Near noon, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the left of the Imperial History Mansion.

Li Yuntian sat behind the desk and slowly sipped a cup of hot water, posing as a pampered superior, looking like he was waiting for someone.

"Xiaguan Guizhou Provincial Superintendent Yushi Niu Fei visited Lord Yushi in front of the left." Soon after, the door opened, and a sturdy man wearing a seventh-grade official robe walked in quickly, and respectfully bowed to Li Yuntian, who was the one who had been in the courtyard in the morning to scold the royal historians for their noise.

"Niu Yushi, I heard that you arrested the case of Guangxi Provincial Inspector Yu Shi Ma'an, what did he do?" Li Yuntian didn't look up at Niu Fei either, and asked quietly while blowing the hot air in the teacup.

"My lord, after being investigated by the lower officials, Ma An engaged in favoritism and fraud, and privately accepted huge bribes, which is really the giant beetle of the Metropolitan Procuratorate." Niu Fei said in a deep voice when he heard this.

"Huge bribes?" Li Yuntian took a sip of hot water, and then asked lightly, "Is there a specific amount?" ”

"The money and goods are converted into nearly 10,000 taels!" Niu Fei had been prepared and reported a number in an orderly manner, he already knew that Ma An was saved by Li Yuntian from Jinyiwei, so he had already made full preparations.

"Proven guilty?" Only then did Li Yuntian raise his head and look at Niu Fei with a slight frown.

"All the evidence has been seized!" Niu Fei replied in a deep voice.

"It's really sad, I didn't expect Ma Yushi to do such a foolish thing and ruin his good future in vain." Li Yuntian couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, and put the water cup on the desk.

"My lord, now that the evidence of the crime is conclusive, will Ma An be sent to the edict for interrogation?" Seeing that Li Yuntian felt sorry for Ma An, Niu Fei's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked tentatively.

"This is a matter of importance, and caution should be exercised." Li Yuntian frowned and groaned for a while, and said to Niu Fei with a stern expression, "Since this case happened at the beginning of this official's tenure, then this official can't sit idly by, you hand over the evidence of Ma An's case, and this official is ready to try this case in person." ”

"This ......" Niu Fei was slightly stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect Li Yuntian to want to intervene in this matter, and his face suddenly turned embarrassed.

"What? Inconvenience? Li Yuntian stared at Niu Fei and asked expressionlessly.

"My lord misunderstood, how dare the lower officials obstruct the trial of the case, but Lord Zuodu Yushi asked the lower officials to try Ma An's case, if there is no consent from Lord Zuodu Yushi, it is not easy for the lower officials to hand over the case." Niu Fei didn't want to offend Li Yuntian, so he hurriedly explained to him with a smile on his face.

"It's easy to say, the official will enter the palace in the afternoon to meet the emperor, and then the official will talk to Lord Zuodu Yushi." The corners of Li Yuntian's mouth showed a hint of an imperceptible sneer, and he said quietly.

"The subordinate obeys." A look of helplessness flashed on Niu Fei's face when he heard this, and he bowed his hand at Li Yuntian and said.

Different from other imperial histories of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Li Yuntian's entry into the palace to face the saint is like a commonplace, if the Zuo Du Imperial History, who is the Imperial Inspectorate, wants to investigate Ma An's case, Gu Zuo has no reason to refuse, could it be that Li Yuntian, a senior imperial historian, is not as good as Niu Fei, a new imperial historian?

"Come on, tell the sù Ma Yushi, come to the official, and let the room cook a table of meals and send it." After the cow flew away, Li Yuntian pondered for a while, and gave a deep command to the soldiers guarding the door.

Although Li Yuntian is on the board of directors of the Imperial History of Zuo Du in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, after all, he is a dignified town martial artist in Daming and enjoys the etiquette of the Hou Ye, so he has the personal soldiers who accompany the guards, all of whom are brave people in the Xiaowu army.

Li Yuntian still knows Ma An very well, although this person has an arrogant temperament, he is not the kind of greedy person, how can he be greedy for ten thousand taels of property? Otherwise, Gu Zuo would have taken it down a long time ago, and where would it be Niu Fei's turn to check.

Vaguely, Li Yuntian felt that there was something else strange in Ma An's case, so he was ready to call Ma An to test his details.

Knowing that Li Yuntian invited him to lunch, Ma An's heart couldn't help but go up and down, although Li Yuntian has a good reputation in officialdom, but after all, Niu Fei, who checked him, and Li Yuntian belong to the same cabinet camp, and it is really difficult to say what Li Yuntian will do.

"Brother Ma, sit." When Ma An came to Li Yuntian's office, lunch had already been prepared, and Li Yuntian sat at the table with a few drinks and dishes, and smiled and motioned for him to sit down.

"I don't know why the lord called the official to come?" After sitting down opposite Li Yuntian, Ma Anqiang asked calmly, he is really scared now, according to the newly promulgated decree of Emperor Xuande, once his corruption charge is confirmed, he will completely bid farewell to his official career, which is unacceptable to him, after all, isn't it just to get ahead in the officialdom after ten years of hard study?

"Brother Ma, I didn't expect us to have a chance to drink together." Li Yuntian felt that Ma An was a little nervous, and smiled and picked up the wine jug and poured him a glass of wine.

"Xia Guan has offended a lot before, and I hope your lordship will forgive me." Ma An couldn't help but be flattered when he saw this, and quickly got up and held the wine glass in both hands, and said with an embarrassed expression.

Because Cui Hui has always had a deep hostility towards Li Yuntian, he thinks that the reason why Li Yuntian escaped Cui Hui's interrogation back then was because Yang Shiqi and Zhou Zheng secretly helped each other, and never thought that Cui Hui would frame Li Yuntian.

"It's just human nature, and this official won't take it to heart." Li Yuntian smiled and pressed his hand down on Ma An, motioned for him to sit down, then picked up the wine glass in front of him, and said solemnly, "This official knows that you and Cui Hui are good friends, but this official still wants to sue you, this official and Cui Hui are like fire and water, and they will definitely not let him go!" ”

"My lord......" Ma An was suddenly shocked when he heard this, and his face suddenly showed an anxious look, could it be that Li Yuntian wanted to let go of his own affairs and ignore it? Judging from the current form, except for Li Yuntian, there is really no one who can save him, after all, the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are not something that anyone can intervene in, otherwise the more than thirty imperial histories would not have been replaced by Gu Zuo.

"The official has already said that he will give you justice, so he will definitely do what he says." Li Yuntian knew Ma An's worries, stretched out his hand to stop him from speaking, and then raised the wine glass in his hand at Ma An, "This glass of wine was given to you by this official." ”

As he spoke, Li Yuntian drank all the wine in the wine glass and lit up the bottom of the glass at Ma An.

"My lord, what kind of grievances do you have with Cui Hui?" Ma An was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly drank all the wine in the cup, seeing Li Yuntian reaching out to take the wine jug and preparing to pour the wine, he hurriedly took the first step to pick up the wine jug, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously after pouring wine for Li Yuntian, and he didn't know why he suddenly felt that Cui Hui's grievances with Li Yuntian in Jiangxi back then didn't seem to be what he knew, and there seemed to be something else hidden in it.

"Cui Hui not only framed the official, but also almost killed the second lady of the official, which is beyond the scope of the officialdom fight, the official will never allow anyone to hurt the official's family, otherwise he will be ready to bear the anger of the official."

Li Yuntian's eyes flashed coldly, he picked up the wine glass and drank the wine inside again, put the wine glass heavily on the table, and looked at Ma An with a cold expression, "If you want to know what Cui Hui did to the second wife of the official at that time, you can ask the entourage he brought to Jiangxi at that time, their words are more convincing than what the official said!" ”

Ma An clearly felt the strong murderous aura emanating from Li Yuntian's body, especially the coldness in Li Yuntian's eyes, which made him can't help but fight a cold war, never imagined that this matter also involved Li Yuntian's second wife Green Calyx, no one had ever told him that the pregnant Green Calyx had been harassed by Cui Hui.

"Brother Ma, who can you have trouble with lately?" Perhaps sensing that his feelings were a little excited, Li Yuntian's expression then eased and looked at Ma An quietly.

"Although the lower officials have also offended some people in the imperial court, there is only one person who has been bad recently, and that is Niu Fei, the superintendent of Guizhou Dao."

Ma An came back to his senses when he heard this, and after thinking about it carefully, he looked at Li Yuntian, and the corners of his mouth showed a look of disdain, "Niu Fei relied on the support of Lord Yushi of Zuodu, and showed off his power in the Imperial Procuratorate, and the lower officials couldn't get used to his arrogance, so he had several quarrels with him, which made him unable to get off the stage in front of everyone, so he hated the lower officials very much and once threatened to give the lower officials a good look." ”

"The official asked you, are you greedy for a lot of money?" Li Yuntian couldn't help but bow his head slightly when he heard this, he felt strange, why did Niu Fei want to check Ma An It turned out that the two of them had a holiday, and then his face turned pale, and he looked at Ma An with a stern expression, "You have to think about it, and you have to answer this official honestly." ”

"Except for the annual routine Bing Jing and Tan Jing, Xia Guan has not received any other money." Ma An's face couldn't help but show a hint of embarrassment, and after thinking about it, he added, "In addition, because Xia Guan likes calligraphy, he also received a few calligraphy and paintings?" ”

"Calligraphy and painting?" Li Yuntian's brows suddenly frowned slightly when he heard this, the price of this thing can be high or low, and he doesn't know how much the calligraphy and paintings Ma An said are worth.

"My lord, those paintings of Xia Guan are not treasures, and the most expensive ones on the market are only more than a hundred taels of silver." Ma An saw that Li Yuntian's expression had become stern, and knew that Li Yuntian had misunderstood him, so he hurriedly explained, "Although the lower officials love calligraphy, they are self-aware, and they know that pies will not fall from the sky, so those calligraphy and paintings that are too valuable have not been collected by the lower officials. ”

"Where are those calligraphy and paintings now?" Li Yuntian's frowning brows couldn't help but loosen, it seemed that Ma An was acting quite cautiously, so he asked.

"Xia Guan got the news in the morning, Niu Fei asked people to raid Xia Guan's house in the morning, and copied those calligraphy and paintings and other things." Ma An's face showed a depressed look, and at the same time he looked a little angry, "My lord, no matter what you say, Xia Guan is also the imperial history of the imperial court, and he Niu Fei dared to raid Xia Guan's house, which is really hateful." ”

"Master Ma, why is the news that the official heard different from what you said, do you have any property worth as much as 10,000 taels of silver in your home?" Li Yuntian saw Ma An's angry look, so he asked quietly, his eyes fixed on Ma An's eyes to see if he was lying.