Use it up and throw it away!

When Empress Dowager Zhang had Yang Tinghe as her political ally, she had a certain influence in the court, and now that Yang Tinghe has retired, Empress Dowager Zhang is equivalent to having her wings cut off, and the biggest reliance before is to be able to depose Zhu Si's throne, and now that this power is gone, the Empress Dowager Zhang is at the mercy of others.

It's not that Zhu Si and Zhu Hao want to deliberately be enemies of Empress Dowager Zhang, but that the Zhang brothers hit the muzzle of the gun, and they just used the Zhang brothers to practice their hands, and they don't need to kill them, but they have to cut their flesh, so that the Zhang family can be heartbroken, and if they are restrained, they will be considered successful.

The arrest of the Zhang brothers caused quite a stir in the court.

The timing is exceptional.

Yang Tinghe has just left here, it is estimated that the party has not left the boundary of Beizhili, and the Zhang brothers here have been arrested, if it is said that they are deliberately targeting the Zhang family, they cannot be said to be so, after all, the Zhang brothers are used to doing evil in the world, and the emperor has also targeted the Zhang brothers before.

It can only be said that the Zhang brothers have no eyesight, so they have to hit the muzzle of the gun at this time.

The next morning.

None of the ministers came out to intercede for the Zhang brothers, and even a few members of the cabinet did not mention anything about the Zhang brothers.

It was Zhu Si who took the initiative to bring it up.

「…… The Marquis of Shouning and the Marquis of Jianchang, who sold weapons privately, secretly connived at the slaves in the house to do evil, forcibly robbed the people's land, and made deeds that brought disaster to the country and the people......

The ministers looked at each other, is the emperor trying to make an example of chickens?

There is no need for the emperor to explain, everyone knows what the Zhang brothers are.

In the past two years, the Zhang brothers have stopped, and they can survive until today to make trouble again, and many people still think that the Zhang brothers have improved.

Did the emperor arrest people in order to punish the former and the latter?

It is obvious that they want to use the Zhang family brothers to deter the princes and nobles of the court, the civil ministers and military generals!

"Punishment Department!"

Zhu Si beat Jin Xianmin, the secretary of the Sentencing Department, "How does the Criminal Department think to deal with this evil act?"

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He thought about it for a while, what kind of legal action or something like that, it didn't seem to reflect the majesty of his criminal department secretary, and he couldn't say anything about letting the brothers go down with a small punishment and a big commandment, that would be a loss of literati physique, it might as well ......

"Your Majesty, such matters should be considered at the discretion of the matter, after all, the Marquis of Shouning and the Marquis of Jianchang are also considered to have great merits, and they have even made military merits before. As...... Remove them from their military duties and persuade them severely."

As soon as these words came out, the ministers present seemed to grasp the direction of the wind.

Unlike the Hongzhi and Zhengde dynasties, the Zhang brothers have changed from political opponents to difficult brothers, and now they must not fall into the ground for the Zhang brothers, after all, the next step for the civil official group is no longer the nobles who do evil, but the little emperor in front of him who is eager to centralize power.

Didn't Yang Tinghe lose in the struggle against the imperial power?

We civil servants need to learn a lesson!

Zhu Si's face sank and asked, "Persuasion? Selling weapons privately, in exchange for ordinary people, should be a big crime of skinning and cramping, right? forcibly occupy people's land, no matter how you say it, you should also be imprisoned and questioned, all in all, even if I kill them, it is not too much, how can I ...... Just one persuasion and that's it? Jin Shangshu, you're not joking with me, are you?"

The Emperor was annoyed.

In the past, when I talked to you about things, you always liked to talk about the rules, but now I want to talk to you about the law, but the rules in your mouth have become ornaments?

Besides, the Zhang brothers are not your henchmen, what's the point of defending them?

Is the rabbit dead and the fox sad?

Zhu Si looked at Sun Jiao, who was silent at the foot of the jade steps, and asked, "Sun Qing's family, I want to hear your opinion."

Asked the criminal department secretary first, and then asked the household department secretary, it is obvious that Zhu Si's most important minister's opinions now are all placed on the side of the six ministries, and he did not consult the cabinet, which reflects the emperor's restrictions on the cabinet advisers and the authority to participate in politics.

It's hard to force Yang Tinghe away, and you can't cultivate a second prime minister, right?

Sun Jiao is also a human spirit, and he sees that he is valued by the emperor, so he will let it

He is on the cusp of the storm, so it is better to lead the contradiction to others: "...... Your Majesty, the old minister believes that this case should be investigated in detail. In the past, Elder Chiang Ge had experience in prisons, and he was very insightful about the crimes committed by his lords, so Your Majesty could ask him for his opinion."

Take the initiative to ask the emperor to ask the cabinet chief.

It means that, but to outsiders, it's too pretentious.

If the emperor wants to ask Shoufu's opinion, do you still need your grandson to propose?

You take yourself too seriously, don't you?

Zhu Si followed Sun Jiao's meaning, looked at Jiang Mian and said, "Elder Jiang Ge, what is your opinion?"

Jiang Mian said, "The minister has no opinion."

Sun Jiao wanted to lead the matter to Jiang Mian, and let Jiang Mian come out on behalf of the civil officials to show his attitude, whether he wanted to protect the Zhang family brothers, or step on it by the way...... As a result, Jiang Mian showed a non-stick attitude, which means that the Zhang family brothers committed crimes, what does it have to do with our civil officials?

Now it's not the three law divisions who take people, but the factory guards, so let the factory guards investigate and deal with it themselves.

Zhu Si sighed, "Are you prevaricating? I don't know how to tell the Queen Mother about this now, and the Queen Mother advised me to be extra generous to the two uncles, but the Ming Law does not allow blasphemy, and I want to ask your opinion, but you are so perfunctory, I am really disappointed...... Well, I'll send someone to investigate this case!"

Do you want to appoint someone else?

The ministers saw that after the emperor ascended the throne, he liked to set up a position outside the yamen system to be responsible for certain things.

This is the case when the mine is opened, and it is also liked to do this during the Great Rites Discussion, and the handling of the affairs of the DPRK and China must also be handled by sending a position similar to that of the Qincha, as if anything that comes to the emperor can be free from the restrictions of the courtiers and the six ministries and nine secretaries.

In the past, there were Yang Tinghe, and the people instructed by Yang Tinghe came out to oppose it, but this time the emperor said that he would send someone to handle the case, and there was not even a voice of opposition present.

It is because Jiang Mian said that the civil officials want to watch the fire from the other side.

At present, the first assistant university scholars have shown an attitude of self-preservation, what reason do others have to come out and fight hard?

Besides, Lin Jun, who has always been known for his temper, has become a scholar, but others are not as brave as Lin Jun, and he likes to fight with the emperor in everything.

"Since you have no opinions, then assign individuals to be responsible, and the official position does not need to be too high; But you have to have a certain prestige and experience, and you will choose personally."

seems to care about the minister's opinion, but in fact, it is sending a signal to the ministers present that he, who has long been the emperor, has a favorite candidate, and he just asked the minister to propose it...... In other words, the person who will propose next is the object of the emperor's favor.

But no one came out to speak for a while, Zhu Si frowned and asked, "Sun Qingjia, what do you think?"

Sun Jiao was questioned again, which seemed to confirm many people's conjectures, isn't this just implying that this person was set by the emperor in advance?

It can't be Tang Yin or Zhang Bangqi, right?

Unexpectedly, Sun Jiao seemed very uncooperative, and his tone was indifferent: "The minister doesn't want to ask about the prison, please ask Your Majesty to ask the opinion of the people in the legal department."

Zhu Si was slightly dissatisfied, but he still looked at Jin Xianmin, who had just been reprimanded by him, and asked, "Is there a good candidate in the Criminal Department?"

Jin Xianmin said: "The minister doesn't know who to propose."

Emperor, don't pretend!

Who do you want to handle this case, just say it, and let's discuss whether this person is suitable.

Asking us for our opinions in such a fake way, what we said is not in line with your mind is also in vain, why should we be embarrassed?

Zhu Si stroked his chin in contemplation for a while before he said, "Then let Zhu Hao, a member of the ministry, do this...... He used to be the governor of Yongping Mansion, and he checked the Jinyi Guard, and he can be said to be a young talent with courage and knowledge, I want to see if he can still move forward and deal with it impartially this time!"

The ministers present were confused for a moment.

Zhu Hao?

Former convict champion Zhu Jingdao?

Doesn't it mean that this person has been abandoned by the two major forces of the imperial court and has become an outcast? Didn't it mean that even his father-in-law, Sun Jiao, was ready to give up on him?

An idle official outsider actually came forward to investigate the case of the Zhang brothers? Or the emperor

The emperor personally proposed?

Unconscionable!

But no one will object, because everyone knows that checking the Zhang brothers is definitely a thankless errand.

Everyone knows that the Zhang brothers are doing evil, do you still need to investigate this kind of thing? There is a lot of evidence that the Zhang brothers have done evil, it depends on who will check it and how to check it!

If Jinyiwei is a difficult bone to gnaw, but at least Jinyiwei still has to talk about the rules on his face, and he can't destroy the emperor's reputation, and what kind of goods are the Zhang brothers? Do they have a time to be reasonable? In fact, they are not too worried about whether they are reasonable or not, after all, the officials in charge of investigating the case have the support of the imperial court......

But the question is, they have an unreasonable queen mother's sister, is this queen mother something that the court officials can provoke casually? Even the emperor didn't dare to exonerate him!

Think about it carefully, where did the emperor recommend his own people to investigate the case? It was clearly to push Zhu Hao out and send him to death!

Many people began to grieve for Zhu Hao.

If you offend the emperor, it really won't end well, and any bad work can fall on your head.

Sun Jiao hurriedly walked and said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to use a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to investigate the case of the Three Law Divisions."

Zhu Sidao: "What, can't the official department member Wailang investigate the case? Then I'll let him be a member of the criminal department, so that he is qualified to investigate, right?"

"Your Majesty......"

Sun Jiao will continue to fight on the basis of reason.

In the eyes of outsiders, Sun Jiao wanted to "save" his beloved son-in-law and prevent Zhu Hao from wading into troubled waters.

But the emperor and Sun Jiao themselves are very clear that the purpose of Old Man Sun is not to let Zhu Hao come out of the limelight at all, because in Sun Jiao's view, this is probably the first step for the emperor to enable Zhu Hao.

The emperor and Zhu Jingdao can't be allowed to do whatever they want.

"That's it! I don't want to listen to Sun Butang's words, if you think that the position of a member of the Criminal Department is not suitable, then I will let him continue to be a member of the Criminal Department, and investigate the cases of the two uncles as a Lang Zhong of the Criminal Department.

Zhu Si was resolute.

In the eyes of outsiders, he is cheating on Zhu Hao, but only a few people know that Zhu Si is ready to join forces with Zhu Hao to do things.