Chapter 519. Calm down.
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While Zhao Junchen was secretly thinking about his future plans, Li Chuanwen, as the leader of the staff team, also concluded to Zhao Junchen: "Sir Zhao, after we have sorted it out in detail, the reports provided by the Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen have All the contents have been summarized. In just one night today, all thirty-seven Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen submitted confidential reporting letters to our government. A total of eighty-two smuggling businessmen were reported for their smuggling crimes, and involved Two hundred and eighty-four officials of the seventh rank and above of the imperial court have provided 371 credible evidence and clues, and another 133 pieces of information that still need to be confirmed. With these evidence, clues, and As long as we confirm the authenticity of the intelligence and make some arrangements, we can catch all eighty-one of the smugglers, and all the court officials who have connections with the smugglers will be in disaster!"
At this point, even Li Chuanwen, who had assisted many imperial officials and was used to seeing strong winds and waves, could not help but look excited at this moment.
As for the staff behind Li Chuanwen, they also had similar expressions.
At this moment, they were all staring closely at the thick booklet in Zhao Junchen's hand - this booklet was compiled by them personally, so they also knew very well what kind of power the contents in this booklet had! And after getting this booklet, what kind of influence does Zhao Junchen have!
As long as Zhao Junchen is willing to throw this book out, the entire situation between the government and the opposition will be turned upside down in an instant!
However, Zhao Junchen did not intend to expose all the contents of this booklet.
After slowly touching the cover of the booklet, Zhao Junchen handed the booklet to Li Chuanwen again and said: "Next, I have to thank you all, the contents of this booklet need to be reorganized. Divide the various criminal evidence inside into two parts. One part is evidence of smuggling and tax evasion by smuggling businessmen, and the other part is evidence of crimes of court officials accepting bribes and participating in smuggling, and record them separately into separate volumes! After you have sorted it out again, Give me all three booklets... In addition, you must keep your mouths shut in the future. You must not tell anyone about tonight's events, especially the fact that I have obtained many tangible evidence of the crimes of the court officials!"
After hearing Zhao Junchen's instructions, the experienced Li Chuanwen immediately understood Zhao Junchen's intention.
Zhao Junchen requested that the criminal evidence and information in the book be divided into two parts. One part was about the smugglers, and the other part was about the court officials. Obviously Zhao Junchen did not intend to deal with both at the same time, but wanted to use these first. The evidence excludes the smugglers, and the court officials involved in the case are slowly trying to figure it out.
Zhao Junchen's choice also made Li Chuanwen secretly relieved.
Originally, he was very worried that Zhao Junchen would be young and energetic and could not resist temptation. He planned to expose all the contents in this booklet at once, and wanted to catch all the businessmen and officials involved in smuggling activities. By that time , Zhao Junchen’s actions will certainly shock the government and the opposition, but in the end the unlucky person will definitely not be the businessmen and officials involved in smuggling activities, but Zhao Junchen himself!
After all, although the various evidences in Zhao Junchen's hands are powerful, because there are too many people involved, they can easily arouse the fear and hostility of the officials!
In addition, there is another phenomenon that cannot be ignored, which is that "the law does not punish the public." If Zhao Junchen impeached 284 officials of the seventh rank and above in one go, Emperor Deqing would never do it, even if the evidence was conclusive. Take action to punish these officials. After all, there are too many people. If they are all punished, where will Emperor Deqing find so many replacements? The fall of so many officials will surely shock the world. How much will the court's reputation be damaged by then? Therefore, if Zhao Junchen really does this, the final result is likely to be that 284 corrupt officials are found not guilty in the face of irrefutable evidence, while Zhao Junchen, the whistleblower, will be found guilty of disrupting the court, falsely accusing colleagues, and Suppressing dissidents and other crimes were punished by Emperor Deqing - after all, compared to the 284 corrupt officials, it was much easier to punish Zhao Junchen and the impact was much smaller, even if Zhao Junchen's impeachment was out of public concern - Similar things have happened many times in history.
In this way, if Zhao Junchen wants to expose all the contents in this booklet, he will naturally seek death!
Fortunately, although Zhao Junchen got this booklet as a weapon, he did not forget about it. He was still able to remain calm and rational. He also knew the truth of Xu Xu Tuzhi, but he also spared some advice from Li Chuanwen and others.
On the other side, after seeing the expressions of Li Chuanwen and others, Zhao Junchen immediately understood their worries.
After a gentle smile, Zhao Junchen said slowly: "Don't worry, everyone, I will not expose all the evidence. At present, I only have to deal with the smugglers. As for the court officials involved in the case, I have not yet If you plan to move them, you won't even spread the evidence that you have evidence of their crimes. You will just pretend that you don't know their culpability and leave it to deal with them one by one in the future..."
After finishing speaking, Zhao Junchen sighed slightly and said with emotion: "Although, in this matter, we represent the justice of the court and are the righteous party, I also know that since ancient times, the winner is often not The righteous side, but the stronger side! Therefore, I will not act rashly until I have sufficient strength!"
After hearing Zhao Junchen's remarks, all the staff showed admiration. They admired Zhao Junchen's reason and calmness, and also admired Zhao Junchen for being able to speak such truth.
Therefore, all the staff, headed by Li Chuanwen, bowed to Zhao Junchen one after another, and also took the opportunity to praise Zhao Junchen.
After the worries in his heart dissipated, Li Chuanwen suddenly thought of something serious and asked Zhao Junchen for instructions: "Sir, according to your idea, after the Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen report the smuggling crime, they can get one-third of the smuggling businessman's money." ships, but nowadays, most smugglers are reported by multiple people at the same time, but they don’t know how to solve this situation? Are those rewards given to the Huizhou and Zhejiang merchants who are the first to provide incriminating information? Or are they to all Huizhou and Zhejiang merchants who provide incriminating information? Do the merchants share these rewards equally?”
Zhao Junchen said without any hesitation: "Of course, all Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen who provide criminal evidence will share the reward equally! My suggestions are just to mobilize the enthusiasm of those Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen and let them actively report their former colleagues, but I I don’t want one of them to get too many benefits or expand their strength too quickly, otherwise it will be easy for them to become too big.”
Li Chuanwen nodded, still agreeing with Zhao Junchen's idea, and replied: "I understand!"
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Then, the staff planned to continue organizing the information according to Zhao Junchen's instructions.
However, Zhao Junchen suddenly thought of something and asked: "By the way, you just said that we received a total of eighty-two smugglers tonight, but in the end we could only arrest eighty-one of them." There are smugglers, but why is there still one smuggler that cannot be arrested?”
Li Chuanwen replied: "Your Majesty, this smuggler's name is Li Zequan, and he is a well-known businessman in Suzhou. This person has always been cautious and has few flaws. Among the many criminal evidence intelligence we have received, it is related to There are a total of eleven items related to him, but they are all just unconfirmed speculations and not ironclad evidence, so if we want to convict him, we may have some trouble."
"Oh? Among smugglers, there are still such cautious people? No one of the thirty-seven colleagues can provide concrete evidence of his crime?... Li Zequan, this name seems familiar." Zhao Junchen said slowly .
Li Chuanwen nodded and said, "Your Excellency, you have heard of this person's name. Maybe it's because his son is named Li Chunchen, and he is the second-level Jinshi in Jinke Palace Examination."
"Li Chunchen?" Zhao Junchen said thoughtfully, "So that's it. It's true that a tiger father has no dog son..."
In fact, Zhao Junchen has always attached great importance to Li Chunchen.
When Li Chunchen took part in the palace examination, the test questions he wrote shocked Zhao Junchen. This person suggested that Emperor Deqing start the "hearing and gossip" strategy, not only to reduce the number of court officials' submissions, but also to reduce the number of court officials. The standards for impeaching court officials, and from now on, officials no longer need concrete evidence to impeach court ministers, let alone be responsible for their own impeachment memorials.
If Emperor Deqing really adopts Li Chunchen's suggestion, then all the officials in the court will soon face the situation of "who is not included in the court, and who is not involved in the court". At that time, Emperor Deqing will hold the court's official position. Countless evidences of crimes against hundreds of officials naturally increased the imperial power.
Therefore, Emperor Deqing was naturally moved by Li Chunchen's suggestion, but because such suggestions would inevitably be resisted by officials, Emperor Deqing had not yet taken concrete action.
Since the end of the imperial examination, Li Chunchen has been keeping a low profile, and Emperor Deqing seems to have forgotten about him. But Zhao Junchen knows that Emperor Deqing is just treating Li Chunchen coldly, and will use him again sooner or later!
However, Zhao Junchen did not expect that he would hear the news about Li Chunchen again at this time.
Obviously, neither Li Chunchen nor Li Chunchen's father Li Zeguang are simple figures, and they need Zhao Junchen's secret attention.
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…(To be continued.)
