Chapter 342: Exiling three tribes is not enough? Then exile nine of your tribes!

Zheng Sanjun did not expect that in his impatience, Tianqi would catch the loophole and directly accuse him of deceiving the emperor.

Zheng Sanjun could only tremble for a moment, not knowing how to argue anymore.

At this time, the imperial guards came over and dragged Zheng Sanjun down.

"Your Majesty! How dare the chief minister to deceive the king? He is just confused. Now that your majesty wants to value the friendship between fellow Han people, why not value the friendship between the emperor and his subjects? I beg your majesty to spare him the death penalty!"

Upon seeing this, Wailang Maoqizong, a member of the Criminal Department, boldly came out to plead for Zheng Sanjun.

Because he was recommended to Beijing by Zheng Sanjun, and like Zheng Sanjun, he was ideologically close to the Donglin Party's ideas.

Now seeing that Zheng Sanjun was about to be executed, Poqizong couldn't bear it, so he stood up and begged for Zheng Sanjun's favor.

Zheng Sanjun glanced at Mao Qizong gratefully, then at Yang Sichang, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Zheng Sanjun had to admit that Yang Sichang was really a talent.

Zheng Sanjun thought for a moment that it might take a cunning person like Yang Sichang to deal with a strong relative like Zhang Gui, so he refrained from yelling at Yang Sichang for betraying his trust and betraying him.

Tianqi looked at Maoqi Zongdao: "It seems that Zheng Sanjun still has accomplices?"

After hearing this, Maoqizong suddenly looked at Tianqi: "Your Majesty! The Master said: 'If you are not secretive, you will lose your ministers.' Today I am speaking for the great minister, just for the sake of your majesty's saintliness! How dare you be selfish?"

Tianqi said: "I'm too lazy to ask. Don't think that I don't know what you people are hiding. But it's still because I don't want the Han people in the world to be your slaves to be dissatisfied. I'm too lazy to expect you to correct yourself."

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After saying that, Tianqi ordered: "Zheng Sanjun has deceived the emperor and must be beheaded to rectify the emperor's national laws. As for Qin rising from his clan and being exiled to Xianzhou, he will never be able to return to the pass!"

After hearing this, Maoqizong said: "Your Majesty!"

"If you remain stubborn, all three tribes will be exiled!"

Tianqi didn't wait for Maoqizong to finish, and directly increased the punishment for Maoqizong.

Mao Qizongze said angrily: "Your Majesty, even if you exile the nine clans of me, I will still say that the great ministers deceived the emperor. There is no conclusive evidence to prove it. Your Majesty is just speculation, and speculation cannot be regarded as fact!"

"Then as you say, we will exile the nine tribes!"

Tianqi replied, and then said: "In addition, as for your claim that Zheng Sanjun deceived me, there is no conclusive evidence. I can answer you. I do!"

Tianqi said and looked at Yang Sichang: "Yang Sichang, the Prime Minister of Dali Temple!"

"I'm here!"

Yang Sichang stood up at this time.

Tianqi looked at Yang Sichang: "Tell them what you know and let them understand whether I have wronged the Donglin giant Zheng Sanjun they admire!"

Maoqizong and others looked up in shock and glanced at Yang Sichang, their eyes filled with shock and anger, confusion, and even admiration.

"Yang Sichang, you bastard! You despicable villain! You will not end well."

At this time, Zheng Sanjun suddenly pretended to be shocked and scolded Yang Sichang, because Tianqi had already exposed that Yang Sichang had reported him first. How could he make Tianqi believe Yang Sichang if he didn't express his position?

Not long after, after Anu was escorted to Beijing by the county magistrate Li Tianlin, Anu's case was re-examined by the Three Justices Division.

Naturally, the Sanfa Division did not dare to openly violate the holy will, so they released Anu without charge. Li Tianlin was also sentenced to dismissal and exiled to Xianzhou due to errors in the judgment of the case and bad intentions.

"What a great Yang Sichang!"

Zhang Guize learned about this from Han Gui shortly afterwards, and because of this, he couldn't help but mention Yang Sichang in particular.

Zhang Gui remembers very clearly that Yang Sichang was a trusted minister of Chongzhen in the original history. In terms of means, he was as generous as Wen Tiren. In Chongzhen's time, few people could be as powerful as him. At least Lu Xiangsheng was far worse than Yang Sichang in this aspect.

So far away that he was framed by Yang Sichang in history.

But this time, Zhang Guize also vaguely felt through this incident that Yang Sichang must have guessed what he was going to do before suddenly stabbing Zheng Sanjun in the back, and he did not really support the idea of ​​Han supremacy in governing the country from the bottom of his heart.

You must know that the person who said in history, "If you don't die of hunger in peace, imitate the mantis with its arms" was none other than Yang Sichang.

Therefore, Zhang Gui knew what Yang Sichang, a scholar-bureaucrat with a family background, thought of the Han people in the world.

If there are indeed scholar-officials who were influenced by Mencius' thoughts and had the concept of "loving the people", and were also influenced by Guan Luo's studies and upheld the ideal of making a living for the people, then Yang Sichang was definitely not this type of scholar-official.

After all, Yang Sichang didn't even have the slightest pity for the common people, let alone uphold justice for the common people.

People like Hai Rui who dared to criticize the dragon scales for the common people were an outlier among scholar-bureaucrats.

But this Yang Sichang is indeed powerful. He is obviously more cautious than Zheng Sanjun. He is also better at guessing other people's thoughts than Zheng Sanjun. He is even more ruthless and decisive. He does not hesitate when selling Donglin giants like Zheng Sanjun.

This is why Zhang Gui specifically mentioned Yang Sichang.

Although as Zhang Gui expected, Yang Sichang did not support in his heart, and even resented the current governing strategy that emphasized the supremacy of national interests and put Han people above foreign barbarians. However, after selling Zheng Sanjun, he

Once again, he decisively hid his true thoughts and did not let others know his true thoughts, especially the emperor, hoping to gain the emperor's trust.

To this end, Yang Sichang also actively presented a set of strategies on how to further expand externally.

"I, Yang Sichang, have been thinking about the current national policy recently, and I think that if I really want to seize all the precious land in the world to support the disaster-stricken and impoverished people of this dynasty, the first step is to advance the army well. I have been thinking about it for many days, and I have thought of one, four, six.

The strategy of spreading nets on ten sides of the corner is to make the imperial court's military virtue more abundant. I am reporting this to Your Majesty to hear about it."

"The so-called Four Positives and Six Corners are to focus on several important areas along the coast as the focus of attack and defense, and then rely on several island chains to open up territory, that is, to spread a net on ten sides..."

After Zhang Gui saw this memorial written by Yang Sichang in Tianqi, he murmured to himself.

At this time, Tianqi asked: "What do you think of the strategy proposed by Yang Sichang?"

Zhang Guidao: "It's hard to say whether some things are just talk on paper. I'm not a handsome man. Your Majesty, why not let Yuan Keli, Lu Xiangsheng and others discuss it too."

"Of course I want them to discuss it. Now I just want you to tell me, what do you think of this person?"

Tianqi asked.

Zhang Guidao: "Since your Majesty asked me, it means that I already have the answer in my heart, so I don't need to say it."

Tianqi smiled slightly: "That's right, then you don't have to say it. Although the constitution has been established now, it can be seen from the Anu case that although the court has established the constitution, it does not mean that officials all over the world will really implement it."

Zhang Guidao: "That's what your Majesty said! In my opinion, if we want the officials in the world to implement the rules according to the regulations and not to do one thing on the surface and another behind the scenes, one is to select officials who conform to the will of the imperial court, and the other is to hold accountable those who have ulterior motives."

People don’t dare to act recklessly.”

"Tell me more about it."

"good!"

"I believe that the content of the imperial examination must be changed."

"Only in this way can officials who are in line with the will of the imperial court be selected from the bottom up!"

"In addition, in order to prevent some officials from really submissive to the Han and respecting the barbarians behind the scenes, it is better to simply issue an edict. In any case involving the Han barbarians, the state and county officials, the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Three Laws Division officials will all be held accountable."

"Among them, if an official who is directly responsible for the trial and conclusion of a case makes a wrong judgment, and in a case involving a dispute between Han and barbarians, resulting in the death of a Han person or being wronged, the official's home will be confiscated, and the confiscated property will be used as state compensation, and the compensation will be paid to

The wronged Han Chinese!”

"In this way, those who judge the case will naturally prefer to submit to the Yi rather than the Han. At the same time, it can be regarded as the imperial court once again expressing its determination that it would rather pay a huge amount of money than sit back and watch the Han people be wronged due to the dispute between Han and Yi!"

"Very good!"
Chapter completed!