Chapter Seventy-Two: Each Harbors a Ghost
At this time, Yan Maoqing, the young secretary of Dali Temple, also spoke:
"Yes, but Mao Qing thinks that this time it is more necessary to get rid of Zheng Xiao and Zhou Yan, the two thieves of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The two of them never took their father-in-law and eldest brother seriously, the former Jingcha, and degraded more than 30 people in the imperial history, most of whom were henchmen of these two. The two of them held a grudge because of this, and there were also risks to take risks. As long as we get rid of them, it will not be difficult for us to use the Metropolitan Procuratorate. At that time, we will use the power of science and technology to control the two parts in charge of Wu and Fang, and we can play all the work with one blow. β
Yan Maoqing, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, is also a well-known lackey of Yan Mansion, and Zhao Wenhua is both Yan Song's dry child and a duet. It's just that he is about to move to the Metropolitan Procuratorate recently, and the two chief officials Zheng and Zhou who he wants to get rid of the most are so that he can show his strength more easily. As for Wu Shan and Fang Dut, in his opinion, they are secondary.
Listening to the positive words of the two lackeys, Yan Shifan nodded and smiled. Zhao and Yan are very clear about their respective little Jiujiu. Although Zhao Wenhua is nominally his boss, he actually has to listen to his own orders, and he is actually very awkward in his heart, so he hopes to move to the Ministry of Rites or the Ministry of Households, and naturally hopes to get rid of Wu Shan and Fang Dut, while Yan Maoqing is bent on becoming the imperial history of the capital, and then release Lu to be the governor or transfer the book again. naturally wanted to get rid of Zhou and Zheng Erdutang, who didn't like him.
No matter what the two of them have planned, relatively speaking, Zhao Wenhua's words are more about Yan Shifan's own thoughts.
Therefore, he narrowed his eyes and nodded: "Okay, what the two of you said is good, but now that the prisoner has been escorted to the edict of Jinyiwei, how to force the confession is still to bother Lu Dudu." According to my thoughts, the culprits behind the scenes of the assassination of the father of the family this time are difficult to escape from Wu Shan, Fang Yu, Zhou Yan, and Zheng Xiao. If these assassins were to be scrutinized, they would be able to find out. I wonder what Lu Dudu thinks? β
The so-called asking for clues is nothing more than the meaning of coercing confessions. The eighteen sets of torture of the brocade guard, ordinary people listen to it, their scalps are numb, and their legs are weak, let alone being subjected to it? is the tough guy who beats steel and iron, and when he can't survive or die, whether he can grit his teeth or not is also in the middle of it. What's more, there are many people in Qingyun's class who have been captured this time, as long as there are one or two worse ones in the middle, Lu Bing wants to ask for a confession, it is really effortless.
Even if you really can't ask for a valid confession, you can still fabricate a confession and force these ultimate shameless tools. Although the means are made in the next point, it also depends on what occasions they are used.
Yan Shifan said this, staring at Lu Bing with one eye. Although the tone is inquiry, how can there be any hint of inquiry? Lu Bing did not speak, but lightly buckled the armrest of the big chair with his hand, and said lightly:
"Little Pavilion Elder, this matter only falls on these four people? I don't know what Motosuke means? β
Yan Song twisted his beard lightly, and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard a sentence: "Grandfather, father and slow." But it was Yan Hong who suddenly jumped out at this time. Yan Song and Yan Shifan are both the same.
"Nonsense, where is there a place for you to talk?" Yan Shifan habitually reprimanded.
Lu Bing smiled and said, "Why is the little pavilion old so angry? Today's matter, Yan Shi's nephew's meritorious service is not small. The passage I just said is also reasonable and very appropriate. In Lu's opinion, let him talk about it. β
Yan Song also nodded: "East Building, let's let Hong'er talk about it." Hengzhu is all his own people here, and it doesn't matter if it's right or wrong. β
Yan Shifan saw that Lu Bing and his father had spoken, so he had to change his temper: "Then Hong'er, you can speak quickly." However, don't talk nonsense, otherwise you will learn from your second brother and go back to the back house for me to sober up. β
"Thank you, grandfather, father. Thank you Lu Shibo. Yan Hong saluted, coughed lightly, prepared his breath, and prepared to speak.
Yan Hong had been listening to his father and the two notorious goduncles just now, but he felt like 10,000 grass and mud horses whizzing by.
He is not that kind of idiot, naΓ―ve enough to think that in ancient times, everyone should be equal and impartial, and everything should be based on facts and the law as the criterion. As for setting the tone before trial, extorting confessions by torture, and even framing him, he does not reject it, as long as he can keep his family, he doesn't even care about doing it himself.
In particular, this is not an ordinary criminal case or a civil lawsuit, but a political struggle. When the political struggle is serious, any indiscriminate trick can be used, and a little framing and accusation is a chicken feather.
However, today's incident alone made him feel that it shouldn't be like this.
Yan Shifan is extremely smart, Yan Song has been in the sea for many years, Zhao Wenhua and others have been rolling in the Ming officialdom for many years.
But Yan Hong has one more advantage than them, that is, this unlearned traverser, although he can't remember the details of history, he knows that the Yan family will be completely destroyed in a few years.
Because of this, his sense of crisis is much stronger than these people. And this sense of crisis, coupled with the kind of sincere fear and fear he lived in the insurance sales industry before the crossing, and the specious skin he learned in middle school history and politics classes, made him look at problems slightly differently from these proud fathers. And this difference just makes up for the lack of vision of Yan Shifan and even the entire Yan Mansion and Yan family bosses.
The Yan family has been too smooth over the years. Since killing Xia Yan, no enemy can stand in front of Yan Song, and no one can pose a threat to the Yan family. Whether it was Shen Lian or Yang Jisheng, all those who dared to stand up against the Yan family had been easily crushed. At present, Xu Jie, who is the second most powerful force in the DPRK and China, is submissive in the face of the arrogance of the Yan family. As for Wu Shan, Zheng Xiao and the like, in front of the Yan Mansion with big roots and deep roots, it is just a nasty ringworm scabies.
Because of this, the people of the Yan family are a little arrogant. Of course, the old Yan Song does not say that at the age of seventy-six, he no longer has the energy to do such a subtle analysis. Yan Shifan, whose intelligence is the first-class in the world, is precisely because he is smart, so he has nothing to look forward to, and believes that everyone's wisdom is inferior to his own. He believes that his family is prosperous, so he can use the favor of the heavenly family to defeat any enemy. Therefore, today he is so domineering, and regards the two Shangshu and the two imperial histories as enemies that can be easily destroyed, and it seems that he is just discussing whether he should stretch his chopsticks to the roast suckling pig or the stewed sea cucumber for dinner.
But as for Yan Hong, he always thought that his family would face destruction at any time. Therefore, he considered the problem not to win, but to protect himself, not how to defeat the enemy and gather more power, but how to avoid the destruction of the Yan Mansion, or even if it perished, there could be a way back and not die too miserably.
This difference has caused him and Yan Shifan to consider problems from different angles, and their attitudes towards things are also different.
When Zhao Wenhua mentioned King Jing, Yan Hong felt even more that the nature of the situation was probably not simple. Since inheriting most of the memories of Yan Hong's ontology, as well as his life during this time, he has a preliminary understanding of Daming, after all, his grandfather is the first assistant of the imperial court, and his father is the elder of the small pavilion drafted by the Ministry of Industry on behalf of his father, and he is also a descendant of the top of the pyramid in the country, and he is not ignorant of high-level affairs.
When today's son Jiajing, his sons died in his early years, so he strengthened his old man's idea of "the two dragons don't see each other", drove his sons out of the palace and drove them into the palace. Now he only has these two sons, Yuwang Zhu Zaiyuan and Jingwang Zhu Zaizhen. In addition, King Yu was old, so a group of ministers led by Wu Shan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, urged Jiajing to establish King Yu as the crown prince as soon as possible on the grounds of ancestral etiquette, so that in case the emperor was in a big way, King Yu could smoothly inherit the unification and settle the hearts of his subjects.
But Jiajing didn't seem to like his son very much, and he delayed the establishment of the crown prince, and he didn't send King Jing to Beijing to take up the vassal, forming a situation where the second prince was in Beijing and there was no prince. This is really weird in the Ming Dynasty, the so-called heaven has no two days, the country has no two masters, once Jiajing suddenly hangs up, then there are two princes in the capital, who is the emperor? At that time, I am afraid that there will be a struggle for the throne, and if I don't get it right, I will have to repeat the story of Xuanwumen.
Therefore, the civil officials of Shilin Qingliu wrote this chapter twice in three days, either urging the emperor to establish the prince early, or urging King Jing to hurry out of Beijing to become a vassal.
As the head and assistant of the Yan family, not only did they never write to ask the emperor to appoint a prince or invite King Jing to become a vassal, but even the officials of the Yan family collectively lost their voices. This attitude is quite interesting.
Hearing Zhao Wenhua's words again today, Yan Hong suddenly understood, it turned out that his family was involved in the dispute between the heirs, and, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that our Yan family is a person who belongs to King Jing's position.
What about the rest of the court? Presumably, Wu Shan, Fang Yu and others support King Yu, as for Zhou Yan and Zheng Xiao, they are more like the directors of the madhouse, it is difficult to say which camp it is. Xu Jie's faction is the strongest, but he can't shrink his head like a turtle, and he can't see his attitude. However, judging from Xu Jie's always more "orthodox" work style, as well as the friendly relationship between Wu Shan, Fang Yu and others, Lao Xu is also secretly a supporter of King Yu.
Yan Donglai's historical knowledge before crossing over was really bad. For the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, he only remembers the amorous son of heaven Zhengde, which is still the blessing of the emperor's various romances. Then there is the Wanli Emperor who fought with the Japanese (I can't even remember my name) and Chongzhen (who also can't remember my name) who hanged himself the last.
As for who became the emperor after Jiajing, he didn't know anything, so he naturally didn't know whether Lu Dao should support King Yu or King Jing from a historical perspective.
But he knew one thing, that is, the battle for the heir was extremely dangerous, and if he was not careful, he would be a broken bone.
From this point of view, if he is allowed to preside over the position of the Yan Mansion, he will choose to be completely neutral and not participate at all, what does the emperor say about us. Yes, our Yan Mansion is already a supreme minister, even if the emperor is changed, will it be defeated immediately? Why do you still ask for extraordinarily miraculous feats? You support one side, and if the other side succeeds, won't you be a human being inside and out?
Especially judging from the current situation learned from grandpa and father, long live Jiajing's old age. In case of a real death, the two kings fight in the capital, even if King Jing's faction succeeds, do you know what damage the Yan Mansion will suffer in the melee of the Lu Dao? Even if you can assist King Jing to kill his brother, do you know if King Jing will use this matter to settle accounts with the Queen of the Autumn?
Yan Hong has seen an idiom story before, there is a teaching "If you want to add a crime, there is no excuse", it seems to be a matter of the Spring and Autumn Period or the Warring States Period, that is, a minister killed the monarch to help the monarch's brother succeed to the throne, but was later killed by this brother on the charge of "killing the monarch". The political struggle is too dangerous, too dangerous, especially when it involves the emperor's family affairs, and it is not worth it.