After the Dali Temple Minister, the Ministry of Justice Minister, and the Chief Censor left, the Emperor asked Eunuch Shen to summon Shangguan Feiyun and Li Yun into the palace.
The two of them entered the imperial study together, and Shangguan Feiyun and Li Yun paid their respects to the emperor.
"Fei'er, Yun'er, I summoned you here to discuss the case of the Prime Minister and the corrupt officials. This is the number of corrupt officials investigated by the Dali Temple, the Ministry of Justice, and the Censorate. Take a look!"
The emperor paced anxiously in the imperial study. When he saw the two of them, his irritability finally dissipated a lot. He opened the door and spoke to them.
Li Yun picked up the memorial and looked at its contents carefully until he saw a line of numbers. His face froze in shock. He rubbed his eyes in disbelief, but he still saw the same number.
No, it must be that I opened it the wrong way, open it again. Li Yun said to herself, she absolutely did not believe it was that number.
She closed the memorial, took a deep breath, and opened it again. The number still caught her eyes. She couldn't help but believe it. She was so shocked that she staggered back and held on to the dragon table before she could stand firm.
"Yun'er, what's wrong?" Shangguan Feiyun looked at the strange Li Yun and asked worriedly.
"Your Highness, please take a look at it yourself!" Li Yun calmed down, accepted the reality, and handed the memorial to Shangguan Feiyun.
Oh my god! Isn't it just investigating the Prime Minister? How come so many corrupt officials were found?
The one hundred and eight officials included not only officials from Beijing but also officials from local areas.
There are those who are in high positions and those who are in low positions.
Following the Prime Minister, we actually uncovered a food chain.
This is a chain reaction, if you pull out the radish in the short term, you will also get rid of the dirt.
No wonder the Jin Dynasty was so poor. The people were hungry, hungry, cold, and had to sell their children.
It turned out that there were so many corrupt officials in the court who collected all the money and did not give the people any way to survive.
Shangguan Feiyun looked at the numbers above and couldn't help but stagger.
These corrupt officials deserve to die! They would be a disservice to the people if they don’t die!
"You have seen it too. I didn't expect that under my rule, I would have such a group of blood-sucking officials. I feel ashamed of my ancestors, ashamed of the late emperor, and even more ashamed of the people of the world!" The emperor was overwhelmed with grief, his eyes turned green, and he said angrily.
"Father, calm down and take care of yourself!
This isn't your fault. The fault lies with those corrupt officials who took the court's salaries but seized the people's money. "If we don't kill these corrupt officials, we won't be able to appease the public's anger!" Li Yun consoled the emperor, his eyes furious.
What she hated most were corrupt officials who didn't care about the lives of the people and only sought wealth, glory and a carefree life.
"Father, Yun'er is right. These officials should be executed along with their entire clans!" Shangguan Feiyun said angrily.
"Yun'er, Fei'er, I understand your feelings. I also want to kill them. However, as you can see, there are more than 100 officials above, and there may be more who have not been investigated.
Their official positions can be large or small, but many are indispensable.
If they were all brought to justice, it would endanger the court." Seeing the two men's anger, the emperor tried to analyze the court's situation rationally with them.
"What does your Majesty mean?" Li Yun knew that she had gone too far just now. She tried to calm down her anger, took a deep breath, and waited until her anger subsided before she calmly asked the emperor.
"What I mean is that for serious offenses, they should be beheaded in public, and for minor offenses, they should be fined one year's salary and have to return all the money they have embezzled. What do you think?" The emperor came up with this method after careful consideration.
Let them live for another year or two, and then after the imperial examination, find benevolent and virtuous people among them to replace them, and then bring them to justice.
The emperor has good intentions.
"Father, I disagree.
Since he is a corrupt official, he should be beheaded in public.
Keeping these parasites around will only harm the court.
Besides, if the emperor doesn't bring them to justice, the people will be disappointed." Li Yun heard that the emperor wanted to let those corrupt officials go, but she disagreed.
Corrupt officials harm the people and plunge them into dire straits. If the court does not stand up for them, will the people still submit to them?
As the saying goes, he who wins the hearts of the people wins the world, and he who loses the hearts of the people loses the world!
When the people have accumulated a certain level of disappointment, they will no longer believe in the court or the emperor, and will certainly not support such an emperor.
She lives on this land, has her beloved relatives, and may become the mother of a country in the future. She will not allow such a thing to happen, and will not allow such a parasite to exist.
"Yun'er, I understand this. If one hundred officials are beheaded, there will be no one to do the work and maintain the operation in the court. The entire court will be paralyzed." The emperor expressed his concerns and the consequences of beheading.
"If your Majesty is worried about this, you can advance this year's imperial examinations so that those outstanding talents can be placed in the vacancies in advance, and then everything will function normally, right?
If those students knew that passing the exam would allow them to become officials in the imperial court, they would study even harder.”
“Father wants to let those minor corrupt officials go, but do you know the consequences?
The money that corrupt officials spit out will be collected back from the people, and the people will be the ones who suffer.
It is easy to change the country but difficult to change one's nature. Human nature is greedy, so how can we expect them to reform?
Moreover, if the emperor releases those corrupt officials, it will only encourage corruption and encourage other officials to follow suit.
They will think that even if they embezzle the people's money, the emperor can't do anything to them. Is this what the emperor wants to see? " Li Yun expressed his thoughts, hoping that the emperor would change his mind and severely punish those corrupt officials.
There are some bad habits that cannot be encouraged, otherwise they will only make them more greedy and addicted, and then many people will lose their homes and become displaced.
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