It is said that Empress Dowager Zhang was hooked by her third son, Zhao Hao, and sure enough, the next day, she borrowed the excuse of preaching the law and summoned Na Song Weizi into the palace.

She has been a regent for more than ten years, and she knows people by herself, and she didn't pay much attention to it before, but at this time, she wants to use someone to show Zhao Rui the hidden disease, but she has carefully identified it.

Empress Dowager Zhang saw that Song Weizi was not a boastful person, and he was familiar with Buddhism and Taoism, and he was extraordinary, and he did not feel that there was anything wrong with his character, so he specially asked someone to go outside the palace to find a lot of people who had been sick for many years to show him.

After taking it, the patient may be prescribed a herbal medicine, or a Chinese medicine prescription, or a medicinal diet prescription, and most of them will improve after taking it.

Empress Dowager Zhang looked at it coldly, and looked for people around her to show him his appearance, and sure enough, Song Weizi said that everything in the past was perfect, and there were many fulfillments in the things that happened later. After a month, she gradually felt that this person was available, and only then did she ask her henchman to take words to test, and asked if there was a good way for a man to have sexual affairs.

With a lot of foreshadowing ahead, Empress Dowager Zhang really put her mind at ease and prepared to send someone into the palace to treat her son.

This matter has been mentioned, so I will not press it for the time being.

Besides, Zhao Rui returned to the vertical arch hall from Ciming Palace that day, and waited until he barely had lunch, and then sat back in front of the desk to bury his first recital, he had Chang Ping in Yongqiu County in his heart, Chen Ducai, waiting for Gu Yanzhang to enter the palace and return to the palace, and he was a little restless for a while.

After a while, I heard a voice from the official outside the hall, and after a while, a man came in from a layman.

It turned out that Gu Yanzhang walked up to the front and saluted him.

Even though he was in a very bad mood, when he saw the courtiers he admired very much, Zhao Rui couldn't help but show a smile on his face and said, "Aiqing is exempt." ”

Gu Yanzhang bowed down and thanked him, standing down to listen.

"I heard Sun Bian say the day before yesterday, that Chen Ducai has already confessed, and he is still being interrogated in the criminal department, I don't know what the situation is now?" Yongqiu County's Changping Warehouse Grain Storage is the most among the thirteen counties and towns in Gyeonggi, and the rest of the places together are less than half of his.

Gu Yanzhang heard the summons of the Son of Heaven, and already knew that most of them were here for this matter, he had already prepared, only hesitated for two breaths, and then said: "The Criminal Department is still investigating, this case has not yet been decided, and the minister does not dare to say anything, so he can only temporarily mention one or two as far as the minister currently knows." ”

Zhao Rui was a little surprised and asked: "The last time Sun Bian returned with me was four or five days ago, it was only said that Chen Ducai had already confessed, and after so many days, he hadn't even been asked clearly?" ”

Gu Yanzhang's heart froze.

Although he didn't have much contact with Sun Bian, he already had a vague feeling.

I don't know if in the past two years, this Sun has been severely pressed by the Son of Heaven in politics, and once he is reused, he will be a little too violent, as if he is anxious to make some great achievements in the ministries and departments under his jurisdiction.

And Hu Quan intends to stay in the Criminal Punishment Division, take out the one on his head temporarily, and really do a Gyeonggi Criminal Prison business, and even jump up and down, doing everything, and everything has to be held in his hands.

These two people are together, saying a nice word, or even a perfect match, and saying a bad word is that the broken pot meets the rotten stove.

Sun Bian is nominally in charge of the Criminal Division, but he has too many affairs at hand, and it is impossible to keep an eye on everything, so naturally he can only listen to Hu Quan.

And in order to show his ability, how Hu Quan will report good news and not bad news, even if he is not at the scene and has never heard the other party speak, Gu Yanzhang can guess a thing or two.

Hu Quan exaggerated the merits of three points into five points, maybe Chen Ducai only said one, when he went back to the top, he said two nonsense, and Sun Bian listened to two from Hu Quan's mouth, after all, he is a governor of political affairs, and his vision is naturally higher, I am afraid that in front of the Son of Heaven, he has turned two into four, and he has helped himself to paste a few points of gold, and praised the merits of five points as eight points.

After all, in their opinion, as long as they open their mouths, it is equivalent to confessing, almost equivalent to the case has been completed, and as for the beginning and end, it is not for them to consider.

There was no qi between the two of them, and no one of them mentioned their own caliber to Gu Yanzhang for more than half a sentence, which made this court pair, which should have been very simple, become extremely complicated.

He can't ask the Son of Heaven how Sun Bian and Hu Quan got back, and once he can ask, what will the Son of Heaven think?

One by one, is it possible to mention the facts of the case in the Criminal Division, and there are still discrepancies between the upper and lower levels?

If there is really a big difference with the current situation of this case, he will say that his family was reprimanded by the Son of Heaven in front of him, for fear that he will offend Hu Quan and Sun Bian and expose their behavior.

Gu Yanzhang thought for a while, took a step forward, and said calmly: "Your Majesty doesn't know, this case is not simply a matter of self-theft and dereliction of duty, there is quite an inside story......

He did not want to talk about the facts of the case, but only talked about the situation in Yongqiu County, the livelihood of the people in the county, the public security in the county, and the dams, water conservancy, mulberry fields, agriculture and animal husbandry, and so on.

No matter who it is, there are never too many good words, although Zhao Rui is the emperor, he is naturally average. Even because he is the emperor, he likes to listen to good words.

Even though he knew that Chen Ducai was greedy and self-stealing, and misappropriated the silver grain in Changping, which emperor was willing to admit that there were such evil ministers under his own rule.

Almost all the pro-people officials are from Jinshi, and Jinshi is also a candidate of the Son of Heaven, the so-called protégé of the Son of Heaven, to say something ugly, in the final analysis, there is such an official, such a big case, how can Zhao Rui himself be completely indifferent and stay out of the matter?

Hearing Gu Yanzhang's brief description, Zhao Rui put on a straight face and asked, "According to what Qing said, this Chen Ducai is a capable minister?" ”

"No matter now, just say that in the past, Chen Ducai was awarded the official merit, many of them were middle-class, and even one year was superior, and there was a lot ......of praise for him in the merit book, and the minister also asked his colleagues, superiors, and subordinates in the state and county, and the praise was greater than the depreciation."

I can hear Gu Yanzhang briefly explain the changes in Chen Ducai's trajectory since he became an official, although he doesn't have many words, but the image of a diligent official from a poor background, wholeheartedly caring for the people, and doing errands with his heart has already jumped in front of him.

Zhao Rui originally heard what Sun Bian said about the situation of the middle and regular liquidation in Yongqiu County, and was very angry with the officials involved, and even more hated Chen Ducai, and only wanted to demote that evil minister to Leizhou to dig pearls, or rush to the western domain to shepherd sheep, but now he heard Gu Yanzhang's words, and only a few words made him change his mind.

Who wants to deny their vision? After all, Chen Ducai used to be a person who had to face the saint once every two or three years!