Xia Muzai carefully looked at the case, and his heart was mixed.

Zhang Jing is a hero of the southeast anti-Japanese resistance, but such a hero of a strong country died under the false accusations of Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian, which has to be embarrassing.

Hu Zongxian, you are indeed meritorious to the fight against the Japanese, but the sins on your body cannot be exempted from death!

Twenty-seven years of Jiajing.

Hu Zongxian ranked 132nd and ranked first in Jinshi, although his grades were very average, but his luck was good, he failed to choose Shu Jishi, but he was assigned to the local area as a county official, and soon after because of the excellent annual assessment, he was promoted to the imperial history and inspected Xuanfu and Datong.

In the thirty-third year of Jiajing, Hu Zongxian came to Zhejiang and took up the post of governor of Zhejiang.

At that time, Hu Zongxian was the inspector of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and was ordered to patrol Zhejiang and be responsible for supervising discipline inspection affairs, and his grade was only seven grades. And it just so happened that Li Tianzhong was the right imperial history of the Sipin Metropolitan Procuratorate, and was ordered to patrol Zhejiang and be responsible for the management of Zhejiang Province.

The two were also ordered to inspect Zhejiang, but Li Tianchong was the governor, and Hu Zongxian was just a small patrol, the difference between one word and the official rank was the difference between heaven and earth.

This made Hu Zongxian unconvinced.

But at the moment, Zhao Wenhua saw the disagreement between Hu and Li, so he privately found Hu Zongxian and promised to overthrow Zhang Jing and Li Tianchong, so that Hu Zongxian would be appointed as the governor of the southeast.

So Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian sued Zhang Jing and Li Tianzhong to Gyeonggi, accusing Zhang Jing of being afraid of the Japanese and taking the money of the imperial court, not helping the imperial court, and passively avoiding the war. Li Tianzhong privately shielded Zhang Jing and complied with it.

The charge seems simple, but it's not.

Because in May of that year, the righteous Japanese invaded Jiaxing on a large scale, and Zhang Jing was reluctant to move his troops because he was waiting for the opportunity. Five months later, Zhang Jing mobilized his army to advance by land and water, encountered the enemy army in Wangjiangjing, broke the Japanese and killed more than 1,900 enemies, and was known as "Wangjiangjing's great victory" in history.

It stands to reason that this is the biggest victory in the southeast since the Japanese rebellion, Zhang Jing was very proud, and immediately wrote a victory document and sent it to the capital, waiting for the reward from the imperial court.

But it turned out that it didn't take long for Zhang Jing to wait for not the gold and silver treasures, high-ranking officials, but the shackles given to Governor Zhang by Jinyiwei, and the emperor arrested Zhang Jing for crime: "After being deceived and disloyal, he was ordered to enter Beijing to ask for the crime!" ”

"This ......" Xia Mu looked at the case of that year, but he didn't understand the key, glanced at Li Mo who was resting with his eyes closed, and couldn't help but ask: "Elder Li Ge, didn't this Zhang Jing win in Wangjiangjing back then?" So how did Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian frame Zhang Jing? ”

Li Mo smiled and took a sip of tea unhurriedly: "Lord Xia asked so, and the old man will tell me the reason for the year, and the biggest accomplice in this is naturally Zhao Wenhua's father-in-law, Yan Song, the first assistant of the current cabinet......

This lecture can be half an hour, after Xia Mu listened to Li Mo's narration, his heart was shocked, it turned out that Zhang Jing's good news did not reach the emperor at all, but first came to Yan Song's hands, and Yan Song's black said white, and the emperor denounced the tragic situation of the Japanese invaders against the people, and finally pointed out that Zhang Jing, supporting the army and respecting himself, sat back and watched the crime of the Japanese rebellion, reversing right and wrong.

Jiajing trusted Yan Song very much at that time, and when he heard his auxiliary ministers say this, he was naturally furious, and immediately ordered Zhang Jing to be arrested and returned to Beijing.

Zhang Jing fell, Li Tianpet had no play, and the two brothers and sisters went to the execution ground hand in hand and were killed together.

Zhao Wenhua fulfilled his promise to Hu Zongxian, and soon after Li Tianchong's death, he used his relationship in the court to make an exception again, and in just one month, he directly promoted Hu Zongxian, the seven-rank grass-roots imperial history, to the four-rank right imperial history, and patrolled Zhejiang.

From a sesame official to a feudal official, the speed of his promotion made Xia Mudu secretly stunned.

Li Mo looked at Xia Mu, who was speechless, and smiled: "Speaking of which, after Hu Zongxian is also a famous family, his great-ancestor Hu Fu was admitted to the Jinshi, and he also served as the secretary of the household department in Nanjing, and he was prominent for a while. Hu Zongxian, who was born in the prestigious family, was a genius, he was promoted at the age of 22 and was promoted to the rank of sergeant at the age of 26, whether in the local or military affairs, whether it was handling government affairs or quelling rebellions, he showed extraordinary talent. It's a pity that the fault is that he and Zhao Wenhua are in the same stream! This step is wrong, but it is a wrong step! ”

Xia Mu didn't answer, in fact, in his opinion, Zhao Wenhua is indeed not a good thing, otherwise he would not have risked being in the drunken leaf forest, desperately in the danger of being besieged by Dongchang Fanzi, and he would also kill Zhao Wenhua.

But the power of the country is in the hands of this group of garbage, the strict party bullies the country, the people are harmed, those who follow it prosper, and those who go against it die, Hu Zongxian in order to complete his ambitions, he took refuge in Zhao Wenhua, which makes people sigh and feel helpless at the same time!

The times create heroes, but heroes also want to know if they are the strongest!

But Hu Zongxian can't be said to be a hero, because he is too ruthless and unscrupulous for the sake of the end!

He watched Zhang Jing and Li Tianzhong being framed and executed, and then sat on the throne of the governor of Zhejiang amid everyone's accusations, without the slightest evasion and shame.

Thinking that Xia Mu looked at the folds in his hand, this condemned Hu Zongxian to the death penalty - embezzling military salaries and secretly framing Zhang Jing and Li Tianzhong.

Once this crime is confirmed, according to the attitude of the Inspectorate and the Criminal Department towards Yan Dang, Hu Zongxian will die for nine days.

"Master Li, although Hu Zongxian is guilty, Wang Zhi and Xu Hai must have been eradicated by Hu Zongxian, and the merit is not worth it, is it too ...... to sentence him to death?"

Li Mo interrupted Xia Mu's words, glanced at Xia Mu, and sneered: "Why, Lord Xia thinks the old man's ruling is inappropriate?" ”

"That'...... No, Lord Li is the performance examiner of Bingchen's external inspection, and everything is still up to Lord Li to decide. "After all, Xia Mu is just a small Jinyi Wei envoy, even if he is now listed as a military general of the Governor Jingying Rongzheng, he still can't wrestle with the dignified imperial ministers.

Seeing that Xia Mu had no opinion, Li Mo nodded with satisfaction, and said in an old-fashioned manner: "Then Lord Xia will sign your name on this note, the old man will hand it to the saint early tomorrow morning, recently the saint always asks if Zhao Wenhua's case has a result, and I and other courtiers can worry about the saint!" ”

"That's nature!" Xia Mu picked up the cinnabar pen, gritted his teeth and signed his name under Li Mo's name after the recital.

Li Mo took the recital, was satisfied, and was about to leave.

Xia Mu hurriedly stopped him: "Lord Li, can the southeast send back news of Zhao Wenhua?" ”

Li Mo glanced at Xia Mu and shook his head: "I don't know why, how long has this Jinyi Wei been to the southeast, to say the least, it's been half a month, why don't you see any news from Zhao Wenhua!" ”

Xia Muyan's heart sank when he heard this, after Zhao Wenhua was killed, he was buried in the drunken leaf forest, of course Jinyiwei couldn't find anyone else, and reported Yang Wan, but it was Zhao Wenhua who resisted the Japanese and martyred, this is not good, Zhao Wenhua's anti-Japanese martyrdom will not be taken out by Yan Song again!

Thinking that Xia Mu hurriedly sent Li Mo away and found Luo Kedi.

Seeing Xia Mu's solemn face, Luo Kedi couldn't help but ask, "What, there is something important?" ”

Xia Mu nodded, handed Luo Kedi a letter, and solemnly instructed: "Defeat the enemy, the matter is critical, you must hand over this letter to Yang Qian, unify the caliber of our Southeast Jinyiwei brothers, and insist that Zhao Wenhua collaborated with the enemy and committed treason, and has fled overseas!" ”

"Don't worry, I will definitely give this letter to Yang Wan!"

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From Shanhaiguan to Jingshi, it is going east and west. In the meantime, more than 500 miles, the plains are vast, the peaks and peaks are undulating, the Luan River, the White River, the Qinglong River are rolling and flowing on the Sichuan Plain, the majestic ancient Great Wall is meandering between the Yanshan Mountains, and Yongping Mansion is at the junction of the mountains and rivers.

Jinyiwei, who escorted Hu Zongxian back to Beijing, has been walking for many days, and he has arrived at Yongping Mansion.

Hu Zongxian, who was on the horse in the rear, looked at the Yongping Mansion that had been harmed by the disaster, and felt infinite emotion!

"It is said that the feng shui of Yongping Mansion is not good for the king. Four hundred and twelve years ago, Emperor Jianwen, who was in charge of the country by Emperor Yongle, fled because he abandoned Yongping and finally died at sea! ”

"In the eyes of the common people, Yongping Mansion is not only a bad feng shui, it is simply a place of great calamity. It is said that Emperor Jianwen abandoned Yongping, and when he was leaving, he slaughtered the city and killed the officials and all the people of the Yongle Emperor who surrendered, regardless of men, women and children. Later, this place became a battlefield where the Ming army repeatedly fought for it, killing and killing the past like a marquee, and finally no one could kill, only the rubble was left, and the eyes were full of hazel waste. ”

Yang Qian took a sip of spirits, looked at the loess and yellow sand, the abandoned land with shimmering rubble, and the white bones on it, which made people feel so sad, and the dignified Ming was actually bullied by me like this!

At this moment, a horse-drawn carriage galloped along the road in the distance.

Yang Wan looked at the carriage and seemed to come from Di Dao in the north, could it be that the minister who was demoted and the official was reinstated.

After thinking about it, the carriage was approaching, and the coachman tightened the reins of the horse neatly, and turned back to the carriage and spoke a northern dialect: "Master, there are brocade guards here, it seems that there is some big official!" ”

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and out of a middle-aged scribe with a resolute face but some vicissitudes of life, the scribe glanced at Hu Zongxian, who was sitting and resting in the distance, with a hint of surprise in his eyes, and hurriedly jumped out of the car and walked.

Hu Zongxian only heard someone shouting his name from afar, and he couldn't help but look back, and when he saw that it was this person, he was shocked: "Brother Jiaoshan, have you been reinstated?" ”

The person who came was Yang Jisheng, who returned to Beijing from Di Dao, who worked under Hu Zongxian a few years ago when he was still in the military department.

"Brother Merlin, why is this so?"

Hu Zongxian smiled lonely: "But the king of the world, the name of the person who won the front and back, poor white happens, nothing is great!" ”

"Brother, don't worry, when Jiaoshan returns to Beijing, he will definitely go to the book to redress his brother's grievances!"

"Jiaoshan, how many paths do people have no choice in this life?"

“……”

"For the great cause of fighting against Japanese people in the southeast, I endured humiliation and took refuge in the Yan Party, what can I get in exchange, but it's just a three-foot iron teaser and a crime book!"

"The loyal ministers are wronged, it is the Yan Dang father and son who are in trouble, Brother Meilin can rest assured, Jiaoshan will return to Beijing this time, even if he dies, he will impeach Yan Song's father and son, and fight the righteous death!"

Hu Zongxian hurriedly wanted to stop this elm head, Yan was a big party, how could he be impeached by a small Nanjing household head.

Just looking at Yang Jisheng's back in the wind and sand, he looked a little envious.

At least Yang Jisheng is chic, he doesn't have to worry too much, he dares to speak out for justice, and he dares to change the sun and the moon into a new sky. And what about yourself?

Live aggrieved!