Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 617 Banning the Halo
Fortunately, the locusts only raged in Shandong and Henan provinces in the end, and the surrounding provinces were not affected.

Li Jing was flipping through the memorial when Ma Wu hurried over, clasped his fists at Li Jing, then took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Li Jing, "Commander, this is the news from my people from the Shandong newspaper."

Li Jing rubbed his eyes, waved his hands and said, "My eyes are a little tired, please tell me."

Ma Wu took a look, and the busy officials in the house took two steps forward, and whispered in Li Jing's ear, "The people below reported that most of the relief food allocated to Qufu County by the Yanzhou government was distributed by the magistrate of Qufu County." the Kongs."

Li Jingwen was shocked when he heard this: "What? The magistrate of Qufu distributed the grain to the Kong family? How could it be distributed to the Kong family? The Kong family owns thousands of hectares of land, and they can't sell all the grain every year. They still need to give it to the Kong family." Family allocation of food for disaster relief? Is there water in the head of Qufu county magistrate?"

Ma Wu hurriedly said: "The people below said that on the surface, it seems that the Qufu county magistrate allocated grain in the name of the disaster of the Kong family, but in fact, the Qufu county magistrate and the Kong family reached some kind of deal in private."

"Damn it!" Li Jing grabbed the letter from Ma Wu's hand and read it carefully.

After reading the letter, Li Jing felt the blood vessels in his temples throbbing. He pressed his head hard. Li Jing gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it, I'm worried that I have no excuse to punish Kong's family. Instead, he came to my door! Inform Zhou immediately!" Tiger get me someone, arrest Kong Yanzhi and the Kong family children involved in this case, as well as those criminals of the Kong family that you found out before."

Hearing what Li Jing said, Ma Wu knew that Li Jing was really angry. You must know how many years Li Jing hadn't cursed in such a tone.

Seeing Li Jing's pale face, Ma Wu said cautiously: "Commander, Kong Yanzhi is Lord Yansheng after all, so it seems inappropriate to use the army to arrest people?"

Li Jing snorted: "Without the army, who dares to go to the Kong family to arrest people in the local government? Tell Zhou Huhu, you are welcome, whoever dares to disobey will be killed without mercy!"

Ma Wu sighed inwardly, picked up the teacup from the table and handed it to Li Jingdao: "Brother, drink a cup of tea to calm down, anyway, the Kong family can't run away, so let's sum up this matter?"

Hearing Ma Wu calling his elder brother in the signing room, Li Jing was a little angry at first, and then realized that Ma Wu was afraid of dissuading him, so he took the anger on him, so he called himself that.

Thinking of Ma Wu being able to persuade himself at this pass, Li Jing couldn't help being moved.

Taking the teacup, Li Jing took a sip slowly to calm down the anger in his heart.

After a while, Li Jing patted Ma Wu's shoulder lightly, sighed and said, "Fifth brother, sit down and talk."

After speaking, he turned around and waved to Su Heng. When Su Heng saw him, he hurried over to pour a cup of tea for Ma Wu, and then backed away.

Picking up the teacup from the table and handing it to Ma Wu, Li Jing sighed, "Fifth brother, you are getting more and more stable now, and I am very pleased that you can still think of persuading me at this time."

Ma Wu took the teacup, turned it around in his hand, looked at Li Jing and said, "Actually, if you want to take down Kong Yanzhi, my people can do it, and you don't need to use the army at all, but I'm thinking that this matter can't be so hasty.

Some time ago, the students stopped taking the exams, and the eldest brother managed to attract the attention of those guys to other places. If I send someone to arrest Kong Yanzhi at this time, all the scholars in the world will immediately point their fingers at the elder brother again.

Now there is a lot of things in Luzon that have not been dealt with, and then there are locust plagues in Shandong and Henan. The eldest brother is so busy that he doesn't even have time to sleep. If those scholars get involved again, will the eldest brother still survive?

I want to implicate my elder brother in arresting people. If my elder brother personally orders the army to arrest people, I can imagine what will happen to those scholars, so I want to dissuade my elder brother. "

Li Jing sighed lightly and said, "You're right, I really didn't think about it just now."

Ma Wu shook his head: "Brother is so tired, of course brothers should try their best to share his worries at this time, but unfortunately, brother has no skills and can't help him with anything."

Li Jing patted Ma Wu's shoulder with a smile and said: "I can help, I can help. At the critical moment, it is you old brothers who can help me. I am afraid that my order has already been passed on to someone else. Go down, and only you can dissuade me from withdrawing this order.

You are right, Kong Yanzhi can't run away anyway, and at this time the army was sent to take him down. Those scholars who don't know the truth will inevitably arouse their hostility. This matter should be discussed in the long run. "

Sighing slightly, Li Jing continued: "It's not difficult to take down Kong Yanzhi, but the hard part is how to take down the aura of Lord Yansheng on his head."

Gently tapping on the table, Li Jing pondered for a while and said: "If you want to take down the halo on Kong Yanzhi's head, you have to let everyone know the evil things that the Kong family has done. Well, you can do it.

In this way, fifth brother, you can have someone sort out all the evil deeds committed by the Kong family. If there is evidence to prove it, put it aside for a while if there is no evidence. After sorting it out, ask Tu Shaoying to arrange someone to publish these things in the newspaper. "

Ma Wu hurriedly said: "I have all the evidence, I'll send someone to send these evidence."

Li Jingjing nodded: "Then you do it quickly, I have to meet with a few people to make arrangements."

Ma Wu cupped his fists and turned to leave.

After Ma Wu left, Li Jing got up and walked to the book office in the back room. Seeing Wen Qing, Su Heng and others were busy counting the disaster situation in various places, Li Jing said: "Jing Zhi, Ping Zhi, you two put the things in your hands away." Just let it go, come with me."

Wen Qing and Su Heng put down their pens hastily when they heard the words, and followed Li Jing to the study.

Sitting down behind the desk, Li Jing threw the letter from Ma Wu on the table: "You two have a look."

Wen Qing and Su Heng looked at each other, Wen Qing stepped forward to take the letter, opened it and read it with Su Heng.

After reading it, the faces of the two changed greatly: "Is this true?"

Li Jingjing nodded: "It was found out by Ma Wu's people."

Wen Qing said angrily: "Kong Yanzhi was in vain as a descendant of the most holy teacher, and he did such a thing that both people and gods outraged. Commander, send someone to arrest him, and remove him from the title of Lord Yansheng."

Su Heng also said: "Qufu only allocated [-] shi of grain in total. This is the life-saving food for the [-] people of Qufu. Kong Yanzhi and the county magistrate of Qufu actually took [-] shi. What qualifications do such people have to be named Yan Shenggong? Handsome, let’s order someone to be taken.”

"Take people? If I take down Kong Yanzhi, how do you think those scholars will react?" Li Jing shook his head and said.

Wen Qing and Su Heng looked at each other, and they both sighed softly and said, "We believe the fifth master's words, but most scholars probably won't believe it. There will definitely be another disturbance then."

Li Jing sighed: "Yes, there must be another storm, but now Shandong and Henan are suffering from locust plagues, so I don't have the energy to deal with those scholars."

"Then Kong Yanzhi can't be allowed to embezzle the relief food of the victims. If such a person is not killed, it will not be enough for the common people to be angry!" Wen Qing said anxiously.

"I must be arrested, but not now. I can only arrest people after those scholars know the true face of Kong Yanzhi." Li Jing said in a deep voice.

Wen Qing pondered for a while and said: "The commander-in-chief means to tell the world about Kong Yanzhi through newspapers?"

Li Jing nodded and said: "That's right, but the operation this time is different from the last time. Last time, you could use your own name to debate with those scholars in the newspaper as cabinet staff, but this time you absolutely can't." Use your own name, let alone reveal your identity."

"Why?" Su Heng asked puzzled.

Li Jing looked at Wen Qing with a smile and said, "Do you understand why you did this?"

Wen Qing pondered for a while, then said cautiously: "Students try to figure out what the commander-in-chief means. If what he said is wrong, the commander-in-chief will not blame you."

Li Jing smiled and nodded: "Say it boldly, it doesn't matter if you make a mistake."

Wen Qing arched his hands and said, "I am the Secretary of the Marshal, and many people know this identity. If Kong Yanzhi's embezzlement of ink and disaster relief food is exposed in our name, some people will inevitably have doubts in their hearts.

The commander-in-chief's book office knows that Kong Yanzhi is greedy for ink, so doesn't the commander-in-chief know?Now that you know, why not arrest Kong Yanzhi?What is the meaning of saying it in the newspaper?Is there some conspiracy?
At this time, if we take out the evidence, it will be more suspicious?The commander-in-chief even has the evidence, why didn't he arrest him?Obviously this evidence is fabricated, and the commander-in-chief did this to discredit Yan Shenggong.

If someone has such an idea, the commander-in-chief will immediately fall into a passive position, and the follow-up measures will be impossible, and he will even be forced to let Kong Yanzhi go. crimes of posterity.

But if we expose Kong Yanzhi's embezzlement of ink and food relief as ordinary people, such problems will not arise.Under normal circumstances, everyone would think that people from the Qufu County Government accidentally leaked this news, and then someone with a heart stabbed it out.

At this time, if someone questioned why the commander-in-chief didn't arrest people, the commander-in-chief would have a reason to explain. After all, Kong Yanzhi was Yan Shenggong, and he was the first-rank Duke of Ming Dynasty. People with such identities must be investigated clearly, right?
In this way, the commander-in-chief has room to buffer and move.

The students took the liberty to guess what the commander meant, and when everyone paid attention to this matter, the time would be ripe, and the commander should order the arrest. "

Li Jing nodded with a smile on his face: "Jingzhi, it seems that you have done a good job working under Chen Dahu for the past six months, and you have finally matured to think about issues."

Wen Qing smiled embarrassedly: "The student didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and thought that he could complete the task assigned by the general with a passion, but he didn't expect that the student spent several months on a simple matter, and the result was not satisfactory. Satisfactory."

Li Jing said with a smile: "You don't need to belittle yourself. It's the first time you're on an errand, and it's still a job of persuading people. It's already very good to be able to do this. You must know that the most difficult thing in this world is to persuade others. It is naturally more difficult for you to convince so many people.

The only problem is that the handling of leaders such as Ruan Dayue and Ma Shiying was not decisive enough.But the flaws do not conceal the merits. Generally speaking, the errand was handled well, and I am very satisfied. "

(End of this chapter)