Prince of Chaos

"Ministry."

Just when Daheng Xiao and the cabinet quartet were bullying each other with ulterior motives, Luo Yunliang, the left servant of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, came back.

As soon as Luo Yunliang entered Xiao Daheng's class, he saw that there were still four big bosses, and he quickly saluted and asked: "I pay my respects to Yuanfu, and to all the elders."

Xiao Daheng looked at Luo Yunliang who came back, and he asked, "Did you bring it back?"

Luo Yunliang said: "Go back to the hall, I have already brought it back."

Xiao Daheng said: "Okay, you go and get ready. After a quarter of an hour, the trial will start in the lobby of the Ministry of Criminal Justice."

"Yes."

Luo Yunliang withdrew immediately.

Xiao Daheng said to Wang Xijue and the others: "Yuanfu, Mr. Ge, you take a break. Liu Keyong and other criminals have been brought, and the trial can begin immediately."

Wang Xijue hummed, but did not speak.

Shen Li and Shen Yiguan looked at Wang Jiaping resentfully, they were originally to accompany the run, but they were also dragged into the pit.

At this time, Wang Jiaping sat on the chair with a calm expression and waited quietly.

Anyway, for him, the matter has come to this point, if we want to fight against everyone together, no one can run away, and no one can think of being alone!
A quarter of an hour is fleeting.

In the solemn and solemn lobby of the Ministry of Punishment, the soldiers and servants holding water and fire sticks lined up in an orderly manner, and then stood on both sides of the hall, rhythmically hitting the ground with water and fire sticks in their hands, and issued a long "mighty" sound from their mouths.

After hearing the voices of the yamen servants, there was a moment of silence inside and outside the lobby.

At this time, Xiao Daheng, who was the chief judge, finally appeared. When he stood in front of the high chair in the middle, Wang Xijue, Wang Jiaping, Shen Li, and Shen Yiguan also appeared in turn, and went to their respective positions.

Sun Xian also came out at this time, he bowed his hands to Xiao Daheng and the elders, and then sat directly in his seat, with two Jin Yiwei standing behind him.

Xiao Daheng saw that everyone was there, he held the gavel and slapped it!The voice said solemnly: "Ascension hall!"

Then the soldiers and yamen servants in the lobby began to knock on the floor again, and raised the long tone of "mighty".

Xiao Daheng sat in the middle, and Wang Xijue and Wang Jiaping sat on the left and right.

The censors in the hall can also feel it naturally. The atmosphere at the moment is extremely solemn and solemn, and they cooperated very well without making a sound, just standing quietly under the hall.

"Take the criminals!"

The gavel in Xiao Daheng's hand was slapped again, with a majestic momentum, just like a picture of Baolong.

It's just that his complexion is not dark enough, and there is no crescent scar on his forehead, so, after all, it still lacks a little meaning.

Liu Keyong, who had already been put in iron chains, was quickly brought up by two officials from the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

After Liu Keyong was escorted into the lobby, seeing the scene in the lobby, his heart was also trembling.

He didn't expect that there would be such a big battle, the four elders of the cabinet were all there, and they were the chief judges of the Minister of Criminal Affairs.

"Who is in the hall?"

Daheng Xiao asked forcefully.

Liu Keyong's psychological quality is not bad. After all, he was quietly pointed out the second day he entered the Anti-Corruption Agency, and Yu Jideng did not find out his evidence.Just relying on testimonies and so-called witnesses cannot bring him down at all.

After Liu Keyong experienced a short period of distraction, he noticed that there were so many censors behind him, and he stood up proudly: "My subordinate Liu Keyong!"

The gavel in Xiao Daheng's hand was slapped fiercely again, and he said angrily: "Presumptuous!"

This sound startled everyone in the hall.

Xiao Daheng said: "The mirror hangs high in the hall of the Ministry of Punishment, how can you be so presumptuous!"

Liu Keyong contradicted him: "What's wrong with being an official?"

Xiao Daheng said: "According to what this hall knows, you have disregarded God's grace, neglected your subjects, corrupted and accepted bribes, and harmed the border town. You can be convicted!"

Liu Keyong shouted loudly: "I have been wronged, these are all the crimes Yu Jideng imposed on me! I am a clean and hard-working official. For more than ten years, I have always been law-abiding, abiding by morality, and loyal to the king. How can there be corruption? Lift?"

Hearing Liu Keyong's passionate answer, the censors standing at the entrance of the lobby couldn't help applauding Liu Keyong: "Liu Yushi is magnificent!"

Hearing the solidarity from the censor outside the hall, Liu Keyong also showed a smug smile.

Xiao Daheng looked at this scene, and the gavel in his hand slapped again, "Silence!"

Daheng Xiao said: "Since you think you have been wronged, what happened to the 10 taels of silver that Shanxi Fan's family bribed you with?"

After all, Xiao Daheng threw out a copy of the account book copied from Fan's family.

When Liu Keyong saw this ledger, he panicked, and then he said stiffly: "This is all slander! These are all fake ledgers fabricated by Yu Jideng, there is no reason to blame them if you want to commit crimes! The officials are clean all their lives. I live in only three tile-roofed houses, and even the official robes on my body are old robes that have been patched and patched. If I really embezzled 10 taels of silver, how could I be so down and out?"

After all, Liu Keyong lifted up his official robe to show everyone the patches inside.

Liu Ke stubbornly refused to admit it. He thought that as long as no dirty money was found, he would dare to insist that everything else was forgery and slander!At that time, no evidence can be found, let's see who is difficult to end in the end!
Xiao Daheng didn't expect that Liu Keyong was really stubborn, and he could still be so stubborn at such a time. This psychological quality is really extraordinary.

Daheng Xiao snorted and said, "Are you sure there is nothing else in this hall other than this ledger?"

"Come here, bring Fan Yongsheng, the treasurer of Fan's bank."

Fan Yongsheng is Fan Yongdou's younger brother. His main responsibility is to bribe officials in the capital and find an official umbrella for the Fan family.

This time, due to Wei Zhongxian's detailed investigation and Yu Jideng's quick action, Fan Yongsheng was captured by Yu Jideng before he could react.

Fan Yongsheng had already been in panic all day long, and when he was brought up to the lobby, he was completely limp and could hardly kneel up straight.

"Criminal Fan Yongsheng, do you know this person?"

Xiao Daheng pointed to Liu Keyong and asked.

Fan Yongsheng glanced at Liu Keyong in panic, his eyes were full of panic, and he was speechless for a while.

Daheng Xiao gave a pat on the gavel, "Say it quickly!"

Fan Yongsheng was frightened by the gavel, and said in a conditioned reaction: "I know!"

Hearing that Fan Yongsheng said he knew him, Liu Keyong immediately panicked.He immediately shouted: "This is a false accusation! This officer has never seen this person before!"

Xiao Daheng looked at Liu Keyong who was yelling, and said: "This hall didn't ask you, so don't interrupt! Otherwise, you will be punished immediately for yelling at the court!"

Then Daheng Xiao asked Fan Yongsheng, "Who is he? What is your relationship with him?"

Fan Yongsheng stammered and said: "He is Master Liu Liu. Caomin has business dealings with him."

Xiao Daheng said: "What business?"

Xiao Daheng didn't question Liu Ke's business, but asked directly what kind of business it was.

This is because in the Ming Dynasty, as long as officials below the fourth rank were allowed to do business, and after the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to the collapse of the system, even the cabinet elders could not be alone, and then went into business, the most famous of which is Xu Jie, the leader of the Qingliu during the Jiajing Dynasty.

Xu Jie was the leader of Qingliu in Beijing, and at the same time he was also an extremely human minister, sitting in the position of chief assistant of the cabinet.However, he raised many weavers in his hometown, Huating, and started a textile business.Moreover, the scale is not small.

Later, Hai Rui Hai Gangfeng, a generation of upright iron-headed children, also investigated the affairs of Xu Jie's family, but because of the huge resistance, it was finally ignored.

As a result, Hai Rui offended a large number of southern scholars with vested interests, which led to frustration in his later years. In the end, he could only die in depression in Nanjing, leaving eternal regrets.

And behind Hai Rui, the southern scholars did not let him go. They carried forward the spirit of killing people with their pens, and spread a lot of rumors about Hai Rui, which caused Hai Rui to read a few books in later generations without any research. In the eyes of the literary "college questioner", he is a bookworm who killed his own daughter by rigid dogma. . .

"Food..."

Fan Yongsheng stammered two words.

Xiao Daheng asked again: "Is it just food? What I see here is not just food. If you keep concealing something, you may bring disaster to your Fan family in the future."

Fan Yongsheng immediately replied: "I still need salt and iron..."