"Are you the one named Feng?" Wei Chong glanced at him and gently put down the roster, "You soldiers are really hard to take care of."
Seeing that he was full of resentment, Captain Feng didn't dare to reply to him, so he swallowed nervously.
"Let me tell you, Mr. Wei is in charge of the abolition of redundant officials now. If you commit any crime on a daily basis, don't blame me for what I said." Wei Chong's attitude became worse and worse, and every word was full of threats.
Captain Feng finally couldn't bear it any longer. He knelt down on the ground and shouted to Wei Chong: "I have been innocent all my life. I have never done anything wrong to anyone. I hope Wei Shuban will forgive me!"
Wei Chong sneered and continued to flip through the roster: "Listen carefully, if you can write a confession, or give an oral confession, and finally put your fingerprints on it, you will be safe. I want you to confess the people who are close to Ma Si. "
Captain Feng wiped his sweat, rolled his eyes hesitantly three times, and said cowardly: "I will obey your orders."
"Come, Jiang is inspecting, sit down."
Ye Yongjia pressed Jiang Tian on the chair and asked straight to the point: "Wei Chong has been checking on your people recently. I asked him what was going on, and he said, 'You need to be careful when cutting redundancies, so you call them one by one. Come and ask, this must be nonsense. Do you know anything about this?"
Jiang Tian sighed heavily and looked at him helplessly: "I already understand eighty-nine. Wei Chong wanted to take revenge on us, so he asked the horse catcher to do the surgery. The horse catcher refused to admit his crime, so he called more than a dozen I went there personally, intending to commit perjury, intending to remove him from office and even put him in jail."
"Can you bear it?" Ye Yongjia was indignant.
"The problem is..." Jiang Tian slapped his thigh, "Wei Chong now holds great power, with Wan and Lu parties behind him. No matter how many soldiers he has, he can't control it. If he forcibly stops that guy, I won't matter. , but brothers, and you, will inevitably encounter some trouble."
"What do you mean, let the horse catcher die in vain?" Ye Yongjia shook his head unbearably, "He is your subordinate! You just promoted him..."
"Alas..." Inspector Jiang didn't know what to say, so he grabbed a tea bowl and drank in it.
"You don't have to worry about this matter," Ye Yongjia's face darkened, "His things will eventually be handed over to me for approval."
Jiang Tian gave a wry smile and slowly left the study, leaving the only sentence: "For the stability of Nanjing City, Ma Chao... can't be guaranteed."
The frustrated Captain Feng was kicked by the clerk and slipped out of the Yamen in disgrace. Wei Chong leisurely folded the confession, ordered the scribe to lead the way, and went to go through the formalities - to report to Ye Yongjia.
Ye Yongjia hadn't felt pressure from Wei Chong for a long time. When he saw the confession in Wei Chong's hand, he bit his finger nervously.
"What is this?" Ye Yongjia pointed to the pile of documents.
"This is a confession submitted by a policeman named Feng from the Inspection Department, which confessed the evil deeds of his colleague Ma Si." Wei Chong said through gritted teeth.
"I don't have the patience to read it. Tell me something specific." Ye Yongjia pushed the document aside.
Wei Chong felt very satisfied when he saw that he had made Magistrate Ye so angry, and he was quite happy to waste some words: "The man surnamed Feng said that Ma Si has many friends, four of whom are Mao from the Inspection Department. Cai Shuli of the army and military room, Liu Yamen of the Yamen, and Wang Liangguan of the granary. His younger brother Ma Wu has nothing to do on weekdays. He uses his brother's name to exploit people and harm his neighbors for a living. Everyone he is close to has an official If we do this, we will support each other and become cliques."
"Secondly, Ma Si stood guard at the city gate and often asked for money during interrogation. If he didn't get what he wanted, he would beat him and scold him. Although the two crimes still need to be proven, the truth has almost come to light."
"How many people will be saved?" Ye Yongjia hoped that he would give him a number that he could accept.
"There are seven or eight people. But Ma Si's crime was so serious that not killing him would not be enough to anger the people. Of course, the case needs to be deepened. Maybe more people will be killed and more officials will be dismissed..." Wei Chong smiled grimly. After a moment, the voice was full of sinister flavor.
The prefect was shocked. He might have watched the heads of nearly ten or even ten more people fall to the ground without having to bear any price. If joining the Liu Party was for the sake of "suffering hardship", now it has become nothing more than "stabilizing Nanjing". To use such great ambitions to prevaricate is a bit self-deceiving. Should he still stand on top of piles of bones and stand in the sleepless night?
Ye Yongjia wants to crush those innocent bones with righteousness, which is a method he has always despised, even though it is one of the methods he has always used. Ye Yongjia is very doubtful about the path he is taking. If this continues, will the country be able to welcome the dawn?
This was the only way he could live to execute it, so he tried his best to broaden his vision and become bigger. It seemed that he could become a person who saw the overall situation and would no longer sympathize with cold numbers.
"Okay... let you do it." Ye Yongjia brought himself back to reality. After saying it, it seemed that all the pressure had disappeared.
Wei Chong began to take a crucial step. With the confession in his arms, he wandered into the official office with them.
"I pay my respects to Mr. Hu." Wei Chong bowed.
Hu Qi, however, seemed particularly indifferent. He stood up slowly and waved his hand: "No need. Wei Chong, why are you here today?"
"Hu Shangshu, I have a confession here, which is written about a captor named Ma Si." Wei Chong opened the confession one by one. "Look, this man has committed many crimes and cannot be kept."
Hu Qi didn't want to follow his wishes, but when he saw the seal of the prefect above, he couldn't say anything.
"The prefect approved it?"
"Yes, approved." Wei Chong said with a smile.
"Okay then," Hu Qi tugged at his beard, "Do you want the officials to help you arrest people?"
"Yes," Wei Chong said, "but it's more than that."
"Say." Hu Qi lowered his head and read through the confession.
"Please help me take a look, see if Ma Si and his relatives and friends... have done anything illegal?"
The sound of turning pages of books stopped suddenly.
"I'll arrange for someone to do it."
"That's good," Wei Chong was overjoyed, "but please help me catch him first."
It was midnight, and Ma Si was still snoring like thunder in his house. The torch outside the door lit up a large area, surrounding the house.
"Ma Si, you bastard, come out!" Some officers and soldiers shouted.
"Get out!" Several more people shouted one after another, but there was no response.
"What do you mean, just kick him away." Wei Chong kicked the soldier's legs angrily, "Get up quickly, or I will treat you like a redundant!"
