A few days later.

The official documents of the Constitutional Yuan and Zhao Zhen's personal letters were sent to Bozhou.

At this time, Zhao Jun had been in Bozhou for half a month.

He was slow to send official documents, and when he came to Huainan to Bianliang, he had to sail against the current, and it was normal for him to be slow.

Second, he deliberately sent it slowly, and waited until the dust settled and the evidence was confirmed, and then he sent all the news back to Bianliang and directly convicted these officials.

However, the message from Bianliang to Bozhou was very fast, mainly from Bianliang to the south, which was a smooth sail and a much faster speed.

And with his appearance in Bozhou, the news spread quickly, and all the officials on Huainan East Road knew about his arrival, and for a while Huainan officialdom was shocked and uneasy.

Zhao Jun was actually reluctant to reveal his identity so early, because he mainly wanted to investigate the consequences of the drought in Huainan in the past two years.

Let's see if the government has properly resettled the victims, whether there are corrupt officials and corrupt officials who have embezzled disaster relief funds, and so on.

As a result, because Guo Chengyou's matter was exposed in advance, other officials in Huainan officialdom would definitely prepare for the response as soon as possible, and it would be difficult to investigate and arrest corruption at that time.

But the hard ones still have to be done.

At least at present, the Bozhou officialdom has been purged, and Shao Jingxian, who is sentenced by Bozhou, will act as the governor to stabilize the people's livelihood in Bozhou.

After cracking down on corruption, another wave of anti-gang and evil storms were ushered in, and landlords in various parts of Bozhou colluded with the government to oppress the people and rob the people's land, all of them were held accountable and immediately returned to the people's land.

Strictly speaking, such landlords did not have a large base in the entire Great Song Dynasty, or benefited from the large number of officials, and it was difficult for ordinary landlords to quickly establish a good relationship with local officials if they did not have relatives in the officialdom as a communication channel like the Wang family.

Even if they want to collude with the government, they often collude with local officials, deceive their superiors and subordinates, and operate in the dark.

Therefore, Zhao Jun demanded that officials in various places clean themselves in Bozhou, purge local government officials, and reduce the occurrence of local tyrants like the Wang family who collude with the government to occupy people's land and oppress the people.

After Guo Chengyou's downfall, a large number of people in Bozhou came to beat drums and voice their grievances, some of which were local to Bozhou and some of which were from local counties, suing officials and landlords and so on, and complaining about their grievances.

Zhao Jun in the backyard looked at the official documents handed over, basically Shao Jingxian handed over everything to him for review, there was no problem with the verdict, and his signature was considered effective.

Guo Chengyou was the first to be sentenced, and in addition to corruption and bribery, his crimes also included withholding grain guidelines, criticizing the head of the public, transgressing the staff with misdemeanors, abusing and killing the people, framing rich households, borrowing Hanlin weapons, entering and exiting the flag gun, and prohibiting soldiers from guarding Zhou and so on.

He is a member of the door, not a scholar. But basically, the Song Dynasty couldn't punish doctors, as long as they were civil officials, they were often handled lightly.

If it had been in the past, most of these charges would have been dealt with as demotion.

But now Zhao Jun has directly sentenced him to a decisive decision, and he is currently locked up in a Bozhou prison, waiting for Zhao Jun to finally announce the processing time.

At this time, Jiang Dalang came in and said, "Zhiyuan, the imperial court sent a messenger to send an urgent message. ”

"Oh?"

Zhao Jun was behind the table in the backyard house, and when he heard Jiang Dalang's words, he raised his head and put down the official document in his hand and said, "Let people in." ”

A dusty messenger came in, knelt down on one knee and said, "The villain has entered the Concert Courtyard and has seen the prefect. ”

Cao delivery is not a person's name, but a position, that is, the Jinjuyuan is responsible for delivering news, because it is a boat to transmit the message, and generally take the Cao transport canal, so it is called Cao delivery.

Zhao Jun nodded and said, "Is it a document from the Constitutional Yuan?" ”

"Yes."

The messenger opened the letter box behind his back and handed over a scroll of paperwork.

Zhao Jun took it and glanced at it.

The content in it is very simple, it is the people of the Constitutional Yuan who told him that the imperial court will send someone to solve some of the things he visited secretly in Yingtianfu.

In addition, for the affairs of Bozhou, the government and the Constitutional Yuan mean that he has full authority to handle it, and there is no need to report it.

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun nodded.

The messenger added: "The official family still has a secret edict. ”

As he spoke, he took out a letter from his bosom and carefully handed it to the table.

Zhao Jun took it and opened it, glanced at it, and then nodded and said, "Okay, I know, you go to rest and rest, and send it back to Bianliang tomorrow with my reply." Da Lang, Cao handed all the way hard, and rewarded two pieces of money. ”

"Yes."

Jiang Dalang should go down.

Cao Di happily went back.

After everyone went out, Zhao Jun opened the letter from Zhao Zhen again.

The letter said that Guo Chengyou was Zhao Zhen's attendant in the East Palace, and Zhao Zhen was by his side when he was very young.

And he is also the son-in-law of King Shu and the descendant of the founding heroes of the Great Song Dynasty.

So I hope that Zhao Jun can look at the face of Zhao Zhen and King Shu, and open the net, even if Guo Chengyou is extremely evil, but don't put him to death and exile him to Lingnan.

After reading the letter, Zhao Jun threw the letter on the table, and the mountain of evidence of Guo Chengyou's crime collected by Zhao Jun on the table next to him was the past half a month.

I opened a page casually, and it clearly recorded how Guo Chengyou, as the governor of Bozhou, colluded with some merchants and landlords in the city to buy and sell by force, bend the law for bribes, and even withhold taxes and grain.

Even if the crime of corruption and perversion of the law does not lead to death, for the sake of the Zhang family's painting, he framed Zhang Fu with the crime, tortured people to death, and exiled the other party's family.

If it weren't for Zhang Fu's close friend Tian Chang finding Zhao Jun, I'm afraid that no one would have overturned Zhang Fu's case in his life.

Guo Chengyou's understatement of the criminal process fell on the heads of countless ordinary people, and it was an insurmountable mountain. Let the family be ruined, the wife be separated, and the devastation will be made.

However, next to these incriminating evidence, there is a letter of plea sent by the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty to this corrupt official, which has to be said to be another kind of irony.

"The Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty kept saying that the people were his people, and then someone was so harsh on his people that his people suffered disasters. But the emperor wants to protect the people who abuse the people, which is really a characteristic of the Great Song Dynasty, and people have nothing to say. ”

Zhao Jun sighed, shook his head, and said secretly in his heart: "It's a pity that the phone hasn't been good, if you take a photo and go back to Zhao Zhen to see it, and show it to Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng's gang, it will also be a big Song joke." ”

Wait.

Since my phone is broken and I can't take a picture, why don't I find someone to draw it?

Let Zhao Zhen live for a hundred years, what a beautiful thing.

Zhao Jun suddenly thought.

If he wants to do it, he immediately sent someone to find a famous painter in Bozhou, and asked people to use charcoal instead of a brush to portray the current scene realistically.

The order of the prefect was issued, and the Bozhou government immediately took action, and soon found a famous painter.

Although the prefect had a strange request that he must write a practical charcoal drawing instead of a brush, the painter quickly painted this world-famous painting.

The content of the painting is very simple, that is, Zhao Jun sits majestically in the hall, there is Guo Chengyou's criminal evidence on the right side of the table, and in the middle of the table is Zhao Zhen's letter, and the name of the painting is "The Official Family is Pleading".

Even if the name of the painting doesn't seem to have anything to do with the content of the painting, it is obvious that if it is sent back to Bianliang, Lu Yijian and they should be able to understand it.

Later, Zhao Jun wrote a satirical letter, asking him to hand over the painting and the letter to the messenger, and ordered him to send it back the next day.

Early the next morning, after the messenger left, Zhao Jun went to the cell with his things.

Today is the day of the execution.

Early in the morning.

In the prison, Guo Chengyou is still screaming and scolding at the moment.

He has followed the official family for many years, and he has long figured out the character of the official family.

So he was sure that Zhao Jun couldn't do anything with him.

I have been cursing at Zhao Jun for this time, and I haven't stopped even if my saliva is dry.

"Zhao Jun, what if people are harmed by me? I confessed to those crimes generously, so what? ”

"What kind of thing are you, Zhao Jun? I don't know where I stole a high position, and when I was serving in the official family, you weren't born yet? ”

"Don't think that you can dispose of me at will if you are in power, I tell you, you can't do anything, you straight mother thief, thief bird!"

In the cell, Guo Chengyou stuck his waist and kept scolding angrily.

After so many years of relying on the son-in-law of the Zhao family and the official background of the East Palace, Guo Chengyou has not suffered so much grievance.

Zhao Jun, who didn't know where to steal a high position, actually put him in prison so rampantly and humiliated him so much, at least Guo Chengyou is very unhappy now.

However, just as he was scolding, Zhao Jun didn't know when he had appeared outside the prison door, looking at him with interest.

By Zhao Jun's side, he also followed the little old man Tian Chang.

At this moment, Tian Chang is very happy, he went to worship his friend these days, and his friend's descendants have already been picked up by him, but unfortunately his friend's mansion has long been sold by Guo Chengyou and cannot be taken back.

However, Tian Chang was also satisfied with avenging his good friend, and secretly swore in his heart that as long as the order of the prefect in the future, he would not hesitate to go to the soup.

Now that he saw that the enemy who killed his friend was here, Tian Chang said with a smile: "Zhiyuan, this fang seems to be quite unrepentant. ”

"It's normal, this kind of person doesn't shed tears when he doesn't see the coffin."

Zhao Jun smiled.

Guo Chengyou's crime is extremely heinous, and the death penalty will definitely not be able to escape. But he thought that he was strong in the background, thinking that no one in the Great Song Dynasty could touch him.

In fact, it is also the same, over the years, it is not without the impeachment of the official and the imperial history, but he has always stood tall and has been bounced around by many people, but he is still the governor everywhere, harming so many people, anyway, he has never collapsed.

So when he has confidence in his heart, Guo Chengyou is obviously not afraid at all.

"Zhao Jun!"

Hearing the conversation between Zhao Jun and Tian Chang, Guo Chengyou looked outside the prison door, and immediately pounced, lay on the pillar, looked at Zhao Jun viciously and said, "Zhao Jun, hurry up and let me out, do you hear?" ”

"You said just let it go, then wouldn't I be very shameless?"

Zhao Jun frowned and said: "I am the governor of the political institute, and the officials have to give me a few thin noodles." You broke the law in Bozhou, and I caught you in shape. If you speak well, kneel on the ground and beg for mercy early, and confess your crimes, you may be able to get leniency. Now it's so rampant, it's clear that you don't take me seriously. ”

"What are you?"

Guo Chengyou said angrily: "My wife is the daughter of King Shu, and my grandfather is Zhongshuling. When the official family was still in the East Palace and was the prince, I served left and right. Where did you come out of nowhere, and you deserve to be put in my eyes? ”

"It's kind of interesting."

Zhao Jun smiled: "No wonder you are lawless, there is no king law of the Great Song Dynasty in your eyes." ”

"Wang Fa?"

Guo Chengyou seemed to be angry and laughed, pointed to it and said: "The king's law, that is the royal law, if the official family wants to change it, then it has to be changed, can you be allowed to come and spread wild?" Believe it or not, if you arrest me now, the pardon of the official family will be sent to Bozhou soon. ”

"I believe this, he has already sent it."

Zhao Jun first picked up the documents of the Constitutional Yuan and said: "This is the warrant of the Constitutional Yuan, which has been signed by Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng, which means that it will be dealt with according to the law." ”

Dispose of it according to the law?

Guo Chengyou was stunned there, his eyes widened, he never expected that the Constitutional Yuan would issue such an order.

"Actually, even if they give me an order to release you, I won't obey it. Because I am the prefect of the Constitutional Yuan, they are only the same acquaintances of the Constitutional Yuan, and I am their superior, so what qualifications do they have to order me? ”

Zhao Jun said lightly: "Now that hundreds of officials are controlled by the Political Yuan, I can remove whomever official I want." But I am a reasonable person, whoever does a good job as an official, appeases the local people, and does a good job in the livelihood of the people, then I will promote him. If anyone is a superficial person, and the corpse is a vegetarian meal, I will depose him. As for you."

Saying that, Zhao Jun sneered and said: "Your criminal evidence and bad deeds can be stacked on a table, and a few death sentences are enough, so I sentenced you to death, there should be no problem." ”

"You dare to kill me? You dare to kill me? ”

Guo Chengyou shook the wooden pillar, the chains on his body rattled, and roared: "The official family will not let you go, the official family will not let you go!" ”

"I said, it's that I won't let him go, not that he won't let me go."

Zhao Jun pointed to himself, and then took out another letter and said: "This is a secret letter written to me by the official, I hope I can show mercy to my subordinates, in other words, this is your lifesaver!" ”

"Hahahahaha

Guo Chengyou said in ecstasy: "I knew that the official family would not ignore me, Zhao Jun, you fanatic, you dare to say that you will not let go of the official family, if I sue the official family, you will definitely die without a place to be buried." Now that the official family has issued a secret edict to you, you still don't want to let me out? If I'm in a good mood, maybe I won't be able to sue again! ”

"You've got a bad brain."

Zhao Jun squinted his eyes and looked at him, and said happily: "Let's not say that I really won't let him go, I will definitely scold him fiercely when I go back, if he has a bad attitude, I may even punch him twice, and I will say the same in front of him." Even if I'm talking nonsense, how do you think I'm going to let you go? ”

Guo Chengyou's eyes widened, then he looked at the edict in Zhao Jun's hand, stretched out his hand to grab it, and said: "Zhao Jun, this is the edict of the official family, he asked you to let me go, you are disrespectful to the decree!" ”

"Oh."

Zhao Jun nodded, raised his head to look at the torch lit in the cell next to him, and then said with a smile: "This is your life-saving edict." ”

Then he placed the edict on the torch and lit it in an instant.

"Now."

Zhao Jun looked at the burning edict in his hand and said lightly: "It's gone." ”

"It's like you once trampled on other people's lives, causing countless wives to be separated and families to be destroyed!"

As soon as Zhao Jun's right hand was released, the secret edict that caught fire fell lightly.

Guo Chengyou watched as the secret edict turned into a ball of fire, and then turned into ashes in the air and fell to the ground, and was even stepped on by Zhao Jun.

"Executed this afternoon to avenge the people of Bozhou who were oppressed by him, as well as other state capitals where he once served!"

Zhao Jun left such a sentence and turned his head to leave.

Tian Chang spat on the ground fiercely and left.

Only inside the cell, the desperate Guo Chengyou roared angrily.

(End of chapter)