"Lord Hou, one person does things and one person is responsible, what the sinner knows has been fully said, and whether other people have also done it is not clear to the sinner." In the face of Li Yuntian's questioning, the corners of Zhao Wenju's mouth showed a wry smile, and then he touched the ground with his head again, and took all the blame off.

"In that case, the official has nothing to say to you." Li Yuntian had already guessed that Zhao Wenju would bear the blame, so he waved his hand to the Jinyi Guard Captain on the side and took Zhao Wenju down.

"Have all of his family members been arrested?" After Zhao Wenju left, Li Yuntian pondered for a moment and asked Li Manshan quietly.

"All the people at home have been arrested, and the lowly ones are arrested one by one according to the registration on the household register, and then the neighbors are asked to identify them, and none of them are wrong."

Li Manshan knew that Li Yuntian was asking Zhao Wenju, so he bowed slightly and replied in a deep voice, "Zhao Wenju's second son Zhao Dengyu went to his father-in-law's house in Huguang with his wife and children at the end of June. ”

"The end of June?" Li Yuntian's brows suddenly frowned slightly when he heard this, June to September can be said to be the most prosperous and busy time in Yangzhou, Zhao Dengyu was not busy with his family's business but went to his father-in-law's house, which seemed a little out of place.

Besides, at that time, Zhang Gui's matter had already broken out, how could Zhao Dengyu have the intention of going to his father-in-law's house?

Unless...... Unless Zhao Wenju sensed something in advance, he asked Zhao Dengyu to leave Yangzhou with his wife and children for refuge, after all, he has a close relationship with Zhang Gui, and nine times out of ten he will be implicated in Zhang Gui's case.

"Thoroughly investigate Zhao Wenju's interpersonal relationships and see who he has the best relationship with." Thinking of this, Li Yuntian suddenly understood the mystery of Zhao Dengyu's departure from Yangzhou at the end of June, so he opened his mouth and instructed Li Manshan, he was sure that Zhao Dengyu must have escaped in advance, and now he doesn't know where to hide.

"Let's do it." Li Manshan arched his hand when he heard this, got up and left quickly.

"By the way, lock Zhao Wenju with his family." Seeing that Li Manshan was about to go out, Li Yuntian suddenly remembered something and explained to him.

In Li Yuntian's view, if you want to open a breakthrough from Zhao Wenju, then you must first rekindle the disheartened idea of survival, so that he still has reluctance to worry about it in the world, and family affection is undoubtedly the most powerful weapon to defeat his stubborn resistance.

"They are abandoning the car to protect the handsome, and they want Zhao Wenju to take down this case."

After Li Manshan left, Xie Heng groaned for a while, and looked at Li Yuntian helplessly, although he knew that Zhao Wenju was thrown out to carry the black pot, but if he insisted on carrying the crime, it would make things deadlocked.

"Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky, although their wishful thinking is good, they underestimate our determination to handle the case."

Li Yuntian smiled slightly, and said disapprerovingly, he had known that this case was not easy to investigate, and now he was very satisfied with the progress of the case, at least the officials and businessmen of Lianghuai Yandao were very cooperative with him for this inspection, and he was not in a hostile posture, which had achieved his goal.

The reason why Li Yuntian did not thoroughly investigate the Lianghuai Salt Road with great fanfare was not that he did not have evidence that the officials of the Lianghuai Salt Road and the salt merchants of the Salt Merchants Association colluded with each other to sell illicit salt.

Originally, Li Yuntian wanted to use the case of Lianghuai Yandao as his qualification for promotion in the officialdom, but he never expected that his official fortune would be prosperous, and in just six or seven years, he would jump from a small supervising imperial history to a left-handed imperial history, and he was also a dignified Zhenwuhou of Daming and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, so the evidence he collected from Lianghuai Yandao was difficult to use at this time.

If Li Yuntian was just a small inspector of the imperial history, then he wouldn't mind using those evidence to turn the two Huai Salt Road upside down, bring those officials and businessmen involved in the case to justice, and leave the headache to those big people in the court.

But now is different from the past, Li Yuntian is already an important minister of the imperial court, at this time he has to think about things more comprehensively and long-term, the two Huai Yandao corruption cases to investigate, but the social order in Jiangnan cannot be chaotic, and the six ministries and the cabinet cannot fight to the death for this.

Perhaps this is the so-called "not in his position, not in his own office", Li Yuntian not only has to deal with the two Huai Yan Dao ink corruption cases, but also has to arrange the aftermath, which makes him have to wait for the opportunity, take advantage of the two Huai Yan Road ink corruption cases to give them a thunderous blow when they are lax, and take them down in one fell swoop.

Therefore, Zhao Wenju's role at this time is quite important, Li Yuntian hopes to use Zhao Wenju to uncover the shady curtain of the two Huai Salt Roads, so as to provoke the infighting between those corrupt officials and businessmen in the Two Huai Salt Roads, then he will take advantage of the situation to take down the two Huai Salt Road corruption cases in one fell swoop, and the things will become much simpler.

In Li Yuntian's view, if we want to handle the two Huai Yan Dao cases smoothly and profitably, the only way to do this is to use the word "fast" to rely on conclusive criminal evidence to take down all the officials and businessmen involved in the two Huai Yan Dao corruption cases, so that both the cabinet and the six ministries will lose the opportunity to meddle in the case, and the rest is for the two sides to negotiate with each other on the two Huai Yan Dao cases and properly conclude the case.

In other words, Li Yuntian needs to start with the Lianghuai corruption case from the beginning, so that the outside world will seem that he has to do it as a last resort, only in this way can he not only eradicate the corrupt officials in the Lianghuai Salt Road, but also not cause a strong backlash from the six camps, and then create an opportunity for the two sides to discuss the aftermath.

Seeing Li Yuntian's confident appearance, Xie Heng and Han Liang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, the two of them followed Li Yuntian to Yangzhou this time, but they gambled on their future careers, once the thorough investigation of the two Huai Salt Road failed, then their career would be over.

"Resurrection, what should we do next?" Then, Han Liang opened his mouth and asked, since they came to Yangzhou, they have been touring the mountains and rivers, which more or less made him feel a little unsure, and he didn't know how to handle this case.

"To tell you the truth, I already have evidence in my hands that the officials of the two Huai Salt Provinces colluded with salt merchants to sell illicit salt and bent the law for bribes, but it is not yet time to attack them."

Li Yuntian knew that Xie Heng and Han Liang were not sure, so he smiled and comforted the two of them in a deep voice, "When the time comes, we will wipe out those silverfish, and the two of them will be busy at that time." ”

Hearing this, Xie Heng and Han Liang couldn't help but glance at each other in surprise, the two of them thought that Li Yuntian wanted to get evidence of the corruption of the Lianghuai Salt Road official Shangjia from Zhao Wenju, but they never expected that he already had the evidence of the corruption case of the Lianghuai Salt Road in his hands.

"Resurrection, have you been eyeing the two Huai Salt Dao for a long time?" Surprised, Xie Heng suddenly realized something, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously, with his understanding, Li Yuntian has always acted before acting, and it is impossible to come to Yangzhou without a clue.

"The two Huai salt road has accumulated disadvantages for a long time, if you indulge it will eventually become a major hidden danger of my Ming Dynasty, the long pain is not as good as the short pain, rather than leaving it to future generations to have a headache, it is better for my generation to stir up the turbidity and promote the clear, and eradicate this hidden danger." Li Yuntian did not answer Xie Heng's question directly, and said to Xie Heng with a smile, invisibly admitting Xie Heng's guess.

"The ambition of resurrection is ambitious, and we are ashamed of ourselves!" Xie Heng shook his head when he heard this, and bowed his hand to Li Yuntian with emotion.

As the superintendent of the Imperial History, Xie Heng naturally knows the corruption in the Lianghuai Salt Road, not to mention anything else, the Tan Jing and Bing Jing that the Lianghuai Salt Road gives to the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate every year are the most generous, and everyone knows where the money comes from.

Because the two Huai Salt Road are widely implicated, so even the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate no one dares to touch this trouble, the successive inspectors of the salt imperial history have turned a blind eye to the affairs of the two Huai Salt Road, as long as the two Huai Salt Road do not make any big mess to they will not bother to pay attention to, and wait for a year to return to the capital as soon as the term of office expires.

In fact, not every salt patrol imperial history is blind to the two Huai salt road greedy ink, Yongle in the early years of the salt imperial history to check the two Huai salt road greedy ink, as a result of the term of office before the end of the gray back to the capital, and later even the position of the imperial history was lost, was demoted to a remote and barren area to be the county.

Since then, no one has dared to touch the affairs of the two Huai Salt Road, so the two Huai Salt Road has been calm, if it is not for Zhang Gui's accident, I am afraid that no one will mention the thorough investigation of the two Huai Salt Road.

"Brother Xie is serious, I was young and vigorous at the time, and I was just a stunned young man with strong blood, not at all." After listening to Xie Heng's compliment, Li Yuntian smiled and waved his hand, and replied humbly.

Xie Heng and Han Liang also laughed when they heard this, and they admired Li Yuntian even more in their hearts, thinking that they were also enthusiastic and ambitious young people back then, but after stepping into the official career, they were gradually worn off by the sophistication of the officialdom, but Li Yuntian still maintained his enthusiasm, and he was ready to take the greedy ink of the two Huai Salt Road, which had to be admired by the two.

In addition to Zhao Wenju, Li Yuntian then interrogated several important officials and businessmen involved in the case, and unlike Zhao Wenju, these officials and businessmen knelt on the ground as soon as they entered the door, kowtowing in horror and begging for mercy.

Judging from the words provided by Li Manshan, these officials and businessmen have already told what they know, and some of them even bit out the officials of the Lianghuai Salt Road and the salt merchants of the Salt Merchants Association in order to get rid of their crimes.

However, because the level they were at was too low, the testimony against the salt road officials and the salt merchants of the salt merchants association was basically hearsay and there was no evidence in their hands, so it was impossible for Li Yuntian to accept their confessions, otherwise it would inevitably arouse criticism from others.

Through the contact with these officials and merchants, Li Yuntian keenly felt that they were different from Zhao Wenju, and he didn't know that he was an unlucky person who threw out the guilt, and thought that he was arrested this time because someone told the whistle and unfortunately hit the muzzle of the gun.

After interrogating the officials and businessmen, Li Yuntian specially asked people to copy a copy of their confessions against others and handed them over to Zhang Sheng, the transfer envoy of the Lianghuai Salt Road, for Zhang Sheng to verify.

His move is just right, not only to scare the snakes, to tell those salt officials and salt merchants that he is not without clues about their corruption and perversion of the law, but also to appease those salt road officials and salt merchants, otherwise how could he hand over the words to Zhang Sheng to verify, and he must have let Li Manshan lead the Jinyi guard to investigate.