The Dongnei Wei Division, referred to as Dongwei by the common people, is located in the Imperial City, outside the Dongde Gate of the Forbidden City. Since the establishment of Dongwei, Yang Jingzhong, the head of Ouchi, has spent at least half of his time here.

At the beginning, Dongwei was only responsible for patrolling and arresting, correcting and impeaching hundreds of officials, although bypassing the three law divisions, but important major cases were still handled by the Criminal Department, Yushitai, and Dali Temple. However, Yang Jingzhong slowly discovered that the officials in charge of the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and Yushitai always disobeyed his opinions, which made him both angry and a little annoyed.

Soon, Yang Jingzhong had a countermeasure, and under the planning of his godson Ye Zhaoli, Dongsi quietly increased the function of prison interrogation. Subsequently, five officials below the fourth grade, including Lang Zhong and Sun Youming of the Criminal Department, were arrested by Dongwei for the crime of vainly talking about the government, and were directly killed with a cane after being interrogated by Dongwei, and the government and the opposition were shocked for a while.

As a result, thousands of Taixue students and hundreds of officials in Beijing jointly wrote to the emperor, once again asking His Majesty the Emperor to abolish the Eastern Internal Guard Department and reduce the power of eunuchs, but the final result was still inconclusive. Since then, not only have the officials been silent, but even the imperial historians have lost the character of admonishing each other with death in the past, after all, whose life is not fate? The emperor in charge of the world, Lao Tzu, did not dare to speak to the eunuchs, so everyone had to remain silent.

At the beginning, when the Eastern Guard was established, in order not to let the power fall, Yang Jingzhong asked the emperor to lead the Admiral of the Eastern Internal Guard. Now Dongwei's added prison interrogation function has completely achieved the effect of silencing hundreds of officials, so that Yang Jingzhong's so-called power over the world is even more worthy of the name, and the chief manager of Ouchi is naturally very happy about this.

After becoming Shang's father, Yang Jingzhong accepted five godsons, and Ye Zhaoli, the eldest of the five godsons, is currently in charge of thousands of households in the East Internal Health Division, becoming the second most powerful existence in the East Internal Health Department after Yang Jingzhong.

On the morning of this day, Yang Jingzhong, who had finished handling the folds on behalf of the emperor, hugged the dust, took a few eunuchs out of the Dongde Gate as usual, and hurried to Dongwei.

As soon as I entered the gate of Dongwei, I saw that my godson Ye Zhaoli was already kneeling under the archway in front of the lobby that was "loyal and righteous through the ages, and forever", waiting for the arrival of his father-in-law. Yang Jingzhong was a little surprised, "Yo, it's Zhao Li, get up and talk, is there anything big happening today? Why aren't you working in the lobby, but waiting for us here?"

Ye Zhaoli stood up from the ground respectfully, and smiled mysteriously at Yang Jingzhong, "Father-in-law, today's case is really not big, but my son thinks it is better for you to try it yourself." ”

Yang Jingzhong was puzzled: "What kind of case is that? Could it be that which feudal official or imperial relative is involved?"

Ye Zhaoli said with a smile, "No, these five criminals are just small civilians." ”

Yang Jingzhong was even more puzzled, "Are a few civilians worthy of my personal interrogation? ”

Ye Zhaoli bowed down and said, "Father-in-law, please personally sit in the court and interrogate the criminal, and when this case is finished, you will understand the child's hard work!"

Yang Jingzhong knew that Ye Zhaoli's kid was scheming, so he couldn't help frowning, but he still bowed his head and said: "What a foolish child! Okay, let's sit in the court in person and try the first trial to see what tricks a few civilians can come up with." ”

Walking up to the lobby of Dongwei, the servants of Dongwei had already heard that the governor was going to sit in the court in person to ask about the case, the upper group held water and fire sticks, and the lower group all carried waist knives, Yang Jingzhong sat on the chair behind the public case, Ye Zhaoli stood next to Yang Jingzhong, and several eunuchs stood behind Yang Jingzhong.

The servants shouted Tang Wei, Yang Jingzhong looked down at the public case that had been cleaned to a spotless level, put the dust on top of the public case, reached out and picked up the shocking wood, and knocked it heavily on the table, "Take someone to commit a crime!"

I saw a soldier dragged up from below and tied with hemp rope, wearing short coats and five civilians, five people kneeling under the hall, where have I seen this kind of battle, I have already been frightened fart and urine, my body is like a sieve of chaff, but I keep kowtowing, and I don't dare to stop kowtowing until my head breaks and the blood flow.

Yang Jingzhong glanced at Ye Zhaoli, who was standing beside him, and motioned for him to ask. Ye Zhaoli nodded, and shouted towards the lobby, "Who is kneeling?

Among the five people, the head kowtowed upward, and said tremblingly: "Lord Huiyu, the grass people and the other five people are all natives of the capital, and they work in the Taojia wine workshop in the west of the city, and the grass people are called Zhao Qianshan. The rest of the people all said separately: "Grass People Wang Erhei", "Grass People Li Jihui", "Grass People Sun Zhankui", "Grass People Liu Yongbo".

Ye Zhaoli asked coldly, "How many of you know what crime you have committed?"

Zhao Qianshan kowtowed and said: "After the winery finished last night, when the five grass people were drinking and chatting in the winery, I don't know why a few Dongwei soldiers broke in the window and captured the five grass people.

Ye Zhaoli sneered: "Zhao Qianshan, you really don't know what crime you have committed?" The five people kowtowed upwards and said, "My lord, the grass people really don't know what crime they have committed!"

Ye Zhaoli said sharply: "After being investigated by the Eastern Internal Security Division, last night there were five people, including Zhao Qianshan, Wang Erhei, Li Jihui, Sun Zhankui, and Liu Yongbo, who gathered to drink in the inner room of the Taojia Liquor Factory.

When Zhao Qianshan heard this, he kowtowed like pounding garlic, "Big, adult, the small one really drank too much at that time, so he was full of nonsense! Ask the adults to be gracious and forgive the little ones this time, the little ones will never dare again, never again!"

Ye Zhaoli smiled fiercely, "The Governor and his old man work day and night, forgetting sleep and food, and serving the country and the people, it can be said that he has done his best, not only for the country's merits, but also for the sake of a thousand years! Why does the Holy Lord today respect the Duke as his father? Just because the Duke is the pillar of my Great Shang Dynasty, the Great Shang cannot be without Dongwei for a day, and the court cannot be without the Governor for a day! The Governor of the Dongwei is not allowed to slander and slander without permission?"

Zhao Qianshan kowtowed, "Xiaomin is guilty, and he doesn't dare to slander the Duke anymore, and I hope that the Lord will be gracious!"

Ye Zhaoli said with a straight face: "Zhao Qianshan slandered the Duke of Dongwei, the crime is unforgivable, and he was executed with five hundred knives! Sun Zhankui once stopped Zhao Qianshan from insulting the Duke, rewarded him with fifty taels of gold, and acquitted him! Wang Erhei, Li Jihui, and Liu Yongbo did not agree, but remained silent, and also rewarded twenty taels of silver, and were acquitted!"

Zhao Qianshan was frightened, "My lord, the grass people have been convicted! There is an eighty-year-old mother on the grass people, and a ten-year-old child below, please be gracious!

Ye Zhaoli waved his hand, "Executioner, put the criminal Zhao Qianshan to death in front of the court!" The executioner who had already prepared at the bottom agreed, stepped forward and dragged Zhao Qianshan to the front of the lobby, tied it to the wooden frame, and cut it down with a knife.

Zhao Qianshan's screams were endless, although the other four people had been untied, but they saw their companions being cut off by a knife, and heard the screams of their companions in their ears, and the sound was terrible until they died.

Yang Jingzhong, who suddenly came to his senses, took a picture of the shocked wood and announced his withdrawal. It turned out that Yizi Ye Zhaoli wanted to use killing to establish power, and the mouth of all living beings in the world was unknown. From now on, even if there is no one in the alleys, I am afraid that no one will dare to insult the governor of Dongwei in private.

When several people came to the back hall of Dongwei, Yang Jingzhong stroked Ye Zhaoli's back and said warmly: "We are very happy to have such a good son as you!"

Ye Zhaoli hunched his waist and said with a flattering smile: "Father-in-law, although the child is not born to the father-in-law, but the father-in-law treats the child with great kindness, especially the child's biological father, the child naturally has to think about the father-in-law in everything!" Ye Zhaoli looked at the several eunuchs behind Yang Jingzhong, and asked cautiously, "Father-in-law, can you take a step to speak?"

Yang Jingzhong looked back at a few eunuchs, "It's okay, these people are all our family's henchmen, if you have something to say, don't be afraid." ”

Ye Zhaoli bowed down and said: "Father-in-law, the child has something unclear, since today's father-in-law has the power of the world, and holds the forbidden army, and the current emperor is weak and incompetent, why not the father-in-law?" Ye Zhaoli's eyes showed a fierce light, and he made a gesture of cutting off his head.

Yang Jingzhong shook his head and smiled: "Silly boy, the reason why our family can have today's power, where does this power come from? Over the past two thousand years, no matter how the dynasty has changed, there has never been a precedent for a eunuch to be the emperor, in the final analysis, no matter how powerful our family is, it is just a temple man, how can the heroes of the world really surrender to our family?"

Ye Zhaoli lowered his head and didn't speak, as if he was thinking about something.

Yang Jingzhong said again: "If our family only maintains the current state, it can still be maintained." As long as we dare to establish ourselves as emperors, we should not say that the civil and military officials are not satisfied, but that those vassal kings with heavy troops already have a heart of disobedience, and now there will be an excuse for appeasement! At that time, even if our family ascends to the Ninth Five-Year Plan, we will not be able to sit firmly on the dragon chair. Besides, today's saint respects our family as the father, and he is crowned as the prince of the country, and the Chinese book is ordered, which is an unprecedented courtesy in ancient times, and you can't be greedy and insufficient!"

Ye Zhaoli said: "The righteous father is wise!"

Yang Jingzhong waved the dust in his hand, and said with a slight smile: "Although we can't do it, can't our family be nine thousand years old? Aren't some people saying that there are two emperors in the Great Shang Kingdom, one is the emperor and the other is the emperor?

At this moment, a eunuch outside hurriedly walked in, and when he saw Yang Jingzhong, he immediately knelt on the ground, "Slave Liu Rongyu see the governor." Yang Jingzhong nodded, "Get up and talk, what is the emperor busy with now?"

The eunuch Liu Rongyu stood up and said very respectfully: "If you go back to the Duke, the emperor, as usual, went to the Chunhe Palace to train the more than 200 female sumo wrestlers. Now I took Yu Fu and Wen Xiu to go fishing in the Houde Sea of the Imperial Garden. ”

Yang Jingzhong was puzzled: "Go fishing in Houdehai, when did the emperor like fishing? That's okay, the more hobbies the emperor has, the better, what kind of carpentry work, female sumo wrestler, fishing, no matter what fun things, as long as he likes it, let him play, not only that, let's find a way to play with him!"

On the Houde Sea in the Imperial Palace, there was a painting boat carved with a dragon head and a dragon tail rowing over, several little eunuchs and palace maids were rocking the painting boat forward, and the little eunuch Yu Fu stood behind Yin Guang with a fishing rod with a smile.