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Volume Two, Chapter 66, Exposing

Xia Yan's move was really powerful. It was obviously a matter of one thing, but three people reported impeachment. This not only caused many people to discover that Yang Cong was illegal, but also gave Jiajing room to imagine.

What would Jiajing think?

It's very simple. Is it true that Ye Tong impeached Yang Cong for personal gain and abuse of power, and connected Nie Bao and others to elect his accomplice Zhang Shiche as the Minister of Revenue in Nanjing?

This matter should be true, because Chen Jiude's memorial was proved, Yang Cong connected with Nie Bao and others to raise Zhang Shiche to divide the salt and make huge profits!

Is it true that Yang Cong is dividing salt and seeking huge profits?

This matter should be true, because Chen Da’s memorial was proved. In order to collect food and exchange it for salt, Yang Cong personally went to Xinzhou and Dingxiang to bully the gentry, which made people complain. Is this still necessary to doubt?

The three memorials confirm each other. If you don’t understand Yang Cong’s “purpose”, you are an idiot. Jiajing is definitely not an idiot. According to normal people’s thinking, after reading these three memorials, he would definitely think that Yang Cong strongly recommended Zhang Shiche to the top in order to divide the salt and seek huge profits.

Of course Yang Cong knew that these three people were talking nonsense, and Jiajing didn’t know the problem. Jiajing’s thinking was likely to have been misled by Xia Yan and was doubting himself.

How to break this situation?

Yang Cong subconsciously thought of breaking through from Chen Da because he had already obtained a lot of evidence of Chen Da's favoritism and abuse of power. It seemed that as soon as he handed over it, Chen Da would be finished.

Once Chen Da breaks this point, the "reasonability" of the three memorials no longer exists. Since Chen Da can lie, can Ye Tong and Chen Jiude lie?

However, after thinking about it carefully, he soon realized that this was probably a set set set set by Xia Yan!

Chen Da’s point may be a loophole that Xia Yan deliberately left behind, because he is in Taiyuan Prefecture now, and Xia Yan even asked Chen Da to impeach him. Isn’t he afraid that he will bite Chen Da?

He thought about it carefully and understood that Xia Yan was not afraid of this, because Taiyuan Prefecture was a thousand miles away from the capital, and even if it was 800 miles in a hurry, it would take nearly three days to fight back and forth. Xia Yan could have made up his mind and said that he impeached Chen Da to escape the crime.

Who will Jiajing believe in then?

If you want to prove that Chen Da is really favoritism and abuse of power, you will get the Taiyuan Prefecture to confirm that if Xia Yan interferes, one or two trips will probably be useless. What will Jiajing think then?

It is very likely that Xia Yan has a backhand. If he catches Chen Da's attack, it will probably hit him. It is unknown who will win by then.

Therefore, Chen Da cannot be used as a breakthrough point, as there are too many uncertain factors.

So who are the remaining two, Ye Tong and Chen Jiude, as the breakthrough point?

Yang Cong seemed to have no choice but to choose Chen Jiude.

There is no need to think about Ye Tong's point, because Jiajing is quite clear that Zhang Shiche is Zhang Bangqi's nephew, and it is no secret that he has a close relationship with the Yangming lineage. Not only does it have no effect to attack Ye Tong's point, it may also cause Jiajing's disgust.

So how can Chen Jiude attack this point?

He said that Chen Jiude's son Chen Wenjie had a grudge against him, so did Chen Jiude falsely accuse him?

Although this matter is true, it is not reliable at all, because it must be verified in Fujian. It takes at least one month to go back and forth. What a joke? Isn’t this a test of Jiajing’s patience?

This excuse is unreliable, and you must think of other solutions. Yang Cong could only keep staring at Lu Bing's secret letter, hoping to come up with a solution.

The censor Chen Jiude impeached himself for personal gain and colluded with the Nanjing Minister of Revenue Zhang Shiche to divide the salt and seek huge profits.

Is there any loophole in this sentence?

He thought for a long time and finally realized that his father Yang Lin was not the one who started the salt business after Zhang Shiche took office!

The Yang family started the salt business four or five years ago. At that time, he was just a regular student in a county school, not even a scholar. Why did he work with Zhang Shiche, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing to divide the salt and attract huge profits?

Besides, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing at that time was not Zhang Shiche!

Thinking of this, Yang Cong immediately took out the letter paper, wrote a secret letter, and asked the confidant sent by Lu Bing to take it back quickly. Then, he personally went to persuade his parents to leave without any care and set out to the capital tomorrow.

What kind of land delivery or grain transportation may be wrong if his father Yang Lin is not there, but he can no longer take care of so much now. If there is a small problem here, it will not cost him his life. If there is a problem in the capital, it will be over.

At this moment, Lu Bing was also anxious like an ant on the hot pan. Yang Cong was gone. His magical ability to "solve cases" seemed to be gone. Three days have passed, and he has not made any progress in the cases of Yang Cong and Zhang Shiche.

Fortunately, on the third night, the confidant he sent out finally came back and brought back Yang Cong's secret letter.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, he led a brigade of Jinyiwei into the military department without hesitation.

Speaking of which, when we investigate the case of Yang Cong and Zhang Shiche, why did he break into the military office? Zhang Shiche is no longer the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War.

He rushed in to check the food and grass delivery records of the Datong border army. The Nanjing Ministry of Revenue must have this record, because the salt quota was sent by the Nanjing Ministry of Revenue. If there is a clear record for whom to be replaced, everything you exchanged must be replaced.

It must be too late to go to Nanjing’s Ministry of Revenue. The journey is too far, so he can only start with the Ministry of War, because the elite border troops in Datong Town are no longer guards, and are not under the jurisdiction of the Governor’s Office of the Five Army, but under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War. Whoever provided the elite troops here, naturally needs to make detailed records.

Sure enough, he searched through the documents of the Ministry of War for a while and then found the corresponding grain supply records of the border troops in Datong Town. It clearly records that starting four years ago, Fujian merchant Yang Lin provided 20,000 stones of grain to the border troops in Datong Town every year in exchange for 4,000 salt tracts, and each delivery record was clearly recorded.

In order not to arouse Jiajing's suspicion, he did not know Mao Bowen, the Minister of War, nor did he find Nie Bao, the Left Minister of War, to come to his door and turn over the things and leave.

He did this, which really scared Mao Bowen and Nie Bao, but it also avoided the suspicion of being under the melon field. In fact, he was doing this for the good of Mao Bowen and Nie Bao. As for whether Mao Bowen and Nie Bao knew about his goodness, it was not clear.

Jiajing was also a little anxious and angry at this moment. What happened to Lu Bing? He found out the two old cases in less than two hours last time. This time, what happened recently happened, why can't he find out clearly in two or three days?

Fortunately, Lu Bing is his tit brother, otherwise Jiajing would have to get angry if he did this time with a slow approach.

Lu Bing also knew that Jiajing must be a little impatient. He took the records of the Ministry of War and went straight to the imperial study. After the monarch and ministers greeted him, he couldn't wait to explain: "The emperor forgives the crime. Since Yang Cong and Zhang Shiche are not in the capital at all, the ministers have no idea how to start many things. Fortunately, the ministers vaguely remember that Yang Cong once said that his father had started the salt business many years ago, and he had not seen his parents for several years, so this time he hurried to Shanxi to pick him up.

His parents came to Beijing. This is a file from the Ministry of War. It clearly records that four years ago, Yang Cong's father, Yang Lin, a Fujian merchant, had begun to transport grain to exchange salt in Datong Town. Therefore, the wealth minister felt that Chen Jiude was falsely accusing Yang Cong of salt. He started to do salt business four years ago. At that time, Zhang Shiche was not the Minister of Revenue in Nanjing, and Yang Cong was just a school child in the county school. How could he use his power for personal gain and share salt in Nanjing with Zhang Shiche, the Minister of Revenue in Nanjing, and seek huge profits? "

When Jiajing heard this, his face became extremely ugly. He found that he might have been fooled!

He took the file from Lu Bing and saw that it was clear that the Fujian merchant Yang Lin started shipping grain to exchange salt in Datong Town four years ago.

Chen Jiude, you dare to fool me!

Although the censor is not guilty when he heard that he was not guilty, it is too much for you to slander a new top student in the subject. I remember you!
Chapter completed!
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