Li Ruolian was unwilling. This was a huge achievement. How could he let it fly away when it was already in his mouth?
He said hurriedly: "My Lords, this is a clue found by the Jinyiwei. Logically, it should be handled by the Jinyiwei. How can they change people midway?"
"Commander Li, don't worry. This matter concerns two third-rank officials. We should take a long-term view and follow the court's rules. We can neither let the bad guys go, nor wrongly accuse a good person!"
"You said that the Jinyiwei wrongly accused a good person?" Li Ruolian said angrily.
"I didn't say that. The commander said it himself!"
"You guys..." Li Ruo Lian was a military scholar, so he couldn't win an argument with these literati.
He wanted to refute but didn't know where to start, and his face turned red.
Chongzhen smiled faintly when he saw this: "Zhang Xin, who pushed this case to the Jinyiwei to investigate?"
Zhang Xin was stunned.
He suddenly recalled that when he met the emperor with the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture yesterday, he pushed the case of the extermination of the family to the Jinyiwei.
At that time, there were no clues and the case could not be solved, so people were thinking of pushing the case away and shirking responsibility.
How can it be justified that you want to take the case back just as you have introduced the clues?
I didn't expect that His Majesty still remembered this.
His face turned redder than Li Ruo Lian's, and he said reluctantly: "Your Majesty, I ask the Jinyiwei to investigate this case as soon as possible and restore peace to the capital."
The leader actually turned against us!
The other ministers who seconded the motion felt insulted. They slowly stood up and glared at Zhang Xin, wishing they could tear his mouth apart.
Chongzhen continued, "Eight businesses colluded with the Jiannu bandits and created a massacre at the foot of the capital, which had an extremely bad impact. The Jinyiwei immediately confiscated all the property of the eight businesses, half of which was sent to the Ministry of Revenue and half to the Imperial Treasury. The rest of the people, the men were executed by slow slicing, and the women were sent to the three camps to reward the three armies."
"Shen Weibing, Dang Chongya is suspected of colluding with bandits and embezzling money. He is now being investigated by the Royal Guards. Remember, no torture is allowed."
Upon seeing this, the ministers who had wanted to raise objections fell silent.
Without the Imperial Prison, the Jinyiwei are nothing!
Although Li Ruolian was reluctant, he could only kneel down and accept the order with a helpless look on his face.
"Draft an imperial decree to abolish the three taxes, never increase taxes, and exempt the entire country from land taxes for one year."
"One last thing. There are bandits and Jiannu spies in the capital. From today on, the entire city of Beijing is under martial law. Except for those who are trafficking in military supplies, food, and vegetables, no one else is allowed to leave the capital."
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