high official

Chapter 543 Anti-water
Everyone in the hall never expected that the witness who should have given the final word turned his back on the water at this moment, and turned their guns on Ji Gang.

"How dare you, kid?!" The most unacceptable one was of course Governor Ji Gangji, who immediately threw away the calmness of the important officials of the court, and said heavily, "No one in this world dares to bully me!"

The name of a person, the shadow of a tree, how many people in the Ming Dynasty can withstand the majesty of Mr. Ji Gangji?That Chen Zhou was so frightened that his face turned ashen, but he still held on and said: "Students don't dare, students just tell the truth..."

"I'll kill you!" Ji Gang was furious, and suddenly got up from behind the table, seeing the fierce light in his eyes, he really seemed to want to kill someone.

"Lord Ji calm down, Master Ji calm down..." Wu Zhong and Liu Guan hurriedly stopped him, "Speak up if you have something to say, and if you have something to say, speak up!"

Ji Gang was also dizzy with anger, only then did he realize that this was in the lobby of the Ministry of Punishment, not in his own Jinyiwei yamen, he snorted angrily, and sat down with a dark face.

Reassuring Ji Gang, the interrogation continued, and Wu Shangshu repeatedly cross-examined, but Chen Zhou insisted that he did not buy the exam questions.Wu Zhong asked again, why did you write such a confession before?

Chen Zhou said with shame and tears: "The sage said, don't do to others what you don't want to do to yourself. The students are ashamed of the sages' teachings, but they threaten me with the safety of my parents. The students were confused for a while, only caring about their parents, but forgot Others have parents too..."

What he said was very level, which greatly changed the impression of the two halls on him. Wu Zhong asked again: "If what you said is true, if you change your words now, won't you kill your parents?"

"The students didn't expect so many people to be affected at the time," Chen Zhou said with tears streaming down his face, "I only found out in the past few days when the case happened. If I didn't tell the truth, if I didn't tell the truth, if I didn't tell the truth, my family would be ruined and my family would be destroyed if I went down to more than a hundred people in the same year." , Died unexpectedly! Yesterday, my father also learned about this from the neighbors, and when he came back, he questioned me severely. After they found out that the students had framed the same year, they were so ashamed and indignant that they scolded me all night, saying that they did not want my filial piety. If so many people's lives were to be used to keep them alive, they would rather die now than discredit their ancestors. It was I who promised them and told the truth in court today that they did not commit suicide..."

What he said made Wu Zhong and Liu Guan sigh, admiring the two old men who understood righteousness very much, but Ji Gang exploded in anger: "It's nonsense, it's nonsense! We must treat this kind of evil-minded people. Sentence, let's see if he dares to talk nonsense!"

"Your Majesty Ji, stay calm and don't be impatient." The balance in Wu Zhong's heart at this moment has quietly tilted towards Chen Zhou.In fact, he and Li Guan had already discussed it when they met in private. Although these two northern officials were very displeased with the way the Jiangxi gang controlled the court and acted in collusion, after all, they have been officials in the same dynasty for many years, let alone help Ji Gang to abuse , It is still necessary to reduce the implicability as much as possible.

Of course, there is no need for the two adults to help Jiangxi. Even if they want to help, it is only on the premise of not harming themselves.Before, the two also felt that there was little hope, but now that the key witness on Ji Gang's side suddenly turned against him, and the case had a tendency to turn around, Wu Shangshu naturally had to follow the trend. "This Chen Zhou is a Juren after all, so he can't be punished."

"Then deprive him of his parentage right away!" Ji Gang stared and said, "If you want to evade anything, you need to inform the Ministry of Rites. You, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, can do it!" If there is a tendency, he roars in the hall.

"Your Majesty Ji, stay safe and don't be impatient." Although Wu Shangshu has been careful not to offend Ji Gang, he is still a dignified second-rank Shangshu!Seeing that Ji Gang was so disrespectful, Wu Shangshu also became really angry, his face sank and he said: "It is the lower officials who are ordered to inquire about the case, and the lower officials have their own discretion."

"Eunuch Huang, have you seen it? These civil servants are the officials who protect each other and work together!" Ji Gang was furious, but he didn't lose his mind. He immediately put a big hat on Wu Zhong, and said to Huang He: "If they are allowed to continue the trial, one can imagine the situation. What is the ending of the case! Please also report to the emperor truthfully how they turned black and white, so that the emperor can judge!"

"Lord Ji calm down..." Huang He and Zhao Wang were unclear, and their hearts were naturally biased towards Ji Gang, but was Emperor Yongle so easy to fool?He didn't dare to go too far. "Of course I will report the truth to the emperor."

Seeing Huang He and Ji Gang standing on the side, Li Guan, who didn't want to offend others, had no choice but to support Wu Zhongdao: "I will report the truth to the emperor."

These words seemed to echo Huang He, but with his relationship with Wu Zhong, everyone knew that he was singing the opposite.

"My lords, please rest easy. Since there are too many differences, we might as well put Ji Yan's case aside." Wu Zhong was also furious at Ji Gang.Since Emperor Taizu abolished the prime minister and respected the book.The six ministers and the capital censor were the leaders of the civil servants. Although the emperor set up a cabinet later, and the ministers regarded the chief assistant as a prime minister, the cabinet in the Yongle period could not be compared with that of decades later. The six ministers and the capital censor These Qiqing are the real high-ranking civil servant leaders who stand at the forefront of civil officials when they are on duty in the court.But Ji Gang didn't take him seriously at all, and made Wu Shangshu really angry, and said without showing mercy to Ji Gang: "Let's talk about what happened in the Gongyuan first!"

When Ji Gang heard this, he naturally became even more furious, staring at Wu Zhong, and said darkly: "It seems that Wu Shangshu is going to fight me to the end!"

"Master Ji, why did you say that?" Wu Zhong said with a blank expression, "Since it is a fraud case in the examination room, can't the lower officials only ask questions outside the examination room, not inside?"

These words made Ji Gang speechless, almost suffocating internal injuries.At this moment, Dudu Ji was so depressed that he was dying. He never imagined that the situation that he had carefully planned to kill would turn into the current situation of dragging his feet and even throwing stones at his own feet.

Ordinarily, in this case, it was rare for Dudu Ji to stand on the side of justice. Even if he caught a fish for evidence collection, it was reasonable and no one could find out.How could it be that from the day it was started, it was like stepping into a mud puddle, and instead made myself a pants of mud soup, which was either shit or shit?

"Master Ji, you are the chief officer, may I ask if the Longmen search is thorough?" Seeing that Ji Gang had no way to object, Wu Zhong asked.

"It's not thorough." Ji Gang muffled.Of course he couldn't say that Wang Xian's inspection was thorough, otherwise his motives for another inspection would become suspicious.

"Not thorough?" Wu Zhong frowned and said, "Why, as far as I know, this search is extremely strict, and it can even be said to be the strictest in the world!"

"I admit that for some candidates, the search and inspection is quite strict." Ji Gang said: "But he treats them differently, and he is lenient to those in Zhejiang and Jiangxi."

"What evidence is there for saying that?" Wu Zhong asked.

"I have an eyeliner in the search of officers and soldiers." Ji Gang said: "He reported it to me."

"Where is this person?" Wu Zhong asked.

"Just wait outside for the summons." Ji Gang said.

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After a while, the secret agent was summoned to court, and explained to Wu Zhong how he had heard from Wang Xian that he wanted to be lenient with the juzinets in Zhejiang and Jiangxi.During the Longmen inspection, how did Zhejiang and Jiangxi Juzi be spared?After he finished speaking, Wu Zhong ordered Wang Xian to come to the court.

Although Wang Xian was released by the emperor, it doesn't mean that he is just fine and has to be confronted at any time.So he was there at the opening of the hall today, but at the beginning the question had nothing to do with him, so he was asked by Wu Zhong to rest in the ear room, and Shi Shiran came to the hall when the yamen servant came to invite him.

Although Wang Xian's status was not as prominent as those present, he was also a close minister of the emperor. Wu Zhong ordered someone to move a chair and politely invited him to sit down, and only then did he ask about the secret agent's report.

"It's very easy for adults to know whether it's true or not," Wang Xian said lightly, "This is not to release water on one or two cases, but to release water on hundreds of cases in Zhejiang and Jiangxi. All officials involved in the search must be punished." It can only be done by the cooperation of soldiers and soldiers." He said with a smile: "My lord may wish to summon other people to see if they have obeyed my orders. If they all say the same, I can't argue. If there are only a few people Said, my lord is hanging high in the sky, and he must make decisions for the lower officials."

"Well." Wu Zhongxin said, Wang Xian and Ji Gang are both spy chiefs, but the former is a scholar after all, and this sounds much more comfortable, so he looked at the other three and said, "What do you think, sir?"

"It makes sense." Li Guan nodded.

"Our family only listens and doesn't talk about it." Huang He didn't want to make a fuss either.

"Hmph..." Even Ji Gang couldn't refute it, but he was still a little confident, because after the case happened that day, he personally summoned the inspectors to give them a lecture and ordered them to speak in unison, saying, 'Because the inspector is from Zhejiang People, the deputy inspector is from Jiangxi, so he was asked to be lenient with Zhejiang people and Jiangxi people. '

It's just that after Chen Zhou's sudden betrayal, Dudu Ji's confidence is not so strong...

Sure enough, when the officers and soldiers who were in charge of the inspection task were reported to the court one by one, they all denied that Wang Xian had said such a thing. Wu Zhong and Li Guan believed in this.Because they didn't believe that Wang Xian would be so frantic that he asked candidates from other provinces to be stripped and searched, but he covered and condoned candidates from Zhejiang and Jiangxi. He, a young man under 20 years old, had no reason to do so.

Ji Gang's face was almost swollen like a pig's kidney. If it was said that Chen Zhou had betrayed the water before, he was justified and just angry.But this time he was indeed framing Wang Xian, and he was slapped in the face on the spot... I believe that after today, he will become the laughing stock of the government and the public in the capital.

Up to this moment, Ji Gang has naturally realized that the reason why this good and winning situation has become like this is because he was mentally disabled for a while and wanted to involve Wang Xian to solve it together.At the same time, Ji Gang also realized that the reason why Wang Xian was able to do these things must be that he had completely subdued Beizhen Fusi...

At this moment, he finally realized that Wang Xian was not some clown at all, but his nemesis!

(End of this chapter)