At this point, Liu Haojia turned to Emperor Wanli and said, "Your Majesty, how can such a person be convicted? Your Majesty, please issue an edict!"
Emperor Wanli, who had been waiting for a long time, said with a cold face: "If you reduce your position to serve the people, you will never be an official for life!"
At this point, Emperor Wanli's new and old hatreds came to mind again. When he thought of himself being tortured by a group of hypocritical people for many years, he felt that the punishment just now did not relieve his hatred! So he paused and said: "You hypocritical people can't teach any good people even if you think about it, so your descendants must not be good people! So I decree that your descendants are not allowed to enter the officialdom! No, they are not allowed to participate in science and technology. ! Pull it down!"
The censors also looked miserable when they heard this, and they all begged desperately for mercy! They don’t ask for anything else, they just want their descendants to be able to take part in the imperial examination! But the guards below didn't care what they cried and dragged them out!
Seeing the fate of these eight people, the other officials also looked desolate! Especially their colleagues in the Inspectorate were pale and trembling all over! Because this punishment is not heavy for them!
First of all, there is still room for maneuver for the descendants of these people's families who are not allowed to enter the officialdom. Because if their descendants study well, they can still get the status of scholar, scholar or even Jinshi, but they won't get the official position! However, there are still various preferential and exemption measures for scholars, such as exemption from corvee, tax exemption, and even donations. Their status in the local area is still relatively detached!
But it’s different if the imperial examination is not allowed! If you don't allow the imperial examination, you won't be able to get the status of a scholar, and even if you have a lot of money, you will just be a commoner! You have to do corvee service, pay taxes, and so on! The most important thing is that their descendants will always be ordinary people, and they will be stuck in the mud for the rest of their lives!
These people are officials themselves, so they naturally know very well what kind of life ordinary people under their rule live! Naturally, I don’t want my children and grandchildren to be bullied all their lives! That's why they begged for mercy like this, but everything was of no use at this time!
After all, they are just a group of low-level cannon fodder, and no one cares whether they live or die! They don't even dare to reveal who is behind the scenes, because they still hope that the people behind them may one day lend a hand to help them!
At this time, Liu Haojia threw the small flag in his hand to the Jinyiwei Xiaoqi behind him, then turned to the group of censors and said: "Have you seen the fate of these people? So I advise you to prepare the memorial before impeachment. My Majesty! Also, don’t take out the memorials like those idiots!”
His words made all the censors blush and feel ashamed! They have defrauded an unknown amount of money over the years by relying on those random made-up memorials, and now they are slapped in the face by Liu Haojia and cannot fight back. This is not a pleasant feeling!
But there was a particularly brave man who stepped out and said, "Master Liu, don't compare all the censors with those few people! The lower officials cannot be bribed!"
Liu Haojia smiled and said, "Is that true? Then may I ask your surname?"
The censor raised his hands and said, "Your Majesty, Peng Jinghai! Moreover, I do have a memorial to impeach Jin Yiwei, but I would like to ask you to refute it in person!"
Liu Haojia ignored him and waved directly to Xiaoqi beside him. Xiaoqi immediately rummaged through the wooden box, then took out a file and put it in Liu Haojia's hands! When the officials saw this action, they immediately booed, and even Peng Jinghai's expression changed twice! Emperor Wanli stared at the file in Liu Haojia's hand with interest, to see what he could read out.
Liu Haojia first quickly browsed the files and then said: "I can't tell that Master Peng is an honest person. There is no record of Master Peng's buying and selling of memorials here!"
Upon hearing this, the officials immediately went into a slight uproar and felt relieved! When Peng Jinghai heard Liu Haojia's words, she said proudly: "The lower officials do things based on national laws and conscience, so naturally they won't do that kind of thing!"
But Liu Haojia sneered and said, "Mr. Peng, although you don't have any trading documents to exchange for silver, you have bought a three-room house and a shop in the capital! According to your salary, eight hundred You can't afford it! Don't say this is your wife's dowry. She was just an ordinary wealthy family when she married you.
That’s all, that little dowry probably can’t even afford the door panel of your current house! "
At this point, Liu Haojia paused for a moment, then said with a smile: "Now here comes the interesting thing! Where did your three-in-one house and shop come from?"
After hearing this, all the officials fell silent and wanted to see how Peng Jinghai would answer. Peng Jinghai said with an unchanging expression: "I don't need to worry about this matter! Since you don't have any evidence of corruption among subordinates, , that means I am not guilty!"
When all the officials heard this, they all exclaimed, they finally had an upright person in their family! But the expressions of the officials were changing. Liu Haojia naturally knew what this meant, because no one wanted to suddenly have a goat in their flock of sheep! .
Emperor Wanli's expression softened a lot, and he was obviously interested in Peng Jinghai! In his opinion. A good censor is a censor who does not embezzle money. Maybe he is already thinking of using him more!
But Liu Haojia shook his head and said, "This may not be the case!" Because all officials can also guess that although you have no corruption, you must have taken refuge with someone or a certain force in the court, and even this force may not be a force in the court! They gave you a house and a shop in exchange for your loyalty, so your heart is definitely not for His Majesty! 「
When he said this, all the officials were silent, and many people lowered their heads. It seems that there are many such people! And Emperor Wanli's originally appreciative face turned livid, and he became even more angry! Because he found that he had no chance to convict Peng Jinghai! Because there is no such law!
Liu Haojia turned around at this time and said: "Your Majesty, Ming Dynasty's laws have reached today, and many regulations are no longer suitable for the current situation! For example, people like Lord Peng. I know that he has a problem but there is no evidence, so I suggest that your Majesty Modify the laws of the Ming Dynasty. The official should be charged with the crime of unclear sources of huge amounts of property! As long as he cannot explain the source of the property clearly, he should be taken down, or at least fired! Otherwise, such a person will be too harmful to the court! After all, no one can Do you know who his heart is toward?"
