Chapter 588 Chapter 587(2/2)
When Zhang Yongming pulled out the letter papers, Xu Jie and Li Chunfang's eyes were attracted.
As the left censor of the Censorate and the largest supervisory official in the court, Zhang Yongming naturally had the right to view such confidential things.
After carefully reading the content of the letter, I first thought about it, and then I felt as if I had realized the mood when Hu Zongxian wrote this letter.
However, he did not read the things in his hand and handed them to Xu Jie, but looked at the beginning and the last name of the letter, as if he was identifying something.
Afterwards, Zhang Yongming carefully checked the front and back sides of the envelope, and then handed the letter and the envelope to Mr. Xu.
"Old Master Xu, you can take a look, I have already seen it."
"good."
Xu Jie reached out to take the letter handed by Zhang Yongming, and acted similarly to him, so he carefully looked at the content of the letter, and then checked the letter, and looked at the envelope with the name left. Then he handed the letter to Li Chunfang.
During the whole process, Li Chunfang remained silent, but just quietly observed Zhang Yongming and Xu Jie's every move, trying to see something.
It’s just a pity that when the two of them read the letter and handed it to him, they did not notice any abnormality.
After taking the letter handed over by Xu Jie, Li Chunfang read it carefully. Sometimes he read some paragraphs repeatedly several times, and gradually gained an understanding of the purpose of Hu Zongxian's writing this letter.
Looking at the last signature, the letters seem to be correct, and the seal seems to be true.
Don’t wonder why Li Chunfang knew Hu Zongxian’s calligraphy and knew Hu Zongxian’s private seal. When Hu Zongxian was prosperous, even if Yan Song was protected by the capital, the etiquette they should have had was still indispensable.
Every year, Li Chunfang naturally received no less gifts from the Hanlin Academy and other bachelor's houses.
Li Chunfang still has an impression of the handwriting and seals on the prayer posts.
He let out a long sigh. Although he had doubts about this letter before, he seemed to believe that the letter should have been written by Hu Zongxian.
At that time, Hu Zongxian could be said to have tried his best to curry favor with the Yan family. After Zhao Wenhua died and cut off the aid from the capital, he began to contact all those who could speak to the Yan family.
Because he knew that as the governor of Jiangnan's Japanese suppression, he had too much power and too much money to handle.
Wealth is touching, and no one will turn a blind eye to those wealth.
If no one is protected in the capital, Hu Zongxian's career may come to an abrupt end at any time.
It is an indisputable fact that Hu Zongxian embezzled military pay and lived a luxurious life. In fact, the internal story has gradually spread after Hu Zongxian was arrested and taken back to Beijing.
Especially after his confidant general Wang Yingqi launched a military mutiny in the martial arts world, in order to clear his relationship with Hu Zongxian and others, the military leaders of all sizes in Zhejiang have explained some of the internal information through various channels.
This is also the reason why he was directly exposed to Emperor Jiajing and only protected him after Emperor Jiajing came forward.
By adding additional taxes such as "releasing" in Zhejiang and other places and requesting the retention of salt and silver in Liangzhe, huge amounts of money have been accumulated.
Some of this money was used to recruit battalions and encircle Japanese pirates and to issue rewards, and some money was used to recruit Japanese pirates, but most of it was still for him to squander himself.
Whether it is issuing the rewards of the camp soldiers or the expenses of pursuing Japanese pirates, huge holes are bursting out.
Of course, when placed in front of Emperor Jiajing, the emperor could see them naturally transferred all these holes to recruit Japanese pirates, and the problems on the camp were dealt with.
After all, by this time, the coastal provinces along the south of the Yangtze River were still war zones, and Japanese pirates attacked from time to time.
Chapter completed!