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Chapter 456

Ji Gang's method of persecution is really not simple. No wonder he was highly appreciated by Ming Chengzu. Ming Chengzu needed to suppress someone, so Ji Gang could collect all the evidence. Putting aside the source and credibility of the evidence, at least it was speechless on the surface. Only with the evidence collected by Ji Gang, could Ming Chengzu legitimately kill a group of dissidents and consolidate the regime he usurped.

It is precisely because of the trust of Emperor Chengzu of Ming Dynasty that it is even more difficult to overturn the case that Emperor Chengzu of Ming Dynasty determined based on the evidence summoned by Ji Gang.

However, despite the case that was an imperially appointed by the emperor, Yang Qiuchi decided to find ways to re-invest the case. Putting aside his friendship with Miao Wang Yuntianqing and Yunlu's grace to save his life, he just talked about the matter. Yun Leng was wronged because of himself. If he could not protect him, it would really make his subordinates feel disappointed. Therefore, Yang Qiuchi decided to re-invest the case.

Yang Qiuchi was about to speak, but Ming Chengzu spoke first, and his words were very cold: "Yang Aiqing, why did you incite Princess Yunlu to lead troops to surround the Beizhenfusi and attempt to hijack the imperial prison? Do you still have any king's laws in your eyes?"

This sentence is very harsh. If it were the past, Ming Chengzu would have been furious and ordered Yang Qiuchi to be punished. Now he can ask this question, that is, Ji Gang had already had a case of accusing Yang Qiuchi. Although Ming Chengzu still trusted Ji Gang very much, he had some doubts about Yang Qiuchi. Moreover, Ming Chengzu always hoped that Yang Qiuchi could grow into a power to check and balance Ji Gang's power. Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, he did not want to destroy Yang Qiuchi's important piece.

Yunlu said anxiously: "No! Father, it was not the Marquis who encouraged me to go, and we didn't plan to kidnap the imperial prison! We just went to Ji Gang to ask him why he wanted to arrest my brother. But he refused to come out to see me..."

Ming Chengzu waved his hand: "Lu'er, don't talk for now. My father knows that you are kind by nature and must be sowed by others!" He turned his head and stared at Yang Qiuchi with bright eyes.

Since the emperor did not let her speak, Yunlu naturally did not dare to say anything else. She just hugged his brother tightly, afraid that Ji Gang's Jinyiwei would capture Yun Leng away.

Yang Qiuchi bowed and said, "I have always taken the responsibility of protecting the king's law as my responsibility. I handle cases impartially, how dare I break the law? I dared to ask, but I wonder why the emperor said just now?"

"Ji Aiqing said, you led the guards to rush into the Northern Town Fushi Office, shouting to turn the imperial prison to the bottom. Many of Ji Aiqing's subordinates heard this. Is there anything wrong?"

Yang Qiuchi regretted it very much. He said this impulsely and was caught by Ji Gang. What should I do? After thinking about it, I remembered what Liu Ruobing said, and used villain methods to deal with villain, and immediately had an idea.

Yang Qiuchi said angrily: "This... this is simply a silly wordless! I have never said this!"

Ji Gang pointed at Yang Qiuchi: "You...you..." He didn't expect that Yang Qiuchi, who always followed the rules, would deny it, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.

"What's wrong with me?" Yang Qiuchi sneered and stared at Ji Gang: "Which ear did you hear me say you want to turn the imperial prison into the sky?"

"I... I heard both ears, and so many ears under my hands!" Ji Gang shouted with a red face.

"You swear at others! I never said it! I didn't hear so many ears under my command! Besides, I am also the deputy commander. If I want to go to the imperial prison, that is also within my authority. How can I talk about hijacking? If the imperial prison is robbed, as the deputy commander, I will be unable to escape the blame. If others want to rob the prison, I will only stop it. How can I hijack yourself? This is all your slander! If you don't frame me for a day, will you feel uncomfortable?" Yang Qiuchi jumped his feet and shouted, screaming and cursing, looking extremely aggrieved.

The reason why Yang Qiuchi dared to deny was that in the lobby of the Fushi Office of Beizhen, only Ji Gang and his own people were one-on-one testimony, and there were no other irrelevant witnesses present. Therefore, as long as you refuse to admit it, it is difficult to determine if Ji Gang insisted that it was a false accusation by Ji Gang. Besides, Ji Gang had a false accusation against Yang Qiuchi before, so the so-called "the true is also false when it is false." The lies mentioned above were caught, and the truth said later would also make people doubt it.

Sure enough, Ming Chengzu looked at Ji Gang in confusion, Ji Gang felt even more aggrieved, his face flushed with anger, and he shouted: "The surname Yang...you...you are fucking Ming..."

Eunuch Li said coldly: "Mr. Ji! You must not be rude in front of the emperor!"

Ji Gang was shocked and hurriedly bowed and dared not speak anymore.

Yang Qiuchi stared at Ji Gang angrily, as if he was greatly wronged.

For a moment, the room became quiet.

After a while, Ming Chengzu stared at Yang Qiuchi and said, "Yang Aiqing, what's going on?"

"That's right, the emperor." Yang Qiuchi felt relieved when he heard Ming Chengzu let him speak. "Weichen was ordered by the saint to take charge of the Nanzhenfu Department and to inspect the laws and regulations of the Jinyiwei. It is the area of ​​the responsibility of Weichen. Even if Yun Ling illegally killed and injured people, it should be investigated and dealt with by Weichen. However, Ji Gang actually outsourcing the authority and arrested people without authorization and tortured Yun Ling. He then went to Beizhenfu Department to seek people according to his authority."

Ming Chengzu nodded slightly, looked unhappy, and turned to Ji Gang and said, "Ji Aiqing, in the future, you should not interfere in the Jinyiwei legal and legal aspects, let Yang Aiqing take care of it. This is the responsibility of his Nanzhenfu Department."

When Emperor Chengzu of Ming Dynasty asked Yang Qiuchi to take charge of the Nanzhenfusi, he was considering checks and balances over Ji Gang.

Now that the Ji Gang acts beyond his authority, if he does not express his opinion to stop him, it will go against his original intention and choose the purpose of unjust checks and balances.

Yang Qiuchi was overjoyed and glanced at Ji Gang proudly. The words of Chengzu of Ming Dynasty were equivalent to slapping him Ji Gang in the face. Ji Gang suddenly had an old face turned red and he bowed and said, "Yes, I know..."

The second prince Zhu Gaoxu said: "Father, it is very inappropriate for Yang Qiuchi to commit personal fraud and abuse his power to let him take charge of the Nanzhen Fusi. Besides, Yun is his subordinate. If he examines it, he will inevitably protect his shortcomings."

Ming Chengzu shook his head and said, "This is wrong. As the deputy commander of the Jinyiwei, Yang Aiqing really wants to say that except Commander Ji, all Jinyiwei are his subordinates. If he cannot be inspected because he is a subordinate, then who do you ask him to investigate? If anyone who is the deputy commander in charge of the Nanzhen Fusi will encounter this problem! So this is not his fault."

Zhu Gaoxu did not dare to confront Ming Chengzu, so he could only say no.

Ming Chengzu turned his head and looked at Zhu Gaoxu, thought for a while, and said, "Gao Xu, the problem you mentioned just now reminded me that it is not appropriate to use the Jinyiwei to supervise the Jinyiwei..." After pondering for a moment, he said, "You have to find a way to solve this matter in the future."

The Ming Dynasty paid special attention to the supervision and checks and balances between power organs. Compared with previous dynasties, the local supervision system of the Ming Dynasty was the most perfect. Almost every organ has its corresponding supervision agency, and some important organs have more than one supervisory agency. For example, the supervision of the six ministries includes the district supervision of the thirteen supervisory envoys of the Censorate, and the six departments have specialized in the counterpart supervision of the six ministries. Welcome to visit Feift Teng FFT Wen FFT.

As for the Jinyiwei, due to the need for political struggle, at the beginning, Ming Chengzu did not arrange independent and special supervision agencies, and only established the Nanzhen Fu Office within the Jinyiwei for supervision. Now that the work of eliminating dissidents has basically come to an end, Ming Chengzu discovered that the disadvantages of the Jinyiwei's own supervision over itself were obvious.

It is precisely for this reason that after the Ming Dynasty moved its capital to Beijing in history, a new secret service agency, "East Factory", was established. The original purpose of this agency was to be used as a local supervision agency of the Jinyiwei. However, later its power was continuously surpassed until it surpassed the Jinyiwei.

Ming Chengzu signaled Yang Qiuchi to continue talking.

Yang Qiuchi said: "Weichen went to Beizhenfushi to ask for someone, but Ji Gang made things difficult for him, but he refused to give it to him. Weichen was about to go to the palace to find the emperor to solve this matter, but Princess Yunlu came when she heard the news."

The second prince Zhu Gaoxu said: "If my princess has no one to provoke me, I will never lead troops to surround the Northern Town Fushi. The person who is provoking me is you!"

Yang Qiuchi bowed and said, "The prince said this, and I am not convinced."

"If you don't agree? If you don't agree, you won't be able to...!" Zhu Gaoxu roared.

Ming Chengzu stared at Zhu Gaoxu. He felt a little unhappy. Such unreasonable words are not like what a monarch should say.

Zhu Gaoxu saw the displeasure of Ming Chengzu. He hurriedly stopped and felt a little regretful.

Ming Chengzu said to Yang Qiuchi: "Yang Aiqing, why are you dissatisfied? Let's hear it."

Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty used his actions to tell Zhu Gaoxu that the king who ruled the world would establish prestige and violent suppression was of course very important, but when necessary, he could convince others. If the ministers were convinced or disobeyed, or simply suppressing the ministers, it was not a way for a wise ruler to govern the country.

Yang Qiuchi continued: "If there is any provocation of Princess Yunlu who is hijacking the prisoners, it is not a humble minister, but a Ji Gang."

Ji Gang was furious and shouted: "When did I provoke the princess? You need evidence to speak!"

"Of course there is!" Yang Qiuchi said coldly, "I'll ask you, in the North Town Fushi, your guards surrounded us with bamboo sabers, why?"

"That's because you claim to turn the imperial prison down to the sky, so you're going to take it down!"

"Oh? I have said just now, I haven't said that. Moreover, it is a matter of my decent commander to go to the imperial prison. How can I say robbing the prison? If I am a robbing the prison, will your commander enter my Nanzhenfusi, be considered as attacking the Jinyiwei Yamen and attempting to riot?"

Ji Gang was speechless for a moment: "This... how can this be compared!"

Yang Qiuchi said: "Okay, even if you follow the lie you made up, because I want to rob the prison, you send guards to surround me and take me down. I ask you, why are you just bluffing and shouting for killing so loudly, but you didn't see you coming up to take action?"

Ji Gang was a little panicked and didn't know how to answer.

He didn't expect that Yang Qiuchi was so accurate in seeing the problem. In the past, he framed people and took out the evidence. After the emperor took a look, he killed them and got things done. Why did everything go wrong when he arrived at Yang Qiuchi? If the prince saved Yang Qiuchi last time, he didn't have it this time, why did he say that he would show signs of going to the hall again after the frame was framed!

Yang Qiuchi sneered: "You can't answer, I'll help you answer. You deliberately let your guards shout and kill the sky, as if the world is in chaos in the yamen. In fact, it's all your own people shouting and screaming there. Your purpose is very simple, just to bring five hundred cavalry in Yunludi into the yamen to frame her for attempting to rob the imperial prison. So I said, if someone really provokes Princess Yunlu, that person is you!"

"You are talking nonsense! You... you are slandering!" Ji Gang was panicked and anxious, and took Yang Qiuchi's previous words and used them before talking.

"Are we checked it?

"Yang Qiuchi turned around and said to Ming Chengzu: "Weichen is responsible for the legal and discipline inspection of the Jinyiwei, and suspects that Ji Gang instructed the guards in his place to deliberately create chaos, bewitch and attempt to frame Princess Yunlu. Weichen asked the emperor to approve the case to investigate the matter."

Ji Gang was panicked, and he instructed his subordinates to do so. If he really wanted to investigate, he knew that those subordinates were not all in line with him. He might have rebelled, and he would even confess without being punished. That would be true if he checked.

Ji Gang hurriedly glanced at the second prince Zhu Gaoxu, hoping that he could come out to rescue him.

Zhu Gaoxu coughed and said to Ming Chengzu: "Father, let's investigate the Yunling murder case first, this is the key."

Ming Chengzu glanced at them and then said, "Okay. Anyway, Lu'er didn't lead the troops into the yamen, so the imperial prison is good, so I won't mention this matter in the future." He turned to Yang Qiuchi and said, "Even if Ji Aiqing is wrong to arrest people through power, you should be the trial of Yun Lang's case. However, the evidence now found out shows that Yun Lang did kill people. This is not a false accusation by Ji Aiqing, right?"

Speaking of this, Ji Gang suddenly became happy and looked at Yang Qiuchi with squint.

Yang Qiuchi bowed and said, "Emperor. There are still many loopholes in this case that have not been found out yet. Yun Leng cannot be punished with severe punishment by hasty."

Ming Chengzu frowned, snorted, and said with some displeasure: "What is the loophole in this case?"

This case was personally approved by Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, he was unhappy when he heard Yang Qiuchi's provocation.

Yang Qiuchi said: "Although there are many witnesses proving that Yun Ling killed the man, Ji Gang only extracted evidence that was unfavorable to Yun Ling. There are also many witness testimony that has not been extracted, and these testimony are beneficial to Yun Ling."

"What evidence?" Ming Chengzu said in confusion.

"According to the knowledge of Weichen, Yun Lang's personal guards and Jinyiwei picket members only saw Yun Lang being surrounded by unidentified people, but did not see Yun Lang killing people."

Ji Gang said coldly, "Of course, his own personal soldiers are directed towards him. Can what they say count?"

Yang Qiuchi sneered: "It turns out that you also know that your personal soldiers' ground certificates cannot be counted. Why did you use the testimony of your personal soldiers to prove that I said what I wanted to turn the imperial prison into the sky?"

Ji Gang was a little embarrassed: "The emperor asked you to tell me about the case of Yun Leng's murder, why are you going to do something else?"

"Okay, let's talk about this case. You have neither extracted the testimony of the eyewitnesses who are beneficial to Yun Lang, nor asked to offend the autopsy to fill in the corpse. There is no clear evidence to prove how the victim died."

Ji Gang sneered: "Why do so many people do when they see him killing someone? Besides, you should check ordinary cases and maybe you need to fill in that thing, our Jinyiwei doesn't care about that."

"Then what evidence does your Jinyiwei need to investigate the case?"

"Hmph, as long as the criminal confesses, the case can be concluded..." As soon as he said this, he suddenly remembered that Yun Leng did not confess his guilt, which was inconsistent with the previous rules of the Jinyiwei.

It wasn't that Ji Gang ignored this move. After he caught Yun Leng back, he immediately began to torture and force confessions. Unexpectedly, Yang Qiuchi and the others acted quickly and started to make trouble. Yun Leng's bones were relatively hard and could not pry open his mouth for a while, so he could not extract Yun Leng's confession.

Yang Qiuchi laughed: "Ji Gang, you also found that Yun Leng did not confess? Haha, you seem to always shoot yourself in the foot today. How about it? Does it hurt? Do you want to call the imperial physician? Hahaha!"

Ji Gang snorted heavily, but couldn't speak.

Yunlu kept listening to them saying that she didn't know how to try the case or the evidence. However, seeing Yang Qiuchi was relaxed, Ji Gang looked a little depressed with a foul face. He guessed that Yang Qiuchi had the upper hand and was very happy at the moment.

Yang Qiuchi turned to Ming Chengzu and said, "Emperor, in the case of Yunling's murder, no testimony was extracted in favor of Yunling's witnesses. This loophole was one; the corpse was not filled out, which led to the unknown cause of death. This loophole was two; the criminal always called for justice, this loophole was three. Who was the so-called client who attacked Yunling? Why did the fight have not been found yet? This loophole was four; the name of the victim is unknown, this loophole was five. Any of these five loopholes is enough to show that the case is doubtful and that Yunling cannot be severely punished. What's more, Yunling is the son of King Miao. If there is no convincing real evidence, it may be difficult to convince the public and it will be difficult to convince King Miao."

Ming Chengzu nodded. He actually felt that what evidence of criminal case needs to be sufficient is indeed sufficient. In a simple sentence, Ming Chengzu was also an amateur in the trial of cases, and he relied more on feelings.

I heard Ji Gang and Zhu Gaoxu’s one-sided remarks before, and read so many so-called witness testimony. Chengzu of Ming Dynasty trusted them very much, so he preconceived the idea that this case could be decided, and even if King Miao could have an explanation, he decided to impose a severe punishment on Yun Leng. Now after listening to Yang Qiuchi’s analysis, he felt that the case was still quite loopholes and could not be decided hastily.

Since he discovered the clues, Ming Chengzu was decisive in his work and immediately said, "Okay, since that's the case, Yang Aiqing, I will allow you to re-invest the case. After the investigation is made, I will have an explanation to me."
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