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Chapter 831: A virtuous father and a dog son

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

Rows of lanterns are hung under the eaves of the city towers everywhere, and 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 and the towering palace dotted with candlelights, all kinds of magnificent and beautiful scenes make Qiu Yuezhi dazzled.

Before this, she had never left the ancient mountain city where she was born, and had never seen such a big palace city, nor had she seen many people together.

In Japan, as long as you leave the small town with low houses, it will be a wilderness or a rice field village. How can it be compared with the bustling and bustling of the Imperial City of the Ming Dynasty?

The women were in groups of three or five, some were lighting the lanterns, some were putting paper boats into the river, and some were playing.

No one would control them tonight.

Qiu Yuezhi looked at all kinds of bright toys excitedly and saw various words written on the flying paper lantern, including "Safe and Peace of the Country", "Beautiful and Beautiful" 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 to pick up a conversation.

Qiuyue smiled and said: I am a Japanese and my name is Qiuyue Kaori.

The little palace maid asked again: It sounds so nice!Why haven’t I seen you? Which palace do you belong to?

Qiu Yuezhi kept a smile but no answer.

I see you are kind-hearted, so I will give you some things, fold the paper boat and light candles, put it in the river to make a wish. It is very effective.The little palace maid handed Qiu Yuezhi a piece of paper and gave her a small candle.

Just then, someone suddenly shouted: The Lord has arrived!

As people watched, they saw a large group of people coming from the north, including three gorgeous sedan chairs.

The palace maids nearby knelt on the side of the road near the bridge. Qiu Yuezhi was pulled a little 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 clamoring and huddling over.

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 the person inside clearly.

Some women with identities left the team and joined the crowd of lights surrounded by palace maids.The three sedans faced the south tower.

After a while, the emperor seemed to sit on the city tower.

Qiu Yuezhi looked around. Although there were many 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.

The light in the space and time suddenly became clear, and the bursting sound of fireworks 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 found it strange. It was obviously a strange place, but it could make people adapt quickly.

In such a big city, even at night, there is no loneliness and darkness at all. The lights give the scenery a different beauty from the daytime.

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

He found a bottle from an official kiln in the 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 raiding Yang Shiqi's house, he had found the same bottle; compared with the two hatchbacks, it was almost the same.

He also asked civil servants who were proficient in antiques to check and confirm that the two antiques were porcelain produced in the same kiln.

So Zhang Sheng arrested the pawnshop shopkeeper, interrogated the source, and followed the clues to find out that the porcelain bottle was transported from the pawnshop section in Jiangxi and was already a dead antique.

The Jinyiwei immediately sent troops 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 worldly and could often speak out in a blunt way, and gave many pertinent advice to those who were superior.

He has been cautious for most of his life, but his son is completely different.

After the deposed prince and illegally ascended the throne, Yang Shiqi became a confidant adviser around Gao Chi and had a noble status.His son Yang Ji became more arrogant and domineering, and began to do some evil things to bully men and women.

Yang Shiqi has only one son. He has been suffering for half his life, so he tried his best to make his son rich and frugal. He was reluctant 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.

But it made Yang Ji even 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 death with his servants and beat him to death with his family.

Yingtianfu arrested Yang Ji and Yang Ji asked the prison guards to provide him with delicious food and drink in public, because he would have to go out in a few days.

As expected, after Yang Shiqi communicated with Empress Zhang's confidant eunuch, Yingtianfu made a clever arrangement 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 victim Wang family was forced to reconcile after collecting Yang Shiqi's pension 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 to beat drums and shout for justice at the yamen of the Ministry of Justice.

The Ministry of Justice arrested Lian and imprisoned, neither prosecuted nor released. He was detained until the year Zhu Gaoxu led his troops to Beijing, but he was released.

She still lives in the capital, holding the "Great Edict" from time to time to stop the sedan chair and shout 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, 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 Ming Dynasty must make the right decision for the people (Taizu believed that his descendants were as powerful as him); pass guards, patrol inspectors 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 imperial stone inscriptions outside the official lobby all show Taizu's political 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 Lian; because after Yang Shiqi was under house arrest, Yang Ji had already run away.There is no need for Lian to seek justice, and people from the Jinyiwei and the Three Laws are 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 had not found it after three years of investigation.

This time, clues were revealed, it was purely because Yang Ji thought the news had passed and ran to the county town to pawn things.

He is a playboy who is used to living a good life. It is probably not easy for him to endure three years of simple meals.

When the court heard that Yang Ji was arrested, six departments immediately wrote letters to officials from the Censorate and the Censorate, complaining that Yang Ji had violated more than 30 articles of violation of the law.

There are all kinds of things, such as teasing good women, fighting, illegally holding swords, destroying public property of state-owned courts (old courtyard, 16th floor of Jinling, etc.), riding horses in the downtown area, insulting officials... I really have committed all the things I can do, and the biggest one is the crime of murder.

Then a censor impeached Yang Shiqi, mainly for the crime of treason, the crime of favoritism, the crime of accepting bribes, and some things that are beyond the rules can be big or small.

Only then did Zhu Gaoxu realize that Yang Ji had done so many bad things.What is very subtle 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 Shiqi is very wise, I can't bear to kill him, and it means that it will be used in a few years. It should have caused many people to misjudgment 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 large, 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, all the ministers suddenly realized it.

Officials who were deposed by Lu Zhen and Zhang He also hurriedly wrote a letter to avenge Yang Shiqi's crimes, hoping 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 arrested and imprisoned for reflection by Emperor Taizong because he was too close to the deposed prince.

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 civil wars in the more than ten years of the Ming Dynasty, the aftershocks were slightly calmed down at this time, and 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 already know the crimes of the father and son of the Yang family.No matter how long it takes to go from now on, all ministers shall not mention it again, and those who violate it will be severely punished!

Many officials shouted: The saint is the wise!Among them, 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 and justice of this dynasty are completely different things.

The legislative sentencing is very heavy. As long as Yang Shiqi’s incident is made public, the involvement will soon be expanded, and many people who are related to it will be unlucky.

Yang Shiqi is a confidant of the deposed prince. As long as he has been an official in the Hongxi Dynasty, how many of them have nothing to do with Yang Shiqi?

And this kind of inexplicable rise of government storms is of no use at all.