The next day, the court meeting was calm at first, and all officials still reported things as usual.

But just as he was about to retreat to the court, the commander of the Jinyiwei, Mou Bin, suddenly stepped forward and took the lead, impeaching the Minister of Rites Zhang Yi, colluding with Japanese pirates and smuggling and traitoring the country.

Emperor Hongzhi was shocked when he heard this and immediately scolded Mou Bin for not being able to speak trustworthyly.

But Mou Bin took out the evidence that Zhang Yi was connected with the Japanese. Zhang Yi looked pale and speechless. After reading it, Emperor Hongzhi was furious and ordered the Jinyiwei to interrogate him strictly.

The storm suddenly started, and the officials in the court, who were already aggressive, were immediately caught off guard.

The limelight of Shilin and the market also turned around: No one expected that the Minister of Rites, who always wanted to defend the ancestral law and etiquette system, was the mastermind behind colluding with Japanese pirates to harm the people of Daming.

Many officials of the court did not believe it, and wrote letters to defend Zhang Yi, and many people even guaranteed him their wealth and life. They also accused this of a treacherous plan by the slander He Jin. The villain's chaos in politics caused the gentleman to be deceived. He begged Emperor Hongzhi to investigate and not to shame the administration and the good and evil were reversed.

However, then the slap in the face came.

As the investigation deepened, more and more evidence was presented by the Jinyiwei. The evidence of the Japanese pirates in Huai'an, the confessions of salt merchants, and the confessions of officials bribed by Shanxi merchants in various places all filled the puzzle of the truth about the Zhang family monopolizing the salt profit of the Ming Dynasty and colluding with Japanese pirates.

With so many circumstantial evidence in front of you, even the officials who firmly believe in the Zhang family were stunned.

They all admit that He Jin's methods are very powerful, but they are so powerful that they can be so realistic that even the evidence from a few years ago was revealed, which is really unreasonable.

In addition, what made them speechless was that the Jinyiwei did not torture the Zhang family and his son this time.

This time, they are conducting in-depth analysis and investigation, following the map and following the clues, only presenting evidence to tell the facts to you, not exaggerating the case at all, nor placing charges. Those officials who are ready to start from the bad reputation of the Jinyiwei are helpless.

In the end, the evidence was as strong as a mountain. The Zhang family father and son could not deny it, so they had to explain the truth and strive for leniency.

Then Emperor Hongzhi discussed with the cabinet for one day and issued an edict: to kill the Zhang family and the Jin Shang group who were greedy for salt and profit of the Ming Dynasty, confiscated their property and filled it into the national treasury. The rest of the crimes were all handed over to the Ministry of Justice, Dali Temple, and the Inspectorate to the three departments of the Ministry of Justice, Dali Temple, and the Inspectorate to be tried and punished according to the law.

During this period, the court's turmoil has emerged one after another, and finally it has fallen smoothly.

The officials in the hall have been deeply hit since then and have to look up at the emperor on the dragon throne again. While feeling the mighty emperor's grace, layers of awe also appear in their hearts.

It's really hard to predict the holy heart, the emperor's mind is perfect

I thought I was sure to win, but the overall situation was decided, and the court was still the court of all officials. However, when people turned their hands, they just slapped them, making them blush and swollen, and they had to try their best to squeeze out their smiling faces.

After all, what can it be if it doesn't?

Are you going to make trouble with collective retirement?

Wake up and behind your butt, I don’t know how many people are waiting to get on the top.

Moreover, I was ignorant of myself and was grabbed by someone. I didn’t regret it. I really let my wife and children drink the northwest wind?

Then at this time, He Jin, who was almost forgotten by everyone, appeared in the Zhang Mansion.

This time, the Zhang family was to be investigated by the Zhang family and his son. Seeing He Jin suddenly appear, Zhang Yi, who was dejected and had a gray face, gritted his teeth, opened his blood, and was about to rush over: "He Jin, you, an evil ghost who harms human life and destroys human property, have the face to see me?"

"I had told me something about decent before, but I let you go with a soft heart. But I didn't expect you to stab you in the back, causing our family to be destroyed! I, I'm fighting with you!"

Zhang Yi was old and weak, trapped by shackles, and hurting others was a joke. Before he could pounce on He Jin, he was kicked away by Lai Saner, a Jinyiwei test household.

He Jin's face was very calm and said, "Shangshu Zhang, this has nothing to do with being decent or not. In fact, I have treated you like this, so I am already very decent."

Speaking of this, without waiting for Zhang Yi to refute, he suddenly asked: "Do you, I wonder if Zhang Shangshu still has an impression of this person?"

"Kou You?" Zhang Yi thought for a while, but he didn't know this person at all in his memory.

"Where is Qian Song?"

Zhang Yi still shook his head.

Immediately afterwards, He Jin said a few more people's names, but Zhang Yi didn't know anything, and he couldn't help but get angry again.

However, just as he was about to roar and scold and vent his resentment, He Jin stopped asking questions, but suddenly said, "In fact, there are many names of people that I can't remember clearly."

"These people should be remembered by Lord Shangshu, because it was your Zhang family that monopolized the salt in Huai'an, which made them, the small salt vendors, finally paid the grain to Taicang and received salt intake. As a result, the salt farm did not give them salt. In the end, they could only be forced to destroy their families, sell their children and sell themselves as slaves."

"There are hundreds of such tragedies in Huai'an. If you included the entire coastal salt farm in the Ming Dynasty that you monopolized, there would be thousands more."

"It's a pity that these people have no power and no power, and they cannot recognize the location of Zhang Mansion in the capital. Otherwise, what kind of scene would the Secretary of Shang think they would come to you to collect debts?"

Zhang Yi was immediately despised when he heard this. Of course, he knew that the Shanxi merchant bureaucratic group he had built was built on the blood and tears of countless salt vendors going bankrupt.

He Jin's criticism at this time was also extremely sharp: those people have nowhere to be resented, why do you feel resentful when your Zhang family was searched and went bankrupt?

Isn’t it decent to deal with a wolf-hearted and trashed people like you who harm the people? You just need to kill the nine clans and tell the world?

Not to mention, the incident of colluding with Japanese pirates and rioting the people of the Ming Dynasty - such acts of forgetting ancestors and betraying China are not worthy of being recorded in history for thousands of years!

Decent?

The face of your Minister of Rites should be comparable to the miserable fate of thousands of households and the unjust souls of those tragic deaths of Japanese pirates?

"He Jin, don't ask the crow to laugh at the pig black!"

Although Zhang Yi didn't say anything, Zhang Xialing still refused to repent, and shouted in a crazy laugh: "Who doesn't know that your He family's property is even better than our Zhang family? Moreover, have you also contacted a group of officials in the court to join forces?"

"Why, we can't do this money-making business, what He Jin does? To put it bluntly, aren't you more sinister and cunning, and your methods are better?"

"Since you are all making money, don't pretend to be a gentleman. You don't even listen to your reputation as a terrible person. You still have the face to teach us a lesson with such a hypocritical attitude!"

"Hey, you dare to scream when you die. I've tear your mouth apart!" Lai Saner was furious when she heard this and went forward to take action.

But He Jin reached out to stop him and asked with a strange look: "Do you think what he said is wrong?"

"Of course not right!"

"What's wrong?"

"I, I can't say it. Anyway, it's wrong to scold the boss." Lai Saner was a little depressed and turned her head to look at He Jin: Boss, I'm looking at you.

"You have to understand the truth when you look at me. You can't tell me the truth clearly, so what do you think you will hit me?"

"I, I" Lai Saner became even more depressed and said to herself: Boss, I actually think what they are saying is right. You and them are just a guy all the way.

But I dare not say this or ask.

He Jin looked at his constipated face and began to feel depressed and resentful, saying, "Forget it if others don't understand. You haven't understood it for so long, it hurts my heart."

"Yes, I love money just like them, and I'm even more greedy than them, and my reputation is not good. But I'm also making money. Do you think I've done something that hurts people?"

"When the He family started, did it open up a source of wealth, drive economic growth, stimulate employment, and achieve prosperity and win-win situation?"

When Lai Saner heard this, she realized that she patted her thigh and said, "That's right, before Gushan was developed, it was a barren mountain; and after the Fuyang River was dredged, the people had their work."

"Later, when I arrived in the capital, I opened Baibaozhai and made a mirror. No one had to buy expensive bronze mirrors. Burning glass also gave the people in the capital a job. Later, the border trade was opened, and the boss made a lot of money, which led to thousands of merchants and people making a living."

Then He Jin touched and said, "But the salt of the Ming Dynasty was rewarded by God to the people. The court collected some salt taxes into the national treasury, which was also to benefit the people."

"But their Zhang family also wants to bite it out of it, and kicked away all the other powerless people. The money is all in their pockets, and the money is the same as what I do?"

"Of course not!"

"Oh, now you understand the truth now." He Jin nodded and signaled: "You can go up and beat him up. By the way, be more ruthless, don't be like not having a meal."
Chapter completed!