Chapter twenty seven
h2>The Censorate is also known as Lantai and Xiantai. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Censor has been an indispensable and important position in the court. It is the central administrative supervision agency and one of the central judicial organs. It is responsible for picking, impeaching officials, and rectifying disciplines. Just like the Jinyiwei in later generations, the only difference is that the current Censorate has no judicial power and cannot independently try cases like the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple.
But no one dares to underestimate the Censorate, because the Censorate’s report has too much power and has the power to report the incident.
In other words, the Censorate does not need any evidence to impeach anyone. Even if you hear a madman on the street saying that someone is going to rebel, the Censorate has the power to report the matter to the emperor and impeach the person who wants to "rebel". And this "rebel" person will unconditionally accept the review of Dali Temple or the Ministry of Justice to find out everything. Crime is naturally the merit of the Censor, but it is not blamed for being innocent. This is the power of the Censor.
Because of this, sometimes in the court, you would rather offend a prime minister than offend a censor. If you offend the prime minister, the prime minister will wear you with small shoes at most. If you don’t belong to him, he will not be able to do anything to you for a while. However, offending the censor, the censor will allow you to sit in a prison cell today for rebellion and tomorrow for corruption.
The Censor is the head of the censors and the core of the Censorate. He is responsible for supervising the dereliction of duty and illegal behavior of the court and the princes and officials. He is also responsible for keeping the court's archives and documents, and his status is second only to that of the prime minister of the dynasty.
As such a special department, everyone in the Censorate has the honor to supervise all officials within the scope of their power and be flattered by others.
But on this day, the Censorate was provoked by the Ministry of Justice.
The aggressive soldiers of the Ministry of Justice blocked the gate of the Censorate. The evil spirit captured the Censor Du Yan, the Censorate's first leader, and took him to the Censorate's prison with the arrest order.
This incident immediately caused a sensation in the court. This was the first time since the founding of the Tang Dynasty that the Censorate encountered such a situation. The memorial to impeach Luo Shixin's abuse of the criminal law was like snowflakes, which could cover the entire imperial table, and even alarmed Li Yuan, who had already retreated behind the scenes to relax.
But it is obvious that Li Yuan and Li Shimin are all standing on Luo Shixin's side. With the support of these two people, all the snowflakes will disappear as if they met the sun and finally disappear invisible.
But because the Ministry of Justice is so high-profile, almost everyone in Chang'an is watching the Ministry of Justice every move, thinking about what happened.
With Wang Jungu's arrival in Beijing, all the reasons were made public in a short period of time.
Luo Shixin acted with a military spirit, never dragged on the mud, and carried out the trial against Wang Junkuo in a decisive manner.
Wang Junkuo read the secret report without authorization, and there was a witness to killing people to silence him. Cui Dunli also changed his previous attitude of supporting Wang Junkuo and became one of the witnesses accusing Wang Junkuo. With Wang Junkuo's arrest, his conspiracy was also taken out of the mouths of some confidants and could no longer be refuted. Faced with Du Yan's elimination, Wang Junkuo, a villain, knew that he would die, naturally showed his personal despicable character without hesitation and pulled Du Yan off.
Not only that, Du Yan's confidant Wei Jun, also the middle-aged man who instigated Wang Junkuo to escape, explained the evidence of Du Yan's greed for in recent years.
Du Yan's poor work style is well known. Even Li Shimin knew that Du Yan's character was indeed flawed, but no one expected that his little greed would reach a terrible number under the fact that he gathered a few and became a terrible number. Moreover, according to the interrogation, Luo Shixin also found out that Du Yan had great political ambitions and had the intention to form a party by himself. He did not hesitate to help Wang Junkuo so much, but was not simply greedy for "Ming Ji Tie". Instead, he wanted to form a political alliance with Wang Junkuo. At the same time, the "Ming Ji Tie" he asked for was not kept for his own collection, but intended to give it to Li Shimin to please him when Li Shimin ascended the throne.
As the censor, Du Yan was only one step away from the position of prime minister.
Li Shimin is about to become the new lord of the Tang Dynasty. This new lord will inevitably promote close ministers to form a new political group. However, in order to maintain the stability of the court, the original political group cannot be abandoned, and the number of promotions will not be too many. Li Shimin is good at using people and has many confidants: Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui's right-hand man, there are also Changsun Wuji, Gao Shilian, and Wen Yanbo.
Du Yan is not very advantageous in the face of these people, and he may be more likely to continue to defeat him.
Du Yan was a strategist who was good at making mistakes. He was determined to fight for his own interests and should not be fair in his own way. He ignored the interests of the country for his own selfish interests.
Finally, with Luo Shixin's amazement, he made judicial judgments on Wang Junkuo and Du Yan respectively.
Wang Junguo encouraged Lujiang King Li Yuan to rebel, and killed his father-in-law with sinister intentions, disregarding the peace of the country for his own selfishness. In addition, in order to obtain the Ming Ji Tie, innocent merchants were ruthless, righteous, unfaithful, and unfilial, and their crimes were unforgivable. Du Yan was sentenced to death. As a judicial officer, he ignored the law and discipline, accepted bribes, and committed illegal affairs. He also had the spirit of forming a party for personal gain, and was exiled to the state.
The trial result was discussed by Luo Shixin and officials from all over the Ministry of Justice, but what he really adopted was the opinions of Ma Zhou and Liu Yanke.
Wang Junkuo and Du Yan were the great governor of Youzhou, Duke Peng Guo, the king of Shangzhu, and the other was the censor of the current dynasty, both of whom were extremely noble. Luo Shixin's judgment in accordance with the laws of the Tang Dynasty also needed to be reviewed by Li Shimin, and the results were uploaded to the Secretariat and handed over to the Crown Prince for instructions.
Li Shimin had no objection to the trial and ordered the Ministry of Justice to know.
According to the judicial process, the Ministry of Justice must analyze whether the case is fair in accordance with the case case, but the case is investigated by the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice cannot understand its own case and passed the final review without any suspense.
Wang Junkuo suffered his own consequences and paid the price of his life. Du Yan had bad intentions and intended to form a clique for his own private interests, but he also received the reward he deserved.
This incident caused quite a stir in the Tang Dynasty. Luo Shixin also saw Li Shimin's courage in the political arena. Faced with the Censorate controlled by Du Yan, he did not hesitate to transfer Du Yan's confidant and demote him, and brought the Censorate a major purge. Then he arranged Gao Shilian to be the Censorate and reorganize the Censorate. Dali Temple Minister Cui Shanwei knew that there was something strange, but he did not dare to go deep into the investigation. He removed the position of Dali Temple Minister to be the governor of Qinzhou, and the new Dali Temple Minister was appointed by Dali Temple Shaoqing. The officials who did not participate in the case in Li Yuan's rebellion were more or less reduced, and some were even acquitted.
A series of actions were dazzling. When everyone recovered, they found that the political storm had passed. Li Shimin used lightning-fast means to reduce the harm caused to the Tang Dynasty by this big case of instigating rebellion and accepting bribes to form cliques for personal gain to the lowest point.
The operation of the Tang Dynasty did not stop because it lacked Du Yan, Cui Shanwei, and Wang Junguo. Instead, because this case gave all civil and military ministers a warning, even if they violated the criminal law, even if they were trusted and trusted by the future emperor, they would be treated accordingly.
Especially now, the Ministry of Justice has a righteous Luo Shixin.
In this major case, Luo Shixin enforced the law impartially. Faced with various pressures, he unswervingly clamped to the end. Finally, he found out Wang Junkuo, the mastermind behind him and captured Du Yan.
Throughout history, literati have devoted their pens to military affairs and achieved something, which will become a beautiful story. Now, Luo Shixin has gone to politics with weapons and has solved major cases in less than half a year and achieved such remarkable achievements. It has also become a beautiful story for a time and praised by the world.
Li Yuan was rehabilitated in the rebellion case, and some of the acquitted individuals even gave Luo Shixin a golden plaque to express their feelings.
After this answer, all the civil and military officials of the court had no doubt whether Luo Shixin could take charge of the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice was very happy about the Ministry of Justice's excitement in this case, the newly appointed Shangshu, and was convinced by Luo Shixin's achievements. Liu Dewei, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, was no longer able to shake Luo Shixin's firm position.
Duke Tan’s Mansion!
Luo Shixin held a banquet in the mansion to thank Pei Qingyi for helping him.
Pei Qingyicheng was able to do so smoothly this time, and not only captured Wang Junkuo well and saved his life, but also captured Wei Jun, Du Yan's confidant, and forced Wei Jun to tell everything he knew truthfully and prove Du Yan. If it weren't for Wei Jun's betrayal, he pointed out that Du Yanbing was indisputable, and using Du Yan's means, it might be possible that the hero cut off his arm and avoided him.
As the censor, Du Yan could not defeat him for a moment, and the one who suffered the consequences next was the Minister of Justice.
"Come on, I'll respect Miss Qingyi! You helped me again, and Luo Shixin couldn't repay you here... I'll respect you first!"
The more refreshed the ancients drink, the more sincere the more they seem. Before Pei Qingyi can speak, he will eat a full cup of wine first.
Pei Qingyi smiled and drank all the wine in the glass. He looked left and right, but could not help but ask, "Where is Your Highness the Princess?"
"Pingyang's body is a little strange. He can't drink alcohol. He is afraid that he will be relieved, so he didn't come with him." Luo Shixin said happily. Pingyang's Tiankui has never come. It is obvious that it is not because of various reasons. It is very likely that he is pregnant. He felt happy when he mentioned this. Pingyang has also started to learn to keep his mouth from taking stimulating foods recently.
Pei Qingyi's expression suddenly changed, and she was worried, but seeing Luo Shixin was so happy, she suddenly realized that she had a little envy in her heart: "Congratulations!"
"Thank you, thank you!" Luo Shixin smiled happily, drank a few drinks to vent his happiness. After calming down, he asked: "Actually, I have always been curious. If the girl talks about Wei Jun, he is honest like a mud ball, how to pinch it." r1152
Chapter completed!