Jian Yi and Ru Yu completed the interrogation of Bai Xuanguo's bribery case as quickly as possible. Yun Xi had already investigated the facts through Jinyiwei two days ago, and the Criminal Department easily obtained human and material evidence as soon as the case was heard, and Bai Xuanguo completely gave up resistance, and asked and answered whatever matters related to this case.

On the afternoon of the 22nd of the next day, Ru Yu flipped through the file and said to Jian Yi and Dali Siqing: "This case has reached this point and our criminal department can already close the case, but this case involves the three members of the imperial court, and it needs to be reported to His Majesty for decision." ”

"Since Your Majesty has asked our three yamen to join us for trial, then we will jointly report to Your Majesty."

Both of them said, "Then report to Your Majesty jointly." ”

After the fold was written and the three of them wrote their names, Ru Yu suddenly said to Chen Ying: "You are the presiding judge of this case, and you will send it to the palace, if Your Majesty has any questions, you can answer them."

Chen Ying felt a little strange, but he wouldn't do anything to offend Shangguan, and said, "Yes, Lord Shangshu." ”

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The Yamen of the Criminal Department is outside the Taiping Gate in the north of the city, and the Duchayuan and Dali Temple are the only yamen in the outer city.

This also caused the people of the three yamen to go to court and get off work very inconveniently, some of them rented houses nearby to live next to the military generals for convenience, but most of them did not want to leave the civil official group, or lived in the southwest of the city.

Chen Ying sat in a small sedan chair and went to the imperial city from the yamen of the criminal department. He got off the sedan chair outside the Xihua Gate, talked to the guards guarding the door, and walked in.

After a long time, Chen Ying was taken outside the Qianqing Palace, and then a voice sounded, and a white-faced and bearded man came out and said to him: "Your Majesty has summoned you, come in with me." ”

Chen Ying saluted and said, "Thank you Gonggong Huang." He recognized it as Huang Fu. Then followed him into the Qianqing Palace.

Yun Xi saw Chen Ying, took the fold after he finished saluting, and after reading it twice, he said: "So it seems that Bai Xuanguo's bribery is undoubted?" ”

"There are all human and material evidence, and Bai Xuanguo himself has confessed, and there will be no wrongs." Chen Ying replied.

"Then what do you think should be done with Bai Xuanguo?" Yoon-hee asked.

Chen Ying was a little surprised that the emperor asked him this question, but he had already thought about this matter, and after a little muttering, he said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that according to the "Da Ming Law", Bai Xuanguo should be executed; But His Majesty is benevolent, it is better to exile to the northwest instead. ”

"Oh, you think I'm kind?" Yun Xi narrowed his eyes and said.

"Your Majesty is sympathetic to the ministers and cares about the people, how can you not be kind?" Chen Ying said.

"Yes, I was just too kind to you to have such a thing happen." Yun Xi said.

Chen Ying's heart trembled, but she didn't show it on her face, and she didn't speak, so she didn't hear it.

'Psychological quality is good! Yun Xi secretly praised.

After Yun Hee found out that this time the matter had changed from a matter of facts to an attack on the Honors of the civilian officials as a whole, he thought about how to calm the matter.

It is not possible to stop it by force, Yun Xi can't compare to Zhu Yuanzhang, and he can't use the imperial power to force it; It's useless to kill a few of the most active people, at least on the surface, these civil officials are doing the right thing, Yun Xi can only find other reasons to kill the most active civil officials, and this matter is related to the collective interests of civil officials, in the case of knowing that Yun Xi can't kill them all like Zhu Yuanzhang, others will not give up easily.

Yun Xi thought about it, discussed with Qin Song for a long time, and came up with seven countermeasures to calm down this matter.

First, make Huang Huai sick. Huang Huai was the one who detonated this incident, and he couldn't retreat, so Yun Xi asked him to pretend to be sick and hand over the matter to Fu Cheng to deal with it, so as to reduce the heat of the incident center;

Second, to discover the selfishness of the impeachment of the noble officials to impeach, so that those who have selfish intentions in their hearts hesitate, reduce the number of people who follow the trend and admonish, and reduce the heat of the matter;

Third, dealing with those who only remember to admonish and impeach and forget their own work is also to reduce the number of people who follow the trend and reduce the heat of the matter;

Fourth, instruct the obedient imperial historian to report and expose the corrupt and bribe-taking among the civil officials, so as to disturb the situation;

Fifth, for those selfless people, such as Fang Xiaoru, he was transferred to other places as an official, Yun Xi has not been involved in Confucian reform recently, and Fang Xiaoru can not be used for a while to let him leave the central government for a while;

Sixth, an equally important event occurred to guide public opinion to shift the focus of attention, which Yunxi is already preparing;

Seventh, it is to co-opt or execute civil officials who have no flaws but are extremely capable.

Yun Xi looked at Chen Ying in front of him, he was a civil official with no flaws but strong ability.

Chen Ying, a native of Chuzhou. During the Hongwu period, he entered the country to study, and was later appointed as the imperial historian, and later went to Shandong to serve as an envoy. In the first year of Jianye, he was transferred to Beiping. After Zhu Di's rebellion failed, someone admonished Chen Ying to follow Zhu Di to rebel, but there was no evidence, and Yun Xi did not pursue it in order to calm people's hearts at that time.

Chen Ying is very capable, and she did a good job in Beiping, and last year she was assessed as a middle-class and transferred back to Beijing to serve as a Langzhong in the Criminal Department.

Yun Xi felt in a trance that this name seemed to have been seen in his previous life, probably one of the important ministers of the Yongle Dynasty in history, but he couldn't remember his deeds clearly. However, just because Yun Xi can remember his name, it is enough to show that Chen Ying is a capable person. So Yun Hee decided to take him in.

Yun Xi said: "Chen Aiqing, I heard that although you have not impeached many nobles this time, you have encouraged your friends to impeach you and gathered with your friends in the tavern of the public rental housing place every night, and even resigned from the residence of the minister above the third grade and still lives in the public rental house. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister was not rich since he was a child, and if he lived in the mansion, he would need to hire a lot of servants to clean it, and the minister worked far away as an official in the criminal department every day, so the minister hired a sedan chair and a sedan chair man, and the rest of the money was not enough to hire enough subordinates, so the minister resigned from the mansion, not to gather with friends."

"The minister likes to make friends, so there are a lot of friends, the minister is not far from the capital, and there are many friends who are close to the capital, and they are all deeply affected by the nobles, so the righteous indignation is not the instigation of the minister. The ministers are just like-minded. Chen Ying said calmly.

That's a good answer. Yun Xi secretly praised again. Although he should have understood that he had been exposed when he heard the emperor say to him just now, he did not panic at all, and still calmly argued for himself, such a psychological quality is not something ordinary people can have.

"Chen Aiqing, I think you are very talented, and I want to promote you to the imperial history of Zuo Yandu and concurrently serve as a member of the Zhongshu House, are you willing?" Yun Xi didn't test anymore, and said directly.

"Your Majesty appointed, how dare the minister refuse!" Chen Ying knelt down and said.

"Get up, you don't have to kneel in front of me on weekdays, and I won't deal with you for such things." Yun Xi smiled.

Yun Xi believes that Chen Ying is a smart person, and his appointment has the meaning of reusing him, and he will not fail to see it; Just now, Yun Xi appointed him to the official position of Zhongzuo Yushi is the fourth product, and the Zhongshu Sheren is only the seventh grade, but the appointment that means that the reuse is precisely the Zhongshu Sheren of the Zhengqipin.

From Chen Ying's past, Yun Xi concluded that he must be a person who is keen on power, and since he has been reused by himself, he will not be ignorant, and he will not make trouble. Maybe he was quite excited at this point. Yun Xi thought.

At this time, Chen Ying was indeed very excited in her heart. Chen Ying is keen on power, and the officialdom is also very smooth, in the first year of Jianye, he has been serving as a four-rank official for six years, and the evaluation is that it is time to enter Beijing and be promoted, but because of rumors that he conspired to follow Zhu Di to rebel, Shengsheng was suppressed for a year, although he successfully returned to Beijing at the end of last year, but only served as Lang Zhong of the fifth grade.

Therefore, he was a little anxious, for fear that he would not be able to be promoted to a high-grade official from now on, so no matter what he could do, he would definitely be involved in it in order to attract His Majesty's attention. Now that he has finally attracted His Majesty's attention and has been reused, how can he not be excited.

Yun Xi said a few more words to him and told him to step down.

The next day, the tide of impeachment of the nobles began to slowly subside, and there were many fewer twists and turns in the admonitions, and Yun Xi's practice began to bear fruit.

Yun Xi immediately showed his big killer weapon to attract the attention of civil officials: "The Great Ceremony of the Ming Dynasty".

"Fengtian carries the emperor's edict and said, the "Yuan History" has been rebuilt, for the true meaning of the Ming Dynasty, from next month to edit the words of the hundred schools of history for the "Ming Dynasty". All the books of the book since the book deed have been collected by the history of the hundred schools, as for astronomy, geography, yin and yang, medical divination, monks, and the words of skills, they are compiled into one book, which is not tired of being huge! ”

When Yun Xi just succeeded to the throne, he took out the "Great Dictionary of the Ming Dynasty" to attract the attention of civil officials, and now that the "History of the Yuan" has been rebuilt, it is time to start compiling the "Great Dictionary of the Great Ming Dynasty".

As soon as this edict was issued, most civil officials immediately stopped paying attention to what noble family members were breaking the law, and talked about the "Ming Dynasty" with their friends every day. If you can be the editor-in-chief in the process of compiling such a book, you will really go down in history; Even if you can't be the editor-in-chief, you can be a president or vice president, and you can leave a name after death.

In order to maintain the popularity, Yun Xi announced the recruitment of people with good handwriting from all over the country; Order the inner economic factory to create more copper movable type to ensure that there are no missing words; At the same time, he ordered the various book collection institutions of the imperial court to search for the collection of books in their units, and always be ready to hand them over to the personnel who edited the "Great Dictionary of the Ming Dynasty";

Five presidents and thirty vice presidents were also selected, and a large place in the capital was found as a place for compilation; In addition, precious rare and rare books were collected from all over the country, and all those who donated books that were not available in the imperial court were included in the history museum as officials.

However, the candidates for the editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief will not be announced.

Anyone who thinks they have some ability looks at the editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief, and is not in the mood to pay attention to other matters at all, and the trend of impeachment of honorables has been completely forgotten.