Rule the Ming Dynasty Alone

In Xijiangmi Lane, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has now taken on a completely new look.

Since Wang Yue took over, in addition to setting up a search hall, a brand new prison cell was also built in the back. This cell is not big, but it is heavily guarded and will become the home of imperial prisoners or generals.

Wang Yue was not limited to the upgrading of hardware facilities, but also carried out a general purge of the entire Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Liubu are both official and second-rank yamen, and the Zuodu Yushi can be said to be on an equal footing with the Liubu Shangshu, but there are not many officials serving in Beijing.

The Yuan system was followed in the Ming Dynasty, and the Yushitai was set up as the Metropolitan Inspectorate. The chief officials of the capital procuratorate are the censors of the left and right capitals, and there are deputy censors of the capital and censors of the capital. There are also supervisory censors and patrol inspectors in the thirteen provinces of the two capitals.

Usually, the Censor of Zuodu, the Censor of Zuo Fudu, and the Censor of Zuoqiandu stay in the capital, while important officials such as the Censor of the Capital Procuratorate and the Censor of Youqiandu will be arranged to serve as governors or governors in the local areas to supervise the censors and inspectors. They all stay in place for many years.

Before Wang Yue took office, there was only one high-ranking official in the headquarters of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Bian Yong, the deputy censor of Zuo Du. The post of censor of Zuo Du was vacant. Wu Jun, the censor of Zuo Qiandu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, had been ill at home for many years.

After Wang Yue took office, his first thing was to deal with Wu Jun, the censor of Zuoqiandu. He personally wrote a memorial listing Wu Jun's old age and inactivity, and asked the court to order Wu Jun to become an official.

Although Wu Jun defended himself and some officials proposed that Wu Jun be transferred to Nanjing for retirement, Zhu Youtang directly agreed to Wang Yue's request.

After Wang Yue dealt with Wu Jun, the censor of Zuoqiandu, he directly pointed the finger at the dozens of clerks and dozens of yamen in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Although there are not many officials working in the headquarters of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, they are the central censor after all, and many affairs will be brought together in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so there are many scribes and yamen.

When Wang Yue learned that the concierge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate turned out to be the distant nephew of a certain big shot, he directly kicked out all the related households regardless of whether there were more or less people here, and replaced them with some honest and capable people. Service personnel.

He does not believe in nepotism, but he knows that he is a thorn in the side of the civil servant group. Now the Metropolitan Procuratorate wants to stand on the opposite side of the civil servant group, so he decided to make the Metropolitan Procuratorate his own territory.

There were some honest soldiers who accompanied him to Beijing this time, plus Gou Huowang and a group of villagers who were the first to follow him. He arranged for all of them to serve in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Although the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are indeed low-level errands, they are still the second-rank yamen of the Ming Dynasty, and they are actually content with the sergeants and villagers who are from the bottom.

But no one expected that after Wang Yue's great purge, Ma Shu would be poisoned in the newly built prison of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and that the Metropolitan Procuratorate would still be infiltrated by unknown forces.

"Hurry! Go and call Divine Doctor Li!" When he saw Ma Shu rolling on the floor of the cell, the cell leader Gou Huowang shouted in panic.

He was a householder, and was even forced to wander around. Now he finally had such a good job in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but he didn't want to lose it at all.

ah……

Ma Shu's face was hideous and terrifying, and he kept rolling on the ground. There were cramps in his stomach, and there was a feeling of numbness in his body, but he yelled in pain.

When he saw the bowl of soup on the ground from the corner of his eye, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth. But it was already too late. Although he thought the soup tasted a bit strange just now, he still drank some.

"You can't die! If you die, I, the head of the cell, have not even warmed up yet, so I have to get out!" Gou Huowang had already opened the cell and rushed in. He looked anxious and frightened when he saw Ma Shu's appearance.

"Prison leader, he must have been poisoned. We have to find a way to make him vomit out everything he has eaten!" A young yamen official from the capital warned with some knowledge.

Gou Huowang patted his thigh and hurriedly walked outside. After a while, he came back with a bowl of something and said, "Quick, drink this!"

Ma Shu also had a strong desire to survive. Thinking of his family's wealth and his beautiful concubine, he drank it no matter what was brought to him.

vomit……

Ma Shu only felt that this bowl of food tasted fishy and bitter, but the effect was immediate, and he immediately vomited out the bitter water and food residue in his stomach.

There was a lot of commotion here, and soon Bian Yong, the deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, was heard. Bian Yong was very angry when he learned about the situation. Just when he saw that Ma Shu was not lying straight, a flash of disappointment seemed to flash in his eyes.

"Thankfully you made him vomit quickly, otherwise I would have been unable to save my life!" An old man with white hair and beard checked his pulse and said a word of approval.

Gou Huowang's hanging heart finally fell, and he said respectfully: "Look what you said, I heard that you are the best doctor in the whole capital at treating poisons. Even if we don't mess around, you will definitely be able to cure the disease!"

"You can't say this. Fortunately, the dosage of Duangchang Powder this time was small, otherwise it would be useless even if the gods came!" The old doctor did not brag and seemed to point out the interests very seriously.

When Gou Huowang heard this, he felt uncertain.

After all, he felt that he was lucky this time, but there was no guarantee that someone would throw more powerful poison next time, so his position as the cell leader was also not guaranteed.

"Gou Laotou, you have to be careful! This Duanchang Powder is very toxic and cannot be tested with a silver needle, so this is a master of poison!" Mr. Li noticed Gou Huowang's worry, but handed over the prescription and warned.

When Gou Huowang took the prescription, he complained to Ma Shu in the cell: "If you have anything to do, just do it quickly. You can save your life, and I can also keep my job as the prison chief. How good is that?"

Ma Shu is not a fool, and he was lucky enough to save a small life this time.

He had just realized that the smell of the fish soup was wrong, so he just took a small sip and added the prison head to make him vomit, otherwise his life would really be decided here.

Obviously, those people did not intend to take him out from here, but wanted him to stay here forever.

The news of Ma Shu's poisoning in the Metropolitan Procuratorate spread, causing the entire Metropolitan Procuratorate to become panicked, and Shi Bianyong, the left deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, has already begun investigating the matter.

Although the meals in the cell are all handled by his own people, the number of personnel in the Metropolitan Procuratorate has increased sharply, and the Special Inspection Department has added a large number of people. Now it is very troublesome to investigate.

Wang Yu was responsible for tracking Zhu Ji recently, but he still found nothing. When he returned to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and learned that there was a "fire in the backyard," he hurriedly found his grandfather.

In the main hall of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, in the signing room.

Wang Yue is a very pragmatic official. Now that he has taken the position of Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he also wants to make some achievements for the Ming Dynasty.

He knows that corruption among local officials is still serious. Yangzhou officialdom is definitely not an isolated case, but the official situation in Jingshan County is the norm. Therefore, local officialdom needs to be rectified just like the salt administration.

What's more, now that Beijing's debt problem has been exposed, most of the local officials may have to be killed, and now their procuratorate may have to shoulder this mission.

That's why, in addition to completing the errands assigned by the emperor, he also began to focus on the local areas, starting from the local governors, inspectors and supervisory censors.

Thanks to the favor of the current emperor, the emperor has agreed with him to start inspecting all local censors and dismiss those who are unable to serve.

"Grandpa, are you listening to what I'm saying?" Wang Yu was a jealous young man. He talked a lot in front of Wang Yue, and then asked reflexively.

Wang Yue found that there were not many Jiangxi supervisory censors left after deletion, but he had been listening to Sun Tzu talking about the poisoning, so he calmly raised his head and asked: "Who do you suspect?"

"Grandpa, almost all the people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate are people we have just placed, so Bian Yong is the most suspicious!" Wang Yu knew that the matter was sensitive and immediately lowered his voice to speculate.

When Wang Yue heard this suspicion, he shook his head gently: "You think grandpa can't touch him, so you suspect that he instigated it, right?"

Bian Yong was originally a child of a military family, but fortunately his father Bian Yong was admitted to the high school in the 10th year of orthodoxy, so the Bian family shed their military status and became a family of officials.

Bian Yong was not able to be named on the golden list to promote people to official positions like his father.

He recorded meritorious service in the first plow court in Chenghua, and was promoted to the right councilor of the Nanjing General Administration Department. Many years later, he was appointed governor of Shanxi.

It's just that as a person who was promoted to an official position, he was able to live in the left and deputy censorship of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and his father had been an official in Beijing for decades, which inevitably makes people suspect that there is a mysterious force behind him.

Wang Yue actually wanted to clear Bian Yong out of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but after all, Bian Yong had no obvious fault and was a third-rank imperial official, so there was no reason to send him away at will.

"Grandpa, don't you think he is suspicious?" Wang Yu still suspected that the poisoning was planned by Bian Yong and asked seriously.

Wang Yue knew that his grandson had some prejudice against Bian Yong, so he put down the list of cleanup personnel from the local censor, picked up the tea cup on the table and shook his head gently: "The poisoning matter has nothing to do with him!"

"Grandpa, now the Metropolitan Procuratorate is almost under our control. Only he has the ability to accomplish this. If not him, who else could it be?" Wang Yu's logic was very clear and he asked seriously.

Wang Yue realized that his grandson was actually a bit smart. He took a sip of tea and smiled slightly: "You have been with me for so long, can't you see that this is actually a game?"

"Grandpa, what game is it? Who set it up?" Wang Yu asked in confusion, seeing that his grandfather had not been nervous at all.

As soon as he finished speaking, a figure hurriedly rushed in, and Gou Huowang said excitedly: "My lord, my lord, he is willing to recruit. He just said he wanted to see you!"

"Recruit, who did it?" Wang Yu asked even more confused when he saw Gou Huowang barging in.

There was still excitement on Gou Huowang's face, but he suddenly turned to look at Wang Yu in confusion.

Wang Yue's anxious heart was relieved, but he still kept calm and ordered: "You lead Hu Jun over first, Hu Jun knows how to deal with it!"

"Okay!" Gou Huowang knew that the adult in front of him had no plans, so he turned around and left excitedly.

"Grandpa, what tasks have you assigned to Hu Jun? What kind of medicine are you selling in your gourd?" Wang Yu always went on errands with Hu Jun, but this time he was separated from his grandfather, and now his whole figure is in a fog. Within.

Wang Yue realized that he seemed to overestimate his grandson, so he held a cup of tea and said calmly: "I have told you before: this court is like a marching army! There are good and strange methods of war. If you can't use the right one, you can do it." Strange plan!"

"Is it better to use good deeds than to use clever tactics? Grandpa, you are saying that the use of poison is..." Wang Yu finally came to his senses and looked at his grandfather with a look of enlightenment.

Wang Yue took another sip of tea, and then nodded gently: "Yes, this poison was actually cast by me. To be more precise, this is not poisoning, but a poison that can cause stomachache and paralysis. medicine!"

"Grandpa, why did you do this?" Wang Yu frowned, but he didn't understand the mystery.

Wang Yue put down the tea cup in his hand and started talking: "Our enemy is not an ordinary person. We can't wait for him to attack before we are tired of dealing with it. We can also preemptively strike. In fact, we all know very well that Ma Shu is just a Pawn! Since he is a pawn, there are only two fates: one is to be rescued from here, and the other is to never speak. About this, Ma Shu must have known it well, so I have to force him Ma Shu chooses the third path!"

"If we poison Ma Shu, Ma Shu will mistakenly think that the people over there want to silence him, and then he may reveal the person behind it to save his life!" Wang Yu reacted immediately and said with understanding.

Wang Yue realized that his grandson did have some talent, so he nodded gently: "That's right! Ma Shu was born in a family of officials. He has been greedy for pleasure since he was a child. I believe that he would not be able to choose to carry everything alone, let alone be loyal to him. The forces are silenced! What he hopes most is to be fished out, but if someone wants him dead, he will definitely bite him everywhere!"

"I see, grandpa's methods are really clever!" Wang Yu couldn't help but admire his grandpa's strategy after learning the whole story.

He has been following his grandfather since he came back from Jingshan County, and he has truly seen all kinds of incredible strategies of his grandfather.

Whether it was his initial campaign in Wuchang, his campaign in Yangzhou, or his presiding over the war in Annan, his grandfather was simply a military god.

Now back in the capital, facing this very difficult case, and facing Ma Shu who refuses to confess, who would have thought that his grandfather would dare to poison the prisoners he imprisoned?

Although his grandfather's method this time seemed disgraceful, the effect was undoubtedly immediate, and the Jin Yiwei Baihu seemed to really want to speak.

Hu Jun negotiated with Ma Shu first according to Wang Yue's previous instructions, but he conveyed to Ma Shu that Wang Yue was not in a hurry and made sure that Ma Shu did not put forward unreasonable conditions before bringing the people here.

Wang Yue was more like an experienced fishing expert. Even when he saw that Ma Shu had already taken a bite, he slowly pulled back the fishing line.

"The investigation into the fraud case in the examination was indeed under the instigation of someone else. This person is Yang Han, the superior of Jinyiwei, the immediate superior of the humble position!" Ma Shu admitted immediately after receiving the promise that he could save his life.

Now that he has officially confessed, Ma Shu is no longer a suspect, but an accomplice who deliberately targeted important officials of the imperial court under the instructions of Yang Han, a fellow Jinyiwei guard.

When Wang Yue saw Ma Shu's signature, he told Gou Huowang seriously: "Take this person down and take good care of him, and pay special attention to his daily meals!"

Although he has made the Metropolitan Procuratorate his own territory, there is no guarantee that there are still stray fish here, so he does not dare to take it lightly.

"Follow your orders!" Gou Huowang said respectfully, knowing that everything he had was given by Wang Yue.

When Wang Yu saw Ma Shu leaving, his eyes flashed with excitement and asked: "Grandpa, are we going to Beizhen Fusi to catch that bastard now?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Without His Majesty's will, would we be able to break into Beizhen Fusi?" Wang Yue frowned and immediately preached with a straight face.

Not to mention that this time we wanted to capture the second in command of the Jin Yiwei. Even if we wanted to arrest hundreds of Jin Yiwei, we couldn't just take anyone without a decree.

After all, the Jin Yiwei were the emperor's personal guards, and they could be arrested by the Imperial Procuratorate if they wanted.

Wang Yu's mind seemed to have not turned a corner, but he asked in confusion: "What should we do?"

"Wang Yu, are you stupid? Of course you have to go to the palace to ask the emperor for instructions on this kind of thing!" Hu Jun had been standing nearby and listened, but couldn't help but interrupt.

Wang Yue glanced at Hu Jun with approval and appeared to be very serious in preaching: "Your grandfather has indeed made some achievements in the local area, but it cannot be separated from the support of the emperor. Do you think any local official in this dynasty can hold Shang Fang's sword? Now we I have just returned to Beijing, and His Majesty has always been so kind to me, so I cannot even think about such unruly things in the future!"

"Grandson, remember this!" Wang Yu realized his mistake and expressed his position in a polite manner.

Wang Yue was actually in a good mood. Looking at the confession in his hand, he immediately prepared to enter the palace to face the saint.

Now that he had caught the Jin Yiwei comrade Yang Han, he could ask the emperor for instructions to arrest him, and then he would have the opportunity to track down Zhu Ji.

Zhu Ji was born into a hereditary Jinyi family. Although he was banished to Weiyuan because of Yu Qian in his early years, he was reinstated as an official in the Chenghua Dynasty and soon became the second in command of the Jinyi Guard.

Now that Zhu Ji has been in charge of Jinyiwei for more than ten years, he must have become a core member of that mysterious force. Once Zhu Ji's mouth can be pried open, all problems will be solved.