I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 151
The small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crisp and pleasant taste.

Eating the cakes carefully made by the master chef of the Imperial Food Supervisor, and drinking the tribute black tea from the old Qimen tree, Li Tian squinted his eyes in satisfaction.

Yang Shiqi, who was old, couldn't eat sweets, so he took advantage of the tea break between the emperor and his ministers to write down the arrangement of the cabinet meeting with a writing brush.

"Your Majesty, the record of this cabinet meeting has been written by the old minister. Please read it over."

After rubbing the debris on his hands, Li Tian took it casually, scanned it carefully, raised his eyes and said with a smile:
"That's right, send a copy to my imperial study, and the cabinet will save it."

"The old minister will make another copy later."

As he clasped his hands and talked, Yang Shiqi's thin old face finally burst into a smile, carefully folded the record, turned around and sat down to drink tea.

The matter of cement has been agreed upon, and it is supposed that the cabinet discussion can be concluded, but the group of people has no intention of leaving when they see the emperor, and they understand in their hearts that there must be other matters to be discussed.

After the king and his ministers finished eating the cakes in a leisurely manner, Li Tian, ​​who was sitting in the upper seat, took a sip of tea, ordered Jiang Bao to call Yu Jie'an over, turned to look at Yang Shiqi and said:

"Shiqi, how is the new judicial office going?"

Yang Shiqi was overjoyed when he heard the words, and finally arrived at his home court, and hurriedly put down the teacup and said:
"Your Majesty is concerned. The preparations for the judicial yamen have been completed. The yamen office is located in the backyard of the yamen of the Ministry of Criminal Justice in Qianbulang. Right now, the regulations need to be finalized."

Hearing that Yang Shiqi moved so fast, Li Tian was a little surprised, he praised a few words without hesitation, and said with a warm smile:
"Today, the officials of the Siwei Bureau gathered together, Shiqi, you have to make a good draft, and talk about it later."

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The Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Dali Temple have always been collectively known as the Three Law Departments, and they jointly represent Daming's judicial affairs.

To put it simply, the Ministry of Punishment is responsible for judging the case and is in charge of the name of the punishment; the Metropolitan Procuratorate is responsible for the whole process of supervision to prevent the officials who judged the case from doing anything wrong;
Dali Temple, on the other hand, holds the last threshold of justice and is responsible for reviewing cases judged by the Ministry of Criminal Justice to avoid unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.

Of course, these yamen do not always work independently. When a major case arises, the three yamen will sit together and try it together.

For example, in the case of local officials colluding with Ji Mian, the Metropolitan Procuratorate took the lead, and the Dali Temple of the Ministry of Punishment cooperated.And this is the joint trial of the three divisions that the common people like to talk about.

However, although the three are all jurisprudence, their status has its own subtleties.

Take the Criminal Department as an example, it has a big head and a thick neck, and it has its own small yamen in Qianbulang.

Another example is the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Although it is not as arrogant as the Ministry of Punishment, it is the most feared official in the officialdom.

There is also Dali Temple, which can not only dismiss the judgment of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but also has the right to hand over the case to the emperor.

As he said that, Jiang Bao hurried to the Metropolitan Procuratorate in Fucaifang with Li Tian's oral order.

Although the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate didn't like eunuchs, they still didn't dare to deal with Jiang Bao, a close servant of the emperor, and immediately welcomed Jiang Bao into the main hall of the yamen.

"Yu Yushi is here, the emperor summoned him to the cabinet for discussion."

Jiang Bao is playing tricks here, in fact, he can say that the emperor summoned Yu Jie'an to enter the palace, the reason why he didn't say that is because he saw Yu Jie'an's special status in the emperor's heart.

Go to the cabinet to discuss matters?
Hearing the words of Grand Duke Jiang in the palace, the censors who surrounded him felt turbulent. There was no such thing as a seventh-rank official entering the cabinet since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Yu Jie'an was nestling in his cubicle writing a ten thousand character book, when his colleagues said that Eunuch Jiang from the palace had come, he hurriedly packed up his clothes and ran all the way to the main hall.

Yu Jie'an's sense of Jiang Bao was not bad, he bowed his hands and said:

"Ting Yi has met Director Jiang, but I don't know what's going on with Director Jiang?"

Jiang Bao probably also knew that the cabinet was going to discuss the establishment of a new judicial office in a while, thinking that the emperor was still waiting, and he didn't care about other things, so he dragged Yu Jie'an out.

"Yu Yushi, the emperor asked you to discuss matters in the cabinet, hurry up and go with our house, the elders and the ministers are still waiting."

Watching Jiang Bao and Yu Jie'an walk away in a daze, the main hall of the small Metropolitan Procuratorate was suddenly dead silent.

All the censors looked at me and I looked at you, swallowed a mouthful of surprised saliva, and then started discussing extremely noisy.

"Ge Lao and Butang are waiting for Yu Jie'an to discuss the matter, I heard right."

"Zhao Yushi, you heard me right. I heard it too. Eunuch Jiang made it very clear that the elder Ge and the hall are waiting for Yu Jie'an."

"What achievements has Yu Jie'an made recently? I haven't heard any news about it."

"Who knows, the hall took Yu Jie'an to court yesterday, and it was like this when he came back."

"Brother Zhuge, you also went to court yesterday, can you tell us what happened?"

As soon as the censor opened his mouth, everyone immediately remembered that Zhuge Zheng was one of the ten censors who went to court yesterday, and they immediately surrounded Zhuge Zheng, chattering and asking non-stop.

Looking at the colleagues in front of him with the word "curiosity" written on their faces, Zhuge Zheng didn't know what to say.

There are many censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and they can only go in rotation every morning. Only he and Yu Jie'an, with their handsome faces, go back and act as facades for the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Thinking back to the emperor seeing Yu Jie'an's face full of love, Zhuge was full of complaints, why, we are also handsome, why is it that he has entered the holy eye in Yu Jie'an.

"Brother Zhuge, don't be stunned, what happened yesterday morning?"

Sighing secretly, Zhuge Zheng touched his face, put aside the difficulties in his heart for the time being, and cherished words like gold:
"Brother Jie'an impeached Yan Shenggong."

"Yan Shenggong?"

All the censors took a breath when they heard the words, and they were very puzzled and said:

"Yan Shenggong is a respected teacher of scholars, and has a good relationship with our Metropolitan Procuratorate. How could Yu Jie'an play impeachment?"

"Yan Shenggong has not been on duty at the Imperial College for five days."

Still cherish words like gold, Zhuge Zheng said flatly.

"Impeached if he didn't go to duty for five days, Yu Jie'an must have had enough to eat and have nothing to do."

"That's right, our ministry is also working at home all day, and we haven't seen any government affairs."

"I think Yan Shenggong offended the emperor, Yu Jie'an just happened to run into a dead mouse, and got shit luck."

"By coincidence? Sun Yushi's words are really funny. I also want to meet the cabinet by chance."

Hearing the noise ahead, Lu Zhen, who was resting in the back, was woken up. He came out with a straight face, looked at the surrounding officials and said angrily:

"Is there nothing to do? The list sent to various places is not enough. Who of you wants to go?"

As soon as Lu Zhen got angry, all the censors scattered like birds and beasts, and hurriedly looked for their seats with their heads buried.

Watching the crowd disperse coldly, Lu Zhen snorted coldly and called Zhuge Zheng to a halt.

"Zhuge Zheng, come to the back hall, I have something to ask you."

(End of this chapter)