Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 159 Yangzhou official white, Wang Zhi's strange move

In Yangzhou in April, the weather has turned warm.

The elm trees on both sides of the Little Qinhuai River became lush and lush, and a few red carp, knowing that there was a fisherman not far away, jumped out of the clear water provocatively, showing their vigorous posture.

A large group of people hurried past the stone bridge, and even the fisherman who was still fishing just now disappeared. Only a bamboo raft was left floating there.

"My dear, why are there so many people?"

"There may have been a place an hour ago, don't think about it now!"

"I came here from Taizhou. Fortunately, I have the ability to climb trees and over walls!"

……

At this time, Dongshi was already overcrowded. Not to mention the two restaurants in Dongshi, there was no place to stand even on the ground, and many people had already climbed onto the trees.

Just today, Li Zhiqing, the transfer envoy of the two Huaihe Rivers, Yang Mingyuan, the magistrate of Yangzhou, and Zhang Huangshan, the inspector of salt in the two Huaihe Rivers, will be executed. This major corruption case in the salt government system will all be beheaded.

Chinese people have always been very lively, such a grand scene is rare in Yangzhou in a hundred years, so it attracted many people from around to flock here. At this time, Yangzhou Mansion was already empty.

"My darling, will you really be beheaded?"

"Isn't one of them the son of Gao Ge?"

"No one is easy to use now, the emperor appointed Wang Yue to kill corrupt officials!"

"Whether you will be beheaded or not, you will know just by looking at it! If it is really beheaded, I will only beheaded by the king in the future!"

……

Although we have already learned that today is the execution day of Li Zhiqing and other officials, but thinking that these officials have courts and backers, especially the son of the former Chief Assistant Gao Gu is still among them, some people are skeptical.

At this time, prison cars came from the direction of the temporary Yangzhou Governor's Mansion.

Since the officials involved in this incident almost run through the entire Yamen of Yangzhou Prefecture, even if the imperial court wants to fill the vacant official positions, it still needs to give time for the new officials to take up their posts.

The same is true. In addition to dispatching troops to support the imperial court, Wang Zhi and Wang Yue jointly established a temporary military-controlled Governor's Mansion to handle all affairs with full authority.

Even if it is petty theft, as long as the temporary governor's mansion gives the order, they can also be killed directly, so that the current Yangzhou City simply does not pick up lost items on the road, and does not close its doors at night.

"I'm coming!"

"Bah, I really deserve what I deserve!"

"Huh? Why doesn't the magistrate take a prison car!"

"You don't even take a look, how can there be enough prison cars?"

"Today, hundreds of officials will be beheaded, and this matter will probably be recorded in the annals of history!"

……

The people onlookers on the street watched the officials on death row with disheveled hair being escorted to the execution ground, and watched these evil officials beheaded, and they also discussed one after another.

The ones that attracted the most attention were, of course, the Iron Triangle in Yangzhou City, and they were all locked in prison cars for escort.

Li Zhiqing's hair was disheveled at this moment, his whole body seemed to be ten years older, and his eyes were staring blankly at the front of the road.

When he was arrested, he kept fantasizing that the capital would definitely rescue him.It's just that as time passed, especially when his crimes of killing Wang Chunlai, the Tongzhi Tongzhi of the transfer envoy of the Huaihe River Capital, and Wailang Guandong, a member of the Nanjing Household Department of Yangzhou Chaoguan, were dug up, he knew that he was powerless.

After years of careful management, he had already mastered Yangzhou, and he could be said to be the real king of Yangzhou.But never expected that it would be ruined by a fringe figure in the civil service group who had just been reinstated.

If I had been more cautious, if I had discovered Wang Yue's identity earlier, then things would definitely not be like this.It's just that I was careless and lost everything in the end, and now I was pushed to the guillotine.

He hated God for being unfair, and he also hated himself for being careless, otherwise why did he end up here?

"How could this happen? How could it be? My father is the teacher of Wan An and Liu Ji!"

When Gao Heng saw that he had not received an amnesty from the imperial court, and that he was being escorted to the execution ground, his long-logged emotions finally burst out, talking to himself in panic.

Although he is ignorant and well-known in the Guozijian as an idiot, but fortunately he has a powerful father, so he naturally became an official.

It's just that the little salary of Zhongshusheren is not enough for him to spend a trip to the Jiaofang Division, and the dispensable idle official is not what he pursues, so he took aim at the transfer envoy of the Lianghuai Capital. An errand for vocational high fat.

It turned out that his choice was right. Although the transfer envoy of the two Huaihe Rivers and the Huaihe River is only an official position of the fifth rank, the oil and water in it can be called terrifying.

Who would have thought that he had shared the blessings of peace in this position for more than ten years, and things were still exposed, and he, an important participant, would naturally be convicted.

But he is the son of the former Chief Assistant, and the only two elders in the dynasty are his father's disciples, so he really doesn't want to die!
Wow……

I don't want to die!

I am not guilty of death!
……

Zhang Huangshan, the censor of the Lianghuai patrol salt, was the first to break his defenses. After seeing a corner of the execution platform in the foreground, he suddenly burst into tears and called Qu Tunnel.

He was indeed wronged. He had worked hard to build a solid-faced censor for more than ten years, and it was hard to get the fat vacancy of the Lianghuai patrol salt censor.

As a result, Gao Heng and others have enjoyed the wealth and honor of the world for more than ten years, but he has only been in office for one month, and he still enjoys it secretly, but now he is going to be beheaded together with Gao Heng and others.

If he could choose again, he would definitely not want this Xunyan Yushi, this deal is too worthless.

"Li Zhiqing, you have harmed me, you will go to hell and die!" Yang Mingyuan, the magistrate of Yangzhou, cursed loudly when he thought that Li Zhiqing dragged him into the water.

"Yang Mingyuan, you are not a good bird, you and Li Zhiqing should go to hell together!" When hearing Yang Mingyuan's complaint, Zhao Sansi, the general judge of the Yangzhou government behind him, also cursed.

It's just that as soon as his words fell, someone behind him also cursed him, and the one who stood up was Liu Ming, the transshipment judge of the Lianghuai Capital who had the same class and friendship with him.

In the officialdom of Ming Dynasty, there are three types of relationships: teacher-student, same-year, and fellow-townsman, and these relationships have connected all officials together to form a group.

That's why, after Li Zhiqing went into the water alone, as everyone continued to go offline, almost all the officials in Yangzhou Prefecture were spared.

Snapped!
clap clap!

clap clap clap!
……

While they were cursing each other, rotten vegetable leaves, half-dried cow dung, rotten eggs and other things flew from the corner near the execution platform, and these things quickly seemed to smear their faces.

Wow!
wow wow!

Whoa whoa whoa!
……

The life of Yangzhou officials is undoubtedly the happiest, and they strive to improve their food. Now facing these filthy things, many officials vomited in their stomachs again.

"Go, be careful that I will whip you with a whip!" The Nanjing Shenji Battalion soldiers in charge of escorting the death row prisoners held a whip and drove away the vomiting officials.

In Dongshi, a execution platform the size of a basketball court has been set up.

The delicate-skinned Wang Zhi came to the execution ground with a painting fan and looked at the crowds of people and said with emotion: "Today is really lively!"

"You deliberately released the news of beheading hundreds of officials a few days in advance, so that people from Nanjing rushed over!" Wang Yue seemed to know it well, and directly exposed the little trick of the instigator.

Wang Zhi had a handsome face, and he seemed to take it for granted: "Such a grand event, naturally more people will come to witness it!" The miscellaneous family has been in Xichang for so many years, but it is not as good as you!"

"You have a share in today's matter!" Wang Yue looked at the prisoners being taken to the execution platform one after another, but seriously corrected them.

Wang Zhi did not argue, but looked at the execution platform where the prisoners were being taken one after another, and said: "After the business here is over, the miscellaneous family will not be here to accompany you, you have to go back to Nanjing! Your majesty handed over the flintlock gun and even the blueprint. As a result, this bunch of waste hasn’t come up with finished products so far, and the miscellaneous family has to go back to pick the skins, otherwise they really think that the miscellaneous family needs to bargain.”

"Isn't there always been progress in the flintlock? It's just something that works on the principle of bowstrings. They haven't found qualified refined iron!" Wang Yue also followed the progress of this new type of firearm and asked in confusion.

Wang Zhi asked for a pen, so he wrote on the fan and replied: "If you don't have any grades, you don't need to go back, just send a letter to them and loosen their bones!"

"You are the same as before, you are still so... severe!" Wang Yue originally wanted to be critical, but in the end he changed his words to a gentle one.

Whether he was leading the army in Xichang or in Datong, although the person in front of him was clearly rewarded and punished, he was also very strict.Those craftsmen working under him can only ask for their own blessings.

When Wang Zhi heard Wang Yue's words, Dang even nodded and wrote: "Wang Yue said that slaves are strict, and I think so! When I was in the inner school, I heard: If you want to be square, you must be strict. Now Your Majesty He is the Son of Heaven, slaves and servants should be loyal and not disobey the king..."

"What are you muttering about?" Wang Yue asked curiously when he saw Wang Zhi writing quickly.

Wang Zhi put away his pen in satisfaction, and handed over the paper fan he had written: "Now you have to learn more from miscellaneous experts! Don't take ten days and eight days to write a memorial, and now we have to report everything to His Majesty in detail, so as to You won't be taken advantage of by those hypocrites like you were back then. You wrote poems to resent expectations, and miscellaneous people did nothing wrong, but you were impeached and led the army to make trouble!"

"When you served as the supervisor of Datong, you did mobilize more frontier troops!" Wang Yue didn't expect Wang Zhi's desire to survive to become so high, but he still pointed out his fault.

Wang Zhi handed the pen back to the little eunuch beside him, but he justified in a serious manner: "The bounden duty of a soldier is to guard the frontiers! The cattle and sheep of the Tartars came to eat our Daming's aquatic plants, and they never paid taxes to Daming. Take soldiers out to beat them? They sent sentries over to scout, why did the miscellaneous families let them spy on them?"

Wang Yue knew that it was difficult to make a conclusion on this matter. From the point of view of civil servants, it was true that Wang Zhi had nothing to do, but from the point of view of Wang Zhi, he must guard every blade of grass.

Wang Zhi took a deep look at Wang Yue, and suddenly asked a heart-warming sentence: "They indirectly killed two thousand Datong soldiers, don't you really hate those hypocrites?"

(End of this chapter)