Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, whose original name was Zhu Zhongba, grew up herding cattle for the landlord's family, belonging to the lowest class of the Yuan Dynasty, and his daily income was so meager that his family struggled to support it on the border of death. But there are always good things and more grinding, and it is very unfortunate that Zhu Yuanzhang's parents and the eldest brother who has always taken good care of him have died before and after.
This made Zhu Yuanzhang's poor family even more frosty. Because there was no extra money in the family other than survival, Zhu Yuanzhang had to use the family rags and torn clothes to hastily bury his relatives. The poor burial of his family gave the young Zhu Yuanzhang a great feeling, and from the final burial of his mother, he vowed fiercely that he must break this dilemma, not only himself, but he would let all the people of the world get out of this dark era.
After years of development and struggle, Zhu Yuanzhang finally defeated the Yuan Dynasty, and then defeated Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youyu, who were equally strong with him at that time. Nanjing, the capital of Dingdu, finally calmed the world and became the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Relying on the conviction of inner fortitude, he realized the ambition in his heart, and the vows he made at that time, at this moment, were all fulfilled.
After becoming emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang has always maintained a state of full diligence, desperately consolidating this hard-won stability every day. But as the days passed, Zhu Yuanzhang slowly felt very panicked. The reason is also very simple. For such a long time, all he saw was that everything was going well, and everything he heard was Guotai Min'an.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who had always believed only in his own eyes, increasingly doubted whether what the minister next to him said was true. Zhu Yuanzhang, who wanted to confirm, had been thinking of a way, and finally one night in the nineteenth year of Hongwu, he thought of a bold idea. Therefore, he immediately summoned his strongest think tank at that time, Liu Bowen, and told him about his plan to pretend to be a beggar and go out of the palace for a private visit.
After receiving Liu Bowen's affirmation and plan supplementation, Zhu Yuanzhang was even more satisfied with his plan. Immediately, he selected several guards with strong martial arts skills to disguise themselves as beggars overnight, and sneaked out of the palace together. In order to get close to the best of the truth, he ordered the guards around him to pretend to be all kinds of vendors and passers-by on the street and work together to find out the news for him. And Zhu Yuanzhang, because he also came from the poor people, so he also quickly entered the state, integrated into the poor people, begging along the street all the way to inquire about the news.
Through constant inquiry with street passers-by, his anger grew. Because what he hears and sees is a miserable reality. Sure enough, the ministers of the court were deceiving him. Together, they set up a barrier for him, a barrier that would never see the truth. However, in order to understand more deeply, Zhu Yuanzhang suppressed the anger in his heart and tried to catch the big tiger that was really hiding behind the curtain from the superficial clues. "Fellow, I heard that Inspector Mishi has committed corrupt behavior?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked carefully. "Don't say that, you'll get caught and killed!" On the way, the people he inquired about carefully told him. After constant interrogation and inquiry, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that there was such an unwritten rule.
The Ming Dynasty inspector Yushi Liu Zhiren would choose to deliberately delay every time he decided the case. The purpose is to give people who want to win the lawsuit a little time to express their intentions. Often, whoever expresses more will win. Externally, Liu hyped up that he had always enforced the law impartially, but secretly, as long as he expressed enough, the plaintiff could also steal the day and become a defendant, and the black could become white. And his greed is not only manifested here, he wants money from both sides, if he does not give, he will find someone to directly threaten. It's rare to eat them all. Under his forcible oppression, a young girl had recently cried out to death, and the people were extremely indignant, and everyone cursed Liu Zhiren in their hearts.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who heard these circumstances, almost blew up his lungs. Liu Zhiren, who used to talk to me every day about the peace of the world, turned out to be eroding the foundation of the newly established Ming Dynasty behind his back. Through the investigation of himself and his bodyguards, it turned out that the history of supervision had so many secrets that were not known.
Subsequently, Zhu Yuanzhang went directly to the offices of his yamen at all levels, and he directly revealed his identity in front of various corrupt officials. When Liu Zhiren's comrades suddenly saw the emperor of the dynasty appear in front of their eyes, they were immediately frightened and softened their legs. Zhu Yuanzhang also didn't have any nonsense. He told the guards around him that they were all escorted back to the imperial court and interrogated the next day.
After half a month of investigation. Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the palace. Liu Zhiren went to the court as usual, he was very happy, because recently he had done a big vote, and he and the ceremonial attendant Zhang Xiang and others secretly stole the wedding silver that Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded the princess, which can be said to have made another profit.
When he entered the lobby and saw Zhu Yuanzhang, who had a blue face, and colleagues at all levels who were pressed around Zhu Yuanzhang, he had weak legs, pounced, and sat on the ground. In the face of Zhu Yuanzhang's interrogation, Liu Zhiren, who was extremely frightened, had to tell Zhu Yuanzhang all his actions one by one, and he knew that at this time, all lying was useless.
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang did not relent because of his confession. In addition to the five Yipin officers, there were sixty-one small colleagues who had more or less participated in and understood their problems, although there was no capital offense, but the living sin could not escape, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered everyone to be reduced to civilians, distributed to the frontier, and never returned, as for the five ministers, directly executed!
Since then, a wave of honest government has been set off throughout the country, and during Zhu Yuanzhang's tenure, there have been few cases of corruption.