Zhu Yuncai's acting servant of the Criminal Department only worked hard for more than a month, and he ushered in the most proud moment when he had been an official for more than 20 years. Aspiring to be a cool official through the ages, he finally waited for a chance to show his strengths. Originally, the cool official was not a compliment, but he had another idea.

It is precisely because the cool officials act harshly and ruthlessly that there are few friends who are not friends with them, and the people who do it are nothing more than lonely ministers who are loyal to the king, even if the cool officials rarely end well, it is because he is not friends and not the party, and offended the courtiers and magnates. This is also a well-deserved death for a cool official, and Zhu Yuncai is such a person. He has been mediocre all his life, if he doesn't take advantage of the time to make a career with people and make a history of books, wouldn't he let down the people who came?

It was not until this moment that he sincerely realized the shocking words of the cool official of the Western Han Dynasty, his husband can't eat five tripods in life, and he will cook five tripods when he dies. Indeed, now he was in front of these former powerful officials.

On the day before Gao Hongtu's scandal was revealed, Mi Yan visited the door overnight. This was unthinkable in the past, although this person is not high, not famous, but he is one of the few core henchmen around the Marquis of Zhenlu, only from the Marquis of Zhenlu rest assured that this person supervises the army in Nanjing, its trust can be seen.

Therefore, Zhu Yuncai was naturally sincerely afraid of Mi Yan's visit. And Mi Yan also directly explained his intentions, now there is a force against the Hou of Zhenyu is waiting for an opportunity to move, in order to prevent it from happening, he wants to play a big game of chess, but this does require the cooperation of Zhu Yuncai, who has just acted as the servant of the Criminal Department.

Zhu Yuncai had already heard that Lu Xiangsheng had defeated the fifth battalion of the left in Huaibei, and the imperial court seemed to have the possibility of sweeping away the decline, but this was not necessarily good news for him, because his steady progress was inseparable from the Zhenyu Marquis, if the Zhenyu Marquis was unlucky, then everything he had now would be burned to ashes, and I am afraid that those people would never let go of themselves.

With this kind of reason, Zhu Yun agreed to cooperate. But he was very suspicious that Mi Yan had any ability to allow him to search for officials and torture confessions in the city at will. However, he soon understood that this young prisoner was really not without purpose.

The bombardment of Gao Hongtu by newspapers of all sizes in the city soon discredited this important minister of the three dynasties, even to the point that everyone said that he could be killed. Everyone knows that Gao Hongtu is completely finished, but no one will pity him, because after the property that this person coveted in his life has been magnified by the rumors in the market, he has long become a street rat. If someone jumps out at this time and punishes this person for his unspeakable crimes, then he will definitely not be opposed, but will be greeted with a warm cheer.

However, Zhu Yuncai deserves to be a natural cool official, and he immediately found an opportunity from Gao Hongtu's tragedy. There are no longer a few officials in the city who are openly dissatisfied with the Marquis of Zhenlu and the Three Guards, and those who hold such remarks have long been recorded by the intelligence officers of the Three Guards, and he only needs to go to the door to arrest them one by one according to the map. As for the crime of arrest, it was the greed for ink that the hundred officials in Nanjing heard at this time.

Often the newspapers published rumors of corruption, and the criminal department and Ying Tianfu's tolerance soap were locked on the same day. However, Zhu Yuncai's actions at this time were also very measured, and even if people above the fourth grade were published in the newspaper for greedy ink, they still ignored them. He was targeting middle- and lower-level officials of the fifth rank and below.

These people are minions, and they are always on the front line, so as long as these people are cured, those who have ulterior motives behind the scenes will inevitably lose their right-hand men. At the same time, it also avoided confrontation with those old ministers with great prestige, and achieved the purpose of warning.

Now, Zhu Yuncai's goal has indeed been achieved. On the day he was arrested, his family scattered their money and begged for a way out, hoping to save him. But none of his former colleagues and bosses in the city reached out to help, or even avoided them.

The anti-corruption wave in Nanjing came so suddenly and violently that everyone could not see the direction of the wind and distinguish the situation. And if the word "greedy ink" is stained on the body, it is tantamount to an incurable disease. The most important thing is that as a Ming official, there are no clean people, if they are not greedy for ink, only a few dozen taels of silver a year, where do they get the money to beat their bosses and greet their colleagues? If they are not greedy for ink, where will they have the money to maintain official authority and employ staff? I'm afraid I can't even support my own family, right?

Just like Jiajing Chaohai Gangfeng, the two sleeves are breezy, just and upright, famous all over the world, when he first arrived in Renzhi County, Chun'an County, didn't he also use the money in the public to play the boss? Of course, he is not a selfish person, and what he does is to make things less difficult for his superiors, so that his official affairs can be less restrictive.

Speaking of which, this is not the helplessness of the Qing officials, but the sorrow of the entire Ming Dynasty. An official who wants to make a difference must use greed to cater to the unspeakable rules of officialdom, so that he may be able to make a difference. Looking at those important ministers who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and who are loyal to the king and serve the country all day long, which one is not full of brains? How can such a corrupt dynasty not die?

Therefore, Zhu Yuncai, who has been suppressed by these Ming officials for 20 years, has long seen through this officialdom and this court. He was born in a poor family, and it was a blessing to be able to get lucky to be promoted, and it was already a blessing to enter the officialdom. But because there was no money to bribe, and he was not allowed to hold important positions all year round, he couldn't get oil and water, and he wasted half a lifetime under the vicious circle. Now, the Marquis of Zhenyu is an official who wants to make a difference, and Zhu Yuncai made this determination from the first time he saw him.

The prison of the Criminal Department was overcrowded, and Zhu Yuncai took a deep breath outside the door, and he wanted to spit out all the people's fat and ointment they had swallowed from these mouths. No, it's not enough to spit out the swallowed people's fat and people's ointment, he also has to let these giant rats and silverfish spit out their stomachs and intestines in one go, so that these people can smell for themselves, how smelly the bits and pieces of their bodies are.

The first to start is the Nanjing household official, although this person's official position is not obvious, but it is an important position to handle specific matters, even if he is as strong as copper and iron bones under Miki, he can not hold on, and in the end he can only be the jailer to let him confess something, so he will confess to the detainment. Although he knew that once he confessed, he would be completely finished, but if he didn't confess, how could he survive this endless torture of not being able to survive, death, and no end? Perhaps at this point, dying quietly has become the best and most comfortable choice.

Of course, not everyone is soft-boned, and the dog who scolded Zhu Yuncai was bloody. But how could this move the cool officials? In addition to sneering and ridicule, he was met with even more brutal torture.

Almost overnight, these fat-brained, pampered officials completely lost their former official prestige and appearance, and even lost their most basic dignity as human beings. Soon, stacks of confessions were sent to Zhu Yuncai's desk, and he just flipped through a few pages at random, and his heart was shocked by the words on them.

Immediately, Zhu Yuncai sneered, where was the confession in his hand, it was clearly a reminder, which was enough to turn the Nanjing officialdom upside down. But after all, the matter was big, and it was impossible for him to follow the map again, so he went to Jubaomen overnight to ask Yu Miyan for advice.

Mi Yan didn't expect that just a few days of torture would produce many shocking confessions.

"How much water is there?" Looking at Mi Yan's inquiring gaze, Zhu Yuncai smiled bitterly and said, "The lower officials haven't had time to deal with the water yet......

Mi Yan paced back and forth in the Chinese military tent for a few steps, suddenly stopped, and said categorically: "I heard that a few more tabloids in the city have opened?" Copy all these confessions, distribute them, and reveal them all! ”

In this regard, Zhu Yuncai was quite hesitant, "Can the "Communiqué" be sent? ”

"Don't send the five influential newspapers in Nanjing, and I will personally greet Mr. Nan Lei, and the "Bulletin" will not get involved in this matter." Mi Yan waved his hand and explained.

Zhu Yuncai secretly screamed in his heart, this Mi Yan looked polite, but his actions were unbelievably ruthless. The "Communiqué" was the mouthpiece of the Three Guards Army in Nanjing, and its failure to express its position meant that the Three Guards Army did not express its position.

And to let the small newspapers and magazines in the city publish these sensational confessions, just to knock the mountain and shock the tiger.

Sure enough, this caused an uproar in the city of Nanjing, and almost everyone was in danger, but there was nothing to be done. Even important ministers like Zheng Sanjun, who were inclined to the Three Guards, were affected and implicated.

With this shock of officialdom, such a major event as the total annihilation of the thousands of Japanese robbers who invaded Nanjing was dwarfed. However, it soon became popular in the city that the invading Japanese were colluding with a certain important minister in Nanjing, which made the already stormy situation even more treacherous.

After Li Xin returned to Nanjing, he acted in an unusually low-key manner, and did not express his position on various previous incidents. Three days later, as soon as the news of Gao Hongtu's trial came out, it seemed to be tantamount to a euphemistic expression of his attitude to the public.

The so-called public trial is not the previous three-division trial, where the scholars and important ministers of several departments sit together and pretend to be the first instance of the trial to announce to the public the charges that have been convicted long ago. This time, however, the scene of the trial was moved to a large open space outside the Jubao Gate, and thousands of people were allowed to watch.

This is tantamount to a blatant humiliation of important ministers, and if it had been placed in the past, more than one person would have jumped out to oppose and reprimanded it. Today, however, the officials have exercised surprising restraint, and some have even publicly expressed their support for this decision.

Gao Hongtu still couldn't escape the catastrophe in the end, and when he was escorted to the bowing field, he felt inexplicable fear for the first time when he saw the mountains and seas of onlookers.