Chapter 639: A Major Change in the Court

The weather has officially entered the hot summer.

Xuanyuan Yao returned to the military camp. After Rong Yu tacitly approved of his relationship with Xie Jin, the two agreed that they should perform well and concentrate on their work. First, Xie Jin should gain a firm foothold in the court. He should not neglect his duties due to personal feelings, otherwise he would fail the favor and respect of the master.

Xie Jin began to investigate the case, focusing on the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Revenue.

Xie Jin was a new noble in the court, a newborn calf. The ministers did not need to take him seriously. They could trip him up or make things difficult for him. After all, they had been in the court for many years, and their power was not something that a young boy could easily pry open.

However, the difficulty now was that Xie Jin was a fearless calf.

The Ninth Master of the Xie Family was never a law-abiding person. His style of doing things was unpredictable. Under his sloppy appearance, he hid a meticulous mind and great courage, as well as ruthless means that were almost as good as those of the Regent.

As cunning as a fox, as cruel as a jackal.

He would dig deep into the ground to collect the evidence he wanted from the people he targeted.

In addition, he had a father who was the Prime Minister, and two more powerful backers, the Regent and His Majesty. No matter what he did, the Regent and Prime Minister Xie would back him up. No matter how powerful the court officials were, could they be more powerful than the Regent and Prime Minister Xie?

Who dared to compete with the Regent and the Prime Minister?

No one dared.

Especially the Regent, who had become a ruthless character that everyone in the court was afraid of.

How long had the new emperor been on the throne? The Prince of Wei's Mansion was exiled in his hands, the Su family was confiscated and beheaded in his hands, the Yun family was annihilated, and the noble guards were punished last night... This series of things was enough to prove that the Regent was cold and ruthless and did not look at anyone's face.

Anyone who fell into his hands could only pray for God's mercy.

Therefore, Xie Jin's investigation went smoothly. The court officials dared to quietly destroy the evidence, dared to cautiously cut off some contacts, dared to lose some interests like self-castration, but they resolutely did not dare to create any obstacles for the ninth master of the Xie family.

In early July, Pei Rong, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, was impeached for taking human lives lightly. Several young skeletons were salvaged from the dry well in the backyard of his house. After the coroner's autopsy, it was confirmed that they were all young female corpses. Pei Rong and his son were taken to the Ministry of Justice for interrogation, and then they confessed that these were all beautiful maids of the Pei family.

In the past, when the Prince of Wei's Mansion was prominent, in order to please the prince Xuanyuan Yan, the father and son of the Pei family would often hold banquets at home to invite Xuanyuan Yan to come to the house. During the banquet, several beautiful maids were prepared to serve. After a feast, the maids were taken to the backyard to rest.

Xuanyuan Yan was cruel. The maids he had played with to death were directly thrown into the well. Sometimes the young master of the Pei family would play with Xuanyuan Yan... In short, there were quite a lot of dirty things involved.

Since he was trying to please someone, he naturally had to get corresponding benefits.

Xuanyuan Yan used his position as the crown prince to provide the Pei family with a lot of conveniences. Pei Rong's son and nephew, and even Mrs. Pei's nephew from her mother's family, were all uneducated and unskilled. Xuanyuan Yan arranged them in the Ministry of Personnel or the Dali Temple. Although they all started from the bottom, they were promoted quickly in the later period because they had someone to support them. For a straw bag who could not read a few words, such behavior was enough to make all scholars despise him.

The Pei family was quickly uprooted, which was also a justice for those innocent women who were killed.

After Xie Jin investigated the case, he said sincerely: "God has eyes, it's a pity that Xuanyuan Yan is weak. If he was a healthy person, I'm afraid that the women in the Dongling Imperial City would not be enough for him to harm."

When he said this, Nan Xi was also there, and he just frowned when he heard it: "Everyone says that he is weak, but the crimes he committed prove that he is a strong enough person. The ancients said that nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are determined."

A weak body could not stop the cruelty in his bones. If this strong willpower was used in the emperor's world, I'm afraid that the entire Dongling would be buried in his hands.

Xie Jin deeply agreed with this statement.

This conversation was just an episode.

After the episode, Xie Jin continued to devote himself to serving his master.

The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Revenue are the most powerful and profitable departments among the six ministries. The Ministry of Personnel is in charge of the promotion, demotion, rewards and punishment of officials in the court, and there are many acts of buying and selling officials in disguise; the Ministry of Revenue is in charge of the national treasury, taxes, land, money, and salaries. Su Ce was able to use his power to accumulate a large amount of wealth for the Yun family far away in Shangning. It is conceivable that there are many profitable ones. How many of the remaining ministers in the Ministry of Revenue are clean?

Xie Jin acted vigorously and found out several serious behaviors. Within two months, the entire Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Revenue were in panic. Basically, all those who should be offended were offended, and those who should be purged were basically purged.

During this period, there were desperate officials who spared no effort to hire assassins to assassinate him. It is not worth mentioning. After all, the Ninth Master of the Xie Family had no chance to fight back in front of the Regent. It was not so easy for others to get the upper hand from him, not to mention that he was surrounded by expert guards who rarely appeared all year round.

The result of hiring a killer to kill someone is that the assassin is caught, his jaw is cut off, and he is taken to jail for interrogation. Then the mastermind behind the scenes is found out, and the crime is compounded.

He turned a blind eye to some small fish and shrimps under the two ministries, after all, he still understood the principle that there are no fish in clear water.

Few officials in the court can be truly honest and upright, and have no desires or demands.

Saints will not enter the officialdom.

But he was so unscrupulous that he used the officialdom as a springboard for making money, so careless about human life that he didn't care about other people's lives, and was so fat that he was embezzling himself. He was mediocre and incompetent, and greedy... If such a termite is not removed, will it harm the people?

Throughout the summer, from June to July to August, the memorials on the imperial desk piled up like a mountain, most of which were impeachment memorials. Some were impeachments by Xie Jin against ministers who had violated the law, together with solid evidence.

Some were impeachments by the censors against Xie Jin for acting recklessly by relying on his power, which made the whole court panic.

There were also several memorials written by Xie Jin at the behest of Xuanyuan Chen, paving a thorny road for this cautious young man to enter the Ministry of Personnel.

The road is in front of us, and the thorns are also there.

Only those who dare to step over the thorns can see the smooth and bright road ahead.

In addition to Xuanyuan Chen, the young students who stood out in the palace examination last year also got the opportunity to be reused in this purge. Some were purged and some were promoted.

The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Revenue were completely replaced, and so was the court.

Xuanyuan Chen was arranged by the Regent to work in the Ministry of Personnel at this time, and became a doctor in the Ministry of Personnel. The other four people in charge were also young students who had been trained in the Ministry of Personnel for a year, and it was time for them to repay the emperor's grace with passion.

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Author's words:

I will update one chapter today, so that I can sort out my thoughts and finish the main text first. It will take about two to three days to finish the plot of the main text, and then start the extra chapter of the trip to Huainan. Because Yaoyao and Xie Jin's plots have been written a lot, the extra chapters belonging to them may not be too long. Next is Chu Nanyi, and then the prince's development record. I am not sure if there are other extra chapters. Although I want to write, I need ideas.

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