Soon, out of the interests of different factions or out of personal grudges, the ministers began to hold Xiong and Wang accountable for losing their borders. Cai Siyun was the first to attack the incident, and asked for the punishment of Xiong, Wang and Gao Zhu, Hu Jiadong and others. Zhu Youxiao has already let Xiong and Wang go, and let them "wear the punishment for the crime". Gao and Hu were fugitives during the battle of Liaoshen, and this time they fled again, so that "Jinyiwei took the solution to Beijing". Then, on 11 February, Feng Congwu, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Dong Yingju, Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, and He Qiaoyuan, Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, jointly signed a petition to demand the arrest of Xiong and Wang and "to apply for the law of the country." Although Zhu Youxiao knew that Xiong Tingbi's strategy should be right, he deeply hated Xiong Tingbi for living up to his high expectations, and even gave up the place outside the border without a little resistance, so on the 13th, he approved the arrest of Wang Huazhen, but only dismissed Xiong Tingbi and went home to wait for treatment. However, Xiong Tingbi was reluctant to go home, fearing that once he left Beijing, he would be attacked by Donglin political and political opponents and add guilt to himself, so he could refute all kinds of untruths and false accusations at any time when he stayed in Beijing.

On this day, Wang Chengen came to Xiong Mansion with two little eunuchs. said that it was Xiong Mansion, but it was actually a small house rented by Xiong Tingbidian, and there was no door at the door, the little eunuch stepped forward and knocked on the door, Xiong Tingbi's eldest son Xiong Zhaoqi opened the door and asked, "I don't know what happened to my father-in-law?" ”

Wang Chengen said: "In the holy order, Wang Chengen asked Xiong Tingbi a few words. ”

Xiong Zhaoqi said: "Father-in-law, please." Then lead Wang Chengen to Xiong Tingbi's study in front. Xiong Zhaoqi said softly in front of the door: "My lord, the prince is ordered to interrogate. ”

The door of the study squeaked open, and Xiong Tingbi arched his hand with a sad face: "Father-in-law, please." Wang Chengen entered the study, stood above, Xiong Tingbi was about to kneel down with a flick of his front, Wang Chengen said: "No need, stand and go back." ”

Xiong Tingbi stood up straight and lowered his head to listen. Wang Chengen said: "Xiong Tingbi, I want to send you to Liaodong that day, Yin Yinxiang's words, still in my ears, all kinds of things in Liaodong, are you ashamed?" ”

Xiong Tingbi knelt on the ground with a "plop" and shouted: "Your Majesty, the minister is ashamed!" The ministers deserve death, please ask the emperor to kill the ministers, pass the head of the nine sides, and set an example. ”

Wang Chengen cleared his throat and said, "I know that you will say that you are ashamed, but what is the use of saying that you are ashamed now?" Why didn't you go to Quang Ninh at that time, don't you have 5,000 soldiers? ”

Xiong Tingbi kowtowed again and again: "The army has been defeated in Shaling that day, the minister only has 5,000 soldiers, if you go to Guangning, the city is broken, the Liao people are innocent, all of them have become slaves, the ministers think about it, they have to protect the people and enter the customs first." ”

"You will definitely say that you want to escort the Liao people into the customs, so I want you to touch your conscience here and say, were you afraid at that time? Wang Huazhen was defeated, are you very happy? ”

Xiong Tingbi paused and said: "Your Majesty, the minister was short of soldiers and major generals, and Jiannu defeated the army in Shaling, and the minister was afraid, so he didn't dare to go forward. When it came to the defeat of the governor of the king, the minister was only sad, lamenting how difficult the state affairs were, and did not dare to think of gloating. ”

"Luo Yangxing said that he once reminded you that you can't trust Sun Degong, but is there such a thing?"

"It does."

"Then why don't you doubt Sun Degong? Who made you think Sun Degong was credible? ”

Xiong Tingbi thought for a long time and said: "After receiving the report from Jinyiwei, the minister sent his subordinate Tong Servant Nian to check on Sun Degong, and he reported that Sun Degong was loyal and patriotic, and everything was as usual, so the minister thought that Jinyiwei's information was wrong, which caused such a catastrophe, and the minister was ashamed of the emperor." ”

Wang Chengen turned around and left, Xiong Tingbi followed behind him and whispered: "Please report to the emperor, the minister is guilty, and he is willing to be punished by the law of the country." After saying that, he glanced at Xiong Zhaoqi, and Xiong Zhaoqi took out a tray and handed it to Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen looked at the silver coins piled up on the tray and said with a smile: "The emperor said that if you don't take anything, it looks fake, and if you get too much, you are greedy, and one dollar is used as an errand fee." With that, he took a silver coin, tapped it twice in his hand, and walked out laughing.

Xiong Tingbi was dumbfounded, and asked Xiong Zhaoqi: "Is this how the officials in the Beijing Division collect money now?" “

Xiong Zhaoqi shook his head and said, "My lord, my son has only been here for a short time, and I don't know if this is the case, but the matter of Tu's father-in-law last time was hyped up several times in the weekly newspaper." “

Wang Chengen went back and told Xiong Tingbi's answer and asked, "Why does the saint ask the slave to collect a dollar?" “

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "I can't let you run empty, you will feel more comfortable after you accept a dollar, and he won't be heartbroken when he comes out, isn't it good for both parties?" But as I said, if you collect more than one piece, you will go to see Tu Wenfu, you usually show me this point, especially in Dongchang, you can't believe too much in people's consciousness, someone will definitely touch the knife edge. “

Wang Chengen now has a group of subordinates who are specially listening to the news in the palace, which is a move by Zhu Youxiao who does not want Dongchang to deceive him. Wang Chengen replied: "Don't worry, the slave and maid will be watched." The saint is really born a saint, and even Xiong Tingbi will answer clearly. “

Zhu Youxiao said: "Don't be a sycophant, what can he say, the reason is actually that I also know, I also have selfishness, and I will indeed worry about the people of Liao." Arrest that Tong Servant Nian and let Jinyiwei check it on me, this person is only afraid that there are some problems. “

Zhu Youxiao arrested Wang Huazhen and let Xiong Tingbi go, which made the Donglin people unable to sit still, Zhang Heming fired first, he openly said: "Huazhen Gong is quite guilty, Tingbi is guilty of no merit." Zuo Guangdou and others grabbed Zhu Youxiao's words about merit and crime, and believed that Wang Huazhen should not be arrested, but only Xiong Tingbi should be dismissed, and both should be imprisoned for questioning.

This time, Zhu Youxiao had already made up his mind and would no longer be bewitched by these ministers. But since he said that merit and crime are one, then let you do it, he ordered that the case of Guangning be tried by the three law divisions, and Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen listened to the three law divisions. and summoned Wei Zhongxian and instructed him that the case of Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen should be monitored throughout the whole process, and no news should be let go, and it should be reported every day.

Now the primary problem is to find someone to clean up the mess in Liaodong, Zhang Heming, the secretary of the military department, was afraid that the emperor would find him trouble, so he invited himself to Liaodong, and the emperor approved. Sun Chengzong is already the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, Liu Yixiao was attacked in March so he resigned, Zhu Youxiao has always disliked him, so naturally he agreed, so that the cabinet is only three people, a number of ministers wrote to suggest that the cabinet should be added, after the emperor agreed, the ministers carried out a meeting, Sun Chengzong's name ranked first, Xu Guangqi's name ranked fifth. Zhu Youxiao asked Fang Congzhe, and Fang Congzhe said that according to the rules, you should start from the front, that is to say, if you want to choose Xu Guangqi, you should choose the first four. So the emperor had no choice but to make an order: to promote Sun Chengzong to be the secretary of the military department and a scholar of the East Pavilion University to enter the cabinet. Zhang Heming crowned the crown prince Taibao, and gave Shang Fang the sword, passing through Liaodong.