#231 - Ming 20: Liu Jin & the Eight Tigers
The History of China
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Leojin's Primitive Job as Sovereign
In march 15 o seven, he began to put high officials who did not defer to him into heavy cangs for the most trivial offences. Officials who spoke out against leojin were now routinely beaten, tortured and dismissed. By that summer, in just a year and a half since he had been in charge of nothing more than the musicians and dancers of the palace, leojin had defacto total power over the imperial capital. All documents of any great importance were all routed directly to him first,. Only those that he approved of were then forwarded on to the grand secretaries or the ministries. He effectively made himself the single conduit through which all power and information flowed. His primary task as
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