Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 86

When Yongfang was young, people were panicked.

Just when everyone thought that the ink corruption case that His Majesty wanted to investigate would make no progress, who would have thought that there would be a big commotion, the newly appointed Prime Minister of Thousand Households of Jin Yiwei walked over mightily with a large group of entourages.

Wang Xiang has now been promoted to Jinyiwei Qianhu, backed by the queen mother and the emperor, he walks like a tiger, and he doesn't pay attention to the ministers who live here.

Now, he found that the most correct thing he did in his life was to hug His Majesty's thigh. This thigh, which was once looked down upon by others, was really too thick.

"Quick! Quickly close the door!"

The steward of the Wanfu was guarding the entrance of the alley. When he saw Wang Xiang leading the people towards this side, he was so frightened that he even ran home, and hurriedly gave orders as soon as he ran into the gate.

Although he was very calm at one time, every penny was carefully and meticulously, no matter what, it shouldn't be their turn, but he couldn't help but feel guilty.

As a dignified ten-year-old chief assistant family, even if their ten thousand households are as clean as water, the following Bing Jing, Tan Jing and Bie Jing are already a terrifying number.

Even if Wan Fu did not have any corruption, but thinking of the boxes of gold, silver and jewelry in the warehouse, it is impossible to explain. After all, no honest official can have so much wealth.

Chen Zhun's 50 taels can really only be used to fool the world, that eunuch is not worthy of the title of Ming's No. [-] greed.

"Woooo..."

"What to do? What to do?"

"Tell the master not to take too much, and now the house is ransacked, woo woo..."

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The news that Jin Yiwei was coming this way spread to Wanfu's back house, and a large group of female relatives had a premonition that disaster was imminent, and they couldn't help crying.

This year has been an eventful year for the Wan family. Due to the death of the old lady, the eldest daughter-in-law followed the eldest son Wan Yi to help the coffin back to her hometown in Sichuan.

Now that disaster has come, the whole back house seems to be in a mess, where they keep complaining to each other.

"Isn't it our home?"

Seeing that there was no movement outside for a long time, the butler saw through the crack of the door that no one was coming outside, so he carefully opened a small door and slipped out to check what happened.

In fact, he really thought too much. Although Wang Xiang passed by the entrance of the alley here, he didn't turn in with his men and horses, but continued to go west.

"Woooo..."

"I knew I wouldn't marry your Li family!"

"What a crime! I'm already forty, and I still have to go to the Jiaofang Division!"

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Similar situations came one after another, as long as Jin Yiwei passed by, there were always cries of female relatives from the front house and the back house.

Since it is the closest to the Meridian Gate, this is a place where every inch of land is precious, and almost all the mansions in this area belong to the families of the current officials.

Now it is not clear whose house His Majesty is going to steal, Wang Xiang led the wolf-like Jin Yiwei all the way west, and as a result, the crying of women was endless.

It's just that the road has an end after all, and Wang Xiang led people into Liyu Alley.

"No, it's impossible, His Majesty can't have incriminating evidence!" Li Min, former Minister of the Household Department, said with ashes on his face when he heard that Jin Yiwei had turned in from the entrance of the alley.

Since the last time he contradicted His Majesty and was ordered to stay idle, he was not willing to be completely out of power since then, so he still chose to struggle and wait.

It's just that the development of the situation was unexpected. His Majesty had completely controlled the army and the court after the storm of seizing the door, and he had no choice but to hand in his resignation.

Originally, he had already put his return home on his agenda, but how did he know that Chen Zhun's case triggered a chain reaction, and under the fanning of those hateful civil servants, His Majesty actually wanted to find fat sheep in the court.

Maybe other people don't know how fat he is, but thinking about the warehouse where the ground has been pushed down by a foot, they know that they are the fat sheep that His Majesty urgently needs.

"Don't stay here, take my letter and go...to find Li Si!" Li Min turned his head to look at his confidant next to him, and said immediately.

At this moment, he really hated that old man Xu Pu.

I don't even know how he taught the students in the Eastern Palace, but His Majesty has realized that their civil servants are the most corrupt in the world.

A kid who has lived in the deep palace since he was a child can't be taught well, it's like a shame for a scholar.

Just as my confidant left, the butler rushed over from the front yard and said, "Master, it's not good! It's not good!"

"At the door? It's over!"

Li Min's eyes suddenly became hollow, and the last sliver of luck disappeared. After all, he still couldn't avoid this catastrophe. The family wealth accumulated through so many years of hard work will be used to fill the inner treasury of His Majesty.

"Master, why are you crying?" The butler came up to him and immediately asked in confusion.

Li Min wiped away his tears with his sleeve, but quickly cheered up and said: "You open the middle door! I want to see, why does Your Majesty want to search my house? Is this a tyranny?"

"Master, I'm wrong, Jin Yiwei didn't copy our Li Mansion!" The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, and then explained seriously.

The fighting spirit that Li Min had erupted just now dissipated in an instant, and she couldn't help but said in confusion: "Your Majesty didn't come here to copy my house, who else could copy it?"

"Master, I'm afraid the one we're going to copy this time is the Xie's house next door, and it's already parked in front of Xie's house!" The housekeeper pointed to the neighbor, looking serious and authentic.

At this time, there were obviously more and more movements next door. Jin Yiwei knocked on the door and wanted to enter the house, but the Xie family realized that the visitor was not good and was resisting stubbornly.

Li Min turned his head to look at the neighbor, seeming belatedly said: "Xie Yikui?"

In this alley, apart from him, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Xie Yikui, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, also lived here.

Xie Yikui was born in a family of officials. In his early years, he worshiped under the former Hanlin scholar Yin Zhi's door. After entering the Hanlin Academy, he also worshiped Li Xian, a university scholar. He was born as an out-and-out poet.

In terms of future, I am actually not as good as Xie Yikui.It's just that Xie Yikui was short-sighted in his early years, and he suffered from eye diseases in recent years. After he became Minister of the Ministry of Industry, he often asked for leave because of eye diseases.

Although Xie's family has invited famous doctors in and around the capital, their eyes still haven't improved. The eye disease they had suffered a while ago was unstoppable, so they chose to go to the doctor's office to return home.

The news just came that the man died on the road before returning to the border of Jiangxi.

It's just that he never expected that the first person to suffer would be Xie Yikui who ruined his official career due to eye disease, but this person shouldn't show his feet.

"Rites are used in life, rituals in funerals, rituals in sacrifices. Husbands' rituals are the rituals of heaven and the rituals of human affairs. We would rather offend your majesty than let your majesty be disrespectful to the world and future generations. Search for money without reason. The family of important ministers, Your Majesty, this is disrespectful to the world. We, the straight ministers of Kedao, should stop, remonstrate, and remonstrate with death!" Zhang Jishan and Like were all given to Song Cong, who led Kedao and other officials. They came here in a mighty way, but they wanted to prevent His Majesty from confiscating the homes of important officials.

In the face of Zhu Youtang's family raids, the civil official group finally showed their sharpest weapon-Ke Dao, who has the duty of admonishing the emperor.

In the Qianqing Palace, sandalwood is curling up.

Turning the time back to before the decree was made to raid the house, when Song Cheng claimed to come back to hand over the decree, both Zhu Youtang and Guo Yong were stunned.

Guo Yong's eyes widened, and he even suspected that the black-faced youth was lying.

I have been in the imperial court for decades, and I have the intelligence office of Dongchang. There is something that I can't do by myself. How can this little Zhejiang official, Wailang, be able to do it?
"Song Cheng, do you know what crime should be for deceiving the emperor?" Zhu Youtang also didn't quite believe that this little Zhejiang official, Wailang, was so capable, so he reminded him earnestly.

Song Cheng didn't even blink his eyes, and said solemnly: "I didn't deceive the emperor, and I dare not deceive the emperor!"

"So you really got something, I don't know who you found?" Zhu Youtang's heart moved slightly, and Dang even asked seriously.

Looking at the entire court, Wan An's suspicion of ink corruption is undoubtedly the biggest, but he has no intention of using a knife against Wan An.

Although Guo Yong still couldn't believe it, seeing Song Cheng's appearance did not seem to be aimless, so he also cast a concerned look.

Song Cheng's answer was unexpected, but he shook his head lightly and said, "I didn't find anyone!"

"Bold, you dare to tease your lord, what should you do?" Guo Yong was just curious about who Song Cheng had bitten, and when he heard the answer, he said angrily.

Song Cheng was not influenced by Guo Yong, he looked straight at Zhu Youtang and added: "The minister found out that the Baihe River embankment project was fake! That river embankment has not been repaired yet, but the Ministry of Industry has reported to the Ministry of Households. After paying, this is a case of corruption from bottom to top!"

"Where did you find out about this, don't make random rumors!" Zhu Youtang knew that engineering corruption was the most common form of corruption, but knowing that it was difficult to obtain evidence for such local affairs, Dang even warned seriously.

Song Cheng's eyes were firm, and he took out a file and said, "Report to Your Majesty, I didn't spread any rumors! This is a case that I handled earlier, the death case of Baihe Village and Xiali Village in Hangzhou Prefecture. This file The cause of the incident is very clear. Because of the Baihe River embankment break, the good fields in the village were flooded, and the villagers were farming on the broken dam. Li Si was beaten to death when there was another dispute during the autumn harvest. In fact, the minister has already investigated, not only the Baihe River embankment The project lied, and the Baihe Sluice also made false reports!"

"Even if what you said is true, it is still a lie and deception by the officials of the river course. What does it have to do with the officials of the court?" Guo Yong believed that the local government lied about the project to defraud money, but asked suspiciously.

Zhu Youtang took the file and glanced at it briefly, but frowned slightly.

Although he didn't have too much hope for this little member of the criminal department, Uiro, but he couldn't be satisfied with handing over such an answer sheet now.

"Your Majesty appointed ministers to investigate the corruption case yesterday. From the reflections of the various officials, we can see that they are all guilty of thieves, and I have worked in Beijing for many years, and I knew that corruption in the officialdom is very serious. Beijing officials' corruption is mainly accumulated. Firstly, they took local officials to go to Beijing to pay filial piety, and secondly, they took money for salt affairs and water affairs. However, courtiers in Beijing did not deal with money or affairs, and they were all errands run by officials at the bottom. This time, the Baihe River Embankment was falsely reported Leaders, the Ministry of Industry has neglected to supervise, and the Ministry of Households has neglected duties. The chief officials of the two yamen cannot escape the blame. Whether it is Li Min, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Households, or Xie Yikui, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, these two have been in recent years. They both moved to a new house and bought a house in the capital, and these two must be the ink-greeds that His Majesty wants. As for how much they have been greedy for ink over the years, you can find out just by copying it!" Song Cheng seemed to be talking authentically.

Guo Yong saw that this was an elm-headed head, and immediately blamed him: "You are really whimsical, is it possible to copy the house of a senior member of the dynasty?"

"Wait!" Zhu Youtang held up a finger, thinking seriously.

Although Guo Yong really wanted to rob the house, he had to seriously remind him: "Your Majesty, if a large amount of property cannot be copied, this matter may not end well!"

Although imperial power is supreme, some things cannot be done as one wants.

Naturally, there would be no resistance to confiscating an eunuch's home, after all, eunuchs are just His Majesty's domestic slaves.But if a minister is to be forcibly seized, it is bound to be strongly opposed by the entire civil servant group.

"Design!" Zhu Youtang already had a good idea in his mind, and he said with a smile.

Hour Yongfang, Xie Mansion.

Both Zhang Jishan and the Li Ke gave the matter to Song Cong, who led a total of dozens of people from other yamen. The arrival of these people emboldened the family and slaves of this important official, and the steward of the Wan family and others all came. Arrived outside the carp alley.

Wang Xiang looked at Zhang Jishan, Song Cong and a large group of officials who were coming towards him, and said with a smile on his face: "Section Chief Zhang, Section Chief Song, what are you doing?"

"You still ask us what we are doing? Wang Xiang, if you dare to act recklessly, we will let your blood splatter on the spot today!" Zhang Jishan, a tall and tall northern man in the military department, said in a threatening manner.

"Yes, let the blood of this dog leg splash on the spot!"

"Searching the house of a high-ranking official in order to cover up a crime for the eunuch is unheard of in ancient times!"

"In the past, there was a direct minister who beat and killed Ma Shun at the Zuo Shun Gate, but now I have Li Yu Hutong to do the same!"

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The officials standing behind didn't seem to think it was a big deal. Someone seemed to be deliberately fanning the flames behind, and all the officials threatened angrily.

The door of Xie's house was finally opened, and Xie Ke, who had just been suspended at home for observing filial piety, stood up angrily and said, "Prince Wang, what other laws do you have in your eyes? Even if you Jinyiwei want to search my Xie's house, Then there must be a crime, not robbers entering the house!"

"Hey, Wang Xiang, although you are favored, our important officials are the pillars of the country. If you help His Majesty to mess around like this, you are causing trouble for Ming Dynasty, and everyone will be punished!" He had already come to the rescue, and immediately opened the door and walked over.

Faced with the denunciation of the officials, Wang Xiang took out the imperial decree from his sleeve and held it up high: "In this case, let's kneel and listen to the decree together!"

Li Min and other officials couldn't help being slightly taken aback, but faced with the imperial decree that suddenly appeared, although they concluded that Xie Yikui could not have committed the crime of embezzling ink and ransacking his home, they still knelt down politely.

(End of this chapter)