Chapter 1226: The Battle of the Science and Dao
A few days later, the orthodox emperor asked Song Dashan to read out Lin Cong's advice in front of the civil and military officials, and then called Chen Zhi, the right capital of the Imperial Palace, to the front of the palace and reprimanded him, and ordered the Criminal Department to thoroughly investigate whether Jin Ying was involved in Li Qing's case, which surprised the civil and military officials.
Of course, the most surprising thing in the court was those imperial historians, no one thought that Lin Cong would actually attack the Metropolitan Procuratorate, making Chen Zhi reprimanded by the orthodox emperor in public, where is the face of the Metropolitan Procuratorate?
Li Yuntian did not participate in this court meeting, if there was no important task in the court, the orthodox emperor would not let Li Yuntian come to the court, this is the favor of the orthodox emperor to Li Yuntian, so as not to waste his time on the boring court.
After all, Li Yuntian often goes to the palace to accompany him, and he has helped the orthodox emperor solve a lot of troubles in the court in private, so unless he encounters a major event in the court, there is no need for him to come to the Taihe Palace.
Besides, this time the orthodox emperor of the Great Dynasty wants to read out Lin Cong's Shangshu, Li Yuntian, as the Zuodu Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is definitely not suitable to appear on the scene, although Lin Cong did not mention Li Yuntian in the impeachment, but Li Yuntian's face will definitely not be able to hang up.
After receiving the order, the officials of the Criminal Department immediately conducted a thorough investigation of Li Qing's case, trying to find out whether Li Qing's evil was related to Jin Ying, but since Li Qing was dead and could not find clues from him, the Criminal Department could only start with the domestic slaves of the Jin family at that time.
Jin Ying had been prepared for a long time, so after some investigation, the Criminal Department came to the conclusion that Li Qing's misdeeds outside had nothing to do with Jin Ying, and it was all caused by Li Qing's personal selfish desires.
Moreover, according to the thorough investigation of the Criminal Department, the Jin family slaves did not bully or violate laws and disciplines on weekdays.
The orthodox emperor didn't want to move Jin Ying, although Jin Ying failed to restrain his family, but he was loyal to the royal family, and the orthodox emperor, as the Son of Heaven, would naturally be informal, and would not care about Jin Ying's little flaw, otherwise it would be impossible to take Lin Cong's impeachment to Li Yuntian, and tactfully inform Jin Ying to prepare for the imperial investigation.
Although Jin Ying is fine, but Lin Cong's impeachment will not be so easy to calculate, just after the Criminal Department concluded that Jin Ying had nothing to do with Li Qing's case, several supervisors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the Imperial History of the impeachment of the Criminal Division gave Lin Cong "fear of power and avoid power, and indulged in evil and adultery".
Lin Cong has no argument for the impeachment of these inspectors of the imperial history, and the inspection of the criminal department is the duty of the criminal department, although he is only one of the criminal divisions, but because the cases of the criminal department listed by those supervisors are indeed unjustly imprisoned, and later the case was ascertained by the intervention of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so he has no way to defend at all, let alone pass the responsibility on to others.
The palm seal chief of the six branches is called "all to the matter", and the same as the supervision of the imperial history, are the officials of the seven grades, and there are "left and right to give things" from the seven grades, and a number of people from the seven grades of the matter, except for the people who have received the emperor's decree to enter the six departments, the rest of the people are all from Jinshi.
Although the number of the six branches is small, the power is indeed very large, such as:
"Sealing and refutation", that is, assisting the emperor in handling the chapter;
"Branch copy" and "science reference" are the affairs of the six departments of inspection;
"Cancellation": Cancellation means that the decree and the decree are attached to the section every day, and are sent to the cabinet for the record every five days, and the executive organ is ordered to handle government affairs within the specified time limit, and the six departments will be cancelled on five days after verification.
The six branches and the thirteen supervising imperial histories of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are all important officials of the imperial court, collectively known as Kedao, which can be described as the close ministers around the Son of Heaven, the future feudal officials of the Ming Dynasty and the candidates for the yamen officials of the various ministries and courtyards in the capital.
Since the Sixth Section and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have the duties of supervising hundreds of officials, the two sides sometimes have conflicts of interest, and once something happens, they will inevitably pass the buck to each other.
Among the three camps of the Yanguan, the number of Imperial Historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the largest, followed by the number of people in the six departments, and the number of Hanlin in the Hanlin Academy is the smallest.
Although Hanlin had the smallest number of people, his status among the officials was the highest, and he was the top person in the scholarly class.
A person like Li Yuntian, who served as the superintendent of the imperial history and also served as the Hanlin Academy of the Hanlin Academy, was unique in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and was caused by the complex historical situation at that time.
In the face of the attack of the imperial historians, the criminal department could not keep their composure, although the imperial historians impeached Lin Cong, but it was the criminal department.
Therefore, the people in charge of the Criminal Division refuted this, believing that the reason why unjust cases appeared in the Criminal Department was caused by the ineffective handling of the Imperial History by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and that the Criminal Division could not cover all aspects with its limited manpower.
At this time, the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate quit, thinking that the Criminal Department was shirking their duties, since the food of the king had to bear the king's worries.
Originally, there would be friction between the six departments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate because of the disagreement in the affairs of the imperial court, and the people in the criminal department were besieged by the imperial historians, and the remaining five departments naturally had to come forward to help each other, after all, the six departments were in the same breath, and one was lost, and one was prosperous.
Therefore, the members of the six departments debated with the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate on the main hall and accused the other party of being responsible for the wrongful imprisonment of the Criminal Department.
In the face of this conflict between the Sixth Section and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the officials of the Criminal Department were the most depressed, and they were implicated for no reason and became the weapons of the Sixth Section and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to attack each other.
Because the Criminal Department could not afford to offend the Sixth Section and the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, otherwise there would definitely be small shoes to wear in the future, so the officials of the Criminal Department pretended to be deaf and dumb in the main hall and turned a blind eye to the scene in front of them.
Although the orthodox emperor had been mentally prepared, he did not expect such a big conflict between the six branches and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he actually quarreled in the Taihe Palace, which made him dizzy, and then terminated the court meeting, and let the chief officials of the Six Departments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate restrain their respective subordinates.
The six departments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have such a quarrel, the happiest is the eunuchs of the inner court, in the civil official group, the eunuchs are most afraid of the official, because the official is the emperor's close ministers have the power to supervise and advise, and some guys do not know the current affairs, smelly and hard, so once they are entangled in it will be very troublesome.
Now, the Six Departments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are entangled because of Lin Cong's negligence, so they can't take care of the eunuchs in the inner court.
In addition to the eunuchs, the nobles were also watching the good show in front of them, who would have thought that there would suddenly be a fight within the civil official group, and it was also the two key departments of the Six Departments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which was really unexpected by the outside world.
In fact, for the civil service group, the situation between the six departments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate is so stiff that both the cabinet and the six ministries feel a headache.
Although the six departments give the matter and the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate the various factions of the civil official group, but as a whole, the six departments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate also have common interests, and when the common interests are violated, they naturally have to fight back, otherwise don't want to mix in the six departments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the future.
As the "initiator" of the dispute between the six departments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Lin Cong became famous in the court in one fell swoop, making the Manchu Dynasty civil and military know about his existence: a new promoter actually offended Jin Ying, the former head of internal affairs, and Chen Zhi, the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and stabbed the hornet's nest of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which had never happened before.
Lecture martial arts.
"Lord Wang, this is Lin Cong's background and resume." When Li Yuntian was immersed in the desk to deal with the official business at hand, Lin Xin walked in and put a document in front of him.
"It's really a newborn calf that is not afraid of tigers!" Hearing this, Li Yuntian put down the official business in his hand, picked up the document and looked at it, and finally said to Lin Xin with a smile.
Lin Cong, the word Ji Cong, the number to see the nunnery, Fujian Ningde Qidu, born in Yongle thirteen years, his father Lin Guan is good at poetry and writing, his young court training, hard study.
In the third year of orthodoxy, Lin Congzhong was promoted, and in the following year, he was a scholar, which can be described as a young man's ambition.
In the eighth year of orthodoxy, Lin Cong served as the criminal department and officially stepped into the official career
At the beginning of his tenure, Lin Cong issued the "Letter of Request for Exemption from Ningde County's Except for the Silver Class" in view of the poor working conditions and heavy amount of silver in the Baofeng Silver Mine in Ningde County, but it was not accepted by the imperial court.
Subsequently, Lin Cong impeached Jin Ying, Chen Zhi and others, and by the way, even Li Yuntian was offended, and then made a splash in the court.
"Lord, at the beginning of Lin Cong's tenure, he had the bold words of 'swearing to be right-handed, admonishing his ministers for his own duties', 'wanting to make up for the shortcomings, and correcting the evil spirits' and "those who serve the country with all their hearts", and made an oath 'not to sell straight, not to be famous, not to be coerced for personal gain, and to benefit the country in the community'. ”
Lin Xin groaned for a moment when she heard this, and said to Li Yuntian with a serious expression, "If this person is not a jealous and hateful person, then he must be a traitor, I don't know if he is out of intention or instructed by someone to go up this time." ”
"This king has seen Lin Cong, this person is high-spirited and arrogant, nine times out of ten he has been bewitched by others, otherwise he would not have raised Li Qing's case at this time."
Li Yuntian knew Lin Xin's worries and suspected that Lin Cong had secretly taken refuge in a certain force in the court, so he smiled disapprethoughtly and shook his head.
As a jinshi who is also a young man, Li Yuntian can fully understand Lin Cong's state of mind at this time, it is when the sky is not afraid of the earth, he is holding back his strength and wants to do a big career, so he disdains to take refuge in the power of the imperial court, but because of his youth and vigor, he will inevitably be used.
Lin Xin bowed slightly thoughtfully when she heard this, thinking that what Li Yuntian said was reasonable, Lin Cong was twenty-four years old when he was in the Jinshi when he was high-spirited, and he wanted to show the grand ambitions in his heart, so he disdained to be with friends in the court.
"Lord Wang, who will be the one who secretly bewitches Lin Cong?" Subsequently, Lin Xin couldn't help but ask suspiciously, no matter who the other party is, since he took the Metropolitan Procuratorate where Li Yuntian was in charge, then in Lin Xin's opinion, he was the enemy.
"Sooner or later, there will be a day when it will surface." Li Yuntian smiled like Lin Xin, he doesn't have much useful information now, to be honest, if Lin Cong doesn't impeach Jin Ying and Chen Zhi and others, he won't notice Lin Cong at all, but if the other party wants to continue to use Lin Cong, then sooner or later it will be exposed.
While speaking, many small snowflakes fell on the ground outside the courtyard, Li Yuntian walked to the door, stood in front of the steps and looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, unconsciously, it was almost the Spring Festival again, and a year had passed like this, it was really a time flies.
"Adjutant Lin, how many years have you been with me?" In the emotion, Li Yuntian remembered something and couldn't help but ask Lin Xin, who was following behind him.
"Lord Yu, it's been eight years." Lin Xin didn't know what Li Yuntian meant by this, so she replied without thinking.
"Alas, over the years, this king has been running around, and you have been by your side to assist you wholeheartedly, but it is this king who has delayed your marriage." Li Yuntian sighed when he heard this, looked at Lin Xin and said, "In the past, this king was busy with official affairs and couldn't do without you, but now that the four seas are peaceful and the situation is stable, it is time to consider your life's events." ”
"The princess has already found a family business for you, you go to the princess now, she will arrange the matter, if you are not satisfied with this family business, the princess will find you another family." Lin Xin was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and was about to speak when Li Yuntian waved her hand to stop her, "This is the king's order, go and carry it out." ”
"The subordinates retired." Seeing that Li Yuntian had made up her mind, Lin Xin couldn't help biting her lip, bowed to Li Yuntian and left with a lonely expression.
Although Lin Xin knew that she would eventually leave Li Yuntian's side, and she was also prepared, but this day came too suddenly to make it difficult for her to accept it for a while, but she had to carry out Li Yuntian's order, after all, Li Yuntian was a dignified prince.
Looking at Lin Xin's lonely and lost back, Li Yuntian shook his head helplessly, and a wry smile flashed at the corner of his mouth.
Although Lin Xin is his right-hand man, considering that Lin Xin is already an older woman, he must consider her lifelong happiness, as a woman, Lin Xin should get married, get married and have children, instead of being alone.
As for Lin Xin's replacement after leaving, Li Yuntian has already been selected, he is a person worthy of his trust, and he has been training by Lei Ting's side for many days, which is enough to take over Lin Xin's responsibilities.