On the second day, the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, Yunxi carefully read through the evidence and confessions sent by the Ministry of Punishment in front of him. The Minister of Punishment, Rucheng, the commander of the Jinyiwei, Qin Song, and the commander-in-chief of the town, Guo Hongtao, stood in front of him with their hands down.
After a long time, Yunxi said: "The evidence is very complete, and the confession is consistent with the evidence. It seems that they can be convicted."
Then Yunxi raised his head and said to them: "How do you think we should be convicted?"
After thinking about it, Rucheng said: "Your Majesty, since the case of treason is involved, Yan Zhenzhi should be sentenced to Lingchi, and his relatives who have not separated the family should be sentenced to exile. The other relatives are also implicated. Other officials involved in the case of treason
Do the same."
"For officials who are not involved in the treason case, I think it is not appropriate to punish them severely. I will demote them individually and send them into exile. It is not appropriate to involve my family members."
Yunxi asked the others: "Qin Song, Guo Hongtao, what do you two think?"
Qin Song said: "Your Majesty, I think what Ru Shangshu said is reasonable, so why not adopt Ru Shangshu's method?"
Guo Hongtao said: "I think what Ru Shangshu said is a bit too light. For those involved in the rebellion case, except for myself, Lingchi, those who have already achieved fame in the family should have their fame reduced. Those who are closely related to me in the family should
All adults shall be put to death.”
"Officials who are not involved in the treason case will have their whole families exiled to the border areas. The rest of the tribe will not be punished seriously."
Yunxi stood up, stomped around the hall for a while, and then said: "Yan Zhenzhi is a high-ranking official of the second rank and has made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty. I still think it is best to leave him some dignity and not treat him badly."
If the penalty of Lingchi is imposed, it can be executed immediately. Other officials involved in the case of treason should also be dealt with in the same way."
"But Guo Hongtao is right, and we should not be too lenient. Therefore, members of the clan will be exiled, and those with meritorious status in the entire clan will have their merits cut off. In addition, these official families involved in the treason case
, the entire clan will not be allowed to participate in the imperial examination for thirty years, and will not be allowed to enter the Imperial College!"
Ru Qian suddenly looked at Yun Xi with a surprised expression, and then turned to fear; Qin Song also looked at Yun Xi with some surprise; only Guo Hongtao was a little surprised at first, but soon turned to admiration.
Yunxi's move was too cruel. He was not allowed to take the imperial examination or enter the Imperial Academy. This cut off the hope of people from these families to become officials in the next thirty years! It can be said that this is a serious punishment second only to the execution of the whole family.
It can be compared to the exile of the whole family. It is estimated that Yan Zhenzhi would rather be executed by Lingchi than face such a punishment for his family.
Yunxi went on to say: "In addition to those officials who were not involved in the rebellion case, those who have merit in the clan will have their merit cut off and be exiled themselves. There is no need to ban the imperial examination."
"What do you think?"
Although Yunxi's words were in a questioning tone, everyone was not blind. How could they not see that Yunxi had actually made up his mind and was just asking casually. So the three of them immediately said: "Your Majesty's handling is very special."
It’s appropriate. I have no other opinions.”
Yunxi then smiled and said: "Then let's do it this way. Su Youxue, draft the decree according to what I just said."
When Su Youxue was drafting the decree, Ru Qin said again: "Your Majesty, in addition, how do you plan to deal with those who are instigating the alliance?"
Rukong is a very vengeful person, and this time because he was the only civil servant among the three yamen involved, the most people came to block their door and scolded him the worst. So of course he wanted to
Mention this matter and ask Yunxi to deal with them.
Yunxi also sneered and said: "When the emperor was in power, although he did not prohibit the students of the Imperial College from writing letters to discuss the affairs of the imperial court like the students, but since they are not officials in the imperial court, they should not talk too much." He also said.
Very dissatisfied with these people.
"Su Youxue continued to draw up the decree. I remember that the person at the head was called Fang. I heard that he was very eloquent, so I asked him to go to the Three Buddhas to teach the barbarians. Those who are jumping up and down like him should go to the Three Buddhas together.
Qi is an academic officer. Forget it, let Uncle Twenty-one arrange them. But remember, let them take the whole family with them."
Rujun smiled. Going to Srivijaya, even if he was an official, would be worse than exile, and it was worse than exile. Of course he was satisfied.
"As for the others, they will all be expelled from the Imperial College and will never be able to enter the Imperial College in the future." Yunxi finally left a way to survive and did not completely block their path to becoming civil servants.
Also, Yunxi thought of something else: "They actually put people in Jinwu's vanguard, but they haven't used them for more than ten years. They are really forbearing."
"The person named Wen Hui who was placed in Jinwu's left guard is also very remarkable. He has been in Jinwu's avant-garde for twenty years and has not shown any signs of weakness."
"Because they are too tolerant, I decided not to execute Wen Hui, but to imprison him for life, and only provide him with poisonous water every day. If he doesn't drink it, he will die. If he drinks too much, he will die. He can only drink a certain amount of water."
Only water can guarantee that he will not die of thirst or be poisoned. I want to see how long he can endure like this."
Yunxi was full of malice towards this person. He was very angry that there was such a person in his closest army, so he decided to deal with this person in a way that was disrespectful to the emperor.
'There is also this person who once served as the Minister of Household Affairs and arranged for him to come in. If he is still alive, I will definitely not let him go!' Yunxi thought.
After Yunxi had dealt with all those who should be dealt with, and the edict drafted by Su Youxue showed to Yunxi that there was no problem, Yunxi took out the imperial seal that had just returned to the palace and stamped the imperial edict with a bright red seal.
However, Yunxi immediately put away the Chuanguo Jade Seal again. Yunxi was just curious when he got the Chuanguo Jade Seal for the first time today, so he used it to seal a decree. In fact, the Chuanguo Jade Seal can be classified as a cultural relic.
Yunxi will not use it easily in the future.
Ru Yu and Guo Hongtao resigned one after another. Afterwards, looking at Su Youxue's back as he went to deliver the decree, Qin Song said to Yun He: "Your Majesty, these people have been dealt with now. Your Majesty can have a good and relaxing year."
Yunxi also smiled and said: "The reason why I must deal with them before the New Year is to have a good New Year. I don't want to spend the New Year with this matter in my heart."
Qin Song bowed and smiled: "I wish your Majesty a good year!"
Yunxi also smiled and replied: "Thank you very much, Aiqing. I also wish Aiqing a happy life."
After that, the two of them said a few more words, and Qin Song resigned and left.
Yunxi also returned to Kunning Palace in the harem.
But Yun He still felt a little uneasy in his heart, and he didn't know why.
In Kunning Palace, Xiyao was talking to Yunxi while observing his face. She made sure that he was in a good mood and that his troubles had been dealt with. So he took out a document and said: "Husband, this is the year.
The banquet and palace layout were planned based on last year’s Shangyuan Festival. If there are no problems, I will let them follow these preparations."
Yunxi took it and looked at it carefully, and said to Xiyao: "Here, I plan to arrange an extra banquet this year. It doesn't need to be too extravagant. The number of people will only be a dozen or so."
Xiyao picked up the pen and wrote this on it, saying, "I understand."
Yunxi suddenly became curious: "How do you remember the income and expenditure accounts of this palace?"
Xiyao replied: "Husband, the accounting in the palace is the same as outside. It is recorded in terms of receipts and expenditures. When it is summarized monthly and annually, it is recorded in terms of income and output."
"But it's not like there are many types of royal taxes in the palace. There are only two sources of money in the palace, the imperial village and the treasury, so it's easy to 'collect' and record them."
"But 'branch' is also very complicated because there are many purposes of expenditure in the palace."
Yunxi took the account handed over by Tingle and flipped through it casually. Xiyao looked at Yunxi nervously. She wondered if someone had given her eye drops in front of His Majesty, otherwise why would His Majesty suddenly
Remember about the accounts?
But Yunxi didn't check the accounts, and just talked to Xiyao casually. The accounts also let her choose a book at will, but it didn't look like someone was giving her eye drops.
She really misunderstood Yunxi. Yunxi was just curious about the palace's accounting. He once graduated with an accounting major. Although after such a long time, he had almost forgotten all that knowledge, he still
This is quite professional.
He just suddenly remembered his major in his previous life, so he wanted to take a look at the palace's accounts. Although he had forgotten most of the knowledge, he still remembered the basic principles and was wondering whether he should keep accounts according to the rules of his previous life.
Make changes.
While he was thinking about it, he suddenly discovered that there was something wrong with one of the accounts. Yunxi pointed to this item and said to Xiyao: "Xiyao, look at this item, is there something wrong with it?"
"Although I don't remember clearly last year, it seems that the expenses for this item from January to June were not even 30%. The palace still had some money for this item. Why are there so many expenses in the second half of the year?"
Xiyao said: "Husband, this is because during the rebellion in the second half of the year, the palace had a lot more expenses due to strict internal and external security. There happened to be a balance in this item, so I ordered someone to list it in this item.
expenditure."
"By next year, I plan to cut down on this item of expenditure so that he will not have too much surplus."
Yunxi thought for a while and said, "I seem to have heard of such a method."
Xiyao said: "This is the method used by Xu Shangshu of the Ministry of Revenue."
Yunxi said: "I see, no wonder I feel familiar."
But then Yunxi suddenly remembered something and his face changed slightly. But he recovered immediately and continued to talk about the accounts with Xiyao.
Then several little ones came back from self-study. Yunxi entertained the children for a while and had dinner with them.
However, Yunxi gave Wang Xi a few words before dinner, and Wang Xi did not appear again for the rest of the day.