Chapter 542: Compromise
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There is no impermeable wall in the whole world. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info is a universal thing, and it is impossible to be absolutely secret. No matter how meticulous and spicy Cui Zhengyi's arrangement is, it is always impossible to cover up the fact that Cui Guagua killed the three sisters of the Ma family.
The housekeeper Uncle, after experiencing a torture, finally couldn't stand it anymore and summoned the abandoned bodies of the three sisters of the Ma family.
Although the small banner of the Five Cities Terracotta Division who participated in this case disappeared, he handed over a lot of treasure money to his wife for safekeeping before he disappeared. After Jiang Xia took his wife to the Yamen of Fusi in Beizhen, he naturally got the treasure money that Cui Guaga used to bribe the little flag.
According to the rules for the use of treasure banknotes, when large treasure banknotes are used for transactions, they need to be stamped with a private seal. In order to prevent the appearance of counterfeit treasure money, it is impossible to find the source of the counterfeit treasure banknote.
There are corpses, there are treasure money. In addition, the disciples of Qianmen found a lot of passers-by who witnessed the four sisters of the Ma family being caught by the guards of the Cui Mansion in the Moon Drunken Building.
With the evidence at hand, Jiang Xia could already convict Cui Guagua.
Even without this evidence, of course. Jiangxia also has many ways to convict Cui Guagua, and Cui Zhengyi is very clear about this. And when he was very aware of these things, he insisted on covering up the crime for Cui Guagua, his intention was not to deceive Jiang Xia, so that Jiang Xia could not find evidence, and forced Jiang Xia to release him.
In fact, Cui Zhengyi's real intention was to send a signal to Jiang Xia. One asked Jiang Xia to let Cui Guagua go for the sake of himself and Cui Ziwei's face.
Cui Zhengyi deliberately avoided it, putting on a posture of not knowing about this matter, but in fact, it also meant to avoid a head-on conflict with Jiang Xia.
It's a pity that Choi Jung-yi made a mistake in the end, that is, the problem of attitude. He put so many thoughts and means into his hands, the purpose was to make Jiang Xia feel what he meant, and then give him a face and let Cui Guaga go.
And the key problem is here, Jiang Xia has been in power for so many years, nominally speaking, the entire civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty are his subordinates. Especially Cui Zhengyi, he is the person who Jiang Xia personally promoted after getting rid of Yang Ting and them.
Therefore, when Cui Zhengyi faced Jiang Xia, his attitude should not be a hint, let Jiang Xia understand his meaning, and then do things according to his meaning. This in itself is a kind of transgression, and it also marks that you have not put yourself in the right position.
Cui Ziwei was hand-picked as the future queen, and Cui Zhengyi's identity was greatly improved. Maybe it's because of this, maybe it's also because Jiang Xia usually doesn't pay much attention to emphasizing the distinction between upper and lower, and the difference between respect and inferiority. That's why Cui Zhengyi has today's arrogance.
As everyone knows, at this time, it happens to be the most sensitive time. Everyone is waiting to see if Jiangxia will really be willing to hand over power and return to power. Cui Zhengyi, as the second most important minister after Jiang Xia, is expected to become the second most important minister after Jiang Xia, and his performance and attitude will cause many chain reactions.
Now Jiangxia is basically conclusive evidence, but if the evidence is ironclad, then it is necessary to catch those Cui Mansion guards who participated in the killing of the three sisters of the Ma family throughout the whole process, and their confessions can be considered complete.
Jiang Xia had already sent Jinyi Wei to look outside the capital, but he didn't expect that in the evening, the porter came to report, saying that Cui Zhengyi had tied up more than a dozen people and stood at the gate of Xiaoyao Villa, wanting to ask to see him and ask him to plead guilty.
Jiang Xia groaned a little after hearing this, and finally said to the porter: "Go and tell him, just say that I am not feeling well and will not be able to see guests tonight." If there's anything to do with him, let's talk about it tomorrow. ”
"Yes. The porter replied and immediately withdrew.
Cui Zhengyi, who was standing at the door of Xiaoyao Villa, quickly received a reply from the porter, and when he heard Jiang Xia say that he couldn't see guests, Cui Zhengyi's whole body shook a little, but fortunately, the guards who accompanied him around him supported him in time, otherwise he would have really fallen to the ground.
Cui Zhengyi's whole body trembled slightly, looking at the closed vermilion gate of Xiaoyao Villa.
Finally, Cui Zhengyi took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice: "Let's go, let's go home." ”
Next. Morning.
Jiang Xia hadn't gotten up yet, Zhong Bin took someone to Xiaoyao Villa and waited for him directly in the backyard. Jiang Xia, who received the news, quickly got up, washed up, and saw Zhong Bin in the garden in the backyard.
Jiang Xia asked, "What's wrong?"
Zhong Bin, who was sitting next to the stone table, stood up suddenly, walked in front of Jiang Xia in two steps and said: "Cui Zhengyi went to the Fusi Yamen in Beizhen, and he went with the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion to take Cui Guagua and other prisoners away, saying that this matter should be managed by their Shuntian Mansion." ”
Jiang Xia didn't seem surprised at all after hearing this, nodded and said, "Go ahead, hand over everyone to him, and inform Xia Yuanming of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to personally supervise this matter." ”
"Isn't this ...... to hand over people to him?" Zhong Bin was a little reluctant.
Jiang Xia understood what Zhong Bin meant, he was afraid that after handing over the person to Cui Zhengyi, Cui Zhengyi would destroy the evidence. Jiang Xia shook his head directly and said, "Don't worry, he doesn't dare." The dust has settled on this matter, what should have been the result, and what will be the next result. ”
Zhong Bin glanced at Jiang Xia as if he didn't understand, and finally sighed and said, "Forget it, anyway, what you decide is generally not wrong." ”
After speaking, Zhong Bin turned to leave.
Looking at Zhong Bin who was leaving, Jiang Xia smiled slightly, it was really not easy to get such an evaluation of this wood.
After letting Zhong Bin hand over to Cui Zhengyi, Jiang Xia didn't care about this matter for the time being. There was nothing to say that day, and the next day was the day of the morning court.
At the court meeting, the civil and military officials didn't have anything to say, but Yang Yiqing suddenly mentioned at the court meeting that he was already quite old and wanted to "pay tribute".
Zhishi is a general term for the normal retirement of ancient officials, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the age of Zhishi is generally seventy years old. If you have a sick person, or if you have other reasons, you can advance it.
Yang Yiqing's age is naturally not yet seventy years old, he has a strong body, and he has no diseases. The only reason is that his precious only daughter Yang Jingjing is pregnant. According to the time calculation, the child will be born in about three months.
Now the Ming Dynasty is peaceful and the country is stable. Jiangxia holds the power alone, and Yang Yiqing naturally has no intention of continuing to be nostalgic for officialdom, but wants to tease his grandson and enjoy his old age in peace.
Although according to the rules, Yang Yiqing is a little out of line with the rules. But everyone knew that Yang Yiqing was Jiang Xia's father-in-law, so no one dared to say anything.
Besides, the official position of the imperial court is now a radish and a pit. Yang Yiqing was willing to abdicate early, which also gave some people a chance to go further.
However, this Zhishi is not able to leave if he wants to, Yang Yiqing folded up, at least he had to basically determine the candidate for the Hubu Shangshu before he could leave.
Yang Yiqing's matter can be regarded as a relatively big matter in the morning today. The officials thought that there would be no other major events in the DPRK this morning. They were all waiting for the imperial attendant to call him to retreat from the court, but at this moment, Cui Zhengyi walked to the aisle in the middle of the phalanx of the ministers of civil and military affairs and knelt down, and knocked three times at Zhu Zaijiang.
After knocking, Cui Zhengyi shouted loudly: "Qi Emperor, Weichen is guilty." ”
As soon as Cui Zhengyi's voice fell, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were shocked. What's wrong with this future lord? How can he be guilty?
As soon as Cui Zhengyi's words came out, he immediately glanced at Jiang Xia, who was standing at the front of the Wen official array. From Jiang Xia's side, it could be seen that his face was calm, his eyes were motionless looking ahead, and he didn't seem to have the intention of interfering in this matter at all.
Cui Zhengyi's right hand on the ground clenched into a fist, and at this time Zhu Zaijiang opened his mouth and asked, "What is Aiqing's crime?"
Cui Zhengyi said loudly: "Cui Guagua, the unscrupulous son of the minister, has always been arrogant and domineering because the minister has no way to discipline him. The ministers are not harsh, and they have finally made a big mistake recently. Bu Xiaozi robbed the people's girls on the street, causing one girl to fall from the building and be burned to death, and the other two women were killed by Bu Xiaozi himself, and one girl was lucky to escape.
The evil deeds committed by the unscrupulous son have lost their conscience and have no humanity. Weichen has already opened the trial in Shuntianfu, and the evidence is conclusive and ironclad. Yesterday, the file was submitted to the Criminal Department, and the sentence was proposed ......"
Cui Zhengyi couldn't help but pause after saying this, tears filled his eyes, and he took a deep breath before saying, "I plan to make a decision!"
"As the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the minister is responsible for the education of the world. But now he can't even discipline his own son. The minister no longer has the shame to take on the responsibility of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, so he asked the emperor to deprive the official title of the micro-minister and receive the holy punishment again. ”
Cui Zhengyi's words immediately caused a shock in the whole dynasty. Among the ministers in the Taihe Palace, some well-informed people actually know more or less about Cui Guagua.
But no one thought that Cui Zhengyi would let Cui Guagua pass the trial in Shuntian Mansion, and he also planned to sentence a decisive result.
Everyone was shocked, but Jiang Xia felt normal, so he was not surprised at all.
What made Choi Jung-yi do this was not any evidence, but power.
Cui Zhengyi avoided this matter from the beginning, and asked Cui Ziwei to come forward to protect Cui Guagua. The meaning is to hope that Jiang Xia can look at the face of his daughter who is about to become the queen, and raise his noble hand to let Cui Guagua go.
But Cui Zhengyi didn't expect that not only did he fail to help his son, but strengthened Jiang Xia's determination to take down Cui Scraping Bone.
Jiang Xia tortured Fu Bo and issued a wanted warrant for the fleeing guards. This is Jiang Xia's attitude of showing himself, an attitude that must win Cui Guagua.
After receiving Jiang Xia's attitude, Cui Zhengyi realized that he was wrong. He hurriedly entered the city with his guards, wanting to admit his mistake and beg for mercy from Jiang Xia in person. But he specially chose to go to Jiang Xia at night, which is why he didn't want this matter to leak out.
If Jiang Xia saw Cui Zhengyi that night, then he would naturally have to forgive him, otherwise the two would tear their faces.
But those who know understand that this is Cui Zhengyi begging Jiang Xia for mercy, but those who don't know will think that Jiang Xia is giving in.
So Jiang Xia didn't see him in the end.
Jiang Xia didn't see Cui Zhengyi, and Cui Zhengyi already understood Jiang Xia's attitude. There is no room for maneuver in this matter, if he doesn't show his attitude, I'm afraid Jiang Xia will do it to himself next.
In order to repay himself, Choi had to compromise. r1058
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