Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 85 Jin Yiwei Wu Biao

While Zhu Youjian was dealing with Tu Wenfu and others, senior Jinyiwei officials had already entered the palace on his order and were waiting outside Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Youjian was about to call them in. Wang Wenzheng, who had been sent out to interrogate the Hakka family before, came back and brought a piece of news that made him furious:
"'Eight pregnant palace ladies', eight pregnant palace maids!"

"What do you want to do, Mr. Ke? Do you want to learn Li Yuan's stories?"

"She was executed immediately, her son Hou Guoxing was imprisoned, and her family was exiled overseas."

Thinking of this matter, he felt a little scared. Fortunately, the Hakka family was driven out of the palace soon after ascending to the throne, otherwise, if time goes by, chaos may really arise.

This was evidence that Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family were conspiring against each other, but Zhu Youjian did not dare to announce it at all.

In this era without paternity testing, who is whose son is almost entirely based on word of mouth. The Xinjianbo attack case has been going on for two years, but this point cannot be determined.

So Zhu Youjian immediately ordered Wang Wenzheng to clean up the situation and get rid of the Hakka family and the eight palace maids. In order to prevent the matter from spreading out and spreading rumors among the people, some "posthumous son of Tianqi" would appear in the future and compete with him for the throne.

Liu Ruoyu was also sent to follow and monitor Wang Wenzheng's handling of the matter. The whole Hakka family must also be imprisoned and exiled after confirming that there are no hidden dangers.

Zhu Youjian was so angry about this that he even wanted to take back the secular position given to Wei Zhongxian's relatives. However, thinking about how many Wei Zhongxian's gang members were inside and outside the palace, Xu Yingyuan and others he wanted to reuse had just been dealt with. He could only suppress this anger and did not incriminate Wei Zhongxian to prevent his followers from being uneasy.

However, Zhu Youjian was not polite to the Hakka family. He was not given any worldly duties and was directly exiled overseas.

As for the eight palace maids, Zhu Youjian also asked Wang Wenzheng to allocate special funds from the Hakka family property, mix them among the people killed by the Hakka family, and give each of them a thousand taels as compensation.

The one thousand taels of silver must be deposited in a Sunchon bank account so that their family members can receive one tael every month. In this way, they can monitor their family members and prevent those who may know the situation from leaking information and being exploited in the future.

After handling this matter, Zhu Youjian was still angry and summoned Tian Ergen, Xu Xianchun and other senior Jinyiwei officials to curse them. It's my fault that these people didn't act as good eyes and ears and didn't discover Wei Zhongxian's rebellion.

These Jinyiwei senior officials felt a little aggrieved. Compared with the Dongchang eunuchs who could stay with the emperor, it was difficult for them to see the emperor. And because he was under the supervision of Dongchang, he could only rely on Dongchang.

Except for Lu Bing of the Jiajing Dynasty, Jin Yiwei was basically at a disadvantage when facing Dongchang. When Wei Zhongxian was in power, he was completely reduced to a vassal.

Therefore, they did not accept the emperor's accusation that they could not discover Wei Zhongxian's conspiracy. After all, Wei Zhongxian was their boss and their channel to communicate with the emperor. How could they discover Wei Zhongxian's conspiracy and report it to the emperor?
But when the emperor was angry, they could only listen. It wasn't until Zhu Youjian vented his anger that a royal guard commanded Fang Hongzhan and said:

"Your Majesty, Liu Qiao, the former commander of the Jinyi Guards and Fu Si of Shubei Town, was deprived of his citizenship by Wei Ni because he refused to kill Mei Ju."

"Please recall this person."

Zhu Youjian raised the alarm. When he heard that there were people like this in Jinyiwei, he immediately ordered:
"That's right!"

"Recall Liu Qiao and let him continue to be in charge of Beizhen Fusi."

"Who is in charge of Beizhen Fusi now?"

Xu Xianchun stepped forward cautiously and replied:

"Your Majesty, your minister Xu Xianchun will take charge of Beizhen Fusi in May of the fourth year of Tianqi."

When Zhu Youjian saw Xu Xianchun, his anger rose again. He was especially angry at this man and cursed:

"You're still a relative of the emperor, so you actually conspired with Wei Zhongxian?"

"What do you think, are you worthy of Princess Jiashan?"

Xu Xianchun knelt on the ground with a plop and argued:
"Your Majesty, I have not conspired against Wei Zhongxian."

"I'm just following his orders from the palace and interrogating others!"

"My grandmother is a princess, how could she follow a eunuch and plot rebellion?"

Zhu Youjian's anger remained and he asked:

"Then why did you and Tian Ergeng become Wei Zhongxian's adopted sons?"

"Fortunately, you are the grandson of Princess Jiashan, and you don't feel ashamed to recognize a eunuch as your adoptive father!"

These words were too serious and involved his ancestors. Xu Xianchun could only kneel down and apologize to the emperor.

Tian Ergeng also hurriedly knelt down and also apologized to the emperor.

Zhu You scolded him, and then asked everyone to report him. He identified Yang Huan, the admiral of Xisi Fangguanqi, Sun Yunhe, the secretary of Jinyiweitang, and Cui Yingyuan, the governor of Beizhen, who also belonged to the "Five Biao".

Except for Yang Huan, the admiral of Xisi Fang, these three people, Sun Yunhe and Cui Yingyuan, were not qualified to come. However, Wei Zhongxian abused his official rank and gave them the rank of Right Commander, and they were all present at this time.

Zhu Youjian ordered someone to take him down on the spot, waiting for questioning later.

The three people also argued that they were listening to the palace's orders and therefore did not dare to disobey them. Zhu Youjian sneered and asked:

"The palace's will?"

"Which decree in the palace allows you to torture and kill people?" "Show it to me!"

The three of them stopped talking. Xu Xianchun was still smart and said:
"It's Wei Ni's false decree. The late emperor didn't know anything about it."

Then he said to the emperor:

"In addition to the people who must be killed according to Wei Ni's false decree, I also released nearly forty Donglin Party prisoners."

"The prison sentences of Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others also all have the words 'no evidence'."

Defending himself, Xu Xianchun said:

"Your Majesty, I have endured the humiliation and worshiped Wei Zhongxian as my adoptive father for today."

"Fortunately, Your Majesty is wise enough to notice Wei Ni's treacherous plot!"

As he spoke, Xu Xianchun couldn't help crying loudly, as if he was glad that the Ming Dynasty had a Shengming Emperor.

Listening to Xu Xianchun's words, Zhu Youjian felt a little sick, but knew that he had to accept these words.

Because Jin Yiwei is the executive agency, they have to listen to the orders coming from the palace. Otherwise, like Liu Qiao, they will directly reduce their status to serve the people.

It can be said that these people are doing things according to the will of the palace. If I hand them over to the civil servants outside for this reason. Everyone in Jinyiweihui is in danger, and no one will dare to offend civil servants in the future.

No matter how false Xu Xianchun's reasons were, he had to accept them and give them some ideas to mitigate their crimes.

Let Xu Xianchun and others make more excuses. After Zhu Youjian listened to what they said, he made a decision:

"Although Wei Zhongxian falsely conveyed the decree, you are also guilty of not distinguishing between truth and falsehood."

"The five of you all have objective rebellious behaviors and subjective rebellious tendencies."

"Write the confession and give it to the foreign court."

"Then let's all go overseas and open new health clinics!"

With that said, Zhu Youjian said to Tian Ergeng:

"You are a descendant of Tian Le and a hereditary conductor."

"When something like this happens, you resign and pass it on to your son."

"Then take your son's place and establish Dongning Guard on the islands east of Penghu."

"If things go well, I will let your son go to the island to take up a post in the future."

"If you don't do it well, you will really be exiled overseas."

He also said to Xu Xianchun, Yang Huan, Sun Yunhe, and Cui Yingyuan:
"Dongning Guard has just decided on a hereditary commanding officer, four hereditary thousand households and a hereditary hundred households. There are still many hereditary official positions that have not been decided."

"If you do well, you will have the opportunity to obtain a worldly job in the future."

"If you don't do it well, then you will be exiled overseas as well."

Let them write confession documents as soon as possible, and exile them to Dongning Guard in the name of punishing them.

This matter must be settled before the Donglin Party returns to the court, lest he cannot protect the Donglin Party who are capable of fighting after they enter Beijing.

The five people were able to save one life and were extremely grateful to the emperor. Especially Tian Ergen, he didn't expect that his family's job could still be retained.

Although I don’t know what the outcome of being exiled overseas will be, whether he will die from miasma, but at least it will be an opportunity to seek wealth for his descendants.

Xu Xianchun even recommended Wu Mengming, the former Beizhen Fusi to punish Qianhu. This man had persuaded him to leave a way out and leave room for prison sentences, so he was expelled from Beizhen Fusi and is no longer in Jinyiwei.

Thinking of Wu Mengming's kindness, Xu Xianchun recommended this person to the emperor. Zhu Youjian immediately ordered Wu Mengming to be reinstated to his original position and be responsible for interrogating five people.

He believed that this person who was able to leave room for prison speeches back then would be able to write a good confession so that the court would not be able to raise any issues.

　The matter of the Hakka family and the pregnant palace maid is recorded in many historical books:
　　"Chongzhen Changbian": The nurse Keshi went to Huanyi Bureau to be whipped to death. The eunuch Wang Wenzheng heard that eight people from the palace were pregnant, and they went in and out of Yeting. Most of them brought their families to serve as concubines, and they coveted them, as in the story of Lu Buwei. Zihou Guoxing issued an imperial edict.

　　"Records of Chongzhen": In Gengchen, the nurse's guest family went to Huanyi Bureau and was robbed to death. The eunuch Wang Wenzheng presided over the interrogation and recruited eight people from the palace. When Gai went in and out of Yeting, he often brought his family to serve concubines, and he coveted her like Lu Buwei. It's been a few months since I updated, but I can't bear to say anything. Fortunately, God's speed is also great. Zihou Guoxing was imprisoned.

　　"Chongzhen Legacy": Later, he was ordered to register with his family, and the eunuch Wang Zhizheng (suspected to be Wang Wenzheng) was ordered to strictly interrogate him. Eight people in the palace were pregnant, and they came in and out of Yeting. Most of them brought their family to serve nuns, hoping to be like Lu Buwei. , Li Yuanshi also. The superior was furious and ordered him to go to the Huanyi Bureau to plunder the dead body, but he still slaughtered the corpse in Lingchi. The prince's country was prosperous and he was killed.

　　"The Chronicles of the Ming Dynasty": Gengchen, the holy lady Hakka was punished for her crimes. First of all, he came from his family and ordered the eunuch Wang Wenzheng to interrogate him strictly. Eight of the pregnant women from the palace were allowed to go in and out of Yeting. Most of them brought their families to serve the concubines, hoping to be like Lu Buwei and Li Yuanshi. The emperor was furious and ordered him to go to the Huanyi Bureau to rob and die. Zihou Guoxing was imprisoned, and good ministers and Guoxing were all killed.

　　
　
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