Originally, Zhu Youjian didn't expect Shi Fenglai to have so many family assets, and he didn't plan to ransack Shi Feng and behead his family. As long as he became an official and didn't interfere with his reform plan, he still had the merit of supporting him.
However, Shi Fenglai's greed for ink was too huge, and not robbing his home or beheading was not enough for the anger of the civilians, nor was it enough to calm his own anger.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Lang Yue was overjoyed. It seemed that his task was completed. From Zhu Youjian's face, he could not see joy, but the more angry Zhu Youzhen was, the better his task was completed. Zhu Youzhen was originally looking for Shi Feng.
After Lang Yue left, Zhu Youjian summoned Qiao Yunsheng, president of the Judicial Yuan, and Tang Jishi, vice president, overnight.
"See your majesty for ministers."
"Two Aiqings, let's stay flat!" Zhu Youzhen's tone was flat, as if he was hiding what kind of feelings. He didn't know whether it was anger or anger, but he was obviously disappointed.
"Your Majesty summoned him to serve as ministers in the middle of the night..." Qiao Yunsheng also felt that the atmosphere was extraordinary. In addition, before Zhu Youzhen summoned them in the middle of the night, there was no sign at all. Although he was thinking a lot on the way to the Qing Palace, he just wanted to break his head. , He didn't know Zhu Youjian's intention.
"Qiao Aiqing, Tang Aiqing, the Judicial Yuan hasn't handled major cases since its establishment, right?" Zhu Youjian was still expressionless.
"Yes, Your Majesty, the Judicial Yuan only deals with cases with high influence and special identities of the parties, and it has not encountered a single case so far."
"Now I have it," Zhu Youjian's expression suddenly shrank: "Qiao Yunsheng, Tang Jishi listen to the order."
"The minister is here!"
"The minister is here!"
Qiao Yunsheng and Tang Jishi didn't know what was going on, but the emperor wanted to make an decree and they had no choice but to kneel and listen.
"Vice Minister Shi Fenglai of the Ministry of Personnel, corrupting the law and greed for nearly a million taels of silver, I order you to immediately arrest Shi Fenglai and his family, and, together with the Jinyiwei guarding outside the mansion, check the Shi mansion." General Zhu Youjian had planned for a long time. Good imperial decree, hand it to Qiao Yunsheng.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Qiao Yunsheng took the imperial decree, his mind was in a state of confusion, "Check Lord Shi? Your Majesty, did you hear me wrong?"
"You didn't hear it wrong." Qiao Yunsheng did not act immediately, and Zhu Youzhen's expressionless face immediately turned cold, as if a layer of frost.
"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister will go right away." Qiao Yunsheng and Tang Jishi looked at each other. He didn't obey Zhu Youjian's decree, but Shi Fenglai, a senior official of Daming, had not heard anything before, so he left. God.
When his mind gradually cleared up, Qiao Yunsheng remembered that Shi Feng was greedy for ink. He knew that it was a matter of great importance. Whether it was the amount of ink corruption or the officials investigated, they had shocked the court and even caused a sensation throughout the country. He did not dare to neglect it. , Immediately bid farewell to Tang Jishi, Zhu Youjian, and organized personnel to check Shifu overnight.
This case was personally confessed by Zhu Youjian, and with Jin Yiwei's supervision on the side, all the investigators seemed to be beaten with duck blood, and the Shifu was immediately surrounded by water.
When Shi Fenglai heard that the Judicial Yuan came to the mansion in the middle of the night, he was very unhappy. He got out of bed and got out of his clothes. Seeing that it was Qiao Yunsheng, he couldn't help frowning: "Master Qiao is visiting in the middle of the night. Didn't you notice the next official?"
Qiao Yunsheng didn't reply, he took out the imperial decree from his sleeves: "Master Shi, accept the decree!"
Shi Fenglai heard that there was an imperial decree, and was uncertain in his heart: "Wait for the lower officials to put the incense case."
"No, Lord Shi, just kneel down and take the order." Qiao Yunsheng said coldly.
Shi Feng was unable to come, so he had to kneel to the ground: "Chen Shi Feng is here to take the order."
Qiao Yunsheng opened up the yellow silk paper and stood facing south: "Emperor Yu, Vice Minister of Personnel Shi Fenglai, as a senior official of the Ming Dynasty, does not think about serving the country, the court, and the people of Li people. He ignored the "Anti-Corruption Law" of Daming and took bribes. To live up to the divine grace, it has been discovered today that Shi Fenglai was greedy for nearly a million taels of silver, and the Judicial Yuan immediately checked the Shifu, in order to behave like you."
When Shi Fenglai heard the content of the imperial edict, his soul flew away, and the big beads of sweat seemed to have been prepared long ago. He muttered to himself: "I want to see the emperor, I want to see the emperor..."
"Master Shi, thank you for your decree!" Qiao Yunsheng folded the imperial decree and stretched it to Shi Feng.
Shi Fenglai seemed to have lost his soul. He took the imperial decree mechanically with both hands. The bright yellow color seemed to pierce Shi Fenglai's nerves. He shouted, "Master Qiao, it must be a mistake. I want to see the emperor."
"Master Shi, the emperor is willing to see you or not, the official can't be the master, this is the emperor's decree, you are optimistic, there is the emperor's seal on it."
Shi Fenglai didn't give up yet. He really opened the imperial edict. When he saw Zhu Youjian's seal, he was ashamed as a wooden chicken, and he couldn't make a sound anymore. The whole man was like a clay sculpture, and he was allowed to be tied up by the Judiciary. solid.
"Go, enter the mansion." Qiao Yunsheng waved his hand, and the people from the Judicial Yuan immediately broke through the house of Shifu and went straight into the interior of the Shifu.
Under the guidance of Jin Yiwei, they came to an inconspicuous low-footed house in the southeast corner.
While a large number of people flocked to the low-footed house, many families with knives sprang out from nowhere: "Who are you? How dare you enter the Shifu privately?"
Tang Jishi sneered: "According to the decree, check the Shifu, unrelated people, etc., immediately retreat, if there is any block, kill it."
Hearing that it was the imperial edict, the family members wilted one by one. They lowered their swords and slowly retreated away from the short-footed house.
Jia Dingzhu suddenly walked out of a very burly but not tall person. He took out a gold medal from his waist: "Jin Yiwei, to find the Tibetan silver in Shifu, please come with me."
Seeing that Jin Yiwei was placed beside them, the family members knew that something was wrong, they shouted, and immediately escaped without a trace.
Under the guidance of the Jinyiwei spy, Qiao Yunsheng and Tang Jishi opened the low-footed house, entered the underground passage, turned two corridors, and came to a stainless steel door.
The spy Jin Yiwei stepped forward alone. He held the knife in his right hand, and first patted the left side of the stainless steel door with his left hand four times. The stainless steel door remained motionless.
Qiao Yunsheng was secretly anxious. Stainless steel is a very strong material, unless it is exploded with gunpowder. Once gunpowder is used, no one can estimate what the inside will be like.
Jin Yiwei, who was armed with a knife, showed no expression. He took another five shots on the right side of the stainless steel door, and then turned his head to silence everyone.
With a "creak", a gap was opened in the stainless steel door, and the people inside looked out from the gap, seeing that the momentum was wrong. He is about to close the steel door.
late.
The Jin Yiwei had already inserted the steel knife in his hand into the crack of the door, and the stainless steel door was blocked and could no longer be closed.
Everyone stepped forward, pushed open the stainless steel door, and snatched into the inner room.
The inner room looks unusually low, just like the low-footed house outside. It is somewhat difficult for ordinary people to walk upright in it, but the several long bright lights that light up illuminate the inside like daylight.
There are wooden cages all over the inside. Some of the cages have withered and yellow surfaces. Obviously they have been placed for a long time, but all the cages are cleaned up. It may be the person who opened the door just waiting for the cages.
"Open the cage!" Qiao Yunsheng ordered the guardian.
Jia Ding tremblingly touched his waist, Qiao Yunsheng thought he was touching the key, but he did not expect that he took out a short knife, no more than five inches long.
"Not good." Before Jin Yiwei's words came to an end, people had already swooped toward Jiading.
It was still a step too late, that Ding's short knife had been pierced into his chest until it reached the hilt.
The blood gurgled out along the edge of the knife. There was a smile on his face, but his voice was as weak as a hairspring: "... Finally... Finally free..."
Jia Ding tilted his head and slowly fell down, his eyes still half open.
It did not hurt Qiao Yunsheng. Jin Yiwei breathed a sigh of relief. He stopped beside the corpse and turned to Qiao Yunsheng: "Master Qiao..."
"Boxing cage!" Qiao Yunsheng didn't seem to see the Jinyiwei. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and called out the attendants.
The attendant cut open the first cage with a scimitar.
The white silver ingots, fifty taels each, are neatly arranged in the cage.
Tang Jishi picked up a silver ingot and played with it for a while, "My lord, it's official silver, look at it."
Qiao Yunsheng took the silver ingot and saw the words "Twenty-two Years of Wanli" printed on the bottom. He couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "This Shi Feng is here, and he cannot live by himself."
The attendants opened the second and third cages again, and the result was the same, a large number of silver ingots, very dazzling.
Shi Fenglai’s mansion was turned upside down. Qiao Yunsheng made a preliminary estimate and found a total of more than 22,000 taels of gold, more than 885,000 taels of silver, and antiques, jewellery, calligraphy and painting. Valuation.
Under Jin Yiwei's supervision, he dared not care, all the gold and silver jewellery were loaded into the carriage and transported out of the Shifu. All the staff of the Shifu were also taken away and temporarily locked up in the Judicial Yuan.
Early the next morning, Qiao Yunsheng and Tang Jishi came to the Palace of the Qing Dynasty and asked to see Zhu Youjian.
Zhu Youjian went to bed in Kunning Palace last night, and walked with Zhou Yufeng for a while in the morning. It was not until the end of Chenshi that he slowly returned to Qianqing Palace. He saw two lonely figures cuddling at the gate of the palace. outer.
"Your Majesty." Shi Fenglai, like an extremely excited child, suddenly found the person to vent, "checked it in Shifu..."
Zhu Youjian waved his hand: "Go ahead and talk about it."
The guard opened the middle door, and Qiao Yunsheng and Tang Jishi followed Zhu Youjian and entered the Palace of the Qing Dynasty.
"Your Majesty, Shi Fenglai is really embezzling and betraying the law. In the silver vault of his mansion, he found more than 22,000 taels of gold, more than 885,000 taels of silver, as well as antiques, jewelry, calligraphy and painting that cannot be sold. All the members of the Shifu are detained by the Ministry of Justice."
"I've been paying attention to Shi Feng for a long time since I came to Shi Feng," Zhu Youzhen looked angrily. "Da Ming has already promulgated the "Anti-Corruption Law", so I can't stop it. How can I dare to use him?"
"He is self-inflicted. Your Majesty does not need to pity him," Tang Jishi interjected, "Your Majesty, how do you deal with these stolen goods?"
"The stolen goods are brought over and put in the treasury. As for the staff of the Shifu, I will trouble the two Aiqings to try it." Zhu Youjian still has a calm face. Although he has won a million dollars, he can't be happy.
"Your Majesty, what exactly will Shi Feng do?" Qiao Yunsheng probed carefully.
"You are the chief of justice, are you not familiar with Da Ming's law? Or Da Ming's law, just written on paper to fool the common people?" Zhu Youjian's face suddenly became frosty, "The prince broke the law, and the common people For the same sin, as long as Aiqing is tried in accordance with Da Ming's law, everyone will be convinced no matter what the result is."