Lu Zhong looked at the clerk and recorded Zhang Feng's words word by word. Lu Zhong will investigate and supplement every sentence he said, and then conduct multiple interrogations.

However, Lu Zhong knew that Zhang Feng's chances of lying were very low. He did not ask himself to live now, but only wanted His Majesty not to harm his family.

"Who went to the banquet that day and who stayed for the end?" Lu Zhong asked again.

Zhang Feng thought for a long time and said, "There are too many people attending the banquet. At that time, King Ji Li was still young. Who dared not to go, and who could not go, but the person who stayed until the end was still in the court.

Not many."

"I will write down their names and hand them over to Tiqi."

Lu Zhong nodded and asked curiously: "What is the purpose of Yang Shiqi doing this game?"

"My question is, what exactly is he going to do at the banquet?"

Zhang Feng sneered, raised his head, looked at Lu Zhong with a smile and said, "He wants to do too many things. I can talk about everything one by one."

"He didn't say anything at that banquet, but everyone knew it. The grasshopper tied to a rope until the end was the last one.."

"But the ministers were only ministers in the end. Nine years after Zhengtong, Yang Shiqi was defeated by Wang Zhen, Wang Ji and others, and ended up losing their moral integrity in the evening, and even his son almost died."

Lu Zhong asked with some fun, "Was there no such banquet during the Jingtai period?"

Zhang Feng smiled and shook his head and said, "Those who can hold such a banquet, during the Jingtai period, only Yu Shaobao could have a banquet. Do you think Yu Shaobao would do such a thing?"

"I said Yu Shaobao also did a banquet, do you believe it?"

Lu Zhong said confidently: "I don't believe it."

"I don't believe it either." Zhang Feng said with a relaxed expression: "The only people who can do such things are those who are similar to Xia Yuanji, Yang Shiqi, and Yu Qian."

"Yu Shaobao won't be able to entertain a banquet, but Hu Yi can do it, but no one will go."

"It is a blessing for the Ming Dynasty to get Yu Shaobao. It is a great blessing for the Ming Dynasty to have Your Majesty, and it is even more of a blessing for knowing people and using them well."

Lu Zhong looked at Zhang Feng who knew everything and said mockingly: "You know everything, but you just don't do serious things."

Zhang Feng replied instead: "Actually, you don't know that walking on evil paths is not easy at all than walking on the avenue."

"Where is the easy way to walk on the small road?"

For Zhang Feng, the evil path is actually very upsetting. If he is not upset, he would not choose to stop during the Jingtai period.

"I am not greedy or corrupt. Actually, my life is better. At least my wife has a smile on me, not a disgusting past." Zhang Feng's two lines of tears flowed down.

His wife married him, and he was a sixth-rank official, with a low position and a low voice, but his wife appreciated his integrity and integrity, which can be described as a sympathetic person.

During the fourteen years of Zhengtong, he did all his bad things, and his wife said no more than twenty words to him.

After he stopped during the Jingtai period, his wife's attitude finally eased. If he hadn't been crazy about taking revenge on Jin Lian this time, his life would have been better and better.

But all of this was ruined by him.

Lu Zhong picked up the question book and said, "Tell me your own question."

"Since the first year of Zhengtong, people began to come to the door to express their filial piety. There is ice in summer and charcoal in winter. Each time, I collected more than 130,000 taels of this type of money in fourteen years.

Some."

"You have a share in the case of no one?" Lu Zhong asked sternly.

Zhang Feng nodded and admitted that he had a share of the big deal. A smile appeared on his face and said, "Yes, but that was before the official residence. In the first year of Jingtai, they took the silver to Beijing to respect him, but even the official residence was

I can’t even get in the door of Dharma! Haha.”

"Looking at their appearance of having money and nowhere to use it, I feel that it is such a majestic thing to be a Beijing official for the first time."

It is really not easy to stand and take the official position.

Zhang Feng used to be the third rank, but now he is still the third rank. When he collects black money, he kneels down to become an official. When he doesn't collect money, he stands up to become an official.

Both are genuine third grades, but they are very different.

"How did this money flow into your hands?" Lu Zhong continued to interrogate. The question he asked was not surprising. He was asking Yinlu.

In the case of the Kong Mansion, Lu Zhong checked the silver boxes and silver ingots of the Kong Mansion and finally determined that the fact that the money in the Kong Mansion was all Japanese silver.

Now Lu Zhong is inquiring about the silver routes that the imperial officials ordered to accept bribes. If he could completely control this silver route, it would have a decisive role in maintaining the integrity of the Beijing officials.

Zhang Feng finally showed a sense of distress, and he said flickeringly: "I don't know much about this, it's all the agent who is taking care of it."

Lu Zhong is a very professional Tiqi. He has long stopped trialing cases with punishment. He saw through Zhang Feng at a glance and was afraid and said sneeringly: "Lie in front of me?"

"I've said everything I can say." Zhang Feng said gritting his teeth.

Lu Zhong said calmly: "You must say what you can't say. Honest explanation is your only way out now."

"You are unwilling to confess honestly now, and they will not let your wife, children, and young people go."

"The only one you can trust is Your Majesty."

Lu Zhong's words were simply inexplicable, but Zhang Feng clearly understood the meaning.

Only trusting Your Majesty is Zhang Feng’s only choice now.

Zhang Feng has fallen, and he is not arrogant. Those who have no choice but to attack him will gather together. At that time, Zhang Feng's family will die in the wilderness, it depends on the other party's interest.

But His Majesty never harms his family.

Li Xian was arrested and forced to do things in Nanjing because of helplessness. Li Xian's family still lives in the official residence.

Wang Fu surrendered to the Oirat people, but Hu Yi took the incident of Li Ling of the Han Dynasty as an example. His Majesty threw Wang Fu's family into the official residence to prevent some mice from being unfavorable to Wang Fu's family.

Although Jin Lian's family moved out of the official residence, they still lived in the area of ​​Dongcheng, within Chaoyang Gate, two streets away from His Majesty.

Zhang Feng suddenly realized that after he fell, the only person he could trust was His Majesty.

This feeling made Zhang Feng feel lost.

"I'll say." Zhang Feng chose to speak.

"There are many methods..." Zhang Feng explained the matter clearly.

Lu Zhong gained some insight.

Wang Ao looked at Chengtang's confession and said in amazement: "You are sucking bones and marrow."

Zhang Feng said with a little self-deprecating self-deprecating: "I know all these things, but I didn't do them myself, they were all done by the brokers and compradors. It's just a shameless thing to see. If you don't see them, just pretend you don't know."

Lu Zhong opened another question book, looked at the questions in the question book, and asked hesitantly: "Shangshu Jin, do you know about your corruption?"

As soon as this question arose, even Wang Ao glanced at Lu Zhong. Obviously, this was not a predetermined problem, but Lu Zhong's addition.

But judging from the paper and handwriting of the question book, it came from Tai'an Palace, which is a question that Your Majesty wants to know.

When asked about this, Lu Zhong asked the document to stop recording it, but instead recorded it himself.

"I know, he knows everything." Zhang Feng said with some regret.

"I know?" Lu Zhong and Wang Ao raised their heads suddenly and looked at Zhang Feng in shock. Jin Lian knew everything about Zhang Feng's corruption?

At this point, Zhang Feng had nothing to say. He knew that was something the emperor wanted to know.

He said confidently: "Shangshu Jin once took stock of the accounts of the national treasury for fourteen years. Who can escape his eyes? Wang Zhi once said that he could manage finances, but he checked the accounts of the national treasury and naturally found that

I did the tricks I did at the beginning.”

"Since I checked the accounts, Jin Shangshu's attitude towards me has become extremely violent, and he always scolded me. To be honest, this makes me feel very embarrassed in the Ministry of Revenue."

Lu Zhong recorded Zhang Feng's words word by word and asked: "Shangshu Jin knows that you are corrupt, why do you still recommend you as the Minister of Revenue?"

"Because I stopped, do you know the Three Treasures of Fulu?"

"This evil path is like a fond of the Three Treasures of Blessings and Lucks. Who can quit?"

"I have never reached out my hand since the 14th year of Zhengtong. This is why Shangshu Jin recommended me."

"He thought of everything, but he didn't expect that I would be so stupid."

Lu Zhong and Wang Ao looked at each other before continuing to ask: "Tell me in detail."

Zhang Feng pondered for a moment before saying, "I have been in prison these days. I have thought about it seriously. I really admire the person Jin Shangshu. He actually guessed that I would take revenge on him."

"But he didn't expect me to do it so early."

"If I wait until I become the Minister of Revenue and start to slowly retaliate against him, it will be fine, because I am the living Minister of Revenue, and he is the deceased Minister of Revenue."

"Even if Your Majesty knows, he will have to consider it, because Secretary Jin has left."

"But Jin Shangshu may not have expected that I started doing these things before I even took office."

"I... are so stupid."

Zhang Feng is really obsessed with the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Since the third year of Zhengtong, he has risen to the top and has been promoted to the sixth level since he is promoted to the third rank. He wants to get to the top too much.

He was a little too hasty in doing all these things.

Until now, Zhang Feng is still as he does. He doesn't know at all that His Majesty always calls Jin Lian Bo Mu Yang.

"I thought Jin Shangshu was with you, so I recommended you." Lu Zhong seemed to be saying inadvertently.

"Nonsense!" Zhang Feng slapped the table with shackles and said angrily: "You are Your Majesty's Ti Knight, how can you frame others' innocence for nothing?"

"Remember, remember it for me!" Zhang Feng said angrily with the clerk.
To be continued...