Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 391
Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Qiyu sat behind the case, reached out and turned over the memorabilia in front of him, feeling a rare headache.

In recent days, as the turmoil of knocking on the que gradually subsided, the court finally felt a lot more peaceful.

Of course, the follow-up impact of Kou Que still exists.

For example, the pile of impeachment memorials in front of him.

When the Jingcha started, Zhu Qiyu said that he would not help Wang Wen, but in the end, he still failed to stand by and watch.

Under the strong support of Chen Yi, Yu Qian and others, the mutual market proposal was successfully passed, and the hidden dangers of Wang Wen's trip to Liaodong were completely eliminated.

Without this layer of threat, he was even more aggressive in the Jingcha of the Ministry of Officials. After cleaning up the Imperial Academy, he turned the spearhead back to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the other temples and prisons were not spared either.

Anyway, it was strictly checked, and in just half a month, those who were assessed as below-average and unqualified accounted for almost a quarter of the number of people who were inspected by Beijing.

What followed was naturally a series of impeachments, especially for the censors. Although they said that the matter of Liaodong could not be mentioned again, it did not mean that they would let it go.

What kind of cruel behavior, eradicating dissidents, letter after letter of impeachment, kept handing over to the imperial court, which made Zhu Qiyu extremely annoyed.

"Your Majesty, the cabinet has sent over another batch of memorials, many of which are for the impeachment of the Heavenly Official..."

Cheng Jing walked in holding a stack of memorials, and his expression was also very helpless.

Now these impeachment memorials, the cabinet basically only writes abbreviations, not even the bill drafts, anyway, it is useless to write them, and they are all kept in the middle.

Picking it up and flipping through two books, Zhu Qiyu sighed and said.

"In this way, you send someone to the Ministry of Officials to summon Wang Wen. During this period of time, he has been tossing hard enough, and it is too late."

It has been nearly two months since the Jingchao, and the goals that should be achieved are basically almost there.

After this Beijing inspection, the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have changed a large number of people severely.

The Empress Dowager Sun and the British government, the people who have been placed in the court, and those who can be deposed, should have been pulled out.

The remaining handful are either those who made contributions in the establishment of the War of Oara and are not easy to move lightly for the time being, or some stunned young people who really can’t find any faults, or who are deliberately left to deceive people’s eyes and ears, become No climate.

During this period of time in the court, because of Wang Wen's methods, people were quite panicked. Even Chen Yi mentioned it to Zhu Qiyu several times, both openly and secretly.

If this goes on like this, President Chen may have another serious fight with Wang Tianguan.

Cheng Jing nodded, casually summoned two servants over, gave a few instructions, and told them to go announce the decree.

Immediately, Cheng Jing took out another copy from the playbook, handed it to Zhu Qiyu, and said.

"My lord, besides the memorandum of impeaching the lord of heaven, there is another copy, which is also quite attractive. Please read it, Your lord."

Zhu Qiyu opened it and looked, but his face became a little playful.

This memorandum comes from Wu Cheng, the head of the Ministry of War.

It is said that when checking the military account books, it was discovered that a few years ago, when Luo Tong, the left deputy capital censor, was in charge of the Ministry of War, a batch of military weapons disappeared for no reason.

However, because it was a wartime and the amount was not large, and Luo Tong was soon relegated for corruption, the matter was left alone.

After Wu Cheng checked the account books, he suspected that Luo Tong and Wang Ji had colluded with each other and concealed major crimes under the guise of petty crimes, so he asked for a thorough investigation of the case again.

This matter is not surprising, ever since Pingyue's military report of blood and tears was uncovered by the court, Wang Ji's reputation in the court has plummeted.

After all, what Confucianism emphasizes is the way of benevolence and forgiveness. It is really not a word of benevolence to sit and watch the people in the misery and ignore them.

Therefore, among the scholars, the voice of disdain for Wang Ji has become higher and higher day by day.

In the imperial court, there has never been a shortage of people who make trouble. If this case is confirmed, it can be regarded as Wang Ji's crime of dereliction of duty. It is not surprising that someone finds out.

But strangely enough, this impeachment man!

Wu Cheng, the head of the Ministry of War, had contacts with the Dingxi Hou Mansion in his early years.

He happened to be one of the few people who Zhu Qiyu did not move during this Beijing inspection.

However, it's not because he has any merits, but because he is usually cautious and has no merits or faults.

Even with Wang Wen's strict standards, at best, he could only suppress him from being promoted, but failed to dethrone him.

Speaking of Luo Tong, after Zhu Qiyu threw him into the Imperial Prison, he didn't pay much attention to him.

He bears the credit for resisting Oirat, which is considered a national merit, and the matter of privately organizing the knocking on the que is not enough to push him to the end.

After all, there was no real trouble. If it really came to the gate of the palace, it would be fine to deal with it in any way.

But if he was stopped halfway, it would be difficult to deal with it too harshly.

Zhu Qiyu originally planned to relegate him to any place to get to know him after a period of time, but he never thought that such a moth would happen again.

Wu Cheng has always been wise and safe, and won't meddle in other people's business.

This time he went to impeach Wang Ji, and he reported an old case related to Luo Tong. It is impossible to say that no one ordered him behind it.

However, what puzzled Zhu Qiyu was why did the British government do this?

Could it be that, seeing that Luo Tong didn't help them get things done, he simply took out his anger on him and stomped on him again?
After pondering for a moment, Zhu Qiyu ordered: "Where is Lu Zhong, tell him to come here."

During this time, Lu Zhong basically stayed in Beizhen Fusi.

Logically speaking, the distance between Beizhen Fusi and the Ministry of Officials is not too far from the palace, but it may be because the Ministry of Officials has official duties and cannot escape. Although Zhu Qiyu summoned Wang Wen first, it was Lu Zhong who arrived sooner. .

After a cup of tea, Lu Zhong in a flying fish robe strode into the hall. After saluting, Zhu Qiyu didn't make any fuss, and asked directly.

"Recently, has anything unusual happened in the prison?"

When Lu Zhong was asked this question, he was a little dazed, but he quickly reacted and said.

"Returning to Your Majesty, there is nothing else, but after Wang Ji was imprisoned, Jiang Yi from Dingxihou's Mansion came in to visit him once."

"Besides, after Jiang Yi met Wang Ji, Hou Renli of Ningyuan also came once to see Luo Tong. Both of them bribed the jailer without disclosing their identities."

"According to His Majesty's previous instructions, I did not startle the enemy, but only ordered the guards to let them in as if nothing had happened."

At the beginning, when Chen Mao was still in prison, the British government had done this kind of thing, bribed the jailer, visited the prison secretly, made connections inside and outside, and passed on news.

It's just that they didn't know that after Jin Ying's incident, Lu Zhong cleaned Jinyiwei thoroughly and silently.

Those spies who came in from various mansions were either transferred or secretly monitored. The same is true in the imperial prison. Those little jailers who seem to be greedy for money have mixed with Lu Zhong's confidantes.

After hearing Lu Zhong's answer, Zhu Qiyu tapped his finger on the desk, thought for a while, and ordered someone to give Wu Cheng's memorial to Lu Zhong, and then asked.

"If I remember correctly, Wang Ji was granted the title of Earl of Jingyuan because he followed Dingxihou Jiang Gui to fight against Adai Khan, right?"

(End of this chapter)