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Chapter 109: Inverse Scales

In Fengtian Hall, the Dali Temple Minister stood up again and said, "Your Majesty, I think that since Hao Fenglou is willing to surrender the law, in order to calm the people's hearts, he should be punished by treason. I think..."

Zheng Ci, the Minister of Justice, smiled and said, "It's inappropriate to rebel. Whose rebellion is planned? Lord Yu took over Dali Temple and said such words. It is obvious that this is a criminal case that hurts people, so how can there be a rebellion? Since it is necessary to decide according to the Ming Dynasty law, dismiss his official position and be entrusted to three thousand miles. Why do you have to discuss rebellion and harm his family?"

The left deputy chief censor of the Censorate suddenly appeared: "This is a bad statement. Master Zheng's words are not unacceptable. Now that Your Majesty restores the ancestral system, it involves the royal family. In my opinion, it is not suitable to use the laws of the Ming Dynasty, but should be dealt with impartially with the great edict."

These officials of the court were all old men. For their own purposes, they could fight hard to fight over the issue of sentencing alone.

First, we fought for the law of criminal law, and now we started to compete for the law of the Ming Dynasty and the Daqiu. The reason why everyone is fighting is because there is an extremely important key here. The criminal law of the Ming Dynasty is relatively normal, and the Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty are followed, but the Daqiu is different. The Daqiu is the "sentence standard" of Taizu. During the Taizu period, when greed for a few taels of silver, it was necessary to peel the skin and fill it with grass. It can be imagined that a "felony crime" like Hao Fenglou, if he did not kill his whole family, would not be Taizu's style.

Therefore, it is extremely necessary to argue with each other around the laws of the Ming Dynasty or the great edict.

Several chief officials of the Three Laws are not fuel-efficient, and now they all have their own opinions and are very angry.

Zhu Di felt a deep sense of disgust. He hated arguments and liked to be arbitrary, but he knew in his heart that if he wanted to achieve his goal, he had to accept their arguments. After the timing was almost the same, he pretended to listen to the opinions of all parties and made a decision. He must do this.

He felt a little sympathy in his heart for Hao Fenglou, but he understood that the moment when Hao Fenglou admitted his guilt, the next question was how to deal with it. Zhu Di's current bottom line was to let Hao Fenglou survive, and everything else can be said later.

But when he raised his eyes, he saw the eunuch Sanbao entering the hall, standing in the corner of the hall, winking at him with some anxiety.

Zhu Di's face darkened. The eunuch of Sanbao was very steady. He would never be so rash when the court held an imperial trial. Could it be...what happened? Zhu Di said to the eunuch of Sanbao. Seeing this, the eunuch of Sanbao carefully walked around the ministers and went to the Golden Palace, stood beside Zhu Di and whispered: "Your Majesty, something happened."

Zhu Di frowned, stroked the imperial desk, and said softly as if he was calm: "What's the matter?"

A urgent message was handed to Zhu Di, and Zhu Di unfolded, his face becoming even more gloomy.

Wu Hui, the minister of the Jinyiwei, reported: At one moment, Taining Wei Qianhu Batu led 194 officers and soldiers to the vicinity of Donghuamen and attacked the Jinyiwei 100 Household Office of Donghuamen. More than 30 people were seriously injured due to the deputy Qianhu family, and three of them were unable to be cured...

The report was very short, but a trace of anger flashed through Zhu Di's eyes.

The debate below continued, in full swing. Although the ministers discovered something strange, His Majesty did not stop him and no one dared to reveal anything.

Zhu Di had long lost the thought of listening to these people's noises. All his thoughts were placed on this short report. He pointed at the face of the imperial case, hoping to dig out a hole directly from the top.

At the foot of the emperor, the official army actually fought privately, and the battle was so fierce that even thousands of households of the Jinyiwei were seriously injured. The Jinyiwei personal army was the emperor's personal army, and he dared to do this to the emperor's personal army. How arrogant are these people?

If it were just this, Zhu Di would not have been so angry. What is more important is the identity of Tainingwei.

Taining Wei is one of the three Duoyan guards, and the three Duoyan guards were compiled by the Mongols. These people depended on the Ming Dynasty and were responsible for garrisoning the northern border towns for the Ming Dynasty. After that, they were dispatched by Zhu Quan, the King of Return.

Zhu Di raised an army at Jingnan at that time. The reason why he held Zhu Quan hostage was not because he needed Zhu Quan as the Ning King, nor his Jin King Guard. His real purpose was to usurp control of the three guards of Duoyan.

The three guards of Duoyan were extremely powerful in combat and made many outstanding achievements in the Jingnan Dynasty. After the success of the Jingnan Dynasty, Zhu Di also gave many preferential treatments in order to appease and win over the three guards of Duoyan. For example, he gave them land near the capital and granted titles to some senior military officers of Duoyan.

At the same time, Zhu Di also had a lot of precautions against the three guards of Duoyan. The most important reason was that King Ning once mastered the three guards of Duoyan. Many senior military officers in the three guards of Duoyan were still respectful to King Ning Zhu Quan, and some even regarded Zhu Quan as their object of dependence.

But now, Taining Guard, one of the three guards of Duoyan, actually attacked the Jinyiwei directly.

If we combined the previous incident, Taining Wei would definitely not be able to be full and have to make things difficult for the Jinyiwei. The only explanation is that Hao Fenglou injured Prince Ning, and Duoyan’s three guards were brave enough to come to the door to seek justice for Prince Ning.

As for whether it was the commander of King Ning or some people from the Three Guards of Duoyan who did this spontaneously, it was no different for Zhu Di.

If it were King Ning's instructions, it would be obvious that King Ning was so bold that he actually dispatched troops without authorization. The three guards of Duoyan followed King Ning's words and ignored the basic laws and regulations.

If the three guards of Duoyan were doing this without authorization, the problem would be even more difficult. When they heard that Prince Ning suffered a loss, they would go crazy and gather people, and were so crazy that they attacked the Jinyiwei. It can be seen how famous King Ning had in the eyes of these Mongolian warriors.

Zhu Di gritted his teeth and a hint of cruelty flashed across his eyes.

The three guards of Duoyan caused trouble alone were nothing to him, and the King of Ning didn't matter to Zhu Di. The Jinyiwei was attacked was not a big deal. But if these three things were combined, Zhu Di had to think about it carefully. His eyes looked at King of Ning Zhu Quan with deep eyes.

This young emperor brother was extremely dazzling in Zhu Di's eyes at this time.

Then, his eyes narrowed, but the gaze that came out of this slit was extremely cold.

Obviously, something touched his bottom line!

Zhu Di coughed, and the ministers who noticed something strange suddenly stopped speaking and all stopped arguing.

The sound of the silence is silent, and the needle can be heard.

Zhu Di spoke, and he said word by word: "Is it enough?"

The ministers were surprised. They were puzzled. Why did Your Majesty say this?

Zhu Di suddenly sternly: "I said, enough!"

In the hall, Zhu Di's angry voice still echoed.

Everyone was so arrogant that they dared not speak out, and no one dared to reply.

Zhu Di stood up anxiously and walked down the Golden Palace step by step. Everyone's eyes moved with his footsteps.

At this time, the emperor was like a god descending from the sky, with an inviolable majesty. Every step he took made everyone's heart beat. Wherever his eyes swept, these princes and ministers who were usually above the top of the heads were unconsciously lowered their heads.

He had already left the Golden Palace and actually took off his crown suit in front of everyone. The crown suit was complicated, inside and outside, and the outermost shawl was taken down. He walked step by step to Hao Fenglou. Hao Fenglou was thin in clothes, and his body was already a little stiff due to the weather.

"Get up." Zhu Di looked at him directly.

Hao Fenglou stood up and said, "I am so sorry to your Majesty if I die."

Zhu Di directly covered his shawl and said lightly: "Aren't you afraid of colds in such weather? Young people should also cherish their bodies."

Everyone was stunned.
Chapter completed!
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