The fat man said as he began to undress in the hall without an order. Several presiding judges had their own ideas in their hearts, and they forgot to stop it.

It wasn't until the fat man took off that only one belly pocket was left, Zeng Pu yelled angrily: "What are you doing, stripping and exposing your flesh in the court, what kind of body has you become!" ”

The fat man shuddered: "I. . . I took out what I had picked up. ”

Wang Qi said sharply: "Why didn't you take it out when you wrote your confession before?" ”

The fat man cringed and said, "I'm afraid that someone will harm me, so I don't dare to take it out." ”

As he spoke, he reached into his crotch.

A palm-sized black iron plaque was taken out of the crotch of his pants by the fat man, and immediately a servant presented it with a white linen wrapped in an iron plaque with a disgusted expression.

The first person to take the iron plate was Zeng Pu, he covered his nose and looked at the words on the iron plate, and was shocked into a cold sweat.

Relatively speaking, the most feared of such a ministry official is really not Jinyiwei, they are most afraid of Dongchang, who has never had any scruples about doing things.

Dongchang Zhao Prison and Jinyi Wei Zhao Prison, these two places are places that make officials of all sizes smell and change, and few people can come out when they go in. Even if he did, the man would not be human.

Zheng Tonghe leaned his head over to take a look, and suddenly lost his opinion.

Only Wang Qi still kept his composure, holding a brush and beating the iron card: "You say, this thing was left by those murderers?" How do you know they didn't leave it on purpose? ”

The fat man shook his head and said, "I don't know, anyway, they are in a hurry, and I can't tell if they left it on purpose." This sign should be able to represent the identity of those people! ”

Wang Qi looked at Zeng Pu, hoping that the Yuan of the Metropolitan Procuratorate could give him an idea, but the other party was already a master of the six gods, so where could he give him an idea. Not to mention Zheng Tonghe, who almost entered Xichang Zhao Prison, he didn't want to have anything to do with those eunuchs.

The several chief judges who were looking for trouble were all dumbfounded, and Zhang Ru snorted coldly: "Several adults, why didn't you speak after seeing the iron plate?" Could it be that these killers were sent by the Criminal Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate? ”

"What nonsense, this matter is a matter of the palace, and I will talk about it after the official is enlightened. Someone came, and the prisoner Zhang Ru was temporarily put in prison in the Criminal Department, and everyone else was dispersed. Wang Qi came back to his senses and gave an unconvincing order.

The people on the periphery clamored one after another: "You officials don't want officials to protect each other!" Why don't you try it, doesn't it mean that you have to interrogate today to get a result! ”

"yes, yes! It's hard to see a big man become a prisoner, can't a few of them just forget it! There were people who didn't know whether they were alive or dead shouting, and then they were silenced by the cavalry of the Jinyi Guard.

However, some scholars are not afraid: "Justice is in the hearts of the people, what can the palace do, a few people are high in the temple, they should be thinking about the Daming Society, could it be that a few adults want to do something to protect it?" ”

The Qianhu in the Governor's Mansion of the Houjun Governor's Mansion stared, the long knife at his waist was unsheathed by half an inch, and threatened: "Shut up, whoever dares to shout again, take it all!" ”

Zhang Ru turned his head suddenly, and his eyes were full of cold light: "If you have a kind, try it!" ”

When the thousand households saw Zhang Ru's eyes, they suddenly lost their temper.

After Zhang Ru finished threatening the thousand households, he turned around and walked forward step by step, until he walked to the table where the three ministers were sitting, and then looked at Zeng Pu and said: "Since several ministers can't ask a reason today, then it should be the turn of the general to defend himself." In February of the seventeenth year of Chenghua, Zha Zengpu embezzled 30,000 taels of silver money, using Daming treasure banknotes, and the bribe was Su Jinghe, a Suzhou poplin merchant under the jurisdiction of the Zhejiang Political Envoy.

In September of the seventeenth year of Chenghua, the small school under the command of the governor of Huguang entered Beijing in disguise, carrying a huge sum of 300,000 taels, of which 10,000 taels flowed into the hands of Ah Fu, the son of the Zeng Lord's mansion. As for the money, it is not known to whom it ended up.

On November 24, the eighteenth year of Chenghua, Zeng Pu purchased a house worth two thousand taels of silver, the important thing is not the mansion of Lord Zeng, the six flower-like orchids in the Western Regions and the four petite and lovely Yangzhou thin horses in the twenty houses.

Ten women, the price of orchids is difficult to buy, and the carefully trained Yangzhou thin horses, each of them is a virgin, but the ability to serve people is not weaker than those oirans. In Jiangnan, there are wealthy businessmen who have invested tens of thousands of dollars to buy these skinny horses on the first night. Master Zeng is in good health, he is old, and there are so many beautiful women, and he doesn't know if he can afford to eat.

Nineteen years of Chenghua."

At this point, there is no need to say any more, because Zeng Pu rolled his eyes and fainted directly.

Wang Qi's face turned pale, and he looked at Zhang Ru pitifully, he knew that Zhang Ru could talk about Zeng Pu's corruption and bribery in the public court, and he could talk about Wang Ru's affairs. After Zhang Ru did this, things that could have been turned into big things and small things could not be resolved now.

At least, Zeng Pu, who was told by Zhang Ru, had no face to sit down in this position in the courtyard of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

He whispered, "Master Zhang, don't. Stop it. ”

Zhang Ru lowered his voice and said lightly: "It's okay if you don't say it, but it depends on how many adults do it." ”

Wang Qi nodded while wiping his cold sweat: "Don't worry, I know how to do it, I know how to do it." ”

His attitude made Zheng Tonghe very dissatisfied, and he glanced at Wang Hao: "It seems that Lord Wang's ass is not so clean!" Zhang Ru, don't be complacent, their butts are not clean, but Zheng is not afraid of your threats. You will be condemned to sin today. ”

Zhang Rulang said: "Okay! As long as you can come up with real evidence, what if I Zhang Ru pleaded guilty to the law. If you can't take it out, and attack the ministers of the court, you have to ask my son of Jinyiwei if he agrees. Since the adults want to find out, please make the iron plate public, lest some people say that the adults are unfair! ”

The people of the Lord fainted, Zheng Tonghe didn't even have the idea of letting people carry Zeng Pu down, and held the iron plate high in anger: "This iron plate is the iron card worn by the Dongchang fanzi, but I don't know if it was forged for the time being, so there is no need to call the people from the East Factory to inquire for the time being." ”

Zhang Rushen nodded thoughtfully: "Well, what the adults said makes sense, may I ask the adults, can I continue to defend myself?" ”

Zheng Tonghe had a righteous face: "If you defend yourself, you will defend yourself, I'm afraid you won't succeed!" ”

Hearing this, Wang Qi almost followed in Zeng Pu's footsteps, and now he can't wait to slap Zheng Tong and this guy who has more than enough success to do more than anything to death.

Zhang Ru raised his voice again and began to continue to defend himself: "At the beginning of June of the nineteenth year of Chenghua, Zheng Tong, the secretary of the Dali Temple, and his brother Zheng Tongping connived at the slave at home to injure Qi Jiushang, a wealthy merchant in Anyang Prefecture, Qi Jiushang vomited blood and died for three days.

At the end of July, Lord Zheng seemed to have received a letter from his family, saying that the matter in Anyang had been resolved, so you should not worry.

I will remember that Mr. Zheng replied to the letter, but Mr. Zheng doesn't know if he remembers the content of the letter? ”

He really didn't have many crimes, and there was no such thing as accepting bribes. Because the Zheng family is a veritable emperor in Anyang, his family has a lot of money, and he doesn't need to take bribes at all.

He is not short of beauties, he has a fierce wife at home, he just wants to find flowers and ask willows, but he doesn't have the courage.

So he thought that he didn't have any handle for Zhang Ru to catch, but he didn't expect Zhang Ru to still catch his handle from his family.

Without waiting for Zheng Tonghe to react, Zhang Ru had already asked Mu Bin to bring up the letter, he unfolded the letter and read: "Tongping my brother, seeing the letter is like meeting, because my brother has not returned home for a long time, you should restrain the slaves at home, and you must not condone it." This matter has come to an end for the time being, Meng Jiang has already died down, and you don't need to worry about the follow-up. ”

Thinking of this, Zheng Tonghe slumped on the wide Taishi chair, no longer as domineering as before.

There are still some words below, and Zhang Ru doesn't dare to read them, because these words involve two words that he doesn't dare to ask, at least, he can't blatantly ask now.

After listening to Zhang Ru's words, the people were all in an uproar, especially a group of scholars, who were even more angry.

The kaftan on the body of a scholar in Mai was covered with patches everywhere, but he didn't know where he got the strength to push the soldiers of the two rear army governor's mansions away. He moved very fast, and when he passed by Zhang Ru's side, he even raised his hand and arched, and then stood in front of the three ministerial-level officials and scolded: "You are waiting for the king's luck, but you do such pickled things, live in the temple, eat the people's fat and people's ointment, it is better to die as soon as possible." ”

Wang Qi, the only one who was still sober, was scolded so much that his head was almost lowered into the crotch of his pants, but he was a person in a high position after all, and after being scolded a few words, he straightened up: "This official is an official of the imperial court, whether he is dead or alive, it is not your turn to accuse, come on, pull him down for this official." ”

He didn't say anything about beating, because he was afraid that he would really commit public anger.

Zhang Ru said with a smile: "Lord Wang, this is probably a little inappropriate!" ”

Wang Qi's heart moved, looked at Zhang Ru and said, "That. How do you say! ”

"It's better that Lord Wang still condemns the general, and some people say that you Lord Wang protects each other." Zhang Ru said with a smile.

Where did Wang Qi dare to convict Zhang Ru at this time, but if he was not convicted, a big hat protected by officials would definitely not be able to run away, he must be guilty, his ass was not very clean, he was afraid that Zhang Ru would be exposed in this court.

The dilemma made Wang Qi not even know what to do.

"Bang bang! I always thought that Mr. Zhang was just a reckless man, but I didn't expect Mr. Zhang to be a sinister villain, which is really admirable! Admire! A young man in a white silk robe walked up to the court step by step with a folding fan in his hand.

This person looks like he is in his early thirties, and the confidence on his face makes people feel that he is a half-old demon in his forties and fifties.

However, from his words, Zhang Ru can be sure that this person is not friend or foe.