Outside the palace gate, Wang Shi, Wu Yong, Yu Xi and other ministers stood outside, and they didn't cry anymore, just stood aside and waited for Li Wei to come out.

Wang Shi made up his mind that he had to give this traitor some color today!

After Li Wei received the order, he withdrew, but unlike when he entered, at this time, there were more pro-army households around him who were forbidden by the palace.

Wang Shi and the others, who were guarding in front of the palace gate, were in high spirits when they saw him come out, and waited for him to step out of the palace gate.

Li Wei slowly walked to the door and stood still, and shouted to Wang Shi and the others, "Yo, you haven't left yet?" ”

"Humph!"

Wang Shi sneered, staring at him with an unkind face, and the ministers were the same, just waiting for Li Wei to step out of the palace gate and stage a group fight.

Li Wei pursed his lips and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has a decree, order you to leave as soon as possible, and return to the yamen, don't make trouble here and delay political affairs, and those who violate the order will be arrested and questioned!" ”

Li Wei's words fell, and there was a commotion among the ministers.

"Your Majesty really has this will?" Yu Xi was a little skeptical.

And Wang Shi directly reprimanded: "Nonsense, I see that you are a false decree, I want to ask Your Majesty to impeach you as a traitor!" ”

"I advise you to get out of here quickly, otherwise I'm not welcome, and anyone who doesn't get out will be arrested!"

Li Wei was also polite, and scolded directly.

"You dare, I'm not guilty, why are you arrested!"

"That's it, you traitor, don't be too arrogant!"

Hearing that Li Wei was going to arrest people again, the ministers were immediately excited, and they shouted and scolded again and again.

Li Wei sneered: "Hmph, since you don't listen, then don't blame me!" ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the group of people, and quickly locked on Wang Shi at the front: "Arrest him for me!" ”

"Yes!" The pro-army Baihu had already received the will, and immediately received the order, waving his hand to let his pro-army guards pounce.

The ministers were shocked when they saw this, and Wang Shi shouted urgently: "You dare!" Let me go! I want to meet Your Majesty! ”

"Hurry up and let go of Lord Wang, Lord Wang is the secretary of the Criminal Department, how can you arrest and take it at will?"

Wu Yong and several others next to him reprimanded one after another.

Li Wei glanced at them and immediately pointed at them: "And them, arrest them too!" ”

The expressions of the few people who shouted and reprimanded suddenly froze, and they shouted in panic: "How dare a traitor do this? ”

However, the guards did not care about this, and when they heard the order, they rushed up to a few more people and took down these few reprimands.

The ministers took a few steps back in a panic and kept shouting:

"Bold, bold!"

"Your Majesty, don't be so treacherous!"

"And them, arrest them too!" Li Wei shouted again, anyway, Zhu Yuanzhang has already said it, and he doesn't have to be polite.

Seeing that he had arrested more than a dozen important ministers in a row, the ministers were suddenly so frightened that they retreated again and again, and the voices of scolding gradually disappeared, and they all looked at him in disbelief.

Li Wei walked out of the palace gate slowly, and did not care about Wang Shi and the others who were struggling and laughing by the guards, but came to these trembling ministers, crossed his waist, and shouted arrogantly:

"Who else?"

The ministers looked at each other, and no one dared to speak out for a while.

The edict prison is not a good place, and after entering it, it is indispensable to be punished and served. Now they don't know that there are new things in the prison, and if they had seen these new things, they would have fled long ago!

Seeing that they were not moving, Li Wei snorted with some disdain and scolded: "If it's okay, get out of here, don't get in the way of Lao Tzu!" ”

The ministers were silent about his arrogance and ferocity, and after a moment of silence, some people finally relented under timidity.

"Since it is His Majesty's will, then the lower official will return to the yamen first."

As soon as this person's voice fell, everyone suddenly found the steps.

"Yes, we are doing His Majesty's will."

"Gone...... gone"

A group of people, whether they were afraid in their hearts or had other ideas, dispersed from the palace gate one after another.

Li Wei glanced at Wang Shi and the others for a long time, and Wang Yan suddenly said angrily: "Li Wei, don't be complacent, Your Majesty will be released when you learn that you are so messy, and I will definitely punish you severely!" ”

"Got it, got it, don't scream." Li Wei waved his hand impatiently, "Okay, take them with me." ”

"Yes!"

The guards escorted Wang Shi and more than a dozen other court officials, and went to the edict prison with Li Wei, and after arriving at the edict prison, they befriended Chen Su and these guards and locked up these ministers.

When the guards had completed their task, they retired.

"You can interrogate these officials, punish the guilty, and let the innocent go."

Li Wei summoned Chen Su and casually instructed him, although these people were arrested with the permission of Zhu Yuanzhang, they were not guilty of any major crimes, and the government affairs of the imperial court still had to be done, and these people could not be locked up for too long.

However, Chen Su's mind changed rapidly when he heard this, adults can say it at will, but he can't listen to it at will.

After thinking for a while, Chen Su suddenly understood the "deep meaning" of the adult, who opposed the adult, was naturally guilty, and only those who obeyed the adult could be acquitted.

"Yes, don't worry, my lord, I will definitely judge it well!" Chen Su figured this out and said respectfully.

Li Wei didn't know that he had such complicated thoughts in his heart, so he nodded lightly and left the edict.

When he went back, he deliberately ordered a group of guards to take with him, this time he was almost beaten by the ministers and made him more vigilant, he offended too many people, although there will be no such thing as Yangzhou in the capital, but it is normal to be beaten, the guards still have to be with them, and they can't eat the losses in front of them.

Three days later, the scenery on the Qinhuai River was beautiful, but what happened at this time was a terrible scenery.

Thousands of officials, gentry and their families were escorted by the brocade guards to form a long line by the river, each with an executioner with a knife by his side.

Zhang Zongyi no longer had a good place in his body, and the whole person was dying, kneeling without the slightest movement.

Zhao Ben's face was pale, trembling all over, and he regretted his participation in the impeachment of Li Wei.

Wang Shi was also among them, still shouting about wrongs and making the last struggle.

He never expected that he had just been promoted to Shangshu for less than half a year, but at this time, he ended up in the situation of being killed secondarily.

After a dozen courtiers arrested by Li Wei were imprisoned a few days ago, Chen Su deeply understood what he meant, and those who were more hostile to him were severely interrogated, while those who were relatively better were coerced and enticed to make them submit.

Under his operation, the arrested servants and directors of the Criminal Department accused Wang Shi of accepting bribes and bending the law for personal gain, and even picked up the lawlessness when he was in the locality.

According to the law set by Zhu Yuanzhang, although Wang Shi is not greedy, it is enough to kill his head.

In fact, these officials, more or less, will be a little unclean, if all of them are strictly investigated and dealt with, according to the current law of embezzlement of sixty taels will kill the head, none of them will be able to escape, but Chen Su followed Li Wei's "meaning" and made a difference.

"My lord, the time has come, and the execution is ready!"

The captain in charge of the execution stepped forward to report.

Chen Su looked at Li Wei, Li Wei waved his hand to signal him to order, Chen Su suddenly stopped hesitating, and shouted loudly: "Execution!" ”

"Yes!"

Xiaoqi turned back and passed on the order, and when the prisoners learned that they were about to die, they immediately screamed, begging for mercy and insulting.

Then, as the executioner's knife fell on him, the sounds soon ceased abruptly.

Thousands of people were killed, and blood stained the riverbank red, but fortunately, Li Wei had already been on the battlefield twice, and his ability to bear these was greatly increased, and he only frowned at this spectacular and terrifying scene.

"My lord, the execution is over!" After Chen Su waited for his subordinates to confirm, he handed over his hand to report to Li Weiyu.

Li Wei nodded lightly, thought about it and said to him: "You have contributed a lot to this case, I will go back to the Holy Lord, and promote you to Jinyi Wei Qianhu." ”

"Thank you, sir!"

Chen Su was suddenly shocked and thanked him.

This Chen Su is ruthless, he is really suitable for being a brocade guard, and after the matter at hand is completed, Li Wei wants to get out of it as soon as possible, and just leave Chen Su and a small number of guards in the Zhenfu Division to deal with it.

His thousands of guards have spent a lot of money to cultivate, but they can't be handed over in vain, and Jinyi guards generally don't need so many people to handle cases, and those firearms and equipment are even more wasteful.

Ordering Chen Su to clean up this place, Li Wei turned around and left.

Thousands of officials and gentry were killed, including three who were still in the court, and Li Wei did these things that immediately silenced the ministers in the court, and those officials who were released by Chen Su "not guilty" did not dare to say much after they came out.

However, this is just the beginning, after killing these officials, Jin Yiwei followed Zhu Yuanzhang's will and began to arrest the relatives and friends of these officials and gentry in the name of chasing dirty.

(End of chapter)