Chapter 636 Use thunderous means to show the bodhisattva’s heart!
Huai'an Prefecture, Qingjiangpu
Jia Heng and Zhao Mo did not stop in Xuzhou, but first led the 500 Jinyi Mansion guards and the Beijing camp guards, while the Beijing camp army marched in the rear under the leadership of the guard general Xie Zaiyi.
The group of people walked along the river embankment and headed straight to Huai'an Prefecture. At this moment, the entire city of Huai'an Prefecture was shrouded in rain and fog. The death of former river governor Gao Bin did not make the rain in the sky show any signs of stopping.
Entering the official office of the Hedao Yamen, this is the design of the former Yamen and the back mansion. After entering the official hall, Jia Heng immediately sent people to the Heku Road to carry relevant atlases and account books.
Huai'an Prefecture, Imperial Envoy Posthouse, second floor
Peng Ye, the left deputy imperial censor, put his official hat aside, sat on the bed, and watched by candlelight.
"Master, people from the Yamen came over and said that Uncle Yong Ning and Mr. Zhao have come from Xuzhou." An official said loudly.
"Prepare the carriage, I'll be there right away." Peng Ye's eyes flashed under his brows, and he secretly thought, he's finally here.
He closed the scroll and put down the book in his hand. By the candlelight, he could see that on the blue cover, there was written "Three Kingdoms".
Well, yes, although this Qi party general regarded Jia Heng as a political enemy, he often read the Three Kingdoms script written by Jia Heng in his hands and highly praised its wisdom.
As he read this book in depth, Peng Ye gained some understanding of Yong Ningbo's cunning and scheming.
Peng Ye picked up the black gauze hat and put it on his head, straightened his sleeves, glanced at the book on the table, and sneered.
The memorial that should be written has been delivered to Beijing. I had long known that something like this would happen. Anyway, now is the time when the Zhejiang Party is under attack. At this time, we can just watch the fire from the other side. 1
Jiangnan River Governor's Office, Government Office Lobby——
Jia Heng has already sat down with Zhao Mo and the Governor of Water Transport Du Jitong, flipping through the relevant albums delivered by Heku Road.
At this time, the officials had brought boxes of maps of the rivers under Nanhe's jurisdiction. According to Jia Heng's instructions, they first searched for the roster of people, the book of money and grain, and the water conservancy map.
Heku Road is the internal official office of Nanhe Yamen Tongzhanghe Gongqianliang, which is responsible for materials, cashiers, and warehousing matters. There is a bank in the mansion, and all the grain and silver charts and books are available.
Jia Heng picked up a volume of water conservancy maps and looked through them, following the river map to check the distribution of dikes and dams.
It can be clearly seen that many dikes and dams in some densely populated states and counties will have disastrous consequences once they burst.
Jia Heng's face was dark and unclear, and a pair of clear eyes looked at Yu De, the right-hand censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who was sitting in front of the Prime Minister. He asked in a deep voice: "Your Excellency, now the heavy rain has turned into a flood.
What are the officials and officials in charge of the roads, departments, and floods under their jurisdiction doing recently?
Facing those aggressive eyes, Yu De felt complicated for a moment and said: "Uncle Yong Ning, since Gao Bin committed suicide out of fear of crime, the relevant river officials have been in panic all day long. Except for some who went to the lower hall to control floods, many of them are in the mansion.
Waiting for the imperial court’s visit.”
There are 24 halls on the four roads of Nanhe River, including Heku Road, Huaixu Hewu Road, Huaiyang Hewu Road, Huaihai Hewu Road, and Jiangnan Hebiao Camp, with many civil and military officials.
"Those who are looking up here and looking uneasy are mostly people with evil intentions." Zhao Mo frowned and said in a cold voice with a gloomy look on his face.
Jia Heng put down the tea cup and asked: "Your Excellency, I was patrolling the Nanhe River a few days ago. Are all kinds of materials such as reeds, willows, earth and rocks in the river bank road ready? How much food and silver are there?"
Yu De and Peng Ye had previously patrolled the river at the Hedao Yamen. As Du Xian, he must have a basic grasp of these situations.
Yu Dedao: "At that time, there were twenty-one thousand three hundred and seventy-eight taels of silver in the silver warehouse. According to Gao Bin and the river officials, various materials were used to build river embankments, so there were many discrepancies in the warehouse of the Department of Flood and Flood Management."
Jia Heng frowned, pondered for a long time, and said: "According to this list, we will invite all the relevant river management officials in Huai'an Prefecture.
With that said, he picked up a book from the table and handed it to Liu Jixian. It was the list of officials in the Hedao Yamen.
"I humbly accept my order." Liu Jixian responded with cupped fists and led the guards of the Jinyi Mansion.
Jia Heng turned to Zhao Mo, the Minister of Punishment, and said: "The account books are like river embankments. They are made with a watertight surface. If I check like this, I will probably not be able to find anything."
How many materials were used on the river embankment on a certain day in a certain year, the accounts are clearly written, but the river
Even if the embankment collapses, we cannot remove the washed-out materials from the river embankment and verify them one by one.
Zhao Mo said in a deep voice: "If there were any abnormalities before, the Metropolitan Procuratorate would not turn a blind eye."
"Then let's not check the accounts first, but check the people, and send all the embankment supervisors who flooded the Sizhou River section to jail for questioning." Jia Heng picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
At this moment, an official came in and said, "Masters, Master Peng is here."
While they were talking, Peng Ye, the left deputy imperial censor, came from outside. He was dressed in a crimson robe and official uniform. He came in and bowed to Zhao Mo and Uncle Yongning, then sat down on a chair beside them.
Jia Heng glanced at Peng Ye and asked: "Master Peng came just in time. Previously, Master Peng inspected Nanhe and counted the river workers' money and food. Can you tell me what was so fishy about it before?"
Peng Ye looked calm and said slowly: "The lower official inspected Nanhe before and impeached Gao Bin. He was able to check the account books in the river bank. Every withdrawal has real evidence. The vouchers don't show anything on the surface, but they are used in river engineering.
The money, food, and materials above are really countless.”
Jia Heng thought for a moment and said, "We will know the details after questioning the relevant officials.
Zhao Mo pondered for a moment and said: "Uncle Yongning, the most urgent task now is to find out the actual condition of the river embankment and deploy soldiers."
There is a lot of corruption in the Hedao Yamen. The key to the current problem is that if you don’t know the strength of the river embankments, you can’t make targeted arrangements, such as releasing floods in advance, etc.
Du Jitong, the governor of water transportation, said: "What Mr. Zhao said is true. There are countless embankments and dams under the Nanhe River. If they are all divided into garrison troops, the strength will be insufficient.
Peng Ye sat down at this time and looked at Jia Heng.
I secretly thought, if the river embankment breaks and the prefectures and counties are flooded, I wonder if the Holy Father will be disappointed in this Yongning Bo?
Jia Heng said: "Mr. Zhao, stay calm for a moment. I will ask the officials at the Yamen across the river to find out the truth."
Everyone was talking and waiting for the guards of Jinyi Mansion to bring back relevant officials from Huai'an Mansion.
After a while, Liu Jixian strode from the outside with a solemn expression and said with clasped fists: "Sir, Liu Renqiu, the Huaiyang River Service Director in charge of the Sizhou River Embankment, hanged himself at home, and his wife is still conducting an autopsy. Others
Bring all the officials.
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the official hall was shocked. Another one died?
Jia Heng frowned and said coldly: "When the river embankment collapsed, the officials involved in the river supervision committed suicide out of fear of crime. If all of them collapsed, wouldn't these people have to die to thank the world?"
Zhao Mo's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, and another person died. It seemed a little unusual, and he was afraid that he would not be able to ask the truth later.
"They may think that they can escape their guilt by dying, but I can't do that here!" Jia Heng's eyes were gloomy and he said coldly: "Everywhere in Huaiyang, below the Huaixu River Service Road, up to the Guanhe Road Division, down to the Gate Officer,
Anyone involved in the Sizhou case, no matter how big or small, is arrested and interrogated by the Jinyi Mansion, but I don’t believe it and commit suicide out of fear of guilt!”
He turned to Peng Ye and asked, "Why didn't Gao Bin and other river officials keep anyone under surveillance and allowed him to die to hide his guilt?"
Peng Ye said: "Mr. Jia, could it be that you have forgotten that the lower officials are the officials of Du Xian, and they only have the responsibility of impeachment and impeachment, and have no right to ask questions. Moreover, the imperial court has its own imperial envoys and ministers, and the lower officials are respectful to accompany the poor. How can they be good at their work?"
Claim?"
To put it bluntly, the two censors from the Metropolitan Procuratorate only came to inquire about the condition of the river embankment, and then wrote memorials to report to the court. They had no authority to deal with the relevant people. However, Zhao Mo, the inner university scholar who was in charge of Nanhe, had this authority.
Zhao Mo paused for a moment, then took up the topic and said: "Uncle Yongning, I was in charge of the relief work for the victims in Sizhou before, and I was a little negligent about the Hedao Yamen. I didn't want them to know that the crime was hard to redeem, so I died."
Jia Heng's eyes were gloomy and uncertain, and he felt coldly as he looked at Zhao Mo and Peng Ye.
This is a party struggle, perfunctory and passing the blame. He can't impeach a minister for failing to take good care of the Hedao Yamen because of this matter. Moreover, the impeachment of the censor is just nonsense and will not help the important matter.
Du Jitong, the governor of water transportation, was holding a tea cup and looking at several people with playful eyes. Jia Heng said: "Bring all the relevant officials here.
After a while, with the sound of pushing and shoving outside, the officials from the Hedao Yamen all entered the official hall. There were ten or twenty people in total.
Including three people from Guanhedao, five or six people from Tongzhi, five or six people from Tongjian, as well as lower-level state colleagues, several state judges, and one deputy general from the middle camp of Hebiao camp.
Mainly the relevant officials of the Heku Road, Huaiyang River Service Road, Huaixu River Service Road, and the officials of the Huaihai River Service Road are not here.
Jia Heng looked at the officials and said in a deep voice: "I have been ordered by the emperor to govern the Nanhe and Donghe rivers. From now on, I will take over all river affairs."
As he said that, he looked at the river officials and asked: "Where are Xu Jingqian, who manages the river in the river bank, Ma Weifang, who controls the river in the Huaixu Road, and Hao Yingzhou, who controls the river in the Huaiyang Road?"
At this time, three officials wearing fourth-grade crimson official robes embroidered with Yunyan patchwork came out of the official class, bowed their hands to Jia Heng and saluted, saying: "Your Majesty Ma Weifang (Hao Yingzhou, Xu Jingqian)
) met Lord River Governor.
Jia Heng said coldly: "The former governor of the river, Gao Bin, committed suicide. The three of you were his close subordinates. Do you know the reason?"
Hearing this, Ma Weifang looked sad and had tears in his eyes, and said: "Reporting to your lord, the river embankment burst and flooded Sizhou. Sir Gao felt so guilty that he couldn't think of it and took the narrow road. If the lower official hadn't had a seventy-year-old Gaotang,
There are young children below, and they will follow the tall people."
Hao Yingzhou said: "Now the Huai'an Prefecture is saying that Mr. Gao committed suicide out of fear of crime. Mr. Gao was unjust. Floods are mostly natural disasters, and river banks are as solid as rocks. If there is any difference, the imperial court will inspect it and know the details."
Xu Jingqian said nothing, but his face was ugly and he was worried.
Jia Heng sneered and said, "Come here, take these three clever talkers down, take them to the torture chamber, and interrogate them strictly."
The Jinyi palace guard behind them stepped forward and pressed the shoulders of the three of them. The expressions of everyone in the official hall changed.
"May I ask Mr. Jia, what crime have we committed?" Ma Weifang was startled and asked anxiously.
It seems that he did not expect that the river governor in front of him would be tortured if he disagreed with him.
Hao Chengzhou, who manages the Huaiyang River Service Road, felt his heart sinking, held his neck, and shouted loudly: "You are wronged, we are wronged!"
He turned to look at Zhao Mo and said urgently: "Mr. Zhao, Governor Du, we built the embankment but it didn't collapse. We have merit and no guilt!"
Zhao Mo frowned and said nothing. Du Jitong even raised his head to look at the sky, as if counting the ants on the beam, as if it had nothing to do with him.
Jia Heng's face was as frosty as he shouted: "Sizhou was flooded, and many people drowned. Since you are officials of the river yamen and are responsible for your responsibilities, how can you say you are innocent? Now one is shameless and hypocritical!
Who are the people of Sizhou in the belly going to complain about? Someone came, gagged these three people, took them out, and tortured them severely."
These three people are all Gao Bin's cronies. If they are tortured, some of them will not survive the punishment. As long as there is a breakthrough, the rest will be easy to picket.
Ma Weifang wanted to open her mouth to defend, but the Jinyi Mansion guard blocked her mouth and went out with her hands cut behind her back.
Hao Yingzhou of the Huaiyang River Service Road and Xu Jingqian of the river bank road were also escorted out.
For a moment, all the officials in the official hall were awestruck and trembling.
Zhao Mo, the Minister of Punishment, frowned as he watched this scene. He was obviously a little unhappy at being treated by such a cruel official who took people without looking at the evidence, but at this moment, it was hard to say anything as the matter was urgent.
The main reason is that it is not easy to argue with Jia Heng in front of all the river officials, which will hinder the overall situation.
Peng Ye, the deputy censor on the left, and Du Jitong, the governor of water transportation, looked at each other and secretly said, this is a child's show of force, killing a chicken to scare the monkeys.
Jia Heng's eyes fell on Huaiyang, Huai-Xu Lianghe Road and other subordinate officials again. His hawk-like gaze swept across the frightened faces. He raised the water conservancy map book in his hand and said coldly: "My officer
There is an atlas here, which shows the officials responsible for constructing river embankments, gates and dams as well as corresponding departments and floods under the Nanhe River. From today on, the prefectures and counties will be flooded due to corruption. I will use the sword of the emperor to kill the officials who supervise the construction because of the defeat and loss of land.
Discuss, rectify the law on the spot! And advise the court to offend the families of the officials, young and old, women and children, and destroy the three tribes! Countless people were killed and injured due to the floods. Only by eliminating heirs and leaving no heirs can we comfort the souls of the victims in heaven!"
Speaking of this, the expression on the officer's face changed slightly, and everyone was shocked and in an uproar.
If this was a natural disaster, they would also be implicated, and they would be killed one after another!
How could this Uncle Yongning be so cruel and vicious?!
When Zhao Mo heard this, he frowned and put down the tea cup in his hand. Hearing the murderous words of the young man, he almost felt restless.
He is so good at torture, destroying families and destroying families at every turn, leaving no heirs, and being cruel to officials.
Also!White
Du Jitong's eyes when watching the play were also somewhat strangely deep. He stared at the young man closely, feeling a sense of fear in his heart.
The martial artist in front of me suppressed chaos in the Central Plains and killed people like crazy. Now he has a murderous heart that is rarely seen in the world.
Peng Ye, the deputy censor on the left, picked up the tea cup, lowered his head and took a sip, his brows lit up with joy, and a sense of joy surged in his heart.
Kill, kill, the more you kill, the better. It is best to kill all these river officials. The long-standing problems in river affairs will be cleared up, and Yongning Bo will be ridiculed by the people for his cruelty and cruelty. This can be regarded as a lose-lose situation.
Driving away tigers and devouring wolves, borrowing swords to kill people, that's all.
Xu Kai frowned, looked deeply at the young man, his eyes flickered, and he vaguely felt that there was something more to come.
Jia Heng said: "If he can surrender himself to his crime and prove the reality of Chen Diyan, I can send troops and civilians to prepare for danger in advance. Even if the river embankment breaks, he himself will die for his crime, and the three tribes will be spared! If he can expose the corruption of his colleagues,
If a river embankment breaks and the prefecture and county are flooded, the official can still plead with the Holy One and perform meritorious deeds on his behalf, sparing him from death, exile or exile, and his family members will not be guilty! However, the number of people exempted from death is only five, and the maximum number of people who can expose the corruption of colleagues is one.
, if the river embankment bursts, he will only be dismissed from his position and will not be punished."
Prisoners enter prison and are motivated by commutation of their sentences for meritorious service. They rack their brains to find clues to commute their sentences, but not everyone can invent the manhole cover.
And this is his assessment of the reality of the river embankment. Otherwise, who knows which river embankment cut corners, will it burst when the flood comes? These days are short, and he has no time to check, so he can only ask these river officials.
And as long as the truth is true, the family members will not be implicated in the killings, and they will not end up with no heirs or heirs.
Needless to say, everyone is willing to expose the situation of their colleagues. If something happens to the river embankment, at least their heads will not be dislocated. However, among so many river officials, only five will escape death and have to be exiled elsewhere, so they will enthusiastically report it.
The person who exposes the most will not only avoid death, but also be exempted from guilt, and it will also be the biggest gift package.
And because the person present is not in charge of the river, that is, he is not the first person responsible. Even if the responsibility is shared and only one person is exempted from the death penalty, it will not damage the court's regulations. Moreover, compared with the safety of hundreds of thousands of people, sparing one person will not die.
, is also the result of trade-offs. Bai
This incentive method can be said to be a combination of leniency and severity, fully estimating the size of the official position and the severity of the crime, so that no one is wasted or indulged.
Xu Kai thought about it, his eyes brightening slightly.
To have no heirs and no descendants, I suddenly heard that although it is cruel and unforgiving, in fact, because the embankment flooded the city, I should be killed as a crime. In the anger of the emperor, it is normal for the three tribes to be annihilated, but it is not serious.
No heirs or descendants.
But by showing the true and false status of the river embankment and surrendering to the crime, we can avoid the disaster of the Yi people.
And if you expose the corruption of your colleagues, you will avoid death, although there are only five people.
The official who exposed the most corruption among his colleagues was dismissed from office, but was safe and sound. But there was only one person, and this was the bait that made people rush to expose him.
Therefore, for the sake of flood prevention and fighting, some river officials were given a chance to survive.
Looking at the young man with a calm face, he thought about the beauty of layered treatment, but in the end he only had ten words.
Use thunderous means to show the bodhisattva's heart!
It's just that these harsh words will inevitably be smeared by people with sneaky intentions. What he can do is to bear witness and explain them, and not let others take them out of context.
As Xu Kai thought this, a strange thought suddenly arose in his mind. Uncle Yong Ning brought him with him, did he also have the intention of letting him witness and distinguish?
This is really...
Perhaps, this can also be regarded as trusting one's own character?
As soon as these words came out, Zhao Mo's expression changed slightly, his eyes focused deeply, and he looked closely at the boy in the python suit, and he suddenly realized something in his heart.
Instead of indiscriminate torture out of anger, they used coercion and inducement to let these river officials report on each other, and then quickly find out the reality of the Nanhe dike.
This is indeed the fastest method, and taking the initiative to expose it is much faster than torture one by one. Because the law does not punish everyone, it is impossible for these river officials to have ventilated their ideas in advance and advance and retreat together.
This is not unusual in the officialdom. It is a crime for officials to protect each other and conceal each other. They cannot all be imprisoned. Besides, they will also be used in floods.
The beauty of this strategy is that it makes them suspicious, which can be used as a method of torture.
Zhao Mo was also thinking about the wisdom of this strategy in his heart, but suddenly a thought came to his mind, what if it was him?
How did he quickly figure out the situation on the river embankment?
With this thought, Zhao Mo's eyes flickered, and he felt unnatural in his heart, and he quickly suppressed some thoughts.
Such methods of coercion and inducement are not the right approach!
Moreover, only Uncle Yongning could do this. He was the governor in imperial robes and a close minister of the emperor. His Majesty almost obeyed his words and followed him as a guide.
"You are all river officials and are well versed in water conservancy. In the land of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River today, heavy rain has been pouring for nearly a month, and there is still no sign of the rain stopping. If we are not prepared, the incident in Sizhou will inevitably happen again. At that time, the Holy Spirit was furious. You
Wait until the Yi tribe is still unable to escape! You can also bet on whether the river embankment you are supervising will burst? Will the three tribes be wiped out?" Jia Heng paused and looked at the defeated people.
With a look on his face, he said with a sneer: "Besides, if a person keeps his mouth shut and hides his guilt, how can he know that others won't report him in order to get away with it?"
The river officials in the official hall were originally shocked, but suddenly their hearts jumped and they looked to the opposite side defensively. A few days ago, under the auspices of Ma Weifang and Hao Yingzhou, a group of river officials who were advancing and retreating together had already exchanged views on each other.
Became suspicious.
"Come here, take all the gentlemen down, detain them separately, and give them pen and paper to write down the facts of the embankment and the situation of corruption." Jia Heng looked at the officials present and ordered Liu Jixian.
With so many people agreeing to advance or retreat, it would be hard to torture them all one by one. The efficiency is too low. When the results of the torture come out, the day lily will be cold. Moreover, many people are tortured to extract confessions, and it is easy to be criticized.
But now so many officials are already suspicious of each other, waiting to reap the final results.
After the Huaiyang and Huaixu river officials left, Jia Heng also sat down, looked at Zhao Mo, who had a complex expression, and said: "Old Zhao, when the actual condition of the river embankment is found out, the only thing left is to deploy the military and civilians, arrange
Guard the dikes and make emergency repairs. Tomorrow you and I will go to Yangzhou to mobilize troops.
Zhao Mo had complicated thoughts at the moment. He looked at the vigorous and resolute young man, nodded and said, "Go to Yangzhou tomorrow to mobilize troops."
Du Jitong picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea, and glanced at the boy in the python suit.
This person is able to hold the position of military commander at a young age, and let Yang Xiang want to get rid of him quickly. He is indeed quite skillful.
Peng Ye put down the tea cup, his eyes also dim and unclear.
