Speaking of Jinyiwei, we can't fail to mention Zhu Yuanzhang, the most politically wise cloth emperor in Chinese history, yes, Zhu Yuanzhang is definitely not the emperor with the most prosperous martial arts in Chinese history, but he is definitely the most politically wise emperor.

Xiang Zhuang is one of Zhu Yuanzhang's die-hard fans, and Zhu Yuanzhang's political wisdom can be summed up in two words - checks and balances.

First abolished the Zhongshu Province and the prime minister system, and then engaged in a cabinet system, from then on, the prime minister with monopoly power became a scholar of the palace, in fact, he was the emperor's secretary, as a secretary without the support of the emperor, they could not do anything, even a eunuch could ride on their heads and, which greatly consolidated the imperial power.

Then the Imperial Procuratorate was reformed, so that it was directly responsible to the emperor, and the way of checks and balances was adopted, giving the imperial historians the power to say anything, raise any opinions, and report any big officials and even princes and nobles, thus turning the more than 100 imperial historians of the Imperial Procuratorate into the eyes and ears of the emperor, which greatly curbed it.

The last is Jinyiwei, through the edict to deal with some things that cannot be done through normal judicial channels, for example, Prime Minister Hu Weiyong's plot against the case, it is simply a matter of nothingness, the truth is that the Huaixi landlord group headed by Hu Weiyong relied on the merits of the dragon and tried to divide the power from the emperor, and Zhu Yuanzhang did it out of the consideration of consolidating the imperial power.

However, this kind of thing is originally a fictitious matter, and if it is investigated through normal judicial channels, there will definitely be no results. Therefore, with Jinyiwei, Jinyiwei was given the right to set up prisons.

Xiang Zhuang admires the cabinet system and the imperial history official system with a small system, but now is obviously not the time, at this stage, Xiang Zhuang also needs to order Yin Xiang and Taiwei Xiang Tuo to help him deal with military and political affairs, otherwise he has to do everything himself, and Xiang Zhuang must be tired to death. He is not a workaholic like Zhu Yuanzhang who reads the recitals for 16 hours a day.

As for the official system of the imperial historian who is small and large, it is even more undesirable now, and it is really necessary to implement this system. The entire court of the Chu State will be in a mess in an instant, from Ling Yin and Taiwei to the county order and pavilion chief. I'm afraid that I won't say anything, I won't dare to do anything, and the generals who are leading the troops abroad are afraid that they will also have to hang up the seal and return to Beijing.

However, it is possible to follow the example of Jinyiwei to give Ebony Cliff the power to set up an edict.

At that moment, Xiang Zhuang instructed Qu Bucai and said: "Old Qu, the matter of dividing the seal will be handed over to you to investigate, you should know how to do it, right?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister knows how to do it." Qu Bucai's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then he said, "However, it is the duty of the Tingwei Mansion to investigate and deal with officials. If it is operated by Ebony Cliff, it seems that it is not in line with the system? ”

"What is the system? The life of the widow is the system! Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said in a deep voice, "The widow will now give the power of the Ebony Cliff to investigate and deal with officials, up to the national duke." Down to Lishu, the ebony cliff can be checked! ”

"Whoa!" Qu Bucai responded suddenly, and turned around in a hurry.

Qu Bucai couldn't help but be excited, because he knew that the era of belonging to Ebony Cliff had begun, and at this moment, Qu Bucai had clearly seen it. Officials from the DPRK and China are shivering in the shadow of the Ebony Cliff......

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In the middle of the night, Uncle Sun Ping of Neishi was suddenly awakened by a loud noise, and when he hurriedly got up, he saw the old housekeeper hurriedly moving the door in, gasping and reporting: "The master of the house is not good, a large group of armor soldiers have just suddenly broken in, and the doormen and family members of the house tried to stop them, but they were all cut down." ”

"What?" Shusun Ping was stunned and said, "Gyeonggi Heavy Land, who dares to be so rampant? ”

Before the words fell, the door was kicked down from the outside, and then a large group of Xuanyi armor soldiers with torches swarmed in, and the bright horizontal knives reflected a dazzling cold under the light of the fire, which made Uncle Sun Ping's eyes dazzled, and when he finally saw the situation in the house clearly, he saw that several cold horizontal knives had been put on his neck. …,

"What do you want to do?" Uncle Pingqiang calmed himself down and asked sharply, "What do you want to do?" Don't you know that in Gyeonggi Chongdi, you are complicit in using swords and soldiers? Also, do you know who this official is? Let me tell you, this official is the chief of the internal history, but all Gyeonggi affairs are under the jurisdiction of this official......"

"Uncle Sun Ping, Lao Tzu knows that you are an internal history." As soon as the words fell, a Xuanyi Colonel had already walked in.

Uncle Sun looked at it calmly, but his face was tight, and he sneered and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"Who Lao Tzu is, you will naturally know when you get to the ground." Colonel Xuanyi smiled sadly, then waved his hand at the left and right armor soldiers, and said fiercely, "Take it away!" ”

"Let's go!" The two Xuanyi armor soldiers twisted Shusun Ping's arm back, pushed it up and left.

As soon as he got out of the room, Shusun Ping was surprised to find that the old father who had been idle at home was actually escorted out, although Shusun Guan was already a lot of age, but those Xuanyi armor soldiers were like wolves and tigers, and they didn't care about the old man at all, Shusun Guan just walked slower, and he was whipped on his back, and he was so painful that he bared his teeth.

Seeing that his old father was also executed, Uncle Sunping's face turned white all of a sudden, and he knew that this must be secretly colluding with officials from Gyeonggi and Wu County to seek to prevent the relocation of the capital!

Uncle Sun Guan straightened up the old hunchback, and said loudly: "Don't panic, my son, the sky can't fall!" ”

Looking at Uncle Sun Guan, who gritted his teeth and stiffened his teeth, the corners of Xuanyi Xiaoxiao's mouth suddenly bloomed with a cruel smile, and he couldn't see that the old thing's mouth was quite hard, but when it came to the ground, I wanted to see if your mouth was still so hard?

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That night, in addition to Shusun Guan and Shusun Ping, there were 36 other officials who were arrested at the same time!

When the news spread, the officials in Beijing were all in an uproar, and they all asked why the Tingwei Mansion ignored the law and arrested people for no reason? But he was confused about the Tingwei Xiang period, and summoned the subordinate officials of the bureau to ask, the Tingwei Mansion did not arrest anyone last night, and the officials who were responsible for the accountability were suddenly stunned, except for the Tingwei Bureau, there seems to be no other government office in Beijing to take charge of the criminal name, right?

The ministers of civil and military affairs, who knew a little about the inside story, went straight to the palace and urgently met Xiang Zhuang.

"King, Ebony Cliff dispatched armor soldiers without authorization last night, and arrested more than 30 officials in one go, and even the uncle and grandson who were idle at home were also arrested!" Xiang He was indignant and said angrily, "Qu Bucai is so perverse, it is simply a conspiracy, and the minister asks him to be sent to the Imperial Lieutenant's Office for strict interrogation." ”

Xiang Tuo also echoed: "That's it, Ebony Cliff is too messy." ”

Xiang Zhuang didn't say anything, just swept towards Baili Xian lightly with his eyes.

Bai Lixian understood, knelt down from the seat and got up at the moment, and said to Xiang He and Xiang Tuo: "Ling Yin and Taiwei don't know that there is a reason for the arrest of people at night in the ebony cliff. ”

Bai Lixian easily guessed Xiang Zhuang's thoughts, Xiang Zhuang was unwilling to divide the feud, and it was impossible to compromise with the officials of Gyeonggi and Wu County and give up moving the capital, so it was inevitable to remediate the officials of the two places with a heavy hand, but the officials of the two places did not make a mistake, and it was obviously not possible to hand it over to the Imperial Governor's Office, so it was logical to hand it over to Ebony Cliff to deal with it.

"What happened?" Xiang He looked at Xiang Zhuang and said suspiciously, "What is the reason?" ”

Bai Lixian's thoughts changed sharply, and he blurted out: "Because they secretly collaborate with the enemy country and intend to commit treason!" ”

Xiang Zhuang secretly cheered, Baili Xian deserves the name of quick wisdom, this excuse is really level.

"What, treason?" Xiang He was stunned when he heard this, so he immediately said, "Even so, this matter should also be handed over to the Imperial Lieutenant Office for review, Ebony Cliff does not have the right to punish names, so how can he be qualified to take people casually?" ”

"The matter of treason is very involved, and the Imperial Lieutenant Office cannot handle it." Xiang Zhuang said lightly, "Ziyi, Ziyan and Ziliang, you happen to be here today, and the widow will announce a decree to you, starting from the uncle and grandson case, Ebony Cliff will be reorganized into Xuanyi Guard, in addition to spying on the news of the enemy country, he is also responsible for thoroughly investigating the big and important cases that the Tingwei Office cannot investigate." ”…,

Xiang He and Xiang Tuo were dumbfounded, no matter how stupid the two of them were, they could guess Xiang Zhuang's intentions at this time, the king's move was clearly to bypass the Imperial Lieutenant Bureau, and use this newly established Xuanyi Lieutenant to eradicate the court officials he wanted to get rid of, but he couldn't find any good excuse for a while, such as more than 30 officials such as Shusun Guan, Sun Shuping and his son.

Moreover, the king also said just now that this is to announce the decision and not to ask them for advice, in other words, the reason why Ebony Cliff wants to arrest people is because the king wants to eradicate the uncle, grandson, father and son and other officials, as for the reason, most of it is also because of the discussion of separation? As for secretly collaborating with the enemy country and attempting treason, it is just a pretext.

Xiang He and Xiang Tuo smiled bitterly, they knew that after the three guards of Tiger Ben, Heavenly Wolf, and Xiao Cai, there would be one more Xuanyi guard in the Great Chu Forbidden Palace, and the extra Xuanyi guard would become a sharp sword hanging over the heads of court officials that could be cut down at any time, unlike the other three guards, who were just responsible for guarding the safety of the royal family.

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Almost at the same time, Qu Bucai was interrogating his uncle and grandson in the newly established edict.

Uncle Sun Guan calmly asked Qu Bucai: "Qu Bucai, what is the old man's crime?" ”

Qu Bucai shook his head and replied equally calmly: "The old lady is actually not guilty. ”

Uncle Sun Guan was slightly stunned, Qu Bucai directly admitted that he was not guilty, but it was a little unexpected, and he paused at the moment, and asked sharply: "Since the old man is not guilty, why do you detain the old man?" Ebony Cliff is so perverse, isn't it afraid of arousing public anger? I'm Da Chu, isn't there no national law? ”

Qu Bucai asked indifferently: "Dare to ask the old lady, what is the law of the country?" ”

Uncle Sun Guan replied suddenly: "The so-called national law naturally refers to the national law. ”

Qu Bucai shook his hand and said lightly: "Old lady, the king's order is the system, the king's order is the edict, the so-called national law, isn't it all established by the king?" So I want to say that Chu has the law of the country, but above the law of the country there is the law of the king! (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )