In the silence of the night, the silver moonlight covered the land.

A gentle breeze blew through, bringing a gust of wind and waves on the ground.

Tonight is destined to be an unquiet night.

In the middle of the month, the Jinyi guards under the jurisdiction of the Fu Division of the North Town of Gyeonggi rushed to the streets like wolves and tigers, and the menacing horsemen rushed to the mansion of the officials in the capital, and they were arrested when they saw someone in the mansion.

It has been a long time since there has been such a shocking thing in the calm capital.

The sergeants patrolling the Five Cities Terracotta Division tried to stop the Jinyi Guards from running rampant, but they were beaten by the Jinyi Guards, and many of the sergeants ran away with their heads in their hands.

There was a lot of noise in the streets!

In the cold night, noise, crying, and shouting all rolled into one.

The horsemen escorted the ministers of the court, who were usually high, down the cold streets to the north town of Fusi.

In one night, more than 30 Beijing officials were imprisoned, and among these Beijing officials, there were two chief officials of the six ministries, and there were even imperial envoys of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

After Jinyiwei arrested these people, the news spread far and wide, and the head of the cabinet, Ye Xianggao, immediately sent someone to Beizhen Fusi to ask what was going on!

Many officials also sent people to ask, what happened?

Yang Xiaoyu sent people to gather the subordinates sent by the officials together, and asked them to go back to report to their masters.

Two hours before dawn.

Yang Xiaoyu ordered thousands of households to take people to the Imperial Prison to interrogate the prisoners, and whoever arrested the officials would be tried, and he didn't want anything else, as long as the confessions of these officials to the case of embezzlement of military salaries.

After receiving the order, the thousands of households took the cavalry to the imperial prison to interrogate the prisoners.

The officials who were arrested were all civilian officials, and they were useless except for their mouths that could speak well.

The Commander of the Torture Cavalry lightly whipped them a few times, and several officials shouted to see the emperor. After a few more whips, when they were about to be tortured, some soft bones could no longer hold on, and at the moment they were pouring beans from a bamboo tube, and they said all the immoral things they had done.

The scribes wrote down the testimonies of their confessions and had them drawn by the officials.

Of course. There are also hard bones among these officials, such as Gao Panlong, some high-ranking officials, who have done too many things that lack morality, and they must not confess, otherwise, they will bring disaster to their families and harm the Quartet.

Dealing with these high-ranking officials who were still majestic yesterday, the horsemen were tortured by changing their methods, starting with leather whips, tiger chairs, soldering irons, and clamping sticks.

In the face of such inhumane torture. Some officials who couldn't resist had to confess, and the cavalry did not embarrass them, only let them recruit the silver that had embezzled Liaodong's military salaries, and ignored the others.

At dawn, there were 31 Beijing officials who could not stand the torture and confessed, including Zhao Nanxing, the leader of the Donglin Party, and others.

Yang Xiaoyu took the confession of the corrupt official, changed into a unicorn suit, and took the horsemen to the palace.

Originally, he didn't plan to go to court. But considering that there was such a big incident in the capital last night, the matter was mentioned in the parliament today. The Donglin Party officials headed by Ye Xianggao must be unwilling, he wants to go and cool down these officials, and at the same time, take a good look at the faces of these hypocrites.

At the gate of the palace in the early morning, there are carriages of court officials.

The officials in court clothes got out of the carriage and headed for the Qianqing Palace in groups of three or five.

Yang Xiaoyu walked alone and unhurriedly.

Suddenly. A deep voice in the distance came into Yang Xiaoyu's ears: "Lord Yang, wait a minute!" ”

When Yang Xiaoyu heard this voice, he secretly scolded him for being unlucky, and he actually met this yin man here, with a smile on his face. Turning around, I saw a middle-aged man in his forties walking hurriedly, the middle-aged man was short, dark-skinned, with a round head, like a summer watermelon, and a hearty smile on his face.

Yang Xiaoyu secretly said that if anyone thinks that his smile is very kind, it is a big mistake, this person is Tian Ergeng, a famous five-poison official in the capital.

Tian Ergeng was wearing court clothes, strode up to Yang Xiaoyu, and said in a low voice: "Lord Yang, how many officials did the Beizhen Fusi arrest last night?" ”

"Lord Tian, you are the commander of the Jinyi Guard, how many people have been arrested, Lord Tian should know best about this matter, how to ask Yang?" Yang Xiaoyu laughed and snorted, trying to fool the past.

Tian Ergeng said meaningfully: "Although Tian is a commander, Lord Yang never seems to put Tian as a commander in his eyes?" ”

"Lord Tian is too careful, you and I are colleagues, and Yang is on an errand under Lord Tian, how dare you despise Lord Tian?" Yang Xiaoyu said lightly, his expression was far less groveling than in his words.

Tian Ergeng was very angry in his heart, but he said with an impassive face: "Lord Yang, Tian is not polite to you anymore, how many officials did Beizhen Fusi arrest last night, please give me a word on this matter!" ”

"Lord Tian really wants to know?" Yang Xiaoyu said with a smile as he walked.

"Of course, there is such a big thing in the capital, but Tian doesn't know anything, and when he goes to the court later, if the ministers ask, how should Tian answer?" Tian Ergeng said angrily.

Yang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Lord Tian said that he didn't know, did they dare to question Lord Tian?" ”

Tian Ergeng said in a deep voice: "Lord Yang, Tian is the commander of Jinyiwei, and he leads all the divisions under Jinyiwei, Lord Yang has arrested so many officials, but he doesn't even tell Tian the number of people, isn't this in accordance with the rules?" ”

Yang Xiaoyu heard that Tian Ergeng was really angry, and said with a smile that he didn't care: "Lord Tian, it's not that Yang doesn't tell you, but Yang also has a hard time, we have to listen to the emperor's orders as courtiers, and do errands according to the will of the saint, if Yang says it, it will be disobeying the decree and will be killed!" ”

Of course, Tian Ergeng knew that this was what the emperor meant, if there was no emperor's holy decree, where would Yang Xiaoyu be so bold to arrest the ministers of the court.

He just wanted to ask how many officials had been arrested by the Fusi of Beizhen, so that he could judge who the officials were arrested, but he didn't expect Yang Xiaoyu to be so oily and salty.

"Does Lord Yang think he has made meritorious contributions?"

Tian Ergeng's face slowly turned cold, he snorted coldly, threw down a sentence, and strode away.

Yang Xiaoyu knew what Tian Ergeng, the bastard, was thinking, he just thought that if he had arrested so many officials, he would definitely be impeached by the ministers of the DPRK and China, and whether he could keep his official position at that time was still two different things.

It's a pity that Tian Ergeng was wrong.

From the very beginning of this matter, he found a way out for himself.

Yang Xiaoyu smiled and continued to walk unhurriedly.

The drums rang out, followed by the bell.

Rows of Han generals dressed in golden helmets and armor, with swords in their hands, stood on the edge of the corridors on both sides like statues.

Yang Xiaoyu walked slowly into the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, and stood in the penultimate row on the left according to the position of the third-grade official.

The ministers in the palace took advantage of the emperor's absence from the court to talk about what happened last night.

At the front of the main hall, Fang Congzhe and Ye Xianggao stood together on the left and right, both of them closed their eyes and recuperated, ignoring the chattering courtiers behind them.

Yang Xiaoyu stood in his position expressionlessly, his eyes swept over the vacant positions, and nodded with understanding.

A short moment later.

The eunuch shouted loudly at the top of his voice: "The emperor has arrived!" ”

Immediately afterwards, the carpenter emperor in a dragon robe took the lead in walking out of the apse, followed by two little eunuchs and two palace maids.

As soon as the ministers heard that the emperor was coming, they all stood up straight, no longer exchanged their heads and ears, and waited for the carpenter emperor to sit on the dragon throne, and the ministers knelt down on the ground and shouted long live.

The carpenter emperor put on a straight posture and leveled the courtiers.

As soon as the ministers stood up, the eunuchs shouted again: "If there is something to do, play early, and retreat from the court if there is nothing!" ”

"Your Majesty, the ministers have a play!" Zuo Guangdou of the Metropolitan Procuratorate stood up and said loudly.

"What did Zuo Aiqing do?" The Carpenter Emperor asked in a deep voice.

Zuo Guangdou stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, last night the Beizhen Fusi suddenly arrested more than 30 ministers in the court, and the ministers want to ask, what mistakes did these ministers make?" What should be the crime of arresting the minister without authorization? ”

The carpenter emperor pondered for a moment, and asked in a positive voice: "Does Yang Aiqing of Beizhen Fusi have a dynasty?" ”

The ministers turned around one after another to look for the officials of the North Town Fusi.

Above the Manchu Dynasty, there are only three officials dressed in unicorn suits, one is the Jinyi Wei Tongzhi who is in charge of the direct driving, and the other is Tian Ergeng, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, these two people are almost every day in the court, and the ministers are very familiar with them, only Yang Xiaoyu in the penultimate row is a fresh face, wearing a unicorn suit, and his identity is about to come out without words.

"The minister is here!"

Yang Xiaoyu stood up and saluted.

"Yang Aiqing, can you explain to Zuo Aiqing why more than 30 ministers were arrested?" The Carpenter Emperor said calmly, without a trace of expression on his face.

Yang Xiaoyu bowed to Zuo Guangdou and the ministers of the court not far away, and said loudly: "Ministers, the lower officials were ordered by the emperor to try the case of Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen, in the process of trying the case, the lower officials found out that Wang Huazhen was the governor of Liaodong when the military salary corruption case, after a strict investigation, a total of more than 30 officials in the capital were found to have received bribes, the lower officials reported the case to the emperor, according to the emperor's holy order, arrested all corrupt officials and corrupt officials, the ministers who were arrested last night have embezzled military salaries!" ”

"Lord Yang, the emperor asked you to try the case of Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen, why did you investigate the case indiscriminately?" Zuo Guangdou shouted coldly.

"Lord Zuo, what are you anxious about? Could it be that there is also a share of the embezzlement of military salaries? Yang Xiaoyu was suddenly unhappy, secretly scolded Zuo Guangdou for being shameless, and asked with a smile on the surface.

In the face of the sarcasm of Yang Xiaoyu's words with a gun and a stick, Zuo Guangdou did not panic, and defended himself: "Zuo Mou's line is upright, he stands straight, how can he embezzle military salaries, Lord Yang, don't spew blood!" ”

"Is it embezzled thousands of taels of silver, Lord Zuo knows this best!" Yang Xiaoyu smiled pointedly.

As soon as Zuo Guangdou heard this, he immediately became anxious, and pointed at Yang Xiaoyu and said quickly: "You ......!" ”

At this time, the carpenter emperor on the dragon chair waved his hand and said: "Don't quarrel between the two Aiqing, yesterday I summoned Wang Huazhen and asked him face to face whether the military salary case was true, Wang Huazhen confessed to the case, and I issued an order to Yang Aiqing and asked him to arrest a criminal official." (To be continued......)