After Yang Zhong left, Yang Ji shouted loudly: "Here comes someone!"

Four servants entered the room together.

"I have something for you to do now, come here!" Yang Ji waved to them, and the four servants gathered around Yang Ji. Yang Ji then whispered to them his plan to harm Nangong Cheng and Xiang Tianyu.

, and divided the labor between them.

A servant was dissatisfied with Yang Ji's division of labor. This servant was the one who forced Nangong Cheng to swear an oath that day. He stood up and said: "Master, leave it to me to report to Jinyiwei!"

"Leave it to you?" Yang Ji glanced at the servant very suspiciously. After all, he was the one who was scared by Nangong Cheng and betrayed him. Can he still be trusted now?

The servant nodded and said fiercely: "Last time, that man used false things to scare me, causing me to betray the young master. If this revenge is not avenged, I will feel uneasy."

Yang Ji said: "Okay, then I will believe you for once. Remember, when you go to Jin Yiwei to inform you, you must not reveal that you are from the Yang family."

"Yes, I understand, little one," the servant said.

Yang Ji said: "Okay, let's act according to the plan!"

So the next day, two servants took brooms and pretended to clean in front of the Yang Mansion. When Nangong Cheng and others went out, the two servants stopped cleaning and went back to report to Yang Ji.

Send another servant to Jinyiwei to secretly report Xiang Tianyu.

In the morning, in front of the Fusi Gate of Jinyiwei North Town.

There is a plaque hung in front of the gate - Jinyiwei North Town Fusi. There is no one in front of Jinyiwei's gate. People are afraid of Jinyiwei just like they are afraid of tigers, so no one wants to come here. The servants changed into the clothes of ordinary people and came

When he arrived at the gate of Jin Yiwei, he was about to go in. The Jin Yiwei guarding the door stopped him and said, "Who are you? What is your purpose here?"

The servant said: "I'm here to inform you. Some people are making treasonous remarks and plotting evil intentions to overthrow our country, the Ming Dynasty."

The Jin Yiwei at the door did not dare to neglect, because rebellion was a major event in all dynasties. The Jin Yiwei at the door said to the servant: "You wait here first."

The servant nodded, and the Jin Yiwei entered Beizhen Fusi. After a while, the Jin Yiwei came out from Beizhen Fusi again. When he came out, he brought another Jin Yiwei with him. He said to the servant: "Follow him in!"

"

"Okay!" The servant smiled and followed another Jinyiwei into Fusi, North Town of Jinyiwei.

The Jinyiwei secretly came to the lobby of Beizhen Fusi with his servant. A Jinyiwei with a short beard sat at a table to receive him. Two young men were smiling face to face in the courtroom. The two young men were upright and heroic.

Bo Bo. The Jin Yiwei who ushered the servant in, clasped his fists at the people in the court, and said: "Your Majesty, Commander, I have already brought him here." It turns out that the one who is interrogating the servant now is the highest official of the Jin Yiwei - Commander Liu Mian. Perhaps it is him.

Because what the servant said was a conspiracy, Jin Yiwei did not dare to neglect it, so the highest official was asked to interrogate the matter.

Liu Mian looked at the servant up and down. The servant put his hands in front of him, his left hand on his right, and looked at Liu Mian with a smile. With this movement, Liu Mian confirmed the servant's identity, and he said: "Who are you?"

A servant in the palace?"

The servant was shocked. He had changed into the clothes of an ordinary person. How could he tell? The servant thought: "The young master has told me not to reveal his identity. Maybe he doesn't know what he is doing."

He didn’t know that I was a servant, so he was trying to deceive me.” Then the servant said, “Your Excellency, you are mistaken. I am just an ordinary citizen, not a servant of anyone’s house.”

Liu Mian smiled and said: "It seems that you are still a member of an official's family. Servants in ordinary merchants' families will only be called servants; only servants in an official's family will be called slaves."

The servant was stunned and speechless for a moment.

Liu Mian smiled and said: "You must be wondering how I saw it. Although you are wearing ordinary people's clothes, when you stand, you put your hands in front of you and your body is slightly arched. This is clearly what a servant should do.

Some postures. If I can't even see this, then wouldn't it mean that I, the commander of the Imperial Guard, have to abdicate in favor of someone better?"

The servant was startled, and quickly straightened up his hunched body, put his hands on his sides, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter what my identity is. What's important is that what I want to expose is indeed a rebellion."

Liu Mian looked at the servant in front of him with great disdain. He thought that since this servant was a slave of the official family, the person who wanted to have his hair extensions would naturally be the servant's master. Liu Mian looked down upon such a person who sold his master for glory.

, but even if he looked down upon him, he still wanted to listen to what the servant said. So Liu Mian said: "Whatever you want to say, say it now!"

The servant nodded and said: "I want to expose a person named Xiang Tianyu. She speaks treacherous words and attempts to overthrow our Ming Dynasty."

"Xiang Tianyu?" Liu Mian thought carefully, sorted through all the officials in the capital in his mind, and said, "There seems to be no official named Xiang Tianyu in the capital!"

The servant said: "Sir, this Xiang Tianyu is not an official."

Liu Mian nodded and said, "If you're not an official, who are you?"

The servant said: "Sir, she is still a commoner now."

"Common people?" Liu Mian looked at the servants and suppressed the anger in his heart. The emperor set up royal guards to monitor the officials. What does this common people have to do with them?

The servant nodded and said: "She is still a woman."

After the servant said these words, Liu Mian suddenly became furious. Liu Mian slapped the gavel in front of the desk hard, remembering with a "pop", and then Liu Mian said angrily: "Bold evil servant, I see you

He is clearly making a fool of me! Come here, beat him fifty times and drive him out of Beizhen Fusi."

Two Jinyi guards heard the order and walked in.

"My lord, please wait a moment. Please listen to me relay what she said to you. If she has not committed the crime of treason, I am willing to be punished!" the servant said loudly to Liu Mian.

Liu Mian thought for a while and waved to the two guards who had come to the servant's side. The two guards stepped back again. Liu Mian said: "Okay, I'll let you say it! I won't hit you again after you finish speaking."

Chi, let you die without any regrets!"

So the servant said the original words of Xiang Tianyu that he had memorized: "If the emperor's power is restricted by the law, these good governance that benefit the people can be determined by legal guidelines, and no one is allowed to change it, then it will benefit forever.

Has it affected the people? It is precisely because the emperor’s power is above the law, so even if some good governance can benefit the country and the people, as long as the emperor has the power to abolish these good governance and implement his own way, then good governance will not always benefit the country.

The country benefits the people. Therefore, it has been more than four thousand years since ancient times. No court in the world has been able to last for a long time. When it meets a wise king, it becomes strong, when it meets a mediocre king, it becomes weak, and when it meets a faint king, it perishes.

If the emperor of the Ming Dynasty could not surrender his power to the law, then the Ming Dynasty would not be far from destruction when the weak emperor ascends the throne. As long as someone's power is above the law, it is to govern the country with human feelings. To govern the country with human feelings,

The country will not last long; only by governing the country according to law can the country prosper forever." Then she paused and continued: "Sir, listen to these words. She said that the law should restrain the emperor, and she cursed our Ming Dynasty to have a cowardly king and destroy the country.

, isn’t this rebellion against heaven?”

Liu Mian said to his servant: "Well, you can memorize such a long passage. It seems that you really put your heart into it. What are you doing for this?"

The servant cupped his fists and said, "Sir, I don't want anything. I am a member of the Ming Dynasty and a subject of the emperor. Anyone who wants to subvert the Ming Dynasty or do harm to the emperor will stand up and deal with him."

Liu Mian thought for a while and couldn't make up his mind for a moment, so he asked the two young men standing side by side in the hall: "Yuan Bin, Haming, what do you think about this issue?"

Jin Yiwei, who was standing on the left side of Liu Mian, cupped his fists and said: "Sir, in the opinion of my subordinates, we should first bring the man named Xiang Tianyu back, let Xiang Tianyu confront him, and ask him if he has said such things before doing so.

Disposal."

"What? Do you want a confrontation?" The servant looked at Liu Mian in horror.

Liu Mian nodded.

"I don't think there's any need to confront him. You can just bring him back. You'll know after the first trial that this Xiang Tianyu must have said what he just said." After the servant finished speaking, he was about to leave.

But the silent guard stopped him and said, "Don't leave in a hurry! We don't know where Xiang Tianyu is yet! Even if you don't want to confront her, you should at least lead us to catch her, right?"

The servant nodded and stayed.

Liu Mian nodded and said to Jin Yiwei who made the suggestion: "Ha Ming, what you said makes sense. You can take people to bring them back now."

"Yes." Ha Ming clasped his fists and accepted the order, preparing to lead people to catch Xiang Tianyu.

"Wait!" Another Jin Yiwei stopped Ha Ming. Since Liu Mian mentioned the names Yuan Bin and Ha Ming just now, then this Jin Yiwei is Xuan Bin. Yuan Bin cupped his fists and said to Liu Mian: "Sir, this is a serious matter.

"Small, if you arrest people in broad daylight, it will easily attract other people's attention. I don't think we can arrest people in broad daylight. We should arrest people at night."

"At night?" The servant was startled and said quickly: "What if we wait until night and Xiang Tianyu runs away? Let's arrest him now!" In fact, the servant was worried that at night, Nangong Cheng and the others would go back.

You can't bring people to Yang Shiqi's house to arrest people, right? Wouldn't that expose Yang Ji again? That's why the servants objected to arresting people at night.

But the Jinyiwei is not an ordinary organization, but a unique organization of the Ming Dynasty. It does not obey anyone and only serves the emperor. Liu Mian thought to himself: "There must be a reason why this evil servant is so afraid of arresting people at night. Well, since you

I'm afraid of arresting people at night, so I decided to arrest them at night. Besides, what Yuan Bin said makes sense. If this matter is done during the day, I'm afraid the impact will be very serious, so it's better to do it at night." So Liu Mian first said to the servant: "Please, please.

Understand, this is Jin Yiwei, and it is up to me to decide when to arrest people." Then he said to Yuan Bin: "Okay, Yuan Bin, I will do as you said, arrest people at night, you and Haming will lead the arrests together.

people."

"Yes." Yuan Bin cupped his fists and accepted the order.
Chapter completed!