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Chapter 461 tit for tat
Ji Gang’s method of manipulating people is really not simple. No wonder he was appreciated by Ming Chengzu. If Ming Chengzu needed to suppress someone, Ji Gang could collect all the evidence, regardless of the source and credibility of the evidence, at least on the surface. Unable to speak, relying on the evidence collected by Ji Gang, Ming Chengzu was able to justifiably kill a group of dissidents and consolidate the regime he usurped.

It is precisely because of Ming Chengzu's trust that it is even more difficult to overturn the case that Ming Chengzu identified based on the evidence collected by Ji Gang.

However, even though it was a case appointed by the emperor, Yang Qiuchi still decided to find ways to re-investigate the case.Leaving aside the years-forgotten friendship between himself and Miao Wang Yuntianqing and Yunlu's life-saving grace to him, let's talk about the facts, Yun Leng was wronged because of himself, if he can't keep him, then he really obeyed Ji Gang's words , It will also chill the hearts of the subordinates.Therefore, Yang Qiuchi decided to re-investigate the case even if he insisted.

Yang Qiuchi was about to speak, but Ming Chengzu spoke first, and his words were very cold: "Yang Aiqing, why did you encourage Princess Yunlu to lead troops to surround Beizhen Fusi and try to hijack the prison? Do you still have Wang Fa in your eyes? "

This sentence is very serious. If it were changed to before, Ming Chengzu would have been furious and ordered Yang Qiuchi to be taken down and punished.Now that he can ask this question, it is because Ji Gang has framed Yang Qiuchi before. Although Ming Chengzu still trusts Ji Gang very much, he has some doubts in his heart when it comes to Yang Qiuchi. Chengzu always hoped that Yang Qiuchi could grow into a force to check and balance Ji Gang's power.Therefore, unless it was absolutely necessary, he did not want to ruin Yang Qiuchi's important chess piece.

Yun Lu said anxiously: "No! Father, Lord Hou didn't encourage me to go, and we didn't plan to hijack the prison! We just went to Ji Gang to ask him why he wanted to arrest my brother. But he refused to come out to see me anyway. ..."

Ming Chengzu waved his hand: "Lu'er, don't talk yet, father knows that you are kind-hearted by nature, so you must be provoked!" He turned his head, staring at Yang Qiuchi with piercing eyes.

Since the emperor didn't let her speak, Yun Lu naturally didn't dare to say any more, but hugged his brother tightly, fearing that Ji Gang's Jin Yiwei would catch Yun Leng away.

Yang Qiuchi bowed and said: "I have always taken it as my duty to uphold the king's law, and handle cases impartially, so how dare I know that I broke the law. I dare to ask, why did the emperor just say that?"

"Ji Aiqing said that you rushed into Beizhen Fusi with the guards and shouted that you wanted to turn the imperial prison upside down. Many of Ji Aiqing's subordinates heard it. Is there such a thing?"

Yang Qiuchi regretted it very much. He said this impulsively at that time, and was caught by Ji Gang, what should he do?After thinking about it, I remembered what Liu Ruobing said, using villainous methods to deal with villains, and immediately came up with an idea.

Yang Qiuchi said angrily: "This... This is simply fabricated out of thin air, and it is a nonsense! This minister has never said such a sentence!"

Ji Gang pointed at Yang Qiuchi: "You...you..." He didn't expect that Yang Qiuchi, who has always followed the rules, would deny it, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

"What's wrong with me?" Yang Qiuchi sneered, staring at Ji Gang: "Which ear of yours heard me say that I'm going to turn the imperial prison upside down?"

"I... I heard it with both ears, and so many ears of my subordinates!" Ji Gang blushed and roared.

"You spitting blood! I didn't say it! So many of my subordinates didn't hear it! Besides, I am also the deputy commander. I want to go to prison, which is also within the scope of my authority. How can I talk about it?" Hijacking? If the imperial prison is robbed, I, as the deputy commander, cannot escape the guilt. Aren't you uncomfortable?" Yang Qiuchi yelled, jumping up and down, looking extremely aggrieved.

The reason why Yang Qiuchi dared to deny it was because in the lobby of Fusi Yamen in Beizhen at that time, only Ji Gang's people and his own people gave one-on-one testimony, and there were no other irrelevant witnesses present. It is difficult to confirm that it was Ji Gang who framed the frame. Besides, Ji Gang had framed Yang Qiuchi before. The so-called "false is true when the truth is false", the lie told earlier was caught, and the truth later said It can also be suspicious.

Sure enough, Ming Chengzu looked at Ji Gang suspiciously, and Ji Gang was even more aggrieved, his face flushed with anger, and he shouted: "Your surname is Yang...you...you fucking obviously..."

Eunuch Li said coldly: "Master Ji! Don't be rude in front of the emperor!"

Ji Gang froze, hurriedly bowed and dared not speak any more.

Yang Qiuchi stared at Ji Gang angrily, as if he had been greatly wronged.

For a moment, the room fell silent.

After a while, Ming Chengzu stared at Yang Qiuchi and said, "Yang Aiqing, what's going on?"

"It's like this, Your Majesty." Yang Qiuchi felt relieved when he heard Ming Chengzu let him speak, "I was ordered by the holy order to be in charge of the Nanzhen Fusi, and it is within the scope of my responsibility to pick up Jinyiwei's law and order. Human life should also be investigated and dealt with by Weichen, but Ji Gang went beyond his power to arrest people without authorization and tortured Yun Leng. Then Weichen went to Beizhen Fusi important person in accordance with his authority."

Ming Chengzu nodded slightly, with a displeased expression on his face, he turned to Ji Gang and said, "Ji Aiqing, from now on, you shouldn't interfere in Jinyiwei's law and discipline, and let Yang Aiqing take care of it. This is the responsibility of his Nanzhen Fusi."

Ming Chengzu let Yang Qiuchi take charge of Nanzhen Fusi at the beginning, considering the checks and balances on Ji Gang. Now Ji Gang is acting beyond his authority. If Ming Chengzu doesn't express his position to stop it, he will violate his original intention and fail to achieve the goal of checks and balances.

Yang Qiuchi was overjoyed, and glanced at Ji Gang triumphantly.Ming Chengzu's words were equivalent to slapping Ji Gang on the face, and Ji Gang's old face flushed immediately, and he bowed and said, "Yes, I know..."

The second prince Zhu Gaoxu said: "Father, this Yang Qiuchi abused his power for personal gain and abused his power. It is very inappropriate to let him take charge of the Nanzhen Fusi. Besides, this Yun Leng is his subordinate, and he will review it. It is inevitable that he will do favoritism. Take care of yourself."

Ming Chengzu shook his head and said, "That's not right. Yang Aiqing is the deputy commander of the Jinyiwei. If you really want to say that, except for Commander Ji, all the Jinyiwei are also his subordinates. If you can't picket because they are subordinates, then you let him Who is going to investigate? Whoever is the deputy commander in charge of Nanzhen Fusi will encounter this problem! So it is not his fault."

Zhu Gaoxu didn't dare to contradict Ming Chengzu, so he could only murmur repeatedly.

Ming Chengzu turned his head and glanced at Zhu Gaoxu, thought for a while, and said: "Gao Xu, the question you mentioned just now reminded me that it is indeed not appropriate to use Jin Yiwei to supervise Jin Yiwei..." After pondering for a while, he said: "We have to find a way to solve this matter in the future."

The Ming Dynasty paid special attention to the supervision and checks and balances between the power organs. Compared with the previous dynasties, the supervision system of the Ming Dynasty was the most perfect. one.For example, for the supervision of the six ministries, there are not only the divisional supervision of the thirteen supervisory envoys of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but also the counterpart supervision of the six ministries by the six divisions.

As for Jinyiwei, due to the needs of political struggles, at the beginning, Ming Chengzu did not arrange an independent special supervisory agency, but only set up the Nanzhen Fusi within Jinyiwei to supervise. Now that the work of eliminating dissidents has basically come to an end, Ming Chengzu this It was discovered that the disadvantages of Jin Yiwei's own supervision of himself are obvious.

It is precisely because of this consideration that in history, after Ming Chengzu moved his capital to Beijing, he created a new secret service agency "Dongchang". The original purpose of this agency was to serve as a supervisory agency for Jinyiwei.It was only later that the power was constantly surpassed, until it surpassed Jin Yiwei.

Ming Chengzu motioned for Yang Qiuchi to continue.

Yang Qiuchi said: "When I came to Beizhen Fusi's important person, Ji Gang wanted to make things difficult, but I refused to give it up. I was about to go to the palace to find the emperor to solve this matter. At this time, Princess Yunlu also came after hearing the news."

The second prince Zhu Gaoxu said: "If my imperial sister is not provoked, she will never bring troops to surround Beizhen Fusi. The one who provokes is you!"

Yang Qiuchi bowed and said, "Your Majesty's words are unconvincing."

"Don't accept? You can't accept it...!" Zhu Gaoxu roared.

Ming Chengzu stared at Zhu Gaoxu, feeling a little displeased, such unreasonable words were not like what a ruler should say.

Zhu Gaoxu saw Ming Chengzu's displeasure, and hurriedly shut up, somewhat regretful in his heart.

Ming Chengzu said to Yang Qiuchi: "Yang Aiqing, why are you dissatisfied? Tell me and listen."

Ming Chengzu was using his own actions to tell Zhu Gaoxu that to establish prestige as a king in the world, violent suppression is of course very important, but when necessary, he can also persuade others. It is not the way of a wise king to govern the country.

Yang Qiuchi continued: "If there is anyone who provokes Princess Yunlu to hijack the imperial prison, it is not Wei Chen, but Ji Gang."

Ji Gang was furious, and shouted: "Since when did I provoke the princess, you must have evidence for what you say!"

"Of course!" Yang Qiuchi said coldly, "Let me ask you, in Beizhen Fusi, your guards surrounded us with embroidered spring knives, why?"

"That's because you claimed to turn the Imperial Prison upside down, so I want to take you down!"

"Oh? I said it just now. I didn't say that. Besides, it's my job as the deputy commander of mine to go to prison. Why do you talk about jailbreak? If I count it as prison robbery, your commander Does it count as attacking the Jinyiwei yamen and attempting to riot?"

Ji Gang was at a loss for words for a moment: "This...how can this be compared!"

Yang Qiuchi said: "Okay, even if you follow the lies you made up, because I want to rob the prison, you sent guards to surround me and take me down. Let me ask you, why are you just bluffing and screaming so loudly?" , but didn’t see you come up to do it?”

Ji Gang was a little flustered and didn't know how to answer.

He didn't expect Yang Qiuchi to see things so accurately. In the past, when he framed people, the evidence was presented. After the emperor looked at it, he killed him and it was over.Why did everything not go well with Yang Qiuchi?If there was a prince who saved Yang Qiuchi last time, but not this time, how can he say that this time the frame-up seems to be about to go to court again!

Yang Qiuchi sneered and said, "If you can't answer, I'll help you. You deliberately let your guards shout and shout loudly, as if there was chaos in the yamen. In fact, they are all your own people." Shouting and screaming there. Your purpose is very simple, that is, to bring Yunlu's five hundred iron cavalry into the Yamen, so that she can be framed and tried to rob the prison. So I say, if someone really provokes Princess Yunlu, that person is you !"

"You're talking nonsense! You...you're spitting blood!" Ji Gang panicked and used what Yang Qiuchi had said earlier.

"Let's find out if we check it out," Yang Qiuchi turned to Ming Chengzu and said, "I'm in charge of Jinyiwei's law and discipline inspection. I suspect that Ji Gang ordered his guards to deliberately create chaos, confuse and try to frame Princess Yunlu. I ask the emperor for approval." Let Weichen file a case to find out about this."

Ji Gang panicked. He did instruct his subordinates to do this. If he really wanted to investigate, he knew that not all of those subordinates were on the same side as Ji Gang.That's not a one-check one.

Ji Gang hurriedly glanced at the second prince Zhu Gaoxu, hoping that he would send out soldiers to save him.

Zhu Gaoxu coughed, and said to Ming Chengzu: "Father, let's investigate the Yunleng murder case first, this is the key."

Ming Chengzu glanced at them both, and then said: "Well, anyway, Lu'er didn't lead troops into the yamen, and the prison is fine, so I won't mention this matter in the future." Turning to Yang Qiuchi, he said : "Even if Ji Aiqing violated his authority and arrested people, you should judge Yun Leng's case. However, the evidence found now shows that Yun Leng did kill someone. Ji Aiqing did not frame this, right?"

Speaking of this, Ji Gang suddenly became happy, and squinted at Yang Qiuchi triumphantly.

Yang Qiuchi bowed and said: "Your Majesty, there are still many loopholes in this case that have not been clarified, and Yun Leng cannot be hastily sentenced to severe punishment."

Ming Chengzu frowned, snorted, and said with some displeasure: "Is there any loophole in this case?"

This case was examined by Ming Chengzu himself, and of course he was not happy to hear Yang Qiuchi criticizing him.

Yang Qiuchi said: "Although there are many eyewitnesses who proved that Yun Leng killed that person, Ji Gang only extracted evidence that was unfavorable to Yun Leng, and many witnesses' testimonies were not extracted. These testimonies are beneficial to Yun Leng."

"What evidence?" Ming Chengzu asked doubtfully.

"According to Wei Chen's understanding, Yun Leng's personal guards and Jin Yiwei pickets only saw Yun Leng being surrounded by unknown people and beat him violently, but did not see Yun Leng killing someone."

Ji Gang said coldly from the side: "Of course his own soldiers are facing him, can what they say count?"

Yang Qiuchi sneered and said: "So you also know that the testimony of your own soldiers does not count, so why did you just use the testimony of your own soldiers to prove what I said about turning the imperial prison upside down?"

Ji Gang was a little embarrassed: "The emperor asked you to talk about Yun Leng's murder case, why are you talking about other things?"

"Okay, let's talk about this case. You neither extracted eyewitness testimony in favor of Yun Leng, nor did you ask for an autopsy to fill in the body form. There is no clear evidence to prove how the victim died."

Ji Gang sneered sneeringly: "So many people saw him kill someone, why are they filling in the corpse? Besides, you should investigate ordinary cases with the governor of Tianfu. Maybe you need to fill in that stuff, and we Jinyiwei don't care about that."

"Then what evidence does your Jin Yiwei need to investigate the case?"

"Hmph, as long as the culprit confesses, the case can be settled..." As soon as he said this, he suddenly remembered that Yun Leng had not pleaded guilty, which was not in line with Jin Yiwei's previous rules.

It's not that Ji Gang ignored this trick. After he captured Yun Leng, he immediately began to torture and extract a confession. Unexpectedly, Yang Qiuchi and the others acted quickly and made a fuss, and Yun Leng's bones were relatively hard, so he couldn't pry open his body for a while. mouth, so Yun Leng's confession could not be extracted.

Yang Qiuchi laughed: "Ji Gang, you also found that Yun Leng didn't plead guilty? Haha, you seem to be shooting yourself in the foot with stones today, how is it? Does it hurt? Do you want to call the imperial doctor? Hahaha! "

Ji Gang snorted heavily, but was speechless.

Yun Lu has been listening to them all the time, she doesn't know how to adjudicate cases or evidence, but seeing Yang Qiuchi in a relaxed mood, and Ji Gang's gloomy expression, she guesses that Yang Qiuchi has the upper hand, she is very happy at the moment .

Yang Qiuchi turned around and said to Ming Chengzu: "Your Majesty, in the case of Yun Leng's murder, there was no witness testimony in favor of Yun Leng. This is the first loophole; the corpse was not filled out, resulting in an unknown cause of death. This is the second loophole; Loophole [-]. Who is the so-called prostitute who attacked Yun Leng and why they fought? This loophole [-]. The victim’s name is unknown. This loophole [-]. Any one of these five loopholes is enough to explain There are doubts in this case, and Yun Leng cannot be given a severe sentence. What's more, Yun Leng is the son of King Miao, if there is no convincing evidence, it may be difficult to convince the public, and it will be difficult for King Miao to be convinced."

Ming Chengzu nodded. In fact, he didn't really know what kind of evidence is needed to achieve a criminal conviction. To put it simply, Ming Chengzu is also a layman when it comes to trial, and he relies more on his feelings.

Hearing what Ji Gang and Zhu Gaoxu said before, and reading so many so-called eyewitness testimonies, Ming Chengzu had a lot of trust in them, so he preconceived and thought that the case could be settled, and even King Miao could have an explanation.That's why he decided to give Yun Leng a severe punishment.Now after listening to Yang Qiuchi's analysis, I feel that this case still has loopholes, and it cannot be settled hastily.

Now that he discovered the clue, Ming Chengzu acted resolutely, and immediately said: "Okay, since this is the case, Yang Aiqing, I will allow you to re-investigate this case, and after the investigation is clear, I will have an explanation to you."

Yang Qiuchi was overjoyed, knelt down and kowtowed: "This humble minister receives the decree!"

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