After several years of development, the strength of Jia Ke's Great Yan Dynasty has greatly increased, and Jia Ke's control over the surrounding vassal states has become increasingly strict.
Every time the king of a vassal country dies and the new king ascends the throne, he must first come to the capital to pay homage to Jia Ke, and only after receiving Jia Ke's imperial edict can he return to his own country and serve as king.
And Jia Ke seems to have forgotten the suspicion of the past few years.
After these few years, nothing happened to Fan Kang's caution. Fan Kang also became a little careless. He thought that he was just judging a gentleman's heart with a villain's heart.
As a result, Fan Kang gradually stopped being as cautious as before. In addition, with the development of maritime trade in recent years, almost all the officials in the officialdom had a hand in it. Only Fan Kang was cautious and did not get involved.
Fan Kang didn't think anything of it, but his wife was very dissatisfied. She yelled loudly at Fan Kang several times, just to get him to come forward and set up a relationship with the businessmen, so that the Fan family could get some windfall.
Fan Kang was also a little afraid of his wife. When he was studying abroad and working on his own career, he relied on this lady to serve his parents-in-law and take care of his children. Therefore, Fan Kang respected this lady very much.
Now that the madam had spoken, Fan Kang had no choice but to agree. In addition, he thought that the matter had settled down, so he used his authority to summon several businessmen. These businessmen were also aware of the matter.
Master Fan also started to pay attention to sea trade, so he naturally understood what Master Fan meant.
So within a few days, Mrs. Fan received invitations from several businessmen, and they discussed it in the room all afternoon. Three days later, Mrs. Fan scraped together 10,000 taels of silver and sent it to these few merchants.
In the hands of a businessman.
Three months later, the merchants returned from the sea and sold their goods. At the final settlement, Mrs. Fan received a profit of nearly 50,000 taels of silver.
Mrs. Fan's eyes turned red when she saw this situation. No wonder those officials who participated in the voyages to the West were all extremely rich. If this happened several times, the family's money would still be wiped out.
As the Fan family's maritime trade business became more and more successful, Fan Kang's life also improved greatly.
As his life became more comfortable, Fan Kang's vigilance became worse and worse, and he no longer refused the gifts given by the officials below. When the officials asked him to do some small things, he accepted them without fail.
Slowly, another chain of interests formed around Fan Kang.
Fan Kang lives a prosperous life here, but he doesn't know that there is a pair of eyes staring at him in the dark.
It turns out that Jia Ke has been letting Fan Kang go all these years just because he wanted to have a legitimate reason to eliminate Fan Kang.
In fact, Jia Ke did not want to kill the hero, but because the number of people controlled by his soul-capturing beads was limited, and most of the people Jia Ke controlled now were military generals, and among the civil servants, there was only one Jia Yucun. This was no longer the case.
There is no room left for anyone else.
For the sake of his own descendants, Jia Ke had to take this approach.
Therefore, Fan Kang had just been happy for more than a year. Suddenly one day, a censor came to impeach him in court.
There are three charges against him: the first is accepting bribes; the second is forming a party for personal gain; and the third is champerty.
Jia Ke listened to the impassioned speech of the censor below in the main hall, and the smile in his eyes became stronger and stronger.
Fan Kang, who was standing under the main hall, immediately woke up after hearing the impeachment of these censors. Although all the ministers were doing the things he had done over the years, it depended on whether the emperor would pursue them or not.
If you don't pursue it, nothing will happen to you. If the emperor pursues you, it will be a serious matter of killing your head and exterminating your family.
Fan Kang now understood that Jia Ke's tactics for him over the years were hard to get, and now he felt a wry smile in his heart. The emperor's imperial skills had become more and more profound, and he didn't even see the emperor's intentions.
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In this case, I can only plead guilty in court. I hope that the emperor will be magnanimous and give him a lighter sentence because of his many years of hard work and planning.
So Fan Kang came out of work, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "The guilty minister Fan Kang has betrayed the emperor's trust. Please punish him."
Jia Ke looked at Fan Kang who was kneeling on the ground, his eyes were cold. Although Fan Kang had contributed a lot to him, Fan Kang was involved in many of his schemes. If these things were exposed, his reputation would be ruined.
Lossful.
So Jia Ke didn't care. Fan Kang kowtowed there and begged for mercy. He slapped the imperial case and roared loudly: "You still have the nerve to kneel here. I can say that I have great trust in you. Is this how you repay me?"
Fan Kang knelt down and his face turned pale as soon as he heard this. He knew that he was not lucky this time.
Fan Kang felt weak all over when he thought of this, and immediately fell to the ground, trembling so much that he could no longer stand up.
Jia Ke looked at Fan Kang, whose body was like chaff and limp on the ground. He couldn't bear it in his eyes, but thinking about his past and future, he could only shed tears and kill Ma Su.
"Someone is here to put Fan Kang in the sky prison and wait for his execution. He sent people to seize Fan Kang's mansion for me and temporarily imprisoned all his family members in the mansion."
As soon as Jia Ke gave the order, several warriors in front of the palace came up, wiped their shoulders and tied up Fan Kang with their arms, then knocked off his black gauze hat, took off his python robe, and pulled Fan Kang out.
When Jia Ke saw Fan Kang being pulled out, he turned his face gloomy and said to the ministers below: "Fan Kang has followed me in the south and north for so many years, and he has made great achievements. However, when the great cause has been accomplished, he made a mistake.
I am deeply saddened to have made such a mistake, and I hope that all my ministers will take this as a warning."
When Jia Ke said this, he looked up to the sky and let out a long sigh. He didn't know whether he was sighing for Fan Kang or sighing for his own changes. He finally shook his sleeves and left the Qianqing Gate, heading back to the harem.
Fan Kang's incident quickly spread among the officialdom of the capital, and every one of these officials had a blank eyebrow.
After a little analysis, these people understood what Jia Ke meant. Fan Kang had been following the emperor for so many years. If the emperor did anything scandalous, it was probably Fan Kang who had made suggestions. Now the emperor no longer needs Fan Kang.
, I was afraid that he would expose the original incident, so I took Fan Kang under the knife.
Now that Fan Kang is here, are all the other military and aircraft ministers clean?
After thinking about it for a few days at home, Sun Yan, the Minister of Military Aircraft, felt that it was time for him to retreat bravely. If he and his group of old people did not retreat, the emperor might have objections, so at a court meeting a few days later, he reported to Emperor Jia Ke
Submitted his resignation.
Jia Ke already knew full well about Sun Yan's resignation, because none of these powerful ministers had spies arranged by Jia Ke.
Sun Yan finished writing the memorial during the day yesterday, and the contents of the memorial had been sent to Jia Ke's desk at night.
Jia Ke pretended to beg Sun Yan to stay in the hall for a long time, but Sun Yan refused to accept Jia Ke's efforts to stay.
Seeing Sun Yan's resolute attitude, Jia Ke could only pretend to wipe away his tears, and then got off the imperial steps to help him up. Then he agreed to his request to resign.
When the Military Aircraft Department is short of two Military Aircraft Ministers, it will naturally need someone to make up for it. As the head minister of the Military Aircraft Department, Jia Ke naturally asked Zhang Chaoxin, who was the first to follow him, to take over.
Although Zhang Chaoxin said that he was not controlled by his soul-capturing beads, he had always been loyal to him. The most important thing was that he did not have much power in the court, and he was not involved in any of his conspiracies.
If Zhang Chaoxin becomes the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department, then his actions will largely depend on the emperor Jia Ke's face.
For the other vacancy, Jia Ke thought for a while and let Zhao Shu, the Minister of Civil Affairs, take the position, because as the group of people left behind by Prince Yizhong, they were headed by Sun Yan and Zhao Shu. Now Sun Yan is the subordinate.
After taking the stage, in order to appease these people, it was natural for Zhao Shu to step up.
After handling Sun Yan's matter, Jia Ke ordered Jiang Yan, the Minister of Punishment, to take over the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments. Song Long, the Minister of Rites, took over the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites.
One of the tasks of the newly appointed Minister of Justice, Jiang Yan, was to hear the case of Fan Kang, the former Minister of Rites and Minister of Military Affairs.
For such a big matter, Jiang Yan naturally did not dare to close the case casually. He went to the palace several times to meet with the current emperor Jia Ke and asked the emperor for advice.
Although Jia Ke was vague about this matter in the end, the tone was set for him, that is, he was corrupt, perverting the law, and using power for personal gain.
After Jiang Yan received Jia Ke's instruction, he quickly began to hear the case in the lobby of the Ministry of Justice.
This matter is also very simple. Fan Kang has indeed collected a lot of bribes over the years and helped others with some things. If Fan Kang had Jia Ke's favor, this matter would be nothing at all, but Jia Ke
Ke has fallen out now, and this is all his fault.
Since the evidence was conclusive, Jiang Yan quickly closed the case, sentenced Fan Kang to death, and then sent all the case files and testimonies to Jia Ke.
Jiang Yan meant to give Fan Kang a harsher sentence. When the case file is sent to Jia Ke and Jia Ke personally approves it, Jia Ke will definitely give Fan Kang a lighter sentence because of their years of friendship.
If you are good, you will be asked to be executed by the Queen of Autumn. After a while, the matter will fade away, and you will be demoted to another level and sentenced to exile.
As a result, after Jia Ke took over the case file, he did not give Fan Kang a lenient sentence, but directly approved the memorial, and Fan Kang would be executed seven days later.
After Jiang Yan received Jia Ke's approval, he broke into a cold sweat and became even more afraid of Jia Ke. Accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger.
The emperor was very fond of you a few days ago, but he turned against you within a few days and wanted your head. Who can I ask to explain this?
But how could he dare to disobey the emperor's will? He immediately arranged to have Fan Kang beheaded at Caishikou seven days later.
After Jia Ke approved Fan Kang's matter, he couldn't sit still in the Yangxin Hall. After all, Fan Kang had been loyal to him over the years. If he hadn't known many things that he didn't want others to know, he wouldn't have fallen into this situation.
This outcome.
Jia Ke sighed, the emperor sometimes had to do things against his will for some things.
"Li Deshan, get ready. We will go to the prison of the Criminal Department later to see Mr. Fan off for the last time."
After listening to Jia Ke's instructions, Li Deshan didn't even dare to say a word and quietly left the room to arrange things for Jia Ke.