My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 394 Officials Involved
"This official is the magistrate of Xiangshan County. Who are you and why do you want to arrest this official?"

Although Xu Zhixian was tied up, he still kept clamoring. After all, as an official, he had privileges.

However, the soldiers who arrested him ignored him and took him back to the Xiangshan County Government.

But now the entire county government has changed drastically. Zhu Zhanhe brought Dongchang into the county government, and all the family members of Xu Zhi County were under control, even the government servants and others were all under centralized supervision.

When Xu Zhixian was taken to the county government hall, when he saw Zhu Zhanhe sitting in the official position, Xu Zhixian immediately scolded: "Who are you, why did you trespass in the courtroom, do you know that this is a capital crime?"

"External strength, middle performance!"

Zhu Zhanhe sneered, although Xu Zhixian yelled so loudly, it was actually to cover up his guilty conscience.

Xu Zhixian's face turned pale when Zhu Zhanhe told him about his guilty conscience. In fact, since the officers and soldiers rushed into the Xu family's mansion, he already felt bad, and it is very likely that something happened to them.

"You... who are you?"

Xu Zhixian stared at Zhu Zhanhe, trying to calm himself down and asked.

"Blind your dog's eyes, this is His Royal Highness, Prince of Han, who is ordered by the emperor to come to Ningbo to investigate the Japanese pirates' rebellion!"

Cao Lei next to him pointed at Xu Zhixian and scolded him.

Hearing Zhu Zhanhe's identity, Xu Zhixian's body went limp from fright, and he collapsed to the ground, the worst situation finally appeared.

"Tell me, who is behind you?"

Zhu Zhanhe asked casually while playing with the gavel on the table.

"I... I don't know what you mean, son?"

However, Xu Zhixian was still stubborn, with the last ray of hope in his heart, if His Royal Highness had no evidence, he would not be able to do anything to him then.

"Lin Lishi and others pretended to be Japanese pirates, robbed the people twice, and then hid in Xuanshan Island. They have now been arrested by Dinghaiwei. Lin Lizhi was arrested with you just now. If you are unwilling to confess, I believe Lin Lizhi will definitely Would love to chat with me!"

Zhu Zhanhe raised his eyes to look at Xuzhi County, and then said lightly again.

Hearing that Zhu Zhanhe knew everything, even Lin Lishi had been arrested, this made the last hope of Xuzhi County dashed.

Looking at the Dongchang Fanzi next to Zhu Zhanhe, Xu Zhixian knew that these people were closely related to Jinyiwei, and thinking of the legendary Jinyiwei Imperial Prison made Xu Zhixian feel like a sieve.

"I... I said, I said everything!"

Xu Zhixian is obviously not a hard-headed person, and immediately confessed all the people behind him.

What shocked Zhu Zhanhe was that the person behind Xuzhi County was Huang Yi, the Zuo Buzheng Envoy of Zhejiang Province. You must know that the Ming Dynasty did not set up provinces, and it was renamed the Chengxuan Political Envoy Division. , so Huang Yi can definitely be called a great official in the frontier.

What Zhu Zhanhe didn't expect was that besides Huang Yi, more than a dozen officials were involved in the case, including the chief secretary, the inspection department, and the capital department. It can be said that all the three major departments in a province were involved in the case.

"Cao Lei, according to the list, arrest all officials involved in the case!"

Zhu Zhanhe ordered through gritted teeth.

Although he knew for a long time that there must be officials involved in the case behind the person pretending to be a Japanese pirate, but he did not expect that so many officials were involved in the case, and even the chief envoy of a province was involved, which is simply insane!

Cao Lei agreed, and immediately led the Dongchang Fanzi and Dinghaiwei soldiers to Hangzhou. Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang Province. Most of the government offices at all levels are located there, and almost all the officials involved in the case are in Hangzhou Prefecture.

Cao Lei went to arrest people, and Zhu Zhanhe was not idle. After Xu Zhixian's interrogation, he immediately ordered Lin Lizhi to be brought to the court.

Soon Lin Lizhi was escorted by the soldiers. Compared with Xu Zhixian, although his face was ashamed, he was still calm. He probably knew that such a day would come.

"Lin Lizhi, you are so courageous that you even instigated your younger brother to pretend to be a pirate and kill the people of Ming Dynasty. Can you plead guilty?"

Zhu Zhanhe slapped the table and asked angrily.

"Adults, villains are also forced!"

Unexpectedly, Lin Lizhi shouted loudly.

"Forced?"

Zhu Zhanhe sneered.

"Don't tell me, you were forced to do all these things by officials like Huang Yi?"

"My lord, I admit that I am really dissatisfied with Kaihai, but I never thought of disobeying the imperial court's decree. It's all Huang Yi and the others who are greedy and think that Kaihai cut off their money, so That's why I was forced to send someone to pretend to be a Japanese pirate!"

Lin Lizhi kowtowed repeatedly at the end, as if he was very aggrieved.

"It's true that Kaihai has cut off Huang Fu and his group's source of income, but you are a maritime merchant, and Kaihai is beneficial to you, so why are you dissatisfied with Kaihai?"

After hearing this, Zhu Zhanhe asked in a puzzled way.

When the sea was banned, Lin Lizhi was a big smuggler. He colluded with Huang Yi and others, and the smuggling proceeds had to be paid to Huang Yi and others. But after the sea was opened, there was no need to smuggle any more. Yeah, but it's definitely going to have a big impact.

Facing Zhu Zhanhe's question, Lin Lizhi hesitated for a while, and finally replied truthfully: "My lord, after opening the sea, my family's business has indeed not been affected much, and it even took a step ahead of others, which accounted for a lot. There are few advantages, but others are not bad, and competing with so many people for business is naturally not as comfortable as the previous unique business."

"What a greedy one!"

Zhu Zhanhe snorted coldly when he heard the words, this Lin Lizhi is not a good guy, he was not clear with the Japanese pirates when he was smuggling before, this time he had someone pretend to be a Japanese pirate, even if he was forced by Huang Yi and others, he would still Indulging his subordinates to commit crimes, the people who were killed all died in vain at the hands of Lin Lizhi.

"Come here, put him and Xu Zhixian in prison, interrogate their actions in detail, and arrest all people related to the case!"

Zhu Zhanhe ordered immediately.

Huang Fu's officials are big fish, but apart from these big fish, there are also many people involved in the case under Zhixian County and Lin Lizhi, and these people must not be let go, and they will all be arrested and brought to justice.

Of course, it’s fine to leave these matters to the people in Dongchang. Zhu Zhanhe doesn’t need to worry about it. He just needs to wait for Cao Lei to arrest Huang Yi and others, and then interrogate them himself, and then escort them to the capital. up.

A few days later, Cao Lei led his men to arrest Huang Fu and other officials involved in the case.

However, the chief envoy was arrested. This incident must have triggered a major earthquake in the entire Zhejiang officialdom, not to mention that there were more than a dozen officials who were arrested together, and almost half of the high-level officials in Zhejiang were wiped out.

Therefore, just as Cao Lei escorted Huang Yi and others to Dinghaiwei, before Zhu Zhanhe had time to interrogate, Zhu Zhanji brought someone to the door again.

(End of this chapter)