"My lord, in fact, the story is very simple, Shou Ninghou is looking for trouble with the lower officials because he wants to stand up for the doorman, I think all of you have heard of the overflow of private salt in Lianghuai. The subordinate of the lower official once stopped in Tai'an Mansion for a while, and on the evening of that day, his lowly subordinate heard a smuggler say unashamedly that his superior had bought off all the official yamen in Tai'an Mansion, including the prefect, the officers and soldiers of the local health station, the inspection department, the salt road transfer envoy yamen, and other local officials. Please think about it, if there is no umbrella, how can those smuggling salt dealers dare to bribe the officials of a prefecture and county without any accidents? Is it true that all the officials in the government are corrupt officials? Speaking of this, Ye Guan looked up at the inspector's deputy imperial envoy, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has thirteen supervising imperial histories, which are specifically responsible for impeaching local officials across the country for illegal acts, but there is such a big thing in Tai'an Mansion, and there is no folding in the supervision of the imperial history, Ye Guan means that there may be a problem with your ten supervising imperial histories.

Dai Shan, the imperial envoy of the Zuo Capital who was in charge of the trial, heard Ye Guan say this, and his face changed slightly, and then returned to normal. Dai Shan is a well-known upright and honest official, and under his governance, such a big thing happened to the Shandong Provincial Supervision Imperial History, presumably Dai Shan will inevitably investigate strictly after returning to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"Surely not, there must be someone who blocks the way of speech, so that the words of the righteous cannot reach heaven. Therefore, Xia Guan once tested Zhen Neng, a local Jinyi Wei Baihu in Tai'an Mansion, and he was the person under the Hou Shouning Hou who contradicted Xia Guan. He swore that he didn't know, and asked the lower officials to provide the injured with him to guard the yamen. The lower official is young, but he has a heart to serve the country and the king, so regardless of the fact that he is just a passing Han general, he resolutely signed a joint letter with him to impeach the officials of the civil and military departments of Tai'an Prefecture. But I didn't expect it! Xia Guan was worried that the smuggler would find out that the matter was leaked, so he left Tai'an Mansion in the starry night, but he didn't expect to be blocked in the border of Beizhili, and the lowly God favored him to escape from death, but the two loyal subordinates of the lowly post died at the hands of those smuggler salt dealers, and the lowly duty arrived in the capital only to find that Zhen Neng did not hand it over at all, thinking of these many things, the lowly position suspected that Zhen Neng had leaked the news, and even he had already been bought by those smuggler salt dealers, so the lowly deliberately stimulated him with words, Test his pity and grief for the death of two lowly subordinates. Sure enough, Zhen Neng had no remorse, but revealed in his words that he was a person with a queen, and he was not afraid of being sued. Therefore, in a fit of anger, Zhen Neng slapped Zhen Neng a few times on the grounds of superiority and inferiority. You should know what happened after that......" Speaking of this, Ye Guan glanced at He Jun, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and He Jian, the waiter of the Criminal Department, one after another, and the implication was that Shou Ninghou was the queen of Zhen Neng.

"You fart. My brother has always been law-abiding, although he is a marquis, he does not dare to bully things, there are many slanders in the world, and my brother has always had a hard time arguing, how can he conclude that Zhen can be in the same stream with those smugglers by virtue of a few slanderous words from this little brocade guard? And how can I conclude that my brother would shield such a person, and if it is true, maybe my brother was also deceived? When Jian Changbo heard Ye Guan shake out the matter of the smuggler of salt, he immediately stood up from the chair, pointed at Ye Guan is scolding, and He Jian, the waiter of the Criminal Department, slapped the shocked wood several times before Jian Changbo stopped.

Ye looked at Jian Changbo, and then shrugged his shoulders and said, "My lords, Mingjian, you see that person scolding me like this, I didn't even talk back, and I don't recognize him yet." If I am still polite to such a person, how can I beat Shou Ninghou for no reason? ”

"You fart, you don't want to live...... Jian Changbo just sat down, and he was about to stand up and scold Ye Guan. My lord, you see him threatening me! Ye Guan innocently looked at the three adults above the court.

He Jian was impatient, you scolded people just now, we took into account that you are a relative of the emperor, just scold it once, you still scold, you really don't take us court officials seriously! Immediately raised his eyebrows, and said majestically: "Whoever is still making noise in the public court, regardless of status, will be blasted out of the court." The next time the lower officials want to ask His Majesty for an order, whoever dares to interrupt the words of mortal witnesses will be heavily punished with fifty boards, and see who dares to defy the king's law by virtue of his identity. ”

Hearing He Jiandu say this, Jian Changbo could only hold back the words of the bitter scolding in his heart.

"Prisoner Ye Guan, is there any real evidence for what you said?" Of course, He Jian wouldn't believe Ye Guan's one-sided words, so he asked.

"No, it's because of the lowly officials and petty officials that they can't investigate whether Zhen Neng is in the same league as the smuggler of salt. However, you can go to investigate the situation of the overflow of illegal salt in Tai'an Mansion, it must be conclusive, so it is appropriate for the lower officials to teach the Jinyi Wei Hundred Households who are corrupt and pervert the law, not only need to teach him a lesson, not to shield him, but also to send him to prison, and not let the people of the world say that the pro-army of the Son of Heaven are all corrupt and perverted the law, and cannot destroy His Majesty's Shengming because of a mouse feces! Xia Guan believes that there are many excerpts in the Metropolitan Procuratorate to impeach Shou Ning Hou Jianchang Bo for lawlessness, and there are also files in Dali Temple where the suffering people sued Shou Ning Hou, and the Criminal Department has also tried the case of Shou Ning Hou's subordinates who were arrogant and arrogant and harmed people's lives. Ye Guan said the righteousness of the awe-inspiring, so that the surrounding villagers who watched the excitement nodded one after another, some of the spectators who had been harmed by Shou Ning Hou immediately shouted wronged, some young literati were even more indignant, standing outside the hall and scolded Shou Ning Hou and Jianchang Bolai, the angry Jianchang Bo was eager to find a servant to beat those people, but now is different from the past, he did not dare to mess around in Suibin on the cusp of this limelight, so he could only endure his anger again.

Although the spectators sitting on the chairs had no expressions, Ye Guan believed that after they went back, the people behind them would naturally have ideas.

"Leave Ye Guan down and summon Shou Ninghou to the court." He Jian stroked his beard with his hand, and then discussed with the other three officials for a while, asking people to stay with Ye Guan before bringing Shou Ninghou up.

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In the hall, Shou Ning Hou and Ye Guan said the complete opposite, but because of Shou Ning Hou's arrogant and domineering appearance, not only those officials frowned, but also provoked the already dissatisfied villagers to be even more angry, standing outside the lobby and began to scold Shou Ning Hou, Shou Ning Hou turned around and scolded those people, and a good trial turned into a shrew scolding street, and finally had to interrupt the trial and retry tomorrow.

After the day passed, the reports were clearly placed on the desks of each family, and Mu Bin had already sent people to Tai'an Mansion to look for clues, and strive to drive Shou Ninghou out of Jinyiwei in one fell swoop. Wang Yue of Dongchang also hurriedly sent people to find clues, and tried to turn this nest case into a big case, and dragged down a large number of officials of Jinyiwei and the civil official group to prison, so that the emperor could not forget the wonders of Dongchang. After returning to the Imperial Palace, Dai Shan, the left capital of the Imperial Procuratorate, was furious, and urgently transferred the ten supervisors of Tai'an Mansion to return to Beijing to report on their work, to see if those supervising imperial historians were really in the same stream with local officials as Ye Guan said, and allowed the salt law to be bad. Zhu Houzhao saw that Ye Guan was not released and was coquettish to Emperor Hongzhi for a while, and he had to listen to the trial next time, but Emperor Hongzhi could not resist Zhu Houzhao's request, so he could only agree to Zhu Houzhao to listen to the trial at the back of the hall. Empress Wang also faced Emperor Hongzhi with a pillow wind, hoping that Emperor Hongzhi would open up again and punish Shouning Hou a little. Emperor Hongzhi was also very distressed, but he didn't expect that a case of a subordinate official beating Shangguan and destroying holy relics actually involved the integrity of more than 100 officials in the entire government, and at the same time, Emperor Hongzhi also decided to discuss the issue of salt law with Li Dongyang, Liu Jian and other cabinet elders and scholars in the afternoon Dynasty a few days later. The salt law is bad, but it threatens the tax problem of the Ming Dynasty, which is a big problem that shakes the foundation, and it cannot be underestimated at all.

On the second day, Ye Guan, who was about to pass the hall again, was suddenly stopped by the emperor, and Emperor Hongzhi ordered that the case of Ye Guan and Shouninghou be brought directly into the Wenhua Palace, and the emperor personally decided the case.

Seeing the emperor's decree, not only Empress Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, but even the several three directors in charge of the trial were secretly happy. The emperor personally ordered the case to be carried to the palace, which shows that the emperor is not ready to use the people of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and there will be no Tiqi four out, and the matter of locking the world will appear again in the civil official system of the Ming Dynasty. Although some corrupt officials have escaped punishment because of this, there will be many fewer unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and they will not be implicated much.

After the morning of the second day, Ye Guan and Shou Ninghou were taken to the Wenhua Palace. When Ye Guan entered the hall and waited, the emperor was discussing state affairs with several old men in official uniforms.

"Your Majesty, since Your Majesty ascended the throne, the original method of salt introduction, which could only be obtained by merchants from all over the country by donating grain or transporting materials to various border tuns, was completely destroyed because of the collapse of the system of the previous dynasty. Later, the imperial court allowed salt merchants to buy old salt from Changlu Salt Farm and other major salt farms to flush the salt tax burden, and let them buy salt from other salt farms and then sell it. Some merchants buy salt at low prices from the salt-producing areas and extract salt to sell it at high prices in inland cities, and even buy off officials at the top and bottom to monopolize the private salt purchased in the local area, resulting in a mountain of official salt from the salt sellers, but the illegal salt floods most of the state capitals, but the imperial court does not levy salt taxes. In the long run, it will do all kinds of harm to the imperial court and no benefit! "An old man dressed in a scarlet official uniform and embroidered brocade chicken is having an affair with the emperor.