Jian Yi and Ru Yu completed the interrogation of Bai Xuanguo's bribery case as quickly as possible. Yunxi had already investigated all the facts through Jin Yiwei two days ago. The Ministry of Punishment easily obtained witnesses and physical evidence as soon as the case started to be heard. Bai Xuanguo completely gave up resistance.
Ask and answer whatever questions are related to this case.
On the afternoon of the next day, the 22nd, Ru Jin flipped through the files and said to Jian Yi and the Minister of Dali Temple: "This case has reached this point and our Ministry of Punishment can close it, but this case involves a third-rank official of the imperial court.
We need to report to His Majesty for his decision."
"Since His Majesty asked us three yamen to handle the case together, we will jointly report to His Majesty."
Both of them said: "Then we will jointly report to His Majesty."
After the memorial was written and the three of them wrote their names, Ru Yu suddenly said to Chen Ying: "You will be the one to preside over the case this time. You will send it to the palace. If His Majesty has any questions, you can just do it."
answer"
Chen Ying felt a little strange, but he would not do anything to offend Shangguan, so he said: "Yes, Lord Shangshu."
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The Penal Department Yamen is located outside Taipingmen in the north of the city. Together with the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, it is the only Yamen in the outer city. Zhu Yuanzhang probably placed the Three Law Departments in charge of criminal prisons here out of Feng Shui considerations.
This also made it very inconvenient for people from these three yamen to go to court and get off work. Some people rented houses nearby to live next to military commanders for convenience. However, most people did not want to break away from the civil servant community and still lived in the southwest of the city.
Chen Ying sat in a small sedan and headed to the Imperial City from the Yamen of the Ministry of Justice. He got off the sedan outside Xihua Gate, talked to the guard guarding the door, and walked in.
After a long time, Chen Ying was taken outside the Qianqing Palace. Immediately, a call was heard, and a man with a pale face and no beard came out and said to him: "Your Majesty has summoned you, come in with me."
Chen Ying saluted and said, "Thank you, Eunuch Huang." He recognized that this was Huang Fu. Then he followed him into the Qianqing Palace.
When Yunxi saw Chen Ying, he took the memorial after he finished his salute. After reading it twice, he said: "So it seems that Bai Xuanguo's bribery is unquestionable?"
"The witnesses and material evidence are all there, and Bai Xuanguo himself confessed, so there will be no injustice." Chen Ying replied.
"Then what do you think should be done about Bai Xuanguo?" Yunxi asked.
Chen Ying was a little surprised that the emperor asked him this question, but he had already thought about the matter. After thinking for a while, he said: "Your Majesty, I think that according to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", the crime of white election should be punished with death; but your Majesty is kind, so it is better to change it.
For exile in the northwest."
"Oh, you think I'm very kind?" Yunxi narrowed his eyes and said.
"Your Majesty is considerate of ministers and cares about the people, how can he be unkind?" Chen Ying said.
"Yes, I am just too kind to you, so that this happened." Yunxi said.
Chen Ying's heart trembled, but she didn't show any emotion on her face and didn't speak, so she pretended not to hear.
"You have a good psychological quality!" Yunxi secretly praised.
After Yunxi discovered that this matter had changed from a matter-of-fact discussion to an attack on the nobles by the civil servants as a whole, he thought about how to quell the matter.
Relying on force to stop him won't work. Yunxi couldn't compare to Zhu Yuanzhang, so he couldn't use imperial power to suppress him. Killing a few of the most active people didn't work. At least on the surface, these civil servants were doing the right thing. Yunxi could only find other people.
There are reasons to kill the most active civil servants, and this matter is related to the collective interests of civil servants. Knowing that Yunxi cannot kill them all like Zhu Yuanzhang, others will not give up easily.
Yunxi thought about it and discussed with Qin Song for a long time, and came up with seven countermeasures to calm the situation this time.
First, make Huang Huai sick. Huang Huai was the one who triggered this incident, and he could no longer retreat, so Yunxi asked him to pretend to be sick and leave the matter to the Fu Cheng to lower the intensity of the incident;
Second, discover the selfish motives of impeachment officials and make those with selfish motives hesitate, reduce the number of people who follow suit and remonstrate, and reduce the intensity of the matter;
Third, dealing with those who only remember to remonstrate and impeach but forget their own duties is also to reduce the number of people who follow the trend and remonstrate and reduce the heat of the matter;
Fourth, instruct the obedient censor to report and expose those who have taken bribes among civil servants, thus disrupting the situation;
Fifth, for those selfless people, such as Fang Xiaoru, they took a huge amount of money and transferred them to other places as officials. Yunxi had nothing to do with the reform of Confucianism recently, and Fang Xiaoru was not needed for the time being, so he could let him leave the central government for a while;
Sixth, something equally important happens that will lead public opinion to shift attention. Yunxi is already preparing for this;
Seventh, it is to recruit or execute civil servants who have no flaws but are extremely capable.
Yunxi looked at Chen Ying in front of him. He was a civil servant with no flaws but very capable.
Chen Ying was born in Chuzhou. During the Hongwu period, he went to the Imperial Academy to study, and was later appointed as a censor, and later served as an inspector in Shandong. In the first year of Jianye, he was transferred to Beiping. After Zhu Di failed in his rebellion, some people came to admonish Chen Ying for his intention to follow Zhu Di.
Conspiracy, but no evidence was found. At that time, Yunxi did not pursue it in order to calm people's hearts.
Chen Ying is very capable and has done well in Peiping. Last year, she was rated as above-average and transferred back to Beijing to serve as a doctor in the Ministry of Justice.
Yunxi felt vaguely that he had seen this name in his previous life. He was probably one of the important ministers in the Yongle Dynasty in history, but he could not remember his deeds. However, just because Yunxi could remember his name was enough to show that Chen
Ying is a capable person, so Yunxi decided to recruit him.
Yunxi said: "Chen Aiqing, I heard that although you did not impeach many nobles this time, you encouraged your friends to impeach nobles. You gathered with friends every night in a pub in a public rental house. For this reason, you even declined the third rank.
The residences of the above ministers still live in public rental housing."
"Your Majesty, my family was not rich when I was young. If I lived in a mansion, I would need to hire a lot of servants to clean it. I am an official in the Ministry of Justice and I have to work a long way every day, so I hired a sedan chair and bearers, and the remaining salary is not enough.
We have hired enough servants, so I declined the residence, not just to gather with friends."
"I like to make friends by nature, so I have many friends. I am from Chuzhou, not far from the capital, and I have many friends whose native place is near the capital. They have all suffered greatly from the honor, so my indignation to remonstrate is not at my instigation. I
It's just a matter of common sense." Chen Ying said calmly.
'That's a good answer.' Yunxi secretly praised him again. Although he should have understood that he had been exposed when the emperor told him what he just said, he did not panic at all and still calmly defended himself. Such a mentality
The quality is not something that ordinary people can have.
"Chen Aiqing, I think you are very talented. I would like to promote you to the position of Yushi of Zuoqiandu and concurrently as the official of Zhongshushe. Are you willing?" Yunxi stopped testing and said directly.
"Your Majesty has appointed me, how dare I refuse?" Chen Ying knelt down and said.
"Get up, you don't have to kneel down in front of me, and I won't punish you for such a thing." Yunxi said with a smile.
Yunxi believed that Chen Ying was a smart man, and his appointment meant to put him in a more important position. He could not fail to see that; among the official positions that Yunxi appointed him just now, Zuo Qiandu Yushi was the fourth rank, and Zhongshu Sheren was only the seventh rank.
, but the appointment indicating reuse happened to be Zhongshu Sheren of the seventh rank.
From Chen Ying's past, Yun He concluded that he must be a person who is keen on power. Since he has been favored by him, he will not be ignorant and will not cause trouble. "Perhaps he was quite excited at this time."
He thought.
At this time, Chen Ying was indeed very excited. Chen Ying was keen on power, and his career in the officialdom was smooth. In the first year of Jianye, he had served as a fourth-rank official for six years, and his evaluation was above average. He should be promoted to Beijing, but because of
There were rumors that he conspired to follow Zhu Di to rebel, and he was suppressed for a year. Although he successfully returned to Beijing at the end of last year, he only served as a doctor of the fifth rank.
So he was a little anxious, fearing that he would never be promoted to a high-ranking official, so no matter what he could do, he would definitely get involved in it in order to attract His Majesty's attention. Now that he has finally attracted His Majesty's attention and been reused, how could he not be excited?
Yunxi said a few more words to him and asked him to retreat.
As expected the next day, the trend of impeaching nobles began to slowly subside, and there were far fewer memorials to remonstrate. Yunxi's approach was initially effective.
Yunxi immediately showed off his big killer weapon to attract the attention of civil servants: "The Ming Dynasty Ceremony".
"According to the edict of Emperor Chengyun, the current "History of the Yuan Dynasty" has been rewritten to make the true meaning of the classics clear. From next month, the words of hundreds of classics and historians will be compiled into the "Da Ming Dadian". All books since the time of the Book of Deeds have collected the books of hundreds of classics and historians. As for astronomy,
, geographical records, yin and yang, medical divination, monks' Taoism, and technical skills, compiled into one book, no need to be tired of it!"
When Yunxi just succeeded to the throne, he took out the "Da Ming Dadian" to attract the attention of civil servants. Now that the "Yuan History" has been rewritten, it is time to start compiling the "Da Ming Dadian".
As soon as this edict was issued, most civil servants immediately stopped paying attention to whether the noble family members had violated the law. All they talked about with their friends every day was "The Great Ming Dynasty". If you can be the chief editor in the process of compiling such a book, you will really have a good reputation.
It’s a legacy; even if you don’t become editor-in-chief or president, the vice president can still leave his name after his death.
In order to maintain popularity, Yunxi announced the recruitment of people with good calligraphy skills from all over the country; ordered the Neijing Factory to create more copper movable type to ensure that there were no missing characters; at the same time, he ordered various book collection institutions in the imperial court to search for their own collections and be ready to hand them over.
To those who edited the Ming Dadian;
Five presidents and thirty vice-presidents were also selected, and a large place in the capital was found as a compilation location; and rare and rare books were collected from all over the country. Anyone who contributed books that the imperial court did not have would be
Incorporated into the History Museum as an official.
But the candidates for editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief are not announced yet.
Everyone who thinks they have some ability is looking forward to the editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief, and has no mood to pay attention to other things. The trend of impeaching nobles has been completely forgotten.