"Zhao Mengbai!"
Chen Jingbang suddenly stood up and shouted loudly, glaring at Zhao Nanxing: "Are you northerners so ruthless and unreasonable?"
As he said that, Chen Jingbang sneered and said, "No wonder Zhang Feixiang (Zhang Xueyan), the official, let you serve as a doctor in the examination department. I think it's not just because you are from Beizhi, right?"
"What are you talking about, sir?"
"My appointment as the Examiner was approved by the emperor's decree. I only know that this is a favor from the emperor, not a friendship from the country!"
Zhao Nanxing asked, and then refuted Chen Jingbang.
Chen Jingbang had a gloomy face and said nothing more.
Zhao Nanxing also knew that he could not continue the conversation, so he also said goodbye and left here.
Chen Jingbang made an appointment with Shen Yiguan, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, that night, and told Shen Yiguan about Zhao Nanxing, saying: "I didn't expect him to be so shameless. If we want to talk about the morality of the world, we have to rely on us southerners to maintain it!"
Shen Guanyi smiled and said, "Young master, do you understand?"
"If you ask me, it's not that people from the south are different from people from the north, but that among the loyal ministers in the world who really care about the court, there are already a lot of traitors and loyalists."
"It's okay that Zhao Mengbai is not a real hypocrite, but just stupid and unsophisticated. Instead, some people are using him as a chess piece for personal revenge!"
Chen Jingbang nodded and said: "You are right, I really don't know when the world will be at peace!"
When Chen Jingbang asked when the world would be at peace, he was not lamenting the unrest for the people, but the unrest for the bureaucracy.
Because since the failure of the bureaucratic group's attempt to severely liquidate Zhang Juzheng, the entire old party of Zhang Juzheng has not been eradicated, and the imperial power has been controlled by the reformists, which has resulted in the examination and the Privy Council not being abolished.
As a result, bureaucrats are still under pressure from assessments, and military power is still unable to be controlled by civilian officials. After the reformists continue to be in power, another consequence is that restructuring will continue, making the bureaucrats and the gentry below them even more uneasy.
Therefore, Chen Jingbang sighed.
But this is the current situation after Wanli took office, and he, Chen Jingbang, has to accept it even if he doesn't accept it.
Gong Yiqing, Wang Jian, Zhou Qi and other bureaucrats who were arrested and brought to Beijing for tampering with the Qing army and causing harm to the people. When they were taken to the Three Laws Division, they could only accept the fact that they were now being interrogated by the Three Laws Division. Don't dare to be dissatisfied.
"The dismissed member is indeed guilty, but this was all instigated by Tu Long, the head of the Ministry of Etiquette!"
"I beg your majesty to show mercy, and I promise that I will never dare to do it again."
When Gong Yiqing was interrogated by the three judges, he showed no sign of dissatisfaction. Instead, he directly admitted his crime and begged the emperor for mercy.
Wang Jian even explained: "I admit that I have made mistakes in misunderstanding the Prime Minister's intention, but this was also due to the instigation of the patrol officials and other officials below. After the imperial edict strictly prohibiting the Qing army from hooking up with the army was issued, I had some faults. He is trying to stop you! You don’t dare to ignore the emperor’s order! It’s proven by my Fuyuan Jun Order.”
"I admit that I was greedy for money, so I was instigated by Du Jian, but I really didn't instigate the Qing army in Fuyuan to hook up with the army."
Zhou Qi also reluctantly admitted that he was corrupt, but did not dare to say that the court was wrong in not allowing the Qing army. He just put the blame on Du Jian and emphasized:
"But I still gave the order to stop the Qing army after the imperial edict was issued. As evidenced by my cards, although I am greedy for money, I am still loyal to the emperor and the court!"
then.
The Third Law Division made a report to Zhu Yijun based on the review.
The standards of the Sanfa Division in accordance with Zhu Yijun's holy will are that anyone who refuses to stop the Qing army's rebellion after the decree is issued, will be deemed guilty of resisting the decree and will be executed.
If there is anyone who stops him, he will be exiled for three thousand miles in the pass, considering that he has not committed the crime of deceiving the emperor.
However, for those who stopped and stopped, but committed corruption or ordered the Qing army to hook up without authorization for the sake of flattery, the punishment ranged from being exiled five thousand miles outside the pass to being hanged.
As for those who neglected their duties, were lazy, allowed subordinate officials to use the Qing army to plunder the people, or deliberately turned a blind eye, they were all dismissed from their posts to serve the people.
Those who instigate bureaucrats to harm the people will be sentenced to punishment ranging from execution in prison to execution by hanging.
This way.
Gong Yiqing, Zou Diguang, Du Jian, etc. were all executed because of their disobedience.
Zhou Qi was found to have amassed more than a thousand taels of money without having time to transfer the looted proceeds or sell them, so he was sentenced to death by hanging along with Tu Long and others who instigated the bureaucrats to harm the people.
Fengyang Inspector Cen Yu was exiled to Yuerhai and Wang Jian was exiled to Mangdian, Yunnan for his unauthorized orders to the Qing army.
"The time has come!"
"Execution!"
Subsequently, Lu Kun, a reformist official who was promoted to Beijing as the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment after being promoted from the post of governor of Fengyang, shouted loudly that a group of officials who needed to be executed were thrown out their tokens, and all these people were killed.
Fujian also asked Du Jian before he was beheaded: "Head, why are we being beheaded now, not those untouchables!"
"Who the hell knows!"
"I only thought that being an official would bring power and power, but now I realize that even though being an official is powerful, it is easier to lose your life!"
"Who knows what the higher-ranking officials above are thinking. Maybe they just want to kill us after I make enough money!"
"If I had known that being an official would lead to losing my head, I would have been better off farming the land and doing business!"
Du Jian said.
Fujian said aggrievedly: "But I haven't even become an official yet! I just started to have the opportunity to work for the official, and now I am going to die! If I had known that this line of work would be easy to die, I wouldn't have said anything. Don’t do it!”
Fu Jian was about to cry when he heard a crisp sound and was shocked to see Du Jian's head falling to the ground.
Fujian couldn't help being startled when he saw this: "If I had known, I would have followed that Ye Agui and entered the factory, and maybe I would have a wife and children."
As he was speaking, he was cut in half with a knife.
…
Click!
Ye Agui slashed the knife, and two halves of the chicken appeared in front of him.
At the same time, Ye Agui also said to his wife Wang Xiaocao, who was putting his daughter to sleep:
"I finally understand that as an ordinary citizen, I have to be kinder to myself!"
"Otherwise, no one will be nice to you. Those officials will only care about how much money they can take from you. If they can take away one or two silver dollars from you, they will never leave you half of it; if they can take away your land, , I will never return the grain seeds to you! Therefore, it is better to use the remaining money to buy more delicious food, listen to more books, and watch more plays, so I cruelly bought two chickens. We will eat one for ourselves, and we will give one to Yue Weng later. He has been suffering from poor health recently and needs to be recuperated!"
Wang Xiaocao nodded: "That's right, we can't buy any more land. Who knows if the land will still be taken away by those dog officials!"
As Ye Agui was talking, he heard a gong sound outside, and suddenly saw a large number of officers and soldiers crossing the border. He was so frightened that he hugged another unkilled rooster that was cooing in his arms, and even pinched the rooster's neck, fearing that the rooster would The officers and soldiers passing through the border were also from the Inspection Department. When they heard the crow of the chicken, they came over to snatch the chicken he had just bought.
After all, if a family can feed chickens these days, it means that the family still has a lot of food, and it is worthy of being looted.
"I'm only here to bring officers and soldiers across the border. What are you afraid of?"
"Does this hospital still like you as a chicken?"
The new Fengyang patrol commander Zhang Wenxi, who was marching incognito with the soldiers, happened to see this scene because he came to ask for a bowl of water, and asked Ye Agui with his thick eyebrows furrowed.
After hearing what Zhang Wenxi said, Ye Agui knew that he would not rob her of her belongings, so she hurriedly released the neck of the rooster in her arms.
(End of chapter)
