After Lu Fang left, the secret letter handed over by the Jinyi Wei who had been sent to Zhejiang was opened on the Jiajing book case and began to browse the contents.

The secret letter detailed the cause of the case and the people involved, and the more Jiajing looked down, the more his brows became furrowed.

After Jiajing read all the contents of the secret letter, he crumpled the secret letter in his hand into a ball, and his expression was cold: "Hmph, a little smuggler can actually have such energy!" It seems that what Hu Zongxian said before was right, these salt merchants should be cleaned up, so let's take your Wen family first. ”

Jiajing said, turned the mana in his body, and then a light purple flame appeared in his hand, burning the secret letter in his hand to ashes.

Immediately afterwards, Jiajing returned to the dragon chair and sat down, and said to himself silently: "Hai Rui, do I want to use you now......

……

The capital, Yuwang's Mansion.

The atmosphere in the study was rather dreary, and for a long time, no one spoke.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on?" Xu Jie stopped and asked everyone.

"Elder Xu Ge, as far as I know, the Wen family started by selling illicit salt! And how much our people have to do with the Wen family, that's why they ......" Seeing this, Gao Gong on the side hurriedly responded.

"Yes, Xu Ge Lao! Most of those people in Zhejiang received the Wen family's silver, so they did not dare to act rashly. Zhang Juzheng on the side also added.

"Hmph, now this matter has gone to Your Majesty, and our impeachment of Zheng Michang is also a stone in the sea, and there is no reply! Don't you understand what this means? Xu Jie snorted coldly and explained to everyone.

"What does Elder Xu Ge mean is that His Majesty is behind this matter?" Seeing this, Gao Gong on the side frowned and put forward his own thoughts.

"That's natural, didn't there be news that someone had made a note to Your Majesty about salt merchants and the sale of illicit salt? Presumably, from that time on, His Majesty had already made up his mind to clean up these salt merchants! ”

"And the current situation is very obvious, Your Majesty wants to use this case of the Wen family to kill chickens and monkeys to set an example! This also explains why there is no news of all the notes handed over by our people. ”

Xu Jie, perhaps tired of speaking, immediately sat back in his chair and poured himself a cup of tea.

"So what are we going to do? If it continues and provokes the anger of his father, it will be difficult to do it at that time. After listening to Xu Jie's analysis, Zhu Zaikun also suddenly realized.

"Your Highness, the most important thing at the moment is to dissociate ourselves from those people in Zhejiang, and don't let this fire burn on ourselves." The high arch on the side also added.

"Well, what Gao Ge Lao said is reasonable!" Zhang Juzheng on the side also agreed with the proposal of the high arch.

"I'll tell them to go down in a moment, and let them stop handing impeachment notes to them! In addition, they were urged to cut off all contact. ”

"But, Elder Xu Ge, then Li Zhiquan is the one who has made a great contribution to us!" Gao Gong on the side heard Xu Jie's arrangement, and he couldn't bear it, and comforted.

"When is it, and the kindness of these women! No matter how great the merit is, is it because he is alone, let us all be buried with him? After listening to Gao Gong's words, Xu Jie was angry and immediately refuted.

And Zhang Juzheng on the side heard Xu Jie's remarks, and the disgust in his eyes flashed.

This Li Zhiquan has made great contributions to the entire Qingliu, and now Xu Jie, in order to protect himself, is not even willing to try, but directly chooses to abandon it, which makes Zhang Juzheng have a sense of sadness that the rabbit is dead and the fox is dead.

This can't help but remind Zhang Juzheng of His Majesty's evaluation of Xu Jie in the early years: "Xu Jie's villain, never use it!" ”

……

Zhejiang, Zhejiang's Governor's Palace.

Since the last public trial of Wen Rong, the youngest son of the Wen family, the case has also ended perfectly! Hai Rui, who was in charge of supervising the case, naturally won the support of the people, and he, the political envoy of Zhejiang, was also praised by many people.

"Did Wen Rong sign and draw the seal?" Zheng Michang said, called the relevant personnel, and asked.

"Report to the political envoy, then Wen Rong has already admitted the facts of his crime and has signed and detained!"

After listening to the report of the relevant personnel, Zheng Michang frowned, obviously very dissatisfied.

"Who let them sign for him on their own initiative? Obviously, the case on his body has not been fully investigated! Say, did you accept the Wen family's money and want to protect him? ”

Zheng Michang drank all the tea in the cup and said unhurriedly.

"Your Excellency, we have been wronged! Who would dare to take the risk of collecting the Wen family's silver now, if someone else knows about it, they will be poked in the backbone! ”

Seeing that Zheng Michang put a bribe on everyone so lightly, the jailer in charge of guarding Wen Rong saw this, and quickly knelt on the ground and sobbed.

"Get up, get up! Whether you have received the Wen family's money or not, this official knows very well that the purpose of this official's actions is not to wronged a good person, and at the same time, not to let go of a bad person! ”

"You go down and check it out, and see if there are any other things on this Wen Rong that haven't been found, such as the things involved in his Wen family, etc., etc."

After Zheng Michang finished speaking, he looked at the few people kneeling on the ground, and slowly spoke.

"The political envoy wants to use Wen Rong's confession to attack the Wen family, presumably because he has taken a fancy to the thousands of family fortunes accumulated by the Wen family from selling illicit salt for so many years, this appetite is really big enough!"

This is what everyone present really thinks in their hearts at this time.

And at this moment, there is only one choice in front of them, and that is to cooperate with Zheng Michang! Otherwise, they will not be able to get out of the Governor's Palace safely, and they will soon be taken down on all sorts of trumped-up charges.

"Your Excellency, this time it was our negligence! We rushed to sign and detain Wen Rong without fully investigating the crimes committed by Wen Rong, this is the fault of our subordinates, and our subordinates deserve to die! Subordinates damn it! ”

The jailer in charge of guarding Wen Rong quickly reacted, knelt on the ground, and slapped himself incessantly.

"Well, yes, yes, you guys, you have to learn from him!" After Zheng Michang finished speaking, he got up from the chair and helped the person up.

"You guys, don't have too much psychological burden, anyway, Wen Rong is already a dead man, and it's understandable to add a few more charges to him."

……

Chun'an County, the inner courtyard of the county government.

Since Hai Rui finished this case, he has returned to Chun'an County non-stop.

"Well, take these files down." Hai Rui said to the master book that he had been waiting for a long time.

"Yes, Lord Zhixian!" After the master finished speaking, he came to Hai Rui and wanted to take the file away.

"If there's anything you want to say, just say it!"

Hai Rui saw the look on the face of the master who wanted to speak and stopped, and spoke.

"Huh, Lord Zhixian, you can show your big face this time!" After hearing Hai Rui's words, the master bookkeeper was obviously relieved, and then praised it.

"Where, the official just did what he was supposed to do." Hai Rui was noncommittal about the compliment of the master book, but continued to be busy with the official business at hand.

"We have a county magistrate like you who is jealous and hateful and cares about the people in Chun'an County, which is really a blessing for tens of thousands of people in Chun'an County!"

After the master finished speaking, he left with the dossier.

And Hai Rui just shook his head, picked up the teacup on the table, drank all the tea in the cup, and said with emotion: "The tea of this county government also has a different flavor!" ”

(End of chapter)