Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 81
There are actually quite a few lackeys and thugs under Zhao Guangyi's seat, but Zhao Dezhao is most annoying to this Censor Zhongcheng, because other lackeys and thugs bite people just to bite people, unlike this old man surnamed Tang who can both pretend and act. Also disgusting.

There was an evil fire in his stomach for a long time, and the words he scolded were also very blunt:

"You old man, you have always been famous and upright. You often cry in the court hall, pretending to be upright and honest at the expense of your life. With this trick, you have deceived many people, and you have gained both fame and status along the way. high position!"

"I will tear off this layer of your skin today and let everyone know that you, Tang Jixian, are just a shameless guy who secretly hugs people's thick legs and colludes with them!"

Hearing the words "hugging someone with thick legs, collaborating with others", Zhao Guangyi's cheeks twitched, and he couldn't help biting his lips tightly.

Tang Jixian seemed to be so scolded that he couldn't recover his breath. His body was limp, and he fell to the ground with a "gudong", his eyes were closed tightly, and he seemed to have passed out.

Zhao Dezhao knew how thick-skinned and shameless this person was, so he wouldn't faint after being scolded. It was probably to avoid further questioning and not to involve Zhao Guangyi, the real boss behind the scenes, so he pretended to faint Pretending to be a dead dog.

It would be boring for a dead dog to beat him up again. Zhao Dezhao ignored Tang Jixian and slowly looked around at the officials in the hall.

"This king knows that this major fraud case involves three yamen, besides Qian Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry and Tang Zhongcheng of Yushitai, there are some people also involved in it!"

"Who are they? This king knows it well, and everyone knows it themselves! The thieves love to shout "stop the thief", but those who attacked me just now are the most ruthless and hardworking!"

"This king is not in such a good mood, so he names and scolds these people one by one!"

"This king hopes that these people can be more conscious. Just say that whether you are sick or old, or your parents have passed away, you can make up a suitable reason to resign from the official, so that you can save some dignity. , the imperial court should save some face, and this king doesn’t need to get angry, so he can save some energy!”

After saying this, Zhao Dezhao glanced at the ministers again. The ministers were already frightened by the sudden violent behavior of the Tianshui County King. At this moment, they shrank their necks and lowered their heads like a flock of frightened quails.

Zhao Dezhao even noticed that some of them showed panic on their faces, especially those who criticized him most vigorously just now, and among all the ministers, not even a single one had the guts to meet his gaze.

This is very good, Zhao Dezhao is very satisfied with the effect, and there will definitely be voices against him in the court in the future, but there should be no mad dogs like Tang Jixian who keep chasing and biting him.

At this point, for the entire King Jin faction, someone must stand up to stabilize people's hearts, stop losses, and avoid further collapse of the situation.

Of course, the only one who can have this qualification is Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi.

"Holy."

Zhao Guangyi stepped out slowly, bowed to his elder brother on the throne, and said respectfully:
"Since some court officials have been involved in serious fraud and conspired to embezzle tax and public funds, our Song Dynasty has its own national laws. Of course, it is necessary to pursue these moths to the end and investigate them thoroughly. Otherwise, how can we wake up later generations?"

"But Erlang is young and has little experience after all. He has never handled a case before. I'm afraid it will be difficult to grasp the overall situation. Since my younger brother is also in charge of the Kaifeng mansion, it is my duty to pursue criminals. How dare I go to court just because I'm afraid of trouble? Push a big case out?"

"For this reason, I implore the Holy One to hand over the criminals in this case, as well as their confessions and physical evidence, to Kaifeng Mansion for disposal."

Zhao Kuangyin stared condescendingly at his brother's face and remained silent for a long time.

Zhao Guangyi stood at the bottom of the steps, keeping a bent posture, motionless like a stone sculpture.

He lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes, not daring to meet the eyes of his elder brother sitting on the throne, with fine cold sweat oozing from his forehead, he knew in his heart that his elder brother had already guessed the truth, it was not such a difficult thing to guess.

The air in the hall was so tense that it seemed a little suffocating, and the ministers waited with bated breath.

Finally, Zhao Kuangyin squeezed out two words: "That's fine."

Hearing these two words, all the ministers of King Jin's faction, including Zhao Guangyi himself, breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhao Dezhao sighed inwardly, after all, the emperor's father was still too attached to love and righteousness, too much about brotherhood.

The emperor's father agreed to Zhao Guangyi's plea, and handed over the criminals, confessions, and physical evidence to Kaifeng Mansion for investigation. In fact, he tacitly agreed not to pursue the investigation any further. Of course, it will not involve Zhao Guangyi himself.

He was not surprised by Zhao Kuangyin's reaction, he had even expected it.

Now he walked out of the line slowly, stood beside Zhao Guangyi, bowed towards the throne and said: "Father, since uncle is not too troublesome and has taken over the task of investigating the case; then there is no reason for my son to be lazy, check Let the son-in-law do the work of convicting the officials' family property to make up for the taxes they are greedy for—this can be regarded as the son-in-law sharing some of the labor for the uncle."

The meaning of these words could not be clearer: "Father, if you want to let uncle go, your son can't stop him, but you have to give him some extra benefits, otherwise I will make trouble!"

Zhao Kuangyin sighed secretly, looked back and forth between the faces of his son and brother, waved and said, "All together."

Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Guangyi bowed together and said: "Yes".

Zhao Kuangyin was in a bad mood, got up and left his seat in a dispirited manner, and waved his hand to signal the servant to announce his retirement.

Although the original plan to reward the imperial army has not yet been arranged, he has no mood to stay in the temple anymore.

"Let's do it for ourselves!" Zhao Kuangyin walked towards the back of the hall, turned his back to everyone, and said this sentence.

Zhao Guangyi originally only had a little cold sweat on his forehead, but when he brushed the floor, his chest and back suddenly became wet and cold.

He knew in his heart that although his brother didn't name anyone or look at anyone, this sentence was undoubtedly meant for him. It was his brother's implicit warning for what he had done recently!

Zhao Dezhao watched the emperor's father's back disappear into the corner at the back of the hall, then turned around to face Zhao Guangyi, and said with a smile: "Uncle, I forgot to tell you about one thing: the five criminals my nephew arrested today have already been arrested." Arranged to be transferred to the Kaifeng government office, so, in fact, you don't have to be so anxious to beg my father..."

When he said this, Zhao Dezhao observed Zhao Guangyi's reaction very carefully.

Zhao Guangyi narrowed his eyes suddenly, his face turned from blue to red in an instant like a traffic light, he clenched his fist in his right hand and then released it, but it returned to normal in an instant.

"Erlang, you are the most considerate! Very good, very good!"

He laughed happily, and patted Zhao Dezhao on the shoulder vigorously, as if he was really not angry at all.

(End of this chapter)