"Your wishful thinking is quite good. You can advance or retreat without losing money on both sides. But have you ever thought about what would happen today?" Yue Su asked flatly.

"To be honest, I really didn't expect it to happen today. The Ming Dynasty has reached this point, and it is really rare to have officials like you. Fan has lost now. He has lost everything. Not only does he have to risk his own life, but also his own life.

I have to risk the lives of my whole family. I thought I would not lose money in a business deal, but I lost so miserably. Maybe this is life-threatening." Fan Yongdou shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then said: "You don't need to ask for anything you want to know.

They have been punished, just listen to what I say slowly, they should have almost done it, maybe I can add a little bit."

At this moment, Fan Yongdou did not hesitate. Now he talked about the purchase of military supplies entrusted by Huang Taiji, and then began to explain the matter of giving gifts to officials. Should he say it or not, this man has a really good memory, and his mind is like a

The living ledger can clearly state how much money was sent to which official, and even what day it was sent.

Yue Su secretly admired him. He had never seen a person with such a good memory. He was so capable. He was really like Zhang Song in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Zhang Song was not a good person. He was a seller seeking glory and was greedy. The Fan Yongdou in front of him

, but he is very similar to Zhang Song, a traitor to the enemy and greedy. Are all people in the world with a photographic memory like this?

Fan Yongdou began to confess in the afternoon, but he had so much to say that it took him an entire hour. By the time he finished speaking, it was already past the end of the hour. The content of his confession happened to be a combination of the previous seven people. It seemed that the boss

He is the boss and knows a lot more than others.

Let Fan Yongdou sign and sign, and then start interrogating Cui Jingrong, the governor of Xuan Dynasty, Mi Zhihuan, the commander-in-chief, and others. They have already been interrogated, and this time they are in court, it is just a formality.

It was approaching evening and the case was finally completed. Yue Su took the confession and went to the Forbidden City in a sedan chair to ask for an audience with the emperor.

Zhang Yan asked Yue Su to meet him in the imperial study, and took the little emperor to the imperial study to wait. When Yue Su arrived in the imperial study, he greeted him first. Zhu Ciyan asked Yue Su to waive the ceremony, looked at the seat, and said a few polite words, and Yue Su went to the court.

The whole process of the case was explained and the confession was presented.

Of course, the confession had to be read by Zhang Yan. After reading it, Zhang Yan said: "I didn't expect that this case of businessmen collaborating with the enemy would involve so many court officials. Yue Qing's family, what do you think we should do with this case?"

"Any meritorious deeds should be rewarded, and any delinquency should be punished. Enforcement should be like a mountain, impartial and impartial." Yue Su replied.

"Hmm..." Zhang Yan nodded and said, "What Aiqing said is absolutely true. All officials involved in the case will be handed over to Aiqing for review and finalization. Officials from other provinces involved in the case will be immediately arrested and brought to justice."

"I obey the order." Yue Su responded, then raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty, in addition to the court officials, this case also involves many eunuchs. They are the people who serve the emperor. It is not convenient for me to try it in person, so please ask the emperor to do it."

There is a department to handle it."

"What Ai Qing said is absolutely true. In this case, let Zou Yi order Dongchang to go and arrest the person and try and convict him." Zhang Yan said.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty. It's late today. If there is anything else to do, I will leave." Yue Su stood up and said.

"Okay, Aiqing, go back." Zhang Yan said.

"I excuse myself."

When Yue Su entered the palace this time, he didn't say much. Apart from explaining the case, he handed over the task of interrogating the military supervisors in various places in an honest and fair manner. If he wanted to try the cases of the supervisors together, it was not impossible, and the Queen Mother also

He couldn't say anything, but he didn't do it and left it directly to the Queen Mother. Yue Su could guess that the Queen Mother would definitely let Zou Yi handle it. If Zou Yi handled it, there wouldn't be much cleaning in the palace, and there wouldn't be much cleaning in the palace.

It would make the Queen Mother too nervous.

After leaving the palace, Yue Su still did not return to the palace, but went to the Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment. He gathered all the officials of the Ministry of Punishment and ordered that the arrests should begin now. All officials named in the confession, whether from Beijing or from other provinces, would be brought to the Ministry of Punishment for interrogation. Eight

All Shanxi merchants, old and young, regardless of gender, were captured and their property confiscated. The matter was handed over to the governor of Shanxi and Wu Rumeng, the magistrate of Taiyuan.

Why not let the Taiyuan prefect handle it instead of Wu Rumeng? This is because the Taiyuan prefect and Taiyuan Tongzhi are both on the list, so they don't have to handle the case and can just go directly to the capital to await trial.

Even if a trial is started for such a huge case, it will take a while. The first ones to be tried must be officials in Beijing, right?

Mr. Yue is in court. I don’t understand any case in the trial. If you want to argue, can you argue better than Mr. Yue? Once the family’s property is copied, where did you get so much money? To put it bluntly, the family property is less than one yuan.

Mr. Yue could treat you as innocent and let you go, but no. All officials who allow Shanxi merchants to give gifts have real power. How many officials in these positions are honest?

Once the family was raided, the family wealth started from fifty thousand taels of silver. These officials could argue and could only admit it honestly.

A few days passed, and the case was almost finished. Yue Su went to the palace to face the emperor again and asked the emperor for instructions on how to deal with it. Yue Su had already given the empress dowager face to the eunuch, and he no longer interfered, leaving it to the empress dowager.

You can solve it yourself. On the official side, the Queen Mother will reciprocate the favor and give you Yue Su a face, allowing you Yue Su to make your own decision.

There were quite a few officials to be killed this time. The Empress Dowager asked Yue Su to make his own decision. She also wanted to avoid offending others. Just let Yue Su sing the song for the black-faced ones. Yue Su was also unambiguous and accepted the order immediately.

And told his plan. This is what Yue Su decided. Fan Yongdou and other eight Shanxi merchants, Ling Chi, killed the nine tribes. Tian Xiu, the deputy general of Zhangjiakou, was cut in half. Because he was Tian Shenglan’s nephew and belonged to the nine tribes, the whole family had to be killed.

Head. Cui Jingrong, the governor of Xuan Dynasty, thought that he had a good attitude of pleading guilty, so he was beheaded and his family property was confiscated. Mi Zhihuan, the general soldier of Xuan Dynasty, was beheaded and his family property was confiscated. The men in his family were sent to the army and the female family members were sent to the Jiaofangsi. Here, Cui Jingrong's crime should be compared to

He was heavier, but the reason why he was sentenced to a lighter sentence than him was that Cui Jingrong did not meet Yue Su in battle at that time, and there was another reason, that is, Cui Jingrong was a civilian official.

Wang Zaijin, Minister of the Ministry of War, was sent to the Xuanfu army and all his property was confiscated. Liu Zongzhou, a cabinet scholar, was sent to Datong to be a military force and all his family property was confiscated. Bai Yu, a cabinet scholar, was sent to the Xuanfu army and all his family property was confiscated. These three should be among the corrupt officials in Beijing.

The most, but the Ming Dynasty system is there. Officials such as cabinet bachelors are rarely beheaded except for treason. For corruption, they can only be sentenced to military exile. This is already an extremely heavy sentence.

When the time comes, the most that can be done is to be dismissed and return home.

The fate of these three officials below adults is not so good. Yue Su divided the sentences into two levels. Those with a family property of less than 100,000 taels will be sent to the army, and those with more than 50,000 taels will be beheaded. But no matter what, the family property

It is necessary to inspect the family members. If the amount is less than 50,000 taels, only the men will be sent to the army, and the youngest sons are exempted; if the amount is more than 100,000 taels, all the men will be sent to the army, and the female family members will also be sent to the Jiaofangsi.

To be honest, there are not many people with a family fortune of less than 50,000 taels. To be an official in Beijing, one is either extremely fat or extremely poor. Since he is a corrupt official and has been an official for so many years, who is not?

He was greedy for tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Zhang Yan approved everything and asked Yue Su to draw up the decree on his own, and then go to Zou Yi to have a big seal stamped on it, and then it could be implemented. For a time, the treasury was filled to the brim as never before, and the heads chopped off outside the Meridian Gate could also be installed.

Load dozens of baskets.

Those who have done something wrong should be punished, and those who have made merit should be rewarded. Yue Su's contribution is of course the first, but Lord Yue has already been granted the title of Ke Feng. However, Empress Dowager Zhang also had a way. She decreed that Ruan Aoyue should be granted the title of first-grade imperial concubine and be rewarded with Luan brocade.

Xia Pei gave him 50,000 taels of silver and appointed Yue Su as the recommended official.

What kind of official is the proposed doctor? It is a casual official with no real power. It is equivalent to an honorary official position and is only of the fifth rank. But don’t underestimate this official. Generally speaking, you will not change it if you are given a minister, because this is what the Ming Dynasty did.

Your recognition gives you a long-term meal ticket. To put it bluntly, this official position is hereditary, and Yue Su's descendants can inherit it from generation to generation.

Then why was it given a fifth rank? It doesn’t match Yue Su now. But that’s what the Queen Mother thinks. Your Lord Yue is only in his thirties and has already been promoted to the position of second assistant and chief security officer. In the future, we will have to slowly

As for the title, we can't give you all the titles at once. When you retire, at least you should be given the hereditary official position of Taishi, and you will be given a Zhongfeng doctor or a Ronglu doctor. That's it. You have worked hard for the old Zhu family, and Lao

The Zhu family will not treat you badly and let your descendants have official positions.

As for the rewards for other people, it must be done together with filling the vacancies of the killed officials.

When everyone thought that Yue Su would give all the good vacancies to his own people, Lord Yue unexpectedly said that the Ministry of Personnel would make the plans first.

Qi Shijiao was shocked. He never expected Lord Yue to be like this, but then he thought about it. There was also Yang Yishan in the official department. Yue Su must have asked Yang Yishan to come forward and fight for his position. According to Yue Su's prestige at the moment, Qi Shijiao didn't

I had the guts to fight with Yang Yishan, and I was ready to compromise this time.

But everything was so unexpected. In the afternoon of that day, Yang Yishan came to Qi Shijiao's staff department to check in, and presented Qi Shijiao with a list of names. In this list, only two positions were empty, one of which was the name of the official.

The positions of Governor Xuanda, one is the position of Minister of the Ministry of War, and the others have all been filled.

Qi Shijiao originally thought that they were all members of the Yue Party. He looked at it casually, but after only two glances, he was stunned. Because the official positions here used to be from the Qi, Chu and Zhe parties, but now they are still held by the Qi, Chu and Zhe parties.

We all serve as officials in the same dynasty, and no one knows the details of the other party. On the list, it used to be from your Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang parties, but it is still the same now. It used to be from my Yue Party, and now it is still up to the Yue Party officials to fill it in. Of course.

, there are also positions held by people who were not from the two parties, and Yang Yishan did not occupy all of them. The replacement officials are still officials from outside the two parties, but they are all relatively talented. For example, the position of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War was given to

Sun Chuanting.

After reading the list, Qi Shijiao looked at Yang Yishan again, his face full of surprise.
Chapter completed!