Chapter 288 The weakness of the elders
A scholar Xu Jing, a Jiangyin scholar, was robbed and killed by a spy from the Tartar son at Yongfu Zen Temple!
When such news spread around the capital with a spreading momentum, it immediately stirred the nerves of many people. The old people in high positions may become dizzy as they grow older, but since they can still not retire in their position, they will naturally remember these things they should remember. On that day, in the straight room of Liu Jian, the chief assistant in Wenyuan Pavilion, Xie Qiandai angrily threw a memorial directly on Liu Jian's desk.
"Yuan Fu, look, this is the memorial of Ye Guang, the Jinyiwei. He actually asked the Ministry of Justice to go to sea to arrest such a person. What a joke? Just relying on such a vague shadow image to arrest people, wouldn't it be a needle in a haystack? Ye Guang has been in charge of the Jinyiwei for so many years, and now he is really confused!"
Liu Jian took it and flipped it around, and immediately understood what was going on. After his eyes were made with Xie Qian, he said as if nothing had happened: "Since this memorial was transferred by the Silijian, what would the Silijian say?"
"What else can I say? Of course, it was the emperor's order to investigate this matter strictly!" Xie Qian frowned, and then looked at Li Dongyang's straight room. "This Xu Jing was indulgent and unruly back then. Now he has made such a mess, and he has ulterior motives! It has been many years since the test case. Even if this past thing has passed, if it is revealed because of this little coincidence, no one would want to see it. The current plan is better to use the disposal of the late emperor that year to warn Xu Xun. It was the late emperor who punished Xu Jing to return to his hometown as an official. He now has such a person! Moreover, it is ridiculous to have such many things based on Xu Jing's one-sided words!"
"What you said is not unreasonable, but you should know that the emperor is not the late emperor, and just using pressure will only be appropriate... In this way, we should come from serious matters and find a few censors to make a fuss about their duties as the avant-garde of the government army. Especially this time, Xu Xun volunteered to patrol outside the city and assist the Xichang Jinyiwei.
"Yuanfu is brilliant!"
Xie Qian left, but Liu Jian no longer had the heart to deal with the high memorials on the desk. He thought of Cheng Minzheng. In the past, the three celebrities in the Hanlin Academy were widely known as Minzheng, the ancient and elegant articles were called Dongyang, and the innocent sex was called Chen Yin, each with the highest order. In addition, Cheng Minzheng was also a young prodigy, and the Chung Tanhua was only twenty-three years old. Everyone thought that he could enter the cabinet under 60. For such a rising star who was strong and had excellent reputation, he was afraid of Li Dongyang and Xie Qian, the same as Li Dongyang and Xie Qian, who was a competitor, was not to mention Fu Han. Therefore, Fu Han instigated Hua Yong and others to provoke that major cheating case. Some of them stood by and some were put on the wrong side. As a result, Cheng Minzheng, who was upright, was indeed out of prison but died of a carbuncle and poison.
"It's all a few years ago. Xu Xun was young, so it should be just a coincidence. It wasn't intentional... But what happened to the man in black? Is it true that the Tartar spy met Xu Jing, or..."
The possibility that suddenly came out made Liu Jian tie a knot in his brow, and his right hand tightly held the pen. According to common sense, no one among them would be so stupid that he would send someone to threaten such a scholar who had lost his fame. But what would others think if things spread out? Especially those young and strong sects who were looking at the little emperor's idea of relying on the past?
However, the next day, more than a dozen memorials arrived at the Silijian through the Tongzhengsi Department. Without exception, they accused the avant-garde of the Xichang Jinyiwei Office, waiting to investigate the spies' names and harass the people and so on. Some censors even pointed out that the avant-garde of the government army had no responsibility for detectives, which was beyond their authority to invite favor. As soon as the memorial was sent to the imperial court, Zhu Houzhao was very angry. According to his temperament, he almost wanted to summon all the censors to scold them. However, the old eunuchs of the Silijian advised them together, and he could only endure it, but he had to call Gu Dayong in front of him to ask for progress.
Because of this, countless people saw Gu Dayong's bitter face when he came out of Chengqian Palace, so naturally he thought that this trip to the West Factory must be useless. For a moment, there were more memorials with fierce words. The voices of passionately asking for the West Factory to stop the West Factory came out, which made Zhu Houzhao even more furious, and the ministers secretly praised him.
However, on the fourth day alone, the Duke of Baoguo Zhu Hui had just ordered all his troops to set off, and Ye Guang and Xu Xungu Dayong's joint memorial had been submitted - a total of 621 refugees who were not registered outside the city were found, 41 suspicious people with various crimes, and nine suspected spies, not including the unknown man in black who appeared in Yongfu Zen Temple, who threw a flying knife in Yongfu Zen Temple.
Zhu Houzhao was naturally very happy about such a result. He originally took his anger on Wang Yue of the East Factory because he thought that he was not good at doing some serious business. Now Gu Dayong led the West Factory, which had just been built for a few days, to make such contributions. He naturally would not be stingy with the rewards. On that day, he directly summoned all the ministers of the cabinet and the ministers of the Ministry to Wenhua Hall. Ye Guang, Xu Xun and Gu Dayong, who attended, reported the process of sorting out the residents outside the city this time. At the end, he looked around with pride.
"Did you see it? As long as you do things seriously and carefully, why worry about not being able to accomplish anything! Ye Guang and Xu Xungu can achieve such great results this time, and you three are very rewarding. Each one will reward..." Zhu Houzhao saw that the faces of several old men were ugly one by one. Thinking about it, they still didn't embarrass them so much, so he changed the money and silk that had come to his mouth, "Well, each rewarded one imperial horse, and go back to pick it up in the stables of Xiyuan!"
"Emperor, although Ran has achieved this result for several days, the Jinyiwei Guards and the Western Factory have indeed made contributions. If only the Liangyou became a spy and executed, it is of great importance. I beg the Emperor..."
The person who stood up this time was Min Gui, the Minister of Justice. Before he could finish his words, Xu Xun signaled Ye Guang with his eyes. Sure enough, the head of the Jinyiwei, who was very praised in the Wen Palace, bowed deeply: "Your Majesty, what the Secretary Min said was exactly what the Wei Mean wanted to report. In a hurry, he was detained according to the household registration and the case of the Jinyiwei, and there were inevitably some mistakes. Therefore, I asked the Jinyiwei and the Ministry of Justice of the Censorate to jointly review these people, so that no one is wronged or a spy would be let go."
Gu Dayong also spoke with Xu Xun in a sharp voice: "Your Majesty, I will advise you Lord Ye."
"Accurate!" Zhu Houzhao saw that his people were choking these old ministers and felt even more happy for a moment. But after agreeing, he suddenly remembered another thing, and immediately looked at the British Duke Zhang Bi and Ma Wensheng Dai Shan and said, "I remembered this statement. The couple asked you to review Zhang Yu and Liu Wentai for a few days, and there is no result yet?"
Many of the big guys were thrilled because of the name of Xu Jing who had been silent for many years. At this moment, the emperor suddenly asked Zhang Yu and Liu Wentai and others again, and his head was silent for a while. After a while, the British Duke Zhang Bi led the lead and said: "Report to the emperor, Zhang Yu and others confessed to the random use of medicines for not taking the pulse, but Liu Wentai refused to say anything."
"If you don't want to say it, you will be tortured!" Zhu Houzhao was immediately annoyed and shouted sternly, "Lian doesn't believe that his body can hold on to thirty or fifty boards!"
In name, he was led by the British Duke, but usually the civil servants are the ones who are actually in charge of this kind of thing. In fact, the one who is responsible for this matter is Ma Wensheng, the Minister of Personnel. Hearing that the emperor publicly said such words in Wenhua Hall, Ma Wensheng could not remain silent, so he had to stand up and speak truthfully: "Report to the emperor, since Zhang Yu and others have all admitted it, it would be harmless for Liu Wentai to refuse to admit it, so he can naturally be convicted. I originally intended to submit a memorial tomorrow. Since it is the emperor's inquiry, I will submit a request today."
"Tell me directly, listen!"
"Zhang Yu, Liu Wentai, Gao Tinghe should use the law of cheating with officials of the Ministry and the Ministry of Justice to form a cheating law, and the court envoy Shi Qin's court judge Fang Shuhe was dismissed from his post because of the medicine that was not appropriate, and the doctor Xu Wufa was originally from the people. The Youtong Zhengwang Yu Court envoy Li Zongzhou Court judged Zhang Lun, Qian Dun Wang Pan and others satisfies the medicine that was not suitable, and they endured and demoted them to the second level. The Right Senator Qiu Yu faked the official money that robbed the city of the city and recovered the stolen money..."
"Enough!"
Zhu Houzhao suddenly interrupted Ma Wensheng's words, stared at the ministers for a while, and then suddenly sneered: "What department officials and officials handed over internal officials? The British Duke had already reported that Liu Wentai and Zhang Yu were very disrespectful, so he was directly executed according to the law of disrespect. How could there be so much nonsense? As for others, this simple pharmacology cannot be seen. Anyone who was diagnosed and treated at that time was dismissed for the people, and the rest of the people were re-assessed. It would be fine if they passed the pass, but if they did not pass, they would not need to be demoted. The Imperial Hospital did not raise any idle men who were not skilled in the arts!"
Speaking of this, he suddenly looked at Min Gui, the Minister of Justice, and said: "Also, if Shangshu Min tried these traitors who were held today, don't just be cowardly and secretly. First, think about the more than 2,000 people who died in Xuanfu this time. How sad their wives and children are! Don't be like the Zheng Wang case that the previous emperor personally tried, and they were sentenced to death. They are still left to death. This is not the name of protecting the father's kindness and virtue, but it is clearly a rebellion and ruining the father's reputation!"
In front of everyone, Min Gui's face turned blue and white for a moment, as ugly as it was.
However, Zhu Houzhao seemed to think that these words were not enough, and looked at the ministers and said, "These days, they were whimsical about asking the Xichang and Jinyiwei to investigate the spies. They said that the vanguards of the government army were hastily made the army useless, and they all remembered them in their hearts. The court gave the censors the power to write letters and talk about things, but those salaries were not used to make them talk nonsense! Also, the one who almost killed the spy in the middle of the night... What's the name..."
Xu Xun hurriedly said, "Report to the emperor, it is Xu Jing, a scholar of Jiangyin."
"Yes, it's this Xu Jing!" Zhu Houzhao punched the handrail with a thud, as if he didn't see many people changing color because of this name and his movements. He said angrily, "A scholar was scared to death, so he asked the government to report this matter. It's very reasonable. It's worth talking about by the censors? Are they full and full?"
Compare: I couldn't open the bookshelf from nine o'clock to ten o'clock. I just found out that I recovered and uploaded it immediately. I'm sorry... I'm asking for double monthly tickets on May Day! (To be continued)
Chapter completed!