Chapter 69: Impeachment
Zhu Wei's words made several people fall silent, everyone understood that this was an opportunity to send to their mouths, but this opportunity was too far-fetched to be taken out.
In a hurry, Zhu Wei didn't have so many opinions, and said with a big grin: "A few people give a word, are you willing to follow Zhu Mou to impeach Zhang Ru, the silverfish of the country." If everyone wants to protect themselves, Zhu doesn't force it, I just hope that everyone won't leak the news. β
He has a sign on his head that is in the military department, and he is the section chief, and he and Zhang Peng are not subordinate to each other. So he said that he wanted to find trouble with Zhang Ru, and everyone couldn't say a word.
Hong Xiu and the other imperial historian are obviously a little loose, this is a good opportunity to go down through the ages, as long as they can bring down Zhang Ru, not to mention what benefits the people standing behind them can give them, just say that the tide of clear names is the benefit that they will not be able to use in their lives.
The imperial history loves to clear the name, which is something that almost everyone who reads knows knows.
Finally, after calculating the pros and cons in their hearts, Hong Xiu and the imperial historian agreed to advance and retreat with Zhu Wei.
The other three reached an offensive and defensive alliance, and if Xue Chang put forward other opinions at this time, not only would these three people not listen, but they would think that he was an outlier. It doesn't matter if they reject him, if he says something unpleasant in front of his master, then Xue Changke will really be guilty.
So he no longer insisted on his opinion, and nodded in agreement with Zhu Wei.
Xue Chang didn't want to knock Zhang Ru into the dust, but he didn't want to use such a despicable method to knock Zhang Ru into the dust.
Among the few people, only Xue Chang can be regarded as having some conscience.
made up their minds, and under Zhu Wei's arrangement, the four of them acted separately. Zhu Wei didn't worry about others doing the matter of finding witnesses, and after asking where the dead body was, he took the silver ticket prepared by the master in advance and went out of the teahouse.
The manual work of carrying the corpse was naturally handed over to Hong Xiu and the other insignificant imperial history. As for Xue Chang, who was opposed at the beginning, he got a task to stabilize Zhang Ru.
Zhu Wei tossed like this, but he really found a few people who were greedy for money, and to Xue Chang's surprise, these few people who were willing to testify were all victims of the disaster on Sifang Street.
Xue Chang, who felt that something was wrong, pulled Zhu Wei and persuaded him: "I'm afraid these people are inappropriate, Zhang Ru's status in the hearts of the people at the bottom is not low, and their testimony is still not necessary." β
Zhu Wei said indifferently: "Lord Xue is too worried, there are few people in the world who don't love money, like the gang of people on Sifang Street, who can't eat and have no clothes, and they regard wealth as their lives." Zhu promised to give each of them five taels of silver after the matter was completed, rest assured, the five taels of silver were not in hand, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense. β
"But." Xue Chang still thought about saying more, but was rudely interrupted by Zhu Wei: "You Lord Xue is a gentleman, I Zhu Wei don't want to be a gentleman, as long as I can pull Zhang Ru's kid down and complete the above instructions, Zhu can do whatever it takes." β
The rigid and self-serving temperament allowed Zhu Wei to grasp the absolute initiative in this conversation, and Xue Chang, who had always been the main one, completely stepped aside.
After planning for a few days and thinking about the confession, Zhu Wei asked several people to write a recital to impeach Zhang Ru, but they were all sealed with fire paint before they were handed over to Zhang Peng, the main minister appointed this time.
Zhang Peng's heart is like a mirror, these people are not very convinced of themselves, and the officials who are with the Yushitai in the Six Departments are nominally not related to the Six Shangshu.
The officials are all protΓ©gΓ©s of the Son of Heaven, and if these people are about to be strong, even a few scholars in the cabinet will not be able to order them to do anything.
"Why, Lord Zhu asked the people at the post station to deliver it himself, so why bother." Zhang Peng gently put the fold on the table, stroked the white jade wrench on the thumb of his right hand with his left hand, and said with a smile.
Zhu Wei arched his hand: "The lord is the main messenger this time, and the fold should naturally be presented by the lord of the department." β
Zhang Peng was puzzled: "But the official doesn't know what is written in this recital, and he doesn't know what you guys have been investigating outside in the past few days. Just let the official send the fold to the official inexplicably, in case Long Yan is angry, this black cauldron will have to be carried by the official. Master Zhu thinks this official is such a stupid person? Or does Master Zhu think that the old man doesn't dare to offend you? β
Few ministers of the DPRK and China dare to offend the officials, but those who say that they are not of high rank and have no backstage.
A person like Zhang Peng, who has made it one of the six Shangshu, is also covered by someone in the cabinet, and others are afraid of the impeachment of the imperial history, but he is not afraid of the impeachment of the imperial history. Besides, Zhu Wei's approach was very unauthentic, and he didn't even know that he was the main messenger, so he said that the results of the investigation were obtained, which Zhang Peng absolutely couldn't accept.
In previous years, officials in the capital went to the local area to investigate, but it was difficult to get results in three or five months. First, because the road is long and you have to waste a lot of time on the road, and second, when you arrive at the locality, it is extremely difficult to investigate the evidence of violations of law and discipline by local officials who only cover the sky with one hand.
Now to investigate Zhang Ru, it took less than a month, and it was only half a month to send him back to the capital Shuntian Mansion as soon as possible. It is undoubtedly very unfair to Zhang Ru to say that there are investigation results so soon.
Zhu Wei doesn't care if he is unfair to Zhang Rugong, as he himself said, as long as he can achieve the goal, he can do whatever it takes. Therefore, after seeing the obvious anger on Zhang Peng's face, instead of being afraid, he rose to the challenge: "Your Excellency's words are wrong, Your Majesty's will is clear, and I want to investigate whether Zhang Ru has violated the law." After coming to Liaodong for a few days, the lord of the ministry was either touring the mountains and rivers or drinking with Gu Qian every day, and this investigation was naturally carried out by us.
Zhang Ru is the governor of the nine sides, and he is in a hurry, so in order to avoid long nights and dreams, the lower officials have to seal the fire paint first, so as not to leak the news.
The post of Governor of the Nine Sides is related to the Ming Dynasty, and it cannot be played with, and it must be resolved as soon as possible. β
Zhang Peng snorted coldly: "You are so anxious to condemn a governor? It seems that you, Section Chief Zhu, are really a little impatient. If you want to send it, you will find someone from the post station who is alive in the East Detective Factory to send it, and the official does not know the details, so he will not help you carry this black pot. β
The best person to deliver the letter disagreed, and Zhu Wei had no choice but to pick up the music on the table and fold it out of Zhang Peng's room, without even saying a word of farewell.
In the end, he couldn't find anyone else, so he had to order a chief of the East Factory to send him back to the capital overnight.
In the following days, the days of several Qing nobles and officials in Liaodong can be said to be terrifying. The General Military Mansion did not react at all to the few people they controlled, and it seemed that they were not at all worried that they would use these few to deal with the General Military Mansion.
Even Zhang Ru didn't react at all, every day in the barracks for training and inspection.
The calm situation made several nervous officials tense their nerves every day, for fear that someone would be unfavorable to several people.
It had been twenty days since the decree arrived in the capital, and it was sent to the Imperial Historical Observatory, then to the Cabinet through the Imperial Historical Observatory, and finally to the Celebrant by Wan An, the first assistant of the Cabinet.
Liang Fang didn't dare to take apart these twists and turns in private, his authority was not yet at the level of Wang Zhen during the Yingzong period, and even the level of Wang Zhi in this dynasty, let alone Liu Jin under Wuzong in later generations and Wei Zhongxian beside Xizong.
Zhu Jianshen's health is not as good as day by day, and under the conditioning of the imperial doctor, he can barely support listening to Liang Fang talk about some political affairs every day. When he finished reading these twists and turns, he was so angry that his face was flushed, his chest rose and fell violently, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
This frightened Liang Fang, he hurriedly called the imperial doctor for Zhu Jianshen, and then served tea and poured water and pinched people for a while. The emperor can't have anything to do, when the emperor is there, he can still shelter him from the wind and rain, once the emperor is gone, even if the current prince is merciful, he has thought of many ways to repair the relationship with Zhang Ru, and he will rarely die well.
When he followed Wang Zhi to bully the minister, he Liang Fang had a lot of bad ideas, and Li Zixing was introduced to the palace by him, although the hatred of the ministers of the court and the central government for him was not as good as the hatred for Wang Zhi, it was not small.
Before the imperial doctor came, Zhu Jianshen stopped Liang Fang's hurry with full anger: "Don't mess with yourself, I'm fine." β
Liang Fang cried with joy: "Your Majesty, are you okay?" It's so good that it scares the minions to death. β
Zhu Jianshen shook his head slowly: "I'm fine, I am all angry with these imperial historians." β
"The slave has a word, I don't know whether to say it." Liang Fang observed for a while and made sure that the emperor was fine, but his complexion had improved a lot because of the blood he vomited, and then he said cautiously.
Zhu Jianshen glanced at him: "Say." β
Liang Fang said: "It has only been two months since these officials went to Liaodong, and counting the delay on the way, they found evidence of Lord Zhang's guilt in Liaodong in just ten years. With the minion's understanding of Master Zhang, he would not make such a mistake. β
Zhu Jianshen's heart moved, and his brows tightened: "You mean, this flaw was deliberately sold by Huzi to those officials?" β
Liang Fang said with a smile: "Your Majesty, have you ever seen the twists and turns of the old man Zhang Peng, the secretary of the Ministry of War?" Without his old man's recitals, it proves that some of these officials are doing something hidden from Lao Zhang. Liaodong is one of the nine sides, Lord Xiao Zhang is the governor of the nine sides, and there are pervasive brocade guards around him, can you lift it, Lord Xiao Zhang will be so accidentally caught by someone? β
Saying this, Zhu Jianshen suddenly felt cheerful, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, people are old and fine, and the older I get, the more confused I become, but the older you are, the more you understand." Don't care about this twist and turn, drag it out, and naturally continue to read after being in a hurry. Huzi's time to go to Liaodong is still short, and it will be delayed until the end of the year when he comes back to report on his work. β
Liang Fangxi said: "Your Majesty Shengming." β
Zhu Jianshen's face suddenly turned cold: "Liang Fang, you know about this matter, if a third party knows, you should know what to do!" β
Liang Fang was startled, and immediately knelt on the ground to show his loyalty: "The slave will never tell the third person, from now on, the slave is a mute!" β