Li Guo was escorted to prison, but he was not immediately sentenced.

Because waiting.

Until the DPRK issued a decree to dismiss Li Guo from his cabinet and other official positions.

So, a lieutenant stripped Li Guo of his coat and started directly.

After a while, Li Guo couldn't stand it anymore, and shouted in his mouth, begging for mercy again and again.

He was then dragged into the interrogation room.

Zhang Jingyi was already waiting here, he lowered his head, signed one order after another, and handed it to the scribe beside him, and the scribe left with the warrant.

Zhang Jingyi put down his pen at this time, and then looked up and glanced at Li Guo, who was already covered in bruises.

Zhang Jingyi immediately sighed with emotion: "I am a cabinet scholar, a very popular minister, and everyone in the world admires him, and everyone has to call him Li Gong, which can be described as a glorious lintel, which is enviable." ”

"It's just a pity that you want to be a thief, how many cents of those gold, silver and jewelry do you use? What people are most afraid of is not being satisfied, and people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants! ”

Li Guo was shackled, and at this time he was only lying on the ground panting.

Zhang Jingyi stood up with his hands behind his back, but continued: "Now that the matter has come out, you have no way out. At this moment, you've all lost your minds, right? Your family, it's next door, they didn't get punished, I, Zhang Jingyi, am a reasonable person, the punishment is not the goal, what I want is the truth, what I want is the truth. As for this process, after all, you and I have known each other, so how can I hope to make things difficult for you and your family? ”

At this time, Li Guo laughed and said, "Becoming a king and defeating a king." ”

"You're wrong." Zhang Jing said: "If you can't find out your problem, you will really be wronged, and you can still say that you are a king and a loser." But don't you know what your own virtues are? Don't you count all these ugly things you have done yourself? Now to talk about the success or defeat of the king is just the self-defense of the rebellious ministers and thieves. ”

Li Guo howled and cried: "Then what are you going to do? ”

Zhang Jingyi said calmly: "Gong Li is a smart person, what am I going to do, isn't it clear in Gong Li's heart?" This money did not come out of thin air. Those who give you silver will not give you gold or silver for no reason because they like you. You know very well in your heart that how much money you give, how much you have to do. ”

"Then whoever gave you the money, and what you have done for them, make it clear, I can't save you from death, but at least I can make your death more pleasant. You have already been punished, in fact, I, Zhang Jingyi, hate these torture tools, and it is not my intention to rely on criminal law to treat people. As long as you are honest and honest, I will naturally give you a decent one. ”

Li Guo laughed and said, "If I say it, I'm afraid that you may not dare to take people." ”

"You don't want to scare me with these words." Zhang Jing hooked her lips and smiled: "You know in your own heart that if I dare to take you Li Guo, I will dare to take others." I heard that you have a clean breeze on weekdays and never accept favors from others, which I have verified, and there is no mistake, you have not accepted any other silver. The only ones who received were those people, why did these people give you seven million taels, you know better than me, now I just want the roster, give me the roster, everything is easy to say, if you don't give it, then I will let you until you are willing to give. ”

Li Guo looked at Zhang Jingyi's eyes that couldn't feel the temperature fixedly, and after a while, he hesitated and said, "If I give it, I will definitely die without a place to bury." ”

Zhang Jing smiled: "I can let you die without a place to bury now." Don't make a mistake anymore, my patience is limited. ”

Saying that, Zhang Jingyi said lightly: "Help him sit down and talk." ”

The lieutenant on the side obeyed the order and picked Li Guo up from the ground.

With a sound of shackles, Li Guo was rested on the iron chair.

Zhang Jingyi sat opposite him and said, "Li Gong, I believe that when you were named on the gold list, it was by no means what it is now, at least not like it is now, with people and flies, full of calculations. At that time, you may still be thinking that you really want to be as the book says, to cultivate yourself and govern the country and level the world. Now, how did it come to be like this? ”

"Now that things have come to this point, isn't that painful enough? If I were you, I would have chosen to go back to basics, what happened, what to say, all to say, those who brought you gold and silver are not your friends, you are in a relationship of mutual use, in this case, you should seize the opportunity to use them to relieve yourself of some guilt. ”

As soon as Zhang Jing said this, he smiled and said, "These days, you have slandered me a lot, but have I ever complained about Li Gong?" For I know that the past is gone. You and I are here today, and we are honest with each other, why not? ”

Li Guo's face twitched, he was glaring at Zhang Jingyi with hatred, but now, his face was slightly loose.

He sighed bitterly: "It's just that the old man is not as good as others." ”

After that, he said, "If I tell you that I don't know who the person who gave me a great gift, do you believe it or not?" ”

Zhang Jing smiled and said, "As long as you have a reasonable explanation, I will naturally believe it." ”

"Just like the person named Chen Rui, the person who gave me the gift is also a pseudonym, but I know that this person is not, to be precise, these people are not simple."

"Huh?"

"Every year in two seasons, they will send a large sum of silver, on weekdays, they will not ask me to help, they claim to be the Lu family of Nanzhili, I have secretly visited, there is no such person in this world."

"Without this person, why would they give you a big gift?"

"Because they asked me to do something?"

"What's the matter?"

"Every once in a while, I will send one or two notes, sometimes to talk to some people in the court, and sometimes to promote which official."

"Which officials are promoted?"

Li Guo looked up at Zhang Jingyi, was silent for a while, and then said: "Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian and Guangdong go up to the political envoys, down to the prefect, the county, and in addition, there are military attachés."

Zhang Jingyi gasped and said, "There are so many, how many people are there up and down?" ”

Li Guodao: "More than 100 people. “

Seven million taels of silver buy so many officials.

And it is concentrated in several provinces.

Zhang Jingyi groaned, and then said: "Even if you want to buy officials, then let me ask you, you are only a cabinet scholar, how can you determine the departure and stay of so many magistrates?" ”

At this time, Zhang Jingyi remembered the original Donglin Party.

At that time, the Donglin Party controlled the Ministry of Officials, and almost all the official merit examinations were decided by the Ministry of Officials, plus they controlled the Metropolitan Procuratorate and impeached political enemies at any time, so that the Chu Party and the Qi Party, which were officials in the same dynasty at that time, suffered heavy losses.

Either they will be impeached and gone, or they will not be promoted, and those who are attached to Donglin will be on the rise, so everyone calls themselves Donglin Party, and they are noisy for a while.

For example, at that time, the Donglin Party not only had Ye Xianggao, a university scholar, but also Zhao Nanxing, the secretary of the ministry, and Wei Dazhong, who controlled the appointment and dismissal of personnel. At the same time, dozens of people, including Gao Panlong, Zuo Guangdou, and Fang Kezhu, mastered the Imperial Procuratorate and manipulated public opinion.

In this way, almost everyone in the DPRK and the central government can be impeached if they are disobedient, and even directly removed from office in Beijing.

Only the Donglin Party's own people have been rewarded with high-ranking officials one by one, so that the Donglin Party was extremely prosperous, and there were more than 100 backbone officials in the court.

But this time, Zhang Jingyi felt even more terrifying.

Because at the beginning, what Donglin controlled was only the Chaogang, but now there is a group of people who actually took this opportunity to begin to infiltrate the entire Ming magistrate system in an organized manner.

These people began to become more hidden, and in the DPRK and China, at most, it was just a party struggle, and at the local level, they all had to control the military and civil affairs.

Once you rely on this way to form a party, the consequences are even more terrible.

Li Guo glanced at Zhang Jingyi, and then said: "As a scholar, it is really difficult to ask about these things specifically, but the appointment and dismissal of the imperial court has the constitution of the imperial court. ”

Zhang Jingyi asked: "What kind of charter law, and what role do you play in it?" ”

Li Guodao: "If there is a vacancy in the prefect of Taiping Prefecture, the Ministry of Officials often candidates for three people, which only needs one director of the Ministry of Officials to decide, and it is easy to buy a director." ”

The principal is indeed not a big minister, Zhang Jing nodded.

Li Guo said: "Then the candidate who has been drawn up long ago can easily enter the alternative, after the alternative, as long as someone speaks for him, for example, the old man will hardly be embarrassed by the next article, after all, it is only a prefect." ”

Zhang Jingyi frowned and said, "Every time, you make a note?" ”

Li Guo shook his head and said: "Actually, it may not be, after all, there are alternatives, and they should not be underestimated, but as long as at this time, let a royal historian casually impeach this person at this time, then regardless of whether he is guilty or not, this person will inevitably have to be left behind." ”

"Therefore, to do such a thing, in fact, it only takes two middle and lower-level ministers to do it, there are people in the ministry to echo, the Imperial Procuratorate has a royal history on standby, and at the critical moment, the old man comes out to speak, and everything can fall into place."

Zhang Jingyi couldn't help but sneer: "You go to say hello everywhere, how can the secretary of the ministry be willing to let you?" ”

You must know that Zhou Yingqiu, the current secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is Wei Zhongxian's person.

Li Guo said: "It's just a local official, it's harmless, Zhou Butang has a grudge with the old man for this, it's really unnecessary." Don't forget, the old man is also a fellow villager of Father-in-law Wei. Besides, the secretary also asked the old man for help. ”

"Please, what?" Zhang Jingyi looked at Li Guo with a faint gaze.

Li Guodao: "For officials below the fifth grade, the officials can decide on their own, and if they are above the fifth grade, they need to be pushed by the court." Most of the people I have elected are magistrates, and the officials can call the shots. But this week, Yingqiu has some protégés and former officials, if they want to get a high position, if the old man opposes it in the middle of the court push, it will never be possible. Therefore, the officials up and down are willing to sell the favor of the old man. ”

I went to get an injection, I was in good condition, and I still updated normally, but it was even late, sorry.