Empress Shi's words made Zhu Hengjia suspicious of the prince's party. Prime Minister Li Guo was originally a member of Guan Shou Zhen. Could it be that Guan Shou Zhen killed people and silenced them?
It’s not like that Jin Yiwei is my personal army. No matter how powerful Guan Shou Zhen is, it’s difficult to interfere. Besides, I have a lot of spies in Jin Yi Guard and I didn’t find any contact between Ma Jixiang and Guan Shou Zhen.
Nama Jixiang is usually very low-key, never forms cliques, and rarely interacts with important officials in the court. This is why he re-employs him. As for the other senior officials of the Jinyiwei, if they want to kill people silently in prison, I am afraid they do not have the ability yet.
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If it was not Guan Shou-zhen's fault, the case would be closed; but if it was Guan Shou-zhen's fault, would the case continue to be tried?
Without Guan Shouzhen, the prince's party will fall apart. How will the prince suppress his ambitious younger brother a hundred years later?
The palm of the hand is flesh, and the back of the hand is also flesh. Although Zhu Hengjia prefers Zhu Ruodeng, the king of Ji, he does not want to abolish the crown prince Zhu Ruoji. He also wants to keep the big tree of Guan Shou Zhen to stabilize the court situation for his eldest son in the future. Therefore, once he suspects this
The matter is related to Shou Zhen’s actions, so I don’t want to investigate further.
Since there is no need to investigate this matter whether it was done by Guan Shouzhen or not, then it can only end here.
The old emperor regained his composure and slowly sorted out his thoughts. Time seemed to stand still. He did not speak. The servants around him all bowed and stood there, not daring to move.
"Cough!"
Zhu Hengjia coughed and suddenly noticed Ma Huanxi, the Chief of Ceremonies who was serving beside him, and asked in an eccentric manner: "My dear friend, what do you think about the imperial mausoleum forgery case?"
Just this sentence made Ma Huanxi go out of his mind, it was over! Could it be that our family asked Ma Jixiang to kill Li Guoxiangkou and Grandpa Long live knew about it?
What a slave, he knew very well that kowtow is a blessing. With a plop, he knelt down on the ground and cried bitterly, "Long live my grandfather, I asked the old slave to work with that Li Guoxiang to supervise the construction of the imperial mausoleum. Unexpectedly, the traitor was so crazy that he dared to use granite."
Stone instead of marble, inferior quality, deceiving the emperor and neglecting the superior. The old slave failed to fulfill his duties, is deeply indebted to the emperor, and only wants to die!"
He cried for a long time until the sky was dark and the sun and the moon were dark! The sadder he cried, the more moved the old emperor was. After all, he was a good slave who had been with me for decades, and he had feelings for me! I saw someone building the emperor.
He made a false statement at the time of the mausoleum. He was so worried that my mansion would have quality problems a hundred years later that he cried even more sadly than I did! What is this? This is loyalty!
Busy and gentle, he said comfortingly: "Okay, okay, I don't blame you for this matter. When Li Guoxiang stole a good thing and replaced it with a good one, you happened to have a cold and was bedridden. If you were here, how could the traitor dare to do this?"
I already know everything about this matter. I don’t blame you, but don’t take it personally! There are not many people in this world that I can trust. If I don’t even trust you, who can I trust?”
As soon as these words came out, Ma Huanxi cried even more, half out of relief and the other half out of shame, "The old slave feels that these traitors must not be let go, and the murder case of Li Guoxiang must be investigated strictly. If he is really silenced, he will definitely be killed."
We need to find out the real culprit behind the scenes!"
"Yeah," Zhu Hengjia nodded, "Do you think Ma Jixiang did this?"
Ma Huanxi's heart skipped a beat, and he pretended to be deep in thought, "The old slave is not familiar with Commander Ma, but I heard that he is very cautious. I guess he may not have the guts to do such a stupid thing. And if you do something extraordinary, you will be rewarded with something extraordinary."
Benefit. The Jin Yiwei are His Majesty's personal soldiers. There is no greater benefit than serving His Majesty well. Why should he sacrifice big benefits for small ones?"
What Zhu Hengjia said makes sense. Who else in the world can give Ma Jixiang as much benefit as I can? Now that Ma Jixiang has fawned over me, there is no need to fawn over others anymore.
It seems that maybe my worries are unfounded, and the death of Li Guoxiang may be a coincidence!
He nodded, smiled and said to Ma Huanxi: "You, an old slave, see things very clearly."
The emperor's knot was resolved, and the case came to an end. How to try major cases in the Ming Dynasty, and to what extent they were tried, depended on the emperor's mood. If the emperor wanted to go to the big court for trial, there would naturally be a lot of heads; if he wanted to calm things down, he would naturally
It's an anticlimax.
However, the emperor's mind is unpredictable. Although he has already retreated in his heart, he is not in a hurry to retreat. He still wants to delay it a little longer to create some tension and let the ministers understand that I am not someone who can be bullied!<
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"Palmprint, Hu Li has been in the Sanfa Division for two months, will he be offered a lower position?" Lin Xianzhi, the governor of Jinyiweinan Town, asked Ma Jixiang anxiously. He was in charge of punishing Hu Li from thousands of households.
Naturally, there is no need for Ma Jixiang, the dignified commander of the Imperial Guards, to come forward in person to silence his direct superiors. Lin Xianzhi is the middleman.
"Don't be afraid. I have sent people to take control of Hu Li's family. I'm afraid he won't dare to say anything nonsense." Ma Jixiang calmly stroked his beard patiently and suddenly asked: "If Hu Li confesses to you, what should you do?"
Where are you?"
Lin Xianzhi broke into a cold sweat, "Xiaguan's entire body is bestowed by his palm seal. If that day comes, Xiaguan would rather die to protect the safety of his palm print."
His words made Ma Jixiang very happy, and he smiled slightly, "Don't worry, it won't happen one day. When that day comes, I will definitely protect your family's safety."
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Under the hint of the old emperor, the Three Laws Division quickly concluded the case. Twenty-one officials, including Li Guoxiang, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, Shenyuan, the minister of the camp and repair department, Liang Zhixin, the doctor of the Dushui Division, and Liu Bing, the foreign minister of the Yuheng Division, accepted bribes.
The crime was found guilty, and it was planned to be executed and their property confiscated. Eleven big businessmen from the Shaanxi business gang, including Liu Xinxuan, the Sanyuan businessman, and Liu Zhongmu, the Gaoling businessman, bribed officials, cut corners, and passed off substandard materials. They were found guilty, and were scheduled to be executed and their property was confiscated.
Family property.
Zhu Hengjia read the handling opinions of the Sanfa Division, and the others were fine. Except for Li Guoxiang, everyone is dead, so what is the shock value of a death sentence? Besides, this man wrote poems to ridicule me during his lifetime, and he offended Long Wei.
How can I be lenient?
Thinking of this, Zhu Hengjia swiped his pen and divided Li Guoxiang's body into five pieces, confiscated his family property, and beheaded any male in the family who was over twelve years old, and exiled the rest of the family to slaves in Gandusi.
The old emperor stared at the names of the eleven big Shaanxi businessmen again. Sanyuan rich businessman Liu Xinxuan, who studied politics, Sun Baoren, Wang Huaicai, Wang Huaide, Gaoling rich businessman Liu Zhongmu, Jingyang rich businessman Zhang Gaolou, Wang Yu, Yujie,
Wang Zizheng, a wealthy businessman from Huayin, and Zhang Shike, a wealthy businessman from Lintong, are all wealthy businessmen. How much money can be found if a house is ransacked? It seems that my treasury can be replenished for a while!
As expected, after the officers were dispatched to search the houses, a total of seven million taels worth of property was confiscated from these eleven wealthy merchants. At this time, even the second installment of Zhaoxin's five million taels was paid.
Folk rumors: Shaanxi merchants fell, Guangwu was full.
This chapter has been completed!