Tian Ergeng held the scroll of the emperor's imperial edict to arrest Yu Jing, and led the Four Swordsmen from Hengshan to the Ministry of Industry Yamen in an aggressive manner, shouting to the guard guard: "I have been ordered to arrest Yu Jing and bring him to justice. Where is Yu Jing's office? Come on ahead.
lead the way."
The guards were all stunned when they heard this. They didn't know what kind of case Yu Jing was guilty of. No one dared to ask more questions, let alone disobey. The chief of guards led Tian Ergeng and others to the door of Yu Jing's office. Tian Ergen
Geng pushed the door, but it was bolted. He didn't push it open and shouted: "Yu Jing, open the door quickly!"
No one answered inside, and Tian Ergen thought to himself: "Did this guy run away first when he heard the wind? That would be bad." He pushed hard on the door, and with a "click" sound, the crossbar of the door was broken, and the door was blocked.
After pushing away, Tian Ergen looked into the room and saw Yu Jing hanging on the beam. He was startled and quickly asked someone to take Yu Jing off the rope ring, only to find that he had been dead for a long time.
Tian Ergen thought to himself: "Did this guy hang himself or commit suicide? I have to find out." He looked at the marks on Yu Jing's neck and felt that it did not look like homicide. When he saw the Taishi chair fell to the side, he picked up the Taishi chair and lifted Yu Jing's neck.
The body was put up on the stand and hung on the rope ring again. No suspicious points were found, and it was finally confirmed that Yu Jing had hanged himself.
At this time, Zhang Shouyue came over after hearing the news. Seeing that Yu Jing had hanged himself, he was stunned and shouted: "Master, what's wrong with you? Why can't you think about it so hard?"
Tian Ergeng returned to Dongchang to report back to Yan Shoufeng, who said: "This guy actually committed suicide out of fear of crime. You should quickly take people to search Yu's house and be sure to find out all the money he received from bribes."
Zhang Shouyue went to the Flying Tiger Escort Bureau to report the funeral of Yu Bozhong. Yu Bozhong was practicing swordplay in the courtyard. Zhang Shouyue walked in and muttered: "Young Master, Master..."
When Yu Bozhong saw Zhang Shouyue's face turned sad, his heart skipped a beat and he asked, "What's wrong with my father?"
Zhang Shouyue said: "The master hanged himself."
Yu Bozhong couldn't believe his ears and said to himself: "How could this happen? Dad, why are you so obsessed with it?"
Li Tianmu was shocked and thought: "Master Yu would not hang himself for no reason. No need to ask, he must have committed a crime and committed suicide out of fear of crime. Hmph, this is the fate of corrupt officials."
Yu Bozhong went to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry to collect his father's body. He lay on his father's body and cried bitterly. Li Tianmu advised: "Datou, people cannot be resurrected after death. If you want to be more open-minded, please accept the change and accept the change."
The Ministry of Industry sent out a vehicle to transport Yu Jing's body back home. Yu Bozhong was organizing funeral arrangements for his father. At this time, Tian Ergen led dozens of servants to Yu's house. Yu Bozhong shouted: "Tian Ergen, what do you want to do?
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Tian Ergen followed the emperor's imperial edict and shouted: "Yu Jing is corrupt and perverting the law. I am ordered to search Yu Jing's house." He gave the order and the officers began to search, but Yu Bozhong did not dare to stop him.
Zhuang Lian didn't know that Yu Jing was dead yet, so he was sitting on the imperial chair, feeling uneasy. Luo Sigong came in, and Zhuang Lian asked: "Brother Luo, how are things going?"
Luo Sigong said: "Yu Jing hanged himself."
Zhuang Lian let out a long breath.
Luo Sigong said: "Brother Zhuang, this is an extraordinary period, you'd better restrain yourself and don't be confused again."
Zhuang Lian nodded and said, "Thank you, Brother Luo, for helping me get through this difficult time."
Tian Ergeng dug three feet into Yu's house and found only a small amount of gold and silver, which was not enough to convict Yu Jing.
Tian Ergeng came to Zhongyi Pavilion and said to Yan Shoufeng: "Father, I am incompetent. I dug three feet of the ground at Yu's house and found only a small amount of gold and silver."
Yan Shoufeng said: "Yu Jing must have transported the dirty money back to his hometown in Kaifeng. You should go to his hometown quickly to conduct a search."
A few days later, Tian Ergen came back and said, "Father, I have also searched Yu Jing's hometown in Kaifeng, but still found nothing."
Yan Shoufeng thought to himself: "It's impossible. Where did Yu Jing hide the dirty money?"
Yan Shoufeng's guess was correct. Yu Jing had transported all the dirty money back to his hometown in Kaifeng. Yu Jing had to transport dirty money to his hometown once a year. He was afraid that the road would be unsafe, so he asked Jin Yiwei to escort him. Luo Sigong asked his men to secretly check what Yu Jing was transporting.
Items were found to be gold, silver and other valuable items. It was assumed that these were dirty items obtained by Yu Jing's bribery. However, they did not expose and report him. They turned a blind eye to this and turned a blind eye.
After Yu Jing's accident, Luo Sigong expected that Dongchang would go to Yu Jing's Kaifeng hometown to conduct a search after the Yu family failed to find the dirty money. Once the dirty money was found, Yu Jing's case would be confirmed, and not only Yu Jing would be ruined.
, will also implicate Zhuang Lian. Yu Jing is Zhuang Lian's subordinate, and Zhuang Lian made some oversights.
Before Tian Ergen rushed to Kaifeng, Luo Sigong had already asked Luo Yangxing to go to Kaifeng and notify Mrs. Yu to transfer the family property, so Tian Ergen gained nothing in Kaifeng.
Luo Sigong asked Zhuang Lian to write a memorial, suing Dongchang for framing Yu Jing, and wanted to bite Yan Shoufeng back.
Wanli summoned Zhuang Lian and Yan Shoufeng in the imperial study to settle the lawsuit.
Wanli said: "Yan Aiqing, Zhuang Shoufu sued you for framing Yu Shilang, what do you have to say?"
Yan Shoufeng said: "Your Majesty, you have read the confessions of the six officials. How could I have framed Yu Jing?"
Zhuang Lian said: "Your Majesty, the confessions of those six people must have been obtained by Dongchang after being beaten and beaten. They cannot be trusted."
Yan Shoufeng said: "Your Majesty, I have not tortured those six people, so how can I say that they were tortured by beating them?"
Zhuang Lian said: "Dongchang's torture is famous all over the world. Those six people are all cowardly people. As long as Mr. Yan puts the torture in front of them and scares them, they will obey his words. Mr. Yan wants to
They have to say whatever they are asked to say. Wei Chen suggested that the six people be sent to the Jinyi Guards for re-interrogation to find out the authenticity of their confessions."
Yan Shoufeng thought to himself: "If those six people are handed over to Jinyiwei, I will be useless." He said: "Your Majesty, we cannot hand over those six people to Jinyiwei. Dongchang and Jinyiwei have always been at odds. We are afraid that Jinyiwei will take personal revenge.
Weichen."
Wanli said: "Those six people said that Yu Jing accepted more than one million taels of bribes from them. Yan Aiqing, did you find this bribe money in Yu's house?"
Yan Shoufeng said: "Although the ministers did not find the bribe money, Yu Jing's house in the capital is worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. With his salary, he cannot afford such a big house. His house is the result of his corruption and perversion of the law."
Ironclad evidence.”
Wanli nodded slightly and said, "What Aiqing said makes sense."
Zhuang Lian said: "Your Majesty does not know that Yu Jing's house was not obtained through bribery."
Wanli said: "Isn't it a bribe? Then Zhuang Aiqing, tell me, how did he get that house?"
Zhuang Liandao: "Yu Jing is a connoisseur of antiques. A few years ago, he saw a blue and white porcelain vase in the street market in Kaifeng. The vase was valuable, but the seller was a layman and sold it at the price of an ordinary porcelain vase.
Yu Jing got a big deal. He sold the blue and white porcelain vase to King Lu and got 150,000 taels of silver, which he used to buy the house."
Yu Jing does have some skills in antique appraisal, but he can't be called a master. He made up the story about buying a blue and white porcelain vase at a bargain price in order to clear out the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver he spent to buy the house. That porcelain vase
Originally belonging to King Lu, Yu Jing gave King Lu some benefits and asked King Lu to help him launder the money for the house. At the banquet to celebrate the housewarming, Yu Jing told this story to the guests, so Zhuang Lian knew about it.
thing.
After hearing this, Wan Li said: "Oh, that's it." He didn't know the truth, so he believed Yu Jing's story to be true and was filled with envy in his heart.
Yan Shoufeng said: "How can such a thing be so cheap? Zhuang Shoufu, from whom did Yu Jing buy the blue and white porcelain vase? I want to find that person and ask him to find out if Yu Jing is lying?"
Zhuang Lian said: "Shilang Yu just said that he bought it from a vendor in Kaifeng market. I don't know the name of that person. If Mr. Yan Chang doesn't believe it, you can check it yourself."
Yan Shoufeng said: "I'm afraid this vendor doesn't exist at all. How do you want me to find it?"
Zhuang Lian said: "Whether we can find that hawker depends on Yan Changgong's ability."
Yan Shoufeng said: "Yu Jing obviously committed suicide out of fear of crime. If he had no evil intentions and it was just for no reason, why did he commit suicide?"
Wanli said: "Yan Aiqing is right. It seems that Yu Jing has a problem."
Zhuang Lian said: "If your Majesty thought so, you would have wrongly blamed Yu Shilang. Since Wei Chen entered the cabinet, the affairs in the cabinet have been busy and it is difficult to take care of the political affairs of the Ministry of Industry, so he asked Yu Shilang to help share the burden. Yu Shilang has to take care of everything every day and is very busy.
It led to low mood and depression. Wei Chen expected that the reason why Shilang Yu committed suicide was due to depression."
Yan Shoufeng said: "What Zhuang Shoufu said is too far-fetched. It is suspected of deliberately excusing Yu Jing."
Zhuang Lian said: "Mr. Yan Chang, you said that Minister Yu committed suicide out of fear of crime. Do you have any evidence? If there is no evidence, you are deliberately framed. Your Majesty, Minister Yu has devoted himself to the imperial court and worked hard for decades. If he is allowed to suffer injustice,
Wouldn't it chill the hearts of all the ministers? I ask the Holy One to make a clear decision."
Wanli said: "Yan Aiqing, you said that Yu Jing committed suicide out of fear of crime. Is there any evidence?"
Yan Shoufeng said: "Wei Chen can't produce evidence for the moment."
Wanli said: "I will make a decision on Yu Jing's bribery case, as well as the case of Zhuang Aiqing suing Yan Aiqing for framing Yu Jing. I will wait until I find the vendor selling the porcelain vase. Please step aside."
Yan Shoufeng was right. That hawker didn't exist at all. Where could he find it? These two cases could only be dropped.
Yu Jing kept his honor and dignity, and the funeral was grand. Not only all the princelings were present, but also the queen mother, empress, and prince. Yu Jing was buried with great splendor and died in a dignified manner.
Mrs. Yu finished Yu Jing's funeral and wanted to kick Pan Xiaoyun out of the Yu family. She had long disliked Pan Xiaoyun. Now that Yu Jing is gone, no one can support Pan Xiaoyun. How can she allow Pan Xiaoyun to stay anymore?
Yu family.
Mrs. Yu asked the servant to call Pan Xiaoyun to the front hall. Pan Xiaoyun came to the front hall and saw Mrs. Yu sitting on the armchair with a sinking face. There were four servants standing behind her, all holding whistle sticks in their hands. She was startled.
, had a premonition that disaster was about to happen, and said: "Sister, you come to me."
Mrs. Yu rolled her eyes at Pan Xiaoyun and said: "Pan Xiaoyun, you were born in a brothel and are dirty. The master was confused for a moment, so he brought you into the house. Now that the master is gone, I can no longer keep you in the house and embarrass the Yu family."
Show your eyes, come on, drive Pan Xiaoyun out of the house."
The four servants stepped forward and were about to take action. Pan Xiaoyun shouted: "You don't need to rush me, I will leave on my own. I will go back to my room to pack my things and leave the Yu family."
Mrs. Yu said: "Don't even think about taking away any of the Yu family's things. I want you to cleanse yourself and leave the house. Come on, drive her out quickly."
Pan Xiaoyun glared at Mrs. Yu and said bitterly: "You are so cruel." She walked out angrily.