Zhang Xiude did not dare to look at Wei Yingjia, but only looked at Wei Zhongxian with a pity: "Please tell Your Majesty truthfully that I really don't form a clique for personal gain, nor do I have a clique for personal gain!"

Wei Zhongxian didn't know why. Seeing Zhang Xiude's usual arrogant censor, who was now waving his tail and begging for mercy, he felt extremely comfortable.

Because of this, Wei Zhongxian still looked at Wei Yingjia calmly: "Wei Yingjia, do you really want our family to be punished? Zhang Xiude has already said that you and your Donglin officials are forming cliques for personal gain."

Wei Yingjia was still stubborn: "We did not form cliques for personal gain. Zhang Xiude only said such false words because of his intimidation! Although we Donglin gentlemen are friends but not party, and even if we have plans, we do not do our own things!"

Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian raised his eyebrows: "Then let's get the punishment."

So, the Jinyiwei in the prison carried the tiger bench over.

"Let's wait!"

But Wei Yingjia shouted at this time, and then looked at Wei Zongxian with a serious expression: "I'll do it! But all this has nothing to do with the Donglin Gong. It was Liu Ge Lao and Wang Huazhen who were framed by framed Xiong Tingbi. They asked me to ask Xiong Tingbi for bribes, and asked me to obtain Xiong Tingbi's evidence and impeachment of Xiong Tingbi. Although our Donglin officials hoped to let Yuan Gong be the governor of Liaodong, they did not have the idea of ​​framed Xiong Tingbi. If Feng Sanyuan impeached Xiong Tingbi, the court would dismiss Xiong Tingbi, there would be no subsequent things, and we would not have framed the border ministers by asking Xiong Tingbi!"

Wei Yingjia clenched his fists excitedly as he said: "I really don't understand why Fang Congzhe protects Xiong Tingbi so much! Why does Your Majesty trust Fang Congzhe so much! Xiong Tingbi is afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and only knows how to build a city and consumes money and food. Sooner or later, the Liao incident will be ruined in his hands!"

After hearing Wei Yingjia's words, Wei Zhongxian even felt that although Wei Yingjia's methods were not very bright, it seemed that it was indeed out of public aspirations.

Therefore, Wei Zhongxian didn't want to laugh at Wei Yingjia anymore. He only looked at Zhang Xiude and Wei Yingjia and said, "Our family will report your confession to Your Majesty truthfully!"

...

"Emperor, these are the confessions of Zhang Xiude and Wei Yingjia."

After Wei Zhongxian came to Zhu Youxiao, he started talking to Zhu Youxiao and the three cabinet ministers who were still by Zhu Youxiao.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao felt a little laughing, thinking that if he hadn't known the ending of history, he would have thought that Xiong Tingbi was really an incompetent strategy, so incompetent that the loyal Donglin Party had to use extraordinary means to frame Xiong Tingbi.

But Zhu Youxiao is not the 16-year-old young emperor in history who has just ascended the throne and is not well-informed.

As a person with a clear understanding of the history of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao knew that the Donglin Party was not a fool. As a representative of the interests of the rich gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, they had a common label with the Liaodong military town and even the Shanxi merchants.

This label is a big landlord and a big businessman, or a big bureaucrat and a big capitalist.

Anyway, their interests are consistent, but they don’t want Xiong Tingbi, the Liaodong Strategic who likes to build walls, to destroy their ecological chain to seize the benefits of Liao’s money through "smuggling".

After all, Nurhaci's military expansion and economic plunder have become their biggest customer in their eyes.

Nurhaci was often generous in purchasing smuggled goods because he was hostile to the Ming Dynasty and the money he obtained was effortless.

Therefore, those who are interested in profit and are naturally easy to collude with each other regardless of the consequences.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Liu Yiying and asked, "Liu Qing's family, Wei Yingjia said that your lord made him frame Xiong Tingbi. It is rare that you are like Wei Yingjia out of public intention?"

Liu Yiying, who had already had a chill all over, heard Zhu Youxiao's question, fell to the ground softly, gritted his teeth and knelt down, then crawled on the ground, and said tremblingly: "I, I am guilty!"

Zhu Youxiao continued, "You are an old minister, I won't make things difficult for you, go to the imperial prison by yourself."

Then, Zhu Youxiao looked at Fang Congzhe and Han Du again: "The two assistants of the court have drafted an order to remove Liu Yifan from all the seals, demoted him to common people, and issued an edict to prison. The Three Juris Council will be interrogated and punished! They will have no family property!"

Han Yu couldn't help but be dumbfounded after hearing this. He didn't expect that His Majesty the Emperor would punish Liu Yiyin so heavily.

Because according to convention, except for Xia Yan being executed by Jiajing for offending Yan Song, the most important thing for the ministers in the cabinet was to be removed from the common people, and there was no such thing as raiding the house and asking for guilt.

Liu Yiyan himself was also shocked and looked up at Zhu Youxiao in surprise.

Fang Congzhe knew the emperor's thoughts and knew that today's emperors like to use strict politics to govern the country.

Moreover, since Liu Yiying secretly mocked him, Fang Congzhe had made up his mind to put Liu Yiying to death, otherwise he would not have said in front of Emperor Zhu Youxiao that Wei Yingjia was forming a clique for personal gain.

Fang Congzhe has been in the cabinet for many years, and he can deal with difficult Donglin officials such as Wanli, who are not inferior to Jiajing's emperor and Gu Xiancheng. Of course, he is not as easy to bully as people seem to think.

Therefore, Fang Congzhe knew that if he protected Liu Yiyan again, he used Liu Yiyan's intention to implicitly mock his party Pi Xiong Tingbi at that time, but he was afraid that Liu Yiyan would directly attack him in the next moment.

Therefore, Fang Congzhe took the initiative first so that he would not wait foolishly for Liu Yiyin to attack him before he counterattacked.

Although everyone is a civil servant, Fang Congzhe will be ruthless when he really gets to live and die.

So, Fang Congzhe took the lead in replying: "I obey the order!"

Seeing that Fang Congzhe responded, Han Dong could not plead for Liu Yiying anymore, so he could only reply: "Abide by the order!"

Han Dong found that neither he nor Liu Yiyin were actually the opponents of Fang Congzhe. Although he and Liu Yiyin had the support of Donglin censors in the outside court, they obviously did not have the old Taoist Fang Congzhe.

So much so that Liu Yiyin is now imprisoned, and he cannot compete with Fang Congzhe, and he doesn't even dare to plead with love.

When Zhu Youxiao saw the two cabinet ministers agree, he nodded, thinking that they were all smart people after all, and they didn’t have to get angry and knew what to do.

Then, Zhu Youxiao said: "Wei Zhongxian, instructed Dongchang not to be punished, and give the best prison cell to Mr. Liu."

Then, Zhu Youxiao did not give Liu Yiyan a chance to defend himself, and said, "Let everyone go with him except Wei Zhongxian."

Therefore, the other ministers retreated.

After Zhu Youxiao waited for everyone to retreat, he ordered Wei Zhongxian: "Transfer my orders to block the city gates, and immediately sent people to Liaodong overnight to arrest Wang Huazhen, ask Xiong Tingbi to cooperate, and then order the Jinyiwei to arrest those who ride horses and ride on the road without authorization in the city, no matter what official they are, they will be arrested and then tried to prevent Fan Yuqing and others from informing the news! No mistakes are allowed!"

"I obey the order!"

Wei Zhongxian immediately retreated.

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"drive!"
Chapter completed!