By the time the eunuch finished reading the thirteen statements in a row, all the ministers in the court were so angry that they did not dare to speak out. The thirteen people whose names were called collapsed on the ground, and some of them were guilty of lighter crimes.
He could still remain calm, but in the face of such a depressing atmosphere, no one dared to speak out.
After the eunuch recited the poem, he bowed and stepped back. Qin Jiyan looked at the ministers in the palace. He was not in a hurry to speak, but kept silent for a moment to put enough pressure on these people before he slowly spoke, "Do you have anything to say?"
The ministers who have not been singled out at this time will naturally not say anything. Don't blame them for being cold-blooded. It is really the emperor's wrath that they cannot bear. They are just cleaning up the snow in front of them and not adding insult to injury, which is already very good.
Several officials who were impeached by the censor were unwilling to accept it. When Qin Jiyan asked, they immediately said, "My lord, I have something to say."
"Accurate!" Qin Jiyan was very generous. He was not a tyrant, he would give these people a chance to defend themselves.
"Your Majesty, the impeachment of several censors has been exaggerated. Although my son is a dandy, he dare not commit murder, arson, or rob someone's wife and daughter. Your Majesty must be aware of it." The ministers who were impeached by the censor were not actually themselves.
No mistakes were made, most of them were made by family members, and they protected and condoned them.
Of course, there are some dirty tricks. This is an unspoken rule in officialdom. Everyone is like this and no one will tell anyone. Most emperors turn a blind eye. After all, no emperor can guarantee that he will be clean.
After removing this group of officials, the next group will not be corrupt, and this time Qin Jiyan did not use petty corruption as a crime.
Among the officials impeached this time, only one official from the Ministry of Revenue was impeached by the censor because he had colluded with local officials and embezzled river money.
Someone spoke, and others immediately defended themselves: "Your Majesty, I am my wife, I am my wife...I don't know, I really don't know, I am sure that Your Majesty will restore my innocence."
This minister was an official of the Ministry of Punishment, and his wife used his name to handle lawsuits. As long as she could afford the money, she could be acquitted of murder and arson.
Jinyiwei has investigated these matters, and this gentleman does not know about them. However, this gentleman is henpecked, and he does not dare to interfere with what his wife does. However, even if he does not know, his wife does things in his name.
, it is almost impossible for him to escape.
…
Except for the household officials who themselves embezzled money, other ministers began to defend themselves and tried to remove themselves from these charges.
Officials belonging to the Supreme Emperor's faction, seeing these ministers blaming the blame on their family members, also began to come out to compete with Qin Jiyan, and many officials in the court were implicated.
Ministers of the DPRK, there is no one in the family who does not have three wives and four concubines. When there are more wives and concubines, there will be more children, and there will be more disputes. Men are always on the go, and it is inevitable that there will be things at home that cannot be noticed, and it is impossible for all the children and grandchildren to keep track of them.
It's really not that difficult to catch a mistake when you are confident.
Besides, even if you are right and your wife and children have not made mistakes, what about your clan?
In a big family with hundreds of people, would it be difficult to select someone with bad conduct?
Under Qin Jiyan's indulgence, the main hall instantly turned into a vegetable market. In order to keep their backbone, the officials of the Supreme Emperor's faction began to spare no effort to drag others into the water, trying to drag everyone into the water so that the Emperor would not follow the law.
Public.
And how could those ministers be willing to be attacked and not fight back?
The capital is such a big place, and there are many things that are hidden behind the scenes that the Emperor doesn't know, but these people know something about it. Even if they don't know, it doesn't matter. Is it okay to fabricate accusations and insinuations?
Not to mention people in the officialdom, even ordinary people who live to be thirty or forty years old dare not say that they are innocent and have not made any mistakes.
So this early morning meeting turned into a meeting where officials from various factions attacked each other and discredited each other...
Feng Shoufu originally thought that Qin Jiyan just wanted to deal with the Supreme Emperor. Now seeing this situation, he finally understood Qin Jiyan's purpose.
The Emperor is not going to deal with the Supreme Emperor's people. He is going to muddy the waters in the court, drag everyone into the water, and hold the handle of all the ministers!
As the chief minister of the cabinet and the head of a hundred officials, Chief Minister Feng has been an official for so many years. He knows what these capitals are like. If the emperor really wants to punish someone, can he not commit a crime that will lead to death?
The emperor seemed to be dealing with people from the Supreme Emperor's faction, but he only brought out a few minor charges. In order to survive, could these people save themselves without risking their lives?
The charges are all real and it is almost impossible to clear them out. What should I do if I can’t clear them out?
Of course let everyone be black!
Everyone was an official in the capital, and they looked up to each other without looking down. Just because they didn't say something didn't mean that others didn't know anything about it. The emperor wanted to deal with them, so they unceremoniously dragged the emperor's people into trouble.
Now, everyone is guilty of the same crime. The emperor can't just deal with these people and not deal with his own confidants, right?
When the people from the Supreme Emperor's faction saw that Qin Jiyan did not stop them, they thought they had the upper hand and became even more happy. They even told the story about an official from the Ministry of Rites who accidentally slept with his daughter-in-law.
Listening to each thing becoming more and more ridiculous, Qin Jiyan felt ridiculous and irritating.
This is the official of the Qin Dynasty!
This was the Great Qin Dynasty under his rule!
He knew that no one was perfect, but as officials of the Qin Dynasty and as the pillars of the Qin Dynasty, the unbearable side behind them really opened his eyes.
Noisy, noisy... The people below became more and more noisy, and they became more and more ferocious in slandering each other. Qin Jiyan remained silent. He wanted to see how long these people could continue to quarrel?
Qin Jiyan did not disappoint, these people quarreled in the main hall for nearly three hours, until they were hungry and thirsty, they stopped, and then...
The ministers seemed to have only now remembered that Qin Jiyan was still sitting on the dragon chair. They were all frightened, showing uneasiness on their faces, and begging for forgiveness in panic.
Qin Jiyan looked at the group of courtiers who were pretentious, even more pretentious than him, and his face became more and more ugly, and he said slowly and heavily: "Is the quarrel enough? Do you want to continue to quarrel?"
"I am afraid, and I would like to ask your Majesty to forgive me." All the ministers knelt down, feeling uneasy.
Their senses came back, and they seemed to understand something, but they had been arguing too much, and they seemed to have talked too much?
"Excuse me? I do want to forgive you, but look at...my ministers and officials of Great Qin, are you like this? You really let me down!" Qin Jiyan looked heartbroken, as if he was troubled.
The ministers were very angry.
Well, in fact, Qin Jiyan was in a good mood at this time. He just threw out a few baits and got the handle on more than 60% of the ministers in the court.
And these clues were not because he, the emperor, did not trust his ministers and sent people to find out, but because their political opponents exposed them directly in the main hall.
With these facts in hand, Qin Jiyan didn't think that his ministers would dare to go against him!
Upon hearing this, all the ministers banged their heads and said, "Your Majesty, be angry. I deserve death for my crime."
The ministers thought that Qin Jiyan would definitely uphold the principle of not ruling out the law, hold it up high and put it down gently, but Qin Jiyan said with a dark face: "You... are all lawless and indulging in your family."
The common people deserve to die, someone comes..."
"Your Majesty!" Upon hearing Qin Jiyan's order without hesitation, the ministers were frightened. They hurriedly interrupted Qin Jiyan before he finished speaking, fearing that Qin Jiyan would punish them severely.
Jun Wu joked, Qin Jiyan said it, and asking him to take back his life was not an easy task.
Qin Jiyan ignored the entreaties of the ministers and said with a stern face: "It's useless to call the Holy One. Today I have to..."
"Report!"
But at this moment, the urgent voice of the messenger interrupted Qin Jiyan's words...
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