Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 77 Start Your Show

At almost the same moment when the 32 cash boxes were transported to the court hall, Wang Zixing led a team of people to break through the gate of Hu Langzhong, the general supervisor of the Ministry of Industry, because the manager of the Yinfang confessed that it was Hu Langzhong who issued the private tax stamp. instruct.

The next step was naturally the same, tortured him on the spot, forced him to confess who gave his instructions, and then asked him to draw his fingerprints on the confession.

The next step is to break the door and arrest the next person, go through the process of doing things again, still according to the confession, along the melon vine one by one to the root, because this matter must be seized, so I didn't stop for a moment in the middle hesitated.

In less than half an hour, not counting the low-level role of the seal manager, Wang Zixing led his troops to arrest one of the general supervisors of the Ministry of Works, a director of the Ministry of Works, and even a tea and salt officer. Si's doctor and a promotion official from Kaifeng Prefecture were also implicated and arrested together.

Four people were arrested and four confessions were obtained, but if you want to continue to rely on the confessions, you can no longer do it.

Because the superior who was confessed by the head of the Ministry of Industry is the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and the Minister of the Ministry of Industry is discussing matters in the court hall at the moment. Arrest and torture people in front of the emperor and his ministers.

At this point, there has been a lot of commotion. Of course, it is impossible not to leak the news. The affected government offices of the Ministry of Industry, the Department of Tea and Salt Promotion, and the government office of Kaifeng have all exploded.

The yamen of the Kaifeng government once tried to stop Wang Zixing from leading someone to arrest their fellow official, but was resisted by Wang Zixing with an official order from Zhao Dezhao.

The Ministry of Works Yamen who was in charge was arrested, and the Tea and Salt Lifting Division Yamen who was arrested and had a good reputation all had similar reactions: they were caught off guard and their attempts to stop them were fruitless.

The middle- and lower-level officials working in these yamen are soft-spoken, and naturally they can't take the courage to stand up and stand up, especially when the other party seems to be justified - Wang Zixing has an official document from the king of Tianshui County and the deed tax supervisor in his hand The order states that anyone who disrupts the imperial taxation will be arrested. Those who dare to stop him will be obstructing the official's work.

Although Xiaoyu Xiaoxia is not the most important thing, there are still big bosses who can talk enough, and there is always one or two big bosses in each yamen.

Just at this moment, the bosses of all the yamen went to the court to discuss matters, and the subordinates wanted to report the situation urgently, but they were not qualified to enter the palace, so they could only wait around in a hurry at the palace gate of the imperial city.

"Okay, let's call it a day!"

After finishing the last vote, Wang Zixing ordered someone to torture him, and after obtaining a confession from the doctor of the Tea Salt Lifting Department, he waved his hand and said:

"Immediately escort the five criminals to the Yamen of Kaifeng Prefecture!"

"Uncle! The villain doesn't understand. We finally caught it and sent it back to the Kaifeng government office?! There is a pusher here who was arrested in the Kaifeng government office. They fought, and now they are sent back? Isn't it a waste of time!"

A small guard leader from Tianshui County Prince's Mansion immediately objected. He put his hand on the handle of his saber, and looked at Wang Zixing with a rather unkind look. It seemed that he suspected that his uncle, the Prince, had been bribed and betrayed by others. Prince.

Wang Zixing was originally a dog-faced temper who would blow up at one point or not at one point, but for the sake of the knife, he decided to explain patiently: "This is arranged by His Royal Highness, I just follow the order Follow up..."

"Let the tiger go back to the mountain, and let the snake go into the cave, how could His Royal Highness arrange this!" The head of the guard refused to believe it, and looked very angry.

"Let me ask you, if the King of Jin is stationed at the Yamen of Kaifeng Mansion, can we break in and catch the person who pushed the official?"

The leader of the guards was honest, and after thinking about it, he said: "No. If there is a king of Jin sitting in the government office, if he arrests the steward of the Yinfang and arrests at most another one, we will have to arrest the whole group of Kaifeng government officials to the government office." The prison is eating!"

"Let me ask you again, when King Jin knows about this, he will naturally propose to transfer the criminal to Kaifeng Prefecture for interrogation, can our county king still keep it?
"Of course it can't be kept. It is the responsibility of Kaifeng Prefecture to try and handle criminal cases. The Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple will not stop it. The Holy One has no reason to stop it."

"That's right. Since the prisoner can't be detained anyway, it's better to take the initiative to send it there first, so that the Kaifeng government has nothing to say. The criminal is not important, but the confession is important."

Wang Zixing paused for a moment, changed his mind, and took a look at the head of the guards: "You are a smart and reasonable listener. I don't need you to escort the criminals to the government office. There is a more important matter for you."

As he spoke, he took out five confessions and handed them to the guard leader.

These five pieces of tissue paper were the final harvest of the six or seventy of them who had been running around in Tokyo today, tossing around like crazy.

"You immediately find a way to send it into the palace and hand it over to His Highness, the sooner the better!"

"The sooner His Highness gets it, the more confident he will be when he speaks in court!"

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Just as the head of the guards was galloping towards the imperial city on horseback, above the main hall of the imperial court, Tang Jixian, the censor Zhongcheng, leaned over and stretched out his hand, grabbed a large handful of copper coins in the cash box, and then threw his hands away, jingling , The hall is full of copper coins rolling around.

Seeing this scene, all the officials looked at each other in blank dismay, and some even wondered if the Yushi Zhongcheng was pretending to be crazy because he saw that he was not doing well?
Only Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi lowered his eyebrows and looked down, like an old monk in meditation, which seemed to have nothing to do with him.

Zhao Dezhao glanced at Uncle Jin's face, then at Tang Jixian standing in the center of the hall, guessed something vaguely in his heart, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Zhao Kuangyin didn't think this was funny, his face was terribly gloomy, and he asked sharply:

"Tang Jixian! In the court, you are openly throwing away national funds. What do you mean? You just throw away my son after all his hard work. Do you really think that I have no temper?"

"It's not state money, it's private money!" Tang Jixian yelled, his words were shocking!
Above the main hall, there was a moment of silence.

The officials were dumbfounded.

Zhao Kuangyin's face was ashen on the throne, he had decided that the old man was just pretending to be crazy, and was about to call the servant to drive him out.

Tang Jixian suddenly sighed and knelt down in the center of the hall, tears streaming from his eyes.

Everyone couldn't help being surprised again, because ministers usually don't have to kneel down unless there are special circumstances or very formal occasions, which was not popular in the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Dezhao wanted to laugh so much, he could only hold it back, thinking: "Old man Tang, let's start your performance, I want to see who can perform better than whom today?"

Zhao Kuangyin's anger remained unabated: "Tang Jixian, are you pleading guilty? I gave you a chance, but you're just pleading guilty and repenting now. Don't you think it's too late?"

"I plead guilty!"

Tang Jixian knelt on the ground, with tears in his eyes, and said heartbrokenly:
"I confessed the crime of concealing it for the king of Tianshui County, and confessed the crime of bluntly hurting the relationship between the Holy Father and his son!"

"The Holy Majesty gave Tianshui County King a chance, and the minister also gave Tianshui County King a chance!"

"But now, for the sake of the Song Dynasty, I have to risk my life to speak out!"

(End of this chapter)