Jinan Fucheng, Shandong Town Prison.

Xu Youzhen sat in the cold and damp cell, angry in her heart, constantly scolding Liu Juntao and Shandong Town, and the huge voice kept echoing in the prison.

The jailer guarding Xu Youzhen watched coldly, and didn't pay attention to Xu Youzhen, who was thunderous.

However, the central department has already said hello, and the chief military officer Liu Juntao specially confessed that as long as Xu Youzhen is taken care of, there is no need to be punished, and there is no need for him to confess, anyway, at this time, Liu Juntao has already obtained the confessions of more than a dozen villagers, and even Xu Youzhen's family members have all confessed, with these evidences, Liu Juntao is completely sure that Xu Youzhen can be convicted of a capital crime under the condition that Xu Youzhen has zero confession!

Otherwise, just based on Xu Youzhen's angry scolding, it is estimated that the jailer has already cleaned up a layer of skin at this time.

In the past few days, Xu Youzhen has been miserable in the cell, it can be said that she has been living like a year, and in just a few days, she has lost weight twice.

In the past few days, Liu Juntao sent a fast horse into Beijing and wrote a notebook about Xu Youzhen's connivance with his subordinates beating up the villagers in Shandong, resulting in more than a dozen deaths and injuries among the villagers, and directly reported it to the imperial court to publicly impeach Xu Youzhen.

Emperor Tianshun was overjoyed after seeing Liu Juntao's recital, originally Emperor Tianshun was still thinking about how to clean up Xu Youzhen, who had already left Beijing, at this time there were still many ministers in the court who were Xu Youzhen's henchmen, and they were secretly defending Xu Youzhen, and they also had the intention of helping Xu Youzhen make a comeback.

Emperor Tianshun is also annoyed by this, but there is no good way for the time being.

At this moment, Liu Juntao's impeachment of Xu Youzhen was delivered, and Emperor Tianshun was also secretly happy: "This Liu Juntao is really a lucky general!" Whatever I think of, I can send it directly! ”

So, in the early morning of the next day, Emperor Tianshun directly threw out the transcript of Liu Juntao's impeachment of Xu Youzhen, and the ministers of the court and the central government immediately discussed it.

Shi Heng immediately took a group of ministers to the well, and constantly reported Xu Youzhen's various bad deeds on weekdays, as if Xu Youzhen was originally a heinous person.

Although some of Xu Youzhen's henchmen still want to defend it, and even Chen Xun, the first assistant of the cabinet, wants to balance it, but in the face of Liu Juntao's impeachment recital, as well as all kinds of evidence sent with it, Chen Xun and the ministers of the DPRK and China also feel extremely difficult.

After a while, the ministers who defended Xu Youzhen in the court were dumbfounded, and only the voices of Shi Heng and the other parties were left in the main hall, and Emperor Tianshun was also frowning.

"Since this Xu Youzhen is so unbearable, why didn't you report it before?"

Emperor Tianshun's face was very ugly, and the ministers of the court and the central government were all such roles, which made Emperor Tianshun very disappointed, and there was also a wave of anger in his heart.

Shi Heng and the others saw that Emperor Tianshun's face was not right, and when they heard such words again, they all stopped speaking, and they all resumed their silence one by one.

Emperor Tianshun looked at the hall that had become unusually quiet, and said coldly: "Since Xu Youzhen has done a lot of evil, and there is a mountain of ironclad evidence provided by Liu Juntao, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, then the Fusi of Beizhen will immediately arrest him and bring him to Beijing, and order the three law divisions to try and convict!" ”

After speaking, Emperor Tianshun walked away with a blushing face.

Seeing this, the ministers in the hall all dispersed, but Shi Heng walked a few steps slowly, and after a while, Cao Jixiang quickly chased after him, and the two glanced at each other, and they came to a secluded place outside the main hall one after the other.

"What do you think?"

"Humph! That Xu Youzhen thinks that she has worked hard and is against us everywhere, and now she is dizzy to provoke Liu Juntao, and she can end up today, it is simply to blame! ”

Cao Jixiang's eyes flashed with a hint of essence in an instant, and he whispered, "Lord Shi means ......"

"Cut the grass and eradicate the roots! Xu Youzhen must never live again! ”

Cao Jixiang nodded heavily, and then turned around and left without saying a word.

When Shi Heng returned to the house, he immediately found his confidants and family members, and ordered: "You immediately go to the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple, and say that it is my intention, Xu Youzhen's case must be handled as an iron case, and it must be handled seriously!" ”

The family members nodded yes one after another, and then went their separate ways with Shi Heng's name.

Half a month later, the brocade guards sent by the Fusi of Beizhen locked Xu Youzhen and all the family members back to Beijing, at this time Xu Youzhen was already haggard, and the whole person had already taken off the image.

And the dozen or so Xu Youzhen's family members are also miserable, these people do not have special treatment like Xu Youzhen in prison, they were all "greeted" by the jailers in Shandong Town, and they were all beaten and bruised.

After Xu Youzhen and others returned to the capital, they were thrown into the edict of the Fusi of Beizhen, waiting for the trial of the three law divisions.

Four days later, the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Dali Temple opened a trial and brought Xu Youzhen and all his family members out.

Originally, Xu Youzhen still wanted to argue for herself, after all, she still has some connections in the court, and she also has some connections among the three law divisions, maybe this time the three divisions will be just going through the motions.

But what Xu Youzhen didn't expect was that above the lobby, several officials of the Three Law Divisions were all fresh faces, and they were all in a businesslike posture for this case, which suddenly made Xu Youzhen's heart sink to the bottom.

In just one day, the three legal divisions concluded the case, which is unprecedented.

"Xu Youzhen connived at the murder of domestic slaves, beat villagers, and rampant places, resulting in the death of a villager, more than a dozen people, the evidence is conclusive, and there is no room for quibbles, first detain Xu Youzhen and other cadres in the Imperial Prison, and after the three law divisions will report the case to His Majesty, they will be convicted and sentenced on a later date!"

After a waiter from the criminal department announced loudly, the officials in the hall rushed forward and escorted Xu Youzhen, who was already stunned, and more than a dozen family members.

After returning to the edict, Xu Youzhen finally understood, this time she was afraid that she was in a catastrophe, and the court wanted to investigate herself!

Thinking of this, Xu Youzhen came to her sorrow, all kinds of things she had experienced over the years were like fragments, scene by scene flashed in front of her eyes, Xu Youzhen suddenly burst into tears like rain, and she couldn't cry in the edict.

"Humph! Anyway, he was also a big official in the court, and now he is crying like this, why did he go earlier! ”

"Hehe, these adults are used to being pampered on weekdays, where can they stand this? Nature is not used to it! ”

The two jailers sat not far away, drinking tea and chatting, unconcerned about the sad Xu Youzhen.

The next day, Emperor Tianshun received the results of the trial of the three law divisions, and the opinion of the three law divisions was to dismiss Xu Youzhen from his post and take his family, Xu Youzhen and more than a dozen of his family members were all beheaded after the autumn, and Xu Youzhen's family property was all charged into the treasury!

Emperor Tianshun also sneered in his heart when he saw it, and understood very well that this was being secretly pushed by someone in the court, otherwise even if Xu Youzhen connived at his family and hurt people's lives, those family members who did it would definitely have to pay for their lives, but how could Xu Youzhen leave a life, after all, Xu Youzhen made a great contribution when he was reinstated, and the three law divisions would definitely think of this and consider it.

As for who is secretly operating in the court, Emperor Tianshun can also guess that there are eight or nine inseparable tens, most of them are Shi Heng's party!

Emperor Tianshun wanted to take this opportunity to completely eradicate Xu Youzhen and his party, but he didn't want to make Shi Heng's party too happy, so Emperor Tianshun said to the criminal department Shangshu who came to submit the review of the situation: "This case is over, let's end the trial!" ”

The Shangshu of the Criminal Department hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, then this Xu Youzhen is ......"

"Although Xu Youzhen is guilty, he didn't do it himself after all, most of this matter is just a crime of his subordinates acting for the tiger, Xu Youzhen is not guilty to death!"

The face of the criminal department Shangshu changed when he heard this: "Minister, obey the order!" ”

Emperor Tianshun said: "Degrade Xu Youzhen to a concubine, never hire him, confiscate his family property, and all the money obtained will be filled into the treasury!" ”

"Minister, obey!"

After the verdict, Xu Youzhen left the capital without a single thing, and when she left, she was depressed, like a walking corpse.

Since then, Emperor Tianshun has successively dismissed and demoted dozens of ministers within a month, all of whom are Xu Youzhen's party, and even two people in the cabinet have been implicated, and the government and the opposition have been shocked.

At this time, Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang also understood that this was Yingzong consolidating the imperial power, and after Xu Youzhen fell, there was only one side left in the court, and then Emperor Tianshun would definitely pay attention to his side.