In the prison of Suzhou Prefecture, a man who had just been tortured was put down from the torture rack by the jailer. The man's legs could not stand at all and he fell directly to the ground. The jailer lifted him up from the ground and took him back to the cell.
The leading figures in Suzhou Prefecture, Suzhou Magistrate Chen Yanhui, Tongzhi Zhou Jiyu, Jinyiwei Baihu Song Zhong and Qianhu Ban Liming, as well as Zhuo Jing who was in Suzhou at this time, all stood in the prison. Magistrate Chen Yanhui said with lingering fear:
"Today I learned that the Ming Dynasty's punishment was like this. No wonder he was only arrested for half a day before he confessed."
Baihu Song Zhong said: "No matter how tough a man is, if he comes into the hands of the Jin Yiwei, he will not fail to attack him. If not..." Halfway through, he remembered that what he said next might be considered as 'slandering your Majesty', so he quickly stopped talking.
Say nothing.
Zhuo Jing said: "Just using punishment like this will harm Tianhe."
Song Zhong disagreed, but he knew that Zhuo Jing was sent to Suzhou Prefecture by Yunxi and did not want to argue with him. As a simple military general, Ban Liming did not have such scruples and said: "Master Zhuo, you cannot be merciful when handling cases.
Otherwise, how can we get them to confess?"
Zhuo Jing sighed and stopped talking; he was not a person who did not know how to adapt. He knew that if he really followed the provisions of the Ming Law, many cases would not be solved at all, but as a scholar, his inherent concept made him think that this
It's wrong, so I can only remain silent.
Ban Liming added: "Zhang Shicheng's remnants are still rampant on the sea and have become pirates. They are lucky this time. Magistrate Chen, Zhou Tongzhi, and Zhuo Shiyi, why don't we jointly write a letter to ask for your Majesty's permission to eradicate pirates from the East China Sea again?
."
He must have selfish motives for saying this. As Qianhu of the Navy, he will definitely be used once he starts to eliminate pirates, and he can also use this to make many meritorious deeds.
But this time he found the wrong person. Ban Liming was also a military commander, and he didn't have as many twists and turns as a civil servant. Zhuo Jing and Hu Ke were both involved, and they had nothing to do with the pirates, and they just happened to coincide with each other.
How could he possibly agree to submit a letter with him when he was just in Suzhou?
Chen Yan replied, Zhou Jiyu was a civil servant, how could he do such a thing that would benefit a general? So no one answered, and the situation fell into silence for a while.
It was Song Zhong who came out to mediate: "Okay, okay, let's deal with the matter of clearing out the pirates later. Let's talk about how to deal with it now. I will definitely report the inside story as a Jinyiwei. What about you? Zhuo Shiyi just pays it back, it's irrelevant.
; Chen, Zhou Zhou are all people-friendly officials of Suzhou Prefecture. You can't say that you are not responsible for the pirates entering the territory of Suzhou Prefecture; Ban Qianhu is a naval engineer, and the pirates were allowed ashore, and the ship stopped at one point.
You can't escape from outside Jiading, right?"
When the three heard the words, they also knew that they had responsibilities. This matter was big or small. To put it lightly, it was just a moment of carelessness that allowed the pirates to come ashore. After all, they caught a few people, so they were able to take the credit for it.
Seriously, this is failure to complete one of the four major responsibilities of a local official, which is tantamount to serious dereliction of duty and may lead to exile.
Several people looked at Zhuo Jing unconsciously. Although Zhuo Jing was just caught by Yun Xi and taken to Suzhou, they didn't know it. They thought Zhuo Jing was Yun Xi's confidant. And now Yun Xi is the emperor.
Grandson, all the memorials have been returned to Yunxi, so everyone wanted to ask Zhuojing to help him put in a good word and beg for mercy.
Zhuo Jing is there reflecting on the pros and cons of this time. There is no denying that Zhuo Jing is a good official, but it does not mean that he is not motivated. He also hopes that he can be a high official, "to create peace for all generations", as the saying goes
are his true thoughts.
He thought: I have thought about it, but I have not thought of any other way to calm down other than getting rid of food. It is already November, and the flow of exchangers in Suzhou Mansion has dropped to the number that His Highness thought was normal; and he used direct
A large amount of grain was transferred from the granary and piled up at the exchange location to make the people think that the government had unlimited grain for exchange. It was somewhat effective, so His Highness should not think it was impossible.
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Chen Yan and the other three people looking at him. Zhuo Jing was also a smart person and immediately guessed what they wanted to do. Zhuo Jing really wanted to shout: I really don’t know His Highness the Emperor Taisun.
Ah! But he couldn't shout, and even shouting might not be able to dispel their ideas.
Chen Yan looked back at the three of them and saw Zhuo Jing looking at them. Zhou Jiyu said: "Zhuo Shiyi, you have seen our performance in this matter, and when you presided over the exchange, we also all
We are fully cooperating, so I hope you can put in a good word for us regarding this matter. You just need to tell the truth."
Zhuo Jing thought for a while and said: "Of course I will tell the truth about the performance of several people in the memorial; however, the Jinyiwei can use the military post, and my memorial can only be delivered through the official post, although it is only from Suzhou to the capital.
, but there can also be a day difference between before and after. It may not be useful."
Zhuo Jing came up with this problem in a hurry. Chen Yanhui, Zhou Jiyu, Ban Liming and Song Zhong had a meal, and they suddenly felt that it was indeed the case; Song Zhong, as a member of the Jinyiwei, participated in the case again this time, and his memorial could not be compared to
It was too late for Chen Yanhui and others to realize it; there was no need for him to bear this burden for Chen Yanhui and others, so he should be careful to involve himself.
Zhuo Jing was inconvenient to use the military post, so his memorial was destined to be later than Song Zhong's. Therefore, there is a question mark as to whether his memorial could reach His Majesty's throne before His Majesty disposed of it.
Seeing this, Song Zhong immediately took his leave and said, "I still have something to do in the yamen, so I won't accompany you. I'll take my leave." With that, he had already left.
Chen Yanhui had never had any friendship with Song Zhong because of Jin Yiwei's bad reputation. This time they joined forces because of the investigation of the case, but they were still strangers; and now there are very few Jin Yiwei personnel, and the remaining people
They are also used to monitor whether officials are corrupt. There is no responsibility in this case, so there is no reason to put people at risk.
He watched Song Zhong walk out of the door, sighed, and said, "Everyone, don't stay here anymore. Go back and write your notes. Just leave it to fate." With that, he also walked out.
The others looked at each other in shock. Seeing that it was useless to stay here, they went back.
On the second day of November, when Yunxi was reading the memorials, he saw the memorials of Jinyiwei Song Zhong and Qianhu Ban Liming of Wusongkou Qianhu Station. They could use the military post, so they arrived in the capital the next day.
Yunxi did not read the content of the memorial at the first time, but noticed the name "Song Zhong". I remember when I read "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", the commander of the Peiping capital when Zhu Di rebelled was named Song Zhong.
Because this name is really special. Although the name does not have a special meaning in the Ming Dynasty because the clock has not been invented yet, I remember it very clearly. Is this Song Zhong the same Song Zhong?'
Yunxi thought about it for a while and then put it away. He opened the memorials of Song Zhong and Ban Liming and read them one after another. Then he noticed that Lao Zhu's comments all had the same content: Wusongkou Thousand Households and Ban Liming's Hereditary Thousand Households were demoted to
Hundreds of households, and another capable military general was appointed to serve thousands of households; Chen Yan returned, Zhou Jiyu was demoted to the county magistrate, and the officials found any vacancies and sent them to fill them.
Yunxi thought: It seems that Lao Zhu didn't pay too much attention to this matter. The officials involved were only demoted and not exiled. Because he had never heard of these three officials, he didn't care about their fate and analyzed it.
Lao Zhu's thoughts were all; he paid attention to two points: the first point was that the exchange strategy was finally successful and passed safely. In Zhili, the price of treasure notes has stabilized, and basically no one will
Treating the treasure banknotes as waste paper, there were even Ping'an officials from Zhili Province who took the initiative to exchange the treasure banknotes for convenience and take them home.
Maintaining the currency value of the treasure banknotes is the key point of this operation. As long as this point is achieved, that's all. Nothing else matters; then arrangements can be made in other provinces.
