I'm only seven years old, Lao Zhu, you let me supervise the country?

Chapter 182: A case within a case, complicated and confusing!

"Put them all in prison and investigate carefully."

Zhu Yunzhen ordered: "All goods will be sealed."

"Yes!"

Jin Yiwei stepped forward in response.

"His Royal Highness Taisun wants to punish us. We have nothing to say, but we don't accept it."

Liu Zhixiang raised his head, looked at Zhu Yunxi and said, "In all dynasties, the relatives of the emperor and the officials of the court are not required to pay taxes."

"However, the business tax levied by His Royal Highness is not only extremely heavy, but even the royal family cannot be exempted from half a cent. So mean and ungrateful, isn't His Royal Highness afraid of the world's rumors?"

"Yes, I can't wait!"

"Yes, the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats rule the world together. How can there be any reason to tax the scholar-bureaucrats?"

"Even the dignified royal family has to pay taxes, which is simply unreasonable!"

A famous official was filled with righteous indignation.

In their eyes, it is natural for them not to pay taxes.

It is enough for the imperial court to levy commercial taxes, but they should also be collected from ordinary people. Why should they pay them?
"The country has systems and the court has laws. You can't cover up the past with your clever words and orders."

Zhu Yunxuan snorted coldly and said: "As an official of the imperial court, you know the law and break the law, and you will be punished. Yet you dare to quibble, and you will be punished with an additional penalty."

"All of them will be dismissed from their official positions and sent to prison immediately. We will investigate and deal with them later."

"According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, any businessman who evades taxes will be flogged fifty times!"

"Come here, execute them!"

Zhu Yunxi didn't want to argue with these people.

In their eyes, it is natural for them to enjoy privileges.

Any damage to privileges means the court is "mean and unkind".

In their cognition, this kind of thinking is deeply rooted in the bone marrow.

What's more, it also involves his own vital interests.

It is impossible to be "convinced".

The only way is to defeat them and kill them!
Jin Yiwei heard the order and immediately stepped forward.

The officials present were captured one by one and executed on the spot.

Soon, there was a scream like a pig being killed.

At this moment, on the boat next to it, there was a burst of "plop", "plop" diving sound.

Zhu Yunxi raised his eyes and saw a figure on the ship's side, aiming at him with a crossbow arrow.

Zhu Yunxuan's pupils shrank slightly, and in his eyes, he saw a sharp arrow coming through the air, which quickly enlarged.

The accident came as fast as lightning.

When it lights up, Fang Xiaotianwei.

"careful!"

It's too late, it's too soon.

Xu Miaojin shouted coquettishly, and pushed Zhu Yunxi's body away.

"Snapped!"

A soft sound.

The little girl shot like lightning, and the sharp arrow was sent flying by her.

When the man who was shooting the arrow saw that he missed the hit, he screamed a few times, as if he was cursing, and then jumped into the water and ran away.

"It's Japanese pirates." Jiang Yu's face was as dark as ink.

Is there not only cargo on Ouyang Lun's cargo ship, but also Japanese pirates hiding there?

Are they trying to bring Japanese pirates into Jinling City?
If they hadn't just come to investigate Ouyang Lun's tax evasion, they would have mixed in.

"Not only do you evade taxes, but you also dare to collude with Japanese pirates?"

Zhu Yunxuan looked at the officials who were kneeling on the ground and had just been tortured, with a cold look in his eyes.

The accident just now happened too fast, if it wasn't for Xu Miaojin who was by his side, with sharp eyes and quick hands, he would have almost been stabbed by a sharp arrow.

Counting, this is his third assassination.

Everything can be one, two or three.

It seems that we must strengthen our defenses in the future.

Otherwise, there is really no guarantee that the boat will capsize in the gutter one day.

"Your Majesty Taisun has learned from you, I will never dare to wait!"

The people kneeling on the ground all had their faces turned pale with fear and kowtowed like drums.

Even though they were whipped and dismissed from official positions, they were still very stubborn.

After all, many of them have prominent family backgrounds.

After dismissal, life can also be very comfortable.

Moreover, having been an official in the court for so many years, the relationship network is intricate.

Maybe when, under the care of "friends", it will be reused again?
But if he was involved in the case of secretly hiding Japanese pirates and assassinating the grandson, it would really be over.

Cut to pieces by thousands of knives, ransacked the family and exterminated the family.

Even if one day, the grandson is deposed as the crown prince, there will be no chance of him turning around again.

How could they not be afraid?
Thoughts raced in Zhu Yunxi's mind.

According to common sense, colluding with Japanese pirates is no worse than tax evasion. It is a serious crime that affects the whole family. Even if someone dares to do so, they will definitely act in secret and will not let too many people know about it.

Although these officials dared to collude with each other to evade taxes, they should not dare to collude with Japanese pirates collectively.

This is no different from gathering together to rebel.

It's impossible for people like them to get together and rebel unless their brains are kicked by a donkey.

Ouyang Lun should have done it secretly.

But Ouyang Lun, as a consort captain, is not difficult to understand by evading taxes and making money. It is really unbelievable to take the risk of beheading and exterminating the family to hide Japanese pirates.

It seems that his case is not that simple.

"Arrest all relevant personnel on the ship and investigate."

Zhu Yunxi said to Jiang Yu: "This case will be handled by you, you must find out as soon as possible."

"Yes!" Jiang Wei responded quickly.

His forehead was already covered with dense beads of sweat.

Ouyang Lun smuggled goods and evaded taxes, so that was it.

He was not the only official in the Ming Dynasty who did this.

This kind of matter is not under the control of Jin Yiwei, and Jin Yiwei can't control it.

But the Japanese pirates almost sneaked into the capital, which was a serious dereliction of duty by Jin Yiwei.

Not to mention, His Royal Highness was assassinated again just now.

If something unexpected happened, even if he had 1 heads, he would have to move them all.

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On the return trip, Zhu Yunxi got into the carriage.

Although his identity was revealed on the pier, Jinyiwei sealed it tightly at that time and no one outside knew about it.

By the time the news spread, he had already left in a carriage.

Originally, it was only to investigate Ouyang Lun's tax evasion, but unexpectedly, he was found out about his collusion with Japanese pirates.

It's a pity that Ouyang Lun is dead, so he can't ask any more questions.

We can only hope that Jiang Wei can find out from other people's mouths.

The carriage clattered forward.

Zhu Yunxi sat inside, thinking silently.

Zhu Yunwen meets Princess Anqing and Ouyang Lun.

Then Ouyang Lun went to see Chang Mao secretly, and Chang Mao met Qi Tai furtively.

Now, it was found that Ouyang Lun was secretly hiding Japanese pirates on the cargo ship.

Think back to what Xu Miaojin said before about seeing Zhu Yunzhen meeting with Japanese pirates.

Could it be that this is also his arrangement?

Did Zhu Yunwen really collude with the Japanese pirates and want to do evil things?
Between Zhu Yunxi's eyebrows and eyes, the killing intent was condensed little by little.

He did not want to kill Zhu Yunwen if necessary.

No matter what, he was Yuan Bo's second brother.

As long as Zhu Yunwen is honest, he doesn't mind providing him with delicious food and drink, so that he can enjoy a lifetime of glory and wealth.

But if Zhu Yunqi wanted to die by himself, then he would not be to blame.

However, what exactly does Zhu Yunqi want to do?

What's the use of hiding a few Japanese pirates?
In the big Jinling City, there are only a few Japanese pirates in the area, but they can't make much trouble.

If he was here to assassinate him, then on the pier just now was the best opportunity.

But the opponent obviously didn't have any preparations, and the assassination with crossbow arrows was more like a temporary intention.

If it was carefully arranged, he wouldn't be able to escape so easily.

It is even more difficult to enter the palace to assassinate.

After all, the Japanese pirates did not understand the language, and they were not from Ming Dynasty after all.

Many behaviors and behaviors are quite different from those of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

It is easy to show flaws.

If you really want to assassinate, concealment is the most important thing, and it is impossible to use Japanese pirates.

What else can you do with them?

Is it worth taking a big risk to hide the other party in the cargo and secretly bring him to Jinling?
Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi's mind flashed.

Yang Shiqi's words from before suddenly sounded.

Could it be that they wanted to use Japanese pirates to assassinate Lao Zhu?

(End of this chapter)