In the interrogation room, there were three people sitting opposite Fei Chun, their clothes one black, one white and one red.

The black clothes are from the National Security Institute, the white clothes are from the Inspectorate, and the one in red clothes is directly from Dali Siqing, "Is this a three-hall trial?" Fei Chun couldn't cry or laugh.

The traditional three-hall trial is the Inspectorate, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple, and the officials of the Criminal Department did not come today.

Huang Zundu of the Academy of National Security asked: "Elder Fei Ge, if you are offended, we are also acting on the orders of the emperor. What is your relationship with Xiao Qifeng?"

Fei Chun replied: "When I was in Luling County, I was neighbors with him. His humble family often came to my house as a guest, and made my mother happy, so he recognized his righteous parents. At that time, Xiao Qifeng also occasionally came to my house and joined me in gold

A few taels of wine, the personal relationship is relatively good. Later, he was transferred to Guangdong, and then traveled to various places as an official, so he had no contact. It wasn't until he was transferred back to Beijing that he came and went back occasionally. "Does it have anything to do with you that he can rise through the ranks?" Huang Zundu asked.

Fei Chun said: Maybe there is, but I haven't opened my mouth, maybe the officials of the Ministry of History have misunderstood. After all, when my mother goes out, the wife of the salaried family often follows around, and some people can't help but think too much when they see it. Huang Zundu asked directly, "Have you ever received his money?" Or some other gift.

"I am the prince of the country, and Your Majesty has rewarded the salt shop and the mine. I have made meritorious contributions many times, and there are three mines, do you think I will be short of money? Fei Chun asked rhetorically, "Before I was worried, I was already a second assistant. if

If I don't go home to keep filial piety, I'm now the head of the court, and I'm also a very good minister, right? I've done my official job, I'm a duke, and I'm not short of money, so I can take a bribe from him? I'm not a fool, I don't do the thing of throwing watermelons and picking up sesame seeds. Huang Zundu is intermittent

"Did your mother, your wheat, and your children take bribes from your family?

Fei Chun corrected, "That's not called bribery, it's just an exchange of courtesies." Received gifts, returned gifts, and not valuables. Don't have valuables, I will definitely stop it, I don't lack that bit of Huang Zundu in my house, look around, the two next to me didn't speak, and they didn't seem to know how to judge.

Fei Chun suddenly sighed with emotion: "Brothers, don't look at my mother, every time she goes out, she wears gold and silver and is very ostentatious, she is actually very frugal. Most of my mother's tiara and pendant are made of pearls.

It's not the South Pearl (Hepu Pearl), it's not the North Pearl (East Pearl), it's not the East and West South Sea Pearl, it's all the lake pearls in the south of the Yangtze River) Only the largest one is the gold pearl rewarded by the emperor. She's just a face. "In terms of market prices, Hepu pearls are the most expensive, followed by Northeast pearls, South Sea pearls again, Western pearls again, and the worst is Oriental pearls. Below these pearls, there are also the lake pearls of Jiangnan. What is a lake pearl

Artificially cultivated freshwater pearls around Taihu Lake.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, there were artificial pearls in Taihu Lake. In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were also Buddha statue beads, which were carved into Buddha statues with lead or tin, stuffed into pearl shells, and taken out after two or three years, which were lifelike Buddha pearls.

The three inquisitors couldn't help but look at each other, they really thought that Fei Chun's mother would wear cheap pearls.

Fei Chun continued, "My mother has not taken off her childish spirit for so many years. In addition to the lake beads, her jewelry is mostly jadeite. Claiming that the emperor likes jadeite, she has a preference with the emperor. Actually, it is

Jadeite is cheaper than ruby sapphire, and it won't lose face when you wear it. Your Majesty's temper knows that and I often talk about the fate of the founding heroes of the past dynasties, the bigger my official does, the less daring she becomes, how dare she accept bribes from others?"

"What's the matter with your third brother?" Huang Zundu asked.

Fei Chun's third brother is not very old, he was born after his parents arrived in Luling County, and he is one year younger than the crown prince Zhao Kuanghuan.

Fei Chun sighed, "My third brother didn't study well, he wasn't admitted to university, and he thought about being an official all day long. He took the Jinling Mansion Clerk's Exam, and I did say hello. He was promoted from a historian to a nine-rank official, and I also contributed yesterday

Finish. Say that I am favoritism, I confess my guilt, whatever you want. "He took Xiao Qifeng's silver, a full 30,000 taels." Huang Zundu said. "What" Fei Chun stood up in shock.

Huang Liangong said in detail that he went to Shandong to be a petty official. I took a few middle school classmates with me. took the silver given by Xiao Qifeng and partnered with others to do a sea egg business. He has an official body, so it is not good for him to come forward directly, and he only sleeps.+

Take the dividends of dry shares and run the waterway from Dengzhou to Lushun and North Korea. Moreover, if you play your signboard, do official business with Lushun. "Bastard!" Fei Chun was so angry that he slapped the table.

Fei Chun's family is not short of money, and his mother's most doting is the third child, who stays at home as a pig and lives well. This bastard actually accepted bribes as capital, and even played Ruoge's old signboard to receive official orders

It's all in your head?

Huang continued; "By the way, the trading company in which your third brother is a shareholder will not pay the tariff of one or two pieces of silver. He doesn't have a stable supply of goods, and he also uses your signboard to force suppliers to sell cotton cloth to him at a low price.

These things were all found out by the integrity officer in Dengzhou City. "Even if Di Benshu doesn't make progress in Shanghai, Xiao Qifeng will be found in Shandong.

It is really Fei Chun's third brother's company, and the accounts are too eye-catching. A group of young people were also very cowardly, and they were slightly intimidated by the integrity officer, so they were so shocked that they recruited everything, and even said that they had accepted Xiao Qi's dirty silver.

Fei Chun sat down slowly, leaned back in his chair and said, "I want to see Your Majesty." "I'll ask for instructions." Huang Zunyi said. Imperial.

Zhao Han smiled and asked, "The National Security Institute didn't beat you?" No, he spoke very politely. Fei Chun replied.

Zhao Han hid his smile, looked at the wind blowing on the lake, and muttered to himself: "This case is very big, maybe it should have been thoroughly investigated a long time ago." Fei Chun said: "If you only check the city's shipping department, you will definitely not be able to find out, and the accounts of the city's shipping department will be reviewed every year." That's right, too. Zhao Han nodded.

At this time, there are no electronic accounts, and it is impossible to compare the transaction details of each company every year. There are so many companies in the whole country, if there is a large-scale reconciliation every year) there is simply no way to support so many censors, and even if the imperial court makes this a regular practice, it will be checked once every two or three years at most, and it can only be checked at a certain port at a time.

Fei Chun said; "The minister's crime is only to let Jinling Mansion Yin recruit my third brother as a clerk in violation of regulations. Before the promotion period was reached, the third brother was transferred to Shandong to be a nine-rank official. In addition, the minister did not do anything in the world

Your Majesty can go and verify.

There is another thing that I didn't say, the first Feng was promoted under his own sign, and I was pretending not to know all the time. He felt that Xiao Qifeng's ability was good, and he had a reputation for being honest, and he was happy to see his rapid promotion, but

to be your own faction.

The emperor did not allow gangs to form factions, and Fei Chun did not do it deliberately, but everything could be "let it be".

This kind of team that "goes with the flow" is not only a phoenix, but also many second- and third-grade officials in the DPRK and the central government, all of whom have a relationship with Fei Chun. is Chen Maosheng, who has always been selfless, and also has his own team. Zhao Han asked, "What do you think should be done?"

Fei Chun knelt down and said, "Please Your Majesty, love my third brother's life, and don't exile Xija and Heilongjiang, it's best to exile overseas." As for the minister himself, he is at the mercy of His Majesty.

"Okay, I will follow your wishes and exile your third brother overseas," Zhao Han actually agreed, "In the middle of the ocean, there is a flock of birds, and the birds are polysaccharide, and I have named them Guizhou." You: Belt

Let's go to Hengzhou with your daughter. "Danzhou

Fei Chun was stunned when he heard this, he didn't know anything about Xia Weishuang's news during Ding Weishuang's worry.

In this era, is it better to exile Tibet and Heilongjiang, or is it better to exile Xia Weishuang? It seems difficult to say clearly, Xia Fangmei is definitely more comfortable, but it is very likely to turn lead and die halfway. And, and .

went to Xia Chengyi, don't think about coming back in this life.

Zhao Han asked someone to bring the latest version of the globe and pointed it to the center of the Pacific Ocean. Fei Chun was speechless and speechless for a long time.

Zhao Gang said again, "Your Guogong is gone, and the officials and ranks are gone." When Ding You's term expires, let's start as a scholar at Dongge University. "Thank you, Your Majesty!" Fei Chun knelt down again.

Don't think it's a high-handed lenient, Zhao Han's punishment of Fei Chun is very heavy.

The title is pushed to the end, the additional officials are pushed to the end, and the scattered ranks are pushed to the end, and only the rank of the job is still retained.

As far as Fei Chun's cabinet position is concerned, after the mourning period expires, he can directly come back to be the first assistant, and the current first assistant must give up his seat. But the emperor made him a scholar of the Eastern Pavilion, although he was still a minister, but he belonged to the lowest class

's cabinet ministers, it is possible that they will not be able to survive until they die, and they will not be able to be the first assistant. Political life is already half over.

Zhao Han didn't know whether to beat or comfort: "You don't have to be sad, you are not the only one who has been taken back from the dukedom this time." "There are still people," Fei Chun exclaimed. "Zheng family!" Zhao Han sighed. In Shanghai and Dengzhou, Xiao Qifeng's big fish was found. In Fujian, it was found that the Zheng family was collaborating with the navy to engage in smuggling

Zhao Han said: "The navy will not be allowed to do business in the future, otherwise I don't know what kind of chaos will happen." “

Zheng Yilong no longer lives in his hometown mansion, and runs a kang house in Fuzhou. He doesn't care about anything, he enjoys all day long, and hands over all the business to his brothers and nephews, on this day, Zheng Zhilong is listening to the play, and the troupe is domestic.

He was dressed in cloud brocade, his turban was decorated with Nanyang gold beads, and he wore a large Hetian jade wrench on his hand. When listening to the play, the beautiful maid was still feeding grapes, the grapes were transported from the north, and the whole process was refrigerated in the box with ice cubes, "Master, the angel is here!"

Zheng Zhilong trembled all over his body and quickly stood up.

The imperial court sent a Qin messenger to investigate the case, and it was found on the head of the Zheng family, and Zheng Zhilong knew all these things.

But he could only pretend not to know, he should listen to the play, and he didn't even dare to go out of the house, looking like he was resigned to his fate. The Zheng family is collaborating with the navy to smuggle, and Zheng Zhilong is aware of it, and his attitude is not encouraging, not opposing, and not asking questions.

"Meet the angels!" Zheng Zhilong respectfully went out to greet him. The pedestrian in charge of the decree took out one seal and another holy decree.

Zheng Zhilong looked at the seal and was stunned, the duke's seal was a gold seal, but there was an iron seal in front of him.

waited for the duke, and was directly demoted to a third-class baron, and did not push the title to give him face. And the title is also ironic, called "law-abiding man". 4] Zheng Zhilong's hands trembled and asked, "My brother Jia'er."

The pedestrian replied, "Take back all the important positions." It should be killed, and exiled and exiled. The merchant ships of the Zheng family were confiscated half of them and fined them - one million taels. If the cash is not enough, the shop or merchant ship will be mortgaged and auctioned.

Zheng Zhilong's eyes were glazed, and he almost dried out on the spot.