Rule the Ming Dynasty Alone

In this hour, people in Yongfang are in panic.

Just when everyone thought that there would be no progress in the corruption case that His Majesty wanted to investigate, who would have thought that there was a big movement. The new King of Qianhu in Jin Yiwei came over with a large group of entourage.

The Prime Minister has now been promoted to the rank of Imperial Guard Qianhu, with the support of the Queen Mother and the Emperor behind him. He looks very powerful in his approach, and does not pay attention to the ministers who live here at all.

Now, he found that the most correct thing he had done in his life was to hug His Majesty's thigh. This thigh, which was once looked down upon by others, was really too thick.

"Quick! Close the door!"

The housekeeper of Wanfu was guarding the entrance of the alley. When he saw Wang Xiang leading people towards this direction, he was so frightened that he ran home. As soon as he ran through the gate, he hurriedly gave instructions.

Although he was very calm at one time and made every move of money carefully, and it should never be their turn, he couldn't help but feel guilty.

As the first minister of the family for ten years, even if they are as clean as water, the number of Bingjian, Tanjian and Biejian below is already a terrifying figure.

Even though there was no corruption in their Wanfu, it was hard to explain the boxes of gold, silver and jewelry in the warehouse. After all, no upright official could have so much wealth.

Chen Zhun's five hundred thousand taels can really only be used to fool the people of the world. That eunuch is not worthy of the title of the most greedy in the Ming Dynasty.

"Woooo..."

"What to do? What to do?"

"I told you not to take too much, now the house is being searched, woo woo..."

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The news that the Jin Yiwei was coming this way reached the back house of Wan Mansion. A large group of female relatives had a premonition that a disaster was coming, and couldn't help crying.

This year has been an eventful year for the Wan family. Due to the death of the old lady, the eldest daughter-in-law followed her eldest son Wan Yi to carry the coffin back to her hometown in Sichuan. From now on, the house is leaderless.

Now that disaster has struck, the entire back house looks like a mess, where people are constantly complaining about each other.

"Isn't it our home?"

The housekeeper saw that there was no movement outside for a long time, and saw through the crack in the door that no one was coming outside, so he carefully opened a small door and slipped out to see what was going on.

In fact, he did think too much. Although Wang Xiang passed by the alley here, he did not turn in with his troops, but continued to go west.

"Woooo..."

"I knew I wouldn't marry your Li family!"

"What a sin! I'm already forty, and I still have to go to the Jiaofang Department!"

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Similar situations were reported one after another. Wherever Jin Yiwei passed by, the cries of women's family members could be heard from the front house to the back house.

Since this is the closest distance to the Meridian Gate, it is a land of great value, and almost all the mansions in this area belong to the homes of high-ranking officials.

Now it is not clear whose house His Majesty is trying to raid. The Prime Minister led the wolf-like guards in royal robes all the way to the west. As a result, the cries of women could not be heard.

But the road eventually ends, and Wang Xiang led the people into Liyu Alley.

"No, it's impossible. Your Majesty can't have any evidence of guilt!" Li Min, the former Minister of Household Affairs, learned that Jin Yiwei had turned in from the alley, and his face turned ashen.

Since the last time he contradicted His Majesty and was ordered to stay idle, he was not willing to completely lose contact with power, so he still chose to struggle and wait.

However, the development of the situation was unexpected. His Majesty took full control of the army and the court after the scandal, and he had to submit his resignation.

Originally, he had already put his return to his hometown on the schedule, but little did he know that Chen Zhun's case would trigger a chain reaction. With those hateful civil servants fanning the flames, His Majesty actually wanted to find a fat sheep in the court to kill him.

Maybe other people didn't know how fat he was, but thinking about the warehouse where the ground was pressed down by a foot, they knew that he was the fat sheep that His Majesty desperately needed.

"Don't be stunned here, take my letter immediately and go... to find Li Si!" Li Min turned to look at the confidant next to him and said immediately.

At this moment, he hated that old man Xu Pu.

Not to mention that he was stabbed for him, I really didn’t know how he taught the students in the East Palace. His Majesty actually realized that they civil servants were the most corrupt in the world.

A kid who has lived in a deep palace since childhood cannot be taught well, which is simply a disgrace to scholars.

Just as his confidant left, the housekeeper rushed over from the front yard and said, "Master, it's not good! It's not good!"

"Coming to the door? It's over!"

Li Min's eyes suddenly became hollow, and the last trace of luck disappeared. After all, he could not avoid this disaster. The family wealth accumulated through so many years of hard work would be used to fill His Majesty's inner treasury.

"Master, why are you crying?" The housekeeper came up and asked in confusion.

Li Min wiped away her tears with her sleeves, but quickly cheered up and said, "Open the middle door! I want to take a look. Why does Your Majesty want to search my home? Is this a tyranny?"

"Sir, I'm wrong, what Jin Yiwei copied was not our Li Mansion!" The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, and then explained seriously.

Li Min's fighting spirit that had just burst out instantly dissipated, and he couldn't help but said in confusion: "Your Majesty didn't come to raid my house, who else could raid my house?"

"Master, I'm afraid the person we want to copy this time is the Xie family next door to us. It has already stopped in front of the Xie family!" The housekeeper pointed to the next door and looked serious.

At this time, there was obviously more and more movement next door. Jin Yiwei knocked on the door and wanted to enter the house, but the Xie family realized that the visitor was not malicious and were resisting.

Li Min turned his head and looked at the next door, seemingly belatedly saying: "Xie Yikui?"

In this alley, in addition to him, the former Minister of Household Affairs, Xie Yikui, the former Minister of Industry, also lived here.

Xie Yikui was born in a family of officials. In his early years, he studied under Yin Zhi, a former Hanlin scholar. After entering the Hanlin Academy, he became a disciple of Li Xian, a scholar in the Hanlin Academy. He was an out-and-out CI official.

In terms of future, he is actually not as good as Xie Yikui. It's just that Xie Yikui was short-sighted in his early years. In recent years, he even suffered from eye diseases. After becoming Minister of the Ministry of Industry, he often took leave due to eye diseases.

Although the Xie family had consulted famous doctors all over the capital and surrounding areas, their eyes were still not getting better. The eye disease they had suffered a while ago could no longer be dealt with, so they chose to go to the hospital to go home.

The news just came that the man had died on the road before he returned to Jiangxi.

But I never expected that the first person to suffer would be Xie Yikui, who had ruined his career due to eye disease, but this person should not have exposed his flaws.

"Behave with propriety in life, be buried with propriety in death, and sacrifice with propriety. Proper etiquette is the law of heaven and the etiquette of human affairs. We would rather offend your majesty than to be disrespectful to future generations. We want to make money and search for no reason. As a house of important ministers, Your Majesty is disrespectful to the world. We, our direct ministers of the Department of Science and Technology, should stop him, remonstrate with him, and remonstrate him to death!" The military department all reported to Zhang Jishan and the official department to the incident. Song Cong led the department and other officials Hao Hao. They came in force, but they wanted to prevent His Majesty from inspecting the homes of important ministers.

Faced with Zhu Youtang's house confiscation, the civil service group finally showed off their sharpest weapon - the Kedao, which had the responsibility to regulate and admonish the emperor.

In the Palace of Qianqing, sandalwood curls up.

Time went back to before the order was issued to confiscate the house. When Song Cheng claimed to be back to deliver the order, Zhu Youtang and Guo Yong were stunned.

Guo Yong's eyes widened, and he even suspected that the black-faced young man was lying.

I have been in the court for decades, and I have the intelligence office of Dongchang. How can this little Zhejiang Secretary Yuanwailang do something that I can't do?

"Song Cheng, do you know what the crime of deceiving the emperor is?" Zhu Youtang also didn't quite believe that this little Zhejiang secretary wailang had such ability, so he reminded him seriously.

Song Cheng didn't even blink, and said seriously: "I have not deceived you, and I don't dare to deceive you!"

"So you really got something. I wonder who you found?" Zhu Youtang's heart moved slightly and he asked seriously.

Looking at the entire court, Wan An was undoubtedly the most suspected of corruption, but he had no intention of attacking Wan An.

Although Guo Yong still felt unbelievable, seeing Song Cheng's appearance did not seem to be aimless, so he also cast a concerned look.

Song Cheng's answer was unexpected, but he shook his head gently and said, "I didn't find anyone!"

"How dare you tease me? Do you know what crime you should be punished for?" Guo Yong was curious about who Song Cheng had bitten, and he said angrily when he heard the answer.

Song Cheng was not affected by Guo Yong. He looked straight at Zhu Youtang and added: "I found out that the Baihe River embankment project was fraudulent! The embankment has not been repaired yet, but the Ministry of Industry has reported it to the Ministry of Household Affairs After the payment is completed, this is a corruption case from bottom to top!"

"Where did you learn about this? Don't spread rumors!" Zhu Youtang knew that project corruption was the most common form of corruption, but knew that it was difficult to obtain evidence for such local matters, so he warned him seriously.

Song Cheng's eyes were firm, and he took out a file and said: "Report to your Majesty, I did not spread rumors! This is a case that I handled earlier, a fatal fight over water between Baihe Village and Xiali Village in Hangzhou Prefecture. This file The cause of the incident is very clear. The Baihe River embankment burst, causing the farmland in the village to be flooded. The villagers were cultivating on the broken dam, and disputes broke out again during the harvest this autumn, resulting in Li Si being beaten to death. In fact, I have already investigated, not only the Baihe River embankment, but also the Baihe River embankment. The project was falsely reported, and the Baihe Sluice was also falsely reported!”

"Even if what you said is true, it is still a lie and deceit by the river officials. What does it have to do with the officials of the imperial court?" Guo Yong believed that the local government had lied about the project to defraud money, but he asked doubtfully.

Zhu Youtang took the file and glanced at it briefly, but frowned slightly.

Although he didn't have high hopes for the little criminal department member Wailang in front of him, he couldn't be satisfied with handing over such an answer sheet now.

"His Majesty yesterday appointed me to investigate the corruption case. It can be seen from the reactions of various officials that they are all guilty of committing crimes. As I have served in Beijing for many years, I already knew that corruption in the officialdom is very serious. The corruption of Beijing officials is mainly based on the accumulation of small things. First, local officials come to Beijing to pay filial piety, and secondly, they collect silver for salt and water affairs. However, when courtiers hold office in Beijing, they do not handle money or affairs. They are all subordinate officials running errands. This time, the Baihe River Embankment was falsely reported as false. Leader, the Ministry of Works made mistakes in oversight, and the Ministry of Households made mistakes in their duties. The chief officials of the two yamen could not escape the blame. Whether it was Li Min, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Husbandry, or Xie Yikui, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, these two people have been They both moved to new homes and bought houses in the capital, so these two people must be the big greedy people your Majesty wants. As for the exact amount of money they have stolen over the years, you can find out just by copying them!" Song Cheng seemed to be talking eloquently.

When Guo Yong saw this, he had a stupid head, and immediately scolded him: "Are you really crazy about this? Can you just copy the homes of high officials at that time?"

"Wait!" Zhu Youtang raised a finger and seemed to be thinking seriously.

Although Guo Yong wanted to ransack his home, he had to remind him seriously: "Your Majesty, if we can't find a large amount of property, this matter may not end well!"

Although the imperial power is supreme, there are some things that cannot be done as they wish.

There will naturally be no resistance to searching a eunuch's home. After all, the eunuch is just your majesty's domestic slave. But if a minister is to be forcibly inspected, there will inevitably be strong opposition from the entire civil service group.

"Draw up the decree!" Zhu Youtang already had a good idea in mind and said with a genuine smile.

When I was young, I was in Yongfang, Xie Mansion.

The military department was all involved. Zhang Jishan and the official department were all involved. Song Cong led a total of dozens of people from other yamen. The arrival of these people emboldened the family members and servants of this important minister. Wanjia's housekeepers and others also came. Arrived outside Liyu Alley.

Wang Xiang looked at the oncoming officials, including Zhang Jishan and Song Cong, and said with a smile, "Chief Zhang, Section Chief Song, what are you doing?"

"What are you asking us to do? Prime Minister, if you dare to act recklessly, we will make your blood splatter on the spot today!" Zhang Jishan, a tall northern man in the matter, was treated as a threat by the military department.

"Yes, let this bitch splatter with blood on the spot!"

"It is unprecedented in ancient times to raid the homes of important ministers in order to cover up crimes for eunuchs!"

"In the past, there were direct ministers who beat and killed Ma Shun at Zuoshunmen, but now we, Liyu Hutong, are doing the same!"

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The officials standing behind didn't seem to think it was a serious matter. Someone seemed to be deliberately fanning the flames behind the scenes, and the officials all threatened angrily.

The door of Xie's house was finally opened. Xie Ke, a member of Zhongshushe who had just been suspended from his job due to filial piety, stood up angrily and said: "Prince Wang, what else do you think of king's law? Even if you Jin Yiwei want to raid my Xie house, There must be a crime, not a robber entering the house!"

"Well, Prime Minister, although you are favored, our important ministers are the talents of the country. If you help His Majesty to make nonsense like this, you are causing trouble to the Ming Dynasty, and everyone will be punished!" Li Min saw the officials of the Department of Science and Technology. He had already come to the rescue and immediately opened the door and came over.

Faced with the condemnation of all the officials, Wang Xiang took out the imperial edict from his sleeve and held it up high, saying, "In that case, let's kneel down together and listen to the edict!"

Li Min and other officials couldn't help but were slightly stunned. Faced with the sudden imperial edict, although they concluded that Xie Yikui could not commit the serious case of embezzlement and ransacking his house, they still knelt down in a dignified manner.