high official

Chapter 376
Ji Song uttered the truth completely after drinking, and under the cover of clouds and mist, he revealed all of Ji Gang's methods of making money.

He told Wang Xian that in fact, most of the time, Ji Gang doesn't need to do it himself, just relying on the filial piety of the subordinates is already beyond his expenses.He told Wang Xian that at these ages, Gang appoints private individuals and crowds out the old people in Yan Mansion. The original Thirteen Taibao were either pushed out of Jinyiwei, or had to work with their heads bowed. Wang Qian, Li Chun, Pang Ying and others were in power. Relying on Ji Gang's trust, these people used Jin Yiwei's power to wantonly plunder the people's wealth and women.The plundered property and beauties are half-filial to Ji Gang, and Ji Gang will let them do whatever they want and protect them.

He told Wang Xian that Shen Wansan, a rich man in Wudi, was confiscated by Taizu and sent to Yunnan during Hongwu.Shen Wendu, the son of Shen Wansan, secretly begged to see Ji Gang, and gave him gold and dragon horns, quilts embroidered with dragons, brocades depicting phoenixes and other rare treasures.Ji Gang greatly admired Shen Wendu and trusted him very much. He regarded him as a military adviser and obeyed his words. Almost everything was planned by him.

It was these people who colluded with each other and acted in collusion, so they did many sensational things. For example, they asked their subordinates to fake imperial edicts several times, went to various saltworks, and extorted more than [-] million catties of salt.When he came back, he pretended to be an edict, seized [-] official ships and [-] ox carts, and transported them to private houses without payment.

They also framed dozens and hundreds of big businessmen, and searched their properties before giving up; they even defrauded the treasures of the envoys of the Jiaozhi Kingdom, and seized the fields and houses of officials and common people; Tens of thousands...Wang Xian was dumbfounded when he heard that, Ji Gang and his party have done evil things, it is really too numerous to record.If you want to deal with him, it seems that it is not difficult to find a breakthrough!

He continued to ask, but Ji Song finally couldn't hold it anymore, and fell asleep soundly...

Wang Xian kicked him, the guy didn't respond, so he snapped his fingers, and then two guards came in and dragged Ji Song out like a dead pig.

When there was no one in the room, Wu Wei came out from behind the curtain, offering a thick transcript with both hands, Wang Xian read it carefully, and said excitedly, "Ji Gang, where are you running!"

"My lord, please don't be too optimistic," Wu Wei said with a frown, "Ji Gang's misdeeds are well known to the world, but he still stands tall for more than ten years, and he has his own reasons."

"I know," Wang Xian said with a smile, "Is this called self-defilement for self-protection? He has too much power, he can monitor hundreds of officials in the court, arrest, interrogate and execute ministers without the judicial department, how can the emperor rest assured of him? It’s not being honest and self-defense, but sending the handle to the emperor. Only when the emperor believes that killing him is easy, will he use him with peace of mind.”

"Your Excellency is wise." Wu Wei nodded.

"Of course, when did I become unwise?" Wang Xian said with a smile: "But there must be a limit to self-defilement. It doesn't matter if you are more greedy for money and raise more women. Ah, what on earth do you want to do by turning the emperor's hawks into your own lackeys? Not to mention forging imperial decrees, intercepting beautiful women, arrogating crowns and clothes, and threatening officials! I bet these emperors must not know!" After a pause, he said : "And it can be inferred that the emperor's eyes and ears have been completely blocked by him. What the emperor sees and hears is what he wants the emperor to see and hear! He doesn't want the emperor to see and hear what the emperor basically can't see I can't hear you!"

"..." After listening to Wang Xian's analysis, Wu Wei saw sweat on his forehead and asked, "Is this guy crazy?"

"Who knows? If you want to destroy it, you must first make it crazy," Wang Xian said lightly, "Maybe he deserves to die!"

"Your Excellency, are you really confident in bringing down Ji Gang?" Wu Wei swallowed, this was really exciting.

"No." Wang Xian simply shook his head and said: "Ji Song's words are not reliable. Besides, as you said, Ji Gang has his own way of standing, if he can't break his way, he can't fall!"

"What does he have?" Wu Wei asked in a deep voice.

"He has—I don't know!" Wang Xian said seriously.

"I don't know..." Wu Wei was taken aback, and smiled wryly, "My lord is joking."

"If only I knew, wouldn't it be great?" Wang Xian sighed and said, "Ji Gang has been standing for more than ten years. It can be said that he is deeply rooted and covers the sky with one hand! To bring him down, there is no long-term plan, strong support, and Enough luck is impossible!" He said hesitantly: "Hey, the danger is so high! The road to Shu is more difficult than going to the blue sky!"

"My lord arrested Ji Song today," Wu Wei said, "Is this the first step?"

"It doesn't count, it can only be regarded as understanding the situation." Wang Xian shook his head and said, "I have to discuss this matter with His Highness before I can make a decision."

"Then what about Ji Song?"

"The soft ones are over, let's have some hard ones tomorrow." Wang Xian stretched his waist and said happily: "I finally feel sleepy!"

"But my lord, you have promised to go to Zhou Jietai's house for dinner..." Wu Wei reminded helplessly.

"Oh, is that so?" Wang Xiancai realized that the sun was already setting outside, so he could only yawn and said: "Okay then, give me a bath and change clothes, and make a pot of strong tea!"

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When it was getting dark, Wang Xian came to the Niesi yamen.In the back yamen, Mrs. Zhou Xin personally cooks, and has been busy since noon, cooking up dozens of special dishes, in order to thank him for his little benefactor.

So no matter how sleepy Wang Xian was, he had to come. Fortunately, he was young and energetic. After taking a cold bath and drinking a pot of strong tea, he was refreshed again.It's just that those rabbit eyes, there is no good way to get rid of them.

Seeing him like this, Zhou Xin asked with concern, "Why, didn't you catch up on sleep when you went back?"

"Can't sleep, Ji Song was interrogated suddenly." Wang Xian said with a smile.

"How's the harvest?"

"It's quite rich," Wang Xian said with a wry smile, "but my interrogation skills are lax, and I can't ask the boss to do it for me." Zhou Xin is the chief justice of a province, and turning a blind eye to Wang Xian's private execution hall is already the limit , it is impossible to interrogate him again.

"..." Zhou Xin put down his chopsticks, slowly stretched out his hand and said, "Show me the transcript."

"My lord still understands me," Wang Xian smiled embarrassedly, and took out the transcript from his sleeve. Zhou Xin read it carefully with the light on. , All kinds of complaints said: "The great trouble of the country, the great thief of the people! If this disaster is not eliminated, the society will not be safe!"

"Is everything on it real?" Wang Xian asked.

"It's more or less the same, Ji Song won't make it up to harm his uncle, right?" Zhou Xin said in a deep voice, "But this confession alone is not enough to get rid of this beast!"

"That's natural." Wang Xian nodded and said: "Ji Gang has survived for more than ten years, there must be a way for him to protect himself."

"Well." Zhou Xin nodded and said: "His way of self-protection, or the way of standing up, is actually divided into two stages. The first stage is loyal and vicious. The emperor wanted to clean up Jianwen's old ministers, so he copied melons and let them Thousands of families are destroyed! This kind of thing is not something that ordinary people can do, it must be a person with a heart like a stone and an annihilated generation to do it!"

"Yeah." Wang Xian nodded, and Zhou Xin continued: "But he has done a lot of bad things, and he is also worried that he will be used by the emperor to calm the anger. After all, his two predecessors, Jiang Xian and Mao Xiang, died like this. It is impossible for him not to be vigilant. Especially a few years ago, the emperor stopped being clear about Jianwen's old ministers and killed Chen Ying. , To strengthen the strength, on the one hand, changed the previous position, and began to move closer to the King of Han."

Wang Xian couldn't help sighing secretly, Jiang is still old and hot, and Lao Zhou knows better than himself! "At first, the old man thought that he was looking for his own death. But later he figured out that he approached the King of Han, probably because he got a hint from the emperor!"

"What?" Wang Xian was surprised.

"You have to remember that there is only one piece of sky in the Ming Dynasty, and that is Emperor Yongle! Behind the direction of the court is the embodiment of the emperor's will," Zhou Xin said in a low voice: "The emperor does not want to see any forces in the court that threaten him. , so the more the officials support the prince, the more the emperor will suppress the prince! But the prince is the crown prince, and he is kind and generous, and has won the support of the civil servants. This support cannot be suppressed by the emperor. Therefore, the emperor repairs it from time to time The prince, support the King of Han to rise up and suppress the prince. But the strength of the King of Han is inherently flawed, and only Ji Gang can compete with the prince! I can see this, and with the emperor's sageness, I can naturally see it even more! That's why I will I feel that it is the emperor's intention for Ji Gang to lean towards the King of Han!"

"That's too bad..." Wang Xian's face was extremely ugly. He knew that in any period of human beings, politics prevails.In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial power overwhelmed everything. For the emperor, how to ensure that his power would not be challenged was his priority. Other matters, no matter how big, had to be put in the back row!

If Ji Gang helped the King of Han to fight against the crown prince, it was arranged by the emperor, it would be enough to make his position as stable as Mount Tai, and it would be extremely difficult to move him!

"Balance—this is the way Ji Gang established himself in the later period!" Zhou Xin said in a deep voice.

"No wonder he can sit in the crater." Wang Xian sighed.

"In fact, he is also suffering a lot." Zhou Xin laughed mockingly and said, "He should be very clear that at the end of this round, neither the King of Han nor the Crown Prince will be able to tolerate him!"

Wang Xian thought about it, nodded and said, "That's right." It's like this, if the prince wins, it goes without saying, if the king of Han wins, then he has done so many shameful things for the king of Han, and Zhu Gaoxu can't keep him either. . "According to your lord, Ji Gang's chess game is a dead game no matter how you play it?"

"Yeah." Zhou Xin nodded and said: "The balance will break one day, and that will be the day he dies!"

(End of this chapter)