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Chapter 378

Chen Ke and the others looked at each other, and Ma Ming said angrily, "My lord means..."

Li Huan turned around, glanced at several people, and said slowly: "I said earlier, after the crimes of these people are interrogated, they will be taken to the execution ground immediately and sentenced to death!"

Li Huan did say that before, but to be honest, neither Chen Ke nor Lin Pingzhi took Li Huan's words to heart at the time.

Everyone knows that there are many people involved in the big case that broke out in Yangzhou Mansion. If the criminal is really going to be sentenced to death, the number of people will definitely be dozens of people that have never been seen in nearly a hundred years.

The only thing that can be compared with this major case is the few major cases that caused a sensation in the world during the reign of Taizu Gao Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

Involving the lives and deaths of nearly ten thousand people, although Li Huan said that he was an imperial envoy, in the eyes of Lin Pingzhi and Chen Ke, such a big case should ultimately be decided by the court or the emperor.

However, listening to Li Huan's words now, it was obvious that Li Huan wanted to use the power of an imperial envoy to take this case onto himself.

Several people opened their mouths, especially Lin Pingzhi couldn't help showing worry in his eyes, and wanted to persuade Li Huan, but seeing Li Huan's resolute appearance, he finally sighed.

Li Huan saw the expressions and reactions of several people in his eyes, and smiled slightly: "Since Your Majesty entrusts me to supervise such an important case, then we must not disappoint Your Majesty's high expectations."

A sharp look flashed in Li Huan's eyes and said: "What's more, even if I ordered the killing of those criminals today, those people above the court would not be able to say anything, at most they would corrupt me in private. It’s just fame. Which one of these people didn’t deserve what they deserved, but they were so insane and so daring that they even dared to destroy the Jinyiwei yamen, if they were not severely punished with thunderous means, I really don’t know what else they could do.”

Hearing Li Huan mention this point, Ma Ming, Chen Ke and others couldn't help showing evil spirits in their eyes when they thought of the dead Chen Yao and other Jinyiwei personnel.

Chen Ke took a deep breath, bowed to Li Huan and said, "I wonder when my lord will deal with these people?"

Li Huan just thought about it for a while and then said: "Since the trial has been clear, even the files have been sent to the capital, and those cases have already arrived in the capital, so let's deal with these people tomorrow."

Chen Ke and the others looked at each other, Qi Qi agreed.

Capital
With the victory of a foreign war, Zhu Houzhao, the emperor, has always been in a good mood. If it wasn't for the case of Yangzhou Mansion, then Zhu Houzhao's mood would definitely be a little better.

On this day, as usual, Zhu Houzhao first practiced martial arts for nearly an hour in the specially rebuilt small school ground in the palace, and then he started to deal with the cabinet and the government affairs sent by the supervisor of ceremonies that needed to be decided by him as the emperor after having breakfast.

However, after being screened by the cabinet and the supervisor of ceremonies, there are not many things that really need Zhu Houzhao, the emperor, to make a decision.

After all, although the Ming Dynasty is not a prosperous age, it is not the end of the world. The world is generally quite peaceful, and there are not too many major national affairs to worry about.

In the imperial study room, Zhu Houzhao looked through the dozens of memorials piled up on the table, and commented on those that needed his review.

It took Zhu Houzhao less than an hour to deal with these matters.

Zhu Houzhao stretched his body, and Qiu Ju, who was serving beside him, hurried forward and handed warm tea to Zhu Houzhao, saying: "Your Majesty, don't be exhausted when handling government affairs." yes."

After taking the teacup from Qiu Ju's hand, Zhu Houzhao smiled at Qiu Ju and said, "I will practice daily according to Li Qing's instructions, although I can't match Li Qing's strength." Tyrannical, but according to what you said, with my cultivation, even if I look at the world, I can be regarded as a top-notch player."

Qiu Ju heard the words with a chuckle and said: "Your Majesty is the son of heaven, born as a dragon, no matter what you learn, it is unmatched among dragons and phoenixes, but it is just a mere martial art. With a little practice, your Majesty, few people can match it." In comparison with Your Majesty, I am afraid that only monsters like Brother Li Huan can compare with Your Majesty."

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing out loud.

Suddenly, Zhu Houzhao frowned and said, "It's been a while since Li Qing went to Yangzhou Mansion to investigate the case. Is there any news about Li Qing and the others recently?"

While speaking, Zhu Houzhao got up and walked down from the imperial steps, and walked towards the outside with his hands behind his back.

Qiu Ju and several servants quickly followed behind the emperor.

Qiu Ju, who was one step behind Zhu Houzhao, hurriedly said, "Back to Your Majesty, it has been one month and seven days since the Champion Hou was ordered by His Majesty to go to Yangzhou Mansion, and it has been six or seven days since the last time the Champion Hou sent back a message."

Zhu Houzhao walked back and forth slightly, then continued walking and sighed: "I never thought that more than a month has passed in a flash, and I don't know what is going on with Li Qing's family in Yangzhou Mansion now."

Speaking of which, Zhu Houzhao said: "Li Qing's family doesn't know how often they send people back."

Qiu Ju said with a smile: "Brother Li Huan, is there any concern for your majesty in handling affairs? Moreover, your majesty is not clear about the nature of brother Li Huan. Unless it is something important, otherwise, brother Li Huan will not take it. Some insignificant things disturb His Majesty's cleanliness."

But Zhu Houzhao said: "I want him to disturb my purity."

Zhu Hou took a look at Qiu Ju and said, "Go, send someone to visit the Jinyiwei yamen, and ask the Jinyiwei people to see how Li Qing is doing in Yangzhou Mansion."

Qiu Ju responded, and summoned a servant under his command to give some instructions in a low voice.

While Zhu Houzhao was walking in the imperial garden, he suddenly saw a servant coming in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, the elders are asking to see Your Majesty!"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help raising his brows when he heard the words, thinking about it, it seems that there has been no major event in the court recently, and now that several old elders are working together, could it be that something major happened?
Thinking of this, Zhu Houzhao straightened his expression, and immediately ordered: "Quickly invite some elders to come here."

Soon Yang Tinghe and Wang Yangming were taken to the imperial garden by the servants.

Several people met the emperor and greeted Zhu Houzhao, while Zhu Houzhao waved his hands and looked at the few people and said: "The Qing family came to see me in a hurry, don't they have something important?"

Yang Tinghe, Wang Yangming and the others looked at each other, and saw Yang Tinghe had a faint smile on his face, while Wang Yangming's expression was somewhat solemn, so Wang Yangming was the first to say: "Your Majesty, there is indeed a Important matters need to be known by His Majesty."

Seeing Wang Yangming speak, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help showing some surprise and curiosity: "Oh, I don't know what it is?"

Wang Yangming took a deep breath and said, "It's about the case of the Jinyiwei yamen in Yangzhou Prefecture being exterminated..."

Before Wang Yangming could finish speaking, Zhu Houzhao's eyes flashed a light, and he said with some joy: "Could it be that the news about Li Qing is not enough?"

Seeing Zhu Houzhao's delighted appearance, Yang Tinghe, Wang Jia, and Zhang Cai couldn't help but look at each other, while Wang Yangming smiled wryly.

After hesitating for a while, Wang Yangming took out a memorial from his sleeve and presented it to Zhu Houzhao, "Your Majesty, this is the memorial presented by the champion, please read it!"

Qiu Ju took a step forward, took the memorial from Wang Yangming, and handed it to Zhu Houzhao respectfully.

Zhu Houzhao opened the memorial without hesitation, and then looked at it at a glance. Gradually, Zhu Houzhao's face became ugly.

This memorial was indeed submitted by Li Huan, and it described in detail what happened to him on the way to Yangzhou Mansion, especially the attack and killing on the Grand Canal when he arrived in Yangzhou Mansion.

Although it was said that there were only a few pens and not many pens and inks, Zhu Houzhao could imagine the danger Li Huan faced at that time just by looking at the pens full of murder.

Of course, what made Zhu Houzhao angry was that Li Huan, as his imperial envoy, went to Yangzhou to investigate the case, and he encountered hundreds of thousands of people attacking and killing on the Grand Canal, which is unbelievable.

However, this kind of thing just happened in such a grand manner. These thieves dared to attack and kill even imperial envoys. What else would they dare not do? I am afraid that if he, the emperor, went to Jiangnan, the other party would dare to attack him The emperor is a killer.

When Li Huan mentioned in the memorial how he ordered all the Yangzhou government officials headed by Xu Lin to be taken down on the spot, and under the confession of Xu Lin and other officials, he arrested dozens of tycoons involved in the case in Yangzhou government. While waiting for a series of things at home, the anger on Zhu Houzhao's face decreased a bit.

After reading the memorial, Zhu Houzhao took a deep breath, the anger in his heart was still not completely dissipated, he stared at Wang Yangming, Yang Tinghe, and Zhang Cai and said: "What are these people trying to do? They still have Wang Fa in their eyes. But there is still the emperor? I think they are going to rebel..."

"Your Majesty calm down..."

The emperor's anger erupted and everyone fell to their knees on the spot.

Not only Qiu Ju and other servants knelt down on the ground in fear, but Yang Tinghe, Wang Yangming, and Zhang Cai, who were cabinet ministers, also knelt down in respect and fear. In front of the emperor.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the few people kneeling in front of him, still lingering in anger, he smashed the memorial on the ground and said: "Even the imperial envoys appointed by me dare to attack and kill, that is, Li Qing Fortune is great and fate is great, but I would like to ask them, is there anything else they dare not do?"

Yang Tinghe looked at the enraged emperor and said: "Your Majesty calm down, the dragon's body should be the most important thing! If you hurt the dragon's body for a group of villains, it's not worth it."

The rest of the people also hurriedly comforted the emperor.

It took a while for Zhu Houzhao to calm down a little bit of anger. Seeing that several people were still kneeling in front of him, he took a deep breath and said, "Several Qings, get up and talk. It's not that I want to lose my temper. It's because these people are too lawless." , I can't even imagine that there are such unscrupulous officials in my Ming Dynasty."

Zhang Cai bowed and saluted, "It's the ministers who are not strictly supervised, so that officials like Xu Lin are allowed to go to high positions and harm the people of one side. Please punish the people."

As soon as he flicked his sleeves, Zhu Houzhao snorted coldly and said: "You are indeed guilty of lax supervision, especially what does the supervisory censor of Jiangnan Road do? Those people really don’t know anything about what they’re doing.”

As he said that, a cold look flashed in Zhu Houzhao's eyes and he said, "Declarate my will, and order Jin Yiwei to immediately investigate Zhejiang Province's supervisory censor."

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, everyone present knew in their hearts that Zhejiang Province's supervisory censor was over.

The thirteen departments of the Ming Dynasty supervised the censors, and the thirteen departments in the world supervised the censors. If such a big event happened in Yangzhou, first of all, the censors of the thirteen departments under the Metropolitan Procuratorate could not escape.

There are as many as ten supervisors in Zhejiang Province. If it is said that these people have no contact with local officials or that they are covering up some crimes for some local officials, I am afraid that everyone present will not believe it in their hearts.

Now that such a sensational incident broke out in Yangzhou Prefecture, it is certain that the local officials in Yangzhou Prefecture will be unlucky, but it is unrealistic to say that a group of officials will not be involved in the court.

It's just because Li Huanshen went to Jiangnan to supervise a major case as an imperial envoy, and the case did not have a result or conclusion, so no one in the court was thrown out of office and imprisoned because of this.

But now with Li Huan's memorial, under the wrath of the emperor, the thirteen censors were the first to be unlucky, and they even knew that this was just the beginning.

People like Xu Lin were taken down by Jin Yiwei, so they must not be able to withstand the torture of Jin Yiwei. At that time, some officials above the court will be confessed by Xu Lin and others. Miserable end.

After ordering casually, Zhu Houzhao looked at Wang Yangming and said: "Wang Qing's family, Li Qing mentioned in the memorial that Xu Lin and others have confessed, and he has ordered people to send the sorted out crimes to the capital. I think the cabinet has already received it. Bar."

Looking at each other, Yang Tinghe bowed to the emperor and said: "Return to Your Majesty, the cabinet has received the criminal evidence about those people from the champion Hou not long ago."

A stern look flashed in his eyes, and Zhu Houzhao stared at the few people and said: "Li Qing said in the memorial that what these people did was utterly devoid of conscience, lawlessness, and causing disaster. Not killing is not enough to correct people's hearts, not killing is not enough to show The majesty of the imperial court, I am very curious to make Li Qing express such emotion, what kind of outrageous things have these people done."

After hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, the elders present, including Wang Yangming, couldn't help but glance at each other.

Others may not be aware of the countless crimes committed by officials such as Xu Lin and the captured local tycoons in the Yangzhou government that Li Huan sent people to send, but they have only read those files not long ago, and they are naturally clear. Chu.

It is that they can't imagine the appalling cases of those officials and local tyrants. If the emperor sees this, they really don't know how their young emperor will react.

[The boss who has a monthly pass will help you smash the monthly pass. 】

(End of this chapter)