"Your Majesty, the minister just knows some painting and business, what kind of talent is it, as for rewarding the minister, he doesn't dare to ask for it." Wu Zhi said modestly.

This Wu Zhi is actually implying that Zhao Ji is proficient in business, so that Zhao Ji is likely to give Wu Zhi an official position in the household department as a reward, and then Wu Zhi will be half pushed and half obeyed.

If you can find a real power official position in the household department, then for Wu Zhi, it is tantamount to Jiaolong entering the sea, and he can finally show his strength, because the top boss of the household department is Murong Yanda, and Wu Zhi's industry is closely related to the household department.

Wu Zhi can easily make achievements in the household department, and then he can not only increase his achievements and qualifications as an official, but also make some preparations for the Great Song Bank to influence the imperial court's finances.

And if Wu Zhi is placed in another department, it will be even more difficult for Wu Zhi, who has no power and no connections in the DPRK now, to make political achievements, even if Wu Zhi is capable, but once the villain chief wears small shoes for him, Wu Zhi will always get in the way.

Wu Zhi looked at Zhao Ji expectantly, Zhao Ji groaned, narrowed his eyes slightly at Wu Zhi, and said with a smile: "Aiqing, you are the best at solving my problem, and I just happened to encounter another problem recently, why don't you ask Aiqing to solve this problem for me again?"

"Another special problem for me"

Wu Zhi complained bitterly in his heart, and said to Zhao Ji with a little wry smile on his face: "I don't know what Your Majesty's problem is" After a pause, Wu Zhi said directly: "First of all, I can only do my best, if it is too difficult for me to solve it, Your Majesty can't blame me." ”

Talking to Zhao Ji should be polite and courteous, but not too polite.

"Look at what Aiqing said"

Zhao Ji stretched his muscles and said with a smile: "Although this is a difficult problem, it is also a reward for you, and after you solve this difficult problem for me, I will reward you even more." ”

After Zhao Ji finished speaking, not only Wu Zhi was puzzled, but even Wang Hao and Li Yan, who had always been determined around him, were puzzled, and it was a problem and a reward, what is the situation

"Your Majesty, please make it clear what this problem is," Wu Zhi asked.

Zhao Ji's expression was a little stunned at first, and then he smiled mysteriously.

"Guess what"

Wu Zhi: ""

To say that Zhao Ji really doesn't look like an emperor in other places except for his appearance in private, he doesn't forget to joke with Wu Zhi at this time.

"This, Your Majesty, if you don't give some hints, how can Wu Zhi guess" Wang Hao said a word for Wu Zhi.

"Uh-huh"

Wu Zhi nodded seriously, Zhao Ji was joking so much, and Wu Zhi couldn't continue to hint that he gave himself an official position in the household department.

Seeing that Wu Zhi and the others were at a loss, Zhao Ji prompted: "Let me ask you, what is the most important thing in Bianjing now?"

"The most important thing"

Wu Zhi Wang Huang and Li Yan both began to think about it, in fact, there are major things happening around the emperor every day, and there is no trivial matter for the Son of Heaven, but the key word of Zhao Ji's sentence is "Bianjing", not "imperial court", nor "imperial palace", so you have to look at the whole Bianjing to think about this matter.

Wu Zhi Wang Huang and Li Yan are not fuel-efficient lamps, and as soon as Zhao Ji's voice fell, they immediately knew what Zhao Ji meant.

"But the case"

After Li Yan blurted out, he immediately covered his mouth in surprise.

Wang Huang on the side only raised his eyebrows slightly, and there was not much change in mood.

And Wu Zhi was already frowning at this time, and his expression became solemn.

"Your Majesty doesn't want me to investigate that fire case?"

The most important thing that happened in Bianjing recently is the fire case that occurred on the night of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the victims were not ordinary people, but a new squire of the criminal department of the imperial court, surnamed Sun Mingxin, who was promoted to the criminal department from Sichuan this year, and just arrived in Bianjing and lived in a new house, he suffered a fire, and overnight, more than ten men and women of the Sun family, old and young, were all burned to charred corpses

There is not a single live mouth

The so-called human life is a matter of heaven. Even in the ancient feudal society, unless there were troubled times, even if it was a big traitor and a corrupt official, if the evidence of harming people's lives was obtained, it was a serious crime.

Not to mention the Song Dynasty, local officials all over the country had no right to sentence criminals to death, and all death sentences had to be reviewed and re-examined by the central court of the imperial court

Now, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, he is still a high-ranking official of the imperial court, and more than a dozen people in his family who were burned by the bizarre fire have not survived, which not only shakes the entire Bianjing, the government and the opposition are in an uproar, and even spread throughout the country, causing a bad impact.

Even if Zhao Ji is mediocre, it is also the conclusion given by later generations, at least now in Zhao Ji's own opinion, he is still a wise monarch through the ages, and he still subjectively tries his best to govern the country stable and strong.

So he naturally attaches great importance to this matter.

"Although this case is appalling, I heard that Kaifeng Mansion has already collected evidence to confirm that it is a natural disaster, why do you still need to investigate" Wang Hao asked lightly on the side.

"The progress of this case is also being followed, and it is said that the reason why Lord Sun's family suffered this misfortune was because they forgot to take down and extinguish the lanterns in the house on the night of the Lantern Festival, and they were blown down by the wind and ignited, which in turn affected the whole family." Li Yan didn't know whether it was true compassion or fake compassion, but he wiped a few tears and said: "It's also the catastrophe of Lord Sun's family, Lord Sun's family has just arrived in Bianjing, and the rented mansion is in disrepair, not to mention, the house has not even had time to complete the maids' family, so it is because of negligence that it has become a thousand hatreds."

Wu Zhi listened quietly and did not speak.

"These are the results of Kaifeng Mansion's investigation, I know."

Zhao Ji waved his hand, shook his head and said, "But after all, it is more than a dozen lives, and it is a high-ranking official of the six departments of the imperial court, so this matter cannot be sloppy." At present, the people are very dissatisfied with the closure of Kaifeng Mansion, thinking that there are still many doubts that have not been solved, Sun Xin is a good official, and his prestige among the people is very high.

Sun Xin is indeed a good official, originally he was in charge of the prison in Sichuan, handled the case fairly, was not afraid of the powerful, and handled countless big cases that made people applaud, even the officials in Zhu Mian's faction, who used to frame the merchants with death row prisoners in Hangzhou to make money, also fell into his hands after becoming an official in Sichuan, and he obtained ironclad evidence through careful investigation, so that the corrupt official was put out of his home and put in a wild place to suffer, and he was not pardoned.

After a pause, Zhao Ji looked at Wu Zhi and said: "Actually, I don't believe it, a fire can still be Sun Xin's whole family, how can it be that none of them escaped Aiqing, what do you think?"

"The minister is also a little confused, but there are many strange things in the world, maybe Kaifeng Mansion's judgment is correct."

Although he said this to Zhao Ji, Wu Zhi was completely opposed to the result announced by Kaifeng Mansion in his heart, which was simply perfunctory

In fact, Wu Zhi is also paying close attention to this disaster, not only Wu Zhi is concerned, but now the officials of the Great Song Dynasty are paying attention to this case, because there is Bianjing Daily, which will track and report the latest progress of the case every day, as well as the latest suspicions, the reason why the people are so dissatisfied with the results of the investigation in Kaifeng Mansion is because of the results of reading the newspaper.

After investigating the structure of the house of the Sun family, the types of lanterns, the locations where they were hung on the night of the 15th day, and the rooms where everyone in the Sun family slept and the distance between them, they found that it was impossible for the fire to completely burn more than a dozen members of the Sun family to death at once

Unless the Sun family is all fools, they didn't wake up when the fire caught fire, and they didn't know how to escape when the smoke and fire burned to the door.

Of course, there is also a possibility that before the Sun family caught fire, more than a dozen members of their family had died

After the reporters investigated this, they did not need Wu Zhi's instructions, they would not hesitate to write the suspicious points of the fire as front-page news and analyze them to the people of the world one by one, and after the people knew these doubts, they naturally expressed their dissatisfaction with the results of the Kaifeng Mansion's verdict.

I think Zhao Ji also read the Bianjing Daily, so he wants to re-investigate the case.

"Without His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sitting in Kaifeng Mansion, the mediocre talents in Kaifeng Mansion will not work" Li Yan understood what Zhao Ji meant, and suddenly changed his attitude, "Thanks to His Royal Highness the Nine Emperor Princes, otherwise we have one more unjust case in the Great Song Dynasty."

The crown prince was originally the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, but because the prince is the heir to the throne, he needs to be familiar with the political affairs of the various ministries of the imperial court, so he was transferred to the military department as the chief supervisor before the fifteenth day of the first month of this year.

At present, Kaifeng Prefecture has not appointed the new prefect Yin, and the official will handle daily affairs for the time being.

And the Nine Emperor Sons in Li Yan's mouth are naturally Zhao Gou, the editor-in-chief of Bianjing Daily, and this time he questioned the news of the closure of the case announced by Kaifeng Mansion, and every article was signed by Zhao Gou, and even Wu Zhi admired his impassioned blood for the truth and justice.

Zhao Gou is now also a well-loved prince among the people.

"Xiao Jiu did a good job this time."

Zhao Ji bowed slightly, turned to look at Wu Zhi and said: "Aiqing, I will make you the young governor of Kaifeng Mansion, how about you handle this case?"

Hearing this, not only Wu Zhi's body was shocked, but the faces of Wang Hao and Li Yan on both sides changed drastically.

The reason why they were so shocked was not because Zhao Ji asked Wu Zhi to handle the case, but because the official position of Shaoyin in Kaifeng Mansion, Shaoyin was second only to Fu Yin in Kaifeng Mansion, and Kaifeng Mansion Yin was one of the top official positions in the Great Song Dynasty, with the official title of first rank or from first rank, and Shao Yin was the fourth grade.

These are not the key, the key is that the position of Fu Yin is now held by the prince, but it is only a temporary position, and it is Shao Yin who really controls Kaifeng Mansion

Kaifeng Mansion manages all the big and small affairs in Bianjing and the surrounding areas, and it is the hottest official position with real power, and Wu Zhi was promoted from the director of an art academy with no real power to Shaoyin, which is simply a step to the sky

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