Chapter 209: Death and Resurrection
Mohe nodded to indicate that he knew, and he didn't ask more questions at the moment, he hurriedly arched his hand towards Liuli with a serious face, and took the door with him when he turned around and went out.
The faint light shone in through the window paper, and it could be seen falling on the bookshelf behind him over the glass, and suddenly, the silence of the room seemed to add a little peach pink color of spring flowers, and the illusion of quiet years was born. Liuli rubbed her eyebrows tiredly, squinted at the sky outside, and then got up and left the study and went back to the bedroom.
The faint scent of sandalwood lingered in the room, Liuli lowered her eyes and looked at the dust-covered robe on her body, she couldn't help frowning, stretched out her hand and pulled off the robe on her body and threw it on the ground, ordered the people in the house to prepare a hot bath, and finally went to sleep after bathing with a set of clean nightgowns.
Xu was really tired, and it didn't take a moment to go to bed, and Liuli fell asleep deeply.
"Shangshu of the Criminal Department, tell me quickly, when you took people to search the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Shangshu Mansion of the Military Department, you found anything unusual?" As soon as the end of the Criminal Department Shangshu took a seat, Su Yitong couldn't wait to ask.
Last night, when Liuli led people to search the mansions of the major officials in the city, Su Yitong asked Ying Er to secretly communicate with Shangshu of the Criminal Department in advance. Regardless of the mansions of other officials for the time being, whether there is any trace to be found, but the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Military Ministry Shangshu Mansion must personally bring people to search for it. Therefore, after receiving the news that Liuli led people to search the mansion, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department would take people to hurry to meet Liuli, and under the pretext of searching, according to Su Yitong's intentions, he led people to turn the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Military Department Shangshufu upside down.
"Back to Your Majesty." The Shangshu of the Criminal Department got up unhurriedly and said to Su Yitong: "The old minister searched the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Military Department Shangshu Mansion last night in accordance with His Majesty's order, and found nothing wrong. ”
"Didn't you?" Su Yitong frowned and asked uncertainly, "Are you sure you have searched everywhere?" ”
The criminal department Shangshu nodded. "The old minister is sure. At that time, the old minister was still afraid that the prime minister was really a chaotic minister and thief, and he specially asked people to turn over all the open spaces in his yard. No evidence of treason, as His Majesty had claimed, was found. ”
"That's right." Su Yitong touched his chin and thought about it, and said without giving up: "Have you found the study room of the Prime Minister's Mansion?" ”
"Found it." Shangshu of the Criminal Department replied: "According to His Majesty's statement, the walls are beaten one by one, and there is no secret passage. ”
"yes, got it." Su Yitong put down his hand and asked again: "What about the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of War?" ”
"Uh...... Lord Shang Shuwei of the Ministry of War was not in the mansion, so at that time, the old minister only searched the outer courtyard and did not search the inner courtyard,"
"Why?"
"The inner courtyard is full of female dependents, and the old minister has also heard that Miss Wei, the daughter of the secretary of the military department, is seriously ill and should not be frightened, so ......" The secretary of the criminal department looked at Su Yitong, who was lying on the soft couch with his head with one hand behind the screen, and his voice trembled: "The old minister ......"
"Are you seriously ill?" Su Yitong sat up thoughtfully, looked at the screen and rolled his eyes, then the corners of his lips lifted, and he called out to an unknown corner of the hall. "Shadow two."
"Your Majesty." The second shadow figure was as fast as a ghost, and when the few Shangshu people in the Criminal Department subconsciously looked at the open palace door, he had already landed lightly in front of several people. The Shangshu of the Criminal Department was stunned and startled. Fortunately, several people had seen Ying Er before, and knew that he was Su Yitong's shadow guard, so after a while, several people looked back at the blurred figure behind the screen like nothing.
"You go to the Tai Hospital and talk to Imperial Doctor Lin, and say that the daughter of the Military Department Shangshu Mansion is sick, I am very worried, and I bother him to run away," Su Yitong felt that something was wrong after speaking, and paused for a moment before saying: "Anyway, you are going to the Tai Hospital, you just go to the Military Department Shangshu Mansion with Imperial Doctor Lin, and by the way, go to the Imperial Pharmacy to get some good tonic and send it." Tut...... Miss Wei's body is weak, if I can't spare time, I want to go for a trip in person. That's it, I'll leave the task of taking care of Miss Wei to you for the time being, and if the people in her house don't care, you can take care of it yourself. ”
After that, Su Yitong glanced at Ying Er meaningfully, only to see that Ying Er's face suddenly sank, and his tight lips twitched fiercely.
"Go ahead." Su Yitong waved his hand towards Ying Er with a weak heart, and hurriedly lowered his eyelids and stared at the ground.
"Yes." Ying Er's eyes swept the screen coldly, and then he got up unwillingly and walked out of the Jardine Palace.
As soon as Ying Er left, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department felt that the air in the Jardine Hall was much fresher. Deng Shi stopped talking nonsense, and hurriedly took out a thick stack of confessions from his arms and handed them to the palace people waiting in front of the screen. and then handed it over to Su Yitong by the people of the palace.
The evidence collected by the Shadow Pavilion was much more than the charges written on the confession, so Su Yitong only glanced at it lightly, then put down the confession, and discussed the matter with the Shangshu of the Criminal Department.
It was a matter of leaving the country and the country, Su Yitong knew that those ministers were guilty, but he didn't dare to convict them easily, so he hurriedly sent someone to the Prime Minister's Mansion and invited Liuli into the palace.
As many as half of the ministers who served as important ministers in the DPRK and the central government were involved in the corruption of money and grain for disaster relief in Luoyi and Bianzhou. Now, the war in the border cities has not been successful, and the money and food are gone, and it is the time when the treasury needs to fill the treasury. Among the six Shangshu, the only people who can be reused today are the Criminal Department and the Rite Department. Therefore, Su Yitong's first thing now is to stabilize the current situation first, and pass this matter through without hurting the country's capital and not messing with the government.
And this is undoubtedly not a problem for Su Yitong. The affairs of the country's government are related to the people of the world, and as the emperor, she must put the people first. It's just that all the disasters at the moment have come together, and once she has a deviation in handling this matter, I am afraid that this country will be self-defeating and handed over.
Su Yitong's mind was full of changes, and in just one day, he had a thorough understanding of the current situation of leaving the country in the discussion between Shangshu and Liuli in the Criminal Department. That night, Su Yitong summoned the people who could be used and the people who could be used in the court to the Jardine Palace, ordered the imperial dining room to prepare dinner and send it, and after having a hasty dinner with everyone in the Jardine Palace, he went to the council hall next to the Zhengqing Hall to continue to discuss the matter.
The country has changed a little, and the replacement of the emperor's name and surname is a common thing. But looking at the hundred years since he left the country, no emperor has ever had such unlucky luck as Su Yitong. So when Su Yitong did not shy away from putting the list of officials who committed crimes in front of everyone, everyone was stunned, but when they saw the content clearly, they all took a deep breath and fell into their own shock.
Su Yitong was helpless, so he had to look at Liuli. However, Liuli couldn't, so she could only shake her head back.
In today's court, if you really want to talk about it as a chess game, it will definitely be a dead end. However, as the old saying goes: Putting oneself to death and then living is the way to break the current deadlock. It's just that the word "death" contains a lot of meaning, and there is a slight gambler element in it. As for how to bet, it depends on whether the person holding the game has the guts.
Liuli was valued by the emperor in his early years, and he was the head of the civil servants before he reached the crown, how could he be a simple person, I think he should have seen the twists and turns from the beginning to understand clearly. But even if the people present understood it in their hearts, they didn't dare to mention it easily in front of Su Yitong. Then for a while, in the council hall, only the hall was silent.
Su Yitong didn't sit down, lying on the table and counting the sheep boringly, and he was about to fall asleep, but he never saw everyone speak.
"Forget it, Bai is counting on you." In the middle of the night, Su Yitong's patience was almost worn out. Hurriedly sat up straight, raised his eyes and swept everyone, and then, he got up and yelled at everyone: "Uncle, I even slept while Lao Tzu was counting sheep, and I didn't want to live anymore!" "No wonder there was no movement all of a sudden, it turned out that they were all dozing.
Su Yitong hated grinding his teeth in his heart, thinking that he was still sick! Spend time here with them in vain, knowing that it is better to go back and sleep and come back. Look at these useless wastes again, usually when she gives orders to play, one by one hates to draw inferences in front of her, but now when it comes to using them, they have all become mute, and they are not as good as the storyteller in the teahouse.
The more Su Yitong thought about it, the more angry he became, his cheeks were swollen, and when he was thinking about how to punish them, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, something blessed his soul, and in just a moment, the round cheeks were flattened. Just when Liuli felt funny for her puffed up appearance and wanted to reach out to pinch her fleshy face, Su Yitong suddenly raised her head and laughed, and then raised her eyebrows proudly in the shocked and frightened eyes of everyone, and said happily: "I have thought of a way." ”
Su Yitong's anger and joy made the hearts of everyone present fluctuate, and it took a long time to recover from the fright of the previous moment, but the next second fell into Su Yitong's ecstatic shock. Liuli also looked at Su Yitong in confusion, Su Yitong laughed for a moment and finally stopped laughing, and hurriedly reached out to stroke the sore belly and talked to everyone about the method he had just thought of.
The court has been changing overnight, and the forces of all parties have checked and balanced each other, so although the previous court has been secretly filthy, no one has ever dared to write something on the surface. But now, Su Yitong not only spread it out, but also intends to completely subvert it. Therefore, there are only two ways in front of everyone, that is, to rectify the dynasty and change the atmosphere.
Su Yitong had thought about uprooting the moths in the DPRK and China before and dealing with them all at once, but he also thought that this move would hurt the country, so he could only think about it in the long run. And just now, Su Yitong finally came up with a way to achieve both of them between not being able to handle lightly and not being able to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.
As the saying goes, no matter how things develop, the spearhead will eventually be pointed at one person. And Su Yitong's method is to give up the big and the small, and the head and tail.
It is a felony to collude with the remnants of the former dynasty to poison the people and embezzle disaster relief money and food, resulting in the whereabouts of the disaster relief money and food. So there is little room for negotiation on this matter. With a stroke of the pen, Su Yitong directly sentenced the ministers involved in the matter to be cut off and take back the mansion given by the imperial court. After the investigation is confirmed, those who do not bear human lives will be acquitted, and the men can invite themselves to join the army, and the women can enter the palace as maids, and seek life, and do not force them.
As for the officials' secret communication and collusion, private collusion, bribery, and murder for money, Su Yitong also pointed out the key points, according to the size of the crimes committed by the officials, those who bear human lives will exchange their lives for their lives, and they will also take back the mansion given by the imperial court, and all the money and property in the family will be compensated to the victim's family, and the family will not be held responsible. If a relative in the family of the person has used his power to force him to become a prostitute, and the person who has reckless of his life will be sentenced to exchange his life for his life, and then compensate the victim's family with money as a sign of consolation.
In order to show fairness, Su Yitong also deliberately marked at the end that the past unjust cases were specially allowed to be re-examined, and the victims were given justice.
As for those whose sins do not lead to death, Su Yitong is also divided according to the size of his crimes, or he is reduced to a commoner, and he is not allowed to enter the court as an official for eternity. or they may be imprisoned for two years, three years, or ten years, depending on the crime...... There is no time limit. Or demote, sent to a poor place to make up for the merits.