After Yunxi thought about Timur's sudden but expected military action, he glanced at Wang Xi and sat down to chat with him casually. Unexpectedly, Wang Xi reported the matter to him very seriously.
Come on. He even used the word 'Your Majesty' instead of the word 'official' which is commonly used by the servants in the palace now.
"Your Majesty, this morning I and my brother went out to buy some things in the market. They happened to meet Commander Xu Jingchang who came to the palace to see Concubine Chen. He probably had something to do in the military camp early in the morning, so he came to the palace.
I was in such a hurry that I didn't take the main road, and I took a few followers with me on horseback and hurried towards the palace from the side road."
"It happened that when I was passing an intersection, an ox cart came running from the side. When Commander Xu saw the ox cart, it was probably too late to stop the horse, so he directly ran into it."
"It was probably a coincidence that the horse's head directly hit the man driving the bullock cart. The man was bleeding from his body and was dying. But Commander Xu was probably anxious and left two followers to deal with the follow-up matters. He drove
The horse left. It would have been okay if the man survived in the end, but the doctor could not save him and died."
"I don't know what happened next. It's probably because the family wanted too much money. Anyway, that person's family got into trouble and went to the Jiangning County Yamen to file a complaint. The attitude of the two servants of the Xu family was also a bit arrogant.
One of them said: 'No matter where you go to sue, our young master has just made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, and you will not win!'"
"The people present immediately became angry and gathered around the family to go to the Jiangning County Yamen. They insisted on filing a complaint even though today was not the day for the announcement."
"Dian Shi, who is in charge of prisons in Jiangning County, discussed with the county magistrate Zhou Yuan, and could only accept the complaint and send someone to the Duke of Wei's Mansion to issue a summons. The disciples of the Duke of Wei's Mansion did not dare to act rashly. They just reasoned that the master of the family was not here now.
Let them come back tomorrow to deliver the summons. The county police did not dare to offend the Duke of Wei, so they had to go back with the summons."
"Xu Jingchang! You can't let me save my time!" After listening to Wang Xi's retelling of the matter, Yunxi shouted angrily.
When he went to court today, he just praised Xu Jingchang and asked the ministers to learn from him. But he came out like this. Doesn't this make him lose face!
After scolding Xu Jingchang himself, Yunxi scolded him again: "The same goes for the two servants he left behind. Since they are here to deal with the aftermath, don't be so arrogant. Isn't this a discredit to the Duke of Wei! The Duke of Wei is among the people in the capital.
My reputation has always been pretty good, but this time it will be ruined by the two of them."
"Also, who is in charge of the Xu family's affairs now? Xu Huizu's wife? Or Xu Zengshou's wife? The family is so lax!"
After scolding most of the Xu family, Yunxi sat down and thought about how to understand this matter.
It is still the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is certainly not true to say that the noble family has no bad deeds, but the blatant killing of ordinary people has never happened in the capital. Even a few years ago, Lan Zhen's son Lan Mingxuan died after robbing antiques.
, it was also that person who couldn't think of committing suicide, it wasn't him who killed someone.
Although the death this time was an accident, the civil officials in the court are likely to make a fuss about it. In the past few years since he took the throne, due to constant wars, the status of generals has become similar to that of civilian officials. However, the official title of military generals originally set by Zhu Yuanzhang was empty.
High, at least one level higher than the equivalent civilian officials, which makes the civilian officials one head shorter than the military generals. Of course, the civilian officials are not satisfied and always look for suitable opportunities to deal with the military generals. This is what caused the impeachment trend in the beginning of the third year of Jianye. There is no guarantee that this time it will not happen.
Some civil servants will take the opportunity to cause trouble.
Thinking of this, Yunxi had a headache. It was not easy to quell the dissatisfaction of the civil servants, and he didn't have anything important enough to divert their attention now.
Yunxi could not help but secretly curse Xu Jingchang a few more words, and then said to Wang Xi: "Immediately send someone to send a message to Jian Yi, Huang Huai... and ask them to pick out a few things, not big or small, when they come to court tomorrow morning.
Report in the hall." It was getting late now and the palace doors were locked. Although he could announce them to the palace for discussion, if he announced the officials to enter the palace in the middle of the night, it might be reported that something had happened tomorrow morning. Maybe even the prince had died.
Even though rumors may arise, he decided not to do so and postponed the matter during the morning court and discussed it with the ministers after the court.
"Also, send a letter to Xu Jingchang, telling him that this matter must not be ignored and must be handled properly. No matter what he does, I must make the family withdraw the complaint."
If he were an ordinary nobleman, he would not be so concerned about this matter and would tell Yousi what to do; but Xu Jingchang was the person he had just praised, and it would be detrimental to Jingchang to lose his post amid the impeachment of the civil servants.
His reputation; not to mention the reputation of Miao Jin in the palace.
Wang Xi agreed, turned around and went down to order a few guards on duty to deliver the emperor's oral instructions. After a while, he returned.
Yunxi thought about the matter for a while, and drew up several ways to deal with it and wrote it down on paper.
He raised his head again and gave Wang Xi a few instructions, and Wang Xi agreed one by one.
After saying this, Yunxi was about to go back to rest when he suddenly remembered what he said at the beginning and asked: "You said there are two things you want to report to me. What is the other one? It can't be another noble family.
The misdeeds of his children."
"The official family is not about this kind of thing. It's about another thing." Wang Xi immediately talked about this matter.
After hearing this, Yunxi smiled and said: "It turns out that such a thing is really interesting." He suddenly thought of a reform that he had wanted to do for a long time, but it had not been implemented because there was no good solution. But this happened
, the reforms he wants to make can be implemented.
"Wang Xi, please write it down and remind me to deal with this matter after I dealt with Xu Jingchang." Yunxi ordered.
"Yes, official."
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Sure enough, someone impeached Xu Jingchang the next day. Although the capital was big, it was just a city, and what happened was the powerful people who everyone hated oppressed the people. So the news spread throughout the city the next morning, and many civil servants learned about it.
Afterwards, they wrote articles one after another to impeach Xu Jingchang. Some civil servants, just like two years ago, impeached many children of noble families, exposed many of their misdeeds, and asked for punishment.
Naturally, Yunxi could not be punished at all. He ordered Xu Jingchang to compensate the family a lot of money, and he also very selflessly ordered the Procuratorate to formulate a punishment for Xu Jingchang. After the disposal method was formulated, he would regard Xu Jingchang as a meritorious minister of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, his punishment was reduced; he also dealt with most other powerful children who were exposed in the same way.
Then he was planning to use the method he had already formulated to dissipate the impeachment trend, but suddenly he realized that this time was different from the last time.
