My father is Jiajing

Chapter 447 Wang Zhi Must Die

cabinet.

Yan Song is now very old and can only sit at the top seat in the cabinet with his head lowered to recuperate. He is no longer the sleeping tiger he used to be. Yan Shifan can't help but feel anxious when he sees his father in such a bad condition.

Then he saw that Xu Jie, Lu Ben and others were still in high spirits, and his mood was even more indescribable.

Yan Shifan said, "You have all heard about this, right? Hu Ruzhen escorted Wang Zhi to the capital, but did not hand him over to the Ministry of Justice. Instead, he was sent to the Imperial Prison. I think he got confused in Zhejiang and even forgot the laws of the court."

"How can a thief like Wang Zhi be sent to the imperial prison? He should be taken to the Ministry of Justice as soon as possible and handed over to the three judicial departments for trial and conviction to set things right! Lord Xu and Lord Lu, do you think this is what you mean?"

When Xu Jie heard Yan Shifan's righteous words, he looked up slightly, but he was not looking at Yan Shifan, but at Yan Song beside Yan Shifan. Seeing that Yan Song was still dull and distracted, Xu Jie's attitude became even more respectful.

Xu Jie sighed inwardly, and then turned his gaze to Yan Shifan. Xu Jie said, "Hu Ruzhen's behavior was indeed against the rules, but he is the person involved in the specific complexity of the situation in the southeast. This time the court summoned him back and personally escorted Wang Zhi to Beijing, which was also the intention of Prince Yu. Your Majesty has not made any statement on this."

"Now that he has sent someone to the imperial prison, there may be other hidden meanings behind this, which we cannot speculate on our own. So, what I mean is to wait and see what Wang Zhi confesses in the imperial prison, and what Hu Ruzhen will say when he officially reports to the court."

"Otherwise, we will be so anxious to think that Hu Ruzhen is not doing things according to the rules, which is hard to stand on. So Donglou, you don't have to be too anxious about this matter now. I think the elder is very calm."

When Yan Shifan heard Xu Jie's words, he wanted to curse. How could his father be calm? He was distracted, okay?
But as a good son, Yan Shifan certainly couldn't just jump out and say that his father was so calm because he was distracted.

Therefore, Yan Shifan could only hold back his dissatisfaction and continue to stand beside his father, thinking about his next plan.

No matter what other court officials thought, Yan Shifan must kill Wang Zhi. If Wang Zhi did not die, Luo Longwen would not be able to play an important role.

Therefore, apart from those southern families whose smuggling interests have been damaged by Wang Zhi's expansion, Yan Shifan is the person who most actively wants to kill Wang Zhi.

But will Wang Zhi die?
Obviously, with Zhu Zaigui as an anomaly, it would be difficult for Wang Zhi to die.

On the second day after Wang Zhi entered the imperial prison, Zhu Zaigui asked people from the East Factory to interrogate him, and also specifically stated that he should not be tortured, in order to give him enough dignity.

When the interrogator interrogated Wang Zhi, Wang Zhi was very excited. Ever since he was lured and captured by that bastard Wang Bengu in Hangzhou, his heart had been as cold as ice. This was really unexpected.

This was completely different from what Xu Wei had promised him. Xu Wei sent him a secret letter of amnesty, promising that as long as he was willing to accept it, Governor-General Hu Zongxian would personally petition for a title for him, pardon his status as a criminal, release his family members arrested by the court, and allow him to return home with honor.

But when he really got ashore and wanted to surrender to Hu Zongxian, Hu Zongxian didn't think much about it and persuaded him to go to Hangzhou to pay a visit to the governor Wang Bengu to make himself familiar with him. However, Wang Bengu, the sixth man, had no martial ethics and directly set a trap to capture him.

When he was arrested, Wang Zhi was terrified. Watma had accepted the imperial edict, so he should have been one of them. So when Wang Zhi was arrested, he shouted, "What crime have I committed? What crime have I committed?"

But Wang Bengu didn't care whether you were guilty or not. He only knew that catching Wang Zhi, the fake King of Song who dared to usurp the title at sea, was a great achievement, and the things Wang Zhi did at sea were enough to kill him thousands of times. In addition, Wang Bengu was also a moral person who read the books of sages and believed that he could distinguish right from wrong and hated evil.

Therefore, when Wang Bengu saw that a notorious bandit like Wang Zhi had suddenly transformed himself into an official appointed by the imperial court, it had a huge impact on his values ​​and outlook on life.

Therefore, whether out of the need to uphold the moral values ​​he adhered to or out of hatred for Wang Zhi's crimes, Wang Bengu would not allow someone like Wang Zhi to become an official appointed by the court.

Therefore, when he was in Zhejiang, Wang Bengu submitted several memorials to the court, exposing Wang Zhi's crimes and demanding that the court severely punish him according to the law.

When Hu Zongxian saw Wang Bengu's attitude, he also panicked.

Wang Zhi used his own credit to get ashore, but Wang Bengu unreasonably lured him into a trap, and now he even wants to kill Wang Zhi.

Wang Bengu was not the governor-general of Zhejiang, so he was not in charge of the war in Zhejiang, but Hu Zongxian was responsible for the war in Zhejiang.

If the court really charged Wang Zhi with the crime Wang Bengu accused him of, they would have killed him.

Putting aside whether Hu Zongxian's personal credit would be ruined because of this, just take the pirates on the sea who have not yet been completely wiped out. That would simply add fuel to the fire, causing those pirates to lose the control of their leader Wang Zhi, and then turn into a group of disorderly pirates with even greater lethality.

By then, the originally good anti-Japanese situation would enter a new chaos, and things that could have been solved by gentle means would have to be resorted to military means again.

But putting aside how high the cost of a military operation is, if something goes wrong at some point in the future, leading to a major strategic mistake and causing countless casualties among officers and soldiers, it would be Hu Zongxian who would be held accountable, not the righteous and moral warrior Wang Bengu.

After all, the former governor Zhang Jing was a tragic man who was killed even though he won a battle. If he lost the battle, it would be no joke.

Therefore, seeing this situation, Hu Zongxian could no longer sit still, and immediately wrote a letter to Zhu Zaigui, explaining why he wanted to appease Wang Zhi and the importance of appease Wang Zhi.

After Zhu Zaigui saw the letter in the capital, he immediately took it seriously. He directly issued an official document stating that Wang Zhi was guilty of a serious crime and had wide-ranging implications, and that he should not be tried and sentenced in Hangzhou. He also asked Hu Zongxian to personally escort him to the capital.

Now Wang Zhi has been taken to the capital and sent to the imperial prison. It would be strange to say that he is not panicking.

So when the interrogators in the imperial prison brought him in for questioning, Wang Zhi's heart was pounding wildly. He knew very well that this interrogation might be the final one. If he could not defend himself well, his fate might be even more miserable than the trial in Hangzhou, and even his entire clan might be implicated.

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