Xia Yan ignored Yan Song, he naturally didn't need to play favoritism for Yan Song, so he just sat back:

"Why should Yan Gong be like this, let the prince be greedy and embezzle national funds, now the legal system is not what it used to be, and the left and right will not be connected to you, as for the fault of the godson, Xia will naturally not pursue it, and there is nothing to investigate, there is a difference between the virtuous and the foolish, what can you and I do."

Yan Song knew that he had hated Xia Yan before, and now that Xia Yan could not use this to defeat him, it was considered generous, and it was impossible for him to show favoritism for himself, but he still wanted to fight for it.

After all, Yan Shifan is a flesh and blood parent to him Yan Song, and the court has always been harsh to people who are greedy for ink, he doesn't know why his son dares to do such a thing, but now he can only kneel in front of Xia Yan in desperation: "Yuan Fu raises his noble hand!" ”

Yan Song said all kinds of reasons to intercede with Xia Yan, and Xia Yan saw this and helped Yan Song up: "Yan Gong, please get up, you and I are originally fellow villagers, although Ling Gongzi is involved in embezzlement of state funds, but he is not the mastermind, but he is involved, and the crime is not to death, since you plead like this, the official will hide this matter, and then you should warn Ling Zi to concentrate on studying, self-cultivation, and not to do such a perverse thing again!" Otherwise, even if you have the face of Yan Gong, the old man will not be able to spare him. ”

Yan Song saw that Xia Yan promised not to raise his son Yan Shifan, and his heart was a little relieved, and he was naturally grateful.

But in fact, Xia Yan said this just to stabilize Yan Song's heart for a while, how could he, who had never been able to tolerate sand in his eyes, allow the existence of national moths because of Yan Song's intercession.

Therefore, after Xia Yan retired from the cabinet on duty, he immediately forwarded the evidence given to him by Gao Shi to Hai Rui, who is now known as the iron-faced imperial history.

Today's Metropolitan Procuratorate is no longer the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the past, and since the Zuodu Imperial History became a military minister, it is difficult for the civil official group to corrode the supervision function of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, Hai Rui and other direct ministers served as the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so that the civil officials now understand that as long as the case falls on the Metropolitan Procuratorate, there is basically no power to turn around.

However, Yan Song also had cronies in the Imperial Procuratorate, but his cronies were limited to telling him that there was an imperial history to impeach his son Yan Shifan, and could no longer prevent the imperial history from participating in the impeachment of his son.

Therefore, Yan Song quickly learned about his son's impeachment.

This made Yan Song both shocked and frightened, and was surprised that he was actually tricked by Xia Yan, as the first assistant of the cabinet, Xia Yan finally did not give himself face, and even more ruthlessly gave this matter to Hai Rui to participate in the impeachment! What I'm afraid of is that this Hai Rui has always been an iron-faced imperial history who does not favor personal feelings, but I am afraid that he will dig out some unclean things about himself, if Xia Yan helps again, won't he be in a bad veil?

Eager to save his son and self-preservation, Yan Song immediately asked to see Emperor Zhu Zailei, and knelt down directly in front of Zhu Zailei, and then cried bitterly:

"Your Majesty! The old minister is stupid, and the godson has no way, so that the dog is lawless, and secretly communicates with the corrupt officials to do the thing of embezzling state funds, but the dog is young and ignorant of the world, and he does not know that what Yan Maoqing and others did is illegal, so he only knows how to show off his face, so he is used by the stolen officials, so I implore Your Majesty to forgive the dog's capital crime for the sake of the old minister's conscientious work for decades for the Ming Dynasty and the ignorance of the dog! And the old minister only has this son, and now the old minister is in his eighties, and he can't be without a queen! Whining! ”

Emperor Zhu Zailei didn't know that Yan Shifan had committed something at this time, but now he is so heartbroken when he sees Yan Song, and because Yan Song has been on discord with Xia Yan recently, he has also had a good impression of Yan Song recently, and now he sees Yan Song crying so sadly, he is naturally a little moved.

Moreover, he, the emperor, has also experienced the pain of the death of his heirs, and the current prince is only a middle-aged son, even if he only has two sons under his knees now, which is quite desolate, and now seeing Yan Song like this, he has some resonance, so he didn't care much about Yan Shifan and Yan Maoqing and other greedy ink things after he was busy taking the Metropolitan Inspection Institute, so he had to comfort Yan Song:

"Aiqing has meritorious service to the country, and he is old and virtuous, Rao is an heir without virtue, and I will not be mean and unkind, and Lingzi is indeed only involved in the greed for ink, not the main culprit, I promise you, I will not sentence him to death, Aiqing can be at ease?"

Zhu Zailei asked as he spoke.

Seeing this, Yan Song hurriedly thanked Da En.

As a result, Zhu Zailei instructed the Criminal Department to treat Yan Shifan leniently and avoid the punishment of death and skinning.

However, Tu Kai, the secretary of the Criminal Department, rejected this, stating that according to the "Outline of the Constitution" of the Ming Dynasty, anyone who commits the felony of embezzlement of ink in the dynasty, regardless of whether it is a prince or official, will be punished with the punishment of being decapitated and skinned, and Yan Shifan and others are suspected of the crime of embezzlement of 300,000 silver dollars, which should be even more so.

This surprised Emperor Zhu Zailei, who did not expect that he would also be rejected by officials in criminal affairs.

In fact, this is also said in the past in terms of the ruling procedure, and Zhu Zailei cannot refute it, because according to the provisions of the "Outline of the Constitution", the legislative power is in the hands of the emperor, and the crime of stripping the head of the greedy ink is a clear decree made by the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao in accordance with the example of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

Now Emperor Zhu Zailei can't disobey the decree, he can only make a new law, or ask from the ****, which is now under the management of Dali Temple, to abolish the decree of Emperor Zhengde in accordance with the provisions of the constitutional outline.

It stands to reason that it is not difficult to find an official from the three-law system to ask the emperor to change the decree, but the problem is that Emperor Zhengde is not dead, and Emperor Zhu Zailei cannot dare to change the decree left by Zhu Houzhao at will just because of a Yan Shifan.

Thereupon.

Zhu Zailei continued to throw the ball to his father, Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Zailei directly handed Zhu Houzhao the recital of the amendment to the decree proposed by a legislative proposer and the matter of his intention to exonerate Yan Shifan.

Yan Shifan didn't expect that under the mistake, his fate would also be handed over to the Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

You must know that before this, he conspired with Zhao Wenhua and others to let Emperor Zhu Houzhao return to Beijing, and was ready to help the new emperor put the Emperor under house arrest and help his father overthrow Xia Yan to become the first assistant.

"At this high age, we treated him well, but I never thought that he would expose us to Xia Yan!"

Yan Maoqing was furious, at this moment he was already in prison, as a traitor who had been mixed up in the original history, he was imprisoned in this life before he made a big fortune, but it can be seen that the difference between today's Ming and the original Ming is different.

Yan Shifan, who was also in prison, couldn't help but smile bitterly:

"Things are not bad enough to be killed, my father is also the second assistant of the cabinet, I believe that the emperor is afraid and will not be willing to see Xia Yan and these people harm us so much, although now our life and death are in the hands of the emperor, but the emperor does not know that you and I are secretly against him, and he may spare us for the sake of my father's face."

Although Yan Shifan said so, he didn't really believe it in his heart, but he could only think like this.

Zhu Houzhao only smiled after receiving the note on amending the decree and the request on how to deal with Yan Shifan and others, and then unceremoniously refused the request for a reduced sentence for the crime of embezzlement of ink, and explicitly demanded that Yan Shifan, Yan Maoqing, and others be beheaded together.

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"Edict, the law cannot be lightly abolished, those who are greedy for ink cannot be forgiven, and the collusion of Yan Shifan is investigated...... Punished with the head of the sword, skinned! ”

When the holy decree was delivered to Yan Shifan, Yan Shifan almost fainted in fright, and said in horror: "So, the Emperor Taishang doesn't even give my father face, or does he want to kill me?" ”

"The minister is wronged! I don't want to die! When Yan Shifan asked, Yan Maoqing in the next cell was already crying.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know much about many officials in the Ming Dynasty, but this doesn't mean that he didn't know Yan Shifan, Yan Song he didn't plan to use it, because he was still capable, so Zhu Houzhao used Yan Song to let him step by step to the current cabinet secondary assistant position, now that the evidence of Yan Shifan's crime is conclusive, Zhu Houzhao naturally will not let go of Yan Shifan, and naturally he wants to get rid of it as soon as possible, so as to avoid causing greater losses to the Ming Dynasty.

After all, according to Zhu Houzhao's understanding of history, this Yan Shifan was still very treacherous in the original history.

However, because of this, the gap between Yan Song and Xia Yan is even deeper.

Yan Song didn't dare to resent Zhu Houzhao and knew that he couldn't resent the emperor Zhu Houzhao, so he only hated Xia Yan, in his opinion, it was Xia Yan who caused all this to happen.

The first assistant of the cabinet and the second assistant of the cabinet regarded each other as enemies, which was naturally what Emperor Zhu Zailei was willing to see.

But these have nothing to do with Zhu Houzhao at present, Zhu Houzhao has now gone to sea, ready to inspect his thousands of miles of sea frontier, in his opinion, when he returns from the inspection, the Wa Kingdom should also be included in the territory of the Ming Central Empire.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao's purpose of going to sea also has the purpose of getting rid of Zhu Yibang's surveillance, no matter how filial Zhu Yibang behaves, he can't bear to be by the emperor's side.

This may also be the helplessness of being a member of the royal family.

Zhu Houzhao also had another purpose in going to sea, that is, to go to the West and to Great Britain to deal with the problem of his son's rule over England.

Zhu Houzhao can see that his eldest son, Zhu Zailei, is still quite skillful in ruling the Ming Empire, at least he is very good at hiding foolishness and clumsiness, and he uses his own hand as the emperor to suppress the southeast Shi clan for him, and he himself is a good person on both sides.

As the emperor, Zhu Houzhao did not expose his son's tricks, and even he was relieved that he knew that the Ming Empire should not have any big problems under Zhu Zailei's rule.

At that time, Zhu Zailei's letter mentioning the problem of the Tudor dynasty in England made Zhu Houzhao alarmed, so that he had to make the decision to go to England.

After all, in history, Britain began to become strong step by step from this era, defeated the Spanish Empire, underwent a bourgeois revolution, entered the era of the industrial revolution, and finally became the world's first modern civilized empire on which the sun never sets.

Zhu Houzhao had to prevent the bourgeoisie in Britain from growing bigger according to the original historical trajectory and gradually becoming a threat to the Ming Dynasty.

"It may not be enough to have your son become the king of England, because with the rise of the English bourgeoisie, these people don't take their king seriously," Zhu Houzhao thinks now.

Looking at the Daming steam warship that was gradually moving away on the distant sea, Zhang Yan, the eunuch who was ordered to come to persuade the Emperor Zhu Houzhao to go back on the grounds of the Yishou Sacred Tree in the capital, couldn't help but ask Zhu Yibang: "Dare to ask Your Highness, did the Emperor really go to sea?" ”

"Naturally, the Ming Dynasty has been established for nearly two hundred years, and this is still the first emperor to go to sea, alas!"

Zhu Yibang said and saluted in the direction of Zhu Houzhao again, and Zhang Yan was also busy saluting, but at the same time, he couldn't help muttering in his heart:

"Your Majesty and the courtiers tried their best to let His Majesty return to Beijing, and even did not hesitate to let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally serve and fulfill his filial piety, but they still failed to stop the Emperor Taishang's heart to go away, and I don't know how His Majesty felt when he found out."

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"Did your imperial grandfather really go to the West?"

Zhu Zailei was indeed very surprised when he learned the news that Zhu Houzhao had gone to the West, and couldn't help but ask Zhu Yibang, who had returned to Beijing.

Zhu Yibang nodded: "Grandpa Huang said that the world is his inheritance, the earth is his imperial garden, there is no place in the world that he can't go, he will wait for you to knock down the country and give him a retirement place before coming back, and now he has to travel around the world." ”

"Can't let the Emperor Taishang stay overseas for a long time, who knows if these overseas vassal countries will have non-ministers who intend to put the Emperor under house arrest, and try to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, after all, as the Emperor himself said, the world is his foundation, and now many overseas countries, many of them are sealed out by him, who doesn't want to keep his god and Buddha in his golden wire cage."

Zhu Zailei couldn't help but say so.

However, Zhu Zailei has no choice but to secretly resolve to make the Ming Dynasty more prosperous and maintain a more developed dominant position than other countries, otherwise, he is really worried that his father who went to sea will become an excuse for other countries to attack the Central Empire.

Zhu Houzhao is still the first time to cross the ocean, for him personally, it is naturally fresh, but what is different is that now the whole earth, it can be said that it is really his territory, in addition to the glacier cover around Antarctica and the Arctic Ocean, there are also some countries in the western part of the Eurasian continent where politics and religion are not separated, and the monarchs of the countries that can be reached on the sea are almost all his ministers.

Therefore, although Zhu Houzhao said that he was going to sea, it was more like playing in the lake in his private garden, and the several warships he brought with him and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers and other service personnel could dock at any port at any time.

And Zhu Houzhao really felt the changes brought to the world by the industrialization of the Ming Empire.

The coast of Daming is densely packed with ports, steamships are clustered like jungles, and factories and high-rise buildings crowd the coast.

In many overseas areas, most of them have become plantations and mining areas outside the coast, and many grains and raw materials were transported to the Ming Dynasty from these places, and the industrial products of the Ming Dynasty were transported here for the use of the Ming and Han nobles who migrated here.

This is naturally the result of Zhu Houzhao's establishment of the Grain Bureau at the beginning, so that overseas countries have become grain bases and raw material bases.

Today, the inland areas of the Ming Central Empire have been completely transformed into industrial areas and eco-tourism areas, while overseas areas have been completely transformed into mineral development and agricultural production areas.

Of course, the exploitation of peasants and workers by capital is also more obvious overseas, but fortunately, with Confucian education to maintain the rule here, it is no wonder that the scholars are more yearning for overseas life.