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In Bao Wenjie's eyes, Zhao Junchen is the biggest corrupt official in the court, and any corruption case involving the household department and the treasury must have something to do with Zhao Junchen. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This time, the imperial court's disaster relief money and food were gone, and Bao Wenjie was naturally a little skeptical of Zhao Junchen's position and attitude.

So, after seeing that Zhao Junchen was in a good mood, Bao Wenjie hesitated for a moment, but he opened his mouth to get down to business, wanting to test Zhao Junchen's true thoughts, and asked: "Lord Zhao, what do you think about the disappearance of disaster relief money and grain in the northwest provinces this time?" It's a bit strange that so much food is suddenly missing. ”

Zhao Junchen sighed lightly and said, "What else could it be?" Naturally, some officials were greedy for ink in private...... Seventy percent of the disaster relief money and food are gone, and it is not too important to attach importance to such a thing, but the imperial court has not known the news until now, and it is not through the formal channels of the local government, but the private notice of several local officials who still have a conscience, which is obviously deliberately concealed by the governors of the provinces, so Li Xun, the governor of Shanxi, Zhang Shengde, the governor of Shaanxi, and Wu Min, the governor of Gansu, are probably inseparable......"

Bao Wenjie's eyes were firmly fixed on the change in Zhao Junchen's expression, and he asked, "If this matter is indeed related to the governors of the provinces, what are you going to do, Lord Zhao?" ”

Zhao Junchen glanced at Bao Wenjie from the corner of his eye, and asked rhetorically, "What does Lord Bao want to know?" ”

Bao Wenjie had a serious expression and said, "The lower officials just want to know, will Lord Zhao severely punish these corrupt officials?" The nature of this matter is extremely serious, according to the lower officials, not strict investigation is not enough to deter the temple, not strict investigation is not enough to reverse the rule of officials, must not easily let go of this group of corrupt officials, otherwise it will only disappoint the people, thinking that the court is protected by officials and officials, and everyone is not clean, what does Lord Zhao think? ”

Hearing Bao Wenjie's hint, Zhao Junchen's expression was also a little more serious, but he turned his head to Hong Gaogong and ordered: "Hong Qianhu, this official is thirsty, please find some water for me to quench my thirst." ”

Zhao Junchen said this, obviously not wanting Hong Gaogong to hear the next conversation between him and Bao Wenjie, so he found a reason to break Hong Gaogong away.

Hong Gaogong also understood Zhao Junchen's hint, but he also wanted to know Zhao Junchen's true thoughts on this matter, which was related to how much the Jinyi Wei people could gain from this trip, so Hong Gaogong pretended not to understand, and directly untied the water bag from his waist and handed it to Zhao Junchen, and said with a smile: "Lord Zhao, I will carry the water bag with me, and I don't need to look for it." ”

Zhao Junchen frowned, first reached out to take the water bag, and then directly let go and let the water bag fall under the horse.

At this time, everyone was riding forward, not very fast, but not very slow.

After the water bag fell to the ground, it immediately fell behind several people, and was trampled by the follow-up people one after another, and a water bag made of fine calfskin was torn apart.

Then, Zhao Junchen's voice was a little colder, and he said again: "The official didn't catch it and missed, so let's trouble Hong Qianhu to make a special trip." ”

In this way, Hong Gaogong was bored with Zhao Junchen, but he didn't dare to be angry with Zhao Junchen, so he just laughed and rode away.

After Hong Gaogong left, Zhao Junchen finally told Bao Wenjie some true thoughts: "Lord Bao, I can't answer your question accurately, after all, I don't know what the details of the northwest provinces are, I can only say it now...... If only a few officials are involved in this matter, then I will inevitably punish them severely in order to set an example and set an example, but if there are too many officials involved in the case and the scope is too wide, then I have no choice but to punish the public, let go of the vast majority of the officials involved in the case, and only punish the first evil! ”

After hearing Zhao Junchen's statement, Bao Wenjie's face suddenly changed, and he only felt that his worries had been implemented, and Zhao Junchen planned to shelter corrupt officials again!

Therefore, Bao Wenjie's tone suddenly stiffened, and said: "Lord Zhao, the lower officials dare not agree, if you have to easily let go of most of the corrupt officials involved in the case just because of the words 'the law does not blame the public', who else will value the law and discipline of the court in the future?" When the corrupt officials and corrupt officials of the imperial court saw such a situation, wouldn't they have to follow the same example and collude together to embezzle and accept bribes in the future? ”

Zhao Junchen nodded in agreement with Bao Wenjie's point of view, and sighed: "This is also a helpless thing, although there will be some bad influences, but it can only be taken one step at a time." ”

Seeing that Zhao Junchen did not change his mind at all, Bao Wenjie's tone became more and more stiff, and said: "Lord Zhao, as the deputy envoy of the Qin Mission, the lower official also has the responsibility of supervision, if Lord Zhao shelters the corrupt officials involved in the case, I am afraid that the lower officials will have to report to Your Majesty at that time." ”

Zhao Junchen sighed again and said, "If things really develop to this point, if Lord Bao wants to report to His Majesty, I will not stop you...... But I would like to ask Lord Bao, what are we going to the Northwest Provinces for this time? ”

Bao Wenjie was slightly stunned and replied: "Naturally, it is to find out the truth about the disappearance of the disaster relief money and grain, and then strictly investigate those officials who embezzle and intercept the disaster relief money and grain of the imperial court, so as to correct the discipline of the imperial court!" ”

Zhao Junchen shook his head and said, "Wrong, wrong!" ”

"Wrong?" Bao Wenjie was stunned again.

Zhao Junchen explained: "The purpose of our trip to the northwest provinces this time is to stabilize the situation in the northwest, smoothly distribute the relief grain and grass to the affected people, and prevent the disaster from causing chaos...... This is the most important thing, as for punishing corrupt officials and other things, it is just a incidental thing, everything must be given priority to the relief of the victims! ”

Hearing Zhao Junchen's statement, Bao Wenjie thought for a moment, and then had to admit that Zhao Junchen's statement was correct.

Among the Qingliu officials, Bao Wenjie has always attached the most importance to reality, but he still has some shortcomings of the Qingliu officials, that is, they only pay attention to impeachment and exposure, but often ignore the solutions to the actual situation.

After seeing that Bao Wenjie did not refute his statement, Zhao Junchen asked: "Then, in Lord Bao's opinion, if this matter involves a large number of local officials, and you and I are severely punished and will not let any of them go, what will the people think when they see that most of the officials in the imperial court are corrupt officials?" Will it contribute to the stabilization of the situation in the Northwest?

The most important thing is that if we punish most of the local officials in the northwestern provinces in one fell swoop, where will we go to find a replacement for them in a short period of time? If no replacement can be found, and there are a large number of vacancies in the official positions in the prefectures and counties, who will govern the people and distribute relief food to the victims? If there are no officials to distribute relief food, the relief food will not be distributed to the people in time, and maybe it will provoke a civil uprising, so what if the two of us punish more corrupt officials? Isn't it putting the cart before the horse? Especially at the sensitive time when the fire is sifting into the Kou, if the local officials are arrested and imprisoned by us, who will organize the people to resist the Mongol Tartars? ”

Hearing Zhao Junchen's successive inquiries, Bao Wenjie was speechless.

Before that, he was only bent on severely punishing corrupt officials, but he never considered these issues.

After seeing Bao Wenjie's position gradually shaken, Zhao Junchen said again: "Therefore, for the sake of the overall situation of the imperial court and the safety of the people, if there are too many officials involved in this matter, we can only severely punish the first evil and make an example of the monkeys, and gently let the remaining officials involved in the case be let go and let them make meritorious contributions, because we have no candidate to replace them!" That's what I really think! Of course, if Lord Bao is still dissatisfied, I will not stop you from reporting to Your Majesty, but...... Your Majesty, he's probably thinking the same way as I am. ”

As Zhao Junchen repeated his point of view again, Bao Wenjie was still speechless and silent.

Regarding Zhao Junchen's point of view, Bao Wenjie always felt that something was wrong, and he was not convinced, but he couldn't find a reason to refute Zhao Junchen.

Seeing Bao Wenjie's appearance, Zhao Junchen didn't continue to say anything, just closed his mouth and rode forward quietly.

Many things seem to be unreasonable, but limited by objective conditions, people can only passively accept them, for an idealist like Bowen Jie, this kind of thing is indeed cruel, but it can only be figured out by himself.

On the other side, after seeing that Zhao Junchen and Bao Wenjie's conversation was over, Hong Gaogong quickly stepped forward again and re-loaded Zhao Junchen with a new kettle.

However, at this time, Huailai County was already in sight.

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A large number of Jinyi guards appeared in Huailai County, which naturally frightened all the officials and people in Huailai County.

Huailai Zhi County hurriedly ran to inquire about the situation, and after discovering Zhao Junchen's identity, Huailai Zhi County was even more sincerely afraid and afraid of being sluggish.

Under the sincere and fearful hospitality of Huailai County, everyone rested in Huailai County for an hour, and then immediately left Huailai County and continued to the west.

In the next two days, the group passed through Zhulu County, Xuanhua County, and Yangyuan County, and then finally left the scope of Zhili and entered Shanxi.

The first stop when entering Shanxi is a place that Zhao Junchen is very familiar with, it is the Lu'an Mansion where Zhao Junchen extinguished the locust plague back then!

It was only a two- or three-day journey, and the scene that everyone saw when they hurried was already very different.

When the territory of Zhili, the crops on both sides of the road are still prosperous, and the people are also stable when they harvest the crops, but the more west, the more obvious the drought, after arriving in Shanxi, the traces of drought are more obvious, most of the fields as far as the eye can see are sparse and sparse, the crops are low, and most of the people are sad and sad, sighing, obviously worried about the lack of autumn grain this year.

This is still the southwest of Shanxi, which is a relatively minor area, and I am afraid that the situation in other places is even worse.

After seeing such a situation, Zhao Junchen's heart also became heavy.

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Well, the first update!

There is one more shift after the early hours of the morning!

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