Hu Zongxian was dressed in a zipper dress, very simple and clean, and obviously did not suffer too much. After all, he was a second-rank official in the court, and no one dared to make things difficult for him unless the emperor spoke. However, over the past few days, he lost all circles and his hair became grayer and grayer.

The Jinyiwei and Dengwenyuan all sent personnel to the trial. The Jinyiwei sent the commander Lu Bing. The man in Dengwenyuan was dressed in black, but he didn't know who the sacred person was. Hu Zongxian came to the lobby and stood silent.

Feng Linggan was originally disliked Hu Zongxian and said sharply, "Hu Zongxian is bold and did not kneel down when he was tried today!"

The presiding judge Min Qiuye glanced at him, why don’t you come?

Feng Ling snorted and stopped talking.

Min Qiuye said Hu Butang, let’s just call you the master of the ministry, which is a great contribution to you in the Battle of Chongming. This official Min Qiuye is hereby ordered to examine your case.

Hu Zongxian said slowly, it turned out to be Min Qiu Ye Min Qingtian. Your reputation in Shu was as high as the sky. I yearn for it, but I didn't expect that today we met in such an occasion.

Min Qiuye was not catching a cold in this situation. He said sternly that where did the false reputation come from? It is just that this official can enforce the law impartially, act with a clear conscience, and the law of the Ming Dynasty. Don’t worry, Lord Hu, I will verify your evidence one by one. If there is any falsehood, I will never wrong you, but if the charge is confirmed, I will never tolerate it.

Hu Zongxian smiled indifferently. There is no black or white in this world. Lord Min only asks. If I can say what I should say, I will naturally say what I should say.

Feng Ling said angrily, what does it mean to say, what does it mean to say, what do you mean?

Hu Zongxian asked, "The trial of the case has not begun yet, why can't Eunuch Feng sit still like an old cat burning his beard?"

Lu Bing of the Jinyiwei smiled, and the man in black in Dengwenyuan had no expression on his face and seemed to have fallen asleep. Compared with Jinyiwei and Dengwenyuan, Feng Linggan was still unable to hold back. However, when he thought that the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau must have been involved in this case, the internal supervisor sent Feng Linggan to the trial, so he would not lose control for a while and be confused.

Min Qiuye opened the file and said: Lord Hu, I have received impeachment here, reporting that you have sold official positions and titles, reselling salt and iron, bribery, extortion, and extortion of the Japanese and stolen country in the past thirteen years of serving as the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and provided relevant evidence. Clerk, come and read the file.

The clerk in the hall drew a stack of files and started reading them. The five major crimes, a total of 181 crimes, were charged with various types of corrections, which was really hard to impeach the person who investigated.

In the Ming Dynasty, censors could not be convicted for their words.

The censors in the Censorate were like mad dogs. When they saw that the situation was wrong, they immediately bit them. In order to gain a reputation, they even fabricated facts and sweared around. Therefore, the Censorate was once again the Mad Dog Academy. These people were ranked by the rank of the impeached targets. It was not until the appearance of keyboard warriors that they overwhelmed them in the limelight.

Among the 181 cases, the major cases were such as the collapse of the Qingyang Iron Mine. To cover up the facts, killing people to silence the divination, as well as the son accepting a bribe from a horse, etc., these 181 cases were recited for two hours, from early morning to noon.

During this period, Hu Zongxian's face was calm until all the files were read. Min Qiuye said in a deep voice, Lord Hu, do you have anything to say about these 181 testimonies?

Hu Zongxian said slowly that he had been an official for thirty years. Although he did not say that he was honest and honest, he had a clear conscience. Except for selling 20,000 taels of Qingyang County Magistrate and accepting 520,000 taels of bribes, the officials refused to admit any of the other charges!

This statement was decisive and left no room for anything. Although he had been demoted to a civilian, he still had his authority over the years. After saying this, the temperature in the entire lobby dropped by several degrees. Everyone held their breath, and they didn't even dare to breathe out their breath, looking at Min Qiuye.

Min Qiuye didn't realize that people like him had a proud voice in their hearts and would definitely not be afraid of such means.

Min Qiuye said lightly, OK, then I will give you a fair judgment.

Feng Linggan asked, "Where are you lying about auspicious things?"

As for the accusation of lying about Xiangrui, even the emperor has decided to Jiading this matter. Are you asking about it? Are you questioning His Majesty?

Hu Zongxian's words were a bit heartbroken, and none of the people here dared to answer this sentence. It is said that in order to please Zhu Runze, Hu Zongxian reported the auspicious white deer twice in succession, that is, the deer with albinism, and was commended by the emperor. This matter was despised by the mainstream civil servant group. At this time, someone raised it, but Hu Zongxian caught the handle.

Min Qiuye said, OK, let’s start with these two things. How do you explain the matter of buying and selling officials?

Hu Zongxiandao, in the summer of the 16th year of Jingyuan, the Qingyang Iron Mine in Taizhou caused a landslide due to excessive excavation and failure to take protective measures, and 130 people died of criticism. The court's salt and iron were under the jurisdiction of the mining affairs supervisor. I think Eunuch Feng, who is an internal supervisor and a minor supervisor, should be more familiar with this matter.

Feng Linggan said, Hu Zongxian, don’t just pull everything into our house, and lead the disaster to the internal prison. The Qingyang Iron Mine Mine Mine Crash has already decided on the court.

Hu Zongxian said coldly, "Okay, I will continue. After the mine disaster, Taizhou flooded again, and 30,000 people were affected. When Japanese pirates were rampant, the army was not supplying enough. There was no money or food for disaster relief. It was that year that I sold the magistrate of Qingyang County, Taizhou for 20,000 taels of silver. This money was used to purchase rice from Jingxiang area to provide disaster relief. I admit this crime!

The clerk took the pen and wrote urgently, for fear of missing Hu Zongxian's word by word.

Hu Zongxian continued, as for the corruption mentioned in the accusation, the tax on the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang is only one million taels per year. What kind of virtue is that Hu can even be greedy twice as much as the tax on Jiangnan, which is probably too despised. Over the past thirty years, Hu has collected a total of 523,723 taels of silver. Among them, 23,000 taels of silver, which are the silver that is paid for by the local government for three festivals and two lives, three respects and donations. These silver are bad rules, which are the customs of the court, and the official took it.

Min Qiuye asked sternly, since you know it is a bad rule, why do you go to take it?

Hu Zongxian smiled and said, "This is the Ming Dynasty officialdom. If you want to survive within the officialdom system, you must abide by the rules of the game. Who can be honest as water?"

Min Qiuye said proudly, I have never received a bribe! I have never had any banquets!

I said this in my heart and I didn't believe it, but after seeing his behavior yesterday, I did not doubt what he said.

Hu Zongxian shook his head and said, Lord Min is an official and honest person. Hu naturally admires him, but if you have 200,000 troops to support and tens of thousands of Japanese pirates outside to fight, you will inevitably deal with people in the court. Some people collect money and don’t give it to you. If there is no money, who will pay attention to you?

Min Qiuye said: According to the Ming Dynasty, this kind of official should be arrested and peeled and washed and washed.

Hu Zongxian said: Lord Min, I am a magistrate, not a censor who impeaches people every day after eating and having nothing to do. Since I want to be an official, I have to do things instead of resisting the court's system and bad rules. This will be of no use except to get a bloody head. If you want to earn a good reputation, make the people suffer and the officers and soldiers suffer, what is the use of such an official?

Hu Zongxian's words were extremely sharp and resounding.

His words expressed the general voice of officials.

When those Jinshi who went to the Qionglin Banquet, weren’t they full of enthusiasm and served as officials and the people when they first entered the official career? After all, most of the students who had received orthodox Confucian education, in addition to donating subjects and being from subjects, did not want to be corrupt officials as soon as they started.

However, this social system and the soil that breeds this constitution gradually changed them and became with the flow. Just as Hu Zongxian began to pour sewage on his own, began to offer good fortune, and began to accept bribes.

The officialdom is a very strange product. On the one hand, all officials are working hard to maintain this rule and system. On the other hand, officials continue to draw power from this system. This strange relationship of mutual dependence constitutes the unspoken rules of the officialdom since ancient times.

The entire Ming Dynasty officialdom, such as Min Qiuye and Hai Gangfeng, exist almost as an abnormal number. They have dreams, principles, insist on their duties, and are stubborn. Such people appear from time to time, like an Occam razor. When the entire system is approaching qualitative change, they remove some of the deteriorated rot meat and bring things back on track.

As long as the system exists, ** will not be eliminated.

This is just like a magnet, where there is a positive level and a negative pole.

If it were an ordinary official, he might agree with Hu Zongxian's statement, but Min Qiuye was not an ordinary official, and he would not be moved by Hu Zongxian's defense. In his world, right is right, wrong is wrong, black is black, and white is white.

Min Qiuye slapped the gavel and embezzled it. This is the fact, no matter for any reason! He told the clerk that this point should be recorded. Next, Hu Butang, let’s talk about the 500,000 taels.

When Feng Linggan heard this, he was a little nervous. He said, Lord Min, let’s talk about Hu Zongxian’s connection with the Japanese.

Feng Linggan is the young supervisor of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. If the grades of the inner court are based on the fourth rank, they should be higher than Min Qiuye's fifth rank, so he feels that he is qualified to say this. However, Feng Linggan is not a person in the officialdom after all, and he has never heard of Min Qiuye's name.

Min Qiuye glanced at him and said, "Eunuch Feng, please ask me."

Feng Ling said, Hu Zongxian, I heard that you are a fellow villager with Wang Heng, the leader of the three major bandits?

Hu Zongxian said, that's right.

Feng Ling said, no wonder the Japanese pirates have been rampant in the East China Sea for so many years, and it turns out that you are there to cover up!

Min Qiuye frowned and said, "Eunuch Feng, where is the evidence?"

Feng Ling said angrily, Hu Zongxian colluded with the leader Wang Heng, isn’t this evidence?

Min Qiu Ye asked: Eunuch Feng, I wonder where you are from?

Feng Linggan said: Our hometown is from Dezhou Prefecture, Shandong.

Min Qiuye said lightly, "So, Eunuch Feng is also a fellow countryman with the King of Qi back then?" But I wonder if my father-in-law has anything to do with the King of Qi rebellion back then?"

Feng Linggan's face suddenly turned red. This is not a big deal at all. Don't swear at others!

Min Qiuye said coldly, I am the presiding officer of the Hu Zongxian case. Eunuch Feng, as an internal supervisor, you have repeatedly interfered in my powers. In view of this, I decided to expel you from the church!

Feng Ling said with great emotion, you dare, I came to the trial on behalf of the emperor!

Can't go out?

Don't go out.

Min Qiuye told the clerk that he recorded what he had just said, saying that Eunuch Feng admitted that he was a fellow villager with the King of Qi who was executed by rebellion!

Feng Linggan jumped up and said, "Men, don't bully people too much!"

Min Qiuye ignored him and turned his head. At this moment, the aura displayed by this fifth-rank Tongzhi was no less than that of those top court officials.

Feng Ling felt that there was no need to stay and left in shame.
Chapter completed!