high official

Chapter 437 Confession
Prefect He babbled there, Wang Xian also calmed down, and soon realized... In fact, Lao He is not crazy or stupid, he is just acting.And the purpose of acting, he also made it very clear, is to 'save himself'.The madness at the beginning was just a warning to Wang Xian. If I was in a hurry, I would drag everyone into the water and see how you end up.Then his style changed, trying to build empathy with him was nothing more than trying to make his subordinates show mercy.

Apparently, Magistrate He thought of the first but not the second. He only guessed that King Jin was about to urinate, but he didn't expect that Wang Xian had already hooked up with King Jin... After all, this was so unimaginable that it was reasonable to guess.That's why Magistrate He put in so much effort, otherwise he must have a different face.

Wanting to understand the other party's flamboyance, Wang Xian simply watched his performance quietly. After all, the opportunity to listen to the inner monologue of a senior member of the fourth rank is not known how many times in a lifetime.

Magistrate He was chatting nonsense there, and Wu Wei was so bored in the back that he almost fell asleep.Finally, when he had said enough, he asked Wang Xiandao: "My lord, do you understand what I mean?"

"Understood, don't you just want to survive?" Wang Xian nodded.

Zhifu He nodded and said: "The ants are stealing their lives, of course I don't want to die, and I want to live well."

"Do you think you'll be safe?" Wang Xian looked at him like an idiot.

"How can it be safe and sound?" Zhifu He laughed at himself and said, "I was the one who planned Zhang Fantai's plan. I don't count on this black yarn, but I am too old and can't afford it. And I don’t want to be imprisoned again... I may not be clear about the job, but the cell is a living hell, and once you enter it, life is worse than death!"

"Then your request is that you don't want to be tortured or go to jail?" Wang Xian asked.

"Yes, as long as I can go home and farm intact, I will say whatever my lord wants me to say." Prefect He finally showed a weak face after the performance.

"Aren't you a senior, I ask for advice, how can you realize your wish?" Wang Xian said.

"It's not difficult," Zhifu He paused, and said in a low voice, "As long as my lord counts Zhang Chun's death on my head."

"How?"

"It was I who confessed all the facts of the case after I received the promise of my lord to keep me safe." Zhifu He shamelessly said: "Zhang Chun knew that he was doomed, so he committed suicide. In this way, the Shanxi military ration case was solved, and my lord completed the emperor's mission brilliantly. I won't blame the crown prince... criminals are also considered guilty and meritorious."

Wang Xian pondered for a moment on purpose, and asked, "Then do you still want to talk about King Jin?"

"Of course not." Magistrate He shook his head and said, "Being a daughter-in-law can hide things from both ends, and this is also the reason for being an official. Prince Jin is a prince, and there are King Han and King Zhao above him. If he is involved, the case will become serious, and Your lord's backer is now at its weakest, and if you really make a fuss in front of the imperial court, although you dare not say that you will definitely lose, the chances of winning are really not great." He said with a smile: "It is possible to completely defeat the three kings after all their achievements in one battle. Of course it exists, but the prince is more likely to be killed by the three kings. There is a saying that a bird in the hand is better than a hundred birds in the forest. The battle for the reserve position is a protracted battle. It is better to compare who will last longer and not rush forward , Do not make mistakes, is the only law."

Wang Xian couldn't help showing surprise, looked at Zhifu He again, and asked after a long while: "You already knew these truths?"

"I wish I had known it earlier." Zhifu He said with a bitter smile: "This is what I reflected on while I was in custody, doing nothing. If I had known this truth earlier, I would definitely not get involved, and I would persuade Zhang Chun not to mess around. Alas, a few days ago we were drinking tea at Nanlaoquan. Nanlaoquan Yongxi Nanlao, who would have thought that he would die in a blink of an eye..." As tears rolled down, he said sadly: "Remember, he actually also The Miyunlong that has not been brewed from the Nanlaoquan can only be drunk in the next life..."

Seeing that he was about to start rambling again, Wang Xian interrupted impatiently: "You will have plenty of time to think about it later, so let's say everything you need to say first."

"Young people nowadays don't have any patience at all..." Magistrate He muttered, and began to confess the whole case. From before Jingchao, Shanxi, from the chief secretary to the county, all levels of yamen were like ants on a hot pot. , to pursue each other's arrears, and finally all chased to Zhang Chun, the chief envoy.The following is his confession. Of course, all the plots have hidden the part about King Jin...

The so-called external inspection is a kind of official assessment system in Ming Dynasty.The Ming Dynasty decided to promote, depose and abolish officials through two assessments of "examination" and "inspection".The official promotion is determined by the "examination". Officials take an examination every three years, and the examination is completed in nine years. On the day when the examination is completed, the relevant department decides whether to be promoted.It is the "cha" that decides to depose officials, and the cha is divided into Beijing and foreign.As the name suggests, the former is for officials serving in Beijing, and the latter is for officials working abroad.

During the external inspection, the Ministry of Officials, together with the Metropolitan Procuratorate, inspected the integrity and achievements of local officials, etc., and finally gave comments.There are eight kinds of officials who will be punished: one is greedy, the other is cruel, the third is impetuous, the fourth is not good enough, the fifth is old, the sixth is sick, the seventh is quitting, and the eighth is not cautious.The punishment includes exile into the army, serve the people, demote, and retire from office.Moreover, the officials who were deposed from the Waichao had no possibility of recovery. It was conceivable that this was tantamount to a ghost gate for the officials of the Ming Dynasty.Before the gate of hell, those officials who were expected to be unlucky completely lost respect for those superiors who could not help them... At this time, Zhang Chun, the second-rank envoy, was not as popular as the third-rank envoy, because , will listen to the opinions of the latter, but the former will not be able to intervene.

Zhang Chun not only can't help the officials under him, but also owes them a huge amount of debt... Over the years, the feudal government has embezzled money and food from the intercepted places, which is a major factor in the deficit of the state and county.Now those county magistrates, magistrates, and magistrates sit in the chief secretary's yamen to collect debts every day, making Zhang Chun ashamed, dreaming that money is falling from the sky, and let him fill the hole.

Money does not fall from the sky, but money and food come from the ground.At this time, Zhang Chun was appointed as the minister of transshipment, responsible for receiving summer grain from all over the country, and then shipping it to Xuanfu.Seeing that hundreds of millions of grains of grain are about to pour in front of him, Zhang Chun feels that this is God's help, and the so-called God and God will take the blame!Of course he had to find a way to pluck the hair, and took the opportunity to fill the hole.

In fact, this is also a common practice in the officialdom. Probably, money and food have been handed over, and there is no one who does not want to take advantage of it. It's just that Zhang Fantai's appetite is a little bit bigger this time... He has calculated, even if he doesn't take a penny, he wants to make up for the holes in the province. , to manage the capital city, you have to honor the king of Jin, about 200 million shi for military rations... The price of rice in the Ming Dynasty was about one shi and one tael of silver, but the food shortage caused by successive years of wars, and Shanxi is not a grain-producing area, but there are many garrisons, As a result, the supply of food is in short supply, and the price of food can reach two taels, and two hundred shi converted into silver is 500 million taels, which is barely enough!

But this is almost impossible, because usually the title of profiteering is "loss", and the most severe "loss" is sea transportation, the highest is no more than [-]%, but Zhang Chun needs to swallow nearly half of the military rations, so what is this? It's clearly eating meat and knocking bones!

Simple "loss" is far from being perfunctory. Zhang Chun must find a new reason to devour the military rations.He was also driven by the people below, and he was also greedy for profit. He thought of Liu Zijin, the Bailian Sect who was entrenched in Guangling County, so he deliberately sent his subordinates to pretend to be members of the Bailian Sect, defected to Liu Zijin, and escorted the officers and soldiers to key points such as the time, route, and deployment of troops. The situation was disclosed to him.With these information, Liu Zijin naturally acted like a divine help, laying an ambush in a dangerous place in advance, preparing rolling stones and trees, fire oil bows and crossbows.

When everyone was saddened by the failure of the officers and soldiers, Zhang Chun and Zhang Fantai were secretly proud, because all the food escorted by the officers and soldiers was thrown to Liu Zijin, and it could only be counted as loss... Then the account was mixed with water, and the amount shipped in the account far exceeded the actual amount shipped. Now that the military rations have been robbed and the account has been written off, the gap between the accounts and the facts has become his pocket!
Zhang Chun played this trick of intentionally releasing water and robbing the military rations two more times, and finally aroused the prince's vigilance, stopped the transfer from Shanxi, and ordered the two towns of Xuanda to wipe out Liu Zijin who was entrenched in Guangling first, and waited for the grain road to be opened. Transship again.As for the military rations that were not sent to Shanxi, they were urgently sent to Beijing for transshipment...but Zhang Fantai has already got what he wanted.

During the whole process of the case, Zhang Chun and Zhang Fantai concealed the truth and deceived many officials. Some people noticed the abnormality, but for the sake of Zhang Fantai returning the money and food on time, most of them kept silent.Of course, there are also people who are sober and righteous, such as Zhao Changzhen, the magistrate of Fenyang County, who discovered Zhang Chun's shady activities, and secretly recorded the accounts intercepted by the Shanxi feudal officials into a book, and prepared to sue the court, but was discovered by Zhang Chun's minions, cruel kill it...

This is Zhifu He's description of the Shanxi military ration case, which fully demonstrates the ability of an old bureaucrat to shirk responsibility and shift and mend.In this confession, the focus is always on Zhang Chun and Zhang Fantai, fully describing the reasons for Zhang Chun's crime, and describing the process of Zhang Chun's crime in detail, so that all viewers believe that he is the culprit and the culprit!
As for King Jin, almost nothing was mentioned in the confession, which is also in line with the will of the vassals not to interfere in local government affairs.The crimes of local officials are concentrated on the deficit, at most they deliberately turned a blind eye to Zhang Fantai's crimes, but it is also understandable.After all, they were eager to make up for the deficit, and worried about repeating Zhao Changzhen's mistakes and losing Qingqing's life. If they are guilty, they are guilty, but at best they can only be regarded as minor accomplices...

The confession also cleared the crown prince’s charges. During this period, the crown prince did not take any action. He tried to change the situation in Shanxi several times, but it worked because he was too far away and unable to mobilize the army... This is enough for the crown prince. It couldn't even be better.After all, the prince is incompetent, and the emperor can bear it, but the prince is too shrewd and capable, and the emperor can't accept it...

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