Chapter 993 0988 [Are you really scared to death? 】
Fu Yuanheng and Zou Qing came to Yinchuan, and before them were dozens of confessions.
The Ningxia Governor-General and the Inspectorate no longer dared to take on the case, and they took the initiative to ask the censor to try it together.
Moreover, when trying cases, the censor takes the lead and the local authorities take the supplementary role.
Fu Yuanheng quickly browsed through more than ten confessions: "I will preside over the cases involving military attachés. The rest will be left to Zou Yushi. I will accompany the trial when necessary."
When Zou Qing saw Qin Hui's name, he swallowed subconsciously and said, "Let the Xuanzhou case be settled as soon as possible. As for the foreign officials Yang Yuan confessed to, they are everywhere and must be reported to the Inspectorate. I guess the Ministry of Punishment
The Dali Temple and Dali Temple will also be dispatched, and I don’t know how many people will fall to the ground this time.”
Regarding the fight against corruption, we are doing it every year.
Looking across the country, officials are dismissed almost every month, which does not mean that major wars only occur every few years.
But generally, officials below the fourth rank are investigated.
It is very difficult to check if it is above the fourth grade. Not only will it alert the emperor, but at least the cabinet will be alerted.
If a third-rank official is found, the emperor must be alerted.
Qin Hui's official position belongs to the second rank, but he also has the official title of first rank!
For such an important minister, not to mention that the Supervisory Office did not dare to investigate, even the cabinet did not have the power. The emperor had to give his personal nod before any action could be taken.
Fu Yuanheng asked: "Have you found out the whereabouts of the stolen money and goods?"
Zhao Ding said: "According to the confessions of the perpetrators, they sold the stolen goods through merchants. Some of the stolen goods were trafficked to the Western Regions, and some of the stolen goods were transported to Shaanxi for disposal. Almost all the merchants who helped sell the stolen goods were from Shaanxi."
"We have to jointly handle the case with Shaanxi." Zou Qing had a headache.
Fu Yuanheng sighed: "Let's continue the trial."
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Fu Yuanheng went to interrogate the generals of Xuanzhou on his own, while Zou Qing interrogated the officials of Xuanzhou together with the inspector.
If both the civil and military parties have a role, then they can join hands in the trial.
The whole big case was divided into many small cases, and each small case was investigated in detail.
If the investigation was not conducted in such detail, and if the witnesses and material evidence were not complete, it would be easy for the case to be sent back for re-examination when submitted to the central government for review.
At the same time, Zhao Ding sent a deputy inspector to Shaanxi with his subordinates on Pegasus. He requested the Shaanxi Inspectorate to assist in handling the case, help arrest the merchants involved, and jointly interrogate and track down the whereabouts of the stolen goods.
As for Yang Yuan, he was protected by two hundred cavalry and escorted to Luoyang as soon as possible.
Afraid of any accidents along the way, Zhao Ding specially asked a general who was not involved to take charge - Xiao Heda, a relic of the Liao Kingdom and a traitor to the Western Xia Dynasty.
Xiao Heda made a huge contribution in the war to destroy Xia, and also dispersed his family property and property when he rebelled against Xia. This must be set as a model, so he directly created an earl and temporarily stayed in Ningxia to lead troops.
They were escorted all the way with great fear. Xiao Heda even ate and slept with Yang Yuan.
When he received the task, he was completely confused. He was just a newcomer who had just joined the Ming Dynasty. Why was he suddenly required to escort the criminal who reported the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue?
If this person commits suicide, how will I bear the consequences?
Lanzhou.
Xiao Heda personally escorted Yang Yuan into the post station, and two hundred cavalrymen inspected the inside and outside of the post station.
Even the official servants who temporarily lived in the inn were invited out by Xiao Heda, including a high-quality official.
Xiao Heda bowed to everyone: "I have offended you all. The criminals I am escorting are too important, and there really can't be any mistakes, otherwise everyone will not be able to keep their official titles."
The officials and servants looked at each other, dissatisfied and extremely curious at the same time.
The official asked, "I wonder who the general is escorting? What serious crime has he committed?"
Xiao Heda shook his head: "You can't ask about Tongtian's case."
As soon as the word "Tongtian" was spoken, no one asked again, and everyone just went to find another place to live.
At night, the door is closed.
Yang Yuan slept with his hands and feet tied up, and a rag stuffed in his mouth. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he was shaking all over and couldn't sleep.
What a piece of shit this guy is, you will know if you tell him what he did in history.
Qin Hui sneezed at the banquet, which made the scene a little embarrassing. Yang Yuan immediately sprayed rice and laughed, attracting the attention of the audience. Then he successfully diverted everyone's attention by telling a joke, making the guests forget about Qin Hui's sneezing.
Qin Hui and Wan Qixi were biting dogs, so Yang Yuan criticized Wan Qixi. Zhao Gou couldn't defend himself, so Yang Yuan impeached Wan Qixi again and again, and finally dismissed Wan Qixi.
As his official position became larger and larger, Yang Yuan became more and more complacent and publicized his achievements everywhere, which made Qin Hui very unhappy.
Therefore, Qin Hui cast Yang Yuan as the magistrate of the state and kept him far away from the capital, out of sight.
It happened that his cousin Wang Yan (not Lu You's boss Wang Yan) passed by Yang Yuan's post. After being drunk, Wang Yan claimed credit and said: "You wrote a letter to Prime Minister Lu (Lu Yihao) back then and said bad things about Qin Hui. You
Do you still remember? Fortunately, I work as a subordinate in Prime Minister Lu’s house, so I secretly intercepted that letter."
Yang Yuan was so frightened that he forced his cousin Wang Yan to stay under house arrest for two years!
Wang Yan took advantage of Yang Yuan's banquet and escaped overnight when the guards were lax.
In fact, Wang Yan did not go to Qin Hui to complain, but the more Yang Yuan thought about it, the more he feared that he would be scared to death.
At this moment, Yang Yuan was scaring himself.
Qin Hui was a close friend of the same age as the emperor, and he was in a high position. Jane was in the heart of the emperor. Is it possible that he would make the emperor unhappy by reporting Qin Hui like this? Is it possible that when he arrived in Luoyang, the emperor secretly sent someone to kill him and silence him?
Or maybe the emperor didn't have time to know whether Qin Hui, who was very powerful in Luoyang, would bribe the jailer to kill him?
The more I think about it, the more likely it is!
Yang Yuan began to become trance-like and was awakened by nightmares every night.
Xiao Heda initially thought he was pretending to be ill, but gradually he realized something was wrong. When they arrived in Chang'an, Yang Yuan was already haggard and depressed due to severe lack of sleep.
Xiao Heda quickly called for a doctor.
After the diagnosis, Xiao Heda pulled the doctor outside the room and asked, "What disease does this man have?"
The doctor said: "Heart disease. Has he not slept for a long time?"
Xiao Heda nodded: "I have nightmares every night. I pulled the rag from his mouth, and he shouted in his dreams 'spare my life' and 'don't kill me'. I woke up from nightmares and couldn't fall asleep.
I tossed and turned all night long, making it impossible for me to sleep."
The doctor said: "I can only prescribe some medicine to help you sleep."
The doctor wrote the prescription and left. Xiao Heda watched the soldier boil the medicine with his own eyes, and then personally gave it to Yang Yuan to take.
Xiao Heda pulled off the rag that gagged his mouth and said, "The doctor said you have a heart disease and that you can get better by taking medicine."
Yang Yuan looked at the dark medicinal soup, suddenly revealed his face in shock, cried and begged: "General, please spare my life, General, please spare your life, everything I confessed before was all lies."
Xiao Heda was extremely depressed: "Why should I spare your life? I will just escort you to Luoyang."
Yang Yuan, however, believed that there was poison in front of him, so he turned his face away and closed his teeth tightly, saying nothing.
Xiao Heda ordered: "Come here, pry open his teeth and pour the medicine in!"
As several sergeants entered the room, Yang Yuan was extremely frightened and began to struggle frantically to escape.
However, he was still held down tightly and his mouth was violently pried open. Xiao Heda personally took the bowl and poured the medicine into it.
While he was gushing, Xiao Heda suddenly stopped and asked in confusion: "Why is this man not moving?"
But they saw Yang Yuan's mouth wide open, his eyes wide open, and he was lying on the bed without any reaction.
A sergeant stretched out his finger to feel Yang Yuan's breathing, and said with a trembling voice: "No... no breath."
Xiao Heda was stunned.
who I am?
Where am I?
What am I going to do?
After a long time, Xiao Heda suddenly shouted: "Get that doctor back quickly to testify. Don't touch anything in this house!"
Immediately, Xiao Heda ran quickly to the stable and rode straight to the Shaanxi Chief Secretary and Yinchasi Yamen.
In the evening of the same day, all officials from the three Shaanxi departments came, and they also brought the three provincial and county level prosecutors to jointly conduct an autopsy.
Based on the autopsy results and the information provided by Xiao Heda and the doctor, the authors agreed that Yang Yuan was frightened to death.
Everyone looked at each other in shock, even a little bit dumbfounded.
The chief officials of the third division of Shaanxi Province, as well as the third-level officials of the provincial and county governments, all wrote a relevant report truthfully under Xiao Heda's pleading.
They already knew the inside story and watched Xiao Heda take the body away with sympathetic eyes.
This guy is so unlucky!
Xiao Heda arrived in Luoyang in despair, went straight to the Inspectorate to explain the situation, and then asked to enter the palace to meet the saint.
The palace's response was very quick, and Xiao Heda was taken away by the eunuch that day.
"Your Majesty, that guy Yang Yuan was really scared to death!" Xiao Heda explained when they met and knelt down and kowtowed.
Zhu Ming was also a little speechless: "Stand up and cry. What does it look like? Give me a seat."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Xiao Heda sat down carefully and then described the situation in detail, saying that all officials from the three departments in Shaanxi could testify for him.
"This is not General Xiao's fault," Ju Ming said. "The remnants of Xixia have been suppressed, and General Xiao just happens to return to Beijing. Then stay in the Privy Council and serve. You are over fifty years old, and it is time to enjoy your old age in a prosperous place."
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Xiao Heda didn't care about being stripped of his military power, and he never thought he could continue to command the army.
A relic of the Liao Kingdom who rebelled against Xixia could become a count in the Ming Dynasty and serve as a sinecure in the Privy Council. This was already a very perfect ending.
Xiao Heda thanked him again.
After Zhu Ming encouraged him again, the conversation was almost over, and Xiao Heda quickly bowed and left.
When he walked out of the palace, he felt physically and mentally happy and swept away the sadness of these days.
The Holy Emperor was so benevolent and generous that he did not hold himself accountable, and even gave his mansion in the capital to officials.
In the Chui Gong Hall, Ju Ming was also speechless.
What the hell is a very important whistleblower who was scared to death?
"Bai Sheng." Zhu Ming shouted.
"Here!" Bai Sheng walked into the palace quickly.
Ju Ming said: "Personally lead the guards to surround Qin Hui's house. No one is allowed to come in or out at will. Especially the small house he purchased secretly. Search carefully for evidence of corruption in it!"
How did Qin Hui know that he had always been in the emperor's heart and that someone had been keeping an eye on him in the past few years?
Even when he was in Kaifeng, he secretly kept an illegitimate wife without telling his wife. The emperor knew this kind of thing.
I just lacked a reason to check him out.
After all, Qin Hui was the minister, so it was inconvenient for the emperor to send people to search his private residence, and it was also a small courtyard he purchased quietly.
This kind of thing will have a negative impact if it spreads. It will make everyone in the imperial court feel in danger, and even give birth to the mentality of a rabbit dying of a fox. The emperor knows about Qin Hui's secret private residence, so has he been monitored by the emperor?
Spy politics can only be carried out under special circumstances and is not a long-term and healthy means of governance.
