First Prince of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 199
Zhu Biao followed Zhu Xi and Zhu Di, behind him were Fu Zhong, Li Qi and others, and behind them were the officials of Kaifeng Mansion. The crown prince entered Kaifeng Mansion surrounded by stars.

There have been guards on both sides of the road to maintain order. Some people in the province rushed into the nobles. The people along the way looked at them curiously. The Kaifeng mansion is very large. Without saying anything, he walked into the lobby.

The three brothers found a place to sit down, and the rest of the officials stood in silence. Zhu Biao lightly tapped the table a few times with his fingers and said, "May I ask you what you can teach me?"

The magistrate of Kaifeng bowed his head and said: "I dare not, for something like this happened in the Kaifeng mansion, I cannot absolve myself of the responsibility, and we have already reported to the imperial court to ask for punishment."

Zhu Biao frowned. This person meant that there was no way to solve the matter, and he was willing to let the court deal with it. Anyway, he couldn't be implicated, and it was just a crime of negligence.

Zhu Xi stood up from the side and said: "Presumptuous! The crown prince is here, and you still need to go to the court to deal with you?"

Zhu Di also said in a cold voice: "The officials in the Kaifeng Mansion have a lot of ills, and the granary caught fire for no reason. This is clearly someone deliberately covering it up. I ask the emperor to punish the Kaifeng prefect severely!"

The two brothers had endured the prefect of Kaifeng for a long time. They would only practice Tai Chi when they encountered problems, and they would evade the truth without saying a word. If he devoted himself to his work, there would be no need for Zhu Di, the king of Qi, to collect food in person.

It's just that if the elder brother doesn't come, these princes don't have evidence, and it's not easy to directly win the top officials of the next mansion, so they wrote to invite the elder brother to come to Kaifeng mansion.

Zhu Biao looked calm at this time, looking at the prefect of Kaifeng anxiously defending himself. This person was in his fifties and was originally the minister of the Ministry of Industry in the Yuan court.

The magistrate of Kaifeng spoke more and more slowly, looking at the calm eyes of His Royal Highness above, as if his heart had been hit and shrank suddenly, he opened his mouth but was speechless.

Zhu Biao glanced at the trembling officials behind him like quails. Zhu Di told him last night that officials such as Kaifeng Tongzhi, Tuiguan, and Liangchang had been arrested. It can be said that the administrative system of Kaifeng Prefecture has been dismantled. Mostly.

Zhu Biao straightened his body and said: "As the chief of a government, such a thing happened in your jurisdiction, how can you justify the crime of negligence."

The magistrate of Kaifeng knelt on the ground and was about to continue his defense, but the officials behind him couldn't stand anymore, knelt aside and said, "Your Highness, the minister Kaifeng Tongjuan Qizuo, the prefect of Kaifeng, Xue Ru, is covering up the cholera party, stealing the imperial court's grain and selling it in Northern Mongolia, I ask Your Highness to punish him for the crime of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country!"

Zhu Xi and Zhu Di looked at each other in blank dismay. It's not like they hadn't interrogated the Kaifeng general judge, why didn't they stand up and say this at that time, otherwise they would have sent the prefect of Kaifeng to jail.

Zhu Biao was not surprised. He looked at Kaifeng Tongsan with a solemn expression and asked, "Do you have any evidence? It is a serious crime to frame an imperial court official."

The magistrate of Kaifeng was full of blood, turned his head to take a deep look at Kaifeng Tongjuan, turned his head to Zhu Biao and said: "Please don't believe this person's one-sided words, your highness, he has a lot of disagreements with the minister's political views, this is to trap the minister. righteous!"

Then he gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, please search the house of this minister. If there is no letter of stolen money, please be the master of this minister. Severely punish this beast, and give this minister some justice!"

Everyone's eyes turned to Kaifeng Tongjuan. I don't know what evidence this person has in his hand, or he just wanted to show his face in front of His Highness the Crown Prince, and wanted to give His Highness an excuse to take down the prefect of Kaifeng.

Zhu Biao squinted his eyes slightly, and he couldn't relax the slightest bit about these old foxes. This Kaifeng judge may not be from the prefect of Kaifeng. He did this just to show Zhu Biao a double spring.

If based on his one-sided words, Zhu Biao ordered the home of a fourth-rank official to be searched, and nothing was found, then Zhu Biao would not be able to take action against the prefect of Kaifeng. He could only admit that he was an upright official, otherwise he would only People who are considered narrow-minded by others.

Everyone looked different, Zhu Biao looked at him and said: Is there evidence, or do you think the evidence is in his house? "

Kaifeng Tongjuan is not a brat, if he dares to stand up, he is ready, knelt on the ground and said to Zhu Biao: "If you go back to His Royal Highness, just before the two His Royal Highnesses, King Jin and King Qi enter Kaifeng Mansion, In the middle of the night, Xue Ru sent his servants to deliver several large boxes of things to his concubine's house, and I thought there must be stolen goods in them."

Zhu Biao's eyes lit up, and he turned his head to look at the prefect of Kaifeng, only to see that his face was pale, Zhu Xi and Zhu Di looked at each other, they also thought that after the eldest brother took down the prefect of Kaifeng and searched his home, they would definitely gain something, unexpectedly This man had already planned.

The magistrate of Kaifeng gritted his teeth and argued: "Your Highness, the Lion Roars in the East River at home, and I dote on Concubine Ji so I took care of his family in secret. It's not some stolen goods. Please learn from me, Your Highness."

Kaifeng Tongpan knocked his head on the ground and said: "If not, please behead your Highness!"

Just as Zhu Biao was about to say something, he saw the officials at the back moving out step by step. It seemed that there should be letters that could implicate him in the stolen goods, otherwise how could it be so.

The official naturally felt His Highness the Prince's gaze, and his blood spurted out of tension. Thinking of the strict laws of the imperial court, he fainted and pissed.

Zhu Biao stood up and ordered: "Second brother, you and Li Qi lead people to search the place that Kaifeng Tongju said. Be sure to hurry up!"

As soon as this remark came out, the magistrate of Kaifeng also passed out. There were many officials behind him and immediately fell to his knees and shouted: "I want to impeach Xue Ru, please be merciful, Your Highness, I have evidence of accepting bribes." …………”

There is no need to talk about many things now, Zhu Xi took the order to go, and the officials on the ground cried like ghosts, and Zhu Biao knew that they would not be able to run away, otherwise why should he be so excited.

It's a pity that it's too late, the crab is only enough for one person, even if this Kaifeng Tongjuan has something to do with this matter, as long as it's not too much, Zhu Biao will spare him.

It is also to let other people take a look, so that they can know that you can make mistakes, but you can't hide it from me together.

Zhu Biao waved someone to take them down, looked at Zhu Di who was beside him and said, "Have all the people in the prison been tortured?"

Zhu Di nodded and said, "It's made them suffer a little, but it's useless."

Zhu Biao knocked on the table and said: "Very well, when the bandits escorted by the third child arrive, weave them together and send them to Fengyang to open up wasteland, and after the wasteland is opened up to dredge the canal, the imperial court will always have work for them to do. "

Zhu Di thought for a while and said: "The rest are easy to talk about, but those two marquises are old brothers of the father, they are from Huaixi, and I heard that they followed Chang Shuai during the first Northern Expedition."

Zhu Biao squeezed his eyebrows and said: No matter who it is, the rules cannot be broken. Half of the nobles are guarding various places. If they are handled lightly this time, others will follow suit. How to deal with it can convince the public. "

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