Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 94 God's Will, Who Lives and Who Dies?
Beijing, this is an eventful autumn.

The case of Zhou Lie's rebellion earlier has not been fully implemented, but now the case of corruption of ink has arisen again.

At the beginning, the eunuch Chen Zhun, the supervisor of ceremonies and Bingbi, was confiscated for 50 taels, breaking the record of the highest ink corruption in history in one fell swoop, and thus becoming a powerful weapon for the civil official group to attack eunuchs.

It's just that the next situation became more and more serious. The former minister of the Ministry of Industry, Xie Yikui, was ransacked by the court. It is said that more than a dozen carts of property were transported from Xie's house.

Just now, Li Min, former Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was arrested by officials of the Ministry of Punishment at Chongwenmen.

Although it has not been officially disclosed why Li Min, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was arrested, there have been gossip that this upright official who deliberately went to Chongwenmen to stage a commoner-clothed donkey to leave Beijing is suspected of corruption.

"Li Min was arrested, how is this possible?" Xu Pu, who was sitting in the office of the Ministry of Officials, was shocked and authentic when he heard the news of Li Min's arrest.

If other people still have doubts about Li Min's greed, then he knows Li Min well, but he realizes that this will be a shocking case.

If Li Min's home is once seized, the image of incorruptibility that their civil servants have always portrayed will be destroyed, and His Majesty and the world will see clearly the true face of their civil servants.

Unfortunately, things turned in the worst direction, and Li Min couldn't leave Beijing smoothly in the end.

"Master Xu, for the sake of the friendship between our two families, you must save my master!" Li Min's housekeeper rushed here to ask for help after learning that Li Min was arrested in Chongwenmen .

Xu Pu knew that he didn't have this ability at all, but he seriously reminded: "You shouldn't ask for help from this old man now, but before the imperial court orders to search your home, you should go back to your hometown immediately and hide your kiln silver in another place." Get up, maybe in this way your master can have a chance!"

"Yes, yes, I will send someone back to report!" Li Butler thought of the terrifying amount of kiln silver in his hometown, and immediately turned around and said.

It's just that he just walked out of the door of the value room, and suddenly remembered that he was here to rescue the master, and when he was about to turn around and go back, he felt that doing so might be a waste of time.

Butler Li put his heart to rest, and left in a hurry to send someone back to inform his hometown.

The decades of hard work accumulated by his master's family, the countless silver taels in the silver cellar, can't be really cheap for Emperor Hongzhi Zhu Youtang.

The civil official group had already infiltrated into Jinyiwei, and soon found out that the reason why Li Min was suddenly arrested was that Hongzhi had found Xie Yikui's account book.

The blame for this matter can only be blamed on Xie Yikui, how can we write the account books in a serious manner?
After Qingliu learned the truth of the matter, they pointed the finger at Xie Yikui one after another.

Now that Emperor Hongzhi had Xie Yikui's account book, he probably took the account book and counted his names one by one and chopped off his head until all the corrupt officials recorded on it were chopped off.

Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

Thirteen thousand, two hundred and thirty taels of silver, equivalent to more than eight hundred catties by modern standards, was neatly placed on the ground at this time, with a faint silver light emitting from it.

Who would have thought that Xie Yikui would choose to hide the account book and the silver in the money shop.

If it wasn't for God's will, I got the number "210 three" from Xie Ke's mouth, and Song Cheng just happened to find the book with 210 three taels of silver deposit certificate, this time I'm afraid I'm really going to miss the ledger.

When Zhu Youtang saw the ledger lying quietly in front of him, it seemed that he had used up all his luck in finding the ledger this time, and now the ledger he found was incomplete, only half of it.

Not only that, because the account book has been damp, except for the names and amounts of Li Min, the Hubu Langzhong Fujian Division Li Honghai, the Hubu Jiangsu and Zhejiang Division Lang Zhong Chen Hui, and the Hubu Yunnan Division Langzhong Gao Kui and other names and amounts are very clear, the water transport officials involved in the case later The list is very wet.

"Your Majesty, the treasurer of the Xinyi Money Shop said that he didn't know that there was a ledger in it, so he hid the batch of silver in the cellar. Unexpectedly, the ledger got wet because of it!" Chen Jin just went to cash it in person, explaining bitterly .

Looking at the incomplete and damp ledger, Zhu Youtang couldn't help but secretly sighed.

Although he really wanted this to be a complete and clear account book, but somewhere in the sky, God had already made a decision.

Since God told me to chop slowly one by one, I don't need to act too hastily, and I can always pull out all these maggots with a little more time.

Fortunately, now that he has the evidence of Li Min's bribery, he can order to search Li Min's house and look at the silver kiln of Li Min, a person in the Qing Dynasty.

"Liu Zhong, the Guangxi Secretary of the Minister's Office, welcomes Sheng'an!" Liu Zhong, the Guangxi Secretary of the Ministry of Accounting, came in from the outside, saluting respectfully.

"Sheng Gong'an! Liu Zhong, I order you to go to Li Min's hometown in Henan immediately to search the silver taels that Li Min has been greedy for so many years. You must not disappoint me!" Seeing Liu Zhong's arrival, Zhu Youtang seriously warned.

Liu Zhong is an upright official who hates corrupt officials like a vengeance, and immediately expressed his opinion: "The minister is in charge! If you do your job well, please cut off the minister's head!"

"Go! Be sure to rush to the Li family's old house before the news spreads, and search all the kiln banks!" Zhu Youtang gave Liu Jin a wink, and immediately urged.

Liu Zhong took the imperial decree and the token from Liu Jin, and even though he hurriedly said goodbye and left, he knew that he had to leave Beijing for Henan immediately.

Whether it's out of his own loyalty or because he wants to follow in Chen Kun's footsteps and be promoted to be the Minister of the Household Department, he must do a good job of checking at this moment.

Luck is a mysterious thing, and bad news comes one after another.

When Zhu Youtang heard Wang Xiang's report, he looked unbelievable and said: "Xie Ke was poisoned to death in prison?"

"That's right, the inspection of the humble post has just been completed, and the food in Fusi's cell in Beizhen is indeed poisonous!" Sensing Hongzhi's anger, Wang Xiang bit the bullet and reported.

Zhu Youtang thought that Wynn was also poisoned to death in Beizhen Fusi's prison, so he couldn't help but laughed angrily: "Is Beizhen Fusi still my Beizhen Fusi?"

"Your Majesty, this humble minister is convicted!" Wang Xiang also kowtowed, not expecting that Beizhen Fusi had already been infiltrated.

If it was just once, let it go, but now there have been two consecutive cases where prisoners were poisoned and died in their cells, all of which prove that Beizhen Fusi has been secretly manipulated, and he can let any prisoner die if he really wants to.

Zhu Youtang took a deep breath, but he knew that the crime was not with Wang Xiang, but with the fact that this civil servant group was really powerful.

But then again, if these civil servants were allowed to stuff their own children into the Jinyiwei system, such incidents would always be impossible to guard against, and the civil servant group would only become stronger and stronger.

As soon as Wang Xiang was sent away, Song Cheng, who was in charge of arresting Li Min, came back and went on a business.

With the emperor's order, it is not difficult to catch a second-rank official who has already retired.

Zhu Youtang found out that this unsmiling black-faced young man was indeed available. Originally, he wanted to hand over the cases of Wynn and Xie Ke to him for investigation, but when he suddenly found out about Zhou Lie's case, he changed his mind and said, "Song Aiqing, don't care Who is involved that you may decide impartially?"

"Chen Neng!" Song Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then replied logically.

Knowing that this might be the best candidate, Zhu Youtang immediately made the appointment and said, "I promoted you to be the Young Minister of Dali Temple, and you will be responsible for investigating and dealing with the cases related to Marquis Qingyun immediately!"

"Thank you, minister!" Song Cheng, facing the promotion, remained unchanged, and immediately saluted politely.

From Wailang, a member of Zhejiang Division of the Ministry of Punishments of the fifth rank, to the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, who is the fourth rank, this is a three-level promotion. Ordinary officials are probably going crazy with excitement.

"Back off!" Zhu Youtang waved his hand gently when he saw that the arrangement was completed.

He vaguely felt that Wynn's poisoning case and Xie Ke's poisoning case were involved, but neither case was in a hurry, especially Xie Ke's life and death became unimportant at all.

On the contrary, according to Zhou Lie's rebellious dossier, the case should not be delayed any longer, but who should be pardoned and who should be guillotined as soon as possible.

Qingyunhou Zhoushou is undoubtedly the key to the list. This is the person whom the Empress Dowager Zhou named to protect, but if he doesn't kill him, it will be difficult to show his imperial power.

That's why he needs Song Cheng, who can judge the case fairly, to investigate the case related to Zhou Shou to see whether this foreign relative is the rumored benevolent Marquis Qing Yun, or a greedy villain.

While Zhu Youtang was sharpening his knife and killing cattle and sheep, Huguang, which was tens of thousands of miles away, was also treacherous.

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