The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 347 Zhu Yuanzhang thoroughly investigated the imperial envoy. The good deeds done by Mr. Ye made Empress Ma blush!

Zhu Yuanzhang and others looked at Shen Wan'er's seemingly scrutinizing eyes and felt that she was becoming more and more like Ye Qing.

It can even be said that in terms of behavior, they are becoming more and more like a husband and wife!

Empress Ma immediately smiled and said, "Your Majesty has sent Mr. Ye here as an imperial envoy to provide disaster relief. How can we not know?"

"If you don't follow me here, let's see Master Ye to see if there are any business opportunities."

When Shen Wan'er heard this, she felt that she was overthinking.

They were people who could talk to the emperor and empress, so how could they not know where Ye Qing was!

Just coming to the disaster area to look for business opportunities is really overthinking.

The business opportunities that can be found here are to acquire young girls and young laborers.

Thinking of this, Shen Wan'er immediately frowned slightly, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and asked seriously: "By the way, you, Mr. Guo, are the big boss of Yingtian Qinglou Street."

"Don't you want to take advantage of the situation and buy young girls to make up for your losses, or buy young men to be turtles?"

"I'm telling you, it's best to give up on this bad and heartless idea."

"All the young ladies here who can be purchased, as well as the young men, are all taken over by our Lord Ye."

"Whoever steals business from him is committing a crime!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma heard this, they were stunned.

They never imagined that Shen Wansan's daughter could say such shameless and unconscionable words.

I beat him, "Master Guo", and he didn't even say anything, but he used shameless and strong words.

What?

Is it a crime for someone else to buy it back?

If Ye Qing just snaps up and monopolizes it, is it not a crime?

Can there be such a truth in the world?

Before Queen Ma could answer, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately became angry.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked sharply: "Miss Shen, our Lord Ye is not here, why don't you give me some advice?"

"Why is it a crime for others to buy it, but it is not a crime for you, Mr. Ye, to force it to buy it!"

Shen Wan'er didn't even bother to look at Zhu Yuanzhang, but said firmly: "I don't know, anyway, whatever we, Mr. Ye, do is a good thing."

"Even if everyone in the world thinks it is a bad thing, it must be a good thing."

"you"

Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he didn't know what to say, Empress Ma smiled and said, "Don't worry, we won't do this unconscionable business."

"Even if there is no business to do, you can still talk to Mr. Ye about old times and see if you can help, right?"

"Our master also served as a general in Yanmen County, and he was also a man who fought for the country!"

"Don't the people of Yanmen also say that we are righteous merchants?"

"Sister Shen, it's almost dinner time, let's go find Mr. Ye and come back for dinner!"

When Shen Wan'er heard this, she remembered the time when we fought against the enemy together in Yanmen County.

I have to say that at that time, Mr. Guo and Mrs. Guo, as well as their guard brothers, were all good people.

Thinking of this, Shen Wan'er took the lead in saluting Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "I was a little impatient. I want to apologize to Mr. Guo."

"Of course, if you don't disrespect Mr. Ye, I won't be anxious."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his eyes widened again.

This Shen Wan'er's gesture, eyes and tone all looked like a sincere apology.

But her words sounded very unpleasant.

Zhu Yuanzhang just silently said to himself, "A good man doesn't fight with a woman" and accepted her problematic apology.

But at the same time, he also silently made a note to Ye Qing.

No matter how well Ye Qing does his disaster relief work, he will definitely investigate Ye Qing's rush to buy men and women. If he finds even the slightest problem, he will kill Ye Qing!

On the way to the bank of the Yellow River, Empress Ma whispered to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Could Ye Qing be the one who harmed the people? The matter of him snapping up men and women needs to be investigated before making a conclusion."

Zhu Yuanzhang just nodded fiercely and said: "We know, we will send someone to investigate!"

After a while, they finally came to the bank of the Yellow River and saw the current Yellow River embankment.

Zhu Yuanzhang and others stood at a high place, looking at the Yellow River that had passed its peak but was still flowing downwards, and the long Yellow River embankment.

It's just that the current Yellow River embankment looks like it has been chewed several times by dogs.

Almost everywhere where dykes connected high ground, there were large gaps.

Starting from those gaps, there are many yellow areas with "eight" openings!

Although the water has receded, the colors left behind are the same as those of the Yellow River, covering many village houses.

At this moment, a river wind blew from the direction of the Yellow River, causing Zhu Yuanzhang and the others to smell a fairly obvious rotten smell.

Not only the smell of rotting corpses, but also mixed with the smell of rotting wood and other rotting smells.

"Everyone wear a mask!"

Zhu Yuanzhang, Queen Ma and others took the masks prepared by Shen Wan'er in advance and put them on their faces.

At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes turned red and he said: "Check, we must find out what is going on."

"If there are one or two ulcers, it can be said that they are caused by insects and ants. If there are so many ulcers, are they all caused by insects and ants?"

"We must find these bastards!"

"I must"

Before Zhu Yuanzhang could finish his words, Empress Ma coughed and forcibly interrupted him.

Immediately afterwards, Empress Ma added forcefully: "We must tell His Majesty the Emperor that we will never tolerate these people who eat human blood steamed buns."

Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang realize that he had almost exposed his secret.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "My sister is right, we must explain the situation in the disaster area to His Majesty the Emperor and severely punish these bastards."

Seeing how indignant they were, Shen Wan'er nodded happily, feeling that the Yishang couple in Yanmen County had not deteriorated yet.

Since there is no deterioration, you can continue the relationship.

Shen Wan'er sighed and said: "These unscrupulous officials and businessmen should be severely punished. This is why Mr. Ye came to investigate in person."

When Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma heard the words 'Master Ye', they were the ones who immediately realized that they had not seen Ye Qing yet.

"Where are you, Mr. Ye?"

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately spoke.

Shen Waner pointed to the edge of one of the ulcers. Zhu Yuanzhang and the others looked in the direction of Shen Waner's finger and immediately found Ye Qing.

Of course, if you don't look carefully, you really can't find him. After all, he is not close and he looks too small.

And Ye Qing wasn't the only one there, there were many officials wearing various robes!

"When Ye Qing is doing business, he still behaves like that."

"That place is as muddy as a shoe, and he actually asked himself and the local officials to wear formal official uniforms."

"At the very least, it can let the people know that they, the parents and officials, are doing something."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded happily.

Shen Wan'er smiled proudly: "We, Mr. Ye, are very measured and principled."

"Come on, let's go there."

Looking at Shen Wan'er and others who were leading the way, Zhu Yuanzhang and others felt that this girl was going too far.

There does seem to be some sense of propriety and principle here, but where does the sense of propriety and principle come from when he forcibly snaps up young men and women?

Of course, since they have decided to investigate this matter themselves, they will not interfere here!

After a while, they arrived, and they could clearly see Ye Qing and hear Ye Qing's words from a distance.

In their eyes, Ye Qing, who was wearing a red official robe, other local officials, and his own soldiers were all wearing masks.

Ye Qing just sat on a chair that had not been soaked by the flood, looking at the local officials in front of him who lowered their heads and did not dare to look at him.

In front of Ye Qing, there was a dirty white cloth with various materials for building dams.

There are shapeless stones, soil with a high sand content, a lot of wood corroded by insects and ants, and even a lot of weeds and decay!

Of course, there are also some ants crawling everywhere! Ye Qing stood up, turned his back to them, looked at the many failures and said: "Zhengzhou has the magistrates, tongzhi, magistrates and officials, as well as the magistrates, county magistrates, Zhubo and Dianshi of the counties under its jurisdiction."

"There are also inspections and deputy inspectors from the inspection department, are they all here?"

Zhengzhou Zhizhou Che Ming took a step forward, looked at the materials in front of him, frowned slightly, and then smiled:

"Replying to the imperial envoy, Mr. Ye, except for the officials who must stay behind, they are all here."

"According to Master Ye's instructions, all the local officials involved in the dam construction project are here, many of them!"

Ye Qing still turned his back to them and continued to ask: "Look at this piece of cloth on the ground. What kind of cloth is it?"

When many officials took a closer look, they could see that it was just a piece of cheap white cloth and that it looked dirty, but they couldn't tell anything about it.

Of course, you can still smell an obvious rotten smell!

Che Ming and others just looked at each other and bowed their hands together: "I'm your official, I can't tell what it is for."

Ye Qing just said gloomily: "I came here incognito. I went to the disaster area in person as soon as possible, but I found that only those villagers who were not affected by the disaster were helping the affected villagers."

"There are very few government officials and local garrison troops who should be involved in disaster relief!"

"I and my people have come from thousands of miles away, and they are actually the first batch of officials to participate in disaster relief!"

When they heard this, they also looked away.

They simply did not dare to look directly at the red figure with a cold voice who had his back to them, facing the mouth of the Yellow River.

At this moment, the cold voice continued to come.

They only saw Ye Qing raise his right hand, as if he were telling fortunes: "I'm guessing, it will be some time from the time the disaster was reported to when I came here."

"Even if the road is washed away, you won't wait until my officer comes to repair the road, right?"

"Could it be that you are building the same highway as Yanmen County, so slowly?"

In the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang and others,

These were just local officials with their heads bowed in the background. No one answered Ye Qing's words, they just bowed their heads more and more.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but go up and teach others a lesson.

But before he could take action, Ye Qing, who had his back to them, suddenly shouted: "Answer me quickly. I will count to three. If no one answers me, I will chop them all to death."

The next moment, the elite soldiers of the Northern Army standing on both sides, eyeing them eagerly, all drew out their shining swords.

Although they all wore masks, their eyes really wanted to hack them to death right now.

Just the moment the sword flashed, all these officials trembled.

Only Zhizhou Cheming dared to stand up and answer: "Master Ye, the counties along the Yellow River are affected by disasters in different situations. We are doing our best and we are too busy to touch the ground."

"If it were just this place, there would never be many disaster relief officials, but after the disaster relief is dispersed, there will really be not many people."

"All we can do is send people everywhere to summon people who are not affected by the disaster to provide relief."

"Sir, we really tried our best!"

As he spoke, he stood up straight and said, "Sir, you can doubt us, question us, and even examine us. This is the right given to you by His Majesty."

"But you shouldn't have come with private soldiers to threaten and humiliate us like this."

As soon as he finished speaking, other officials also echoed.

Ye Qing, who had his back to them, said disapprovingly: "You don't know my conduct, but His Majesty knows it deeply."

"Your Majesty does not allow the civil and military officials of the DPRK to serve as imperial envoys, but allows me, the prefect of Ningbo, to come. This is because he agrees with his way of doing things."

"If you don't believe it, just write a memorial and sue me!"

"Is this humiliating?"

"I tell you that the time to humiliate you has just begun!"

When Che Ming and the local officials heard this, they suddenly didn't dare to speak.

Yes!

The emperor sent him here, didn't he tacitly approve of his incredible way of doing things?

In fact, they really misunderstood Ye Qing's true thoughts.

Ye Qing just wanted them to collectively write a memorial to sue him. It would be best if all the officials involved in the case should write it collectively.

It would be better to make him a public enemy of officials!

The reason why he was willing to serve as an imperial envoy was so that so many officials could collectively write memorials to sue him.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was under great pressure, and the only way to satisfy his anger was to kill him!

But after they wrote the memorial, they had to die collectively.

With so many cracks, it seems that they are not all caused by insects and ants. There must be corners cut.

The so many victims who died need their death, the stability of the government needs their death, and the stability of the region also needs their death.

Of course, after they die, Zhu Yuanzhang will be more determined to kill Ye Qing.

Does the imperial envoy have the right to kill first and report later?

In terms of explicit regulations, there is indeed some, but in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, there is no such thing.

What he wants is that he, Ye Qing, has the right to use it, just like the iron scroll that is equivalent to scrap metal.

Using the death-avoiding iron scroll means dying faster, and using the privilege of killing first and killing later also means dying faster.

It can be said that Ye Qing is a special case, but he can't just kill them first and then attack the whole group!

Thinking of this, Ye Qing also continued his interrogation.

He still turned his back to them and said: "It seems that none of you know what this piece of white cloth with these remnants is used for?"

"This is actually a shroud!"

"A family of five, grandfather, grandmother, father and mother, holding a small child, were buried under the rubble washed away by the flood."

"I just used this piece of cloth to cover them and then sent them away."

"Before cremation, I kept this piece of cloth and used it to cushion these poor-quality materials."

"Today, don't you tell them where these inferior materials come from in front of their family of five?"

"Just throw them all into the Yellow River!"

"When that time comes, it depends on whether God will accept you or not."

"If you can still be washed back to the shore, you will be innocent!"

Everyone just looked at the fast-flowing Yellow River with their peripheral vision, thinking that Ye Qing's words were just a joke.

But just when Che Ming was about to retort, Ye Qing, who had his back turned to them, spoke again.

"Someone is coming,"

"Tear off all their clothes for me!"

"If the answer does not satisfy me, just carry it and throw it into the Yellow River."

"Let's start with the highest local official, Zhengzhou Zhizhou, Master Che Mingche!"

When Che Ming heard this, he was about to fall out.

Even the imperial envoy cannot do this!

Did Ye Qing eat up the saying that a scholar cannot be killed?

But before he could say anything, two well-trained soldiers from the Northern Army launched a falcon attack.

The next moment, his black gauze hat and official uniform flew directly into the air.

Immediately afterwards, Queen Ma and Shen Waner, who were watching all this not far away, suddenly brightened up.

In the end, they turned their backs directly! .

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