"The minister is guilty!"

Hearing Emperor Hongzhi's words, Bai Ang quickly lowered his head to the ground and said in great trepidation.

"Get up."

Emperor Hongzhi glanced at Bai Ang coldly and said very calmly.

"Since Xie Aiqing has no way to investigate it anymore, I think this case will be handed over to others to investigate."

Hearing Emperor Hongzhi's words, Xie Qian was slightly disappointed, and slightly bowed his hand and returned to his position, it was obvious that Emperor Hongzhi did not trust him now.

Such a big case was handed over to his own hands, and he didn't find out anything, and it was even implicated in the tragedy of several grain merchants, and it was reasonable that Emperor Hongzhi would choose someone else to investigate.

It's just that he is a cabinet minister, and he has lost the trust of the emperor, and he will not have a good time in the future.

However, he didn't have time to think about this matter now, because who Emperor Hongzhi would send to continue to investigate this case was the big matter at the moment.

Of course, not only Xie Qian, but also the other ministers in the court and the central government were also nervous, and some ministers were afraid of things, and they didn't want to be implicated in this quagmire, for fear of being named by Emperor Hongzhi.

Some ministers are wavering, this is also a good opportunity to become famous, as long as this matter can be done well, in the future, Jane will be in the emperor's heart, how can there be no chance of rising?

There are also some ministers who are secretly trembling, for fear that this matter will continue to be pursued endlessly, and if they are implicated, it will be over.

"Xiao Jing~"

Emperor Hongzhi coldly pronounced out a name.

As Emperor Hongzhi read out Xiao Jing's name, the ministers couldn't help but widen their eyes.

In the Ming Dynasty, eunuchs were a force to be reckoned with, and the good ones were Zheng He, the Three Treasures eunuch who went to the West seven times, and now Xiao Jing is also a good eunuch.

As for the eunuchs with a bad reputation, there are too many, too many, from Wang Zhen, who instigated Zhu Qizhen of the Ming Yingzong to personally conquer during the Tumubao Change, to Wang Zhi (the prototype of Yuhuatian) in the Xichang (the prototype of Yuhuatian) who made people change the style during the Ming Xianzong period of the previous dynasty, each of them is the master who makes the Wenchen scholars and doctors hate the gnashing of teeth.

For eunuchs, the scholars and doctors of the Ming Dynasty were very disliked, especially the Emperor Xianzong of the previous dynasty liked to rely on the power of eunuchs and factory guards.

In the thirteenth year of Chenghua, Emperor Xianzong set up a separate West Factory, coupled with the original East Factory and Jinyiwei, almost the entire Chenghua Dynasty fell under the high pressure of the spy organization, and the ministers were panicked and did not have a day of peace.

Finally survived the Chenghua Dynasty ushered in Emperor Hongzhi, this Emperor Hongzhi is a good person, or an emperor close to Wenchen, so as soon as Emperor Hongzhi came to power, whether it was the eunuchs in the palace, or the factory guards, etc., they were all hit hard, and the life of the ministers was better.

Everyone goes home to drink, talk and don't have to worry about being monitored by the factory guards, and everyone even dares to point at Emperor Hongzhi's nose and spray him with a face, so that the world without eunuchs and factory guards is a real good day for these ministers, this is what the Ming Dynasty should be, and it is also the appearance of the Ming Dynasty.

But now, Emperor Hongzhi actually pronounced Xiao Jing's name, who is Xiao Jing, he is now the biggest eunuch in the Ming Dynasty, the boss of the celebrant eunuch, and also leads the Jinyi Guard and Dongchang.

If such a eunuch is placed in the Chenghua Dynasty, with the personality of Emperor Xianzong, this Xiao Jing is probably a character who makes the ministers frightened, but in the Hongzhi Dynasty, this Xiao Jing is the same as Emperor Hongzhi, the role of a good man, and he has no sense of existence.

Since Emperor Hongzhi came to power, he has relied on the power of civil servants and has never used the power of eunuchs and factory guards, which is what the ministers like most about Emperor Hongzhi.

The pro-virtuous ministers are far from the villains, and the ministers are naturally all virtuous ministers, and this villain is these eunuchs and factory guards, if you want to add one, the military generals and nobles can also be included in it.

Now that Emperor Hongzhi has named Xiao Jing, it is obvious that he wants the eunuchs and factory guards to thoroughly investigate the matter, which has never happened before, and it is also the thing that the courtiers are most afraid of appearing.

This is an official, after all, there are still a few Qing officials like Ximen Leopard, Zhao Guanghan, and Xu Yougong, especially when the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty is indeed too low, everyone wants to live a decent life, this ass is more or less unclean.

The eunuchs and factory guards do not intervene in the court situation, everyone is an official, and they can naturally understand each other, and there will be nothing wrong.

But once the eunuchs and factory guards get involved, everyone will not have a good life, and a casual check will allow everyone to peel off the skin.

It was not easy for everyone to fool Emperor Hongzhi, let him believe in the ministers, and let him not reuse the power of eunuchs and factory guards, but I didn't expect that now Emperor Hongzhi would let Xiao Jing investigate this matter, then at that time, even if he destroyed a dozen or dozens of people, he would not want to suppress this case.

What's more, the power of the eunuchs and factory guards has been used for a while, and has been used for a while, if Emperor Hongzhi likes to rely on the power of eunuchs and factory guards in the future, the terrifying shadow of the Chenghua Dynasty may once again cover the sky of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, don't do it~"

Xiao Jing didn't reply yet, and immediately a large number of ministers stood up, all of them with red eyes, and now it is no longer the matter of the theft of grain from the Dezhou warehouse and the Linqing warehouse, this is a major matter related to whether the ministers can be trusted and relied on by Emperor Hongzhi in the future, and even Liu Jian and Li Dongyang stood up to stop Emperor Hongzhi.

The only thing that didn't have much reaction was the military generals and nobles group, for them, whether it was the civil servants or the eunuchs, anyway, it would not be them who were in power, they had ancestral iron rice bowls, and they could live their own small lives with peace of mind.

However, Zhang Mao still glanced at each other with several people who were familiar with him, and there was a look of surprise in his eyes.

Everyone has already explored Emperor Hongzhi's temperament clearly, and everyone can basically guess what kind of reaction he will have.

If such a thing happened, if it was according to the temperament of Emperor Hongzhi in the past, most of the ministers would have changed to investigate, and in the end nothing would have been found, and then it would have been over.

But who would have thought that now Emperor Hongzhi was ready to let Xiao Jing investigate this matter, and was ready to use the power of eunuchs and factory guards to investigate, which was really surprising, no one thought of this.

But if you think about it carefully, this time the incident seems to be too big, and these grains are a pound of grain, which is simply unheard of.

The point is that something so big happened, and these people still wanted to be so perfunctory to Emperor Hongzhi, and what they did was really too much.

It is estimated that Emperor Hongzhi now has a distrust of these ministers, so he will think of reusing the power of eunuchs and factory guards.

Although the power of the eunuchs and factory guards is huge, in fact, in the final analysis, these forces are also the power of the emperor, and the key is whether the emperor has thought about using this power and whether it is necessary to use this power.

In the past, Emperor Hongzhi trusted his ministers and asked everyone to do everything, so the eunuchs and factory guards naturally had no sense of existence, but now Emperor Hongzhi didn't trust them, and he felt that he had been deceived, so he naturally thought of using the power of eunuchs and factory guards.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, only Emperor Hongzhi did not use the power of the eunuchs and factory guards, after his death, Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao soon rebuilt the West Factory, and reused the eunuchs and factory guards again.

Some people even said that if Emperor Chongzhen could use the power of eunuchs and factory guards, maybe the Ming Dynasty would be able to continue.

Without eunuchs and factory guards, the Ming Emperor was just a puppet to be manipulated by civil officials.