After Qiu Yueshi dressed up carefully in the evening, she met Eunuch Cao and entered the palace from the west gate. Shinna Maori sent him outside a city gate called "Xi'an Gate" and had to go back.

There are rows of lanterns hanging under the eaves of the city towers. The night view tonight is much more brilliant than usual. There is also a river in the palace, and there are many palace women visiting there by the river.

The wide brick square, the towering palace dotted with candlelight, and various magnificent and beautiful scenes make Qiu Yuezhi dazzled.

Before this, she had never left the "Ancient Mountain City" where she was born, had never seen such a large palace, nor had she seen many people together. In Japan, as long as she left the small town with low houses, it would be a wilderness or a rice field village. How could she compare to the bustling imperial city of the Ming Dynasty?

The women were in groups of three or five, some were litting lanterns, some were putting paper boats into the river, and some were playing. No one was in charge of them tonight. Qiu Yuezhi looked at all the bright and shiny toys excitedly, and saw the flying paper lantern with various words, including "The country is peaceful and the people are safe", and "beautiful as a flower" and other strange words.

Soon some palace maids noticed her. Qiu Yuezhi's dress was different from that of the palace maids.

"You are a foreigner, can you understand the official language?" A little girl came up and asked him to speak.

Qiuyue smiled and said, "I am a Japanese man named Qiuyue Kaori."

The little palace maid asked again: "It sounds so nice! Why haven't I seen you? Which palace are you from?"

Qiu Yuezhi kept a smile, but no answer.

"I see you are kind-hearted, so I'll give you something. I folded the paper boat and lit a candle, put it in the river to make a wish. I heard it was very effective." The little palace maid handed a piece of paper to Qiu Yuezhi and gave her a small candle.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted: "The Lord is here!"

As people watched, they saw a large group of people coming to the north, including three gorgeous sedan chairs. The palace maids near the nearby knelt on the side of the road near the bridge. Qiu Yuezhi was pulled for a while and then knelt on the ground.

The eunuchs and palace maids holding yellow umbrellas and lanterns, and the sedan chairs that the palace people were huddling in front of them. Qiu Yuezhi looked up and saw that the curtain of the carriage in front seemed to have been lifted a little, but she didn't see clearly the person inside.

Some women with identities left the team and surrounded by palace maids, they also joined the crowd of people who set the lights. The three sedan chairs headed towards the south.

After a while, the emperor seemed to sit on the city tower. Qiu Yuezhi looked over. Although there were a lot of lights, the distance was too far. She really couldn't see what the emperor looked like. She could only vaguely see the yellow cover above and the figures on the chair.

At this time, the light in the space suddenly became clear, and the bursting of fireworks also followed. People looked up and watched, and the gorgeous fireworks bloomed in the air. Some people suddenly became excited.

Qiu Yuezhi also held her hands and happily watched the colorful and beautiful night sky. She also felt strange. It was obviously a strange place, but it could make people adapt quickly. In such a big city, even at night, there was no lonely and dark situation at all. The lights instead gave the scenery a different beauty from the daytime.

...When Zhang Sheng was searching for thieves during the Mid-Autumn Festival, he had unexpected gains in a pawnshop.

He found a bottle from an official kiln in a nearby pawn shop. He thought it looked familiar and confiscated it at that time. Two days later, Zhang Sheng found out that when he was copying Yang Shiqi's house, he had searched for the same bottle; compared with the two hatchbacks, it was almost the same. He asked the civil servant who was proficient in antiques to check and confirmed that the two antiques were porcelain produced in the same kiln.

So Zhang Sheng arrested the pawn shopkeeper, interrogated the source, and followed the clues to find out that the porcelain bottle was transported from the pawn shop branch in Jiangxi, which was already a dead antique. The Jinyiwei immediately sent people to the Jiangxi branch.

Yang Shiqi's only son Yang Ji finally showed his strength. A few days later, the messenger of the Jinyiwei reported from Jiangxi that Yang Ji had been arrested.

Yang Shiqi, an former official of the deposed crown prince, was born in a poor family. He was a literati who was both law-abiding and humble, and was quite famous. He was very knowledgeable about the world and could often speak out, and he gave many pertinent advice to the superiors. He had been cautious for most of his life, but his son was completely different.

After the deposed crown prince "illegally ascended the throne", Yang Shiqi became a confidant adviser around Gao Chi, and his status was honorable. His son Yang Ji became more and more arrogant and began to do evil things to bully men and women.

Yang Shiqi had only one son. After suffering for half his life, he tried his best to make his son rich and frugal, and he couldn't bear to take action even if he beat and scolded him. Naturally, he had to find a way to make his son feel comfortable. Yang Shiqi was indeed very popular and could clean up the mess every time. However, it made Yang Ji more and more bold.

Once, Yang Ji played cockfighting and gambling with someone. Because his chicken was pecked to death, he had a small quarrel with someone. He actually beat the other party to his body and was beaten to death with his servants. Yingtian Mansion arrested Yang Ji and brought him to justice. Yang Ji asked the prison guards to provide him with delicious food and drink, because he would have to go out in a few days.

As expected, after Yang Shiqi communicated with Queen Zhang's confidant eunuch, Yingtianfu made arrangements and revised the file; the Ministry of Justice also pretended not to know about the review. In less than a month, Yang Ji went home.

The man from the miserable Wang family collected a pension for Yang Shiqi and was forced to reconcile and was sent back to his hometown by officials. Unexpectedly, the new widow of the Wang family, Lian, was very persistent. He actually took the book "The Great Edict" issued by Emperor Taizu and went all the way to the capital, and went to the Ministry of Justice to beat drums and shout for justice.

The Ministry of Justice arrested Lian and imprisoned, neither indicted nor released him. He was detained until the year Zhu Gaoxu led his troops to Beijing, and was released. She still lived in the capital, holding the "Great Edict" from time to time to stop the sedan chair and shouting for justice.

The "Great Edict" issued by Taizu has a magical function. Almost every court issued a copy and promised the common people: when encountering situations such as officials bullying the people, unjust cases, etc., any common people can use this booklet as a way to quote it and go directly to the capital to file a lawsuit. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty must make a decision for the people (Taizu believes that his descendants are as powerful as him); pass guards, patrols and others shall not stop them.

The Ming Taizu hated the bureaucrats who bullied the poor and corrupted the law very much. They once peeled an official for one tael of silver. The reliefs that warned corrupt officials outside the county government office and the words of the imperial stone inscriptions outside the government lobby all show Taizu's political and governance ideals.

However, time has changed, and now it is no longer a period of severe punishment. Only the book "Great Edict" remains, which still serves as a way to sue the case like the Constitution.

But even if the new king succeeded to the throne, the Ministry of Justice could not uphold justice for the Lian family; because after Yang Shiqi was under house arrest, Yang Ji had already run away. There was no need for Lian family to seek justice, and the people from the Jinyiwei and the Three Laws were also searching for Yang Ji.

Yang Ji hid in a very remote mountain village in Jiangxi, and was protected by a friend of Yang Shiqi. The Jinyiwei checked for three years but failed to find it. This time, there were clues. It was purely because Yang Ji thought the news had passed, so he ran to the county town to pawn things. He was a playboy who was used to good life, and probably had to endure three years of simple meals.

When the court heard that Yang Ji was arrested, six departments immediately sent a letter to the officials of the Censorate. The officials of the Censorate submitted a letter to Yang Ji for breaking more than 30 violations of the law. There were all kinds of things, such as teasing a good woman, fighting, illegally holding a sword, destroying public property of a state-owned court (the old courtyard, the 16th floor of Jinling, etc.), riding horses in the downtown area, insulting officials... I really have committed all the things I can commit, and the biggest crime is murder.

Then a censor impeached Yang Shiqi, mainly for the crime of counter-crime, forensic crimes, forbidden law, forbidden bribery, and some over-the-counterfeiting and minor matters.

Zhu Gaoxu only then realized that Yang Ji had done so many bad things. The subtle thing is that before Yang Ji was arrested, Zhu Gaoxu had never received any memorials impeaching the father and son of the Yang family.

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly remembered that once he said casually in front of the court officials, "Yang Shi is very wise, I can't bear to kill him." It means that it will be used in a few years; it should have caused many people to misjudgment of the situation.

Recently, the Jinyiwei suddenly mobilized a large number of troops and rushed straight to Jiangxi to capture Yang Ji. The situation was very big, and everyone seemed to wake up as if they were dreaming!

During the Hongwu period, some people in the officialdom said that the prince of Gaoyang was cunning. When they saw it today, the ministers suddenly realized it.

Officials such as Lu Zhen and Zhang He who were deposed princes also hurriedly wrote a letter to complain about Yang Shiqi's crimes, and wanted to draw a clear line with him immediately. This made Lu Zhen's reputation in Shilin plummet, because during the Yongle Dynasty, Lu Zhen was too close to the deposed prince and was alerted and arrested by Emperor Taizong to reflect on his mistakes.

Zhu Gaoxu took a stack of memorials impeaching Yang Shiqi, thought about it and decided to pile it under a shelf in Rouyi Hall and keep it for the time being.

The bloody storm in the early years of Yongle and the two large-scale internal wars in the Ming Dynasty over the past ten years. At this time, the aftershocks were slightly subsided. Zhu Gaoxu could not easily cause the court to stir up storms.

He had to make the officials in the court truly believe that the previous hatred had passed, and he, Zhu Gaoxu, would never settle the score later.

The next day when the Imperial Gate was listening to the government, Zhu Gaoxu said in public: "I know the crimes of the father and son of the Yang family. No matter how long it takes, the ministers will not mention them again. Violators will be punished severely!"

Many officials shouted: "The Lord and the Lord!" The one who shouted the most was the officials who actively impeached Yang Shiqi.

Zhu Gaoxu has read many previous files since he was in power, and he roughly understood that the legislation of this dynasty is completely different. The sentencing of the legislation is very heavy. As long as Yang Shiqi is put on the surface, the involvement will soon be expanded, and many people who are related to themselves will be unlucky. Yang Shiqi is a confidant of the deposed prince. As long as he has been an official minister in the Hongxi Dynasty, how many of them have nothing to do with Yang Shiqi?
Chapter completed!