"There is no proof for what you say, but you have to leave written evidence."
Zhang Jing whispered.
Wang Maode said: "How can we leave a written record! What if the factory owner uses us to ask for credit from above?"
"forget about it!"
"You are afraid that our family will bite you back, and we are also afraid that you will bite us back just like you did with Feng Bao. How dare we board your ship without any proof!"
"Don't forget! Our family's roots are in the palace. If you don't treat our family as our own, our family can't accept your money!"
Zhang Jing sneered.
Wang Maode gnashed his teeth and whispered: "The execution of Feng Bao was done by Haigangfeng and the others. What does it have to do with our Hanlin Qingliu?!"
"Isn't Haigangfeng the person you, Hanlin Qingliu, admire the most?"
"Now, you don't recognize what he has done?"
"Do you think our family will believe it?"
Zhang Jing laughed disdainfully after asking.
Wang Maode clenched his fists tightly and held it in for a long time before he managed to utter a sentence: "You have received so many gifts from us, aren't you afraid that we will end up like Feng Bao now?!"
"Are you threatening our family?"
Zhang Jing suddenly lowered his face and looked at Wang Maode.
Wang Maode said: "Since they can kill Feng Bao, they can also kill the public!"
Zhang Jing chuckled: "Then ride on the donkey and read the songbook."
Wang Maode said nothing with a cold expression.
Zhang Jing here personally checked the number of confiscated homes.
At this time, Wang Jiaping and Sun Jigao had already started to take a look, and after seeing the factory guards carrying out boxes of gold and jade jewelry one after another, they both looked at Zhao Zhigao in surprise.
Zhao Zhigao said nothing, only cried quietly aside.
According to historical records, contemporaries commented on several great scholars in the Wanli period. Among them, they mentioned that Ma Ziqiang was upright, Xu Guo was prudent, Wang Xijue was strict and resolute, and Wang Jiaping and Zhang were both qualified. And Zhao Zhigao is greedy for fame...
In this life, Zhao Zhigao was defeated because of this.
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"Did this Wang Maode really say that?"
After Zhu Yijun learned from Zhang Jing that Wang Maode attempted to bribe him, he asked Zhang Jing.
Zhang Jing nodded: "I dare not hide this from the emperor. This Wang Maode has already threatened to expose the matter of my cash collection."
"These nobles are still rich after all! If they give me this money directly, maybe I will agree to them directly."
"They always worship the wrong Bodhisattva!"
Zhu Yijun sighed.
Zhang Jing said: "Of course they don't want to lose the face of their upright officials in front of the emperor."
"Their face is face, but mine is not face?"
"You think that using a porcelain vase and kneading noodles will make me helpless against them and trample on my imperial power?"
"I can overturn a table of food, but no one can eat it. That's because I am the emperor; do they have the right to overturn my table?"
Zhu Yijun sneered.
Zhang Jing echoed: "Of course they don't have this qualification, but they want Your Majesty to let them have this qualification."
"Face is earned by oneself, not given by others!"
Zhu Yijun said in a deep voice.
"There is no sage like the emperor, they don't understand it like the emperor!"
Zhang Jing flattered him at this time.
Zhu Yijun said at this time: "Bring Zhao Zhigao here. I will question him again at the Imperial Palace. The other Hanlin officials who went to inspect them with you will also report to the Imperial Palace."
"Also, keep an eye on this Wang Maode!"
"Now he is just talking and doesn't leave any evidence. If he is caught, he will say that your factory guards framed him and framed him. But if he really committed the crime, it won't be framed."
"According to the order!"
By the time Zhu Yijun arrived at Shiyusi, Zhao Zhigao had already been escorted here.
It's just that unlike before when he came here wearing official robes, he now wears prison clothes and shackles.
"Zhao Zhigao, are you willing to admit that you are a foreigner now?"
Zhu Yijun asked Zhao Zhigao in a calm tone.
Zhao Zhigao sobbed and cried: "Your Majesty, I was misled by an unethical woman. I don't really want to be acquainted with the barbarians, woo woo!"
"Why sophistry? How many of those who can get here will be unable to control their subordinates in the face of big issues such as right and wrong?"
After Zhu Yijun said this, he looked at Zhao Zhigao and said with a smile: "You are still unwilling to tell me the truth. Do you still think I am easy to fool around with?"
When Zhao Zhigao heard what Zhu Yijun said, he couldn't help but stop crying, and then looked at Zhu Yijun silently for a while.
"Your Majesty, forgive me!"
Then, Zhao Zhigao kowtowed again, and then said: "I am indeed opposed to the imperial court's current policy of recruiting foreign troops, including the new policy established by the Grand Master! Your Majesty knows that the gentry in the world have been suffering from the New Policy for a long time! But Your Majesty insists on the old policy of the Grand Master, They did not hesitate to inflict massacres in order to maintain their old regime, so that the gentry all over the world could only look for opportunities to seek help from border towns and foreign barbarians, and they deliberately supported their growth and weakened China's power, making Your Majesty fearful!"
"But now the border towns, at least Liaodong, have no hope, and in the outer barbarians, the Japanese country can no longer count on it. The sudden appearance of Myanmar is promising."
"Therefore, I am willing to see your Majesty suffer a huge defeat in the Burmese expedition. It is even better to have your muscles and bones broken and your martial arts skills to be completely useless!"
"Of course, I just thought about it. I didn't really want anyone to do this. It's just that when they were willing to buy information from me by sending Qian Jinji and money, I didn't insist on being honest and was willing to betray the information for them."
"It's not a pity for me to be cut into pieces!"
"But please, your majesty, make the distinction between a home for students and a home for common people, and do not make them serve in the military and suffer severe punishments!"
"Your Majesty is the father of the scholar-bureaucrats, not the king of Guizhou!"
"If the head of Guizhou is starving to death, he can just sit back and wait for death. Why should he benefit him? He would even go so far as to raise troops abroad for this purpose?"
"Does Your Majesty know that if we really want to make all the Han people benefit and be rich and comfortable, not just the powerful officials and gentry, how many countries will be destroyed and how many barbarians will be slaughtered in the world?"
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As Zhao Zhigao spoke, he couldn't help sobbing again and asked Zhu Yijun in pain.
"But the young and the young, and the old and the old, and the labor of the people, are the principles taught by the saints, and it is also the principle that you scholars believe in."
"In addition, the people are the most important, the king is the most important, and the country is the second most important thing. This is also the principle of the sage."
"Zhao Zhigao, you are a scholar in the Imperial Academy and a well-educated scholar. How can you say that it is wrong for me to want to benefit the people?"
"What's more, from the beginning to the end, you scholar-bureaucrats are petitioning me to implement the New Deal, and it is not my intention alone. From Taishi to Master Shen, many civil servants and Confucian scholars advocate this, and many even think that my steps are not big enough or not enough. Friendly people: So, in your words, why are all the gentry in the world suffering from the New Deal? Do the civil servants and ministers in the Manchu Dynasty who support the New Deal like to suffer from themselves?"
Zhu Yijun asked pretending to be puzzled.
Zhao Zhigao did not answer Zhu Yijun's question about why the world's gentry had different opinions. Instead, he banged his head on the ground anxiously: "Your Majesty! According to what you said, aren't the people not the people?!"
"Is it the people?"
Zhu Yijun asked Shen Shixing: "Master Shen, you have served as my lecturer and can be considered my husband. Can you tell me, are the people the people?"
"Your Majesty, those who do not respect the royal style are just beasts!"
Shen Shixing replied in a deep voice at this time.
"Master Shen, so the sage's words are correct. To govern, one should be virtuous, and to be a king, one should respect benevolence?"
Zhu Yijun asked.
Shen Shixing replied without hesitation: "Your Majesty, of course the saint's words are correct! It is the rebellious minister Zhao Zhigao who is misleading your Majesty. It is not an exaggeration to say that this thief will be chopped into pieces with a thousand swords!"
"Your Majesty, what Yuan Fu said is absolutely correct. The saint's teachings are not wrong. What is wrong is that some villains in future generations deliberately misinterpreted the saint's teachings!"
"It is not an exaggeration to say that Zhao Zhigao could be cut into pieces with a thousand cuts!"
Yu Youding echoed.
"I second the proposal!"
Pan Cheng and others also echoed.
Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Jiaping, Sun Jigao, and Wang Maode: "What about you, tell me, is it the saint who is wrong, or Zhao Zhigao?"
Wang Jiaping pursed his lips and bowed to the ground: "Your Majesty, it is Zhao Zhigao who is a traitor and should be beheaded. He is not a saint and mistakenly calls me the king of China, so he is a thief who deserves to be beheaded!"
"I am so ignorant that I spoke out for a traitor before now, and almost harmed the country and the world!"
Sun Jigao also bowed to the ground, and started sobbing bitterly as he spoke.
Seeing this, Wang Maode bowed to the ground helplessly: "I am also ignorant and have been deceived by a traitor. Now it seems that I should be like Yuan Fuyan and Zhao Zhigao should be beheaded!"
"Then drag it down and cut it into pieces!"
Zhu Yijun stood up and spoke loudly, and stretched out his sleeves.
"Living Note Officer!"
"I'm here!"
"Master Shen's good words today. Those who do not respect the emperor's style are like beasts. Be sure to write them down!"
Shen Shixing sighed secretly.
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
All the ministers knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
Seeing this, Zhao Zhigao smiled bitterly: "That's not what the saint thinks, absolutely not! The saint definitely doesn't want you to, in order to protect Taoism, leave the obedient people of your country who have been taught morality for thousands of years to take away food from other countries, and make the world unhappy. Ning!"
"Absolutely not!"
Zhao Zhigao roared loudly.
But no one paid attention to him. Only Jin Yiwei came up and dragged him down, and Zhu Yijun gave him a reduction of 500 knives on the grounds that he finally confessed truthfully, and he only received the standard number of knives.
Soon after, Zhao Zhigao was cut into pieces in the city.
