Every time he thought of Gu Zhengchen, Chen Ning always felt a faint pain in his face, and a wave of hatred surged into his heart.
I have bullied many people in my life, and if I get pushy, I will cripple you with a soldering iron.
There are only a handful of people who dare to bully themselves, and most of them just give them nicknames behind their backs. There are not many people who really have the courage to write to Lao Zhu to impeach themselves. The only one who dares to beat him is Gu Zhengchen!
Ever since Gu Zhengchen entered the officialdom, no, entered Jinling, he has suffered setbacks many times. Because of this guy, I, Chen Ning, have always been scolded by Lao Zhu, reprimanded by Hu Weiyong, and criticized by subordinates!
Now, let’s settle all the accounts together!
Chen Ning winked at Wang Guangyang and asked Wang Guangyang to jump out to impeach Gu Zhengchen first, so that he could follow behind and trample him to death.
With a look, he nodded.
After two glances, he still nodded.
I'll go, but you should go up.
Chen Ning squinted his eyes and noticed that Wang Guangyang nodded simply because he was dozing off, not in response to himself. Your sister, this is the imperial court, the Fengtian Palace. If you want to sleep, go home and sleep.
Hu Weiyong has finished talking, it's your turn.
Lao Wang, wake up!
Wang Guangyang was too lazy to wake up. He just liked to do group sports with his concubine, but that didn't mean that all those sports positions were in his mind. If you, Chen Ning, want to impeach Gu Zhengchen, go ahead and impeach him. We won't talk.
Don't even think about it. When Gu Zhengchen was quarreling with the ministers in the Ministry of Justice, you and Chen Ningke could only tremble and be unable to refute. That is a smart person. A smart person reveals a flaw. What is that? It is a deliberate flaw.
Military generals like to play this trick on the battlefield. They shout in front of them, "Oh, I can't beat you. Don't chase me if I want to run away." From behind, a carbine will send you away, which will make you feel uncomfortable.
There are too many people who have been tricked to death by these fixed routines. What Gu Zhengchen did was similar, except that this kid didn't take the usual path. Instead of shouting that he couldn't be beaten and running away, he shouted "Come and shoot me." Ah, I’m not wearing armor” or something like that.
Just because there's no armor doesn't mean there's no one holding a shield next to you. If you, Chen Ning, want to try it, go ahead. I, Wang Guangyang, won't interfere.
Chen Ning was furious. Wang Guangyang couldn't stand it at all, so he had to turn sideways and glance at Zhao Cheng, the censor.
Zhao Cheng understood, straightened his clothes, took out the memorial, and saluted when he left the class: "Your Majesty, I have this memorial!"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhao Cheng, then at Chen Ning, Wang Guangyang and others, and said with a straight face: "Speak!"
Zhao Cheng raised the memorial high above his head and shouted in a stern tone: "Your Majesty, I impeach Gu Zhengchen, the prefect of Quanzhou! Today, I received a joint report from Gai Tianlin, the prefect of Xinghua Prefecture, and Zhao Xiang, the prefect of Xinghua Prefecture. Gu Zhengchen was lawless in Quanzhou Prefecture and committed many crimes." The crimes are too numerous to describe!"
Zhu Yuanzhang's brows moved slightly, his expression calm.
When Hu Weiyong heard this, his brows suddenly furrowed and his face became gloomy.
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Hu Weiyong and asked coldly: "Prime Minister Hu, do you know about this?"
Hu Weiyong hurriedly left the office: "I haven't seen the memorial yet."
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said something meaningful: "You are the Prime Minister of Zhongshu. Please present the document."
Hu Weiyong broke into a cold sweat.
I am the Prime Minister of Zhongshu. Such an important local government memorial should be sent to me as soon as possible. When will it be the turn of the Yushitai to read it first, report it first, and speak out first?
After all, this is not a memorial from your censor supervising the local government. You can report it without going through the Zhongshu Province. This is an official document from the government office in Fujian Province. According to the rules, all documents from the local government office (excluding the Wei Office) ) should be sent to Zhongshu Province first!
Chen Ning, this guy must have withheld the document because he wanted to clean up Zheng Chen but he didn't agree with it!
At this moment, Hu Weiyong hated Chen Ning.
The chamberlain gave Zhao Cheng's document to Zhu Yuanzhang. While Zhu Yuanzhang was reading it, Zhao Cheng shouted at the top of his voice: "Gu Zhengchen committed five crimes: First, he killed the prefect of Quanzhou without going through review by the Ministry of Punishments and His Majesty's decision. He also knew Wukang, Qin Xin and several officials. He was good at killing local county magistrates, county magistrates, and chief registrars. He was good at killing the city's shipping chief to promote Wei Hong and his deputy Zhou Xiang. He was good at killing common people such as Bu Shou and Bu Zhongsheng. .”
As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was shocked.
After hearing such a feat, Xu Huizu and Mu Ying couldn't help but take a deep breath.
This guy - he's crazy...
Hu Weiyong felt a little headache, not because of Gu Zhengchen, but because of Zhao Cheng and Chen Ning.
You don’t even think about whether Gu Zhengchen is an idiot. If he is not an idiot, then ask yourselves whether you are idiots!
Gu Zhengchen is a smart man, so he has the confidence to dare to kill people.
If he only killed one or two people, it could still be attributed to impulsiveness, impulsiveness, and anger that made him lose his mind. But he didn’t kill just one or two people. Listen to what you said, the Lianfu Yamen, the local county Yamen, the Municipal Bureau, the local government The big businessmen were all captured and killed. There must be dozens of people if not a hundred, right?
Such an action was obviously not done under conflict, but a very sober killing. In other words, Gu Zhengchen must have obtained the emperor's permission before killing.
Only in this way can it be explained, but Chen Ning, an idiot, thought he had caught Gu Zhengchen's flaw and was ready to kill him. This guy who was usually pretty reliable in his work suddenly lost his mind when he met Gu Zhengchen!
Zhao Cheng was still chattering there: "Thirdly, Gao Hui, who participated in the politics of Fujian Province, came to Quanzhou Mansion to confront him, but unfortunately he was imprisoned. He detained provincial officials without authorization. This has never happened since the founding of the People's Republic of China..."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhao Cheng's impeachment documents carefully, and then interrupted Zhao Cheng: "Where are the documents from the prefect of Huaxing Prefecture?"
Chen Ning walked out quickly and shouted: "Your Majesty, I am here."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Chen Ning and said indifferently: "Chen Ning, so you know what Gu Zhengchen did in Quanzhou Mansion. If that's the case, why don't you stand up and impeach him first. As a senior official, , have you even lost the courage to speak out and remonstrate? Why, you, Chen Ning, still have to rely on other censors to test my attitude?"
Chen Ning felt that something was wrong. She shouldn't vent her anger on Gu Zhengchen. Why did she get angry at herself?
The situation cannot be allowed to deteriorate.
Chen Ning very cleverly shied away the responsibility: "Your Majesty, I only saw the document not long before the meeting. I originally wanted to report it immediately after Hu Xiang finished reporting it, but it was just a step too late. As your Majesty's minister, I dare not lack courage."
"I ask your Majesty to recognize Gu Zhengchen's sinful face clearly, and order the angels to arrest him and use his head to correct the rules and regulations of the court, so as not to start the trend of officials killing officials recklessly! Once this trend arises, there will be disaster in the local area. Treatment is out of the question!”
Lu Xi and Sheng Yuanfu, the Minister of Civil Affairs, looked at each other.
Chen Ning was a smart man. He knew that the emperor had favored Gu Zhengchen not once or twice, so he simply used the rhetoric of "killing officials indiscriminately" that violated the court's principles and rules to force the emperor to give in.
You must know that the emperor must take the lead in upholding the rules, otherwise if Gu Zhengchen kills officials indiscriminately today, then Chen Ning can hack the censor to death, and Hu Weiyong can kill Liu Ji the next day.
This kind of breaking of rules and tearing down walls will never be tolerated and must be severely punished to ensure that the rules are unbreakable.
Li Min, Minister of Industry, frowned.
Li Min had a good impression of officials like Gu Zhengchen, especially because Jurong General's dismantling and assembly line manufacturing thinking had changed the Ministry of Works. The Ministry of Works would also take the initiative to introduce this method when constructing artifacts and buildings.
That was a very smart official. He would not dig his own grave. Li Min looked at Chen Ning. This guy had a grudge against Gu Zhengchen, and he was afraid that he would pursue him fiercely.
Zhu Yuanzhang read the document sent by Xinghua Mansion, put it on the dragon chair, and said coldly: "The impeachment document of Xinghua Mansion is written in a very unclear way. It doesn't even mention how many people were killed and why. Write it clearly and you should find an insider to impeach."
"Informed person?"
Chen Ning was confused.
It's strange that Xinghua Prefecture knows the detailed information. How do they know the law? Go to Quanzhou Prefecture and ask Gu Zhengchen how many of them have you killed? The result would probably be that Gu Zhengchen would arrest him as well...
If the documents can be written and sent to Jinling, they have already done their duty. You haven't seen it. The documents from Fujian Province have not been delivered yet, and I don't know what Chen Tai and Lu Zongyi do.
Wang Guangyang finally stopped dozing off and stood up and shouted: "Your Majesty, where are the insiders?"
Chen Ning glared at Wang Guangyang, this guy pretended to be asleep and stole his lines.
Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head and looked in the direction of the entrance of Fengtian Palace and shouted: "Come here, Xiao Cheng of the Thousand Households of Xuanlongxiang Guard comes to the palace!"
"Xiao Cheng?"
Chen Ning, Li Min, Lu Xi and others were a little confused, wondering how this person could be an insider.
Hu Weiyong stared. It was said that Xiao Cheng was appointed by the emperor to be Gu Zhengchen's bodyguard, but it was just that he did not agree with Gu Zhengchen's wishes. There was quite a conflict between the two on the first night they met.
Chen Ning looked around and saw a burly man who looked like a country farmer walking in. He was actually carrying two large boxes in both hands. Judging from his heavy steps, the contents of the boxes were probably not heavy.
Boom!
The box hits the ground.
Xiao Cheng saluted solemnly: "Your Majesty, Xiao Cheng, long live, long live, long live!"
Zhu Yuanzhang raised his hand: "Since you have worked so hard traveling for more than two thousand miles, I hope you can get up and speak."
"Thank you!"
Xiao Cheng stood up.
Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the documents from Xinghua Prefecture: "Now the prefect of Xinghua Prefecture, Gai Tianlin, and fellow magistrate Zhao Xiang have jointly submitted a letter to impeach Gu Zhengchen, and the censor Zhao Cheng and the censor Chen Ning have impeached Gu Zhengchen for killing officials indiscriminately. You He is Gu Zhengchen's personal bodyguard, and he is also my eyes and ears. I think you know everything about what Gu Zhengchen did in Quanzhou Mansion."
Xiao Cheng said solemnly: "Your Majesty, I am following Magistrate Gu day and night. His every word and every move is within my ears and eyes."
"very good."
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Chen Ning and others, and said to Xiao Cheng, "Did Gu Zhengchen kill someone in Quanzhou Mansion?"
Xiao Cheng replied directly: "Since Gu Zhengchen took office as the magistrate of Quanzhou on September 10th and left Quanzhou, he successively killed 42 officials from seven counties in Quanzhou, 67 pirates and rioters, and 5 people from the city's shipping department. There are eight people from a large local family, totaling 122 people..."
