Chen Ke and the others looked at each other and heard Ma Ming's voice angrily: "What you mean is..."
Li Huan turned around, glanced at a few people, and said slowly: "I said before that after the crimes of these people are clearly interrogated, they will be immediately taken to the execution ground and sentenced to death!"
Li Huan did say this before, but to be honest, neither Chen Ke nor Lin Pingzhi took Li Huan's words to heart at that time.
Everyone knows that there are many people involved in this major case that broke out in Yangzhou Prefecture. If the criminal is really to be sentenced to death, the number of people involved will definitely be in the dozens and has never been seen in the past hundred years.
The only major cases that can be compared with this major case are those that shocked the world during the reign of Emperor Taizu and Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.
It involves the life and death of nearly ten thousand people. Although Li Huan said that he was an imperial envoy, in the eyes of Lin Pingzhi, Chen Ke and others, such a big case must ultimately be decided by the court or the emperor.
However, now listening to the meaning of Li Huan's words, it is obvious that Li Huan wanted to use his power as an imperial envoy to take this case on himself.
Several people opened their mouths, especially Lin Pingzhi who couldn't help but look worried in his eyes, wanting to persuade Li Huan, but looking at Li Huan's firm look, he finally sighed.
Li Huan saw the reaction of several people in his eyes, smiled slightly and said: "Since Your Majesty has entrusted me with such an important case to supervise, then we must not let down Your Majesty's high expectations."
As he spoke, a sharp look flashed in Li Huan's eyes and he said: "What's more, even if I ordered the killing of those criminals today, those people above the court would not be able to say anything. At most, they would corrupt me privately.
It's just reputation. None of these people deserve their crimes. They are so insane and so bold that they even dare to destroy the Jinyiwei Yamen. If they are not severely punished with thunderous means, I really don't know what else they can do."
Hearing Li Huan mention this, thinking about the death of Chen Yao and other members of the Jinyi Guards, Ma Ming, Chen Ke and others couldn't help but have evil spirits in their eyes.
Chen Ke took a deep breath, bowed to Li Huan and said, "I wonder when you plan to deal with these people?"
Li Huan just thought about it for a moment and said: "Since the trial has been completed and the files have been sent to the capital, I think those cases have already arrived in the capital, so we will deal with these people tomorrow."
Chen Ke and others looked at each other and all agreed.
Beijing
With the great victory in a foreign war, Zhu Houzhao, as the emperor, has always been in a very good mood. If it were not for the case in Yangzhou Prefecture, Zhu Houzhao would definitely be in a better mood.
On this day, as always, Zhu Houzhao practiced martial arts for nearly an hour in the small school grounds specially built in the palace. Then, after having breakfast, he began to deal with the government affairs sent by the cabinet and the Supervisor of Ceremonies that required his decision as the emperor.
However, after being screened by the cabinet and the Supervisor of Ceremonies, there were not many things that really required the emperor Zhu Houzhao to make decisions.
After all, although the Ming Dynasty is not a prosperous age, it is not the end of the world either. The world is generally quite peaceful, and there are not too many national affairs to worry about.
In the imperial study room, Zhu Houzhao looked through the dozens of memorials piled on the table, and also commented on those that needed his review.
It only took Zhu Houzhao less than an hour to handle these matters.
Instructing the chamberlain to send the finished memorial to the cabinet, Zhu Houzhao stretched his body. Upon seeing this, Qiu Ju, who was waiting on the side, hurriedly stepped forward and handed the warm tea to Zhu Houzhao and said: "Your Majesty, don't be exhausted when handling government affairs."
yes."
Zhu Houzhao took the tea cup from Qiu Ju's hand and drank a few sips of tea. He smiled at Qiu Ju and said, "I practice every day according to the instructions of Li Qing's family. Although I am not as powerful as Li Qing."
I'm tyrannical, but according to what you said, my cultivation level can be regarded as a first-class expert even if you look at the world."
Hearing this, Qiu Ju chuckled and said: "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, and he was born of the dragon species. No matter what he learns, he is unparalleled among men. It is just martial arts. With a little practice, your Majesty, few people can compete with him."
Compared with Your Majesty, I'm afraid only evildoers like Brother Li Huan can compare with Your Majesty."
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing when he heard this.
Suddenly, Zhu Houzhao raised his eyebrows and said, "It has been a while since Li Qing went to Yangzhou Mansion to investigate the case. Is there any news about Li Qing and the others recently?"
As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao stood up and walked down the imperial steps, walking towards the outside with his hands behind his back.
Qiu Ju and several minor chamberlains quickly followed behind the emperor.
Qiu Ju, who was one step behind Zhu Houzhao, heard this and said hurriedly: "Back to your majesty, it has been one month and seven days since the champion prince went to Yangzhou Mansion on your majesty's order. It has been six or seven days since the last time the champion prince sent back news."
Zhu Houzhao paused slightly before continuing to move forward and sighed: "I never thought that more than a month has passed in such a flash, and I don't know what is going on with Li Qing's family in Yangzhou Mansion now."
As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao said: "Li Qing's family often sends people to send back news."
Qiu Ju said with a smile: "Does Your Majesty have any concerns about Brother Li Huan's work? Moreover, Your Majesty does not know what kind of temper Brother Li Huan is. Unless there is something important, Brother Li will not take it."
Some trivial matters disturb His Majesty's purity."
Zhu Houzhao said: "I just want him to disturb my purity."
As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao glanced at Qiu Ju and said, "Go, send someone to the Jinyiwei Yamen, ask the Jinyiwei people, and see how Li Qing is doing in Yangzhou Mansion now."
Qiu Ju responded and called one of his servants to whisper a few instructions.
Just as Zhu Houzhao was walking in the imperial garden, he suddenly saw a chamberlain coming in a hurry.
"Your Majesty, several ministers want to see Your Majesty!"
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but raise his brows when he heard this. After thinking about it, it seemed that there had been no major events in the court recently. Now, several court elders came together. Could it be that something major had happened?
Thinking of this, Zhu Houzhao's expression became serious, and he immediately ordered: "Please invite some elders to come here quickly."
Soon Yang Tinghe, Wang Yangming and others were taken to the Imperial Garden by the chamberlain.
When several people saw the emperor, they greeted Zhu Houzhao, and Zhu Houzhao waved his hands and looked at the people and said, "The Qing family came to see me in a hurry. Is there something important?"
Yang Tinghe and Wang Yangming looked at each other and saw Yang Tinghe with a faint smile on his face, while Wang Yangming looked a little solemn. Wang Yangming was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, there is indeed something
Your Majesty needs to know about important matters."
Seeing Wang Yangming speak, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but express a bit of surprise and curiosity: "Oh, I don't know what it is?"
Wang Yangming took a deep breath and said: "It's about the case of the Jinyiwei Yamen of Yangzhou Prefecture being exterminated..."
Before Wang Yangming could finish his words, a bright light flashed in Zhu Houzhao's eyes, and he said with a bit of joy: "Could it be that it's news about Li Qing?"
Seeing Zhu Houzhao's happy expression, Yang Tinghe, Wang Hao and Zhang Cai couldn't help but look at each other, while Wang Yangming showed a bit of a wry smile.
After a moment's hesitation, Wang Yangming took out a memorial from his sleeve and presented it to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, this is the memorial presented by the Champion Marquis. Your Majesty, please read it!"
Qiu Ju stepped forward, took the memorial from Wang Yangming, and then handed it to Zhu Houzhao respectfully.
Zhu Houzhao opened the memorial without hesitation, and then read ten lines at a glance. Gradually, Zhu Houzhao's face became ugly.
This memorial was indeed submitted by Li Huan. It described in detail what he encountered along the way to Yangzhou Prefecture, especially the attack and murder he encountered on the Grand Canal when he arrived at Yangzhou Prefecture.
Although there were only a few strokes and not much ink, Zhu Houzhao could imagine the danger Li Huan faced at that time just by looking at the killing strokes.
Of course, what made Zhu Houzhao angry was that as his imperial envoy, Li Huan went to Yangzhou Prefecture to investigate the case. He was attacked and killed by hundreds of people on the Grand Canal. This was simply unbelievable.
However, such a thing happened so openly. These thieves even dared to attack and kill imperial envoys. There is nothing else they dare not do. I am afraid that if he, the emperor, goes to Jiangnan, the other party may dare to attack him.
This emperor is a killer.
When I saw Li Huan mentioned in the memorial how he ordered to capture all the officials of Yangzhou Prefecture headed by Xu Lin on the spot, and with the confession of Xu Lin and other officials, he captured dozens and hundreds of powerful people in Yangzhou Prefecture who were involved in the case.
While waiting for a series of events at home, the anger on Zhu Houzhao's face was reduced a bit.
After reading the memorial, Zhu Houzhao took a deep breath. The anger in his heart was still not completely dissipated. He stared at Wang Yangming, Yang Tinghe, and Zhang Cai and said, "What do these people want to do? They still have Wang Fa in their eyes.
But there is also me, the emperor? I think they are going to rebel..."
"Your Majesty, calm down..."
The emperor's anger burst out and everyone fell to their knees on the spot.
Not only Qiu Ju and the other servants knelt down in fear one by one, but Yang Tinghe, Wang Yangming, and Zhang Cai, who were cabinet ministers, also knelt down respectfully with a bit of fear.
In front of the emperor.
Zhu Houzhao looked at the people who were kneeling in front of him. Still angry, he smashed the memorial on the ground and said: "They dare to attack and kill even the imperial envoys whom I have entrusted, that is, Li Qing."
With great fortune and great fortune, I would like to ask them, is there anything else they dare not do?"
Yang Tinghe looked at the furious Emperor and said: "Your Majesty, calm down and put the dragon body first! It's not worth it to hurt the dragon body for a group of villains."
The other people also quickly comforted the emperor.
After a while, Zhu Houzhao finally lost some of his anger. When he saw several people still kneeling in front of him, he took a deep breath and said, "Several Qing family members, please stand up and speak. It's not because I want to lose my temper. It's really that these people are too lawless."
, I can’t even imagine that our country, the Ming Dynasty, has such unscrupulous officials.”
Zhang Cai bowed and said in salute: "It is my lax supervision that allowed officials like Xu Lin to stay in high positions and cause harm to the people. Please punish me."
As soon as he flicked his sleeves, Zhu Houzhao snorted coldly and said: "You are indeed guilty of lax supervision, especially what the supervisory censor of Jiangnan Province does for a living. I don't believe that he, the supervisory censor of Jiangnan Province, treats Xu Lin.
Those people really have no idea what they are doing.”
As he spoke, a cold look flashed in Zhu Houzhao's eyes and he said: "Pass on my decree, order the Jin Yiwei to immediately investigate the censor of Zhejiang Province."
After hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, everyone present knew that the Zhejiang Road Supervisory Censor was finished.
There were thirteen supervisory censors in the Ming Dynasty, and thirteen supervisory censors in the world. When such a big thing happened in Yangzhou Prefecture, first of all, the thirteen supervisory censors under the Metropolitan Procuratorate were inseparable.
There are as many as ten censors in Zhejiang Province. If we say that these people have no contact with local officials or that they cover up some crimes for some local officials, I am afraid that everyone present will not believe it in their hearts.
Now that such a sensational incident has broken out in Yangzhou Prefecture, it is certain that the local officials in Yangzhou Prefecture will be unlucky, but it is unrealistic to say that a group of officials above the court are not implicated.
It's just that Li Huanshen went to Jiangnan as an imperial envoy to supervise a major case. The case did not have a result or conclusion, so no one in the court was dismissed from office or jailed.
But now, as Li Huan came up with a memorial, the emperor was furious. The first to be unlucky were the thirteen supervisory censors. Even they knew that this was just the beginning.
Xu Lin and others were captured by the Jin Yiwei. They must not be able to withstand the torture of the Jin Yiwei. At that time, there will definitely be officials in the court who are confessed by Xu Lin and others. At that time, I don’t know how many officials will be implicated and end up with one person.
A tragic end.
After casually giving instructions, Zhu Houzhao looked at Wang Yangming and said: "Wang Qing's family, Li Qing mentioned in the memorial that Xu Lin and others had confessed, and he had ordered people to send the compiled charges to the capital. I think the cabinet has already received them.
Bar."
After looking at each other, Yang Tinghe saluted the emperor and said: "Back to your majesty, the cabinet has received the criminal evidence about those people sent by the champion marquis not long ago."
A stern look flashed in his eyes, Zhu Houzhao stared at several people and said: "Li Qing said in the memorial that what these people did was completely unscrupulous, lawless, and brought disaster to one party. If they don't kill, it won't be enough to correct people's hearts. If they don't kill, it won't be enough to show off."
The imperial court is so majestic, I am very curious about what can make Li Qing express such emotion, what on earth have these people done that is so outrageous and resentful."
After hearing what Zhu Houzhao said, several of the elders present, including Wang Yangming, couldn't help but look at each other.
Others may not know what Li Huan sent about the numerous crimes committed by Xu Lin and other officials and the local tycoons who were captured in Yangzhou Prefecture, but they just looked through those files not long ago, and they are naturally clear about everything.
Chu.
Even they couldn't imagine the horrific cases committed by those officials and local powerful people. If the emperor saw this, they really didn't know how their young emperor would react.
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