Wu looked at the pile of wedding furniture in Zhao Guogong's mansion on this day, and rejoiced, and embarrassed, always felt that the Zhu family was too cheap, so Zhang Shou came back, proposed to have a hot pot at night, it happened that Zhu Ying took the Hong family directly over, happily shouted that today is a great victory, to stay here for dinner, Wu is naturally overjoyed, simply called everyone, lively and had a lively meal.

Hundreds of guests, masters and servants in the family were all called out, and various round tables in the main hall and side hall were set up, and more than ten or twenty copper hot pots were set up, from mutton and haggis to various vegetables and mountain delicacies, this meal did not know how much was consumed, it was a lively night banquet.

As for game, of course, there is no such thing at all. Although in recent years, from high-ranking officials and dignitaries to ordinary people, they all love to eat some game and claim to try it, but Zhang Shou persuaded Wu with the words of accumulating virtue and doing good, and even brainwashed Zhu Ying, and the reason used was also a parasite to scare people. Viruses and bacteria, people can't understand him now!

What bird flu, what Ebola, even if the other two diseases don't necessarily come from wild meat, he is really afraid.

Isn't chicken, duck and fish delicious...... Why do you eat game when it's delicious? If it weren't for the fact that the rich and noble often took wild meat to try it, and the poor had to fill their stomachs with wild meat, why was the life expectancy of people so short? Often in your forties, like a little old man? Zhang Shou never mentioned the hardships of life, the backwardness of medical care, and his always most reasonable image, which successfully surrounded Zhu Ying.

He even repeatedly told his adoptive mother and Zhu Ying that what they eat must be fully cooked, and even cited the past when he was a child who was half-baked and had a stomach. For his kind of behavior of being bitten by a snake once and being afraid of the well rope for ten years, even the Wu family couldn't help but wonder if Zhang Shou had such a thing when he was sick at every turn, and Zhu Ying was even more startled and promised to do so.

And when they are enjoying themselves here, in more places inside and outside the capital, many people are sleepless all night, staying up all night, forgetting to sleep and eat. People who have red eyes and dark circles in this night...... That's definitely more than one.

Among them, Zhang Shou hinted that Cui Hong, the imperial historian of the five cities, who was ordered by Lu Juan, was among them.

The Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division all ran down, and all the prisoners were tried, which was impossible for him, so just like Ah Liu, he was the main attack on the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division under the direct jurisdiction of Zhu Tingfang, and those who were initially seemed to be lenient by Zhu Tingfang were mostly brought back one by one after nightfall, and he didn't have to stare at a madman to ask endlessly.

Therefore, in the middle of the night, when Zhu Tingfang, who had been busy for a day but was talented and in good health, came back as usual, he was faced with a haggard face, red eyes and dark circles, but his eyes revealed a bit of fanatical patrol of the city.

Cui Hong had long forgotten the anxiety and annoyance of not being able to find Zhu Tingfang before, as soon as he saw this eldest prince of the Zhao State Mansion, who was ordered to be in charge of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and directly under the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division, he immediately rushed forward in three steps and two steps, and said bluntly: "Lord Zhu, someone instigated this trouble today, and it was instigated by the people of the celebrant supervisor, they tried to muddy the water and seek survival in death!" ”

Zhu Tingfang casually threw the horsewhip to Zhu Yi on the side, stared at Cui Hong for a moment, and then walked straight to the office without saying a word, and actually left Cui Hong down like this!

In the face of this treatment, although Cui Hong was a little embarrassed, Zhu Tingfang had a hard temper and ruthless methods, which was famous, and the emperor asked him to take charge of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses, originally because he valued his murderous spirit. Sure enough, three days after Zhu Tingfang took office, many gang leaders in Nancheng who were once glorious were arrested by seventeen, and then ......

Qiu Jue directly pulled out and cut down eight of the most heinous crimes, plus ten of the most heinous doglegs!

It was specially sent to the West Fourth Archway to be executed, and even the people who loved to watch the excitement the most, after the heads fell to the ground too many times, their cheers gradually turned into silence, and finally there were not a few people who left trembling.

So, he forcibly suppressed his dissatisfaction, but he turned around and quickly followed Zhu Tingfang, and explained vigorously: "Lord Zhu, I definitely didn't bend into a trick, nor did I force a confession to induce a confession, this is the result of this cross-questioning, and then transferred the people from the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division to go to Shunteng to touch melons, if Lord Zhu doesn't believe it, he can try it himself!" ”

"Cui Shiyu is doing things, of course I believe it." Zhu Tingfang's answer was very concise, but his action of continuing to walk forward at this time made Cui Hong feel very bottomless. When he followed the people all the way into the public hall, he only heard Zhu Tingfang say one sentence again: "But the confessions of the few I caught in the city are different from the situation found out by the madman Chen and you here. ”

Zhu Tingfang walked straight to his main seat, turned his back and sat down like this, seeing Cui Hong's face flushed, and when he found that he was looking at him, he barely squeezed out a smile, and he smiled indifferently.

"I'm not saying that Cui Shiyu had any selfish motives when you tracked down, or that you were deceived, but you must know that some people are used to being suspicious. This is the result you asked about in this southern city, but the troublemakers in the inner city beat them down, and kept saying that they were instructed by some bosses in the court, so they had to uproot the celebrant supervisor. And ......"

He paused slightly, but his tone was more severe: "Also, taking advantage of the fact that the provinces are gradually going to Beijing, and the city is full of scholars, it arouses everyone's hatred and hatred, and forces the emperor to rectify the celebrant supervisor." ”

This time, Cui Hong's face, which had just turned red, became bloodless again, and even his voice trembled a little: "This is ridiculous!" ”

"Yes, it's ridiculous, so of course I don't believe it either." Zhu Tingfang shook the hem of his robe slightly, leaned forward slightly, and said word by word, "However, such a statement is not something that ordinary people can come up with. Some people also say that the person who instructed them may be a guy who is under the banner of some boss and tiger skin? ”

"Now, what you asked in the Terracotta Division in the South City was the celebrant and the thief shouting to catch the thief, but what I asked in the Terracotta Division in the East, West and North and Middle Cities was that someone in the court was fueling the trouble, do you think, how should this be reported?"

Cui Hong was asked by Zhu Tingfang in a cold sweat, and his back was also wet. With Zhang Shou's hint and Lu Xuan's order, he would come to the Nancheng Terracotta Division in person, and found that Zhu Tingfang did not prohibit him from arraigning criminals, and he felt that this Zhu Dagongzi was also thinking like this. But now, Zhu Tingfang actually said that the population supply caught in the city was different!

He only felt that his heart was in turmoil, and he had no opinion, so he couldn't help but ask: "How does the eldest prince think he should report it?" ”

Zhu Tingfang was not surprised at all by Cui Hong's irresponsible attitude of kicking the ball back directly. Aren't most officials in these years just such a non-responsible virtue?

He laughed, and then he shook the corners of his robe, and actually stood up again: "How do you report to the top?" Didn't the emperor give us a good start? That's a quick knife to cut through the mess. Depending on who instructed him, it would be good to directly conclude the case immediately. ”

"But whether it is the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, or me, the Imperial History of the City Patrol, I can judge and ask, but if the case is judged and convicted......" Cui Hong suddenly stopped talking. Although Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Criminal Department are known as the three law divisions, unless it is a lawsuit that stabs the sky, and the Son of Heaven decrees that the three law divisions should be tried together, they all perform their duties on weekdays, regardless of such trivial matters as judging cases and convictions!

That's right, as the three legal divisions that really control the power of the world's criminal and prison sentences, that is, the ultimate judicial review power, they usually really don't care about trying cases. The supervisor of the imperial history, that is, when the Dali Temple of the Criminal Department is reviewed every year, he puts a chair next to him to listen, and then is ready to pick a thorn at any time.

Zhu Tingfang sighed lightly, and said casually: "That's easy to do, the Shuntian Mansion Ya, Wanping County Ya, and Daxing County Ya, send people in according to their respective jurisdictions, and the trial will be concluded in three minutes. ”

"All in all, don't procrastinate, act fast, just take matters into account, don't think about who is implicated!"

Cui Hongdeng's face was cold. When he first found out about the celebrant eunuch, he was naturally very excited, just thinking that Wang Datou, as a high-ranking official who took the lead in participating in the corrupt acts of some eunuchs in the celebrant eunuch, is now famous all over the world.

But now Zhu Tingfang is warning him, don't think about seeking fame, it's the right thing to end quickly, he can't help but feel that this is like the fat that has reached his mouth and finally loses it, it is really heart-wrenching that he can't breathe.

However, under the gaze of that seemingly kind, but actually sharp gaze, Cui Hong finally squeezed out an extremely reluctant smile: "Also, Prince Xinli, this kind of thing should indeed be cut through the mess quickly, and it is better to clean it up as soon as possible." ”

Regardless of whether Cui Hong is really soft or just hypocritical, Zhu Tingfang doesn't care at all. He slowly walked in front of Cui Hong, and when he got along at this close distance, he was half a head taller than the other party, and he naturally revealed an oppressive force.

"The criminals on the side of the Nancheng Terracotta Division, I will ask in person. As for the people of the Soldiers and Horses Division in the four cities of the inner city, they bothered Cui Shiyu to work harder, and went into the city at night to take a look and ask questions, so as not to let someone confess afterwards that it was me who was beaten into a trick. Of course, you'd better change this official robe, so that some people don't see the change and ask them, so they also change their rhetoric. ”

Seeing that Zhu Tingfang generously instructed him to go into the city to bow in person, Cui Hong's last bit of luck was finally gone.

If it weren't for Zhu Tingfang's questioning and even verification, some of the troubles were indeed related to some bosses in the DPRK and China, as for being so refreshing? Thinking that he had a teacher in the capital, the same year, and even relatives and friends, he didn't dare to delay the time, and hurriedly agreed, and then he didn't care about the fact that he was busy interrogating and tracking down the water from dusk to now, and hurried into the city.

When he, the imperial history of patrolling the city, entered the inner city with his waist card, the soldiers and horses of the four cities in the east, west, north, and middle ran down one by one, but it was already dawn. As an imperial historian, he was originally a member of the Chang Dynasty officials, so he urgently sent the news out on the eve of entering the palace.

For a while, the officials of the Kedao Yan who had already been gearing up to write a good song, and planned to pay homage to it immediately when they turned back, I don't know how many people fell into a state of confusion, although there are also those who are not afraid of death, and they plan to go back and revise their wonderful article, and sweep the celebrant and the bigwigs into it together, even if they are broken, they will be famous in history, but most of them ......

Well, most people are still normal people, and they finally studied and became a leader, but they broke their heads in such a brainless thing, and finally they were dismissed and never used, so it's not interesting.

Therefore, on this day, the court meeting was still a few things in a step-by-step manner, and finally ended quietly, as if the big news of the celebrant yesterday was made public to the world, and the storm inside and outside the capital yesterday had not happened.

And behind this pool of stagnant water, Cui Hong, who had not slept all night, sent people from the Five Cities Terracotta Division to escort the prisoners to the two county offices of Shuntian Mansion and Wanping Daxing, and after one time at a time, he finally emptied the cells of the Five Cities Terracotta Division.

Immediately after, the three major yamen immediately started the trial, and the boards on the platform crackled, and finally at the gate of each yamen, there were seven or eight prisoners lying on their stomachs.

It is not uncommon for people to be punished with canes and flogging, but if there is a little condition, it is the door panel that is immediately carried home, and the person cannot afford to lose, and most of the unconditional ones are ashamed of being humiliated like this, and they have to climb back, but these bare-chested guys are all wearing shackles and locks, and a group of officials are watching with a tiger's eye, but there is a life on the top, and they are allowed to release people after a long day.

What's even more difficult is that the cold wind at this time, blowing on the bare cheeks with open skin and flesh, is simply another torture!

The most terrifying thing is that when the yamen severely punished the troublemakers this time, they even released the news that the troublemakers were not allowed to ransom the rod. That's not all, Zhu Tingfang's words to the scholars that day when he ordered people to leave them in the outer city were also preached all over the capital in the same way. Some of the scholars who were still eager to move as a deaf ear got the news of the inspector's yamen later that day.

The Northern Zhili Inspector Imperial History Notice, if there is a meritorious student in the capital to spread false rumors, noisy and noisy, the small will be admonished and demoted, and the big one will be removed from the meritorious name, and will not be lenient. As for whether the other provincial school administrations will do the same, who knows?

Although some people indignantly denounced this as a thousand horses, in the end it finally died down, and for a while, there were even many fewer literary and poetry societies aimed at meeting like-minded people and even making a name for themselves.

As for how many old men in the court threw cups, plates, bowls, and inkstones at home after returning home, only God knows. But even the Confucian scholar, who was no longer in a good breath, was also quiet when he learned that the emperor had sent the two Bingbi who had been dismissed before to guard the imperial tomb, and then selected a few capable people to check those good halls.

The Son of Heaven did not use such ruthless means against the celebrant on an old minister like him, which is already a blessing from heaven! Speaking of which, even the elder Jiang Ge, who had stepped down gloomily before, in comparison, the end was much better than these eunuchs!

Under this backwater situation, the first examination of Guozijian to screen the attendants of the East Palace quietly began without much attention. When he saw the king of Jiangdu swaggering in front, and Xu Heikui, who had a rigid face, followed closely behind, whether it was Zhou Xijiu or Luo Siye, or many scholars, they all only felt that one face was actually painful, and they didn't know whether it was the wind blowing or being ashamed.