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Murong Ju’s situation in Xingyang was as Zhao Junsheng had guessed, and the investigation encountered great resistance. Local officials often used the occurrence of floods as an excuse to say that the funds and accounts for flood control over the years were washed away by floods and refused to hand them over. Or they don't know what to ask, and some even hide under the pretext of disaster relief.

Zhao Junsheng believes that as long as this case is investigated diligently and determined to the end, it will definitely be found out. He does not believe that all the local government offices along the entire Yellow River have been rotted in large areas, even in a decadent dynasty. When this happens, there are always one or two honest and loyal officials who are still doing their duty.

As long as these people have any evidence, they will never hesitate to show it when they think it is time to show it.

Zhao Junsheng actually wanted to go to the disaster-stricken frontline to visit the affected people and understand the actual situation, but the emperor's travel is a major event that shakes the world. Unlike later generations with airplanes and trains, it is very convenient for the heads of state to go out. At this time, they can only rely on horses and horses. Walking on both legs, the safety of the emperor is a matter of the country. Once something happens to the emperor, it may even change the dynasty. Therefore, for the safety of the emperor, the ministers have always opposed the emperor's easy walk out of the palace, let alone Said to inspect the place.

Even if the emperor wants to travel, at least it takes a long time to prepare, and all aspects must be considered. The manpower, material and financial resources consumed are countless, so every time the emperor visits places, it will bring huge financial pressure.

Since he could not go to the disaster-stricken area to understand the actual situation, Zhao Junsheng could only investigate secretly through his own eyes and ears, and at the same time, he also learned about the progress of Murong Ju's investigation into the Yellow River embankment breach.

Zhao Junsheng looked at a report sent by Lin Jinghui, the commander of the black guards. It turned out that Murongju was struggling after arriving in Xingyang, and he couldn't find an entry point at all. Later, he thought of a way to send people to announce the grievances to the county officials and people. Even if the people sue the officials, they will be exempted from the penalty of hitting [-] boards in advance, but they cannot frame false accusations, and the complainants will be protected, and they will wait until the case is investigated. In Xingyuan, eat and live.

When this trick was used, someone immediately went to Murong Ju's office to sue. At the beginning, Murong Ju only dealt with a few cases against bullies. He cut the mess quickly and quickly punished those bullies who deserved their crimes. They should be beheaded. The decapitation of the exile, the exile of the exile.

Through these few small cases, the people finally believed that Murong Ju was an imperial envoy who dared to challenge the powerful, so the first case of people suing officials appeared.

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After reading the report, Zhao Junsheng said with a smile: "Unexpectedly, Murong Ju thought of such a method as an entry point, and successfully opened up the iron network of those local officials. Next, let's see how Murong Ju smashes this An iceberg!"

Lin Jinghui asked: "Your Majesty, does the black guard continue to investigate this case?"

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, and thought it was a waste of resources, he waved his hand and said: "No, don't forget your main business of the Black Clothes Guards, you just need to pay attention to this case, and report Murong Ju to me every few days Investigate the progress of this case!"

"promise!"

In fact, according to Zhao Junsheng's original intention, it should be that Yu Shitai sent someone to investigate. It is justifiable for Yu Shitai to investigate this kind of case, but he didn't do it because he has never heard of any officials who have been corrupted for so many years. Rumors about governance funds are extremely abnormal. No matter how transparent the account of the use of funds is, people will be questioned. Any appropriation from the imperial court has people paying attention to its use process, but the use of river channel funds has not been suspected by others. .

So is Yushitai too slack in this matter?Or did someone at Yushitai suppress all voices of doubt?Or the censors sent by Yushitai to the relevant areas were dragged into the water by those local officials?

Thinking of this, Zhao Junsheng couldn't sit still. He was really worried that there was a big problem with Yushitai.

"Come on, drive the Wenhua Palace!"

Two eunuchs opened the way ahead, and accompanied by the chief eunuch Kang Yide, Zhao Junsheng came to the file hall of Wenhua Palace.

The Wenhua Palace houses more than 100 million volumes of ancient books, calligraphy and paintings, as well as a large number of oracle bones, bamboo slips, and rubbings, which is equivalent to a large library. Dossier archives and many classified files.

This file library was newly built after the capital was moved to Chang'an. It has three floors. The first floor stores files and files of ministers, officials and generals, and the second and third floors store confidential files.

In the other book collection halls of Wenhua Palace, members of the royal family can enter to read, but they cannot take away or borrow books. Only the archives library is not allowed. If you want to enter and view the files, you must get the permission of the emperor, and you must have someone who manages the archives library. Accompanied by eunuchs and supervised, they can only consult relevant files and cannot consult other files.

The entire Wenhua Palace is ventilated and dry, but it has corresponding fire prevention equipment. There are several wells and many wooden tubs and barrels around the main hall.

The eunuchs working in the archives library are doing their daily work. They take out some files, wooden tablets and bamboo slips to dry in the sun. They can prevent moisture and insects on a daily basis, and play a role in maintaining the files. Some files are too It is outdated and needs to be re-transcribed.

After Zhao Junsheng arrived at the gate of the dossier, the eunuchs who were working bowed down one after another, "Greetings, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Junsheng told the eunuch in charge of the dossier: "I'm here to check some of the dossiers, everyone keep working!"

"No!" The eunuch in charge agreed, and waved to the eunuchs, and everyone continued to work.

Zhao Junsheng walked into the file library, and at a glance, there were rows of bookshelves on the first floor of the library, and a large number of files were placed on each row of bookshelves, all of which were personnel file files, divided into two large areas , which are government offices directly under the imperial court and local government offices, and the two large areas are divided into several small areas.

The eunuch in charge quickly followed up and asked in a low voice: "I don't know what file His Majesty wants to inquire about, but this servant is willing to find it for His Majesty!"

Zhao Junsheng said as he walked: "I want to check the files of officials sent by Yushitai to the counties along the lower reaches of the Yellow River in the past ten years!"

"I understand, Your Majesty, please wait a moment!" The eunuch in charge agreed, and turned around to give some instructions to the eunuchs.

The eunuchs acted quickly, and soon brought a large stack of books, each of which recorded an official's origin, family members who had been clearly remembered for more than four generations, and their in-laws, relatives and relatives. Social relations, and records of the official's tenure, promotion history, meritorious achievements, and punishment for faults, such as who their superiors were during their tenure in a certain position, who were their colleagues, and such files even recorded that the official was of course The relevant records of the promotion, demotion, and dismissal of the superiors and colleagues during the position, there are comments on the official at the beginning of the file. These comments are written by the person who is in charge of investigating the official. The comments include the personality of the person. , a description of how to behave in the world, being an official, and thinking and speaking.

Zhao Junsheng felt a headache when he saw such a large pile of files, so he asked, "Which ones are the censor files responsible for investigating the appropriations for river management?"

An eunuch opened the booklets one by one, and put aside all the booklets that met Zhao Junsheng's requirements.

Zhao Junsheng took out a book to read, the official information recorded on it is much more detailed than the official information in the official office, and many officials' privacy is recorded in it, which is impossible in the official file of the official office have witnessed.

There are more than 20 volumes in total. It took Zhao Junsheng a moment to read them all. He discovered a very strange thing. These censors did not find any problems with the use of funds during the investigation of the allocation of funds for river management. Instead, they discovered that some officials As for other issues, these censors have been promoted and promoted after returning to Beijing because of their achievements.

After reading it, Zhao Junsheng asked: "Is there anything else besides these? In ten years, there are so many areas along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. How could it be possible for Yushitai to only send more than 20 Yushi?"

The eunuch in charge immediately turned his head and asked the eunuch looking for the file: "What's going on?"

The eunuch replied: "Of course it's more than that. There are also some censors who have died because they died in office, so the files of this kind of dead officials are stored separately, not here!"

Zhao Junsheng frowned: "Go and get the dossiers of those dead censors!"

"promise!"

Soon, the eunuchs took out more than 20 files, and Zhao Junsheng read them one by one. After he finished reading, he discovered a frightening fact. Of the more than 20 dead censors, only three died of illness while in office. All died or were assassinated by accident while on the job. Some drowned when they capsized while riding a boat, some were burned to death in a fire, some fell to death while riding a horse, some were killed by a sudden collapse of a house; People rushed out and stabbed to death, some were assassinated by assassins, and some died in brothels.

The more Zhao Junsheng looked at it, the more dignified his expression became. It is not surprising that Yu Shi was assassinated. They must have touched the interests of some people during the investigation, and probed into the secrets of some people, thus causing murder; but so many accidents Death is very unusual.

None of the assassination cases have been solved. Those accidental death cases were all considered as accidental death by the officials sent to investigate without exception. There is no doubt about murder or assassination. There are also two cases where the censor was killed blatantly , the murderer all confessed, and he killed the deceased with a single bite, which is a vendetta.

If there is nothing wrong with it, even a three-year-old child will not believe it.

If Zhao Junsheng hadn't checked these files together, he would never have thought that there was such a big problem in it. It can't be said that the officials of the Ministry of Punishment were not dedicated and dedicated to their duties, but that they didn't combine these accidental death cases at all. No one even thought of this.

Zhao Junsheng felt shuddering, and decided in his heart to find out the truth of this case. He wanted to see what the truth was. If no one in the imperial court acted as a protective umbrella for those local officials, he would not be killed. I believe that because there is no powerful court official, it is impossible to suppress all kinds of problems related to the allocation and use of river channel management funds over the years. The key is who is this person?

Also, is there any problem with the investigators sent by the Ministry of Criminal Justice?

Returning from the dossier to the Hall of Qinzheng, Zhao Junsheng couldn't calm down for a long time.

"His Majesty!"

A voice brought Zhao Junsheng back to his senses. He looked up and saw that it was an eunuch, and asked, "What's the matter?"

The eunuch took out a memorandum: "Your Majesty, this is the memo sent by Murong Ju, and it uses a secret memo!"

Zhao Junsheng's heart skipped a beat. As the imperial envoy, Murong Ju automatically has the right to secret memorials. There is no doubt about it. Generally speaking, if Murong Ju wants to have memorials, he should go to the Secretary of the General Administration. This is more responsible for regulations and procedures. But he chose the secret report, which shows that he was worried about leaking the news. What he was worried about was not the magistrates and officials.

"It seems that Murong Ju also suspects that some important ministers in the court are involved in this matter, otherwise Murong Ju would not use the secret music!"

There was a glimmer of light in Zhao Junsheng's eyes. He opened the secret play and looked at it. It turned out that Murong Ju had already found out many problems and involved many officials. It's getting colder and colder. If we can't solve the housing and livelihood problems of hundreds of thousands of homeless people before the cold winter comes, many people will freeze to death and starve to death this winter.

At present, the disaster area still needs those officials to provide disaster relief. If Murong Ju investigates and punishes the relevant officials, he is worried that the effect and speed of disaster relief will be affected. Those people who suffer from cold and starvation are likely to cause great problems to social security.

This is just a relatively euphemistic statement by Murong Ju in the secret memorial. He is actually worried that the people affected by the disaster will rebel.

Now that the plague that broke out in the disaster area has been brought under control, Murong Ju requested in the secret memorandum to mobilize the immediate garrison to assist the officials who supported the disaster relief to rebuild the houses of the affected people, first to solve their housing problems, and at the same time to maintain security. The role of stability, even if some officials are taken down, even if some people have ulterior motives to instigate, the army is close at hand can also play a deterrent effect, and the victims of the disaster will not dare to take risks easily.

The mobilization of the local garrison also has another effect, preventing those officials who have been investigated from jumping over the wall to mobilize county soldiers and county soldiers to launch a rebellion.

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while, picked up a pen and wrote a quasi-character on the secret memorial, and handed it to the eunuch: "Send someone to Murong Ju immediately!"