Zhu Yunwen's voice was relaxed and gentle, as calm as water.
But at this time, Liu Changge was trembling all over. He glanced at Zhu Yunqi with fear and quickly knelt down. His skull collided with the ground violently, making a dull sound: "Your Majesty, I am guilty!"
Zhu Yunwen glanced at Liu Changge with his peripheral vision, then looked at a horse-like white cloud in the sky, and said: "I am the one who is guilty. I trust you too much, but you are all kept in the dark. Haha, I am the emperor. , He’s just a deaf-mute.”
After listening to these heart-wrenching words, Liu Changge kowtowed, his forehead was stained with blood, and he kept kowtowing, shouting: "I made a mistake in waiting, please punish me!"
Zhu Yunwen frowned, looked at Liu Changge, and said coldly: "Go on, explain the matter clearly!"
Liu Changge lowered his head, struggled for a moment, and said: "Two months ago, I took eight thousand taels of silver from Shanxi merchants. They hope to pass the security bureau and enter the North from Datong."
Zhu Yunwen narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "Eight thousand taels is enough to bribe you to pass the customs. If I give you another eight thousand taels, can you take away my head?"
"Your Majesty, I have no intention of offending you, and I dare not offend the Holy Face even if I die. It's just that I was obsessed with money, so I couldn't resist the temptation..."
Liu Changge's face turned pale, he was afraid and regretful.
Zhu Yunwen sneered and asked, "Is it just money?"
Liu Changge looked at Zhu Yunwen in surprise, lowered his head, and said with difficulty: "There is also a woman."
"A woman? What is your life experience, why don't you dare to say it?"
"Yes, she is a geisha."
Liu Changge said with some pain.
In the Ming Dynasty, if you just visited a brothel, had a drink, listened to music, had a wild life, howled like ghosts and wolves, no one would care about you. If you want to redeem a woman as your wife, it is best to be mentally prepared to quit your job.
The Ming Dynasty prohibited officials from marrying brothel girls.
Of course, many dignitaries like her and insist on taking her home as a concubine, that's fine too.
However, the fate of such a concubine is usually not good.
The family status is poor, and they are bullied a lot. After two or three years, they are old and golden, and they are basically left alone in an empty house, lonely in late autumn.
This is also the reason why many brothel girls would rather live alone for the rest of their lives, or commit themselves to a small family, rather than enter an official family.
As the commander of the Ming Dynasty Security Bureau, Liu Changge held a high position and had many officials who fawned over him. Some officials even came to Liu Changge in the middle of the night and swore allegiance to him.
What officials can give Liu Changge is loyalty, but loyalty is invisible, intangible, colorless, tasteless, and unstable. Maybe it is solid today.
The body will evolve into air tomorrow.
Liu Changge was a little disdainful of these people, but after careful calculation, raising a dog was nothing more than a steamed bun. It didn't cost much, and it could also help him guard the door. Therefore, after Liu Changge resolutely refused and refused, he also Begin to acquiesce.
"First Evolution"
The Security Bureau is also often impeached. For example, some prefects in the Southern Zhili region impeached the Security Bureau branch for lack of supervision and the so-called "filling their own pockets and threatening the gentry with crimes and forcing them to give up their land." As a result, Zhu Yunwen was furious. , ordered the Security Bureau to rectify, and captured those bad apples and handed them over to Liu Changge for disposal.
Liu Changge was not polite and cut off two heads, then had them marinated in lime and presented to the local security bureau branches. He warned everyone that if they did not follow the rules, this would be the consequences.
However, with the power in their hands and the lack of supervision, it is unrealistic to only hope that these people have high moral cultivation and can resist various temptations.
A person who is as honest as water can only drink water, he cannot drink wine a few times.
But most of the people who work for the court are men who like to drink.
In less than a year, the security bureau had more and more problems, until there was deception, until Zhu Yunwen learned that even Liu Changge, whom he trusted most, was involved!
Jinyiwei has a bad reputation, and Dongchang also has a bad reputation. In the final analysis, this is directly related to the lack of checks and balances on power.
Zhu Yunwen didn't want the security bureau to be ruined, so he decided to use pesticides early to get rid of the pests.
"Security Bureau, you know very well how important the responsibility is! When I chose you as the commander, what I valued was your benevolence, justice and loyalty! But you told me that benevolence, justice and loyalty will change! You have disappointed me very much !”
Zhu Yunwen looked gloomy and waved. Security Bureau commanders Gu Sanshen and Xiong Wucheng came closer and knelt down behind Liu Changge to salute.
"Liu Changge!"
Zhu Yunwen shouted coldly.
"I'm here!"
Liu Changge replied with a sad expression.
Zhu Yunwen said sternly: "The commander of the Security Bureau, Shi Liu Changge, abandoned the king's favor and national laws outside, took money and women inside, and tried the law himself. Te was dismissed from the post of commander Shi, demoted to the experience department, and sent to Daning to investigate Daning. If there is nothing gained from the smuggling of front-line officials and merchants, they will stay in Daning and serve as troops, and there is no need to come back."
"Gu Sanshen temporarily has the power of commanding the history, and the commander Xue Xia is promoted to the commanding officer. The Security Bureau is being purged from top to bottom. Once it is found that there is corruption, collusion between officials and businessmen, or malicious oppression of the gentry, they will all be kicked out of the Security Bureau and sent to The Ministry of Punishment or the local government will investigate crimes according to Ming law."
After saying that, Zhu Yunwen threw up his sleeves and left.
Liu Changge kowtowed violently and shouted: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for not killing me."
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When Gu Sanshen and Xiong Wucheng could no longer see Zhu Yunwen, they stood up and helped Liu Changge up.
"Boss Liu, my brother warned you back then that the woman was just a trap set up by the businessman. You still don't believe it. Now that you are being blamed by the emperor, it is a great blessing that you have not lost your head."
Gu Sanshen sighed a little.
He was single-handedly promoted by Liu Changge. Although he is now in power, he does not have the prestige of gaining power at all, but remains the same as before.
Liu Changge took out the handkerchief, wiped the blood on his forehead, grinned, and said: "Brother, am I the kind of person who can't move when he sees a woman? Of course I know that woman is a businessman's trick! But, I have Reasons to keep her.”
"What reason?"
Xiong Wucheng asked quickly.
Liu Changge sighed and said: "Twelve years ago, during the melee in Yuerhai, a brother blocked the knife for me and died in Beidi. I only know that he is from Weihaiwei, Shandong. His name was Li Dawu. After the war, I went to Weihaiwei to look for him, but I learned that his family had returned to Yanzhou. I chased him to Yanzhou and searched for several months, but there was no news about him."
Gu Sanjian nodded clearly and said: "No wonder, you only ask about people from other branches once or twice a month, but you often ask about Yanzhou. It seems that you have never given up looking for him. family."
Liu Changge nodded slightly and said solemnly: "Yes, Li Dawu saved my life. His family is my family. I have the responsibility to provide for them until they die and support their children!"
"But it can't be such a coincidence, is that woman actually?"
Xiong Wucheng asked in disbelief.
Liu Changge chuckled, with a somewhat relaxed expression on his face. He took out a rolled piece of paper from his sleeve and said, "It's such a coincidence. Her name is Li Xiaowu, and her home is also in Yanzhou. The brother in Yanzhou found Xiaowu." There is no doubt that Wu’s mother asked her to draw the portrait of Li Dawu.”
"I have ordered that Xiao Wu's mother be transferred to the capital. Now, Xiao Wu is my goddaughter, but I need to go to Daning. In the future, Xiao Wu and her mother will need to be taken care of by my brothers. Don't let her go again. They are the ones who have been wronged."
Gu Sanshen and Xiong Wucheng saluted Liu Changge solemnly.
Gu Sanshen sighed: "The Emperor is very affectionate. If you report truthfully, the Emperor will not hold you accountable for what you have done. At least, you can stay in the capital. Daning is too far away."
"Xiao Wu's prostitution contract is in the hands of the merchants. Although I am the commander, I can't do anything to them. In the end, I agreed to them and cleared the customs three times to cancel it. I am guilty first, and I have let down the emperor's kindness second. The emperor did not kill me, and I have already It’s just gratitude, how dare you say anything else?”
Liu Changge looked at the two of them, feeling extremely peaceful in his heart at this time.
