At this moment, the Criminal Division impeached Chen Ying, the imperial historian of the capital, Geng Tong in the middle of the matter, saying that Chen Ying was insatiable and asked for bribes. The crown prince approved this recital, and immediately ordered Jinyi Wei to take Chen Ying and go to Beizhen Fusi to prison, waiting for the trial of the three judicial sessions.

On the thousand-step corridor, the officials heard the news and there was another uproar, calling Geng Tong a direct minister who dared to speak out and a model of Shilin.

Immediately, a lot of things spread outside the Chengtian Gate. It turned out that Geng Tong impeached Chen Ying more than once, but unfortunately the pieces were not released. Once Geng Tong met with the prince and talked about it; The crown prince said, although Ying deceived her father and deceived her father, her father would be able to detect it after a long time.

In the midst of the noise, there were also some people who did not follow the crowd, such as Gao Xianning and others in the Hanlin Academy.

While many officials are glad that Chen Ying is in prison, Gao Xianning feels the opposite.

Chen Ying has a bad reputation, even if he frames the impeachment of the officials, he must ask for the consent of the saints, and those who are imprisoned may even have the case overturned. But Geng Tong has mastered the public opinion in front of the emperor, so it is different. Geng Tong has an excellent reputation, he is poor and upright, and he has a gentleman's demeanor; If Geng Tong gets the support of his superiors, it will be even more terrifying, and people like Geng Tong will stand on morality, making people ruined and unable to turn over forever!

And Ji Gang, Chen Ying and other holy favored ministers, died or went to prison within a day? Gao Xianning and others speculated that what happened in the palace was probably far as simple, and it must be more complicated than the content of the queen's decree.

In less than a stick of incense, Geng Tong impeached Qiu Fu, the Duke of Qi, again, in front of the Qianqing Palace, and no one paid courtesy. The crown prince replied, escorted the Duke of Qi home, and allowed the ministers to decide.

Regardless of whether Qiu Fu is really uncourteous, as long as the impeachment of the official is sent out of the palace, Qiu Fu's position as the governor of the left capital of the Chinese army will have to stop, and he will wait at home obediently. If the charges are false, they will be reinstated.

…… Soon there was a second person who was dissatisfied with the ministers in the palace, and it was Xie Jin of the Hanlin Academy.

Hanlin Temple is on the east side of the Thousand Steps Corridor and is the closest place to the Chengtian Gate. Xie Jin is already on the list of officials and will be sent to the Annan region to be an official, but the official appointment has not yet come down, and he still continues to serve in the Hanlin Academy at this time.

Xie Jin thought that the ministers in the palace should not close the palace gate, and said loudly: "Jin Zhong, Yuan Hui, Yang Shiqi and others have no reputation, are unlearned, and do not understand etiquette. We should enter the palace to face the saint, with the right etiquette! If we are going to arrange everything, why is this so? ”

But Hu Guang, the incoming cabinet chief assistant and official of the Hanlin Academy, did not say a word, and the officials around him looked at each other coldly.

Xie Jin saw that no one responded, and he was immediately furious. He looked back around angrily, stared at Hu Guang's face, and immediately gathered all his anger on Hu Guang alone!

Xie Jin and Hu Guang did not have this kind of relationship before, their families were about the same, and both of them were born as Jinshi, Hu Guang and Xie Jin agreed on their in-laws, and they were the right people. However, last time Xie Jin offended the saint in front of the emperor, Hu Guang was eager to draw a line with Xie Jin in order to be the first assistant of the cabinet; and because Xie Jin insulted Hu Guang in public, he had already made friends. So Hu Guang tore up the previous marriage contract of the two of them, and at this time they were completely like passers-by.

At this time, Xie Jin's personal enmity and public anger were vented to Hu Guang, and he scolded: "In the eyes of Hu Gechen, righteousness is not as good as a pig!" ”

Hu Guang is afraid that he has regretted it thousands of times, why did he say that pig back then? Now when there is a quarrel, someone catches the pig and says something.

Hu Guang's face turned red to his neck all of a sudden, surrounded by colleagues, and his subordinates in the future, Hu Guang was ashamed and angry, blurted out and ridiculed each other: "Since Xie Shiyu takes the world as his own responsibility and sacrifices his life for righteousness, why didn't he kill himself and martyr the country back then, at least he should resign and 'not eat Zhou Su'." But now that you have just ascended the throne, didn't you immediately come to beg the official with a straight face? Do what you can to be brazen, and scold others with the face? ”

"Bang!" Xie Jin was about to jump up, and slapped his palm on the case, and the paper and ink inkstone on it clanged.

Xie Jin said: "What do you mean, Jianwen's loss of morality is wronged, and you want to turn over the case for Jianwen?" ”

Hu Guang said coldly: "After Hongwu, Yongle, what are you talking about?" ”

When the ministers of the Hanlin Academy heard this, they all lowered their heads, let alone said nothing.

Gao Xianning also felt ashamed, he still felt that he shouldn't have come out to be an official, that was the right thing to do. If it weren't for the dilemma between his teacher and the king of Han, he would definitely stay at home. At this moment, Gao Xianning secretly thought: I just want to see my mentor Qi Tai, solve my doubts face to face, and then get the permission of the King of Han, so I resigned and returned to the field, guarded the ancestral property of the family, wandered between the Qinglou wine shop, and no longer paid attention to the political and secular affairs of the court.

No matter how Xie Jin tried to coerce the officials of the Hanlin Academy, no one responded. Among them, there are indeed some people who are skeptical of the actions of the palace, and they are not willing to follow Xie Jin to make trouble at this time.

One of them couldn't stand it, Xie Jin and Hu Guang quarreled, but they said that everyone was shameless, and the man began to argue: "The gentleman is cautious and independent." When you were studying hard in the cold window, most of them were funded by the clan, and they finally became officials, but they were not cautious in their words and deeds, and went with the flow, who will compensate for the subsidy and high hopes of the clan? The gentleman guards the righteousness and sacrifices the subtleties. Now the crown prince is the eldest son of the holy concubine, the crown prince, and he respects filial piety and obeys the queen's decree, why should we hold on to a little mistake and force each other? ”

Xie Jin had no choice, so he couldn't tie up everyone to go together, so he had to walk out of the Hanlin Courtyard alone and go to Chengtianmen.

After a long time, Gao Xianning heard the sound of bells and drums in the unitary time, which was the sound of the unitary time. The sky was overcast, and it was impossible to tell the hour by the sun, but the bells and drums on the castle tower rang, and the ministers walked out of the government office one after another, ready to go home.

Gao Xianning walked out of the Hanlin Courtyard and could see the Chengtian Gate directly. Xie Jin was still under the Chengtian Gate, and a eunuch on the city tower shouted: "There are already Jinbutang and Guobutang around the Shengshang, and all the ministers are close ministers of the old mansion of the Shengshang, and they are loyal, you can rest assured." There are also ministers, imperial doctors, and officials in the palace to serve, and it is too late today to change people. Tomorrow, the crown prince will summon all the ministers to serve the saint again, please come back tomorrow morning. ”

Gao Xianning looked up at the Chengtian Gate, looked at Ji Gang's open-eyed head, and said silently in his heart: Loyal to the ear, I persuaded you early in the morning, you don't believe it.

The saint doesn't need your discipline to help, there is no discipline outline, and there are Li Gang and Wang Gang. Ji Gang is just a guard commander, and any military attache in the Jingshi may have a higher rank and status than him. Ji Gang doesn't have any real party members, the reason why he is so powerful, except for the saint's support, who else? Therefore, Gao Xianning thinks that although Ji Gang has done a lot of bad things and his crimes should be punished, the crimes he has borne are too great, and he only suffers his family.

Now it's good that Ji Gang's whole family has been copied, and Jinyiwei can actually copy the dragon robe and weapons and armor from Ji Gang's house; In addition, the queen Yi decreed that he murdered the saint, and the entire Ji Gang clan was completely finished.

…… The unitary time has passed, but the day is not really over. Many of the old officials and civil officials of the Yanwang Mansion who failed to enter the palace finally came to their senses, and they began to write chapters one after another to send to the general political envoys who were on duty at night. Most people praised the crown prince for his wisdom and determination, and then hoped that he would enter the palace tomorrow to participate in the great affairs of serving the saints.

Qiu Fu, the Duke of Qiguo, returned home sullenly, and there were already some new slaves and maids inside and outside the gate to take care of him.

Qiu Fu drank some wine and said in front of his family: "I persuaded King Han back then, since there are so many old brothers who respect him, and he has made great contributions to the saint, it is because of the struggle for the position of the crown prince. But he didn't listen, and now he is thousands of miles away, the old brothers are dying, enjoying the comfort of enjoying comfort, the general is withering, and the descendants of the Duke of Guo, Zhu Yong, Zhang Fu and others have long forgotten the difficulties of their fathers' entrepreneurship, what else can be done today? ”

His grandson, Chulu, asked, "Did grandfather see the saint?" ”

Qiu Fu scolded: "See a bird! I just walked into the Qianqing Gate and met Jin Zhong and others, who made excuses to block them in every way. I didn't accept it, and went straight to the Qianqing Palace, and I saw that Geng Tong, who scolded him without asking questions, and scolded him without breaking the sentences, and his mouth kept flying, and I couldn't even answer the words except for yelling two sentences.

That guy said a lot of truths and rules, but Lao Tzu didn't understand it, and he didn't know what he said, so he was kicked out by Tan Qing and Xue Lu.

Geng Tong's sour Confucian, what kind of criminal department is in the matter, what kind of thing is a sesame petty official? People who aren't farts ride on Lao Tzu's head and scold, he wants to make Lao Tzu angry to death, and they will have peace of mind! ”

Qiu Lu thought for a while, and said cautiously: "Taizu has an ancestral system, and the emperor does not dare to kill the official easily, those people themselves are doing small and big errands, grandfather, just dissipate your anger, don't be like them." ”

…… Night had just fallen, and the sky, which had been overcast for two days, suddenly began to rain heavily. It was as if in an instant, lightning and thunder roared, and heavy rain fell on the world like a torrent, and the heavens and the earth were shrouded in the sound of huge rain.

The entire Jingshi has a population of one million and countless houses, but there is no one on the street. The lights in the pouring rain were lit up, and from time to time there were bursts of children's cries and dogs barking.

The people are going to bed. But in the palace inside, there are probably not many people who can sleep. Some of the ministers had not left the palace the second night and had not left their homes.

The crown prince Zhu Gaochi had never been so tired, he leaned back on a soft chair with his eyes closed, but he couldn't sleep at all. One thing flashed through my mind like a horse's eye.

Occasionally, he felt that it was wrong to order Zhu Gaoxu to be arrested, and a trace of remorse flashed through his heart. However, if you don't deal with Gao Xu, the saint died in the East Palace, how can he explain it clearly and convince all the billions of subjects in the world?

It's a pity that there is no if in this world, and what has already been done, it will be useless to regret and speculate.

The crown princess Zhang seemed to see Gao Chi's thoughts, and comforted him in a soft voice in the thunder and rain: "Don't worry, prince, so many ministers are looking to you, everything will be done." ”