Chapter 447 Wang Zhi must die
Cabinet.
Now Yan Song is old and can only sit at the head of the cabinet with lowered eyebrows and eyes to recuperate. He is no longer the sleepy tiger he used to be. Yan Shifan looks at his father's state. No, the mood is inevitably irritable.
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: "Have you all heard about it? Hu Ruzhen escorted Wang Zhi to the capital, but he was not handed over to the Ministry of Punishment, but sent to the imperial prison. I think he was confused in Zhejiang. , even the court’s laws have been forgotten.”
"How could a gangster like Wang Zhi be sent to prison? He should have been taken to the Ministry of Punishment as soon as possible and handed over to the Three Laws Division for trial and conviction, so as to set the record straight! Do you think this is what Mr. Xu Ge and Mr. Lu Ge mean?"
When Xu Jie heard Yan Shifan's righteous and awe-inspiring words, he raised his head slightly, but what he looked at was not Yan Shifan, but Yan Song beside Yan Shifan. Seeing that Yan Song was still in a dull and distracted state, Xu Jie's attitude was... More submissive.
Xu Jie sighed slightly in his heart, and looked at Yan Shifan again. Xu Jie said: "What Hu Ruzhen did was indeed against the rules, but how complicated the situation in Southeast is, he is the person involved. . This time the imperial court summoned him back and personally escorted Wang Zhi to Beijing. This was also Prince Yu's intention. His Majesty did not express any opinion on this. "
"Now he is sending people to prison, maybe this is part of it. There are other deeper meanings that we cannot speculate without authorization. Therefore, what I mean is to wait and see what Wang Zhi finally confessed in prison, and what Hu Ruzhen will do when he officially reports to the court. What can you say?"
"Otherwise, it would be difficult for us to think that Hu Ruzhen was acting out of compliance with the rules, so don't be too anxious about this now, Donglou. Mr. Ge is very calm.”
When Yan Shifan heard Xu Jie's words, he wanted to curse. Is his father calm? That's so distracting, 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.
So, Yan Shifan could only hold back his dissatisfaction and continue to stand beside his father and think about his next plan.
No matter what other court officials thought, Yan Shifan would definitely let Wang Zhi die. If Wang Zhi did not die, Luo Longwen would not be able to play an important role.
So now, apart from those southern aristocratic families whose smuggling interests were harmed because Wang Zhi became bigger, Yan Shifan is the one who most actively wants to kill Wang Zhi.
But will Wang Zhi die?
Obviously with Zhu Zaijing as an anomaly, it would be difficult for Wang Zhi to die even if he wanted to.
On the second day after Wang Zhijin entered the imperial edict, Zhu Zaijing asked people from Dongchang to interrogate him, and specifically stated that he would not be sentenced to death to give him enough dignity.
When the interrogator interrogated Wang Zhi, Wang Zhi was also very excited. Ever since he was trapped by that bastard Wang Bengu in Hangzhou, his heart had fallen into an ice cave. This is really unexpected.
What Xu Wei promised him was completely different. Xu Wei trusted him secretly and promised that as long as he was willing to accept the imperial edict, Governor Hu Zongxian would personally petition for him and pardon him as an imperial prisoner. , release his family members who were arrested by the court, so that he can return to his hometown with honor and glory.
But after he landed on the shore and wanted to surrender to Hu Zongxian, Hu Zongxian didn't think much about it and persuaded him to go to Hangzhou first to visit Wang Bengu and get acquainted with him. It turned out that Wang Bengu, an old man, didn't have martial ethics. , directly set up a trap to trap him.
When he was arrested, Wang Zhi was frightened. Waterma had already accepted the imperial edict, and it stands to reason that he was one of his own, so when Wang Zhi was arrested, he kept shouting: " What's my crime? "
But Wang Bengu doesn't care whether you are guilty or not. He only knows that catching Wang Zhi, the false king of Song Dynasty who dares to usurp the title at sea, is a great achievement. The things he did at sea were enough to kill him thousands of times. In addition, Wang Bengu is also a moral person who reads books from sages and sages. He also considers himself a person who knows right from wrong and hates evil as much as he hates evil.
So seeing Wang Zhi, a gangster like him, transformed into an imperial official, had a huge impact on Wang Bengu's values and outlook on life.
Therefore, whether it was to protect the moral values he insisted on or out of hatred for Wang Zhi's sins, Wang Bengu would not let someone like Wang Zhi become an official of the imperial court.
Therefore, when he was in Zhejiang, Wang Bengu also wrote several memorials to lament Chen Wangzhi's crimes and asked the court to deal with him strictly in accordance with the law.
Hu Zongxian panicked when he saw Wang Bengu's posture.
Wang Zhi used his own credibility to order An to go ashore, but he was unreasonably trapped by Wang Bengu, and now he actually wants to kill Wang Zhi.
Wang Bengu was not the governor of Zhejiang Province. He did not care about the war in Zhejiang, but Hu Zongxian was responsible for the war in Zhejiang.
If the court really held Wang Zhi accountable according to Wang Bengu's crime, Wang Zhi would be killed.
Let’s not talk about whether Hu Zongxian’s personal credit will go bankrupt because of this. Take the pirates at sea who have not yet been completely wiped out. It will simply add fuel to the fire and make those pirates lose Wang Zhi. Under the control of the co-owner, they turned into a group of more lethal and disordered pirates.
At that time, the originally good anti-Japanese situation will enter a new chaos, so that things that can be solved with gentle means can only be used militarily again.
But let’s not talk about how high the cost of military operations is. If something goes wrong at some point in the future, leading to a major strategic mistake and causing countless casualties to officers and soldiers, it will be Hu Zongxian who will be held accountable. Rather than the righteous and moral warrior Wang Bengu.
After all, the former governor Zhang Jingna was a tragic man who was killed even if he won the battle. If he lost the battle, it would be no joke.
Therefore, seeing this situation, Hu Zongxian couldn't sit still, and immediately wrote a letter to Zhu Zaijing, clarifying why he wanted to order Wang Zhi and the importance of ordering Wang Zhi.
After Zhu Zaijing saw this letter in the capital, he immediately took it seriously. He directly issued an official document saying that Wang Zhi's crime was very serious and his involvement was widespread. He could not be tried and punished in Hangzhou, and asked Hu Zongxian to personally Escort him to the capital.
Now that Wang Zhi was taken to the capital and sent to the imperial prison, it would be a shame to say that he was not panicking.
So when the criminal interrogators in the prison interrogated him, Wang Zhi's heart was beating wildly. He knew very well that this interrogation might be the final trial. If he could not properly defend himself, If he doesn't argue, then his end may be even more miserable than being tried in Hangzhou, and not all nine tribes will have to get involved.
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