"Jin...Jin Yiwei?"
In the Ming Dynasty, for most people, they had to step back when they heard this word.
The reason why Mao Yuwen was able to walk in so arrogantly just now was because of his flying fish suit. If he was a rough country boy, even if he sneaked in, one of those many pairs of eyes would see him and drive him away.
Speaking of which, Mao Yuwen was also ruthless. He actually wiped this person's neck directly in front of so many people. Some soldiers had never seen such a scene before, and their faces turned pale with fear.
Mao Yuwen, however, looked sarcastic, "This person insulted Your Highness with his words, and his death is not unjust at all."
Then he turned his gaze and landed on the middle-aged man who was holding the body and crying, "Should he be arrested too?"
"Yes...yes." One soldier couldn't stand Mao Yuwen's gaze and nodded blankly.
"If it's you, arrest him!" Mao Yuwen walked over, straightened his crooked hat, and patted him, "You must be a bit promising. Remember this sentence, soldiers must look good."
After saying that, he left the courtyard.
At this time, he didn't know that the man he killed on the spot was Huang Zongliang's second brother.
Afterwards, Mao Yuwen asked someone to take him to the governor's Yamen.
As soon as Wang Hua heard that it was the Jin Yiwei, he knew that the vanguard of the people sent by His Highness had arrived. He was relieved that no matter how chaotic the situation in Zhejiang was, it would be stable.
"...Speaking of which, you have arrested both the Chief Envoy and the Inspector-General. What about the people in their yamen?" Mao Yuwen first came to understand the situation.
"As long as they are involved in corruption, they will be arrested. However, this will empty all the government offices in Zhejiang, and many government affairs will be delayed." Wang Hua asked, "I wonder if His Highness has made arrangements for the subsequent replacement of officials."
Mao Yuwen was not worried, "Wang Zhongcheng, just these bird officials in Zhejiang, without them, the people would live better."
What he said... can be considered rough words but not rough words. Wang Hua and Mei Kejia looked at each other and expressed surprise at the roughness and delicacy displayed by this fellow commander of the Jin Yiwei.
"Where are the two masterminds? Can Wang Zhongcheng let me see them?" Mao Yuwen also added, "Handling affairs is Jin Yiwei's specialty. If Zhongcheng is worried about Zhejiang's government affairs, he might as well work harder."
Now that Jinyiwei is here, it doesn't matter if Yuzi is handed over. They are all people sent from the East Palace, and they are not so particular.
But there is something that Wang Hua wants to talk about. He brought the two words that Mei Kejia had just written on the table to Mao Yuwen's eyes.
"Japanese pirates...are there any traces to follow?"
Judging from his reaction, Mei Kejia knew that the prince should have given instructions when these people left the capital.
Wang Hua shook his head and replied: "Not long after Zhejiang received the news about Tengxiang Zuowei, we arrested him immediately. Logically speaking, it should be too late, but we don't know whether anyone dares to secretly collude with the Japanese pirates. So during the trial Li and Dang can make this point clear. As long as they are kept out of control and Tengxiang Zuowei is in charge, Zhejiang Zhizhi will not form a major counterattack this time."
Of course, there will always be political counterattacks. Unless it is turned into a rebellion. ….
Originally, Mao Yuwen wanted to directly interrogate the criminals first, but when he heard about this incident, he suddenly had some thoughts, "Why...not let them collude with the Japanese pirates?"
Wang Hua and Mei Kejia were shocked when they said this, because they had never considered this direction at all. One of them is a civil servant and a businessman, and they would never want the situation in Zhejiang to change so drastically.
But Mao Yuwen’s perspective is different from theirs.
He spread his hands and said: "Zhongcheng is worried that someone will collude with the Japanese pirates. This is the feeling given to you by the gentry in Zhejiang, which means that someone dares to do this. This is a serious crime that will destroy the nine tribes. There are such people who will not allow it. He showed himself and you told him to hide?"
For Mao Yuwen, this kind of adventure was completely different from what he had experienced before. And Zhang Yong is right behind, who can change the world?
Mei Kejia's heart trembled, when did the Crown Prince
Such a cruel and ruthless person was employed. He thought for a while and then explained: "It's not that anyone dared to collude with the Japanese pirates. It's just that when Tengxiang Zuowei came, many people were desperate and there was no other way."
"Zhongcheng, is that so?"
"Indeed."
"But if you want me to die, I have to die. Isn't that what these officials said?"
"No matter how you put it, it's better not to cause trouble." Wang Hua is not a killing machine, he is an official who wants to govern a party. "If there is trouble, will others say that it was caused by His Highness's excessive behavior in Zhejiang? "
When it comes to the interests of the prince, Mao Yuwen dare not be too casual.
"Then... let's wait until Eunuch Zhang comes. I'll go and interrogate those two people first. Maybe I can learn more."
As he left, Melka bowed slightly to show respect. He stood up and glanced at Wang Hua again, and saw that his eyes were a little tight, so he guessed that this Jin Yiwei's status in the capital was not low. However, Mei Kejia had already felt that as soon as he mentioned His Highness, Mao Yuwen's tone changed.
This kind of person is like this. The more arrogant he is outside, the more docile he will be in the East Palace, because all the dissatisfaction he causes must be suppressed by the East Palace for him.
Lonely minister.
But on Mao Yuwen's side, the governor's Yamen people found him a well-lit and clean room, but he didn't even think about taking a rest because he didn't feel tired anyway.
So the servants all said, after all, they are Jin Yiwei, interrogating prisoners is addictive!
Mainly for Mao Yuwen, the governor's office has already caught everything that can be caught, so it is natural to pry the names out of the mouths of Li and Dang. This Wang Hua is considered capable. He made a prompt decision before Zhang Yong arrived and did not give these people a chance to react. It is estimated that this group of people would not be able to cause a big trouble even if they wanted to.
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So even though there were screams in this room, it was just screams. Mao Yuwen did not hear a useful word.
First came the preliminary interrogation. Mao Yuwen didn’t want to kill anyone, so in the end he said with some appreciation: "Dang Shanji... I have interrogated so many prisoners, and you are the toughest of them. Let’s drag him down first. Oh, correct."
Mao Yuwen knelt down and said in his ear: "Interrogating prisoners is something I like very much. Now let me tell you, whoever confesses first, between you and Li Yancai, will be tortured less. On the contrary, the other person will continue to be tortured." Being tortured. I will tell him the same thing later. How about it? Isn’t it fun??”
This is what the prince taught, it tests human nature and it always works.
However, Dang Shanji seemed to have no reaction.
"Stupid people are good. Stupid people are stupid." Mao Yuwen reviewed many people, so he concluded this, "Gag his mouth and tell him to only listen and not speak. Take the next person."
Li Yancai's image is similar to that of Dang Shanji, except that he is fatter than Dang Shanji, and his mood is much calmer, and he does not yell when he comes on.
But the arrival of Jinyiwei made him very alert. He recognized the Feiyu suit.
"The people sent by His Highness have arrived."
"You look smarter, and you should be able to make smart choices." Mao Yuwen pointed to Dang Shanji who was lying on the ground, "I just told him, between the two of you, whoever confesses first will be spared from torture. On the other hand, the other person will have to understand the methods of imprisonment.”….
Li Yancai said neither humble nor arrogantly: "In the twelfth year of Hongzhi, His Highness had a clear edict, strictly ordering Fu Si in Beizhen not to abuse torture. If it is used, His Highness's consent must be obtained before it can be carried out! What you are using now is lynching!"
"Then do you think I have His Highness's approval?" Mao Yuwen smiled with his slender eyes, making people feel very sinister.
"You..." Li Yan was asked this question. It was hard to say. After all, he came from the capital. "His Highness really has a will? We are all scholars!"
"You are more shameless than him." Mao Yuwen hated this person very much, "Tian Er, break off three of his fingers."
"good!"
"What?!" Li Yancai was going crazy. What does breaking off a finger mean? It was the same as going out to buy groceries. "How can you interrogate me like this? You didn't even ask anything, and you tortured me right away!"
"The Imperial Guards are the emperor's personal soldiers. They are authorized by the imperial power. This is how we will interrogate you. Do it!"
Tian Er also didn't like this scholar who looked so pretentious at first sight, so he went up and held down his trapped hand, and then picked out a middle finger.
With this force, Li Yancai's body curled up and hid, and the expression on his face turned ferocious, "Ah! It hurts! It hurts!"
In the end, he could only kneel on the ground and lean up to give his fingers a survival angle, "...You, you ask me first, and then I torture you!"
After hearing what he said, Dang Shanji, who had been lying in a ball, still made a sound and kept twisting his body.
Li Yan didn't dare to look at him, so she shrank her head and cried, "It hurts too much."
Mao Yuwen couldn't help grinning, "I just said it, you are annoying. According to the rules I mentioned before, as long as you say it, you can avoid torture. As for Dang Shanji... take Tian Er down and give him some fresh tricks." Have a taste."
"yes!"
"Wait a minute, I found that you are a very insidious person." Mao Yuwen came over and patted Li Yancai's face politely, and then said to the people on the ground, "Do you hate him very much? I'll give you a Opportunity. After being tortured in a while, I will let you speak, and you will also confess when the time comes. He is going to confess anyway, and it will be useless no matter how hard you insist. But...if you two confess differently, you still can't escape. So. You'd better tell the truth. If you make it up differently, you'll be in trouble. Even if you bite someone, you have to tell me the same name."
Because Dang Shanji couldn't speak, he could only scold him, but when he was helped up, he tried to rush over and hit Li Yancai, which actually shocked Li Yancai.
Li Yancai probably knew what he had done, so he suddenly fell to the ground, feeling pain as deep as his heart.
cry.
Mao Yuwen reminded the record-keeper beside him, "The records are in the eucalyptus."
"Prisoner Li Yancai, do you admit that you embezzled Wei Bin's stolen money?"
Li Yancai was crying like a tearful person and couldn't even think of talking. Mao Yuwen didn't like him and lost his patience, "Don't tell me!"
Li Yancai was so frightened that his shoulders shook, and after sobbing a few times, he began to confess, "Admit it... admit it."
"It is said that Zhejiang is a place where government and business are integrated. Who has given them to you?"
"I...I came here for a short time, mainly for the three families." Li Yancai said and started to cry again, "I'm so sorry for the superior job. Originally, I didn't want to be greedy for the money, but not long after I took office, his friend Shanji took the initiative to do it. Bureau, introduce those people to meet me, he is deliberately dragging me into trouble!"...
"Dang Shanji has been in Zhejiang for a long time. How much do you know about him?"
…
If you continue to ask this question, there are many things that are surprising. Even Mao Yuwen was frightened. It is impossible for Zhejiang not to have a nest!
At first it seemed that they were just people who jointly embezzled and shared a sum of money, but in fact, Qiu Zongxia, the prefect of Hangzhou, was promoted by Dang Shanji, and Xu Ruoqin, the prefect of Huzhou, was a member of the former chief envoy Qian Shi. Qian Shi had already entered Beijing and became a The capital official is now the young minister of Guanglu Temple. His rank is not as good as the chief envoy, but he can always see important officials of the court.
After Qian Shi left, Dang Shanji wanted to fight for power. Not long after Li Yancai took office, he began to consciously corrupt him. First, he ordered businessmen Huang, Song, and Li, who had always had financial dealings with him, to arrange for Li Yancai. Beauty, take him to listen to music and drink.
After he succeeded, he was asked to take the silver. With this, he became a member of the same boat.
But is Li Yancai such a simple person?
He was transferred from Huguang on the recommendation of Liu Daxia. According to his explanation, he did not know Liu Daxia, but he did know one person, and that was Cui Xiu, the right governor of Henan.
Cui Xiu himself is an ordinary person, but he has a powerful brother-in-law named Zhang Cheng.
Li Yancai became a monk halfway, and there wasn't much he could say, because he came into contact with Zhang Cheng through a roundabout way, and Liu Daxia recommended him because of Zhang Cheng's hints. On that day, Zhang Cheng did not mention Li Yancai at all, but in fact, in previous contacts, Zhang Cheng had already made Liu Daxia aware of this person's existence through chatting.
For Mao Yuwen, what Dang Shanji said is more valuable because he spent a long time in Zhejiang.
Dang Shanji cursed many times, "Li Yancai is not a human being." After that, he began to confess. If he didn't confess, he would be punished for that beast Li Yancai. This was unacceptable.
According to what he knew, the reason why Xu Ruoqin was so active in Shang Shu was that the Xu family had a maritime background and were dissatisfied with Mei Kejia. The second reason is that after Qian Shi came to Beijing, he was always looking for opportunities to bring him there. He also wanted to go there, so how could he go there? Naturally, I want to break through and become famous.
Mao Yuwen was surprised when he heard this, "Although a young minister from Guanglu Temple is an official in the capital, what does he mean in the capital? There must be someone behind him, right?"
Dang Shanji shook his head feebly, "Then, I really don't know. You have to arrest him and question him."
"Then what about the 180,000 taels of silver? Who are you going to give it to in the capital?"
"That was not meant to be sent to the capital." Dang Shanji chuckled, "That was Li Yancai's lie. Not only the governor, he also lied to me. He was going to send it to Jing'an County, Jiangxi. Sir, what do you mean by your highness? How far will this case be investigated? These people I am talking about now will be killed if they are really killed. But I know that Xu Ruoqin, the prefect of Huzhou, came from a merchant family, and the rumors are that he It’s related to King Huai. Do we need to investigate this too?”
"Prince Huai?!" Mao Yuwen's expression finally changed.
"So I ask, to what extent does Your Highness want to investigate? If all of us are killed and Prince Huai's palace is implicated, how should we deal with it?!"
King Huai is the seventh son of Emperor Renzong and the grandson of Zhu Di. When he was first granted the title of King of Huai, the vassal territory was Guangdong. Later, because the place was full of miasma and he was not used to it, he moved to Raozhou Prefecture in Jiangxi Province in the first year of Zhengtong. By now it is already the fourth generation
The king of Huai is named Zhu Jiandian. In terms of seniority, he is the generation of Grandpa Zhu Houzhao. ….
Mao Yuwen thought that His Highness the Crown Prince had indeed not explained this section. Once it involves Prince Huai... it's mainly because the emperor has trouble getting through.
"Tsk. I have to verify what you said."
"The superior officer can arrest Xu Ruoqin and question him."
Only now did Mao Yuwen know why Zhang Cheng committed suicide, because he was involved in it. How to kill these people if he was asked to do so?
If anyone reports him, his family will be ruined.
But if he hangs himself and the feudal king is involved, it will be difficult for Your Highness to investigate, and there is a high probability that the matter will go unsolved.
Because according to the character of the current emperor, it would be very, very difficult for him to be cruel to people named Zhu.
With this result, Mao Yuwen came back to see Wang Hua. The two sat face to face and fell into silence for a while. After about a stick of incense, Wang Hua started to speak.
"Officials involved in the scandal from the Chief Envoy's Yamen and the Inspection's Envoy's Yamen have also been arrested. According to the beheading line drawn by His Highness, if more than 30,000 taels of silver are required to be beheaded, it is estimated that more than 30 people will not survive. Zhejiang I have also written about the administrative affairs of each government, and all affairs are temporarily handled by the governor's Yamen. As a result, the governor's Yamen will also be short of manpower."
"It doesn't matter. According to the journey, Eunuch Zhang will be alive in just a few days." Although Mao Yuwen said this, he himself was worried.
The question now is not who to arrest, how many people to arrest, or who to kill. The current problem involves the feudal king.
"If it weren't for Xu Ruoqin, I would still have a way." Mao Yuwen said bitterly, "But this memorial by Xu Ruoqin happens to be related to the Xu family and King Huai!"
In this case, he didn't know whether to continue investigating. What if the investigation goes too far and the emperor is dissatisfied?
But if the investigation is not deep, Xu Ruoqin is unclear.
As for Wang Hua, what he saw was another shocking aspect: these officials in Zhejiang are inextricably linked to each other, and they are also connected to businessmen from various places, and the businessmen have money.
Therefore, local officials, like Dang Shanji, who did not have the financial resources of the Xu family, relied on the money to support the family's children to study for the imperial examinations. Once they were promoted to Jinshi, they would naturally have to contact him.
As a result, the officials captured this time will have relatives and friends who are officials in other provinces or in Beijing. Just like Cui Xiu, Henan's right chief envoy, since he accepted bribes from Li Yancai, he also had to pay bribes, so Henan's officialdom was also involved.
In this way, officials protect each other. The officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is like a net. How many people are not in the net?
You can't really kill them all, right?
So when Eucalyptus reached this rhythm, two problems arose, one was the vassal king, and the other was that it was too involved. In fact, it is essentially a problem, but King Huai is a little special.
In the next few days, people like Xu Ruoqin and others were arrested one after another, and what came out after further interrogation was indeed almost what Dang Shanji said, but some of the details were richer.
Zhang Yong led his troops into Hangzhou City, but he did not expect to encounter political problems.
His head was about to split when the eucalyptus rolled around. He rubbed his temples and asked: "Boss Mei, you have always been cunning. Is there anything you can do about this situation?"...
Mei Kejia only knew the surface of many things before, and it really shocked him to find out something so deep. "Businessmen rely on bribing the government to engage in smuggling, and the profits they gain from smuggling are reversed." With one hand bribing officials and the other hand cultivating the children of the family, for decades, the officials and businessmen in Zhejiang have become almost one! No wonder Zhang Cheng dared not come. My father-in-law is a close confidant of His Highness, so he should be a little hesitant at this time, right?"
It was difficult for Zhang Yong to deny this, "If we want to arrest him like this, there will be hundreds of people and more than a dozen families in Zhejiang alone! It even involves the King of Huai..."
"Did Your Highness explain anything when my father-in-law came?"
"His Highness said that Zhejiang Eucalyptus must be brought to light."
That's what I said, but in the end you try dragging King Huai into it.
Mei Kejia also frowned
, "At this time, other considerations are actually secondary. There are many things that are decided by the king's courage. If they are really done, they will be done. So what? So at this time, I can only rely on the father-in-law's judgment. What kind of person do you think His Highness is?"
"Nature is the master of wise decisions!"
"Then will His Highness let the thousands of Tengxiang Left Guards arrive in Zhejiang and return without success, leaving behind the chaotic officialdom of Zhejiang, or will you make a decisive decision and give him a bright future?"
Thinking about the problem this way, it seems much simpler. But in fact, you can't do it blindly with your eyes closed.
Mei Kejia thought for a while and suggested: "My father-in-law can report to His Highness what happened here and say that we are already arresting him. But don't kill him. It depends on His Highness's will. If there are recurrences, it won't be too late to let him go. But it shouldn't be Stop moving and wait for the order in Hangzhou. The capital is thousands of miles away, and it takes two months to go back and forth. Of course, my father-in-law should not listen to people outside Zhejiang, and don't care about them. Just pretend that he doesn't know. Because whether to expand As for the scope, this is the decision of the imperial court and His Highness, not the father-in-law’s decision.”
Things become clearer the more they are explained. In fact, if you think about it carefully, if you just go back like this without doing anything, the prince will probably skin him!
"Okay! Then arrest them! Corrupt officials will not be arrested! Zhejiang will not be at peace!"
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