"Recall the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Zhouluo!"

"Strictly investigate the fraud!"

"Kill the traitor Hou Lu!"

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As the "Huangming Pao" reported on the businessman's manipulation of Tingtui, other newspapers also began to dig deeper into this Tingtui and more news about Zhou Luo and Hou Lu and others.

Peach, bribery, bullying and even killing human beings, and other false news about Zhou Luo and Hou Lu have been exposed.

Naturally, more and more gentlemen and gentry were indignant about this matter.

From Yongding Gate to Daming Gate, from Chongwen Gate to Xuanwu Street, so many scholars and gentry who came out of nowhere were shouting, and there were even speakers, denouncing the corruption and criminal acts of Zhou Luo and Hou Lu and others, and began to ask the imperial court to punish Zhou Luo and Hou Lu.

Even Wang Yongbin was not spared, and was bitterly criticized by many gentlemen and gentry.

Zhu Hou looked at these demonstration teams, and he was quite happy in his heart, after all, these were all created by him.

After so many years of universal education, more and more children of the common people have become gentry, and they, as scholars who have just come out of the fields, are no longer like the children of bureaucratic families, who only know how to protect the interests of their own class.

These new elements of the gentry became spokesmen for the interests of the people, otherwise the peasant class, and they began to learn to use what they had learned to prevent the bourgeoisie from controlling the government.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know what kind of era it would be when all the people in the world became scholars, but he seemed to have seen the beginning now, and he found that once the people's wisdom was gradually opened, the people would become more and more undeceivable.

"I don't know when it began, the people of my Ming Dynasty no longer waited for a Qing official who loved the people to preside over justice and affirm the will of the people, but began to preside over justice by themselves, asked the court, and expressed their opinions", Xia Yan looked at the surging demonstrators and people couldn't help but say to His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao also smiled and said: "Aiqing doesn't want to think about it, for so many years, nearly one-third of the imperial court's income has been spent on national education, and now among the people in the world, are most of them still illiterate people who only know loess?" What's more, under the influence of the class division theory of Shengxue, it is difficult for scholars from the common people to be induced by the rich gentry and magnates. ”

Xia Yan naturally understood what Zhu Houzhao was talking about, but he also had to remind: "But if these scholars and gentry continue to make trouble like this, it will inevitably affect their studies and other aspects of life, and the dynasty should still be orderly. ”

"It's okay, they can make trouble, but they also have to bear the price for making trouble, take the opportunity to smash the law that should be dealt with by the robbers, and those who waste their studies, and give the poor when they are assessed in each school, and those who miss work will naturally lose a lot of labor income, but the officials of the imperial court and the rich businessmen also have to bear the consequences of angering the workers and peasants due to their own selfishness!"

Zhu Houzhao said and asked the celebrant Bingbi Gao Zhong: "Can the celebrant receive a note from the Metropolitan Procuratorate on this matter recently?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has not yet received the recital from the Metropolitan Procuratorate", Gao Zhong replied, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is in charge of the supervision power and is at the same level as the cabinet, so, according to the current rules of the Zhengde Dynasty, the recital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate does not go through the cabinet, and goes directly to the celebrant supervisor.

After listening to Gao Zhong say that the celebrant did not receive the recital from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing: "This outside is about to be reversed, but the Metropolitan Procuratorate is calm, and it has not been played yet, so I sent a decree to ask Ni Song, the imperial historian of Zuodu, and ask him if he is alive!" ”

Ni Song, the imperial historian of the left capital, also knew that he couldn't suppress this matter, and some imperial historians of the Imperial Procuratorate had already threatened to go directly to the noon gate to face the saint, so after Ni Yuanlin passed Xu Jin's instructions to Ni Song, Ni Song immediately played the music of Tingtui's suspected fraud to the celebrant supervisor.

After Zhu Houzhao got Ni Song's recital, he just smiled coldly: "This Ni Song can't bear the pressure anymore, and sure enough, it makes sense for the details of Tingtui to be announced." ”

At this time, Qi Jingtong of Jinyiwei walked in: "Your Majesty, Hou Lu has confessed, and there is only one person who helped him Zhang Luo in this matter, this person's name is Wei Ying, and he is a Qing guest in the cabinet minister Xu Jin's mansion." ”

"It's Xu Jin again, this guy has become a second assistant, and he doesn't know how to converge!"

Zhu Houzhao raised a pair of thick black eyes, Gao Zhong couldn't help but shudder, and hurriedly picked up the pen tremblingly.

Zhu Houzhao did want to order the celebrant to draft the decree at this time, so he ordered: "The decree is to be verified and reported by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the court push fraud reported by the people does exist, and the order is ordered to suspend Li Mo, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Wang Yongbin, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, and the inspector of the East Factory to interrogate them!" Let the Ministry of Rites and Rites book Zhou Luo self-presentation! Jin Yiwei immediately went to the Xu Mansion to detain Wei Ying. ”

Zhu Houzhao has been waiting for the results of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Jinyiwei, and now that the Metropolitan Procuratorate has reported the fraud in Tingtui, and Jinyiwei has also made it clear that Wei Ying's case progress has been implicated through the interrogation of Hou Lu, so he naturally began to take further action.

As an emperor, he naturally knew that he couldn't let businessmen interfere in politics, but he knew that in order to achieve this goal, he didn't mean that his next holy decree prohibiting businessmen from interfering in politics would be effective.

Therefore, he wanted to take advantage of this to establish a more effective system, a system that could restrain the excessive exploitation of the workers and peasants by the gentry and merchants.

However, if you want to establish a new system, you have to negate the old system, and now that the court push system for election officials has been manipulated by businessmen, Zhu Houzhao exposed it, naturally to make the majority of people deny his shortcomings.

Now, Zhu Houzhao is naturally doing this in preparation for his complete negation of Tingtui and the establishment of a new system for the selection and selection of officials.

This preparation was naturally to purge some civil servants who held real power and represented the interests of the bourgeoisie.

Zhu Houzhao did not have a specific target for purging, after all, in fact, all civil officials could be eliminated at any time in front of him, the emperor.

However, Xia Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet, has a clear target for purging, and after Jin Yiwei found out that this court push fraud case was related to Xu Jin, he was really happy for a while, as the first assistant, he was constrained by Xu Jin, the second assistant who was more popular with civil officials, in many ways, if Xu Jin fell, it would naturally be more beneficial to him.

But Xu Jin did not fall so easily.

"Your Majesty, the ministers did not find out Wei Ying's whereabouts in the Xu Mansion, and Elder Xu Ge refused to admit that there was such a person", on this day, not long after Zhu Houzhao got up, Qi Jingtong explained the matter to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao was quite stunned and asked, "Are there any people who raided the Xu Mansion and questioned the Xu Mansion?" ”

"It's all done, no one says that they know Wei Ying, unless they torture Xu Ge himself", Qi Jingtong was saying, and an eunuch came to report: "Your Majesty, Xu Ge Lao asked to see him outside the noon gate." ”

"Let's see you", Zhu Houzhao waved his hand, got up and walked under the rose frame where Xia Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet, was located, picked down a leaf, and twisted it into pieces: "It seems that some people are more powerful than we imagined!" Aiqing doesn't have to be discouraged, this is no way to do it, I'm not young anymore, I'm not afraid of things when I'm young, I love to break the rules, I don't care about him, kill him first, and then talk about it, now that I'm older, I love to establish rules, I'm afraid of things, and I can't wait for everyone in the world to make trouble! ”

Xia Yan understood the meaning of Zhu Houzhao's words, and only threw the inkstained manuscript into the basket, got up and bowed and said: "The holy monarch is in power, Lang Lang Qiankun, and the traitorous person can't escape the eyes of His Majesty." ”

At this time, Xu Jin had already come to Zhu Houzhao by order, and when he saw Zhu Houzhao standing with Xia Yan and Gao Zhong, he suddenly felt more hatred for Xia Yan and Gao Zhong in his heart, but he didn't show it, he only pounced, knelt in front of Zhu Houzhao, knocked his forehead on the ground, tears snapped, and fell to the ground:

"Your Majesty, the old minister has never known Wei Ying, Hou Lu and others, if there is half a lie, the old minister will die immediately! The old minister has been wronged, Your Majesty! Today, the governor of Qi Du sent Jinyi to the mansion, and the ministers did not dare to stop him, but there is really no such person as Wei Ying, and I hope that His Majesty will know the innocence of the ministers, and mishear the villain's false accusations! ”

"The minister knows that the minister's actions are mostly intolerable to the minister, although the minister is honest but it is inevitable that the villain is jealous, and the minister is already old, and now he is slandered by the villain, the minister has no shame to serve the monarch's father in front of the palace, so the minister begs His Majesty to return to his hometown for the people! Whining! ”

Xu Jinsheng tearfully handed over the resignation, and then really cried.

Xia Yan and Gao Zhong couldn't help but clench the fists hidden in their sleeves, and their breathing became short.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao knew that Xu Jin was acting, but now that Hou Lu confessed to Wei Ying, Jinyiwei did not catch it, so unless Zhu Houzhao destroyed the legal rules he had established, he could only cooperate with Xu Jin's tricks.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao hurriedly ran over and helped Xu Jin up: "Aiqing please hurry up, I naturally know that this matter has nothing to do with Aiqing, but I suspect that Aiqing's family does not know how to restrain it." ”

"The minister can't discipline him, please punish His Majesty!"

Xu Jin knew that His Majesty the Emperor was saying that his Xu family was implicated in the Shuntianfu water pipe corruption case before he and finally turned into a conclusion that his second son had taken bribes, so he also took the initiative to admit it.

"Aiqing doesn't have to be like this, even if there are unsages in the descendants, how can the father and the ancestor be implicated for it, there is no need to mention this matter, since Wei Ying was not caught, it means that this is a false accusation by Hou Lu, this Hou Lu, I really don't cry when I don't see the coffin, I will let Jinyiwei continue to be strictly interrogated! Dare to falsely accuse Gesuke! ”

When Zhu Houzhao said this, Xu Jin's heart couldn't help jumping, but he could now be sure that even if Hou Lu was tortured, he would not be able to confess more evidence about his participation in court push fraud, so he was not so scared and nervous.

Zhu Houzhao was really tired of Xu Jin's hypocritical behavior, so he didn't stay here for long, so he went to the inner court to find his concubines to relieve his mood.

As soon as Zhu Houzhao left, Xia Yan snorted unceremoniously to express his dissatisfaction with Xu Jin.

Xu Jin only smiled slightly, and immediately left here, he was not on duty today, and he didn't want to stay here to help Xia Yan, the emperor was here, he was not easy to leave, and he had to make an overtime appearance of helping Xia Yan deal with official business together, and now that Emperor Zhu Houzhao left, he was naturally busy returning to the house.

For Xu Jin, now that Jin Yiwei has not found Wei Ying, he has acted enough in front of the emperor and can see that the emperor has no intention of tearing his face to deal with himself, so he is also relieved, as for the officials Li Mo and other bribe-taking officials, naturally he has nothing to do, because the bribes for these ministers are also their Qingkemen, so they don't know whose bribes their Qingkemen are receiving.

Zhu Houzhao also knew that he might not be able to catch Xu Jin this time, but there was no doubt that he became even more suspicious and disgusted with Xu Jin.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao did not intend to let go of any of the other officials involved who had evidence to prove that they had accepted bribes.

Li Mo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and others were all tortured by stripping the skin and grass, and although Zhou Luo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, did not directly participate in the fraud of the court push, because he was conspired by Xu Jin and others to be listed on the list of the results of the court push, it caused the anger of the world, so that many of his crimes were also dug up, so he was also sentenced to the crime of being the head of the court.

Zhu Houzhao deliberately disgusted Xu Jin, and specially ordered Xu Jin to supervise the officials involved.

How could Xu Jin not know that the emperor was deliberately disgusting himself, but he actually knew from the beginning that these officials who were unwilling to admit the theory of the sacred class would not be appreciated by His Majesty, so he didn't care, he accepted the idea of restricting the monarch's power, returning the people's freedom, and reducing or reducing commercial taxes put forward by some people nowadays.

Although he did not tell anyone, he knew in his heart that in order to achieve these goals in the future, he must first become the head of the cabinet, unite a group of officials who are also businessmen, and if not limit the power of the king, he must support a king who is willing to cut taxes and is willing to delegate power.

It is impossible for Xu Jin to have no opinion on Zhu Houzhao, but he also did not regard Zhu Houzhao as the main enemy who must be eliminated quickly, after all, he also knew that he was not the opponent of Emperor Zhu Houzhao, and Emperor Zhu Houzhao was already old, and the only thing he could do was to wait until the emperor died and the new emperor ascended the throne.

Xu Jin has always focused on the princes, he hopes to find a suitable emperor, but what he has to admit now is that His Majesty the current emperor Zhu Houzhao is still very terrible, and a court push fraud exposure will let a large number of important officials with business backgrounds be eliminated.

Looking at these officials who were executed one by one under his nose, Xu Jin was really unacceptable in his heart, he knew that he was not qualified to hate His Majesty the Emperor, so he only hated these spy organizations in Xichang that made eyes for His Majesty now.

"Gao Zhong of the West Factory must be eliminated, at least to scare him, don't think that he is a eunuch in the inner court, he really just needs to listen to the Son of Heaven, and if he offends our civil officials, it will not end well! And Hai Jui! If it weren't for him, it would not have been possible to make His Majesty the Emperor make such a big fuss! If he had informed us of this before publishing it, the Emperor would not have let the Emperor get rid of so many of our people! ”

Xu Jin gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, he had already learned the details of what happened when the "Huangming Bao" exposed this matter from Chen Dian, but because of this, it made him hate it even more, because he knew that this kind of scholar who adhered to principles was the most terrifying.

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