Some people in the court impeached Liu Jin, but it was not surprising to the court officials.

After Liu Jin was in power, the court criticized Liu Jin a lot, but the real impeachment level was involved, except for Xu Jin's one time. If we still have to push forward, that is, the impeachment of eunuchs in the court by former Minister of Revenue Han Wen, the eunuch in the court, directly led to the civil servant group losing power.

Some people impeached Liu Jin this time, and many people hoped for a result, but no one came out to help.

Especially when Liu Jin intercepted the memorial in advance, no one dared to stand up and admit that anyone who impeached him.

Liu Jin was furious. In this memorial to impeach him, the crimes he laid mainly involved in the occupation of civil land and embezzlement and bribery, as well as the accusation of his abusing power.

The emperor sent the letter to the cabinet on April 15th, and fell into Liu Jin's hands that afternoon.

After reading the memorial, Liu Jin tore the memorial to pieces in front of Wei Bin, Dai Yi and others, which shows his anger.

Liu Jin scolded Wei Bin: "Go to investigate and see who did it. Unexpectedly, when this is the case, there are still people who are thieves who are unstoppable and think that our family can't find anyone? Our family doesn't believe it. Such a memorial without even signing can be sent to the cabinet through the Tongzheng and the envoy. Our family wants to find this shameless person to crush his bones and ashes."

Wei Bin glanced at Dai Yi and several Si Lijians and said, "Eunuch Liu, please calm down first. I don't know if this is done by someone outside the palace."

"What does it mean? Is it not an outsider of the palace, is it from the palace? Which of you?" Liu Jin was used to being arrogant and domineering. He pointed in front of the eunuchs in the Sili Prison without hesitation.

Every eunuch was trembling, no one dared to admit that this matter had something to do with him. Liu Jin was powerful and anyone who opposed him would definitely suffer.

Wei Bin asked tentatively: "Maybe it was done by the civilians?"

Liu Jin said sternly: "If you can't write such memorials without a knowledgeable person, and you can go straight to the cabinet, how can you not have an official background? First, check it from the Hanlin Academy and the Zhanshi Mansion, and then the six ministries and the various temples and officials... In the end, we have to find out the result. We don't believe that the thief can still go to heaven and earth but cannot escape!"

Wei Bin didn't want to help Liu Jin do such a thing, and offended too many people, but now Liu Jin looks like he is determined to win, so he can only reluctantly investigate it.

But he was only supervising the eunuch for the Imperial Horse Supervision, and he was in charge of the three thousand battalions. The East and West Factory No. 2 was not under his control. It was too difficult to investigate such a thing. Wei Bin could only listen to the news and determine the direction of the investigation.

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On April 16th, the day after someone reported impeached Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao appeared in the Qianqing Palace hall with a yawn. Some ministers raised this matter in court. If they were just ordinary ministers, they would definitely be retaliated by Liu Jin, but the person who proposed it now was Xie Qian, the chief assistant of the cabinet.

Someone submitted a memorial to impeach Liu Jin. Xie Qian felt that he had neglected his duties, so he actually asked Jiao Fang to hand over the memorial to Liu Jin first. After Liu Jin tore up the memorial in public at the Sili Supervisory Supervisory Office, he immediately went to the Tongzheng Envoy to find the copy of the memorial, but did not polish it, and directly submitted a memorial to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao was a little upset: "The storm Xu impeached Eunuch Liu before, but the storm had just stopped. Why are there anyone impeaching me now? Is it still over?"

Xie Qian said: "Impulse is just a means to supervise internal officials and ministers, and it may not be counted. However, if the impeached person has bad intentions and deliberately tore up the memorial, it is a disrespectful thing."

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, she glanced at Liu Jin standing next to her: "Eunuch Liu, have you ruined the memorial?"

When Liu Jin heard this, he felt a little scared and quickly stepped forward to explain: "Your Majesty, I have never done such a disobedient thing. I also learned from Mr. Xie today that I have been impeached by someone. I am really wronged..."

Zhu Houzhao said angrily: "Don't be busy calling for justice... Where is the memorial to impeach you? Show it to me and I will decide."

Xie Qian quickly submitted the memorial.

Liu Jin kept wiping the cold sweat, thinking: "The old guy named Xie just broke up my stage at this time. If he hadn't said that I had ruined the memorial, I'm afraid that His Majesty wouldn't have asked about this matter."

Zhu Houzhao took the memorial from Dai Yi and carefully read the contents on it. He looked very carefully. After reading it, he looked a little confused: "Eunuch Liu, is what is said above true?"

Liu Jin held the whisk and bowed: "It's purely fabricated, it's nonsense."

Zhu Houzhao showed a cunning smile on her face and said, "You said you didn't know. Didn't you say that Mr. Xie didn't know that this happened before the report? Then you have never read the above content, how could you know that what was said above is not true?"

Only then did Liu Jin realize that he had been deceived by Zhu Houzhao, but he was familiar with the emperor's character and responded freely. He immediately argued: "Reply to Your Majesty, although the old slave has not read the content of the impeachment, but as far as I know, those who have been harmed by the old slave will definitely be cunning and try to slander the old slave, so that the old slave cannot serve in front of His Majesty. Only then did the old slave hate these maliciously slandered people and say that the above matter is definitely not true."

Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly: "You are reasonable... I have never seen it before, so I will tell you..."

Zhu Houzhao was like an emperor who was diligent and loving the people. She sat in front of the Long Case and spread her memorial and said in a casual manner: "The memorial to impeach you said that you are stubborn and you decide on all matters of the court, and you don't even ask me about my opinion. Do you admit your guilt?"

Liu Jin knelt down and replied: "The old slave will never dare to make arbitrary decisions. Everything will be drafted by the cabinet first, and then the old slave will make a decision according to His Majesty's wishes."

Zhu Houzhao thought about it and it seemed that this was the case, so the crime was exposed.

"Okay, the next article is to say that you built a private house in the capital, raising singers and dancers in it... Cough cough, I won't talk about this article, what are you doing for a eunuch? It seems that this article is intended to be accused..."

Zhu Houzhao even denied this article without even asking whether it was true, because he knew very well that the crime of building a house and raising a woman mentioned in the memorial was his deed, and Liu Jin took the blame.

Zhu Houzhao continued to look down, not idle, "This one says you have tens of thousands of hectares of private land in the capital... Please explain it carefully!"

Liu Jin kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, I can check how much wealth I have. I have never occupied the land. Those lands were investigated before. The gentry was afraid of taking responsibility, so they abandoned them. Some were confiscated and confiscated, while others purchased them with the silver from the treasury. The old slave had asked the inner government to start managing... If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can summon the eunuchs in the official position to come and ask."

Zhu Houbao looked at Xie Qian and asked, "Gei Master Xie, what do you think?"

Xie Qian looked at Liu Jin kneeling on the ground, trembling like a maggot, and was extremely disgusted. However, he did not like to attack political enemies without reason without regard for facts. Based on the idea of ​​staying at the forefront of being a human being, he said loudly: "The details can be investigated, but if you are bent, you will never become straight."

Because Xie Qian was not sure how the inner government would testify for Liu Jin, perhaps those people had been bribed by Liu Jin long ago, Xie Qian did not draw a conclusion, meaning that he could investigate slowly.

He acted so cautiously and seemed to be strict and neutral, but in fact he was already helping Liu Jin, and many civil officials were dissatisfied.

Those honest ministers will inevitably think: "As the chief minister of the cabinet, you, it's fine if you don't dare to say anything to Liu Jin. Now that Liu Jin is questioned by His Majesty, he has become like a stray dog. You even said that you can't insist that he is guilty?"

However, someone with a discerning eye could see that Liu Jin was kneeling there and silent, which was not the true face of the king and his subjects.

Liu Jin was just pretending, and he always showed a perseverance in front of the emperor, in exchange for the emperor's sympathy and consolidated his position in the emperor's mind.

After hearing Xie Qian's words, Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly: "Then let's check if there are any land that has been detained by Eunuch Liu privately... The next thing is about Eunuch Liu's character, as if Eunuch Liu clearly marked the price for the court official titles? A Minister of War... 20,000 taels of silver?"

Zhu Houzhao was a little moved when he saw this. He knew that Liu Jin tried every means to make money, but he didn't know how much money Liu Jin could get at one time. But now someone raised the price of Liu Jin's promotion of Liu Yu as Minister of War, and Zhu Houzhao was a little annoyed when he saw it.

Liu Jin quickly defended: "Your Majesty, now the Minister of War is Lord Shen, he is not in the capital."

Zhu Houzhao asked, "Where is the previous Shangshu Liu? Where is the Liu Qing family?"

Liu Yu was already the Minister of Personnel at this time. It can be said that he had the largest official position in the ministry. More than half a year ago, he was just a governor of Datong. All this was because he bribed Liu Jin, which was the first time for local officials to bribe Liu Jin.

Liu Jin had no opinion on Liu Yu's ability, and promoting Liu Yu was entirely a cashier.

Liu Yu went out of the line and knelt down: "I am here."

Zhu Houzhao shouted sternly: "Shangshu Liu, I think this memorial is also impeaching you, right? Tell me, how much money did you give to Eunuch Liu in order to become the Minister of War?"

Liu Yu asked in surprise: "I can be transferred to the Ministry of War. Isn't it that your Majesty, your order?"

Zhu Houzhao thought for a moment and nodded slightly: "I remember that this is the case. Who told me at that time that you were capable? At that time, the candidate for the Minister of War was the three-sided general manager Shen Qing family, but the Shen Qing family had just gone to the northwest to become the three-sided general manager, so this matter was put aside and you would add it..."

"Well, come here, go to Liu Yu and Liu Jin's mansion to check it out to see if there is any Tibetan silver. If so, we will send it to the court together!"
Chapter completed!