It was very late at night, the shadows of the trees outside the window were whirling, and the lights inside the house were shining brightly.
Zhu Yunxi sat behind his desk, frowning and looking at his hands as he reviewed the confessions of Hangzhou officials.
If you really want to find out something, you can do it in just a moment. If you are a superior person, if you really want to understand something deeply and solve something, you can do it in just a thought.
The officials involved in the case in Hangzhou, with the addition of Jin Yiwei, knew everything about it, and even tried to make excuses for their crimes.
The case of framing the Zhao family involved a total of 27 officials, big and small, from the magistrate of Hangzhou, to 40 staff, and countless servants. During this period, not only were there people who were promising, but they were just covering up illegal crimes, corruption and corruption for personal gain were everywhere. Now what Zhu Yunxi saw was just one
For a small part, a newly written confession was delivered to the desk every half an hour.
"Be afraid of truth in everything!" Zhu Yunxi said to himself as he read through it, "You won't know if you don't check, but you will be shocked if you check. Hangzhou is just a corner of the world, but what happens can also represent the world's officialdom!"
Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi felt very tired.
No wonder the ancients said that it is rare to be confused. If you don't turn a blind eye to some things, you will really have trouble getting through it. If you are not confused, you will be angry to death.
Putting down his hand to confess, Zhu Yunxi rubbed his forehead tiredly.
Where there are people, there are interests, and where there are interests, there is privacy. This is never the case in ancient and modern times. A perfect world does not exist. Those in power can only selectively let go of some innocuous things and grasp the root cause. Frequently beat them.
Alarm bell, just look at who doesn’t have a good eye.
"I wanted to kill a tiger, but I found a swarm of flies!"
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Zhu Yunxi looked at the confessions again, with a wry smile on his face.
However, the wry smile soon turned into seriousness.
Flies are more harmful than tigers. There are billions of people in the world, but how many tigers are there? Tigers hide in the woods, while flies fly all over the sky, looking for corrupt things.
Besides, although tigers are ferocious, they do not carry diseases! Flies, on the other hand, can cause epidemics and kill people from infection!
Tigers are easy to catch, but flies are hard to swat!
"Hey!" Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi's eyes were fixed.
"Sun is not guilty of the case, and his accomplice Zhang Heyu is the son of a tyrant in Tonglu County. The Tonglu Zhang family has stood firm in Tonglu County for twenty years. They privately opened gambling houses and brothels, got involved in mines and water transportation, bullied the tyrants, and raised captive thugs to cause trouble. The people have suffered for a long time.
, but there is no way to sue.”
"The Zhang family's in-laws are all local officials, and their relationships are intricately connected. They have robbed countless properties in the past twenty years. Everyone in the county knows that their family has a bad reputation!"
"Twenty years?"
Zhu Yunxi snorted coldly and shook his head.
"After twenty years of causing trouble, everyone in the county has a bad reputation. Those who wear crotchless pants, those who sweep the streets, those who pour night fragrance into toilets, and those who sell steamed buns all know that the Zhang family is a bully! Doesn't the government know?" Zhu Yunxi took the confession, under the light.
His face was a little ferocious, "In twenty years, any official can crush them to death, but you don't know? The world is really big, and there are all kinds of surprises!"
Thinking of this, he shouted outside, "Here comes someone!"
"Your Highness!" Zhang Fu, dressed in iron armor, came in from outside.
"Are you on night watch?" Zhu Yunxi asked, writing the handwriting in a swipe of his hand.
"I am on duty tonight!" After Zhang Fu finished speaking, he looked at Zhu Yunxi's face and said hesitantly, "I shouldn't say much, but there are many dirty things in the world and few good ones. Your Highness is not worthy of being angry, so be careful with your health.
important!"
Zhu Yunxi smiled and said, "Your heart is so lonely!" He said, pushing the hand over the hand, "Give it to He Guangyi and ask him to lead troops to Tonglu tomorrow to capture the Zhang family and the Tonglu County magistrate to Hangzhou!"
"According to the order!" Zhang Fu took the order and went out.
At this time, Wang Shai's voice came from outside, "Who is it? This shocked the entire family!"
After the words fell, the door was pushed open. Wang Shai came in with a bowl of steaming pearl white jade soup and said with a smile, "Your Highness, please use some! You haven't eaten all day, what's the big deal?"
The Pearl White Jade Soup is just like a noodle soup. The noodles as big as your fingers are soaked in the thick soup, like pearls.
"Put it down!" Zhu Yunxi whispered, "What were you shouting outside just now?"
"This servant just came to His Highness with soup. In the dark, he didn't see clearly that there was a person kneeling next to him, and he almost stepped on him!"
Zhu Yunxi gently stirred the pimple soup with a spoon, frowned and said, "Let him in!"
The person kneeling outside was none other than Li Anqing, Chief Secretary of Zhejiang Province.
Wang Shai walked outside, "Then who is kneeling, come in?"
"Thank you so much, father-in-law!" Li Anqing felt as if he had been granted amnesty. He said nothing else after entering the house and knelt down to kowtow.
"Kowtow more and talk less, isn't it your magic weapon for being an official?" Zhu Yunxi asked softly while taking a sip of soup.
Li Anqing raised his head, with tears streaming down his face, "Your Highness, I am guilty! I deserve to die for my crime! In the knocking case, I was negligent and guilty of dereliction of duty!"
"Crime of dereliction of duty? You're the one who says it lightly!" Zhu Yunxi didn't look at him and said while eating, "In addition to dereliction of duty, you also have the crime of being lax in your duties. Hangzhou Prefecture is also the seat of your vassal. Look at Hangzhou
What do the officials look like?"
"I am guilty!" Li Anqing kowtowed again and again.
"In addition to these, you are also guilty of nepotism and blindness!" Zhu Yunxi put down the spoon and wiped his mouth, "The Zhuangzi of the Zhao family can't even enter your domain's Yamen. Do you know why? The staff beside you is called Gong Cheng.
, is Sun Xuanzhong’s in-law, so I stopped him immediately! How did you become the governor of this province? You have a black eye in the Yamen?"
"I'm stupid! I'm stupid! I'm guilty!" Li Anqing kept kowtowing, "I was also deceived by villains..."
"Shut up!" Zhu Yunxi scolded, "Up to now, you are still saying these evasive words! If it were normal..."
As he spoke, Zhu Yunxi felt that he was playing the piano to an ox. He looked at the kneeling Li Anqing and continued, "Are you a Jinshi in the third year of Hongwu?"
"I am the third in class A of Hongwu Three Years!" Li Anqing said.
"Is your tutor Zhan Tong, the Grand Scholar of the Imperial Academy and Imperial College of the Imperial Academy?" Zhu Yunxi asked again.
"I have betrayed the divine grace, and I am guilty." Li Anqing said in horror, "Your Highness, I am not as guilty as the teacher!"
"You still have a conscience and know not to involve your teacher!" Zhu Yunxi sneered, "I don't want to involve Zhan Tong (Zhan Tong), but I think of something about you and him." He said, smiling.
He smiled and continued, "I heard that you wrote a poem at his house. Now you can explain it to me!"
Li Anqing didn't know why, and his face was blank.
"In an official career, you need precise workmanship, long-term trust in capital, and long-lasting respect in carbon!"
“Don’t talk about politics and try to be a hero, just be polite and courteous!”
"The minister is taking care of the economy, don't show off your extraordinary achievements, don't talk about loyalty!"
"Everything about human affairs is hazy, there is no point in refuting, and there is no courage in discussing!"
"You wrote this, right? What do you mean by telling me?"
After Banque finished speaking, Li Anqing almost fainted and was inexplicably horrified.
"This is, I'm drunk and talking nonsense!"
"Speak the truth after drinking!" Zhu Yunxi sighed and said, "The Jinyi Guard reported that this is what you said at the farewell banquet of Zhan's house before you were transferred to Zhejiang Chief Secretary." He said, looking at the other party, "Watch what he said.
Look at the person!"
"You are a high-ranking official of the third rank in the administration of a province, and it is also a major financial and taxation center in the south of the Yangtze River. This shows the great favor of the emperor. But what about you? You don't think about serving the country, but you think about how to work hard, frequent contacts with teachers in the capital, and send a lot of charcoal to show your filial piety. Do.
Officials should kowtow more, talk less, and practice mediocrity." As he spoke, Zhu Yunxi slammed the table, "Is this your attitude as a second-ranked scholar when you are an official?"
"I..." Li Anqing was already trembling, "I am guilty of betraying the grace of the saint and the great grandson of the Emperor!"
"Why did you bear the burden of being an orphan? When you were the chief minister, I was not a great-grandson!" Zhu Yunxi looked at him sideways and continued, "Shangque alone can still tolerate you. You scholars are wise to protect yourself and speculate. But your lower half
Que, what does it mean?”
"If nothing happens, the years will be prosperous, the national fortune will be prosperous, and the official fortune will be smooth?"
"You mean peace means peace in the world? Only when the country is prosperous and the official career is prosperous?" Zhu Yunxi raised his feet and said sarcastically, "How can the world be peaceful? You pray for peace every day. If something goes wrong, press it down quickly. Don't let the top
Do you know? If the superiors don’t know, they will think that you are doing your best to get promoted and make a fortune, right?”
"When you get promoted and make a fortune, you will be able to live in the Three Gongs without any trouble, and your wife will be honored and honored, Ziyinlang, right?"
"In the past two years, how many things have you done in office? What has been good at the top has been effective at the bottom. It is your style of doing less than doing too much, and being ignorant and bent on making progress through business speculation, that has led to the corruption of officialdom in Zhejiang.
in this way!"
"If you are an official and dare to do your job, you don't want to be like these flies and dogs, don't want to press down, don't want to hide something, report good news but not bad news! How can the Sun family in Hangzhou be so heartless? Just now, Gu even looked at the Zhang family in Tonglu.
, you have dominated one side for twenty years. The local officials also learned from you, it is better to do less than to do more!"
"I am ignorant and incompetent!" Li Anqing kowtowed and apologized repeatedly, speaking incoherently, "I never expected this!"
"You are not incompetent, but you have a wrong heart!" Zhu Yunxi said again, "You can say you don't know, but the root of these bad things in Jiangsu and Zhejiang lies with you, the chief minister!"
"Get out of here first! Gu's book has been sent to the capital as soon as possible. Just listen to me at home!"
Being incompetent is not a sin, but deliberately pretending to be incompetent is a sin. It is also a sin to whitewash the peace and cover up the wrong things.
In the future Ming Dynasty, accountability and punishment will be pursued. If a lower official commits a crime without the superior knowing about it, he will still be punished. In this way, we can reduce the number of officials like Li Anqing who have to suppress and conceal anything.
Li Anqing was taken down by the guards and kept under good supervision.
In fact, now, Zhu Yunxi can take off his official clothes and throw him into prison with just one sentence. But when it comes to a provincial official, he still feels that it is better to report his feelings to the old man first.
After driving away Li Anqing, Zhu Yunxi looked at the confession again.
But suddenly, I couldn't stand it anymore.
I have a question in mind, how did Sun Xiaozhong manage to win over so many people to help him?
"Come here! Show off!"
This chapter has been completed!