Ming Dynasty: I risked my life to teach the prince, the emperor begged me not to die

Chapter 98 Something happened

An hour later, the Minister of Justice came out of the Qianqing Palace and came to Wang Yue's residence again. However, there were several Jinyiwei Tiqi wearing Feiyu costumes beside him.

Watching Mou Bin taking Wang Yue away, Bai Ang's mouth twitched slightly.

If this matter gets out, how can the three judicial departments still have face? For such a big case, they actually let the Royal Guards arrest people? How can this be justified?
Tomorrow the civil servants will certainly have to argue with Emperor Hongzhi. I wonder what the emperor thinks.

It was late at night, and the case could not be tried today, so they could only wait until tomorrow. Bai Ang signaled all his subordinates in the Ministry of Justice to go back and rest.

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In Huaihua Hutong, Chen Ce blew out the lights and was just about to go to sleep when there was a knock on the door.

Chen Ce had no choice but to get up again. He looked sideways and saw that the light of Mrs. Wu's house next door was also lit.

When Chen Ce opened the door, he was a little surprised to see Li Zhen, the deputy governor of the Northern Guards. He asked in confusion, "Master Li, it's so late, is there something wrong?"

Li Zhen cut to the chase and said to Chen Ce, "We only have one night left. General Wang has been arrested and is in the Jinyiwei prison. He asked me to come look for you."

Chen Ce was stunned for a moment, and said to Li Zhen, "I'll go put on some clothes and come right back."

When Chen Ce came out again, Madam Wu asked, "Mr. Chen, do you need help?"

Chen Ce nodded to Madam Wu in gratitude and said, "It's okay, I'll go to the Jinyiwei."

"Oh." Madam Wu nodded.

Chen Ce and Li Zhen quickly rushed to the Northern Pacification Office. On the way, Chen Ce asked Li Zhen the reason, but Li Zhen said that their Jinyiwei had no involvement in such matters.

Why couldn't a third-rank Jinyiwei get involved?

Chen Ce frowned even deeper and followed Li Zhen all the way into the imperial prison.

The prison was clean and tidy, and no one from the Jinyiwei made things difficult for Wang Yue.

Wang Yue was still sitting on the straw mat with an expressionless face as usual. Li Zhen symbolically opened the prison door, then left on his own accord, taking all the jailers away, leaving Chen Ce and Wang Yue alone.

That was all he could do.

"Old man, to cut a long story short, what's the matter?"

Wang Yue held his hands down, with a kind smile on his face, and comforted Chen Ce: "Chun Jian, don't worry, the sky won't fall."

"I have trained a small number of spies in the northwest, only about a hundred. They are all good talents. I carefully selected them and they are absolutely loyal."

Do you still have time to talk about this at this time?

"If anything happens to me in the future, you will help me take care of these people until you can find a general you absolutely trust and hand them over to him."

Chen Ce hurriedly asked: "What happened?"

Wang Yue smiled and said, "Promise me, okay? These spies are very important."

Chen Ce nodded and said, "Okay! I agree."

Wang Yue then smiled calmly, and then said to Chen Ce: "As you expected, something happened in the northwest. The eunuch Zhang Xian committed suicide out of fear of punishment. He submitted his last words and a new list of meritorious personnel, which overturned the number of people I reported before. It was more than ten times less."

After Chen Ce pondered for a moment, he quickly said, "Has he been threatened? Find someone to check on his family!"

Wang Yue smiled and said, "Great! The logic is still so clear at this time."

However, Wang Yue shook his head and said, "If they can do this, they can silence the other party's family."

Chen Ce said: "This further proves that this matter is strange!"

Wang Yue continued, "You know that military achievements must be reported after the ear is cut off, and the eunuchs in charge and the governor-general will check together, so there can be no mistakes in any step."

"The evidence of the 42 Tatar heads is correct. After checking, they found that the cut ears belonged to Han people, not Tatars. They used this to accuse me of deceiving the emperor and killing innocent people for credit." "In the battle of Helan Mountain, we lost more than 900 people and more than 1,300 Tatars died. According to the Ministry of War, the enemy lost no more than 100 people at most. Although we occupied Helan Mountain, they said it was not a great victory, but a great defeat."

Chen Ce clenched his fist in indignation: "What a far-fetched argument! How can you be so shameless?!"

"That batch of evidence was well stored in Hami, how could it be replaced? Who has the authority to do this?"

Wang Yue sighed and said, "My student. The soldiers in the northwest know that the Minister of Personnel is my student, so their vigilance will naturally be weakened. He went to the northwest with the Censorate a few days ago."

Chen Ce said angrily, "You knew that he might have problems, but you kept those spies, didn't you? Why didn't you let them monitor the Minister of Personnel and the Censorate?"

"And the soldiers in Hami, why didn't you send a letter to them in advance to let them take precautions?"

Wang Yue waved his hand and said to Chen Ce: "Boy, you are anxious, don't be anxious, you need to be calm when encountering things."

"Since I entered the capital, my every move has been watched. Do you think I can send anything out of the capital?"

"After I catch you, how am I supposed to explain it?"

Chen Ce's breathing was a little rapid and his mind was working quickly.

Wang Yue patted Chen Ce on the shoulder and said, "Sit down and talk."

"If I'm not mistaken, a group of people will die inexplicably somewhere in the Ming territory in the past two months."

Chen Ce was horrified, and his eyes were filled with anger: "You said they slaughtered more than a thousand civilians! Used their ears to replace the Hami group? The purpose... is to overturn all the data you reported to the court? To prove that you killed innocent people and took credit for it?"

"brute!"

"You talk a lot about morality, but you are worse than a bunch of animals... cough cough cough!"

Because of anger, Chen Ce started coughing violently, and a deep, sickly flush appeared on his handsome cheeks!
Wang Yue hurriedly patted him on the back and said, "Boy, I'm not excited at all, so why are you so excited?"

Chen Ce said hastily: "I'm afraid you'll die!"

Wang Yue smiled with satisfaction, "I told you that my judgment will not be wrong this time!"

"Ha ha!"

You can still laugh?!
Wang Yue said softly, "Chun Jian, calm down first and talk slowly. It's not important. It's not important. Your illness is the most important."

"Where is your old composure?"

"You can rest assured that this matter will not involve you, but the complexity of this matter is not something you can handle."

"It involves too many people and things. It's a big case mixed with small cases. It won't be cleared up in a short time."

"What I want to say is, just in case, just in case..."

Chen Ce pressed his hands and said, "Nothing can happen! Hami can't live without you!"

"Old man, I have already thought of a way out for you."

Wang Yue was stunned for a moment, looked at Chen Ce in astonishment, and asked, "What?"

Chen Ce's face flashed with ruthlessness, and he said sternly: "If it really comes to that moment you mentioned, switch it off!"

"Let the Tatars and Turpans in!"

Wang Yue's heart was beating fast. He stared at Chen Ce blankly and said, "You! Don't talk nonsense!"

"I'm not talking nonsense! If this passage to the northwest is opened..."

"Don't say any more!" Wang Yue shouted in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)