The members of the six ministries and the cabinet members standing in front of Chongzhen obviously felt the threat to themselves from the investigation of the reverse case, so they were willing to support the first assistant Huang Liji together, and asked Chongzhen to let Jinyiwei end the investigation of the reverse case within the six departments as soon as possible.

looked at the first assistant Huang Liji, who had a resolute expression, and the vigilant look in the eyes of the other important ministers except Xu Guangqi.

Zhu Youzhen knew that although he used the Wenxiangjiao case to overturn the situation for the new policy in the DPRK, his practice of relying on Jinyiwei also made these officials wary.

"I can't lose the support of the cabinet yet." Zhu Youzhen thought with emotion in his heart. Although he still wanted to continue to promote Jinyiwei's purge of court officials, Huang Liji's actions clearly showed that he would not stand on his side unprincipledly.

Zhu Youzhen was silent for a while before he spoke: "The investigation of the officials in the DPRK and China can end here, but there are so many rebels in the DPRK and China who collude with the evil cults of the Wenxiang Sect, which really shocks me."

The six departments were given to the middle of the matter, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the imperial court set up so many supervision officials, why can't they even receive a little rumor, I don't know if Zhu Qing has anything to explain to me? ”

After Huang Liji and Zhang Ruitu exchanged glances with other ministers, they bowed to Chongzhen together and said: "The incompetence of the ministers under the rule has caused the court to be unable to uphold the discipline, and they are willing to ask Your Majesty for their guilt." ”

Zhu Youzhen replied with some annoyance: "I don't want you to take responsibility, but I want you to come up with an idea, how to prevent this kind of thing from happening again?" ”

Zhang Ruitu hesitated for a while and said: "The minister thinks that today's thing will happen, mainly because the imperial court is not strict in selecting officials, resulting in a mixed and uneven quality of science and technology officials, so the power of the imperial court to supervise is in vain. ”

Huang Liji then continued: "The minister thinks that we should do a good job of rectifying the officials of science and technology, rejecting the mediocre people, and re-selecting capable and honest officials. The minister thought that the reform plan proposed by Li Kuilong, the right deputy imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, was the best time to implement it. ”

Li Kuilong's reform plan for the Imperial Court broke the tradition that the original thirteen imperial histories were not subordinate to each other, and each imperial history had great freedom and power.

The new reform plan turned the Thirteen Imperial Records into thirteen close-knit small groups, and each Imperial History set up a presiding officer to oversee the work of each province. The original left and right imperial history was in charge of the overall work of the Imperial Inspectorate, and the left and right deputy imperial history and the left and right imperial history were each in charge of the thirteen imperial histories.

This reform plan not only strengthened the concentration of power within the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but also abolished the infiltration and control of various factions in the DPRK and China over the speech officials.

In addition to the senior officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, other factions in the DPRK and China believe that this reform plan has damaged their own interests.

Therefore, as soon as Li Kuilong's reform plan was launched, it was immediately blocked by many officials in the DPRK and China, who attacked Li Kuilong for changing the ancestral system in vain on the grounds that this plan violated the principle of Taizu's establishment of the science and road system, that is, "to control the big with the small, to control the upper with the small, to control the large with the small, and to control the upper and lower with the upper and lower levels".

Now that Huang Liji has mentioned this reform plan again, it is undoubtedly a hint that the courtiers have compromised with Chongzhen, and he also hopes that Chongzhen can stop in moderation and not continue to fight with the courtiers.

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while, and said with a firm expression: "The reform plan of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is indeed going to be implemented, and the supervision methods in these six departments must also be changed. At present, the supervision methods given by the six departments are all post-event supervision, and in addition to increasing the workload of the officials of the six departments, this method is also prone to formalism.

I thought that we should abolish the capital to the ministry, and insert the six departments into the six ministries separately, and supervise the affairs of the six ministries from the beginning, so as to reduce the workload of the officials of the six ministries. Each section is under the dual leadership of the Ministry and the Cabinet. ”

Zhu Youzhen's proposal is tantamount to abolishing most of the powers originally owned by Zhu Youzhen, leaving only the power of supervision and review.

If it was a normal time, the officials would definitely not agree to Chongzhen's proposal. Although it is an official position set up by the emperor to contain the powerful ministers, it will also be used by civil officials to oppose some unreasonable orders issued by the emperor at some special moments.

It's just that in this era, iron-clad officials have rarely appeared in the court, so they have lost the prestige of facing the court in the matter, and have gradually changed from an official who admonishes to an official who pickets.

The so-called rebuttals, cancellations, hearsay, and impeachment are just to observe all things on behalf of the Son of Heaven and become the emperor's eyes, ears and siblings, and they are by no means admonishing the Son of Heaven and correcting the imperial court.

Several ministers exchanged a little, and decided to agree with Chongzhen's proposal and abolish the matter, which was also less constrained for them ministers, and it was not a disadvantageous exchange.

"Then leave the affairs within the imperial court to the cabinet and the three law divisions to finish, but Gyeonggi is close to the left, and the first good district of the Ming Dynasty actually has a lot of incense-smelling evil people lurking, doesn't the cabinet have a plan?"

Shi Fenglai couldn't help but echo Chongzhen and said: "The minister thinks that Your Majesty is reasonable, and the vicinity of Gyeonggi should still be cleaned up again to prevent chaos in the future." ”

"I heard that the Wenxiang Sect originated in Shandong, and in the second year of the Apocalypse, the Wenxiang Sect rebelled in the Shandong territory, isn't it..."

The officials below the Danqi waited anxiously, and Chongzhen discussed with the six ministries and nine secretaries and cabinet ministers. After a long wait, Huang Liji and other ministers finally walked down the Danqi.

Looking at the relieved expressions on the faces of Huang Liji and the other ministers, the officials below all breathed a sigh of relief. The officials deliberately skipped the few officials kneeling on the edge of the royal road, as if they didn't exist.

The court meeting ended, and Men Chen Xin, Feng Shikong and other cadres were also handed over from Jinyiwei to Dali Temple.

When he left the palace gate, Door Chen Xin happened to walk to Feng Shikong's side, Feng Shikong didn't care where he was, grabbed the door Chen Xin asked angrily: "Why do you want to harm me." ”

Door Chen Xin was silent, allowing Feng Shikong to grab his clothes and scold angrily. Jin Yiwei, who was originally quite polite to these officials, suddenly rushed up and pulled him away.

Looking at Feng Shikong, who was dragged away by Jinyiwei, Men Chen Xin sighed deeply. He said to the guards who were escorting him behind him, "Where should I go now, is it the edict of the Jinyi Guard or the prison of the Criminal Department?" ”

A brocade guard arched his hand at him and said, "Your Majesty has an order, all the prisoners will be handed over to the Three Law Division, please go to the prison of the Criminal Department with us to hand over..."

Before the brocade guard could finish speaking, a eunuch in the palace hurriedly ran out and ordered these brocade guards: "I am hereby decreed, although the seven officials including Men Chen Xin have made a big mistake, but they have obvious remorse and a good attitude of admitting their guilt, so Your Majesty has allowed these officials to go home and live without having to be imprisoned in the spirit of leniency." ”

After listening to the eunuch's message, the escorted Jinyi guard left the seven officials in front of the palace gate and left.

Soon, the palace gate was empty before the door, only the door Chen Xin and other 7 officials remained, and many of the 7 people breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Jinyiwei leave.

The people standing in front of the palace gate, although they were familiar colleagues and friends in the past, but now no one greets each other. Many have even distanced themselves from other people.

This vigilant posture of mutual wariness caused several people to fall into an awkward silence.

Finally, someone couldn't stand the silence anymore, and left first with a flat greeting.

Men Chen Xin was the last to leave, and looking at the expressions of those who left, he understood that in the future, these people would never return to their previous relationship.

And even if they still have a chance to be rehabilitated, after carrying this stain, they can only rely on the emperor to survive in the future, maybe this is why Chongzhen will let them go.

The families of the officials who were released and returned home were all overjoyed when they saw them return.

But the mansions of those officials who were arrested today suddenly became gloomy.

Feng Shikong's mansion was originally full of joy, Feng Susu, who was going to get married the day after tomorrow, and his aunt who came from other places to organize the wedding for Feng Susu, after hearing this bad news, the entire Feng Mansion suddenly became cloudy.

In order to calm down the turmoil caused by the Wenxiang Sect in the DPRK and China as soon as possible, Huang Liji and other cabinet members instructed Xue Zhen, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Chen Yangmei, the secretary of the Dali Temple, and Cao Yubian, the imperial historian of the Zuodu, to close the case as soon as possible.

Under this pressure, in the afternoon of the same day, the verdict of the Three Law Divisions came out, Feng Shikong was beheaded with a vicious sentence of disobedience, 5 of his subordinates were sentenced to beheading, and the remaining 27 were sentenced to exile to the border.

After Feng Susu's uncle heard the news, he immediately rushed to Feng's mansion to pick up his wife.

After the aunt and uncle left, the mansion suddenly lost the person who presided over the overall situation, and Feng Susu, who was not deeply involved in the world, suddenly became six gods and no master.

She had no idea how things could have come to this. I don't know why my father, who went out in the morning, became a rebel in the court.

Feng Susu, who was sitting in the boudoir and staring at the nearly finished mandarin duck pillow in a daze, had no idea what he should do at all.

"Miss is not good, there are many officers and soldiers from outside the house, and they said that they want to arrest the relatives of the master. Miss, you better run quickly, if you are arrested, you will be sent to the Teaching Division. Chunxiang said to Feng Susu breathlessly.

Feng Susu's body didn't move, and he said in despair: "Run, where can you run?" The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. Sooner or later, I'm going to get caught, so why should I run again. ”

Chunxiang ignored Feng Susu's complaints, but took off her coat and said: "Da Ming Law, even if it is rebellious, it only sins against relatives, Miss, if you get married, you will have nothing to do with the master." Miss, you change into my clothes, leave through the back door, and hurry to your uncle's house, as long as your uncle is married to you today, Miss is not a family member of a criminal official. ”

Feng Susu was still in a daze holding the clothes that Chunxiang stuffed for him. Haruka grabbed her shoulder and continued, "Did Miss really think that the old man would rebel? If you don't escape, Miss, how will you clear your grievances for the master in the future? ”