Huang Huai had already investigated everything that should be investigated, and the next day he compiled all the case files related to the Lan family and handed them over to Yunxi.
Yunxi immediately handed it over to Lan Zhen, who did not hesitate to arrest all the servants involved in the case file and handed them over to Yingtian Mansion.
Lan Zhen secretly breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the list. Because there was no name of his personal soldiers on the list. Personal soldiers were very important to ancient military generals in fighting. Handing one over would make people lose heart, which was absolutely not acceptable.
"Fortunately not." Lan Zhen sighed.
At the same time, numerous remonstrative memorials were directed at Yunxi, all of which were to impeach the powerful children of the capital for their violations of laws and disciplines. The Lan family had the most, and there were also many from other families. Yunxi forwarded these memorials to Yingtian Mansion and
The Ministry of Punishment, ask them to check whether all cases have been investigated. If there are cases of impeachment by the censor that have not yet been investigated, they should pursue them based on clues.
The handling of Lan Mingxuan was the most difficult thing for Yunxi. It was not that Lan Mingxuan's matter was difficult to deal with, but that he was afraid that the result would not satisfy the civil officials, causing them to continue to remonstrate.
But Lan Mingxuan cannot really be exiled because of this matter. Lan Zhen is his confidant and has to take care of him. So in the end, Yunxi decided to deal with it according to his own ideas: return the antiques and compensate ten times the money.
Lan Mingxuan was sentenced to cane punishment by Yingtian Mansion, with twenty broad strokes of the cane. The Yingtian Mansion police did not dare to let go. Although Lan Mingxuan's muscles and bones were not injured, the beating was severe.
Yunxi had already prepared a memorial to the civil officials who were dissatisfied with the verdict, but after waiting he found that there were not many memorials to remonstrate on this matter, and most of them were civil servants from Yingtian Mansion: they were disgusted with any powerful people in Beijing.
Moreover, Yunxi discovered that almost all the dignitaries in Beijing had been impeached, even those with good family traditions. The Yushi Yanguan could always seize the excuse to impeach.
Yunxi took out all the impeachment memorials during this period and analyzed them, and finally discovered one fact: This is a fucking political struggle! It is a struggle between the civil servants as a whole and the nobles as a whole.
After surviving the Hongwu Dynasty, which was very scary for most civil servants, they thought they would usher in a Jianye Dynasty dominated by civilian officials. However, the actual situation is that the status of military generals is still equal to that of civilian officials, or even slightly higher.
For civil servants, this caused dissatisfaction and resentment among the civil servants; the fact that some civil servants were re-employed could not eliminate the overall dissatisfaction among the civil servants.
As a close confidant of Yunxi, Huang Huai would not have done it for political struggle when he proposed to punish the servants and descendants of the noble family for their illegal activities. But then other civil servants obviously took advantage of the trend set off by Huang Huai and began to influence the entire society.
The nobility class launched a strike. Nowadays, most of the high-quality generals are members of the nobility family. If they suppress them, the generals will be subdued.
So they didn't pursue Lan Zhen: if you don't say that such a thing cannot be implicated at all, even if you kill Lan Zhen and the noble class can immediately replace him, it is better to attack more people while the trend is still going on.
Honor them and lower their image in the emperor's mind.
Yunxi immediately called Huang Huai and Jian Yi into the palace and said to them: "You can see that something is wrong with the recent public opinion."
The two of them were silent. They are both smart people, and they have discovered that something is not right with the public opinion recently, and it has turned from discussing matters into a political struggle.
After being silent for a while, Huang Huai said: "Your Majesty, there are indeed some problems with the recent public opinion. Many nobles with good reputations have been picked out for impeachment. I will ignore such memorials."
"But it is true that there are many servants and disciples of noble families who are committing lawlessness. Such people should also be punished."
Of course Huang Huai knew what Yunxi wanted to say, but he couldn't follow Yunxi's ideas. After all, he was a man of letters. If he stopped pursuing the wrongdoings of powerful families now, his reputation would be reduced a lot, and he might be compared with Li Guan.
This is unacceptable to him.
Although Yunxi didn't know the reason, when he saw him speaking like this, he understood what he meant. He felt a little unhappy, but he suppressed himself and said: "But if this continues, the government will be abandoned, and many officials will have no intention of taking responsibility."
thing."
"Your Majesty can deal with officials who are not interested in doing their jobs. I will go back immediately to punish those in Yingtian Mansion who have nothing to do with prison but are neglecting their duties." Huang Huai said.
Yunxi took a breath and said: "It's not necessary for the time being, a few people in Yingtian Mansion have nothing to do with the overall situation, and most of the officials in Yingtian Mansion are fulfilling their duties."
"From tomorrow onwards, Huang Huai, you can pretend to be sick for the time being, claiming that you fell ill due to overwork, and leave everything to the Fu Cheng to handle."
"Yes, Your Majesty." This may be the best way for Huang Huai.
After he retreated, Yunxi said to Jian Yi again: "Can the censor in the Imperial Palace make them stop?"
"Your Majesty, I am afraid that I am not strong enough." Jian Yi said. As the headquarters of the officials, the Ducha Yuan is the yamen with the loosest relationship between superiors and subordinates for the sake of smooth communication. Even if Jian Yi, as the censor of Zuo Du, would not
May control all censors.
Yunxi knew this, so he didn't have much hope. After hearing this, he thought about it and said, "In that case, you..." He was given the opportunity face to face.
Jian Yi agreed and then withdrew.
Yunhe gave Wang Xi a few more instructions and took out "History of the Song Dynasty" to read. After a while, Qin Song, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, walked in and saluted: "Your Majesty, Qin Song, has met you."
Qin Song felt uneasy. He and Yunxi had reported the wrongdoings committed by the servants and disciples of the nobles. Yunxi just asked Yingtian Mansion to investigate and deal with these matters because they were too small, and the result was that the investigation turned out to be what it is today; this is nothing strange.
It's not his fault, but Lan Mingxuan robbed antiques and someone committed suicide. He didn't check it because he was celebrating the New Year at the time. He didn't know that the man who committed suicide was related to Lan Mingxuan, so he couldn't report the matter to Yun He in time. But it was
He was derelict in his duty.
Yunxi did not settle old scores. It was the Chinese New Year at that time, and the town secretary was also careless and did not find out that this matter was related to Lan Mingxuan. There was no precedent for such a thing before, and he could understand it.
Yunxi said: "Is there anyone who is instigating this trend?" Yunxi suspected that there were several instigators like the Fu Ni case.
"Your Majesty, I have not found the person in charge of this matter. Most officials really believe that the Honorable Family has done many illegal things and needs to be punished, so they are impeaching me."
"Most?" Yunxi noticed the word.
"Your Majesty, although there was no one in charge, there was someone who added fuel to the flames at the beginning to make everyone pay attention and take this matter seriously," Qin Song said.
"Who is this person?" Yunxi asked.
"As far as I know, it is Chen Ying, the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment."
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