As soon as the words came out, everyone in the audience was shocked!
Zhou Kui? This is His Majesty’s father-in-law, the father of the current Queen! The grievances of this little beggar are actually related to this person? Can this be said in front of Your Majesty? In the past, if this happened, they would be divided into harems directly
The matter will never be brought up to the court, after all, they are also relatives of the emperor.
If it were told in court, it would definitely be a slap in His Majesty's face, and it would offend the master of the harem! It would be hard to please both sides. If the matter was serious, the ministers would meet with His Majesty in private and ask for His opinion, and wait for Your Majesty to have an opinion.
Only then will he go out and act, but he will never say it out loud, Ling Yiqu, today he has hit a brick wall.
"Are you talking about my father-in-law? Zhou Kui?"
At this moment, Zhu Ling felt like he was laughing up to the sky. Ben had always felt that it would be extremely difficult to deal with Zhou Kui. On the one hand, there was no evidence of his crime. If they concentrated on searching for evidence of his crime, would they still go south?
But if you don't search for evidence of his crime, do you want to touch him? The Queen will naturally not agree. Even though Queen Zhou is a virtuous and virtuous person, she may not be able to do anything when faced with the crimes of her biological father.
As the emperor and the husband of Empress Zhou, they had been together for seventeen years, so how could he let her down?
Therefore, dealing with Zhou Kui has always been Zhu Ling's concern. He originally planned to leave the capital with Queen Zhou and then hand it over to Meng Zhaoxiang, but he did not expect that he would be so lucky today.
Zhou Kui was once a fortune teller. Because his daughter was chosen as the concubine of Prince Xin, he was named Jiadingbo and given the title of Suzhou. However, he was quite stingy. In the past few months, there was no silver in the Chongzhen treasury.
At that time, I borrowed silver from him, but I only got 2,000 taels of silver, but my family property was not less than 1.5 million silver.
Therefore, this person has always been a villain that Chongzhen hated, but now that he is facing this matter, God will help him, not the villain!
However, when facing the ministers, he naturally could not show a trace of joy, so he continued to frown and asked in a deep voice: "Continue to tell me, what did my father-in-law commit? You can tell me in detail, and you can't make any lies."
"Of course your Majesty and the Ming Dynasty come first." Ling Yiqu wiped his sweat a little, and Wang Chengen, who received Zhu Ling's signal, stepped forward and took a towel made of Suzhou cotton and handed it to him.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Ling Yiqu wiped his sweat and continued: "I called the man to the lobby and asked him to tell the reason. He cried bitterly and said that he was originally a servant of the Jiading uncle's house, but one day
My mother was seriously ill at home, and my wife had no money to take care of her at home, so she came to the house to tell him that she wanted him to get some money to alleviate the family's difficulties."
"He felt quite uncomfortable after hearing this, but it was not the time for the monthly salary to be paid out at that time, and he could not come up with the money at all. Unexpectedly, Jiadingbo knew about this, and one day he called him to the study and gave him twenty taels directly.
I asked him to give the money to his family for emergency relief. At that time, he just thought it was Uncle Jiading who was kind-hearted and lent him twenty taels of silver, so he was extremely grateful to him."
"But I never expected that one day when I went home to visit relatives, I heard several unpleasant noises outside the door. I immediately went closer to check and found that there was a man inside doing something inappropriate with his wife on the kang. He
He immediately became furious, picked up a wooden stick, rushed in, and pulled the man away, but he was immediately dumbfounded."
Speaking of this, Ling Yiqu's eyes were filled with anger, and he stopped for a moment.
When Zhu Ling heard this, he felt that his heart was filled with rage and murderous intent, so he added: "Later, it was discovered that this person was Jiading Bo Zhou Kui, his master."
"exactly."
With a sigh, all the ministers behind him also felt aggrieved and their teeth were itching with anger. If this person hadn't been your Majesty's father-in-law, they would have stepped forward to impeach Zhou Kui.
"Keep talking."
This sentence is extremely plain, but the anger in it is getting stronger.
"Although he caught an adulterer in bed, he did not dare to say anything. Instead, Jiadingbo scolded him a few times, dismissed him on the spot, and took his men away, leaving the man and his wife in the house. Then
Someone asked the wife why she did this. The wife replied: That day I went to the house, and your master saw me. He thought I was pretty, so he wanted to take me by force. I didn't want to, but he said that if I didn't obey,
Then you will be fired, or even killed, so she had no choice but to comply."
"He asked again how many times Uncle Jiading had come. His wife said that today was the third time. He suddenly found that his mother was missing and went out to look for him. People in the same village told him that they saw his mother's body in the nearby river. He
Only then did he discover that his mother had been killed long ago. He wanted to argue but was beaten with sticks. He wanted to complain to Yingtian Mansion, but his legs were broken. So he had no choice but to come to the minister's house late at night."
After saying this, Ling Yiqu felt quite powerless, perhaps a little tired from this matter.
"So, my father-in-law did such an outrageous thing behind my back? Dare you seize a daughter and kill an old mother in broad daylight?"
Zhu Ling has been suppressing the murderous intention in his heart. If it were Zhou Kui here, he would definitely draw his sword and behead him! Such evil people will destroy our Ming Dynasty and harm our Ming Dynasty!
"If this is really the case, what should your Majesty do?"
Suddenly, Fan Jingwen spoke. The elder who had not said a word since entering the Wuying Hall suddenly spoke. But his words seemed to be questioning His Majesty. You must know that this person is Jiading Bo and is His Majesty's family.
It is true that foreign ministers intervened...
"What do you think, Mr. Ge?"
Zhu Ling turned away and turned his head slightly to ask Fan Jingwen.
"This is His Majesty's family matter, but if it touches the laws of the Ming Dynasty, it is a national matter. When the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture heard that this matter was Jiadingbo's, a matter of the emperor's relatives, he did not dare to interfere. Only then did Lord Ling know about it.
If Shuntian Mansion were in charge, this matter would not be known to us, let alone His Majesty."
Fan Jingwen spoke unhurriedly, and people around him did not dare to interrupt.
"What does Mr. Ge mean?"
"Announce this matter to the world, and then act in a high-profile manner, with guards in royal robes, Shuntian Mansion, Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Yushitai will review the case together. The people can supervise the case together, and then the house will be ransacked and beheaded. Your Majesty will go south soon.
, represents the imperial court, but because local officials bully the common people, the imperial court has long lost its royal laws in their eyes, so it is necessary to establish the image of the imperial court as being upright and fair in order to restore some reputation."
Fan Jingwen had not said a word just now, but now his speech was so shocking that everyone who heard it felt that Mr. Ge was indeed ruthless.
After hearing Fan Jingwen's words, Zhu Ling was quite shocked. He didn't expect that Mr. Ge, who was usually so gentle and elegant, could have such a ruthless side. His impression of him instantly rose a lot, and his thoughts on this matter also increased.
It was indeed approved by him, and this approach could not only gain silver, but also gain fame for the court.
"Where are the others? Let us know what you think. We'll deal with it as soon as possible during our trip south."
He turned around and scanned the expressions of the ministers below, waiting for everyone to have no objection before starting.
"I second the proposal."
Wu Linzheng was the first to step forward and agree.
"I second the proposal." Other ministers immediately stepped forward and said.
"Okay, then just do what Mr. Ge said." Zhu Ling looked at Wang Chengen and said: "Wang Chengen, this time together with the Jin Yiwei, we will arrest and confiscate the house, and use all the methods you used in Dongchang to confiscate the house, let me see
!”
"My slave understands."
Dongchang? His Majesty restarted Dongchang?
When the ministers below heard that Zhu Ling mentioned that Dongchang was handling the case together with Jin Yiwei, they panicked and were shocked. The Dongchang, which had been abandoned for fifteen years, was actually restarted? Why didn't His Majesty tell them?
The reopening of the East Factory is definitely not a good thing for them. In troubled times, heavy rules should be used. It seems that your Majesty is really going to rectify the officialdom this time.
"Tomorrow, the joint trial will be over, and we can go south the next day. Everyone, the mountains and rivers are still there, and we will work together."
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