Zhao Yidao and Lin Fatzi have been suffering for three days and nights.

Governor Wang extorted confessions in a humanitarian spirit, and he did not beat or scold, but did not let people sleep, and woke up with needles when he was about to fall asleep. The same questions were intertwined and mixed together, and they were asked twenty or thirty times, making the two criminals crazy.

"This is a confession, please take a look at it." Ning Botao was in the upper shape.

Ning Botao, a thief in Jiangyang, his real name is unknown.

It is estimated that I read too much "Water Margin", followed the story of Liangshan's heroes, and joined the Taihu Lake water bandit gang in the year of the weak crown. Because of some pickled things, he had an unpleasant quarrel with the leader of the water bandits, so he left Taihu Lake with more than a dozen brothers and robbed the rich and helped the poor in various prefectures and counties in Nanzhili.

This guy has an excellent reputation in the rivers and lakes, and he specializes in looting the rich gentry and merchants, and he only takes 10% of the goods, distributes 70% to his subordinate brothers, and uses the remaining 20% to help the people.

For example, before taking refuge in Wang Yuan, there was a poor scholar in Qingpu County, who was admitted to Xiucai at the age of seventeen, and in order to take care of his sick widowed mother, he was willing to be a teacher in the village school, and all the money he earned was used to treat his widowed mother, but he never had the money to go to Nanjing to participate in the township examination. When Ning Botao heard about this, he immediately went to the scholar's house in the middle of the night and threw a hundred taels of silver from the window.

Of course, when he came to take refuge in Wang Yuan, Ning Botao did not admit that he was a robber, but insisted that he was a hero. He brought three businessmen from Huzhou to sell goods, and recruited dozens of Taihu water bandits, all of whom are now under Wang Yuan's account.

"Good work." Wang Yuan nodded and smiled.

Ning Botao smiled, but his heart was a little worried.

The governor's methods are really shady, Ning Botao never dreamed that torture to extract confessions can still be played like this. At the end of the fatigue interrogation, Zhao Yidao and Lin Fatzi fell asleep directly, and they couldn't wake up with needles.

Wang Yuan opened the sorted confession, his face was not angry or happy, and he couldn't see any emotional fluctuations.

"Lin Zhao, the word Guangde, studied at an early age, never went to school, has been farming for generations, and is a person from Liang Village, Qinghe Township, Dinghai County. In the second year of Zhengde, he bribed the chief secretary of Dinghai County and served as a county official (not the kind of Yulu). In the fifth year of Zhengde, he offered his sister and Wu Zheng, the official under the jurisdiction of Ningbo City, as a concubine. Half a month ago, his brother-in-law Wu Zheng came to the door and forced him to go to Hangzhou to hire someone to burn down the warehouse. This matter seems to have been instructed by Wang Chen, the head of the tooth shop. ”

"Zhao Yidao, whose real name is Zhao Hong, has been sluggish since childhood, and lost his mother, brother, and sister when he was a teenager. He once lived in Quzhou as a thief, and his personality was ruthless, and he would be retributed. At the age of thirty, he returned to his hometown and settled in Hangzhou, but he was just a mess and never married a wife. and Lin Zhao are old acquaintances, and they are entrusted by him to force Chang Sangui to burn down the warehouse. ”

That's all there is to the confessions of the two people.

Wang Yuan slowly put down the confession and called a flag officer of the Shenji Battalion: "Take someone to Ningbo immediately, and order the prefect to arrest Wu Zheng, the official of Ningbo!" You follow the whole process, don't leak the news, and prevent Wu Zheng from being killed. ”

"Yes!"

This Xiaoqi immediately led his troops to Ningbo.

A few days later, the news came back that Wu Zheng, the official of Ningbo, had been dead for several days, and it seemed that he had committed suicide in fear of crime.

The clue is broken!

"It must have been Zhang Yong's secret instructions, and the eunuchs of Ningbo City were not so bold." He Jin speculated.

Wang Yuan asked, "How much does He Tiju know about Zhang Yong?" ”

He Jin said: "Greedy, bold, accustomed to greeting, and have personal relations with His Majesty's former ministers!" ”

Zhu Houzhao's East Palace team is now either in the cabinet, or in the Sixth Department and Kedao. Except for Zhi Shi and Ding Wei, the worst mix is also from the third grade, and the eunuch Zhang Yong actually has a relationship with all these people.

There is the emperor's favor inside, and there is the help of civil officials outside, and this guy also administers three sides, and has 10,000 Beijing camps in his hands. Moreover, Zhang Yong also made friends with many nobles, and he had everything inside and out.

Even if he knew that this person was destroying the open sea, Wang Yuan couldn't do anything about him.

In the absence of definite evidence, even if Wang Yuan asked the emperor to make a small report, Zhang Yong would be able to push it cleanly and throw Cui Yao, the governor of Ningbo City, out of the pot.

"Take your time." Wang Yuan didn't laugh angrily.

This is a famous eunuch in history, and it belongs to a good name.

Punish Liu Jin, destroy Qian Ning, quell the rebellion of King Anhua, command the extermination of Liu Liu and Liu Qi, admiral trilateral defense of Mongolia, and also issue new money to prohibit private minting...... There are many such credits, some of which are done by Zhang Yong himself, and some of which are his share of the credit, but in general, they belong to eunuchs who have made achievements. In addition, he has helped many civil officials, so when compiling history, he naturally has to be touted.

But this guy didn't have a good reputation during the Zhengde years. He was still corrupt and domineering, wantonly encroached on land in the suburbs of Beijing, and moved thousands of taels of silver from the treasury to his own house, and was impeached no less than Wang Yuan.

He Yao took a bite of the vinegar fish in the West Lake, and said with a smile on the wine: "You hate Zhang Yong in your heart, and he still hates you." The eunuchs of several major cities are all Zhang Yong's subordinates, and the eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in the open sea, which is equivalent to robbing him of how much silver? If you promise to let the eunuch supervise the Hangzhou City Bosi, Zhang Yong guarantees that he will support you the most to open the sea! ”

Wang Yuan laughed: "Am I offending both the eunuchs and civil officials?" ”

He Jin said: "Look at it, once the sea is successfully opened, Zhang Yong will definitely come out to pick peaches." What kind of civil officials can't be trusted, and they have to be supervised by the emperor's domestic slaves, maybe one day, Hangzhou City Bosi will also be fished out by Zhang Yong. ”

"If that time comes, I will also be a scholar of the princes of the court, and I will resign several times a month to pass the time." Wang Yuan said happily.

It's not that Wang Yuan looks down on eunuchs, it's that eunuchs are especially capable of tossing.

Emperor Jiajing, who didn't trust the civil officials so much, also withdrew to various places to guard the eunuchs, and the real reason was that those eunuchs made the emperor unbearable.

The eunuchs in various towns, if there is a military matter, they will send the imperial horse eunuchs to serve, the main responsibility is to quell the rebellion and calm the people, and the result is often greedy for food and food to return the fish and meat to the people. If there is no military affairs in the locality, the imperial eunuch will be sent to serve as the town guard, and the main duty is to collect "local products" for the emperor, which makes the play more unscrupulous, and often forces the people to rebel.

"This thing is very good," He Yao pointed to the vinegar fish in West Lake and joked, "I want to be greedy for some silver and eat this vinegar fish every day." ”

Wang Yuan smiled and asked, "Admiral Jin (Jin Xianmin) is still cooperative, right?" ”

"It's so cooperative. He, the admiral of the city's shipping department, is similar to the monk who hits the bell, he doesn't care about anything, and I have full authority to decide the affairs of the city's shipping department," He Jiao sighed, "Thirty or forty ships, the tariff for going to sea is more than 40,000 taels, which is not counting the income from selling the sea." The tax silver handed over to the household department every year must be more than one million (not counting the silver to the emperor and the three divisions)! ”

Wang Yuan quipped: "Hubu Shishangshu, if you get a million taels of tax silver, will you scold me for competing with the people for profit?" ”

"Hahahaha!"

He Jin couldn't stop laughing: "I'm afraid he's looking forward to you fighting for more profits to go back, and the household treasury is so poor that all the rats are gone." ”

Wang Yuan sneered: "That is, I got cheap and sold well, and while spending the money I earned, I scolded me for not abiding by the emperor's ancestral system." ”

He Jin said: "If you can hand over two million taels to the household department every year, maybe Shi Shangshu's mouth will be blocked." ”

"Hehe, shut your mouth," Wang Yuan suddenly sneered, "This Zhang Yong sent someone to set fire, I'm afraid there is also the cabinet involved, maybe who gave him a bad idea!" ”

"You mean Liang Shuhou (Liang Chu)?" He Jin asked.

Wang Yuan smiled: "Haha, guess, eat fish and eat fish." ”