The capital, Dashi Yongfang, Banqiao Hutong, Min Hongxue, the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, and Min Mengde Mansion, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

Just after the New Year's Festival, it is the Lantern Festival again, and the two Shangshu mansions are lit up to welcome guests from all walks of life, officials at all levels, and there is an endless stream of people who come to give gifts.

Especially in the mansion of Min Hongxue, the official of the Ministry of Officials, the officials are waiting in line to be received by the heavenly official who decided the promotion of officials, so as to give generous gifts and win the future.

However, on the morning of this day, the officials who came to pay their respects had not yet lined up at the gate, but the gate was blocked.

Who is this, cut off people's financial routes, or the financial roads of the officials' books, looking for death?

No one dared to say that, everyone was trembling with fright, because it was Jinyiwei who blocked the door, and the entire mansion, including the mansion of Shangshu Min Mengde of the military department next to it, was surrounded by Jinyiwei!

The commander of the Jinyi Guard made Luo Yangxing personally arrive, and with a bunch of Jinyi captains, he rushed into Min Hongxue's mansion with a spring breeze on his face.

At first, he still greeted the officials he knew, but the further he went, the less smile appeared on his face, and finally, when he came to the door of the main mansion, he had no smile on his face, cold, and looked very infiltrating.

At this time, Luo Yangxing was actually not angry in his heart, but thinking about the problem.

He came all the way, and there were more than ten officials who greeted him, all of them were court officials above the fifth grade, and there were also people he didn't know, and there were thirty or forty officials who came to visit Min Hongxue!

When the emperor saw Wei Zhongxian in power, the whole capital was in a rumor, and people who knew each other didn't even dare to say anything when they saw it, for fear that they would accidentally talk about Wei Zhongxian, and they were arrested and taken to Jinyiwei's edict to cut their tongues, making the entire Ming capital city like a ghost city, so they restricted Jinyiwei's power and prevented Jinyiwei from spying on others casually.

Now it's okay, if you don't monitor, these officials have blatantly begun to pay and accept bribes, buy and sell officials!

He could see at a glance that what those officials were hiding was either gold, silver and jewelry, or antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

You don't need to ask to know that they are here to buy officials!

This is a good opportunity, seize it, and the emperor will let himself spy on the court officials, and then his power will be great.

There were several officials outside the lobby at this time, it turned out that they might be queuing here, and when they heard that Min Hongxue's mansion was surrounded by Jinyi Guards, they didn't know what to do, and they were huddled aside like a nest of rats suddenly thrown onto the street.

Luo Yangxing ignored them and rushed directly into the lobby.

Fortunately, Min Hongxue was still there, he sat on the main seat, looked at Luo Yangxing with a cloudy face, and then asked lightly: "Lord Luo, I don't know what to do here?" ”

Luo Yang said coldly: "Lord Min, the emperor has an order to let me arrest you and go to the palace to see you, offended." ”

After speaking, he waved his hand directly, and the two lieutenants immediately rushed up, waiting to take down Min Hongxue.

Min Hongxue suddenly stood up and said sharply: "Slow, where is the holy decree, there is no one in the cabinet at this time, who issued the holy decree for you to arrest me, you are a fake holy decree!" ”

Sign you mei, the emperor was tricked by your dogs, Luo Yangli didn't bother to pay attention to him, and shouted directly: "Take it away." ”

The two brocade-clothed lieutenants were stunned for a moment, then pounced, grabbed one of their arms, picked Min Hongxue up, and then twisted their two arms back, pushed them and walked outside.

Min Hongxue roared at Luo Yangxing: "Don't think that you can be lawless if you are Jinyiwei, I am a dignified official and a minister of the court, can you catch it if you want to?" ”

Luo Yangxing plucked his ears and said mockingly: "Hey, I know at this time that the important ministers of the court can't be arrested casually, when you were a dog for Wei Zhongxian's eunuch, how many important ministers of the court were killed?" At that time, weren't you killing important officials of the court the same as killing chickens? ”

When Min Hongxue heard this, his face changed, what Luo Yangxing meant, the matter of his attachment to Wei Zhongxian has been known to the emperor!

Luo Yangxing saw that Min Hongxue was still there, and his eyes were rolling, and he immediately said coldly: "Don't worry, as long as you don't cause me trouble, I won't nail a nail into your ear like Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun." ”

Min Hongxue's frightened eyes bulged, and he didn't dare to say anything.

Luo Yangxing snorted coldly and took the lead and strode out.

The officials along the road looked at him in horror, for fear that he would suddenly exert his might and order the arrest of people.

Luo Yangxing enjoyed this feeling very much, when his father was the commander of the Jinyi Guard, he was so majestic, but when he came to him, he could only be majestic when the emperor ordered him to arrest people, and usually, these officials did not have due awe for him.

How to maintain this kind of awe, this is a problem, he was thinking about how to use this opportunity to obtain the right to monitor the officials, when an acquaintance of the official suddenly stepped forward and said, "Lord Luo, can we go?" ”

Luo Yangxing's eyes rolled, and he thought about it, and he said with a smile: "Well, I don't know very well, I'll ask the emperor for you later." ”

I was worried that there was no excuse to mention this matter to the emperor, but now I finally have an excuse.

Qi Panzong's side was faster than him, and when he escorted Min Hongxue to the door, Qi Panzong waited there with Min Mengde for a long time.

Luo Yang confessed: "Panzong, you take people here to watch, I'll ask the emperor how to deal with the rest of the people." ”

With that, he waved his hand and took a group of lieutenants to escort Min Hongxue and Min Mengde straight to the palace.

At this time, Chongzhen had already recruited Huang Chenghao to a side hall.

Chongzhen's suspicious problem has been committed again, he is sitting there pondering, and he is convicted of the crime of two Shangshu with a letter, which is a bit too ridiculous, in case this Huang Chenghao is making false accusations, the truth is not like this at all, isn't he wronged a good person!

Huang Chenghao pretended to be frightened and trembled on the ground.

I don't know how long it took, Chongzhen asked lightly: "Huang Aiqing, since you know that Min Hongxue and Min Mengde are the remnants of the eunuch party, why didn't you tell me earlier?" ”

Huang Chenghao hurriedly kowtowed and said: "The emperor forgives the sin, and Weichen is afraid that he will be retaliated against if the impeachment fails, so he does not dare to impeach Min Hongxue and Min Mengde without conclusive evidence." ”

Chongzhen was curious: "Then why did you suddenly dare to impeach them, I didn't see any conclusive evidence from you." ”

Huang Chenghao said in panic: "Wechen is also forced to be helpless, Wechen secretly checked the evidence of their clinging to Wei Gelding, and they have found it, if Weichen doesn't report to the emperor again, I'm afraid they will be framed by them, and the official will be dismissed." ”

There is also such a thing, Chongzhen did not believe it: "How can they slander you?" ”

Huang Chenghao had already premeditated to give Chongzhen a preventive shot, and took this opportunity to give an example directly: "For example, they slandered Weichen as a remnant of the eunuch party, as long as they entangled a few real remnants of the eunuch party to impeach Weichen, and then casually forged some evidence, Weichen would be speechless." ”

Of course, he is a remnant of the eunuch party, forcing Min Hongxue and Min Mengde to get them, they will definitely shake this matter out, everyone is a remnant of the eunuch party, if you dare to report us, we will drag you into the water, and everyone will be finished together!

The reason why he said this was to make Chongzhen preconceived that he was not a remnant of the eunuch party, and that the things that those people shook out at that time were all forged, and they all wanted to "slander" him, which was similar to Wen Tiren saying that others formed a party and wanted to overthrow the emperor.

Chongzhen was really fooled, he said gently: "Don't worry, I won't believe this, how can you be a remnant of the eunuch party, Wang Yongguang's case was exposed by you, if you are a remnant of the eunuch party, then there are few people in the court who are not eunuch remnants." Stop kneeling, get up and talk. ”

Huang Chenghao said in his heart: "Your Majesty, what you said is very right, there are few people in the court who are not eunuchs. ”

Of course, he didn't dare to say this, if he wanted to say it, whether Chongzhen believed it or not, the remnants of the eunuch party of the Manchu Dynasty would definitely let him die without a body.

He still pretended to be frightened on the surface, kowtowed in thanksgiving, and slowly stood up.

Chongzhen looked at his expression, and then frowned: "You don't have any evidence here, how can I believe you, and how can I convict Min Hongxue and Min Meng?" ”

Huang Chenghao immediately arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen knows where there is evidence, but Weichen doesn't have the power and can't get it." ”

Chongzhen immediately asked, "Oh, where is it?" ”

Huang Chenghao explained: "The Ministry of Officials must have their assessment records, what they have done, why they have been promoted, as long as you take a look, you will know everything." ”

When Chongzhen heard this, his eyes lit up, yes, most of the problems of these two people lie in their service experience, because their promotion experience is too abnormal, and merit promotion is the biggest characteristic of the eunuch party, because they are all promoted by relying on Wei Zhongxian, and it has nothing to do with merit.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen immediately said to Cao Huachun at the gate of the hall: "Companion, you send someone to the Ministry of Officials to take the assessment records of Min Hongxue and Min Mengde." ”

Cao Huachun said yes and obeyed, and immediately arranged for someone to take it away.

Soon, the assessment records of Min Hongxue and Min Mengde had not been taken, but Min Hongxue and Min Mengde were escorted over by Luo Yangxing.

Chongzhen had suppressed his anger at this time, and his suspicious nature was revealed again, he did not reprimand Min Hongxue and Min Mengde, after the two of them met, he even asked the two of them to stand up and talk, completely lost the expression of wanting to drag these two people out and cut them down when they were in the imperial study just now.

Min Hongxue and Min Mengde were together, and he immediately prompted: "Huang Aiqing said that you are the remnants of the eunuch party, what do you have to say?" ”

Chongzhen doesn't know when he developed this bad habit, when the two gangs of people quarreled, he often called the two groups of people to himself, let them confront each other in court, and then use his "wise" eyes to judge who is right and who is wrong.

Wen Tiren knew that he had this habit, so he often laid the groundwork in front of him, gave him a preventive shot, and then confronted people "confidently".

Therefore, the officials who were beaten down by Wen Tiren basically don't know how they were defeated, such as Jiuhua and Zanhua, they impeached Wen Tiren for secretly marrying prostitutes as concubines, accepting bribes, and taking away people's property, these things are true, why didn't the emperor listen to them, and dismissed them?

Few people see through this, but Huang Chenghao sees through it, so he gave Chongzhen a preventive shot.

Sure enough, as soon as Min Hongxue heard that it was this guy who impeached their brothers, he immediately pointed at Huang Chenghao and shouted: "Your Majesty, don't believe him, he is the real remnant of the eunuch party, he helped Wei Zhongxian impeach Ye Xianggao, impeach Han Yi, impeach Nan Juyi, impeach Jing Yangqiao, impeach Hui Chengfang, I don't know how many people have been impeached, I don't know how many wrongs have been caused, and now he has come to wronged us again, Your Majesty, please be clear!" ”

Huang Chenghao pretended to be expected, and looked at Min Hongxue lightly, but he didn't speak, and Min Hongxue looked at him inexplicably, not understanding what he meant at all.

Chongzhen saw the scene, coughed, and said kindly: "Huang Aiqing, what do you say?" ”

What he meant, even if I believe that you are not a remnant of the eunuchs, you have to confront you, don't stand there and not speak.

In fact, his tone was obviously a little biased towards Huang Chenghao, but he didn't realize it, he thought he was very smart.

Huang Chenghao hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen has nothing to say, the Metropolitan Procuratorate was originally to supervise hundreds of officials, and if it is found that it is illegal, it will be impeached, this is our duty, Weichen has served in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for more than ten years, and I don't know how many lawlessness I have impeached." If Wei Chen has served in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for so long and no one has been impeached, wouldn't it be a corpse vegetarian meal! ”

It makes sense, people's duty is to supervise hundreds of officials, impeach lawlessness, you say that people impeach others is to cling to Wei Zhongxian, isn't this telling people to lie there every day and don't do anything!

Chongzhen nodded and looked at Min Hongxue.

Min Hongxue is so angry, this guy is shameless, I said you help Wei Zhongxian eliminate dissidents, what kind of bullshit do you have to investigate the duties of the procuratorate, your duty is to specifically impeach the Donglin Party, and specifically impeach those who oppose Wei Zhongxian?

He continued to point at Huang Chenghao and shuddered: "Whoever Wei Zhongxian asks you to impeach, you will impeach whomever you want, is this what you call your duty?" ”

No, Chongzhen looked at Huang Chenghao suspiciously.

Huang Chenghao said lightly: "I don't know what you're talking about, Wei Zhongxian didn't ask me to impeach Wang Yongguang, Wei Zhongxian didn't ask me to impeach you, you said that I am a remnant of the eunuch party, so why should I impeach you who are the pillars of the remnants of the eunuch party?" ”

When Chongzhen heard this, he showed an approving expression, yes, this Min Hongxue is obviously framing, Wang Yongguang and you Min Hongxue are both officials and scholars, who specialize in the promotion of officials, if Huang Chenghao is a remnant of the eunuch party, he will directly scold you, wouldn't he have a bright future, why take the risk to impeach you!

He "wisely" believes that what Huang Chenghao said is true, and Min Hongxue is obviously framing Huang Chenghao.

He didn't know that Huang Chenghao was forced, and he was forced by Zhang Bin to jump out to impeach Wang Yongguang, impeach Min Hongxue, and impeach Min Mengde!

Chongzhen didn't know, and Min Hongxue naturally didn't know, yes, why did Huang Chenghao impeach them, did he eat too much?

He looked at Huang Chenghao blankly, not knowing what to say.

In this confrontation, Min Hongxue was defeated, just like Qian Qianyi was defeated by Wen Tiren at the beginning, Chongzhen had already decided that he was framing Huang Chenghao.

It was at this time that Cao Huachun bowed in with two account books, held them high above his head, and handed them to Chongzhen.