Chapter Eighty-Six: A Gorgeous Reversal
"Tian Hongyu, what else do you have to say?"
Chongzhen asked coldly.
Tian Hongyu trembled, knelt on the ground, and said urgently: "Your Majesty, the emperor forgives your sins, the emperor forgives your sins, the minister was confused for a while, and was tempted by the prefect of the daimyo, this matter, the minister didn't know about it at all, and the minister didn't receive any of the things on the gift list......
Tian Hongyu still barely retains a trace of fantasy, hoping to escape this catastrophe.
Chongzhen sneered: "Tian Hongyu, what do I say, you have been desperately trying to ask me to let you go out of the Beijing draft, hehe, now I finally understand, the draft is just a cover, the bribery party is real, just a big name prefect, I have to give you so much gold and silver, what about Nanjing?" What about Suzhou? What about Hangzhou? What about Matsue? One is richer than the other, have you blackmailed them all over again? ”
"This, this, the emperor, there is no such thing, there is no such thing!"
Tian Hongyu said repeatedly.
Zhu Jie on the side said with a smile: "Your Majesty, whether Lord Guozhang has asked for bribes from local officials in other places, the minister doesn't know, but he knows that he also asked Xu Youcai, the commander of Zhang Dewei, to bribe Xu Youcai, and Xu Youcai bribed Lord Guozhang with 1......,000 taels of gold and 10,000 taels of silver in order to go further."
"Zhu Jie, you spew blood!"
Tian Hongyu was so frightened that his face changed, and he didn't know why Zhu Jie knew so clearly, this kid seemed to be really staring at himself to death, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, there is no such thing, the minister guarantees his life, this is Zhu Jie's personal revenge!" ”
Zhu Jie sneered: "Lord Tian, revenge? Shall I take revenge on you? Are you mistaken? The two of us are innocent. Maybe you don't give up if you don't go to the Yellow River, don't forget, now Xu Youcai's son Xu Yifan is serving in our army, is there such a thing, let's ask Xu Yifan to know? ”
Tian Hongyu was completely desperate when he heard this, if he could barely prevaricate about the matter of the Daimyo Prefect, then there was absolutely no way to prevaricate about Xu Youcai's matter, one thousand taels of gold, ten thousand taels of silver, that was really accepted by himself! How could he have forgotten about his bastard son!
Zhu Jie ignored Tian Hongyu, who was sitting on the ground, and then said: "Lord Tian, you just said that I robbed the people's daughter, yes, there is such a thing, but it is not the people's daughter, but the family of the Yanyun Division and Lord Lin Yueshan, that is what I pulled out of your tiger's mouth, if it weren't for me, I'm afraid that both of them will be harmed by you, right?" Or, let's also invite the Lin mother and daughter to come up and confront the emperor in front of him? ”
Tian Hongyu was dumbfounded for a while, and reluctantly replied: "Zhu Jie, I went south to draft at the emperor's behest, and I am the emperor's draft girl, how can I be wrong?" Why do you stand in the way? ”
"Haha......"
Zhu Jie laughed and said: "Lord Guozhang, you are the emperor's draft girl, can you even snatch everyone else's mother?" Could it be sent to the palace to be a concubine for the emperor? What's more, other girls don't want to enter the palace......"
Before Tian Hongyu could speak, Chongzhen on the side couldn't listen anymore, wiped it, and sent all the mothers and daughters to me? I don't have such a heavy taste, if I take it all, then I won't even be as good as a beast!
"Tian, Hong, Yu!"
Chongzhen gritted his teeth and roared: "Someone, take off Tian Hongyu's black yarn for me, deprive me of all official positions and titles, hand them over to the Criminal Department for strict interrogation, and wait for the fate!" ”
"Your Majesty! Emperor! Spare your life, spare your life! For the sake of Concubine Tian's affection, let's spare Lao Chen once......"
Tian Hongyu let out a miserable howl.
The muscles on Chongzhen's face twitched, Concubine Tian, that is her most beloved concubine, but unfortunately, she died the year before last, it was because of Concubine Tian, so it was a pity that she had always taken care of Tian Hong......
"Tian Hongyu, I have already given you the opportunity, but you don't know how to cherish it, then it's no wonder that I don't want that net worth life as a guarantee? Someone came, immediately passed the decree, seized all Tian Hongyu's family property, and rushed into the treasury! ”
Chongzhen said hatefully.
However, this is not Chongzhen's temporary intention, Zhu Jie had already given Chongzhen a bad idea last night, isn't it that the court is short of money? Aren't these dignitaries rich and rich? Then check, no matter which one has a problem, as long as it is corruption, then confiscate the family property, all confiscated, if you investigate and deal with ten tigers a year, let alone get one or two million taels of silver, the confiscated field property, all used for the army, supplement the military!
Zhu Jie's move is too damaging, now as long as he can solve the problem of the empty treasury for Chongzhen, not to mention the investigation of corrupt officials, even if he is asked to make another edict against himself, he is willing, he can not only clarify the rule of officials, but also fill the treasury, why not?
In this way, the unlucky Tian Hongyu became the first scapegoat for Zhu Jie's bad idea!
Tian Hongyu fell, Zhang Jin and the others were horrified, without Tian Hongyu as a shield in front, could they resist this catastrophe? It's a joke, Tian Hongyu doesn't have Luo Yang's bones yet, I'm afraid that everyone will have to shake everyone out!
"You are all curious, why didn't Luo Yangxing and Zhang Guowei come to the court?"
Chongzhen sneered, "Last night, at the fourth watch last night, I had already sent all the two of them to the prison of the Criminal Department, hehe, amazing, amazing, I have to say, what kind of courtiers did I raise, colluding with rich businessmen, selling illicit salt, in less than five years, the profit was close to three million taels, well, they are all my good courtiers!" Zhang Jin, Zhang Xin, and you, Huang Jie, Gao Shunqin, you are all my good courtiers, in front of me, you are so unscrupulously reversing black and white, framing loyalty, can you be guilty? ”
When the four of them heard this, their legs were weak, and they all knelt on the ground. None of my brothers can run!
"The emperor, the emperor, the ministers are guilty, please forgive the emperor, please be gracious......"
The brothers no longer have the arrogance just now, above the main hall, almost all the courtiers are dumbfounded, this is similar to the trick, just now they were still aggressively towards Zhu Jie, the newcomer, the first brother, in the blink of an eye, he has been beaten down by others, and there is no chance to resist at all! This Zhu Jie achieved a gorgeous reversal in this way!
Even, the emperor did not inquire about Zhu Jie, let alone hand it over to the three law divisions for trial, it was so clean and neat, without the slightest drag!
"The emperor is shengming, the emperor is shengming!"
Chen Yan, the first auxiliary minister, took the lead in kneeling on the ground and patted Chongzhen's sycophant, if you don't pat the sycophant at this time, when will you wait?
"Your Majesty ......"
On the top of the main hall, almost all the courtiers knelt down and sang praises one by one!