After a brief silence in the hall, there was a commotion, and it was unbelievable that an official from the sixth rank hanged himself in the prison like this.

Fan Zhongyan lay on the ground and wept silently, while the young official was extremely indignant, Wang Zengtie, who was smiling all day, had a blue face, Ding Wei didn't say a word, and Lu Zongdao was angry and said: "Appalling, appalling!" ”

In the palace, the imperial history had to make a crisp and piercing sound by striking each other with the slabs to silence everyone.

Zhao Zhen sat on the throne and couldn't speak, he had just hung the plaque of righteousness and brightness on the Daqing Palace, and such a terrifying thing appeared in an instant, this was a real slap in the face, Zhao Zhen could even feel that his cheeks were red.

Zhao Zhen said angrily: "How can this be reasonable, why is such a grievance only reported now, this can be resolved without reporting to me at the court meeting, I want to find out!" ”

It is true that the officials of the Great Song Dynasty will not be easily punished, even if they are guilty, they will not be arrested so simply, although the officials at the local and county level are not appointed by Zhao Zhen personally, but they also have some influence, to this Li Derun, Zhao Zhen has heard of his name for a long time, and his impeachment of illegal officials is also under the supervision of the state capitals.

It is precisely because of this that those officials were severely punished by Zhao Zhen and resentful.

Even the officials under his own command can't be protected well, who will dare to report lawlessness in the future? The infinite anger in Zhao Zhen's heart was like a burning fire, constantly burning his internal organs.

"I am hanging this plaque not only to warn those who sit on this throne, but also to remind you of the great light of justice! Now there is such an appalling thing that humiliates me and disgraces Da Song at the same time! Li Derun has an excellent official reputation among the people, but he has suffered injustice, how do the people view the court? The prosperous era of civil rule that I established with my ministers is gone in an instant! ”

Zhao Zhen's words hit the key point of the Wenchens, Wenzhi is not only the glory of Zhao Zhen alone, but also the glory of all scholars, Danqing history books will associate their names with Wenzhi, it can be said that Wenzhi is them, they represent Wenzhi!

Now that the most glorious things have been destroyed, who can bear the princes of the court? What is the doctor's picture? Isn't the picture just a name left in history!

The old Wang Zeng seemed to be ten years younger, and his hands tightly pinched the board and hated: "This kind of traitor must be found out of our scholars, otherwise why should he be severely punished?" How can you hear and hear in the right way?! ”

Wang Zeng's words entered the hearts of everyone, and the ancestral system of not punishing the doctor and not killing the doctor was all thrown aside, and they were eager to immediately take out the criminal minister and divide the body......

When a person's actions undermine the interests of the majority, everyone becomes his enemy, even those who do not have a conflict of interest.

At the same time that the merits of Wenzhi were damaged, the generals also began to worry that their martial arts would be suspected, and Cao Wei, who was a privy envoy, came out and said: "What the prince said is that the fault of one person disgraces the entire court, and the people see that good people are suffering, so they begin to doubt the court. ”

Zhao Zhen nodded, yes, the current promotion of civil affairs and martial arts between Wenchen and military generals has been formed as one, one is prosperous and the other is lost! Even Cao Wei, the privy envoy, began to maintain the reputation of his civil servant.

Zhou Qi, Zhao Zhen first saw this name when he personally sat in Longmen Town to supervise disaster relief, he was still the governor of Suizhou at that time, it was because of his meritorious service in disaster relief at that time, Zhao Zhen specially promoted him, but he didn't expect that in just a few years, this good official who used to eat and live with the victims became what he is now.

Zhou Qi is now the transfer envoy of Huainan East Road, in addition to being in charge of the wealth of the land along the way, he also leads the inspection of local officials, maintains law and order, counts prisons, and recommends talents, etc., and Li Derun's lawsuit is fully responsible for him.

Zhao Zhen didn't believe it at first, the Zhou Qi he saw at the beginning was the most dedicated to disaster relief among all the state capitals, and he heard Cai Boyu say that he was even more miserable before he saw the emperor in front of him, and the official clothes on his body should be borrowed from the local big families.

But now his image as a good official in Zhao Zhen's heart collapsed instantly, and he even felt that he had been fooled, and began to wonder if everything Zhou Qi did when he was in disaster relief was acting.

Song Xiaoyi stood on the thick cashmere carpet, carefully praised Zhao Xu's stacked building blocks in the palace, bowed to Zhao Zhen and said: "Your Majesty, there is news from the Black Hand Branch on Jianghuai East Road that Zhou Qi's family does have a large amount of property of unknown origin. ”

Zhao Zhen pointed to the brocade couch on the side and said, "Sit, I still have a trace of fantasy about him, but who knows that it is really useless." ”

Song Xiaoyi couldn't help but say when he saw Zhao Zhen so disappointed: "This is just information found by the black hand, and I don't know where those belongings come from......"

Zhao Zhen waved the song in his hand weakly and said, "Do you still need to check this?" He Zhou Qi is under the banner of a clean breeze on his sleeves, and he is mostly advertised as diligent and self-denying in front of others, and he has neither shops nor rich relatives at home, how can he have so much more property? The money given to him by the imperial court could not reach such a luxurious level. ”

Song Xiaoyi was speechless for a while, the wealth in Zhou Qi's family was innumerable, completely beyond the income of a transfer envoy, and even a minister like Wang Xianggong could not be compared.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Zhao Zhen asked, "Is Li Derun buried?" What about the people of Weizhen County? ”

Song Xiaoyi hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, Li Derun's family has taken away his body, and the people of Weizhen County are like losing their mothers, and their grief is beyond words......

"Tell the truth!"

Being able to hear such words from Song Xiaoyi's mouth shows that the scene at that time was even more tragic.

"Your Majesty is angry, and there are many accusations and sarcastic words among the people, but this is because their atmosphere is too much, and there is a reason for it!"

Zhao Zhen waved his hand and said: "It's okay, I'm not a faint king, what the people said is also the truth, I will give the people an explanation!" ”

Having said that, but Zhao Zhen was obviously uncomfortable as the king of a country, but soon Zhao Zhen recovered, official corruption will occur in any dynasty, and even in later generations with a fairly developed degree of civilization, how to protect the integrity of the bureaucracy is the first task.

The Great Song Dynasty had its own set of defensive measures, such as high salaries and incorruptible pensions, such as the "public money" and "coupon food" systems pioneered in the feudal dynasty, and of course, a powerful system of Taiwanese advice, as well as developed supervision powers, which constituted the most powerful anti-corruption mechanism in the Song Dynasty, but the premise was that the emperor and the important ministers of the court should maintain it.

Zhao Zhen originally thought that under these systems, corruption, abuse of power, dereliction of duty, and lazy government would be difficult for the bacteria of the empire to breed, but who knew that such a bad thing still happened, and even the life of a good official was lost.

Zhao Zhen, who traveled to the Great Song Dynasty, attaches great importance to the value of life, and how much grievances and torture did he endure when he committed suicide?

Zhao Zhen felt that it was not worth it for the dead Li Derun!