Emperor Zhengde

Chapter 228 We are from the East Factory, come with us
"I confess!"

"I'll explain the problem!"

"I really regret it!"

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From a porch on the right side of the front hall of the Censorate, now named the East Factory Inspectorate, bursts of crying were heard.

The censors who came and went in the Censorate felt both suspicious and curious. They didn't know what Xue Fengming had experienced in there, but they could tell from Xue Fengming's screams and cries that he must have been subjected to inhuman torture.

"What do you think the people from the East Factory are doing? And what is the Inspectorate doing?"

Censor Zhao You couldn't help but ask his colleagues in a low voice, and secretly glanced at several Dongchang Tiqi standing outside the front hall.

"Didn't I say that they are here to control all of us officials, especially us Fengxian officials? Otherwise, they wouldn't have set up the Discipline Inspection Office in our Censorate! But the East Factory is the eunuchs' lackeys. Isn't this letting the eunuchs monopolize power and control us civil servants?!"

Censor Huang Zhaodao replied.

And this time.

Yan Jing from the Dongchang Inspectorate suddenly opened the door and brought Xue Fengming out: "Detain Xue Fengming in the Class A cell temporarily! Immediately arrest the four people: Li Shi, a scholar from the Imperial Academy; Huang Fang, an editor from the Imperial Academy; Shen Tao, a deputy minister from the Ministry of Justice; and Dai Guan, a former director from the Ministry of Revenue!"

"Yes!"

The imperial guards from the East Factory Inspectorate immediately split into four groups and left.

At this time, Xue Fengming was taken to Class A.

At this time, the Dongchang Inspectorate did not wait for the consent of the Left Censor-in-Chief Hang Huai, and directly requisitioned a small courtyard behind the Censorate's porch, which was originally used for the censors to drink tea and chat, and converted all the rooms in the courtyard into classrooms.

The so-called detention cell is where criminal suspects who have not been sentenced are detained.

For people like Xue Fengming, the Censorate has not yet filed a case for his crime, and the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple have not tried him, so it is naturally impossible to directly say that he is detained in prison, but it can only be changed to "detention cell".

This was a device set up by local governments to detain innocent people, but now it was directly used by the East Factory.

Xue Fengming seemed to have aged ten years and had completely lost all his energy. He did not utter a word after being taken into the classroom.

And at this time.

Li Shi, a scholar from the Hanlin Academy, also met people from the Eastern Depot.

"Master Li, we are from the East Factory Inspectorate. You have been investigated. Please come with us to the East Factory Inspectorate. You need to explain your problem to the Emperor. Please come with us. We hope you will cooperate!"

After Zhu Houzhao reorganized the East Factory, the people in the East Factory Inspectorate were all organized and trained by military students who graduated from the Imperial University of Peking, so they have become more disciplined when arresting these civil servants.

"What are you doing? What crime have I committed?"

Li Shi couldn't help but ask loudly. "You know what you did wrong, and now you need to explain the problem. Come with us!"

Although the people from the East Depot are now trained to speak more politely, they are much stronger than the previous East Depot servants, and they behave just like regular soldiers. After they finished speaking, they took Li Shi to the East Depot Inspectorate, but Li Shi was unable to move at all.

Soon, Li Shi was also taken into the small dark room of the Inspectorate. After a while, he came out in a state of despair: "I am not a traitor, I am not a traitor!"

at the same time.

Hanlin editor Huang Fang was also brought in.

"Be honest! Don't fool me! Tell me your problem truthfully. If you don't, don't even think about leaving!"

The censors outside only heard the Dongchang people scolding inside, and they didn't hear what was said clearly, but they saw it clearly. When Huang Fang was brought out, he just cried out: "Let me die, let me die!"

Shen Tao, the Deputy Director of the Ministry of Justice, was no exception. After he came out, he looked like a wilted eggplant.

When Dai Guan, the head of the Ministry of Revenue, was escorted in, he shouted:
"I am not guilty! I am not guilty! I have nothing to confess! You are just talking nonsense! I have not let His Majesty down! I have not betrayed my king and father! I am not resigning to harm the country! I am not resigning out of will! I am resigning, I, I, you are talking nonsense, you are making excuses, you can't treat me like this, I am not a villain, I am not, I am not, woo woo!"

But what the censors outside could not have imagined was that after Dai Guan, the head of the Ministry of Revenue, was released, he immediately burst into tears and held his head.

Left Censor-in-Chief Hang Huai and other censors were so horrified when they saw these scenes that when Yan Jing, the chief eunuch of the Eastern Depot's Inspectorate, walked towards him with a smile, Hang Huai and the other censors couldn't help but feel a chill down their spines.

Yan Jing was very polite to the Left Censor-in-Chief Hang Huai, and cupped his hand: "Mr. Hang, do the people in your court have nothing to do these days? Why do they gather in front of my East Factory Inspectorate every day to watch the fun?

However, I just happened to have something to talk to you about, so I saved myself the trouble of having someone inform you. Since you have the leisure time to be here, it proves that you are also free. This is the evidence of the censor Xue Fengming's slander of court officials. It is all complete and formally delivered to your Censorate. I will ask Lord Hang to choose which censor to accept the case, and ask Lord Hang to file a case with His Majesty, and then transfer it to the Ministry of Justice for trial. From now on, our East Factory will not interfere anymore, and we can finally rest for a few days."

As he spoke, Yan Jing actually stretched himself and said:
"Oh, by coincidence, when we were investigating the case of the Censor Xue Fengming slandering court officials, we also discovered another case. This case is related to your Metropolitan Censorate. The head of the Ministry of Revenue, Dai Guan, was absent from his post. The Ministry of Revenue has sent a letter to your Metropolitan Censorate and the Ministry of Personnel. The Ministry of Personnel has already made a decision and dismissed Dai Guan from his post as a civilian and will never employ him again!
Why has your Censorate not responded at all, filed a case against him, or asked the Ministry of Justice to punish him?
Moreover, the Censor Xue Fengming also took this opportunity to impeach the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Revenue for joining forces to suppress Dai Guan. Is this what you, the Censorate, meant?
We at the East Factory don't want to ask any more questions, but these case files will also be presented to the emperor. If your Censorate doesn't make a decision on the crown issue, I'm afraid it will really be mistakenly believed that the Censorate is shielding an official who has left his post without permission, and even offend the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Revenue."

Having said that, Yan Jing had someone place a copy of the case file in front of the Left Censor-in-Chief Hang Huai.

Then, Yan Jing said, "By the way, once you open a case against Xue Fengming and Dai Guan, you can send a letter to the Ministry of Justice, and then have the Ministry of Justice come to our East Factory Inspectorate to take Xue Fengming and Dai Guan away. Their guilt is already proven, but we will only detain them for fifteen days. If you still don't open a case after fifteen days, His Majesty will question your Censorate!"

Left Censor-in-Chief Hang Huai looked at the evidence of crimes committed by Censors Xue Fengming and Dai Guan in front of him and didn't know what to say for a moment. He didn't expect that the Emperor would push his Censorate into a desperate situation and force it to file a case against Xue Fengming and Dai Guan.

This was because the evidence of the crime was right in front of him in the Censorate. If he, as the Left Censor-in-Chief, did not take any action, it would be like deserting his post, which was equivalent to knowing that someone had committed a crime but not pursuing the matter.

"Who among you is willing to take Xue Fengming's case?"

"Who among you is willing to take on Dai Guan's case?"

Hang Huai asked.

Thanks to book friend 294090690 for the reward of 100 book coins. The name of the new agency set up in the East Factory in the first two chapters was changed. You know the reason. In the past, I was always worried that letting the East Factory arrest people would interfere with judicial independence, but now I find that there is no need to worry about the establishment of this agency, because the role played by the East Factory now is actually forcing the civil servants of the Censorate to perform their duties and fulfill their responsibilities to monitor the officials and expose illegal people and illegal activities.

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