As the sun rises, the sun shines through the floating clouds, illuminating the Yongxing Military Road Route and Comforting Envoy Si Yamen, illuminating every house there with splendor.
"Oh, trouble -" Zhang Qixian, the economic pacifier and military commander, got up early, but instead of boxing and walking to relax his muscles and activate blood circulation as usual, he looked at a white silk scarf full of handwriting,
He kept sighing.
The content on Bai Ling has long been known to everyone on Yongxing Military Road.
Whether it was stealing and selling official rations, setting fire to warehouses, or colluding with a cult as a local official, these were not cases that could be handled by state or government-level yamen.
Therefore, after Liu Wenzhong, the magistrate of Pizhou, obtained Bai Ling, who copied Zhou Chong's confession, he immediately sent Bai Ling to the desk of him, the strategic pacifier.
Based on Zhang Qixian's many years of experience in officialdom, he could be sure that most of the contents in this confession were genuine without even thinking.
It’s just that facts are facts. How to verify and deal with the series of cases written in the confession requires a lot of knowledge!
Liu Yongnian was just a small warehouse manager. No matter how clever his methods were, he could not collude with local officials and secretly sell official grain without being discovered by anyone.
Based on Zhang Qixian’s experience, a case like stealing and selling government rations is a case of no avail. Once it is revealed, it is a false case!
Above Liu Sicang, there must have been several judges from the Transportation Department who joined the army to provide convenience for him, cover up his traces, and even directly help him falsify his accounts.
And if we continue to investigate carefully, I am afraid that most of the Yongxing Military Road Transfer Department will be paralyzed.
Even Song Shouzheng, the transfer envoy of the capital, was unable to save his life in the late festival, and was sent to Lingnan to pick lychees by an imperial edict from the imperial court.
As for Song Shouzheng, after the failure of the imperial army's expedition to Xia last year, he dragged his old and sick body to patrol the prefectures and counties along the Yongxing military route. Everywhere he went, he would first appease the people and visit the local respected elders.
In the end, he not only ensured the Yongxing military route, but also ensured that no state or county would fall to the Party rebel Li Jiqian, and he also ensured that the 80,000 southern soldiers and horses who temporarily rushed to the front line to fill the gap were supplied with food and supplies without any worries.
It must be said that hard work pays off!
Today, Xia Guogong Li Jiqian has just announced that he will re-accept the canonization of the Song Dynasty. Later, he, Zhang Qixian, has caused Song Shouzheng to be demoted to Lingnan. In the eyes of his civil and military colleagues, who has he, Zhang Qixian, become?
Even if no colleagues would ridicule him for being jealous of talents and talents in person, he would be labeled as "mean" secretly.
Not only was the loyal image he had worked so hard to build his whole life completely destroyed, but his sons and nephews would also be alienated by all their colleagues because of such a "mean" father.
What's more, in today's Song Dynasty, the economic and strategic pacification envoy is not a permanent position. Usually when something happens and the court needs to send someone to clean up the mess, a temporary economic and strategic pacification envoy and Jiedu envoy will be temporarily established.
The longest term of office for the Minister of Economic Affairs and Comfort and Jiedushi will not exceed one and a half years.
The officials appointed Zhang Qixian to Yongxing Military Road as a strategic and pacifying envoy and a military envoy. Their original intention was to let him settle the mess left after the war, not to get rid of old diseases.
If he paralyzed the Yongxing Military Transport Department because of the confession on the table, I'm afraid it would be exactly the opposite of the official's original intention.
"Eun Xiang, I have something important to report!" As if he was worried that Zhang Qixian was not difficult enough, the judge Liang Hao hurried in and saluted him while breathing heavily. "The envoy of the Song Dynasty has resigned. The seal has been sealed and moved out.
After arriving at the Yamen, I went to the inn to wait behind closed doors." (Note: Zhang Qixian once did the work of Tong Zhongshu, so he can be called Xianggong. Enxiang is an honorific title.)
Upon hearing this, Zhang Qixian immediately stopped sighing and slammed his hand on the table, "Nonsense, I haven't made any decision yet. Why is he in a hurry?! Please bring him back to me. No, you go and say hello to me first.
After I have packed up my clothes, I will go to the inn to invite him in person!"
"Yes!" Judge Liang Hao, who had been Zhang Qixian's arm for many years, agreed loudly. However, he did not turn around and leave. He just continued to pant and raise his hands to wipe sweat. (Note: The judge is an assistant to the Jiedushi, and his rank is uncertain. Usually,
There are other official titles.)
It is now approaching late autumn, the morning breeze is cool and cold, and most of the officials on Yongxing Military Road are wearing silk cotton jackets. How could Liang Hao break out in a sweat so casually?
Therefore, Zhang Qixian soon realized that Liang Hao might have different opinions from him. He frowned and called the other party's cousin and asked, "Does Tai Su think that my arrangement is inappropriate? The Song Dynasty's hard work is so great, if it is because of
A confession of unknown origin forced him to voluntarily suspend his duties pending investigation..."
"My official believes that the Governor of the Song Dynasty has indeed worked hard and achieved great results. It is appropriate for Enxiang to invite him personally." Liang Hao smiled, cupped his hands, and responded in a low voice, "But..."
After a pause, he suddenly changed his subject, "However, we shouldn't go and invite him today. First, let the official take the letter from Enxiang to talk to the Song Dynasty Governor and appease him. Enxiang has a good time.
It would be safer to go there in three to five days."
"Huh?" Zhang Qixian is already sixty-one this year, and his thinking can't keep up with Liang Hao, who is more than 20 years younger than him. He frowns and murmurs in a low voice.
"As far as I know, Song Shouzheng was appointed as the transfer envoy of the Yongxing military capital, just a few months earlier than Prime Minister En. Immediately, he encountered Li Jiqian's rebellion." Liang Hao and Zhang Qixian cooperated tacitly, so they immediately smiled and lowered their voices.
Sheng added, "During and after Li Jiqian's rebellion, he ensured the supply of food and grass to the army without any lag or shortage."
"In other words, even if someone in Yongxing Military Road embezzled Mo's official food, it has nothing to do with him!" Zhang Qixian stroked his beard and nodded gently. The anxious look on his face instantly became much lighter than before.
"En Xiang has a sharp eye!" Liang Hao smiled and gently handed over his hand again. "En Xiang invited him one day earlier and invited him one day later. In fact, there is not much difference. A handwritten letter is enough to prove En Xiang's trust in him.
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"Yeah!" Zhang Qixian groaned again, feeling relaxed all over his body.
This is the benefit of knowing how to use people.
Liang Hao was the number one scholar in Yiyou Branch in the second year of Yongxi reign (985), and he was extremely talented. However, at first, he experienced many ups and downs in his official career because he did not know how to be an official.
It was Zhang Qi Xianhui who re-activated him and transferred him to his subordinates as his right-hand man. Liang Hao also knew how to be grateful and spared no effort in planning for him every time.
It was the same this time. Zhang Qixian's authorities were so obsessed that they only considered the impact that the case would have on his reputation both before and after his death when Song Shouzheng was implicated in the case, but they forgot that Song Shouzheng had another good reason to avoid being implicated in the case.
Liang Hao, on the other hand, directly saw the crux of the problem from the perspective of a bystander, and pointed out the crux of the problem for him in a timely manner.
Song Shouzheng did not serve as the transfer envoy for a short period of time. He had no chance to commit corruption and had no choice. Within just a few months, he noticed that several official rats had appeared in a remote place like Ding'an County.
Whether Zhang Qixian wants to investigate the case thoroughly or just perfunctoryly do it, he doesn't have to worry about it affecting Song Shouzheng.
If he writes a letter, no one can accuse him of being coldhearted.
And leaving a buffer time of three to five days before asking for help also avoids the suspicion of being misinformed.
"In addition, the Song Dynasty envoy took the initiative to avoid suspicion and had good intentions." As worthy of being the number one scholar at that time, Liang Hao thought much more deeply than Zhang Qixian expected.
After a short pause, he continued to add. "After all, the official system on Yongxing Military Road has not been carefully sorted out. The post of transfer envoy is transferred to the post of envoy, and both punishment and promotion are included. Even the inspection of the capital is included.
The Division is also nominally under the jurisdiction of the Transportation Division." (Note: The Punishment Division is in charge of cases and official duties-related crimes. The Tiju Division is in charge of storage and relief. In the early Song Dynasty, these two departments were sometimes established and withdrawn, and they were not fixed until the Shenzong period.
Come down.)
Not much to say, but just to the point.
The official system of the Song Dynasty was inherited in the same way as the Five Dynasties, and was the most complicated since the Qin and Han Dynasties.
Take Yongxing Military Road as an example. Zhang Qixian is the envoy of economic strategy and pacification as well as military envoy. In name, he has control over the military and political affairs. In fact, his greatest power is to coordinate all parties.
If various departments are unwilling to cooperate, he can't really do much to make the other party obey his orders other than resorting to impeachment.
In his later years, Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi made many mistakes again. He reduced the good punishment department and placed the relevant powers under the transportation department. Local relief, taxation, warehousing, and official supervision were all arranged in a unified manner.
Gave it to all transport envoys.
As a result, the local official system became relatively simple, and the pacification envoys and military envoys became more and more empty.
On the contrary, the power of the envoys at the road level has become too heavy, and almost everything except the army is under their jurisdiction.
If the transfer envoy Song Shouzheng does not take the initiative to avoid suspicion, and Zhang Qixian wants to send someone to investigate Bai Lingshang's case, he, the transfer envoy, must first give the nod, and then the transfer envoy Si Yamen will arrange the corresponding manpower.
The Du Zhuan Envoy arranged for officials to investigate the corruption within the Du Zhuan Department, which was tantamount to investigating himself. Not only could nothing be found, but Song Shouzheng himself would be even more difficult to remove from suspicion.
Song Shouzheng chose to resign on his own initiative. According to the usual practice, before the new capital transfer envoy took office, Zhang Qixian, the governor's pacification envoy and Jiedu envoy, naturally asked the capital transfer envoy to take charge.
No matter what Zhang Qixian wants to do, he doesn't have to worry about any constraints.
And as long as Zhang Qixian had no grudge against Song Shouzheng and had been loyal to him all his life, he wouldn't have to ruin his own life by adding insult to injury to Song Shouzheng!
"Hiss—" With Zhang Qixian's sophistication, after being reminded by Liang Hao, how could he not have guessed that Song Shou had completely handed over the case and the power to deal with him in his own hands? Immediately, he couldn't bear it.
Stay and breathe in the air conditioning.
Since Song Shouzheng acted so simply and could not be related to the case, he had the responsibility to clear the other party's name as soon as possible, remove the other party from Guanyi as soon as possible, and regain the power of the Capital Transport Division.
However, in this way, the hot potato was completely left to Zhang Qixian alone.
How to deal with the case that Bai Lingshang confessed to and how to deal with the relevant people are all decided by him.
Well done, all the credit goes to him.
If he accidentally screws up or violates the official's sacred will, he will bear all the responsibility alone.
"Over in Fangzhou, an official document was submitted to the transfer department's office the day before yesterday." Understanding why Zhang Qixian gasped, Liang Hao took the initiative to make suggestions without waiting for him to ask for advice, "Han Qing, the inspector of Jinniuzhai, caught Zhou Chong and asked about the exit.
After the confession, Zhou Chong was sent to the Fangzhou County Government Office. They were anxious to ask whether they should release him or escort Zhou Chong to the Transportation Department."
"What does Tai Su mean?" Zhang Qixian knew that his reaction speed could not be compared with Liang Hao's. After thinking about it, he decided to listen to the other party's opinion first.
"I believe that the key to this case lies with Zhou Chong." Liang Hao pointed at Bai Ling gently, as if he was holding a pearl of wisdom. "Inspector Han is still too young. With Zhou Chong's sophistication, this
Not all of the confessions may be truthful! Maybe some of them are deliberately harsh in order to avoid being beaten. Some are to avoid the more serious and ignore the less important. In short, it is safest to have him in your hands as early as possible! The later it is, the less likely you are to know the facts of the case.
