The rise of the late Song Dynasty reigns supreme

Chapter 195 Two-pronged approach
"Yang Chan, I'm ordering you to go to Zhu Minzhong's hometown now, and you must find out what happened." Zhao Gou ordered.

Yang Chan bowed and said, "Take orders!"

Zhao Gou continued: "Gong Cang, Huang Shi, I order you two to monitor Ye Mengde's every move immediately. If you find anything, report it immediately!"

Gong Cang and Huang Shi bowed and replied, "Take orders!"

"Chen Liu, I order you to secretly go to Hangzhou to find out one thing." Zhao Gou ordered again.

Chen Liu said: "Take orders!"

"He Huan, go and monitor Tong Guan!"

"Zhao Qi, go and find out who the six ministers were three years ago, and who are these people in close contact with. There must be no mistakes!"

Zhao Gou issued several orders in a row, and almost all the people in the county palace were mobilized, leaving only a few people.Originally, Zhao Gou also wanted to send Steward Wang out, but after thinking about it, he decided to keep him. In the absence of him, Steward Wang can handle some things properly.

Yang Chan, Gong Cang, Huang Shi, He Huan, Zhao Qi and other five people went out one after another, they left one after another, in order not to attract other people's attention, they all left in the dark.Li Shien, Li Shiren, Shen Liang, Zhao Zhen and the other four stayed in the mansion to sit in charge and make arrangements.

After Zhao Gou finished everything, he discussed with Steward Wang and others, and everyone gathered together.

"Young master, why don't you ask the owner or the emperor for help?" Steward Wang said suspiciously, the manpower in the mansion of the county king is not enough. Something is really difficult to handle.

Zhao Gou knew the meaning of Wang Steward's words, and said in a deep voice: "This matter cannot be done by Father or Uncle Wang. If they intervene, things will be unpredictable. Some things must be done by ourselves, and we must not rely on other people's help. Helping people may not be sincere, but people in the government trust more, this matter is of great importance, and we have to deal with it carefully."

"Steward Wang, everything will stop temporarily from today, and everyone must pay attention to this matter. According to my guess, this matter is not as simple as it appears on the surface, and there is a huge conspiracy hidden behind it."

Steward Wang and the others looked at each other. Seeing the solemn look on Zhao Gou's face, they kept silent and agreed to go on.As a result, the entire county palace was completely busy, and even Zhao Gou became busy.The next day, Zhao Gou still went to the court, without saying a word, all his attention was on observing the expressions of the officials in the court, especially the expression of Ye Mengde, the minister of the Ministry of household affairs.

"Looking at this person's appearance, he doesn't look like a treacherous minister. Could there be something else hidden?"

After the morning court ended, Xu Jingheng took the initiative to find Zhao Gou and said in a low voice, "My lord!"

Zhao Gou replied in a low voice: "Master Xu, it is not appropriate to talk too much here, we will discuss this matter when we go back!"

Xu Jingheng was silent for a long time. He also knew that there were some things that could not be explained clearly because the court had just left, so he nodded solemnly.On the way, Zhao Gou reassured Xu Jingheng that this matter will definitely be investigated, but there are some things that need to be clarified.

Xu Jingheng nodded, and said in a low voice: "My lord, I had a lot of doubts when I was under investigation, and I left them all in the mansion. I will submit them to my lord after the government affairs are dealt with."

Zhao Gou said: "That's it, it's just a matter of concealing it for the time being. There are too many people talking!"

Xu Jingheng said: "Your official knows!"

What Zhao Gou said meant, Xu Jingheng understood that the corruption case was of great importance, the less people knew about it, the better, if there were more people, it would surely leak the news.At present, only the two of them know about the entire Yushitai, and they know it well, and Xu Jingheng is also on Zhao Gou's side, loyal.

On this day, Zhao Gou came to Yushitai for the first time to meet several other officials, and he was the highest official.Everyone couldn't figure out Zhao Gou's temperament, he was somewhat restrained, and Zhao Gou didn't deliberately cater to them. He still followed Xu Jingheng's system when he was in office, without any change.

Xu Jingheng also completely entrusted the power in his hands to Zhao Gou and the affairs handled by Yushitai, as well as some old accounts.Zhao Gou looked at the archives. The power in charge of Yushitai is not small. The daily actions of some officials are all recorded, but they are all six books. Others are relatively few. But never recorded.

After Zhao Gou finished reading, he pondered: "The functions of the Procuratorate are somewhat similar to those of the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty. The only difference is that the Jinyiwei supervised the entire Ming Dynasty. The expansion of functions, I'm afraid there will be some hidden dangers."

"As for these officials, I have never been familiar with them, let alone their talents. After the corruption case is closed, I will think about it carefully. If there are criminals, don't blame me for not being sympathetic. We still need to wait for a while for the news, we just have to observe it carefully at the procuratorate."

Then, Xu Jingheng led Zhao Gou to the Taiyuan and Dianyuan to inspect, and then returned to Yushitai's office.Looking at the pile of documents, Zhao Gou was dumbfounded, and said dumbfounded: "Master Xu, are these things you deal with on a daily basis?"

Xu Jingheng saw that Zhao Gou's face changed drastically, and he smiled and said: "Your Excellency, you are too worried. These are the documents sorted out by the lower officials, and they are not handled daily. As a supervisory censor, there is nothing serious about it. It’s nothing more than the official’s daily actions, and there is nothing else. After all, there are two other adults to deal with it, and it will not be handled by one person.”

"That's good!" Zhao Gou's face turned better. If there are so many documents every day, it will be impossible to finish the matter.

However, Xu Jingheng didn't tell Zhao Gou that he didn't have so many daily affairs, but he was too busy.After all, there are only a few people in Yushitai, and everyone has a relatively heavy workload.After getting familiar with the position of supervisory censor, he handled the affairs very smoothly, which far exceeded Xu Jingheng's workload as supervisory censor, and re-divided powers, these are all things to come.

Afterwards, Zhao Gou stayed at Yushitai to work, and Xu Jingheng also went down, leaving Zhao Gou alone to sit on a chair and watch the mountains of documents piled up on the table, reading them carefully without thinking.Since he has studied and studied all kinds of schools since he was a child, his speed is extremely fast, so he can calm down and read carefully even if there are mountains of documents in front of him.

Xu Jingheng selected a part of all the documents in the three courtyards of Yushitai, but did not send all of them. If he sent them all, not to mention reading them for two or three months, even Zhao Gou would have to take a month to get the real documents. After reading it, if you have to study it carefully, the time will be delayed even longer.

The first thing Zhao Gou looked at was the documents of the Taiwan Court, which recorded that when successive officials were in power, they corrected and impeached all the officials of the central government, participated in the trial of Dali Temple and tried important cases entrusted by the emperor; The event of Shi Jiuban and Baiguan's disrespect in the court meeting; the documents of the procuratorate recorded the incidents of dereliction of duty and disrespect in the daily behavior of the censor's rebuke and disobedience.

At the end of the day, he only watched less than one-tenth of it. Zhao Gou was not distressed at all, but was full of thoughts.He didn't expect Yushitai to be far more complicated than he imagined, with great power, and sometimes even affect the overall situation, which made him cautious. He glanced at the pile of documents helplessly, and muttered to himself: "It seems , I've been busy during this time!"

(End of this chapter)