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Li Xiuwen, the Lord of the Imperial Mission, has been coming to Suzhou Mansion for half a month.

During this period, Li Xiuwen took Dong Xiaowan around when he first arrived in Suzhou. In the next few days, just Tang Yongzhen, the same governor of Suzhou Prefecture, and the two of them visited the Goolan places in Suzhou City.

On the surface, Li Xiuwen has never done anything, and he spends his days idle, eating, drinking and having fun. But secretly, he has sent someone to check the officials of the two prefectures, as well as the prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction.

According to the intelligence, this Tang Yongzhen is indeed problematic. It's just that he hid it better, and at present, Li Xiuwen can't catch his conclusive incriminating evidence.

Chen Hongmi, the prefect of Suzhou, is relatively honest as an official, but this Tongzhi has secretly accepted a lot of bribes.

Those county magistrates fished oil and water, so they naturally wanted to curry favor with Shangguan. And they knew Chen Hongmi's temperament very well, so they had no choice but to vote for Tang Yongzhen. Along with him, there is also the general judge of Suzhou Prefecture.

In this regard, it seems that Chen Hongmi is not aware of it.

If you want to implement this Tang Yongzhen's crime, you must first catch the officials below him.

Li Xiuwen originally only planned to conduct a secret investigation, and then submit the collected criminal evidence to Zhu Youzhen, and he would hand over the errand.

Later, Zhu Youzhen gave him the royal flag, and he had the power to arrest people.

In order to avoid startling the snake, Li Xiuwen did not plan to do it so quickly, which aroused the vigilance of other places.

Li Xiuwen is about to leave Suzhou. During his time in Suzhou, Chen Hongmi did not show up much. However, this Tang Yongzhen was busy and actively entertained. In the past few days, I also brought in the general judge of Suzhou Mansion to accompany me.

Today, Tang Yongzhen specially arranged a banquet to see him off.

This Lord Qincha has had enough of eating, drinking, and having fun, and is about to leave, and he is naturally happy. You must know that if Li Xiuwen praises him a few words in front of the saint after returning to Beijing, he will be able to ascend. This money is not unjust at all.

Tang Yongzhen raised his wine glass, stood up and said, "I am very close to Lord Qincha, and now that the Lord is leaving, I can only prepare a little wine to see off the Lord." I salute you! ”

Tong Judge Lu Shun also got up, raised his glass respectfully and said, "The lower officials also respect your lord!" ”

Li Xiuwen also raised his glass and said with a meaningful smile: "The two adults are too polite, I believe we will meet again in Beijing soon." ”

The two of them only thought that he wanted to promote himself, and their attitude towards him was even more respectful.

At that moment, several people drank their cups and got along like brothers. How did they know that Li Xiuwen, the "brother", was about to stab them soon.

There is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below.

Li Xiuwen and his entourage came to Hangzhou.

A few days ago, I played around with Dong Xiaowan and also went to West Lake, but I just walked around casually at that time.

Today, Li Xiuwen is here to handle the case.

As early as two days ago, Ding Xiaocheng had already taken people to Hangzhou to inquire about the news.

Yu Guangyuan, the prefect of Hangzhou Prefecture, led a group of officials to warmly entertain him with a banquet, and even helped him arrange a place to live.

What's the matter, you have to wait for this Lord Qincha, isn't it?

When Li Xiuwen came back from the banquet, Sun Mingwen had already returned from outside.

"What's the matter, is there a big problem with the Hangzhou prefect?" Li Xiuwen asked casually.

"Childe, this Hangzhou prefect's problem is not small!" After Sun Mingwen finished speaking, he handed over the collected information.

Li Xiuwen was stunned when he heard this, took the information and looked at it in his hand. After a while, his face became gloomy.

"How can this be true, how can it be true!"

After Li Xiuwen read it, he couldn't help but scold: "This Yu Guangyuan's travel is so bad, he can actually be at ease in this Jiangnan region, and the court is unaware!" ”

Why the imperial court didn't notice it, Li Xiuwen was naturally clear.

Because, he has a backstage!

From the information, Li Xiuwen found that although the Hangzhou prefect was also corrupt before, it was not so rampant. And from this year onwards, he suddenly went crazy to collect money.

The eunuchs who guarded the town in Jiangnan with the grain and tea ceremony, water and land tariffs, etc., were in cahoots with him, deceived the superiors and subordinates, and withheld most of the taxes handed over to the imperial court.

No wonder I heard before that Zhu Youzhen owed the salaries of the soldiers at the border gates, which led to the soldiers making trouble and even mutiny.

It's not that Zhu Youzhen doesn't want to send it, but the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty is less than that of other dynasties, if the local officials are corrupt again, and the imperial court has to deal with foreign enemies, it also has to suppress internal strife, and the two ends of the army really can't afford to use soldiers.

Thinking of Zhu Youzhen's poor jingle appearance when he died in the country, Li Xiuwen sympathized with him a little.

The tax was received, but the local officials and the town guards and eunuchs were withheld and withheld at various levels, filling their pockets.

The backstage of the Hangzhou prefect is none other than Li Xiuwen's old acquaintance - Xue Guoguan.

Yu Guangyuan, the prefect of Hangzhou, is a fellow countryman with Xue Guoguan, and he is still a jinshi in the same year.

Yu Guangyuan was also the person who was attached to Wei Zhongxian back then. It's just that because he was a humble official at that time, he was just demoted to Hangzhou as a pusher. Later, after many walks, he actually climbed to the position of the prefect of Hangzhou in just a few years.

When he learned that Xue Guoguan was reactivated and became the imperial history of the capital. Yu Guangyuan immediately seized the opportunity and sent someone to the capital to give gifts, and reconnected with Xue Guoguan.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate was originally an institution that supervised the administration of officials and fought corruption. Now that even the people of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are corrupt and solicit bribes, how can the Ming court not die?

"That's not right!"

Li Xiuwen suddenly remembered that Yu Guangyuan and Xue Guoguan were so close. The relationship between himself and Xue Guoguan has developed to a very bad point. How could Yu Guangyuan receive himself warmly?

Xue Guoguan didn't get angry with him?

No way!

I encountered water thieves at the Texas border. Although Li Xiuwen has no evidence, it can be concluded from the analysis that it must be the hand of the Xue family's father and son.

So in the Jiangnan region, the Xue family has a chess piece like Yu Guangyuan, and he doesn't even do it to himself?

Even if you don't attack yourself, there is no reason to entertain yourself warmly.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!

I only brought ten brocade guards on this trip, and there were a few weak women around me, if it was calculated......

The more Li Xiuwen thought about it, the more shocked he became, and he was afraid for a while. He got up from his chair and instructed Sun Mingwen: "Go and tell them to move out of here!" ”

It would be terrible if what I guessed was true.

Although killing an official is tantamount to rebellion, if anything happens to this Hangzhou territory, is it not up to the prefect to decide?

Once you die here, you have no proof of death. They just have to make it up at will, and they can get away with it.

It didn't take long for Li Xiuwen and the others to pack their things and prepare to leave this residence.

"What is this?"

Several subordinates who Yu Guangyuan arranged to come over to wait, saw that Li Xiuwen and the others were leaving, so they came up and asked.

Li Xiuwen glanced at Xu Jiang and the others, and several people shot at the same time in an instant, knocked them out, and left in a hurry. (To be continued.) )