Unsurprisingly, many officials expressed opposition. Emperor Wanli didn't want to get entangled, and said directly: "This matter will be discussed later, let's talk about the matter at hand first."
After Liu Haojia saluted, he turned around and said, "In that case, please ask Mr. Peng to read your memorial to impeach Jin Yiwei!"
Peng Jinghai relaxed completely after hearing this. He hummed and started chanting. Moreover, he actually read out his article without reading it from memory!
Everyone listened attentively and found that he and the memorial were indeed different from the previous memorials! He did not talk about Jin Yiwei's case on a large scale, but only talked about the case of a prefect in Shandong! The prefect was also charged with embezzling money used to build river embankments. The amount was relatively large and a wide range of people were implicated.
According to Jin Yiwei, he and his subordinate officials embezzled approximately 120,000 taels of silver! The river embankments in his jurisdiction have also been repaired hastily and have not been completely renovated and reinforced! But according to Peng Jinghai, this person did have the possibility of corruption, but the money was reduced to less than 40,000 taels!
If these 40,000 taels were dispersed to other subordinate officials, the number would be even lower, and the crime would be even lighter! Moreover, both he and his subordinate officials insisted that all the money spent was consumed in the process of building the river embankment! They are not greedy, they just have poor management and huge waste!
Moreover, Jin Yiwei did not have complete evidence when they arrested these officials. They just made a hasty calculation and started arresting people, so these officials have been complaining! Now after they were escorted to the capital, they somehow contacted Peng Jinghai and provided him with a lot of information, and then they got this memorial!
After Peng Jinghai finished reading, he flicked his sleeves and said: "Master Liu, the above is the memorial for the impeachment of Jin Yiwei! One by one, it is very clear, and all the accounts can be checked. I don't know whether Master Liu is right. What’s the explanation for this?”
After listening to this, Liu Haojia laughed and said: "I have to say that Master Peng's memorial is very meaningful! But now I don't want to explain so much, but want to ask, is there any memorial like Master Peng? How many copies are there, you might as well read them out together! I would like to remind you that if you are the kind of person who has no evidence and is full of nonsense, please stop humiliating yourself!"
However, Peng Jinghai refused to agree when he heard this. Instead, he stepped forward and said, "Master Liu, in my opinion, you should explain the case in front of me first! In this case, Jin Yiwei obviously expanded indiscriminately. Regarding the charges and the frame-up, I hope Mr. Liu can explain it to the court!"
Liu Haojia turned around and said, "You don't need to push me on this matter, I will explain it myself! But I don't want to explain everything one by one, so if you have a similar memorial, please come out with me!" "
As soon as Liu Haojia finished speaking, several more people walked out of the class one after another, saying that they still had similar situations to respond to. Peng Jinghai looked at these people and his face turned red with anger, but he was helpless. He could only let them read out his memorial aloud one by one!
Peng Jinghai didn't want others to ruin his opportunity to shine, but other officials naturally wouldn't give up this opportunity after testing Liu Haojia's limits! So these officials who are on duty are also people who have some real evidence!
Among these people were censors and even officials from the other six ministries. And judging from their memorials, they all put in a lot of effort, and all of them have something to say! So Liu Haojia set a benchmark by taking down the eight censors just now. Those people who talk nonsense no longer dare to show up!
When all these people came forward to read their memorials, Liu Haojia had a clear idea. Counting Peng Jinghai, the six people on duty filed nine cases, involving more than 400,000 taels of dirty silver! As for what they accused Jin Yiwei of, there was insufficient evidence. The amount of dirty silver on the document did not match the actual collection! The rest are minor issues that don't matter.
At this time, Liu Haojia said: "Why are you the only six who are out of duty? Isn't this the wrong number? There are more than six people jumping up and down in various prisons these days!"
Liu Haojia's words caused a burst of whispers from all the officials, who all turned their attention to these six people, as if they had seen something! And these six people looked at each other and felt a little clear in their hearts! Because the six of them just represent the six cabinet ministers, one is not more and the other is less.
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You must know that the big guys always do things much more carefully and steadily than the people below! They never hope that a few haphazardly pieced together memorials can defeat Liu Haojia and Jin Yiwei, so they will naturally make their methods concrete and detailed!
And the six people in front of them are the top soldiers they sent out! What I didn't expect was that several other pavilion elders had the same idea, and everyone's actions were repeated!
But it doesn't matter. Since the actions are consistent, it means a problem. As long as one person can open a breakthrough, the others can naturally follow at any time! You must know that it is always easy to find faults. No matter how thorough your case is, it is always easy to find some problems!
Moreover, the elders clearly had no intention of actually rescuing these prisoners. Their thoughts would dampen Jin Yiwei's recent upward momentum! They don't care whether their officials can get away with it! Anyway, there are plenty of people who want to be officials! As long as we can find the problem in Jin Yiwei's case, that's the most important thing!
Liu Haojia stood in the middle of the hall and shouted several times but did not receive any reply. Instead, the hall became quieter and quieter! Because everyone smelled the danger from Liu Haojia's words just now, it seems that he has another plan!
Seeing that no one was out of work, Liu Haojia shook his head with regret, then turned around and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, please mobilize people from outside to come into the hall to testify!"
Emperor Wanli naturally nodded in agreement, so Liu Haojia gave instructions to Xiao Qi behind him. Xiaoqi nodded and ran out of the hall in a hurry. Then everyone turned their attention to the door, wanting to see who Xiaoqi would bring in?
What surprised everyone was that Xiao Qi actually brought a large group of people in after going out! Only then did everyone realize that in addition to many imperial guards, there were also a large number of prisoners who came in. In addition, Xiaoqi, who just went out, was holding a thick stack of files in his hands!
After everyone knelt down to worship Empress Wanli, Liu Haojia took out several files from Xiaoqi's arms and said, "Master Peng is the first to leave, so let's take a look at the case he proposed!"
After Liu Haojia found all the files and made sure there were no errors, he handed them to another Xiaoqi to recite aloud.
