Chapter eight hundred and twelve cutting the grass to eradicate the roots
After Ye Tiannan was pulled out, Qin Hui also sat back in his seat. He glanced at everyone, smiled softly, and said: "Everyone has seen that I handle cases and always enforce the law honestly and will never engage in malpractice for personal gain, so
, If you have never done anything wrong, there is no need to be afraid of me."
After a pause, he changed the topic and said: "However, I will not let those corrupt officials go. If someone comes forward to surrender now, I may consider giving him a lighter sentence."
The people sitting down here are all old fools. They are afraid of returning, but they still have their determination. How can they give in easily? You look at me, I look at you, each of them is really more aggrieved than the other.
I knew you would be like this. Qin Hui sneered in his heart and said, "It seems that in your own hearts you are all upright officials who fulfill their official duties."
"I don't know what the inspector means by what he said. We are all officials of the imperial court. Although you are ordered to patrol Jiangnan, it does not mean that you can insult us at will. Please be careful with what you say." The man on the left looked directly at him and said in a very serious tone.
tough.
This thin man with a mustache is none other than Ding Jin, the magistrate of Yangzhou.
Qin Hui turned his eyes and said with a smile: "Prefect Ding's good advice, Qin will take it to heart. In order not to make the same mistake again, Qin decided to speak to everyone on paper. Come and present the evidence of the crime."
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Evidence of guilt? Everyone's expressions tightened and they couldn't help but look at each other.
Soon, a clerk came up holding a stack of confessions.
Qin Hui took a sip of tea, smiled slightly and said: "Everyone must be thinking that you, Qin Hui, have been in prison, how can you have evidence of our embezzlement? This must be your intention to scare us. I wonder if I have guessed wrong?
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Everyone was silent.
Qin Hui said again: "At this time, you can still be so calm. I admire you very much. It can be seen that you are much stronger than the prefect Ye just now. It is a pity that your wishful thinking this time was wrong.
Yes. Yes, I did stay in Chuzhou Prison for a long time, but I sent people to sneak into the state capitals to investigate you officials a long time ago. Of course, this is not enough. Many of you are
A smart person wouldn't let others catch him easily, but, haha, I think you will know it after seeing it."
As he spoke, he turned to the clerk and said, "Let's show him the evidence of crime belonging to Ding Zhizhou first."
The clerk immediately gave Ding Jin three pieces of white paper filled with black writing.
It was only then that Ding Jin felt a little scared. He swallowed his saliva and slowly took the three pieces of paper. He glanced at them and his hands suddenly shook violently. A big bead of sweat flowed down his face.
The further he read, the more beads of sweat formed on his face, and his hands shook more violently. When he finished reading the second piece of paper, he suddenly fell to his knees and shouted: "It's unfair, this--this is clearly a framed marriage."
Woe. Oh, someone must be deliberately trying to frame me, please ask the inspector to find out."
Qin Hui smiled and said: "Prefect Ding, since it is framed, why are you so afraid? Besides, isn't this confession clear enough? If you feel that there is still a lack of physical evidence, I only need to have someone write on it.
After checking the three brothels, we found out that you, the magistrate of the state, did not even let the brothels go. In just three years, you occupied three brothels. Not only that, you also forced more than 20 girls to make money for you.
You are so cruel."
When Ding Jin heard this, his face turned pale and his eyes were blank. Suddenly, he kowtowed vigorously, making a banging sound, and shouted: "Inspector, please spare my life, Inspector, please spare my life."
Qin Hui snorted lightly, ignored him, and let him kowtow. He glanced at the others and said, "If you don't plead guilty now, when will you wait? Could it be that I want my officer to deliver the evidence to you one by one?"
?If you still have any sense of conscience, I might let you live."
The sound is not loud, but it gives people an irresistible feeling. Facing this group of frightened birds, the effect can be imagined.
"The lower official is aware of his guilt."
"Your Majesty, I know you are guilty, please spare my life."
Boom, boom, boom!
After a while, three people knelt on the ground. As soon as these three people confessed, a domino effect immediately occurred, because one person cannot be corrupt, and corruption is actually a system. They confessed, and those who were related to them
Naturally, people knew that they could no longer hide it, so seven or eight more people kowtowed and confessed.
Qin Hui glanced at Han Shizhong secretly, a smile flashed in his eyes, coughed slightly, and said: "Very good, very good. I hope to see your repentance in your confession." He waved his hand.
Several government officials immediately gave them pens and paper.
At this point, those people just wanted to survive and confessed to their crimes.
After a while of burning incense, those people had finished writing.
Qin Hui picked up their confessions, looked at them, and sighed: "I didn't expect there were so many. I can't imagine how the people in Jiangnan survived. With corrupt officials like you here, Fang La's uprising is reasonable."
middle."
At this point, he raised his head, first reported the names of five people, including Ding Jin, and then said loudly: "Immediately make the crimes of these people public to the world, and they will be executed at the street entrance at noon tomorrow."
His voice was extremely dull, without any fluctuation. It was neither cheerful nor compassionate. It was just like saying that he needed to go to the toilet.
"My lord, my lord, didn't you just say you would give us a way to survive?"
One person roared in a dying struggle.
Qin Hui said calmly: "I'm just saying maybe, not necessarily, let's drag it on."
"yes."
"Sir, please forgive me..."
There was another burst of crying.
Qin Hui had long looked down upon this, without even a trace of emotion on his face, and said to those who were still kneeling on the ground: "You guys can escape the death penalty, but you cannot escape the crime of living. We will take you into custody for the time being, and we will make a decision later."
These officials who narrowly escaped death not only did not feel angry or depressed because they were about to go to jail, but secretly rejoiced. Therefore, the thoughts of corrupt officials are always so elusive. This may be called a pathology.
Qin Hui suddenly said: "Oh, I almost forgot, Jiangdu County Magistrate Kuang stayed here."
I saw a fat middle-aged man raising his head and looking at Qin Hui blankly, with a blank look on his face.
Qin Hui smiled and said: "You are lucky, there is someone named above to escort you back to the capital." He said and asked Han Shizhong: "General Han, can you capture Huang Sanyuan?"
Han Shizhong nodded and said: "That man does have some abilities and has raised a lot of people, but he is just a bunch of people and is currently in prison."
"Very good, immediately order someone to escort them both back to the capital. Send more people."
Han Shizhong responded, and immediately ordered people to take Kuang Zhixian, who was still confused, into custody. Qin Hui gently said a few words to the officials who were still sitting here, and asked them to leave first.
"This land in the south of the Yangtze River is really full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers."
Qin Hui took those confessions and glanced at the shocking confessions above, and couldn't help sighing.
Han Shizhong laughed and said: "The inspector is really resourceful. He can lead to so many charges with just one charge."
It turns out that only Ding Jin's accusations were true, the rest were forged, and those three confessions were provided by Zhu Meng's party.
Qin Hui smiled slightly and said: "General Han deserves the reward. They are just guilty of being thieves. Corrupt officials are actually very afraid of death. This is also their fatal weakness. If there are people like General Han sitting here, even if I use all my means,
I’m afraid they won’t succeed.”
Han Shizhong laughed and said: "The inspector has been rewarded. If there is such a powerful person as the inspector, even if the employer gives Han money, Han will not dare to accept it."
If Li Qi were to see Han Shizhong and Qin Hui complimenting each other, his eyes would probably pop out of his head. You must know that these are also old enemies.
Chen Dong suddenly said: "Inspector. That---that Ye Tiannan---?"
Qin Hui wrote lightly: "You are right, he will definitely die."
The three of them were all startled. In fact, they had already expected it, but they did not expect Qin Hui to say it so straightforwardly.
Qin Hui glanced at them and smiled: "Chen Dong, you also said that Zhang Xiaoxiu disappeared three years ago and has been unable to be traced, but it must have a close relationship with Ye Tiannan."
Chen Dongdao: "Having said that, we really have no evidence. If we do this, it may be like what Ye Tiannan said. We are killing people with a borrowed knife. This is knowing the law and breaking the law."
Qin Hui smiled and said: "Chen Dong, a gentleman is like a righteous man, what is the next sentence?"
Chen Dong was stunned and replied: "A villain is like a profit."
Qin Hui nodded and said: "A gentleman is likened to righteousness, which is great righteousness; a villain is likened to profit, and this benefit is small profit. What is small profit? It is his own benefit. A villain will always put his own interests first and be open-minded.
Extremely narrow-minded, just like a villain like Ye Tiannan. He will not remember how good you were to him, he will only remember how you harmed him. But for someone like you, you will only put justice first, distinguish between public and private matters, and do things according to your needs.
A true gentleman is a true gentleman when it comes to discussing matters, but when a gentleman meets a villain, he will be the villain who suffers in the end."
Han Shizhong frowned and said, "Is it possible that the inspector is afraid that Ye Tiannan will take revenge on us and others in the future?" By nature, he hates evil and has killed countless souls under the sword. He doesn't have much resistance to killing a person like Ye Tiannan.
Qin Hui nodded and said: "For a talentless person like Ye Tiannan to sit in this seat, it is obvious that there must be someone above him. If we spare his life today, who can guarantee that he will not stand up in the future? If one day we fall
In his hands, I am sure that he will not let us go. No one can predict what the situation will be like in the future. In this case, the only way to avoid future troubles is to eradicate the roots. Why should we use a trace of forgiveness to exchange for the future?
There are potential dangers. The same is true for other people. Even though I am here, I will do my best to eliminate all potential threats."
As he spoke, he sighed again and said: "That's what officialdom is like! In fact, from the moment we took over this job, there was only one possible way in front of us, either you die or I die. Chen Dong, Ouyang,
I know that you two have some opinions on my style of doing things, but it doesn't matter. Everyone has his own ambitions. I will not force you to accept my opinions, and vice versa, and I will not be shaken at all because of you. But I still want to remind you.
Let me tell you, if you really want to embark on this road of officialdom, you must first understand what officialdom is and how to survive in officialdom. However, if you want to survive, you can only eliminate enemies, including potential enemies. In officialdom
Among them, there is no distinction between gentlemen and villains, only victory and defeat, as is the case with Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and others."
Ouyang Che argued: "If that's the case, what's the difference between us and them?"
Qin Hui frowned and said, "Don't you understand? The difference is that we won and they lost."
Ouyang Che opened his mouth slightly, hesitated, and said, "If he were an economic envoy, would he do the same thing?"
Qin Hui was stunned, pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "Maybe it will, maybe it won't, I don't know. But we can't look at things from the perspective of adults, because we are not qualified enough. Ye Tiannan's existence or not, for adults
For us, there is no threat at all, but for us, the Chuzhou prison has already explained everything well. If Ye Tiannan is not as timid as a mouse, or if there are not thousands of soldiers of General Han to deter him,
Do you think we will survive?"
Han Shizhong was extremely distressed when he saw the three of them quarreling constantly along the way. He also didn't understand why the economic envoy arranged for Chen Dong, Ouyang Che and Qin Hui to work together. Little did he know that Li Qi actually didn't want to, but he also
There was no way, because this was a test that Cai Jing gave to Chen Dong and Ouyang Che. To smooth things over, he said: "We don't have to argue for a shameless villain like Ye Tiannan, let's talk about what to do next?"
Qin Hui laughed and said what everyone in the world loves to do, "spend money."