Just when Zhao Junchen was secretly thinking about future plans, Li Chuanwen, as the leader of the staff team, also summed up to Zhao Junchen: "Sir Zhao, after we have sorted it out in detail, the reports provided by the Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen
All the contents have been summarized. In just one night today, all thirty-seven Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen submitted secret reporting letters to our government. A total of eighty-two smuggling businessmen were reported for their smuggling crimes, and involved
Two hundred and eighty-four officials of the seventh rank and above of the imperial court have provided 371 credible evidence and clues, and another 133 pieces of information that still need to be confirmed. With these evidence, clues, and
As long as we confirm the authenticity of the intelligence and make some arrangements, we can catch all eighty-one of the smugglers, and all the court officials who have connections with the smugglers will be in disaster!"
Speaking of this, even Li Chuanwen, who had assisted many imperial officials and was used to seeing strong winds and waves, could not help but look excited at this moment.
As for the staff behind Li Chuanwen, they also had similar expressions.
At this moment, they were all staring closely at the thick booklet in Zhao Junchen's hand. This booklet was compiled by them personally, so they also knew very well what kind of power the content in this booklet had! And they got this
After publishing this booklet, what kind of influence does Zhao Junchen have?
As long as Zhao Junchen is willing to throw out this booklet, the entire situation between the government and the opposition will be turned upside down in an instant!
However, Zhao Junchen did not intend to expose all the contents of this booklet.
After slowly touching the cover of the booklet, Zhao Junchen handed the booklet to Li Chuanwen again and said: "Next, I have to thank you all, the contents of this booklet need to be reorganized.
Divide the various criminal evidence in it into two parts. One part is evidence of smuggling and tax evasion by smuggling businessmen, and the other part is evidence of crimes of court officials accepting bribes and participating in smuggling, and then record them in separate volumes! After you have sorted it out again,
Give me all three books. In addition, you must keep your mouths shut in the future. You must not tell anyone about tonight's events, especially the fact that I have obtained many solid evidence of the crimes of the court officials!"
After hearing Zhao Junchen's instructions, the experienced Li Chuanwen immediately understood Zhao Junchen's intention.
Zhao Junchen requested that the criminal evidence and information in the book be divided into two parts. One part was about the smugglers, and the other part was about the court officials. Obviously Zhao Junchen did not intend to deal with both at the same time, but wanted to use these first.
The evidence excludes the smugglers and the court officials involved in the case are slowly being traced.
Zhao Junchen's choice also made Li Chuanwen secretly relieved.
Originally, he was very worried that Zhao Junchen would be young and energetic, so he could not resist the temptation and planned to expose all the contents in this booklet at once, hoping to catch all the businessmen and officials involved in smuggling activities. By that time
, Zhao Junchen’s actions will certainly shock the government and the opposition, but in the end the unlucky person will definitely not be the businessmen and officials involved in smuggling activities, but Zhao Junchen himself!
After all, although the various evidences in Zhao Junchen's hands are powerful, because there are too many people involved, they can easily arouse the fear and hostility of the officials!
In addition, there is another phenomenon that cannot be ignored, which is that "the law does not punish the public." If Zhao Junchen impeached 284 officials of the seventh rank and above in one go, Emperor Deqing would never do it, even if the evidence was conclusive.
After all, there are too many people to punish these officials. If all of them are punished, where will Emperor Deqing go to find so many replacements? The fall of so many officials will definitely shock the world. How much will the reputation of the court be lost by then? So,
If Zhao Junchen really does this, the final result is likely to be that 284 corrupt officials are found not guilty in the face of irrefutable evidence, and Zhao Junchen, the whistleblower, will be found guilty of disrupting the court, falsely accusing colleagues, and suppressing dissidents.
After all, compared with the 284 corrupt officials, it is much easier to punish Zhao Junchen and the impact is much smaller. Even if Zhao Junchen's impeachment is a matter of public concern, it is one of the first in history.
It has happened many times.
In this way, if Zhao Junchen wants to expose all the contents in this booklet, he will naturally seek death!
Fortunately, although Zhao Junchen got this booklet as a weapon, he did not forget about it and was still able to remain calm and rational. He also knew the truth of Xu Xu Tuzhi, but he also spared some advice from Li Chuanwen and others.
On the other side, after seeing the expressions of Li Chuanwen and others, Zhao Junchen immediately understood their worries.
After smiling softly, Zhao Junchen said slowly: "Don't worry, everyone, I will not expose all the evidence. I am only dealing with the smugglers. As for the court officials involved, I have not yet exposed them."
If you plan to move them, you won't even spread the evidence that you have evidence of their crimes. You will just pretend that you don't know their culpability and leave it to deal with them one by one in the future."
After finishing speaking, Zhao Junchen sighed slightly and said with emotion: "Although, in this matter, we represent the justice of the court and are the righteous party, I also know that since ancient times, the winner is often not
The righteous party is the more powerful party! Therefore, I will not act rashly until I have sufficient strength!"
After hearing Zhao Junchen's remarks, all the staff expressed admiration. They not only admired Zhao Junchen's reason and calmness, but also admired Zhao Junchen for being able to speak such truth.
Therefore, all the staff, headed by Li Chuanwen, bowed to Zhao Junchen one after another, and also took the opportunity to praise Zhao Junchen.
After the worries in his heart dissipated, Li Chuanwen suddenly thought of something serious and asked Zhao Junchen for instructions: "Sir, according to your idea, after the Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen report the smuggling crime, they can get one-third of the smuggling businessman's money."
ships, but nowadays, most smugglers are reported by multiple people at the same time, but they don’t know how to solve this situation? Are those rewards given to the Huizhou and Zhejiang merchants who are the first to provide incriminating information? Or are they all Huizhou and Zhejiang merchants who provide incriminating information?
Do the merchants share these rewards equally?"
Zhao Junchen said without any hesitation: "Of course all the Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen who provided criminal evidence will share the reward equally! My suggestions are just to mobilize the enthusiasm of those Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen and let them actively report their former colleagues, but I
I don’t want one of them to get too many benefits and expand their strength too quickly, otherwise it will be easy for them to become too big.”
Li Chuanwen nodded, still agreeing with Zhao Junchen's idea, and replied: "I understand!"
Then, the staff planned to continue organizing the information according to Zhao Junchen's instructions.
However, Zhao Junchen suddenly thought of something and asked: "By the way, you just said that we received a total of eighty-two smugglers tonight, but in the end we could only arrest eighty-one of them."
There are smugglers, but why is there still one smuggler who cannot be arrested?"
Li Chuanwen replied: "My lord, this smuggler's name is Li Zequan. He is a well-known businessman in Suzhou. This person has always been cautious and has few flaws. Among the many criminal evidence intelligence we have received, there are
There are a total of eleven items related to him, but they are all just unconfirmed speculations and not ironclad evidence, so if we want to convict him, we may have some trouble."
"Oh? Among smugglers, there are still such cautious people? No one of the thirty-seven colleagues can provide concrete evidence of his crime? Li Zequan, this name seems familiar." Zhao Junchen said slowly.
Li Chuanwen nodded and said, "Your Excellency, you have heard of this person's name. Maybe it's because his son is named Li Chunchen, and he was the second-level Jinshi in the Imperial Examination."
"Li Chunchen?" Zhao Junchen said thoughtfully, "So that's it, it's true that a tiger father has no dog son."
In fact, Zhao Junchen has always attached great importance to Li Chunchen.
When Li Chunchen took part in the palace examination, the test questions he wrote shocked Zhao Junchen. This person suggested that Emperor Deqing start the "hearing and gossip" strategy, not only to reduce the number of court officials submitting submissions, but also to
The standards for impeaching court officials, and from now on, officials no longer need concrete evidence to impeach court ministers, let alone be responsible for their own impeachment memorials.
If Emperor Deqing really adopts Li Chunchen's suggestion, then all the officials in the court will soon face the situation of "who is not included in the court, and who is not involved in the court". At that time, Emperor Deqing will hold the court in his hands.
Countless evidences of crimes against hundreds of officials naturally increased the imperial power.
Therefore, Emperor Deqing was naturally moved by Li Chunchen's suggestion, but because such suggestions would inevitably be resisted by officials, Emperor Deqing had not yet taken concrete action.
Since the end of the imperial examination, Li Chunchen has been keeping a low profile, and Emperor Deqing seems to have forgotten about him. But Zhao Junchen knows that Emperor Deqing is just treating Li Chunchen coldly, and will reuse him sooner or later!
However, Zhao Junchen did not expect that he would hear the news about Li Chunchen again at this time.
Obviously, neither Li Chunchen nor Li Chunchen's father Li Zeguang are simple figures, and they need Zhao Junchen's secret attention.
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