Listening to Cui Chengxiu's words, Mao Wenru hesitated.

Of course, Mao Wenru knew what Cui Chengxiu meant by "fighting", because this was not the first time Cui Chengxiu had said this to himself.

Cui Chengxiu said such a thing before the last court meeting, and he didn't promise him at that time, so he went to do it himself.

It turns out that Choi Chengxiu did the right thing. Cui Chengxiu chose to give it a go, and as a result, he was promoted; I didn't do that, and I was still the way I am.

Mao Wenru didn't expect that Cui Chengxiu would find himself after being promoted, and he would say such things to himself.

Before this, Mao Wenru was already scratching his heart and liver, and often regretted that he did not have the same opportunity as Cui Chengxiu. It's just that he has a good relationship with Cui Chengxiu, and it's impossible to say that he is jealous, but it must be certain to be annoyed by himself.

Now after listening to Cui Chengxiu's words, Mao Wenru hurriedly asked, "Is there any chance?" ”

Cui Chengxiu nodded, and said in a dumb voice: "Do you know the case of the Donglin Party?" ”

"Who doesn't know this? Now that the officialdom of the capital has spread all over the city, His Majesty also wants everyone to submit a question book, and I want to ask how this matter should be judged. Is your solution to this problem? Mao Wenru's eyes lit up and said with some excitement.

As the saying goes, big things come out of big shots, and for the people of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, every impeachment of a big man is a rare opportunity.

How can I be famous all over the world?

Of course, it is the impeachment of people who have a high enough official position to show that they are not afraid of power. As long as you get rid of people, then you will inevitably be majestic and famous all over the world.

The first and second members of the cabinet have not been impeached, and they are even willing to go to His Majesty to touch porcelain.

It's just that the Donglin Party is too sensitive in this matter, and if it doesn't do well, it will put itself into it, so no one dares to really participate in it until there is no practical direction.

Now that Cui Chengxiu has found herself, she obviously has a way for herself. How could Mao Wenru not be excited, he even felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"That's it." Cui Chengxiu opened his mouth and said, his expression was very serious, and he lowered his voice and continued: "Your Majesty asked everyone to express their stance on the question, then we will also write a severe punishment on the question." Yao Zongwen and these people have no country and no king, and accepting bribes to form a party for personal gain is simply a shame of Qingliu! ”

"Those people from the Imperial Procuratorate, we have to cut them off, and make it clear that we are telling them that these people are not worthy of being imperial history, and severely punish them as the latter commandment, and tell all the imperial historians that whoever does this again will be a dead end."

"We can find some more inscriptions in the imperial history, and now the situation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is all caused by Zou Yuanbiao. If we want to regain His Majesty's trust and turn around, then we have to do it. ”

Hearing Cui Chengxiu's words, the expression on Mao Wenru's face was cloudy, of course he knew the benefits of doing this, and he also knew the disadvantages of doing so.

offending people or something, Mao Wenru is not worried. If you can't offend people as an official, how can you go up? The good old man can only stay where he is for the rest of his life, and this is not what he is worried about.

Glancing at Cui Chengxiu, Mao Wenru asked with some hesitation: "But what if they are not severely punished in the end?" ”

That's what worries him. If these people end up turning over, then they are finished.

If they were really punished severely, it would be much easier. If these people are killed, then not only will they not have the opportunity to retaliate against themselves, but they will be promoted and raised again, but they are not afraid of 10,000, they are afraid of just in case.

"There's no risk." Cui Chengxiu saw Mao Wenru's hesitation, so he said: "If you want to feel inappropriate, I can take the lead." I can tell you with certainty that this time these people are dead, there are too many people who want them to die, not to mention those of us who are officials, even His Majesty wants them to die. ”

"Trust me, I won't hurt you. I've just been promoted now, and no matter what I do this time, I can't be promoted again, so I want to give you this opportunity, if you let others take the lead, then we will be passive. ”

"In a word, do you want to do it?" Cui Chengxiu stared at Mao Wenru with burning eyes, waiting for him to give him an answer.

"It's done!" Mao Wenru gritted his teeth and was ruthless.

Anyway, this time to fight, it has become a further step, if you want to fail, then you will resign, for this you can also set up a good person, why not? No big deal.

After comforting himself in his heart, Mao Wenru looked at Cui Chengxiu and said with a firm face: "I'll go back to write the question book now, and then find some other people." Without further ado, our Metropolitan Procuratorate must move immediately. ”

Cui Chengxiu nodded with satisfaction and said, "Yes, that's it." ”

Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Youxiao leaned on the couch and watched Chen Hong flip through the question books one by one, which were basically divided into two stacks, one of which was agreed to be dealt with lightly, and the other was written to be strict and severe.

Although it was only a simple score, the air pressure was still a little low, and everyone in the palace knew what this question book represented.

Soon these questions were divided, and Chen Hong took a few eunuchs to start registering, that is, writing the names of the officials in the inscription book on a piece of paper, writing the names of those officials who asked for leniency on one side, and the names of officials who asked for strictness on the other side.

For a while, there was no other sound in the hall, only the sound of writing.

After a long time, the voice gradually disappeared, and Zhu Youxiao slowly opened his eyes.

Gently picked his eyelids, slowly sat up straight, reached out for a bowl of tea, and after taking a sip, Zhu Youxiao was a lot more energetic, and said helplessly: "After waiting for so long, everyone is going to fall asleep." ”

Chen Hong put down the brush, bowed down and hurriedly said, "Back to the emperor, there are some complications. ”

"What else could be complicated?" Zhu Youxiao took another sip of tea to moisten his throat, and said with a smile: "It's nothing more than a question of killing or not killing, how can it be so complicated." If everything in the world was so complicated, then the world of the Ming Dynasty would have been over a long time ago. ”

No one dared to answer this, Chen Hong hurriedly lowered his head and stepped aside.

"Okay, since you say it's complicated, let's talk about how complicated it is." Zhu Youxiao continued.

"Back to the emperor, some people said that they should be punished lightly, and some people said that they should be punished heavily, but some people advocated different sentencing, and Yao Zongwen, Feng Sanyuan, Li Ruzhen and others were all sentenced to death and executed. As for Yang Lian, Yuan Yingtai and others, they hoped that the emperor could forgive them as appropriate. ”

"Show me the list." Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

After the list was handed over, Zhu Youxiao quickly glanced at it, there were not many high-ranking officials who agreed to kill, basically they were all middle- and lower-level people who proposed to kill, and most of them were people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

This made people unexpected, Zhu Youxiao smiled when he looked at it, which is quite interesting.

It seems that his promotion of Cui Chengxiu is still effective, whether it is Cui Chengxiu's own ability or because of his own promotion of him, this time the procuratorate is on his side, which is a rare and happy thing at the same time.

In addition, there are others who have also taken the same book. For example, Zhou Yingqiu, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, this person agrees with the severe punishment of these people. Zhou Yingqiu is the person with the highest official position among those who are in favor.

As for Sun Shenxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, these people disagreed, thinking that they should be dealt with lightly.

On the contrary, it is a few scholars in the cabinet, which makes people a little puzzled. Because what Chen Hong said is complicated, it is the thing here.

These cabinet scholars all believe that it is necessary to distinguish sentencing, because the crimes committed by Zou Yuanbiao, Yang Lian and others are different, that is, some people should be executed, and some people can be re-executed, and this is a decision made by cabinet scholars because of their people.

After a moment of silence, Zhu Youxiao said, "It's still quite interesting." ”

"It's time for a few cabinet changes." Zhu Youxiao sighed and said, "You go to Jinyiwei and ask Jinyiwei how the investigation is going?" Why hasn't there been any news delivered until now, is it not careless? ”

Chen Hong was a little confused, and said in a low voice: "Emperor, I don't know what Jinyiwei investigated?" ”

"Of course it's the case of the first emperor, is there any other case besides this case? Didn't someone write a letter to impeach each other inside and outside the palace, and the noblewoman and the minister killed the king? I asked Jinyiwei to check, why hasn't there been any news until now? Does Luo Sigong only know how to eat dry rice? Ask him for me! ”

Chen Hong hurriedly said, "The slave will go." ”

After saying this, Chen Hong turned around and ran away.

"The tiger is not powerful, I really think I am a sick cat." Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Hong's back and said expressionlessly.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't be clearer about his own affairs, he hopes that someone can stand up, just a person, even if it is a scholar like Shi Jihuan who has no sense of existence.

But no, no one came forward.

Then don't blame me.

You collude with each other, what should I do?

How can it be so easy to make you stop making a fuss?

Okay, I can deal with you, the time is ripe.

You don't want to take a stand, someone wants to take a stand; You are afraid, but some are not; You don't want to do it in this position, and some people want to do it, and they just want to replace you.

Jinyi guard yamen.

In fact, Jinyiwei's life is not easy these days, Wei Zhongxian was beaten in Dongchang, although the matter did not involve Jinyiwei, but after all, he died in Jinyiwei's edict, and Jinyiwei's life was not easy, and many people were scolding them for disregarding people's lives.

That's it, Jinyiwei himself is scolded. But now the question is what to do? Is it just going to wait?

"My lord, Chen Hong and Chen's father-in-law are here." The Jinyi guard under his command came to Luo Sigong and said directly.

"Grandpa Chen is here?" Luo Sigong hurriedly stood up excitedly.

This is his ally, Chen Hong is now in the palace, popular in His Majesty's side, this must have some news for himself.

Whatever the news, there is news after all. Sometimes bad news is much better than no news at all, so Luo Sigong is excited.

"Go, go, go out and greet you." Luo Sigong stood up with a smile and strode out, the expression on his face was extremely excited.

After Luo Sigong saw Chen Hong, he hurriedly greeted him, bowed down and said, "Father-in-law Chen, the lower official has seen his father-in-law." ”