Jinling, Zhejiang-level Governor's Office.

Zhao Wenhua looked at the secret letter Yan Song ordered people to send him in a hurry, and his hands couldn't stop trembling.

He knew that he had fallen, and this time, he was dead!

This guy Yang Cong was so shameless that he ordered someone to forge official documents and confessions. Not only Yan Song did not expect this, but he did not expect it either.

However, even if they know that official documents and confessions are forged, the official documents and confessions are indeed forged, but what he did is true and cannot withstand investigation at all.

He knew very well that there was nothing to do with this matter. Once it was started, not only would he fall into trouble, but he would even implicate Yan Song.

He knew it, and Yan Song naturally knew it better.

Even if Yan Song wrote a secret letter, he did not mention the dirty things between the two. He just kept blaming him in the tone of an elder. He should not deceive the emperor, should not have affair with Japanese pirates, and should not have ordered people to pretend to be pirates and Japanese pirates to cause trouble.

This is already very obvious. You deceive the emperor and have an affair with Japanese pirates, and even order people to pretend to be pirates and Japanese pirates to cause trouble in the area. The emperor has already known about it. Hurry up and die for me!

Damn it!

If you told me to die, why don’t you die? You old guy, if you didn’t come up with these bad ideas, would I be today?

Zhao Wenhua cursed hatefully in his heart, but he didn't dare to really do anything to Yan Song. He even didn't dare to sue Yan Song and make out the good things he did.

Because he knew that if he dared to do this, not only would he finish it, but his Zhao family and even the Xie family in Yuyao were finished, Yan Song would definitely take revenge wildly, and no one of his family could escape.

In fact, if you deceive the emperor and mislead the superiors, you will have an affair with Japanese pirates, and even order people to pretend to be pirates and Japanese pirates to cause trouble in the area, you will also implicate your family. Yan Song’s meaning of writing this letter is to ask him to break up quickly, not to implicate his family, and not to implicate the people above.

By the way, Jiajing already knew that he had deceived the emperor and had an affair with Japanese pirates, and even ordered people to pretend to be pirates and Japanese pirates to cause trouble. Even if he died, what's the use?

Can these sins be spared if he dies?

Will he not be implicated in his family if he dies?

It depends on how he dies!

These days, there are many ways for officials to die.

Some people who devoted their efforts and died of exhaustion in office;

Someone who evades guilty and commits suicide fearing crime;

Some people suddenly fell ill and died of death;

Some people are old and weak, and those who die without illness, etc.

Yan Song’s meaning is not to make him commit suicide fearing guilt, but to make him suddenly fall ill and die of death!

There is a difference between suicide fearing and death without cure. If he commits suicide fearing, his family and even others will still be implicated because he is "fearing guilt", then he is guilty.

If he is not cured, it is an accident. Since it is an accident, it is not a conviction. Since he has not been convicted, he will not pursue others again.

This is also a hidden rule in the Ming Dynasty officialdom.

So, how can we not be cured and die?

These days, the easiest way for officials to die is to eat rhubarb and pull themselves to death!

Rhubarb is a laxative. If you take too much, it is a powerful laxative. If you take rhubarb as a meal, it will be like dysentery, and it will continue to bleed until you die!

In the Tianqi Dynasty and the Chongzhen Dynasty, many officials chose to eat rhubarb in order to avoid implicating their families and pulled themselves to death. Even Ming Guangzong Zhu Changluo was fed to the point of being exhausted by eunuchs, and then sent a red pill to the road.

Of course, these are all later stories, so I won’t be able to explain it for the time being.

At this moment, Zhao Wenhua was considering whether to buy a bunch of rhubarb as a meal.

He thought about it for a long time and decided to eat!

Although this way of death is uncomfortable, it is always more comfortable than being imprisoned and punished. More importantly, it will not involve family members. If you die, you will die, and you will die!

So he ordered people to buy a bunch of rhubarb and eat it.

So, before Yang Cong took office, he received news that Zhao Wenhua, the former governor of Zhejiang Province, suddenly fell seriously ill and seemed to be unable to do so.

This guy is really sick.

Of course, Yang Cong didn't know that Zhao Wenhua bought a bunch of rhubarb and was about to eat himself to death. Such things would definitely not be promoted everywhere.

Zhao Wenhua is dead, is his family really okay?

In fact, Yan Song is lying to him!

Yan Song's meaning seemed to be saying that as long as he died, he would try his best to protect his family. In fact, Yan Song had no intention of paying attention to him at all, let alone his family!

When he died, no one could dig out the filth between him and Yan Song. As for his family, Yan Song would not care about it. He had an affair with Japanese pirates, and even ordered people to pretend to be pirates and Japanese pirates to cause trouble. Yan Song did not dare to protect such things openly!

Of course, Yang Cong was not so bored and insisted on killing others. He would not pursue Zhao Wenhua's family, but Yuyao Xie did not intend to let him go.

After he received the appointment and removal documents, he boarded the train that day and headed straight to Jinling City, Nanzhili.

This guy, the speed of the train is fast, and the 800-mile rush is impossible to compare with it. Yan Song delayed for some time and made various excuses to block the appointment and removal documents so that Zhao Wenhua had time to stop it on his own, but Zhao Wenhua had no time to arrange for the Xie family in Yuyao to avoid disaster.

Or in other words, he had no intention of paying attention to these things at all. He was about to die, so how could he have so many thoughts?

Coincidentally, the day when Yang Cong took office was the time when Zhao Wenhua died of illness in the Jinling Mansion. This person was dead, so naturally he could not be investigated. In addition, Zhao Wenhua was not convicted, so this guy was not considered a guilty minister.

He pretended to go to Zhao's Mansion to pay tribute, and then secretly ordered Tang Kekuan and Qi Jingtong, who were rushing to Yangzhou Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture to encircle and suppress pirates and Japanese pirates, to quickly dispatch people to Yuyao and control the Xie clan!

By the way, is he sick? Jiajing asked him to encircle and suppress pirates and Japanese pirates. However, he ignored the pirates in Yangzhou Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture, and instead ordered people to deal with the Xie family in Yuyao. Is he trying to avenge his private revenge, take the opportunity to retaliate against Yan Song, or use this to establish his authority?

Of course not, because he knew that the root of pirates and Japanese pirates was the wealthy maritime merchants. Only by cleaning up the wealthy maritime merchants could he completely deal with pirates and Japanese pirates!

Last time, he took advantage of the opportunity of encircling and suppressing pirates and Japanese pirates and used the Nantai Shipyard to build ships for pirates and Japanese pirates, and he had almost completely cleaned up the Lin family of Zhangpu and Chen family of Longxi. Therefore, Fujian is calm now and nothing is wrong.

This time, of course, he had to take the opportunity to deal with the Yuyao Xie family and Ningbo Tu family. You must know that Wang Zhi was holding hundreds of prisoners in his hands, and these people could be used to prove the Yuyao Xie family and even the Ningbo Tu family.

The reason why he attacked the Xie family in Yuyao was not because of Zhao Wenhua, but because of Xie Shixian. Because there were many people among the prisoners captured by Wang Zhi, the last time he intercepted Wang Zhi's fleet, the one who led the team was Xie Shixian.

If this guy is caught, the Yuyao Xie family will be basically finished. If the Yuyao Xie family is finished, he will naturally have a way to involve the Ningbo Tu family.
Chapter completed!