Ji Song was completely drunk and spit out the truth, and in the fog of the clouds and mountains, all the methods of Ji Gang to make money were revealed.

He told Wang Xian that in fact, most of the time, Ji Gang didn't need to do it himself, and just relying on the filial piety of the people below would already cost him inexhaustible. He told Wang Xian that these chronicles appointed private individuals to squeeze out the old people of Yandi, and the original Thirteen Taibao were either excluded from Jinyiwei, or they could only bow their heads to live, and now in Jinyiwei, it is Ji Gang's henchmen Zhuang Jing, Yuan Jiang, Wang Qian, Li Chun, Pang Ying and others who are in power, and these people rely on Ji Gang's trust and use Jinyiwei's power to plunder people's wealth and rob people's daughters. The plundered property and beauties were given to Ji Gang for half filial piety, and Ji Gang let them do whatever they wanted, and protected them.

He told Wang Xian that Shen Wansan, a wealthy man in the past in Wudi, was sent to Yunnan by Taizu when he was in Hongwu, but Shen Wansan was rich enough to rival the country, and there were still a lot of properties that were missed. Shen Wansan's son Shen Wendu secretly begged to see Ji Gang, gave him gold and dragon horns, quilts embroidered with dragons, brocades painted with phoenixes and other rare treasures, and volunteered to join Ji Gang's door and donate money every year. Ji Gang greatly appreciated Shen Wendu and trusted him very much, regarded him as a figure like a military advisor, obeyed his words, and almost everything came from his plan.

It was precisely because these people colluded with each other and acted in cahoots that they did many sensational things, such as asking their subordinates to falsely claim edicts several times, go down to various salt farms, and extort more than 4 million catties of salt. When he returned, he pretended to be an edict, seized 20 official ships and 400 ox carts, and transported them into private houses without payment.

They also framed dozens or hundreds of big businessmen, and only gave up after they had searched their property; even defrauded the treasures of the envoys of the Jiaozhi country, and seized the fields and houses of the officials and the people; There are also many outlaws, and tens of thousands of swords, armor, bows and crossbows are privately made...... Hearing this, Wang Xian was dumbfounded, Ji Gang and his party did evil things, and it was really hard to write. If you want to deal with him, it seems that it is not difficult to find a breakthrough

He was about to ask, but Ji Song finally couldn't support it anymore and fell asleep......

Wang Xian kicked him, but this guy didn't react, so he had to snap his fingers, and two guards came in and dragged Ji Song out of the city like a dead pig.

When there was no one in the house, Wu Wei walked out from behind the curtains, and presented a thick record with both hands, Wang Xian looked through it carefully, and said with irrepressible excitement: "Ji Gang, where are you running?"

"Don't be too optimistic," Wu Wei frowned and said: "Ji Ganghu's actions are known to the world, but he has been standing for more than ten years, and he has his own reasons." ”

"I know the way," Wang Xian said with a smile, "Is this called self-defilement for self-preservation?" He has too much power in his hands, he can spy on hundreds of officials in the court, arrest and interrogate ministers without going through the judicial department, how can he reassure the emperor? Not to be honest and self-controlled, but to send the handle to the emperor. Only by convincing the emperor that it is easy to defeat him will he be able to use him with peace of mind. ”

"Your Excellency is wise." Wu Wei nodded.

"Of course, when did I become unwise?" Wang Xian said with a smile: "But there must be a limit to self-pollution, it doesn't matter if you are greedy for more money and raise a few more women." But you can't exclude dissidents, appoint private individuals, and turn the emperor's eagle dog into your own lackey, what do you want? Not to mention forging holy decrees, intercepting beautiful women, arrogating crowns and uniforms, and threatening hundreds of officials, I bet that these emperors must not know what to do" After a pause, he said: "And it can be inferred that the emperor's ears and eyes have been completely blocked by him, and what the emperor sees and hears is what he wants the emperor to see and hear, what he doesn't want the emperor to see and hear, and the emperor basically can't see or hear."

"......" After listening to Wang Xian's analysis, Wu Wei said with sweat on his forehead: "Is this guy crazy?" ”

"Who knows? If you want to make it perish, make it crazy first," Wang Xian said lightly: "Maybe he just deserves to die"

"Do you really have the confidence to bring down Ji Gang?" Wu Wei swallowed and foamed, this is really exciting.

"Nope." Wang Xian shook his head crisply and said, "Ji Song's words are not enough to rely on. Besides, as you said, Ji Gang has his own way of life, and if he can't break his way, he won't be able to fall."

"What's he doing?" Wu Wei asked in a deep voice.

"He has—I don't know how to say," Wang Xian said.

"I don't know how to ......" Wu Wei was stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "My lord said that I was joking." ”

"If only I knew the truth?" Wang Xian sighed and said: "Ji Gang has been standing for more than ten years, it can be said that it is deep-rooted, and he wants to bring him down with one hand, without long-term planning, strong support, and enough luck, it is impossible" said hesitantly: "Oh, it is difficult to go to the blue sky in the high Shu Road."

"My lord arrested Ji Song today," Wu Wei said, "Is it the first step?" ”

"No, it can only be regarded as understanding the situation." Wang Xian shook his head and said, "I have to discuss this matter with His Highness before I can make a decision." ”

"What about Ji Song?"

"The soft ones are over, and I'll have some hard ones tomorrow." Wang Xian stretched his waist and said happily: "I finally feel sleepy."

"But my lord, you have already promised to go to Zhou Zhentai's house for dinner......" Wu Wei reminded helplessly.

"Oh, really?" Wang Xiancai found that the sun was already setting in the west outside, so he had to yawn and say, "Okay, bathe and change clothes for me, and make a pot of strong tea."

When it was almost dark, Wang Xian came to the Yamen. In the back office, Mrs. Zhou Xin personally cooked, and began to work from noon, rectifying dozens of specialty dishes, in order to thank him for his little kindness.

So no matter how sleepy Wang Xian was, he couldn't help but come, but fortunately, he was young and energetic, took a cold shower, drank a pot of strong tea, and was energetic again. It's just that pair of rabbit eyes, there's no good way to get rid of it.

Seeing him like this, Zhou Xin asked with concern: "What's the matter, I didn't make up for sleep when I went back?" ”

"I couldn't sleep, so I suddenly interrogated Ji Song." Wang Xian smiled.

"How's the catch?"

"It's quite a lot," Wang Xian said with a wry smile: "But my interrogation skills are sparse, and I can't ask the old man to do it for me." "Zhou Xin is the governor of a province, and turning a blind eye to Wang Xian's private execution of the torture hall is already the limit, and it is impossible to help him interrogate him anymore.

"......" Zhou Xin put down his chopsticks and slowly stretched out his hand and said, "Show me the transcript." ”

"Or adults understand me," Wang Xian smiled embarrassedly, and took out the transcript from his sleeve, Zhou Xin turned on the light, read it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more solemn his face became, and when he saw the most embarrassing, he was already filled with righteous indignation, and said in various ways: "The great trouble of the country, the great thief of the people, this disaster is not removed, and the society is difficult to peace"

"All the things on this are real?" Wang Xian asked.

"** Don't leave ten, Ji Song won't make it up to harm his uncle, right?" Zhou Xin said in a deep voice: "But this confession alone is not enough to get rid of this fang"

"That's natural." Wang Xian nodded and said: "Ji Gang has not fallen for more than ten years, and he must have his way of self-preservation."

"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded and said: "His way of self-preservation, or the way of self-establishment, is actually divided into two stages, the first stage is loyalty and viciousness. If the emperor wants to purge Jianwen's old ministers, he will copy the melons and vines, and let thousands of families be ruined, which is not something that ordinary people can come out of, and it can only be done by people who are as proud as iron and stone and destroy human nature."

"Hmm." Wang Xian nodded, and listened to Zhou Xin continue: "But he has done too many bad things, and he is also worried that he will be used by the emperor to calm the anger of the people." After all, his two predecessors, Jiang Xian and Mao Xiang, both died like this, and it was impossible for him not to be vigilant. Especially when the emperor stopped being clear about Jianwen's old ministers a few years ago, and Chen Ying was lost, he would feel even more sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox. In order not to be sacrificed by the emperor, on the one hand, he cultivated his cronies and strengthened his strength, and on the other hand, he changed his previous position and began to move closer to the king of Han. ”

Wang Xian couldn't help but sigh secretly, Jiang is still old and spicy, and Lao Zhou understands it better than himself" The old man felt that he was killing himself at first. But then he figured out that he approached the king of Han, and eighty percent got a hint from the emperor."

"What?" Wang Xian was taken aback.

"You have to remember that there is only one piece of heaven in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the direction of the Yongle Emperor's court, behind which is the embodiment of the emperor's will," Zhou Xin said in a low voice: "The emperor does not want to see the power in the court that threatens him, so the more the ministers support the prince, the more the emperor will suppress the prince, but the prince is the crown prince, and he is benevolent and diluted, and he has won the support of the ministers. Therefore, the emperor repaired the prince from time to time, and on the other hand, he supported the king of Han to rise up and suppressed the prince. And the strength of the King of Han is inherently flawed, and I can see that Ji Gang can compete with the crown prince, and with the emperor's sage, I can naturally see it even more, so I will feel that Ji Gang leans towards the King of Han, which is the emperor's meaning."

"That's terrible...... Wang Xian's face was extremely ugly, he knew that in any period of human beings, politics is the most important. In the Ming Dynasty, that is, the imperial power is overwhelming, for the emperor, how to ensure that his power is not challenged, is his priority, and the rest of the things, no matter how big they are, have to be in the back row

If Ji Gang helped King Han fight against the crown prince, it was arranged by the emperor, it was enough to ⊥ his position as stable as Mount Tai, and it would be very difficult to move him

"Balance - this is the way to stand in the later stage of Ji Gang," Zhou Xin said in a deep voice.

"No wonder he sits in the crater." Wang Xian sighed.

"Actually, he was also very tormented in his heart." Zhou Xin laughed mockingly and said: "He should know very well that at the end of this game, whether the king of Han or the prince wins, he will not be able to tolerate him."

Wang Xian thought about it for a while, nodded and said, "Not bad." "That's the case, if the crown prince wins, it goes without saying, if the king of Han wins, then he has done so many unsightly things for the king of Han, and Zhu Gaoxu can't keep him either." According to the meaning of adults, Ji Gang's game of chess, no matter how he plays, is a dead move? ”

"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded heavily and said: "The balance will eventually be broken one day, and that will be the day he dies."