After a long while, Dong Tongying spoke: "Your Majesty, there is no proof. Only this account book is left, which cannot be checked. Please report it to Your Majesty truthfully. I believe Your Majesty will have a conclusion in his heart and will not blame the incident on Your Majesty."
Shen Zhijie breathed a sigh of relief: "Xia Guan also means the same thing. Where is Magistrate Dou?"
Dou Qushan remembered Ni Peng's instructions to obey the King of Jin in everything, and said, "My lord, what do you think?"
King Jin pondered for a long time: "Report it truthfully. Your Majesty has his own judgment in his heart, but he can only scold me a few times."
Shen Zhijie whispered: "Your Majesty, I know what you mean, but there is really nothing to check."
The King of Jin sat upright and said: "Do you think I am going to use the knife on my second son? No, I want to tell you that the king has judgment in his heart, but not in the people's heart. Now that things are boiling, a single word of death can stop everyone. mouth?"
This account book has been publicized by the tabloids for a long time and everyone knows it.
"Three million and one million taels," the King of Jin tapped his index finger on the table, "half a month ago, there were floods in three places, and people died of hunger all over the country. The national treasury was stretched thin, and there was almost no money for disaster relief. It took many efforts to get over this difficulty. Even if we allocate so much money, it won’t be enough for so many mouths to chew up and down together. Three million and one million taels, how many mouths will be fed? How many times will it be enough for us to distribute rice seeds?”
His tone became stern: "You think you can close the case if you die without any evidence. Today when you come out of the palace, you will be blocked in the street and throw rotten leaves! Although Zhang Rui has fallen, the Zhang Party has not. The Zhang family is still a giant. Greed nourishes people's hearts. A mere item of green and white salt has already reached 3.1 million taels. If you add in the iron tea case, the total amount of corruption from all walks of life is already richer than the national treasury!"
King Jin pointed to his heart: "Yes, I am indeed fighting for power, but before that, I was also a member of the Li family who was worried about the country.
The corruption of the dynasty has reached this point. If this evil trend is not suppressed this time, the trend of private salt will become more and more fierce in the future. Official salt can only raise the price again and again to fill this hole. If this continues, who can afford official salt! Can't support themselves. The people of our country have only fattened up the wolf of Xia Kingdom!"
As soon as he spoke, the four heads of those who spoke were all lowered.
Dong Tongying let out a long sigh: "Those sitting here today are all people who can keep their tongues. Since the prince has revealed his true feelings, the subordinates will be able to speak directly."
Having said this, he looked at the chief and deputy envoys of the Criminal Division.
The two envoys all lowered their heads. They did not regard themselves as outsiders and had no intention of resigning.
Dong Tongying then raised his head and continued: "Your Majesty, I am recommending you to review this case because I want you to pick it up high and put it down gently, so that you can capture the group of daring people on the business road in Dingzhou in one fell swoop. With credit, he can clear himself of suspicion,
Now that there is no evidence, it is better not to investigate than to investigate. The more serious you are in investigating, the more unpalatable you will be to your superiors.
Even though I am angry, I and King Yan are biological father and son after all, so I can only do housework. The clearer you find out, the more I understand, the more I will think that you can't tolerate your brother. If you can't find out, I will think that you can't tolerate your brother. You are deliberately trying to harm your brother."
King Jin waved his hand: "Your Majesty doesn't love my son, it doesn't mean that I can save him if I don't do this, so don't worry about him."
Dong Tongying heard that he seemed to be filled with hatred, so she could only sigh in her heart and say no more.
There are very few fathers and sons from the Tian family who are as good as today's Shang and the King of Jin.
Dou Qushan said: "Your Majesty is right. Tolerating adultery is not the right path. It still needs to be investigated. According to my opinion, I will look for clues from Dingzhou Pier and follow the places where the salt ship passes. I will investigate carefully. Anyone with this
Everyone involved in the matter has been detained and interrogated. What do you think of such a thorough investigation?"
Because the two people from the Ti Xing Division were trash certified by King Jin personally, they finally waited for this opportunity to repay their favor. Naturally, they had to work together with King Jin to become close friends. They immediately used their brains to steal all the wealth in their minds.
I came out and came up with a lot of ideas.
These two renegade old lackeys are not completely useless, and what they say makes sense.
After half an hour, King Jin stood up: "It's almost the fourth watch. Get ready to go to court. Above the court, just be impartial. Tomorrow will be cold food and three days of rest. After the Qingming Festival, there will be water in Jinming Pool again.
Hey, we can’t delay this matter, thank you all for your hard work.”
When the punishment was brought up, the second deputy envoy bowed deeply and said, "It's not hard work."
Dong Tongying and Dou Qushan laughed secretly, and both lamented that if these two people had more backbone, they would be considered talents.
"Tomorrow is cold food, we have to hurry up and prepare." Li Jun directed Lao Zhang to pick mugwort leaves, "Lao Zhang, clean it up, we can eat it ourselves."
Lao Zhang didn't hear anything and was minding his own work.
Yinxiao stood in the middle pounding glutinous rice, holding a long stick in his hand, as if holding a spear, and could sweep someone away a dozen steps at any time.
The lights of the neighbors were all on, and the noise was louder than his.
The light was on in the kitchen, and the two ladies were lighting a fire inside to cook the rice.
While Li Jun was happily smelling the aroma of grains, he went into the kitchen and took Song Huiyue out: "Follow me and fold the willow sticks."
Song Huiyue's hands were still stained with black tree sap. She went to the water tank and washed them again and again: "Going so early?"
"It's too late, don't talk about the green willow branches, the old branches can't be left. Hurry up, Xiao, stop pounding it. It will be too late if you don't go into the palace."
Li Jun dragged Song Huiyue out chatteringly, planning to fold the wicker sticks first, and then buy sugar to make sweet dumplings.
After buying sugar, he went to buy jujube cake, which is good for inserting willow sticks. Jujube cake is easy to buy. Many people make it by themselves. He also counted the green rice, cold food porridge, Qingming fruit, and moist cakes prepared at home.
The portion is enough, but the variety is too limited. When buying jujube cake, buy some steamed rice dumplings and snake plate rabbit.
He thought as he walked, but he was only halfway through when he saw that people on both sides had planted green willows under the eaves. He became anxious and started running, dragging Song Huiyue.
The two of them folded a lot of tender wicker sticks and bought a lot. When they walked home together, it was already three o'clock in the morning. As soon as they reached the door of the house, they were startled.
Standing at the door was a man covered from head to toe, waiting uneasily. When he saw Song Huiyue and Li Jun coming back, he hesitated and made no move, while the other man only stuck out half of his buttocks - sitting on his buttocks.
On the wall, the upper and lower body are inside the wall.
With a "boom", the wall climber landed, then opened the door neatly and stuck out his head.
The person who climbed the wall was none other than Tian Jiguang.
When Tian Jiguang saw the stunned Song Huiyue and Li Jun, he immediately stood up straight and opened the door: "Madam! Brother Jun!"
Song Huiyue walked forward holding a large handful of wicker sticks: "Don't stand at the door, go in and talk."
Tian Jiguang immediately reached out and pulled the man wearing the soap-colored curtain in.
The door was closed again and the latch was lowered. The man in the curtain hat couldn't restrain his excitement. He opened the curtain hat and looked at Song Huiyue with tears in his eyes: "Madam, it's been a long time!"