My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 470

It was getting late, Liu Ke left Beizhen Fusi, returned home, changed his clothes, and then quietly came to visit a mansion.

The owner of this mansion is named Zheng Yuan. This person holds the position of Zuo Du Yushi and is in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is responsible for supervision, impeachment and recommendations. The Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Punishment, and Dali Temple are also known as the Three Legal Divisions.

Zheng Yuan did not expect that even when it was dark, a Jin Yiwei would come to visit him, and the visitor claimed to be the nephew of the commander Liu Mian. This made him even more curious, so he asked Liu Ke to be brought to the living room.

After Liu Ke saw Zheng Yuan, he immediately stepped forward and saluted: "Liu Ke, a thousand-household guard in Jinyi, pays homage to the censor of the capital!"

"Liu Qianhu, there's no need to be polite. What do you want from me?"

Zheng Yuan asked curiously, he seldom interacted with Jin Yiwei, but met Liu Mian a few times before, but this was the first time he met Liu Ke.

"To report to the Censor of the Capital, I came here today to report something to you. This matter is so bad that I really can't stand it anymore, so I want to ask the Censor of the Capital to uphold justice for them!"

Liu Ke said with an expression filled with indignation at this time.

"whats the matter?"

Zheng Yuan frowned, he didn't really have a good impression of Jin Yiwei, and of course he was wary of Liu Ke's words.

"Some time ago, Zhang Hai, the chief envoy of Shandong Province, and others were arrested by His Majesty for concealing the disaster. His Majesty was furious and threw them into prison. In order to obtain their confessions, he ordered Comrade Wang Zhi and others They tortured Zhang Hai and others to extract confessions and tortured them severely..."

Liu Ke recounted what happened in the Imperial Prison with embellishments, and described in detail the tragic conditions of Zhang Hai and others after they were tortured.

Zheng Yuan was furious after hearing this because he and Zhang Hai had an unusual relationship. Not only were they classmates, but they were also in-laws.

Of course, Zheng Yuan was a relatively upright person and had no knowledge of Zhang Hai's previous cover-up of the Shandong disaster. Moreover, after Zhang Hai's incident, he did not intercede for the other party because he felt that the other party deserved it.

But now that Zhang Hai fell into the hands of Jin Yiwei and was tortured like this, even if it wasn't because of his past friendship, he was still an official, so he would inevitably feel a sense of sadness.

However, although Zheng Yuan was angry, he did not lose his mind, and finally suppressed his anger and asked Liu Ke: "What evidence do you have for these things you said?"

"Of course, I risked my life to sneak into the prison and asked Zhang Hai to write a blood letter!"

As Liu Ke said, he took out a blood book from his arms, which was written by Zhang Hai himself, and his signature was on the back.

The content of the blood letter is that Zhang Hai reported on Jin Yiwei and told the process of his torture in the imperial prison. Moreover, he did not seek anything else but a quick death.

Seeing the familiar handwriting on the blood book, Zheng Yuan was also startled and angry, and immediately stood up and saluted Liu Ke: "Thank you Liu Qianhu for your righteous words, I will definitely report this matter to His Majesty, but I don't know how dare you be a witness for Qianhu ?”

"Of course I dare. I have long been displeased with what Wang Zhi and the others are doing. I came to Mr. Zheng today because I want to use Mr. Zheng's hand to eradicate Wang Zhi and the black apples!"

Liu Ke patted his chest and promised.

These were also what Liu Mian had ordered him a long time ago, in order to make things worse, so his witness must be indispensable.

"Okay! Then Liu Qianhu, please stay in the mansion for one night. After I finish writing the playbook, you will go to court with me tomorrow!"

Zheng Yuan immediately made a decision, whether it was public or private, he could not just sit idly by and ignore this matter!
Liu Ke agreed and rested in Zheng's mansion that night.Zheng Yuan was not idle either. While writing the memorial himself, he sent someone to notify the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, informing them of Jin Yiwei's torture of officials.

You must know that one of the duties of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is to impeach officials. Especially when a group of censors are dispatched together, it is even more terrifying in the court. Sometimes Zhu Di is unable to resist, and he cannot punish these people because of the duties of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. , originally given by the emperor.

Early the next morning, Zheng Yuan went to court with Liu Ke. Of course, Liu Ke could not enter the court meeting and could only wait outside the palace gate.

As soon as Zhu Di came to court, Zheng Yuan took the lead in impeaching Jin Yiwei, accusing them of killing officials with severe punishment, and other censors followed suit one after another. He turned it out and asked Zhu Di to severely punish Jin Yiwei.

Zhu Di was also confused by the scoldings by people like Zheng Yuan. Although these people were scolding Jin Yiwei, everyone knew that Jin Yiwei was the emperor's minions. Scolding them was actually no different from scolding Zhu Di.

If it was before, Zhu Di might still maintain Jin Yiwei, and even type back all the melodies of these people. After all, Jin Yiwei was supposed to help him with some dirty work.

But today is different from the past, Zhu Di didn't need the Jinyiwei to deter the officials, but worried that the Jinyiwei's power was too powerful, so he had been reducing the power in the Jinyiwei's hands.

Previously, in anger, he handed over the officials involved in the case in Shandong to Jin Yiwei. He just wanted to interrogate them quickly, not to use the case to restore Jin Yiwei's power.

So when he learned what Jin Yiwei had done, especially when he saw Zheng Yuan presenting Zhang Hai's blood book, Zhu Di was completely angry, and immediately sent someone to call Liu Mian.

Liu Mian did not go to court today because he knew what would happen in the morning, but this was also intentional.

When Zhu Di sent someone to call him, he came to the morning court. Despite the anger of the officials of the court, he stepped forward and saluted: "Your Majesty, Liu Mian, pays homage to your Majesty!"

"Liu Mian, how is the Shandong case going?"

Zhu Di did not take the lead in attacking, but asked him about the Shandong case.

"Report to Your Majesty, the case will be heard by the commanding officer Wang Zhi himself, and it was cleared up after the interrogation just yesterday. This is the confession of Zhang Hai and others!"

As Liu Mian spoke, he took out the confession Wang Zhi gave him with both hands and presented it to Zhu Didao.

Zhu Di asked someone to take the confession, opened it and read it again. Then he slammed the table angrily and said angrily: "You bastards, who asked you to interrogate like this?"

"Your Majesty, please calm down. It's all because of my incompetence and inability to restrain my subordinates. I commanded my colleague Wang Zhi and others to make the decision without authorization, and tortured Zhang Hai and others. Although I wanted to stop him, I was powerless, which led to what happened today!"

Liu Mian was very bachelor. He directly admitted his incompetence and also confessed Wang Zhi. He was leaving the Ming Dynasty anyway, so naturally he didn't care about his reputation.

"Incompetent? You are the commander of the Royal Guards. Don't even your subordinates listen to you?"

Zhu Di was furious again after hearing this.

"I'm scared, but this matter was indeed done by Wang Zhi. If your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can send someone to investigate!"

While admitting his mistake, Liu Mian insisted that he was determined to drag Wang Zhi and others into trouble before leaving.

(End of this chapter)