I'm a detective for Dongchang

Chapter 230 Impeachment by the court

After getting angry with Jiang Heng and confessing the assisted investigation, it's time to go to court.

Qi Tianyin is actually an emperor who is diligent in political affairs, and usually has a small court every two days and a big court every five days.The number of people in the small court meeting is small, and only the main ministers of various key departments attend the deliberations. During the big court meeting, the three officials and nine ministers of the court, the main personnel of each department, and the supervisory censors will attend and participate in the meeting.During the Great Court Meeting, either it is ordinary and ordinary, and everyone just goes through the motions, or they have to deal with extremely important affairs, ordinary trivial matters, which have already been dealt with during the Small Court Meeting, and will not be delayed until the Grand Court Meeting.

Since five days ago, many officials in the imperial court have begun to look forward to the grand court meeting on this day.

One is because half a month ago, the emperor had ordered the censors to recommend candidates for the sheriff of Li County. In the past ten days, the court has received a large number of recommendation lists. Today, the emperor will announce the best candidate. In addition to the post of guard, there is also a list of corresponding county captains, county magistrates, and county magistrates.Although Li County seems to be a remote place, all forces in the DPRK and China are still staring at it and flocking to it; second, Xuanping Hou Shizi was imprisoned, today is the third day, the emperor needs to give a crime to appease the hearts of the people .

The emperor was dressed in a black satin robe with golden silk dragon patterns, a six-pronged crown on his head, and a sword on his waist. He sat on the dragon chair with a golden sword on his horse, and all the officials knelt down and shouted long live.After performing the ceremonies of the emperor and ministers in accordance with the established etiquette, the eunuch Lu Shun, who was slightly fat, stood in front of the emperor's case and with a sharp voice, issued the personnel order regarding the appointment of Li County and the trial of Fan Ming's serial murder case. schedule.

He yelled again as usual: "If you have something to play, you have nothing to do!"

"The censor Zhou Yangsong has played!" A censor standing behind the line of civil servants, holding a wooden slip, came out of the line and bowed to Qi Tianyin on the throne.

Since Qi Tianyin took over Da Jin, he has given the ministers considerable dignity. Except for the initial kneeling in the upper court, they can basically stand and talk, and they don’t need to kneel when they answer.

"The minister also has a play!"

"..." Suddenly, seven or eight censors stood up.

Standing at the forefront of the team, Chang Zhonghu, the minister of the Ministry of War, frowned slightly. Although the censor was not under his control, the doctor of the censor would definitely blow him up with so many memorials to the censor, but not only did he not receive any of them today. The sound of the wind, and the collective outburst of the censors, made him a little angry.

"Quick!" The emperor nodded.

Zhou Yangsong said loudly: "Minister Zhou Yangsong, set out to impeach Xuanping Marquis Fan Yanping!"

As soon as Zhou Yangsong finished speaking, the court was in an uproar.

Zhou Yangsong is a great Confucian, originally one of the emperor's think tanks, this person is sharp in speech and very good at debating, so the emperor made him a censor.

Zhou Yangsong, who became the censor, adhered to the principle of being more lenient than self-discipline and strict with others, and wrote memorials and cursed people all day long. Except for important officials such as Sangong and Jiuqing, many relatives of the emperor and important officials of the court were impeached by him. Known as "Madman Zhou".However, due to the special status of the censor, the ministers who were offended by Zhou Yangsong were unable to attack, and many ministers were also dismissed from office because of his impeachment, so Crazy Zhou was also called "Zhou Plague God".

Many officials had been impeached by Zhou Yangsong, but no one could have imagined that the Holy Majesty had not yet convicted Fan Shizi, yet he was so bold as to impeach Lord Hou first!
When Chang Chonghu heard Zhou Yangsong's words, his heart was shocked violently.

He knows Zhou Yangsong better than anyone else, because Zhou Yangsong is not just a censor. In fact, he often speaks on behalf of the emperor to beat the officials. If Zhou Yangsong impeaches someone, then It means that His Majesty the Emperor is dissatisfied with that person.

"Say!" Qi Tianyin waved his hand, and all the officials became silent.

Zhou Yangsong had already done too much to impeach ministers. He didn't panic, blushed, and breathless, and said slowly: "There are two things that I impeached Xuan Pinghou. First, last summer and autumn, under the jurisdiction of Lord Hou Of the five counties, the surplus grain in four counties was purchased privately at high prices. The Hou Mansion did not respond to this. As far as the circulation of foreign currency is concerned, as far as I know, before this, our country has issued a decree on the exchange of old currency for half taels, but there is still such a huge amount of old currency circulation, which shows that Xuanping Hou is unable to implement it. This is the second crime of the Marquis. "

"Master Hou's two things are not good, which makes our big Jin Nanzheng army at a disadvantage in fighting. The food and grass can't keep up, which threatens to shake the foundation of our country. In addition, Fan Shizi is greedy for food and drink, lazy to do things, and relying on the power of the Marquis to do evil, and even commit such abusive crimes. The evil deed of killing innocent people, therefore, I ask the Holy One to depose Xuanping Marquis Fan Yanping! Remove his hereditary title!"

After Zhou Yangsong's words fell silent, the palace full of people became extremely silent, not even the sound of breathing could be heard.No one dares to intervene in such a severe impeachment.

Ever since it was discovered that the people's grain and grass had been snapped up, the imperial court did not have much reaction. It was not until the Southern Expeditionary Army encountered a shortage of grain and grass that the imperial court really paid attention to this matter.It can also be said that not only are the stewards of the various counties dereliction of duty, but also the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of War responsible for handling government affairs are directly responsible for this matter.

However, Zhou Yangsong chose to take Xuan Ping Hou as the knife, which is somewhat inseparable from the case of Fan Shizi this time.

"Xuan Pinghou, what excuse do you have for what Zhou Yushi said?" Qi Tianyin frowned, waved his sleeves to temporarily push back Zhou Yangsong, and asked Fan Yanping in a toneless manner.

The back of Fan Yanping's head went cold. He had no eloquence. Facing Zhou Yangsong's impeachment and the emperor's interrogation, he was already panicked and flustered.

He is not afraid of Zhou Yangsong's impeachment. In fact, it is the emperor's interrogation that is really scary.

In the court hall, it was the first time that Emperor Taihe spoke to him in such a flat and indifferent tone, which made him very nervous.

Fan Yanping has been with the emperor for nearly 20 years, and he has been a prince for more than ten years. Although he has not made great achievements, he is still dedicated to his duties. As far as taking advantage of his position for corruption... He glanced at his colleagues around him from the corner of his eyes, and he is not the most ruthless.

Damn Zhou Yangsong, impeaching himself at this juncture, he couldn't help sweating, and wiped it frequently, hoping that person would stand up and speak for him, otherwise...

But I haven't seen that person move for a long time.

Helplessly, after calming down a bit, Fan Yanping's expression was flat, and he said, "What Zhou Yushi said is true."

"Since what happened last year, the Southern Expedition army was short of food and grass, and almost ran out of food for a while. This is due to the fault of the minister. Every time the minister thinks about it, he can't sleep at night and is terrified. Even if Zhou Yushi does not impeach the minister, the minister will not be able to quit It's the fault, please Your Majesty come down!"

After finishing speaking, Fan Yanping came out and prostrated himself on the ground with a sad expression on his face. His hair tied in a crown was swaying white and white, exuding an indescribable vicissitudes.

Seeing this scene, Qi Tianyin took a sip of the ginseng tea that Lu Shun handed over, glanced down at Chang Chonghu indiscriminately, and said in his heart: He can hold his breath, he is just to see if I will be dismissed on the spot In addition to Fan Yanping, for such an old minister, if he just said it lightly, would it make the ministers feel cold?Thinking of this, the coldness in the emperor's eyes gradually deepened.

There was a dead silence among the ministers.

If Fan Yanping wanted to refute Zhou Yangsong's impeachment, he could list countless reasons to explain his innocence, plus the emperor's respect for old Xuan Pinghou, this is not a big deal.

But he complied.

"Feng Guozheng, tell me, what do you think of Xuan Pinghou's words?" Qi Tianyin asked Feng Guozheng, the official censor, with his face still as calm as autumn water.

Feng Guozheng secretly cried bitterly in his heart. He knew that if the censor came out to impeach officials, the Holy Majesty would ask him to be a judge, but in fact, the Holy Majesty was putting a shit bowl on his head...

Deliberately making people misunderstand that Zhou Yangsong was ordered by him to do such a thing.

Feng Guozheng was wiping the sweat from his forehead, and the corner of his mouth was thinking about answering.

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