Hu Zongxian has always been vigorous and resolute, Pan Nian confessed here, he immediately escorted people to beat horses and went straight to Huai'an Mansion City, Huaibei Salt Branch Lifting Division and Lianghuai Du Salt Envoy Division did not know that he was such a salt patrol imperial history had come down from the capital, and he had already rushed to Huai'an Mansion City.

After he arrived at Huai'an Mansion City, he did not go straight to the Huaibei Yanke Tiju Si Yamen in the city, but came to the Huai'an Prefect's Yamen.

At this time, he took out the official document he carried with him, officially revealing his identity as a salt patrol.

The imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the actual grade is the seventh grade, and the magistrate is a grade, but their power is terrifying, as long as they have evidence in their hands, the six Shangshu of the second grade and even the cabinet scholars can be impeached, and the release of the imperial history of the patrol is even more terrible, all the officials related to his patrol have to listen to him, which is the so-called third level of the official.

Of course, it doesn't mean that the patrol will go to heaven according to the imperial history, and officials everywhere will listen to him.

The Huai'an prefect doesn't have to listen to Hu Zongxian, because Hu Zongxian came to inspect the two Huai'an salt administrations, and he has nothing to do with the Huai'an prefect, but he entered the prefect's yamen and discussed with the Huai'an prefect for a while, and the Huai'an prefect was obedient.

Because he not only had the official documents of the Metropolitan Procuratorate but also Zhang Bangqi's private letter, the Huai'an prefect understood at a glance that this representative was the Yangming lineage, and as for the Huaibei Yanke Lifting Division that he wanted to clean up, it was just a lost dog.

When Zhang Xuan was in Japan, the Huai'an prefect still had to be afraid of Yu Zhong, and now Zhang Xuan has passed away, and the Huai'an prefect naturally knows what to do.

In these years, not all officials have joined the faction, and not all officials have joined Xia Yan's party or Yangming's lineage, many officials have nothing to do with Xia Yan's party or Yangming's lineage, Huai'an prefect is like this, he neither belongs to Xia Yan's party nor Yangming's lineage.

He may have a faction or a backstage, but in front of the Yang Ming line of the Holy Lady Zhenglong, he is not enough to see, so after Hu Zongxian revealed his identity, he simply expressed his willingness to assist Hu Zongxian in handling the case.

Hu Zongxian is not a reckless person, he took Pan Nian just to take advantage of the unpreparedness, a nine-grade sesame official has no power, Yu Zhong is different, the salt department is a local master from the fifth grade, and the oil and water are very rich, not to mention anything else, the salt department is probably no less than dozens of officials, Yu Zhong has been operating in Huai'an City for so long, and his strength must not be underestimated.

He didn't arrogantly think that with a few guards he could take all the people down, to catch Yu Zhong, he had to rely on external forces, and this Huai'an prefect was the best external force, no matter what, a prefect of the fourth grade was better than a prefect from the fifth grade.

The Huai'an prefect really did not disappoint him, after confirming his identity, the Huai'an prefect immediately dispatched dozens of officials and arresters to him, and the group ran to the Huaibei Salt Section to raise the Yamen of the Division.

After these people were caught, things were simple, Hu Zongxian didn't say a word, he went directly to the Yamen of the Huai'an Prefect, from the bottom to the top, one by one, and if he didn't recruit him, it was a board, anyway, there was Pan Nian's evidence, and they had no way to quibble.

Of course, he didn't dare to really beat people to death, but he still dared to beat people to death, anyway, one round of the twenty boards, two or three rounds still can't kill people, ordinary people can't bear one round, and they will soon be recruited, even if the mouth is relatively hard, after two rounds, it will collapse, and in less than a day, it will be all recruited.

After cleaning up the rest of the gang, Hu Zongxian went straight to Yangzhou City and asked the Yangzhou prefect to come forward to assist in the arrest of Wang Hua.

Where do these local officials dare to provoke the bigwigs from the capital, especially the Yangming lineage of the Holy Dependents Zhenglong, the position of the official department is in the hands of others, and this is just the big plan of the Beijing Cha, people can use some means casually, and it is not difficult for a prefect to go down.

The prefect of Yangzhou had no choice but to help Hu Zongxian arrest Wang Hua, and soon, Hu Zongxian took a large number of officials and arresters to surround the two Huai transfer salt envoys, Wang Hua extremely transferred salt envoys to the officials, and captured them in one fell swoop.

A huge salt administration corruption case surfaced in this way, and the two Huai salt government officials headed by Wang Hua accepted bribes from salt merchants alone amounted to more than one million taels a year, which added up to more than the salt tax in the entire Ming Dynasty in a year!

Immediately afterwards, Hu Zongxian presided over the salt administration of the two Huai provinces, exchanging salt for Yang Lin and the salt merchants attached to them, and at the same time sent people to send the charges of Wang Hua and others to the capital and sent them to Zhang Yue, the imperial history of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Of course, these charges were all processed, and he did not involve the former Lianghuai Salt Administration officials, and Yang Lin and other salt merchants who were attached to them did not appear in the bribery list, and he did not truthfully report the entire Lianghuai Salt Administration corruption case, and there were not many officials involved.

But that's amazing enough.

Zhang Yue was really taken aback when he received the evidence, he sat in his study and thought about it for a long time before rushing to the palace to meet Jiajing with the evidence.

Jiajing still admired Zhang Yue very much, and when he heard that Zhang Yue asked to see him, he should leave aside the matter at hand and let Zhang Yue enter the imperial study.

After the monarch and the ministers saw the salute, Zhang Yue said in a panic: "Your Majesty, Weichen heard that the two Huai were seriously corrupt in the salt envoys, so he made his own decisions and secretly sent the imperial historian Hu Zongxian to patrol the press, for the sake of insurance, Weichen did not report this matter to the emperor, and asked the emperor for forgiveness." ”

When Jiajing heard this, he said generously: "This is your own business, you just need to make your own decisions, and you don't need to report everything." ”

Zhang Yue said cautiously: "Your Majesty, in order to avoid leaking the news, Weichen didn't tell Lord Tu Qiaotu. ”

This means, could it be that Tu Qiao or Xia Yan's family are related to the corruption case of the two Huai Salt Envoys?

Jiajing looked at the confession in his hand and said curiously, "Oh, what is the result?" ”

Zhang Yue raised the confession in his hand and said respectfully: "After investigation, Hu Zongxian found that the corruption of the Lianghuai Salt Envoy Division is indeed very serious, which is shocking. ”

Shocking?

It's not that serious!

Jiajing took the confession and looked at it carefully.

Looking at it, his face gradually showed anger, Wang Hua, Yu Zhong, Pan Nian, etc., these people are simply lawless, and they even blatantly asked for bribes from salt merchants, and the amount of corruption in a year reached more than one million taels!

Shocking, really shocking!

Jiajing patiently read the confession, and then slapped the table and roared: "This group of bastards dare to be so lawless!" ”

Seeing this, Zhang Yue pretended to be frightened and shrunk his neck, but he secretly rejoiced in his heart: "It's done, Wang Hua, Yu Zhong, and Pan Nian are all finished." ”

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