Listening to Cao Yubian’s words, Cao Sicheng nodded slightly, and said, “I mean the same thing. What I’m worried about is... I can’t hold it down. Zhou Zhengyun, you should know that this young man has always had no scruples. As for the memorial, I'm afraid that another letter will appear in the messenger and even the cabinet tomorrow morning. Maybe we will be impeached."
Cao Yubian raised his head to look at Cao Sicheng, and said, "Do you think he wants to catch fish in troubled waters by taking advantage of you and me?"
Cao Sicheng thought about it this way, but shook his head and said, "He was fearless and fearless in the court a few times before. He didn't care about his future at all. He offends everyone who can offend him, not like a person who invites credit."
Cao Yubian listened to his words and said: "Cui Chengxiu is pressing more and more urgently. We have to resign as soon as possible. With Zhou Zhengyun, we are afraid that we will not get out so easily."
This is what Cao Sicheng is worried about, saying: "Zhou Zhengyun is a member of our procuratorate after all. If Cui Chengxiu and others think that it is my two masters, then we will have to carry this scapegoat."
Cao Yubian's expression sank slightly and said, "Well, I'm still worried about what the emperor would think."
Cao Sicheng looked solemn and nodded lightly.
The reason why they jumped out to rebel against the eunuch is actually a hint of the apocalypse. The Metropolitan Procuratorate is a powerful institution to check and balance the state affairs, especially where most of the supervisors are here.
I was forced to resign because the eunuch party was too strong and had to resign.
What does the emperor think of Zhou Zheng's memorial for impeaching the Eunuch Party
Is it their second Cao’s instruction, but I don’t know how serious it is to disturb the court at this time? Or are they reluctant to leave the position
This memorial is a trouble no matter how you look at it!
Cao Yubian looked at Cao Sicheng and said, "I'll talk to Zhou Zhengyun, so that he won't be able to enter this memorial. If he really doesn't obey, I will lock him in the Department of Prisons and let him out after the dust settles. ."
Cao Sicheng's eyes lit up and said, "This is a way, just do it."
Cao Yubian took Zhou Zheng's memo in his arms and said, "I'm going now."
Cao Sicheng said again: "Be gentle."
Cao Yubian responded and left Cao Sicheng's class room in stride.
Cao Sicheng resolved the matter with a gentle elderly smile on his face again, reached out his hand to touch the chair under him, and whispered to himself: "I will be back soon. Later, I will move you a better and higher one. local."
Zhou Zheng didn't know that the Second Cao of the Metropolitan Procuratorate wanted to imprison him in order to stop him from this memorial. At this moment, he was in an inconspicuous yard in the north of the city.
He was sitting on a chair, beside him stood Meng Hezhou and other guards in Jinyi.
There were three people kneeling in front of them, Hong Qiyong from the Ministry of Households, Zhao Heqin from the Water Transport Department, and Qin Li from the Ministry of Industry.
These three people are very low-ranking, either the chief, or similar to the chief, running errands.
But the more such talents cannot be underestimated, they are often the ones who master the most core things and know the most.
These three were arrested by Tao Ran and then secretly given to Zhou Zheng.
The three were okay in the Criminal Ministry, no one was interrogated and no one was rescued, because no one knew they were caught by the Criminal Ministry.
Now looking at Zhou Zheng who was sitting in front of him, they didn't know each other, they looked at each other in a daze, and they didn't know why.
Hong Qiyong is the head of the household. He looked at Zhou Zheng and cautiously said: "This lord, I wonder what you mean by arresting us?"
He could see that Zhou was an official, and the people behind Zhou Zheng were not ordinary people.
Zhou Zheng stretched his finger to three tables not far away, and said, "There are pens and inks there, Hong Qiyong, you should write to me clearly about the payment and payment of the payment to the Sichuan bandits. Zhao Heqin, you will default on the tax payment for the first half of the year. Write clearly. Qin Li, you write clearly the use of the Ministry of Industry's disaster relief money last year."
Qin Li's face was thin like a mouse, with a sharp expression, staring at Zhou Zhengdao: "Who are you on earth?"
Zhou Zheng raised his right hand and moved his two fingers.
Two guards dragged out a large pile of torture instruments and placed them in front of the three.
Zhou Zheng looked faintly and said, "I believe you are not hard bones and will write honestly. I want it tonight. The three of you have a lot of intersections, and I can still check it. If you lie to me, I will protect you from death, every day. Let you taste these great punishments."
Hong Qiyong looked at these instruments of torture, his face changed, and Zhou Zheng said nervously, "This lord, what do you want? You want money, you say the number, as long as you are willing to let me go, how much money you want."
Zhou Zheng was too lazy to say, stood up, and said to Meng Hezhou: "You know better than me in interrogation, let them honestly confess, I'm useful."
Meng Hezhou looked at the three of them and said disdainfully: "It doesn't take night, I promise that they will write what you want in one hour, and it's all true."
Zhou Zheng smiled and stepped out, he didn't want to see the bloody scene.
Zhou was in the yard, looking at the big sun above his head, a little dazzling, and stood under a tree.
After half an hour, Meng Hezhou walked out and said, "I have recruited some, but I'm still writing later. You have to look at this first. By the way, they also gave out three account books, and I sent someone to get them."
Zhou Zheng is not surprised at all, there are so many hardcore people.
Zhou Zheng found out that they were all dirty things. What Zhou Zheng cared about was corruption, interception, embezzlement of the relief money issued by the court, official salaries, military expenses, etc., all clearly written out.
Among them are the separate accounts of officials at all levels, a personal name, official position, clearly written in black and white.
Zhou Zheng watched for a while and smiled and said, "Well, I got it and gave it to me. Also, keep it secret."
During the interrogation, Meng Hezhou was on the sidelines. Xiao Xiami didn't understand him, but he still knew the names of a few big people. He said, "Okay, I know."
Zhou Zheng hummed, didn't say much, and left straight away.
When Zhou Zheng left this small courtyard quietly, the storm in the court became more and more fierce.
The magnificent resignation of the Shangshufang of the Ministry of Civil Affairs was approved. Cui Chengxiu, who had just been transferred to the Shangshu of the Ministry of Engineering, plans to be transferred to the Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry. Proposed to be transferred to Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.
It took less than a year for this Wu Chunfu to rise from the idle seven-rank magistrate to the sixth-rank hall officer of the second-rank master!
If the Second Cao of the Metropolitan Procuratorate resigns again, the so-called Qiqing composed of the Sixth Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will have to reshuffle the cards again.
Time, only ten days!
When Zhou Zheng got the news, he only shook his head secretly. He bought a box of pastries on Chang'an Street and was ready to return home.
As soon as he left Chang'an Avenue, three strong men surrounded Zhou Zheng. Behind the three came out a half-hundred old man with a cold face and snake-like eyes.
"Zhou Zhengyun?" The old man said indifferently.
Zhou Zheng put his right hand on the back, motioning the people who followed to stop moving, he looked at a sedan chair not far away, and said lightly: "Who is in the palace?"
"The last name is Cui." The old man said.
Zhou Zheng immediately wanted to understand who it was, his eyes were wary, and his expression was as usual: "What's the matter?"
"Please." The old man said without talking nonsense.
Zhou Zheng looked at the sedan chair not far away, once again gestured to the person behind him, and stepped forward.
When he came to the front, the sedan chair was very quiet and there was no movement. Zhou Zheng paused, raised his hand, and said, "The lower official has seen Mr. Hug."
The people inside coughed slightly, and the half-brother bent over and lifted the car curtain.
Cui Chengxiu is very thin, with an elegant look on her face, and also a little serious and mean.
He looked at Zhou Zheng and said, "Er Cao is about to resign. I promise that we will not come back. I will give you two paths. The first one is to distribute Liaodong to the whole family and never use it. The second one is to report Er Cao next year. , I will protect your father as the prefect of Fengyang Mansion. Within three years, he will be promoted to the governor of Yingtian, and a provincial governor in five years."
Cui Chengxiu's condition can be said to be very good, and most people nodded and agreed.
The chief ambassador of a province is the chief official of the territorial feudal government, and the wind will be the wind but the rain will be rained. The future will be unlimited, and it is unknown whether he is in the court.
However, Zhou Zheng knew that Er Cao was not the only one who had finished. The urging man in front of him was the end of the execution!
Zhou Zheng listened to Cui Chengxiu's words, not only was he not panicked, nor was he overjoyed, he just smiled slightly, with a relaxed expression on his face.
"Adults love it, our Zhou family has been honourable from generation to generation, and never bends down for officialdom." Zhou Zhengdao.
Cui Chengxiu looked at Zhou Zheng and said blankly: "Are you not afraid of me at all?"
'Nonsense, you all said you were in exile and didn't kill me. I'm still afraid of you getting a ball! You exiled me today. I was pardoned before I left Beijing, and I got a clean name for nothing. I thank you for being too late. I'm afraid of what you will do? '
Zhou Zheng smiled and said: "The officials act from the heart, not for others."
Cui Chengxiu glanced at Zhou Zheng and said, "Then you go back and pack your things."
After Cui Chengxiu finished speaking, the half-old man put down the car curtain.
The bearer quickly lifted up, passed by Zhou Zheng, and left without any haste.
Zhou Zheng looked at Cui Chengxiu's sedan chair and glanced around. It was a pity. If anyone saw it, it might become a story of "The Imperial History Rejected" in the future.
Zhou Zheng secretly felt a pity, and left with a relaxed smile.
As a result, he was stopped again before he went far.
"Master Cao is waiting for you in the teahouse." A small official said, standing in front of Zhou Zheng, pointing to the teahouse beside him.
There were two Cao adults in the prefectural police. Zhou Zheng didn't know which one they were. After thinking about it, he nodded and turned around and entered the teahouse.
The second floor was empty, and there was only one person sitting there, his expression calm and majestic in his eyes.
Yushi on the right, Cao Yubian.
Zhou Zheng knew him naturally, thinking about his intentions, stepped forward and raised his hand and said, "The lower official has seen an adult."
Cao Yubian is the Yushi Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Zhou is the supervisor of Yushi, which can be regarded as his own.
Cao Yubian glanced at Zhou Zheng lightly, pushed the memo on the table over, and said, "Did you write?"
Zhou Zheng's memorial, he knew it naturally, his expression was still, and he said, "Yes."
Cao Yubian said in a high-level official tone: "Take it back and rewrite it. Only Cui Chengxiu will be impeached. Don't touch anyone else's."
This was expected by Zhou Zheng, pretending to ponder for a while, and said: "My lord, it is hard to follow the official."
Cao Yubian's expression sank and said, "I can deprive you of the qualification to play!"
Zhou Zheng raised his brows, which was really true.
After pretending to be silent for a while, Zhou Zheng said: "My lord, the next official heard that you are going to resign, so why bother to pay attention to the affairs of the court."
Cao Yubian cursed secretly in his heart, if you go to the melodrama, can I still go? It was fine to resign, but you insisted on sending me to jail!
No matter how unhappy, Cao Yubian still put on a majestic look on his face, saying: "You can't go up this melodrama and write a new one. If you feel that it is not enough, you can add two more names, not so much."
This memorial of Zhou Zheng almost listed Manchu civil and military personnel as eunuchs. That's okay, the anger of those adults could burn the entire Metropolitan Procuratorate!
Zhou Zheng thought for a while, and said with an expression of asking for instructions: "Then, add Tian Ergeng?"
Cao Yubian didn't even think about it, and said, "Yes."
It doesn't matter who Zhou Zheng adds, as long as it is not such a large-scale attack, which Yushi is not always impeaching a court official, which official does not have dozens or even hundreds of impeachment books
Cao Yubian didn't even think about it, but a weird smile flashed across Zhou Zheng's face. (End of this chapter)