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The next morning, it happened to be a three-day meeting. After emperor ningzong sat down on the Dragon chair, eunuch Wang Gonggong, the chief eunuch, came forward and said, "ministers, if you have something to play early, you have nothing to leave the court."

Wang Gonggong's voice just fell, Li Zhixiao came out, knelt down on the ground, said: "Your Majesty, I have something to play."

Ningzong emperor said: "Li Aiqing, flat body, what's the matter, play."

"As far as I know, Lord Chen Wenduan, Minister of the Ministry of punishment, accepted bribes privately during his investigation in Huaixi. As a right counsellor, I don't want to play." Li Zhixiao played.

Emperor ningzong asked, "do you have evidence, Li Aiqing?"

"Well, not at present. It's just that Wei Chen, as a right counsellor, can be heard of." Li Zhixiao said.

At this time, Shi Miyuan also stood out from the class, knelt down on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to say."

"Prime minister, why don't you come here?" Emperor ningzong asked.

Shi Miyuan said: "Weichen also heard the following officials say that when Lord Chen was investigating the case in Huaixi, he was very close to Yue Zhongyong, the commander of the loyal army. He said that when Lord Chen was leaving, marshal Yue also gave him many gifts. The commander of the garrison and his courtiers mixed with each other, but it violated the ancestral system of the great song dynasty."

When Emperor ningzong heard this, he thought, "one of these Chen Wenduan is an important official in the court, the other is a commander in chief stationed at the border with heavy troops. Their parents were very famous in the court before they died. Their students and old troops are all over the world. If these two people really collude with each other like Shi Miyuan said, it would be very bad."

Thinking of this, Emperor ningzong asked, "Mr. Chen, what do you think of what Li Aiqing and Shi Aiqing said just now?"

Standing in the class, Chen Wenduan was very angry when he heard that Li Zhixiao and Shi Miyuan were attacking him in unison. So he heard emperor ningzong ask him, and immediately went out of class, knelt down on the ground, and said: "what the prime minister, Mr. Shi, and the right counsellor, Mr. Li, said just now are all groundless slanders. I would like to ask the emperor to make a detailed investigation. In addition, I would like to ask him to make a thorough investigation If you want to tell the emperor the details of this investigation in Huaixi. "

"Today, you will play this matter in front of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty." Ningzong emperor road.

So Chen Wenduan played a detailed report to Emperor ningzong about his investigation in Huaixi during this period.

As soon as Chen Wenduan finished speaking, Shi Miyuan immediately said to Emperor ningzong, "my Lord, Mr. Chen is totally framed. How dare I detain the discount made by the commander of the next garrison? As for the deduction of military pay, it's even more impossible. The military pay of the Huaixi Garrison has always been paid in full and has never been in arrears."

Emperor ningzong said: "prime minister, don't worry, I will make the decision for you."

Then the emperor ningzong said to Chen Wenduan, "Chen Aiqing, you said that the commander of huaixitun army had a memorial to report the famine, but he was detained by the prime minister and didn't submit it to me. But the prime minister said that there was no such thing at all. Now you two hold your own opinions. What do you say?"

"When the memorial is sent to the emperor's office, you can find out if there are any records, and then you can send them to the emperor's office."

Before emperor ningzong could reply to the prince, Li Yuanyi, Minister of rites, said: "for the sake of fairness, I think it's up to Mr. Chen of the Ministry of punishment to send the officials of the Ministry of punishment to the Tongjin department to supervise and inquire. Except for the personnel of the Ministry of punishment who are sent to the political hall, all the adults of this morning's court are on the golden hall and can't leave."

"Well, the suggestions of the prince and Li Aiqing are very good. Let's do this. Let's send someone from the Ministry of punishment. I and you Aiqing are waiting for the result." Said emperor Zong.

After hearing the will of emperor ningzong, Chen Wenduan immediately sent two ministers of the Ministry of punishment and four principals of the Ministry of punishment to the Tongjin department to investigate the matter.

After about two hours, only four principal officials of the Ministry of punishment and two ministers of the Ministry of punishment returned to the golden hall.

Emperor ningzong asked what the result was. One of the ministers of the Ministry of punishment went up to the prelude and said, "my Lord, it is true that there is a memorial for reporting famine in the Huaixi Tun army, but the three officials in charge of the memorial management have poisoned themselves and left a last word saying that they forgot to play the memorial to the imperial court because of their own negligence. Afterwards, because they were afraid of being punished, they built the memorial Today, I saw the officials of the Ministry of punishment come to inquire about this matter. Knowing that the secret has been revealed, I committed suicide together to thank the Lord. "

"It's really audacious. The officials of Tongjin Department dare to detain him without permission. It's a big crime of treason. We should punish the nine nationalities." After hearing this, Emperor ningzong clapped the table and cheered loudly.

Seeing that emperor ningzong Longyan was very angry, Shi Miyuan quickly came forward and knelt down on the ground, saying: "holy, this Tongjin division is the place where the old minister is responsible. Today, there was such a big mistake. The old minister was guilty, the old minister was guilty......"

Seeing Shi Miyuan, the prince fell to his knees in fright. He seemed to be gloating and said, "prime minister Shi, don't avoid the heavy and take the light. Your responsibility is not just dereliction of duty. Without your instigation, the officials under the general secretary dare to detain the holy one privately, which is not believed by three-year-old children."Shi Miyuan thought to himself, "anyway, several officials who have done this thing have already committed suicide by taking poison. If they don't have a witness, they will die and won't admit it. There's no way for anyone to take me."

Thinking of this, he played to Emperor ningzong with a cry: "you know, my Lord, I have absolutely no two hearts for you. I really didn't ask my subordinate officials to do this memorial thing. I dare not even borrow my ten courage. I hope the emperor can observe it clearly."

"What do you dare not do? Don't pretend to be innocent here." The prince said to Shi Miyuan.

Emperor ningzong looked very ugly when he saw that it was fried into a pot of porridge. He said, "I don't think you are fuel-efficient. Prime minister, I think you are responsible for the memorial of the Huaixi Tun army. No matter how you are prime minister, you will be punished for one year and your Prime Minister will be removed, but you will still be the prime minister. If you have any merit in the future, Then I'll resume your post as prime minister. As for the four officials involved, if they have already been convicted and died, they will not be held responsible for their families any more. "