Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 70 His Royal Highness Liao Wang is really a great talent for governing the world! (Ask for votes!)

Zheng Shiyuan really couldn't understand His Royal Highness Liao Wang's operation these days.

If it wasn't for the conversation with His Royal Highness Liao Wang in the courtyard before, and knowing that His Highness Liao Wang came to Dingyuan County to get Zhu Huan convicted, I'm afraid he would think that His Highness Liao Wang is with Zhu Huan up.

For three whole days, His Royal Highness King Liao worked tirelessly to serve as criminal officials one by one in the prison, but without exception, they all accused them of being the masterminds, that is, the small officials responsible for collecting taxes were the exception, and then said The words are all for Zhu Huan's escape.

And it was hinted back and forth that Zhu Huan was a relative of the emperor, the nephew of the emperor, and his father was kind to the emperor, so he couldn't die in this wave.

As for the performance of those criminals, like Su Wenzhong, some of those who yelled at him immediately confessed their guilt and just wanted to let their family members go. There is a lot of feces and urine.

Zheng Shiyuan has seen such corrupt officials a lot. When they exploited the common people, they acted like a domineering, and when they were about to die, they began to beg for mercy to win sympathy. If they could forgive, if they could sympathize, who would sympathize with the people?Where is the justice of the people?
Zheng Shiyuan was angry when he saw it, and wished he could go up and beat these corrupt officials to death.

At the end of the same routine interrogation by His Royal Highness the King of Liao, people took them back, and then everyone had a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and asked them to confess that they were the mastermind and that Zhu Huan was deceived.

Some people wrote honestly, but most of them didn't bother to write. On the one hand, they were unwilling to plead guilty, at least they were unwilling to help Zhu Huan take the blame.

After all, as soon as the words are written down in black and white, and the finger is pressed upwards, it is really dead.

But His Royal Highness Liao also has a solution, it’s very simple, it doesn’t matter if you don’t write, you don’t have to sleep, there are guards guarding you all day long, as long as you doze off, you will be woken up, poked with a knife, splashed with cold water, nothing will happen. Needless to say.

Zheng Shiyuan originally thought, what kind of punishment is this?But to Zheng Shiyuan's surprise, under this method, no one survived for four days!

On the fourth day, a lot of confessions were quickly placed in front of His Highness Liao Wang, but judging from the previous induced interrogation by His Highness Liao Wang, there must be a lot of confessions that can help Zhu Huan Exonerated.

If the emperor saw these words and acted according to the trend, saying that his subordinates deceived Zhu Huan, wouldn't Zhu Huan need to die? !

Zheng Shiyuan began to panic, and even wondered if His Royal Highness Liao Wang deliberately blackmailed himself, and then took this opportunity to help his cousin Zhu Huan get rid of the crime?

But Zheng Shiyuan had just begun to suspect that it was already the fifth day, and His Royal Highness Liao Wang looked at the confession in his hand, smiled at Zheng Shiyuan, shook the confession in his hand, and said:

"Master Zheng, look at how good the corrupt officials in Dingyuan County are. They even acted as admonishing ministers when they were dying. Alas, it's a pity that they are all corrupt, otherwise they would all be my loyal ministers."

Looking at His Royal Highness Liao Wang with a hippie smile in front of him, Zheng Shiyuan is an idiot. The tax has been raised three times. The officials of the entire Dingyuan County have followed Zhu Huan to search for the people's fat. , Never before!
This is how you can still be a loyal minister?

"Wait..." Zheng Shiyuan was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Your Highness, are they admonishing ministers?"

Zheng Shiyuan vaguely seemed to have a clue, while His Royal Highness Liao Wang smiled mysteriously and said:
"They weren't originally, but the king told them to be, so they are."

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Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the emperor was very upset recently, Zhu Liujiu followed the emperor every day, except crying or kneeling every day, or moving out little things about his childhood, in order to help his son beg for his life.

I have to say that Zhu Liujiu has really taken good care of Zhu Yuanzhang all the time. If it wasn't for Zhu Liujiu, Zhu Yuanzhang would have starved to death in Fengyang long ago.

But Zhu Yuanzhang is the emperor, how can he take the lead in favoritism and perverting the law?Having said that, Zhu Yuanzhang did not order Zhu Huan to be executed immediately after five days in a row. On the contrary, His Royal Highness Liao Wang and Zheng Shiyuan were interrogating criminals in the government office.

The sound of wailing can be heard all day long, and it seems that there is no less torture, but when I get closer to hear it, it is somewhat dumbfounding:

"Ah, please let me sleep, I won't be greedy anymore."

"Just sleep with a stick of incense, I promise, just sleep with a stick of incense."

"I'll give you 300 taels, please, let me sleep."

Good guy, what is this for?
Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised by what the internal officer who was sent to see the situation, by the way, said. The third child interrogated the criminals like this, can he be interrogated?Wouldn't it be better to use the punishment directly?

Of course, torture cannot be used directly. Zhu Qi still expects these criminal officials to write, how can they write when they are beaten half to death, but Zhu Yuanzhang must not know about this.

The officer went on to say:
"However, His Royal Highness Liao Wang is indeed very serious. I heard that the interrogation lasted for four or five days in a row. Those prisoners did not close their eyes, and His Royal Highness Liao Wang did not close their eyes either. Hey, it was too hard."

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little moved when he heard it, so he listened to the eunuch ask cautiously:

"Your Majesty, why don't you go and see?"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said:

"Let's go, go to the government office to have a look."

When Zhu Yuanzhang came to Dingyuan County, he didn't live in the government mansion, nor did he live in Zhu Liujiu's Zhu Mansion, but in the Dingyuan post station. At this time, he took a large group of guards and went to the government office.

At this time, the official government offices were not shut down, even seeing all the officials wearing shackles in office, it was considered a rare thing through the ages, but this was not a rare thing during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty.

Officials are corrupt. After being arrested, they continue to handle the case in shackles, and wait for new officials to take office before they are dragged to beheaded. This is the basic operation.

Sometimes the common people can entertain themselves.

At this time, the people of Dingyuan were watching the fun. Zhu Yuanzhang visited privately in a micro-service, and did not reveal his identity, and he could hear many people talking about it. It was nothing more than saying that Zhu Huan, a corrupt official, had finally fallen. Master Qingtian said so.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't speak, and walked into the government office. The common people didn't know Zhu Yuanzhang, but they knew Zhu Qi's guards. When they saw the emperor coming, they all knelt down.

When he heard that the emperor was looking for His Royal Highness King Liao, Zheng Shiyuan hurried out and said:
"Return to Your Majesty, Your Highness is just too tired to read the confessions of those criminal officials in the courtroom, and fell asleep after watching, the humble officer will call His Highness to wake up now."

Fell asleep?
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't let Zheng Shiyuan call His Highness anymore, he raised his legs and walked towards the inside, and sure enough, he saw Zhu Qizheng sleeping on his desk in the courtroom, with a thick stack of papers all written on it, Needless to say, it must be a confession.

Zhu Yuanzhang stepped forward and picked up the first confession. It said that Zhu Huan was innocent, he didn't know, his subordinates and others were deceiving him, and so on.

Zhu Yuanzhang was taken aback for a moment, then said to Zheng Shiyuan:
"It seems that there is something hidden in this case!"

Zheng Shiyuan didn't say anything, thinking that Zhu Liujiu's stalking these past few days seemed to have some effect.

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he saw the second confession, but after looking at it, his nose was crooked.

What "Zhu Huan is the county magistrate, how can he be innocent about taxation? How can he get away with it? The matter of taxation is written in black and white, how can his subordinates deceive him? Are you crazy? Everyone in the world is a fool?" You have made it clear that you want to help him get rid of the crime, he is a relative of the emperor, he committed the crime without any crime, don’t we, we have to die!” “Your old Zhu’s family is so perverted, it will surely perish in the next generation!”

Below is another font with the name: Su Wenzhong.

Zhu Yuanzhang kept silent with a sullen face, and then looked at the third confession, which was still full of swearing.

It’s very similar to the second one. It’s about accusing the emperor’s relatives and relatives of why they knew the law and violated the law. The justice in this world is so fair. It’s better for Ming to perish as soon as possible. You, Zhu Ming, should be better off. In Dayuan, at least the relatives of the royal family broke the law and still paid for it!
Zhu Yuanzhang read several confessions in a row, and then put all the confessions back without saying a word. He sighed deeply, and without waking Zhu Qi up, he retreated outside the house, looking at the bright world outside, and still There were people watching the excitement outside the government office, and then they heard the sound of firecrackers being set off and the people celebrating with joy and laughter.

Zhu Yuanzhang just stood there and listened.

After a long time, he ordered to Zheng Shiyuan:

"Pass my order, immediately take the criminal Zhu Huan to the entrance of the vegetable market, behead him for public display, peel off the skin and fill it with grass, and hang it in front of the government office to thank the people for their anger! The rest of the criminals will be executed immediately!"

"The humble leader."

After Zheng Shiyuan took the order, he watched Zhu Yuanzhang leave, then turned around and looked in the direction of the government court with a solemn expression, bowing respectfully and saying:

"His Royal Highness the King of Liao is really a great talent in governing the world, Zheng, why not!"

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