Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 207 Rage

Around noon that day, with the sound of thunderous horseshoes, a large cloud of dust and smoke rose into the sky not far away. The figure of the knight suddenly appeared in everyone's sight.

When they were dozens of steps away from the city gate, the horses of the cavalry descended quickly, and a large cloud of dust brought up by the galloping horses rushed towards the strong squad on duty like a sea wave, choking the crowd and coughing.When all the dust settled, more than ten cavalry had lined up in front of the strong squad a dozen steps away, and the entire east gate of Xinyang City became silent, and everyone was overwhelmed by the power of this cavalry.

Wang Ancheng, who was wearing a blue smock, waved his hand, and Zhao Sheng drove his horse to the stunned strong squad, and shouted loudly: "Jinyiwei is on business! Get out of the way!"

The shouting woke up the strong squad members who were stunned in place. Since the yamen servants and scribes who were on duty outside the city gate in the morning had disappeared, a man who looked like a leader hurriedly ordered someone to move the horse away. Wang Zhian urged the horse Go to the city first.

In the back house of the Yamen of Xinyang Prefecture, Xu Yunsheng, who is nearly sixty years old, is counting silver with Xinna's concubine.

Silver ingots and silver scorpions of different sizes are placed in several boxes several feet square, which are the share of this month sent by several grain stores in the city.

Xu Yunsheng wasted half his life, and he has been unsuccessful in repeated trials. His various expenses, travel expenses, etc. are also not small amounts. The family is already struggling day by day.

However, there is no such thing as a unparalleled road. Xu Yunsheng, who was over fifty years old, suddenly had shit luck. He first passed the provincial examination in the sixth year of Chongzhen, and was on the list in the next year's general examination. Although he ranked behind, in the end He also came from the same Jinshi background.

Due to repeated ravages by thieves all over Henan, the prefectures and counties in Henan have become fearful places for Xinke Jinshi. Xu Yunsheng boldly asked for the post, and finally got the post of magistrate of Xinyang Prefecture and took office. It has been more than three years since then.

Fortunately, Xinyang Prefecture, which is located in a remote area and close to Huguang, did not suffer from serious military disasters. During the past three years, its rule was very stable, which provided a favorable opportunity for Xu Yunsheng to boldly make money.

He knows that he is old and there is no one in the court, and it is very difficult to make further progress in his official career, so why have he worked so hard and read sage books for so many years?
Since you can't be a high official, let's make money, you have to leave some wealth for future generations, right?
In the past three years, he used various methods to collect money wantonly in collusion with Tongzhi, Tongju and others, and then sent people back to his hometown to hide.

Since the ninth year of Chongzhen, as the drought in various places has become more and more severe, the price of grain has also risen steadily. This has given Xu Yunsheng and others an opportunity to make a fortune. After collusion, the grain in the official warehouse was grandiosely placed It is sold publicly in the grain store.

Xu Yunsheng and others also used the pretext of helping the victims to ask for money and food from the governor's yamen and the chief envoy, and the money and materials allocated by them all fell into their pockets without accident.

"Master, this month is 200 taels more than last month! The gold hairpins and gold tines promised by the master should be bought by my slave this time, right?"

The concubine who had just conceived said coquettishly.

Xu Yunsheng pinched the concubine's nose dotingly, and said with a smile: "Buy, buy, buy! You can buy it tomorrow! The master loves you the most! Hehehe!"

The little concubine said with a smile: "Master is the best! Only the blessings that my family has cultivated in several lifetimes can follow the master!"

At this moment, someone outside the door suddenly answered: "I'm afraid your luck will come today! Otherwise, you will have to go underground with your master to enjoy the blessing!"

Just now, the two were immersed in the extreme pleasure brought by counting silver coins, and they didn't even notice the sound of someone approaching outside.

Xu Yunsheng was furious when he heard the words, and shouted sharply: "Which damn servant is so bold! Believe it or not, I will throw you into a prison!"

Amidst the creaking sound, the door that had not been locked from the inside was pushed open, Wang Zhian stepped in, followed closely by Zhao Sheng and Zhang Shun.

When Xu Yunsheng saw the three strange men coming in, he had a bad feeling in his heart. He got up and pointed at Wang Zhian who was in the front and asked, "Who are you? Do you know who I am? Who gave you the courage to trespass on this place?" Officials and private houses? Come here! Beat these people out!"

Zhao Sheng took a step forward, took out his waist card from his pocket, shook it at Xu Yunsheng, and said in a deep voice, "I'm waiting for Jin Yiti to ride! Xu Yunsheng, your case has been opened!"

More than ten days later, the document submitted by Wang Zhian was placed on the imperial case of the Qianqing Palace. Zhu Youjian, who was discussing with the elders and ministers how to deal with the drought in Shanxi and other places, picked it up and looked at it. After Luo Yangxing submitted the document, he hid On the side of the chief inspector of ceremonies.

A moment later, there was a crisp sound of "pop", and a hollowed-out white porcelain gold-painted teacup fell on the gold bricks in the hall and smashed to pieces. All the ministers and big clangs were startled by this sudden change.

Luo Yangxing had known for a long time that the emperor would be angry, and when he read Wang Zhian's documents, he was also very angry.

"Shameless you! You deserve death! You read the books of the sages in vain! You scholars are not able to raise all the people for me like this? These animals are more vicious and cruel than thieves! All the scriptures have been read into the stomach of a dog! What about conscience?"

Zhu Youjian suddenly stood up from the throne, opened his eyes wide, pointed at the officials in the hall and shouted loudly, with an extremely ferocious expression on his face.

This move of the emperor made everyone in the palace turn pale. The inner court officials quickly fell to their knees, while the foreign ministers looked at each other in blank dismay.

Although the emperor was quite irritable and irritable a few years ago, and sometimes scolded his ministers, he had never acted so rudely.

Eight years after Chongzhen, as the situation in the world gradually improved, the emperor became more gentle and generous, and all the officials were used to the emperor who never smiled or spoke.

What made the emperor so angry?
After Wen Tiren came out to salute, he said solemnly: "Your Majesty, calm down! The old minister dares to ask why the Holy Majesty is so angry? Please show me the Holy Majesty!"

Li Banghua boldly came out to salute and said: "The old minister dares to ask His Majesty to respect himself! It is really inappropriate for His Majesty's bad words to be added to scholars in the world! Please take back what He just said!"

Wang Chengen beside Zhu Youjian glared at Li Banghua.

"Big companion, take the documents to all the courtiers who have read poetry and books! Let them see how virtuous the so-called scholars are!"

Zhu Youjian said sarcastically.

Wang Chengen bowed and picked up the documents from the imperial case, and walked down the imperial steps towards Wen Tiren. When he passed by Li Banghua, he snorted in his nose. Li Banghua looked calm and fearless.

Wen Tiren took the document from Wang Chengen and quickly browsed it, with an expression on his face that was sometimes angry and sometimes miserable. After reading it, he didn't say a word, and handed the document to Wang Yingxiong.

In the document, Wang Zhi'an narrated the incident of Xinyang Prefecture in its entirety, and pleaded guilty to the emperor for leading others to take down the Zhizhou, the Tongzhi, and the sentencing.After all, he is just a member of Jinyiwei, and it is against the law to arrest officials of the fifth rank, the sixth rank, and the sixth rank of the imperial court without a criminal record.

Soon after everyone in the hall passed the document to read, Wang Chengen took the document back and put it on the imperial case.

Wen Tiren took the lead and knelt down on the ground, and all the civil officials also knelt down behind him one after another.

"Since the day I studied, the old minister has thought that the life of the people is the greatest ambition in this life! I also believe that the famous words of the former sages are also the duty and responsibility of the majority of scholars in the world to strive for it for life! But the old minister also knows that the dragon has nine sons, Each is different! There are more than ten million scholars in the world, and it is inevitable that some beasts will appear among them! It is really a shame to our generation that Xu, the magistrate of Xinyang Prefecture, and others have done such a bad thing! I ask the Holy One to punish severely according to the law, so as to imitate others!"

Wen Tiren said with a heavy face.

"My minister agrees!"

"The old minister agrees!"

"Your Majesty, I request the death penalty for this colleague!"

"I feel so ashamed that I want to die! I can't wait to tear this thief into pieces with a sharp knife in my hand!"

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