As usual, I asked Mi Huang, who was a superior, to visit the yamen of the Criminal Prison Division, and everyone walked around to the innermost room, and the door creaked open by Cheng Jia, and Mi Huang and Chen Huang walked into Cheng Jia's study together. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Lady, please come in. Cheng Jia personally welcomed Mihuang in.

Mi Huang looked around the whole study, very large, the north and south sides are rows of bookshelves of mahogany, piled up with a falling bamboo slip of the official case, the west wall is hung with a picture of the sunset in Yingdu, look at the year is a little long, I don't know when it was painted, there are two Taishi chairs and a pear long case under the window, there is a blue and white porcelain vase on it, and there is a purple lotus in full bloom inside, which looks very elegant.

On the long case is the four treasures of the study, and then there is a falling bamboo slip, which seems to be very busy.

Mi Huang looked at the study and pouted.

The object resembles the shape of the owner.

Cheng Jia and Ruo Ao Ziyan are extremely similar to each other to some extent, but they are almost two extremes.

One is luxurious to the extreme, and the other is simple to the extreme.

Cheng Jia looked at Mi Huang's expression, his eyes flashed slightly, and asked, "What's wrong with the princess?"

Mi Huang glanced at Cheng Jia, then shook his head and said politely, "Cheng Si is naturally excellent." ”

Cheng Jia frowned when he saw her, so he could only show his favor first and let Chen Huang go down to prepare tea.

After a while, Chen Huang brought tea, and Mi Huang took a sip of tea, directly explaining her intention, "The reason why this lady came to come, I want to know whether to succeed or fail, and now we will investigate and try the disaster relief case together." I won't go around in circles, and I will also ask Cheng Si to tell me about all the situations that everyone said about the exchange of disaster relief food from before to after. ”

After getting along with each other for these days, Cheng Jia has already become accustomed to her one-on-one work style, and said, "Yes." ”

Then he recounted the relief efforts.

"Gongyi was ordered to resettle the displaced people, there will be people from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division to help him escort the disaster relief money and food to the various counties, of course, he is very concerned about this matter, and will choose the person who has believed in it to be responsible for escorting, this time there are mainly five counties and counties that have been seriously affected, namely Jingmen City, Suicheng, Dingcheng, Jingling and Suicheng.

Therefore, the team was divided into five batches, with a total of 50,000 quintals of grain and 50,000 silver beads, which were not particularly many, and were sent to various places.

In previous years, if there was a disaster, in order to quickly resettle the displaced people, they could take the waterway faster, and this year is the same, and some people who can't take the waterway will try to catch the official road.

On the way of the escort, starting from Yingdu to the affected counties, although there were some small groups of displaced robbers on the way, they were not the opponents of the soldiers and horses of the five cities, so the process of transporting the disaster grain was extremely smooth, but the problem was that after the disaster relief grain entered the city, it was all found to be replaced, which was very strange.

Those who secretly exchange money have to attack five batches of money and grain at the same time, and without being discovered, they can only say that their hands and eyes are up to the sky......"

"Maybe the other party has already done it, but no one has ever said it. Huang interrupted his narrative abruptly.

Cheng Jia bowed slightly, and said indifferently, "That's right, I think so too."

There are two possibilities.

First, all the people in charge of the Gongzheng Mansion were bribed or coerced, but the public did not know about it.

Second, the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division did tricks and tricks in it, and this group of people from Gongzheng Mansion did not find out at all.

In either case, the result is that when the food arrives in the affected town, the victims find that the rice has been replaced by corn husks, and riots occur. ”

Speaking of this, Cheng Jia paused, "And this situation is estimated to have always existed, but no one has paid attention to the war in the past three years, and no one dares to report it when the people have eaten corn husks, or some small unrest has long been suppressed by local people." But now that the war has subsided, but after three years of floods and famines, the people affected by the disaster in our Chu country finally can't bear it anymore, so the contradictions have intensified. ”

"Intensifying contradictions?"

Mi Huang frowned slightly, hearing this word for the first time.

"Lady, the people take food as the sky. ”

"If you don't even have food to eat, you can't live anymore, and naturally there will be rebellion. Just as Ao Zinong led people to crush the homeless people, and the homeless people fought to the death, this is a contradiction between the nobles and the commoners. When this contradiction intensifies to a certain extent, it can only be resolved by bloody conflict, and then it will be too late. And civil strife and injustice, often other countries will take advantage of the weakness, just like three years ago, Yongguo took advantage of the floods and natural disasters in our Chu country when the people were struggling to survive. ”

Cheng Jia timely explained the "Theory of Contradiction" after 2000 to Mi Huang.

This era was the era of slavery, at first the big nobles continued to encircle the land and the population, developed into the princes of small countries, then waged wars, developed into the overlords of large countries, and finally needless to say, the eight hundred princes of the Spring and Autumn Period would develop into the Seven Heroes of the Warring States.

It's just that these Huang Huang didn't know, and a trace of deep thought flashed in her eyes when she heard this, "So, it seems that this matter has reached an irreconcilable level?"

"Local contradictions can be controlled. Cheng Jia continued.

"Every vassal state has internal contradictions, just big or small. Some contradictions can be resolved from the top down, while some contradictions will be resolved from the bottom up if no one is at the top to solve them.

There is always a solution to all contradictions. ”

"So how do you solve it this time?"

The first time Mi Huang heard this point of view, even Ruo Ao Ziyan had never said such a remark, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Up or down?"

"My Chu country is now in full swing, although there are internal contradictions, but it is still under control, so it is naturally reformed from top to bottom. ”

"It's just that in this way, someone has to take care of it on the king's side, after all, the scope of this case is too wide. ”

Cheng Jia said slowly, that's why he hasn't done it for a long time, and he doesn't dare to do it, he doesn't know how much impact it will have in the Chu State, "As for the crime of killing the head, I'm afraid that this time it can fall on the heads of a large number of officials, and even the public loser is guilty of poor supervision." ”

"But such a group of corrupt officials, once they are dismissed, the national strength of our Chu State will be ten times stronger than in the past!"

"Ten times?"

"Yes, tenfold!" Cheng Jia nodded.

Mi Huang paused, lowered his eyes, tapped his fingertips lightly on the table, and did not speak.

Cheng Jia saw that she was silent, so she didn't say much, but quietly sipped tea.

Mi Huang's silence was a full two quarters of an hour, so long that Chen Huang wondered if the princess was asleep, and couldn't help but peep secretly, but Cheng Jia had been sitting like this, not feeling embarrassed at all.

An hour later, Mi Huang finally woke up from a big dream, and suddenly raised his eyes to look at Cheng Jia, "Since the scope of suspicion has been demarcated, we will start arresting people tomorrow!"

"What?"

Chen Huang didn't know that the princess suddenly said this, and couldn't help but remind, "But there is no evidence, and we can't arrest anyone based on speculation." ”

Cheng Jia looked at her and smiled lightly, "Okay, if the lady says to arrest people, we will arrest people!"

Chen Huang looked at the two of them like crazy people, "Cheng Si or Shi, how can you be like this." ”

Cheng Jia looked at him and smiled faintly, "Since the princess wants to arrest people, the evidence will inevitably be there tomorrow." ”

Where does the evidence come from?

Did it fall from the sky?

Both of them!

Crazy!

They will definitely be impeached by the Imperial Doctor!

"Okay, let's get started tomorrow morning!"

Mi Huang pointed to the five officials of the Gongzheng Mansion in the list of officials listed by Cheng Jia, his eyebrows sank, and he ordered, "Start with the five of them, and invite all of them to the prison of the Criminal Prison Department for tea!"

"Okay, I'm done, I'm leaving!" Mi Huang got up and led the people away.

Cheng Jia quietly looked at her departing back, her originally light and breezy eyes narrowed slightly, as if there was a faint color of wind and rain in it, light and dark.

Knowing that so many people are involved.

Did she really listen to him and do it?

If you talk about mind and strategy, forbearance and boldness, grudge and open-mindedness, these are almost all embodied in Mi Huang alone, but they don't seem to be contradictory at all.

Cheng Jia, who had been standing by the door, looked down, turned around and returned to the study, and began to arrange tomorrow's actions.

"Go and pass on the Dark Guard Commander, Jing'an. "Destiny.

"Yes, Childe. ”

Soon, a masked guard dressed in black pushed open the door and walked in, "Childe, what do you order?"

"Jing'an, you take this seal to your father and ask for 50,000 loads of food, and you want it today. ”

Cheng Jia didn't say much, took out his personal seal and gave it to Jing'an, and then handed the commander of the dark guard a piece of silk cloth with words, "All the arrangements are on it, and it will be destroyed after reading." ”

The Dark Guard took it to heart after a glance, then lit the flint he carried with him, instantly burning it to ashes.

After sending Mi Huang away, Chen Huang asked anxiously after coming back, "Si Defeat, what reason will we use to arrest people tomorrow, we can't distinguish between right and wrong, and take people empty, right?!"

"Sometimes, you don't need to be right or wrong, you just need to be deterred!"

"When they are all arrested, naturally someone will confess to them, if you still explain the law to them, you will only let them exploit the loopholes of my Chu Lu, and in the end, the case will not be resolved, they are still like this year after year. ”

Cheng Jia looked at Zhou Mu with a pair of light and breezy eyes, and Mu Ran said, "This is politics. ”

Zhou Mu was shocked when he heard this, and his brows furrowed slightly.

After speaking, Cheng Jia calmly sat behind the long case and shook his head and said, "Don't worry, someone is more difficult to sleep tonight than you." ”

But Chen Huang, who still didn't understand a little, felt that he was ashamed to be the first staff, but he didn't understand Si Defeat's mind at all.

It was destined to be another sleepless night.

Many officials who went to the court today or did not go to the court slept very restlessly this night.

The winter night in Da Chu is also colder, and the windows blown by the cold wind "clang" chaotically, disturbing people's dreams.

In the Zhou Mansion, Zhou Mu slept until midnight with the beauty in his arms, and when he heard strange movements, he sat up from the bed and asked out loud, "What's the movement outside?" ”

The maid on duty at night suddenly pulled up the whirring window and replied, "My lord, for some reason the wind blew the window open, and the slave and maid are locking it up. ”

Zhou Mu got up, and suddenly saw a black footprint on the windowsill, and shouted, "No, what kind of wind, someone has come at all! ”

A large number of guards searched inside and outside the Zhou Mansion, but found nothing.

Bang Bang Bang ......

"It's dry, watch out for the candles!"

As soon as the black shadow floated into the mansion of the Zheng Mansion, it was like a ghost, and there was no human figure in sight for a while, only the high vermilion wall remained.

The old man rubbed his eyes and exclaimed, "Oh, what the hell am I!

Then he quickened his pace, and there was a banging sound in the hope of scaring off the demons.

A rush of bangzi sounds, losing the dull rhythm of the past, wandering around the main city streets, drifting into the big households, like the sound of midnight urging the soul, making people's hearts beat.