The next day, the twenty-first day of the first month, the morning dynasty.

Yun Xi grabbed the imperial history who was qualified to go to the court before he spoke, took out a book and said: "He Xuhua is in charge of the imperial history of the river difficult road?" ”

"The minister is here." A black-faced man in his forties walked out and answered.

"I have seen your twists and turns, impeaching the servants of the Puding Marquis Chen Huan's family for committing lawlessness, and even three years ago, there was a matter of forcibly robbing the people's daughters and forcibly taking them as concubines, are these things true?" Yoon-hee asked.

"The ministers have verified that they are correct." He Xuhua said.

Yun Xi smiled, but then narrowed his eyes and said, "As far as I know, you have served as the Imperial Historian of the River Disaster Road since the thirtieth year of Hongwu, and it has been three and a half years now, why didn't you give advice to the imperial court at the beginning of learning about these things, and you had to wait until this time to advise and impeach?" ”

"Do you think Emperor Taizu will favor the lawless nobles? Do you think that I will favor the nobles who are rampant and lawless! ”

"Minister," He Xuhua opened his mouth and stammered, not knowing how to justify.

The reason why he was not impeached at that time was mainly because his own family background was not clean, and he had the behavior of eating and taking cards when he was the magistrate of the county in the local area. However, because his crime of embezzlement and bribery was very small, it did not attract Zhu Yuanzhang's attention. But if he sued Chen Huan for the first time, and let Chen Huan find out his case record and carry out a rebound impeachment, he would probably be either sentenced to death or have a suspended death sentence, so he was not impeached.

As for Yunxi's accession to the throne, although the emperor did not clearly express his preference for Xungui, He Xuhua himself estimated that impeachment should be useless; He impeached Jin Zheng to get the emperor's attention to be promoted, not to eliminate harm for the country, and the emperor obviously didn't treat the imperial historian very well at that time, so he didn't impeach either.

It wasn't until the recent wave of criticism of Xungui that he felt that the time had come to impeach Xungui with a bullet. He had already impeached several powerful people a few days ago, and when he felt that there was nothing to impeach, he remembered the matter of Chen Huan's servant of the Marquis of Puding, and hurriedly took it out for impeachment. Unexpectedly, he was caught by the emperor today.

Of course, He Xuhua didn't dare to say what he thought, and Yushi, who had a good relationship with him, wanted to defend him a few words, and as soon as he looked up, he saw the righteous eyes of the boss of his yamen, and shrank back; Therefore, in the Fengtian Palace, only Yun Xi's heart-wrenching words were heard.

Yun Xi finally said: "I see that you are acting like this, is it the way of a minister!" Degrade your experience as a guard, and listen to the election of officials by the Ministry of Officials! ”

The experience of the guard and the imperial history are the same as the seven products, but the imperial history is a Beijing official, and most of the experience of the guard is a magistrate, which cannot be said in the same day; More importantly for him, he had just impeached several nobles, and he might fall into the hands of these magnates.

He Xuhua opened his mouth to say something, but how could Yun Xi listen? Came to the next thing. He Xuhua didn't dare to interject, interjecting when the emperor was speaking belonged to the emperor's disgrace, the crime can be big or small, Wei Suo's experience is still an official, even if it falls into the hands of the powerful, he doesn't dare to really treat others; But if he was removed from his official body because of his deceitfulness in front of the king, it would be completely finished. He Xuhua could only retreat to his position in despair.

Yun Xi not only grabbed the pigtails of one of his admonishers, but also the pigtails of several officials, and all the officials named by him this time were all relegated to idle, powerless, and nameless positions.

After Yun Xi finished saying this, he paused and secretly glanced at a notebook in his sleeve, his lips opened slightly and silently recited a few sentences, then put the notebook away, straightened up and took out a notebook and said: "I also received a notebook yesterday, which was the impeachment of the Ministry of Industry Zuo Lang Bai Xuanguo for corruption and bribery. ”

According to the note, Bai Xuanguo, the left attendant of the Ministry of Industry, accepted bribes when laying asphalt roads in the capital last year, and successively accepted bribes of 300 yuan from seven unscrupulous businessmen. Bai Xuanguo, did you say that you accepted these bribes? ”

A man in a three-rank official uniform knelt down tremblingly, kowtowed and said, "The crime deserves death, please punish Your Majesty." "Your Majesty has Jinyiwei and Zhensi in his hands, although I can't see these two yamen activities on a daily basis now, but the ministers who came from the Hongwu period can't forget Jinyiwei, and it's useless to quibble by myself, so it's better to admit it and strive for leniency.

Zhu Yuanzhang's standard for the execution of ministers that year was 60 yuan for corruption and bribery, and Yun Xi won 120 yuan after becoming the emperor's grandson. After he succeeded to the throne, in practice, he punished ministers who embezzled and accepted bribes of more than 1,200 yuan, of which only 3,000 or more were bound to be capital crimes, and those between 1,200 and 3,000 yuan depended on the situation, some of them were exiled and some were capital crimes.

But this time, in order to cooperate with political actions, he had to take power, and pulled out the minister who had taken bribes of 300 yuan.

Yun Xi said: "Jian Yi. I order you to work with the Criminal Department and Dali Temple to try Bai Xuanguo's bribery case, and you must find out all the facts. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Jian Yi received the order together with Ru Yu, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Dali Siqing.

Yun Xi paused again, secretly drank a sip of water, and also relieved the ministers present, and then said: "I heard that recently, the officials of many yamen in the imperial court have neglected political affairs and are in charge of impeachment? ”

"The imperial court has set up a full-time picket discipline for the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and other official positions have other functions, unlike the imperial history, it is okay to admonish and impeach, but how can you ignore your own duties and specialize in impeachment!"

Yun Xi's voice gradually became stern: "If everyone is like this, how can the imperial court still operate!" If everyone can do this, why did the first emperor set up so many yamen, isn't it enough to just set up the Metropolitan Procuratorate! ”

"Qi Guosheng, the chief secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Yintao, the director of the Ministry of Industry, ,......" Yun Xi counted the names of more than a dozen people in a row, and finally said: "The people whose names I have mentioned above have all abandoned their political affairs, and they have only been impeached, and they have all been demoted to one level, and the officials have been re-elected by the Ministry of Officials. ”

The people whose names Yun Xi named are not in big official positions, none of them can go to court today, and there are no people who have good relationships among those who can go to court today, so no one spoke for them, and Li Ren, the secretary of the ministry, stepped forward to receive the order, and this matter was decided.

Yun Xi paused again and said, "Fang Qing, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites." ”

"The minister is here." Fang Xiaoru came out and said.

"There is a vacancy in the deputy envoy of Jianghuai Province, and I want to order Qing to do it. In order to ensure that the rank remains unchanged, the title of secretary is added. ”

"This, Your Majesty, the minister has never been an official in a local place before," Fang Xiaoru said.

"Why aren't you a local official? Qing used to be a professor in Hanzhong Mansion before, isn't he a magistrate? Yun Xi said.

"This," a figure like Fang Xiaoru felt that a nine-grade official like Professor Fuxue was not a formal official position, so he missed it for a while.

"I have made up my mind, don't say more." Yun Xi said again.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Your Lordship." Fang Xiaoru could only say in the end.