"Your Excellency, here is the full confession of Xu Hai, the leader of the Japanese bandits!"

The figure who had been in charge of interrogating Xu Hai knelt on the ground and offered the confession in his hands with both hands.

Lu Bing took the confession, glanced at it roughly, and nodded: "Well, you did a good job, go back and rest." ”

"My lord, the villain still has something to say to Xu Hai."

"If you have anything to say, say it now, don't dwell on it." Lu Bing frowned, his face displeased.

I saw him walk up to Xu Hai and whisper in his ear: "Lied to you, in fact, your family hiding there was killed by Jinyi Wei as early as last night." ”

"After all, someone has to repay the sins you have done, thank me, let your family reunite early, you say, am I very kind?"

After Xu Hai heard the news, his pupils shrank suddenly, and then he wanted to break free from the restraints as if he was crazy, his eyes were red, and his expression was crazy: "I killed Ling, I killed you, ah!" ”

"Your Excellency, my subordinates have finished speaking."

"Well, let's go." Lu Bing didn't look up, and his attention was completely focused on Xu Hai's confession.

After getting Xu Hai's confession, most of Jinyiwei's forces were dispatched, investigated one by one, followed the vine, and arrested a large number of officials.

In order to be able to fight for leniency and reduce the punishment, the arrested officials began to bite each other one after another, and as a result, the truth of many old things also surfaced.

……

The Forbidden City, the Palace of Nourishing the Heart.

Lu Fang knelt on the ground tremblingly, and handed over the recital presented by Lu Bing, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, to the emperor.

Jiajing took the fold from Lu Fang's hand, which was densely filled with a list of convicted officials, and after a cursory glance, he ordered: "Okay, it's almost here!" Let Lu Bing stop, and if he continues to be implicated, it will cause chaos in the government and the opposition. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Lu Fang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, the purpose of his coming today was to persuade the emperor to let Jinyiwei stop implicating, and now that the emperor himself said it, it saved a lot of things.

"Your Majesty, Lu Bing encountered a problem during the interrogation, and it was difficult to decide for a while, please Your Majesty..."

"Oh, what's the matter?" When Jiajing heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little curious.

"Your Majesty, the problem Lu Bing said is on the last page of the recital."

Jiajing turned the fold to the last page, and an unexpected name appeared: Zhao Wenhua.

Zhao Wenhua, Jiajing's eight-year jinshi, the director of the criminal department, Yan Songyi's son, also dedicated a hundred flowers and fairy wine to his predecessor, saying that he could prolong his life and was quite favored.

"It's going to be a cabinet meeting later, isn't this Zhao Wenhua the righteous son of Yan Ge Lao? Throw this problem at him. Jiajing smiled, his expression relaxed.

"What are you doing? Let's go. ”

Lu Fang was stunned, and then followed Emperor Jiajing step by step, Lu Fang knew very well in his heart that this Zhao Wenhua would not escape death!

……

In the blink of an eye, Jiajing came to the cabinet, and before he entered the door, he heard a noise from inside.

"Bah, traitor!"

"You are the traitor, Jinyiwei has implicated so many people! If it continues, it will definitely cause chaos in the government and the opposition. ”

"Hmph, just borrow the brocade guard to rectify the rule of officials, these officials who are greedy for ink would rather not!"

"You!"

Jiajing took Lu Fang slowly into the cabinet, and when he saw the emperor coming in, Yan Shifan and Gao Gong, who had been arguing before, stopped their mouths one after another, and after glaring at each other, they saluted the emperor.

Immediately afterwards, Yan Song and Xu Jie, who were there with the old god, and Zhang Juzheng, who was silent on the side, also saluted.

"Why isn't it noisy? I was listening to the two elders outside, but the quarrel was very intense! ”

Jiajing found a stool at random and sat down, looking at the two of them with a smile, and Lu Fang stood beside him, without any expression on his face.

"Please forgive your majesty!" Gao Gong and Yan Shifan knelt down one after another to plead guilty.

"Okay, get up, I'm not here to cure you today, but I have a problem I want you to help me solve."

"What kind of problem, please speak up to Your Majesty, the old minister will do his best!" Yan Song was the first to speak.

"Yan Ge Lao's words are deeply heartfelt, and it just so happens that today's problem must be solved by Yan Ge Lao." After Jiajing finished speaking, he handed over the recital that Lu Bing had handed over to Yan Song.

Yan Song took the fold, put on reading glasses tremblingly, and opened the fold, Yan Song looked at the list of convicted officials recorded in the fold, and was deeply puzzled.

"Your Majesty, this is?"

"Turn to the last page." After Jiajing finished speaking, he was about to pick up the teapot on the table and pour himself a cup of tea.

"Your Majesty, please forgive your sins!" Yan Song knelt down abruptly after turning to the last page of the fold and seeing the familiar name on it.

"Elder Yan Ge, please hurry up, I said, I'm not here to punish you today! You see what to do. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is ashamed! Since ancient times, I have not been taught, my father's fault, I am not strict in teaching, and my teacher is lazy! When the minister was serving as the national school sacrificial wine, he recognized me as his father-in-law, and I, Yan Song, were both his father-in-law and half of his teacher, and now he violated the laws of the imperial court, how could I stay out of it? ”

"Minister Yan Song, please punish Your Majesty!" Yan Song fell to his knees with a sad expression.

"Yan Ge, please hurry up, there is a way to know people and faces, but not hearts, even Zhuge Kongming has the wrong use of Ma Tan, what do you have to use a Zhao Wenhua by mistake?"

Jiajing helped Yan Song up from the ground and continued to add: "Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, good is great!" It's not terrible to make a mistake, it's terrible to be sluggish, timid, my Ming Dynasty still needs your Yan Ge Lao to support. ”

"What Your Majesty just said, the minister will never forget!" Yan Song sat back in place tremblingly, covering his face with his sleeves.

"Your Majesty please hand over this fang to me to dispose of, after all, Weichen is his father-in-law, since it is a disaster that I born, it should be cleaned up by me."

"I'm right." Jiajing put down the teacup in his hand, and his eyes swept over the cabinet ministers.

"I suddenly remembered that there was something else, so I won't bother you." After Jiajing finished speaking, he took Lu Fang out of the cabinet.

"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot to tell you! This matter is over here, and Jinyiwei's side will not be implicated again, you can rest assured. ”

Just as Emperor Jiajing was about to walk out of the cabinet, he paused and reminded in a low voice.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Behind Jiajing, all the cabinet ministers knelt down and saluted.

……

At the end of the cabinet meeting, Yan Song and Yan Shifan, father and son, walked side by side.

And Yan Song's pace was extremely slow, his face was calm, and he frowned, as if he was thinking about something.

"Father, do you want to ......" Yan Shifan finished speaking, and made a motion to wipe his neck.

"No, today's incident is obviously that the emperor wants to take me out of this quagmire, do you know what the consequences will be if that piece falls into Qingliu's hands?"

Yan Shifan tried to conceive for a while, and couldn't help but shudder.

"Everything is according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Wenhua is dead, let him not open his mouth indiscriminately!"

After Yan Song finished speaking, his steps suddenly quickened and he walked to the front.

"Yes, father."

Yan Shifan nodded, wanting to keep up with his father's footsteps.

"You have to remember that in my Ming Dynasty, there is only one person who can call the wind and rain, and that is the emperor!" Before getting on the sedan chair, Yan Song stopped, stared at his son's eyes, and admonished.

"Yes!"