After Sun Zheng came to Nanjing, he became a veritable local emperor. Even Wei Guogong Xu Chengzong treated him respectfully and did not dare to offend him.
After half a lifetime of ups and downs, Sun Zheng began to develop many bad and perverted habits in his later years...
Of course, Zhu Jianshen noticed Sun Zheng's arrival, and he also deliberately kept Sun Zheng in the dark and asked him to kneel for a while longer.
Zhu Jianshen still had to consider how to deal with the officials of the previous dynasty, but he had no worries about treating his own slaves.
He was very dissatisfied with Sun Zheng.
Nanjing City is the place where the mastermind of Jinan's rebellion was planned. This supervisory army was unaware of the garrison and had failed in its duties.
Moreover, Sun Zheng's reputation was very bad. When he first arrived in Nanjing, he still knew how to abide by some rules. However, as time went by, he became more dishonest and no longer followed any rules. He accepted a little money until it was nothing, which made Zhu Jianshen the most. What makes him angry is that one of his eunuchs actually acted as a protective umbrella for Erdao dealers and became a horse breeder. Of course, this horse is not a horse, but it is famous as Yangzhou Shou Ma.
Yangzhou Shou Ma was originally formed in the early Ming Dynasty. There is a profession that specializes in raising "skinny horses". That is, traffickers buy young girls with outstanding looks from poor families, train them, and sell them to wealthy businessmen when they grow up.
This is the same as buying thin ponies, fattening them up and then selling them. It is also for this reason that these girls who were bought are called thin horses.
In fact, this situation exists throughout Jiangnan and other places. However, there are many salt merchants in Yangzhou area and rich people are everywhere, so the trend of raising thin horses is the most popular, and it has also earned the name of Yangzhou thin horses.
Raising thin horses is a plan for raising girls to be Lolita. Rich people raise young girls according to their own preferences, and then marry them into their families as concubines when they grow up.
The Eight Beauties of Qinhuai such as Gu Hengbo, Dong Xiaowan, Bian Yujing, Li Xiangjun, Kou Baimen, Ma Xianglan, Liu Rushi, Chen Yuanyuan and others were all born in Yangzhou Shou Ma. Even if they are famous far and wide, the Shou Ma are just playthings of the rich and have low social status. Very lowly, after all, only a small number of skinny horses can stand out like Qinhuai Bayan. Most of the skinny horses end up in brothels or called wandering warblers, and because they are involved in buying and selling, their social status is lower than that of beggars on the road, which is harmful to their health. If you kill a beggar, you will be prosecuted, but the master will kill these women at will, and no one will ask.
This is selling people in another way.
In the third year of Chenghua, when the emperor was young and Yu Qian was in power, Yangzhou's thin horse was very famous.
The prefect of Yangzhou wrote a letter to Yu Qian, denounced this activity, and then Yu Qian reported it to the Empress Dowager Sun and the Emperor, and formulated a series of policies to severely crack down on this industrial chain.
The human trafficking was classified as a felony and anyone caught was killed. In the four years from the third year to the seventh year of Chenghua, the local government almost completely pulled out the entire industrial chain of Yangzhou Shouma.
But more than ten years later, this extravagant trend in Jiangnan has reared its head again.
When there is demand, there will be buying and selling.
The Yangzhou thin horse business slowly started again in private.
What Zhu Jianshen didn't expect was that Sun Zheng, an old-fashioned eunuch, was so good at raising more than a dozen little girls as granddaughters and eight boys as grandsons in his mansion. These grandchildren were not raised by Those who grow up to be filial to themselves are all doing so to satisfy their own selfish desires.
Dongchang investigators said that Sun Zheng often molested these children and was more horrifying than normal people. No less than ten children had died in his hands, and they were all buried in the backyard of Sun Zheng's courtyard.
What he represents is himself, but the imperial power, if not to keep you clean, you have to pay attention to the impact. What's more, he is a poor man himself. He entered the palace early and became a eunuch, but now he has become famous. For someone who was also born in poverty Children, but without any kindness, have harmed so many lives.
When Zhu Jianshen first learned about this incident at the beginning of the year, he thought about killing him. However, after Zhu Jianshen thought about it for a while, he felt that there was not enough time, so he suppressed the matter and asked Geng Liang, the deputy garrison eunuch of Nanjing, to remind him. Please tell him a lot and don't let him kill anyone again before you arrive in Nanjing.
A person with a completely twisted mentality. No matter how capable he is, Zhu Jianshen won't be able to use him.
The people who investigated Sun Zheng were from Dongchang, and all the information was passed to the emperor through Gao Yi's hands, so Zhao Huanong didn't know about it, so he followed Sun Zheng to reminisce and chat with him on the way.
But now His Majesty the Emperor was leaving Sun Zheng alone, and Zhao Huanong understood something. Something was wrong with this old boy.
The longer you kneel, the bigger the crime is. If it lasts for more than half an hour, you will be dead...
Zhao Huanong, who was standing in front of Sun Zheng, stood like this, counting the time, while Sun Zheng just knelt on the ground.
The Qianqing Palace was also eerily quiet, with only the sound of the emperor reading memorials...
Half an hour later, Zhu Jianshen put down the memorial in his hand and looked at Sun Zheng who was kneeling on the ground.
"Sun Zheng, how long have you been in Nanjing..."
Hearing this, Sun Zheng felt relieved: "Your Majesty, I have been here for four years..."
"It's been four years. It seems that you are deeply rooted here. You are the garrison eunuch of Nanjing. You should know a lot about the things in Nanjing. Let me ask you about the Yangzhou thin horse that was attacked by the Taibao. Is it still available in Jiangnan now?"
Although His Majesty the Emperor's tone was light and did not sound like he was angry, Sun Zheng's heart, which had just been relieved, immediately became tense.
He couldn't help but think about why His Majesty suddenly said this. Could it be that His Majesty also wanted to see something and let himself, a slave, help him raise a few people?
Given the social background at this time, it was quite normal for the emperor to have this idea, not to mention that the people present were all domestic slaves, so it could not be spread. It was also in line with the national conditions at this time for slaves on errands to offer beautiful women to their masters.
"Your Majesty, it doesn't exist on the surface, but it does exist secretly. If Your Majesty likes it, I can go down and make arrangements for you..." Before Sun Zhenghua could say anything, Gao Yi next to Zhu Jianshen yelled at him: "You are so outrageous. If you dare to say this to your majesty, someone will slap you thirty times..."
After Gao Yi finished speaking, four eunuchs rushed forward and pulled Sun Zheng up directly.
At this time, Sun Zheng was already confused, and when he saw that the eunuch who executed him was actually Geng Liang, the deputy guard eunuch, he immediately understood something.
Zhu Jianshen, who was sitting above, just watched like this without any intention of stopping him.
And Geng Liang showed no mercy to his boss, slapping him one after another.
The crisp sound of the wheel's slap and Sun Zheng's cry of pain instantly made the Qianqing Palace, which had just been quiet, become lively...
Geng Liang was a junior among the eunuchs. He was only in his thirties at this time. He used to call Sun Zheng godfather, but now he showed no mercy. He tried his best to slap the old eunuch with thirty slaps. Walk……
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