Chapter 379: Jury
Yang Shiqi was not in Xianxian County, and due to the large number of people in Emperor Xuande's entourage, most of the army could only camp outside the city.
In order to prevent the soldiers from harassing the people of the surrounding villages and towns, Emperor Xuande ordered Yang Shiqi to inspect the military camp outside the city, and Zhang Hao, Li Yuntian and others accompanied him around to check.
Emperor Xuande has ordered the Xiaowu army to garrison in the camp on the outskirts of Jiangwutang, as the commander of the Xiaowu army, Li Yuntian naturally has to eat and live with the Xiaowu army on the way back to Beijing, and in the eyes of Zhang Hao and other nobles, he has now completely become a qualified general.
After receiving Emperor Xuande's edict to summon him back to the city to discuss matters, Yang Shiqi immediately rushed back, and at this moment Li Yuntian didn't know that something big had happened to Emperor Xuande.
It wasn't until the next day that Li Yuntian heard that Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong had a big quarrel in private over King Zhao's affairs, and they went to Emperor Xuande.
Yang Rong believes that although King Zhao did not raise troops to rebel this time, it was because he was deterred by Liu Fang and Niu Shihao, and he supported his troops in Zhangde and respected himself, and he must have colluded with King Han in private, as long as he handed it over to Jinyiwei for investigation.
Yang Shiqi thinks that King Zhao has not rebelled, then the court division is unknown, it is difficult to convince the public, and the matter of King Zhao must be considered in the long run, how can it be handed over to the group of tigers and wolves of Jinyiwei for trial, even if there is nothing to do, it can be done.
Moreover, Emperor Yongle only has three heirs, and now that the first emperor has died, the king of Han has committed a mortal crime, if he arrests King Zhao so unexplained, how will the people of the world look at the court, and what face will he have to see Emperor Yongle in the future?
Later, because Yang Shiqi won Yang Pu's support, and Qian Yi and Xia Yuanji were also persuaded by Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong had no choice but to give up his ideas, so that the matter was over, and King Zhao escaped this catastrophe without danger.
In the face of this conflict between Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong, Li Yuntian felt quite helpless in his heart, as a close minister of Emperor Xuande, once Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong's opinions differed, it would definitely affect Emperor Xuande.
Although Li Yuntian did not want to see this situation happen, it was inevitable, as Emperor Xuande lifted the hidden danger of the Han and Zhao kings, and with the increasing power of the cabinet, the struggle within the court was bound to become more intense and complicated.
When Emperor Xuande returned to the capital, it was already the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, and the capital was already full of New Year's flavor, full of joy, and every household was decorated with lights, ready to welcome the arrival of the New Year.
Soon after Emperor Xuande returned to Beijing, good news came from Zhending Mansion and Juyong Pass, after receiving a letter from the King of Han, Lu Zhongqian and Bai Dexiang gloomily ordered their rebels to surrender to the Ming army, and the two knew that they were guilty, so they committed suicide.
The army of the Daning Dusi who had been gathered in Shanhaiguan then also returned to the station, and the commander of the Daning Dudu did not send troops to attack Shanhaiguan, so he escaped by luck and was transferred to the south by Emperor Xuande.
Niu Shihao returned to the capital on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, and with the suicide of Lu Zhongqian and Bai Dexiang, King Zhao was already difficult to become a climate, so he received the imperial order of Emperor Xuande to withdraw his troops, and hurried back to the capital in advance for the New Year.
In order to settle the King of Han, Emperor Xuande built a high-walled compound in the Xihua Gate, which was used to imprison the King of Han and his family, and named it "Xiaoyao City", some people say that it is mocking the King of Han, and some people say that it means that the King of Han enjoys his old age here and spends the rest of his life in peace.
Since then, the king of Han has been living in the city for the rest of his life, raising flowers and walking birds in his spare time, although he can't take a step out of the courtyard gate, but he also ends up at ease.
It was not until after the death of the King of Han that the family of the King of Han was able to move out of Xiaoyao City, but they were no longer the once prominent royal family of the Ming Dynasty, and became ordinary people, who were placed in the towns in the south to live, and they could be regarded as having a good death.
As for the people who followed the Han king's rebellion, then there was no such good luck, Zhu Heng, Wang Bin, Sheng Jian and Luo Shan and other officials appointed by the Han king appointed by the five prefectures and six departments, as well as the officials who raised troops to respond to the Han king and offered the city to join the Han king, were all regarded as the main culprits of the rebellion and rebellion, and were executed after interrogation, and their families were also implicated.
According to later statistics, due to the involvement of the rebellion of the Han king, more than 2,000 people were killed and more than 7,000 people were exiled.
It stands to reason that this kind of rebellion is a big crime for the nine clans, but Emperor Xuande issued a decree to exempt the relatives of those officials from suffering.
Among them, Zhu Heng persuaded the king of Han to surrender at the last moment, so his family's crime was reduced by one degree, and he was able to save his life and be sent to the frontier.
Wang Bin also supported the surrender of the Han king, so he was able to leave an heir to inherit the incense.
Originally, the guilt of the two should be copied and beheaded, but Li Yuntian opened his mouth to affirm the merits of the two, so that the families of the two received corresponding leniency.
Among all the officials who followed the rebellion of the Han king, Jin Rong was undoubtedly the luckiest one, because he later followed Li Yuntian to make counterinsurgency exploits in Qingzhou, Emperor Xuande pardoned him for his crimes and let him return to his hometown to enjoy his old age in peace.
Otherwise, Jin Rong will end up with the same as the commander of Shanxi, the deputy general of Tianjin Wei and others.
In addition, there were many officials in the court who were implicated in the case of the Han Wang, such as Wu Ning Hou Feng Chang'an, An Wu Hou Gong Kui, Wu Tong, the right attendant of the Military Department, and Qin Yongxiang, the left attendant of the Criminal Department, all of whom were found to have secretly colluded with the Han King in private.
Judging from the fact that the Han King sent people to infiltrate the capital to secretly contact Zhang Fu before the rebellion, the Han King must have other internal responses in the capital, but the Han King had already burned the letters exchanged with those internal responses, so the chief judge and the jurors responsible for interrogating the Han Wang's rebellion did not find any evidence that Feng Changan and others responded to the Han Wang's rebellion.
Therefore, Feng Changan and others were sent to the frontier on the charge of secretly colluding with the vassal king and plotting against him, so as to set an example, which can be regarded as Emperor Xuande's opening up.
With the resignation of Feng Changan and his officials, the forces of the DPRK and China have joined forces to fight openly and secretly for the vacated positions they have vacated.
Due to the complexity of the Han Wang case and the large number of people involved, the trial of Jin Chun, Zhou Zheng and others took more than half a year to conclude.
In order to protect themselves, the officials involved in the case intentionally or compulsorily reported and exposed some colleagues in the DPRK and China, resulting in those colleagues being arrested and imprisoned and severely tortured.
It is worth mentioning that the chief trial and jury will only be tried when trying extremely important criminals like Zhu Heng and Wang Bin, and in normal times, they will try the criminals in teams of two, and there are a number of officials who do specific things under them.
The reason for this is that, firstly, Jin Chun, Zhou Zheng and others have their own positions, and it is impossible to try the case all day long, and secondly, there are many people involved in this case, and if the trial is not separated, it will not be able to be tried in a few years, which is why Emperor Xuande appointed a presiding judge and nine jurors at once.
Zhou Zheng and Li Yuntian are Weng sons-in-law, and it is naturally impossible for the two to be separated together in order to avoid suspicion, so Li Yuntian and King Fu will try the case together.
King Fu is old and has limited energy, and he needs the assistance of a young official like Li Yuntian who is proficient in adjudicating cases, which makes the cases of the two people in this group are all tried by Li Yuntian, and King Fu is just an empty name.
Among the five trial teams, Li Yuntian and Fu Wang's group not only handled the case with the highest efficiency, but also proved the crime conclusively, and adopted a policy of leniency, which convinced the criminals one by one.
What is particularly important is that Li Yuntian and Fuwang's group did not take the opportunity to implicate innocent people and dump their colleagues in the court, but found out that some innocent colleagues were framed.
Therefore, at the end of the trial of the case, the relatives of the officials who were innocently implicated in the rebellion of King Han in other trial teams found that Li Yuntian and King Fu had decided the case impartially, so in order to seek justice and innocence, they went to Li Yuntian and King Fu one after another to avenge their grievances and ask them to make decisions for them.
Although Li Yuntian and Fu Wang were not in charge of the other four trial panels, they were jurors and could therefore intervene in all cases involving the rebellion of the Han king.
This created a problem for Li Yuntian and King Fu, and also made the two very passive, although the two of them could manage the cases of those who were innocently implicated, but in this way, they undoubtedly broke the rules of officialdom and offended Jin Chun and others who were tried together.
Therefore, Li Yuntian and King Fu did not accept the unjust cases of those who came to seek justice, but invited the matter to Emperor Xuande, who then issued a special decree to let the chief trial and jury in charge of the rebellion of the Han King be stopped in moderation during the trial, not to involve the innocent, and to settle the case as much as possible.
It was precisely because of this decree of Emperor Xuande that the rebellion of the Han Dynasty was brought to an end, and those innocent people who were falsely accused were able to escape.
After experiencing the rebellion of King Han, Li Yuntian's reputation for being honest and honest and impartial in judging cases spread in the officialdom, and his prestige grew.
It's really a bit ridiculous to say, although none of those officials in the Ming officialdom want Li Yuntian to inspect their territory as an imperial historian, but once something happens to them, they all hope that Li Yuntian can preside over the cases they are involved in.
Since Li Yuntian returned to the capital, the Li Mansion has been full of guests.
The officials and businessmen in the capital came to visit, and everyone knew that Li Yuntian had made great contributions to quelling the rebellion of the Han King this time, and he would definitely be rewarded by Emperor Xuande, and nine times out of ten he would be knighted, and he would become the new magnate of the Ming Dynasty.
Li Yuntian wanted to close the door to thank the guests, but the origin of some guests was too big, he was busy working outside all day long, but he was out of sight and out of mind, but Zhou Yuting at home was not good at turning those people away, so he could only entertain them with spirit.
After all, this kind of thing will become the norm in the Li Mansion in the future, and dodging is not the way.
Not only is it difficult for high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the capital to see Li Yuntian in the Li Mansion, but even it is not easy for Zhou Yuting to see Li Yuntian, Li Yuntian not only has to judge the case of the rebellion of King Han, but also has to deal with the matter of the martial arts.
In particular, the placement of the Xiaowu army in the camp on the outskirts of Jiangwutang and the bereavement of those who died in the war and those who were disabled made Li Yuntian so busy that he often did not even have a home, and even during the Chinese New Year, he only stayed at home for three days, and on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, he went to the camp on the outskirts of Jiangwutang Beijing.
In addition to the wounded who were recuperating in Cangzhou, nearly 10,000 people from the Xiaowu Army lived in the camp on the outskirts of Jiangwutang and encountered a lot of trouble in food, clothing, housing and transportation.
In order to enable the people of the Xiaowu Army to settle down as much as possible, Li Yuntian personally solved the problems they were facing, and the Xiaowu Army was not only the foundation of his foothold in the Ming military circles, but also the foundation for the future establishment of the new army.
Moreover, Emperor Xuande had high hopes for the Xiaowu army, and he was originally worried that Li Yuntian would not be able to fight the nobles of the imperial court and would not be able to implement the new military system.
But since the battle of Heiniu Town, Emperor Xuande has been full of confidence in Li Yuntian, and he hopes that there will be more brave men like Xiaowu Army who can fight well.!^!
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