The afternoon was particularly clear, with the cloudless sky that was extremely blue and clean, and the brick floor between the yellow double eaves of the red palace walls below was also cleaned very clean.
Hu Ying, dressed in neatly red robe, walked seriously on the white marble bridge. This scene gave him an illusion, as if he was the only one in the world, as if he was dead and quiet, and the Han general on the roadside stood like stone statues.
But Hu Ying's nerves were still tense to avoid omissions in his behavior, because this place was already a forbidden city.
The place where the audience was the Ganqing Palace, the place where the emperor handled government affairs on a daily basis, and his daily life was also here, and he nominally belonged to the harem.
Being summoned to the Ganqing Palace to meet the saint is an honor in itself, and being interviewed alone is even rare.
Hu Ying had predicted the content of the conversation this summoned: Mongolia was newly defeated and there was no major event in the country. The purpose of urgently summoning the audience was nothing more than the recent assassination case.
After the accident, many people were arrested, but there was still no result.
There were many people involved. Hu Ying seemed to be mostly muddy waters, and then the two censors who secretly joined the Eastern Palace took the opportunity to impeach the King of Han again, but there was no evidence.
At this time, the Jinyiwei of the East Factory was also jailed. If Ji Gang was the commander of the Jinyiwei a few years ago, it might not be so troublesome, and Hu Ying would have nothing to do.
Ji Gang is a tough character and has the trust of the emperor. Who dares not touch him?
The famous Xie Jin was thrown into the snow and frozen to death.
But the civil servants were not vegetarians, so they finally grabbed his soft spots and let the emperor execute them, which was considered to avenge the murdered scholar-officials.
Several factory guards after Ji Gang have learned from their mistakes. They understand what can be bold and when will they still be turbulent, especially cases involving the issue of legitimate and illegitimate illegitimate. Now no one in the Dongchang Jinyiwei dares to move around...
If you are not careful, the next emperor will die immediately as soon as he ascends the throne.
The factory guards are beyond the court affairs and justice, but they are not lawless. After all, the emperor said one thing, it is much easier for the emperor to deal with the factory guards than with civil servants.
Walking up the stone steps step by step, Hu Ying first corrected his hat and stood outside for a while. After a eunuch shouted: "Tell me the edict, Hu Ying, Minister of Propaganda and Rites, meet with him."
He then walked up to the palace with his head held high.
There was bright sunshine outside. As soon as I entered the Ganqing Palace, I felt the light was a little dark. Only the middle blue, green, red and yellow paired with elegant thrones were particularly gorgeous, and the brilliance was as bright as sunshine.
The emperor was not sitting on the throne, and was walking in front with his hands behind his back.
When the eunuch Wang Gouer, who was standing on one side, saw Hu Ying coming in, he knew that he was going to worship, so he hurriedly retreated far away...
Why is Hu Ying also a senior official of the dynasty? If Wang Gouer stands beside the emperor, wouldn’t he even worship him?
My minister Hu Ying bowed to the emperor, long live my emperor!The sound of Hu Ying's lettering was heard from afar.
Zhu Di turned around, stretched out his hand from behind and said lightly: Let's flat.
Zhu Di, the highest powerhouse of the Ming Dynasty, was already over 60 years old at this time. The silk thread could not cover up his white hair on his temples and mouth, but he still looked very tough and had just led an army of hundreds of thousands to return to the north.
When he spoke, he had a strong local accent and a thick voice, and his face was full of beard. It didn't seem to match the robe with the elegant color and style design, just like a pig-killing scholar-like look...
Zhu Di was indeed a martial artist, and at the same time, the dynasty under his rule reached the extreme in martial arts, dominating the sea and land, and looking around the world, no longer qualified enemies.
Hu Ying got up from the ground and stood bent down at His Highness. The emperor didn't say anything extra if he didn't ask, because he was not here to report today.
Zhu Di did not pretend too much and said bluntly: There was a palace maid poisoning my meal, but Wang Gou'er found out.Later, many people were arrested, some of which had already been cut off by themselves. The palace maid who committed the crime was still alive. Her parents and the county magistrate were also arrested, but they still didn't ask any questions.I am not a killer of innocent people. As long as I ask who is the master and why I want to harm me, I can let go of other irrelevant ones.But after the trial, Gao Xu was also implicated. I will leave it to you today to ask, is it possible that Gao Xu did this?
Report to the emperor, the case was under the control of the factory guards and the three judicial officers. The old minister did not read the file clearly, but I personally think that the King of Han would not do such a thing.
Hu Ying answered simply and naturally.
But his mind is far more than that simple. If he could just say a few words here...
Just as Hu Ying said, the case was under the control of the factory guards and the three judicial courts, and it had nothing to do with his Ministry of Rites. The emperor didn't look for him but came to him. Why? At the same time, Hu Ying was not only the Minister of Rites. He accepted the secret order many years ago and began to secretly investigate the whereabouts of Jianwen and his remaining party. From the fifth year of Yongle, he reorganized the monks and Taoist rosters to investigate monks. Later, he visited Zhang Zhenren several times in the Jianghu for this purpose.
Due to the above two factors, it is not difficult for Hu Ying to guess that the emperor asked him today because he suspected that the scenes of the assassination case were the ghosts of Jianwen's subordinates.
Hu Ying had no choice but to tell the truth. Otherwise, if the emperor found out that he had the two hearts of walking on two boats, it would be mysterious to have a good end in this dynasty.
He served as an official in the Yongle Dynasty for twenty years. In addition to secretly investigating Jianwen and lacking in court affairs, he reached the position of Shangshu. At this time, the cabinet had no real power, and the highest position of bureaucrats was the Six Ministers. He was a very powerful minister, and he was nothing more than the trust of the emperor.
A step back does not necessarily mean that the sky is wide open, maybe there is a cliff behind it.
Sure enough, after hearing this, Zhu Di looked a little relaxed and asked again: Do you think it was the old people who were doing bad things behind their backs?
Hu Ying said: The old minister thought that there was such a possibility. The emperor had made military achievements in civil and military affairs, and all the barbarians would submit to him, and all the world would live and work in peace and contentment. All the people would like to ask the emperor to live forever, and few people would have the heart to be evil.
I will ask you to investigate this matter. I will select a few people in the Three Judicial Courts and a few people in the Ministry of Rites to use it easily. We must find out if those people have not been removed yet.My name is Cao Shen and I will send the order. What files do you want to check and who will review them? Let them be convenient for you.
Hu Ying simply replied: I will obey the imperial edict.
Zhu Di mentioned that Jianwen's old ministers did not use titles such as rebels and rioters. Although success and defeat were iron laws, he himself did not know how to give Jianwen the reason for rebels. After all, the position of the people was the wish of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. On the contrary, Zhu Di himself was the rebels. This shadow of injustice had been lingering in his heart for more than 20 years and became his heart disease.
He did a lot of things for this, such as deleting Jianwen's year name in history books and trying to eliminate those years; the initial purpose of sending the Ming fleet to the expedition was also due to this factor.
It seems that everyone has a heart disease, and even the powerful Zhu Di cannot escape the vulgarity.
Not long after the secret talk, Hu Ying walked out of the Ganqing Palace. The sunshine shone on his body again, but he did not feel spacious and comfortable. On the contrary, he felt that his steps were getting heavier.
The conversation this time was only known to a few eunuchs, including the eunuch Wang Gouer, and others, but outside did not know what they were talking about.
The emperor did not have much time to talk to foreign ministers in secret, and most of the important things should be open and open, at least the circle involved in decision-making should be informed; while Hu Ying is one of the few people. Every time he returns to Beijing, he will be secretly summoned by the emperor, and sometimes he doesn't even know about the close servants.
However, this matter cannot be hidden because he wanted to find someone to assist in the affairs and interfere with the judiciary, which was obviously in accordance with the emperor's will.
Is it the meaning of framed King Han that the prince himself or his close ministers?
If it is true, Hu Ying feels stressed, and things will become a situation where the beginning and end cannot be taken into consideration; if only a few people made those memorials to show themselves and the prince did not give up for tolerance and low-key, then this matter would be much easier, but it is inevitable to leave a bad impression on the people on the prince.
One day, the prince himself has one thing about his senses, and the trusted officials around him are another thing, and the influence is also very important.
Hu Ying returned to the Ministry of Rites and did not have enough money to deal with the pros and cons, so he started to do things in a hurry. Since he had agreed to the emperor, it would be difficult to slacke in work.
He first found his deputy Wang Qinian in the Ministry of Rites. This person was an annotation official. Because there was already someone in the position when he was promoted to the fifth-rank official of the Ministry of Rites, he only commented on a position. He rarely took care of the affairs of the Ministry of Rites. At first, he was responsible for contacting the monk's and later became Hu Ying's assistant. According to the principle, the Minister of Rites was his deputy, but the Minister could not take charge of the secret visits to Zhang Zhenren, and Wang Qinian was one of the roles here.
Wang Qinian first wrote a letter to the Censorate, the Ministry of Justice, and the Dali Temple, and then Hu Ying formed a joint trial of the case.
Hu Ying felt that only Wang Qinian was not enough for his official position, so he wanted to find another official in the Ministry of Rites. It was really difficult to pick people for a while. There were only a few officials in the yamen, and there were also a group of confidants who were responsible for secret investigations in the local area but were not in Beijing...
After thinking about it, Hu Ying suddenly remembered someone: Yu Qian.
Thinking of Yu Qian, he suddenly felt inspired and felt that the situation was still solved before the end of the matter.The method is to arrange an inconspicuous official from the East Palace to come in.
At this time, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Hu Ying's mouth.
He has never been a person who does things well.
Thinking back to the beginning, Emperor Yongle found an excuse to send him to Nanjing to monitor the prince. This was completely an offensive thing. He went to court every day like other officials, but others told him in person that Lord Hu had finished his choreography and then he quickly left.
Hu Ying still relied on doing his best, and then returned to the emperor to secretly report the prince's diligence and unspecified work; after the emperor returned to Nanjing, he rarely scolded the people in the East Palace.
For a moment, Hu Ying handled both ends without revealing traces.
Hu Ying, dressed in neatly red robe, walked seriously on the white marble bridge. This scene gave him an illusion, as if he was the only one in the world, as if he was dead and quiet, and the Han general on the roadside stood like stone statues.
But Hu Ying's nerves were still tense to avoid omissions in his behavior, because this place was already a forbidden city.
The place where the audience was the Ganqing Palace, the place where the emperor handled government affairs on a daily basis, and his daily life was also here, and he nominally belonged to the harem.
Being summoned to the Ganqing Palace to meet the saint is an honor in itself, and being interviewed alone is even rare.
Hu Ying had predicted the content of the conversation this summoned: Mongolia was newly defeated and there was no major event in the country. The purpose of urgently summoning the audience was nothing more than the recent assassination case.
After the accident, many people were arrested, but there was still no result.
There were many people involved. Hu Ying seemed to be mostly muddy waters, and then the two censors who secretly joined the Eastern Palace took the opportunity to impeach the King of Han again, but there was no evidence.
At this time, the Jinyiwei of the East Factory was also jailed. If Ji Gang was the commander of the Jinyiwei a few years ago, it might not be so troublesome, and Hu Ying would have nothing to do.
Ji Gang is a tough character and has the trust of the emperor. Who dares not touch him?
The famous Xie Jin was thrown into the snow and frozen to death.
But the civil servants were not vegetarians, so they finally grabbed his soft spots and let the emperor execute them, which was considered to avenge the murdered scholar-officials.
Several factory guards after Ji Gang have learned from their mistakes. They understand what can be bold and when will they still be turbulent, especially cases involving the issue of legitimate and illegitimate illegitimate. Now no one in the Dongchang Jinyiwei dares to move around...
If you are not careful, the next emperor will die immediately as soon as he ascends the throne.
The factory guards are beyond the court affairs and justice, but they are not lawless. After all, the emperor said one thing, it is much easier for the emperor to deal with the factory guards than with civil servants.
Walking up the stone steps step by step, Hu Ying first corrected his hat and stood outside for a while. After a eunuch shouted: "Tell me the edict, Hu Ying, Minister of Propaganda and Rites, meet with him."
He then walked up to the palace with his head held high.
There was bright sunshine outside. As soon as I entered the Ganqing Palace, I felt the light was a little dark. Only the middle blue, green, red and yellow paired with elegant thrones were particularly gorgeous, and the brilliance was as bright as sunshine.
The emperor was not sitting on the throne, and was walking in front with his hands behind his back.
When the eunuch Wang Gouer, who was standing on one side, saw Hu Ying coming in, he knew that he was going to worship, so he hurriedly retreated far away...
Why is Hu Ying also a senior official of the dynasty? If Wang Gouer stands beside the emperor, wouldn’t he even worship him?
My minister Hu Ying bowed to the emperor, long live my emperor!The sound of Hu Ying's lettering was heard from afar.
Zhu Di turned around, stretched out his hand from behind and said lightly: Let's flat.
Zhu Di, the highest powerhouse of the Ming Dynasty, was already over 60 years old at this time. The silk thread could not cover up his white hair on his temples and mouth, but he still looked very tough and had just led an army of hundreds of thousands to return to the north.
When he spoke, he had a strong local accent and a thick voice, and his face was full of beard. It didn't seem to match the robe with the elegant color and style design, just like a pig-killing scholar-like look...
Zhu Di was indeed a martial artist, and at the same time, the dynasty under his rule reached the extreme in martial arts, dominating the sea and land, and looking around the world, no longer qualified enemies.
Hu Ying got up from the ground and stood bent down at His Highness. The emperor didn't say anything extra if he didn't ask, because he was not here to report today.
Zhu Di did not pretend too much and said bluntly: There was a palace maid poisoning my meal, but Wang Gou'er found out.Later, many people were arrested, some of which had already been cut off by themselves. The palace maid who committed the crime was still alive. Her parents and the county magistrate were also arrested, but they still didn't ask any questions.I am not a killer of innocent people. As long as I ask who is the master and why I want to harm me, I can let go of other irrelevant ones.But after the trial, Gao Xu was also implicated. I will leave it to you today to ask, is it possible that Gao Xu did this?
Report to the emperor, the case was under the control of the factory guards and the three judicial officers. The old minister did not read the file clearly, but I personally think that the King of Han would not do such a thing.
Hu Ying answered simply and naturally.
But his mind is far more than that simple. If he could just say a few words here...
Just as Hu Ying said, the case was under the control of the factory guards and the three judicial courts, and it had nothing to do with his Ministry of Rites. The emperor didn't look for him but came to him. Why? At the same time, Hu Ying was not only the Minister of Rites. He accepted the secret order many years ago and began to secretly investigate the whereabouts of Jianwen and his remaining party. From the fifth year of Yongle, he reorganized the monks and Taoist rosters to investigate monks. Later, he visited Zhang Zhenren several times in the Jianghu for this purpose.
Due to the above two factors, it is not difficult for Hu Ying to guess that the emperor asked him today because he suspected that the scenes of the assassination case were the ghosts of Jianwen's subordinates.
Hu Ying had no choice but to tell the truth. Otherwise, if the emperor found out that he had the two hearts of walking on two boats, it would be mysterious to have a good end in this dynasty.
He served as an official in the Yongle Dynasty for twenty years. In addition to secretly investigating Jianwen and lacking in court affairs, he reached the position of Shangshu. At this time, the cabinet had no real power, and the highest position of bureaucrats was the Six Ministers. He was a very powerful minister, and he was nothing more than the trust of the emperor.
A step back does not necessarily mean that the sky is wide open, maybe there is a cliff behind it.
Sure enough, after hearing this, Zhu Di looked a little relaxed and asked again: Do you think it was the old people who were doing bad things behind their backs?
Hu Ying said: The old minister thought that there was such a possibility. The emperor had made military achievements in civil and military affairs, and all the barbarians would submit to him, and all the world would live and work in peace and contentment. All the people would like to ask the emperor to live forever, and few people would have the heart to be evil.
I will ask you to investigate this matter. I will select a few people in the Three Judicial Courts and a few people in the Ministry of Rites to use it easily. We must find out if those people have not been removed yet.My name is Cao Shen and I will send the order. What files do you want to check and who will review them? Let them be convenient for you.
Hu Ying simply replied: I will obey the imperial edict.
Zhu Di mentioned that Jianwen's old ministers did not use titles such as rebels and rioters. Although success and defeat were iron laws, he himself did not know how to give Jianwen the reason for rebels. After all, the position of the people was the wish of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. On the contrary, Zhu Di himself was the rebels. This shadow of injustice had been lingering in his heart for more than 20 years and became his heart disease.
He did a lot of things for this, such as deleting Jianwen's year name in history books and trying to eliminate those years; the initial purpose of sending the Ming fleet to the expedition was also due to this factor.
It seems that everyone has a heart disease, and even the powerful Zhu Di cannot escape the vulgarity.
Not long after the secret talk, Hu Ying walked out of the Ganqing Palace. The sunshine shone on his body again, but he did not feel spacious and comfortable. On the contrary, he felt that his steps were getting heavier.
The conversation this time was only known to a few eunuchs, including the eunuch Wang Gouer, and others, but outside did not know what they were talking about.
The emperor did not have much time to talk to foreign ministers in secret, and most of the important things should be open and open, at least the circle involved in decision-making should be informed; while Hu Ying is one of the few people. Every time he returns to Beijing, he will be secretly summoned by the emperor, and sometimes he doesn't even know about the close servants.
However, this matter cannot be hidden because he wanted to find someone to assist in the affairs and interfere with the judiciary, which was obviously in accordance with the emperor's will.
Is it the meaning of framed King Han that the prince himself or his close ministers?
If it is true, Hu Ying feels stressed, and things will become a situation where the beginning and end cannot be taken into consideration; if only a few people made those memorials to show themselves and the prince did not give up for tolerance and low-key, then this matter would be much easier, but it is inevitable to leave a bad impression on the people on the prince.
One day, the prince himself has one thing about his senses, and the trusted officials around him are another thing, and the influence is also very important.
Hu Ying returned to the Ministry of Rites and did not have enough money to deal with the pros and cons, so he started to do things in a hurry. Since he had agreed to the emperor, it would be difficult to slacke in work.
He first found his deputy Wang Qinian in the Ministry of Rites. This person was an annotation official. Because there was already someone in the position when he was promoted to the fifth-rank official of the Ministry of Rites, he only commented on a position. He rarely took care of the affairs of the Ministry of Rites. At first, he was responsible for contacting the monk's and later became Hu Ying's assistant. According to the principle, the Minister of Rites was his deputy, but the Minister could not take charge of the secret visits to Zhang Zhenren, and Wang Qinian was one of the roles here.
Wang Qinian first wrote a letter to the Censorate, the Ministry of Justice, and the Dali Temple, and then Hu Ying formed a joint trial of the case.
Hu Ying felt that only Wang Qinian was not enough for his official position, so he wanted to find another official in the Ministry of Rites. It was really difficult to pick people for a while. There were only a few officials in the yamen, and there were also a group of confidants who were responsible for secret investigations in the local area but were not in Beijing...
After thinking about it, Hu Ying suddenly remembered someone: Yu Qian.
Thinking of Yu Qian, he suddenly felt inspired and felt that the situation was still solved before the end of the matter.The method is to arrange an inconspicuous official from the East Palace to come in.
At this time, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Hu Ying's mouth.
He has never been a person who does things well.
Thinking back to the beginning, Emperor Yongle found an excuse to send him to Nanjing to monitor the prince. This was completely an offensive thing. He went to court every day like other officials, but others told him in person that Lord Hu had finished his choreography and then he quickly left.
Hu Ying still relied on doing his best, and then returned to the emperor to secretly report the prince's diligence and unspecified work; after the emperor returned to Nanjing, he rarely scolded the people in the East Palace.
For a moment, Hu Ying handled both ends without revealing traces.