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Xu Weiming put aside the discussion for now. Zai Yan took a closer look at Xia Yan and felt that there was nothing special about him.

"Get up."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

"Xu Weiming."

"The guilty minister is here."

"You used to be the magistrate of Shuangliu County. This time you were framed and convicted. Now is a special moment. I will take the initiative to give you the official uniform of Miao Zishu. Chengdu Prefecture, you must take good care of me, and the people will still be free. Farming and collecting food, businessmen are operating according to the law as usual. In a word, no matter how big the matter is with the government, there should be no trouble among the people. If the results are good, I can talk to the emperor and let you become a regular official."

Xu Weiming was overjoyed, "I will live up to the orders of His Highness."

"Yes." Zai Yan nodded, and then his eyes fell on the thin middle-aged man wearing coarse cloth on the side, "Xia Yan?"

"The subordinate is here."

"Do you have any other grievances to state?"

Xia Yan kowtowed, "The Second Highness enforces the law impartially, and I am convinced. The only thing that worries me is the smuggling of official silver. Although I don't know how much silver they smuggled, I think the amount is huge. This is all due to the imperial court." Loss."

"You don't have to worry about this. You can't escape even a tael of stolen money. I have ordered people to ransack the homes of these corrupt officials. No matter how much it is, it will eventually be reported to the court."

Xia Yan secretly glanced at the second prince in front of him.

It is rumored that the emperor has unique insights in educating princes. Although the adult princes and princesses have different talents, they can distinguish right from wrong. The underage princes also show qualities that are better than ordinary people.

The second prince was able to handle matters in Sichuan in this way, and aside from other things, at least he was very upright in his view of right and wrong.

"In this case, I have nothing to worry about."

At the same time, Xu Min also kowtowed to Zai Yi, "I would like to thank His Highness the Second Highness for saving my life! Your Highness is a benevolent and righteous gentleman, and he acts aboveboard. I am lucky enough to meet His Highness the Second Highness."

"You don't have to thank me. This is because the emperor has clear vision. If he hadn't seen something fishy, ​​I wouldn't have come here."

After Zai Yan said this, he asked others to take care of them.

He himself found a tidy room, sat down and rested, and then began to write.

When the matter reached this level, the Sichuan governor asked him to take it down. He had to report to his father immediately to explain the actual situation here and wait for the next order.

After thinking for a moment, Zai Yan sat upright and dipped his ink:

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty: My son, Zaiyi, kneels down to ask my father for his blessings. Yao Yulin, the governor of Sichuan, reported that he had deceived the emperor. After careful investigation by his ministers, he has found something..."

The emperor's original decree for him was that he could directly kill people, but this was inconsistent with his character. After the case was found out, he would truthfully tell the emperor how to deal with the father who was entrusted to him. This was what he was more accustomed to. .

As for how many officials and how big officials are involved, he is not afraid.

He is a prince, but he has wiped out all the officials in Sichuan Province, so what?

Violating the imperial decree, in his opinion, this is the fate he deserves.

However, something happened to the governor, and Sichuan suddenly lost the person in charge, so this piece of government affairs could not just be left alone.

Regardless of whether his father would blame him, he himself couldn't bear it. He was a prince and had been taught since he was a child that he had a duty to the country.

Having said that, in the 20th year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, the role of the government became increasingly important and cannot be underestimated.

But as a prince, although his education was not bad, he had never experienced serious political training.

There was no room for randomness in the country's affairs, so Zai Yi had no choice but to go out and invite Yang Ting and Yang Ge, who had already retired, to come over.

During this period, he, the prince, was the director of the government office. Yang Tinghe did not hold any official position, but only assisted as the prince's staff.

Yang Tinghe couldn't stand the sudden intensity of dealing with others, so Zai Yan went to invite Xia Yan over again.

All in all, before the court officially confirms the next governor of Sichuan, various matters involving national affairs and people's livelihood cannot stop here.

Moreover, at this time, another county in Sichuan was suffering from floods, and the government itself was also involved in disaster relief.

As for Yao Yulin and others, he threw them all into prison.

Two days later.

His people and those guarding the eunuch's mansion came to the governor's Yamen to report to him.

"The property of the officials involved in the case was confiscated, and a total of 170,000 taels of gold and more than 800,000 taels of silver were confiscated. All of them were official silver produced in Japan, and all kinds of antiques, calligraphy, paintings, and rare treasures were not counted. Officials involved in the case Except for His Highness who was caught on the spot that day, a total of eleven people have been seized in the past few days."

Zai Yan snorted angrily, "What a worm in the country! They keep saying the words of loyalty to the emperor in vain, but they never thought that they are so hypocritical!"

In fact, after the government raised salaries, the officialdom environment has improved to a certain extent. At least officials who are willing to work will not be forced to be corrupt.

But under absolute power, there are not a few people who take desperate risks in an attempt to gain more.

Including Gao Jie, who was sitting aside as if nothing happened, but he actually had some cold sweat streaming down his back.

The guarding eunuch has the duty of 'monitoring' all officials. Now that such a big thing has happened, doesn't he know at all?

To put it more bluntly, doesn’t he take it at all?

However, Zai Chen knew that the people in the palace would take care of themselves, so he didn't have to do anything extra.

I wanted to come to the Ceremony Supervisory Committee to ask him.

"Are there any farm properties among these stolen goods?"

Ding Chengshan answered truthfully, "Your Highness, there are some. However, most of these corrupt officials have money that fell from the sky. In addition, the court is very strict about the control of land, so there are very few who occupy it without reason. Most of them have complete delivery procedures, but the delivery The price is significantly lower than the market price.”

"Isn't this an invasion? Please sort out the data truthfully." Zai Yan turned to face Xia Yan, "Gongjin (Xia Yan's courtesy name), please draft an official document if you can, and I will report it to the emperor for the Holy Anniversary. "

"I dare you to disobey your orders."

"Your Highness..."

Zai Yan saw that he was a little hesitant, so she said directly, "We are all our own people here, just say whatever you want."

"Yes, my subordinates received more than thirty letters in Yao Yulin's study between him and Mr. Zhang Ge. In one of them, Mr. Zhang Ge reprimanded Yao Yulin for his audacity and smuggling official silver."

In other words, Zhang Cong also knew about this.

But did he report it to the emperor in time?

This matter is more sensitive.

Zai Yan frowned, he knew that the emperor felt that Zhang Cong was still useful.

If this matter was brought to light, he was not sure what impact it would have.

"Let's do this. Bring me all those things."

Zaiyan wanted to give a secret message to his biological father. Although there is no family relationship in the Tian family, these children are not very old after all. Zhu Houzhao prefers them to call him dad, and he treats them well in every possible way like a father who dotes on his sons.

People's hearts are always full of flesh, and it's not the time to fight to the death for the throne yet.

"Yes."

Yang Tinghe on the other side didn't want to say anything when he saw this. Although Xia Yan had doubts, he was already a mature middle-aged man. He must have considerations about how the second prince did things. He still trusted the emperor's son.

"In this way, major events in Sichuan can be decided." Yang Tinghe handed over to Zaiyan, "Congratulations to Your Highness, Your Majesty, this mission has been successfully completed. Your Majesty will be very happy after hearing this."

Zai Yan also showed a somewhat relaxed smile.

"I hope my father will accept my recommendation and let Yong Xiu be the agent in Sichuan, so that I can escape and return to the capital as soon as possible."

Fortunately for the Chengdu prefect, although Zai Yan needs to go through the process, he can let him get started first. I think the emperor will not struggle with him on this fourth-rank official.

Yang Shen's situation was somewhat special, so he had to stay here longer.

At the moment, the most important thing is the update of the fish scale album.

This matter cannot be delayed.

Fortunately, even though the high-ranking officials were arrested, everyone was confiscated, and the money was seized, no one in Sichuan dared to cause any trouble, even though people in Sichuan were upset because of the prince's presence.

Zai Yan led his troops to verify the fish scale album on the spot.

The Xu and Xia families had a happy ending.

Xu Weiming originally wanted his son to study peacefully in the future and not cause any more trouble, but Xu Min considered that the major case had been settled, and after obtaining Zhao Baihu's consent, he revealed his identity to his father.

What can Xu Weiming say?

After finishing here, Zhao Baihu took Xu Min with him to visit the second prince.

Zhao Baihu felt that Xu Min was clever and had formed a relationship with the second prince, so he was a good man who would go to the end and maybe give someone a chance and give him a special reward later.

After all, he didn't know the second prince.

After hearing this, Zai Yan suddenly realized, "I thought it was strange, even if you are the son of the county magistrate, how could you know so much about the situation? It turns out that Jin Yiwei secretly helped."

Zhao Baihu kowtowed and confessed, "His Second Highness went to investigate the case in person. The Jin Yiwei failed to help in time. Please punish His Highness."

Zai Yan said in a nonchalant manner: "The Jinyi Guards are the emperor's personal soldiers, and they obey the emperor's orders. Even I cannot be mobilized without orders. Since you don't have an imperial edict, you naturally don't take action. How can I blame you? Get up." "

Xu Min thought to herself, look at this person, he has a distinguished status, strong means, and an open mind. Compared with Zhao Baihu, it is really a huge difference.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

On the other side, Zai Yan frowned. Since Jin Yiwei already knew about it in advance, why didn't he report it? Then he shook his head: Forget it, I still have no more knowledge about what the Jinyiwei is. When I get to the capital, I will tell my father personally, and my father will understand in his heart.

But when big things happen, innocent people may be hurt again.

"Xu Min, do you still want to be a royal guard from now on?"

Xu Min rolled his eyes, "I originally thought that being a royal guard was majestic and domineering, and at the same time I could serve the court. Now, I have the audacity to tell lies. If I can work for His Highness, it will naturally be an even bigger happy event. Even a villain can wake up laughing from his dreams."

These vernacular words made Zai Yan laugh, "Jinyiwei is not a place where you can come in and leave as soon as you say it. Besides, it is not for the sake of majesty and domineering, but to be loyal to the emperor. If you say such nonsense, I will not argue with you. , but you can’t say that anywhere else.”

Xu Min was greatly disappointed, "But His Highness is the prince."

"Okay, let's go down."

Zai Yan turned around and saw that he had no shortage of people who were willing to serve him. He was just thinking about sparing Xu Min just like he had spared Han Chun's life.

Han Chunbo was guilty and deserved some punishment, and he did so. But in his opinion, Xu Min is innocent.

After Xu Min left with Zhao Baihu, she was obviously a little unhappy.

Zhao Baihu gloated, "It seems that the Jin Yiwei sold out too early, right?"

"This subordinate is incompetent and cannot be taken in by anyone. I can only continue to make a living here with you."

"Hey, where does this put me?"

Xu Min smiled and said, "What? Zhao Baihu wants to compete with His Highness the Second Highness?"

"You kid, don't talk nonsense. How can I compare with His Highness the Second Highness?" Zhao Baihu said: "To be honest, if you can really succeed, it will be a good thing."

"But people have said that Jinyiwei is not a place where you can come in when you want and leave when you want."

"You?" Zhao Baihu showed a somewhat contemptuous smile, "What kind of Jinyiwei are you? You are an errand boy. Besides, even if you are one of thousands of households in Jinyiwei, His Highness and the Emperor will come over just by asking. ? They are father and son, heart to heart."

Xu Min's eyes lit up, "So I still have a chance?"

"You have to have that ability. His Highness has the best reputation in the capital. The palace assigns eunuchs and maids. Anyone who is assigned to His Highness's house will have to go to the temple to fulfill their vows afterwards."

Wow.

In Xu Min's mind, Zai Yan's image has reached a new level.

"Alright, thank you Zhao Baihu."

As he said that, he started to leave.

"Why are you going? Are you in such a hurry?"

Xu Min shook her hand, "Didn't you say you want it to be useful? I'm going to work hard and show off."

He is now the prefect, and His Highness is interested in the fish scale album, so he can use his status to help verify it.

Although this is the responsibility of the field chiefs of each county, the prefect is an official responsible for people's livelihood, prisons and other aspects.

Even though some dogs are trying to catch mice, he has been in this 'Ya Nei' circle for so many years and has become proficient in his methods.

After all, Zai Yan is one person with two legs. There are more than a dozen counties in Chengdu Prefecture alone, and he only has two. Even these two cannot travel everywhere.

Naturally, he needs capable people to help him accomplish this.

So he grabbed Brother Xia Jiu and immediately showed off to his father.

Xu Weiming felt strange, "You have not joined the Jinyi Guards, why are you joining in the fun?"

"Dad!" Xu Min said seriously, "This time, your old man, including Ninth Brother and his father, were all saved by His Highness himself. My son thinks that from the perspective of repaying kindness, do we have to learn to repay him? Moreover, His Highness the Second Highness told you to manage the Chengdu Mansion carefully. How do you call it careful? Both your own sons will come with you! We are here to help you!"