The emperor is right. Some things are not afraid of 10,000, but just in case. If you want to be a qualified emperor, you must be both effective and defensive when dealing with unstable ministers. No, after returning to the East Palace, Li Chengqian learned and applied it flexibly.

On Daomen.

Regardless of whether they really pay attention to Li Zhi, there is always no problem in being defensive. Anyway, there are plenty of people, so if you don't use them, you will be idle!

The next day - Chengqing Hall, Tang Jian, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Wang Zhi, the left minister of the Ministry of Integrity, were standing there. They came together for no other reason than to invite the prince to hook up with a seventh-rank official.

Decisive.

Tang Jian and Wang Zhi are both veteran officials who are good at accidents. They have been in officialdom for many years and have never seen anything like this. It is really a strange thing in the officialdom that a small seventh-grade sesame organ can make them so angry.

Driven by curiosity, Li Chengqian opened the file. He didn't know what it was, and it was really amazing at first glance.

The prison officer's name is Zhang Xu, a seventh-rank official in the Ministry of Personnel. He became an official in the first year of Zhenguan and served in Yongfengcang. Because of his hard work and many political achievements, he was promoted to the Ministry of Personnel in the eighth year of Zhenguan, specializing in merit examination. Don't look at it.

This kid spends all day testing the hard-working kingship of five people and six people in the government, but he is not idle at all with his plan to make a fortune privately.

When he worked at Yongfeng Warehouse, this guy was in charge of grain collection. Seeing so much grain coming and going every day, his heart and hands started to itch, and he couldn't hold it anymore as time went by.

So, this guy bribed dozens of his subordinates, made some tricks on the grain collecting bucket, and installed a mezzanine inside. When he used it, he could just put it on with two feet and leak about ten kilograms of grain into the extra layer.

Then, on the excuse that the grain was fluffy and insufficient, the people were asked to fill it in.

There are two words for official, which ordinary people can say better than those who are officials. Although they were not convinced, they endured it. In this way, Zhang Xu and his accomplices made a lot of money from such a small grain harvest.

Full, because the number of single attacks is small, and not everyone uses this trick, so it has not been discovered until now.

But there are airtight walls in this world. As long as it is done by people, it will inevitably be exposed one day. Just last month, the only son of a servant under Liu Yi, the owner of Yongfeng Warehouse, married his mother-in-law because he was the right person for the family.

He was an official of the fifth rank according to the Eight Classics, so the betrothal gift was a bit larger, as much as two thousand guan.

Of course, they wanted to embarrass the servants, and their purpose was to make them quit in spite of the difficulties, but they didn't expect that such a grain clerk would actually spend so much money. There was no other way but to make them keep their previous promises.

Beating gongs and drums to marry off the girl.

It doesn't matter if you don't get married, something will happen as soon as you get married. If someone lives a good life, naturally some people will be jealous. Seeing the servant and his family spending so much on betrothal gifts and holding such a decent wedding, the jealous relatives and friends will turn around.

A report letter was written in the copper box in front of the anti-corruption department.

That’s right, you know there’s something wrong without checking. Even if their family has been eating imperial food for eight generations, and they have saved it for generations without eating or drinking, they still won’t be able to save this amount. Therefore, the money must have come from something wrong, and it’s not corruption.

It's a perversion of the law.

After receiving the report, Wang Zhi, the left minister of the Ministry of Integrity, took it very seriously. Under his personal review, the police officers revealed the whole story of the pickling activities that a group of their officers and their superiors had done on the pretext of competing for food, thus implicating them.

Zhang Xu, his former boss.

It turned out that after Zhang Xu was transferred to the civil service department, he was unwilling to cut off the money-making method he had been operating for many years, so he asked his deputy Liu Yi to take over his position and continued to help him make a fortune with Xiaodou.

If it weren't for this unexpected wedding, their wishful thinking would have continued, and the people who had been tricked would have had to endure it. This is probably because of the tricks of fate!

But these are not the crux of the problem. The most difficult thing is to check. Zhang Xu is an extremely cunning guy. In order to get a lighter punishment, this kid revealed bit by bit to Wang Zhi and the officials handling the case like squeezing out toothpaste. Look.

This guy was so difficult to deal with that Wang Zhi specially invited his boss Tang Jian to help, hoping that this guy could explain things quickly.

In this way, it took nearly twenty times to get the stolen money completely, and each time the location was different, and the methods of hiding the money were also various. Li Chengqian couldn't help but admire this guy's mind.

It's really flexible.

Tang Jian and Wang Zhi, who were furious after being played by Zhang Xu, immediately felt that Chengqing Palace was showing off to the crown prince as soon as the case was concluded. The two of them have been fighting geese for a lifetime, and today they let the geese peck their eyes.

It would be weird if he didn't become angry.

"You see, there are people outside the world, and there are mountains outside the sky. You are all experienced officials in the officialdom who are good at accidents. How about you, you have met your opponent this time!"

After hearing the prince's sarcasm, Tang Jian and his wife could only smile bitterly. After being officials all their lives, when had they ever seen such a slippery thing? If you say it is an official, it is not an official, if you say it is a scoundrel, it is not a scoundrel.

Didn't it mean that we finally borrowed some manpower from the inner defense and there was nothing we could do to deal with this turtle grandson?

"Your Highness, I believe that Zhang Xu and his accomplices should be executed according to the law, and we must not condone such officials who are self-defeating and thieving, so I came here to criticize them and use their heads to warn every official in the government."

Tang Jian's words were very righteous. Although they were somewhat inconsistent with the rules, no one could find fault with them. Why do you say this? According to the law, except for treason and other heinous cases, corrupt officials like this are generally

Unity and waiting for the autumn decision.

This year's Autumn Judgment happened to have passed before the case was concluded, so it will have to wait until next year, and Zhang Xu's purpose is this. As long as he can save his life first, then the rest will be easy. Like him.

How could a corrupt official not leave a way out for himself? Didn't he use the three cunning rabbit holes to the extreme in the way he hid money?

Of course Wang Zhi and Tang Jian understand this simple truth, so they have no intention of letting this bastard's scheme succeed. If they get the Zhu batch today, they will be sent to Dongshi tomorrow to see how arrogant they can be.

"I say to you two, you can operate, but your case was wrongly judged, so the person can't be killed. Don't worry, Ting Gu slowly said, Zhang Xu said something in the file right, they did not embezzle public funds, and

They are exploiting the people, and the amount of food that should be sent to the treasury is not even a pound.

According to Tang Law, if the name of the case has been changed, it will need to be retried, so the criminals who have been identified will have to be retried, the charges will be confirmed, and the documents will be added. You will have to be busy for a month. And after winter, for the Lantern Festival,

To seek good luck, the imperial court usually won’t kill someone with a knife.”

Well, Wang Zhi and his two men want to kill these corrupt officials, but at the same time they also do things according to the rules and laws. Even if they don't want to, they have to act in accordance with the rules of the court. This is the difference between good officials and corrupt officials. It's so big.

A country cannot corrupt its rules just because of some personal loyalty.

"Your Highness, I will try again as soon as possible when I get back. I will try my best to complete the trial in the shortest possible time. I will come back to you then." After saying this, Wang Zhi bowed and pretended to drag Tang Jian back to deal with this bastard Zhang Xu.

No, after raising his hand to stop the two of them, Li Chengqian smiled lightly and said: "It's not urgent. I will bring Zhang Xu to Chengqing Hall tomorrow. I just want to see what kind of person this good at playing is."...
Chapter completed!