After hearing Emperor Deqing's inquiry, all the officials in the court couldn't help but be a little surprised, but it was somewhat natural. [Read the full text] Because, when encountering such a big matter, Emperor Deqing should first ask the opinions of Fu Huang Yourong, Pavilion Elder Shen Changmao and others, but Emperor Deqing skipped several pavilion elders and directly asked Zhao Junchen for their opinions. Yes, but it's a bit unconventional.
However, although Zhao Junchen now looks like "it has nothing to do with him", the officials in the DPRK are all smart people, but they all know that Zhao Junchen is the real mastermind behind the turmoil in the DPRK this morning, so It was natural for Emperor Deqing to directly ask Zhao Junchen for his opinion.
After hearing Emperor Deqing's inquiry, Zhao Junchen, who had been silent, finally spoke out.
I saw Zhao Junchen looking calm. After slowly walking out of the queue, he pondered for a moment, and then said: "Your Majesty, regarding the corruption and perversion of the law by Tang Zheng, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry, I should not say anything. After all, I am in charge. This is the Ministry of Household Affairs, not the Ministry of Industry, nor the Department of Three Laws, but since your Majesty asked, and my subordinates are also in charge of the West Factory, I will just give my rough opinion. If there is anything inappropriate, I hope you will Your Majesty, please don’t be offended.”
Following Zhao Junchen's words, many officials in the court were secretly scolding Zhao Junchen for being "hypocritical". Zhao Junchen was clearly responsible for this turmoil, but now they are still saying "shouldn't be done". Talkative", but he picked it clean.
However, with Zhao Junchen's current position of authority, no one dared to ridicule him face to face.
Emperor Deqing, on the other hand, looked uninformed and nodded: "You tell me."
"Your Majesty, in fact, there are rumors about this in Xichang, and they are also secretly investigating Tang Zheng's evidence of corruption and bending the law. However, the facts are not yet conclusive, so I did not report it to Your Majesty. I just urged Xichang to continue the investigation, but I never thought that Mr. Tang Zheng would be impeached before Xichang could collect complete evidence. However, precisely because Xichang has not yet found conclusive evidence, whether Mr. Tang Zheng was really corrupt and perverted the law? I don’t dare to be biased.”
Zhao Junchen said slowly.
"Oh? Xichang is also investigating this matter?" Emperor Deqing glanced at Zhao Junchen thoughtfully, and then asked: "However, I am not asking about your preference now, but there are some problems in the court. Some people say that Tang Zheng needs to be investigated strictly, and some people say that something strange happened because someone made a false accusation. I am asking what you mean, what should the court do now."
Zhao Junchen smiled, but he looked mature and solemn, and replied slowly: "Your Majesty, although I have no bias, I think that in this situation, there is nothing to argue about."
"Oh?" Emperor Deqing raised his eyebrows.
"State-owned laws and regulations, at this time, the court should naturally act in accordance with the regulations. No matter whether Mr. Tang Zheng is really guilty now, or he is falsely accused and framed, but since many officials have impeached him and have presented solid evidence of his guilt, Then Mr. Tang Zheng should temporarily leave his job pending trial, and then he will be examined by the Three Laws Division. If he is guilty, he will be jailed and questioned. If he is not guilty, he will be reinstated."
Having said this, Zhao Junchen smiled again and continued: "In Yichen's opinion, this is a very clear matter. Colleagues in the DPRK and China should not quarrel about this. Since our ancestors have established laws, we should abide by them." ,that is it."
For Zhao Junchen, as long as Tang Zheng can resign this morning, the most conspicuous nail in Zhao Junchen's territory will be pulled out, and Huang Yourong will lose the biggest one next. Counterattack means, the goal of facing up this morning has been achieved.
As for how to convict Tang Zheng after he leaves office, it is even easier.
After Tang Zheng resigned, the whole Ministry of Industry was filled with Zhao Junchen's people. When the Three Laws Division tried the case, Zhao Junchen was naturally allowed to fabricate it when looking for personal and material evidence. In the end, it was Zhao Junchen who said that Tang Zheng had committed the crime. What a crime, Tang Zheng is what a crime!
This is what is called "covering the sky with one hand".
What's more, Tang Zheng himself is not clean. I am afraid that Zhao Junchen can find out a lot of evidence of his crimes without Zhao Junchen having to do anything.
But at this point, after all, Huang Yourong had been the cabinet boss for many years and had rich experience in party struggles. Seeing that Zhao Junchen wanted to squeeze Tang Zheng out of the Ministry of Industry, he finally roughly guessed Zhao Junchen's next plan, and he couldn't help but feel anxious for a while.
"Your Majesty, I think this is not allowed!" Huang Yourong hurriedly came out again and said: "I heard that the Ministry of Industry, starting from Zuo Lanshan and Chen Dongxiang, has always been at odds with Tang Zheng. Now this matter has been revealed by Zuo Lanshan. I think it seems to be a form of public revenge!"
At this time, Zhao Junchen did not remain silent.
The party struggle between North Korea and China is always about soldiers against soldiers, horses against horses, and generals against generals. Now that Huang Yourong has expressed his attitude clearly and implicitly pointed the finger at Zhao Junchen's cronies, then naturally Zhao Junchen needs to personally Go out and fight him in the ring.
If he continues to remain silent at this time, it will inevitably chill the officials under his sect and make other factions look down upon him.
Therefore, Zhao Junchen did not return to the line of officials, but just asked: "Oh? I heard that Mr. Tang Zheng has always been very close to Mr. Huang Ge. Now listening to Mr. Huang Ge's words, it is obvious that he has a deep appreciation for Mr. Tang Zheng's character. Are you quite confident that Mr. Tang Zheng is definitely not corrupt or bending the law?"
Huang Yourong glanced at Zhao Junchen with a gloomy look and said slowly: "That's exactly it!"
Zhao Junchen smiled softly again, but his expression remained calm, and he just asked: "In that case, what's the big deal if you let the Three Laws Division investigate Mr. Tang Zheng? Since Mr. Tang Zheng has a clear conscience and behaves correctly, then then I only think of coming down here to prove my innocence for Lord Tang Zheng, is it possible that anyone else will suffer from this?"
I will suffer a loss! Are you trying to punish Tang Zheng? ? You are clearly aiming at Pei Gong with Xiang Zhuang's sword dance! If you take away Tang Zheng's official position today, I'm afraid you will no longer have any scruples to criticize me!
Although Huang Yourong was roaring in his heart, he couldn't find the words to refute Zhao Junchen's language trap for a while.
After all, Zhao Junchen's group had been preparing for a sudden difficulty today. Huang Yourong's group was caught off guard, but it was difficult for them to deal with it.
Seeing that Zhao Junchen and Huang Yourong were about to quarrel again after the quarrel between the two groups of officials, Emperor Deqing frowned and turned his attention to the other three pavilion elders.
"Zhou Fu, Mr. Shen Ge, Mr. Cheng Ge, what do you think about this matter?"
Hearing Emperor Deqing's inquiry, Shen Changmao saw that Huang Yourong was about to suffer a loss. He thought about the continuous overt and covert fights between the two sides over the past few days for the job of staying in Beijing to assist the government. He was also happy to see Huang Yourong's jokes, so he took the lead and said: "Your Majesty. , The old minister believes that what Zhao Shangshu said is reasonable. At this time, things should be done in accordance with the laws and regulations. Tang Zheng should temporarily resign and wait for the interrogation of the Three Laws Division."
On the other side, Cheng Yuandao was a die-hard supporter of Crown Prince Zhu Heyu. He was naturally a hateful person and very principled in his work. He was originally watching the "dog eats dog" drama between Huang Yourong and Zhao Junchen when he heard that Emperor Deqing After asking, he pondered for a moment and then said: "Now that there is an impeachment by the Metropolitan Procuratorate and a lot of evidence has been cited, it is natural that things should be handled in accordance with the laws. The veteran also seconded the proposal."
Finally, Zhou Shangjing finally came out. After looking between Huang Yourong and Zhao Junchen, his eyes flashed with a look of wisdom that no one could see through. Finally, after a moment of silence, he said slowly: "Old minister, too. Seconded."
At this point, Huang Yourong couldn't help but change his expression.
Emperor Deqing nodded and said: "In that case, Tang Zheng, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry, will temporarily leave his post and be taken into custody for interrogation by the Third Law Department."
As Emperor Deqing finished speaking, Zhao Junchen won the first battle of the party struggle beautifully!
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With the dispute between the Zhao and Huang factions over, peace returned to the Hall of Supreme Harmony again.
However, beneath the calm surface, there are turbulent undercurrents
At least, in the following morning, Huang Yourong no longer had the "smiling tiger" demeanor. From time to time, he would glare at Zhao Junchen with a sinister look in his eyes.
As of now, anyone can guess that the next step will be the beginning of the storm. Today's scene is probably just the prelude to the conflict between the two factions.
For a time, all the officials were thinking secretly, calculating the next changes.
When Emperor Deqing asked the officials again if they had anything to report, they were all silent.
Then, Emperor Deqing did not delay and directly announced that he would go to court.
However, after announcing the next court, Emperor Deqing glanced at Zhao Junchen and said: "Zhao Aiqing, come to my Yangxin Hall after the next court. I have something to ask you."
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