"This Azure Dragon is really lucky!"
Li Dongyang looked at Azure Dragon's back and couldn't help but sigh.
Ying Wuqiu, who was colluding with foreign enemies and trying to kill the emperor, appeared.
Even if Zhu Houzhao dismissed the Jinyiwei, the cabinet could not say anything wrong about him.
However, he only fined the Northern Town Fu Division of the Brocade Guards for half a year, temporarily removed the position of the commander of the Green Dragon Brocade Guards, and punished them to reflect on their mistakes and not go out.
Such a punishment was simply too light!
"Lucky?"
Zhu Houzhao didn't comment. If it weren't for the loyalty of the Green Dragon and the Brocade Guard, Cao Zhengchun and the East Military Department would have been killed or even skinned alive.
In short, Zhu Houzhao was protecting his son.
If one wasn't loyal to oneself, no matter how talented one was, they would only die if they offended him.
However, as long as they were loyal to Zhu Houzhao and did not make any mistakes in their principles or step on the bottom line that Zhu Houzhao had set for them, he would take care of Yu Huatian, Bai Niao, the Jinyiwei, and even Cao Zhengchun of the East Chamber.
Li Dongyang, as the chief assistant of the cabinet, was naturally aware of this.
That was why he lamented the good luck of the Azure Dragon.
Meeting such a protective Emperor was much more fortunate than meeting those famous civil officials and generals who happened to meet emperors like Emperor Ying Zheng and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
"Emperor, is there really no room for negotiation?”
Li Dongyang didn't want to give up. They were half of the civil and military officials of the court. Even if they weren't all in important positions, it would be a huge blow to the cabinet and the six ministries to dispose of nearly a hundred officials at once.
Zhu Houzhao didn't answer. Instead, he threw the problem back to Li Dongyang."Grand Elder Li, how do you think we should deal with these people according to the Great Ming laws?”
"Sin"
Li Dongyang opened his mouth and wanted to swallow the last two words, but he sighed helplessly and said,""The punishment of being cut in half at the waist and being skinned alive is not an exaggeration!”
It could easily cost tens of thousands of taels of silver, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, or even millions of taels of silver.
The amount of silver these vermin embezzled had almost exceeded the tax silver in the Ming Dynasty's treasury in the past few years.
They all deserved to die!
Zhu Houzhao chuckled.
"Grand Secretary Li is right. Then…kill them all.”
"Sigh!"
Li Dongyang let out a long sigh. He really wanted Zhu Houzhao to treat those officials as lightly as he had done to the Jinyiwei and the Azure Dragon. However, as the chief of the cabinet, he was still rational.
It was clear that Zhu Houzhao's punishment was much better than a light one.
At the very least, after killing the chicken to warn the monkeys, the imperial court should be able to stabilize a little in the next few years or more.
.....
East Chamber, Heaven Prison.
Zhu Houzhao's verbal order came from the Imperial Palace, and soon the news reached Cao Zhengchun's ears.
"What did you say? The Emperor ordered me and the West Military Bureau to investigate the Minister of War, Yang Yuxuan?”
"Reporting to the superintendent, that is indeed the case."
"The word 'thoroughly investigate' clearly has a deeper meaning. Could it be…" Cao Zhengchun paced back and forth and looked at the eunuch who had come to deliver the order.""Let me ask you, when the officials in the Palace of Heavenly Purity impeached Yu Huatian, how did the Emperor feel?”
"Supervisor Cao, you don't know."
"At that time, when the cabinet seconded the three divisions for a joint hearing and Yang Yuxuan knelt in front of the emperor to plead for Kong Mingwen, the emperor was furious and almost sent Yang Yuxuan to the imperial prison.”
"The emperor is furious!"
Cao Zhengchun's eyes flashed with a cold light. He had climbed up from a small eunuch to the position of the Eastern Military Governor and the Chief of Rites. He could not say that he was 90% sure of the emperor's intentions, but he could guess most of them.
The emperor's order to thoroughly investigate felt like
" Yang Yuxuan!"
Cao Zhengchun suddenly laughed, and it was a happy laugh. The Emperor had fallen into the water, and the East Chamber had failed to handle it well, causing the Emperor to fly into a rage.
The East Chamber was the most obedient dog under the Emperor. If it didn't know how to protect its master and bite people, then what was the use of this dog?
The Emperor's bestowment of the Shang Fang Sword and the imperial edict to the Yuhuatian of the West Hall was a blow.
But now, Yang Yuxuan had sent himself to the door.
If the East Chamber continued to do nothing, Cao Zhengchun had no doubt that the Emperor would remove him from his position as the supervisor of the East Chamber and support the West Chamber from now on.
Cao Zhengchun smiled coldly." I hope that this Lord Yang Yuxuan is a true 'loyal man' who can give me a sense of accomplishment."”
He framed the courtiers under various pretexts.
This was the East Military Hall's specialty!
The reputation of the East Chamber had long been tarnished, and Cao Zhengchun didn't care.
However, if Yang Yuxuan was really a loyal and upright person, then it would be a little difficult for the East Chamber. After this matter was completed, they would be more useful to the Emperor.
"Let's go back to the East Chamber!"
The Emperor's decree meant that the drowning case could be temporarily closed. As long as Cao Zhengchun and the East Military Bureau could handle this matter, Zhu Houzhao would naturally let bygones be bygones and move on directly.
However, if something went wrong and he was punished for both crimes, the East Military Manor would have a hard time in the future.
.....
West Hall.
Yu Huatian listened to the eunuch's report, and his graceful temperament suddenly turned cold."This Yang Yuxuan is really bold. He actually dared to try to force the Emperor to give in in the Palace of Heavenly Purity.”
"Then what the superintendent means is…"
"No, let Cao Zhengchun of the East Chamber handle this!”
Yu Huatian fiercely shook his head and said,"The East Chamber has been established for so many years. Cao Zhengchun had power over the government and the people before us. With him around, even if Yang Yuxuan was white, he would have to roll around in the quagmire and be completely blackened.”
"When that time comes, we can kill him. Wouldn't that be great?”
Currently, the West Military Hall not only had to screen the intelligence of the officials of the various departments, but they also had to deal with the review of the officials who had been locked up and imprisoned. If they wanted to do something, it would be easy to deal with Yang Yuxuan.
"Go do your work!"
"Yang Yuxuan, the West Battalion is going to be the winner!”
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