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Chapter 242 Is Revenge Not Overnight 【Order】

Li Huan bowed slightly to Zhu Houzhao and said, "Return to Your Majesty, I really have evidence."

Zhu Houzhao, who had just been irritated by Yu Fang and others' remarks, was overjoyed when he heard the words: "Okay, since there is evidence, Li Qing will bring the evidence quickly, so that they can have a look."

Zhu Houzhao said with a bit of anger: "Obviously it was the Ming border army who slaughtered the two tribes of the Tatars, but because they didn't bring back the corpses and heads of the Tatars, you will be deemed as a false report of military merits." , It's ridiculous, now that Li Qing has evidence, I want to see what else you have to say."

Yu Fang, Chen Wei and others all stared at Li Huan, their eyes full of surprise and disbelief.

None of the soldiers in the Three Sides had produced any strong evidence, and they really didn't believe that Li Huan could produce any evidence.

At least in their view, Li Huan was simply bluffing. Even after the initial surprise, they were still a little curious about what evidence Li Huan could produce.

At this time, Li Huan said to Qiu Ju who was standing beside him: "Brother Qiu, please go there yourself and bring those people to the gate of the palace."

Qiu Ju heard a smile on the corner of his mouth, nodded to Li Huan and said: "Brother Li, don't worry, our family will take someone here."

Just looking at Qiu Ju's expression and reaction, it was obvious that he was not surprised or surprised by Li Huan's actions, and seemed to know something.

A flash of understanding suddenly flashed in Zhu Houzhao's eyes. Earlier, he had sent Qiu Ju to Shaanxi to deliver an edict to Li Huan. If you count the time, it happened to coincide with Li Huan leading his troops into the grassland and returning, and Qiu Ju was also with Li Huan. come back together.

Under such circumstances, no one knew better than Qiu Ju what Li Huan brought back from the grassland and what he brought back to Beijing.

Yang Tinghe, Li Dongyang and the others seemed to have thought of this too, and they couldn't help but look at Li Huan strangely.

On the contrary, Li Huan stood there calmly, looking at Yu Fang, Chen Wei and the others with disdain.

Outside the palace gate, more than a dozen Jinyi guards were escorting a few people. These people were none other than Aliha, the head of the Huli tribe who colluded with the Tang family, and a dozen leaders of the Huli tribe.

When Li Huan ordered the massacre of Hu Libu, Aliha and these leaders escaped by chance, Li Huan did not kill these people, but brought them back to the capital.

Originally, Li Huan didn't take these people seriously. The reason why he didn't kill these people was because Li Huan said that he wanted Aliha and others to see how Li Huan made that Dayan Khan useless. And returned.

Last night, when he learned that people from the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army actually used the authenticity of the military achievements of the frontier army, Li Huan has been thinking of ways to deal with the doubts from the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army.

At that time, Li Huan thought of Aliha and others who were brought back to Beijing by him and almost forgotten by him.

So before Li Huan entered the palace, he ordered people to bring Aliha and others to wait outside the palace gate.

These people were even led by Chen Ke, a senior official of Jinyiwei, to guard them personally.

Looking at the closed palace gate, Chen Ke's face was filled with a bit of a smile, apparently in a good mood.

He was still worried at first, but when he learned that Li Huan had brought back Aliha and the leaders of the pot, Chen Ke knew that some people in the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army would be in trouble this time.

With a creak, the palace door opened, and a figure appeared.

Qiu Ju's eyes fell on Chen Ke, especially when his eyes swept over Aliha and the others standing there, Qiu Ju's mouth showed a bit of a smile, and it was as he expected, Li Huan sent Aliha several People brought it here.

Seeing Qiu Ju, Chen Ke hurriedly saluted, "I've seen Supervisor Qiu."

Qiu Ju smiled slightly and said, "Take these people and come with our family into the palace."

Qianqing Palace, Imperial Study Room

The atmosphere in the imperial study room was somewhat dignified, and everyone was waiting quietly, not only Zhu Houzhao, but also Yu Fang and others were also waiting for Li Huan to bring the so-called evidence.

It's just that Yu Fang and the others were obviously a little panicked at this moment, especially when they saw Li Huan's calm look, they felt more and more confident.

There was a sound of footsteps, and Qiu Ju bowed over and bowed to Zhu Houzhao, saying, "Your Majesty, Aliha, the leader of Hulibu, and a dozen other leaders have all been brought here."

Zhu Houzhao's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he glanced at Li Huan subconsciously. Obviously, he didn't expect Li Huan to arrest a high-level Tatar from a tribe of ten thousand people.

You must know that the Tatars on the grassland are extremely difficult to deal with, especially the high-level Tatars. I can't even catch it.

But now Li Huan has caught the leader and the leader in the pot, how can this not surprise people.

"impossible……"

Almost instinctively, Yu Fang and Chen Wei opened their eyes wide, their faces full of disbelief.

They believed that Li Huan could lead people to slaughter a Tatar tribe, but in their thinking, Li Huan could slaughter most of the Tatars in Huli, but he would definitely not be able to hold the high-level Tatars.

At this moment, Zhu Houzhao nodded with a smile and said, "Bring someone in."

Several Jinyi guards pushed Aliha and others into the imperial study room. As more than a dozen people entered the imperial study room, the originally spacious imperial study room suddenly seemed a little crowded.

One after another, their gazes turned to Aliha and the others who were pushed in.

People like Aliha looked like Tatars on the prairie. Coupled with the aura exuded by these people, anyone who wasn't a fool could see that these people had unusual identities.

When everyone was looking at Aliha and the others, Aliha and the others were also curiously looking at the group of people in the imperial study.

Ever since they were escorted into the capital, Aliha and the others seemed to be dazzled by the sights, only feeling that the prosperity of the capital was far beyond their imagination.

Although they had heard that Daming was a prosperous place on the grassland, it occupied the best place in the world, it was the center of the world, and it was worshiped by all nations.

But Aliha and others did not expect that Daming would be such a prosperous scene, especially when they were brought into the Forbidden City where the emperor lived, Aliha and others were really shocked.

The majestic and solemn palaces and pavilions made them dare not imagine that there is such a place in the world.

Just when Ali was waiting for others to lose their minds, Li Huan snorted coldly and said: "Bold Aliha, when you see the Son of Heaven, don't hurry to meet him."

Woke up by Li Huan's yell, Aliha and the others looked at Zhu Houzhao. When they saw Zhu Houzhao, Aliha was taken aback for a moment, then couldn't help laughing and said, "It turns out that the emperor of Ming Dynasty is just a A half-grown child..."

"Bold!"

Li Huan raised his foot and kicked Aliha's knee, and suddenly there was the sound of his knee cracking, followed by Aliha screaming and kneeling on the ground.

The leaders were also taken aback. Before Li Huan could make a move, they fell to their knees one by one, and said with a bit of fear: "I have seen His Majesty the Great Emperor."

Zhu Houzhao looked at the screaming Aliha with great interest, but he didn't pay too much attention to Aliha's rudeness just now. Instead, he looked at Aliha and said, "Is that the leader of the pot?"

The severe pain from his knee made Aliha's face covered with cold sweat. Hearing this, he gritted his teeth and looked up at Zhu Houzhao and tremblingly said: "I am Aliha, the leader of the pot, if you want to kill the son of tomorrow, kill him!" , you Daming actually slaughtered the inside of my pot, my Khan will never give up."

At this time, Yu Fang suddenly shouted: "Impossible, they absolutely cannot be the leaders of the Tatars..."

Obviously, Yu Fang and the others panicked. If the identities of these people were confirmed, wouldn't everything they did before be useless, and wouldn't Li Huan's military achievements be confirmed?

Li Huan couldn't help frowning when he saw this, but it was Aliha who heard the words and looked at Yu Fang with a bit of sarcasm and said: "You doubt our identities, but it doesn't matter, next year the Great Khan will lead the warriors on our grassland When you enter Daming, you will know who we are."

Li Huan nodded slightly to Chen Ke who was at the side, and saw Chen Ke waved, a package was thrown out, the package was scattered, and something came into everyone's eyes, it was a silver seal letter, the shape of the seal was quite The most peculiar, like a wolf howling up to the sky.

Li Huan said indifferently: "Everyone, what is this, everyone should be familiar with it."

Li Huan's eyes swept across the officials present, and at this moment, when Yu Fang and the others saw the silver wolf, they immediately looked like deflated balls.

But at this moment, Yang Tinghe stroked his beard and said slowly: "If Yang has not admitted his mistake, this should be a token specially cast by Dayan Khan who ruled all the ministries of the Tatar tribe to entrust the leaders of each tribe."

Li Huan glanced at Yang Tinghe and said calmly: "That's right, this silver wolf seal is the token of the leader of the pot, and this token was given by Dayan Khan, which is enough to prove the identity of these people."

As he spoke, Li Huan stared at Yu Fang and the others and said, "Yu Shilang, Chen Shilang, what else can you say? Is it true that our Ming frontier army slaughtered the Huli and Heihe Tatars?"

Listening to Li Huan's questioning, Yu Fang, Chen Wei and others lowered their heads and did not speak. On the contrary, Aliha, who was enduring the severe pain, seemed to have heard some big joke, and couldn't help laughing: " I didn't expect that there are people in your Ming court who don't believe in such a big thing as the family being slaughtered in my pot, and even want to obliterate the military achievements of those soldiers..."

Seeing Aliha's sarcasm, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help shouting at Yu Fang, Chen Wei and others with a gloomy expression: "Yu Fang, Chen Wei, you have disappointed me so much."

Saying that, Zhu Houzhao said in a deep voice: "I will pass on my order to remove Yu Fang, Chen Wei and others from their official posts, and the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies will immediately draw up the matter of awarding rewards."

Zhu Houzhao's eyes fell on Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe, Wang Yangming, Liu Yu and others on the side, looked at Liu Yu and said, "Mr. Liu Ge, you will supervise this matter yourself, and you must make a decision in the shortest time. The reward will be issued."

Liu Yu said in a deep voice, "Your minister receives the decree."

Zhu Houzhao flicked his sleeves and said, "If there's nothing wrong, all the Qing families will be gone."

A group of people bowed to Zhu Houzhao, and then slowly left the imperial study room, while Yu Fang, Chen Wei and other officials all looked lost.

Because the emperor ordered their official status to be removed, all their official uniforms, seals and other things were taken back, so when they entered the palace, they were still high-ranking officials, but when they left the palace, they were already like ordinary people. generally.

The servants of each family guarding outside the palace gate were waiting in front of their own carriages. They saw the palace gate open from a distance, and a group of officials headed by Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe and others came out.

Seeing this, these servants greeted them with joy.

The servants of Chen Wei and Yu Fang also had joyful faces, but when they saw their master, they couldn't help being taken aback, with astonishment on their faces.

What the hell is going on here, where are the official uniforms on my master, why are all of them turned into white clothes.

The housekeeper of Yu Mansion stepped forward and said in a low voice, "Master, this is..."

Naturally, Yu Fang and the others could feel the gazes of the servants of the surrounding families. They were ashamed and annoyed, and couldn't help cursing Li Huan secretly.

After hearing what the housekeeper said, Yu Fang gave him a cold look, walked directly into the carriage, and said in a deep voice, "Go back to the house."

The rest of the officials who were removed from the official position also responded in a normal way, and soon calm was restored before the palace gate.

In the imperial city
Li Huan was kept by Zhu Houzhao. At this time, Zhu Houzhao looked at Li Huan with a smile on his face and said, "I thought that if it couldn't work out, I would just order to reward the soldiers of the frontier army, but I didn't expect you to keep Li Qing like this." With one hand, Yu Fang and Chen Wei have nothing to say."

As he said that, Zhu Hou looked at Li Huan with a smile and said, "Li Qing, you would have expected that there would be someone in the court who deliberately made things difficult for you in terms of military achievements, right?"

Li Huan couldn't help laughing bitterly when he heard the words: "Your Majesty is really joking. I am not a god, so how can I predict the prophet? The reason why I saved the lives of Aliha and others is nothing more than what I said at the beginning, I want Aliha to watch the minister with my own eyes." How to make Dayan Khan return without success, I just didn't expect it to be so useful."

A stern look flashed in Li Huan's eyes and he said: "I really didn't expect that Yu Fang, Chen Wei and the others would even dare to deny the military merits that the soldiers exchanged their lives for in the border town."

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, the smile on his face faded away, and his expression also became more dignified: "I didn't expect them to be so bold, and it was even more unexpected that so many officials in the huge military department and even the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army would actually be so bold. It’s up and down, but anyone with a bit of common sense should know that when frontier soldiers entered the grassland, it’s impossible for them to fight against Tatars, and they couldn’t kill a single Tatar, yet they denied it so simply.”

Zhu Houzhao's words made Li Huan take a deep breath. Suddenly, Li Huan couldn't help but think of the original historical time and space. Zhu Houzhao also led tens of thousands of troops to fight against the little Tatar prince in a border town. The two sides added up to 10,000+ troops. In several games, Zhu Houzhao used this battle to force the little Tatar prince back, making the Tatars dare not invade the border for many years, and it was called the Great Victory of Yingzhou.

However, just because this battle took place under the circumstances that the civil official group strongly opposed, the officials of the civil official group actually recorded in the history books that this battle involved 10,000+ troops from both sides, and the combined casualties on both sides were not counted. ten people.

According to the records, the Ming side only killed and injured 16 Tatars, while the Ming army, which was clearly the winning side, killed and injured 52 people.

This is actually recorded in Wu Zong Shilu. If you think about it carefully, the results of the two sides' battles recorded by the civil official group are simply a joke.

But anyone with a brain can imagine that the 10,000+ armies of the two sides fought for several days and fought several battles. Even the emperor Zhu Houzhao charged forward with a knife and hacked to death a Tatar officer.

When even the emperor was desperate, 10,000+ people from both sides fought a battle, but less than a hundred people were killed or injured. This is simply rubbing people's IQ on the ground.

Even if 10,000+ pigs collide with each other a few times, there will be more than that.

These people can turn a blind eye to the great battle that the emperor personally sits in, and tamper with the emperor's military exploits, what else are they afraid to do.

Taking a deep breath, Li Huan said to Zhu Houzhao: "Thanks to Your Majesty for upholding justice for the soldiers who fought bloody battles at the border. Otherwise, the military achievements of the soldiers at the border will really be obliterated by them."

Zhu Houzhao said with a gloomy expression: "Zhenhui will order Liu Yu and Wang Yangming to rectify the Ministry of War, and never allow such things to happen again."

After bidding farewell to the emperor from the imperial city, Li Huan left the imperial city and did not return directly to his residence, but went straight to the Jinyiwei yamen.

Jinyiwei Yamen

Returning to the Jinyiwei Yamen where he had been away for several months, the return of Li Huan immediately shocked everyone in the Jinyiwei Yamen, as if they had a backbone.

In the hall, Li Huan summoned the officials of Jin Yiwei, comforted them, and then left Chen Ke and Chen Yao behind.

Looking at Chen Ke, Li Huan smiled and said, "Send someone to fetch the crimes against Yu Fang and Chen Wei."

Jin Yiwei's job is to monitor the work of the world's officials. It can be said that if the world's officials have any dirty stories, Jin Yiwei dare not say that they know all of them, but they have more or less grasped some clues.

Of course, these so-called criminal evidences are not completely correct. After all, Jin Yiwei is not omnipotent. Some officials are extremely cautious and may do a lot of evil, but Jin Yiwei may not be able to grasp much criminal evidence.

However, Yu Fang, Chen Wei and others who were ministers of the Ministry of War made their fortunes when Emperor Hongzhi was in power. They didn't take Jin Yiwei to heart.

Naturally, during that period, many officials acted recklessly. Of course, Jin Yiwei also grasped the criminal evidence and handles of many officials during this period.

If it is really necessary to take out the criminal evidence of all the officials in the court held by Jin Yiwei, I am afraid that there will be very few people who can stay in the court.

This is why, knowing that many officials are not good officials, neither Li Huan nor Zhu Houzhao took down these officials.

After all, Daming still needs these officials to govern, or if Daming does not want to perish, then it is impossible to take down all the officials at once.

But it is impossible to take down all officials at once, which does not mean that some officials cannot be targeted.

Just like now, Li Huan made it clear that he wanted to target officials like Yu Fang and Chen Wei who had caused him trouble.

After listening to Li Huan's words, Chen Ke seemed very calm, as if he didn't think it was strange that Li Huan would face Fang, Chen Wei and other opponents as soon as he left the palace.

Among the capital, who doesn't know that Li Huan is narrow-minded, and revenge can't be overnight.

It can be said that Li Huan must take revenge, and his reputation of not taking revenge overnight has long been a reputation. If Li Huan endured and did not take revenge on Yu Fang and Chen Wei for a few days, Chen Ke would feel strange.

Soon Li Huan looked through the crimes against Chen Wei, Yu Fang and others, many of which were evidence of Yu Fang and others embezzling military pay, selling officials and nobles, and reselling military weapons.

Letting out a breath, Li Huan yelled at Chen Yao, who was already eager to try, "Chen Yao, immediately gather people and follow me to arrest people."

Chen Yao shouted excitedly: "This subordinate takes orders."

Just as Chen Yao was running out, he suddenly paused and turned his head to Li Huan and said with a bit of expectation: "My lord, it's just arresting people and not ransacking the house?"

Here, when Li Huan gathered his men to retaliate against Yu Fang, Chen Wei and others, Yu Fang, who had been deposed from office, returned to the mansion in a carriage.

When the whole family learned that Yu Fang had been dismissed from office, the whole family felt as if they were mourning their concubine.

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