ministries, but only local officials. If they were investigated again and found, there were countless of them.

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's temper, Zhu Qi had already had a premonition that there would be a terrifying earthquake in the officialdom this time.

The empty seal case in history is indeed a major case involving tens of thousands of people.

The names of the four major cases in Hongwu are not for nothing.

But there is a problem that is that some officials in the empty seal case must be innocent. They just work according to the customary customs, but they did not expect that this would cause such great consequences.

After all, in the eyes of these officials, they are not even violating the rules. Everyone is like this. They have never seen anything before, and there is no clear provision in legal books that do not allow this.

But the Ming Dynasty was not a rule of law society. There was no such thing as a feudal dynasty. Even if it was the Qin Dynasty with the most perfect rule of law, it would be the emperor's final say.

So it is a foregone conclusion that these officials are going to be in trouble one by one.

But Zhu Qi could not understand what the empty seal case had to do with him. He was not a person in the officialdom, and he had never printed any empty seals to others.

What does Zhu Yuanzhang had to call him back in such a hurry?

Zhu Qi was a little unresolved, but after meeting Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Qi finally understood what was going on.

I saw Zhu Yuanzhang standing at the door listening to others talking about the investigation. After seeing Zhu Qi coming, Zhu Yuanzhang said over the deadline:

"Third brother, you are here just right! I'm really angry!

I have something to check!"
Chapter completed!