The Hangzhou officials and Yang Feng's excerpts arrived at the same time as if they had made an appointment, and Zhu Youxiao and several pavilion elders were surprised and couldn't help but wonder, was this a coincidence or an intentional one?

Soon, Sandezi walked into the imperial study with two brocade boxes in his hands and respectfully placed them on the dragon case.

After knowing that Yang Feng's excerpts had arrived, Zhu Youxiao, who was originally anxious, was in a good mood, he looked at the two brocade boxes placed on the dragon case and said to a few people with a smile: "A few Aiqing, now that the joint excerpt between Yang Aiqing and Hangzhou Mansion has arrived, we don't have to argue anymore, let's draw conclusions after we read the two excerpts separately." ”

Sun Chengzong bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty's words are very good! ”

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand: "Sandezi, take the fold of Hangzhou Mansion to the three elders." ”

"Whoa!"

Sandezi stepped forward and picked up one of the brocade boxes and respectfully handed it to Sun Chengzong, "Elder Sun Ge, please check it out." ”

According to the rules, before opening the box, at least two or more cabinet members or the emperor personally checked whether the fire paint and seals were complete, and they could only be opened after checking that they were correct.

Sun Chengzong took the box and carefully inspected the fire paint and seal, nodded and handed it to Zhu Guozhen, Zhu Guozhen looked at it and handed it to Han Yi, and then the three of them nodded at the same time: "The inspection is correct, you can open the box." ”

Two quarters of an hour later, the two folds were placed on the dragon case, Zhu Youxiao pinched the bridge of his nose between his eyebrows, and said with a long breath: "Okay, you have read the two excerpts, now you all talk about your thoughts, right?" ”

At this time, the three pavilion elders had long since lost the anger they had just now, and instead had a slightly angry and helpless expression, while Zhu Youxiao's eyes were full of smiles.

Among the two memoranda sent, the joint excerpt sent by Hangzhou government officials naturally strongly impeached Yang Feng, calling his actions arrogant, lawless, and even disregarding human life, and demanding that the imperial court severely punish Yang Feng and release Pan Ruzhen.

In the excerpt, Yang Feng told the gentry led by Peng Shouli and Pan Ruzhen's inaction in one by one, and attached their confessions.

In the end, Yang Feng also said in the excerpt: "Looking at the actions of the gentry in Hangzhou, in the eyes of these people, there is no court or royal law at all, they only have money in their eyes, but if it infringes on their interests, they will not hesitate to destroy each other." And Pan Ruzhen didn't seem to be involved in this matter on the surface, but just because he knew that someone intended to assassinate the Duke of the Ming Dynasty, but he still chose to acquiesce, it can be seen that such a person is no longer worthy of being an official of the Ming Dynasty, so he took Pan Ruzhen down and escorted him to Beijing to be disposed of by the imperial court. ”

Of course, it was not these that made several members of the cabinet feel most entangled, but what made them feel most entangled was that Yang Feng was accompanied by 18.6 million taels of silver and 861,000 taels of gold in advance, and now these things have been sent by 3,000 Jiangning soldiers and soldiers outside Beijing, waiting for the emperor's will.

Eighteen million taels of silver and eight hundred and sixty-one thousand taels of gold meant, these elders really knew too well.

Now it's almost winter, the silver in the treasury has already been spent, if there is so much silver into the warehouse, the imperial court's pockets will immediately bulge in an instant, to put it mildly, with this silver, in the next three or five years, if there are no major wars and major natural disasters, the Ming court will no longer have to worry about money.

So the question now comes, the current problem mainly revolves around whether Yang Feng should arrest all those salt merchants and raid their homes, and on the issue of dealing with Pan Ruzhen, the opinions of the civil officials are unified, most of them think that Yang Feng should not do such an arrogant thing, and advocate the release of Pan Ruzhen, Peng Shouli and those gentry and businessmen are also excusable in the assassination of Yang Feng, and should be punished lightly, and the most important thing is to recall Yang Feng back to the capital.

But what is puzzling now is that if Yang Feng is guilty, then it is naturally wrong for him to confiscate the property of Pan Ruzhen, Peng Shouli and those gentry, and the imperial court should return the confiscated silver taels and various shops, real estate and other things to them as soon as possible.

But the question is, is this possible?

Now that the treasury of the Ming Dynasty is empty, the current head of the household Wang Yongguang sees the silver is even closer than seeing his father and mother, if he knows that the imperial court actually sent back nearly one million taels of gold and eighteen million taels of silver that have been sent to the door of the house, he will definitely die in front of Zhu Youxiao and several elders.

Now, Sun Chengzong, Zhu Guozhen and Han Yi can be said to hate them so much that their teeth itch, and Yang Feng's move can be said to have taken them together.

Okay, aren't you going to punish me? Well, I've sent the money to your doorstep, do you want it or not?

If you take the money, it means that I have done the right thing, and if you really have the determination to send back the money that was delivered to your door...... Well, I admire you for being a man.

Looking at the blue and red expressions on the faces of Sun Chengzong and the others, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile and said: "Three Aiqing, I don't know what you think about this matter, how should you characterize what Xinguo Gong did in Hangzhou, I don't know what the regulations are?" ”

"Well...... this"

The three of them were a little blind for a while, how do you ask them to answer this matter, do you want money or dispose of Yang Feng? No matter what it is, it is not suitable, and after the three of them finally discussed, Sun Chengzong said: "Your Majesty, this matter is very important, the old minister thinks that it is better to inform the hundred officials of the court and let the hundred officials express their opinions, what do you think?" ”

"Yes!" Zhu Youxiao agreed without thinking, and he could see that these three old foxes clearly didn't plan to carry the pot on their backs.

Come to think of it, it's a thankless thing to do whatever decision they make.

First of all, even if they really decided that Yang Feng was guilty, so what? Today's Yang Fenggui is the Duke of the Kingdom and holds the seal of military power, and he is deeply trusted by the emperor, even if they decide that Yang Feng is guilty, is it possible that Zhu Youxiao will really arrest him? The biggest possibility is that Yang Feng patted his ass and went to Nanyang to continue to fight with the red-haired devils.

And the current rogues haven't been wiped out yet, who will suppress the bandits once Yang Feng leaves?

But if they want to say that Yang Feng is not guilty, and he is right, then they will definitely be sprayed to death by the civil officials.

Since this is the case, then simply throw this matter out and let all the officials discuss it, and they want to carry the blame together, and want the three of us to carry it, no way!

Soon, the incident spread rapidly through the capital at lightning speed......

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