Jia Huan, the funder of the teahouse incident and a political official, and several family members in Beijing were taken to Neichang Prison for interrogation, and he himself refused to admit that he had anything to do with the Jia family and his father-in-law, the Cui family; But his son didn't know what was going on, and drew a charge on the confession involving the Cui family. Yuwen filial piety got the emperor's dictation, and he had no scruples, and directly arrested Langzhong Cui Mingshan's family.

Fortunately, Yuwen Xiao's handling of affairs is quite sophisticated, and the Jia family only arrested the Jia Huan family concerned, and did not move others, especially Jia Yingfu, the Qintian supervisor. Jia Yingfu is not a casual person, as early as when Princess Taiping's brother Li Dan was still the emperor, he took refuge in the Taiping Party. At that time, there happened to be a comet, which was a rare omen, commonly known as the broom star, and Jia Yingfu, as the Qin Tianjian, hinted in front of the emperor that the crown prince wanted to replace him, intending to help Princess Taiping deal with Li Longji. Although this matter was self-defeating in the end, Jia Yingfu had no credit and hard work, and it was absolutely correct to stand in line. Now that Princess Taiping is in power, she will definitely not take these old people lightly.

Jia Yingfu is also interested, and now he may not be able to get out of it himself, so he didn't think about lobbying to help Jia Huan's family. Even the people who are big officials in their own clan stand by and watch, let alone others, and it is wise to quickly hide out of the sight of the superiors.

A loyal old servant of Jia Huan's family finally saw Jia Yingfu, and cried when he saw him, kowtowing vigorously and begging. Then his wife reminded him that he could go to Princess Taiping to try, but he flatly refused. In the past two years, Jia Yingfu can see that this kind of thing that Xue Chongxun wants to do in person, Princess Taiping will not sing against her son lightly. Jia Yingfu didn't want to implicate himself, but scolded Jia Huan in front of his family: "I don't know the current affairs, he is still messing with the Cui family in Huazhou, who can blame him?" ”

So far, the situation of Cui Langzhong and Jia Huan has become very bad. The scholars formed an alliance with each other through guò marriage, but it was not a complete strategy, otherwise Wu Zetian would not have died so many people.

This case is a Qin case, and the people who tried it were the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, the Imperial History Zhongcheng, and the Neichang Order, and there was no concept of the people in the officialdom of the Neichang Order, but the Prime Minister and the Imperial History Zhongcheng made people feel full of weight, so the case became strict. Xiao Zhizhong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, really came from the officialdom by strength, although Li Mi was unusually promoted, he was also a bureaucrat who really took the career path, they were more obedient to the rules, and they felt that this matter was very tricky. Slandering the emperor is really a big or small thing, Xiao Zhizhong even participated in the formulation of the national policy of "prudently using criminal laws and winning people's hearts".

Because Yu Wenxiao was familiar with the eunuch Zhang Xiao and other people in the inner court, he knew the inside story, and he had always held a severe punishment opinion on the internal negotiation of the situation: "Today, I am very angry, and I personally spread the word of mouth, 'Arrest Jia Huan and his mastermind behind the scenes overnight and take him to prison!'" If you get through the tricks, won't you live up to the trust of today? ”

The internal factory order, this official position was not at all before, and it could not be put on the table at all. But Xiao Zhizhong was very polite to Yuwenxiao, not for anything else, just because his daughter was one of the three ladies. Xiao Zhizhong asked: "Then according to Yuwen Gong's opinion, how should I deal with it?" ”

Yu Wenxiao's usually simple old peasant face suddenly flashed a trace of ruthlessness, and he raised a palm and slashed down to make a motion: "If you don't kill people, it will be difficult to eliminate the anger in your heart today." Jia Huan and Cui Mingshan, the main messenger behind the scenes, were convicted of plotting against each other, and they were killed all over the house to prevent future troubles! ”

Xiao Zhizhong and Li Mi immediately looked at each other, Xiao Zhizhong frowned and said, "Is this too heavy?" ”

"We don't have to worry about whether it's heavy or not, anyway, after the review, we have to go to the chapter for today's royal approval, if it is approved today, it will prove that it is not heavy at all." Yu Wenxiao said calmly, "If the music is dismissed today, it will be heavy." On the other hand, what does it matter? We are angry with what we are angry with, and we will never blame us today. ”

In fact, Yu Wenxiao has no prejudice against Jia Huan, but he secretly wants to put Cui Langzhong to death. That Langzhong Cui Mingshan and Yu Wenxiao basically have no contact, how did they get a grudge? In fact, the Cui family has never done anything to offend Yuwenxiao, just because the incident of Cui Riyong's extermination was caused by Yuwenxiao urging the military general Yin Ci to do it, if it wasn't for Yuwenxiao's presence, maybe Yin Ci wouldn't have been able to kill hundreds of people in the family. In the end, this matter was counted on Xue Chongxun's head, because he was the boss of the entire Eastern Expeditionary Army at that time; But Yu Wenxiao thinks that it is possible that the ins and outs of this have leaked out, and the Cui family will hate him.

Who is likely to think about himself, first strike at the place of death and then quickly, it is the principle of doing things that Yu Wenxiao has always believed in, and it is also the ruthlessness that he has experienced in the underworld of Jiangyang. So it was obvious that he was sorry for the Cui family, not only did he not feel guilty, but regarded him as a mortal enemy.

Yuwen Xiao said again: "People like Cui Mingshan should have been purged from the government a long time ago, I don't know why they were still officials in Shangshu Province before, don't you understand the holy will?" Cui Riyong was originally a party of Li Longji, and later contacted Li Longji to rebel and want to make a comeback, so he was wiped out. Cui Mingshan is the Cui clan in Huazhou, you think about it like this, what should you do? ”

Xiao Zhizhong's expression was solemn, and he sighed and said, "Having said that, it's just that it's not easy to explain in front of colleagues. The princes of the political hall have long reached a consensus that it is advisable to apply benevolent government to restore vitality, and now we are in order to meet the present, for such a little thing, we will destroy the whole door, how is it not like benevolent government, it is contrary to the national policy. ”

At this time, Li Mi proposed a proposal: "I thought of a way. After Du Gong (Du Xian) captured Yingzhou, he wanted to govern the area, but most of the Hu people were difficult to educate, and a large number of Han people needed to be migrated. However, in the war-torn land outside Yingzhou Pass, there was not much cultivated land, and the Han people were extremely reluctant to migrate to the northeast. Now Jia and Cui's two families sit in the law, why not kill one or two of the main culprits, and exile all the others to Yingzhou: first, it is beneficial to the country, and it is also a support for Du Gong; Second, exile is more moderate than killing, and the impression of the government and the opposition is not so brutal. What do you think of the win-win-win-win-win thing? ”

Xiao Zhizhong saw that Yu Wenxiao was thinking about getting blood on his hands, Li Mi's idea was undoubtedly a compromise and compromise solution, he thought about it and reluctantly agreed: "If Yuwen Gong also agrees, let's do it when we try it, and then write a chapter and hand it over to see the situation." ”

Yuwen Xiaoyi thought that Yingzhou was thousands of miles away from Beijing, and sending people away could also be regarded as a good thing, after all, Xiao Zhizhong and Li Mi both agreed, and he was not easy to fight alone.

The three of them discussed it properly and held a trial in the lobby of the Criminal Department, where there are few cases to be tried, and this kind of Qin case is handled here. It is the government and county yamen that hear ordinary cases, and the criminal department only reviews and supervises such government affairs, and does not directly handle them.

This saved a lot of trouble, because there may be people watching and commenting on the justice of the case in the prefecture and county, but no one can go to the yamen of the six central departments to join in the fun. The three presiding judges decided to kill two people and exile the entire family, which is really a very heavy criminal law, and the punishment is heavier than the crime of homicide, unless the crime of rebellion against An Shang cannot be justified. So at the beginning, the people on the public case drank a great meal, and put hats such as "ill-intentioned and conspiracy to rebel" as a hood.

As for whether the offender admits it or not, it is not the most important thing at all, and he can be convicted if he does not admit it. This matter involves the political regime and society, so naturally it cannot be compared with civil cases, and there is no need to abide by the rules, as long as there is a suspicion of rebellion, there is no need for too much corroboration.

The presiding judges found some "physical evidence" and certification, and after some inference, the verdict was made, and the main culprit was detained. Jia Huan and the others shouted that they had been wronged and refused to admit it, and then withdrew from the court to suspend the trial, and only one night later, when the trial restarted the next day, the dying prisoner happily drew a confession.

So the case file and the chapter soon reached the Inner Dynasty. The six official mansions of the Southern Ya were originally in the south of Daming Palace, and it did not take time to run inside and outside, and the speed was naturally very fast.

Xue Chongxun saw a file detailing the ins and outs of the case in Zichen Palace, and he didn't even read the many words, only looking at the trial results on the chapter. When he saw that hundreds of people were exiled to Yingzhou, he naturally remembered the joints of "assimilating" Yingzhou, and after a little thought, he was very satisfied with this treatment, and immediately threw it to his sister Princess Hezhong and said: "This piece is accurate, and the family members of Wang Xianzhi, the long history who was escorted back from Youzhou, will also be pardoned for capital crimes, and exiled to Yingzhou together with the whole clan in Youzhou." ”

The princess of the river said: "Brother, I remember that last time there was a chapter about Zhao Qu, the governor of Youzhou, I heard that Zhao Qu and Wang Xianzhi are the same crimes, and now that my brother has exiled the people of the Wang family, how to deal with the Zhao family, will it make people feel unfair?" ”

Xue Chongxun recalled for a while, and said after a moment: "Zhao Qu is different from Wang Xianzhi, besides, he has committed suicide to apologize, so he doesn't need to implicate his family anymore, just be demoted to a concubine." ”

He also remembered the incident when the Huaqing Palace encountered assassins, and the generals on duty were derelict in their duties but atonement for their crimes, so Princess Taiping pardoned his family. Xue Chongxun also dealt with Zhao Qu based on this matter, and it can be regarded as maintaining continuity and tacit understanding with Princess Taiping in governance. The tacit understanding between mother and son is the slow fusion of a look, a movement, and similarities in dealing with things in daily life. G