Wang Xi's heart trembled, and then he immediately turned around and went out. After a while, Wang Bu and the other three were called over.
After seeing Yunxi, they all knelt down quickly. They didn't say anything to beg for mercy, they just admitted their mistakes.
Unfortunately, Yunxi had already made up his mind at this time, and ignored what they said, and said directly: "Wang Jin, you serve as the eunuch of the governor, and you are also in charge of Fengtian Palace, Jinshen Palace and other palaces, but you are corrupt*
*, you have failed to live up to the grace of God. You should have been severely punished, but in view of your kindness in serving me for many years, I will remove you from the post of eunuch and eunuch. You will be demoted and remain in office. You will continue to be in charge of Fengtian Palace, Jinshen Palace and other palaces.
If you do it again, you will not be forgiven."
"Wang Bu, as a eunuch and eunuch in charge of rites, you are in charge of all the eunuchs in the palace and all the affairs in the palace. But, forget it, let's not talk about it. You are removed from your position as eunuch in charge of rites, and you are removed from the power of the chief eunuch.
Just stay with me for the time being."
"Wang Gong," Yunxi paused for a moment, and his voice became a little trembling: "I regard you as the eunuch of the Imperial Mausoleum. You can go to the Imperial Mausoleum to guard the souls of your ancestors."
After Wang Bu and Wang Jin heard what Yun Xi had done to them, they both kowtowed and said, "Thank you for your grace." But their meanings were different.
For Wang Jin, he and Wang Xi are one of the people who are most familiar with Yunxi. Although Yunxi was not treated seriously just now, his voice was cold and there was no emotion as he usually talked to them. So Wang Jin already knew that after this
Due to this incident, their relationship with Yunxi has been reduced a lot, which is definitely not a good thing.
Wang Jin couldn't help but secretly regret why he didn't insist on not accepting bribes like Wang Xi. But now it was too late to regret.
Wang Bu didn't understand Yunxi as well as Wang Jin did. Wang Bu's management ability was superior to Wang Jin and Wang Xi, so he later became the eunuch general manager; but his understanding of Yunxi was obviously not as good as Wang Xi and Wang Jin. At this time
He just thought about escaping the disaster and did not think about love. So Wang Bu was just immersed in happiness.
Wang Gong completely lost his energy and energy and collapsed on the ground. For the eunuchs in the palace, as long as they did not leave the palace, there was still a chance; but once they left the palace, they were completely ruined.
Then, Wang Gong couldn't care about anything, came up and hugged Yunxi's legs and said: "Your Majesty, you can punish the slave however you want, but you must not drive the slave out of the palace!" As he said this, he started to cry bitterly.
Yunxi was standing a little close to them when he was giving his speech, so Wang Gong immediately hugged his legs. Since Yunxi had made up his mind, he would never change, and he stretched out his legs to shake Wang Gong away, but he didn't.
become.
Wang Xi on the side hesitated for a moment, and then asked Huang Fu and Huang Lu to step forward and drag Wang Gong away.
Yunxi looked at Wang Gong and felt a little unbearable, but finally said: "When you arrive at the imperial mausoleum, you can take care of yourself." Then he asked the new eunuch who was sent to serve him today to drag Wang Gong away.
Yunxi turned to Wang Jin again, and Wang Bu said: "Both of you, please step aside and go to Kunning Palace to cooperate with the Queen's subsequent interrogation. I don't want to see you again now! Get out! Get out!"
Wang Bu and Wang Jin did not dare to speak, so they turned around and left. The other eunuchs also left one after another. Only Yunxi and Wang Xi were left in the room, and they did not know what they said.
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In Kunning Palace, Xiyao asked the eunuchs who brought Wang Bu and Wang Jin to leave after hearing what they said, and asked them to take Wang Jin and Wang Bu to cooperate with Hui Li and continue to investigate the case.
Xiyao thought about Yunxi's meaning in her heart. In fact, the matter between Wang Bu and Wang Jin was very clear. They were high-ranking officials, not directly handling the matter. The matter of accepting bribes was actually easy to investigate, and there was nothing that required repeated cooperation. On the contrary, it was a problem. The more serious issue of Wang Gong was directly demoted without investigation. From a legal perspective, this is very inappropriate.
However, although Xiyao was not the roundworm in Yunxi's belly and did not know much about Yunxi's temper in Qianqing Palace, she could guess Yunxi's thoughts.
For Yunxi, he didn't actually care about the money they embezzled, but he was mainly heartbroken because they embezzled even though they had no shortage of money at all. So it didn't matter how much money Wang Gong embezzled, so since he had done Once the decision to punish Wang Gong is made, there is no need to continue the investigation.
As for the other eunuchs and young eunuchs involved, Xiyao estimated that Yunxi had already decided the outcome. If Xiyao's prediction was correct and Wang Gong was kicked out of the palace, then the fate of the others would be very tragic. The emperor There is nothing to worry about when dealing with eunuchs.
Xiyao instructs Huili and Liu Qian'an to continue investigating the case. Because the most difficult part of investigating Wang Gong's corruption does not require finding out what happened, but only who is involved. In 'I would rather be unjustly accused than Under the guiding ideology of "slip through the net", everyone who may have been involved was soon arrested.
Xiyao, who had grasped Yunxi's thoughts, instructed Hui Li and Liu Qian'an to sort out the files and asked them to report the matter to Yunxi. She, a queen, could not handle such a matter personally.
Yunxi didn't even look at it and said directly; "All the eunuchs and young eunuchs involved were executed. The main ones who directly intervened were executed, and the rest of the people involved were demoted to the lowest eunuchs. The rest of this case, even if there is no investigation It’s clear, so there’s no need to investigate further. If you insist on continuing the investigation, let the Queen make the final decision on the rest. Don’t bother me with this matter anymore!”
He no longer wanted to hear anything about this matter.
After Huili came back and told Xiyao about the matter, Xiyao also ordered: "This case will not be investigated anymore, let's just deal with it like this." Continuing to investigate this case will obviously make Yunxi unhappy, and Xiyao's own The goal has basically been achieved: all the original eunuchs and young eunuchs in the Yamen such as Shangshan Supervisor and Yunxi have not been in charge in the past few days, so they are all temporarily appointed by Xiyao. Xiyao can completely pass this. It takes a few days to form a new routine, and it doesn't matter if you hand over the positions later.
Huili could understand what Xiyao meant, but she was very reluctant. She wanted to dig out all the people involved. However, she did not dare to go against Xiyao's words, so she could only agree reluctantly.
Xiyao also knew Hui Li's thoughts, so she softly comforted her for a while before letting her deal with the rest of the matter.
On the third day, Wang Gong was escorted out of the capital, and the rest of the eunuchs were executed in batches. On the surface, this first corruption case in the first year of Jianye was over, but his influence was It won't stop like this.