Metropolitan Inspectorate. Chasing the reckless wasteland, you have to be quick.

"These are all personally confessed by Niu An?" After reading Niu An's confession in his hand, Chen Tianxun, the deputy of the right, looked at Li Yuntian with a frown.

In this confession, Niu An personally admitted that every year after Jingtongcang resold the grain and salt, he would hand over a large amount of money to Bai Yuanren, the left attendant of the household department, and more than a dozen officials in charge, including many members of various departments.

Under the care of Bai Yuanren and more than a dozen stewardship officials, what Jingtongcang did was unimpeded and would not be discovered at all.

"Lord Yushi, Deputy Capital, it seems that Niu An's gift list is real." Li Yuntian nodded solemnly, it seems that the household department is about to usher in a violent storm this time.

In Niu An's two gift lists, one recorded the income received by the officials involved in the case in Jingcang and Tongzhou Cang from the resale of grain and salt every year, and the other recorded the money and property given to officials such as Bai Yuanren of the household department.

Now with Niu An's accusations, the officials on the list are already in danger.

Because Niu An's confession implicated Bai Yuanren, the left attendant of the household department, Chen Tianxun immediately entered the palace and went to Wenyuan Pavilion to show Niu An's confession to Yang Shiqi and other cabinet members.

Yang Shiqi immediately reported the matter to Emperor Hongxi, and Emperor Hongxi was furious when he heard it, and he actually committed such a serious case at the foot of the world, which was really lawless, so he ordered the cabinet to meet Jiuqing and try Bai Yuanren publicly.

So, in just six days, the officials of the household department witnessed the second time that the Jinyi guard broke into the yamen of the household department to arrest people, not only a few members of the department, Wailang and Langzhong, but even Bai Yuanren, the left attendant of the household department, was also taken away in full view of everyone.

At this moment, the officials of the household department were completely blown up, and everyone was in danger and could not live in fear: according to the current progress, it was not guaranteed that another person would be arrested in a few days.

At the same time, the threshold of the home of Jin Youzi, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion and the right attendant of the household department, was almost broken by the officials of the household department who came to visit.

The Jingtongcang case was investigated and handled by the cabinet, and the only contact between these officials of the household department and the cabinet was Jin Youzi, so they could only ask Jin Youzi for help, inquire about the news, seek comfort, and at the same time express their intention to take refuge.

Not only is the Yamen of the Ministry of Household Affairs in chaos, but the officials of the major ministries and institutes in the capital are also ready to move, and everyone knows that a group of officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs are going to lose their posts and dismiss them this time, so many officials have already set their sights on those posts that are about to become vacant in the Ministry of Households.

You must know that the position of the household department is an out-and-out fat shortage, and the money and food of the Ming Dynasty are in charge, even if they are officials of the ministry, some of them are eager to serve in the household department.

The nobles of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office and the Five Military Governor's Office watched coldly, and many nobles were gloating about this, and the cabinet and the six ministries both belonged to the Wenchen group, and the harder they fought, the more beneficial it would be for the nobles.

However, Zhou Zheng and a few other long-term nobles were worried, and felt a trace of sadness:

In the case of Jingtongcang, Emperor Hong Xi has vaguely put the cabinet above the six ministries, and once the cabinet has leveled the six ministries, then there is no doubt that the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion and the Five Military Governor's Mansion will be cleaned up.

Although the battle between the cabinet and the six ministries is a good thing for the nobles now, if we look to the future, the Gyeonggi Metropolitan Government and the Fifth Military Governor's Office will sooner or later follow in the footsteps of the Sixth Ministry.

In mid-March, under the auspices of the Cabinet, the Jiuqing trial was held in the lobby of the Criminal Department to try the major corruption case in Jingtongcang.

The Jiuqing trial is the highest level of trial in the Ming Dynasty, which is jointly tried by the six Shangshu, the Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Siqing of Dali Temple and the Tongzheng Department of Tongzheng Envoy, and has the highest judicial authority of the Ming Dynasty.

In the lobby, the cabinet members and Jiuqing sat on the left and right sides of the hall, and behind the desk in the hall sat Chen Tianxun, the right deputy of the Imperial Palace.

Chen Tianxun was responsible for opening the question, Yang Shiqi was the presiding judge, and the rest of the cabinet members and Jiuqing were jurors.

In front of the cabinet members and Jiuqing, Li Yuntian and those officials who participated in the preliminary trial were not qualified to sit at all, and they were separated behind them in an orderly manner.

After more than a month of trial, the context of the Jingtongcang case has become clear, and the evidence is conclusive; not only those officials and businessmen who resold grain and salt have all pleaded guilty, but also the officials of the household department, including Bai Yuanren, the left attendant of the household department, and the household officials who were bribed by Niu An have also been punished.

Bai Yuanren had to admit his guilt and submit to the law, and a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry and other property were found in his home, which was much more than Niu An's bribes, and it seemed that he had other income.

Due to the large number of officials involved, it took three days to complete the trial of officials other than Bai Yuanren, and everyone received the punishment they deserved.

Among the criminals who have completed the trial, Niu An is the only one who has not been punished, and he is also the one who has confessed the most thoroughly, which is in stark contrast to those who were beaten all over his body in the same case, which invisibly highlights the cleverness of Li Yuntian's case-handling methods, which really surprised everyone at the scene.

According to common sense, committing such a big case, Niu An must be struggling to the death, denying it in every way, and definitely having to suffer from flesh and skin, but Niu An surrendered without being punished, which is really incredible.

Although Niu An's crime was extremely heinous, because of his meritorious report, he was sentenced to be executed, and his family was outfit.

When he heard the verdict of Chen Tianxun, Niu An couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and glanced at Li Yuntian in the crowd gratefully, Li Yuntian fulfilled his promise and let his family live.

When Bai Yuanren, who was wearing a prison uniform, was brought into the lobby by the officials of the Criminal Department, everyone in the hall looked over, Bai Yuanren was not tortured like the previous officials, but he was in a state of mind and looked sluggish, like a walking corpse.

Regarding Chen Tianxun's accusations, Bai Yuanren nodded and admitted that the property found from his home had ruined his reputation, and life was worse than death, which made the cabinet members and Jiuqing present secretly sigh in their hearts, no matter how they said it, everyone was a colleague, and they also had some affection for each other.

Because Bai Yuanren was corrupt and bent the law and accepted huge bribes, Chen Tianxun sentenced him to hanging, and his family was punished into official status, that is, as an official slave and an official maid, in order to set an example.

The cabinet members and Jiuqing had no objection to this punishment, if it was changed to the Hongwu Dynasty, then Bai Yuanren would definitely be stripped of his skin and beheaded.

However, this is not Bai Yuanren's final sentence, the case tried by Jiuqing, the trial results must be reported to the emperor, and the emperor Zhu Bi will collude and make the final judgment.

Under the trial of the cabinet members and Jiuqing, the Jingtongcang case finally came to an end.

In this case, there were many people involved in the household department, and in the end, there was even a situation of getting out of control, and many of the arrested household officials reported the corruption and perversion of the law by their colleagues in the household department in order to make meritorious contributions, so that dozens of officials were implicated in this case, and wolf bèi was imprisoned.

If the cabinet had not intervened in time to stop this kind of chain-reaction reporting, it would have been very likely that the household department would have been uprooted this time.

The officials who were later reported were not involved in the Jingtongcang case, so they were dealt with in a separate case.

In order to stabilize the situation in the household department, the cabinet took a lenient stance towards those officials who were reported, and except for those who were taken into custody and sentenced for serious cases, the rest of the officials were released after returning the stolen goods.

After Emperor Hong Xi got the verdict of all the criminals in the Jingtongcang case, he remembered that Bai Yuanren had served the country for many years, so the crime was reduced by one degree, and Bai Yuanren was sentenced to be executed.

Hearing that Emperor Hong Xi had his crime reduced by one degree, Bai Yuanren knelt down in the direction of the Forbidden City in the edict prison, and cried bitterly, and he didn't know whether he was shameless in facing Emperor Hong Xi, or he was annoyed by what he had done before.

After the Jingtongcang case, the cabinet had the upper hand in the contest with the six ministries, and the household department, which was in charge of the world's money and grain, was the first to be conquered by the cabinet, and many household officials threw themselves into Jin Youzi's door in order to protect themselves.

The vacancies left by the offending officials of the household department were then put on the agenda of the cabinet, which was originally a matter of the ministry, but Emperor Hong Xi handed it over to the cabinet to handle it, and the ministry assisted.

In this way, the doormen of the cabinet elders will naturally be placed in the middle position of the household department, and Li Yuntian has made the first contribution, so he recommended a candidate to the cabinet -- Han Anyu, the same governor of Jiujiang Prefecture in Jiangxi.

Last year, Han Anyu was re-elected as the governor of Jiujiang Prefecture, and his goal was to be the senator of Jiangxi Buzheng from Sipin, and then to be the prefect of Zhengsipin.

Since the Jingtongcang case has spread all over the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, Han Anyu has also heard of it, but the capital is far away from Jiujiang Mansion, and he never imagined that this big case in the first year of Hongxi would be related to him.

When the transfer document of the Ministry of Officials was issued to Han Anyu, Han Anyu froze there, holding the official document in his hand in a daze, as if he couldn't believe that what was in front of him was true.

The content on the official document shows that Han Anyu was transferred to Beijing and served as a member of the Huguang Qing Officials Division of the Ministry of Households.

Although the member wailang is also an official of the five products, it is a Beijing official, and once it is released, it will usually be the prefect, and it is a fat yamen like the household department.

Han Anyu naturally wouldn't believe that pie would fall from the sky, there were thousands of officials in the Ming Dynasty, and he had no foundation in the capital, so no matter what, this kind of good thing would not be his turn.

Subsequently, Han Anyu realized that he was not no one in the capital, Li Yuntian served in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and now he is a celebrity in front of the emperor, and it is definitely this position that Li Yuntian helped him fight.

Thinking of this, Han Anyu couldn't help but be very excited, Li Yuntian's great kindness was unforgettable.

The officials of Jiujiang Prefecture learned that Han Anyu was going to be promoted to the household department, and they came to congratulate him, and Han Anyu went to Baishui Town before leaving, and had a good conversation with Chen Bozhao and Zheng Gui to show his gratitude to Li Yuntian.

Shortly after the conclusion of the Jingtongcang case, gongs and drums were noisy on a bustling street in the capital, and firecrackers crackled incessantly, creating a jubilant situation.

In the dense crowd of onlookers, a gilded signboard with gold characters on a black background was hanging at the door of a magnificent house, with four big characters "Kyushu Hall" written on it.

Kyushu Hall is the foothold of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce in the capital, and it is also the headquarters of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce in Kita-Naoli.

Many grain merchants and salt merchants were affected in the Jingtongcang case, and the reason why the people of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce appeared in the capital at this time was to carve up the market left by those grain merchants and salt merchants.

Li Yuntian can ignore the gains and losses of his personal honor in the Jingtongcang case and generously give away the credit, but he must take a part of the vacuum in the grain and salt markets brought about by the Jingtongcang case, and he must not make a dowry for others in vain.

The celebrity in front of Emperor Hong Xi, the protégé of the first assistant of the cabinet, the son-in-law of the governor of the Gyeonggi Metropolitan Governor's Office, and the identity of the Imperial Inspectorate supervising the imperial history, invisibly, Li Yuntian already has the qualifications to wrestle with all forces in the capital.

This is also the reason why Li Yuntian is the spiritual pillar of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, although Li Yuntian did not serve in the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, but his influence has run through the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce from beginning to end, and the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce has moved forward steadily under his promotion. One