my brother-in-law is the prince

Chapter 410

The sky is bright.

Although the capital is crowded with people, it is in order.

But at this time, many people were escorted out one by one.

These people are all witnesses and material witnesses, and they are really chaotic parties.

Chen Li was already busy.

Immediately began to separate people for interrogation.

As long as there are many people involved, separate interrogation is the best way.

What is involved here is the psychological problem of the prisoner's dilemma.

Prisoner's Dilemma means that two or more people who conspire to commit a crime are imprisoned and cannot communicate with each other.If neither denounces the other, each will be imprisoned for one year due to uncertain evidence; if one denounces and the other remains silent, the informer will be released immediately because of meritorious deeds, and the silent one will be imprisoned for ten years because of non-cooperation; If they denounced each other, both were sentenced to eight years in prison because of the solid evidence.

Since the prisoners cannot trust each other, they tend to denounce each other rather than keep silent.

What's more, what they committed is obviously not a matter of spending a few years in prison.

They were told that if they were involved in treason, they would definitely die, but if they took the initiative to confess and let Jin Yiwei get clues, then only one person might be harmed, and the family would never be involved. Restless, waiting for the whole family to wipe their necks.

Chen Li paced back and forth in the nearest Thousand Households Office, anxiously waiting for news.

His Highness has already entered the palace, so he must try to get to the bottom of the matter as soon as possible.

He kept looking at the sky, and then school captains came in a hurry.

"Chen Tongzhi, someone has already confessed, saying that it was a juren. They were summoned at that time, and they were taught the opportunity face to face, and promised money."

"This person's name?"

"I've already asked for my name, but I think it's not my real name."

Chen Li raised his eyebrows: "Huh?"

"However, I have confessed. This person speaks Wu dialect. He has a white face and is in his forties. He seems to love cleanliness. When he speaks and behaves, he likes to take out a silk scarf to wipe his hands. Also...he has a mole between his eyebrows... ..."

Chen Li said decisively: "Immediately take someone to arrest this person, such a person is easy to find, just ask me in the Imperial College or the Xuezheng Office of Yingtian Mansion, if you find him, immediately capture him and have someone identify him. "

"If the Imperial College and the Xuezheng Yamen refuse..."

Chen Li sneered: "This is a rebellious case. If you dare to obey the law, or dare to resist, then immediately issue a driving sticker. In my opinion, they are also accomplices. Immediately send me to jail! Tell them... If they refuse to accept , although let their family members sue, I, Chen Lilai, will bear the responsibility."

"Here."

After a while, someone said: "Chen Tongzhi, we have found out. This matter involves the Four Virtues Academy in the capital, and many of the people involved in this case are mostly scholars in this academy."

"Confiscate immediately." Chen Lidao: "All people related to the academy will also be arrested and await trial."

"Here."

Before Chen Li had breakfast, another person hurried over and said, "A few more confessions..."

A series of lists appeared in Chen Li's hands.

Chen Li just pondered, looking down, his face flickered.

"Are you taking someone?"

"take!"

"It's just... these people are ministers of the court, and there are a few who are still in the palace... participating in the court discussion."

"No matter who you are, wherever you are, you must take it. The more ministers you have, the more you should take it. The more they are in the palace, the more dangerous they are. Come and lead a team. I will personally lead the team and enter the palace to have an audience!"

Chen Li had an empty stomach, but he couldn't care about anything now.

The case involved a lot, and the number of people involved had exceeded his imagination.

What he has to do now is to cut through the mess quickly and catch more people as quickly as possible.

This is a godsend opportunity, and if he misses it, it will be regarded as his dereliction of duty.

………………

in the palace.

Zhu Di was promoted to his seat, and all the officials saluted.

After the big gift, Zhu Di still sat upright without making a sound.

His complexion is obviously very bad. Since yesterday, until now, he has been arguing for a whole day and night, and now, it is time for a showdown.

Zhang Anshi didn't say a word, he hid among the officials, lowered his head, pretending that nothing happened today.

Just at this time……

With a plop, someone knelt down and howled, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

Zhu Di looked up.

Among the hundreds of officials, many people showed sadness.

And the person who knelt down, Zhu Di is quite familiar with, is Liu Zhan, a scholar of the Imperial Academy.

Liu Zhan howled and said: "Your Majesty, some rioters broke into the minister's mansion and killed the minister's son. Your Majesty... ah... such troublesome people are no different from treason and should be killed."

He paused for a moment, and said in tears again: "These people are so bold, there must be someone instigating them behind their backs, minister...please Your Majesty...make the decision for me."

Zhu Di sat still.

The hall was silent again.

This hall is full of sorrow.

But Zhu Di did not speak, and all officials dared to speak.

Only Liu Zhan was still sobbing.

Zhu Di silently looked at Zhang Anshi.

He obviously thought that it would be better for Zhang Anshi to respond to this matter.

But Zhang Anshi lowered his head, as if he didn't notice that the emperor was watching him.

"Your Majesty, I am a minister of the imperial court. Even if I am insulted like this, let alone ordinary people? Now, inside and outside the capital, there are chaos and massacres. Don't you know? If you don’t know about the matter, please Your Majesty, make a decree quickly to punish the unruly people and the disorderly people, so as to rectify the discipline!"

Immediately, Liu Zhan cried again.

Everyone looked at Liu Zhan.

Some people mourned the death of the rabbit and the fox, some frowned, and faintly worried.

Some people were even more meaningful. The people here are all good people. They know that Liu Zhan is just a test. They will use this to test His Majesty's reaction first, and then they will serve the main course.

Zhu Di still looked at Zhang Anshi with his head down, his eyes were sore, and finally said slowly: "Zhang Qing."

Only then did Zhang Anshi raise his head slightly and said, "The minister is here."

Zhu Di said: "Liu Qing said that there are rioters and unruly people outside, are there such things?"

Zhang Anshi said: "Your Majesty... I'm not sure."

"Huh?" Zhu Di said slowly, "Why are you not sure?"

Zhang Anshidao: "The minister has been reading the mansion newspaper for the past few days, but in the mansion newspaper, it is all about the news that all the officials persuaded His Majesty to be kind and consider the common people. There are many articles in it, which say... yes explain……"

Zhang Anshi paused here, and calmly took out a few residence newspapers from his sleeve.

Under the eyes of everyone, he opened the residence newspaper and said slowly: "It is said that water can carry a boat or overturn it. Your Majesty must observe the direction of the people. The ancient sages always cared about the common people... "

Zhu Di coughed.

Zhang Anshi paused, and then said: "Your Majesty, so I'm confused. As far as I know, the people who are making trouble outside are all because of rumors that the New Deal has been abolished. The people are afraid of losing their livelihoods, so they're 'provoking trouble' one after another. Isn’t this what the people want? Why did they turn around and they became troublemakers again, so we have to teach them to catch them all.”

"It's so unreasonable. Could it be that I am Ming...and there are other people, but I didn't see where the people who asked His Majesty to face them are. Moreover, the residence newspaper said, please Your Majesty love the people as much as you like." The son's memorial was also proposed by Liu Zhan and Liu Gong. Liu Gong..."

Zhang Anshi looked at Liu Zhan: "Look, your name is clearly written in this mansion newspaper. Is this what you said? If not, then who forced you to say it? Who in the world can force you to say these words?"

After listening to Liu Zhan, he only felt his head buzzing.

After a long time, he roared, "Death to the murderer!"

Zhang Anshi still calmly said: "Then may I ask, who killed the murderer? Find the real culprit. If you find the real culprit, of course the murderer will die. But, Mr. Liu, you just killed your son, and your thoughts are too vicious. Well, just because you lost a son, you want His Majesty to kill all the people who have lost their livelihood and run around complaining for them. This is a crowd of tens of thousands! Mr. Liu...Look at what you say Yes, water can carry a boat or overturn it... If you want His Majesty to kill, don’t you want to teach His Majesty to be Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty? Do you have a conscience? Are you a minister? Are you a human being?"

After hearing this, Liu Zhan's mind became even more buzzing.

When people are in extreme anger, it is easy to be irrational.

He opened his eyes, looked at Zhang Anshi suddenly with red eyes, and said angrily: "It was you Zhang Anshi who killed it, you instigated it, you instigated it."

"You mean..." Zhang Anshi still calmly said: "I, Zhang Anshi, can instigate thousands of people with the palm of my hand, Mr. Liu, do you believe these words yourself? Don't you always shout what the people want?" Do you want to? But once the hearts of the people are not toward you, you would like to kill them all, but now you still want to frame and wrong me, the county king of Ming Dynasty, the brother-in-law of His Highness the Crown Prince."

"You'd better think about it again before you say these words. If not, I won't agree. You just killed a son, but I was splashed with dirty water by you and insulted for no reason by you. It made me suffer in vain. Injustice, I even suspect that you insulted me like this, it was planned for a long time, in order to use this to attack the prince, to imply His Majesty, could it be..."

After a pause, Zhang Anshi showed a look of astonishment and said: "Could it be that you killed this son on purpose, and you killed your own son just to frame me?"

What is Jinyiwei, this is Jinyiwei!

On weekdays, Zhang Anshi is reasonable, but people don't reason with Zhang Anshi.

Are you the only ones who will splash dirty water?

I, Zhang Anshi, the dignified head of Jinyiwei, logically speaking, planting and framing is my job.

Hearing this, Liu Zhan was even more angry. He was already in the pain of losing his son, but now Zhang Anshi said that you only died of a son on the left, and your son died on the right, which made him explode instantly.

Liu Zhan said furiously: "Villain, despicable villain, you...you..."

Zhang Anshi looked at him coldly: "You are a villain who has turned your back on you! A few days ago, you were still shouting for the will of the people, asking your majesty to follow the good, follow the sky, and obey the public opinion. But when you turn your head, you will be punished." People! I, Zhang Anshi, love the people like a son. I can’t bear to kill the people in the world, but now I have become a despicable villain? Why, it’s great that you can write articles. You think that by writing beautiful articles and confusing right and wrong, you can reverse the will of heaven and the people ?”

Liu Zhan's eyes were wide open, tears were pouring down like rain, he was extremely angry.

So, reckless, he suddenly burst into a rage, and then punched Zhang Anshi hard in the chest.

Bang!

This punch has used Liu Zhan's life's strength.

This obviously happened so fast that no one could react.

But the fist hit Zhang Anshi's body fiercely, and suddenly, Liu Zhan's extremely angry face changed suddenly.

Zhang Anshi snorted.

But he persevered through it.

Then, I saw the back of Liu Zhan's hand dripping with blood.

"Uh... ah..." Liu Zhan howled like a pig, his whole face seemed to be distorted because of the pain, and then rolled around in the hall.

All of this... was too sudden, beyond everyone's expectations.

Zhu Di couldn't help being moved.

All the officials were in an uproar.

The imperial guards outside were already ready to go, and they only waited for His Majesty's word of mouth to enter the palace immediately.

Liu Zhan clutched his bloody hand, and continued to roar sadly.

Zhu Di looked at Zhang Anshi, but saw that Zhang Anshi was fine.

Zhang Anshi lowered his head and saw that his python robe was full of blood, so he hurriedly pulled the python robe to check his injuries. As soon as he pulled the skirt, everyone saw that there was something bright inside Zhang Anshi's python robe that reflected light.

It was... steel armor.

And the top of the steel armor seems to be uneven, and there are small diamond-shaped bumps, like on the steel billet.

Zhang Anshi breathed a sigh of relief, and said resentfully: "It's dangerous, but fortunately I wore a special anti-armor to go out today, if not, my life will be here."

Baiguan: "..."

Zhu Di's eyes lit up, and he said, "What is that?"

Zhang Anshi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, it is anti-armor. I also call it hedgehog armor. It is specially used to guard against Xiaoxiao."

Zhu Di: "..."

After a long time, Zhu Di glanced at Liu Zhan who was rolling and crying on the ground, and said slowly with a cold face: "Next time you enter the palace, you can't wear this thing."

Zhang Anshi said: "Yes, I don't dare anymore."

Immediately, Zhu Di looked at Liu Zhan angrily: "What's the crime for attacking the minister in the hall?"

As soon as this remark came out, Baiguan fell into silence again.

Zhang Anshi said at this time: "Your Majesty, he died of his son. He was angry for a while and wrongly blamed the minister, so he missed. I think this is justifiable. Please forgive him."

Zhu Di was speechless, he felt that Zhang Anshi was jumping repeatedly, and for a moment he didn't know which side this guy was jumping on.

All the officials looked at Zhang Anshi meaningfully.

I saw Zhang Anshi said: "You have to forgive others and forgive others. I think... many things must be judged according to the actual situation."

Zhu Di had no choice but to nod: "Alright."

Liu Zhan, who was finally relieved from the severe pain, yelled, "Zhang thief... Zhang thief..."

Zhang Anshi didn't pay attention to him, but said slowly: "But...the minister has one more thing, and I want to report it."

As he said that, Zhang Anshi took out another notebook from his sleeve, and said: "Last night, there was such a situation that someone dropped a copy of this notebook at the door of a certain thousand households in Jinyiwei. Dare to be negligent, and hurriedly checked, only to find that this is the money and food book of Liu Zhan's family. Many of the accounts in it were calculated by the captain of Weizhong, and many problems were found. No, not many problems, but Big problem."

After Zhu Di heard this, his body shook.

And that Liu Zhan was scolding all the time, but at this moment, he suddenly stopped scolding.

The hall suddenly fell silent.

Zhang Anshi said slowly: "The accounts in it are too sensational. I feel that the matter is too serious and I have to report it. After investigation, Liu Zhan, a scholar of servants and lecturers, was born in the county. mu, and another 20 mu of mulberry forest. After that, as an official, his salary every year can be counted. Years, at most the money that can be saved is only a thousand taels of silver, even if he is a master of financial management, and the whole family can eat wind and drink dew, it is calculated that his family can have 2000 taels."

"But the actual situation, five years ago, he bought a house in the capital, which cost more than 3000 taels of silver. Not only that, his family is in Yudu County. In just a few decades, he has become a big family in the county. Today, the total land property is more than 40 mu, and there are more than 220 mu of mulberry forest and pine forest. Of course, these are nothing. , Now, his family, there are as many as [-] servants in the house alone, and more than [-] tenants. Oh, yes, he also has six concubines, and the annual rouge money costs hundreds of taels .”

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and then said: "Your Majesty...the reason why I just said that he just died of a son is not because I am unreasonable. This is because...I know that Liu Gong has many wives and concubines. There are many sons, there is indeed no shortage of such one, it is not because the minister is unreasonable, nor is he like a minister... so far..."

Zhu Di waved his hands, showing a bit of impatience: "Okay, okay, stop talking, that's enough, just talk about money."

Zhang Anshi nodded hurriedly, and then said: "So...the minister ordered people overnight to understand the actual situation, only to find that what was recorded in this account book was just the tip of the iceberg. His nephews and brothers, I don't know if it's because they are thrifty in managing the family, or because they are hardworking and willing to work, anyway, all of a sudden, they have all become wealthy, ministers in the capital county, and have been verified by others..."

I heard that people have been sent to Yudu County to verify...

Hearing the last sentence, all the officials were terrified, and their backs went stiff.

Obviously, the account books were only discovered last night. It is impossible to have someone go to Yudu, thousands of miles away, to verify them overnight.

Unless... Zhang Anshi has already been watched by everyone, and this account book is actually just an introduction.

Zhang Anshi is planning to punish Liu Zhan to death. The one who is going to be killed is not Liu Zhan's son!

This is cutting grass and roots!

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I'm crying, it's the end of the month, everyone has a monthly pass, give me one soon.