Originally, Zhu Youzhen didn't expect Shi Fenglai to have so much family property, and he didn't plan to behead Shi Fenglai's family, as long as he was a servant and didn't interfere with his reform plan, how to say that he ascended the throne, he still had the merit of supporting it.

But the amount of Shi Fenglai's greed for ink is too huge, and not raiding his home or beheading him is not enough to anger the people, nor is it enough to calm his anger.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Lang Yue was ecstatic, it seemed that his task was completed, from Zhu Youzhen's face, he couldn't see joy, but the more angry Zhu Youzhen was, the better his task was completed, Zhu Youzhen was originally looking for Shi Fenglai.

After Lang Yue left, Zhu Youzhen summoned Qiao Yunsheng, president of the Judicial Yuan, and Tang Jishi, vice president, overnight.

"Your Majesty, Ministers."

"Let's get even!" Zhu Youzhen's tone was flat, as if he was hiding what kind of feelings, I don't know whether it was anger or indignation, but the obvious disappointment could be seen by anyone.

"Your Majesty summoned the ......ministers late at night" Qiao Yunsheng also felt that the atmosphere was extraordinary, and before Zhu Youzhen summoned them late at night, there was no sign at all, although he thought a lot on the way to Qianqing Palace, but he just wanted to break his head, and he didn't know Zhu Youzhen's intentions.

"Qiao Aiqing, Tang Aiqing, since the establishment of the Judicial Yuan, there has been no major case, right?" Zhu Youzhen still looked expressionless.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the Judicial Yuan only deals with cases with great influence and special identities of the parties, and there has not been a single case so far."

"Now there is," Zhu Youzhen's face suddenly turned pale: "Qiao Yunsheng and Tang Jishi listen to the order." ”

"The minister is here!"

"The minister is here!"

Qiao Yunsheng and Tang Jishi didn't know what was going on, but the emperor wanted to give an order, and they had to kneel and listen.

"Shi Fenglai, Deputy Minister of Personnel, has bent the law for bribes and embezzled nearly one million taels of silver, I order you to arrest Shi Fenglai and his family immediately, and together with the Jinyi guards guarding outside the gate of the mansion, raid the Shi Mansion." Zhu Youzhen handed over the holy decree that had been prepared long ago to Qiao Yunsheng.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Qiao Yunsheng took the holy decree, his mind was in chaos, "Check Lord Shi? Your Majesty, did you hear me right? ”

"You heard me right." Qiao Yunsheng didn't act immediately, and Zhu Youzhen's expressionless face immediately turned cold, as if a layer of frost was hanging.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister will go immediately." Qiao Yunsheng and Tang Jishi glanced at each other, he didn't follow Zhu Youzhen's holy decree, but it was Shi Fenglai who was confiscated, a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty, and there was no news before, so he was distracted.

When his mind gradually sobered up, Qiao Yunsheng remembered that Shi Fenglai was greedy for one million taels of ink, he knew that the stakes were very high, whether it was the amount of greedy ink, or the officials who were investigated, it was enough to shock the court, and even sensational the whole country, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately said goodbye to Tang Jishi Zhu Youzhen, and organized people to raid Shifu overnight.

This case was personally confessed by Zhu Youzhen, and with Jinyiwei supervising on the side, all the raiders were like duck blood one by one, and immediately surrounded Shifu.

Shi Fenglai heard that the people from the Judicial Yuan came to the house in the middle of the night, and he was very unhappy, he got out of bed in his clothes, and when he saw that it was Qiao Yunsheng, he couldn't help frowning: "Lord Qiao came to visit in the middle of the night, and he didn't notify the officials first?" ”

Qiao Yunsheng didn't reply, he took out the holy decree from his sleeve: "Lord Shi, take the decree!" ”

Shi Fenglai heard that there was a holy decree, and he was puzzled: "Wait for the lower official to set up the incense case." ”

"No need, Master Shi, just kneel down and take the order." Qiao Yunsheng said coldly.

Shi Fenglai had no choice, so he had to kneel on the ground: "Minister Shi Fenglai to take the order." ”

Qiao Yunsheng shook the enlightened yellow silk paper and stood facing south: "Emperor's edict, Shi Fenglai, deputy minister of the Ministry of Personnel, as a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty, does not think of serving the country, does not think of the court, does not think of the people of Li, ignores the Ming Dynasty's "Anti-corruption Law", wantonly accepts bribes, and lives up to the grace of the saint. ”

When Shi Fenglai heard the content of the holy decree, his soul suddenly flew away, and the beads of sweat seemed to have been prepared for a long time, and he muttered to himself: "I want to see the emperor, I want to see the emperor......"

"Lord Shi, thank you for the order!" Qiao Yunsheng folded the holy decree and stretched out to Shi Fenglai.

Shi Fenglai seemed to have lost his soul, he took the holy decree mechanically with both hands, the bright yellow color seemed to pierce Shi Fenglai's nerves, and he shouted loudly: "Master Qiao, it must be a mistake, I want to meet the emperor." ”

"Lord Shi, do you want to see you, this official can't be the master, this is the emperor's holy decree, you can see it, there is the emperor's seal on it."

Shi Fenglai didn't give up, he really opened the holy decree, when he saw Zhu Youzhen's seal, he was stunned like a wooden chicken, and he couldn't make a sound anymore, the whole person was like a clay sculpture, and let the people of the judicial court tie him up firmly.

"Let's go, let's go." Qiao Yunsheng waved his hand, and the people of the Judicial Yuan immediately broke through the family of the Shi Mansion and went straight into the inner room of the Shi Mansion.

Under the guidance of the brocade guard, they came to an inconspicuous stilted house in the southeast corner.

While a large number of people flocked to the stilt house, I don't know where many people with knives came out: "Who are you?" How dare you trespass into Shifu? ”

Tang Jishi sneered: "By order, raid the Shi Mansion, have nothing to do with anyone, etc., immediately retreat, if there is any obstruction, kill him." ”

Hearing that it was a holy decree, the family members wilted one by one, and they lowered their swords and slowly retreated away from the stilt house.

Jia Ding suddenly walked out of a small but extremely burly person, and he took out a gold medal from his waist: "Jinyiwei, if you want to find the hidden silver of Shifu, please come with me." ”

When the family members saw that there were brocade guards by their side, they knew that something was wrong, so they shouted and fled without a trace in an instant.

Qiao Yunsheng and Tang Jishi, under the guidance of the brocade guard spy, opened the stilt house, entered the underground passage, turned through two corridors, and came to a stainless steel door.

The Jinyi guard scout stepped forward alone, he held the knife in his right hand, and his left hand first slapped four times on the left side of the stainless steel door, and the stainless steel door did not move.

Qiao Yunsheng was secretly anxious, stainless steel is a very strong material, unless it is blown up with gunpowder, once gunpowder is used, no one can estimate what kind of internal explosion it will become.

The sword-wielding brocade guard remained silent, and he slapped the right side of the stainless steel door five more times, and then turned back to silence everyone.

With a "squeak", a crack opened in the stainless steel door, and the people inside looked out from the crack in the door to see that the momentum was not right. He's going to close the stainless steel door.

It's late.

The brocade guard had already inserted the steel knife in his hand into the crack in the door, and the stainless steel door was blocked and could no longer be closed.

Everyone stepped forward together, pushed open the stainless steel door, and rushed into the inner room.

The inner room, like the stilted house outside, is unusually low, and it is difficult for ordinary people to walk upright in it, but the light of several permanent lamps illuminates the inside as if it were day.

There are wooden cages everywhere inside, some of which have withered yellow surfaces, obviously they have been placed for a long time, but all the cages have been cleaned, probably the person who opened the door just now is waiting for the cages.

"Open the cage!" Qiao Yunsheng ordered the guard.

The family shook and touched his waist, Qiao Yunsheng thought he was touching the key, but he didn't expect him to find a short knife, no more than five inches long.

"Not good." Before Jin Yiwei's words fell, the person had already pounced towards Jiading.

Still a step too late, the short knife of the family had already pierced into the chest and reached the hilt.

Blood was gurgling out of the knife, and he had a smile on his face, but his voice was as weak as a gossamer: "...... Finally...... Finally relieved ......"

The housekeeper tilted his head and slowly fell, his eyes still half-open.

It's good that it didn't hurt Qiao Yunsheng, Jin Yiwei breathed a sigh of relief, he stopped next to the corpse, and turned to Qiao Yunsheng: "Lord Qiao......"

"Hit the cage!" As if Qiao Yunsheng didn't seem to see the brocade guard, he wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and ordered the attendants loudly.

The attendant cuts open the first cage with a scimitar.

Silver ingots of white flowers, fifty taels each, are neatly arranged in the cage.

Tang Jishi picked up a silver ingot and played with it carefully for a while, "My lord, it's official silver, you see." ”

Qiao Yunsheng took the silver ingot, and when he saw that the words "Wanli Twenty-two Years" were printed on the bottom, he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: "This Shi Fenglai can't live because of his own evil." ”

The attendants opened the second and third cages, and the result was the same, a large number of silver ingots, very dazzling.

Shi Fenglai's mansion was turned upside down, and Qiao Yunsheng made a preliminary estimate, and found a total of more than 22,000 taels of gold, more than 885,000 taels of silver, and antiques, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, etc., which cannot be estimated yet.

Under the supervision of Jin Yiwei, he did not dare to be careless, and all the gold, silver and jewelry were loaded into carriages and transported out of the Shi Mansion, and all the personnel of the Shi Mansion were also taken away and temporarily locked up in the Judicial Yuan.

Early the next morning, Qiao Yunsheng and Tang Jishi came to the Qianqing Palace and asked to see Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen slept in Kunning Palace last night, and walked with Zhou Yufeng for a while in the morning, until the end of the hour, he slowly returned to the Qianqing Palace, and saw two lonely figures from afar, nestled outside the palace gate.

"Your Majesty." Shi Fenglai seemed to be an extremely excited child, and suddenly found the object of venting, "I confiscated ...... in Shi's mansion"

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand: "Let's go in first." ”

The guards opened the middle gate, and Qiao Yunsheng and Tang Jishi followed behind Zhu Youzhen and entered the Qianqing Palace.

"Your Majesty, Shi Fenglai is really corrupt and perverts the law, and in the silver treasury of his mansion, he found more than 22,000 taels of gold, more than 885,000 taels of silver, as well as antiques, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings that cannot be priced, and now all the cadres of the Shi Mansion are seized in the Ministry of Justice."

"This Shi Fenglai, I have been paying attention to him for a long time," Zhu Youzhen looked indignant, "Da Ming has promulgated the "Anti-Corruption Law", and he still can't stop it, so how dare I use him?" ”

"He is self-inflicted, Your Majesty doesn't have to pity him," Tang Jishi interjected, "Your Majesty, what should you do with these stolen goods?" ”

"If the stolen goods are brought over, they will be put in the treasury, and as for the personnel of the Shi Mansion, they will be bothered by the two Aiqing trials." Zhu Youzhen still had a calm face, although he got millions of silver, he was not happy.

"Your Majesty, what should you do with this Shi Fenglai?" Qiao Yunsheng cautiously tested.

"You are the President of the Judiciary, aren't you familiar with the laws of the Ming Dynasty? Or is it the law of the Ming Dynasty, which is just written on paper to fool the people? Zhu Youzhen's face suddenly became frosty, "The prince broke the law and was guilty of the same crime as the common people, as long as Aiqing was tried according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, no matter what the result was, everyone would be convinced." ”