I'm really not the carpenter emperor

After all, Qian Han was just a Sichuan supervisor, but behind Li Zhiling was an entire interest group, so normal interrogation would definitely be useless.

What Emperor Tianqi wanted was the result, not the meaningless interrogation like Zhou Jiamo did in the first trial, and he decided to find out the reason for the trial today.

Wei Guangwei contemplated for a while, but did not continue to ask, and said in a deep voice, "Biography to Huang Huatang, the merchant!"

After hearing this, Li Zhiling was stunned.

Didn't Huang Huatang say that he went back to Suzhou? Besides, the businessmen are traveling all over the world. How could this kind of thing be found on him?

While thinking about it, a businessman walked up to the lobby. Not surprisingly, it was the businessman Huang Huatang who "cooperated" with Li Zhiling.

Wei Guangwei asked: "Huang Huatang, I heard that Li Zhiling gave you a batch of test questions for the general examination and asked you to sell them. Is there such a thing?"

Generally speaking, normal people would not admit such a situation.

Admitting it is tantamount to confirming that he is an accomplice, but since Huang Huatang planned this matter, he naturally made arrangements.

He stepped forward and said:

"Return to the adults, it is true."

"I just went to Li's mansion, and I was actually instructed by Xu Xianchun, the commander of Jinyiwei. After getting the test questions, I handed them over to Beizhen Fusi, and didn't sell them!"

Xu Xianchun had been watching from the sidelines, and at this moment he also walked into the lobby and said seriously: "I can prove this, it is true."

When the words fell to the ground, the officials began to discuss one after another. At this point in the interrogation, the matter became clear at once.

If Jin Yiwei found out that the test questions were leaked in advance, but did not act rashly because there was no evidence, but only contacted the businessman Huang Huatang and Li Zhiling to confirm, then this is not only innocent, but also a great merit.

If there is no sale, naturally it cannot constitute an accomplice.

Li Zhiling couldn't calm down any longer, and asked loudly, "Nonsense! You clearly gave me more than 200 million taels, claiming that it was the income from the first batch of test questions!"

At this time, Huang Huatang didn't show the respect he showed to Li Zhiling when he was in Li's residence, as if he was a different person, he said with a sneer: "Your words are just empty words!"

"My lord, I happen to have something to report!"

Wei Guang frowned slightly and said, "Speak!"

Huang Huatang turned around and pointed at Li Zhiling, and said: "The grassroots have been ordered by the emperor to establish a new chamber of commerce in Suzhou to do business with the barbarians, but some time ago, more than 200 million of the chamber's funds disappeared!"

"I suspect that Li Zhiling stole more than 200 million taels!"

Li Zhiling was shocked, and quickly argued: "He is spitting blood! These silver taels are obviously earned by myself!"

Qian Han found that the situation had turned around, and kept holding back all the time without saying a word, then he jumped out and said:

"Li Zhiling, just now you said that the more than 200 million taels was given by the businessman Huang Huatang, and now you say that you earned it yourself. Don't you think it's inconsistent and unreasonable?"

"You said you missed it!"

Xu Xianchun took a copy of the test questions from the school lieutenant. Although it was not a formal test paper, the test questions on it were almost the same as the test questions, and they were clear and recognizable.

Wei Guangwei looked at it, and he was determined.

He sneered, pointed at Li Zhiling the test question, and asked, "Come and see, are these test questions sold out from your mansion?"

Li Zhiling was regretting nervously saying the wrong thing, when he heard the words, he only glanced at the test questions, his face turned pale, he knelt down on the ground, his voice was weak and weak.

"This this……"

At this point in the second trial, it is clear.

All of a sudden, the rest of the officials who hadn't had time to interrogate were startled and frightened, and their faces turned pale. It seemed that none of their previous countermeasures worked.

"Li Zhiling, what else do you have to say?"

Wei Guangwei looked at the dazed Li Zhiling, slammed the gavel, and shouted:

"Now that there are all witnesses and material evidence, Li Zhiling, you tribute students sold the test questions in advance, causing the scholars to resent and discuss. It is really hateful!"

"If you don't take it seriously, I'm afraid I won't be able to thank the world!"

"Come on! Write down the results of the interrogation, and submit it to His Majesty after the second trial, so that the final ruling can be made!"

In this initial trial, Wei Guangwei completely broke down the psychological defense of the officials, and the subsequent interrogation was a matter of course, and the officials all confessed.

Among them, Gu Dazhang, the chief examiner, was found guilty of the most serious crime.

Seeing the yamen servants on the left and right sides, Gu Dazhang turned pale in shock, and backed away again and again: "It's not fair, it's not fair to let me bear all the blame and scolding alone!"

"Besides you examiners, is there anyone else cheating?" Wei Guangwei asked immediately as if he had discovered something.

"Many officials came to share the profits, some got 1000 taels, some got tens of thousands of taels...Why are they right, why do they only make a fuss about me!"

Gu Dazhang shook his head constantly as if he had collapsed.

This was exactly what Wei Guangwei wanted to see the most. He asked lightly, "There are still many officials? Who are these people? Find out quickly!"

This interrogation was like a war without gunpowder. After Wei Guangwei won the first trial, he took advantage of the victory and pursued, and picked up a group of more than [-] middle- and lower-level officials, such as Liu Zongzhou, the censor of the left capital, Cai Yuanjia, a doctor of the Imperial College, and Zhang Cunren, the right judge of Dali Temple. .

Wei Guangwei interrogated these officials in court, and these officials did not disappoint, they were all biting and barking like mad dogs in the courtroom.

Wei Guangwei sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, only quietly throwing out a sharp question every once in a while, completely exposing the actions and true nature of these people to the eyes of the world.

……

At the end of the second trial, it was already late at night when all sounds were silent, Wei Guangwei came outside Qianqing Palace with the arranged memorials, but was stopped by the steward Wang Chaofu.

"I've heard for a long time that Mr. Wei is a talented person. His reputation is really well-deserved. Such a difficult case can be tried in one day?"

Wei Guangwei naturally understood that at the moment when Han Yu was appointed as the chief assistant, it was better to avoid causing trouble and stay as far away from others as possible.

He seemed a little repulsed by people thousands of miles away, and said humbly:

"Don't dare to be! In terms of talent, Mr. Han Ge, who invited the decree to return home, is ten times higher than the students. Before the students became officials, he was famous all over the world!"

Wang Chaofu frowned, then said with a smile, "Your Majesty Wei is too modest!"

"Where is there..." Wei Guangwei kept laughing, then suddenly changed the topic and asked, "Is Your Majesty in the warm court now?"

Wang Chaofu nodded and said softly:

"It's getting late, and His Majesty just fell asleep on the court case. If Mr. Wei closes the case, you can submit it to our family."

"This time I just reported the result to His Majesty, so that His Majesty can rest assured. If it is said that the case is closed, it will take a few days."

After thinking about it for a while, Wei Guangwei handed the memorial to Wang Chaofu and said:

"Gu Dazhang and others mentioned a lot of accomplices in their confession. This case involves a lot of things. We must follow the vines and catch them all, and hand them over to His Majesty for disposal."

Chapter 421 Reorganizing Armaments

I don't know how long it took, Zhu Youxiao suddenly woke up on the imperial case in Xinuange, as if his whole body was suspended in the air.

The first thing I did when I woke up was to burp.

At this time, the gate of Xinuang Pavilion was closed tightly, and there were still maids of honor and eunuchs guarding both sides of the pavilion. The faint incense wafted from the Xuande stove, lingering around the dim corner lamps.

Zhu Youxiao asked casually: "What time is it now?"

At this time, Wang Chaofu had already left, and Wei Guangwei's memoirs were being steadily placed on the imperial case, within reach of Zhu Youxiao.

Hearing this, a palace lady close by first bowed and saluted, and then said softly:

"Your Majesty, it's Hai hour."

"Oh, it's Hai time, what is this?" Zhu Youxiao saw the memorial at a glance, and just said it casually, and didn't intend to listen to Gong'e's reply.

Opening the memorial, the expression gradually eased.

After a long while, Zhu Youxiao put down the memorial, and he felt most comfortable in the dead of night like this, when he liked to concentrate and meditate.

The impact of this imperial examination is no less than that of the North and South Lists in the early Ming Dynasty. This kind of thing has never happened in history. It seems that it should be my own butterfly effect.

The examiners must deal with all the people that Wei Guangwei found.

Entrainment and cheating in imperial examinations are indeed commonplace, but it is rare for such a big trouble to happen.

The private sale of test papers would have been impossible and would not have happened before Jiajing, but it happened in this apocalypse.

The reason for this is, of course, that the current situation is very different.

In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examinations were all "stereotyped" to select scholars. This time the general examination is the same.

When writing an article and talking about stereotypes, it is tantamount to turning an article about evaluating talent and learning into a moral article that is memorized by rote.

Learning from Confucius and Mencius, talking about Confucius and Mencius, has become a stepping stone recognized by scholars all over the world, and they can be thrown away when they are used up. Few people are stupid enough to do so when they are officials.

If this continues, the so-called great sage will become more and more fake.

The only thing that can make these civil servants restrain a little is the reputation after death. When many people don't care about the reputation after death, corrupt officials and real treacherous villains will appear.

Laugh at the poor but not at the prostitutes, laugh at the lowly and not at the greedy.

There are only two standards for many officials to compare whether they are successful or not. One is whether their reputation after death is enough to leave a name in history, and the other is the weight of silver in their pockets during their lifetime.

Under this trend, it is naturally the general trend for those civil servants to become superficially shameless and secretly do all kinds of bad things in order to chase fame and fortune.

Historically, during the reign of Chongzhen, this kind of atmosphere even spread from the court to the common people. Once the moral belts that restrained officials were loosened, they would dare to do anything!

The Donglin Party actually peddled the test questions in private, trying to use the proportion of newly promoted officials to regain control of the court.

Zhu Youxiao was not at all surprised that such behavior appeared in this group of so-called celebrities and great sages.

Since the Donglin Party is not dead, then as the emperor, there is no need to keep them. The Donglin cabinet must be completely axed and a new batch of cabinet ministers must be added!

Although the Donglin cabinet in the past had abilities, they didn't have to go on the right path. They fought and buckled all day long, and neglected political affairs.

Zhu Youxiao needs this apocalyptic cabinet to take on the burden of the entire country. The cabinet can share some pressure for itself. At the same time, the ministers in the cabinet can check and balance each other!

As for the military computer room, it is still necessary to keep the restraint cabinet.

The pace of Wei Guangwei's case trial was very fast, and Zhu Youxiao also decided to deal with these clique-forming civil servants with ruthless hands. No matter Donglin or other parties, the disobedient court will not stay!

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao put down Wei Guangwei's memorabilia, looked at the dozens of memorabilia piled up into a hill, and began to look through them one by one.

The first memorial was presented by Lu Xiangsheng.

What Lu Xiangsheng said was basically his situation in the Nanzhili area from the second half of the second year of Tianqi to August of the third year of Tianqi.

After the southern tour, Zhu Youxiao re-divided the provinces of Southern Zhili, and handed over several rebellious guards to Lu Xiangsheng, and asked him to train the Tianxiong Army.

What Lu Xiangsheng said in the memorandum was that he had completed the training of the Tianxiong Army, and how he led the gang of rebels who had made rebellions in the past to wipe out all the horse bandits and bandits in several prefectures.

This kind of thing is nothing special, but for a newcomer like Lu Xiangsheng, it is a solid military achievement.

Zhu Youxiao doesn't try to push the seedlings to encourage them, and he can be promoted as he wants, just like Huang Degong. If the figures in history want to shine, they have to rely on their own efforts.

The land of Jifu is the top priority. Wang Zaijin once said that the armaments of Baoding Mansion and Hejian Mansion were slack, and Lu Xiangsheng must have outstanding talents. He can take the Tianxiong Army as his headquarters and go to these two places to rectify the armaments.

As for Sun Chuanting, Zhu Youxiao had other arrangements.

After the Liaodong War ended, Wang Wei, the general soldier of Jizhou, died in battle because of Gaodi, the general soldier of Shanhaiguan, who was greedy for life, and Gaodi had also been executed.

In terms of Sun Chuanting's current military achievements and seniority, he is not yet able to serve in the Nine Borders, so he should be sent to Shanhaiguan as a soldier to clean up the mess left by Gaodi.

Shanhaiguan was a barrier for slaves to enter the customs, and it must be guarded by an army capable of fighting.

Shanxi Province and Shanxi Province are the places where peasant uprisings broke out concentratedly in history. Although Zhu Youxiao has exempted the three-payment increase, he must be prepared.

Zhu Youxiao plans to set up a governor of Shanxi and Shanxi to rectify the guards and local garrisons in these two provinces to prepare for possible chaos in the future.

Needless to say, the candidate is definitely in the southwest, Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of the Ming Dynasty who defeated Jiannu in Liaodong, naturally did his part.

Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting's qualifications are still young, while Zhu Xieyuan already has sufficient experience in government affairs and combat.

These are extremely capable people in history, and Zhu Youxiao will not let them go, and he must fully train them to work for him.

For Yuan Chonghuan, who has been procrastinating again and again, Zhu Youxiao has always been concerned about his reputation in history, and now he does not intend to hesitate any longer.

Such people dare not even listen to the imperial decree in battle, and it doesn't matter whether they are strong or not, they can't be kept, not to mention that Da Ming has no shortage of generals.

Tapping his fingers on the table, Zhu Youxiao pondered for a long time before saying:

"The decree is to promote Lu Xiang to Baoding and Hejian prefectures, to reorganize the two prefectures' armaments, and to promote Sun Chuanting to Shanhaiguan's military preparations. He will take up his post immediately!"

"With the great victory in Liaodong, Zhu Xieyuan was named the governor of Shanxi and Shaanxi, investigated the storage of grain and grass, and the status of armaments, and rectified the soldiers and horses of the two provinces!"

"Tell Wei Zhongxian to put some pressure on the San Judicial Department. Yuan Chonghuan's case will be judged before the end of the month!"

The internal affairs are almost handled, and the situation around Mongolia, Puppet Gold, and North Korea after the Liaodong War should also take advantage of the victory to change.

The reason for sending troops this time is mainly to keep Fuyuwei, and to keep Fuyuwei is to strangle the side wall that established slaves and invaders.

In order to appease the guards of Taining and Duoyan, the imperial court spent a lot of money in advance. Now that they have won the battle, the money cannot be spent in vain.