Chapter 277: The mantis stalks the cicada, the oriole is behind
After experiencing poverty and hatred, we have to return to reality. Zhao Zhenji ordered Chen Mo and Wang Yongji to say, "Starting tomorrow, we will interrogate the account of the Governor's Office. You two will pre-examine first, and give me a review of the confession, and then make a decision."
Wang Yongji asked softly: "Mr. The emperor of the Ministry, the imperial edict only allows us to find out the case of 'Japanese/gangs disturbing Nanjing'. Now we have sealed off the Governor's yamen and interrogated the officials in the yamen. Will this be a bit biased?"
Zhao Zhenji said unhappily: "Zheng Wang, I am the host, you are just co-organizer, I will decide what to do, you just need to follow it."
Wang Yongji stopped his mouth helplessly, stood up and saluted with silence, and said, "I will obey the order."
"Go down." Zhao Zhenji closed his eyes tiredly and ordered.
"The officials left." The two of them left the lobby together. Seeing that it was getting late, they left the small inn.
Chen Si was about to bend down to get into the sedan chair, but Wang Yongji called out and said, "My words, let's go."
Silently nodded, letting the sedan chair follow behind and walking side by side in the alley with him. The two walked silently for a while, and Wang Yongji said softly: "My words, you should help Hu Zhongcheng speak today."
Chen Silent smiled and said, "I just want to be realistic."
"But this will make people feel that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it," Wang Yongji frowned slightly and said, "Many incidents have happened in his life."
"How could I think so much?" Chen Si shook his head and said, "I thought so at that time, so I blurted out. Now it's too late to regret."
"You are still too young." Wang Yongji sighed and said, "The situation of our anti-Japanese war has just improved. Now the Japanese pirates are basically unable to go deep into the mainland. This is all the credit of Hu Zhongcheng and Cao Zhongcheng. Even if he really has a slight flaw in his moral integrity, we should try our best to protect... This is not to protect someone, but to protect the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang."
Chen Yun nodded and said, "I know, I won't make things difficult for him in the future." Until he entered the inn and walked to the residence of Chen Yun, Wang Yongji was still trying hard to persuade him. Seeing that Chen Yun was just timid and didn't know how much he heard, he shook his head helplessly and separated from him.
When I returned to the room, I washed my face and brought the food. I was silent but had no appetite at all. I barely ate a bowl of porridge, then put down the bowls and chopsticks and entered the inner room. The guards looked at each other, wondering what was wrong with the adults.
After entering the inner room, I wanted to read a book for a while, but I couldn't read a word, so I could just go to bed. Unexpectedly, I still couldn't sleep after lying down. I stared at the beam with my eyes open. What happened recently flashed clearly in front of me:
After the initial chaos, the current situation in Zhejiang has become clear...at least it seems. Now Zhao Zhenji is opening fire on the Yan Party, vowing to bring Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian to justice, at least to drive him out of Zhejiang, but he has always had two questions. One is why Zhao Zhenji is so paranoid? Even when everyone opposes and looks hopeless, he still resolutely tear his face and attacks Hu Zongxian. He does not believe that an old official who has experienced the ups and downs of the officialdom will do such a reckless act without any consequences.
The other is, where did his two account books come from?
Although Zhao Zhenji was taken out of the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Revenue was Yan Song's forbidden body. From top to bottom, they were all Yan Party. At that time, Zhao Zhenji had many troubles and was finally dismissed from office because he fell into that dark den. So he was silent and did not believe that he had the ability to take out Zhejiang's account books from the Ministry of Revenue warehouse. Taking a step back ten thousand steps, even if he could get it, it would not be possible to send it from Beijing to him in such a short time. After all, the 800-mile rush is not a child's house. Except for the emperor and Yan Song who could use it openly, the rest of the people could not use it except for military and national affairs.
So silently inferred that there is a force hidden behind Zhao Zhenji, either his accomplices, or just using him, in short, they can be so powerful that they get Zhejiang's account books in a short time, or they have been prepared long ago, just waiting for Master Zhao to appear...
Thinking of this, Shun Shi shuddered, suddenly sat up, his mind became clear, and he muttered to himself: "Have we ignored the real masterminds all the time?!" If there was really a force that planned the appearance of the powerful whirlwind and provided reliable evidence for Zhao Zhenji to arouse the anger of this old master, then everything would be easy to explain!
I recalled silently before the Japanese pirates appeared. Although the situation of anti-Japanese war in Zhejiang was still serious, as Wang Yongji said, everything was developing in a better place. Although the people and the wealthy people in Zhejiang suffered a little, they all understood that if the Japanese pirates could not escape, their lives would not be saved. Therefore, although they complained, they did not have a penny of money to pay.
For Wang Xuemen and the families behind them, Japanese pirates are the biggest enemy. Many people even contributed all their wealth to support the anti-Japanese war, just to live a peaceful life earlier, and that would not be exchanged for any amount of money.
As a member of Zhejiang, Chen Si knew this very well, so he did not believe that the wealthy Japanese riots would rashly disrupt the situation due to some losses in money when everything was going well.
However, Zhao Zhenji believed from the moment he appeared that it was because the method of introducing the editor touched the interests of the big investors, and now he obtained the two inexplicable books, which even allowed Master Zhao to find the connection between "strict party corruption" and "Japanese/siege invasion of the capital". It seemed that he was determined to report it with this conclusion... as long as he found enough evidence.
"But is there a necessary relationship between 'corruption' and 'invasion of the capital'?" Chen Si said to himself: "Although corruption will cause grudges, under the overall situation of anti-Japanese war, the concentration will definitely be diluted a lot, and it is unlikely to cause real action."
Sitting up, tapping the tabletop, and turning up the pen, writing four names: "Yan Dang", "Li Dang", "Xu Dang" and "Big House" on the paper. The current situation in Zhejiang seems to be the result of struggles between all parties, but Silence dares to boldly assume that in addition to these forces on the table, there are also extremely clever forces, hidden behind the scenes to manipulate and provoke, making these guys on the table have a lot of fun.
This force is so powerful and is extremely dissatisfied with the situation in Zhejiang this year, so I planned the entire incident in hopes of benefiting from it.
Silence found that as long as this assumption was introduced, everything that had been incredible before became very easy to understand. Once this assumption was removed, the causal relationship between many phenomena would become more difficult and far-fetched.
"This force must exist!" He hit the table hard and cut the railway firmly.
So what you have to do now is to find it out!
This is not a difficult task. Silence wrote a line of words on the paper and said: "Who is the most dissatisfied with the status quo? Who is the ultimate beneficiary?" The bizarre reality is just an illusion created by this black hand. These two questions can help Silence, through the fog, catch the black hand hidden behind it! No matter how well it is hidden, it is useless!
Who is dissatisfied with the current situation? First, we must know what the biggest situation in Zhejiang is, the situation of anti-Japanese war is getting better! So this question is easy to answer - it must be the Japanese/pirates the most dissatisfied. But I know that the Japanese/pirates are not capable of relying on them alone, because although they may gather 200 ronin, they cannot create this situation and cannot obtain Zhejiang's account books.
Or you should expand the circle of dissatisfaction and think in silence. Another dissatisfaction group emerged - Fujian and Zhejiang maritime merchants. These large coastal families have extensive and in-depth participation in maritime smuggling activities and serve as suppliers for the Japanese/pirates' sea fleet. The relationship between the two sides is extremely close. Almost every time the Japanese/pirates land and rob, these people will investigate in advance and inform them in order to get a part of the stolen goods.
Now Hu Zongxian is cracking down on the Japanese in the coastal areas, and this move has been strongly supported by the coastal people who are deeply disturbed. Many large families who colluded with Japanese pirates are closely monitored, and their children in their families are forced to be qualified, and their reputation and status have plummeted... This is better. If Zhao Wenhua had not been jealous of money and accepted huge bribes and strictly prohibited Hu Zongxian from taking extreme actions, many coastal families would have been confiscated and exterminated.
How could they not hate Hu Zongxian? How could they be satisfied with the status quo?
Let’s see if Hu Zongxian is defeated, the good situation of fighting against the Japanese will be in vain. The people and gentry will live in dire straits again, but Japanese pirates can invade on a large scale, and Fujian and Zhejiang maritime merchants can also smuggle on a large scale!
So their crime motives are ten thousand times stronger than those of the mainland!
Chen Si suddenly remembered someone, Zhu Wan! There is no doubt that the black hand that defeated him is definitely the same as Hu Zongxian now!
No matter how good the whitewashing hides, no one in the world has enough ability and motivation to complete a series of actions.
"It's them!" Silently and firmly: "Zhao Zhenji was fooled, Hu Zongxian was framed, and the gentry in Zhejiang was regarded as scapegoats, that's all."
But the silence soon fell down because although the plan was not so clever, it was very fatal - because they accurately grasped two weaknesses: Zhao Zhenji's hatred of evil and Hu Zongxian's embezzlement of military pay.
Corruption of military pay is true, there is no need for any evidence, because Hu Zongxian even said to Chen Si personally: "Yan Shifan is greedy and Zhao Wenhua is greedy. I am entangled by these two vampires. My reputation in this life is completely over."
Chapter completed!