Borrow the day to change the day

() "Daming's artillery can't catch up with Western-made ones at the moment. Moreover, due to many reasons, the artillery wastes a lot and consumes a lot of silver. It's better to buy it. Therefore, the lower officials have repeatedly reported to the emperor, and finally bought Macau with silver taels Frangji's new artillery. Right now, they are about to be escorted to Shandong, and the artillery instructor of Flangji will accompany them." Xu Guangqi replied Zhong Jinwei.

Zhong Jinwei shook his head and said, "How can a military weapon be controlled by others. No matter how difficult it is, you have to build it yourself."

"Uncle Zhongxing is right, but it's a pity that artillery manufacturing has always been under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War." Xu Guangqi sighed.

"As for the cannon, I will suggest it to the emperor instead." Zhong Jinwei decided.

Xu Guangqi said so much because he wanted to seduce Zhong Jinwei to say this.Now Uncle Zhongxing speaks in front of the emperor better than anyone else.

At this time, Zhong Jinwei saw that Gu Baichuan and Wang Peng were listening to them carefully in the hall, and noticed that they only had knives at their waists but no firearms, so he asked with a smile, "I don't seem to see you using firearms."

Gu Baichuan replied with a smile: "The standard weapon of Dongchang is a small pair of knives around the waist. Firearms are fine when there are many people and many firearms in war, but they are not very useful for things like small ones. up."

Zhong Jinwei thought about it too, who among the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty would dare to have a large number of weapons and firearms at home.Too little is useless, too much is rebellion, so Dongchang might as well use a knife to deal with them.

Xu Guangqi was tired from speaking at this time, but he had enough rest, so he bid farewell to Zhong Jinwei, and prepared to return to the office of the Ministry of Industry to deal with official business, and then brought Zhong Jinwei his "Strategy Secrets" and "Selection and Training Rules" later. .

Zhong Jinwei has no yamen to go to, so he is now soaking in the construction site, waiting for the experimental furnace to be built and the finished product to be seen, and by the way, he can carefully read the military book given by Sun Chengzong.

At about the same time, a group of Jinyiwei suddenly appeared in a jade shop on Jingshi East Avenue.

Fortunately, it was still early at this time, and the store had not been open for a long time, and there were no customers yet, so no one was disturbed by sao.

Jin Yiwei controlled all the people in the store, and then escorted a person he brought with him, and directly copied out a ledger in a hidden place.

Jinyiwei Qianhu, the leader, flipped through the ledger, sneered a few times, left a few people to watch the store, and led the others, turned around and left the store, heading straight for the Jinyiwei yamen.

Soon, Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyiwei, led a large group of Jinyiwei to fight back to the Yamen of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, found He Kai in the criminal department, and showed him the confession and ledger.

He Kai saw that Yushi Yuan Hongxun's servant Yuan An recruited everything, and even helped Jin Yiwei find the ledger for accepting bribes, so he had no choice but to cover it.

Luo Yangxing put away the driving post, turned around and left without saying a word.I thought in my heart that it was due to arrest. If the driver's card was posted yesterday, only one person would be arrested.

As a result, he was unreasonable and refused to stamp it, so he had to use some means by himself.Now it's all right, another fish is caught, two people at a time.

It turned out that Gao Jie's house had long been under the surveillance of Jin Yiwei. People from Yuan Hongxun's family went to Gao Jie's house, and they were discovered early even though it was night.

Earlier, Luo Yangxing just wanted to catch the two people who had submitted their resignations, so he let Yuan An go to Gao Jie's house.

I didn't expect these civil servants to be ignorant, so I can't blame myself.

Yuan Hongxun was arrested by Jin Yiwei in the Procuratorate, and Gao Jie was arrested by Jin Yiwei at home, and they were both imprisoned in Jin Yiwei's prison.

This incident caused a sensation in the official circles of the capital and touched the sensitive nerves of many officials.

In the afternoon, several groups of people went to the cabinet to ask for news. They said that Jin Yiwei should not be arrogant, because once Jin Yiwei became arrogant, their lives would be sad.

Wen Tiren knew it well, because the cabinet sent someone to inquire about Gao Jie's condition for the first time.

Now there are many people who come to ask questions. As the head of civil servants, he also needs to have an explanation, so he called the criminal department to the cabinet to ask about the situation.

He Kai gave an explanation to the cabinet ministers, and said that he only stamped the seal after seeing solid evidence, not because he was afraid of Jin Yiwei and dared not enforce the law impartially.

This is the end, Wen Tiren told He Kai to pass on the situation to the civil servants who were inquiring about the news.

You are famous for being clean and honest, so you don't have to worry about anything.But most people have ghosts in their hearts.On the pretext that the factory guards are fierce as tigers, fearing that the "white terror" in the Tianqi era will reappear, the two censors are worried that if they enter the Jinyiwei prison, they will be tortured into tricks.

Wen Tiren saw that there were too many people making trouble and it was difficult to deal with it.After thinking for a while, he agreed to see the emperor.

In the evening, Wen Tiren met Emperor Chongzhen and reported to him the reaction of the civil servants outside.

After he finished speaking, he persuaded Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, now is the critical period of resisting captives. Two censors have been disposed of a few days ago. Now there are two more. The most important thing is that these two censors Shi's crimes are just Jin Yiwei's one-sided statement, if Jin Yiwei decides the case, the officials may not accept it."

Emperor Chongzhen just got angry about the 1 taels of silver bills last time, and therefore authorized Jin Yiwei.

Now that it has been put on hold for a day, the anger is not as great as when I first heard it.At this moment, seeing that Wen Tiren, whom he trusted, also wanted to persuade him, he asked him: "How should we deal with it between the chief and the assistant?"

"I think that the people captured by Jin Yiwei should be tried together by Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice." Because the arrested suspects are all censors, Wen Tiren did not mention the Metropolitan Procuratorate in order to avoid suspicion, otherwise it would be ordinary The so-called three law courts tried the case.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard what Wen Tiren said, he immediately recalled what Zhong Jinwei said when he was still hesitating whether to stop the factory guards.

At that time, Zhong Jinwei also suggested that Jinyiwei should be responsible for the investigation and arrest. After there is conclusive evidence, the suspect will be handed over to Dali Temple for trial, and Dongchang will be an observer to prevent possible framing, wrongdoing, or unreasonable reversal of the case.

It was precisely after hearing Zhong Jinwei's suggestion that he agreed to release the factory guard.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "According to Shoufu's intention, I will send the Commander of Jinyiwei to come and explain."

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen trusted him so much, Wen Tiren agreed as soon as he said it, and couldn't help being very grateful for the emperor's advice.He saluted respectfully and withdrew.

The commander of Jin Yiwei, Luo Yangxing, received the emperor's summoning order, and knew what was going on.

He ordered his subordinates to make the two censors plead guilty as soon as possible, and then rushed to the Wenhua Palace with the evidence he had.

After seeing Emperor Chongzhen, without waiting for Emperor Chongzhen to inquire, he first reported that he had some evidence at hand, proving that the two arrested were suspected of corruption and bribery.

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen heard about it, he asked him to present the evidence first.

Emperor Chongzhen became more and more angry when he saw it. This amount was quite a lot, especially what was recorded in the ledger.The purchase price of such-and-such jade was only a few cents of silver, but the selling price was hundreds to thousands of taels, sometimes tens of thousands of taels.

Luo Yangxing has been marked and commented, these are actually means of bribery.If you want to bribe Yuan Hongxun, the censor, you go to the jade shop opened by his family to buy these worthless things.After the transaction is completed, Yuan Hongxun will work for the buyer.

It's just that because the time is too short, it's too late to find out what is being done and how many benefits it has.

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to change his mind after seeing the end, so he asked Jin Yiwei to conduct a trial.These moths, no need to investigate, should know that they are actually taking bribes.

But just when Emperor Chongzhen was about to say something, he remembered what Wen Tiren and Zhong Jinwei had said. If all the power were concentrated in the hands of Jin Yiwei, many unjust, false and wrong cases would be caused, not this one, but to prevent future injustices. False and wrongful conviction.I have already promised them that I will not do this.

More importantly, Emperor Chongzhen was different from previous emperors in that he became emperor temporarily.Before he became the emperor, he had a deep understanding of the white terror of the factory guards.Therefore, although the position of his buttocks has changed now, he still has a certain understanding.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen Ma Shan changed his words and asked Luo Yangxing to hand over the criminals and the collected evidence to Dali Temple for trial by the three justices.

Luo Yangxing was startled when he heard that, and didn't think about what the Emperor Chongzhen said. He immediately said: "Your Majesty, I still have evidence that I haven't obtained. If the criminals are directly handed over to Dali Temple, I'm afraid they will take the blame from the subordinates or their family members. It's better to arrest them." After arriving at the prisoner, Jin Yiwei will first detain him for [-] hours, and after obtaining enough evidence, he will be handed over to Dali Temple."

Luo Yangxing still had confidence in Jin Yiwei's methods, if he couldn't pry the prisoner's mouth open in a day, then it would basically be an expression of incompetence.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to let these two corrupt officials go, so he thought for a while and said, "That's fine, in the future, the arrested criminals can be detained by Jin Yiwei for [-] hours. If there is enough evidence, they will be handed over to Dali Temple for trial and conviction. "

When Luo Yangxing heard that the emperor agreed to his request, he was secretly happy.He hurriedly said goodbye and prepared to go back to interrogate overnight.

But he was stopped by Emperor Chongzhen again, and he told Luo Yangxing: "Don't use torture to extract a confession, otherwise Dali Temple will use this as an excuse to impeach you."

Luo Yangxing was taken aback for a moment when he heard this, and then agreed indifferently.

Jin Yiwei has a lot of methods, no less than dozens of methods, so that people can't see the traces of torture to extract confessions.The emperor said that the criminals were handed over to Dali Temple for interrogation. I am afraid that those civil servants were instigated, so I will show you how powerful Jin Yiwei is.