In the prison of Suzhou Prefecture, a person who had just been tortured was lowered from the torture rack by the jailer, and the man's legs were not stable at all, and he fell directly to the ground. Pen~Fun~ Pavilion www.biquge.info jailer lifted him up from the ground and brought him back to his cell.

The leading figures of Suzhou Prefecture, Chen Yanhui, the prefect of Suzhou, Zhou Jiyu, the same governor, Song Zhong and Ban Liming, the hundred households of Jinyiwei, and Zhuo Jing, who was in Suzhou at this time, were all standing in prison. The prefect Chen Yan said with palpitations: "Today, I knew that Da Ming was punished like this, no wonder I was only caught for half a day, and then I opened my mouth to confess." ”

Song Zhong of Baihu said: "Ren is a man who beats with iron, and when it comes to the hands of Jinyiwei, it is impossible not to recruit, if it is not for ......" Halfway through speaking, the words after thinking of it may be regarded as 'slandering the king', and he was busy keeping his mouth shut.

Zhuo Jing said: "It's just that the punishment is like this, it will inevitably hurt the heavens and the peace." ”

Song Zhong didn't think so, but he knew that Zhuo Jing was sent to Suzhou Mansion by Yunxi, and he didn't want to argue with him. As a simple military general, Ban Liming did not have these scruples, and said: "Lord Zhuo, you can't be merciful in handling cases, otherwise how can you let them confess?" ”

Zhuo Jing sighed and stopped talking; He is not an inflexible person, and he knows that if he really follows the provisions of the Ming Law, many cases will not be solved at all, but the inherent concept of being a literati makes him think that this is wrong, so he can only be silent.

Ban Liming said again: "The rest of this Zhang Shicheng is still rampant on the sea, and he has become a pirate, this time they are lucky, Chen Zhifu, Zhou Tongzhi, Zhuo Shizhi, why don't we join hands to write a book, please ask Your Majesty for permission to cut off pirates in the East China Sea again." ”

He must have selfish intentions in saying this. As a thousand households as a sailor himself, once he starts to sweep away pirates, he will inevitably be used, and he can also use this to make a lot of meritorious contributions.

But he was looking for the wrong person this time. It is also Ban Liming, as a military general, who does not have so many twists and turns as civil officials. Zhuo Jing is in the middle of the matter, and he has nothing to do with the pirate matter, and he will only be in Suzhou when he coincides with the meeting, how can he agree to go to the book with him?

And Chen Yanhui and Zhou Jiyu are both civil officials, how could they do such a thing that is beneficial to military generals? So no one answered, and the scene fell into a cold field for a while.

Song Zhong came out to reconcile: "Okay, okay, let's talk about the pirates later, let's talk about how to deal with it now." I'm definitely going to report the inside story as a brocade guard, what about you? Zhuo picks up the relics, irrelevant; Chen and Tuesday are both pro-people officials of Suzhou Prefecture, and the pirates have entered the territory of Suzhou Prefecture, so you can't say that they are not responsible; Ban Qianhu is a sailor Qianhu, let the pirates go ashore, and the ship was once parked outside Jiading, so it can't be separated. ”

When the three of them heard this, they also knew that they were responsible, this matter could be big or small, and it was too small to say that it was just a moment of ignorance, and let the pirates go ashore, after all, if they caught a few people, it was considered to be worth it; To put it mildly, this is one of the four major duties of the magistrate who has not been completed, which is tantamount to serious dereliction of duty, and exile is possible.

Several people unconsciously looked at Zhuo Jing. Although Zhuo Jing was just caught by Yun Xi to Suzhou for a while, they didn't know it, thinking that Zhuo Jing was Yun Xi's cronies. And now Yun Xi is the emperor's grandson, and all the twists and turns have been returned to Yun Xi, so everyone wants to ask Zhuo Jing for help to say good things and ask for mercy.

Zhuo Jing is there to reflect on the pros and cons of this time. Zhuo Jing is needless to say that he is a good official, but it does not mean that he is not self-motivated, he also hopes that he can become a great official, 'open peace for all generations', this sentence is his true thoughts.

He thought: I thought about it, I can't think of any other way to calm down except for dropping food, it is already November, and the flow of exchange people in Suzhou Mansion has dropped to the number of people His Highness thought was normal at the beginning; And he used to directly transfer a large amount of grain from the granary and pile it at the exchange place, so that the people thought that the government had unlimited grain to exchange, which could be regarded as having played a role, so it should not be considered impossible by His Highness.

Just thinking about it, he saw Chen Yanhui and the other three all looking at him. Zhuo Jing is also a smart person, and immediately guesses what they want to do. Zhuo Jing really wanted to shout: I really don't know His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson! But he couldn't shout, and shouting didn't necessarily dispel them.

Chen Yan replied to the three of them and saw Zhuo Jing looking at them, and Zhou Jiyu said: "Zhuo Shizhi, you have also seen our performance in this matter, and we also tried our best to cooperate when you presided over the exchange, so I hope you can say a few good words for us in this matter." All you have to do is tell the truth. ”

Zhuo Jing thought for a while and said, "Of course, I will tell the truth about the performance of a few people in the last recital; However, Jinyiwei can use the military post, and my recital can only be passed through the official post station, although it is only from Suzhou to the capital, but it can also be a day before and after. Not necessarily useful. ”

Zhuo Jing was also in a hurry and came up with this problem. Chen Yanhui, Zhou Jiyu, Ban Liming and Song Zhong were stunned, and suddenly felt that this was the case; Song Zhong, as a person from Jinyiwei, participated in the case again this time, and his performance could not be later than that of Chen Yanhui and others; There is no need for him to bear this burden for Chen Yanhui and the others, be careful to fold himself in.

And Zhuo Jing is inconvenient to use the military post, so his recital is destined to be later than Song Zhong, so whether his recital can go to His Majesty's throne before His Majesty's disposal has to be a question mark.

Seeing this, Song Zhong immediately said goodbye and said: "I still have something to do in the yamen, so I won't accompany a few of them, and I will leave." With that, he had already walked out.

Chen Yanhui has always had no friendship with Song Zhong because of Jinyiwei's bad reputation on weekdays, but this time because of the investigation of the case, they can be regarded as joining forces, but they are still very strange; And now there are very few Jinyi guards, and the remnants are also used to monitor whether officials are corrupt, and there is no responsibility for this case, so there is no reason for people to take risks.

He watched Song Zhong walk out of the door, sighed, and said, "Don't be here anymore, let's go back and write excerpts, and the outcome is up to fate." With that, he walked out too.

The others looked at each other, and seeing that it was useless to continue to stay here, they went back to their respective places.

On the second day of the first month of November, when Yun Xi looked at the folds, he saw the folds of Song Zhong of Jinyi Wei and the Qianhu Ban Liming of the Thousand Households of Wusongkou, and they could use the military post, so they arrived in the capital the next day.

Yun Xi didn't look at the content of the song for the first time, but noticed the name 'Song Zhong'. I remember when I watched "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", when Zhu Di rebelled, the commander of Beiping was called Song Zhong, because this name is really too special, although because the table clock has not yet been invented, so the name in the Ming Dynasty does not have a special meaning, but I remember it very clearly. Could it be that this Song Zhong is that Song Zhong? ’

Yun Xi thought about it for a while, then threw it away, opened Song Zhong and Ban Liming's recitals and read them once, and then noticed that Lao Zhu's reply was the same content: Wu Songkou's thousands of hereditary households Ban Liming's hereditary households were reduced to 100 households, and he was looking for a capable military general Ren Qianhu; Chen Yanhui and Zhou Jiyu were demoted to the magistrates, and the officials were looking for a shortage to make up for them.

Yun Xi thought: It seems that Lao Zhu didn't care too much about this matter, and the officials involved were only demoted and not exiled. Because he hadn't heard of these three officials, he didn't care about their fate, so he just analyzed Lao Zhu's thoughts; There are two points he paid attention to: the first point is that this exchange strategy is finally safe and sound. In the Zhili area, the price of treasure banknotes has stabilized, basically no one will treat the treasure money as waste paper, and there are even officials from the Zhili local Ping An Zhishi who take the initiative to exchange treasure money to take home.

Maintaining the value of the treasure currency is the main point of this operation, as long as this is achieved, it will be fine, and nothing else matters; It can be continued in other provinces.