"Erlu, the people anoint the people. The people are easy to abuse, and the heavens are difficult to deceive. ”

The sixteen-character precept tablet has been erected outside the Great Xia Gate since Taizong moved the capital, but this crime of greedy ink has never been reduced by a stele precept, but has intensified with the growing strength of the dynasty.

Even if the supervision system of the imperial court is becoming more and more perfect, and the laws are becoming stricter and stricter, it is impossible to prevent the emergence of corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

A case of embezzlement of ink and pension money brought out four Lang Zhong of the Ministry of Household and Military Affairs, two foreign officials, 11 state officials, eight county-level officials, and nearly 50 yamen officials, lieutenant chiefs, and squires.

It can be said that the entire state capital of Gyeonggi is involved, and all of them are scholars, at least they have a talent and fame, and there is no shortage of Shilin Su Lao, who seems to have an excellent reputation on weekdays.

Zhou Jiong, who was sitting in the Taishi chair to preside over the case, had a cold face and issued warrants, the Xiaochao meeting was gone, and the cabinet didn't care, so he spent time on the public trial outside the Daxia Gate, vowing to try the case clearly, correct his name, and give justice to the families of the aggrieved martyrs.

It's too much of a slap in the face, he doesn't have to look at it to understand the ridicule and anger of the onlookers. It has only been fifty or sixty years since the Cabinet took away the power of military logistics and post-war pensions from the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces, and the civilian officials have done this......

"Arrest someone! No matter who dares to stretch out his hand to the soldiers' commemoration, this pavilion will take his head and die a martyr to justice! ”

It's been almost two hours, and many people's stomachs have begun to growl, but no one dares to leave, and they don't want to leave.

Although Zhou Jiong's prestige is not as good as that of Old Man Wei, few people in the angry state dare to disobey.

If you can't get up, who will dare to leave?

Jae Zhi doesn't eat, how many people dare to eat?

Oh, Jia Cong dare!

Not far away, there were all kinds of dim sum and cakes, soup and water, and he even saw small vendors selling bean curd and wontons with burdens among the onlookers.

Looking at the excitement, how can there be no gossip that does not eat melon seeds, and the first assistant of the cabinet cannot prevent the people from eating melon seeds and watching the play.

The soldiers of Rongguo Mansion only have their own masters in their eyes, but Jia Xiaosanye is a good boy who knows etiquette and observes etiquette, and directly invited all the civil and military officials in front of the Daxia Gate to eat, and even the families and people of the martyrs who came to besiege Zhou Jiong were also invited.

As for the money for food, of course, it was the cabinet that paid for it.

Yongfeng Bo invited guests, and there was nothing wrong with the cabinet paying money.

Jia Cong personally carried a bowl of wontons, and a few still hot cakes were placed on Zhou Jiong's desk.

He saw that Zhou Jiong's hands were trembling, so he pursed his lips and whispered: "Elder Ge, the trial is not in a hurry for a while, it's not worth it to be hungry, eat first......

Zhou Jiong glanced at the food brought by Jia Cong, and his eyes were both angry and sad. He said in a deep voice: "Uncle Yongfeng is here to see the jokes of this pavilion? ”

"I'm not so boring, greedy for the mercy of the martyrs, do you think this martial artist will be happy? Will Wu General be happy? ”

Jia Cong pursed his lips and spat at the sinner kneeling not far away.

"The elder of the pavilion might as well look at the expressions of the generals of the dynasty, who is not eager to cut these corrupt officials with a thousand knives? No one will look at the jokes of the elder of the pavilion in this matter, you have found out the case and given an explanation to the soldiers and the sacrificed Daxia Erlang, and the generals will only be grateful to the elder of the pavilion. ”

Zhou Jiong looked in the direction of Jia Cong's finger, and there were military generals of the national dynasty sitting there, including the British Duke Zhang Yue, who was eating a simple meal silently with a calm face, and all the generals had almost the same expression.

Angry, sad, and hateful, he couldn't lift a knife to slaughter this group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials who were lying on the soldiers and sucking blood.

The pension silver of the dynasty is the bottom line of the generals.

The general died in a hundred battles, and the strong man returned in ten years. No one who adds blood to the handle of the knife wants to die on the battlefield one day, and his wife and children will not even receive the pension money.

On weekdays, it's just greedy for ink, grain, grass and silver, and even greedy for the silver for pensions, who can bear it?

Alas!

Zhou Jiong, who was provoked by the war in southern Xinjiang, regretted it for the first time, and suddenly felt tired in his heart.

He silently picked up a piece of cake and gnawed on it like chewing wax.

And Jia Cong had already come to the pair of grandchildren, squatted down and handed the food to the old woman and the child.

Seven-year-olds are eating a lot, and they are already hungry with their chests and backs. But the first time he saw the food, he set his eyes on his grandmother.

"But Mistress Michael?"

The reputation of the royal cat Jia Cong can be said to be known to everyone in Gyeonggi, and the old woman is a military family, so she has naturally heard her son mention this special martial artist.

Jia Cong smiled and nodded, and handed the meal forward: "The old man eats first, this case is not over so quickly." ”

As he spoke, he raised his hand and rubbed it on the top of the child's head, and said with emotion: "It's not easy for us martial artists, but we can't afford to be bullied." The old man can rest assured, there is Ben Bo staring at this matter, and none of the damned people can escape, and we can't let anyone take away a penny of the pension money we deserve! ”

The old woman handed the meal full of vegetarian dishes to her grandson's hand, watched her grandson gulp it into his mouth, and replied sadly but firmly: "The folk woman believes in the cat! ”

"It's good for the old man to believe me!"

Jia Cong stood up, looked up at Huanghuang Dayi, and said firmly: "Who said that the roll call outside the Donghua Gate is a good son?" Will a good boy be greedy for the pension of the heroes of Great Xia? ”

He didn't deliberately lower his voice in this question, he glanced at the crowd around him, no one in the civil officials dared to look at him, and most of them were ashamed to avoid Jia Cong's scrutinizing eyes.

The British Duke Zhang Yue beckoned to Jia Cong, and Jia Cong quietly stuffed a silver ticket into the old woman's hand, not allowing her to refuse: "They are all robed brothers, the old man must not refuse." raised the children, married a wife and had children, and continued the bloodline of the martyrs......"

……

The case is still continuing, and Zhou Jiong is determined to find out about the case this time.

The military department has been penetrated, and several officials have been arrested. Almost every county in the state capital of Gyeonggi was implicated, and the dragon guards rode out from the four gates, and rushed to the counties of each state on horseback, which would be someone who dared to pass on the news, and those corrupt officials involved in the case did not have time to escape.

Many people among the civil officials are very dissatisfied with Zhou Jiong's big moves, thinking that officials and officials are acting like each other, such a big scandal, shouldn't he, Zhou Jiong, as the head of civil officials, cover up the face of civil officials?

On the contrary, it was the military general's side that changed his dissatisfaction and ridicule to admiration for Zhou Jiong's senses from the beginning.

This week's old man is not bad, he is a person with a bottom line!

The simple thinking of a military general can often see the essence of a person.

In the court, civil and military forces competed, and I waited for no one to let anyone. But in just matters, since you are doing righteous things, what does it matter if we rough men support you, the head of civil officials?

Zhang Yue's purpose in calling Jia Cong was because his people had found out something.

"Send these things to Zhou Jiongna, and remember to avoid the others."

Lao Guogong stuffed a stack of papers into Jia Cong's hand and snorted at Zhou Jiong.

This made Jia Cong very puzzled: "Old man, what is this?" ”

"Something that can ruin Zhou Jiong's reputation, you go and tell Zhou Jiong, the old man has erased all traces. It's not his responsibility, the old man doesn't want to watch the ruling of the dynasty being calculated. ”

Zhang Yue's words were light, and Jia Cong felt a storm in his heart when he heard it.

The court has never been calm, it seems that everyone is in power, and the battle in the secret is even more fierce than he imagined.

He didn't ask any more, stuffed the stack of papers into his sleeve, and raised his foot to walk to Zhou Jiong......

"No, it's too eye-catching to pass like this!"

Jia Cong whispered a few words in Jia Shiyi's ear, then turned around and went to the palace gate.

Zhou Jiong, who was originally continuing to try the case, was suddenly interrupted by Jia Shiyi's voice, only to see Jia Shiyi step forward and arch his hand: "Great Minister, Your Majesty has ordered you to enter the palace immediately!" ”

The king has a life, and the minister is going!

Even if Zhou Jiong wondered why Jia Shiyi came to deliver the decree, he didn't dare to delay, handed over the case to Cai Quan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, to continue the trial, and got up to follow Jia Shiyi into the palace.

Within two steps of entering the Great Xia Gate, Jia Cong flashed out and grabbed him: "Pavilion old and slow......"

"Uncle Yongfeng? Your Majesty's edict, you wait, this pavilion will go to meet ...... first"

Jia Cong handed over the stack of papers given by Zhang Yue: "It's not Your Majesty's edict, it's me who has something urgent to find the elder." Take a look at it first, this is the old man of England who asked me to hand it over to you. He said it would ruin you......"

……

This kind of thing of false transmission of the holy decree is familiar to Jia Cong, and there is no psychological burden at all.

He finished the things entrusted by Zhang Yue, and returned to the outside of the imperial city to continue to eat melon seeds and watch the play.

The play is getting bigger and bigger, pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud, and the outside of the Great Xia Gate is already kneeling with corrupt officials who have been kidnapped by the dragon guards.

really responded to what Jia Cong said to Duan Jun before, there is no martial arts general who is greedy for ink and silver, and they are all so-called scholars.

Jia Cong, a half-stretched scholar, slowly blushed, and the melon seeds were no longer knocked, so angry that he picked up the Yanling knife and rushed to the group of corrupt officials who were trembling on their knees.

Jia Shiyi hugged him by the waist and dragged him to Lin Ruhai......

"What's the trouble, this case has its own minister, sit down and watch with peace of mind!"

Lin Ruhai's face is also sinking like water, and his household department has also been penetrated, two langzhong, one outsider, and several officials, all colluded with the people in the military department, made false accounts, and secretly coveted the pension money given by the imperial court to the families of the martyrs.

The sheer number is staggering!

A small outsider can be greedy for three thousand taels of silver. This is just the compassionate of the battle of southern Xinjiang, going back to the past, this group of rats does not know how much silver they secretly moved.

He, the head of the household, didn't even notice it, which made Master Lin, who recognized himself as a talented person, almost so angry that the second Buddha ascended to heaven.

Jia Cong was reprimanded by the angry old man, and obediently sat on the side staring at the group of rats, his right hand was always on the handle of the Yanling knife, ready to draw the knife out of the sheath and kill the corrupt officials at any time.

Zhou Jiong came back quickly, and when he came back, the frost in his eyes when he looked at the civil officials could freeze people to death.

The civil officials who don't know why still think that Lord Shoufu was angry with the civil officials' greed for ink, and only Zhang Yue on the side knew what was going on.

Jia Cong only knew halfway, he didn't look at what was written on the paper. However, you can also guess from the old man's words that Zhou Jiong was stabbed in the back, and some people want him to be ruined, but they also want his life.

As for who they are, it is unknown......

Zhou Jiong, who came back from the palace, was even more indifferent, not to mention covering up and maintaining for the civil officials, as the case was tried, the melons that were dug up became bigger and bigger.

Guan Zengyu, the former cabinet assistant minister who has been honored, the former Shangshu Baitang of the former Ministry of War, and Fan Hengyi, the former head of the household department...... and so on more than 20 former court officials involved in the case, all over Beizhili, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan and many other regions.

Almost all of these people are old ministers with a very good reputation in Shilin, and under Zhou Jiong's iron-blooded trial, the criminals confessed one by one.

At this moment, the reputation of civil officials has been ruined for the most part. If it weren't for the fact that the first assistant of the cabinet and the officials of the three divisions who sat there to hear the case were also civil ministers, it is estimated that the civil officials of Great Xia would not have to go out in the future.

They were afraid of being drowned by the people with spittle!

The case was tried until the evening, and for more than three hours, more than 200 suspects had been dug up, including officials from the DPRK and China, and as many as 100 old men who had already paid tribute to the government, which was the first of its kind in the country.

It is that in the cases of all dynasties, there is no high official position of the people involved in this case.

Former cabinet minister, bachelor of the dynasty, six scholars, squire, political envoy, prefect, county commander......

The trial was suspended, and the trial will continue in public in front of the Great Xia Gate at a later date.

The tired Zhou Jiong took the officials of the three divisions into the palace with the stacks of confessions, and the emperor was still waiting in the Qinzheng Palace.

Jia Cong originally wanted to continue to watch the play, but was called by Zhang Yue.

Boarding the carriage of the Zhang family, the old man leaned on the soft pillow and said with a tired expression: "Let them handle these things by themselves, let's get mixed up with these martial artists......"

Jia Cong raised his hand and pointed at himself: "Old man, I am also a civil official!" ”

"Fart, a civil official, you see how many people are taking you as a civil official!"

The old man glanced at Jia Cong, and said angrily: "People are so ruthless that they even pit their own people, you run to deal with them, just your little brain, you can't figure out who did it when you are killed." ”

Jia Cong himself only understood this today, compared to the battle between military generals, the hearts of civil officials are really black and ruthless!

A few days ago, Zhou Jiong fought with the entire Wuxun group for the benefit of civilian officials. Although it is not going to die or live, it is also offended by the entire Wuxun group, and even the virtuous concubines in the palace are offended.

But those who coveted the position of Zhou Jiong's cabinet chief assistant didn't think about the word gratitude at all, and when they calculated behind it, there was no room at all.

The old man told Jia Cong about those things on paper, which scared Jia Cong into a cold sweat after returning to Rongguo Mansion.

It's so fucking ruthless, this pit is so fucking hidden, it's fucking deep!

Zhou Jiong's sons and grandsons were all involved in the case of embezzlement of ink and money, and it was not just the post-war pension in southern Xinjiang......

Zhou Wentao, the same acquaintance of Yongping Mansion, was given 5,000 taels of silver, a house, and two Yangzhou thin horses shortly after he joined the company......

Zhou Jinlong, who followed his father, also became a guest of the gentry of Yongping Mansion, and all the money spent on drinking and drinking every day was paid by the local gentry.

Even if Zhou Wentao's father and son were not really greedy for the pension money of the Mo court, those old customs and practices that ushered in the delivery were sparse and ordinary in the eyes of the two.

But how did they know that everything they enjoyed was bloody!

And these things were all things that Zhou Jiong didn't expect. If Zhang Yue hadn't smoothed out all this in advance, his sons and grandsons would have been confessed today.

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