After learning that Chu Xun was back, Gu Yuanbai was overjoyed.
Chu Xun walked into the hall in a hurry, Gu Yuanbai got up from behind the table and walked out, stepped forward to help Chu Xun, his words were kind and gentle, "Chu Qing has worked hard."
The two months of hard work and danger were all moved by the words of the sage. Chu Xun said with tears in his eyes: "I will not disgrace the entrustment of the sage. The reason for this spring flood has been written in this memorial."
Gu Yuanbai glanced at the memorial and asked Tian Fusheng to take it down, but he did not rush to look at it, but first gave Chu Xun a reward of tea and let him have a good rest before opening the memorial.
Chu Xun was instructed to solve the source of the spring flood and the officials who did not report it. The main thing to deal with was naturally the spring flood. As expected by Gu Yuanbai, because of the accumulation of sediment and rain for several days, Chu Xun went to the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. At that time, there was a faint danger of the embankment bursting.
Fortunately, Chu Xun's theory on water control is not just on paper. He immediately discussed the water control plan according to the terrain, constantly inspected and adjusted day and night, and finally successfully passed the small flood season.
In addition to water control, that is to check people. There is no reason why Chu Xun's official position is low. His actions are very direct, and he doesn't know how to adapt to the emperor's orders. Gu Yuanbai asked him to check the source of the information and who was hiding it, so he just buried himself in checking this. There were several fatalities. But Chu Xun did not insist, he immediately went to the local governor and sent troops to arrest those local officials who were going to fight to the death.
"The Governor is still on the road with these officials under pressure. It should take another two days to enter Beijing." Chu Xun said.
Gu Yuanbai read the list of officials on the booklet, nodded and asked with a smile, "Can Chu Qing find out that these local officials have colluded with Beijing officials?"
Chu Xun said with guilt: "I am incompetent, I didn't find it."
Gu Yuanbai's expression did not change, he consoled Chu Xun a few words, and seeing his haggard face, he let him go back to the house to rest first.
After Chu Xun left, Gu Yuanbai touched the memorial, his smile deepened, and then he threw the memorial on the table, restrained his smile and said coldly: "Tian Fusheng, send someone to invite the Imperial Censor Taichung. "
*
When Censor Zhongcheng knew that he had been summoned by the Sage, his eyelids jumped abruptly.
When he knelt in front of the saint, this ominous feeling was even stronger.
Since King Qi was arrested, he has been uneasy, but after waiting for many days, he has not seen the action of the saint. He thought that the Holy Master didn't find it, but what happened now
The sage held the tea, and sipped the tea unhurriedly. Today, the tea brewed was still Shuangjing Green, which was mellow and thorough. Gu Yuanbai preferred this.
The sage sipped the tea slowly, but a thin layer of sweat appeared on the top of the kneeling Censor Zhongcheng.
Such quietness makes the heart feel like something is wrong, and the beating speed makes it difficult to breathe. Censor Zhongcheng lowered his head and kept speculating in his heart, and finally said: "Chen Feng Chengzhi, please forgive me!"
Gu Yuanbai finally raised his eyes and glanced at him, opened the teacup and swiped the tea leaves, "What's the fault of Feng Qing?"
The large beads of sweat on the head of the imperial censor Taichung slipped from his temples, and he respectfully said: "The minister should picket all the officials, but he has been slack recently, causing many mistakes, and the minister's crimes are so many and so great that they all need to follow the saint's. Please sin."
"Oh?" Gu Yuanbai said indifferently, "The Imperial Censor Taichung Cheng is to blame, so what happened to the entire Censor Terrace?"
Yu Shi Zhongcheng's breath stagnated, and his heart slowly fell into the abyss: "Chen..."
Gu Yuanbai took a sip of tea and said lightly, "Go and bring King Qi."
Yu Shi Zhongcheng was shocked.
Soon, someone brought King Qi into the hall. These days of sparring made King Qi seem more than 20 years old, and his spirit was sluggish. The three days of starvation before were even more haggard, and he did not have the graceful appearance of the past.
Seeing Gu Yuanbai at this moment, King Qi naturally hated and was afraid. He reluctantly wanted to look like the emperor's uncle. When he saw the Yushi Zhongcheng kneeling beside him, his eyes widened and his body trembled.
Two middle-aged and elderly people in their 40s and 50s knelt in front of them, one was sweating more than the other, Gu Yuanbai was still drinking tea, not in a hurry.
"Sir," King Qi couldn't bear it anymore, he asked in horror, "This is you?"
"I asked the two of you to come here, and you came to ask me why?"
Gu Yuanbai looked at the imperial censor Taichung Cheng, and the censor Zhong Cheng shook twice under his gaze, and forced himself to calm down: "Sir, my minister..."
"The Censor's Desk," Gu Yuanbai interrupted him, he said word by word, "Supervising places and supervising officials are my eyes and ears, and a place to uphold the law. I trust Feng Qing, after all Feng Qing. When the late emperor was there, Qing had written to picket me many times to check on my wrongdoings. I believe that Feng Qing dares to speak out, is a good and selfless minister, and is a role model for all officials in the world."
Censor Zhongcheng's heart thumped, trembling with fear and fear.
"But I found that you don't seem to be as good as I thought," Gu Yuanbai's tone became colder and colder, "Your eyes are not staring at Baiguan, but Zhen. Your hand reached out to Concubine Wan, Why, the position of a censor of Taichung can't satisfy you, and you plan to go further, and even want to pull me down from the throne?"
Yu Shi Zhongcheng felt chills all over his body and was extremely frightened.
Censor Zhongcheng had never seen Gu Yuanbai like this.
The sage treats his ministers favorably, listens to his advice, and has a reputation for being virtuous. The imperial censor Taichung Cheng knows that the sage is not easy.
But how terrifying the Sage was, he only realized after Gu Yuanbai sent troops to surround Qi Wangfu.
That day, the doors of the officials in the entire capital were closed, and the cries of the clan prince's mansion resounded throughout the street. The imperial censor, Zhongcheng, was in his own mansion, and his teeth were fighting with fright.
But at that time, everything that should be done was done, the pirate ship had already set sail, and the person holding the rudder could not get off the ship whether he was going in the right direction or the wrong direction.
"Chen, Chen..." Censor Zhongcheng's voice trembled, "I didn't..."
"you have!!!"
Gu Yuanbai threw the teacup in his hand violently, and the teacup shattered beside Censor Zhongcheng. The water stains in the cup splashed onto Censor Zhongcheng and King Qi, and the two were so frightened that they lost their minds.
The guards guarding in front of the door and the palace attendants in the hall all knelt down, and the entire palace was so silent that there was no sound. Censor Zhongcheng already felt his breath suffocating, and he was so frightened that his heartbeat almost stopped.
Gu Yuanbai's face was full of anger, anger burned his liver and lungs, and his breathing began to be heavy. Gu Yuanbai eased his mood and anger, his face was expressionless, the more the emperor was like this, the more scared the people below.
King Qi's legs were weak, and he collapsed to the ground, trembling and frightened uncontrollably.
The hollow jade found in Prince Qi's mansion was thrown in front of the two of them.
Looking at this hollow jade pendant and looking at the expressionless face of the emperor, King Qi and Censor Zhongcheng completely collapsed to the ground, full of despair.
The sage rarely gets angry, especially the people from the censor's desk. Because the people of the censors themselves have the responsibility of picking up the officials, what the emperor needs is that they dare to speak, not dare to speak. In order not to frighten them, the emperor's attitude towards the people from the censor's desk was very cordial.
This is the imperial censor, and it is also the first time that King Qi has seen such a big fire in the sage.
The two were so frightened that their faces turned pale and their eyes were empty. At this time, the emperor threw another memorial in front of Censor Zhongcheng, and said in a cold tone: "Look."
With trembling hands, Censor Zhongcheng picked up the memorial and opened it to see that it was the list of local officials around the Yellow River during the small flood season.
After seeing him finish reading, Gu Yuanbai spoke at this time: "The Imperial Censor Zhongcheng colluded with local officials, took bribes, and used these ill-gotten gains to win over King Qi. King Qi and Imperial Censor Zhongcheng were in a mess, and they secretly secretly cooperated with the chaotic ministers and thieves. Collusion, driving the local officials to fish and meat the common people, all of them are hard to write about! It's a shame that the Censor Taichung is used for picketing, but it corrupts itself. There are still a few good officials in the whole Censor Taichung! The local officials dare to collude with the Beijing officials to do evil, and these local officials A few are clean!"
Censor Zhongcheng and King Qi raised their heads abruptly.
They never did these things!
Gu Yuanbai looked at them with cold eyes, and continued to say slowly, "Do you admit your guilt?"
"Chen..." Censor Zhongcheng's brain shook, and he felt dull pain.
Gu Yuanbai said coldly: "For the sake of the two of you who took the initiative to confess your guilt and take the initiative to report on these local officials, I can spare you the death penalty."
For a long time, under the icy gaze of the emperor, Censor Zhongcheng burst into tears. He slowly raised his hand, bowed deeply, and slammed his head on the ground, "I plead guilty."
The hat that the emperor gave him directly lost the face of the Censor Zhongcheng. After confessing the crime, a Censor Taichung was embezzled, and he knew what would happen to him.
The entire censor's desk, the entire local officials, will be checked by the Holy Master.
But the emperor only gave them this way.
The saints spared their premeditated things, do not have to die, do not have to get involved, but the price is no better than death.
Their whole family will be exiled, they will be deprived of their origin, they will be banned from participating in the imperial examinations, they will be sinners for generations, and they will be infamous for thousands of years.
King Qi saw that Censor Zhongcheng recognized him, his dull eyes moved, and he looked up at Gu Yuanbai.
After meeting Gu Yuanbai's gaze, he suddenly shuddered.
Gu Yuanbai snorted coldly and began to issue an order.
He was dismissed from the official position of Censor Zhongcheng, deprived of his Beijing status, and his family members were exiled to the desolate land of eastern Guangnan for three generations to perform cool labor. He was deprived of the title of King Qi, demoted to a commoner, expelled from his clan, banned from manors outside Beijing, never allowed to step into the capital, and could not participate in scientific examinations within three generations.
As for the Censorship, there was such a big corruption that the emperor no longer trusted Censorship, and he wanted to rewash Censorship. And those local officials who were caught by Chu Xun, they colluded with the Beijing officials, not only concealed the crime, but also executed him.
The sentence that should be sentenced, the exile that should be exiled.
More importantly, Censor Zhongcheng himself admitted that he had colluded with local officials in many places.
What does this mean
Gu Yuanbai couldn't help but laugh out loud.
This means that he can come to a vigorous anti-corruption battle.
In this big battle, he can use thunder, use soldiers and horses, and investigate and explore in depth on a large scale. As we all know, anti-corruption activities have always been a means for rulers to get rid of certain people.
The censorship desk.
It's finally becoming my eyes and ears.
*
After the imperial edict came out, the court was shocked.
Everyone in the Censor Station was in danger. The Censor Doctor was about to start his official career, but at this time he took over the responsibility. Day and night, he sighed that he had taken a step too late, and he was now walking on thin ice.
King Qi and his party had been kicked out of the capital. Their family members were all nobles raised in the mountains of wealth. After being driven out this time, everyone's expression was dazed, no matter whether they were old or young, looking at all the people, suddenly there was a sense of helplessness with nowhere to go.
The guards looked fierce and wanted to drive them to the manor where there was nothing. From then on, they were not allowed to step out of the manor, and they would be imprisoned until death.
The youngest son, Gu Wen, even when his father and brother were struggling to get by in prison, never suffered the slightest harshness. He gripped his mother's clothes uneasily and cried, "My beads! My beads!"
His mother wiped away tears, and the Holy Admiral drove them out of the palace. Apart from their own brocade satin and a few pieces of jewelry, where did they take other things
King Qi's face was so hopeless that he was expressionless. He didn't know how he could end up in this situation when he just deliberately spread the wrong news at first.
After he heard the cry of the youngest son, he suddenly returned to his senses. King Qi pinched the young son's neck, his eyes were about to go out of his sockets, "I strangled you, I strangled you! It's all your fault! It's all your fault! your fault!"
Crying and tugging chaos, adults groaning and children's cries disturbing.
Several eldest sons of King Qi watched this scene chillingly.
The pampered family has left the name of the royal family and went to the desolate manor, can they still live