Chapter 119: Ma Wensheng's case

Ma Wensheng sneered and said, "Three hundred taels of silver were found from your home, which is exactly the market price of this batch of grain." Come to think of it, you're selling your grain. ”

Hu Cong was stunned for a while. said: "My lord, wronged, wronged." There are more than 300 taels of silver in the villain's house, which is accumulated by the villain in Tianjin City for more than ten years. ”

Ma Wensheng said: "Oh, tell me, how did you accumulate it? ”

Hu Cong didn't know what to say for a while.

How can this be said?

You must know that the officials had no money before, or they had some money for work and food, which was similar to food expenses, which was not much at all.

If you come according to the regular one, Hu Cong will not say that it has been more than ten years, and he will not be able to earn more than three hundred taels of silver in three lifetimes.

This silver was obtained by Hu Cong's corruption and bribery. How could Hu Cong say it here.

Hu Cong said during Ai Ai's period: "Didn't the court say that the past is not to blame? ”

Ma Wensheng sneered and said, "When did the imperial court say it? ”

For the previous crimes committed by the officials, there is actually a sense of not being guilty of the past. It's just that this word must not be said in the open, but only circulated in secret and carried out.

Now that Ma Wensheng vetoed it, Hu Cong had nothing to do.

"Where did the money come from?" Ma Wensheng asked again.

Hu Cong's brows rolled wildly, and his eyes were staring. I don't know how to deal with it.

Ma Wensheng said: "Come here, the punishment is waiting." ”

Immediately, several officials came up and pressed Hu Cong to the ground, holding Hu Cong with water and fire sticks, and the two big sticks were heavily slashed down, and Hu Cong screamed with one stick.

"Old-bearded." A servant whispered, "Why are you so confused, your lord is looking for a scapegoat." Do you recognize it as you? Why suffer. ”

When Hu Cong heard this, his eyes lit up, his heart was sour, and the breath he had been holding was gone.

Hu Cong has been in the yamen for most of his life, and he knows all kinds of tricks in the yamen too well.

Some cases are too important and urgent, and I really don't know who did it, so I have to find a way to close the case. For officials, closing the case is the most important thing, and the truth is not important.

Hu Cong has done this kind of thing I don't know how many times.

Reversing black and white, referring to a deer as a horse. But he never expected that this thing would fall on him, he had all thoughts for a while, and his heart was painful and wronged, more of a feeling of karma.

This thought for a lifetime, and I can no longer hold on to it in my heart.

After taking a heavy blow, he said loudly: "My lord, I move, I move." I have changed this grain. ”

Ma Wensheng said: "Stop. ”

The execution stopped. Ma Wensheng said: "Then tell me, how did you do it." ”

Hu Cong only

can tell 1510, how he let the guards leave, and how he contacted the local government in Tianjin and then dropped all the food overnight.

When Ma Wensheng heard this, his heart brightened, and he said secretly: "Sure enough, it is not what I expected." ”

Ma Wensheng was praised by Liu Dingzhi, he is definitely not the kind of person who is beaten into tricks, before he was executed, he had actually thought about it, first of all, there must be ghosts among these people.

Without the inner ghost, this grain can still fly.

And the identity of the inner ghost is not low.

Otherwise, it can't be at the right time, and the matter will be rounded to no one who has noticed.

Moreover, this person has deep roots in Tianjin, after all, there are internal ghosts as a part, and without the cooperation of outsiders, it is impossible to transport the grain away overnight.

It takes too much to work with. Otherwise, it would be impossible to do such a big thing, no one has found it yet, or someone has found out and dare not say it.

After this layer of circles, the most likely person is actually Hu Cong.

Hu Cong was transferred to Tianjin from other places as a Xu official in the year when Yu Qian established Tianjin City, and for decades, it can be said that he has a deep foundation, and now he is also Han Tiecheng's deputy.

It can be said that in the city of Tianjin, both black and white dishes can be eaten.

It is included in the suspects of Ma Wensheng's focus.

If you have time, Ma Wensheng can also check carefully. But although this matter is not big, it involves Caoyun, and this matter must be reported regardless of Hebei or Caoyun.

If it drags on for a long time, it will not be good for Ma Wensheng.

This made Ma Wensheng decide to go straight in and torture Hu Cong, and this kind of torture is from both physical and mental aspects, if there is no hint from Ma Wensheng, that official dares to pass a message to Hu Cong at this time.

In fact, if Hu Cong really survived, Ma Wensheng would accept it and think of other ways.

As for the torture of Hu Cong, in Ma Wensheng's opinion, it has never been a thing. After all, if you really want to investigate Hu Cong's criminal record, it is not too much to kill him.

Generally speaking, Ma Wensheng is still not guilty of the past for the previous officials, according to the hints of the imperial court.

It's just that under this battle of wits and courage, Hu Cong is far from being Ma Wensheng's opponent, but in two or three rounds, he lost his bottoms.

Ma Wensheng asked Hu Cong to sign and pledge. Then he asked: "Hu Cong, you are now six out of fifty, why do you want to do this act of being a traitor?" ”

"Why?" Hu Cong said loudly: "It's not that the court is unfair, originally this position belonged to my Hu family, but now I have to give it to others, I even want to ask for a position for my son, these young people from Beijing can rise up, above us old people, why?" ”

"And now, even so, if you don't stop, the government wants me to retire at sixty, I'm not reconciled, I'm not reconciled."

Hu Cong said loudly. The face is extremely hideous, like a wild beast.

It is a horse to get rid of some old and decrepit officials

Wen Sheng's order.

It's not that Ma Wensheng spares no effort to implement the orders of the imperial court, but that Ma Wensheng is prejudiced against many officials. The so-called yamen door is open to the south, and if you have no money, don't come in. The king of Hades is good, and the little ghosts are difficult, all of which are said to be the actions of these officials.

These officials regard the performance of official duties as a side job, and making money in the performance of government affairs is where the main business lies.

In the upper echelons of the Ming officialdom, because of Zhu Qizhen's attention, although the officialdom atmosphere cannot be said to be flawless, it is also quite good. But sometimes people don't feel it.

Because of the county order or something, in fact, the common people can't reach it at all.

The people who the people really come into contact with are these officials.

And these officials dare not say how high their knowledge is and how high their moral standards are. But on the whole they are promising, promising, restrained, and not just trying to make money.

Ma Wensheng weighed both sides, and was naturally willing to replace the officials with the officials, so he decided to slowly remove some of the officials.

Hu Cong is not the first, nor will he be the last.

Hu Cong is not without ability.

Looking at what he did in this case, in the city of Tianjin, it was almost like magic, and he took away hundreds of stones of grain.

Can this kind of means say that there is no ability?

But in Ma Wensheng's view, his heart is broken, and he naturally can't be retained, how can the things he did before make Ma Wensheng believe that such a person has suddenly become a good person?

Although I can't pursue it, I'm worried that these officials and rabbits will die and the fox will be sad, but I don't want to see them.

And Hu Cong is absolutely unwilling to dismiss.

First of all, there is no pension for dismissal.

Even after the minister retires, whether there is a pension or the above as one of the rewards.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen will generally give this treatment now, but the amount of pension is only half of the normal salary. Before the officials, the father died and the son succeeded, and there was no such thing as a pension at all.

And that's just a monetary loss.

Not to mention, a loss of status.

The officials don't sound good, but they have money and power, and to ordinary people, they are all high-class people.

In particular, there are many things that require door-to-door visits. There are a lot of intangible benefits. These Hu Cong are reluctant.

The reason why he did this was to frame Han Tiecheng, and to let the officials above understand that this Tianjin City still needs these old people to play, otherwise you will wait for something to happen today, something to happen tomorrow, and I don't know if the black gauze hat can be worn on your head at that time.

This is also the old method of the officials to blackmail the chief.

It's just that I never expected that Hu Cong's little trick was seen through by Ma Wensheng at a glance. Ma Wensheng sneered and said: "The real insatiable person will be pressed down by someone and beheaded after the autumn." ”

"Yes." Immediately a few people said.