Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a mud-legged man, was exploited and blackmailed by officials in the Yuan Dynasty, and hated the corruption of officials and the behavior of fish people.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang began to fight corruption on a large scale. He formulated and promulgated the patent of Mingda and other laws, and invented the torture of "peeling the last grass", which made the official atmosphere clear and the official administration clear for more than a hundred years.
The reason why such remarkable anti-corruption achievements have been achieved is inseparable from Zhu Yuanzhang's "iron fist anti-corruption". In the process of rectifying the bureaucracy, Zhu Yuanzhang always insisted on an iron fist and never relented, even if it was royalty! He personally ordered the beheading of LUN Ouyang and Xu, which was the most wonderful stroke in his anti-corruption process.
Zhu Yuanzhang * * * has 16 daughters, of which the clever Princess Anqing is his favorite. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang spent a lot of time choosing Xu for his daughter.
Finally, Zhu Yuanzhang took a fancy to Lun Ouyang. There are not many descriptions of Lun Ouyang in the history books, only that he was born a scholar, handsome and handsome, and was deeply loved by Zhu Yuanzhang. In the fourteenth year of Hongwu (138 1), Zhu Yuanzhang made a decision to marry his daughter, Princess Anqing, to Lun Ouyang.
After becoming a royal Xu, Lun Ouyang was gentle and considerate to the princess, and won the princess's favor. In addition, his official position is Xu, a captain. As a result, with the power of royalty, life began to corrupt. First, I spent a lot of money to decorate Fu Ma's house, pretending to have more money than the palace. Then I searched for treasures everywhere. At this time, officials from all over the country came to the door to "present treasures".
But Lun Ouyang's desire for money is endless, and he soon found a way to get rich, that is, smuggling tea.
In the early Ming Dynasty, in order to control the minority areas in Xifan, Zhu Yuanzhang exchanged tea produced in the Central Plains for horses in Xifan, so tea became a strategic material of the Ming Empire.
Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated the law on tea and horses, prohibiting tea smuggling. However, driven by interests, LUN Ouyang, with his special status and privileges, began to employ Zhou Bao, a domestic slave, privately use official cars and confiscate private cars, smuggle tea, and "send several private tea merchants out of the country" to reap huge profits.
Zhou Bao used his master's power to be arrogant and abnormal. He commanded a huge convoy of smuggled tea to get through the customs without paying taxes or dismounting. Whenever local officials stop him, he either fights or scolds. His master, Lun Ouyang, was even more arrogant, and even personally beat the tax collector of He Qiao Company in Lantian County. The beaten official was very angry, but he reported Ma Xu's smuggling of tea to the court.
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he heard the news: "I can only do one thing, but this is the first bad thing!" " -I just promulgated a tea-horse law, and as a Xu, you took the lead in violating it. It's really unbearable!
So Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Lun Ouyang to be arrested and brought to justice. And Princess Anqing heard that Zhu Yuanzhang was going to kill her son-in-law, Xu, and hurried into the palace to intercede for them.
Lun Ouyang's crimes against Xu and Zhu Yuanzhang have long been cleared, and all the information typed by local officials is true. Lun Ouyang also confessed that smuggling tea violated national laws and regulations, so Zhu Yuanzhang decided to execute Ouyang Xu according to law.
Zhu Yuanzhang knew the consequences of Xu's execution ―― his daughter Princess Anqing would become a lonely widow, he and his wife would lose their husbands, and the royal family would lose face. But he calmed down and thought, how can he convince people if he doesn't kill Xu? How can the country be safe if it doesn't die?
As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang resolutely died in Lunouyang and Zhou Bao. This move shocked the whole country! Officials saw the emperor's determination to fight corruption from Zhu Yuanzhang's execution of Xu, so the whole country was shocked and the wind of corruption suddenly stopped!
Zhu Yuanzhang's loyalty to the family not only consolidated the foundation in the early Ming Dynasty, but also became a model for Zhu Yuanzhang to govern the country with an iron fist and fight corruption, which was passed down to future generations. It was only in the middle and late Ming Dynasty that corruption prevailed. From this perspective, anti-corruption ultimately needs system and supervision to be completely solved.
Xu Zhu Yuanzhang