Beijing, Jinyiwei Yamen. ? Qin Song pulled his head out from the manuscripts on the table, then stood up again, asked the guard to bring a basin of water, and washed his face.
The job of the Jinyiwei was really difficult. In the 24th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang carried out a large-scale elimination of the Jinyiwei, and a considerable number of them were executed. After the 29th year of Hongwu, after successively getting rid of Feng Sheng, Fu Youde and others, Zhu Yuanzhang
The number of Jinyiwei personnel was reduced for the second time.
Zhu Yuanzhang's behavior of "killing the cunning rabbit and cooking the lackey" prevented the Jinyiwei from expanding into an organization similar to the Cheka. The purge and replacement of commanders also prevented the emergence of people like Beria. Only in this way can Yunxi succeed to the throne.
Successfully let his own people take over Jinyiwei.
But this also caused a serious reduction in the strength of the Jinyi Guards. After Yunxi came to the throne, Qin Song started to expand the Jinyiwei again, but Yunxi told him not to recruit a bunch of scum, and the general sergeants in the guard were not willing to come to the Jinyiwei, so the expansion was slow.
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Not only were there few people, Jinyiwei also had no power to arrest people. Yunxi also required that he be careful not to be exposed in front of officials and people, which made the work proceed very slowly.
Qin Song rested for a while, sighed, and could only continue working.
At this time, a man named Jili who was transferred from Jinwu right guard by Qin Song to serve as Qianhu came in and said: "Your Majesty the Commander."
Qin Song raised his head and said, "Ji Li, do you have any clues about the origin of the son of the former Zheng Guo Gong in Zheng Guo Gong's mansion?" Ji Li was the person he sent to investigate this matter.
Ji Li presented the document and said at the same time: "Yes, sir, I have an idea."
"We did trace them back to Anqing Prefecture at first. But when our people came to Anqing Prefecture to continue the investigation and contacted the local Jinyiwei spies who were lurking there, we found that they came from Chizhou Prefecture opposite Anqing.
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"We chased them to Chizhou Mansion again, and found that they came from the east. I asked Zhou Wei to lead people to continue the investigation, and I will return to the capital to report first."
Qin Song asked Ji Li to sit down, and then said: "If this is the case, then the Duke of Zheng is lying? Is he fabricating a descendant of Duke Zheng?"
"But if this is true, what benefit does it have to the Duke of Zheng's government? If we want to find someone to sacrifice to the former Duke of Zheng, wouldn't it be better to adopt a child in the name of the former Duke of Zheng? Doesn't it make sense?" Qin Song didn't know the truth completely.
No reasonable explanation can be inferred.
Ji Li said: "Sir, from my point of view, it is probably the Duke of Zheng who has been deceived."
Qin Song thought about it and felt that Ji Li's words made sense, and said: "Then we will investigate carefully and I will report to Your Majesty when I have some real information. Anyway, since it is to the east of Chizhou Prefecture, in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas,
It’s also easy to check.”
Ji Li said: "Yes, sir."
After listening to Ji Li's words, Qin Song was already preparing to deal with other things, but when he saw that Ji Li had not left, he asked, "What else do you have?"
Ji Li said: "Your Excellency, when I was investigating the affairs of Duke Zheng's Mansion, I found some other things, and now I want to report them to Your Excellency."
Qin Song said: "What happened?"
Ji Li said: "I found out that in the southeast of the capital, where all the officials are, Pan Ren, a doctor in the Ministry of Civil Affairs Examination Division, has a house in addition to the house where he and his wife live now."
Qin Song knew that if it was an ordinary foreigner, Ji Li would not specifically say anything to him, so he quietly waited for his next words.
As expected, Jili continued: "I checked this house by the way, and found that there is no outer room for Pan Ren in the house, and he does not have an outer room."
Qin Song said doubtfully: "Oh, then why did he buy such a house?"
Ji Li continued: "Because I was mainly investigating the affairs of Zheng Guogong's mansion, I did not investigate carefully. However, I found that Liu Chuan, the censor who wrote to your majesty a few days ago requesting for the reduction of land taxes in the five provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, lives nearby, and Pan
Ren is also from Suzhou, and they had some friendship before."
"I further investigated and learned that someone had seen someone coming out of Liu Chuan's residence and seemed to have entered Pan Ren's residence."
Qin Song understood what Ji Li was going to say: 'He is saying that Pan Ren is the one who encouraged Liu Chuan to write the letter.'
Qin Song immediately paid attention to this matter. Just the fact that Liu Chuan submitted a letter was nothing, but if it was instructed by others, the nature would be different.
If the speculation is true, then in addition to Liu Chuan, who has been demoted to Shazhou, and Pan Ren, who has been discovered, there may be other people involved. Now all officials from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the DPRK are suspected, and there may be others.
elsewhere.
Qin Song solemnly said: "You go down, I will arrange for someone to investigate this matter later." Seeing that Qin Song was paying attention to this matter, Ji Li withdrew.
Qin Song immediately called in a guard and ordered: "Please come over to Cui Mingjun of Qianhu!"
After a while, Cui Mingjun came in and said, "Sir, are you calling me?"
Qin Song said: "Cui Qianhu, I have something to do for you now. Look up Pan Ren, the doctor in the examination department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs."
Cui Mingjun's father was a sergeant in Jinyiwei; after his father's death, he inherited his father's legacy and joined Jinyiwei.
Cui Mingjun was very good at handling cases. He was still young when he investigated Li Shanchang, but he made great achievements while living alone. Even Zhu Yuanzhang praised him after hearing about it.
Perhaps because Zhu Yuanzhang praised him, he was not purged. Now, when most of the Jin Yiwei who were experienced in investigating crimes were executed, he is one of the few people in the Jin Yiwei who knows how to investigate.
Cui Mingjun didn't ask anything and said directly: "Yes, sir."
Qin Song also asked: "No matter what happens about this Pan Ren, you must investigate it carefully and report everything to me. Don't miss anything."
Cui Mingjun said as before: "Yes, sir." Then he saw that Qin Song had no other instructions, turned around and left.
Qin Song sat in a chair and thought for a moment, feeling that the affairs of Zheng Guogong's palace could be concealed for the time being. Anyway, since the Chang family had officially included Chang Jifeng in the family tree and informed the court through a formal letter, all the impact this incident could have had.
, so there is no big difference if you know it earlier or later.
But things about Pan Ren are different. If Yunxi is not informed, he may make some wrong decisions.
Qin Song, who had already made up his mind, just went ahead and left the palace immediately.
In the Palace of Qianqing, the four assistant officers and Zhuo Jing below were dealing with the Zhezi, and the people in the Zhongshushe were dealing with other matters at any time. But Yunxi was not dealing with the Zhezi. He was reading the "Three Character Classic", or in other words,
He is preparing lessons.
In this life, Yunxi didn't like to study very much. He memorized the "Three Character Classic" at that time, but now he has long forgotten most of its contents.
As for Yunxi in the previous life, although he memorized his favorite ancient texts such as "Chu Shi Biao", he could not remember most of the contents of "Three Character Classic".
Therefore, before Yunxi taught the "Three Character Classic" to four children, he had to review it himself and spend time preparing lessons before he could teach the four little guys.
At this time, Xie Jin walked into the Qianqing Palace and spoke a few words to Chen Xingshan. Chen Xingshan listened to Xie Jin's words, stood up, and walked to Yunxi with Xie Jin.
Yunxi was still muttering at the "Three Character Classic", not noticing that someone was only one step away from him.
Xie Jin was curious about what Yunxi was looking at and wanted to take a few glances before talking to Yunxi; but Chen Xingshan said directly: "Your Majesty."
Yunxi subconsciously closed the "Three Character Classic". After all, it was a bit embarrassing to be seen reviewing the "Three Character Classic".
Yunxi asked: "What's the matter with you?"
Chen Xingshan said: "Your Majesty, Jie Zhongshu is now presiding over the compilation of "Records of Taizu", and there are some things I want to talk to Your Majesty."
Yunxi said: "What's the matter? If you need any information, don't tell me. Just go to the History Museum or the Hanlin Academy to get it." The notebook that recorded the most confidential things, the notebook that Zhu Yuanzhang secretly wrote down, was hidden by Yunxi. They can't find the palace's own dormitory in Qianqing Palace. In addition, all records about Zhu Yuanzhang can be shown to them at will.
At this time, Yunxi suddenly thought of something and said, "Could it be..."
Xie Jin said: "Your Majesty should have guessed that it is the final conclusion about Li Shanchang."
Li Shanchang, one of the six founding Dukes of the Ming Dynasty, was also one of the most important heroes of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang once personally compared him to Xiao He.
However, the environment in the early Han Dynasty was completely different from that in the early Ming Dynasty. Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, the founders of the Han Dynasty, were also completely different. Therefore, Li Shanchang was not able to have a good death. The entire family was killed except for Han Qi, the second son who married the princess.
Chen Xingshan had asked once before how to write comments about Han Shantong, Liu Futong, Chen Youliang, and Zhang Shicheng. Yunxi thought about it for a long time at that time, and finally decided: "For Han Shantong, Liu Futong, Chen Youliang, and Emperor Taizu, just write whatever they said during his lifetime." , will not be modified.'
However, Zhang Shicheng was slightly different. Yunxi knew that many of Zhang Shicheng's old men were working as pirates, and Yunxi hoped to recruit them, so he softened his comments about Zhang Shicheng.
But this time it was different for Li Shanchang. Hu Weiyong deserved to die, and most ministers of the Ming Dynasty agreed with this; but most people believed that Li Shanchang's crime was not worthy of death, although they did not dare to say it out.
Not only Li Shanchang, but also later Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Wang Bi, and some ministers with less influence. Their posthumous comments are very important and must be considered.
Yunxi rubbed his head and thought: Why are there always such annoying things? Could it be that God couldn't let him rest a little longer?