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Chapter 509 Watermelon
"Just wanted you to sleep with him?" Erhei still admired this shameless couple, and would do anything to climb up.

"My old lady is not as beautiful as a fairy. At that time, my husband couldn't even enter the gate of the Zhenfusi. He just wanted to do so and there was no chance." Hou laughed at himself: "My husband thought about it and beat Zhang Fusi. The idea of ​​a family heirloom..."

"The Zhang family still has family heirlooms?"

"Although the Zhang family has never seen much success, my old lady was originally from the palace of the previous dynasty. Later, Emperor Hongwu raised troops and drove away the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. My old lady escaped from the palace and brought a treasure. Originally I wanted to sell the house and buy land to live after I came out to get married. But my husband is a man of knowledge, saying that this thing is priceless, and people will be killed if they see it. So the couple has been hiding this treasure and never showing it to others. , Later, the two elders died of illness one after another, so they passed the treasure to my father-in-law. After my father-in-law passed away, my mother-in-law kept it. My family and I only knew that there was such a treasure in my family before my father-in-law died. My father-in-law repeated Please, don't let outsiders know that you have this thing at home..."

"What the hell is it?" Erhei asked curiously.

"watermelon……"

"Slap the mouth!" Erhei glared at her.

"Don't hit it, it's really a watermelon, it's just carved out of a whole piece of jade, the outer skin is jasper, and the inner is red jade..." Hou gestured: "It's so big!"

"Scared." Erhei opened his mouth wide and said, "That must be worth a lot."

"Of course." Hou said with some pride: "My husband later gave this watermelon to Li Chun, not only became an official brocade guard, but also became a member of a hundred households. Do you think it is worth money?"

"Didn't your father-in-law keep people from knowing?" Er Hei asked knowingly.

"My family said that the hidden treasure is no different from a stone." Hou said: "So I wanted to donate that watermelon, but my mother-in-law refused to agree, and then one night, while my mother-in-law was sleeping, he secretly I rummaged through the box and found that jasper watermelon! Who would have thought that my mother-in-law was awakened at this time, and she was furious when she saw that the family heirloom was stolen by her son, so she followed her out and caught up with my husband in the alley. Pulling back desperately. My husband and mother-in-law fought for a long time, but they couldn't get rid of it. At this time, he heard the movement in the neighborhood and was afraid of being bumped into. On the spur of the moment, he took out the dagger attached to his waist and stabbed me three times. The mother-in-law finally let go. He quickly ran away with the Jasper watermelon in his arms, and when he reached the lake, he threw the dagger into the lake."

"He walked around outside and came home again, telling me to pack up and go back to my mother's house. I actually followed behind and saw him murder, so I was terrified. I didn't dare to ask more questions, so I quickly packed up and left. Gone. After a few months, the rumors died down. My husband went to pick me up from my mother’s house and said that the case had been solved. My mother-in-law was killed by a man named Qi Dazhu. She had already been taken to the execution ground and killed. I dare not Tell him, I actually saw that he killed the person..." Hou knew that her husband would not be able to get out of bed in this life, and that she would be imprisoned by a ruthless person like Li Chun. Drag Li Chun to hell, so he said without any concealment:

"I didn't dare to live with this murderer again, but he said that now he is Jin Yiwei, and following him can eat delicious food and drink spicy food, so I followed him back." Hou said very calmly: "It is true In these two years, Li Chun has also been promoted from a thousand households to a deputy town governor. I heard that he will be promoted to a town governor soon, and he is very proud of the spring breeze." Now, the reason why he was promoted so quickly is actually because he dedicated the Jasper watermelon to Dudu Ji!"

"Yeah." Erhei nodded. Thinking about it, the case was full of turmoil. Although the existence of Jasper Watermelon was not admitted publicly in the end, it is impossible for Li Chun to dare to hide his secrets. He will definitely offer that treasure. .

"However..." Hou now hates Li Chun to death, as long as it can harm him, he will never show mercy: "My family said that there is actually a pair of Jasper watermelons, and with Li Chun's greed for money , he must only offer one and hide the other."

"Hmm." Erhei asked again, and seeing that there was nothing new, he nodded, and asked the clerk to come forward with the statement, and said to the Hou family, "Let's make a bet."

"I can't write." Hou felt embarrassed.

"Then put your fingerprint on it." Erhei said, "It's the same if you put your fingerprint on every sheet."

"Then I won't press..." Telling the whole story, the evil fire in Hou's heart was extinguished a lot, and his sanity returned to clarity, and he found that something was wrong.

How could Er Hei make her react, and said in a deep voice: "You are stupid, right? If you press your fingerprints, you will be the hero who exposed Li Chun, and you will be able to avoid prison, and you won't even copy your house. I'll let you go back and continue living your rich life."

"Really?" When Hou heard that he would not go to jail and could keep his family property, he couldn't control much at once. According to what Erhei said, he pressed his fingerprints on it.

"Can I go?" The more Hou thought about it, the more he felt that he seemed to have done something stupid, so he asked timidly.

"Of course." Erhei grinned and said, "But it is estimated that if you leave the gate of Zhenfusi with your front foot, you will be dead on the street with your back foot."

"Scared..." Hou's face turned pale with fright, "Who wants to kill me, Li Chun?"

"Hehe." Erhei said with a noncommittal smile, "If you don't want to die, you can stay in the Zhenfu Division first, and then go back after the wind blows." Seeing Hou's scared face, Erhei smiled and said : "The Zhenfu Division is not limited to prisons..."

Hou Shi breathed a sigh of relief...

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In addition to the edict prison, the Zhenfu Division also has some courtyards under the high wall, which are used for the residence of dignitaries who have not yet been convicted, as well as important witnesses.Erhei asked people to take Mrs. Hou there to settle down and take care of him, then saw Wang Xian come out from behind the screen, looked at him with a half-smile and said, "That's right, I've made some progress, I can take care of myself now."

"It's far from enough, my lord has praised me." Erhei immediately grinned, and hurriedly offered the confession with both hands, asking for credit, "Does your lord think this is useful?"

"Of course it's useful!" Wang Xian listened to the whole process, so naturally he didn't need to look any further, and laughed loudly: "From now on, the initiative is in our hands!" He said in a deep voice: "Prepare the horse!"

"Yes!" Seeing that Wang Xian was so excited, Zhou Yong's expression lifted when he knew that his lord was confident, and immediately ordered someone to bring a snow-white tall horse from the stable.

"Go to the Criminal Division!" Wang Xian got on his horse and went straight to the Meridian Gate.

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The layout of the capital is in accordance with the traditional capital regulations, divided into outer city, inner city, imperial city and palace city from outside to inside.The imperial city and Miyagi are collectively called the imperial palace, which symbolizes the supreme sacred power of the Ming Dynasty.The innermost palace city is naturally the place where the emperor lives and handles government affairs. The main entrance of the palace city is the Meridian Gate, and on both sides of the Imperial Street in front of the Meridian Gate, are the official offices of all the ministries except the San Judicial Department.

Therefore, the central yamen of the Ming Dynasty all worked outside the gate of the imperial palace, except for two departments, one was the six departments and the other was the cabinet. These two departments worked in the Meridian Gate and the Forbidden City. The secretarial organization is easy to understand.The former is only a seven-rank yamen, but he can also be a director in the Forbidden City, which shows that his authority is heavy and his status in the Ming Dynasty is detached.

The so-called six departments correspond to the six departments of the imperial court, the criminal department is connected with the criminal department, and the official department is connected with the official department.The six chiefs are all given to Shizhong, all of them are given to Shizhong, left and right are given to Shizhong, and there are also several names given to Shizhong.All of them are officials of the seventh grade, but they are extremely powerful. They are in charge of attendants, admonitions, repairs, collections, and inspections of six departments and one hundred departments.One of the most powerful rights is "seal and refutation". Whenever an edict is announced and implemented, and major events are repeated, the small affairs department will issue it;All the internal and external chapters are sparse, copied out by classification, and submitted to the Fubu Department to refute and correct their violations.

That is to say, all the edicts issued by the emperor have to go through the hands of the six departments. If the six departments think that the emperor's decree is inappropriate, they can seal it back, and they can directly reject the violations of the court officials' memorials.

Moreover, the department responsible for each department has great procuratorial power, and all major and minor incidents in the department must be reported to the six departments for supervision. If there is any violation of the law, it will be impeached in the matter.The errands assigned by the emperor to the various ministries are also supervised by the six departments. If they are overdue, they will also be impeached.Therefore, the six subjects are actually in the hands of the eyes and ears of the emperor's supervisory officials, and their power is beyond imagination.

It is also because of this that when designing the official system, Emperor Taizu deliberately set the grade of the six departments to be extremely low, in order to prevent the six departments from becoming bigger and surpassing the six departments, and becoming a trend that cannot be lost.In this way, although the power is great, it is only the seventh rank. When facing the second rank officials, you still have to maintain respect.And the senior officials of the department hall also had to be honored as "section chief" in the matter, forming a balance of power constraints, which shows that Emperor Taizu's power skills were brilliant.

What Wang Xian is going to is the criminal department.Because in addition to directly supervising the Ministry of Punishment, the Criminal Division was even given the power to restrict Beizhen Fusi.According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, when Jin Yiwei arrests people, he must have a driving post and must be approved by the criminal department before he dares to act.In other words, Jin Yiwei does not have the power to directly arrest people, and must first be granted a driving letter by the emperor before he can act.Moreover, it is not enough just to have a driver's sticker. The reason for taking a person must be "signed" by the criminal department, and a detailed approval document must be signed before the person can be taken.

This was the emperor Taizu's old age, deeply felt the harm of spy politics, and specially formulated it to restrain future emperors.However, although Zhu Di is under the banner of restoring the ancestral system, how can he let his minions be controlled by his father's nonsense?
If that's the case, Zhu Di will not compete with the emperor established by his father.So this ancestral system has already been destroyed and riddled with holes.Of course, on the surface, it was Ji Gang who acted recklessly, disregarding the laws of his ancestors, and dared to bypass the Criminal Division to arrest people randomly... In fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that Dudu Ji is taking the blame for the emperor.

　I'm sorry, I'm busy with mundane affairs today, and there's still only one update...

　　
　
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