Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 268: The Procuratorate's new view is more and more correct.

Xijiang Mixiang, today's Metropolitan Procuratorate has taken on a completely new look.

Since Wang Yue came to power, in addition to setting up the search hall, a brand new prison cell was also built in the back.This cell is not big, but it is heavily guarded, and will become the place where the imperial court criminals or generals belong.

Wang Yue was not limited to the replacement of hardware facilities, but also carried out a major cleansing of the personnel of the entire Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Departments are both official and second-rank yamen, and the Zuodu Yushi can be said to be on an equal footing with the Six Departments' Shangshu, but there are not many officials working in Beijing.

The Ming Dynasty followed the Yuan system and set up Yushitai as the Metropolitan Procuratorate.The officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are the left and right censors, and there are deputy capital censors and Qiandu censors under them. The two capitals and the thirteen provinces are divided into supervisory censors and inspectors.

Usually Zuodu Yushi, Zuodu Duyushi and Zuoqiandu Yushi stay in the capital headquarters, while important officials such as Youqiandu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate will be arranged to serve as governors or governors in the local area to supervise the censors and inspectors. They all stay in place for a long time.

Before Wang Yue took office, there was only one high-ranking official in the headquarters of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Zuodu Censor Shi Bianyong, and the post of Zuodu Censor was vacant.

After Wang Yue took office, the first thing he did was to deal with Wu Jun, the censor of Zuoqian capital, and personally wrote a memorandum listing Wu Jun's age and inactivity, and asked the court to order Wu Jun to retire.

Although Wu Jun defended himself, and some officials suggested that Wu Jun be transferred to Nanjing for retirement, Zhu Youtang directly agreed to Wang Yue's request.

After Wang Yue dealt with Wu Jun, the censor of the capital of Zuoqin, he directly pointed the finger at dozens of clerks and dozens of yamen servants in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Although there are not many officials serving in the headquarters of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, it is the central censor after all, and many affairs will be brought together in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so there are many clerks and clerks.

When Wang Yue learned that the concierge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate turned out to be the distant nephew of a certain big man, he kicked out all the related households regardless of whether there were many or few people here, and replaced them with some honest and capable people. staff.

He doesn't believe in the idea of ​​trusting people but not cronyism, but he knows that he is a thorn in the side of the civil official group. Now the Metropolitan Procuratorate wants to stand on the opposite side of the civil official group, so he decided to make the Metropolitan Procuratorate his own territory.

There were some honest soldiers accompanying him to Beijing this time, together with Gou Huowang and a group of villagers who followed him the first time, he arranged for all of them to serve in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Although the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was indeed a low-level errand, it was the second-rank yamen of the Ming Dynasty after all, and was actually satisfied with the sergeants and villagers who were born at the bottom.

It's just that no one thought that after such a big purge by Wang Yue, Ma Shu would still be poisoned in the newly built prison of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate would still be infiltrated by unknown forces.

"Quick! Go and call Miracle Doctor Li!" Seeing Ma Shu rolling on the floor of the cell, the cell boss Gou Huowang shouted in panic.

He was a poor family, and he was even forced to wander around at one time. Now he finally got such a good job in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but he didn't want to lose it at all.

what……

Ma Shu's face was hideous and terrifying, he kept rolling on the ground, his stomach felt cramps, and his body still felt numb, but he yelled in pain.

When Yu Guang saw the bowl of soup on the ground, he gritted his teeth in anger.It's just that it was too late. Although he thought the soup tasted a little strange, he still drank some.

"You can't die! If you die, I'm going to get out of here before I'm in the cell head!" Gou Huowang had already opened the cell and rushed in, looking anxious and shocked when he saw Ma Shu's appearance.

"Head, he must have been poisoned. We have to find a way to make him spit out all the food he ate!" A young yamen servant from the capital reminded him with some knowledge.

Gou Huowang patted his thigh, and when Dang even hurried outside, he came back with a bowl and said, "Quick, drink this!"

Ma Shu also had a strong desire to survive, thinking of his house's wealth and beautiful concubine, he also gulped down whatever was brought him.

vomit……

Ma Shu only felt that the taste of this bowl was fishy and bitter, but the effect was immediate, and he was about to vomit out the bitter water and food residue after drinking.

There was a lot of commotion here, and soon attracted the deputy governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Bian Yong, who seemed very annoyed when he learned about the situation.It's just that when Ma Shu didn't lie up straight, a look of disappointment seemed to flash in his eyes.

"It's fortunate that you made him vomit quickly, otherwise the old man would be hopeless!" An old man with white hair and beard checked his pulse and said a word of approval.

Gou Huowang's hanging heart finally settled down, and he said respectfully: "Look at what you said, I heard that you are the best genius doctor in the whole capital who is good at curing poisons. Even without our messing around, you must be cured by medicine!"

"You can't say that. Fortunately, the dosage of Broken Heart Powder this time is small, otherwise it would be useless when the gods come!" The old doctor didn't brag, and seemed to point out the stakes very seriously.

When Gou Huowang heard this, he felt uncertain.

After all, he felt that this time was a fluke, but he couldn't guarantee that someone would drop a more powerful poison next time, so his position as the cell leader would also be uncertain.

"Gou Laotou, you have to be careful! This Duanchang powder is very toxic, and silver needles can't detect it, so this is a master of poison!" Mr. Li saw Gou Huowang's worry, but he handed over the prescription and warned.

When Gou Huowang took the prescription, he complained to Ma Shu in the cell: "If you have anything, you can do it quickly. You can save your life, and I can keep the job of the prison boss. How good is that?"

Ma Shu is not a fool, this time he was lucky to save his life.

He just realized that the smell of the fish soup was wrong, so he just took a sip, and the prison boss made him vomit, otherwise his life would really be accounted for here.

Obviously, those people didn't intend to take him out of here, but wanted him to stay here forever.

The news of Ma Shu's poisoning in the Metropolitan Procuratorate spread, causing the entire Metropolitan Procuratorate to become panic-stricken, and Shi Bianyong, the left deputy capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, has begun to investigate the matter.

Although the food in the cell is handled by his own people, the number of people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate has increased sharply, and the Special Inspection Office has added a large group of people, so it is very troublesome to investigate now.

Wang Yu was in charge of tracking Zhu Ji recently, but he still found nothing so far. When he returned to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and learned that "the backyard was on fire", he rushed to find his grandfather.

In the main hall of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, in the signing room.

Wang Yue is a very pragmatic official, and now he has taken the position of Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he also wants to make some practical achievements for Daming.

He is well aware that corruption among local officials is still serious, Yangzhou officialdom is definitely not an isolated case, and the situation in Jingshan County officialdom is the norm, so local officialdom needs to be rectified like the Yanzheng.

What's more, now that the problem of Beijing's debt has been exposed, most of the local officials will probably be killed, and now they all have to shoulder this mission.

That's why, in addition to completing the errands assigned by the emperor, he also began to focus on the localities, but he started with the local governors, inspectors, and supervisory censors.

Thanks to the favor of the current emperor, the emperor has agreed with him to investigate all the censors in the local area, and can dismiss the censors who are unable to serve.

"Grandpa, are you listening to what I'm saying?" Wang Yu was a young man who was jealous, and he said a lot in front of Wang Yue, and then asked in response.

Wang Yue found that there were not many Jiangxi supervisory censors left after the deletion, but he had been listening to his grandson talking about poisoning, so he raised his head lightly and asked, "Who do you suspect?"

"Grandpa, almost all the people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate are people we just placed, so Bian Yong is the most suspicious!" Knowing that the matter is sensitive, Wang Yu immediately lowered his voice to make a guess.

When Wang Yue heard the suspect, he shook his head slightly: "You think Grandpa can't touch him, so you suspect that he ordered it?"

Bian Yong was originally a son of a military family, but fortunately his father Bian Yong was a Jinshi in high school in the tenth year of Zhengtong, so Bian's family lost his military status and became a family of officials.

Bian Yong was not able to be named on the gold list like his father, and he was promoted to become an official.

In Chenghua's first plowing court, he made great achievements in recording, and was promoted to the right councilor of Nanjing General Administration Department. Many years later, he became the governor of Shanxi.

It's just that as a recruiter, he was able to serve as the left deputy capital censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and his father had been an official in Beijing for decades, which inevitably made people suspect that there was a mysterious force behind him.

Wang Yue actually wanted to clear Bian Yong out of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but Bian Yong had no obvious fault after all, and he was an official of the third rank, so there was no reason to send him away arbitrarily.

"Grandpa, don't you think he's suspicious?" Wang Yu still suspected that Bian Yong planned the poisoning, so he asked seriously.

Wang Yue knew that his grandson had some prejudice against Bian Yong, so he put down the list of cleanup personnel from the local censor, picked up the teacup on the table and shook his head gently: "The poisoning has nothing to do with him!"

"Grandpa, now the Metropolitan Procuratorate is almost under our control, and only he has the ability to do this. Who else could it be?" Wang Yu's logic was very clear, and he asked seriously.

Wang Yue found that his grandson was actually a bit smart, and he smiled slightly after taking a sip of tea: "You and I have been with me for so long, can't you see that this is actually a game?"

"Grandpa, what game? Who set it up?" Wang Yu asked in confusion, seeing that his grandfather hadn't been nervous at all until now.

As soon as the words were finished, a figure rushed in, but Gou Huowang said excitedly, "My lord, my lord, he is willing to recruit, just now he said he wanted to see you!"

"Recruitment, who recruited?" Wang Yu asked even more confused when he saw Gou Huowang who barged in.

There was still excitement on Gou Huowang's face, but he suddenly turned his head to look at Wang Yu suspiciously.

Wang Yue's hanging heart was also relieved, but he still kept calm and ordered: "You lead Hu Jun there first, Hu Jun knows how to deal with it!"

"Okay!" Gou Huowang knew that the adult in front of him had no plans to spare, so he turned and left excitedly.

"Grandpa, what tasks did you assign to Hu Jun? What kind of medicine do you sell in your gourd?" Wang Yu has always been on business with Hu Jun, but this time he separated from his grandfather, and now his whole portrait is in a fog in the middle.

Wang Yue found that he seemed to overestimate his grandson, so he held the teacup and said calmly: "I told you before: this court is like marching and fighting! The art of war can be divided into righteousness and strangeness. If you can't do it right, you can do it." Miraculous plan!"

"Is it a trick to use righteousness? Grandpa, you mean to use poison..." Wang Yu finally came to his senses, and looked at his grandfather with a sense of comprehension.

Wang Yue took another sip of tea, then nodded lightly: "Yes, I actually cast this poison. To be more precise, this is not poisoning, but a kind of poison that can make people's stomach hurt and numb all over. medicine!"

"Grandpa, why did you do this?" Wang Yu frowned, but he didn't understand the mystery.

Wang Yue put down the teacup in his hand, and he talked eloquently: "Our enemy is not an ordinary person. We can't wait for him to attack before we are tired of dealing with it. We can also strike first. We all know very well that Ma Shu is just a A pawn! Since you are a pawn, you have two fates: one is to be rescued from here, and the other is to never be able to speak. Regarding this point, Ma Shu must have known it well, so I want to force Ma Shu chooses the third path!"

"When we poison Ma Shu, Ma Shu will mistakenly think that the people over there want to silence him, and then he may confess the people behind him to save his life!" Wang Yu reacted immediately, and said with a sense of understanding.

Wang Yue found that his grandson was indeed talented, so he nodded lightly: "That's right! Ma Shu was born in a family of officials, and he was greedy for pleasure since he was a child. I believe it is impossible for him to choose to carry everything alone, let alone be loyal to him." The power to kill him! His most hopeful result is to be fished out, but if someone wants him to die, he must bite everywhere!"

"So that's how it is. Grandpa's methods are really clever!" Wang Yu said after learning the whole story, and couldn't help admiring his grandpa's strategy.

Since his grandfather recovered from Jingshan County, he has followed his grandfather all the time, and he has truly seen all kinds of incredible schemes of his grandfather.

Whether it was the initial attack in Wuchang, or the knocking on the mountain in Yangzhou, or the step-by-step presidency of the Annan War, my grandfather is simply a military god.

Now back in the capital, facing this very difficult case, facing Ma Shu who refused to confess life and death, who would have thought that his grandfather would dare to poison the prisoner he was imprisoned?

Although my grandfather's method this time seems disgraceful, the effect is undoubtedly immediate, and that Jinyiwei Baihu seems to be really about to speak.

Hu Jun negotiated with Ma Shu first according to Wang Yue's previous explanation, but conveyed to Ma Shu that Wang Yue was not in a hurry, and made sure that Ma Shu did not raise unreasonable conditions before bringing him here.

Wang Yue was more like an experienced fishing master. Even when he saw that Ma Shu had bitten the fish, he slowly retracted the fishing line.

"The low-level investigation into the fraud case of the meeting and examination was indeed instigated by someone, and this person is the immediate boss of the low-level job, Jin Yiwei Tongzhi Yang Han!" After receiving the promise of his own life, Ma Shu immediately admitted.

Now that a formal confession has been made, Ma Shu is no longer a suspect, but an accomplice who was instructed by Jin Yiwei's acquaintance Yang Han to deliberately target important court officials.

Seeing Ma Shu's signature, Wang Yue seriously ordered Gou Huowang: "Take him down and take care of him, and pay special attention to the meals every day!"

Although he has built the Metropolitan Procuratorate into his own territory, there is no guarantee that there will be miscellaneous fish in it, so he dare not take it lightly.

"Obey!" Gou Huowang knew very well that everything he had was bestowed by Wang Yue, so he said respectfully.

Seeing Ma Shu leave, Wang Yu asked excitedly, "Grandpa, should we go to Beizhen Fusi to catch that bastard now?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? If there is no order from His Majesty, can we break into Beizhen Fusi?" Wang Yue frowned, and immediately preached with a straight face.

Not to mention that this time is to arrest Jin Yiwei's second in command, even if he wants to arrest Jin Yiwei's hundreds of households, if there is no will, he can't take anyone casually.

After all, Jin Yiwei is the emperor's personal guard, and they can be arrested by the procuratorate if they want to.

Wang Yu didn't seem to have turned the corner, but asked in confusion, "Then what should I do?"

"Wang Yu, are you stupid? This kind of thing is naturally to go to the palace to ask the emperor!" Hu Jun stood by and listened, but couldn't help but interjected.

Wang Yue glanced at Hu Jun approvingly, and seemed to preach very seriously: "Your grandfather has indeed made some achievements in the local area, but in fact it cannot be separated from the emperor's support. Do you think there is any local official in this dynasty who can hold the sword? Now we I just returned to Beijing, and His Majesty has always favored me, so I can't even think about such unruly things in the future!"

"Grandson, remember!" Wang Yu realized his mistake, and expressed his position in a polite manner.

Wang Yue was actually in a good mood. Looking at the confession in his hand, he immediately prepared to enter the palace to face the saint.

Now that he has caught the handle of Jin Yiwei's fellow acquaintance Yang Han, he can ask the emperor for instructions to arrest him, and then he will have the opportunity to track down Zhu Ji.

Zhu Ji was born in a hereditary Jinyi family. Although he was banished to Weiyuan in his early years because of Yu Qian, he was restored to his post in the Chenghua Dynasty and soon became the second in command of Jinyiwei.

Now that Zhu Ji has been in charge of Jinyiwei for more than ten years, he must have become a core member of that mysterious force.Once Zhu Ji's mouth can be pried open, all problems can be easily solved.

(End of this chapter)