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Chapter 511 Lu Xiangsheng, beheaded five days later

"Huh? Is the Tianxiong Army already so powerful? In a battle against Jiannu, the battle loss ratio can reach two to one?"

Chongzhen frowned as he looked at the memorial, and his face turned slightly better. If this is true, then Lu Xiangsheng is worthy of recognition, at least the use of soldiers is worthy of praise.

"Wang Daban, what is the ratio of our Liaodong's war damage to Jiannu over the years?"

After hearing this, Wang Cheng'en, who was waiting on the side, said: "Your Majesty, about five to one."

"Five to one."

Chongzhen muttered about this data ratio. This data ratio is really astonishing. Liaodong invests millions of silver in a year. Jian slave alone.

But what about the Tianxiong Army?It is possible that two Tianxiong armies can kill one Jiannu. If the Liaodong army is replaced by the Tianxiong army, wouldn't it be possible to prevent Jiannu from coming and going, or at least make them have no time to invade.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen's eyes brightened, he looked at Wang Chengen and said, "Wang Daban, how do you think the Tianxiong Army managed to pull the battle loss ratio to two to one?"

After listening to Chongzhen's words, Wang Chengen pondered for a moment and said, "I don't know."

After hearing this, Chongzhen was slightly disappointed and said: "That's right, I don't know about it, how could you know? But this Lu Xiangsheng still has skills, although I don't like him, but his skills are still very strong, by the way , Call Li Maocheng, the left servant of the Ministry of Justice who wrote this memorial, since he wants to propose marriage for Lu Xiangsheng, I would like to ask him if he knows how Lu Xiangsheng achieved such an astonishing battle loss ratio."

After Chongzhen finished speaking, Wang Chengen nodded and said, "I'll go find this old slave."

After finishing speaking, Wang Chengen turned around, but his face was cloudy. Wang Chengen was not a fool. He knew too much about the affairs of the court. Li Maocheng, the left servant of the Ministry of Punishment, belonged to Zhou Yanru, and the relationship between Zhou Yanru, Yang Sichang, and Lu Xiangsheng was placed on the table. On the face of it, now that Li Maocheng is asking for marriage for Lu Xiangsheng, he, Wang Chengen, doesn't believe it.

Wang Chengen, as a complete eunuch who came from the Tianqi Dynasty, has seen a lot of such activities in the palace. When a political opponent suddenly shows goodwill to you, don't take it lightly. The other party does not want to really reconcile with you. Instead, they made a trap, ready to trap you.

This Li Maocheng was obviously planning to give Lu Xiang a trick. Wang Chengen came outside and ordered the eunuch to look for Li Maocheng. His Majesty looked for him, and Li Maocheng was waiting for His Majesty to find him, so he had been working in the yamen. When he heard that the emperor was looking for him, Immediately went to see the emperor.

Wang Chengen sent Li Maocheng to the imperial study, and then he withdrew himself. Although he was a close minister of the emperor, he didn't want to get too involved in some things. He was not Wei Zhongxian, who relied too much on power. He restrained power, so He can live so long.

When Wang Chengen came out, he looked up and saw the eunuch who had just issued the imperial decree to Lu Xiangsheng not long ago. When the eunuch delivered the decree, he immediately saluted Wang Chengen: "Old ancestor."

Wang Chengen nodded casually, but glanced at the eunuch delivering the decree and said, "Jin Shui."

"The little one is here."

When the eunuch passing the decree came over, Wang Chengen said: "A few days ago, I went to deliver the decree to Lu Xiangsheng, and personally escorted him to Beijing. I have done a lot of credit."

After hearing this, the eunuch passed the decree and said quickly: "This is all taken care of by the ancestors."

"Well, that's enough, let's not talk about this, let me ask you something, you have the most dealings with Lu Xiangsheng, do you know why Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army is so powerful that it can exchange two for one with Jiannu?"

Wang Chengen asked casually, and the eunuch was taken aback when he heard this, then looked at Wang Chengen and said, "Old Ancestor, don't you know? The reason why the Tianxiong Army is so powerful is because they use weapons from The ones brought from Lantian, without the blessing of Lantian firearms, the Tianxiong army would be similar to the elites of Liaodong, fighting with Jiannu would cost five for one, or even more."

"Lantian!"

Wang Chengen's expression changed upon hearing this.

"What's the matter, Patriarch?"

The eunuch who delivered the decree looked at Wang Chengen and asked, Wang Chengen didn't answer, but looked towards the direction of the imperial study and sighed: "Zhou Yanru is ruthless!"

Snapped!
As soon as Wang Chengen finished speaking, he heard the sound of Yushufang slapping, the sound of the teacup being smashed to the ground, followed by Chongzhen's roar: "Lu Xiangsheng, bully me too much, traitor, traitor!"

Chongzhen's voice was full of anger, Wang Chengen said to the eunuch who delivered the decree: "You, hurry up and do some errands."

After finishing speaking, Wang Chengen trotted to the outside of the imperial study, and at this moment Chongzhen roared angrily: "Wang Chengen."

"The old slave is here."

Wang Chengen pushed the door and walked in. At this moment, he saw Chongzhen's eyes were red. Li Maocheng, the left servant of the Ministry of Punishment, lowered his head and couldn't see his expression clearly. At this moment, Chongzhen shouted angrily: "Preparation."

"Yes."

"Lu Xiangsheng, defrauding the emperor and ignoring his superiors, resisting orders and not obeying orders, colluding with rebels, arbitrarily mobilizing an army, heinous crimes, this crime is not enough to make the common people angry, this crime is not enough to explain to the world, ordered the Ministry of Punishment to verify the evidence of the crime. Tell the world, five days later, Caishikou will be executed!"

"Yes."

When Wang Chengen heard the words, he immediately drafted the imperial decree, and then issued the cabinet to the cabinet to do so. Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair after reading the imperial decree, still angry.

"I still trust Lu Xiangsheng so much. I didn't expect him to collude with Lan Tian in vain, and the connection is so deep. What a fool."

Chongzhen was furious, at this time Li Maocheng raised his head and looked at Chongzhen and said: "Your Majesty, the Lu family has vainly cared about Jun'en and colluded with Lantian. It is a heinous crime. If you don't destroy the family, the province will kill Lu Xiangsheng in the future, and the Lu family will feel revenge. .”

Li Maocheng looked at Chongzhen, he didn't understand his hatred for killing Lu Xiangsheng, and wanted to destroy Lu's family. After saying this, Chongzhen looked at Li Maocheng and hesitated.

At this time, Wang Chengen, who was silent at the side, frowned and said: "Your Majesty, the loyal family of the Lu family, before and after, three or four men of the Lu family have already sacrificed their lives for the country, and they have a very high prestige among the people. This time, Lu Xiangsheng did it alone. Just kill Lu Xiangsheng alone, if it hurts the Lu family, I am afraid that there will be a lot of discussion among the people, and it will also affect His Majesty's reputation among the people."

Chongzhen hesitated again after hearing this, waved his hand after a long time and said: "Okay, just kill Lu Xiangsheng for this matter, step back, I'm tired."

At Chongzhen's words, Wang Chengen and Li Maocheng withdrew and retreated outside the hall. Li Maocheng looked at Wang Chengen and said, "My lord, why do you want to prevent me from killing Lu Xiangsheng's family today? Keeping people like this will be a disaster after all."

Hearing this, Wang Chengen looked at Li Maocheng and said, "Master Li is so vicious."

Hearing this, Li Maocheng looked at Wang Cheng'en and said, "When Li does something, he always either doesn't do it, or does it absolutely, so leave."

Li Maocheng left, Wang Chengen looked at Li Maocheng's back and sighed, then smiled again, the little eunuch at the side saw this and said: "Old ancestor, why do you offend a left servant of the Ministry of punishment for Lu Xiangsheng."

Wang Chengen smiled and said: "This old man is accumulating virtue for himself again, and this Li Maocheng can't go far, he broke the rules."

"rule?"

The little eunuch didn't understand, Wang Chengen smiled and turned to leave without explaining.

The news that Lu Xiangsheng beheaded Caishikou on the fifth day spread quickly, and it really stirred up waves at once. After hearing this, countless people expressed disbelief that Lu Xiangsheng, a pillar of the country, really wanted to was killed?
At this time, there was a banquet in the mansion of Chief Assistant Zhou Yanru, and during the banquet, Li Maocheng, the number one hero, became a star, countless people toasted him, and Li Maocheng also laughed, very proud.

When the reception was over, some of his real confidantes gathered around Zhou Yanru. Zhou Yanru looked at Li Maocheng who was walking away and said, "After a while, find an opportunity to impeach him. Don't be such a person as the left servant of the Ministry of Punishment." It's time for you to move up, Linping."

"My lord, Li Maocheng has done meritorious service this time. Let's impeach him rashly, don't we..."

"What is rashness? All his criminal records have been found out in the past few months. It will be a disaster for such a person to stay for a long time. That's all right, let's withdraw first."

As Zhou Yanru said, the rest of the people were very puzzled, especially this official named Linping. After Zhou Yanru left, he asked his colleagues why.

Several colleagues glanced at each other and said, "Li Maocheng is too unruly."

Rules, yes, Li Maocheng broke the rules, what rules?

The simple answer is that there is an unwritten rule in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, that no harm can be done to the family. To put it bluntly, no matter how hostile each other is, but in the end, it means sending the other party to the vegetable market. , especially proposed to the emperor the matter of destroying people's families.

Because Wei Zhongxian has done so much of this kind of thing, all the officials are resentful, and everyone is in the same circle. Even if they are political enemies, it’s fine to kill each other, but it’s okay to harm the family. After all, being an official is a high-risk occupation. Today, the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind. If you are proud today, you may lose your horse tomorrow.

If you kill others today, others will kill you, so set a rule for yourself in the officialdom, so that when you are unlucky in the future, your family will be implicated.

Today you don’t move other people’s family members, and others don’t move your family members, so the risk everyone bears is reduced, and everyone has a moat, so naturally there is no need to worry.

There are only two kinds of people who like to copy people's houses and kill people all over their families. One is the emperor. The emperor is confident. I am the most powerful person in the world. The future emperor, seven aunts and eight aunts are all dignitaries. It is easy and enjoyable to protect himself, so he has no burden to destroy people and is not afraid of revenge.

Therefore, several emperors in the early Ming Dynasty liked to implicate the nine clans, such as Hongwu and Yongle.

The other kind of people who like to destroy people are eunuchs. The group of eunuchs, as the existence established by the emperor to fight against civil officials, has its own natural weakness. If things are not ruthless, they will obviously not be able to restrain these civil servants.

And they don't have a wife, so naturally they have very few family members, and some don't even have parents, so they have nothing to worry about, and they can be more ruthless in doing things. After all, I can kill your whole family, but you can't kill my whole family, because I don't have any. the whole family.

You see, this is very fucked up, so when the eunuchs were in power, the criminal law was the cruelest and the limit was the least. For example, during Wei Zhongxian's period, the ministers felt very insecure. After all, Wei Zhongxian liked to copy people when he started.

Since Wei Zhongxian's downfall, the ministers have spontaneously stuck to the rules, maintained relative restraint, and tried not to break the rules. Once the rules were broken, this person would generally be excluded by the ministers.

Because you are a person who has no bottom line, does not follow the rules, and does not follow the rules, this is a big powder keg, who knows when it will detonate, and then send yourself to the sky.

Don't think this is a joke, this is a concern that everyone has. Even if this person is the so-called own person, it is still a large and uncertain powder keg for the people around him.

You must know that there is no constant in the officialdom. Today he is your friend, but tomorrow he may be your enemy. What's more frightening is that when such a person with no bottom line rebels, he will bite you the most.

Therefore, as a veteran in the officialdom, Zhou Yanru did not allow such a powerful person to exist under his command, so the left servant of the Ministry of Punishment was doomed to be unlucky.

This is what he does as a person. He is not kind, and sooner or later something will happen.

Lu Xiangsheng was going to be sentenced to death in five days. The news spread quickly in the capital, and there was a lot of discussion in the capital for a while, and one of them was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately ran to the Ministry of punishment to sue officer, but was stopped by his followers.

"My lord, don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive!"

Hearing this, the man had tears in his eyes and said, "No, I'm going to sue, I'm going to save Lu Xiangsheng, Lu Xiangsheng is innocent, he's trying to save the people, what's wrong with saving the people, what's the point of saving the people sin!"

The man yelled loudly, but he was dragged back home. When he returned home, his followers told him what he had done today, and the man's wife frowned and said, "Master, your father has just died. Moreover, you are still in such an important position as the right servant of the household department, why do you complain about Lu Xiangsheng and ruin your future!"

"Nonsense, Lu Xiangsheng and I were Jinshi in the same year. I know one thing about him. He led the Tianxiong army to hunt down Jiannu and save the people. Beheading, the loss of such a pillar of the country is the misfortune of the country, no, tomorrow I will definitely play Lu Xiangsheng in the book, and I can't let Daming lose such a humerus minister."

After saying this, the man stood up and patted his wife's hand and said, "It's getting late, I'm going to write the notes, you should go to bed early."

Looking at the leaving back, the wife couldn't help but sighed: "You're so stubborn, oh~"

After saying this, the wife shook her head, turned around and left, and the man also went back to the house and began to write the memorial. After finishing writing, he signed his own name: Shi Kefa.

(End of this chapter)