In April of the fourth year of Jing You, Zhao Jun sat on Huainan West Road for more than a month.

According to Yang Xu's investigation, there were mistakes in Huoqiu and Anfeng in Shouzhou, and Gushi, Dingseong, and Huangpi in Gwangju.

In other words, corruption cases are mainly concentrated in the five counties of Shouju, Gwangju and Huangju on Huainan Road.

There are nine county orders involved.

In addition to the current Huoqiu County Commander who committed suicide in fear of crime, the five former county commanders were transferred, and the other four all honestly confessed that they were bribed by the previous county magistrate.

As for the last county order, it was only transferred last year, and it was not in charge of much affairs, and the local tasks were all entrusted to the management of errand officers and large households.

When the former magistrate handed over to him, he found that this person was stupid, and after a trial, he couldn't understand his hints at all, so he simply didn't take money to bribe him.

Later, as the former magistrate expected, this person did not find out that such a big case had happened in the local area, and was kept in the dark by the local rich and the errands, and was fooled like a fool.

It's just that although he didn't participate in it, he obviously had serious dereliction of duty, and was finally suspended by Yang, and the local government affairs are currently managed by the state government yamen urgently.

"At present, there are only so many things that have been found, although only five counties are involved, the people who can be involved can reach more than 100,000 people, and tens of thousands of people have died in the drought in Huainan, most of which are Dingkou in these five counties."

In the Yamen of the Huainan Road Transfer Envoy, Yang Xuan reported to Zhao Jun one by one the situation he had found out during the recent period: "According to the amount of relief grain found by the lower officials in these five places, it reached about 500,000 yuan, and based on the fact that the price of grain in various places generally soared to more than 3,000 yuan or even 4,000 yuan a hundred, it is roughly estimated that even if they only corrupted 50% of it, the value would be more than 1 million yuan. ”

"Fifty percent?"

Zhao Jun sneered: "If they are only greedy for fifty percent, why would so many people die?" ”

"Yes."

Yang Xuan said: "Xiaguan suspects that there are more than fifty percent, in addition, Xiaguan passed through Mengcheng in Bozhou before, and found that the people there have yellow faces and thin muscles, and there are few Dingkou, and inquired and learned that they were also affected by the drought in Huainan, and Xiaguan felt that there may be corruption cases there, but Bozhou belongs to Huainan East Road"

Bozhou and Shouzhou are close at hand, Mengcheng is actually the next county of Shouzhou Zhixia Cai, the two counties are less than 180 miles apart, so the situation in Mengcheng, as the Huainan Road shipping envoy, Yang Xue still has a little understanding.

If we add to this the situation that may not have been found in Mengcheng in Bozhou and Huainan East Road, then it is difficult to imagine that the entire corruption case involves a wide range and is deeply involved.

It's just that although the two places are close, Bozhou, like Haozhou, belongs to Huainan East Road and is not under the jurisdiction of Huainan West Road, so Yang Sue can't manage Huainan East Road, even if he feels that there is a problem in Mengcheng, he can't do anything.

"It's okay, when the time comes, I will send someone to notify the transfer envoy of Huainan East Road and give you the power to investigate the case in another place."

"Yes, thank you."

"So far, have you only found nine county magistrates?"

Zhao Jun asked again.

This result was a bit unsatisfactory to Zhao Jun.

The amount of money involved in the case amounted to more than 1 million yuan, and the amount of grain amounted to more than 500,000 yuan.

You must know that the imperial court has only allocated 1.3 million hu for disaster relief, plus the local permanent liquidation, the total amount is more than 4 million hu, of which one-eighth has been embezzled.

Such a large amount of grain and money is actually divided among the five small local Qipin county orders?

Even if you add the bribes received by the next four successors, each of them can earn more than 100,000 yuan, how is this possible?

Who gave them the guts?

Even if it is a small county order in the eyes of Zhao Jun, it is already a big figure in the eyes of the local people. But at least if there is no support from the people behind them, and they are organized to make money together, Zhao Jun will not believe it.

"Not only that, but there are also local chief bookkeepers, county lieutenants, large and small officials, clerks, and bookkeepers, and there are at least four or five hundred people involved in the case."

Yang Xuan said in a deep voice: "It's just that that's all that can be found at present, because the current county orders are basically hinted at and contacted by the previous county orders." They only vaguely knew that behind this might be Huang Wei, the former Huainan Road transfer envoy, Sun Wei, the governor of Shouzhou, and Liu Deng, the governor of Guangzhou, but they did not have any dealings with them. ”

"Well, you should know how to do it."

Zhao Jun nodded slightly, and the current situation is that there are more than just a few county orders involved behind this case, and the main ones behind this case are the two governors and the transfer envoys, and there may also be deputy transfer envoys, transfer judges, transfer judges, and other high-ranking officials along the way.

After all, it is too much to say that the Criminal Prison Department has been mentioned all the way without knowing about it, so haven't these people visited the counties for several years to bring about the Xing Prison litigation case?

Therefore, in fact, at least in ancient times, officials were relatively familiar with all kinds of ways and means of corruption, and the existence of any corrupt official was actually due to the tacit approval of their superiors and colleagues, and the possibility of committing crimes alone was almost non-existent.

Zhao Jun felt that there must be a huge network of relationships in this, but there were only a few of them he vaguely knew at present.

However, as the saying goes, the investigation of cases must be based on evidence, and only the list is needed for counter-terrorism.

Before Sun Wei and them rebelled, it was still necessary to have conclusive human and material evidence to arrest them.

For example, the four county orders in the previous administration, if they were arrested, they were witnesses, and then find a breakthrough from them, letters, account books, etc., can always be checked all the way up to the end.

Therefore, Zhao Jun's meaning Yang Xuan obviously understood, and said with a smile: "After the lower officials found out which counties had problems on Huainan Road, they immediately sent people to use the warrant of the prefect to arrest them across the border, and there must be a result soon." ”

"Where have all those people been transferred?"

Zhao Jun asked.

"One is on Jiangxi Road, one is on Hubei Road, one is on Guangnan West Road, and two are on Chengdu Fu Road, two of which were just promoted to the state government last year and this year."

"It's a promotion and a fortune, and the one on Jiangxi Road should be able to be arrested and brought to justice the fastest."

"Yes."

Yang Xuan said: "After the lower officials found out, they sent people over as soon as possible, presumably they should be able to arrest them back in the next two days." ”

Saying that, he showed a smug look on his face, and the reason why he came to report today was naturally to report his results.

Counting the days, the people from Jiangxi Road who went to arrest should be back soon.

When the time comes, he escorts people to the prefect, commits 1510 in front of the prefect, and confesses truthfully, won't he show his face ruthlessly?

"Well, it's done very well, as long as this big case can be investigated, this knowledge court will definitely reuse you."

Zhao Jun flipped through a series of official documents brought up by Yang Xu, which contained the documentary records of him detaining all the people involved in the five counties and then interrogating them one by one.

Zhao Jun arrived in Shouzhou in early March, and asked Yang Zhao to start investigating the case on the seventh day, and now it is more than 20 days later, Yang Zhao can find out so many things in such a short time, which is actually very good.

"Xie Zhiyuan compliments."

Yang Xue was happy in his heart, sometimes it is so comfortable to cling to the powerful, some people are obviously outstanding, not greedy or occupied, and have outstanding political achievements, why can't they be promoted?

Maxima still has to have Bole after all, and now Yang Xue feels that he has met his own Bole, and he is just around the corner with his classmates.

However, at this time, an official hurriedly came in from outside the door, Yang Xu turned his head to look, and saw that it was the shipping judge he sent to Jiangxi Road to arrest people, but the other party's face was sweating profusely, and Yang Xu's heart was tight.

Sure enough, after the man came in, he first saluted Zhao Jun, and then saluted Yang Xu, and then said: "Zhiyuan, Dacao (Song Dynasty Dispatch Envoy), something happened." ”

"What's the matter?"

Yang Xuan hurriedly asked, "Didn't you let you go and arrest the criminal?" What about people? ”

The judge smiled bitterly: "The day before the official arrived, the convict had already committed suicide and left a letter, saying that everything was done by him, and all the county government documents were burned. ”

"Bang!"

Zhao Jun patted the case and said: "How can this be reasonable, you will commit suicide when you check it, and you will commit suicide when you check it." Since he did it, what did he do when he burned the paperwork? Isn't it superfluous to leave the last letter behind? ”

The judge said: "The lower official also thought so, and immediately invited a neighboring county official to conduct an inquest, and came to the conclusion that the county official should have been strangled to death, and after his death, he pretended to commit suicide. ”

"It must be Yang Riyan who notified the person behind him, the person behind him is ruthless, and he is extremely frustrated, I am afraid that the criminal will be able to kill people in less than a few days before and after the official is found."

Yang Xu only felt quite frightened.

Huoqiu County Ling was actually forced to death by intimidation, but there is no doubt that he did commit suicide.

However, this county magistrate was directly killed, obviously because he didn't want to die, so the people behind the scenes simply didn't do anything to kill people.

The other party's ruthlessness was beyond his imagination.

You must know that when Yang Xu started the investigation, he actually only knew about the situation in Huoqiu County at that time.

After that, through a thorough investigation of the whole Huainan Road, they sent people to personally go down to the grassroots level, one county, one village, and one town to personally check the scene, carefully record the number of people affected by the disaster and the amount of disaster relief money they received, and only then did they check the more than 30 counties of the whole Huainan West Road, and then send people to arrest the former criminals.

This efficiency is already surprisingly fast.

But the other party still took advantage of this time difference, only two days away, and killed the county order on Jiangxi Road, the other party's decisiveness, the other party's heart, is definitely not something that ordinary people can do.

"Are Huang Wei and Sun Wei so ruthless?"

Zhao Jun frowned.

"The lower officials don't know about this, and they don't know much about them, but the lower officials are worried about the rest of them."

Yang Xu's face was melancholy.

Zhao Jun pondered for a moment and said, "Where is the former Huoqiu County Commander?" ”

"Mianzhou General Judgment!"

Yang Xuan immediately understood what Zhao Jun meant, and said, "He will definitely be fine." ”

"But what if something happens on the way here?"

Zhao Jun asked.

Huoqiu was the first county to find out the problem, and on the day Yang Xuan took over, he immediately sent someone to investigate the former Huoqiu County Order, and then used Zhao Jun's warrant to send someone to arrest him.

Even Yang Riyan sent someone to inform the people behind the scenes on the same day, but he went to the people behind the scenes first, and the people behind the scenes decided to send the killer, and the time to go back and forth was definitely not enough.

So unless Yang Riyan is the mastermind behind the dispatch of the killer, there is a high probability that the side that goes to arrest the former Huoqiu County Commander will be safe and sound.

The problem is that if you catch it, you may not be able to throw it into the air, and what if you are ambushed by someone sent a killer on the way back?

Yang Xuan obviously realized the seriousness of the matter, and said: "Xia Guan personally led the Xiang army of Huainan Road to Jinghu North Road. ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun nodded: "You can only take the Yangtze River from Huainan to Chengdu back and forth, you go to Jinghu North Road to guard now, take my warrant, the officials along the way must fully cooperate, and the local army is also at your disposal, so be sure to let the former Huoqiu County Commander live to arrive"

"Yes."

Yang Xuan hurriedly surrendered his hand and immediately turned around and went out.

Zhao Jun looked at his departing back, and never expected that the Huainan Road disaster relief corruption case was shocking.

And the people behind the scenes are really terrifying, they dare to kill people and kill people, it's simply rampant.

Fortunately, Zhao Jun led the army, and he held the military power, unless the mastermind behind the scenes brought a large army to encircle and suppress, he was very safe.

Even if you bring a large army to encircle and suppress it, you are not afraid.

Because Zhao Jun did not pay a private visit to Bozhou like he did, but appeared in Shouzhou, so that the entire Huainan Road and even the entire Jiangsu-Zhejiang Road knew his location.

And he has an official family in his hand, and the edict of the local army has long been known to the world.

Unless the local army has been trained to be a dead soldier, it is not afraid of being ordered by the imperial court to kill the nine clans. Otherwise, if the soldiers knew that they were coming to attack the Shouzhou transfer envoy Yamen, they would probably turn their guns around as soon as possible and deal with the rebels.

Therefore, Zhao Jun himself is not worried about his safety at all.

It's just that.

The person behind this scene is so arrogant, he really doesn't take him seriously.

Zhao Jun pondered for a moment and looked at the official document on the table.

It was sent by Li Cambodia, the new Liangzheti prison a few days ago, and this Li Cambodia is Li Di's eldest son.

Speaking of which, Li Cambodia was sent to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, in fact, it was Lu Yijian's credit.

Because Li Di is also a little old and his memory is not very good, he wants to transfer his eldest son, who served as the Tianzhang Pavilion to be controlled and the Hebei Metropolitan Transport Envoy, back to the Central Committee to help him be a staff officer.

This Li Cambodia is also a capable person, with outstanding talents, and he also worshipped Kou Zhun as a teacher when he was young.

Lu Yijian was worried that Li Khan Zhi would come back to serve as a staff officer for Li Di, so that the old opponent would be like a tiger, and he would be on Zhao Jun's thigh, afraid that Li Di would have Li Khan Zhi's help and quickly be promoted to the alternate Tongzhi of the Political System Yuan, and even Tongzhi, threatening his status.

Therefore, in the face of Li Di's proposal, Lu Yijian resolutely objected, and said that Li Di was nepotistic, and finally Zhao Jun saw that Li Khan's political achievements were indeed outstanding, and Lu Yijian strongly objected, so he did not transfer him back to the central government, but asked him to go to Jiangsu-Zhejiang Road, which was regarded as helping Zhao Jun fight the outpost.

Unexpectedly, after Li Cambodia arrived at Jiangsu-Zhejiang Road, there was a scene where Xu Ming cut off his arm to show his innocence on the day he was interrogated by the other party. Li Khan Zhi realized that there was a big problem here, so he immediately began a thorough investigation.

As a result, the yamen of the state capital and the two yamen attached to Hangzhou city and county were stolen that night, and a large number of official documents were lost, including Xu Ming's case file.

Li Khan Zhi was not stupid, so he naturally understood that this might be Sun Wei's doing, so he reported to Zhao Jun.

No way.

When the case files are lost, those cases become unsolved, and there is no evidence to prove them.

Sun Wei's hand was too dirty, and there was nothing he could do with the tricks on the surface, so he could only inform Zhao Jun of the situation, after all, his power was not so great that he could remove a governor at any time.

This is a cunning, cruel and difficult opponent, and it looks like I'm going to make a trip to Hangzhou myself. ’

Zhao Jun thought for a moment, and then said to Huang Sanlang, who was guarding outside: "San Lang, go and call Lin Zhu to me." ”

"Yes."

Huang Sanlang hurriedly went to the yamen of the state capital to call Lin Zhizhou.

(End of chapter)