Wanli Youming

Chapter 222 Have You Asked Me, This Minister's Opinion?

Chapter 222 Have You Asked Me, This Minister's Opinion?

"30 taels!"

Lu Huo suddenly whispered a number.

Zhang Jing said: "Money is useless in this matter."

After hearing this, Lu Huo couldn't help being very disappointed, and then said angrily: "Isn't it just that I accidentally hit a Wubian, why bother! I am a dignified imperial censor, so I will die because of it?"

Zhang Jing said: "Is that an ordinary Wubian?"

"Is the emperor insisting on this?"

Lu Huo asked.

Zhang Jing didn't answer Lu Huo's words: "You should think about how to survive, such as doing some meritorious service. The civil uprising in Nanzhi couldn't really be organized by the people themselves, right?"

"Can I really avoid death if I do meritorious deeds?"

Lu Huo asked.

Zhang Jing nodded and took it out. The approved cabinet requested lenient disclosure of criminals who had committed meritorious deeds.

But Zhang Jing did not tell him that Shu Dayun was already in the hands of Jin Yiwei, and he had confessed that he had colluded with Nan Zhihaoyou to murder Hai Rui, and even intended to obstruct the New Deal.

It is equivalent to Zhang Jing taking advantage of the information gap between him and Lu Huo to deceive Lu Huo.

Lu Huo, after reading Zhang Jing's secret revelation, nodded his head in a hurry and said, "Okay, I will tell you everything, I will tell you about Gu Bingren and Ma Weiming's bribery to me, and there are private letters to prove it! "

"Of course, I rejected their stolen money. However, now, in order to make meritorious service and to get the truth right, I have to tell His Majesty frankly, and I am willing to accept a crime of concealment and non-report!"

Zhang Jing laughed: "Very good."

Shu Dayun, Lu Huo and other criminals were all interrogated after being taken to the imperial prison, and many people were also interrogated by the factory guards.

Jin Yiwei also sent more Tiqi to catch the criminals who have not yet been caught, that is, those who are hiding behind the scenes.

Especially after Wang Xijue and other industrial and commercial gentry who chose to betray other southern straight gentry sent evidence of the tyrants behind the scenes, it gave Jin Yiwei a chance to arrest the local tyrants behind the scenes according to their plans.

Originally, Wang Xijue and other industrial and commercial gentry did not intend to directly participate in the affairs behind the scenes, launch civil uprisings, and obstruct the New Deal.

Because in terms of land interests, they are consistent with the gentry who make trouble.

Therefore, although they didn't participate, they didn't stop them, and they didn't even expose them directly because they knew about them. Instead, they deliberately sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight. who.

But now that the situation has become clear, they naturally changed from waiting and watching to directly compromise with the court, and even flattered the court, betraying the rich and right gentry who caused trouble, hoping to take the opportunity to annex the assets of the troublemaker.

It is precisely because of their betrayal that it is much easier to dig out the powerful gentry behind the scenes.

That's why Hai Rui said that if he wanted to clean out the powerful, right and evil gentry behind the scenes, he had to rely on the democracy movement and how determined the emperor was.

Because only the emperor is determined to force the reformist bureaucrats who are loyal to the imperial court to completely compromise with the imperial court. They also stand on the side of the imperial court, and finally make the aristocratic gentry who can't help but make trouble behind the scenes into a minority, which also allows these people to be purged.

After Yan Qing asked the relevant criminals to be handed over to the three judicial divisions for joint trial, Zhang Juzheng drafted the decree "Zhundongchang will hand over the relevant criminals to the three judicial divisions for joint trial at its discretion".

As a result, Dongchang handed over the relevant criminals who had completed the trial to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment according to the order, and prepared to be tried by the three judicial divisions.

On this day, Yan Qing, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, Zhang Mengli, Zhengqing of Dali Temple, and Wang Ji, the deputy censor of the Zuodu due to the illness of the censor of the Zuodu, formally formed the Sanju Division to interrogate Lu Huo and other criminals.

After Lu Huo learned that his matter should be interrogated by the three courts, he thought that Yan Qing wanted to deal with him leniently because he didn't want the factory guards to torture the scholar-bureaucrats for the sake of the friendship between scholars. These offending scholar-bureaucrats, that's why they asked the Sanju Division to interrogate their will, and Zhang Juzheng, as a member of the scholar-bureaucrats, obviously contributed to this matter, so after coming to the Sanju Division, he was very relaxed.

Not only Lu Huo thought so, but also Zhang Mengli and Wang Ji.

Therefore, before and after Lu Huo was escorted to the hall, Zhang Mengli asked, "Lu Chenqing, why did you beat the emperor's army guard?"

Lu Huo replied: "The prisoner didn't beat him, it was the emperor's personal guard who brought his face up to him, and the criminal's hand accidentally touched it."

Wang Ji then asked, "Then why, your confession in the imperial prison was that you wanted to prevent the pro-military guard from carrying out the order of Lord Hai, so you slapped the pro-military guard?"

"Criminals were tortured and recruited, as evidenced by Ying Tianfu Yin Li and his colleagues."

When Lu Huo replied, the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

Wang Ji also nodded with a smile: "Li Ji and others have submitted a memorial, saying that it was indeed a misunderstanding; that being the case, it was clear before the case that even if they really slapped the guards, it was just an accidental injury, not intentional. In other words, the circumstances are justifiable, we should just judge him for being inconsiderate, dismiss him from his post and live idle.”

As Wang Ji spoke, he looked at Yan Qing and Zhang Mengli: "What do you two think?"

Zhang Mengli nodded first: "That's very appropriate."

Lu Huo also proudly showed a smile that could not be concealed, and because of this, he handed over his hands: "The second father enforced the law fairly, and did not use the punishment of Dabi, the criminals are very grateful!"

"and many more!"

But Yan Qing shouted at this moment.

Zhang Mengli and Wang Ji both looked at Yan Qing.

Yan Qing asked the two of them: "Did Ergong not read the confession sent by Dongchang, or did he ignore it on purpose?"

After asking, Yan Qing said very seriously: "This Lu Huo is obviously also involved in the crime of colluding with fugitive Zhenjiang deputy commander Shu Dayun and Haoyou Gu Bingren to murder imperial envoys and even instigate civil uprisings! The king's crime! It's all in the confession provided by Dongchang. If you didn't read it or deliberately ignored it, can you make it as if it never happened?! That's how you carry out the joint trial of the three justices?! The court rules are in your eyes What kind of?!"

Zhang Mengli and Wang Ji looked shocked and looked at each other.

Lu Huo was even more surprised, and asked Yan Qing in a gaffe: "What do you mean by this, you don't want to protect me?"

Yan Qing ignored Lu Huo and asked directly, "Where is the Criminal Division?"

Zhongzong Hongxian stood up in embarrassment and asked, "What advice do you have from the chief criminal officer?"

"You should be impeached for blaspheming the three jurisprudence!"

Yan Qing said something.

Zhang Mengli, Wang Ji, and Zong Hongxian all walked towards Yan Qing, and Wang Ji said in a low voice, "Major Sikou, can you take a step to speak!"

Yan Qing nodded.

Immediately, the three of them retreated to the back of the hall with Yan Qing.

Wang Ji first asked, "Why is the chief commander like this?"

Zhang Mengli also asked: "Isn't Da Si Kou here to rescue my civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats?"

Zong Hongxian even asked directly: "Da Si Kou really wants Ding to be Ding Mao or Mao today, isn't he afraid that the six subjects and [-] dao will also be Ding Mao or Mao to Da Si Kou in the future?"

"This church is still afraid of being impeached?"

Yan Qing sneered.

"Even the crime of extorting bribes from the treason can be fabricated, and the hall is still afraid of your threats?!"

Then, Yan Qing asked another question.

Zong Hongxian was at a loss for words for a while, and hurriedly said: "But this is not done by my subordinates, and there is no need for the chief commander to be so fussy, even Shilin friendship is ignored!"

Yan Qing continued to sneer: "Tell the people behind you, don't blame the hall for disregarding the friendship between scholars here, and don't blame the hall for cutting off your future profit from the Lu family!"

"I just want to say a word, did I feel sorry for you before, did I feel sorry for the scholar-bureaucrats in the world?!"

"But in the end, why did the hall give way to Hai Rui?! And put such a big crime on the head of the hall!"

"Even if I want to give Hai Rui the position of Minister of Criminal Affairs, have you ever asked me? Did you take me seriously?!"

"This hall is also a big gangster. If you are a court official, can you show some respect to this hall!"

"Just because the church has no backing and refuses to be with the light, and when you were the governor of Sichuan, you didn't let the subordinate officials come here, so you impeach the gangsters in the hall."

"But what happened to the Kou Guan who was forced out of Shaanxi?"

"Fortunately, Master Zhao Gongli Chen said that this is not the responsibility of caressing, but the responsibility of guarding the native officials, so he was not severely punished; now that the master is dead, you have to clean up the hall. Until now, you The person behind stabbed the knife first, so don't blame this church for being unkind!"

"This church is happy to invite Fei Ling again to add a reputation for strict law enforcement when the people of this country have a good purpose."

(End of this chapter)