Chapter 152 They dare to kill even the emperor! 【Monthly Pass】
Zhu Houzhao calmed down and Chu Yi drew a big pie for him. As the emperor, he could not even guarantee his own safety. But anyone who is a little bit ambitious will definitely be moved by the scene Chu Yi painted.
When the emperor is angry, the blood flows. This is the real emperor. Zhu Houzhao himself has a martial heart. Even without Chu Yi, Zhu Houzhao will try his best to regain military and political power like several emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
It is a pity that Zhu Houzhao failed in the end and died early when he was only in his thirties. However, now that Chu Yi is here, this tragedy will definitely not happen again.
With a slight cough, Chu Yi turned to Zhu Houzhao and said, "Your Majesty, I am here to report to Your Majesty whether Mao Ji and Pang Wenbin have confiscated their property."
Zhu Houzhao had previously issued a decree that Mao Ji and Pang Wenbin should be thrown into prison, their property confiscated, and their relatives severely investigated. However, those who committed crimes would not be punished severely.
Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly and said, "I wonder how much property was confiscated from these two people's homes?"
Although Chu Yi had previously impeached the two of them, and Dongchang had given a total of nearly two million taels of silver for their embezzlement, Zhu Houzhao had never thought of that much.
In Zhu Houzhao's view, the data may have been manipulated. If two first-class officials who were definitely corrupt officials could steal hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, that would be pretty good.
Chu Yi took out a detailed list from his sleeve and presented it to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, please take a look. This is the detailed list of property confiscated from the homes of Mao Ji and Pang Wenbin."
Zhu Houzhao looked at it carefully. There were gold, silver, jewelry, land deeds, etc. When he saw the last number, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but shrink his eyes and said: "There is actually more than one million taels of silver in cash. I'd like to accompany you at the beginning."
But you didn’t lie to me!”
Chu Yi couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this. Looking at Zhu Houzhao's reaction, he knew that Zhu Houzhao himself didn't believe that the two of them could be so greedy.
"Your Majesty, how could I deceive Your Majesty?"
Zhu Houzhao said quickly: "I wrongly blamed Daban, but I really didn't expect the two of them to be so greedy. They deserve to be killed, they really deserve to be killed!"
As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao looked at Chu Yi with a gloomy face and said: "Daban, Mao Ji, and Pang Wenbin are able to commit so much corruption, and they are definitely not the only ones. I will hand this case over to Dongchang for investigation, and all must be investigated."
All those involved in the case will be arrested and brought to justice!"
On the one hand, Chu Yi came here to report the results of the house raid to Zhu Houzhao, and on the other hand, he wanted to ask Zhu Houzhao for the right to investigate the case.
After all, if you want to strictly inspect the two major departments of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel, you must have Zhu Houzhao's will.
Now that Zhu Houzhao spoke, Chu Yi said solemnly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will definitely wipe out all these worms in the country."
Chu Yi glanced at Zhu Houzhao and hesitated for a while, but Zhu Houzhao looked in his eyes and said, "Do you have anything to say, my dear companion?"
Chu Yi nodded and said: "Your Majesty, Mao Ji and Pang Wenbin have been captured. Now the positions of Minister of the Ministry of War and Minister of the Ministry of Personnel are vacant, but I want to recommend some great talents to your Majesty."
There were vacancies for two first-rank officials, so Zhu Houzhao naturally wanted to appoint the candidates. However, in this civil and military court, Zhu Houzhao didn't know who to trust.
Now when he heard what Chu Yi said, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but his eyes lit up and he said: "Come quickly, my dear companion."
Chu Yi said in a deep voice: "Jiao Fang, the former chief minister of the cabinet, Bi Heng, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, Wang Hua, the minister of the Nanjing Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Yang Yiqing, the general secretary of the three sides, are all pillars of the country. Your Majesty can accept them and use them."
Zhu Houzhao pondered and said: "These people recommended by my great companion are all good talents, and I will definitely reuse them."
After leaving Baofang, Chu Yi returned to Dongchang and immediately interrogated Mao Ji and Pang Wenbin.
News came out from the inside of Dongchang that Chu Yi wanted to take the opportunity to clean up the court. When all the officials heard about it, everyone was in danger.
In an ordinary small courtyard, more than a dozen figures gathered together. If anyone saw these dozen people, they would definitely be shocked.
Including Fei Hong, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Jiang Mian, the elder of the Pavilion, the left and right ministers of the Ministry of War, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, etc., the worst ones are all the second-rank officials of the imperial court.
At this time, Huang Huai, the minister of the Ministry of War, said with a look of urgency: "Master Shangshu, Elder Ge, and that lunatic Chu Yi want to bloodbath the court. What should we do?"
There were many civil and military officials in the dynasty who were upright, and there were not too many of them. So when they heard that Chu Yi wanted to take the opportunity to clean up the court, all the officials almost exploded.
A pair of eyes stared at Fei Hong, Jiang Mian and the others.
Fei Hong coughed lightly and said: "Everyone, we are all in the same boat. Master Mao, Pang Pang is in trouble. The more this happens, the more we must stay calm and work together to tide over this difficulty."
Gu Ming, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, sneered: "Keep calm, Chu Yi's butcher knife is about to be put to our necks, how can Master Fei ask me to stay calm?"
Jiang Mian said: "That's why I invite you all to come here, so that we can discuss a way to deal with it!"
One of the imperial censors sneered and said: "If Chu Yi doesn't die, everyone will feel uneasy. If you ask me, just follow the same method as Liu Jin and accuse him of rebellion."
There was Liu Jin's example before. After hearing the proposal of this imperial censor, many people couldn't help but their eyes lit up. If it could succeed, then Chu Yi would definitely die.
Liu Jin was so arrogant at that time, why didn't he just obediently punish him?
Fei Hong frowned and said: "I'm afraid this matter will not be easy. Liu Jin was removed from the position of Chief Supervisor of Ceremonies by the emperor, and he was ordered to stay in the palace to reflect on his mistakes. That's why we had the opportunity to capture Liu Jin in one fell swoop. However, Chu Yi is different from Liu Jin
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Huang Huai, the Minister of War, said with a cold light in his eyes: "What's the difference? As long as we mobilize the army to capture Chu Yi, then report to the emperor that Chu Yi rebelled, and beg the emperor to kill Chu Yi at the Meridian Gate!"
Fei Hong frowned and said: "With Liu Jin's matter, I'm afraid the emperor will not agree!"
Huang Huai said with a bit of madness: "So what if the emperor doesn't agree? Then let Chu Yi die. Then the emperor can only accept the facts. At most, he can push someone out to be the scapegoat and let the emperor vent his anger.
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As the Minister of War, Huang Huai is more worried than anyone else. As Mao Ji's confidant, Huang Huai can be sure that once Chu Yi takes action, he, the Minister of War who is closest to Mao Ji, will definitely be the first to suffer.
No one here is clean, otherwise they wouldn't be gathering here to discuss how to deal with Chu Yi.
Feng An, the censor of the capital, and Pang Wenbin are related by marriage. As long as Dongchang investigates the case of Pang Wenbin selling his official position, he, the censor of the capital, will never escape.
Just like Huang Huai, Feng An also wanted to try his best to kill Chu Yi.
"If Chu Yi doesn't die, then we will have to die. Do you want to wait for Chu Yi to confiscate our homes and behead us outside the Meridian Gate?"
Feng An gritted his teeth and said.
Several officials who were hesitating at first nodded with ruthlessness in their eyes and said: "Chu Yi won't let us live, then we will let him die!"
Fei Hong and Jiang Mian did not expect such a situation to occur, and their expressions changed drastically. Jiang Mian shouted: "Calm down, everyone, please be calm! How can soldiers and horses move without permission in the important place of the capital? Even if it is successful, then
It’s also a capital crime!”
Feng An sneered: "Death penalty? Then just push one person to take the blame. No matter what, Chu Yi must die!"
Fei Hong couldn't help but break out in cold sweat as he looked at the dozens of officials who were forced into a dead end with crazy expressions on their faces.
After all, Zhu Houzhao was also the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He had a great righteousness and arbitrarily mobilized troops and horses to surround and kill Chu Yi in the capital. This was no different from rebellion.
Fei Hong slammed his hand on the table and shouted: "It's ridiculous, it's really ridiculous, you still have the emperor in your eyes, but you still have the king's law!"
Feng An, Huang Huai and others looked at Fei Hong with a sneer, and Huang Huai said: "In this case, Mr. Fei, please tell us if you can help us escape. As long as you can, we will naturally
I won’t make such a desperate move.”
Fei Hong couldn't help but hesitated for words. If he had his way, the situation would not have deteriorated to this extent.
Taking a deep breath, Fei Hong said: "Everyone, give me some time. I'll ask the Chief Assistant for instructions. Maybe the Chief Assistant has something to do."
Feng An, Huang Huai and others calmed down a little, but still stared at Fei Hong and said: "Master Fei will go immediately. If not, we will take action in the evening."
Pointing at Feng An, Huang Huai and others, Fei Hong lost the mood to speak, turned around and left, heading straight for the cabinet.
Yang Tinghe was handling government affairs in the cabinet when he suddenly saw Fei Hong looking pale and his eyes full of panic, and his heart sank.
Fei Hong and Jiang Mian summoned Huang Huai and others, and Yang Tinghe naturally knew it. Looking at Fei Hong's expression, it seemed that the situation was not good.
Yang Tinghe stood up and walked to the quiet room on the side, whispering: "Master Fei, what are you..."
Fei Hong panicked and said: "Sir, something bad has happened, those people are simply crazy, they are crazy!"
Frowning, Yang Tinghe said: "Master Fei, please calm down and explain it carefully!"
Seeing Fei Hong's panic, Yang Tinghe couldn't help but feel nervous. Fei Hong had always been calm, and he really didn't know what happened to make him lose his composure.
Fei Hong tried to calm down, looked at Yang Tinghe and said tremblingly: "Huang Huai, Feng'an and the others have decided to lead their troops to surround and kill Chu Yi at night..."
"What!"
Yang Tinghe swayed and almost fainted. As the chief minister of the cabinet, Yang Tinghe naturally understood what Fei Hong meant. No wonder Fei Hong said people like Huang Huai were crazy.
"It's ridiculous, it's really ridiculous, they are trying to rebel!"
Fei Hong smiled bitterly and said: "It's just that Chu Yi pushed people too hard. Huang Huai and the others counted one by one. Once Chu Yi pried open the mouths of Mao Ji, Pang Wenbin and the others, there was no need to pry them open. As long as Dongchang did a little investigation,
Chu Yi would definitely not mind taking advantage of the situation and taking them down one by one."
Yang Tinghe clenched his fists and roared: "That's not the reason why they gathered their troops to surround Chu Yi. They really angered the emperor and no one can escape! Don't they think about the consequences?"
Fei Hong's face turned pale, he hesitated to speak, and whispered: "A dog can jump over the wall in a hurry, but a man can do anything in a hurry. Not to mention besieging Chu Yi, I'm afraid they can even kill the king."
Yang Tinghe couldn't help but stiffen when he heard this, turned around and stared at Fei Hong, his forehead was covered with cold sweat and said in a deep voice: "What did you say?"
Fei Hong was stared at by Yang Tinghe, a trace of flush appeared on his pale face, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Sir, please think of a solution quickly, otherwise I'm worried that something unspeakable will happen!"
Yang Tinghe's face was livid, his fists were clenched, and he walked up and down in the quiet room, shouting: "Crazy, everyone is crazy!"
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