Chapter 228

Zhang Hao quickly walked to the Jinyiwei prison. After Lu Bing saw Zhang Hao, he immediately came out.

"Have you met Mr. Lu An!"

"I have seen the commander, did you get up so early?" Zhang Hao asked with a smile when he saw Lu Bing.

"Hey, older people can't sleep. Unlike you, you can still stay in bed now!" Lu Bing immediately said with a wry smile, and then asked Zhang Hao: "I heard that they all said it, but it's true?"

"I don't know either. I'll go and see it. When I finish watching it, I'll tell you!" Zhang Hao said and continued walking forward.

Lu Bing originally wanted to follow, but after hearing Zhang Hao say this, it is difficult to continue to follow. Zhang Hao's meaning is very obvious. This matter has nothing to do with you. Soon, Zhang Hao arrived at the Jinyiwei prison and found that those people were already asleep.

"Sir, look at the confessions of those people, all of them are here, including how much they have corruption, and we have also asked them about other things and explained them!" Chen Lian came over with those records and said to Zhang Hao,

Zhang Hao sat down and looked at the confessions carefully. He didn't know if he didn't look at them. He was really scared. Since these people became officials, the money they had been corrupt in was no less than 15 million taels. Some people have served as prefects for fifteen or sixteen years, and they have served in two or three places. This is true.

Some people, who were the prefectural chiefs before, began to be corrupt when they were the prefectural chiefs and could continue to be transferred to the prefect. Zhang Hao sat there and watched carefully. The list of officials spit out was no less than 100, and they were all corrupt. There were even officials from the Ministry of Revenue and officials from the Ministry of Works!

Some officials from the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites were involved, and some gave generous gifts to those officials in order to get promoted.

However, what made Zhang Hao feel strange was that the people here did not involve the three cabinet ministers. Zhang Hao thought about it and maybe their level could not reach the cabinet ministers.

Zhang Hao sat there and watched it for almost an hour before he finished reading all the confessions.

And on Jiajing's side, Jiajing felt very strange at this moment. No matter what happened, Zhang Hao would come here to see it in the morning. After watching himself, he would do other things. But he didn't come this morning. Jiajing thought that he was probably investigating the case now, but investigating the case is OK. Zhang Hao would come here first.

"Lu Fang, why didn't Zhang Manzi come here this morning?" Jiajing looked at Lu Fang and asked.

"Your Majesty, I don't know this servant. Why don't you send someone to ask?" Lu Fang was stunned for a moment and immediately said to Jiajing.

"No, wait a minute, this kid probably has something to do, it may be related to the investigation of the case, but how could those officials vomit it out so easily?" Jiajing shook his head and said.

"Yes, I guess I'll come here later!" Lu Fang nodded and agreed.

After Zhang Hao read the confessions, he immediately began to interrogate the officials. The first one was Liang Qingzhou, the prefect of Shunde Prefecture. Liang Qingzhou was woken up by the Jinyiwei, and he had been sleeping for more than two hours.

When Liang Qingzhou arrived at the room where the interrogation was interrogated, he saw Zhang Hao sitting there and his head was lowered.

"Didn't you say that you can only tell the whereabouts of the money when you see me?" Zhang Hao sat there, stared at Liang Qingzhou and asked.

"Mr. Lu An, I have the conditions to let my son and daughter go, and I will tell you all, otherwise I will not say anything. I know that if I say it, my son and daughter will die! If you don't agree, I will let all the money be rotten in the ground!" Liang Qingzhou immediately said to Zhang Hao.

"All sons and daughters?" Zhang Hao heard this and smiled at Liang Qingzhou.

"That's right, all! My wife and I, and those concubines, can all die, but our children cannot die!" Liang Qingzhou said firmly.

"That's impossible. If you don't say it, I will let your sons and daughters die in front of you. You know I can do it. And you are the prefectures under the capital. I have heard of me handling cases like this!" Zhang Hao sat there, staring at him and said.

"I know, sir, I admit that I am guilty, but I have said everything, including whom I colluded with. I have said so many useful news, and I have made meritorious contributions. Can't I let my children go?" Liang Qingzhou sat there and said in great grief.

"I can only tell you that I can guarantee that all your children under the age of six can live. I can't guarantee the others!" Zhang Hao looked at Liang Qingzhou and said.

"But they are so young, how can they survive?" Liang Qingzhou stared at Zhang Hao and said angrily.

"Everyone enters the Jiaofangsi!" Zhang Hao said coldly.

"That's not OK, Lu Anhou, they are still young, they don't know anything, and they can't send it to the Jiaofangsi. Please, I know I'm wrong, I've said everything, this is my last trump card. If you don't agree, I would rather bite my tongue and commit suicide than say it! Anyway, it's all dead!" Liang Qingzhou sat there and said to Zhang Hao.

"Then, I promise you that you can not go to the Jiafangsi and ask your relatives to pick you up, how about it?" Zhang Hao said to Liang Qingzhou.

"No, they will abuse my child!" Liang Qingzhou sat there and shook his head and said.

"You are not qualified to negotiate with me. Although those young children are innocent, are your eldest son, second son, eldest daughter, second daughter, innocent? Your eldest son is involved in your corruption process.

Your eldest daughter, second daughter, and all you marry are corrupt officials. Are they innocent when they received a huge amount of dowry? Of course, I know that they will not die in sin, but this is the law of the Ming Dynasty. You know the law of the Ming Dynasty better than me!" Zhang Hao stared at Liang Qingzhou and said very seriously.

"Mr. Lu An, I know, I know, please, please go to the emperor and ask for something? Please, we all know, if you go to the emperor and ask for mercy, the emperor will definitely agree. Please, just because we have said everything, please help us!" Liang Qingzhou said to Zhang Hao crying at this moment.

Zhang Hao sighed.

"Mr. Lu An, you will leave my eldest son behind, bring those children under the age of six to keep them alive. I will make them thank you for your great kindness forever!" Liang Qingzhou continued to say to Zhang Hao.

"Impossible, I can relax until I was ten years old, this is what I can do. In addition, among your concubines, I will be more involved and can release one or two of them. As for your eldest son, I'm sorry, he has committed a crime, I can't let him go!" Zhang Hao looked at Liang Qingzhou and said,

When Liang Qingzhou heard this, he nodded and said, "Okay, okay, they don't know about my concubines. Some of them bought them for money, and some of them were robbed openly and secretly!"

"In this way, I won't ask you where the money is now. I want to interrogate them. If it's all for this request, I'll ask the emperor for instructions!" Zhang Hao looked at Liang Qingzhou and said.

"Thank you, Mr. Lu An, Mr. Lu An, you will repay your great kindness in the next life!" Liang Qingzhou said and stood up, then knelt down.

"Take it away!" Zhang Hao waved his hand in a sigh, and then asked the Jinyiwei to take the next one.

"Sir, don't sympathize with them!" Chen Lian persuaded Zhang Hao.

"I don't sympathize with them, because there are indeed some innocent people here, including those children over ten years old. Some of them don't know what's going on and they're going to die. I sympathize with those children! As for adults, there is no sympathy. They deserve their sins and cannot survive. What can I do?" Zhang Hao sat there and sighed.

Then, Zhang Hao continued to interrogate other prisoners, all of which meant, hoping to protect the children, which means that they had previously colluded with confessions, but in the Ministry of Justice prison, because in the Jinyiwei prison, they were all detained alone and there was no possibility of collusion.

After the interrogation of the prisoners, Zhang Hao went to the palace. It was almost noon. When Zhang Hao arrived at the palace, Jiajing was very happy, but when he saw Zhang Hao's expression, it seemed that something was wrong.

"What's wrong? You didn't come early in the morning!" Jiajing looked at Zhang Hao and asked.

"Hey, they all vomited. I'm going to strike while the iron is hot and ask clearly. But, hey, Master, these are their confessions. Look, I'm hungry, I'll go eat something!" Zhang Hao said as he sent the confessions to Jiajing's desk.

"I said it all? So quickly?" Jiajing asked in surprise when he heard this.

"Yes, I said it all, but where the money is hidden. I didn't say it. Master, please finish reading it first!" Zhang Hao said to Jiajing.

"Okay, don't go to the cafeteria to eat, Lu Fang, go prepare the food, eat here!" Jiajing nodded and ordered Lu Fang,

Then he took the confessions and started to read them. On the way, Jiajing slapped the table several times because these confessions involved too much money and people. Some of the money was money for disaster relief, and some of the money was money for plundering the people, and these people could force them to have no way to survive.

After a while, Lu Fang brought the food, and Zhang Hao sat there and ate silently.

Lu Fang felt that Zhang Hao was a little strange today. It seemed that after the confessions were released, Zhang Hao was not happy at all. However, when he saw Jiajing angry there, he thought that it might be like Jiajing, he was angry at the actions of those officials.

It was almost an hour before Jiajing finished reading the confessions. After reading them, Jiajing took a few deep breaths, suppressed the anger in his heart, then stood up, walked around the alchemy room with his hands behind his back.

Then he arrived at Zhang Hao and asked, "What are the conditions for them not to tell where the money is hidden?"

"Ah, Master, do you know?" Zhang Hao looked at Jiajing in surprise and said.
Chapter completed!