In fact, sometimes it is very simple to threaten a politician, provided that you have his authority and the contact information of his political enemies.

Wang Wei is a smart observer, quick in debate, and quite good at binding and concealing his own behavior. But this person has two major drawbacks.

First, they often lose their trust in others. Since he was promoted to Privy Councillor, there have been many people who have befriended him, and he has often made too good promises to those who have begged him, but he has not done so later, causing many people to hate him.

Second, it is his unsuccessful younger brother Wang Huai. Soliciting and accepting bribes, oppressing the people, and doing bad things. Wang Wei often had to wipe his brother's buttocks.

The reason why Zhao Weiji is eyeing Wang Wei this time is because of his younger brother Wang Huai.

Zhao Weiji returned from the Northern Expedition and stepped down from his post to judge the state affairs of Zhenzhou. And the court did not promote Zhao Weiji's deputy at that time, Kou Zhun, the governor of Zhenzhou, but transferred Wang Huai to Zhenzhou to judge Zhenzhou affairs.

In fact, this is nothing, just normal personnel appointments and dismissals. But what is good or not is that this guy actually asks for bribes when he is in office.

The businessmen in the state, the landlord, the magistrate of the county under the jurisdiction of the state, and even his deputy Kou Zhun. With Kou Zhun's temper, can he endure this? When he broke with Wang Huai, and wrote an excerpt to the court to prepare to denounce Wang Huai.

But when the excerpt arrived in Beijing, it was like a mud cow entering the sea without a trace. The reason is very simple, of course, someone helped Wang Huai intercept the excerpt, and this person is Wang Huai's brother Wang Wei.

In this way, Wang Huai successfully suppressed Kou Zhun, who had no backers in the court.

Zhao Weiji didn't know about this when it happened, but soon Zhao Weiji's intelligence system played a role, and Zhao Weiji learned about the difficulties encountered by Kou Zhun from the information interpreted in the articles in the newspaper every day.

After learning that Kou Zhun had encountered a problem, Zhao Weiji immediately learned about the cause and effect of the whole thing through the intelligence network of the beggar gang.

Whether it is out of the righteousness of friends or political investment, Zhao Weiji must help Kou Zhun.

As the saying goes, headaches can't just be treated, and you can't just treat the symptoms but not the root cause. The root cause of this matter is actually here in Wang Wei, and if this matter is to be solved, it will inevitably be done to Wang Wei.

It is not so easy to get started with the king, and it takes some process. In the first step, Tie Zheng helped Zhao Weiji find a witness. The local landlord in Zhenzhou, a landlord who got rich by growing cotton.

Due to the rise of the cotton textile industry in recent years, the demand for cotton has surged, which has led to the beginning of cotton planting in many places in the Central Plains in addition to growing grain.

Kou Zhun became famous in Cheng'an County by promoting cotton, and he naturally did not forget this industry when he arrived in Zhenzhou. As a result, a group of landlords took the lead in planting cotton and tasted the sweetness.

But what he didn't expect was that as soon as Wang Huai arrived in Zhenzhou, he demanded bribes from all the landlords who planted or wanted to plant cotton. The reason is very simple, although the state encourages the cultivation of cotton, in order not to create the embarrassing situation of everyone planting cotton and no one producing food, so cotton planting is qualified.

Originally, when Kou Zhun was here, he pursued the principle of drawing lots, and whether you can plant cotton or not depends on God's will, so it is still fair.

However, after Wang Huai took office, he took back all the planting rights of cotton and changed it to a "competitive bidding" method. As for how to "bid", of course, it is who pays him a large amount of bribes and who is qualified.

As a result, the landlords who were unwilling to give up this mountain of gold paid him bribes one after another.

In fact, Tie Zheng just casually found one of the landlords to be a witness. As for why any landlord can be a witness, the reason is also very simple.

Now basically monopolizing the purchase of cotton is the textile industry under the Nanyang Palace, although due to the intervention of the royal family, its textile industry can not suppress the price when purchasing cotton, but whether to buy which cotton Zhao Weiji can still decide.

If you offend Wang Huai, it's a big deal not to plant cotton, and if you offend Zhao Weiji, you have planted cotton this year, and it is basically white, these landlords will naturally weigh the pros and cons.

If you want to bring down Wang Wei with a witness, you can't help but think that Wang Wei is too simple. But this is not difficult at all for Zhao Weiji, who has a thousand years of knowledge beyond this era.

The second step is to create pressure on public opinion. The existence of "Shilin Yuebao" allows Zhao Weiji to easily create a tide of public opinion.

Corruption and bribery are hated in any country and in any era. And it often becomes the focus of public opinion.

Zhao Weiji found someone to write countless manuscripts to submit to "Shilin Yuebao", which is basically the real situation of the manuscript, which will definitely attract the attention of the editors. Coupled with the Northern Song Dynasty's policy of advocating unimpeded speech, these articles reflecting Wang Huai's solicitation of bribes soon appeared on the front pages of newspapers.

Although newspapers often appear in articles exposing officials taking bribes, this time it seems extremely true. The depiction is sufficiently detailed to make it difficult to suspect false accusations.

As a result, Wang Huai's case produced a storm in the entire Shilin, and the center of the storm was Wang Wei.

These are not over, and then Zhao Weiji implemented the third step in the second step, which is to find Wang Wei's political enemies. Whoever is mixed in with the court, who does not have few political enemies in the officialdom. There are still people who look at him unpleasantly, let alone people like Wang Wei, who often attract hatred because of his dishonesty in others.

Through Zhang Gu's connections, Zhao Weiji easily handed over the evidence at hand to Wang Wei's political enemies.

So a letter of impeachment was handed to Zhao Guangyi's dragon book case.

Well, Wang Wei, who also had a doctor, was impeached by others at this time. Originally, Wang Wei, who didn't pay much attention to public opinion from the outside world, was sitting on pins and needles at this time. Of course, his brother knew all the shit he had done. At this time, he must face a difficult choice, that is, to abandon the car and give up his brother, or to be dragged into the water because of his brother's case.

Of course, Wang Xun didn't want to resolve the case through another core figure in this case, but it is almost impossible to perjury through Kou Zhun, and although Kou Zhun himself has no backer in the court, he is still a little famous in Shilin, so if anything happens to Kou Zhun, the consequences can be imagined.

A few days later, at the court meeting, Wang Wei, who was not surprising, was severely questioned by Zhao Guangyi.

"I don't need to repeat to you what the main words and newspapers are saying these days, and the people who were asked for bribes mentioned in the note of impeaching your brother and Kou Zhun Zhen, the governor of Zhenzhou, have also been investigated. Kou Zhun did write to impeach your brother, but I never saw it. Do you know all these things? In the process of speaking, Zhao Guangyi's tone became obviously colder and colder.

At this time, Wang Wei has been forced to a dead end, and what Zhao Weiji has created for Wang Wei is a desperate situation, no matter what choice he makes, he will not end well.

The impeachment of the imperial history and the pressure of public opinion forced Zhao Guangyi to deal with this matter seriously, and after a serious investigation, Zhao Guangyi found that whether Wang Wei knew about this matter or not, he had violated Zhao Guangyi's bottom line.

The interception of Kou Zhun's performance indicates that there are Wang Xun's henchmen in the province responsible for correcting the official Zhang, whether these people were instructed by Wang Wei or acted spontaneously.

Of course, Wang Wei can also retreat from 625, and he will not admit it when he is killed, but he only says that his younger brother is a fake tiger, and his banner is used to cause the officials of Menxia Province to spontaneously help his younger brother cover up.

In this way, although Taizong can't do anything to him, but in this way, all the allies of Wang Wei in the court will leave him, because no one can ally with such a person.

The fate that Wang Wei will usher in is nothing more than the difference between the death penalty and the death reprieve, maybe it would be better to admit it directly, after all, the Song Dynasty did not kill scholars. But if he betrays his allies, the court, which is full of political enemies, will not have a place for his king, and the end may be even more miserable in the future.

"The ministers all know about these things, and it is also the ministers who coerce the provincial officials under the door to keep the officials, and everything is the crime of the ministers." Knowing that there was no good end for Heng and Vertical, Wang Shusuo admitted all the guilt.

"Okay, now that you've admitted it. Then I don't want to say more. Seeing that Wang Wei admitted all the guilt, Zhao Guangyi could only sigh. Thinking of his years of hard work, he is not ready to say anything more.

"Wang Wei and his brother were stripped of all official positions, and together they were sent back to their hometowns, and they were not hired for the rest of their lives. As for the person who helped you detain the impeachment, because he was coerced by you, he was demoted by three ranks. That's it, retreat. After announcing the punishment, Zhao Guangyi left the court directly.

This whole thing made Zhao Guangyi feel very strange, and behind the incident was like an invisible pusher, grasping the changes in the entire situation until Wang Wei was forced into a desperate situation.

But Zhao Guangyi did not get any benefits from this matter, first of all, Kou Zhun further got his attention. Originally, Zhao Guangyi, who just thought that Kou Zhun was a good capable minister, discovered Kou Zhun's upright side again through this incident, which made Zhao Guangyi start to like this person.

The second is to make Zhao Guangyi pay attention to these emerging industries while promoting people's livelihood may also breed [***], this incident also sounded the alarm for the local officials who are ready to pay attention to cotton or have paid attention to cotton.

What Zhao Guangyi didn't expect was that the biggest winner of this case was Zhao Weiji.

Kou Zhun, who was very smart, naturally knew who was helping him behind him, and these people who were in Zhao Dezhao's family before naturally saw Zhao Weiji's strength and means.

Zhao Weiji, who has gained the gratitude of a future prime minister and the trust of a political faction, should naturally be the biggest winner behind the whole case.

And just after Zhao Weiji dealt with this matter, Jiang Yu also returned to the capital from Huating County.

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