Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

After half an hour.

In Jiangning County, which can also be said to be the capital city, a group of soldiers at the gate of the city saw a group of people appear in the distance.

These people were still talking and cursing angrily, and some of them were wailing and begging for mercy.

This made the captain at the gate of the city change his face slightly and hurriedly ordered a group of soldiers to be on alert.

Immediately, when the group of people approached again, the face of the captain at the city gate changed even more.

"Who are you? How dare you treat Mr. Huang like this?"

"Hmph, this dog has committed an official crime. By His Majesty's order, this person is escorted to parade in the streets so that the people of Jiangning can vent their anger. Your Majesty will give justice to the people of Jiangning!"

"Your Majesty? Huang County...this dog official?"

The captain of the city gate looked at the former Jiangning County Lord with his hands tied behind his back, disheveled hair, and faint traces of blood among the crowd. He couldn't help but look shocked, and then he quickly saluted the leading inner guard.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

"Hmph, Your Majesty is a saint!"

The chamberlain glanced at the captain of the city gate, then led a group of people behind him and walked straight in.

Wherever he passed, no one dared to stop him.

As soon as he entered the city gate, a guard on the side took an iron trumpet from nowhere and shouted loudly as he walked forward.

"Your Majesty, your Holy Spirit, learned that the officials and evil gentry under the joint control of Jiangning County magistrates oppressed and harmed the common people and merchants, so he personally captured them and paraded them through the streets to show their evil..."

In an instant, the people surrounding him couldn't help but their eyes turned red with excitement and they started crying loudly.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

"This dog officer was finally known to His Majesty..."

"There are also two evil gentry, Huang Gongchu and Zhou Wenzhi. Evil will be punished. Your Majesty is wise..."

"Hit them!"

"Smash them, smash them to death!"

"No, break their legs and let them taste the feeling of breaking their legs!"

"Tear off their clothes and let them taste what it's like to have no clothes on in such a cold weather!"

"And that evil gentry Wang Dequan, why is he still in the future?"

"I heard that he was beaten half to death by His Majesty..."

"His Majesty, the Holy Ming, has finally made the decision for us..."

Looking at half of the people in the capital outside, their eyes were fierce and their faces were full of ferociousness. They wanted to cut them into pieces with thousands of knives. Huang Dun, Huang Gongchu, Zhou Wenzhi and others were even more frightened.

Seeing the fear of these bad officials and evil gentry, all the people around them could not help but shed tears.

What a pity! They had been looking forward to this day for so many days!
Until dark, the entire streets of Jiangning County were filled with people.

All the people who heard the news came to take revenge with various sticks or stones.

By the time they were taken to prison, Huang Dun, Huang Gongchu, Zhou Wenzhi and others were already dying, with scars all over their bodies.

As for the powerful officials and gentry in the entire capital, each of them has already found out why the magistrate of Jiangning and those few gentry suffered such a tragic situation!
"You idiot, you are as stupid as a pig... You dare to treat His Majesty and the Marquis of Dinghai as ordinary businessmen, and you want to arrest and convict them arbitrarily. Who gave them such courage?"

"They don't know that this place is at the foot of the capital, and that Jiangjun Mountain is where Dinghai Marquis Guo An's fiefdom is located. Dinghai Marquis and His Majesty often go there? How dare they be so unscrupulous?"

"...But now that the matter has come to this, what should we do?"

"After all, Huang Dun is the magistrate of Jiangning County and a Jinshi. If they are allowed to die in humiliation by those untouchables..."

"Shut up! Huang Dun committed such a stupid thing, and you still want to rescue him?"

"This……"

"Hmph, you just need to pray that this person will not implicate us. If not, in this year's Beijing Police Ranking, you will definitely be among the lower Bing and Ding. In serious cases, you will be dismissed from your post, investigated, and your family will be confiscated and exterminated..."

"How could your Majesty do this?"

"Is it possible that you haven't figured it out yet? His Majesty has increased the salaries of civil and military officials across the country and also established year-end bonuses. How easy is it to get this money?

If there is corruption among officials, the matter will be revealed by His Majesty, and corruption will be compounded with the crime of deceiving the emperor..."

"hiss……"

Everyone couldn't help but take a breath, they finally understood.

This Your Majesty is even more ruthless than that late Emperor!
then.The next day in the court hall, except for the indignant impeachment by a few censors and the fact that a group of common people dared to beat and humiliate a magistrate, the entire court hall was silent.

Even when Zhu Di took the initiative to ask about Huang Dun, the magistrate of Jiangning County, all the officials praised him in unison, "Your Majesty is wise!"

Later, Du Xiaoxiao made an opinion. As the Ming Dynasty is so big, it is inevitable that there will be some blind things or some brain-cramping things. Your Majesty, please bring more internal guards with you next time you leave the palace.

With all the officials so sensible, Zhu Di couldn't show off his power, so he was strict. Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate sent people to strictly investigate all surrounding state and county officials to prevent the recurrence of corrupt officials and evil gentry like Huang Dun.

All the officials responded again and again.

Then, Zhu Di once again talked about the selection of the next magistrate of Jiangning County, and all the officials cautiously asked Zhu Di to make a decision.

Less than two years after Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, the magistrate of Jiangning County had already been replaced by two magistrates. Officials with some connections had already avoided the magistrate of Jiangning County like a tiger.

As a result, the next magistrate of Jiangning County was again transferred from Yan State officials.

"Unexpectedly, those officials became smarter this time!"

In Dinghaihou Mansion, Guo An looked at Zhu Gaochi in front of him and said with a slight smile.

"Humph, they are afraid that they will nominate a candidate for the county magistrate, and that the county magistrate will commit trouble again and implicate them!"

Zhu Gaochi looked disdainful.

"Protect yourself wisely, it's just a routine operation!"

Guo An smiled slightly and didn't want to talk about it anymore.

However, this time Zhu Gaochi came here just for this matter. He was not willing to let this topic go easily. Instead, he looked at Guo An with a worried look and continued to ask.

"Teacher, the charges against the magistrate of Jiangning County have been found out, and the charges against those evil gentry are really shocking. I want to kill them all with a thousand knives!

What I can't figure out is that it was only last year that the evil gentry Zhang family and the county magistrate in Jiangning County were executed.

Why is it that after so long, these thieving officials and evil gentry are still oppressing and harming the people?

Lawless and unscrupulous, not worried about the court finding them? "

Guo An glanced at Zhu Gaochi strangely and asked slowly: "Your Highness, have you ever heard of a saying that people often say?"

"What are you talking about?" Zhu Gaochi asked with a strange look on his face.

"Officials protect each other!"

Guo Andao said, "Actually, those common people are wrong. Not only do officials protect each other, but officials and gentry also protect each other!

As long as His Majesty and His Highness stay in the palace all day and do not know what is going on outside the palace, those officials can take care of each other and conceal it. "

Zhu Gaochi said in astonishment: "So, if my father and I had not left the palace yesterday, the matter of the dog official and the evil gentry in Jiangning County would have never been known to anyone?"

"That's how it should be!"

Guo An nodded slightly, "If the people don't sue and the officials don't investigate, the world will be peaceful. But even if the people want to sue, they are illiterate and will not be able to leave the county for the rest of their lives, and they have nowhere to go to sue!"

Zhu Gaochi hurriedly asked: "Teacher, I wonder if there is any way so that those illiterate people can file a complaint if they encounter these things?"

Guo An leisurely said: "Di Bao!"

"Residence newspaper?"

Zhu Gaochi was stunned, his face full of confusion, why is it Di Bao again?

Guo An continued: "Your Highness, there are very few literate people, but there are countless literate scholars from poor families.

And most of these scholars, who come from poor backgrounds, have an air of integrity.

Therefore, His Highness can inform the poor scholars in the world through Di Bao that the Ming Dynasty will never tolerate those corrupt officials and evil gentry.

Encourage those scholars from poor families to report and complain to the court. If the complaint is true, His Highness will reward them with a hundred taels of silver, or a thousand taels of silver!

As for how to write the letter and deliver it to His Highness...

They can go through merchants, newspaper carriers, or they can come directly to the capital to ask for an audience with His Highness, or even throw letters into the newspaper...

Anyway, there are countless ways to do this, and His Highness can tell them all! "

"In this way, not only will they get a reward of silver, but they can even enter the eyes of me, the Ming prince, and even my father?"

"Your Highness is wise!"

... (end of this chapter)