He Zhifu was chattering there, and Wang Xian also calmed down, and soon became abrupt...... In fact, Lao He is not crazy or stupid, he is just acting. And the purpose of acting, he also made it very clear, that is, to 'save himself,'. The madness at the beginning was nothing more than suing Wang Xian in jǐng, forcing Lao Tzu into a hurry, and dragging everyone into the water to see how you end. Then the style changed, trying to establish empathy with him, just to make his subordinates merciful.

Obviously, He Zhifu thought of one and didn't expect the other, he only guessed that King Jin couldn't help but pee, but he didn't expect that Wang Xian had already hooked up with King Jin...... After all, this is too unbelievable, and it is very reasonable to guess. That's why Governor He made so much effort, otherwise it would have been another face.

Thinking about the other party's flowery intestines, Wang Xian asked xìng to watch him perform quietly, after all, the opportunity to listen to the inner monologue of a four-grade master, I don't know how many times I can meet Lu Dao in my life.

He Zhifu was talking a lot there, and Wu Wei was bored in the back and almost fell asleep. Finally, when he had said enough, he asked Wang Xian, "My lord, do you understand what I mean?" ”

"Understand, don't you just want to live?" Wang Xian nodded.

He Zhifu nodded and said: "The ants are still stealing life, of course I don't want to die, and I also want to live well."

"Do you think you're still safe?" Wang Xian looked at him like an idiot.

"How can it be safe?" He Zhifu smiled self-deprecatingly: "Zhang Fantai's plan is all my cāo knife, I don't count on this black yarn, but I am a lot old, I can't eat a stick, and I don't want to be imprisoned again

"Then your request is that you don't want to be tortured and go to jail?" Wang Xian asked.

"Yes, as long as I can go home and farm intact, I will say whatever the adults want me to say." After He Zhifu finished the performance, he finally showed a weak face.

"Aren't you an old-timer, this official asks for advice, how can you realize your wish?" Wang Xiandao

"It's not difficult," He Zhifu paused and whispered, "As long as the adults count Zhang Chūn's death on my head." ”

"How?"

"It was I who got the promise of the adults to keep me safe, and I told all the facts of the case." He Zhifu said shamelessly: "Zhang Chūn knew that he was in a catastrophe, so he committed suicide." In this way, the Shanxi military ration case is solved, and the emperor will not blame the prince...... Criminals are also considered guilty of meritorious service. ”

Wang Xian deliberately pondered for a moment and asked, "Then do you still want to climb the King of Jin?" ”

"Of course not." He Zhifu shook his head and said: "I can be a daughter-in-law and hide it from both ends, and this is also the reason for being an official." The king of Jin is a prince, and there are also the kings of Han and Zhao. When it comes to him, this case is big, and the adult's backer is now the weakest time, and it really makes trouble in front of the emperor, although he doesn't dare to say that he will lose, but the chance of winning is really not big. He said with a smile: "After finishing his work in one battle, the possibility of completely overthrowing the three kings certainly exists, but the possibility of the prince being killed by the three kings is even greater." There is a way that a hundred birds are in the forest, not as good as a bird in hand, the battle for the storage position is a protracted battle, than who has to persist longer, and do not rush forward, do not make mistakes, is the only law. ”

Wang Xian couldn't help but show a surprised gaze, looked at He Zhifu again, and said for a while: "You already know these truths?" ”

"It would be nice to know the way earlier." He Zhifu smiled bitterly: "This is something I reflected on during my detention, when I had nothing to do. If I had known this truth, I would definitely not have been involved, and I would have persuaded Zhang Chūn not to mess around. Alas, a few years ago, we were still tasting tea in the old spring. It's hard to get old, who would have thought that he would die in a blink of an eye......" said with tears rolling down, and said gloomily: "I think about it, he actually didn't drink the Miyun Dragon of the Old Spring, so he can only drink it again in the next life......"

Seeing that he was about to start chattering again, Wang Xian interrupted impatiently: "When you go back, you have time to remember, and you should say everything you need to say first." ”

"Today's young people don't ......have any patience at all," He Zhifu muttered, and began to confess the whole case, from before the Beijing Chacha, Shanxi from the political secretary to the county, all levels of the yamen were like ants on a hot pot, to each other to collect arrears, and finally all chased to Zhang Chūn, the political envoy. The following is his confession, of course, all the plots have hidden the part about King Jin......

The so-called external inspection is a kind of official evaluation system in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty passed the two kinds of examinations, "examination" and "inspection", and decided to depose officials. The decision to promote officials is the 'examination, the official is examined once every three years, and the examination is completed in nine years, and the relevant departments decide whether to be promoted. The decision to depose officials is 'Cha, which is divided into Beijing Cha and Wai Cha. As the name suggests, the former is for officials serving in Beijing, and the latter is for officials serving abroad.

During the inspection, the Ministry of Officials, together with the Metropolitan Inspectorate, inspected the local officials' performance and so on, and gave comments at the end. There are eight types of officials who will be punished, namely, one is greedy, two is cool, three is impetuous, four is not enough, five is old, six is sick, seven is resigned, and eight is not careful. Its punishments include confiscating the army, serving the people, demoting, and causing officials. Moreover, there is no possibility of recovery of the deposed officials, which can be imagined, which is tantamount to a ghost gate for the officials of the Ming Dynasty. Before the ghost gate was closed, those officials who were estimated to be unlucky completely lost respect for their superiors who could not help them...... At this time, Zhang Chūn, the second-rank political envoy, was not as popular as the third-rank envoy, because when the imperial court was inspected, it would listen to the latter's opinion, and the former could not interject.

Zhang Chūn not only couldn't help his subordinate officials, but also owed them a lot of debts. Now those who are the prefects of the county and the prefecture sit in the yamen of the political secretary every day to collect debts, making Zhang chūn disgraced, and dreaming that money is falling from the sky, so that he can fill the hole.

No money falls from heaven, but there is money and bread on the earth. At this time, Zhang Chūn was appointed Minister of Transshipment, responsible for receiving summer grain from all over the country and then shipping it to Xuanfu. Seeing that millions of stones of grain were about to pour into front of him, Zhang Chūn felt that this was God's help, and the so-called heaven and Buddha must be blamed, of course he had to find a way to pluck the goose and take the opportunity to fill the hole.

In fact, this is also a common practice in officialdom, probably the money and food have been handed over, and there is no one who does not rub a layer of oil, but this time Zhang Fantai's appetite is a little bigger...... He calculated, even if he didn't take a penny, he had to make up for the holes in the province, take care of the capital, and honor the king of Jin, almost about two million stone military rations...... The price of rice in the Ming Dynasty was about one stone of rice and one tael of silver, but the food shortage caused by the successive wars, and the fact that Shanxi was not a grain-producing area, but there were many garrisons, led to a shortage of grain, and the price of grain could reach two taels and five, and two hundred stones of silver was five million taels, which was barely enough

But this is almost impossible, because usually the name of oil rubbing is that the most ruthless sea transportation is only 20% at most, but Zhang Chūn needs to swallow nearly half of the military rations

Simple, far from perfunctory, Zhang Chūn must find a new reason to devour the military rations. He thought of Liu Zijin, the White Lotus Sect entrenched in Guangling County, so he deliberately sent his subordinates to pretend to be White Lotus Sect disciples and defected to Liu Zijin, and revealed to him the key information such as the time route and troop deployment of the official army escorting the baggage. With this information, Liu Zijin was naturally like a divine help, and ambushed in a dangerous place in advance, prepared enough rolling stones and wood, fire oil bows and crossbows, and the officers and soldiers were caught off guard, leaving behind the heavy defeat and retreating to Datong.

When everyone was sad about the defeat of the official army, Zhang Chūn Zhang Fantai was secretly proud, because all the grain escorted by the official army was lost to Liu Zijin, and it could only be counted as a loss When it was shipped, he mixed the accounts with water, and the number of shipments on the accounts far exceeded the actual number of shipments

Zhang Chūn played this trick of deliberately releasing water and causing the military rations to be robbed twice, and finally caused the prince's jǐng awakening, stopped the transfer in Shanxi, and ordered the two towns of Xuanda to first exterminate Liu Zijin, who was entrenched in Guangling, and wait for the grain road to open up before transshipment. As for the military rations that were not sent to Shanxi, they were urgently changed to be sent to Běijīng, which was transshipped by Běijīng...... But Zhang Fantai had already gotten what he wanted.

In the whole course of the case, Zhang Fantai covered the sky with one hand and crossed the sea with one hand, blinding many officials, and some people noticed the abnormality, but for the sake of Zhang Fantai returning the money and grain on time, most of them were silent. Of course, there are also sober and righteous people, such as Zhao Changzhen, the commander of Fenyang County, who discovered Zhang Chūn's personal deeds and secretly recorded the accounts intercepted by the Shanxi Domain, and prepared to file a complaint to the imperial court, but was discovered by Zhang Chūn's minions and brutally killed him......

This is Governor He's description of the Shanxi military rations case, which fully embodies the ability of an old bureaucrat to shirk his responsibilities and divert and mend them. In this confession, the focus is always on Zhang Chūn, and the reasons for Zhang Chūn's crime are fully described, and the process of Zhang Chūn's crime is described in detail, so that the viewer can believe that he is the culprit and the culprit

As for the king of Jin, there was almost no mention in the confession, which was also in line with the will of the vassal king not to be involved in local affairs. The culpability of the local officials is focused on the deficit, and at most they deliberately turn a blind eye to Zhang Fantai's crimes, but it is understandable. After all, they are eager to make up for their losses, and they are worried about repeating Zhao Changzhen's mistake and losing Qingqing's life, and they are guilty and guilty, but at best, they can only be regarded as accomplices with relatively minor circumstances......

The confession also cleared the prince's charges, during which the prince was not inactive, he wanted to change the situation in Shanxi several times, but it was only because the whip was out of reach and he couldn't mobilize the army, and the effect was ...... This is enough, if not better, for the crown prince. After all, the crown prince is incompetent, and the emperor can still tolerate it, but the prince is too strong and commanding the army, which is unacceptable to the emperor......