Zhu Yuanzhang was born into a poor peasant, and from an early age, he was squeezed and exploited by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the grain ordered by the Yuan Dynasty imperial court for disaster relief did not even have chaff shell left in the hands of the people, and since the qualification to live like a dog was about to be deprived, it was against his mother! With the ambition and ambition to change himself and change everything, Zhu Yuanzhang defeated Chen Youyu, destroyed Zhang Shicheng, and drove the emperors and ministers of the Yuan Dynasty back to their hometown in the Mongolian steppe. Looking at the Ming Dynasty that had been painstakingly established in front of him, Zhu Yuanzhang vowed at that time: to sweep away all corruption! He thought and did this to eliminate corrupt officials and establish a dynasty in which officials were clean and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. During Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, he always adhered to the guiding ideology of "no one has anything, kill one to make an example, really grasp the work, and kill everything", and created his imperial punishment mechanism.
The first anti-corruption punishment guide book launched by Zhu Yuanzhang was "Daming Law", which was based on "Tang Law", and comrade Zhu Lao Zhu revised and enriched it in terms of both formal structure and content. Zhu Yuanzhang summed up his experience in the struggle of more than twenty years of sword and light sword shadow, and the manuscript was repeatedly revised seven times to compile the "Daming Law", which he hoped would make the rule of the Ming Dynasty last forever. Years of experience in struggle made Zhu Yuanzhang soberly realize that after the book was issued, it was impossible to expect officials at all levels to take the initiative to study, actively carry out research and discussion, and profoundly understand the ideas and intentions he wanted to convey. It is useless to just say that it is useless, but also to choose the opportunity to show them live on the spot, maybe they can truly understand the true meaning of this "Great Ming Law"!
One day, the officials of the capital were suddenly summoned to the main hall, Zhu Yuanzhang's face was gloomy, he did not say a word, and there were two people kneeling in the center of the hall, they were Yongjiahou Zhu Liangzu and his son Zhu Xian. Zhu Liangzu accepted kickbacks from local tycoons and inferior gentry, impeached the county Ling Dao tong to the emperor, and caused Panyu County Ling Dao Tong to be unjustly killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and the old Zhu Liangzu found out afterwards: The crimes listed by Zhu Liangzu were all fabricated, and Dao Tong was not only not corrupt and perverted the law, but also an authentic clean official, respected and loved by the people. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was the person, sent dali temple officials to detain Zhu Liangzu and his son Zhu Xian in the capital, directly in the main hall, and whip Zhu Liangzu and Zhu Xian alive! The scene was very bloody, the leather whip was flying, the blood was splashed, the skin and flesh were flying around, and the terrible screams echoed in the minister's ears, the scene was very visually impactful, and the minister vomited and collapsed to the ground continuously. Zhu Yuanzhang gave his ministers a vivid lesson in the art of punishment performance, and the ministers had a shadow in their hearts from then on, and they could never forget today's vivid lesson, and when they wanted to embezzle, they would think of the figure wailing and rolling in the hall, and the figure of flesh and blood would fly in his mind.
Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated the most severe anti-corruption decree in China's history: Those who embezzle sixty taels or more of silver, kill them! Sixty-two? After checking it, it was converted into about 120,000 yuan, and 120,000 yuan was immediately killed, compared with the current embezzlement of tens of millions of sentences for life, which would make countless corrupt officials glad that they were not born in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang's rule. Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated: Whether it is ordinary people or local officials, as long as they find corrupt officials and corrupt officials, they can be tied up and sent to the capital for punishment, and if there are people obstructing along the way, those who obstruct them will be executed and punished by the Nine Tribes! At the same time, he also dispatched eyes and ears to inspect and inspect the schools and conduct covert inspections, shuttling through the streets and alleys to collect and inspect whether officials at all levels had engaged in corrupt behavior of accepting red envelopes, eating and drinking public funds, embezzling public funds, and paying bribes. As for corrupt officials, Zhu Yuanzhang was never soft-hearted, and at the same time prepared a variety of punishments for these people, so that these corrupt officials would not be able to live or die.
In addition to moss-small bamboo stick beating, staff-big board beating, imprisonment sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, exile-exiled prisoner, death-killing, there are many tortures, which make people tremble with fear, and these kinds of torture, no matter how strong people are, generally will be paralyzed into mud in an instant, skinned - Chen Xian in front of him is the first to enjoy, killing people and skinning them, tying them into scarecrows, setting up land feeds between the two gates of the county court, and skinning scarecrows hang next to public seats for people to study and visit. Ling Chi - with a knife piece by piece to cut the flesh, the highest record in history more than three thousand knife prisoners are not dead, pumping intestines - pulling the human intestines out of the anus, brushing - pouring the whole body with boiling water, and then brushing the flesh down with an iron brush until the flesh is exposed, the patent inventor Zhu Yuanzhang, the stick -stick directly from the human mouth or anus into it, the whole root enters, pierces the stomach and intestines, and the scale rod - the large iron hook hangs the person alive and air drys it. There are also many cruel punishments, such as castration, tendon picking, broken hands, chopping fingers, etc., and the kind of torture and pain that makes the tortured person's heart broken, and it is better to live than to die.
Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang demanded that the work be done thoroughly and thoroughly, he proceeded from reality in everything, and constantly summed up and made progress on the basis of following objective facts, and he found that the content of the "Great Ming Law" must be understood and understood by people with a certain written foundation, but the vast number of ordinary people, many illiterate, the proportion of illiteracy is very high, and the level of education is limited, in order to better popularize the law, Zhu Yuanzhang collected more than 10,000 cases of criminals, compiled the criminal process and punishment methods into a book, named "The Great Curse", "The Great Truth" is simple and easy to understand, the image is vivid, and widely distributed. In order to carry out the work of popularizing the law in depth and make the broad masses of the people move, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that each family must prepare a copy of the "Great Commandment", as long as those who have not committed a capital crime, they can take out the "Great Curse" at home, and the crime will be reduced by one degree; on the contrary, if they cannot be taken out, the crime will be added to the first degree.
In order to cultivate the enthusiasm of the broad masses of ordinary people for popularizing the law and loving the law, Zhu Yuanzhang also held study and discussion meetings on the "Great Commandment" in Beijing from time to time, and more than 100,000 people attended on the spot, and the people's enthusiasm for studying the law was unprecedentedly high. Do you think that's enough? no！ For Zhu Yuanzhang, no amount is enough, he asked the officer's family to memorize the contents of the "Great Commandment", if the family violates the law, the whole family must go to the yamen, what to do? If you don't know, don't know, don't know, don't understand, whether you are an eighty-year-old woman or a five- or six-year-old child, you will be punished! At the same time, it is required that in the compulsory courses of national scholarship, some topics should be derived from the "Great Commandment"! Moreover, it was stipulated that those who could memorize the "Great Commandments" could receive rewards from the imperial court and even be hired as officials.
Zhu Yuanzhang hated corrupt officials from his bones, and one of the important reasons why he witnessed the demise of the Yuan Dynasty was that there were too many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, which made the people miserable and starved for thousands of miles, and everyone could not survive before they rose up to rebel. No amount of family foundation is enough for these corrupt officials and losers! Well, dare to collect bank cards, kill! Dare to open the villa and kill! Dare to drink bribes of Maotai and kill! Never be soft, never tolerate! According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang killed nearly 150,000 corrupt officials in the more than thirty years of his reign, which is indeed worthy of the first place in history of anti-corruption fighters.
Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of corrupt officials, although bloody and brutal, also laid a solid foundation for the Ming Empire, so that this imperial train ran for two hundred and seventy-six years, Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well: heavy punishment in the chaotic world! What I have done today, you may not understand, but one day, you will understand that for the sake of this empire, my hands are stained with blood, but so what! Do what I should do, leave the merits to future generations to evaluate.