After Emperor Zhengde's southern tour to Beijing, he was a little more diligent than before. At least he was not late for court every morning and was not absent from work. Although he followed Yang Tinghe's advice and rejected most of Wang Shouren's requests, he spared Duan Feiwang and transferred him to Nanjing.
He was appointed as the right minister of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Duan Fei's promotion seemed to be a matter of course to the officials in Nanchang. However, in fact, this appointment went through a fierce court storm. The result of the storm was that Liang Chu, the cabinet scholar, Mao Jiyin and
He was involved in the case of King Ning and became an official. Yang Yiqing, a scholar who became a scholar, was called back to the court and became a bachelor of Wuyingdian and the minister of the Ministry of War.
Countless officials, big and small, have been demoted or promoted to official positions.
Liang Chu and Mao Ji are both Yang Tinghe's people, and Yang Yiqing is Yang Tinghe's mortal enemy. The purpose of Zhengde's restriction on Yang Tinghe is obvious. Fei Hong is also an old man, with a keen sense of politics, and is good at changing the situation.
Yang Yiqing was also brave and good at fighting. On the day he entered the cabinet, he wrote a letter revealing that Yang Tinghe had a close relationship with Prince Ning and had accepted countless bribes from Prince Ning. He requested an order to investigate and withdraw.
Although Yang Tinghe felt that the situation was over, he had finally become a minister with great difficulty, and his ambitions had not yet been realized. How could he leave the court in such despair? He fought back hard to defend himself, and the officials also divided into two groups to attack each other.
He didn't have time to take care of the appointment of a mere fourth-grade official. Seeing that Yang Tinghe no longer objected, Zhengde felt a little regretful. If he had known about it, he would not have backed down and just inserted Duan Fei into the Ministry of Punishment as a doctor. He didn't know that the boy would go to court to see him.
What kind of expression will it look like when...
The right minister of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was an official of the fourth rank. Although the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate was not as powerful as the Beijing Metropolitan Procuratorate, it was still very training. The Metropolitan Procuratorate was in charge of everything, admonishing the emperor, influencing the way of speech, impeachment, and picketing.
Baisi, Baiguan, inspections, supervision of local officials, etc. Generally speaking, all yamen at all levels from the central to local governments, from the emperor to hundreds of officials, from national affairs to social life, are within the scope of supervision and speech of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
In the Ming Dynasty, many censors were dismissed from office for admonishing the emperor, and many censors were beaten to death. Although the emperor may not listen to them, at least they opened up a way for them to express their opinions, which was also a great progress in history.
For Duan Fei, this was a great improvement. Less than two months after he had been appointed as the fifth-rank minister, he had to be promoted to the fourth-rank right minister, which shows that his holy love is strong and Yingtian's
The Metropolitan Procuratorate is the direct supervisory agency in charge of this group of officials in Jiangxi, so after the news spread, officials at all levels who came to visit almost stepped on the threshold of Duan Fei's new house.
Duan Fei refused to accept any gifts of real gold, silver or jewelry. Many officials were disappointed. Later, they learned through circumstantial investigation that Mr. Duan's family was well-off. How could Mr. Duan care about the small amount of money they sent?
They like all kinds of strange and strange things, so everyone racked their brains to buy those rare things to give as gifts. Unfortunately, Mr. Duan has a sharp eye and cannot be deceived. He still refuses to accept those that are too expensive, but he is obsessed with the strange skills from the West.
They were very interested in the strange things, but unfortunately they no longer had time to search along the coast.
When Duan Fei set out, not only did all the officials and officials from the Procuratorate and Envoys of Nanchang City come to see him off, but also most of the civil and military officials from Nanchang City came, as well as countless ordinary people who came to see off their upright official Duan and Xiucai under their umbrellas.
Lu Ruonan even bought a new pair of boots as a gift, replacing Duan Fei's old boots, saying that they would be enshrined as a family heirloom.
Duan Fei was busy again after arriving in Yingtian. He met with the superiors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and was interviewed by the supervisory censors under the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The officials he knew from the last time he was in Yingtian Mansion also came to hear the news.
They came to congratulate him on his cleansing, but Magistrate Yingtian, Tongzhi, and Tongpan were not there. Only Ning Zhuqi, the recommended official, came.
Duan Fei said hello to him, and when he asked about the prefect Ma Wentao and others, Ning Zhuqi smiled bitterly and whispered: "Sir, don't ask anymore, they... are no longer in Yingtian, things are unpredictable..."
Seeing his expression, Duan Fei suddenly understood. Wang Shouren sent him a secret letter in the capital, talking about related matters. There were rumors that Zhengde had obtained a list of officials who had colluded with King Ning, and he was scheming.
The purge began slowly, first using Qian Ning to bring down Jiang Bin, and then using the hands of civil servants to deal with Qian Ning. Then he promoted the officials who had been dismissed, divided the civil service camp, and gradually replaced the original group of people.
The methods are very sophisticated.
During this period of time, the imperial court was changing people like a revolving door, and the officials who had just come to power were also happy to do so. If they found a small problem, they would kick out the people below and replace them with their own people. Yingtian was the place that King Ning would definitely win when he rebelled.
My lord, they must have received a lot of benefits from Prince Ning. I'm afraid it's not just as simple as losing their official position, so Ning Zhuqi is so taboo.
A group of people have also changed in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Ever since Zhu Yuanzhang launched the imperial examination expansion with great fanfare, the Ming Dynasty has never been short of alternate officials. Duan Fei's arrival is not so dazzling, but he was transferred to the Metropolitan Procuratorate after the emperor personally intervened.
With so many legendary stories behind him, everyone was in awe of him. In the Imperial Court, except for the left and right imperial envoys of the second rank, even the left and right deputy imperial envoys did not dare to show off their qualifications in front of him.
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Duan Fei returned to his hometown and opened his mansion again. This time no one dared to talk nonsense. After spending two days getting familiar with official duties, Duan Fei worked hard again.
The work of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is very complicated, but its main job is not to participate in judicial activities, but to: supervise the political gains and losses of the court and rectify the rules and regulations; participate in the discussion of major political affairs; cooperate with the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple to hear major cases; and participate in sacrifices and court meetings.
, officials who do not behave well at banquets and other occasions; the Ministry of Personnel, in conjunction with the Metropolitan Procuratorate, will report the overall plan, and the evaluation results of the Beijing Procuratorate and provincial governors and governors.
Although everyone is in awe of Duan Fei's background and backstage, they actually despise him for not having a "diploma" and they don't let him participate in other jobs. They say people have their own strengths. Since Duan Fei is good at solving crimes, he should be responsible for it.
Supervise major criminal cases that are presided over by the Criminal Department and reviewed by Dali Temple.
Duan Fei devoted himself to the case files with great interest, but officials in the Ming Dynasty were not always freeloaders. Duan Fei read through dozens of old cases for several days and found no obvious omissions. It seemed that Yang Naiwu and Xiao Xiao
There are actually less unjust cases like Baicai's than imagined.
On this day, when Duan Fei was browsing old cases boredly, Shi Bin walked in excitedly and said: "Brother Fei, have you heard? There will be a flower party on the Qinhuai River on August 15th. I heard that the famous brothel in the south of the Yangtze River is Chu."
The museum is preparing to send its most popular top names to compete, it will be very lively then, let’s go and see it together.”
"Okay, there's nothing to do anyway." Duan Fei said without raising his head.
"I heard... Miss Qingqing will also appear..." Shi Bin said thiefly, and secretly glanced at Su Rong who was sitting aside and sorting out the files for Duan Fei. Duan Fei suddenly heard the familiar voice
name, he couldn't help but raise his head, froze for a moment, and said disappointedly: "Is she also going to compete for the title of that oiran?"
Shi Bin was about to answer him when Su Rong said without raising her head: "Miss Qingqing did not sign up for the competition, but the organizer specially invited her to be a judge and perform at the finale. If she had signed up for the competition, I'm afraid there wouldn't be so many
The brothel is willing to sign up for its own girl."
"Why?" Duan Fei regretted it as soon as he said it. Su Rong raised his head to look at the idiot and said, "Stupid, everyone knows that if Miss Qingqing competes, how will anyone else stand a chance? It's better to hide one's humility than to show one's embarrassment."
"It's better to hide one's humility than to show off one's ugliness?" Duan Fei smiled as he recalled this. That was how he answered Xiaodie, Miss Qingqing's personal maid.
"Oh, it seems that someone is going to suffer another disaster soon." Su Rong supported her chin with one hand and looked at somewhere innocently and said.
Duan Fei was about to save face when Guo Wei walked in quickly and reported: "Brother Fei, the Ministry of Civil Affairs sent someone to report that tomorrow we will hold a final hearing on Zhou An's brother-murder case in the court hall of the Ministry of Justice together with Dali Temple and our Procuratorate.
During the public trial, both the Imperial Envoys and the Imperial Envoys have decided to send Brother Fei to go, and the file of the case has been sent to the door."
"Okay, ask them to send in the case file." Duan Fei said.
Two handymen brought in a stack of case files, and Duan Fei exclaimed: "Is the case complicated? Why are there so many case files?"
No one could answer his question. Su Rong came over and looked through it and said: "This Zhou An has repeatedly retracted his confession and has been to the crossroads twice. No wonder there are so many case files. This is an old case that has been delayed for three years. Zhou An
The first time he was sentenced to hanging, and then he was sentenced to beheading. This time... I'm afraid he will become Lingchi. Under normal circumstances, the murderer wouldn't be so stupid?"
"Well, this case has a head start. I won't read the other cases for now." Duan Fei took the earliest file of this case from Su Rong and read it carefully.dd