eldest son of Ming dynasty

Chapter 163 On Black Heart

Zhu Houzhao and Wang Hua are in action.

Officials in Zhejiang are also on the move.

Seeing that Wei Bin was successfully sent away, it was a certainty, but unexpectedly, before there was time to celebrate, another Wang Hua came.

The chief envoy and the inspector gave Wang Hua a "drag formula" to dismiss.

After the two of them returned, they met officials from various places one after another. Of course, the officials from all over the place would also go to the governor's yamen to pay homage to the wharf, and at the same time use their own eyes to see Governor Wang's attitude with their own eyes.

As the old saying goes, blocking is worse than sparse.

In this matter, Donggong's method is blocking, because it is impossible for Donggong to let the money not be taken.

This block, the emotions of officials at all levels can't be suppressed,

On this day, the prefects of Huzhou, Hangzhou, and Taizhou gathered together in the chief envoy's yamen.

Especially Xu Ruoqin, the magistrate of Huzhou, was the most impassioned,
"Send away the wolves, and come back with tigers and leopards! When will this go on? Since ancient times, has there ever been a royal family who bought merchants and obtained money from the people? Wouldn't it be ridiculous to pass it on to future generations?!"

In fact, they worked hard. In order to bring down Wei Bin, the corrupt eunuch, they tried their best to support Liu Daxia, the emperor's favorite minister. Finally, they took advantage of the rift between him and the prince to make Liu Daxia speak out in front of the emperor and decide to punish him. These blind officials.

As a result, An An'an didn't sleep, and the East Palace sent another trusted governor over.

Qiu Zongxia, the prefect of Hangzhou, said: "In the past, the officials thought it was Wei Bin, a bold servant who amassed wealth once he gained power. I didn't expect that the East Palace would have such considerations. Jiangnan is a place where the court's finances and taxes are important, and the taxes paid account for half of the country's total. , although the south of the Yangtze River is rich, the people's livelihood is also miserable. If you are still not satisfied, you will continue to take silver from Zhejiang, which will inevitably be a bit..."

The officials in Zhejiang have been brewing together for several days,
Everyone was angry, but they didn't dare to vent it.

But a few days later, when these people gathered again in the chief envoy's yamen, Xu Ruoqin, the prefect of Huzhou, suddenly showed the memorial he had prepared in the past few days.

"Fang Bo (the honorary title of the chief envoy), the matter in Zhejiang cannot be delayed any longer. If you don't want to go up, I, Xu Youyi, the prefect of Huzhou, would like to advise His Majesty. This is the memorandum of the next official, please read it , if there is nothing wrong, the next official will risk his life to hand over this memorial!"

The East Palace has been famous in the past few years. In fact, everyone from the local government to the capital knew that the crown prince was taking the silver in Zhejiang, but there was no evidence, so no one dared to say it before. hit.

Now is there anyone who dares to report to His Majesty and speak out the real words?

Everyone looked at the things in Xu Ruoqin's hands and couldn't help swallowing.

This matter... If someone is willing to be the first one, it is of course good...

But what does Xu Ruoqin mean by taking out this memorial at this time?
Dang Shanji is the most reckless. He has been waiting for someone to take advantage of him. Now that he is here, he can't help but feel happy, "Isn't this a good thing?! What are you all doing?"

After saying this, Li Yancai still didn't move.

Because he already felt that Xu Ruoqin was deceitful!
Not only does he want to be No. 1 who defies authority and upholds justice, he is also fucking afraid of death!Bring everyone in this room with you!

Because, at this moment, no one could disagree with the content of this memorial, and in the current official atmosphere in Zhejiang, who stopped Xu Ruoqin and his memorial.

That is, the four big characters of "flattering and flattering" are engraved on the forehead!

It was true at first, you are all afraid, I, Xu Ruoqin, am desperate, and you are still dragging your feet? !
As long as you do this, your political career is over. In the Ming Dynasty, an official can't lose his moral halo if he loses everything.

But everyone watched it together without stopping,
With the prestige of the East Palace, who can escape from dealing with people in the future? !

"...Thinking of a drowning person in the world is like drowning yourself; thinking of a hungry person in the world is like starving yourself."

While everyone was hesitating, Dang Shanji shouted happily, "Prefect Xu deserves to be known for his gallantry, this essay is really soul-stirring!"

Li Yancai groaned in his heart, this idiot, he was being tricked and he didn't know it.

But Xu Ruoqin was plotting for the public, they had no choice but to eat a mouthful of shit, and pretended to be happy, bragging to Xu Ruoqin with their hands clasped.

The matter of the chief envoy's yamen,
It spread to the ears of Mei Kejia and Wang Hua,
The two couldn't help shaking their heads.

"This Xu Ruoqin, his own clan has a background in maritime business. He has the motivation to follow this guide, but he doesn't have the courage to bear the prince's anger. So when he shows this guide to others, ordinary people will probably think that Xu Ruoqin is He is very vain, but in fact he wants to attract more people to join him. Now if Li Yancai wants to survive, he can only find a way, except to win this game, otherwise he will die."

Wang Hua also roughly understood what Mei Kejia said before, 'the situation has pushed people to this point'.

Li Yancai was a newcomer to Zhejiang, but after just one incident and a few meetings, he was kidnapped into this group.

What can he do?

This is also one of the reasons why there is no name and no surname, but Zhejiang is presented to be the opposite of Donggong.

Everyone is pushed away, with no choice one after another, and finally enters the abyss, and it is difficult to escape.

"In this way..." Wang Hua handed over the letter from Beijing, "Because Li Yancai has no choice, it will be easier for me to trust me. Your Highness has already agreed to your plan, not only that, but also gave me four words , greedy for ink according to the order."

Mei Kejia was overjoyed.

After a quick glance, he exclaimed, "His Royal Highness has the courage to chase after the ancestors. Zhongcheng, you can also understand what it means to make daily progress!"

Wang Hua nodded. He is not a very aggressive person, but as long as there is Jingli's will, he will no longer be coy.

"Come on!"

"Here!" Two thousand household officials came in from outside the hall, this is the strength of the governor's yamen itself.

"Take the order of the East Palace, and follow this court to the eunuch's mansion, and get someone!"

Wei Bin is an internal official, and does not belong to the same line as civil officials.

Therefore, in order to facilitate Wang Hua's actions in Zhejiang, Zhu Houzhao gave him the order of the East Palace outside the secret letter.

In this way, Wei Bin would never dare to be disobedient.

But Mei Kejia is not fit to keep up,
To be honest, Dong Gong was more radical than he thought.

Because Wei Bin has indeed grasped many secrets of the East Palace, what would a normal person do with it?Either kill them to silence them, or take them back for interrogation.

How could it be tried in Zhejiang?
So this point, Mei Kejia never thought about it from the beginning.

But by chance, he looked up and looked at the governor's yamen, and suddenly he understood,

Oh, it's because of Wang Hua...

Wang Hua is the chief judge, and he will not let the case files that are not good for the prince be sent to the capital.

As for what Wei Bin said in the lobby, there are too many things to do... Wang Hua can definitely give you a name, called "slandering the prince in order to get rid of crime", which is even more serious.

But speaking of it, after his fooling around last time, Wei Bin would not say a word about the prince.

You can live without talking.

So after all, everything is still in the calculation of the prince.

East Palace...

Mei Kejia’s impression still stays a few years ago. At that time, for the southeast matter, the crown prince seemed a little immature, and there was no one available in the court. Finally, he found himself as a businessman, and carefully started preparations a few years ago. Some are underpowered.

Looking at the present, what happened in Zhejiang has just happened, and there is not a few years to prepare for it, but the crown prince can not only send people, but also deal with them ruthlessly and accurately, even more than him.

Besides, Wei Bin was arrested,
In fact, it was already what he expected.

"Eunuch Wei," Wang Hua couldn't help it, "This court is acting on the order of His Highness, please don't be offended."

"Where is Zhongcheng?" Most eunuchs are like this. When they gain power, they are domineering, and when they lose power, they immediately burst into tears and snot, and they have no bones at all. Wrong, I'm sorry, slave!"

Wei Bin shouted in the crowd like this, not afraid of embarrassment.

Maybe I was dreaming in my heart, thinking that the prince might see this scene and give him a chance or something.

"Zhong Cheng, if you see Your Highness in the future, please tell His Highness for me that this slave has already understood that no matter how much money a slave wants, it is useless as long as it is not for His Highness. In the past few days, I have been I thought, if His Highness still wants to see the slaves, even if all the money is handed over, I am also willing."

Wang Hua instinctively still doesn't like this kind of money-grubbing eunuch, so he basically has no empathy for his repentance.

It's just saying: "Eunuch Wei, it's useless for you to ask for money. It's better to save it all, and I will transfer it to His Highness. Maybe His Highness is satisfied, and maybe I can really see you."

Wei Bin wiped away his tears and burst into tears, "Okay...then there will be Lao Zhongcheng, and I will hand over the money to Your Highness."

"How much in total?"

"A total of 1206 million taels of silver." Wei Bin felt a little guilty when he said this.

"Got it, take it with you."

Wang Hua himself took people to find the money.

Wei Bin's greed for this wealth is the key to the situation in Zhejiang.

The silver ingots in the cellar were piled up like a hill, some were packed in boxes, and some were just scattered there before it seemed that they had time, but they were all 50 taels in regular shape.

There are so many, it takes several hours to lift them.

The prince's will is to see how the officials in Zhejiang divide the money.

Wang Hua knelt down and touched the cold silver ingot in his hand. He was thinking about how to make those people "dare" to share the silver.

"Come on."

As soon as he spoke, four soldiers stood behind him.

Wang Hua pointed to the eight packed boxes piled up in the corner, "Carry those to the backyard of the governor's office. Separate them from the other money, go!"

When the four soldiers heard this, is this... so blatant?

In fact, it is not difficult to get involved with these corrupt officials.It is to be corrupt before them, and what's more, you don't tell them!

They must be in a hurry.

When the affairs here were over, he sent someone to send a message to the chief envoy's yamen,
"Wei Bin has been arrested, and 80 taels of dirty money has been seized. According to the crown prince's order, Li and Dang are deputy judges, and you two are specially ordered to investigate the case of Wei Bin's corruption of ink first!"

When this number was reported to the chief envoy's yamen, Li and Dang were stunned.Because when Wei Bin was arrested that day, what was going on inside, as long as you inquired carefully, you could still know.

Dang Shanji also swears, "Damn! Looking at his sanctimonious appearance, I thought he was a good man! As a result, his heart is much darker than my father's! One shot is 40 taels of silver! I divided more than [-]%, and the rest It’s only for us, it’s really not a damn thing!”

(End of this chapter)