First Prince of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 416

At nightfall, in the residence of Fang Liangpin, the magistrate of Pingliang, Zhang Mingyuan of Qingyang, Zhao Jinian of Gongchang, Wang Siyu of Hanzhong, and Yan'an of Xi'an and other state capitals all sat in the hall with dark faces. These people are a group of people who have been involved too deeply and can't struggle out of the quagmire.

Fang Liangpin was sitting in the main seat, his whole personality was gone, and he even felt as if the candle was dying out in the wind. Everyone has been sitting since noon until now, and they have played out several times in turn to shift the blame, quarrel and silence.

But he didn't think of a way to break the situation. Chen Yunze, let's say he is Chen Yunze, he has no intention of making peace at all, he just blindly asked Chen Rongyan to threaten and blackmail them, and now he has eaten their flesh and wiped it clean. He didn't even show his face.

Zhao Jinian, the general judge of the Gongchang Mansion, suddenly said: "Everyone, if you are unlucky, you will die. You have to admit it to anyone who happens to it. Don't hurt others. This is to accumulate virtue for your children and grandchildren."

Zhang Mingyuan glanced at him coldly and said, "Brother Zhao means to stay out of it? I'm afraid there is nothing so good in this world!"

Wang Siyu, the eldest son of the prefect of Hanzhong, persuaded from the side: "Xiandi Zhang is too extreme. Then Chen Yunze can't hide what he saw and heard along the way from Qingyang to Pingliang. If that's the case, it's better to follow the original agreement."

"Yes, I will take good care of the descendants of your family, keep them rich and honored forever, so that your blood will not be cut off, Zhang Xiandi and Fang Shishu should think about it, if we are all dead, who can take care of them? ?”

Fang Liangpin coughed weakly and said, "That's it, according to the original agreement, I hope you will keep your word!"

Wang Siyu got up and cupped his fists and said, "Uncle Shi, don't worry, everyone is looking at each other, whoever backtracks will convince others."

After a while, representatives of other state officials except Qingyang Mansion and Pingliang Mansion left, and the people left behind looked ashen and desolate. They were the ones who were responsible for embezzling the government's disaster relief food and assassinating the imperial envoy. Wang Shijian and others were charged with all the crimes.

Everyone slumped on their chairs weakly. Just thinking about the punishment represented by these crimes makes people shudder, but they were unlucky. Wang Shijian died in their territory, and the embezzled relief food also fell into Chen Yunze's hands...

Zhang Mingyuan suddenly stood up and threw the teacup next to him on the ground fiercely, looked up at Fang Liangpin and said, "Uncle Shi himself died of a serious illness soon, but he can't just sell us all so easily, just die." There is no reason to kill us alone!"

Fang Liangpin turned his head to look at the half-burned candle and said, "No one can escape. It's not good to do something in the last time of life. Why waste it with a group of people who are also dying. Anyway, there is plenty of time on the road to Huangquan."

Everyone in the hall was stunned, and Li Tongpan said in a trembling voice, "Then Chen Yunze is really His Royal Highness?"

Zhang Heng screamed: "Impossible!"

Fang Liangpin said softly: "I have been sleepless for the past few days, and I have been thinking twice before confirming that not only Chen Yunze is His Royal Highness, but Wang Shijian should also be killed by the Prince's order. Only in this way can we successfully take over the guard. Hehe, Chujun Yingguo Class father, God bless me, Daming."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the hall felt a little calm. Since everyone can't escape and will die, then their hearts are balanced. I really don't want to die.

Pingliang Tongzhi Zhao Guangsheng suddenly laughed and said: "It's not a loss, I never thought that I would be able to let the prince and Chujun call me a few times in my life, hahahaha, this is also a glory of the ancestors."

Li Tongpan and the others also smiled wryly, but Zhang Mingyuan pointed at Fang Liangpin with a distorted expression and sarcastically said, "Hehe, God bless Daming, it's ridiculous that Uncle Fang Shi is so greedy to say this?"

Fang Liangpin replied seriously: "I'm a corrupt official, but it doesn't mean that I don't respect the Holy Majesty, and I don't agree with the Holy Majesty's policy of eliminating officials. I have been an official for decades, and I know more about corruption and corruption in the officialdom than anyone else. It’s about to come, but I’ve repented, after all I haven’t read the sage books for decades, I really regret it.”

"It's a pity that it's too late to regret. There are tens of thousands of magistrates in Ming Dynasty. They studied hard for decades, but once they became powerful, they forgot their ambitions. "

Zhu Biao's voice came in from outside the door, and everyone in the hall was stunned. They couldn't hear the other words clearly, but the self-proclaimed words kept resounding in their minds, and the ups and downs made several elderly officials look up. dizzy.

The door of the room was pushed open by Tang Shizhong, and Zhu Biao stepped into the room with his hands behind his back, and he could vaguely see many figures crawling and kneeling behind him, which were the representatives of the group of officials who had just walked out.

The officials who were still awake immediately fell to their knees. Fang Liangpin tried his best to stand up with his weak body, but after all, he couldn't do what he wanted. He slipped from the large grand master's chair and fell to the ground.

Only Zhang Mingyuan was still standing there blankly, looking back blankly at Chen Xiandi, who was chatting and laughing with him last month, came in, Zhu Biao ignored him, walked straight past him, and was lazy to give him an extra glance .

Just because Zhu Biao didn't take it seriously didn't mean that Tang Shizhong could allow someone to be rude to His Highness. He passed by Zhang Mingyuan's body and kicked him in the crook of the leg. Zhang Mingyan immediately wailed sadly and fell to his knees in pain.

Zhu Biao sat on the chair of the chief seat, and none of the people below dared to look up, not even one dared to say hello, wishing to dig a hole in the ground with his fingernails so that they could escape.

Zhu Biao said to himself: "In fact, I have always felt that the Holy Majesty is too strict with the officials. When the water is clear, there will be no fish, and when people are inspected, there will be no disciples. It is normal for officials to use their power to benefit themselves. After all, None of them are gods and saints who don't eat the fireworks of the world."

"It's just that you are too much, the food for the disaster relief and the lives of Guan Tianna, that is what I borrowed from the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River without shame, and you are just greedy for it!

Is it really indifferent to those victims who starved to death?Don't you really have no conscience at all? "

Fang Liangpin raised his head and said with a smile: "Your Highness is still too young. This conscience is like a wooden thorn growing horizontally in his heart. It usually does not move at all. Once he does something unconscionable, it will turn. Naturally, the pain was unbearable at first. , but I have done a lot, the wooden thorn has been rotated several times in the heart to grind away the flesh, and it will not hurt any more in the future."

Zhu Biao nodded when he heard the words: "It makes sense, one wrong step, one wrong step, if you don't stop at the beginning, you won't be able to stop later."

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(End of this chapter)