Fang Yingwu came out of the east lobby courtyard of the Chief Envoy's Office and went to the west end without thinking. He handed in the notice and asked to visit the right Chief Envoy Si Luchen.
Not long after, he saw Master Lu's teacher, Mr. Zhang, coming out to greet him and ushering him in. However, when he arrived in the small flower hall, he saw no one else, only Mr. Zhang sitting with him.
"Dong Weng is busy with official duties and it is really difficult to get away. This time, I have to let Dong Weng, the next generation, meet my friend Fang." Mr. Zhang explained.
Fang Yingwu sneered when he heard this. Why is he so busy with official duties? This Mr. Lu is just a decoration in the Chief Envoy's Department most of the time. How much official duties does he have? It's obvious that he just doesn't want to show up in person. As expected, he is still pretending to be aloof and mysterious.
In fact, this move was what he expected. It seemed that Mr. Lu had made up his mind to hide behind the scenes. However, Fang Yingwu felt that it didn't matter. He could also meet Mr. Zhang and achieve his goal.
"I just went to see Mr. Ning. I guess the people in the West Hall already know about it?" Fang Yingwu said lightly sarcastically.
When he visited Ning Liang last time, Mr. Lu immediately learned the news and confirmed his identity, which caused many things later. It can be seen that Mr. Lu also has eyes and ears lurking in the East Hall.
Mr. Zhang turned a deaf ear to the sarcasm and only asked: "I wonder what Mr. Ning thinks? Are you willing to step back from the brink?" Fang Yingwu told him, "Mr. Ning does not trust you in his heart. Who knows whether you will go back on your word."
Mr. Zhang said seductively: "Doesn't he understand his situation clearly? He can't help but believe it! My friend Fang is a sensible person, so it would be better to persuade him to accept it, which would be beneficial to everyone."
Fang Yingwu did not consider himself weak, and said tit for tat: "Mr. Zhang, don't bully others too much. Doesn't it mean that Mr. Lu doesn't want to take over smoothly? Making a fortune in silence is the last word. If you have to make a big fuss and attract the attention of the government and the public, then
Okay? By then, things will be completely out of control."
Seeing that Fang Yingwu's tone was not very good, Mr. Zhang sneered a few times, "Then what do you think we should do? How can we make him feel at ease? Can't we, Dong Weng, condescend to comfort him?"
"The thing that makes Mr. Ning most uneasy right now is that he doesn't know who betrayed him. Unless this person comes to the surface, Mr. Ning can't feel at ease. In fact, it doesn't matter who he is. He doesn't know who the betrayer is.
Who is of course like a man with a light on his back.
If Mr. Zhang is willing to tell the truth, Mr. Ning will naturally feel at ease. At least he will know who to be wary of and whom to bear grudges against! Only in this way can we safely hand over the Chief Envoy Zuo to Mr. Lu."
Mr. Zhang tapped his fingers on the desk and pondered for a long time. As a senior think tank, he can make the decision on many small matters by himself, as long as he can give enough reasons.
After weighing the pros and cons, I found that even if I told the other party about the "traitor" identified by Mr. Ning, it would not affect the progress of the matter. It was just a small matter. If I could get Mr. Ning's cooperation, it would still be very cost-effective.
Thinking of this, Mr. Zhang decisively abandoned the little chess piece and told him clearly: "The person who exposed this matter was none other than Mr. Wei, the magistrate of Haining County. He kept an account book, and every stroke was well documented.
Otherwise, Dong Weng wouldn’t believe him easily.”
Fang Yingwu was quite surprised by this answer. In the Ning Liang corruption case, there are three key nodes, Ning Liang himself, the vassal treasury, and Haining County. Among them, Ning Liang himself is impossible to leak to Mr. Lu, and the remaining vassal treasury
Compared with Haining County, Fang Yingwu was originally more inclined to the vassal state.
After all, Mr. Lu is still the right chief minister no matter how idle he is. It is still possible to infiltrate the chief minister's treasury. As for Haining County, it is a bit far away. But in the end, he did not expect that it was Haining County that leaked the bottom.
There is no need for Mr. Zhang to deliberately deceive people at this time.
Fang Yingwu suddenly understood. When he saw someone making trouble at the Chief Envoy's Office, he guessed that there must be local officials cooperating with Lu Chen. Otherwise, how could hundreds of people be easily organized? Now everything can be explained. It must be
Or this Haining County!
There must have been a lot of twists and turns in the process, which led to the rebellion of the Weizhi County magistrate. Maybe Mr. Lu, who was well-intentioned, also used some visible or invisible means.
In the final analysis, it was Ning Liang who was not upright and acted carelessly, which gave his opponent an opportunity to take advantage of, Fang Yingwu sighed. However, those specific processes had little to do with him, he just needed to know the answer.
After that, Fang Yingwu stood up and said, "Then I will reply to Mr. Ning, so as to clear up the confusion in his mind."
Mr. Zhang also stood up and said goodbye: "Waiting for good news." After hearing the words "waiting for good news," Fang Yingwu suppressed his smile and nodded to leave.
In the blink of an eye, it was another sunny day. As summer got closer and closer, the weather became slightly hotter.
In the lobby of the Zhejiang Prosecution Department, one of the three departments in Zhejiang, which is responsible for supervision, punishment, and prison cases, Mr. Zhu Shen, the chief officer of this department, is sitting in the office to take care of things. He is casually thinking about where to go to cool off in the summer while cleaning up the prison.
politics.
Under the imperial system, prisons are cleaned twice a year, one of which is before summer. This is to avoid plague in the prisons during hot weather, so Mr. Zhu, who is in charge of the prison case in a province, has been very busy recently.
He subconsciously wiped away the non-existent sweat drops and practiced for the upcoming summer. Then he closed the thick book he had read and let out a long breath. That was the end of today's business.
Mr. Zhu had just picked up the tea when he saw Ben, the Inspector General, running into his lobby from the outside as if his butt was on fire, still shouting: "Something big has happened, something big has happened!"
Zhu Shen frowned and shouted: "Quiet! How unbecoming you are!"
Without explaining the experience, he submitted the notes in hand to the superior's official case, then took a few steps back and waited for the superior to read.
Zhu Shen knew that there must be something weird, and he didn't bother to blame his experience. He picked up the note and read it. At first glance, the format seemed to be a receipt, but also a letter - it was indeed weird.
Looking at the signer, it was Fang Yingwu, a student member of Chun'an County - it seemed a bit familiar, as if he had heard this name somewhere.
After reading the content again and only skimming a few lines, Zhu Shen was so frightened that his hands trembled and he almost threw the note out, as if he was holding a soldering iron. However, Mr. Zhu still forcibly restrained the turmoil in his heart and reluctantly read the full text calmly.
finish watching.
"Students reported the corruption of Ning Liang, the provincial chief minister of the province. It was learned that he took advantage of the opportunity to build the seawall and embezzled a total of more than 8,730 taels of silver in the three years before and after. It was determined that he had enriched his own pockets; he also delayed the construction.
This incident led to the catastrophe of this spring. It is reported that the assisting accomplices are Li, the chief envoy to Sifanku, and Wei, the magistrate of Haining County.
The students also reported that the provincial chief minister, Siyou chief minister Lu Chen, had neglected his duties, had ulterior motives, and condoned corruption.
First, he obtained Ningliang’s embezzlement account book from Wei in Haining County, but deliberately concealed it and disposed of it privately. This was the crime of not reporting the matter after he knew it.
Secondly, he knew that Ning Liang was embezzling, but he deliberately condoned it and used it to threaten him. He instigated Mr. Zhang, the teacher of the Lu Mansion, and Mr. Tang, the manager, to secretly take the position of Zuo's chief envoy. This was because he was an official with evil intentions.
Thirdly, Mr. Lu colluded with Haining County, and the guarding eunuch secretly accused the people of causing trouble in the chief envoy Si Yamen and burning the silk carriage, intending to bring trouble to Jiangdong. This is a reckless attempt to cause trouble and conspire to frame and criticize his colleagues."
This is a big deal, absolutely a big deal!
Zhu has been a prosecutor for the past few years and has gained a lot of experience in this field. He immediately relied on his intuition and some rumors in his life and felt that most of what was said in the article was true. That would be a major official case.
Especially since the details are so unambiguous, if it were not true, it would not be easy for an outsider in the officialdom to make it up like this, and it would be impossible without any flaws.
Not to mention that the person who wrote the letter was a student with a serious status and was not just an ignorant person joking around. I don’t know how he knew so many details, as if he had witnessed it with his own eyes.
Zhu Shen immediately asked about his experience: "Who is the person who submitted the letter?"
"He left his name card here." Xing Xing hurriedly handed over the name card.
Fang Yingwu's name card is the same one that was sent to Governor Yang of Yulin. The series of dazzling names from Shofu University Scholar to Hanlin Academy Shujishi almost blinded his eyes and made Zhu Shen even more dizzy.
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The whistleblower also has a good background, especially the involvement of a student from Shangxiang Public School, which immediately makes the matter more complicated and unpredictable.
This person is really fierce. There is no precedent for this in the country. Zhu Shen read the papers in his hand again, this time he read them very carefully, not like he did just now.
Today is not the prosperous and decadent Wanli era, but the Chenghua Dynasty that has just emerged from the simple and vigorous atmosphere. The corruption case of Wan'er 8,000 people can already be regarded as a huge embezzlement case, and it can be ranked as a major case.
Moreover, this is corruption from the construction of seawalls that affects tens of millions of people, and the level of evil is even higher.
The most terrible thing is that the two people being reported are both chief envoys, and the chief envoys are higher than himself. Zhu Shen feels extremely troublesome. Although the chief envoys and the chief envoys are independent of each other, after all, they are still vaguely headed by the chief envoys.
, the level is displayed there.
If a cruel official encounters this kind of thing, he will be like a shark seeing blood. He will most likely be excited about the opportunity to become famous. But unfortunately, Mr. Zhu is not a cruel official.
Where to start? Zhu Shen rubbed his forehead with a headache. Since the establishment of the Ding Dynasty, the Inspector General has not received a report to accuse two chief envoys in one go.
According to the procedures, some methods can be used to investigate low-level officials according to the Inspectorate; to investigate higher-ranking officials, you need to consult with the Chief Minister or ask the Supervisor for instructions.
But since two chief envoys were accused at the same time, who should he go to for consultation? There is currently no governor in the province who can ask for instructions.
It would be a bit inappropriate to directly report the information to the court without preliminary investigation. What if it is made up out of thin air? Then he will become a villain who only hears things and fears that the world will not be in chaos.
Suddenly, I took the initiative to report: "Only the lower officials have seen this, and then you, the boss. Apart from that, no other person in this yamen knows about it."
Mr. Zhu understood what he meant. No one else knew about the matter, so he could suppress the report for the time being, then quietly let the wind go out, and then calm down.
If the Chief Envoy gets wind of the news and can come forward to smooth things over and make this side withdraw the accusation, then everyone will be happy. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)