Gu Shihai didn't expect Ye Tianhuai to push the criminal department into his hands, so that he didn't know how to say the words that had already reached his lips.

For a moment, it was not for him to kneel down to receive the order, nor was it to refute it out loud. He didn't move, and the others didn't dare to move, so the stage fell into an awkward stalemate.

Ye Tianhuai was not annoyed, she said to Gu Shihai: "However, Gu Ge Lao is right about one thing. Speaking of Feng Yingshangyi, do you know why Du Jing would take such a desperate step under my nose and take action in this case? ”

Without waiting for Gu Shihai to answer, Ye Tianhuai took out Gu Haiwang's longevity lock from his arms and put it on the case.

Gu Shihai was closest to her, he looked down and only glanced at it, and then recognized what it was, and his face suddenly changed.

Ye Tianhuai turned to Du Jing and said, "Du Jing, I came here today to bring this thing to you, but you have betrayed your trust first, and I can only keep this thing." ”

Gu Shihai was confused by her series of ambiguous words, and he turned his head to look at Du Jing, his eyes full of confusion and annoyance, as if he was asking why he didn't discuss it with him earlier.

Du Jing immediately kowtowed to the ground and said to Ye Tianhuai: "Your Majesty, this matter is the idea of the criminal minister himself, and it has nothing to do with others!" ”

"I know it's your idea." Ye Tianhuai looked at him, paused for a while, and said, "I see that you are so worried about Gu Ge Lao, but he doesn't know anything, some of them are just because of your grievances." ”

After speaking, Ye Tianhuai slowly took the immortal lock into his arms again.

Gu Shihai watched her movements throughout the whole process, and it was difficult to hide the slightest panic in his eyes.

Ye Tianhuai turned a blind eye to it, and said to Gu Shihai: "In the current eventful season, all departments are short of people, Gu Ge Lao, you work hard, first take the criminal department as a book." ”

Gu Shihai retracted his gaze, and his clenched right hand slowly loosened, he lifted the front swing, knelt on the ground and said, "Weichen has the order." ”

There was a bit of a strong man's broken wrist in his words.

Ye Tianhuai nodded at this time and said, "Gu Ge, get up quickly." There is Gu Ge Lao in the Criminal Department, and I am relieved. ”

After speaking, she stood up, walked to the side of the prison platform, and said loudly to the people around her: "I am here today to reiterate that I have established the country with the law, and the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people, and whoever dares to challenge the majesty of the law will be severely punished." ”

The crowd erupted with a cry of "Long live my emperor, long live, long live".

Ye Tianhuai stood on the stage, looking at these people in cloth and hairpins, but his expression became more and more heavy.

Only she knows how difficult it is to implement this easy-to-say slogan.

——

At night, Ye Tianhuai looked at the folds piled up on the side of the case in Jingshou Palace.

During the day, she had been working on Du Jing's case, and the folds were piled up until the evening before they were approved.

Fortunately, there were not a few folds sent up, and Ye Qianhuai quickly finished approving them.

"It's all these useless things all day long." Ye Qianhuai closed the last fold of the invitation.

Ye Tianhuai sighed and said to Li Baoquan: "Li Baoquan, you go to Huisheng Pawn tomorrow and pass on a message, just say that there is nothing to do recently, let them all rest, and those who can withdraw are withdrawn." ”

Li Baoquan was a little surprised and asked, "Your Majesty thinks that Commander Tao has not done a good job this time?" ”

Ye Tianhuai shook his head and said, "Of course not." On the contrary, it can be said that it all depends on Eagle Guard to go so smoothly this time. It's just that Gu Ge Lao has planted a big heel today, and when he goes back, he will check the eyeliner around him, and I am afraid that Tao Yuan's people will fold in. ”

When she said this, she thought about it for a while, and said, "But you're right, I suddenly gave such an order, which will inevitably make Tao Yuan think a lot." In this case, if you have another word, just say that this time he is the first to take the lead, I want to reward him with something, ask him if he has anything he wants, and if he doesn't say, I will take some medicinal herbs and utensils from the treasury and give them to him. ”

"Your Majesty has thought it through." Li Baoquan said.

"Li Baoquan, there is one more thing." Ye Qianhuai stopped halfway through speaking.

Seeing her stop, Li Baoquan said: "Your Majesty has something on your mind, you can tell the old slave, the old slave doesn't dare to say that he can share his worries for His Majesty, but maybe he can help think of a way." ”

"You really have to be able to worry about this matter." Ye Tianhuai looked up at her with a somewhat surprised gaze at Li Baoquan, and asked him with a smile, "Do you have a lot of work on your hands now?" Can you get busy? ”

"It's okay, because the left guard was a little busy before, after General Zhao was transferred to the right guard, it was much better. However, His Majesty got married, and there was a master in the harem, so he would be a little busy. Li Baoquan replied.

Ye Qian nodded thoughtfully, and said, "I have an idea, I want the inner court to take on part of the work of presenting the folds. ”

The inner court is not allowed to interfere in politics, this is the legacy of the ancestors.

Li Baoquan was shocked, he looked at the emperor with some inaccuracy, but saw that the emperor's eyes were full of solemnity, and there was no joke.

——

After Du Jing was imprisoned, all matters were handed over to the Criminal Department for disposal, and Zhao Yinshi was promoted to the commander of the forbidden army because of his meritorious service in this matter, and participated in the trial of the case together with Li Wenqing, the supervisor of the imperial history.

Ye Tianhuai didn't stare at this matter anymore, and her gaze quickly shifted to another big thing.

Spring.

The three subjects of Chunqiu have been completed, and under Ye Qianhuai's uninterrupted urging, the candidates' papers have also been copied within two days and handed over to the Taiqing Pavilion, where they will be reviewed by the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the bachelors.

From the day the paper entered the Taiqing Pavilion, Ye Tianhuai went to the Taiqing Pavilion every day after the court, and personally checked the examination papers that had been reviewed.

According to the emperor's requirements, this batch of examination papers must be completed within five days.

The scholars of Taiqing Pavilion ushered in a large-scale collective overtime.

Among them is Lu Yanchen.

At Ye Tianhuai's insistent request, Lu Yanchen served as the chief judge of the first section of the Ming Book.

The first subject of the Ming Book is a test of literature and history, which is different from the two subjects of Ming Law and Ming Arithmetic, and there are many questions without standard answers, such as questions about history and policy theory, so it is also the subject that is most susceptible to the subjective cognition of the graders when reviewing.

Generally speaking, because the topic of the first subject of Mingshu involves the concept of governing the country and the idea of governance, most of them will be the chief examiner of this subject by an older and more senior bachelor.

It is also because of this that when Ye Tianhuai nominated Lu Yanchen, he was questioned by a number of officials.

"The imperial examination is to select talents for the country, and the selected people have to serve in various localities and ministries to carry out the orders of the imperial court. They are the ones who want to carry out my will, and these people must be able to understand and agree with my ideas, so that they can walk on the same path as me, and they can carry out my will well. And looking at the entire Taiqing Pavilion, is there anyone who understands my ideas and ideas better than him, Lu Yanchen? ”

Ye Qianhuai's rhetorical question was reasonable and well-founded, and no one could answer it.

As a result, Lu Yanchen became the youngest chief judge of the Ming Book in history.

(End of chapter)