amaotonovel Chapter 546 Not a single slip through the net
Chapter 546 Not a single slip through the net
Chapter 546 Not a single slip through the net
When Yishiha returned to Xingzai, he heard the woman Liu's mournful wailing.
The woman exclaimed: "It's no wonder the bitches, they all instructed them, and it's good to teach the bitches to obey them. The bitch is only a weak woman, otherwise, how would you rather dirty your innocence?"
She wailed loudly, as if she was not falsely accusing others, but was greatly wronged.
Yi Shiha only heard a headache.
Immediately afterwards, the old man's voice came again. The man in his seventies and eighties was panting at first, but now he seemed to be full of breath: "Old man, I was also deceived by them... It is the prefect Chen Jia, who is This is Chen Jia who instigated the old man. Your Majesty... the old man is old, his eyesight is dim, and he doesn't understand the truth, but he was instigated by someone, really... really..."
As he spoke, he sobbed.
In the blink of an eye, the false accusers seemed to have become the victims all of a sudden.
Only Chen Jia and the other officials in the government office looked miserable.
Zhu Di curled his lips into a sneer, looked at the ugliness of these people, disgust flashed in his eyes, and couldn't help asking: "What is the truth, what is it?"
Before Chen Jia opened his mouth.
The Tongzhi of Raozhou Mansion behind him bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, the truth...the truth is...the government office deliberately invited officials from the Railway Department in the name of mediation, and then...laid a trap, Give me an excuse to teach you a lesson."
After Zhu Di heard this, his face turned livid, and he said sharply, "Why is that so?"
Chen Jia's face was extremely ugly.
At this time, it doesn't matter whether other people say it or not. Some people want to speak for him.
But at this time, Chen Jia suddenly roared: "Because the railway department continues like this, the Raozhou government... will die without a place to bury it! If it goes on like this, how much land will be barren and no one will cultivate it. In the city, all industries will be depressed, and the people will die. They all went to the Railway Department. However, Raozhou has become a dead city! Could it be...is it His Majesty's original intention for the Railway Department to move the people to the railway line and let the prefectures and counties decline?"
He became more and more excited and said: "From last year to now, there are still [-] military and civilian households in Raozhou's capital city, but now there are only [-] households left. The number of people migrating is jaw-dropping. This is especially the case in other counties in the country. In Zunqiao Township under the Raozhou Prefecture, there used to be [-] households, but now, they support the old and the young, and are encouraged by the railway department. In the end, the remaining households are only in the early [-]s."
His lips trembled, and he continued: "Without so many people, how much land will be barren. No one cares about this big fertile land, and everyone is running to the railway company. The taxes and taxes of the imperial court have been collected by the government this year. , is not as good as half of previous years. This railway company...in one day, Raozhou Prefecture will never have a peaceful day!"
He changed his expression of panic just now, and spoke righteously and eloquently.
After hearing this, Zhu Di looked at him indifferently, but didn't say a word.
Zhang Anshi had a slight illusion, as if this Chen Jia was not a corrupt official who made false accusations and murdered with sinister intentions, but a scholar-bureaucrat who worried about the country and the people.
At this time, Chen Jia then said in a miserable voice: "The land is barren, the people are displaced, the grain production is reduced, and the food tax is also reduced, and the people are panic. Ignore it, then the magistrate...isn't it a laughing stock? The magistrate's duty is to report to the country, and to govern the people, so why didn't the minister do anything?"
His sharp answering question stunned many people instead.
Zhang Anshi frowned in disgust, thinking that this guy was just trying to argue, but after all, he was short of words, so he didn't know how to refute for a while.
Zhu Di continued to look at Chen Jia coldly.
It has to be said that Chen Jia's words finally calmed down the officials who were about to turn against him, and even the woman Liu Shi and the elderly.
They obviously agreed with Chen Jia, although it was a false accusation, but under Chen Jia's righteous words, it seemed that what they did was really loyal and courageous, so they all fell silent at this moment, no longer evading responsibility.
Just after this brief silence, someone couldn't help chuckling.
Everyone looked, but it was Hu Guang.
Hu Guang walked out at a leisurely pace, except for the mocking chuckle at the corner of his mouth, his face today looked very stern, without any anger in his eyes, he opened his mouth and said, "Is that really the case?"
A drop of cold sweat slid down Chen Jia's forehead, but he gritted his teeth and looked at Hu Guang. In his opinion, all losses today were due to Hu Guang, a traitor.
At this time, I just wish I could eat Hu Guang's flesh alive.
"Why not?"
Hu Guangdao said: "There is no one to cultivate the great fertile land, so that the grain production is greatly reduced. Then I would like to ask, the people of our Ming Dynasty have depended on the land for a living for generations. I don't know how many people are only good at farming. The fertile farmland is here, why don't they cultivate it, but rather leave their hometown and do coolies?"
After hearing this, Chen Jia said, "It's because... because the Railway Secretary bewitched... it's because..."
Hu Guang interrupted him, and shouted: "I can't see it all. Since the prefect Chen said that it was because of the bewitchment of the railway department, could it be that these countless people are all stupid and hopeless? If it's just bewitching, could it be that they would Are you so stupid that you don't know what's good?"
Chen Jia: "..."
Hu Guang sneered and said: "There is a lot of fertile land, no one is going to cultivate it. As a magistrate, you don't look for the real reason, but force it on the railway department and ignorant people. How dare you call yourself a parent official like you? If the common people really have fertile land to cultivate, and the cultivated food is all their own, there is no need for corvee, no rent, and they only need to hand over some money and food to the court, and they can live in peace and prosperity. The belt, like a refugee, is going to the railway department?"
Chen Jiadao: "What is the meaning of Mr. Hu's words?"
"That's what the old man said." Hu Guangdao: "The people are suffering, and you don't know it. No one rents the land, this is your so-called great benevolence, is it your duty? What you are thinking about, where are the people? It's just...the hundreds of thousands of gentry in this Raozhou Prefecture!"
"Now because their interests have been damaged, you are at the end of the road, so you set up a trick to kill the officials of the railway department. After the incident, fearing the crime, you secretly organize people to make false accusations. You are so mad, shameless and despicable. In front of His Majesty, pretending to be a parent official. A person like you is worse than a beast, and you dare to quibble here."
Chen Jia's forehead was dripping with sweat.
Hu Guang did not intend to stop there, and continued angrily: "The most evil person in the world is not just a reckless man who kills innocent people indiscriminately. It is just like you, who kill people while pushing people into a burning pit that will never be restored , but still relying on the eloquence of the tongue, relying on the writing and ink in the stomach, the shameless villains who talk too much about righteousness!"
"The villain who kills innocent people indiscriminately can at least teach the world to know his true colors and make people despise him. But a shameless and despicable villain like you can always use hypocrisy to deceive ignorant people , to achieve your sinister purpose."
Chen Jia opened her mouth, as if she wanted to refute, but she was speechless.
Hu Guang continued: "Your Majesty, in this case, the evil officials and officials headed by Chen Jia are the most shameless. The court should punish them severely to serve as an example to others! I think... Chen Jia's crimes are too numerous to write down. When the family is wiped out, we must be vigilant." people of future generations."
As soon as this remark came out, Zhu Di couldn't help but cheer up.
He took a deep look at Hu Guang.
But I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.
At this time, Zhu Di felt that Hu Guang did have many advantages.
Of course...Zhu Di obviously saw another side of Hu Guang.
That is, when Hu Guang was so angry, he actually... chose to be tolerant.
Yes, on the surface, Hu Guang begged His Majesty to exterminate Chen Jia's family, which is certainly the most serious punishment.
But don't forget that Chen Jia has a lot of party members, and this matter cannot be handled by just Chen Jia.
It stands to reason that such a serious false accusation this time was also a conspiracy, and the person who was killed or injured was the order of the railway department.If it is severely punished, all those involved in this matter will be wiped out, and none of them will escape.
However, Hu Guang only begged for the extermination of Chen Jia's family. To a certain extent, he was also telling Zhu Di that Chen Jia was the leader of the bandit and should be sentenced to death. As for other party members, the punishment must be second-class.
Zhu Di turned his gaze, squinted his eyes, and looked at Chen Jia, with a deep coldness in his eyes.
At this moment, Chen Jia was like an egg that had been stripped of its shell by Hu Guang. It seemed that even the last layer of moral fig leaf was gone. At this moment, she couldn't help feeling extremely terrified.
The word "family annihilation" was nothing more than a bolt from the blue, so that his uprightness just now finally disappeared, and what appeared next was deep fear.
In fear, he said tremblingly: "My subject is dead, I implore...Your Majesty, please give me a lenient sentence."
His voice trembled, pleading.
Zhu Di resolutely said: "The play by Hu Qing is to serve as an example to others and punish his family."
After hearing this, Chen Jia suddenly felt that her whole body had been turned into mud, and she suddenly collapsed.
The woman and the elder were even more panicked and hurriedly pleaded guilty.
But Zhu Di ignored them, turned to Yi Shiha and said, "Do you still have the witnesses outside?"
Yi Shiha immediately said: "Your Majesty, I will go again."
Immediately, he went out, and after a while, he trotted back with a roster in his hand.
Yi Shiha presented the roster, and said: "Your Majesty, this is the roster of all the people who are going to give false testimony for the prefect Chen Jia. There are 370 people with names and surnames. They saw it with their own eyes on the street."
Zhu Di took the roster, glanced at it lightly, and said mockingly: "It seems that none of them have wronged them?"
Yi Shiha said: "My servant is afraid that someone will be wronged, so when I registered, I asked people to cross-examine whether they came to testify, and whether they wanted to prove that...the railway department staff committed murder. .”
Zhu Di nodded his head indifferently, and then said: "I caught them, turned around and ransacked their homes, and stabbed their whole family, young and old..."
Zhu Di paused here.
Zhang Anshi regained his energy all of a sudden, and quickly raised his face, as if His Majesty looked at me, Your Majesty looked at me.
Zhu Di said casually: "Assassinate with Xinzhou."
Zhang Anshi felt comfortable all over, and his heart was as sweet as honey.
There are more than 300 households more!
Don't underestimate these three hundred or so households, each household is different.
For ordinary people, there may be only a few people in a family, but for some families with deep roots, this family is divided into big house, second house, third house, and fourth house. The maid gave birth to children, and in addition, many people often settled in their families in order to cling to such families, and some families had hundreds of people in one family.
Not surprisingly, these so-called witnesses all have relatively solid household registration books.
This is the main reason why Zhang Anshi is looking forward to it.
Zhang Anshi immediately said: "Your Majesty trusts your ministers so much, I... I am so grateful, please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will definitely discipline them and teach them...the fate of falsely accusing others."
Zhu Di was not very interested in this. Since the Ming Dynasty opened the sea, one of the great benefits is that manpower, which was originally worthless, has become so popular now.
You know, in the past, what the imperial court was most worried about was the danger of the common people becoming refugees, but now, they are only afraid that there will be insufficient manpower, and even criminals will become sweet pastries.
After hearing that, the woman and the elder already had a miserable expression on their faces. It was obvious that their household registration books were relatively thick. In addition, this is almost the same as the genocide, in fact, there is not much difference.
The old man only felt that his eyes were dark, but he didn't expect that when he was about to die, he would harm his descendants.
As for the woman, she suddenly stopped crying, as if she lost her soul all of a sudden, she just knelt on the ground numbly, bowed her head and said nothing.
Zhu Di didn't care about these, he just said: "Take people immediately, don't let anyone go."
As he spoke, he clicked on the roster.
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Not long after, the business was outside, and it was still lively. There were more than three hundred people, many of whom were familiar with each other, so everyone was here, bored, waiting to testify, or to make a pledge later. Because I waited for a long time, I couldn't help feeling anxious, so I got together in small groups and chatted some gossips.
"For some reason...they haven't summoned me to wait."
"Chen Zhifu didn't say that at the beginning, he said that he would go in soon, and he would sign and pledge..."
"Hey... this is the imperial trial, we need some time, don't worry..."
"Those damn railway bureaucrats are really hateful..."
While chattering, someone suddenly shouted: "Look what is that?"
However, in the streets and alleys, suddenly the guards and soldiers of the railway department were crowded with open flames, and they directly pressed up.
All of a sudden, there was some commotion in the crowd. Some people sensed something was wrong and subconsciously wanted to avoid disaster. They raised their eyes and looked around, but found that there was no way out at this time.
"It's terrible, it's terrible..."
The person who originally wanted to run away found that there was no way to go, so he knelt on the ground in a hurry and shouted: "What happened..."
Someone said sadly: "I am wronged, I am wronged..."
For a while, there was a lot of voices, but soon, the voice became shrill, and then...all the voices died down.
The arrest went very smoothly, even a bit too smoothly, almost all the prisoners were gathered together, with names and surnames, and they had already been registered, all they needed to do was round up from all directions, and in a flash, they were all caught up. .
"Your Majesty..." Yi Shiha hurriedly came to report: "All the criminals have been captured."
Zhu Di was calm and relaxed, but he didn't get angry because of it, he just said: "This is good, it saves a lot of effort."
Outside, there were some noises.
However, a eunuch came in a hurry, looking hesitant.
Zhu Di frowned and said, "What's the matter?"
The eunuch then said: "Your Majesty, there are a few outside here...not imperial prisoners, but people from the medical school...they...they brought a few injured officials here..."
Zhu Di looked at Zhang Anshi.
Zhang Anshi couldn't help but feel ashamed. Originally, this action was Zhang Anshi's arrangement at the bottom of the box. He carried these seriously injured officials and let His Majesty see with his own eyes the ruthless hands committed by Qin, so as to win His Majesty's sympathy for the Railway Department.
But what Zhang Anshi didn't expect was that Hu Guang's fighting power was directly off the charts today.
The battle was over before Zhang Anshi could show his misfortune. The arrangement and arrangements now seem superfluous, even a little ridiculous.
At least Hu Guang, who was standing aside, frowned fiercely.
Just kidding, when I went to inquire about the injury yesterday, I saw people like Hu Mu wrapped like zongzi. The doctor also said repeatedly that we must pay attention to rest now, so as not to disturb the patients, and said that we must rest.
But you, Zhang Anshi, are fine, you just brought him out today, parade in the street?
Hu Guang's distress is distressing, but it's hard to say anything at this time.
Since he started it himself, he couldn't pretend that he didn't know, Zhang Anshi hurriedly said in embarrassment: "Your Majesty... these... these people... are arranged by the minister, the minister... the minister is thinking...they have suffered like this. For the grievances, we must let them... participate in the imperial trial, so that they can see with their own eyes that the great revenge will be avenged..."
Zhang Anshi managed to find an excuse that he thought was plausible.
Zhu Di looked at Zhang Anshi speechlessly. Although Zhang Anshi said it in a high-sounding manner, who actually didn't know his little thoughts?
Not to mention someone as shrewd as Zhu Di!
After a brief silence.
Zhu Di finally said: "Bring it in, since it's here, I want to see you."
As soon as this remark came out, Zhang Anshi was greatly relieved.
Not long after, I saw more than a dozen doctors carrying people in on stretchers.
I saw that one person, covered with a white sheet, if it wasn't for the sheet not covering his face, it would almost make people think... this is a funeral scene.
Just looking at the glaring quilt makes one feel unlucky from the bottom of his heart.
Zhang Anshi also sensed that something was wrong, and couldn't help showing embarrassment on his face. He opened his mouth to explain, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that the more he explained, the more chaotic he became, so he might as well...be silent.
(End of this chapter)