In ancient Chinese law, the laws of the Ming Dynasty were regarded as the most ruthless laws against corrupt officials, and all officials who were corrupt for sixty years were executed and never lenient. According to the different units of conversion, the sixty-two pieces of silver in the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang period are roughly equivalent to tens of thousands of yuan now, in short, it is not a huge amount.
In order to let the people know about the Daming Law, Zhu Yuanzhang specially stipulated that those who have a "Great Curse" in their homes shall be reduced by one to the crimes of flogging, rod, disciple, and stream; if not, the crimes shall be added to one.
What made the ministers even more afraid was that Zhu Yuanzhang also allowed the people to directly "tie up corrupt officials and go to Beijing to deal with crimes", even if there were no relevant documents, all localities must be released in a timely manner, and there was no need to stop them, and those who dared to obstruct them were condemned by their families.
Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that it would be too difficult for the people to "tie up corrupt officials and go to Beijing to deal with crimes," so he set up a Dengwen drum outside the noon gate, which could beat the drum to sound injustice, and sent a royal guard, and those who hit the drum needed to be accepted or reported immediately.
What made the corrupt officials even more desperate was that Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that "all my descendants, who have inherited their orders, have no wisdom, and who mess up the law that I have already made, cannot be changed by a single word.", that is to say, all these systems cannot be changed by the ming emperor in later generations, unless the dynasty is changed, and the emperor is not surnamed Zhu.
In the Qing Dynasty, the hanging hearts of corrupt officials could finally be released, and the "Dengwen Drum" system just mentioned was useless, because as long as you beat the drum and sound the injustice, whether there was a grievance or not, you had to be hit by thirty big boards first.
After the Yongzheng Emperor implemented the new policy of dividing the land into acres and returning the fire to the public, he also introduced the "raising incorruptible silver" system, which is usually 10 times to 100 times the main salary, and many local officials became moths in the Qing Dynasty.
The salary of a Ming official was another extreme, although on the surface an official's salary did not feel low. But you must know that in ancient times, an official needed to support a large family, and if he still had a concubine, there would be no dozen people up and down who could not come down. Therefore, the official's Feng Lu was only enough to barely support a family, and there was no more money, and the Great Qing official Hai Rui bought two catties of pork for his mother, which became the news at the time.
Although the Ming Dynasty had severe punishments for corrupt officials, the phenomenon of corruption was repeatedly prohibited, and a batch of them had just been killed, and another batch had come, and even some institutions could not function because of insufficient numbers, and they had to let the corrupt officials who were punished take up their shackles to work on their behalf.
After talking about the Ming Dynasty's peeling of real grass on corrupt officials, let's talk about another punishment of the Ming Dynasty, which actually made officials scramble to "enjoy", and the hooligans were more eager for women to be punished, and this punishment was cane punishment.
Because the cane punishment requires removing the clothes and receiving the cane, if the woman is tortured, the local will come to watch. So why is this unseemly cane so sought after by the ministers of the DPRK and China?
For the way of the subject, the battle of martial death, the death of the text. Ministers were often punished with a staff because they had spoken out against the emperor, so many scholars, in order to leave a loyal minister name in the history books who dared to speak, tried their best to receive the staff. Later generations have commented on this, "Although the Staff of the Ming Dynasty is cool, it is a good person who is staffed, and the world thinks that it is the most honorable and admired for life."
Ming emperors were generally short-lived, and officials who had suffered from the cane in the upper dynasty were often reused by the next emperor, "enjoying" the court staff not only in history, but also in the contemporary era. As a result, the emperor and his subordinates in the court quarreled with each other and did not argue with their subordinates, and the civil officials even opposed it for the sake of opposition, selling their reputation and reputation, and selling the king straight. The later Wanli Emperor did not go to the dynasty, and the Chongzhen Emperor failed to cross the south for this reason.
The court staff seems to be a "living sin", but once it is played, it is a "capital crime". The eunuch was responsible for the execution, and the specially trained Jinyi guard was responsible for the execution, and the attack was only heavy. If you have been fined dozens of rods, don't hope that the person behind you will be "tired" and start lightly, because every five times you have to change someone to ensure that the service is in place.
Even if there is such a high risk, it cannot stop the ministers of the DPRK from flocking to the court staff, and even risk their lives.