Chapter 365: Chess High
"Since the emperor has nothing to do, why should he lock himself in the house?" Cui Keyin glanced at the fold in front of him, and a few words came into his eyes, talking about the torture of skinning people alive. This is an excerpt from his impeachment.
Zhou Heng noticed Cui Keyin's gaze at the song, raised the song, and said, "I'm appreciating the wonderful text." These officials are worthy of being selected through the imperial examinations, and the articles they write are gorgeous, and they are hard to put down. ”
"To be so praised by the emperor must be a good article. I don't know who wrote it? Cui Keyin said, stretching her neck to look at the end of the fold. This letter is really long, sprinkled with a few pieces of paper, all of which are upright letters, and the signature at the end is really invisible in the place where she is sitting.
Zhou Heng flipped to the end and showed Cui Keyin his signature.
The word "thoughtful" came into Cui Keyin's eyes. He is really dedicated, but whenever there is something that can be impeached, he is always indispensable. Cui Keyin said with a smile: "The emperor should issue an order to reward Zhou Yushi." I heard that he got up before dawn every day, went out and walked around, and whenever he encountered something unpleasant, he would impeach endlessly. ”
The so-called unpleasant things are hearsay that officials have committed lawlessness. There is another one, which is to find that the emperor has violated the ancestral system, such as not accepting concubines.
The imperial history has the right to picket hundreds of officials, and they do not need to see and hear with their own eyes to impeach, and it is not their responsibility to find evidence.
Now in full view, Zhou Heng skinned an official of the fifth grade alive, and the screams were terrifying, and Xue Ping'an Lingchi was executed some time ago. Zhou Quan immediately linked these two things and impeached Zhou Heng as a tyrant. It should be punished.
The edict of sin is the emperor's letter of repentance. The emperor did something unforgivable, so that God was angry, and a natural disaster struck, and the emperor would issue an edict to admit his mistake to God, promise to correct his mistake, and ask God for forgiveness.
Zhou Heng just skinned the corrupt officials alive, and there was no disaster for the country and the people. Zhou Quan also asked Zhou Heng to issue an edict. No wonder Zhou Heng laughed angrily and ridiculed.
Cui Keyin finished reading the twists and turns, and said: "Emperor Wenzong has the wisdom to know people, and this person is indeed a good imperial history. ”
Zhou Heng nodded. "I was thinking about it just now. It's better to transfer him elsewhere. Clean him up again. But after thinking about it, there is really no other place suitable for him except the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Let him be a county magistrate. Afraid of harming the people, let him go to the Sixth Division, for fear that he would quarrel with his colleagues, and then he would still make trouble here, and I had to let him go back to the Metropolitan Procuratorate. ”
Since the time of Taizu, there has been no sin in the history of the imperial history. Even though Zhou Heng could spank him, he still had to let him do the imperial history after the beating. Even if he wants to be demoted to the ends of the earth, he has to have the talent to govern the place, otherwise it will be Zhou Heng's people who will be harmed.
Cui Keyin thought about it carefully, and also felt a headache, and said: "Can the emperor reveal the news that his brother Zhou Xuan participated in the shareholding of Qianzhuang?" ”
Zhou Heng said with a smile: "I'm afraid that when he receives the news, the first thing he will do is to impeach Zhou Xuan, ask for a thorough investigation of Zhou Xuan's property, and then put Zhou Xuan in prison." ”
Cui Keyin exclaimed in a low voice: "He won't ask to skin Zhou Xuan alive, right?" That's his brother. ”
If that's the case, this person really doesn't recognize his relatives, it's terrible.
Zhou Heng smiled weirdly and said, "It's very likely." ”
The officials on the list, Zhou Heng has naturally checked, and the source of their property is also the focus of Zhou Heng's investigation, after all, he is now investigating corrupt officials. If there is evidence of corruption, it will be considered to be hit by the muzzle of the gun.
Zhou Xuan's property is not a big problem. He is completely different from Zhou Quan, he deserves to receive the charcoal Jingbing, and there are only two old servants who are called every day, and he walks most of the time on weekdays, and he needs to use a sedan chair, so he goes to rent one. In short, everything is thrifty. Then the money saved bought dozens of acres of fertile land, and then bought two shops, and then the standard of living kept up with the normal eunuchs.
The money accumulated in the past ten years is probably only 5,000 taels of shares. It's just that I don't know how Jiang Yi persuaded him, or rather, it was Le Cheng who made him believe that investing in this fictitious money bank could change his existing life and obtain great benefits?
In any case, without evidence of his corruption, Zhou Heng could not cure him.
While the two were talking, Zhou Heng mentioned that Zhu Bi criticized four words on the fold: "nonsense". Then it was placed on the stack of folds that were sent to the cabinet.
Cui Keyin sighed: "Taizu is really wise, and with such an institution as the Metropolitan Procuratorate, even the Son of Heaven can't do whatever he wants. However, such an institution is too harsh on the Son of Heaven. ”
"I will not punish him, let him jump away." Zhou Heng was both joking and self-comforting: "Or later generations will also say that I am a sage who is good at admonishment." ”
Cui Keyin said with a smile: "The emperor must be good at admonishment, and the first thing is to accept a concubine." ”
How many officials outside want to send their daughters to the palace, Zhou Heng knows better than Cui Keyin, this is a sensitive issue. He touched his nose and didn't speak, then picked up another letter and looked at it.
The impeached courtiers were surprised to find that Zhou Heng had read all the recitals they handed over, not only reading them, but also making Zhu criticisms. Refute their statements point by point. At this moment, they had nothing to say.
Zhou Quan looked at his more than 10,000 words of recital, Zhou Heng only replied with four words, no more than other people's recitals, it was written a paragraph, and his heart couldn't help but be very unbalanced. This is an article that he wrote with great effort, and he tried his best to use gorgeous rhetoric in order to achieve the effect of crying ghosts and gods in the world, but he didn't expect Zhou Heng to send him away in four words.
Zhou Yushi was very depressed and fell ill the next day.
This was something that Zhou Heng and Cui Keyin didn't expect, and the two of them were very surprised and smiled at the same time. Zhou Heng smiled: "Why don't we celebrate tonight?" ”
As an emperor, he actually celebrated the illness of a courtier, and it was very unpleasant to spread it. Cui Keyin tacitly acknowledged, not picky, and said very seriously: "It should be." ”
After saying that, both of them burst into laughter.
So he ordered to go down, add a few more dishes to dinner, a pot of good wine, and the couple sat opposite each other in Biluo Pavilion for a drink.
The night is as cool as water, and at a glance, the palace is hidden in the dark. After Zhou Heng ascended the throne, there was no concubine, and the number of palace attendants seemed to be much more redundant, and Cui Keyin released all the palace people who were over twenty-five years old out to marry. The inner servants were physically disabled, and after they were released, they were afraid that their lives would be unsettled, so they all stayed in the palace, but issued a decree that no more internal servants would be added within five years.
Many people who are involved in the profession of eunuchs receive the news, which is tantamount to a bolt from the blue, but they are helpless.
However, as a result, the number of people in the palace was much smaller, and at this time, it was dark when I looked out in the Biluo Pavilion.
Zhou Heng and Cui Keyin touched the wine cup and said, "Those old stubborns have nothing to say anymore." ”
Even Zhou Quan is a case, isn't it?
Cui Keyin said: "I'm afraid that they don't oppose it openly, but secretly they are still greedy." ”
During the Taizu period, he skinned people alive many times, didn't he stop the trend of corruption? (To be continued.) )
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