I am the king of the dead

Zhu Qiyu is well aware of the importance of political leeway, because political leeway has too many benefits, imitating Su Suizong's total veto will bring Daming to a dead end, especially when Zhu Qiyu is making drastic reforms to Daming .

However, there are some issues that cannot be discussed, such as cooperating with thieves inside and outside, cooperating with enemies and treason, and fooling the prince into rebellion on the land of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu originally planned to let Xiao Yan die, but even Xiao Yan's recommender Hu Wei didn't bother to intercede for Xiao Yan.

If things come to fruition, this will be the first senior member of the second grade of Ming Dynasty to be sent to Jiejie Yuan.

Zhu Qiyu thought about it a lot, and then said that I still think that he should be beheaded to show the public. After all, if he resists in a corner, he will be sent to Jieyuyuan. If he is honest, he will be punished and let King Xiang continue to supervise.

Your Majesty is merciful.Hu Yan could only say helplessly.

Your Majesty's heart is still not cruel enough. Your Majesty has already been scolded as a tyrant, a king of subjugation, and Ling Chi several high officials in the court. Isn't that what a tyrant should do?

After all, he is a member of the second rank of the court.Zhu Qiyu ordered the table, but in the end, he still didn't decide to send him to Jieyuan Court. Of course, he still had to watch the interrogation after taking Xiao Xuan.

If Xiao Xuan made any small moves, Zhu Qiyu would be a little lenient, really only a little bit.

It is the supreme pursuit of the Legalists that the Son of Heaven breaks the law and commits the same crime as the common people. However, the Legalists who put forward this concept can only let others bear the punishment on their behalf when implementing it.

The law itself is unfair.

His Royal Highness King Xiang received an edict from His Majesty to continue to supervise, that is to say, Xiao Xuan wanted to do it, so did Xiao Xuan's followers, and even more so did the wealthy families standing behind Xiao Xuan.

After receiving the imperial edict for discretionary investigation, King Xiang also considered the strength of the investigation according to the imperial edict, and then notified Jin Yiwei, intending to arrest him.

Zhu Zhanbo came to the official residence with a group of Tiqi, and found Xiao Xuan's official residence. This is the second-rank mansion specially granted by His Majesty after Xiao Xuan entered Beijing, and it belongs to the best position in the official residence.

According to Hu Wei's arrangement for Xiao Xuan, Xiao Xuan is old and will retire within a few years, then Yao Kui will take over the Ministry of Rites, and Xiao Yan can also retire after success, and he will be worthy of enjoying the imperial tomb after death. What an honor?
There has been no such big movement in this mansion for a long time. Although His Majesty's eagle dog, Jin Yiwei, who was ridiculed by courtiers and family members as a watchdog, is really guarding the mansion, but Jin Yiwei has a reason to advance and retreat. The mansion has been calm for the past ten years.

With such a great excitement, there were naturally many people watching from the attic of their homes. Although Zhu Junbo and Lu Zhong brought dozens of horses, there were less than five people who stepped into the house.

My master knows that you are coming, please wait in the main hall.The concierge opened the door neither humble nor overbearing, and Xiao Xuan did not lead his servants to resist, but chose to catch him without a fight.

It is disgraceful and even more disgraceful to make a scene in the official residence. After all, Xiao Xuan is a scholar, and even if he wants to leave, he has to do so in a dignified way.

Zhu Zhanshan walked into Xiao Li's mansion, waited in the main hall for a while, and saw Xiao Xuan holding a ledger, and behind him were several servants carrying dozens of boxes.

Greetings to His Royal Highness King Xiang, King Xiang is a thousand years old.Xiao Xuan saluted. He hadn't been deprived of his official status by the edict, so he was still the Minister of Rites of Daming.

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It seems that you are already prepared.Zhu Junbo's tone is not kind, this is an out-and-out, sanctimonious hypocrite

Xiao Xuan looks quite upright, although he is old, but he does not lose his character, he is such a person, the culprit and mastermind behind all of this since entering Beijing, impeachment and boasting of Li Binyan.

Xiao Xuan's expression was slightly painful, and he bowed his head and said: Don't hide it from Your Highness, when His Majesty ordered His Highness King Xiang to preside over it, I will know it's time.No, to be precise, when I first started accepting bribes, I thought of today, this situation and this scene.

Now that you know it! Why don’t you want to repent and set up such a vicious plan to separate Gu and His Majesty’s close relatives! Now that you know why you want to make noise and make the second brother Gu hate you! Zhu Zhanbo looked at Xiao Xuan furiously, and questioned with a loud voice Looking at the Confucian scholar in front of him.

Xiao Xuan knows that the Tiqis

Find out what he did, know what punishment he will face, and know the consequences of doing these things, but he still did it, knowingly committing a crime, how abhorrent it is!
Xiao Yan said with an even more bitter expression, Your Highness, I didn't know when I fell into it. This time I fell into the quagmire, I couldn't help it. Before, the master of the minister was Daming, but later, the master of the minister was just a group of eyes. There is only money in it, and the man who smells of copper is overbearing.

The minister has been living in fear all these years, but when this happened, seeing His Highness riding over with Ti, he felt a little relieved.

Waiting for death is the most torture, and death is the relief of waiting for death.

When corrupt officials fall into a cycle, the more corrupt they are, the more panic they become, and the more they panic, the more corrupt they become for a while to satisfy and appease the fear. Afterwards, they become more regretful and fearful, and they can only be greedy for more come to meet.

Human desires are endless.

It's like landlords are always annexing land, just like Shiyao Haoyou's family's silver coins can't be spent in dozens of lifetimes, and they are still making money.

What did you take?Zhu Junbo said a little angrily that you realized that you did something wrong. With you serving Daming for so many years, His Majesty can still kill you!
After all, the Jingtai period was not the Hongwu period. They were skinned and smashed into grass after greedy dozens of taels of silver. Corruption investigations during the Jingtai period were very strict, but there were not many officials who died of serious corruption. Most of them were exiled. Not enough to be killed.

The Sichuan head-to-head case involved the death of Zhang Feng, the former Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. If it hadn't caused a civil uprising, the death would not have been so embarrassing, at least it would have been decent.

Your Highness, do you still remember that His Majesty drew four stick figures in the mansion newspaper? The more corrupt officials become, the more hands they have behind their backs. When I saw that picture, it was as if I saw myself.Xiao Yan handed over the account book in his hand, it was his criminal evidence, no need for the Tiqis to rummage through the box and search everywhere, he brought it himself.

Zhu Zhanbo took the account book from Luo Bingzhong, opened it, pointed at the account book with wide eyes and said: This is so much! More than 330 million silver coins!You, you are too much!
Zhu Zhantang was stunned.

During the orthodox years, the four provinces' silver discounts for one year were only a little over 100 million taels. This Xiao Xuan was greedy for the yearly silver of the third year of Ming Dynasty by himself!
So many silver coins can be kept in Shaobao's Jiuzhong Hall for 660 years!
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Hu Wei's family has [-] silver coins, and Hu Wei always praises his son for managing the family well. He feels that he is very rich, and he doesn't need to leave anything for his children and grandchildren, and they can take good care of themselves.

The amount of money was so much that even Zhu Zhanbo was amazed, and his Xiangwang Palace didn't even have so much cash in total.

What a giant beetle of the country!
Therefore, there is no turning back for the guilty minister, not including those antique calligraphy and paintings, and all kinds of concubines stuffed into the house.Xiao Xuan said with a bitter expression that the minister has actually been quite frugal these years, and the stolen money he got was only one or two hundredths of his expenses. These are part of it, and the rest are in the Beijing Normal University.

When we leave later, His Highness will send someone to take it away.

Regret?Very regretful.

are you afraid?Very scared.

is that useful?It's useless, you should be greedy or greedy.

Xiao Xuan knelt on the ground and continued: At that time, the guilty minister heard that Dudu Lu said that His Royal Highness King Xiang had the habit of bringing criminal evidence home, so he more or less guessed that it was a trap, but after thinking about it, he still wanted to see if he had found it. guilty minister.

Thinking about it now, it's not this time, it's the next time. This time, the guilty minister can't be found. The next time the guillotine should fall, it will fall, sooner or later.

Zhu Zhanbo handed over the account book to Lu Zhong. He was just acting with Lu Zhong. He did not have the habit of bringing criminal evidence home in violation of the Jinyiwei regulations.

Do you know the punishment you will face? Corruption and collaborating with the enemy! Zhu Junbo pointed at Xiao Xuan and asked sharply.

I know, I have to send him to Jieyuan.Xiao Xuan knelt on the ground and remained silent for a long time before saying this.

Zhu Zhanbo stood up abruptly, and said angrily, "Your Majesty is lenient, let Gu investigate according to his own circumstances, do you know what that means?"

Just don't implicate the public, don't vent your personal anger and get implicated at will. For you, His Majesty will also be lenient, beheading for public display, and you will die!
Do you know why? Just because you are a member of the second rank of Daming, my Duke Ming, and my face! Do you understand face? You don’t understand, if you understand, you can make such a big mistake?
This is the tyrant you keep talking about! Lord of subjugation!
Look at you, and look at your Majesty! You are deeply favored by the emperor, and you don't put the country as the most important thing. For your own self-interest, you don't care about the public interest of the country, what is it!
This...Xiao Xuan raised his head, glanced at Zhu Zhanyu in shock, then lowered his head, and said tremblingly that the guilty minister deserves death! Ashamed of the Holy Grace, shameful of His Majesty, shameful of the world, sinful! Minister, you deserve death.

Zhu Zhantang flicked his sleeves, and said angrily: Take him away!

Take the silver with you!
The carriage parked in Xiao Xuan's Jingshi Bieyuan waited for two streets before carrying away all the money in Xiao Xuan's mansion.

As Xiao Xuan said, he was really frugal. After the stolen silver was inspected, there were more than 320 taels of cash left, including silver ingots and silver coins.

Xiao Xuan voluntarily admitted that not only did she have an account book, but also a diary and handbook. She kept a record of when, for what, who and how much things were collected over the years, how many things were done for these money and goods, and how much effort was spent on them. , who else was doing it together, they all wrote it clearly.

Jin Yiwei interrogated according to the diary and handwriting, and needed to check carefully to prevent Xiao Yan from gnawing at random, but the facts proved that Xiao Xuan took the initiative to explain and did not miss anything.

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There were even some matters that could not be investigated due to the passage of time, Xiao Xuan explained them clearly.

The last court meeting of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty in ten years was to discuss the big case of Xiao Xuan. 27 of the 26 court officials arrived. Xiao Xuan was in prison and could no longer participate in the court meeting.

Special attendees were King Xiang Zhu Zhanbo, and Prince Shaoshi Hu Wei. The two came to the Wenhua Palace with His Majesty. Zhu Zhanbo was the person who supervised the handling of the case. At that time, Zhu Zhantang often came.

When Hu Wei came over, Xiao Xuan was recommended by him, so he naturally wanted to participate in this court meeting, but Xiao Xuan was down, and he had to take care of some things in the Ministry of Rites.

Gentlemen, please sit down.Zhu Qiyu looked around, and said seriously: Xiao Xuan was still here a few days ago, making a statement on the reasons for the Northern Expedition for me. He looked like a loyal minister and virtuous, but he didn't expect to be like this in private.

Knowing the face but not the heart.

Zhu Qiyu's words swept across the entire Wenhua Palace like a gust of biting cold wind, and King Jili's half-burned dragon banner on the table looked much more dazzling.

His Majesty hasn't killed anyone for a long time, and the courtiers have forgotten that the origin of His Majesty, the king of subjugation, was obtained by personally killing his own elder brother, the former emperor of Ming Dynasty.

Your Majesty is an extremely violent person, this is His Majesty's original face.

Shang Ren hesitated for a while, and said bravely: Your Majesty, I think Xiao Xuan pleaded guilty so smoothly and subdued the law so smoothly, and he didn't make any protests.
Shang Lu had to say this, Taichang Temple was doing this job, and he knew that he might disobey His Majesty, so he wanted to say it.

The minister originally suggested that His Majesty send Xiao Li to Xie Kuayuan, but His Majesty refused, and just beheaded to show the public. Bachelor of Commerce, His Majesty is already very lenient. Why does the Bachelor of Commerce mean to let His Majesty be lenient? Hu Yi immediately opened his eyes and calmed down. Said.

Sending him to Jieyuan? Shang Ren sat up straight suddenly, leaned back, and looked at Hu Wei in horror.

Sure enough, the most ruthless one was Hu Wei. In order to clear up his relationship, he actually wanted to send Xiao Xuan, whom he had recommended, to Jie Kua Yuan to prove his innocence. If he sent him to Jie Jie Yuan, he would even explain the eighteenth generation of his ancestors. Clearly.

His Majesty refused. His Majesty felt that it would be best for Daming to minimize the impact of Xiao Xuan's death.Hu Wei explained why His Majesty did this.

The downfall of a genuine second grade is not bad luck for a family, but for a whole area

The officials were unlucky, and the interest groups involved were extremely large. If Xiao Xuan was really sent to Jieyu Yuan, and a long-term court dogfight surrounding this would be the greatest harm to Daming.

Beheading is good, beheading is good, I have no doubts.When Shang Ren saw this, he didn't resist at all, and he would go down if he was given a step, instead of standing on it.

It was Taichang Temple's responsibility to suggest that Xiao Xuan go through the eight-discussion process. He devoted himself to his duties, but he could only do this. No matter how much he did, it would be impossible.

It's no problem to enter the imperial prison, Yu Shaobao has been in it before.

But it depends on the reason for the entry. If it is adultery, then you need to actively speak out to rescue it. If it is corruption, instigating the prince to rebel, and colluding with thieves, this is an unforgivable crime and deserves to die.

Not everyone is a talent in prison.

Let me say a few words.Zhu Qiyu said quite seriously that when the emperor's uncle was interrogating Xiao Li, I was actually listening in the side room. He had already regretted it, but it was too late.

The best way to quit gambling is not to gamble. Some things, as long as they start, they can only fall into Abi Hell forever.

Please follow His Majesty's instructions.Many ministers said respectfully.

Alright, let's start discussing the matter of the Northern Expedition now. Don't talk about Xiao Xuan's matter anymore. My will has been decided.Zhu Qiyu never expected that the words "Zhen Yi has decided" would one day be used in the matter of forgiving a guilty minister.

In the end, Zhu Qiyu didn't send Xiao Xuan to Xiejieyuan.

Yu Qian hesitated to speak, and finally did not speak. He actually agreed with what Hu Yan said, sending him to Xie Kuayuan, but His Majesty has already decided, it is not a big deal, and there is no need to argue endlessly.
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