When Sun Chengzong heard Zhong Jinwei ask this question, he looked at the Dongchang fan behind him, hesitated for a while, and then said: "The emperor ordered the Jinyiwei to arrest corrupt officials.
, all the yamen, including the Sixth Department, Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and the twelve palace guards are all involved, as well as the military generals, plus the Beijing camp that has been dealt with, and all civil and military officials are suspected of corruption. "
When Zhong Jinwei heard this, he was startled and asked, "Why did it get so big all at once?"
He knew the corruption of Ming officials. If he closed his eyes and arrested ten at random, nine would not be wronged. Emperor Chongzhen was in favor of arresting these worms, but Zhong Jinwei did not expect that such a big move would be made with just one arrest.
Gu Baichuan, Wang Peng and others standing behind Zhong Jinwei looked at each other and were a little surprised that someone from the Dongchang where they belonged was also arrested, so they quickly listened attentively to the conversation between Sun Chengzong and Zhong Jinwei.
"Initially, the emperor wanted to investigate the officials who resigned, but a major corruption case was discovered. After the Jinyiwei arrested a group of people based on this clue, the original momentum has softened, and the number of people arrested began to decrease."[
Sun Chengzong explained what happened to Zhong Jinwei. When he said this, he was a little worried about Xiadongchang, but thinking that this was the fact, he continued: "I didn't expect that many people would be interrogated by the Third Division's interrogation. It is said that
People who were watching in the East Factory reminded me of the missing points and got new clues.”
"Then it will become a situation where all the yamen are involved now?" Zhong Jinwei said in surprise.
"That happened a few days ago. At that time, the emperor ordered reserve officials to fill the vacancies. The situation was not as bad as it is now." Sun Chengzong added the time period so that Zhong Jinwei would not be confused.
"Then how did it take just a few days to end up like this?" Zhong Jinwei was puzzled. This speed must be too fast.
"For some reason, the number of people implicated in the interrogations of Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Sanfa Division suddenly increased sharply, as if they were competing with each other. It became like this in a few days." Sun Chengzong also frowned and said.
"Is it torture to extract confessions? Otherwise, even if it is true corruption, it would not be so easy, and so many accomplices would be confessed in just a few days, right?" Zhong Jinwei asked Sun Chengzong if there was such a possibility.
Sun Chengzong shook his head: "As far as I know, initially some arrested officials accused Jin Yiwei of using torture, but later on, especially in the past few days, the arrested officials were very happy."
Zhong Jinwei, who was an observer, came to the conclusion immediately: "Oh, I understand, the law does not punish everyone!"
In fact, he had talked about this with Emperor Chongzhen before. At that time, he also gave Emperor Chongzhen the background of the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong.
More than half of Sun Chengzong's thoughts were focused on Jianlu's affairs, so he never understood the essence of what happened in the capital. Now that Jing Zhong Jinwei said this, he suddenly understood.
But once you understand, you understand, how to solve this situation? Corruption cases in previous dynasties seem to have never been so wide-ranging!
Sun Chengzong didn't even think about whether the evidence was conclusive or whether anyone was wrongly accused, because he knew that those people were basically really greedy.
Although everyone knew about corruption in the past, it was never brought to the table or in front of the emperor. Now that we know it, whether to deal with it or not, and who should be dealt with, Sun Chengzong has a headache just thinking about it.
If it were Taizu's time, there wouldn't be such a headache. If it exceeds sixty taels of silver, you can just peel off the skin and stuff it into grass. Who dares to resist?
But now, not to mention that Jianlu is still in the capital and fighting at home, even the executioner can't kill such a large number of corrupt officials! Maybe even the executioner is corrupt, should he be allowed to strip himself?
skin?
"Uncle Zhongxing, do you have any good ideas?" Sun Chengzong's head hurt from thinking about it, so he asked Zhong Jinwei directly.
Zhong Jinwei had also been thinking about it. When Sun Chengzong asked, he replied: "I have some ideas, but they haven't been formed yet. I have to think about it carefully."
Sun Chengzong just mentioned it casually, and did not expect Zhong Jinwei, who in his opinion was still a young man, to have a good solution.
Because in his opinion, even if Zhong Jinwei knows some relatively rare ideas and superb ingenuity, in this political aspect, especially in the current deadlock, it is impossible to know it.[
Unexpectedly, Zhong Jinwei replied that he had an idea. Sun Chengzong was a little worried after hearing this. Don't have any bad ideas and mislead the emperor. So he asked Zhong Jinwei: "What do you have in mind?"
At this time, the bodyguard came in with a box of food. Zhong Jinwei smelled the fragrance, his stomach growled, and he answered Sun Chengzong's question first.
Zhong Jinwei smiled at Sun Chengzong and said sheepishly: "I'm starving, I'll eat first."
Then he turned to Gu Baichuan and said, "Come, let's eat something together."
Zhong Jinwei's bodyguard wanted to have dinner with Zhong Jinwei. Sun Chengzong couldn't care about this kind of matter without distinction, so he just thought about the situation of the court by himself.
Gu Baichuan is the person who has spent the longest time with Zhong Jinwei, of course, excluding the months when Zhong Jinwei was in coma and the time Archie spent with him.
So he knew Zhong Jinwei, so he didn't say goodbye, confessed his crime, and went up to eat with Zhong Jinwei.
After Zhong Jinwei finished eating, Sun Chengzong was about to ask more questions, but Zhong Jinwei said to Sun Chengzong a little embarrassedly: "Master Sun, I'm sorry, I was in a hurry to eat, and I have to go to the bathroom, oh, I have to go out."
There was no way to stop people from being anxious, so Sun Chengzong had no choice but to wait for Zhong Jinwei to come back before asking him what he thought.
But when he waited, he couldn't wait, and when he waited, he couldn't wait. After several times the normal time for a normal person to go out, Sun Chengzong still didn't come. Sun Chengzong was a little worried, maybe he would fall into the pit, so he quickly sent his personal guards to look for him.
Supervise the army.
Unexpectedly, after a while, the personal guard came back and reported that the supervisor had returned to his tent and fell asleep after leaving.
When Sun Chengzong heard this, he thought, why don't you find a reason to avoid him? Could it be that his idea was very good and he didn't want him to know, or was he talking nonsense just now, pretending to be profound, saying that he had an idea even though he didn't have an idea?
Sun Chengzong decided to go over to Zhong Jinwei and ask him to find out. He would never tease an old man like this.
The prison camp was originally arranged by Sun Chengzong and was right next door to him. When he walked outside Zhong Jinwei's camp, he saw two Dongchang officers guarding the door of the camp, yawning non-stop.
At the same time, Sun Chengzong heard Zhong Jin and Wei Zhentian snoring from the camp.
As an old man, he would not be able to tell whether the snoring was real or fake. Coupled with the performance of the Dongchang fanmen, he understood in his heart that Uncle Zhongxing had not slept well these days during the expedition. He was very tired! He had just eaten a full meal.
After having solved my inner worries, I felt sleepy again. No wonder I just got into bed and went to sleep.
Sun Chengzong's guess was absolutely correct. Originally, Zhong Jinwei wanted to discuss his idea with Sun Chengzong first, but after leaving the ceremony, he felt like he couldn't open his eyes. Seeing that Zhong Jinwei was so sleepy, Gu Baichuan directly suggested that he go back to the camp to rest.
These days, he is considered to be pampered and has been running with the cavalry. He is worried at night and cannot sleep well. Although he slept one night outside Changli City, he was worried about Jianlu's departure and return that day and thought about Changli City.
With issues such as food rations and other issues, the people could not sleep well.
Today I returned to the Qinwang Army Camp. This is a truly safe place. The fatigue from the past few days came out, and I felt particularly sleepy.
Sun Chengzong knew that these Dongchang servants were also very sleepy, but they had the task of guarding Zhong Jinwei, so Zai Qiang carried out his duties despite being sleepy.
Although he wasn't very fond of Dongchang, he still admired him a little in this situation.
Sun Chengzong turned around and ordered his personal guards to arrange for people to replace the two guards and let them rest. He said that it was his arrangement and he would bear the responsibility if anything happened.[
Early the next morning, Zhong Jinwei had just finished breakfast and was about to go to the capital. The second wave of envoys sent by Emperor Chongzhen arrived, asking Zhong Jinwei to go and see him as soon as possible.
Zhong Jinwei already knew the situation and understood the impatience of Emperor Chongzhen and others, so he followed the envoy directly to the capital to meet with the emperor without having time to discuss it with Sun Chengzong.