Chapter 228 The Imperial Censors of the Imperial Court
After Hang Huai asked, no censor was willing to be responsible for filing a case against Xue Fengming and Dai Guan.
Needless to say, Xue Fengming is the censor of the Censorate, and no one is willing to convict his friend in the same hospital.
Dai Guan has long been praised by civil servants as a loyal and upright minister for his seven remarks. When the Ministry of Revenue issued a documentary and requested the Censorate of the Censorate to impeach Dai Guan, the Censorate chose to protect Dai Guan. Now, naturally no censor is willing to convict Dai Guan.
Seeing this, the left-level censor Hang Huai had to instruct the deputy censor Yan Hong: "Defend Yan Xian, you can choose two censors to take over this case. Now the East Factory has brought out the crimes, and our Censorate cannot ignore it, otherwise it will be unconstitutional, a corpse position, or neglect of duty. In this way, the people of the East Factory will have more reason to rectify us!"
"Now Your Majesty's methods are becoming more and more unfathomable. No one expected that he would ask the East Factory to inspect and force our Censorate to file a case. This is not using eunuchs to manage civil servants, but forcing our civil servants to restrain each other! The censors and civil servants of our Censorate have completely become the sword in His Majesty's hand. If we do not supervise all officials to deal with corrupt officials, Your Majesty will force us to supervise all officials!"
Although Hang Huai realized that the imperial power would become heavier, he had no choice but to do anything, even though he was the Zuodu Censor.
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Yan Hong looked at the left censor Hang Huai in anger at this time, and bowed and said:
"Hanggong, you can't sit back and watch the East Factory do such a mischief in front of our Censorate. The East Factory set up an inspection department in our Censorate to take civil servants and let our Censorate punish these civil servants. Wouldn't our Censorate become his lackey in the East Factory? How can my Censorate have no face?"
The Zuodu Censor Hang Huai admitted in his heart that Yan Hong was right. From then on, the Censorate could only follow the rules of the court, and could not use his supervisory authority to control the king. However, as the Zuodu Censor, he naturally could not admit it explicitly in order to maintain his official position, but only shouted loudly to Yan Hong:
"Stop your mouth!"
Hang Huai slapped the table and continued to scold: "The Censorate is supervising all officials under the order of the emperor. According to the constitutional outline, he has the power to file a case and impeachment. How can he be his lackey in the East Factory!"
After Hang Huai said this, Yan Hong and the other censors shut up, but they still looked at Hang Huai with anger on their faces, looking at the pile of evidence of crime.
Seeing this, Hang Huai couldn't bear to let the entire Censorate be so stiff. At the same time, he was deliberately reminding the officials below and said in a gentle tone: "Besides, this is Your Majesty's intention. How can you go against it? You should do your business with sincerity. Could it be that you dare to resign and force Your Majesty to do it?"
"Hang Gong said so much. We dare not tell the faults of the king and father. Since this is the case, we can only resign from the office!"
Yan Hong knew that Hang Huai was reminding the officials below to force the emperor by resigning from the group, so he took over the words. He immediately took off the black veil from his head and turned around and asked:
"Everyone, who is willing to resign from his post with Yan? Could it be that you are willing to be a lackey of a castrate?!"
"He is willing to quit!"
At this time, the censor He Shaozheng stood up.
"Mr. Chen is willing to quit!"
The censor Chen Xiang also stood up.
"Mr. Li is willing to quit!"
"Zhang is willing to quit!"
"Xu is willing to quit!"
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Many censors expressed their resignation to express their indignation of the establishment of the inspector's inspector's officers in the East Factory.
Seeing that the censors below were so excited, they all threatened to resign. They were very happy and did not blame the public. Only in this way could His Majesty see the determination of most of the censors below, and perhaps His Majesty would make concessions and prevent the East Factory from interfering in the supervision power of his Censorate.
But he knew that if he wanted to keep his position as the Censor of the Left Censor, he could not show that he only cared about the power of his Censorate and the civil servant group. He had to show that he had to consider the overall situation and the court. As the Censor of the Censorate, he could not participate in his resignation.
Therefore, the left-level censor Hang Huai persuaded him earnestly: "Don't be impulsive! With Your Majesty's wisdom, you will not let the eunuchs be dictatorial. Now that the Dongchang has set up an inspection department, it is only a reason why the traitors are slandered! You are also disciples of the saints, how can you abandon the king and ignore the people of the world!"
"We resigned not to abandon the king, nor to abandon the people, but to be unable to bear to join the traitors and traitors! Mr. Xue is now tortured and forced to confess to the East Factory. It is probably because he repeatedly impeached the traitor Zhang Cong! But Your Majesty was deceived by the traitors and eunuchs, so we can only resign to ask Your Majesty to distinguish his loyalty and treacherous spirit!"
The left deputy censor Yan Hong knew that Hang Huai was trying to comfort him like this not that he did not want others to resign, but because he was in the position of the chief censor, he could not take the lead in forcing the palace, so he insisted on resigning.
"Yes, resign!"
"Since you cannot advise the emperor, you can only resign and retire!"
"Doesn't you still have to be a tyrant or a traitor?!"
For a moment, these censors started to talk about it one by one.
Seeing that his goal had been achieved, the censors below expressed their desire to resign, so they advised again: "Everyone is quiet! After listening to the words of this General Constitution, even if they want to resign, they must follow the rules. We are Feng Xianguan, and we cannot let the court say that we do not understand the rules. If you intend to resign, you should write a resignation memorial! At that time, this official will be sent to the palace together and it will be decided by Your Majesty!"
Therefore, many of these deputy censors, deputy censors, and supervisors, began to write resignations and handed them over to the left censor Hang Huai.
Hang Huai brought these resignations to the palace.
As the left censor, he was in charge of the supervision power of the Ming Empire. Hang Huai was directly controlled by the Emperor Zhu Houzhao. Therefore, he could also see Zhu Houzhao directly without having to see the cabinet ministers first.
Zhu Houzhao also met Hang Huai. He even knew Hang Huai's intention to come here, but he did not expose it. He only asked: "Master Hang, why are you here to carry so many memorials? Dongchang reported that there are illegal acts of the Censor Xue Fengming, the Censor of the Censor of the Censorate, have you filed a case? Is there a memorial being submitted? There is also a matter of Dai Guan, the former head of the Ministry of Revenue, leaving his post without permission? Is there a memorial being submitted?"
"Report to Your Majesty, I am incompetent. The Censor Xue Fengming, the former head of the Ministry of Revenue, Dai Guan, has a high prestige among all officials. Therefore, no one in the Censorate of the City is willing to file a memorial for him. And they have successively asked to resign. Almost all Feng Xianguan of the Censorate of the City, I dare not make any decisions. I come and ask Your Majesty to show his advice!"
Hang Huai bowed a long time ago and admitted his incompetence to avoid Emperor Zhu Houzhao blaming him for most of the resignation of the Censor (equivalent to strike). Then he said that he could not make the decision and needed His Majesty to make the decision, which means that His Majesty, you need to make a compromise.
"All these are memorials of the censors' resignation?" Zhu Houzhao asked.
"All of them!" Hang Huai replied.
Chapter completed!