Chapter 430 Kill the chicken to warn the monkey
The story of Wu Qinghou entering the palace to meet the saint was soon known to everyone in the city, and it quickly fermented among officials at all levels.
For a moment, public opinion in the capital was in an uproar. No one expected that such a thing would happen. Marquis Wu Qing actually ran to the palace?
You know, although there have been many troubles in the capital recently and everyone is talking about the house, the people who are really involved are also concerned about the land inventory in the west of the city.
But for a moment, no one came up with a good idea. They were doing something illegal and disorderly, which was very inappropriate. If Your Majesty did not blame him or turned a blind eye, then it didn't matter to everyone.
But now your Majesty must be serious and carefully investigated, then you will have to be beaten and accepted punishment. This has always been the case with the nobles and relatives, and everyone knows it. When the days pass, they will think of other ways. Anyway, you cannot let Your Majesty lose face and cannot make Your Majesty's bad luck.
In this regard, isn’t the same thing as the nobles and the nobles?
This time everyone is also trying to find a way, but since the establishment of the Staff Office, the nobles and the nobles have not been united.
Because many people with ideas have begun to work hard to gain power, and it is not possible to live by the same as before. Everyone wants more. Even shrewd people have realized that life will not be so easy to get through in the future. If they don’t take advantage of the advantages to gain some power, they may not be able to get through in the future.
The division naturally appeared, and it was more obvious in the land inventory.
Some people were very supportive, and even heard that His Majesty wanted to check the land, so he checked his own home first. When he found the problem, he did not hide it or conceal it. He directly found Shuntian Mansion and reported it.
Some people are in a depressed mood and feel so uncomfortable. Why should I hand over the good things from my home?
For a moment, the two sides also argued endlessly.
But no one expected that Wu Qinghou would actually do such a thing. This is not a good thing, nor did he point out a way for everyone, he was trying to die.
You have made a mistake, did something wrong, and you plead guilty, isn't it good to be punished?
Now you run to the emperor to be foolish, saying that you can exchange your garden for the house of the court, and that you are loyal to the Ming Dynasty's culture and education. You are fooling Your Majesty as a fool.
It would be fine if this matter was not accomplished; if His Majesty agreed at that time, he would not have thought about how His Majesty would retaliate against you after he knew the truth?
After the news spread, the entire capital instantly sparked public opinion.
The civil servants began to impeach the Marquis of Wu Qing, and these books were sent to the palace like snowflakes.
You know, civil servants are very supportive of the land investigation.
Establishing a new Confucius Temple, establishing a new Yansheng Gong, establishing a new royal academies, and moving out places to build houses for everyone is all good news for them, and the civil servants support this policy very much.
Many civil servants have submitted memorials to thank him these days, and Zhu Youxiao's reputation has improved a lot. Under such circumstances, Wu Qinghou actually wanted to make trouble and happened to use him as a target.
For a moment, Wuqing Hou could be said to be beaten by everyone, and his reputation instantly became stinking. Some people even exposed the things that Wuqing Hou and his family did back then, as if they were looking for old accounts.
The Marquis of Wuqing, Li Wei, was a carpenter. His family had never seen the world and lived a very poor life. In order to survive, Li Wei sent his daughter to King Yu's mansion as a maid.
Because of the rumors that Emperor Jiajing and the other dragons did not meet each other, the prince's life was not easy. Not to mention marrying a few more concubines, the cost was not much. Emperor Jiajing was busy cultivating immortals, so who was interested in this? King Yu accidentally saw Li Wei's daughter and thought she was pretty good, so he favored her. Li Wei's daughter was lucky and gave birth to a son, which was later Emperor Wanli.
The father of Wuqing, Li Wei, was noble because of his daughter. In addition, when Wanli ascended the throne, he was young and Empress Dowager Li was in charge of the family, so the Marquis of Wuqing became even more arrogant.
Empress Li is also a small family, and her father is a carpenter. Their family has done many things that mainstream cannot tolerate, and they do everything they can to get money. She used to be poor and now she has the opportunity, so she won’t do more? Li Wei has done too many things, and even Zhang Juzheng can’t even take care of it.
But so many years have passed, and no one can get rid of old accounts. But this time, the Hou family of Wuqing took the initiative to jump out. If they don’t get rid of this old account, they may not be able to pass.
The palace.
Zhu Youxiao looked at the question book in his hand and felt thoughtful.
After pondering for a moment, Zhu Youxiao had an idea in his mind.
He said: "Chen Hong, let the Sili Supervisor draw an imperial edict to the Marquis of Wuqing Li Gao. He told him that the houses in Xincheng were built for officials, and even if some houses were to be sold, they were to raise money to build houses for officials. Therefore, the houses in Xincheng could not be exchanged for him. However, I couldn't bear it when he was in a difficult situation. I took some things from the inner treasury to him and asked him to buy a house and buy land in the capital, so I could live a good life."
After saying this, Zhu Youxiao put down the brush in his hand, and an inexplicable expression appeared on his face.
After hearing this, Chen Hong hurriedly said, "Don't worry, I will do it now."
After Chen Hong left, Zhu Youxiao sneered.
This is not a good thing. The reward given by Zhu Youxiao was just to show the emperor's generosity and the emperor's kind heart.
After all, they are all family members and everyone is a relative. As the emperor, he can't watch his relatives live without a chance, right?
If you change a house, it will break the rules of the court. It is not something that an emperor should do, so it cannot be changed for you.
But it doesn’t matter if you have no food to eat, so I will reward you with some private money from the emperor so that you can live a good life.
This approach takes into account both legal principles and human feelings, and can be said to kill multiple goals in one go. It seems like a good story, but the background is not that simple.
If someone impeached Wuqing Marquis Li Gao and said how rich their family is, then what is Li Gao, the Marquis of Wuqing?
This is the crime of deceiving the king. You are deceiving the emperor. What do you mean?
In Zhu Youxiao's view, it is no problem for these civil officials of the Ming Dynasty to catch such loopholes and handles, and the charges will definitely be too serious.
Whoever has a loud voice will have prestige, and this time I will definitely not miss such an opportunity.
Just wait and see what they can do.
Sure enough, as Zhu Youxiao expected, Chen Hong went to read the imperial edict, and the imperial edict was also sent to the Marquis of Wuqing.
For a moment, public opinion was in an uproar.
On the one hand, people say that the emperor is kind and is a good emperor; on the other hand, they scold the Marquis of Wuqing, how much land does your family have? How much business does your family have? How much money does your family have? How dare you cry poor when you go to His Majesty?
It would be fine if it was normal. Now, I will go to cry and cry for poverty at this time, and let Your Majesty give you a reward?
That money is all for us to build a house! You, Marquis Wu Qing, are simply too much and must not let it go!
Your Majesty is so kind, you are actually cheating on Your Majesty?!
As a result, the books that impeached Wu Qinghou flew into the court one after another. This time, all public opinion turned to Zhu Youxiao, targeting the crimes of Wu Qinghou deceiving the king, and the crimes were unforgivable.
Of course, after this crime was called out, the impeacher did not take it seriously. The reason is very simple. People usually shouted this way when impeachment, and it was even more intense. Even someone was thinking of something wrong. But in other words, no one took it seriously. This time, he shouted it only expressed loyalty.
But something that no one expected happened. After the question book was sent to the palace, His Majesty was furious and suddenly became extremely angry.
According to rumors, His Majesty lamented that his heart for so many years was wrong.
This suddenly pushed the matter to the forefront.
His Majesty was ill and hid in the palace and stopped coming out. At the same time, he instructed the Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Revenue, and Dali Temple to investigate the case together to see if Li Gao, the Marquis of Wuqing, was deceiving the emperor.
In fact, it was too cold. Zhu Youxiao didn't want to get up early, so he took advantage of this reason to hide in the harem and accompany Queen Zhang and his son every day.
Sometimes when I get tired of the little baby's crying, I go to Concubine Yuan and Concubine Tian. I am warm in my arms and don't miss Shu.
The queen's fat son has already given birth, and the two of them have not yet reacted. This is not good. When Zhu Youxiao worked hard, they both got pregnant, no matter who they were, the husband and daughter made up a pair.
As for the noisy outside, Zhu Youxiao planned to let the bullets fly for a while, and wait until the matter reaches a certain level before coming forward to clean up the mess.
Anyway, this time, you must not let Wu Qinghou go easily. This is a very good chicken to kill the chicken to warn the monkey.
He came to the door and just took care of it. Anyway, compared to the nobles, the honors were much easier to squeeze. They started their business not by military merits, and they had no connections in the capital, but because their daughter became the queen. I don’t know how many relatives they were from outside the sects.
Let’s take the Li family as an example. They were the empress of Emperor Longqing, followed by Wanli and Taichang. They had already been the fourth generation at Zhu Youxiao, and they were almost five times.
A gentleman's fortune was killed in five generations. Although the Ming Dynasty did not highly recommend this, it does not mean that Zhu Youxiao could not do this.
Zhu Youxiao had no guilt. These honored relatives ate, drank and had fun all day, and did not have any actions that benefit the country and the people. They would not feel sorry for them if they were dealt with.
Under such circumstances, the Marquis of Wuqing's Mansion was naturally about to storm and his reputation plummeted.
The emperor distrusts him, and the civil servant stomps.
Everyone knows that the Wuqing Marquis Mansion is over this time and shoots himself in the foot.
At the same time, some people are worried that your Majesty's health is fine, right?
After all, I'm still too young.
Chapter completed!