Yan Keng returned to the cabinet, and he finally looked back at the place where he had spent many hours, in front of him, his personal servants were packing up his belongings.

At this moment, there was the sound of hurried footsteps outside the door.

"Lord Chen Guogong, Jiangxi Province has a twist and turn."

An errand officer walked in, and he respectfully handed Yan Keng a thick stack of movements.

Although he has resigned from the court, the official document of the court has not come down, and it is normal for this little official not to know.

Yan Keng looked at this large stack of movements, and secretly said in his heart, it seems that something is wrong in Jiangxi Province.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many movements.

But it's not about me anymore.

Yan Keng waved his hand and motioned for the messenger to put the piece on the table, and he didn't plan to pay attention to it.

However, just a glimpse of the corner of his eye made him unable to take his eyes off it.

He saw two words.

Yang Ji.

The second assistant of the cabinet, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the son of Yang Shiqi, a scholar of the Jinshen Temple.

If you look closely, this is actually a letter of impeachment of Yang Ji.

"Relying on his father's power, he ran rampant in the township, mostly lawless, and wantonly harmed dozens of people, regarded the Ming law as nothing, and the people of Taihe suffered for a long time!"

He flipped it back.

They were all impeached by Yang Ji, and all of them were Jiangxi officials, and obviously they couldn't stand his lawlessness, so they jointly wrote a letter of protest.

After all, dozens of lives have been lost, and now it is not a troubled time, it is a major event, and in addition to the fact that the people in Taihe County are already boiling with resentment, they can't hide it at all.

Yan Keng carefully watched all the twists and turns, and anger couldn't help but rise in his heart.

Without him, what Yang Ji did was really excessive.

It's like nothing!

But as a politician, Yan Keng quickly calmed down again.

He seemed to think of something, and a smile curled up at the corners of his mouth.

Turning, he walked towards the palace.

……

Yang Shiqi was reading and writing leisurely in the house at this time.

It's the last relaxing time, and you have to cherish it. Yang Shiqi told himself that although he was talking about cherishing, the excitement and pride in his eyes couldn't be stopped.

Yan Keng left, and the position of the first assistant was vacant. Looking at the government and the opposition, who else has this qualification?

After so many years, he has finally reached the pinnacle of power!

The era of being crushed by Yan Keng has passed, it has passed!

No one knew the turmoil in the old man's heart, and just as his heart was stirring, a voice suddenly came from outside:

"Master, someone from the palace came, saying that he was carrying the emperor's decree."

The edict?

Yang Shiqi was a little puzzled, he straightened his clothes and walked out of the door of the room.

The palace people handed over the edict to him, and left in a hurry, no matter how Yang Shiqi asked about the silver, he refused to say more.

And with that decree came a package.

Yang Shiqi didn't know why, but years of experience told him that this was probably not a good thing.

He unfolded the decree first.

There is a sentence written on it:

"Your son violates the laws of the country and violates the family rules, I can't be partial, how to deal with it, please decide for yourself."

Yang Shiqi's heart suddenly pinched - I'm afraid that it wasn't his son who was in trouble.

He immediately opened the package, and sure enough, it was one impeachment after another.

He looked at it one by one, and the more he looked at it, the more cold he became.

Over the years, his son has relied on his power to run rampant in Taihe, bullying men and women, and killing dozens of people, making the people's grievances boiling and the people miserable!

And he didn't know any of this! Obviously, the family kept these things a secret.

After reading the impeachment recital in the package, he went to read the edict again, and this time, he finally understood what the emperor meant.

If it's left to you to dispose of, what else can you do with it? There is simply no second way to go for such a big crime!

What Yang Ji did is absolutely unforgivable, killing dozens of people, you just put together the Danshu iron coupons of the nobles are not enough to avoid death.

Thinking of this, Yang Shiqi's cheeks twitched involuntarily, and the joy of the original promotion had long since disappeared, replaced by deep grief.

White-haired people send black-haired people!

Two lines of hot tears left in the corners of his eyes, and the old man lay on the table and began to cry.

But in the end, he had to make that heart-wrenching choice.

The next day, Yang Shiqi, the second assistant of the cabinet, wrote a letter, counting the illegal deeds of his son Yang Ji, and asked Yang Ji to be beheaded.

The orthodox emperor agreed, ordered Yang Ji to be imprisoned, and asked to be beheaded after the autumn.

Subsequently, Yang Shiqi wrote a letter, saying that he was ashamed of the court and the people, and asked to resign and return to his hometown.

Zhu Qizhen stayed several times, and when he saw that Yang Shiqi had made up his mind, he pushed the boat and asked him to do it.

This year, the first and second assistants of the Ming Dynasty withdrew from the stage of history at the same time.

……

"Father, why do you ...... like this?"

In the carriage back to Jiangxi, Yang Shiqi's second son asked puzzledly:

"Big brother of course...... But it is enough for you to execute him and kill his relatives in righteousness, so why resign again? The position of the first assistant is one step away! What does the sixteen-year-old little emperor know, you will be able to be the regent like Chen Guogong in no time......"

Yang Shiqi sighed lightly:

"Why should I?"

"You have been studying in the house but you don't know that someone has spread this matter and it is widely spread in the streets and alleys."

"Now your father and I...... Like a great wicked man, even my fellow pilgrims looked down on me. Do you think I'm sitting steady? Do I still have the face to sit down? ”

"If I don't leave now, I will be driven away by the royal historians when the time comes. In this way, it is better to ask for Zhishi yourself and retain some decency. ”

"How good are they! None of them are clean, do you really think you are a good minister? Yang Shiqi's second son responded disdainfully.

"Dao'er (Yang Shiqi's second son Yang Dao), you have to remember." Yang Shiqi sighed lightly:

"There are things that can be done in secret, but not in the open."

"Do it quietly in the dark, even if you and I know it, but we will only pretend to be deaf and dumb."

"But once you are in the light, you are condemned by everybody."

"Alas......"

The carriage rolled and went, heading south.

——

"Yang Ji's case happened on the eve of the orthodox emperor's pro-government."

"This is not an easy case."

"It seems that it is just the son of the second assistant of the cabinet who did evil, and in the end the second assistant of the cabinet was implicated and resigned, but at a deep level, it is a demonstration of the imperial power against the power of the ministers."

"According to the general procedure, this case needs to be handed over to the Criminal Department for finalization, but in this way, Yang Shiqi's son was executed in accordance with the judicial procedure, and the process was completely in accordance with the Daming Law, so there is nothing to say."

"But when the emperor gave the decree, the nature changed. Under the orders of the emperor and under the coercion of the imperial power, Yang Shiqi, the second assistant of the cabinet, was forced to personally execute his close relatives who broke the law! ”

"With Yang Ji's blood, the emperor told everyone about the supremacy of imperial power. Whether you are the second assistant of the cabinet or the head of the civil bureaucracy, the emperor asks you to kill your own son, and you must do the same! ”

"This incident greatly deterred the civil official group, Zhu Qizhen used his thunderous means to show the majesty of the emperor, so far, no one in the civil official group dares to bully his young age."

"Yang Shiqi's resignation has made this imperial power gain the upper hand in this tug-of-war with the ministers, even if Zhu Qizhen has just become pro-government, his authority is also great."

"But is this really the idea of a little emperor who is only sixteen years old? Historiography has reservations about this. ”

"We have no direct evidence to prove that Chen Guogong Yan Keng dominated all this, but according to the records of the "Ming Shilu", we can see that Chen Guogong went to the palace again before leaving the capital."

"Did he say something to the little emperor, or was it just a goodbye? We have no way of knowing. ”

- "Jia Jianming Ming Dynasty"

(End of chapter)