Chapter 191 The Corrupt Official Sun Mian

In March of the fourth year of Jingyou's reign, a small boat sailed into Hangzhou.

Yang Riyan was only temporarily dismissed from his post for dereliction of duty, and was not imprisoned by Zhao Jun.

Therefore, on the night of his dismissal, he had already sent his cronies to Hangzhou to report the news.

In the spring of March, above the West Lake, the sun was shining brightly, the oars were singing melodiously, and the romantic singing of twenty-eight-year-old girls came from afar, beautiful and charming.

There are green willows and pink flowers on the shore, and ancient temples are densely forested.

With whitewashed walls and black tiles, curling smoke, and spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, there is nothing better than the beautiful scenery of the West Lake.

On a beautifully painted boat, Sun Miao took several women to swim in the lake. He was about forty years old, with a thin build, a clean face, and a goatee on his lower chin.

At this moment, he was lying on his back in the beauty's arms, hugging her waist, feeling the warmth, admiring the spring and the colors.

The beauties around Sun Mian were all the former wives of several wealthy businessmen in Hangzhou.

Among them was White Peony, who was once an oiran from the West Lake and was bought by a wealthy businessman. However, Sun Mian saw it when he was traveling to the West Lake and snatched it away from him.

There are also Jin's and Zhao's daughters, both of whom are wives. They are all arranged by him to go to the state house, lie down and eat, and do all kinds of things.

Sun Miao often feasted on women and neglected government affairs, causing complaints from the local people.

But he has always been arrogant and arrogant, and he never takes these things to heart. He always goes his own way, which is quite a thief.

The boat sailed slowly by, and there were faint ripples on the lake. The warm sun in March shone on it, reflecting the sparkling waves.

The scent of peach blossoms blooming on the shore comes to your nostrils, and visitors seem to be looking at a beautiful landscape painting.

The warm breeze makes tourists drunk, and the beautiful scenery of West Lake is even more beautiful than Bianliang.

At this moment, a small boat approached quickly. There was a man on the boat. He climbed onto the boat and said with a flattering smile: "Sister-in-law, I'm here to see you."

Sun Mian kicked him over, almost knocking the man off the boat, and asked, "What are you doing here to harm me again?"

This person is Bian Xun, Sun Miao's brother-in-law.

Sun Miao was serving as an official in a different place, and he never dared to take his wife with him. This was because he was always lecherous, and his wife was quite fierce. His wife's natal family was Bian Su, the Minister of the Ministry of War and the transport envoy of Fujian Road, so she was not easy to mess with.

Therefore, if Sun Mian wanted to attract women when he was an official in other places, he naturally had to stay away from his wife's family.

But Bian Xun was not a good person. He always followed his brother-in-law to enjoy the good life, so he told his family every time that he wanted to supervise his brother-in-law. In fact, he just came to join in the trouble.

At the beginning of last year, when Sun Mian was transferred to Hangzhou, Bian Xun followed him and used his brother-in-law's power to forcefully purchase one hundred luminous pearls from the wealthy businessman Xu Ming for 33,000 yuan.

In the future, when Sun Miao was transferred to the north and served as the magistrate of Bingzhou, Qingzhou, Linzhou and other places, and was in charge of military supplies in northern Xinjiang, his brother-in-law would be his right-hand man, selling military supplies for him.

At this moment, Bian Xun rolled and crawled back to the boat, and said with a flattering smile: "How can I have more fun on Fujian Road than my sister-in-law? Being with my sister-in-law is much better than being with my elder sister."

"go."

Sun Mian waved his hand and motioned for all the beauties around him to enter the inner room of the boat.

After everyone left, he stood up from the bow board, smiled and cursed at the other side: "Last year, I wiped your shit about Xu Ming, and this guy came to harm me."

Bian Xun shouted: "How can my sister-in-law say it's all my fault? Doesn't my sister-in-law also covet the "Eagle Picture" painted by Guo Qianhui in Xu Ming's collection?"

"alright."

When his brother-in-law exposed the scandal, Sun Miao interrupted: "Tell me, why are you here with me again this time?"

Bian Xun immediately said: "Sister-in-law, do you know that Li Jianzhi, the newly appointed Liang Zhejiang prisoner, suddenly interrogated the prisoners today, and Xu Ming actually pulled out the officer's knife and cut off his arm in the courtroom."

"Is there such a thing?"

Sun Mian was shocked. He didn't expect Xu Ming to be so strong.

"yes."

Bian Xun said: "I just found out about it, so I immediately came over to look for my sister-in-law."

"Oops, Xu Ming didn't assign him to prison early or secretly execute him, but actually made him wait for the opportunity to interrogate the prisoners in the two Zhejiang prisons."

Sun Mian immediately frowned and said: "The Zhiyuan Zhiyuan's southern tour has arrived in Huainan. It is said that Guo Chengyou, the Zhizhou Zhizhou, was executed by him for corruption and perverting the law. If this matter becomes serious, Xu Ming or Li Jianzhi will report it. If you go to the hospital, something big will happen."

"What should we do?"

When Bian Xun heard this, he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

Sun Mian thought for a moment and said, "Let's go back."

At that moment, he put away his intention to continue leisurely strolling around the West Lake and ordered the boatman to swing the boat back to the shore.

The carriages and horses accompanying them on the shore had been waiting for a long time. Sun Mian and Bian Wen got on the carriage and returned to their residence in Hangzhou without stopping.

After arriving home, Sun Miao immediately started thinking about countermeasures.

When he engages in corruption, his routine is actually a bit the same, that is, he follows the route of unjust, false, and wrongly convicted cases.

Historically, he served as the magistrate of Hangzhou for three years and assigned more than 100 cases, many of which were artificially created by others with only one purpose - to embezzle the other party's property.

But in fact, these cases cannot withstand scrutiny. Many of them are based on forcibly and unjustly accusing others to achieve their goals. If higher-level officials investigate, it will be easy to find out the flaws.

In addition, it is forced buying and selling, and tampering with the ledgers.

For example, he wanted to buy a batch of silk from Xiaoshan businessman Zheng Min, but Zheng Min refused to sell it.

So Sun Mian falsified Zheng Min's account book on the pretext of tax inspection, saying that he had not paid taxes. He exiled Zheng Min on the pretext of tax evasion, and confiscated all the Zheng family's property (put into his pocket).

The Xu family's story was similar. Xu Ming had no children in his middle age, and later he finally had a son, so he gave his son a nickname "Da Wang'er". When Sun Mian heard this, he arrested Xu Ming for treason.

Xu Ming was dissatisfied and wanted to appeal. The reason given by Sun Mian was very simple, that is, your son is called "Da Wang'er", so aren't you the Da Wang? This is the ironclad evidence that you want to be king and emperor.

So in summary, Sun Mian did bad things mainly in the form of "fraud" and created false cases through official means.

And such means must be interrogated by the government and will leave traces in the government.

For example, each government office has retained case interrogation documents.

Once the higher authorities investigate, clues can be found through these documents.

So how to solve this problem?

Sun Mian quickly thought of a solution, which was to steal the case documents stored in the county offices of Qiantang County and Renhe County.

Although he was the prefect of Hangzhou, Qiantang County and Renhe County were also two large counties under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou, but he was still limited by the mobility of officials, and Sun Mian could not go along with every prefect.

So Sun Mian could only destroy the documents stored in his own prefecture office, steal the filing documents of Qiantang County and Renhe County, and deal with all the documents related to the case.

In this way, without the original materials, there would be no evidence. Without evidence, the superiors of the Criminal Court could not do anything to him.

After thinking of this solution, Sun Mian immediately took action.

That night, he ordered his confidants to send people to the Qiantang County Office to steal all the case documents.

Arson was not used.

Arson was a last resort. Once the county office caught fire, the noise was loud, which might attract the attention of the court, and he, the prefect, would also be responsible.

The theft method was much quieter. He only needed to hide his case documents among the large number of stolen documents. The magistrates of Qiantang County and Renhe County had to help him cover up in order to shirk responsibility.

It must be said that Sun Mian was born to do bad things. He figured out how to deal with it, which was beneficial to him and also in line with people's hearts.

At the end of the hour of the Ox, with the sound of the clappers in Hangzhou, the door of the back house of Sun's mansion quietly opened. Bian Xun stood at the door and saw someone coming outside and whispered: "Have you taken them all out?"

"Take them out."

"Okay, give them all to me."

"Yes."

"Take these gold and silver, remember to keep your mouth shut, don't let anything slip, otherwise the prefect will not let you off easily."

"Don't worry, we will leave immediately and never return to Hangzhou."

"Okay."

Bian Xun glanced at the large number of case files and documents on the ground, and after sending away the thieves who were sent out to steal, he immediately asked the servants of the mansion to move all the case files back and burn them.

Soon he arrived at the door of Sun Mian's study, knocked on the door, and then walked in and said, "Brother-in-law, everything is ready."

Sun Mian was actually under great pressure. In addition to the two Zhejiang judicial officials, the most important thing was that the director of the Political System Institute was now in Huainan, not far from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

And he was not sure about the director's ways. He was the director of the Imperial City Department as soon as he took office, and then the court established the Political System Institute. This person became the head of all officials overnight, second only to one person and above ten thousand people.

More importantly, this director really killed scholars and officials. Even if they were all middle and lower-level officials, a prefect had already died in his hands, so Sun Mian still had to be on guard.

At this moment, he heard Bian Xun say that he had succeeded, and he was relieved, and hurriedly asked: "Where are those official documents? Have they all been stolen?"

Bian Xun laughed: "They have all been stolen, and there are many other official documents, there must be thousands of volumes, and the cases judged by my brother-in-law are all in them. I have asked people to burn all the official documents. Now even if the higher-ups want to check, they can't find anything."

"Hahaha."

Sun Mian stroked his goatee, nodded with satisfaction, and laughed: "Not bad, very well done."

Bian Xun laughed: "Now I can always be with my brother-in-law."

Last year, Sun Mian was just transferred to Hangzhou. Bian Xun coveted the pearls in someone's family, so he used his brother-in-law's name to beat him to death.

After the incident became a big deal, Bian Xun was driven out of Hangzhou. This time he came back, naturally, he wanted to continue to be with his brother-in-law and domineering, at least it was much more comfortable than being controlled by his sister's parents at home.

"Okay."

Sun Mian thought for a moment, then warned: "But only the two of us know what's going on here, you can't tell your sister."

"Don't worry, brother-in-law, don't you know how good I am? When have I ever let it slip?"

Bian Xun said with a smile.

"Okay."

Sun Mian waved his hand: "It's late at night, go to rest first."

He was about to leave the study and go to the inner room. Tonight, he hadn't been intimate with the beauties in the family because of the theft of official documents.

Now that he was relieved, he naturally wanted to go back to the inner room in the backyard to have a good time with the beauties.

But just when they left the study and reached the corridor, a servant hurried over and said: "My lord, Yang Zhuanyunshi of Huainan West Road sent someone to find the government office."

Yang Riyan?

When Sun Mian heard the servant's words, his heart tightened immediately, and then he turned around and entered the study, saying to the servant: "Bring him here."

"Yes."

The servant went outside to bring the person in.

The confidant sent by Yang Riyan was his cousin Yang Rixuan. At this time, only family members could be trusted.

After Yang Rixuan came in, Sun Mian naturally recognized him and frowned, saying, "It's my dear brother Zizhai. Why did you come to my mansion in the middle of the night?"

"Brother Yuangui!"

Yang Rixuan hurriedly said, "Something big happened. I entered Hangzhou during the day, but I didn't dare to come rashly, so I disturbed you in the middle of the night."

"What happened?"

Sun Mian hurriedly asked. In fact, he already had a vague guess in his heart.

Sure enough, Yang Rixuan said, "Zhao Jun, the head of the Political System Institute, inspected Shouzhou and sent people to visit various places in Shouzhou. He found that the young man Ding in Huoqiu was poor. After asking, he learned that the relief grain of the court was embezzled, and most of the people in Huoqiu were killed or injured. Zhao Jun was furious and is now investigating."

"What?"

Sun Mian felt bitter in his heart. He had just filled one hole, but why did he forget another hole?

It was also his fault that the drought in Huainan happened two years ago, and he embezzled grain and grass at the beginning of the year before last. He did too many bad things, and it was normal to forget about it after two or three years.

But he quickly calmed down and said, "Is there no way for Brother Chuixun?"

Yang Rixuan smiled bitterly and said, "After Zhao Jun learned about this, he temporarily suspended my brother's position for dereliction of duty. Now he has occupied the office of the Huainan Transport Commissioner and is investigating the matter. Brother is worried that he can't hide it for long."

"The most urgent thing is to think of a way."

Yang Rixuan then said, "The current Huoqiu County Magistrate has committed suicide out of fear of crime. My brother means that if the people below can shut up and push the responsibility to those county magistrates, maybe they can hide the truth."

"Even so, if the case is investigated, I am afraid that I will not get much good with the means of this magistrate."

Sun Mian looked ugly.

He was the governor of Shouzhou when the corruption case occurred. Even if he found a scapegoat and pushed the responsibility away, Zhao Jun could use dereliction of duty as an excuse to punish him.

Just like he always used small reasons or no reasons to frame others, confiscated the property of those wealthy businessmen and exiled them to enrich himself.

Whether it was the officialdom or the people, people were crushed to death one level at a time. He, Sun Mian, was the governor of the local area, covering the sky with one hand, and was a dark cloud over the heads of the people. Isn't Zhao Jun the sword of justice hanging over his head?

"I'll take care of this matter."

After a long silence, Sun Mian finally said, "I will deal with it as soon as possible."

"I'll leave everything to Brother Yuan Gui."

Yang Rixuan said, "If you can get through this, my brother said he owes you a favor."

Yang Riyan was actually bribed by Sun Mian and others and dragged into the water, but now he said that if Sun Mian could properly handle this matter, he owed Sun Mian a favor.

In the final analysis, Zhao Jun put too much pressure on Yang Riyan, forcing him to try every means to grasp the life-saving straw, otherwise he would be transported all the way, and it was not certain whether Zhao Jun would really dare to kill him.

"Don't worry."

Sun Mian nodded.

At that moment, Sun Mian personally sent Yang Rixuan away, and began to think about countermeasures overnight and made arrangements.

I had allergic rhinitis caused by a cold, and I bought spray and nasal drops. Now the situation is slightly better. In fact, there is also an advantage, that is, I often had to type part of the next day's words before, and then usually went to bed at 2-3 in the middle of the night. Now I can only barely finish typing more than 4,000 words after sitting in front of the computer for a day. I finish work at about 10-11 o'clock in the evening, and then go to bed directly. Moreover, due to dizziness and brain swelling, the whole person fell asleep very quickly in a daze. I got up at 8 o'clock the next morning. The work and rest schedule has changed a lot.

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