At this time, Xu Qianhu woke up and saw that he was in the hands of Ancha Si. He hurriedly shouted: "Zhou Zhitai, you can't take me."
"Why can't I take you?" Zhou Xin said coldly.
"Because I have this..." Xu Qianhu said, suddenly took out a piece of yellow satin from his arms, and said loudly: "I have an oracle with the officials of various provinces. They are not allowed to get involved with me without the emperor's approval. Naturally, they can't do anything with me."
Arrested and punished”
Zhou Xin couldn't help but be stunned. Xu Yingxian's move was really unexpected. He didn't expect that this guy had such a trump card. But the sword was already unsheathed. How could he return without success? Moreover, letting Xu Yingxian go now was tantamount to letting him go.
When Hu Guishan thought of this, Zhou Xin laughed loudly and said: "Well said, I also have a holy edict." He also took out a piece of yellow satin from his arms and said loudly: "I have been ordered to inquire about the Zhejiang Qianhu Office
, as a member of a thousand households, you will naturally bear the brunt."
"It's just an inquiry, I didn't allow you to arrest me," Xu Qianhu protested.
"The absurd oracle is supposed to protect you from acting impartially, but it will never protect you from committing crimes. Since we have been ordered to investigate, once we find that you are guilty, we will naturally take you into custody on behalf of the emperor." He shouted loudly and said: "Left and right,
Take Xu Ying down first and put him under house arrest. I will write a letter to take away his kindness and then put him in jail."
"Here!" The police officers had been irritated for a long time after watching Jin Yiwei roaming around Hangzhou for several months. Now that they were finally able to capture him, they all responded with high morale.
The guards in Jinyi wanted to step forward to save people, but were stopped by Zhu Jiuye. Zhu Jiu came from the battlefield. When he saw these agents, he knew that they were not ordinary people, but as elite as his own soldiers, and at this time
The morale is high and the arrow is on the string. If the Jin Yiwei insists on taking someone away, they will inevitably kick the iron plate.
Seeing Xu Qianhu being pushed down, Zhu Jiu could not lose the battle. He glared at Zhou Xin with a livid face and said: "Zhou Zhitai is so powerful, do you want to take me down too?"
"Zhu Qianhu is joking." Now that his face has been broken, Zhou Xin no longer makes excuses with him, and says coldly: "You are the imperial envoy to investigate the case, what should I do with you?"
"Hmph," Zhu Jiu snorted angrily: "If I fall into your trap today, I will be rewarded handsomely in the future." As he said this, he gave his luck a heavy blow and actually made a clicking sound on the solid desk and split the iron sand in his hand in half.
Palm, everyone in the hall was stunned.
Zhu Jiu took over the cloak, stared at Zhou Xin fiercely, shouted: "Go back to Qianhusuo" and turned around to lead everyone away.
"Wait a minute" was stopped by Zhou Xin.
Zhu Jiu thought he had frightened him, so he turned back and stared at Zhou Xin coldly, waiting for his next words.
"Jiuye can go wherever he wants, but before I conduct an inventory of Qianhu Station," Zhou Xin said slowly, "You can't go back to Qianhu Station.
"You are so good, so good." Zhu Jiu's black face turned white with anger, then turned red again and said, "What a good Zhou Xin, I think you are not far from death, let's go."
Seeing the Jin Yiwei withdrawing, all the officers and soldiers in the hall breathed a sigh of relief. Many people actually sat down on the ground. Forty-six years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, this was the first time that a Yamen dared to get into a fight with the Jin Yiwei.
Although they were frightened for a while, everyone still felt very proud, as they had been proud of for the rest of their lives...
The news that Zhou Zhitai had seized the Qianhu Station and imprisoned many thousands of households immediately caused a sensation in the whole city. The people of Hangzhou, who had been ravaged for a long time, thought they had finally arrived at dawn.
They were extremely grateful. They beat gongs and drums and carried a plaque with the words "liberate the people upside down," and "clear mirror of the sky," and came to the Yamen of Zhensi and asked to see Zhou Xin to express their gratitude.
However, only one deputy envoy from the Ancha Division came out and spoke to the people on Zhou Xin's behalf: "It is the unshirkable duty of the Ancha Division to ask for orders from the people and punish lawbreakers. The great kindness of all of you was accepted by the Taiwanese adults, but thousands of households have already left."
After checking the evidence of the crime, I cannot come out to see you. Please go home. Living and working in peace and contentment with less trouble is the best reward for Mr. Zedai. The people then dispersed reluctantly.
Of course Zhou Xin would not lie. He was in Luyuan at the moment. He put all the white servants in the cell and ordered people to interrogate them carefully. At the same time, he personally focused on the highlight - checking the stolen goods. He specially came from the Chief Secretary's Yamen
He borrowed more than a dozen accountants and ordered people to move out all the gold, silver, jewelry, jade and brocade from various warehouses, and count and record them in the yard. It took a full day and a half to count them.
I really don’t know if I don’t check, but I was shocked when I checked. All kinds of gold, silver, jade, silk, gold stamps and land deeds. The value can be estimated to be as high as six million taels. There are also those antique calligraphy and paintings, jade and pearls that cannot be valued... This is
In less than three months, such terrifying figures have been collected. If it is allowed to continue to rage, the entire city of Hangzhou will not be wiped out.
In addition to copying the list, the confessions of those white-collar workers also came out... They were just some local hooligans who settled down in the countryside. Under three trees, they didn't even need to be beaten. Once they were threatened, they all poured beans through bamboo tubes and confessed to one after another.
Compared with the charges, Xu Yingxian can be convicted without any confession.
According to Fanzi's confession, the officials also pulled out more than a dozen corpses from the lotus pond in the backyard. Some of them had sunk just a few days ago, and their faces were clearly identifiable. After autopsy, each corpse had
They were subjected to inhuman torture, which was also the cause of their death.
After two days of investigation, the evidence piled up like a mountain. Although Zhou Xin was angry, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. The evidence was so solid that it could not be disputed. He finally had an explanation to the emperor.
But Zhou Xin also wanted to obtain Xu Yingxian's confession and nail the case. However, no matter how much ironclad evidence he put in front of him, Xu Yingxian was like a gourd in the mouth and did not say a word. Xu Yingxian was a high-ranking official of Jinyiwei and had an imperial edict to protect him.
Zhou Xin did not dare to torture him before there was an order. The two sides remained in a stalemate for a day, but still made no progress.
At this time, people around him reminded him that Zhu Jiu had been silent since he left. He was afraid that he was plotting something. In order to avoid a long night and many dreams, he could not delay it any longer. Zhou Xin suddenly woke up. He was indeed a little careless. In today's plan, time is of the essence, and
Instead of striving for perfection, he hurriedly wrote the case into a memorial overnight, mobilized imperial envoys to rush to the capital, and rushed it 800 miles to the capital. Then he anxiously waited for a reply.
One afternoon three days later, Zhou Xin was in the process of returning the property that Jinyiwei had seized. Zhou Tailai came to report that someone from eight hundred miles away from the capital was rushing to arrive.
"Oh?" Zhou Xin's brows furrowed into a frown. It had only been three days since he sent out the report. How could he get a reply so quickly? Suppressing the surprise in his heart, he hurried to the front to receive the letter. It turned out to be an imperial edict. He hurriedly repeated
After setting up the incense table, receiving the order, and working hard, I finally saw the content above.
It was very short, with only one line of words: "Zhou Xin explained that Xu Ying should go to Beijing." There was no signature and no time, but Zhou Xin recognized at a glance that it was Emperor Yongle's imperial pen and he quickly said that he obeyed the decree and carefully put it away.
He also casually asked the messenger when he set off on his journey and how the weather was good on the way.
The messenger did not doubt that he was there, so he told the truth, saying that he set out two days ago and was delayed for half a day due to heavy rain on the way. After hearing this, Zhou Xin said that it was hard work and asked Zhou Tai to take him down to eat and rest.
As soon as the messenger left, Zhou Xin slumped down in his chair... The messenger set out two days ago, and the messenger he sent was still on the way two days ago. So this decree was definitely not due to his own report.
Come, then there is only one possibility - evil man Zhu Jiu files a complaint first
"How could you make such a low-level mistake..." Zhou Xin was frustrated. If he had not forced Xu Yingxian to give a confession, he could have sent the memorial to the capital one day earlier before the edict was issued. The situation would have been much better.
But the matter has come to this, no matter what the situation is, he has no choice but to face it. Zhou Xin cheered up and thought about the evidence in his hand. He felt that subjugating Xu Yingxian would not be a problem, and no one could intercede for him.
The only thing I'm worried about is Zhu Jiu's previous threat - to falsely accuse him of colluding with Jianwen. If the emperor believes it, it will be a bad thing.
If he is completely innocent, Zhou Xin has nothing to worry about. After all, the emperor is a wise king, and it is impossible for him to just listen to a single word and just ignore the situation. But there is something that he cannot do for the emperor. At that time, he learned that Tang
When Yun wanted to mobilize the fleet to annihilate the Zheng family at sea, he asked Zhou Taixing to rush back to Hangzhou at night. From the prison of Zhensi, he released the forgery master Zhang Zhang and ordered him to forge Tang Yun's transfer order and destroy the Zhejiang Navy.
They were transferred away from Qiantangkou, allowing the Zheng family's fleet to escape.
After Tang Yun found out that he had fallen into the trap, he did not say anything, but still reported to the emperor that the mission was completed. This was what Zhou Xin had expected... Emperor Yongle was strict in managing the army, and the dignified Zhejiang Navy was found to have a forged
Warrants are sent around, and if a war breaks out, I don't know how I will die.
Once the report is reported, Tang Yun, the Zhejiang capital, will be at an end, so although he is holding back his anger, Uncle Tang will bear it after thinking clearly about the pros and cons. What's more, there is nowhere to check in the vast sea, and the Zheng family has gone never to return, so why not
Just treat them as dead and let this matter be settled once and for all.
Tang Yun's reaction was as expected, and he did not make any announcement, which is why Zhou Xin dared to do so. But he has been in the judicial department for more than 20 years, and he knows best the principle of "If others don't know, you have to do nothing."
, if anyone is suspicious of Tang Yunlai, they can still find out the truth from the Zhejiang Navy
It's just that under the circumstances at that time, the lives of thousands of members of the Zheng family were hanging by a thread. Although Zhou Xin was known as a cold-faced man, his heart was still fleshy. He had spent half his life with his hair tied up and taught, so how could he just sit back and ignore it? So he simply didn't care.
No choice...
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It couldn't be that Zhu Jiu already knew the truth. When Zhou Xin touched his forehead, it was covered with sweat. He couldn't help but sigh, thinking that one day he would also feel guilty as a thief.
In fact, if you do it, you should do it. There is nothing to regret, so what if it costs your own life? But at this juncture, if the other party uses this matter to turn the tables, all the previous efforts will be wasted, and I am afraid that Jin Yiwei will never be able to be cured again.