While they were wandering around talking about love and crimes, there was unrest in the capital.
On the second day after Emperor Ming Yan left, a memorial from the Fourth Prince was delivered from the capital at an express speed of eight hundred miles.
The people of Guizhou sued the governor of Guizhou, Li Hua, for favoritism and abuse of power, and his son Li Qing for seizing land and killing people.
Who is this Li Hua?
He was the cousin of the late Queen, Queen Li, the Crown Prince's biological mother. Logically speaking, the Crown Prince should call him uncle.
After Empress Li died, Emperor Mingyan was sentimental and showed some favors to the Li family. However, because he had just ascended the throne at that time, there was not much he could do. After that, not many descendants of the Li family became successful, and they gradually became inconspicuous in the capital. The more successful member of the family was this cousin.
Li Hua held the title of a fifth-rank county baron, and before he was sent out, he had a very good relationship with the prince.
In this case, the evidence is solid. It was Li Hua's son Li Qing. His wife's family had a tea plantation business, but a local tea merchant named Liu accidentally discovered a new tea, and his business far surpassed theirs.
Li Qing brought people to buy the land of these tea farmers. The tea farmers knew that they could make money from the new tea, so they naturally refused to sell it.
Afterwards, a conflict arose and a tea farmer was beaten to death. Li Qing's people wanted to suppress the matter with money, but the other party refused and went to the county government to file a complaint.
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Then came the common story of officials protecting one another. The family filed a lawsuit all the way up the chain. Some were tortured to death, some were beaten to death secretly. In the end, only the old mother and little grandson were left. But they were very stubborn and filed a lawsuit all the way up the chain.
Of course, if the Fourth Prince had not known about it and sent people to protect them secretly in advance, the grandparents and grandchildren would not have survived.
That's the case.
It should have been handed over to the Dali Temple for handling, but for some reason it ended up in the Ministry of Justice.
In fact, the Fourth Prince knew that he shouldn't use such methods to deal with the Crown Prince. This would remind Emperor Ming Yan of the methods used by the Lin Party and the Jin Party before. Even if he was dissatisfied with the Crown Prince, he would also be dissatisfied with him for submitting the case.
But now that he is the assistant director of the Ministry of Justice, he can only use this method.
The key point is that this case is true, it couldn't be more true. He only protected the grandparents and grandchildren and brought them to the Ministry of Justice, and did nothing else.
Precisely because it was true, after it was handed over, the prince was in a dilemma.
To avoid suspicion, Li Hua can be said to be the only remaining relative of the prince's deceased mother.
It is precisely because she is the biological mother and has passed away that it is so difficult. Even if she is the queen's relative, there is no need to be so embarrassed.
But if he intervenes, the situation will be serious. Once he takes action, several officials will be removed from their posts. However, these officials are just doing this for his sake.
No matter how you handle it, it's not right. It must be very painful.
The memorial was sent urgently over a distance of 800 miles, and then returned urgently over another 800 miles.
When the Fourth Prince opened the memorial, the corners of his mouth were curved, and the next moment, he opened his eyes wide in disbelief.
The memorial was clearly written in the prince's handwriting! ! ?
The fourth prince looked at it several times in disbelief, muttering, "What's going on?"
Long-servant Lu Qing bowed his head and said, "I have inquired about it. Since entering the temporary palace, the emperor has spent most of his time in the Changle Palace of the little prince, and all memorials are handled by the crown prince."
The fourth prince was stunned: "All of them?"
"It is said that it is."
The fourth prince was stunned for a long time, then opened the memorial again. On it, the crown prince wrote in his handwriting: "Investigate and deal with it according to the law. The Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate shall review it."
In other words, the matter will be handed over to the Ministry of Justice for investigation and to give its opinion on how to deal with it. It only needs to inform the Dali Temple and the Censorate of the result.
The Crown Prince gave instructions. He did not ask him to transfer the case to the Dali Temple, nor did he ask the three courts to try it together. He just treated it as an ordinary case of a citizen suing an official. He calmly ordered him to try the case. Then, because he was suing an assassin, he had to inform the Dali Temple and the Censorate of the result.
The fourth prince broke open the line of words, crumpled them up, and read them carefully.
If the prince wants to distance himself from the matter, he should at least say something, for example, saying that the matter is of a serious nature and the punishment should be severe, or saying that I am not aware of the matter and don't take my opinion into consideration when dealing with it, etc.
If the prince wanted to defend them, he should have said a few more words, such as saying that the dispute needed to be strictly investigated, etc., suggesting that he should give both sides thirty lashes...
But he said this very pertinently and calmly.
This really made him confused.
The Fourth Prince read this short sentence several times.
Then he was startled.
This is the tone of "Jun".
In this matter, he is in a superior and public position. This is not only aimed at this matter, but also at observing him.
But if this happens, he will be the one in trouble.
The prince had already gone to the temporary palace, and when something like this happened at this time, the prince had no time to react.
But this would mean that he, the Fourth Prince, had dealt with the family of the late Queen when the Emperor and the Crown Prince were not in the capital! He would be neither a human nor a human!
The fourth prince felt cold sweat crawling down his back in an instant, as if he had lifted a rock and dropped it on his own foot.
As usual, the prince had someone copy down the contents of the memorial and his comments, and put them aside for the important ones, waiting for Emperor Ming Yan to return and read them.
Chen Yunxin said, "Your Highness, do you really not care?"
"No matter." The prince said calmly, "You deserve to die for doing such a thing! As a member of the clan whose mother died, you don't act with caution, but take advantage of your power to bully others. As a son, I am the first one who cannot tolerate this."
Chen Yunxin immediately understood what he meant and nodded.
The prince paused and said, "Si Lang will handle this matter fairly. In this case, fairness means strictness. Si Lang is not Yue Er. Yue Er wants to be Yan Qingtian or become a wealthy man. It's all fine. If you don't have desires, you will be strong. But if Si Lang becomes Yan Qingtian... Oh, it won't be so easy to think about it."
It's not that he wants to force him, but things have come to this point and he can only go the way of Yan Qingtian.
But justice is not that easy.
Yan Shiyue is the assistant to the Ministry of Justice. She is impartial and selfless. She has enemies all over the court and almost lost her life, but she doesn't care. She has the wholehearted protection of Emperor Ming Yan... But what does the Fourth Prince have? Once he embarks on the path of Yan Qingtian, it will go against his goal! After all the hard work, he is just a "capable official"!
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At this time, in the tin painting shop in Hedao Town.
Yan Shiyue looked around and was dazzled. Although tin was not valuable, tin paintings were quite expensive, costing hundreds of taels. She suspected that the shop could not sell any of the paintings, so they gave them away as gifts.
When he turned around, he saw a portrait of a man. The man in the painting was handsome, wearing armor, and was reaching out to take the spear on the weapon rack next to him.
Yan Shiyue only felt that the painting was breathtaking. The closer he got, the more lifelike it seemed. He couldn't help but reach out and touch the portrait.
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