They don't want to bear the serious crime of treason. This is no longer the extent to which they can avoid disaster by relying on the law and not punishing the public.
At this time, the people who had shouted the loudest had secretly pushed to the back of the crowd, hoping to hide themselves like this.
"Prime Minister Fang, do you have any allies?"
"Your Majesty, among all the gentlemen kneeling with me outside the palace, there is one of my accomplices."
The two of them agreed on the script for the court meeting before it started. The first step was to tie the others to their own boat.
"Come here! Lock the palace door and no one else is allowed to go out!"
After listening to Fang Xin's words, Li Lin immediately looked very nervous and immediately ordered the imperial army to move.
The imperial army immediately surrounded the entire Hall of Supreme Harmony, with a circle of weapons pointing outwards and a circle of weapons pointing inward. As the door slowly closed, the hearts of the officials in the palace also rose.
"Master Fang, please tell me who your comrades are!"
Li Lin suppressed his voice, and his anger seemed to burst into the hearts of all the ministers from his clenched teeth.
"Master Qi from the Ministry of Rites, Master Hu from the Ministry of Officials, Master Ma from the Ministry of Husband..."
Fang Xin named nearly 20 courtiers in one breath. Those whose names were called immediately knelt down and shouted that they were wronged.
"Anymore?"
After Fang Xin paused for a while, Li Lin asked again.
"Your Highness, these are the people. I hope Your Highness can spare the lives of my family members for the sake of me exposing my accomplices!"
"The thieves still dare to plead for mercy! Someone come and drag us down!"
Li Lin was furious and ignored Fang Xin's words, and randomly took Fang Xin away.
Two guards came forward, thrust Fang Xin up and pulled him out.
Seeing this scene, the ministers who had just been named and the courtiers still in the palace were frightened.
Li Lin's murderous spirit was slapped on everyone's faces, making them tremble.
"What a great prince of Great Xia! Nearly half of the dozens of people in the court rebelled. Good, good!"
"No wonder, no wonder my Daxia treasury is empty, no wonder my Daxia army is tired, no wonder the lives of my Daxia people are getting worse and worse."
After saying this, Li Lin's eyes widened with anger, and the murderous secret was revealed in his eyes.
"Your Highness, it's unjust, it's unjust!"
The old man who always said "Who said no?" crawled forward two steps and cried while crawling.
He wasn't lying, or the people kneeling in the audience were telling the truth when they shouted that they were wronged. They really didn't know.
But... Li Lin wants to clear out the government and the opposition. He will attack both the military and the government within one day. After the military has solved the problem, he will also take action on the government side.
"Unjustly accused? How dare you say that he was unjustly accused? Come here, bring the evidence of his crime and show it to this gentleman!"
Two eunuchs walked into the hall carrying a wooden box, placed the wooden box on the ground and slowly stepped back.
Li Lin walked down slowly and rummaged inside.
The man was kneeling next to the wooden box, looking at the wooden box that Li Lin was rummaging through from the corner of his eye. While Li Lin was rummaging through it, he saw the name of Lord Chaozhong written on the scrolls inside the wooden box.
Li Lin picked up a scroll with this person's name on it and slowly opened it.
"Ji Fang, the official left minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was born in Linqi, Haizhou... In the ninth year of his life, he served as an official in the Ministry of Household Affairs. He misappropriated 800,000 taels of public power to build a building for private use; in the 12th year of his life, he was promoted to Haizhou
Zhou Mu, embezzled 4 million taels; in 15 years ago, he was promoted to Jinzhou Prefect, and embezzled 10 million taels... A total of 82 million taels were embezzled, and there were countless rare treasures..."
The surroundings were deserted, and some officials were shocked by such a huge number, and some officials were trembling in fear, because there were at least a few of them.
"Mr. Ji, what a great trick. It's more than 80 million. Our Jin country's treasury has never been so full!"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, have mercy on me, have mercy on me!"
"Spare you? Who can fill the national treasury if I spare you? Ji Fang and Fang Xin intend to conspire against each other, which is the first crime; trying to harm the people of one party and embezzling state property is the second crime; punished for both crimes, Ling Chi will be punished by the nine clans!
"
"ah!"
After hearing Li Lin's verdict, Ji Fang's whole body went weak and she sat down on the ground. She wanted to beg for mercy again, but she was speechless.
Li Lin didn't bother to talk to him anymore, he waved his hand and Ji Fang was pulled down.
Then Li Linyou rummaged inside and took out a scroll with Qi Han written on it.
The body of the man who had just accused Li Lin of killing the two princes began to tremble violently.
"Qi Han, right minister of the Ministry of Rites..."
Same as above, but the amount this person embezzled was only 3 million taels, which was much less. But... he allowed his son to rape four good women in the capital, resulting in the destruction of four families. This is a blood debt.
Li Lin took a long breath and then sentenced him.
"Qi Han, together with Fang Xin, intends to plot rebellion, the first crime; embezzling state property, the second crime; not strictly controlling his family; punished for both crimes, he will be exiled thousands of miles away..."
Qi Han breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. Live first. Living is more important than anything else.
"But it caused the death of four families... Ling Chi, made nine clans in a row!"
"What! I don't want to surrender!"
"If you don't accept it, hold it in! Hold it in!"
Li Lin responded angrily, "You don't agree with me, you don't agree with me!"
"Four members of the family were destroyed because of your son's family. Why don't you accept it? You replaced one family with four, and you still don't accept it?"
"Pull it down!"
Li Lin really didn't want to talk to this group of people anymore, so he was immediately pulled away.
As he was being carried forward, Qi Han was still shouting "unfair", "unacceptable" and so on...
Li Lin bent down and rummaged through the wooden box again, but this time he spoke as he rummaged.
"My lords, I'll give you a chance. Speak out now to save your family..."
"This..." The people in the palace looked at each other, and immediately thought about whether they should confess. If they confessed, they would die but their family would survive... If they didn't confess, the detailed records of the first two people made them afraid to gamble.
Immediately, several people came forward.
"I am guilty, I confess..."
Immediately, these three people poured out beans through bamboo tubes and told them all the dirty things they had done. All corruption was trivial. One of them once protected a group of bandits who massacred a village.
Except for the one who harbored the bandits, who was sentenced to Lingchi and Liancheng, the other two were exiled.
Afterwards, the people behind looked at the situation and gave their explanations.
In the middle of the process, Li Lin also checked the scrolls of two of them. One person concealed something from the other, but he explained it more thoroughly. Which one concealed it was naturally Ling Chi's biggest crime for being a member of the nine clans.
In this way, this court meeting became the scene where these ministers spoke their sincere words.
"My lords... This is really eye-opening. If I try to deal with both of you, this court will probably be paralyzed..."
The people below didn't speak, just lowered their heads silently.
"Haha, let's break up the court. I will solve them one by one later."
Li Lin had achieved his goal this time, and everyone had huge leverage in his hands. No one would dare to speak out if he made any adjustments next.
Because everyone is a victim in this accident.
After everyone left, Li Lin looked at the plaque above his head in the main hall with the four characters "upright and bright".
"Daxia's future can officially begin from today..."