The court meeting of the Jianji Hall was carried out here, and Emperor Chongzhen felt that the heat was almost over, so he said: "Whether Jia Jichun is talking nonsense or insinuating nonsense, I know very well in my heart!"

"In the days after the New Year's Day, you courtiers, taking the opportunity of the New Year, to visit relatives and friends, and exchange gifts, I also know very well in my heart!"

After Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, some of the ministers standing below were a little untenable, but fortunately, the emperor did not continue to talk about this topic, otherwise, it is estimated that a group of people would have to come out and confess. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, as soon as Emperor Chongzhen stretched out his hand, Wang Chengen, who was standing near the throne, hurriedly stepped forward and delivered a stack of music to the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen said while looking through the folds in his hand: "This is Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of the Nanjing Household Department and the head of the ministry, this is the squire of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, Qian Shisheng, the third is the right capital of the Nanjing Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, Zhang Yandeng, and the other is the political envoy of Zhejiang, Hui Shiyang." In addition to these four members of the second rank and above, there are also many courtiers and foreign officials, so I will not list them one by one. ”

Saying this, Emperor Chongzhen handed over the fold in his hand to Wang Chengen, and then took a few pieces of paper from the hand of Gong Yonggu, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, raised them, looked at the ministers in the palace, and continued: "These pieces of paper are confessions to Ren Shu in the matter. The day after Ren Shu was imprisoned, he had already confessed to these people. Jin Yiwei was still at Ren Shu's house and found the letterhead written to him by his mentor Qian Qianyi. And he also confessed, and Zhao Zhilong, who was in Nanjing, also sent him a message.

"Do you still need me to be here and read this Ren Shu's handwritten confession to you?!"

The ministers in the hall who were kneeling or standing solemnly were all taken aback when they heard the emperor's words.

Is this Ren Shu really instructed by someone?

Could it be that behind the opposition to the opening of the sea, there is really an ulterior motive?!

However, Zhang Shenyan, who was still kneeling on the ground, said with a red face at this time: "Minister Zhang Shenyan dares to swear to the heavens that the minister's opposition to the opening of the sea is out of his own heart, and there is no collusion with others. If the minister has half a untrue word, he would rather die with five thunderbolts. ”

After Zhang Shenyan said this, he kowtowed.

And Li Youlan said with a pale face: "Your Majesty, Ren Shu was arrested and imprisoned by Jinyiwei, under Miki, why can't you ask for it?!" How can his confession in prison be credulous? Your Majesty, please take a look! ”

Huo Huapeng said: "Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong is a person, and the minister has not heard of it, and Mr. Yushan Qian Qianyi, the minister has heard of it." Qian Gong Hanlin was born and famous in Jiangnan, how could he instruct others to impeach the ministers?! Please don't believe what the traitors say! ”

After hearing these words from the three of them, Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay attention to them, but just waved at Wang Chengen, Wang Chengen stepped forward, took the confession, put it together with those folds, and then handed it all over to Jia Jichun's hands.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "Jia Aiqing, you have always been sharp-eyed. This time, I will send you all kinds of copies of the same and similar statements against the opening of the sea, as well as Ren Shu's confession, to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and you will take the lead in investigating these people to see if they are colluding in private or forming a party for personal gain. Gong Yonggu, your Jinyiwei's North and South Zhenfu Division must cooperate well with Jia Aiqing to handle the case! ”

Jia Jichun and Gong Yonggu hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to receive the order.

At this moment, in the eyes of Li Youlan and Huo Huapeng looking at Jia Jichun, in addition to jealousy, the rest was all fear.

After arranging this matter, Emperor Chongzhen went on to say what he wanted to achieve through this court meeting.

I only heard Emperor Chongzhen say: "As for whether these people are forming a party for personal gain, Jia Aiqing still needs to mobilize the personnel of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Jinyiwei to cooperate with each other to investigate for a period of time, but I must not let these people who are suspected of forming a party for personal gain continue to entrench themselves in these important positions in the imperial court, and the great policy of opening the sea in the imperial court will not allow these people to stay in the important positions given by the imperial court to obstruct and delay!" ”

After Emperor Chongzhen said these words, he looked at the cabinet ministers standing in the front row and asked, "Does the cabinet have any opinions on how to deal with these people?" ”

In the past half a month, Emperor Chongzhen has received the twists and turns of Nanjing, and has met with the cabinet ministers several times, although the measures to deal with these people have not been clearly determined, but several cabinet ministers know that the emperor must change the position of the people just mentioned, after all, let them continue to stay in the same position, which is very unfavorable to the imperial court's policy of opening the sea.

However, most of these people are past or current Qingliu leaders, and if one of them is not handled properly, it will inevitably cause a big backlash.

Li Banghua, the cabinet minister and minister of military aircraft, was ordered to enter the Jin Dynasty, supervise the division and suppress the thief, and did not talk about him.

Among the three Li Guowei, Sun Chengzong, and Xu Guangqi, except for the first assistant Li Guoqi, who has nothing to do with the Donglin Party, the remaining two are more or less related to the Donglin Party, at least they were all fellow travelers of the Donglin Party, and they have fought side by side with the eunuch party under Wei Zhongxian in the past.

Therefore, before this Wangri and Korea meeting, several cabinet ministers did not reach an agreement on how to deal with these people who have a strong Donglin Party color or are simply Donglin Party.

At this time, seeing the emperor's question, Li Guowei pondered and said: "The ministers think that these people in important positions can be dismissed first and wait for the investigation. After waiting for the end of the investigation by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, it is not too late for the court to judge the crime. ”

Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi also said: "The ministers seconded the proposal! ”

Several ministers said this, and the ministers in the palace were obviously relieved, knowing that as long as these ministers said so, then the emperor would not really kill the Donglin Party like he did before with the eunuchs or nobles.

Emperor Chongzhen himself also knew that this was not the time to kill the Donglin Party or suspected Donglin Party, and he had just finished rectifying and consolidating the land of Gyeonggi, and he needed to let the courtiers and the people of the world take a break.

Moreover, now the Donglin Party's forces are mainly in the south of the Yangtze River, and they are far away in Beijing, so it is difficult to remotely command and accurately eliminate them.

Once it is not done well and expanded, then the current good situation is not impossible to be ruined.

Of course, for the current Emperor Chongzhen, he is not ignorant of the situation in Nandu, and Jinyi Weinanzhen Fusi, who moved to Nandu, is not a vegetarian.

At least people like Hui Shiyang, Qian Qianyi, and Zhao Zhilong are not completely wronged, even if they are aware of their intentions and do what they like, he doesn't want to compare this with Jinyi Weinan Zhenfu Si, who has done good deeds.

On the way south to Hangzhou to take office, Hui Shiyang met with Qian Qianyi several times when he passed through Suzhou, and what he said, now this Chongzhen Emperor is clear.

Hui Shiyang promised to find a way to continue to recommend Qian Qianyi's comeback to the imperial court, and Qian Qianyi also wrote a letter to the family in Hangzhou, introducing Hui Shiyang's situation, providing support for Hui Shiyang's governance, and so on.

These things are normal, and it should be said that even if they go too far, there is nothing wrong with that.

But today's situation is different, Emperor Chongzhen needs to kill people to establish authority, paving the way for the policy of opening the sea, and Hui Shiyang wrote a letter against the opening of the sea, obviously by the request of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang families, not to take him away, I am afraid it is not conducive to the opening of Ningbo's port and trade.

Besides, Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party, is not only a big landlord in the south of the Yangtze River, but also has an extremely large family business, thousands of hectares of land are exempt from tax because of his status as a jinshi, and the huge family business is also because of the extremely low commercial tax rate of 30 taxes in the Ming Dynasty and makes a lot of money, it can be said that he can take advantage of the Ming Dynasty's cheapness, but in the end, such a person opened the door in Nanjing, whenever he thinks of these, now this Chongzhen Emperor is angry!

What's more, this time, it is also they themselves who want to rush to the muzzle of the court.

Of course, Ren Shu was Qian Qianyi's student, and it was not difficult to find Qian Qianyi's personal letters from his residence in Jingshi, while Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong was the result of the emperor's instructions.

This Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong relied on his noble status, but also relied on his previous status in the Yangtze River Naval Division, engaged in smuggling trade and earned tens of millions of family properties, which is why he later insisted on surrendering to the Qing Dynasty and did not flee Nanjing, he was reluctant to leave his huge property.

Now, taking this opportunity, you can not only clean up these people who are the most insidious enemies of the Ming Dynasty, but also get a huge amount of wealth from them, why not?

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen did not hesitate anymore, and immediately said: "Spread my will, Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of the Nanjing household department and the head of the ministry, Qian Shisheng, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhang Yandeng, the right capital of the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, were dismissed first, and they were ordered to return home to be investigated. Zhejiang's political envoys Hui Shiyang, Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong, and the former Zhan Shifu Youzhong Yun Qian Qianyi, on the day of their arrival, all went to the South Town to Fusi Prison to listen to the investigation and discussion of the crime. ”

Speaking of this, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the few people kneeling on the ground in front of him and said, "Zhang Shenyan is out of public intentions, and the speaker is not guilty. As for Li Youlan in the matter of Huke and Huo Huapeng in the matter of Like, Fusi in Xiabei Town is in prison and is waiting for investigation and discussion. ”

After the emperor said this, Zhang Shenyan breathed a sigh of relief, kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty Shengming! ”

While Li Youlan and Huo Huapeng shouted "Weichen is wronged, Your Majesty forgives the sin", they were dragged out of the Jianji Hall by the Jinyi guards and escorted to Beizhen Fusi.