After the hatred was exhausted, and he had to return to reality, Zhao Zhenji instructed Shen Mo and Wang Yongji: "Starting from the Ming Dynasty, the account room of the governor's yamen will be arraigned, and the two of you will first pre-interrogate it, give me the confession, and then make a decision." ”

Wang Yongji asked softly: "Lord Ministry, the holy oracle only asked us to find out the case of 'the Japanese harassing Nanjing', but now we have sealed the governor's yamen and interrogated the officials in the yamen, will this be a little biased?" ”

Zhao Zhenji said unhappily: "Wang Xun, this official is the host, you are just co-organizing, I decide what to do, you just need to do it." ”

Wang Yongji stopped his mouth helplessly, got up and joined Shen Mo, and saluted: "The subordinates obey the order." ”

"Let's go down." Zhao Zhenji closed his eyes tiredly and ordered.

"The next official retired." The two of them went out of the lobby together, and when they saw that it was getting late, they left the inn directly.

Shen Mo was about to bend down to get into the sedan chair, but was stopped by Wang Yongji and said, "Humble words, let's go." ”

Nodding silently, he let the sedan chair follow him and walk side by side in the alley. The two walked in silence for a while, and Wang Yongji said softly: "Humble words, you should help Hu Zhongcheng speak today." ”

Shen Mo smiled and said, "I just want to be realistic." ”

"But you will make people feel that there is an opportunity to take advantage of this," Wang Yongji frowned slightly, "There have been many incidents in my life." ”

"How can I think so much?" Shen Mo shook his head and said: "I thought so at the time, so I blurted out, and now it's too late to regret it." ”

"You're still too young." Wang Yongji sighed and said: "The situation of our anti-Japanese war has just improved, and now the Japanese are basically unable to penetrate into the mainland, this is all the credit of Hu Zhongcheng and Cao Zhongcheng...... This is not to protect someone, but to protect the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. ”

Shen Mo nodded and said, "I know, I don't have to embarrass him in the future." Until he entered the post house and walked to the silent residence, Wang Yongji had been persuading him bitterly. Seeing that Shen Mo was just submissive, and he didn't know how much he listened, he shook his head helplessly and separated from him.

When he returned to the room to wash his face, the food was served, but he had no appetite at all, and he barely ate a bowl of gruel, then put down the dishes and chopsticks and went into the back room. The guards looked at each other, wondering what was wrong with the adults.

I went into the back room and wanted to read a book for a while, but I couldn't read a word, so I just went to sleep, who knew that I still couldn't sleep after lying down, staring at the beam with my eyes open, and what happened recently flashed clearly in front of my eyes:

After the initial chicken-fly-dog jump, the current situation in Zhejiang has become clear...... At least it seems. Now it is Zhao Zhenji who is firing at the Yan Party, vowing to bring Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian to justice, at least to drive them out of Zhejiang, but he has always had two questions, one is why Zhao Zhenji is so paranoid? Even when everyone was against it and looked hopeless, he still resolutely tore his face and made a move against Hu Zongxian. He didn't believe that an old official who had experienced the ups and downs of the sea would act so recklessly.

The other is, where did his two account books come from?

Although Zhao Zhenji said that he was taken out of the household department, but the household department was Yan Song's forbidden body, and it was all strict from top to bottom. Therefore, Shen Mo didn't believe that he had the ability to take out Zhejiang's account books from the household treasury. Take 10,000 steps back, even if he can get it, it is impossible to send it from Yanjing to him in such a short period of time, after all, the eight-hundred-mile rush is not a child's play, except for the emperor and Yan Song, who can be used openly, the rest of the people cannot be used except for military affairs.

Therefore, Shen Mo deduced that there was a force hidden behind Zhao Zhenji, either his accomplices, or just using him, in short, he could be strong enough to get Zhejiang's account books in a short time, or it had been prepared a long time ago, just waiting for Old Master Zhao to appear...... Thinking of this, he sat up silently, his mind became clear, and he said to himself: "Is it that the real mastermind behind the scenes has been ignored by us all along?!" "If there really is a force that orchestrates the appearance of that strong widow and provides Zhao Zhenji with reliable evidence to arouse the anger of this old master, then everything is easy to explain!

Silently recalled that before the appearance of the Japanese bandits, at that time in Zhejiang, although the anti-Japanese situation was still grim, but just like Wang Yongji said, everything is developing in a good place, although the common people and the big families in Zhejiang have suffered a little, but they all understand that if the Japanese can't run away, their lives can't be saved, so although there are many complaints, the money that should be paid is not less.

For Wang Xuemen, and the family behind them, the Japanese are the biggest enemy, many people in order to support the anti-Japanese people, and even sacrifice all their family wealth, just want to live a peaceful life as soon as possible, which cannot be exchanged for no amount of money.

As a member of Zhejiang, Shen Mo knew this very well, so he didn't believe that the big families who had suffered from the chaos would rashly disrupt the situation because of a slight loss of money when everything was going well.

But Zhao Zhenji decided from the moment he appeared that it was because the method of compilation touched the interests of the big households, and now he got the two inexplicable account books, which made Zhao Laofuzi find the connection between 'strict party corruption' and 'Japanese criminals in Beijing', and it seems that he is determined to use this conclusion to report...... Just find enough evidence.

"But is there an inevitable relationship between 'corruption' and 'crime against Beijing'?" Shen Mo said to himself: "Although corruption will attract resentment, in the overall situation of anti-Japanese resistance, the concentration will definitely be diluted a lot, and it is unlikely to cause real action." ”

Sitting up, while tapping on the table, while twisting the pen, on the paper to write the four names of 'Yan Party', 'Li Party', 'Xu Party', and 'Dahu', Zhejiang's current situation seems to be the result of the wrestling of all parties, but Shen Mo now dares to boldly assume that in addition to these forces on the table, there is also a very clever force, hidden behind the scenes, stirring up, so that these guys on the stage are very happy.

This force is so powerful, and it is extremely dissatisfied with the state of affairs in Zhejiang this year, so it planned the whole event, hoping to benefit from it.

Shen Mo found that as long as this hypothesis was introduced, everything that had been unthinkable before became very easy to understand, and once this hypothesis was removed, the causal relationship between the phenomena became difficult and far-fetched.

"This force must exist!" He slammed the table and cut through the railroad.

So now all you have to do is find out!

It wasn't a difficult thing to do, and he silently wrote a line on the paper: 'Who is most dissatisfied with the status quo?' Who is the ultimate beneficiary? The reality is bizarre, but it's all an illusion created by this black hand. And these two questions can help silence and catch the black hand hidden behind it through the fog! No matter how well it is hidden, it is useless!

Who is dissatisfied with the status quo? We must first know what the biggest status quo in Zhejiang is, that the anti-Japanese situation is gradually improving! So this question is easy to answer - it must be that the Japanese are the most dissatisfied. But Shen Mo knew that they didn't have the ability to do this alone, because although it was possible for them to gather 200 ronins, it was impossible to create this situation, and there was no way to obtain Zhejiang's account books.

Or should the circle of dissatisfaction be expanded, Shen Mo thought this, and another dissatisfied group emerged -- the maritime merchants of Fujian and Zhejiang, these big coastal families, were extensively and deeply involved in maritime smuggling activities, acting as suppliers and distributors for the Japanese shipping fleet, and the relationship between the two sides was extremely close, and almost every time the Japanese invaders landed and robbed, these people would investigate in advance and report the news, in order to get a share of the stolen goods.

Now Hu Zongxian is cracking down on the Japanese along the coast, and this move has won the strong support of the coastal people who are deeply disturbed by him, and many big families who are in cahoots with the Japanese are closely monitored, and the children of the family are even forcibly taken hostage, and their reputation and status have plummeted...... This is still good, if it weren't for Zhao Wenhua's eyes to open his eyes, accept huge bribes, and strictly prohibit Hu Zongxian from taking drastic actions, I am afraid that many coastal families will be exterminated.

How can they not hate Hu Zongxian? How can you be satisfied with the status quo?

If Hu Zongxian is overthrown, the good situation of the anti-Japanese war will be in vain, and the common people and gentry will live in dire straits again, but the Japanese can invade on a large scale, and the maritime merchants of Fujian and Zhejiang can also engage in large-scale smuggling!

Therefore, their criminal motives are 10,000 times stronger than those of the big families in the mainland!

Shen Mo suddenly remembered a person, Zhu Kun! There is no doubt that the black hand that brought him down is definitely the same as the one who wants to bring down Hu Zongxian now!

No matter how well the whitewash is hidden, except for them, there is no one in this world who has the ability and motivation to complete a series of actions.

"That's them!" Silence said categorically: "Zhao Zhenji was tricked, Hu Zongxian was framed, and the gentry in Zhejiang were used as scapegoats, that's all." ”

But the silence soon fell, for the tactics of those men were not clever, but they were very deadly—because they had accurately grasped two weaknesses: Zhao Zhenji's jealousy and hatred, and Hu Zongxian's embezzlement of military salaries.

The embezzlement of military salaries is true, and there is no evidence for this, because Hu Zongxian even said to Shen Mo in person: 'Yan Shifan is greedy, Zhao Wenhua is greedy, I am entangled by these two vampires, and my reputation in this life is completely over." ’

It is precisely because of this weakness that Hu Zongxian can be fatally killed by one blow, and Zhao Zhenji, the Qingliu minister who can't rub sand in his eyes, is the best knife hand!

(To be continued)