In fact, the court has always had rules and regulations for the handling of impeachment, and it does not mean that if you impeach, it is certain that it is a fact.

Because the official is allowed to hear, then it is natural to allow others to refute it.

The usual process is that someone writes a letter of impeachment, and the person who is impeached has to stay at home, and at the same time will write a letter to defend himself, waiting for His Majesty to deal with it.

If there is no problem, then the matter will naturally pass; If His Majesty wants to deal with you, then someone will be sent to investigate the case.

This is addressed to central officials.

If a local official is impeached, the imperial court will send someone to the local area to investigate.

Once verified, then deal with it as it should be; If there is no verification, then there are no other facts.

Zhu Youxiao naturally knows about this process, and now it's up to Zhao Nanxing to do it.

If Zhao Nanxing can explain in the main hall today and be recognized by Zhu Youxiao, then naturally he will not have anything.

If not, then Zhao Nanxing needs to go back and wait for the investigation. There may be people who impeach him in the future, so he needs to explain it in the question.

At this time, Zhao Nanxing had already stood up and did not look at the others.

He knew very well in his heart that this was actually a party struggle.

Someone took a fancy to his position, and it was Liu Yijing who was making up this matter behind his back.

Several things about impeaching yourself are actually not easy to explain. But what needs to be said is still to be said.

Zhao Nanxing opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers founded Donglin Academy in order to spread the learning of the saints. As for colluding with each other and forming parties for personal gain, we were not officials in the court at that time, so where did we come from to form a party for personal gain? As for saying that the current affairs of the needle are slandering the court and slandering the king, it is impossible to talk about it. ”

"I am waiting for a patriotic heart and loyalty to His Majesty, which can be learned from heaven and earth, and can be expressed by the sun and the moon! How could there ever be such a shoddy thought? We dare not forget the teachings of the saints at any time, and what is preached is also the learning of the saints, where does the heresy come from? ”

Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhao Nanxing quietly.

It's not that Zhao Nanxing's rebuttal is not powerful, but there is no way to refute this kind of question.

Because no matter what is said with just one mouth, the key to the matter is not to see what you say, nor how you do it, but to see who the emperor believes.

If the Emperor believes that you are not forming a party for personal gain, that you are not doing these things, then everything will be easy.

These statements are all superficial things, but in fact, they have already been done later.

The Donglin Party is actually very helpless, they have lost His Majesty's trust in them.

Zhao Nanxing also knew in his heart that what he was saying now was actually of little use, because His Majesty no longer believed in these people of his own.

Liu Yijing was also very clear about this, so they attacked unscrupulously. The thing has been done behind the scenes, and by the time it comes to the table, it is basically completely certain.

Of course, if you just talk about it, you can't say it, so they came up with such a crime in the back, the Ministry of Industry embezzled money.

Zhao Nanxing feels very innocent, is this his own problem? This is not something that only happened after I arrived at the Ministry of Industry!

The whole court knows this, even if they are responsible, it is the Ministry of Industry Shangshu who is responsible, not him Zhao Nanxing!

But people just linked these two things together, obviously there is nothing too related, but after they are linked, the relationship is big, and it also involves the case of Liaodong.

Who doesn't know how sensitive this case is right now? Once involved, it's hard to pull out again!

Zhao Nanxing could only explain stubbornly, and said slowly: "As for the case of embezzlement of silver by the Ministry of Industry, this matter is not very clear. He hadn't been in the Ministry of Industry for a long time, so he didn't know much about these things. However, the minister felt that if such a thing really happened, then it would inevitably need to be severely punished. I ask Your Majesty to strictly investigate this matter, and will not tolerate it no matter who is involved. ”

This is Zhao Nanxing's statement, and it is also the attitude he should have.

He did not force himself to defend himself, in fact, it was also to take into account His Majesty's attitude.

Sometimes the more you force an explanation, the more people don't believe it.

It's not about the case itself, it's about going wrong behind it. If the problems behind it are not solved, just entangled in the case does not make much sense, but will suffer a big loss.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Zhao Nanxing, nodded lightly, and said: "I still trust Aiqing, and the affairs of the Ministry of Industry should be handed over to the Ministry of Industry." Since Aiqing thinks that this matter should be investigated, and it should be strictly investigated, then I will hand over this matter to Aiqing to do, and check it from the Ministry of Industry. I hope Aiqing can find out a result. ”

As soon as Zhu Youxiao's words came out, the hall was suddenly quiet.

Although this seems to be Zhu Youxiao's trust in Zhao Nanxing, not only did he not pursue the previous matter, but also handed over the matter of tracking to Zhao Nanxing.

But none of the people present are stupid, they are all old fritters in the officialdom, and of course they know what this means. This just shows that His Majesty is suspicious of Zhao Nanxing!

If Your Majesty really trusts you, he will let you go home and wait, and then let someone else check it to prove your innocence.

Now Your Majesty asks you to check for yourself, that is, you need to prove your innocence by yourself, which is much more difficult.

If what you find out is not satisfactory to Your Majesty, then your official path is almost over. What's more, there are people staring at you next to you and finding fault with you, and things will be even more difficult to handle.

Zhao Nanxing was bitter in his mouth, but he also understood in his heart that His Majesty still didn't trust his own people, and he needed to pay more.

Let yourself go back to the Ministry of Industry to check, how to check?

It's definitely not going to work without finding out a little something. But I know how deep the water is, and if I really dig deep, I will even fit the entire Ministry of Engineering into it.

Although I was not involved, if I checked it myself, then I was involved.

If you let someone else check, then just prove your innocence.

There were mixed feelings in his heart, but Zhao Nanxing had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "The minister obeys the order." ”

After Zhao Nanxing retreated, this matter was temporarily over.

But everyone knows that this is just the beginning, not the end.

At the same time, many people also waited quietly, even lowering their heads, waiting for the next wave of attacks.

Liu Yijing's side is not finished, and Zhao Nanxing's side will not give up.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a good song." After Zhao Nanxing stood back, another person stood up.

The crowd turned to look at the man who had come forward this time.

This time it's still an imperial history.

With the experience of the past just now, this time everyone raised their hearts, who knows what happened to these imperial histories?

Zhu Youxiao also looked at this person, and he found that he still didn't know him, so he was slightly embarrassed.

However, Wang An, who was standing beside him, was more knowledgeable, and approached Zhu Youxiao directly and said: "Emperor, this person's name is Cui Chengxiu, and he is the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. ”

Unexpectedly, this person was actually Cui Chengxiu.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but look at him carefully.

You must know that this person is so famous that there is basically no lower limit.

In history, after Cui Chengxiu was promoted to the imperial history, he patrolled Huai and Yang. During this period, Cui Chengxiu was reported by Gao Panlong, the imperial court, for stolen goods, and was dismissed by the imperial court pending disposal.

So he defected to Wei Zhongxian, the leader of the eunuch party, kowtowed and wept, begging for his adopted son.

At that time, Wei Zhongxian was attacked by the ministers of the imperial court and wanted to seek foreign aid, so he took in Cui Chengxiu and restored his official position for his grievances. Therefore, Cui Chengxiu hated the Donglin Party to the core, and was the vanguard of Wei Zhongxian's opposition to the Donglin Party.

He compiled the lists of Donglin Party members and non-Donglin Party members into "Comrade Zhulu" and "Tianjianlu" respectively, and dedicated them to Wei Zhongxian for him to promote his own kind and crack down on dissidents.

It can be said that this person is a strategist under Wei Zhongxian, and there is naturally no lower limit to doing things.

Cui Chengxiu was able to recognize Wei Zhongxian as his godfather, which shows how unbearable his character is under the universal values of this era.

But Zhu Youxiao doesn't care much, Cui Chengxiu is the best candidate for a cool official. So Zhu Youxiao is still looking forward to him.

Glancing at Cui Chengxiu, Zhu Youxiao said, "Say something to you." ”

"Your Majesty, the case of the Donglin Party forming a party for personal gain is already ironclad evidence. Dongchang has found out a lot of people, these people did frame Xiong Tingbi, and at the same time colluded with Li Ruzhen. They have embezzled Liaodong's military salaries and corrupted discipline. In the DPRK, they defended Li Ruzhen, Yao Zongwen and others, which is really the most evil! ”

"I ask that this case be designated as a major case, thoroughly investigated from top to bottom, and all those involved will be severely punished. This case involves a lot of things, and I think that I should select a capable person to thoroughly investigate this case! ”

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Cui Chengxiu, and he didn't understand.

Although what should have happened in history has not happened yet, Cui Chengxiu should not have defected to Wei Zhongxian now, why does he look so similar to wearing a pair of pants with Wei Zhongxian today?

Is this the correctiveness of history?

You must know that you didn't give the case to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple before, but what did they do?

Because this matter has already arrested Yang Lian and Zou Yuanbiao, it is naturally impossible to hand it over to them now.

Who can give the rest? That is, Jinyiwei and Dongchang.

Cui Chengxiu's meaning is obvious, that is, let Wei Zhongxian preside over the investigation of this big case.

Although Zhu Youxiao has now put people in Dongchang, he just let Wei Zhongxian interrogate him, and he didn't mean to turn it into a big case.

Cui Chengxiu, this guy is just making things bigger, and it's not doing any good to make it bigger.

It's just that all the people present are old fritters, and they already understand what this person means, this person is in collusion with Wei Zhongxian from Dongchang.

Wei Zhongxian now has mastered the East Factory and has won the trust of His Majesty, reaching out to the court is something that everyone expected.

Naturally, there will be people in the DPRK and China who collude with Wei Zhongxian, because there are too many people who have no lower limit.

It's just that no one expected Cui Chengxiu to have such no lower limit!

You can take refuge in Wei Zhongxian, why do you say such things with such fanfare?!