Touring the Ming Dynasty

Emperor Zhengde was a little more diligent than before after his tour to Beijing. At least he was not late or absent from work every morning. Although he followed Yang Tinghe's suggestion and dismissed most of Wang Shouren's requests, he made a difference to Duan Feiwang and transferred him to Nanjing. Served as the right-hand man of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Duan Fei's promotion seemed logical to Nanchang officials, but in fact the appointment was passed after a fierce court storm. Ning Wang was involved in the case and became an official. Yang Yiqing, a senior scholar who was an official, was summoned to return to the court. There are countless officials, big and small, who have been demoted or dismissed.

Liang Chu and Mao Ji are both Yang Tinghe's people, and Yang Yiqing is Yang Tinghe's mortal enemy. Now Zhengde's purpose of restricting Yang Tinghe is obvious. Yang Yiqing was still brave and good at fighting. On the day he entered the cabinet, he wrote a letter to reveal that Yang Tinghe had a close relationship with King Ning, and he had accepted countless bribes from King Ning.

Although Yang Tinghe felt that the general situation was over, he finally became a assistant, and the ambition in his heart had not been fulfilled, how could he just leave the court in such a dispirited manner?He fought back vigorously to defend himself, and the officials were divided into two factions to attack each other, and he no longer had time to manage the appointment of a mere fourth-rank official. Seeing that Yang Tinghe no longer objected, Zhengde felt a little regretful. Fei joined the Ministry of Criminal Justice to be a doctor, I don't know what expression that kid will have when he sees him on the pilgrimage...

He is an official of the fourth grade when he is appointed as the right officer of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Although the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate is not as powerful as the Beijing Metropolitan Procuratorate, it is also very tempered. Hundreds of divisions, hundreds of officials, inspections, inspections of local officials, etc.All levels of yamen from the central government to the local government, from the emperor to hundreds of officials, from state affairs to social life, are all within the scope of supervision and speech of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were endless censors who were dismissed and beaten to death because of admonishing the emperor. Although the emperor did not necessarily listen to them, at least they opened up a way of speaking, which is also a great progress in history.

For Duan Fei, this is a big improvement. He has only been appointed as the fifth-rank inspector for less than two months, and he has to be promoted to the fourth-rank Youqian capital imperial envoy. The Metropolitan Procuratorate is the supervisory organ directly under the control of these Jiangxi officials, so after the news spread, the officials at all levels who came to visit almost leveled the threshold of Duan Fei's new house.

Duan Fei refused to accept any gifts of real gold, silver or jewellery. Many officials felt ashamed, and later learned that Mr. Duan's family was well-off through side-tracking.Mr. Duan likes all kinds of strange things, so everyone racked their brains to buy those rare things as gifts. Unfortunately, Mr. Duan's sharp eyes can't be fooled, those too expensive are still not accepted, but for the strange things from the West. They are very interested in crafty things, but unfortunately they don't have time to go to the coast to search.

When Duan Fei set off, not only the judges and envoys came to see him off, but most of the civil and military officials in Nanchang City also came, and there were countless ordinary people. Lu Ruonan even bought a new pair of boots for Duan Fei's old boots, saying that they would enshrine them as family heirlooms.

After Duan Fei came to Yingtian, he was busy again. He met with the superior officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, accepted the interviews of the supervisory censors under the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the officials he knew in Yingtian Mansion last time also rushed to him after hearing the news. He came to congratulate Xichen, but Yingtian Zhifu, Tongzhi, and Tongju were all gone, only Ning Zhuqi, the pusher, came.

Duan Fei greeted him, and when he asked Ma Wentao, the magistrate, etc., Ning Zhuqi smiled bitterly and said in a low voice: "My lord, don't ask any more, they... are no longer in Yingtian, the world is unpredictable..."

Seeing his expression, Duan Fei suddenly understood. Wang Shouren sent him a secret letter in Beijing, talking about related matters. There was a gossip that Zhengde had obtained a list of officials who colluded with King Ning, and planned to Slowly began the big cleansing, first used Qian Ning to overthrow Jiang Bin, then used the hands of civil officials to clean up Qian Ning, then promoted the officials who had been dismissed, divided the camp of civil officials, and gradually replaced the original group of people, The means are very sophisticated.

During this period of time, the imperial court changed people up and down like a lantern, imitating up and down, and the officials who had just come to power were also very happy. They kicked out the people below and replaced them with their own people if they found a small problem. My lord, they must have received a lot of benefits from King Ning, I'm afraid it's not just as simple as losing his official position, that's why Ning Zhuqi is so taboo.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate has also changed a group of people. Ever since Zhu Yuanzhang launched the imperial examination with great fanfare, the Ming Dynasty has never had a shortage of alternate officials. The arrival of Duan Fei is not so dazzling, but he is the emperor himself. In the Metropolitan Procuratorate, there are so many legendary stories behind him, everyone is a little in awe of him. In the Metropolitan Procuratorate, except for the left and right imperial envoys of the second rank, even the left and right deputy imperial envoys dare not rely on the old to sell their qualifications in front of him .

Duan Fei returned to his hometown and used his mansion again. This time, no one dared to say a word of nonsense. After spending two days getting familiar with official duties, Duan Fei devoted himself to work again.

The work of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is very complicated, but the main work is not to participate in judicial activities, but: to monitor the political gains and losses of the imperial court, to rectify the discipline; to participate in the discussion of major political affairs; to hear major cases with the Criminal Ministry and Dali Temple; Officials who are not as good as ceremonies on occasions such as banquets, banquets, etc.; the Ministry of Officials, together with the Metropolitan Procuratorate, discusses the results of the grand plan, the Beijing Procuratorate, and the governors and governors of various provinces.

Although everyone is in awe of Duan Fei's background and background, but in fact they despise him for not having a 'diploma', and he is not allowed to participate in other jobs. They say that people have strengths. Since Duan Fei is good at solving cases, he will be responsible for it. Supervise major criminal cases presided over by the Ministry of Criminal Justice and reviewed by Dali Temple.

Duan Fei plunged into the case files with great interest, but officials in the Ming Dynasty didn't always have nothing to eat. Duan Fei went through dozens of old cases for several days in a row, but didn't find any obvious omissions. It seems that Yang Naiwu and Xiao There are actually not as many unjust cases as cabbage.

On this day, when Duan Fei was looking through the old cases boringly, Shi Bin walked in excitedly and said, "Brother Fei, have you heard? There will be a flower festival on the Qinhuai River on August [-]th. I heard that the famous brothel in the south of the Yangtze River, Chu The museum is preparing to send the hottest top cards to the competition, it will be very lively then, let's go and have a look."

"Okay, there's nothing to do anyway." Duan Fei said without raising his head.

"I heard... Miss Qingqing will also appear on the stage..." Shi Bin said treacherously. Name, couldn't help but raised his head, stunned for a moment, and said disappointedly: "Is she going to fight for the title of that oiran?"

Shi Bin was about to answer him, but Su Rong said without raising her head: "Miss Qingqing didn't sign up for the competition, but the organizer specially invited her to be a judge and perform at the finale. If she signed up for the competition, I'm afraid there won't be so many The brothel is willing to sign up for its girl."

"Why?" Duan Fei regretted it as soon as he said it. Su Rong raised her head and said like an idiot: "Stupid, everyone knows that Miss Ruo Qingqing has no chance for other people to participate in the competition? It's better to hide your clumsiness than to show your ugliness."

"Being ugly is worse than being clumsy?" Duan Fei smiled as he recalled, that's how he answered Qingqing's personal maid, Xiaodie.

"Oh, it seems that someone is about to suffer another disaster soon." Su Rong propped her chin on one hand and said innocently looking somewhere.

Duan Fei was about to save face, when Guo Wei walked in quickly and said: "Brother Fei, the Ministry of Officials sent someone to report that tomorrow we will have a final discussion on the case of killing brother Zhou An with Dali Temple and our Metropolitan Procuratorate in the court of the Ministry of Punishment. For the public trial, the royal envoys of the left and right have decided to appoint Brother Fei to go, and the file of the case has been delivered outside the door."

"Okay, tell them to bring in the file." Duan Fei said.

Two handymen brought in a stack of files, and Duan Fei said in shock, "Is the case complicated? Why are there so many files?"

No one could answer his question, Su Rong came over and looked through it, and said: "This Zhou An has repeatedly retracted his confession, and he has been to the cross street twice. No wonder there are so many files. This is an old case that has dragged on for three years. Zhou An The first time I was sentenced to be hanged, and then beheaded, this time...I'm afraid it will become Ling Chi, under normal circumstances, the murderer wouldn't be so stupid?"

"Well, this case has something to do with it, so don't look at other cases for now." Duan Fei took over the earliest file of this case from Su Rong and read it carefully.