Chapter eight hundred and sixty first, it's not you, it's you
The emperor wants to strictly investigate the Jin Yiwei?
joke.
Who doesn't know that Jin Yiwei acts under the emperor's orders? Dare you say that the emperor's direct orders were not behind the bad things Jin Yiwei did in Yongping Mansion?
Tang Yin's report clearly came from the emperor's instructions.
If you sing a double act here, who would believe it?
Dongchang!
The emperor suddenly shouted.
Huang Jin walked over from the side and approached Zhu Si, as if he wanted to obey the emperor's order.
The ministers present felt that this was a joke and asked Dongchang to investigate Jin Yiwei's illegal behavior?
Zhu Sidao: There are lawless people in the Jinyi Guard who are endangering the imperial court and the country. This matter must be investigated strictly. Dongchang should have been investigated originally, but now I am going to investigate the matter with the Ministry of Punishment. Dongchang will cooperate!
Dongchang assists the Ministry of Justice?
It sounds like that, but since the establishment of the East Factory in the Ming Dynasty, what kind of cases have not been handled by others to cooperate with the factory guards? Is there a reason why the factory guards cooperate with the Ministry of Punishment?
Zhu Si sighed and said: I sent Jin Yiwei Qianhu Lu Song, who was born in the old residence of Xing Mansion, to be responsible for the daily operations of the mine. It seems that he has failed to live up to my expectations... We must check him carefully.
Anyone present who was familiar with the structure of Prince Xing's Mansion knew that Lu Song had a lot of background.
It's not that Lu Song's ability is great, but Lu Song's wife Fan is one of the top women in Prince Xing's palace. There is no definite conclusion whether she is Zhu Si's wet nurse, but at least Fan is in Prince Xing's palace.
It is a well-known fact that she served as a wet nurse and won the trust of Empress Dowager Chiang.
Now that Lu Song is about to be investigated, some people will naturally feel that the emperor may be serious this time.
Sun Jiao said: Your Majesty, since the Ministry of Punishment has come to investigate illegal activities in the Jinyi Guards, I wonder who should be the leader?
This question is intriguing.
It is not a good job for the Ministry of Justice to investigate the Jin Yiwei, because many things in the Jin Yiwei are not open to outsiders. It is simply a matter of checking the Yongping Mansion, or just asking Lu Song and others is enough, but these Jin Yiwei can be directly investigated
Go to the prison cell of the Ministry of Punishment, or go to the court of the Ministry of Punishment for questioning?
Probably only Lin Jun, the Minister of Punishment, is suitable to be the host.
But even someone like Lin Jun, who has a hot temper and spares no effort to show off in front of Yang Tinghe, really has no political consciousness at all and dares to take on such a hot case?
Zhu Sidao: The Minister of the Ministry of Rites of Nanjing had previously recommended that Yan Yishou, the left minister of the Ministry of Punishments, should take over. Now, the left minister of the Ministry of Punishments and the Ministry of Personnel have discussed who should take over?
This involves personnel arrangements.
Zhu Si will naturally not use Lin Jun to investigate the case.
From a political point of view, Lin Jun is too close to Yang Tinghe, and they belong to the kind of people who have a close relationship with Yang Tinghe in the Six Books of Secretariat. Would it be safe to ask Lin Jun to investigate the Jinyiwei Emperor? It is estimated that Lin Jun himself does not want to do it.
It is best to let the second-in-command of the Criminal Department do this kind of thing.
Yan Yishou has planned to transfer Nanjing to the position of Minister of Rites, leaving a vacancy for the left minister of the Ministry of Punishments. Whoever takes up this post will come to check Jin Yiwei.
The emperor asked the officials what they said.
But no one came out to answer.
The problem is that Qiao Yu, the Minister of Civil Affairs, has been ill recently, and his resignation was not accepted by the emperor several times. The emperor allowed Qiao Yu not to attend court meetings, which meant that he did not have to come during court meetings until he recovered from his illness.
There have been many ministers who have been in trouble with the emperor recently. After all, it is no secret that the emperor wants to take down Yang Tinghe. It is almost made public. Not only Qiao Yu, the Minister of Personnel, but also Lin Jun, the Minister of Punishment, has resigned many times.
Historically, Lin Jun was allowed to return home after eight resignations in the second year of Jiajing. However, later on, regarding the issue of the Great Ceremony, Lin Jun was identified as a backbone of the Yang Tinghe faction and was deprived of his official position and questioned.
In addition to the two ministers of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Punishment who are resigning, another one, after Mao Cheng, the Minister of Rites, resigned from his post and died of illness, Luo Qinshun was originally appointed to succeed him as Minister of Rites, but before Luo Qinshun arrived in Beijing, he met Ding You. Until now
There was no one to fill the vacancy of the Minister of Rites.
The situation of Peng Ze, Minister of the Ministry of War, is not much better. Peng Ze also resigned many times, but many people feel that Peng Ze should
The people who want to be questioned are not simply related to the military chaos in the northwest during the first year of Jiajing, but also some old cases involving Hami, trilateral affairs, etc., all of which occurred during Peng Ze's administration.
Yang Tinghe's faction has recently been filled with old, weak and remnant troops, and people's hearts are unstable. Even Yang Tinghe himself has resigned many times.
I don't know since when, Yang Tinghe's faction has become so weak.
At this time, the emperor proposed to ask the Ministry of Punishment to investigate Jinyiwei, but the Ministry of Punishment even seemed reluctant to investigate.
Qiao Yu, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was away. Wang Jun, the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Personnel and a staunch supporter of Yang Tinghe, came out and said: Your Majesty, the Ministry of Personnel has recommended Wang Maozhong, the censor of Nanjing Youdu, to return to Beijing to succeed the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Punishment.
Zhu Sidao: Transferring people from Nanjing? The mountains and rivers are far away, how can we do that? We have agreed that the Ministry of Punishment will investigate, but we can't let Lin Shangshu do it himself? It is better to use the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment to the left minister. This is the most reasonable.
Gentlemen, do you have any objections?
There was no candidate recommended by the court before, but a small proposal was made between the emperor and the officials, and the ministers were allowed to discuss it.
Now the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment is Zang Feng, who has just been transferred back to the capital from the post of governor of Xuanda and returned to the ministry to handle affairs.
In the past, Zang Feng could be regarded as a well-behaved person among the civil servant faction. No one would classify him as the new emperor's faction. However, in the past two years, Zang Feng has been suppressed by the civil servant faction and consciously defected to the new emperor. Now everyone understands that the emperor is
To use your own people to check your own people is like taking off your pants and farting.
Jiang Mian came out and said: Your Majesty, I think it is inappropriate.
Zhu Sidao: Jiang Ge always feels that it is inappropriate to use Zang Feng as the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Punishment, or is it inappropriate to use him to investigate the case of someone in the Jinyi Guard who violated the law?
None of them are appropriate.
Jiang Mian's answer was very straightforward. Zang Feng had not handled the affairs of the ministry in the past. If he rashly intervened in the affairs of the Jinyiwei, I am afraid there would be many constraints. Moreover, based on the current situation of the Ministry of Punishment, someone familiar with the prison should take over the post of Zuo Shilang.
, is more appropriate.
I still want to support Wang Maozhong.
Zhu Si smiled and said: "Jiang Ge always feels that when Zang Feng checks Jin Yiwei, he will probably turn a blind eye and deliberately ignore it, right?"
Jiang Mian thought to himself, who cares if Zang Feng is investigated or not? Do you think these ministers really expect the Ministry of Punishment to find out what problems Jin Yiwei has?
Even if it is found out that Jin Yiwei is at fault, what can you, the emperor, do? Make him drink three drinks as a penalty?
We just don't want you, the little emperor, to take advantage of the situation and seemingly give the Ministry of Punishment the authority to investigate the evil affairs of Jin Yiwei. In fact, it is just to take the opportunity to arrange for your people to be in power and do whatever they want.
Jiang Miandao: I have no such intention.
Zhu Si sighed and said: "Then let Zang Fenglai be the left minister of the Ministry of Punishment. The investigation of the case will be extended further. I will appoint a doctor from the Ministry of Punishment to investigate. I think all the Qing family will have no objections, right?"
An old minister recommends someone.
Sun Jiao suddenly walked out again.
Zhu Si squinted at Sun Jiao and asked: Who does Sun Butang want to recommend?
Sun Jiaodao: Zhu Hao, who previously served as the local magistrate in Yongping Prefecture, is quite familiar with the mining matter, and the harassment at the mine happened after he took over the mining matter. If he were to investigate, I believe it would be better.
Convince the public.
All my colleagues are thinking that your grandson is really a good person and never avoids relatives.
How many days has Zhu Haocai served as the magistrate of Yongping Prefecture? Will he be transferred back to the capital to become a doctor in the Ministry of Justice?
You, Old Man Sun, are obviously the Minister of Household Affairs, so why are you interfering in someone else's imprisonment?
Zhu Si smiled coldly: Let Yongping Prefecture be the magistrate, return to the court and serve as a doctor in the Ministry of Punishment, and then investigate what happened in Yongping Prefecture? Sun Butang, you have a lot of tricks.
The emperor's words were a bit like market slang, and many people frowned upon hearing it.
The emperor's evaluation of Sun Jiao was truly special.
But Sun Jiao insisted: The old minister thinks that Zhu Hao can be asked to investigate the case locally and then return to the ministry to add further notes.
Zhu Si did not comment.
Zhang Zuo on the side reminded everyone in front of everyone: Your Majesty, this Magistrate Zhu has previously submitted a resignation letter, saying that he would return to his hometown to recuperate.
Getting sick at a young age
?What will you do if you let so many old ministers in the court? To put it bluntly, you don’t want to be an official of the Ming Dynasty, right? Even if I am not a wise king, I will not be a faint king, right? I have no intention of doing anything to protect the virtuous, but I also
We cannot let people think that the court official chose to resign and return to his hometown because of my incompetence! Well, I agree to appoint Zhu Hao as the doctor of the Ministry of Punishment, and he will investigate the Jinyiwei. Who among you members of the family has any objections?
The emperor seemed angry.
He was angry about Zhu Hao's resignation and felt that Zhu Hao was deliberately trying to prevent the emperor from stepping down.
It was more out of anger that he agreed to Sun Jiao's proposal and asked Zhu Hao to investigate the mine as a doctor in the Ministry of Justice.
He was just a doctor in the Ministry of Justice... Although he was considered a doctor, it was still not enough to affect the stability of the court. Even if many ministers felt that it was inappropriate to transfer Zhu Hao to the Ministry of Justice, they couldn't say why.
With Zhu Hao's identity, he shouldn't be a member of the New Emperor's faction. If he were to investigate the Jin Yiwei, he might be able to be a pebble that stirred up the water, right?
Zhu Si suddenly looked at Yang Tinghe and asked: Does Mr. Yang Ge have any objections?
Yang Tinghe just handed him over.
I didn’t say I had an opinion, but I didn’t say I agreed either.
In short, I responded with silence.
Zhu Si then looked at Wang Jun, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and said: Ministry of Personnel, do you think it is okay for me to make such personnel transfers?
Wang Jundao: It has been two years since Zhu Hao passed the Jinshi exam, but he has not completed the exam for three years. Frequent transfers of official positions are not in line with the rules, but if it is based on his official position, there is nothing wrong with being transferred to the Punishment Department.
Now the civil servants are basically speaking for Zhu Hao.
Ever since he became an official, Zhu Hao has been used as a spearhead by the civil servant faction. Zhu Hao signed a petition on the Great Ceremony and advised the Northwest Military Affairs. Zhu Hao even took the lead in signing the petition. He was transferred to the prefect of Yongping Prefecture to participate in the conflict between the emperor and his ministers.
The mining incident in Whirlpool... Zhu Hao himself resigned at this time, and the civil servants did not want to let Zhu Hao go, and wanted Zhu Hao to return to the court and continue to participate in the struggle between the civil servant faction and the Jin Yiwei.
Others are afraid of trouble and dare not offend Jin Yiwei.
But since you, Zhu Hao, have never dealt with the Jin Yiwei, and even the Jin Yiwei caused trouble against you, and detained you for a few days afterwards, this is a good opportunity for you to take revenge.
Anyway, it’s you, it’s you if it’s not you, there’s no one else!