Chapter 36 Discussion on Gong
Two days later, the Ministry of Criminal Justice's final judgment on those gangsters was implemented. Perhaps because of the pressure of the Wu family and the Miao family, or because of the solid evidence of the crimes presented by the Gyeonggi government, the people of the Ministry of Criminal Justice could not imagine even if they wanted to help. In the end, these gangsters were convicted of a felony.
The jade leopard of the Black Panther Gang and a group of its cronies are naturally desperate to die, and the heads of other gangs such as Deng Feihu are also dead ends this time. They will all suffer the nightmare with a repeat offender in the world during the autumn decision. Other gangs have also been punished as they deserve. They are either imprisoned or assigned, or more seriously assigned to several mines as mining slaves. In this way, there will be a long and difficult road waiting for them.
The conviction and punishment has been convicted and punished, so the reward can no longer wait any longer. At dusk on the ninth day of the first lunar month, an official of the Tongzheng Yuan came to Xu Jinghong's residence and gave him a good news: "At the 11th Dynasty meeting, General Xu is also invited to wait outside the palace at that time, and the court will arrange your new position."
Once the news was known to the brothers, everyone was delighted. They have been here for a month, but they have been uncivilized and official, which is very uncomfortable. Now Xu Jinghong is finally about to be officially appointed by the imperial court, which is naturally great news for them. Xu Jinghong's reaction was very flat. He could guess some clues of the development of the matter from several encounters the day before yesterday, and he also believed that the court would not deal with this matter silently.
Waiting for a day, before July 11th, with the melodious sound of bells and drums, Xu Jinghong put on the road to the palace in the southwest uniform. In this dynasty, which is once every ten days, the number of participants is very large, and he wanders among these Beijing officials in various official uniforms, which is very inconspicuous.
And before and after the palace gate, he waited outside with many low-level officials. Although it is a dynasty, it is impossible for thousands of officials in Beijing to enter the hall. Only those low-level officials who are above the fourth grade or who will call on the court can enter this magnificent building and participate in this ten-day national event.
Beyond this solemn palace wall, even if they know that the imperial power is now greatly weakened, officials still dare not do anything presumptuous. They stood upright one by one, looking at their eyes and nose, and their nose, and seemed to have become fixed Taoist monks. Xu Jinghong couldn't help but be a little nervous in such an environment, which reminded him of the performance of his classmates when he was in the police academy in his previous life. After thousands of years, no matter how the dynasty changes, this bureaucratic style will never change.
At this time, the monarchs and ministers in the Zhongji Hall are discussing some state affairs. For example, in the past few months, the area of northwest Shaanxi has been dry, and disasters have appeared, and the court needs to allocate money for food relief. For example, there is another disturbance of sea pirates in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is necessary to use the army there to encircle and suppress it. Everything and so on is for the Song court to develop more smoothly, but Zhao Zhe, the lord of the Song Dynasty, can't really make a decision. The only thing he can do is that when the ministers discuss a countermeasure, he nods and makes a decision, which is no different from the controlled puppet.
After the court meeting lasted for more than half an hour and made a decision on big and small affairs, the emperor put his eyes on the face of a minister behind the ministers and nodded slightly to him. The minister is one of the few credible people of the emperor in the court. Now when he sees that the emperor sends a signal to himself, he steps out of the class and shouts, "Your Majesty, I have something to do!"
"Luo Qing, but it's okay to say it!" Without waiting for others to react, the emperor agreed first. In this way, even if some officials want to say anything else, they have to let Luo Hui finish speaking first.
"Your Majesty, I heard that something big has happened in the capital this time. Some small thieves who have been harming the people for a long time have been captured, and the Ministry of Criminal Justice has also set a punishment according to the crimes they have committed. This is indeed an encouraging thing for the country and the people, but there is one thing that the minister is unclear, that is, Xu Jinghong, the hero who led these young people to capture alive, has never been praised by the court, which is really unfair. Therefore, today I dare to ask Your Majesty and all of you to give him an appropriate reward according to the merits made by this person to show the majesty of our Song court!" Luo Hui said everything he had to say in one breath, and then glanced at all the officials present and waited for their response.
These officials were stunned, and then their faces were different. Among the seven people, the forces of Lu, Ye, Chu and Cui were silent and obviously did not want to get involved in this matter. However, the people of the Xu and Wu families were a little ready to move. Needless to say, Xu Zhengnian had already greeted people and wanted to help Xu Jinghong come forward, but the Wu family did not know what the reason they had. What kind of thoughts. As for the Fang family, of course, they have to oppose it. Their feud with Xu Jinghong can no longer be changed. Naturally, they don't want him to get ahead one day.
But before these people came out to talk, someone more anxious than them came out: "Lord Luo's words are bad. This time, it was not someone's work to calm down the underworld, but the soldiers of my patrol camp and the cooperation of the Gyeonggi government. It has nothing to do with the yellow-haired boy named Xu Jinghong.
Everyone looked at it, but Gongsun Yuan, the head of the Gongsun family, was saying this. At the same time, Zhan Tao, the owner of the Zhan family who walked out of the train with him, also said, "Yes, this matter can be done. The court should indeed reward those who have made contributions, but it must not reward one person and forget other people who have made contributions. I even suspected that the man named Xu Jinghong had no help in this matter at all. Everyone thinks that this son is just a smelly young man. May I ask what ability can such a teenager do to make such a great achievement?
"This..." The hall suddenly opened the pot, and many officials who had a close relationship with various families echoed one after another, saying that Xu Jinghong had no credit at all in this matter, and everything was faked by people with ulterior motives. In fact, after the crimes of the gangsters were determined in the past two days, they had already thought that someone would ask for this work for Xu Jinghong. Xu Jinghong, the culprit who has lost many benefits and external strength to this, naturally, these big families can't be killed quickly. But because it is not the right time, they only have to be patient for a while, but in any case, they can't really give him this opportunity to stand out, otherwise it will be too difficult to deal with him again. That's why today's people want to completely erase Xu Jinghong's credit.
And after these people said a lot, a more powerful person also joined their camp, which is Fang Yuanshan. He also agreed and said, "What the adults said is indeed an old plan for the country. Some people want to steal credit and status because of good luck or promotion. This really shouldn't appear in my court of the Song Dynasty!"
Hearing him say this awe-inspiringly, Zhao Zhe, who was sitting high on it, really felt a little sad. How many of these people have done this kind of thing, and now how can there be such an excuse (this is also a river crab?) People who are truly meritorious are really black and white, and their hearts can be killed. But the emperor was also difficult to refute for a moment, and he could not really confront the Fang family and other families, otherwise he would expose himself.
At this time, an old voice sounded: "Hey, I really want to add guilt. Why are you speechless!" Whether a person has merit or not is not something that you and I can decide casually, but should be judged according to the facts. Those gangsters have been at large for more than ten years, but this time they were all arrested because of Xu Jinghong's intervention. Doesn't this alone show that this credit is inextricably related to him? It was Xu Zhengnian who spoke. Seeing these guys talking nonsense, the old marquis finally couldn't help retorting.
The old marquis's prestige is still not small, and this sentence made the officials in the hall immediately stop talking. Their strong words are so unreasonable in the face of the facts. After seeing that they were speechless, Xu Zhengnian continued: "And Xu Jinghong is not what you call a yellow-mouthed child. He has no ability at all! Don't forget how he came to the capital, because he made great contributions in the process of fighting with the barbarians in the southwest, and even the Black Mountain Cliff was taken down by him, so he was listed as the first credit of the generals by Wang Chong. May I ask, isn't it a matter for such a capable man to fight against a group of Xiaoxiao after coming to the capital?
Everyone was silent again, and finally Gongsun Yuan replied: "Although the old marquis's statement is not unreasonable, it cannot be ruled out that all of this is false. Maybe Xu Jinghong will make these so-called contributions because of his special status and the help of nobles? He deliberately aggravated Xu's character, identity and credit, which obviously meant something.
Such a provocative attitude made Xu Wanyou and other members of the Xu family very angry. They were about to come out to argue with each other, but they were stopped by Xu Zhengnian with his eyes: "What Lord Gongsun said is not unreasonable, but I think this matter will be known soon. It is to call Xu Jinghong into the hall, and you can test him. If he has real talent and practical learning, these achievements will naturally be his, and the court should reward him for his achievements. And if he really has no ability, he should be punished for a crime of deceiving the court. I don't know what you think?"
Naturally, other people have no reason to object, and they all nodded and said yes. Naturally, the emperor would not miss this opportunity and immediately said, "In this case, let Xu Jinghong enter the hall. I also want to see what ability this teenager has to make great achievements in the southwest, and raise his hand to solve my problem!"