Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 81

The brocade guards on both sides opened the car curtains on both sides at the same time, revealing the true contents of the car.

Standing in front of the sedan chair, Lu Song conveyed the sacred meaning to the kneeling officials and people: "Governing salt is like governing an army, and you will not accept the orders of the kings outside. Today, I bestow the left deputy capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Wang Yue, with a precious sword, which can be chopped up. Princes, behead Li Shu. Anyone who hinders the salt affairs, do it cheaply, behead first and then play, respect this!"

what?
Yang Jizong, the inspector of Huguang, always thought that Wang Yue was asking for the flag of Wang Ming, but he couldn't help being stunned when he heard that it turned out to be the rumored Shang Fang Zhan Ma Jian.

Just take a closer look, where is the flag of Wang Ming placed in the sedan chair, but an exquisitely crafted sword.

The sword is more than three feet long. The patterns on the body of the sword are finely chiseled and the patterns are clear. One side of the sword body is engraved with a soaring dragon, and the other side is engraved with a phoenix spreading its wings. The body of the sword is also decorated with the Big Dipper. .

Shangfang Sword?

Tens of thousands of people kneeling around heard that it turned out to be Bao Zheng's Shang Fang sword in the play, as if meeting a big star, they raised their heads and looked into the sedan chair.

Shangfang, this is the place where the royal family specially supervises imperial swords and other utensils.

The earliest record of Shangshu's sword is "The Book of the Former Han Dynasty-Zhu Yun Zhuan". Zhu Yun wrote: "At present, the ministers of the court cannot change the lord, and the ministers of the court will die to benefit the people. All the corpses are vegetarian meals. The minister is willing to give Shangfang the horse-cutting sword, and cut off one of the courtiers to punish the others. It's just that Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty almost beheaded Zhu Yun when he learned that he was going to kill Zhang Yu, Marquis of Anchang, but he didn't give the Shangfang Horse-killing Sword.

In the Song Dynasty, when the general led the army to go to war, in order to emphasize his authority and the trust of the royal family, the emperor would reward him with Shangfang swords and give them the power of "as if I were here in person", but the authority of the swords was clearly defined. The general Cao Bin Shangfang Baojian specially ordered: "Below the lieutenant general, those who do not obey orders can be killed."

The Shangfang Sword of the Ming Dynasty still remained in the military field, and now Zhu Youtang bestows the Shangfang Sword to Prime Minister Wang Yue Yanzheng, which undoubtedly gives the Shangfang Sword a new function and has epoch-making significance.

Lu Song came to Wang Yue with a secret decree in hand, and asked again solemnly, "Master Wang, have you thought about it?"

Wang Ming's flag card is a clear game, but Shang Fang's sword is Zhu Youtang's dark move.

It's just that this move is conditional. If Wang Yue wants to use this big weapon, then he will be an enemy of the entire civil servant group, and he must shoulder Zhu Youtang's trust.

You can't take such a big killer weapon and kill people quickly, but nothing can be done in the end. Where do you put the majestic Mingzi Hongzhi?

Just as Zhu Youtang said, "If you want to take Shangfang, you must bear its weight first. Once the sword comes out, the blood will flow into the river of salt. There are only a hundred insects, so stop talking and return to the court." This is Wang Yue's responsibility for choosing Shangfang's sword.

"I want to uphold Fang's sword, but I want to be at odds with the salt worm!" Wang Yue knew that Lu Song was actually asking on behalf of His Majesty, so he responded resolutely.

As early as at the border, he had put his own life and death aside several times.Now that he is going to take over this military order, he also has the consciousness of death, and knows that only killing can solve the current problems.

Seeing that Wang Yue had come to his senses, Hu Song no longer prevented Wang Yue from taking the sword.

Holding the sword of Shangfang, Wang Yue questioned Li Guangming on the stage: "Your Majesty bestowed the sword of Shangfang on the stage, beheading princes at the top and commoners at the bottom! Li Guangming, you are selling private salt, linking up with Xiaozhi County to monopolize the salt matter, and harming the people of Jingshan. Can this imperial envoy kill you today?"

The people in the audience thought of Li Guangming's arrogance earlier, and now they all looked at Li Guangming on the execution platform.

"No, my lord imperial envoy, please spare my life, please spare my life, my subordinate is willing to donate ten thousand gold, please spare my life!" Li Guangming panicked immediately, begging for mercy.

The inspector of Huguang, Yang Jizong, looked at Li Guangming so anxiously that tears flowed out, and his crotch was obviously wet. He knew that this was a ghost who was afraid of death after all.

It's just that if you knew today, why did you do it at the beginning?If he had been more respectful to the relegated Wang Yue and kept the business of the salt shop a little more secret, he probably wouldn't have ended up like this.

Of course, His Majesty broke the rules and gave Wang Yue the sword of Shang Fang, which no one expected, but it didn't match the rumored image of the wardrobe prince.

Wang Yue has never been a greedy person, what he pursued in his life is justice, thinking of Hu Daniu's death, and thinking that Li Guangming must have committed a lot of evil deeds during his tenure, he immediately ordered: "Behead!"

puff!
puff!
The two executioners swung down their swords fiercely, two streams of blood splashed immediately, and the heads of Li Guangming and Xiao Zhixian fell on the execution platform, and they both died resolutely.

"died!"

"The dog officer is really dead!"

"Haha... Good and evil will be rewarded in the end! Dad, have you seen it?"

……

The tens of thousands of people in the audience saw Li Guangming and Xiao Zhixian subduing the law, and saw these two evil pests being beheaded. At first, they were a little in disbelief, but soon they cheered.

It is an eternal truth that the people do not fight with the officials.

After Li Guangming's official career became prosperous, the Li family's children began to live in the fish and meat village, especially the county magistrate Xiao was the answering voice of the Li family, causing the people in Jingshan to be bullied.

Now seeing the two major pests attacking both, how can we not make them happy?

The sky in Jingshan is still gloomy.

The Hu family originally wanted to bury Hu Daniu's body nearby, but after receiving Wang Yue's support, they chose to transport the body back for burial in a carriage.

Yang Jizong was in charge of ransacking the homes of Li Guangming and Xiaozhi County. Xiaozhi County confiscated 5 taels of silver and some jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, and several houses of Li Guangming confiscated 15 taels of silver and a box of jewelry, calligraphy and paintings.

Wang Yue didn't stay in Jingshan County for a long time. After reporting the crimes of Li Guangming and Xiaozhi County, he led the imperial guards and left for Anlu Prefecture, where the price of salt was [-] yuan per catty.

Only three days later, Anlu Prefecture set up a torture platform.

The magistrate of Anzhou and the profiteer Qian Treasurer were pushed to the top, and as two sword lights flashed, two more blood spattered, and the two pests died again.

After seeing Wang Yue's deeds, the people praised him one after another, and many good people gave Wang Yue the reputation of "Wang Qingtian", and some people also called it "Shangfang Qingtian".

Although Wang Yue's deeds were praised by the common people, he was naturally not welcomed by the civil official group.

When they learned that Wang Yue was going to Changsha Mansion, the officials of the entire Huguang system panicked. Under the leadership of Jiang Hong, Huguang's procurator, they went up to impeach Wang Yue.

In the Forbidden City, in the East Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace, sandalwood incense curls up.

Zhu Youtang, who was wearing a uniform, sat at the table and saw more and more memorials to impeach Wang Yue from Huguang. He obviously felt that some officials were really panicked.

"The emperor's grace came suddenly today, no matter how young you are when you are old and wielding a knife?"

When Zhu Youtang saw some officials bombarding Wang Yue's poems again, he didn't think there was a problem at first, but he couldn't stand the repeated emphasis of so many officials, so that he felt that Wang Yue seemed to have an objection.

"Your Majesty, this is the draft note sent by the cabinet just now!" Guo Yong came in with a large stack of notes, and gently placed it on the desk next to him.

Liang Fang has already retired and left Qianqing Palace, and now the new eunuch in charge of Qianqing Palace is Guo Yong.

Guo Yong entered the palace at the age of four, and now he has lived in the Forbidden City for more than 30 years.An ordinary eunuch in the Qianqing Palace during the original Xianzong period, he was later promoted to the eunuch of Bingbi, the supervisor of ceremonies, and now he is in charge of the Qianqing Palace again.

Unlike other resourceful eunuchs, Guo Yong was cautious in his actions, almost never made mistakes, and always knew where he was and what he was going to do.

Zhu Youtang was very satisfied with the new head of Qianqing Palace, and suddenly asked suspiciously: "Jiang Hong, Huguang Inspectorate? Why is this name so familiar?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, this is Xu Pu's disciple, the censor who invited Huai En to return to the imperial court earlier!" Guo Yong recalled a little, and immediately reported it.

It was only then that Zhu Youtang suddenly realized, and immediately said jokingly: "He has done meritorious service for Xu Pu, so he was promoted to Huguang inspector?"

"Xu Pu presided over the two general examinations, and served as the left servant of the Ministry of Officials for many years. There are actually quite a few former officials in the local area!" Guo Yong knew the situation of the imperial court very well, and explained the situation without hesitation.

The implication is that Xu Pu is actually not bad for such a student who holds an important position in the local area.

Zhu Youtang knew that it was easy to control the court under his nose, but the local government was still out of reach, so he couldn't help but bitterly said: "I'm afraid the local officials only know Xu Pu but not the emperor!"

Guo Yong was not easy to answer this question. In fact, Emperor Chenghua also had a similar problem, so he sent a large number of eunuchs to the town.It's just that this move will undoubtedly increase the conflict between His Majesty and the civil official group, and it's not easy for him, the eunuch, to propose this move.

When Zhu Youtang saw the memorial that had just been delivered, he couldn't help saying with emotion: "Chen Zhun is the most corrupt minister since the Ming Dynasty, and the civil servants are making use of this to prevent me from reusing you and other ministers. If I had known earlier, I might as well not have copied it! "

(End of this chapter)