Chapter Seventy-Four: The Case of Li Zhen (19)
Gao Chi's hand was hanging in the air at all, and the wind that he brought up didn't blow, but Zhang Zhaohua had already begun to grab his collar and shake it: "You fight! If you have the ability, you can fight!"
"You can't see who worries about your labor at all, who carries you a cushion," Zhang Zhaohua grabbed Gao Chi and shook desperately, the look on his face was even more hideous than his: "You just see that I went against your will and did something in this case! Who am I doing this for! If this national major event is all done according to your methods, your unrealistic and wishful thinking methods can only be pierced by broken shoes!" If you don't follow the rules, it won't affect others at all, and if you want everyone to abide by your rules, there is only one way, that is, you make the rules, and those who don't follow them are out. There is no other way!"
Gao Chi's hand drooped, and he looked at Zhang Zhaohua woodenly: "I always say, you always don't listen, so it's better not to say it in the future." ”
When Zhang Zhaohua saw him like this, he was a little scared: "This case will come according to your wishes! I won't stop anyone you want to deal with! If you want to punish Chen Ying, then you will be punished! If you want to rectify the Metropolitan Procuratorate, then they will all change blood! Since Ji Gang and Ji Gang don't admit it, it's okay, so they will fight here where the interrogation is fruitless, isn't this your original intention?"
Gao Chi glanced at her: "You won't compromise for me, since you say so, that's how to deal with it, it was originally within your plan." ”
At this moment, Zhang Zhaohua felt that Gao Chi had indeed seen her heart.
"What's the point of everything I've done," Gao Chi said, "Even if the result is still that result, things are not that thing." What is the original intention, the original intention behind the ghostly tricks? Is the original intention under the exchange of interests? What are you going to exchange with Ji Gang with this piece of incriminating evidence?"
"What am I exchanging," Zhang Zhaohua was also deeply tired: "I asked him not to target the East Palace anymore, and stop colluding with Gao Xu, who do you say I am for?"
Zhang Zhaohua looked at him, feeling that he was like a mud doll with a filled core, and he couldn't change it anymore, and Gao Chi looked at her with the same thought: "How did you and I get together and live for fifteen years?"
The countless differences and contradictions in this have been turned a blind eye in the past, but these do not really do not exist because they are ignored, it is a gap that cannot be filled.
Ji Gang soon played, crying that Chen Ying and the civil officials were united, crying that the legal department tried the case, excluding Jinyiwei, and the officials in the court were entangled in the party layer by layer, and it was difficult to separate who from whom, and among them, Tang Zong, the secretary of Dali Temple, and Yin Xue of Yingtianfu were both headed, and these two people protected the same official and played for personal gain.
No matter how wise a person is, there are times when he is confused, and the most indistinguishable thing about Emperor Yongle is that he regards Jinyiwei as his representative and is exercising power for him, so any challenge to Jinyiwei is regarded by the emperor as an attack on himself.
Now Chen Ying bit out the Ji Gang, and the Dali Temple of the Criminal Department attacked Jinyiwei one after another, which made the emperor have a feeling, that is, Chen Ying has been assimilated by civil officials, and they have synthesized a huge countercurrent, and the three law divisions have long been dissatisfied with the power of the Beizhen Fusi to encroach on them, and this time they have joined forces to take back the judicial authority from Jinyiwei!
Obviously, he hit the emperor's taboo, he would not allow anyone to challenge his authority, so within a day, he successively denied the conclusion of the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple, until the performance of the Criminal Department was late, and after he saw it, he nodded slightly.
In this letter of the Criminal Division, unlike the previous letters asking the emperor not to shield Ji Gang, asking the emperor to limit the power of the Beizhen Fusi and maintain the authority of the Three Law Divisions, this letter was played by Chen Ying, the left capital of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court, and believed that he should be fully responsible.
However, before the emperor's approval was issued, the cabinet representative of the crown prince's disposition also came to the emperor's desk.
In this recital, the prince actually agreed with the conclusion given by the Criminal Division, thinking that Chen Ying, the left capital of the Imperial Procuratorate, had the crime of committing the first violation of the prohibition and coercion, and at the same time thought that Tang Zong of Li Siqing and Yin Xue of Yingtianfu had the ability to handle the case, but they were deceived, and finally thought that Li Zhen, the head of the Ministry of War, had falsely accused the minister with a villain, and this trend could not be long, and he was willing to be sentenced to death.
After reading it, the emperor was a little surprised: "This time, the prince seems to have turned his brain." ”
This is naturally not a question of whether Gao Chi's brain can turn around, in fact, this recital was concluded by Yang Shiqi, and Gao Chi didn't say anything after reading it, so he was sent to Beijing.
"Chen Ying was demoted to the general political secretary Zuo Tongzheng," the emperor quickly gave a deal: "The criminal department gave Ma Lin and Ding Jue two in the matter, and moved to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Tang Zong used to control the water in Suzhou, and it was very effective, I saw that he went to Kaifeng to govern the river, and it should not be bad, well, I asked him to go to Kaifeng to be a pro-people official, this Xue Jun, I haven't seen that his ability to investigate cases is first-class, so let him be demoted to Dali Temple to be a Shaoqing, what is the request for Zhishi, how old is he, said Zhishi- The seventy and eighty people in the court didn't say anything about Zhishi, and he wanted to be Zhishi if he was in the prime of life, not allowed!"
Everything was as Zhang Zhaohua expected, Chen Ying, the imperial history of the left capital, was demoted to the left general government, and after a while, he was degraded to be a magistrate in other names, and gradually moved away from the center and disappeared from everyone's sight. Ma Lin and Ding Jue are far less offline than Chen Ying, they inherited the Metropolitan Procuratorate where Chen Ying operated, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate faced the two people who wrote to drive Chen Ying out, whether it would cooperate or not, Zhang Zhaohua waited and see. However, it is certain that it is not easy to inherit Chen Ying's career, because the emotions of the ministers have already been forced to a critical point by Chen Ying, and these two inherit the long-accumulated resentment of hundreds of officials.
However, Wang Du told her that the emperor had doubts about the case because he had not dealt with Li Zhen.
"The emperor wanted to know why Chen Ying bit out Ji Gang. Wang Du said: "Chen Ying doesn't have this need, he doesn't say anything, in fact, he can get out of the whole body." ”
Zhang Zhaohua's hand couldn't help but tremble.
Why Chen Ying identified Ji Gang and how Ji Gang was involved in this case are naturally Zhang Zhaohua's handiwork. Xie Chuan's subordinates - he was also looking for people from the rivers and lakes, got the official document from Chen Ying, opened the prison, and told Li Zhen that the emperor must protect Chen Ying in this case, if Chen Ying is not guilty, he will be finished, it is impossible to keep a whole corpse, and it is very likely to harm his family, giving him a choice of path, that is, to identify Ji Gang......
Identifying Ji Gang is something that ordinary people dare not do and are not capable of doing, but it has a great chance of success. Because Ji Gang's reputation in the past was too stinky, it was always difficult to believe his words. On the other hand, no one could believe that a weak scholar dared to risk provoking Ji Gang and identify him in court.
Among Li Zhen's choice, what he saw the most exciting point was that he was the first person who dared to testify against Ji Gang, and his reputation will be known to everyone in the world...... The name of a man, the shadow of a tree...... This is something that many people dream of...... Compared to dying for the crime of taking bribes, he naturally knows how to choose.
Chen Ying also had to survive to the end, and the price he paid for this was to end his political life, only in this way could he escape the blazing anger and become a victim of the emperor's easing of the emotions of all parties.
"This case must be made into an iron case," Wang Du said, "but any little tail may be a disaster in the future." ”
Wang Du persuaded her to solve Li Zhen and Chen Ying together, and in the future, whether it was the emperor or Ji Gang, there was no way to verify it - Li Zhen and Zhang Zhaohua agreed to get rid of it, because this was part of her plan, and only Li Zhen's death did Ji Gang completely hook up with this case in the emperor's heart. And Chen Ying and Zhang Zhaohua didn't want him to die.