After initially gaining a breakthrough from Qiao Feng, Shen Ge greatly admired Tian Guizi.
He admired Tian Guizi for being able to defeat this guy who seemed fearless at first.
"If you hadn't personally intervened, Qiao Feng would be really difficult to deal with. Moreover, there are really many people interceding for him. Apart from the chairman, you are the only one who can control those people. They are not afraid of me at all, and it has been the same these years. , when I met some senior officials and members, they really had such an attitude."
Shen Ge was a little troubled and depressed: "Although the Ming Dynasty did not pay so much attention to qualifications when selecting and promoting officials, qualifications are still a very important part."
Tian Guizi shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Qualifications are not everything. If Fan Jiang couldn't stand it anymore and voluntarily surrendered, I guess I wouldn't have been able to capture him so quickly. Fan Jiang...sigh!"
In fact, Tian Qizi felt that Qiao Feng's calm confidence at the beginning really didn't appear for no reason. There was a real reason.
Because there are really many people who come to inquire about his affairs, and there are really many people who come to intercede with him in a hurry.
Tian Guizi feels that these people who intercede for him are not necessarily related to him, or even involved in this matter. Otherwise, they would not dare to appear so openly, and they are most likely to be middlemen.
Many senior members within the revival association came to intercede with him and asked why he was captured.
Many officials in the court came to inquire about this matter, asking what serious crime he had committed that warranted his capture.
Qiao Feng was born in the army, so some of his friends in the army came to see Tian Guizi and wanted to know why Qiao Feng was captured.
Everyone pays close attention to these things.
Being able to dispatch so many intermediaries to appeal was enough to show Qiao Feng's abundant political power in Zhongdu City.
Even Tian Guizi doubted whether these guys were planning to include Su Yonglin, who had absolute authority, in the intercession category, and create a real-life version of the law not punishing the public.
If there is really too much resistance, according to the practice of the old dynasties in the past, even the emperor must consider the people's hearts and cannot do whatever he wants, and he will really go on a killing spree.
There are really few emperors throughout the ages who are willing and able to kill corrupt officials.
Tian Qizi felt that he had stayed in Kaifeng for so long that he didn't even know that these guys already had such a deep interpersonal network.
He found Kong Maojie and asked him what was going on. Kong Maojie actually didn't know much about it. It was even the first time that he realized that Qiao Feng had such great political power.
"On my red and black lists, Qiao Feng has always been one of the iron ones on the red list, but I didn't know about this..."
It should be said that Kong Maojie has made a lot of achievements in these years. Zhongdu’s reputation as a ghost and the famous red and black list have greatly shocked Zhongdu officials. Many officials have been dismissed because they were on the black list. When I called him to talk, he got angry.
According to the rules, the red and black list will be evaluated once every three months. The first time you are on the black list, you will be interviewed. The second time you are on the black list, you will be kept on the job for inspection. The third time you are on the black list, you will be directly held accountable. The best result is to get out.
The existence of the red and black lists well maintained the motivation of officials in the Ming Dynasty.
However, Tian Qizi has occasionally heard some negative news about the red and black lists. For example, the red and black lists are not as powerful as a deterrent to middle- and high-level officials as they are to middle- and low-level officials.
As for the specific reasons, Tian Guizi has also heard of some. It is nothing more than that Kong Maojie was not a veteran, but a member of the Shengjie Army, and he joined the Shengjie Army later.
He had not experienced many wars and mainly relied on his political work to stand out. It was not until the establishment of the Ming Dynasty that he officially entered the civil service system and directly left the army. Then he was appreciated and promoted by Su Yonglin, and he is where he is today.
In the eyes of senior officials and Jiangnan elders, Kong Maojie is also a so-called newcomer and a young boy.
They think that Kong Maojie is where he is today only because of Su Yonglin's promotion. He has not shed much blood, has no merit, and just does things with his tail between his legs. How can he be compared with us? He even relies on some boring lists to intimidate us. ?
See if I ignore you!
Of course, senior officials are generally very cautious in their behavior. After all, Su Yonglin is the one holding the pressure, and they have not made any mistakes that would make Kong Maojie a big fuss.
But it is obvious that Kong Maojie's deterrence against them is limited.
"You have been excluded and isolated by them. After all, they hold the actual power and operate cautiously. How can we know things that even the Skynet Army doesn't know?"
Tian Qizi feels very bad now.
He was very worried that too many senior figures and their associates would be involved in these things, causing too big a chain reaction.
At present, there are nearly 300 veteran figures left in the Ming Dynasty. Although not many have reached the top positions, there are really many people who hold important responsibilities in middle and high-level positions. After so many years, each of them also has their own network of connections. .
If this were all involved, how big of a deal would it be?
Moreover, most of them are the die-hard base of the Ming Dynasty. If they are destroyed, what impact will it have on the Ming Dynasty?
Destroy them, and then can suitable replacements be found in a short period of time for the important positions they vacate?
Does Daming have a similar preparation plan?
Thinking of this, Tian Guizi suddenly felt that this matter was very difficult, and the most important thing was that Tian Guizi failed to completely open a gap from Qiao Feng and find out how extensive this matter was.
It seems that the only way to push this matter forward is when Su Yonglin comes back.
The main reason why I was able to learn something from Qiao Feng and get him to confess was because Su Yonglin's intimidation was too great.
Su Yonglin's previous two major purges left a deep psychological shadow on some people, and the system that harmed their families also left many people with lingering fears. Therefore, in order to seek leniency, Fan Jiang took the initiative to stand up and explain his own affairs.
Fan Jiang's son is twenty years old this year and is studying at Zhongdu Military Academy. He will join the army in the future and has a bright future.
Fan Jiang really couldn't accept that his son's future would be damaged because of his own affairs, so he stood up decisively, explained his own affairs, and blew up the case directly.
Qiao Feng probably couldn't have imagined that Fan Jiang would come forward and self-destruct without waiting for an investigation.
According to Fan Jiang's explanation, because his abilities were limited and he was not good at working, his position had been kept up and down, which was quite embarrassing. He didn't think there was anything wrong with it at first, but later he couldn't stand his wife's neglect and felt that he had to Think about your son.
The higher his position and status, the brighter his future son's future will be. Besides, it's not that he doesn't have connections that he can use, it's just that he has never used them before, thanks to his wife reminding him.
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