Volume 3 Chapter 74 Reversing Black and White
Jiajing thinks he is wise and martial, but in fact, in Yan Song's eyes, he is a stunned young man who doesn't understand anything, and he is very confused.
It is indeed a good idea to send the imperial history to patrol it, but the premise is that this imperial history is objective and fair, and since Yan Song made this suggestion, this imperial history naturally cannot be objective and fair.
He proposed to let Xia Yan find someone to go to Zhejiang and Fujian to patrol is a trick, in fact, at this time, Xia Yan's party is almost his Yan Song's party, many officials in the township party were originally pulled in by him, and Xia Yan is both high and arrogant, extremely unpopular, few people are really following this guy, everyone is just for power and profit.
At this time, he is already a secretary of the ministry, and his corruption skills are even more amazing, everyone has both power and advantage to follow him, who is willing to follow Xia Yan to pretend to be high, so at this time, Xia Yan's party is basically his people, even if Xia Yan is looking for someone, he is also looking for his cronies, and when the time comes, as long as he cooperates with the maritime tycoon to get some "evidence" on the whole, Zhu Yan will have to peel off his skin if he doesn't die!
Jiajing didn't know that he was in his trap, and even proposed to send three imperial historians to Zhejiang and Fujian at the same time, thinking that this would play a role in mutual supervision, but as everyone knows, whether they sent one or three, they were all his Yan Song's people.
As a result, after some consideration, Xia Yan nominated the imperial history Zhou Liang to patrol on his behalf, and Yan Song pretended to mention a more "upright" imperial history Ye Bo, plus the imperial history Chen Jiude, the three imperial historians of the Yan Song family rushed to Zhejiang and Fujian to investigate.
They and the maritime tycoons wear a pair of pants, so naturally they will not help Zhu Kun find evidence to prove that Zhu Kun has indeed wiped out the pirates, on the contrary, they are looking for evidence of Zhu Kun's "killing good and risking merit"!
As for this evidence, it is easy to find, because most of the squires in Zhejiang and Fujian are inextricably linked with the maritime giants, and it is a very simple matter to find some people to prove that those pirate leaders are "good people", and they also have a very important "evidence", and this "evidence" is the yellow book of these pirate leaders.
These pirate leaders are not full-time pirates, their main business is business, to put it bluntly, they are actually maritime merchants in Zhejiang and Fujian, merchants, not outlaws, they naturally cannot lose their place of origin to become outcasts, so there are records in the yellow book, they are indeed merchants.
This is almost a well-known thing in Zhejiang and Fujian, are pirates maritime merchants, what's so strange about this, Jiajing doesn't know.
When Zhou Liang, Ye Bo and Chen Jiude presented the so-called investigation results, he was stunned.
Is it possible that the so-called pirate leaders are all registered merchants?
He ordered someone to transfer the enslavement of the Yellow Book to check, and it turned out to be true, all the pirate leaders were registered merchants in Zhejiang and Fujian, and they were all civilians!
Moreover, Zhou Liang and the others also submitted a lot of confessions, these confessions were "confessed" by the squires in Zhejiang and Fujian, and they also proved that the so-called pirate leaders were actually local civilian merchants, and Zhu Kun did not catch them at sea at all, but sent people to arrest them indiscriminately on land, and even they speculated that the reason why Zhu Kun did this was to embezzle the assets of these merchants!
This is not called killing good and risking merit, what else is it called killing good and taking merit!
Jiajing finally began to waver, he really couldn't believe that the legendary honest and honest Zhu Kun was such a "huge greed" and "huge evil"!
If this is true, then it is okay, and he immediately sent an order to question Zhu Kun and ask him to explain what was going on.
Zhu Kun didn't expect that he did his best to exterminate the pirates in exchange for Jiajing's questioning, of course he was not convinced, he quickly wrote a letter to argue, these people are pirates, no one in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces knows, pirates are maritime merchants under the maritime giants, and it is not surprising that they have merchant household registrations.
This time, Jiajing was really confused, the public said that the public was reasonable, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, what should I do?
He still prefers Zhu Kun in his heart, because he pins his hopes for exterminating pirates and pirates on Zhu Kun, he really doesn't want to believe that Zhu Kun is a traitorous villain who kills good people and deceives the king, but the results of the investigation by Yushi Zhou Liang and others are exactly the opposite of what he hoped, what should I do?
Could it be that someone will be sent to Zhejiang and Fujian to inspect and investigate the truth?
Just as he was wandering, Yan Song made a fatal move.
This trick can be described as extremely vicious, Yan Song actually contacted Wang Zhi, the leader of the Japanese bandits, and asked the family to send people to pretend to be pirates to launch frequent attacks in Guangdong, Nanzhili, and even Shandong.
At this moment, the emergency documents in Guangdong, Nanzhili, Shandong and other places flew to the capital like snowflakes, and pirates were looting everywhere, these pirates seemed to be crazy, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, and they were even more ruthless than the Japanese pirates!
Immediately afterwards, the DPRK and China set off a storm of impeachment of Zhu Kun, I don't know how many people are scolding Zhu Kun for being shameless, killing good people and risking merit, driving pirates to other sea areas and lying that they have exterminated pirates.
At this time, Jiajing was also angry, and he felt that he had been tricked again.
Xia Yan, it's a good thing you did again!
After he saw these twists and turns, he angrily ordered someone to summon Xia Yan and come to the imperial study to face the saint, he wanted to ask if Xia Yan was blind, and he recommended and appointed some such traitorous villains.
Xia Yan has naturally read these folds, at this time, he is a little skeptical that Zhu Kun is really killing good and risking his merits, he doesn't know how to write this vote, these twists and turns are simply slapping him in the face!
Jiajing summoned him, he didn't feel strange at all, after all, this Zhu Su was recommended by him, and it was like this at this time, Jiajing didn't blame him, who to blame.
He came to the imperial study dejectedly, and after respectfully bowing the monarch and ministers, he lay there and did not move.
Jiajing was angry at this moment, he didn't look at Xia Yan's humble appearance, he just threw it down, and then asked coldly: "Didn't Zhu Kun say that all the pirates were exterminated, and what happened to the pirates in Guangdong, Nanzhili, Shandong and other places?" ”
Where does Xia Yan dare to be angry, the reason why he recommended Zhu Kun to clean up pirates and pirates is not really for the country and the people, he just wants to consolidate his position as the head of the cabinet.
To put it bluntly, he recommended Zhu Kun just to prove that he had a unique vision, and if Zhu Kun really exterminated the pirates and pirates, this recommendation would definitely be indispensable to him.
Jiajing's biggest headache is that the southern and northern widows are captured, and the people he recommends can solve the problem of the southern widows, and Jiajing will definitely be overjoyed, so that his position as the first assistant of the cabinet will be stable.
Unexpectedly, this Zhu Su was so unbearable, he really had nothing to say.
Jiajing saw him lying there and didn't say anything, so he couldn't help but say angrily: "You say, what should be done with this Zhu Kun?" ”
What else is there to say, Xia Yan hung his head there and said: "Weichen is panicked, let the emperor deal with it." ”
Hum!
Jiajing immediately issued an order in front of Xia Yan to dismiss Zhu Yan and escort him back to Beijing for trial!
When Zhu Kun received the news, he was so angry that he was about to go crazy, he didn't expect that he would be dedicated to the country, and in exchange for this result.
He also knew that he would definitely not have good fruit to eat when he returned to Beijing to be tried, and the maritime tycoons would definitely not let him go, so instead of going to the capital to be humiliated, it was better to make a decision on his own to prove his innocence!
In this way, a meritorious man who exterminated pirates committed suicide in anger!