Early Ming Dynasty: Turning Clouds and Rains into New Learning Saints

Chapter 52
This tone is a bit loud, but it can preserve prosperity and wealth!
However, Zhang Yifan believed that the person in front of him could never be Zhu Yuanzhang.

In this Ming Dynasty, except for Zhu Yuanzhang, anyone else who says this will be liquidated in the near future!
With this thought in his mind, he said seriously: "Although I am indeed a bit smart, but everything I just said is true. If it weren't for the help of people from Zheng Guogong's mansion, I wouldn't have been able to bake cement so quickly. A new house was built for the village!”

When Li You heard what he said, he thought he was still being arrogant, so he said with a cold face: "Since you are shameless, then you are asking for trouble!"

After saying this, he gave the county magistrate a look.

When the county magistrate saw it, he immediately understood, and immediately put on an official airs and shouted to Zhang Yifan: "I have received a complaint, saying that you are pretending to be a member of Zheng Guogong's mansion, bluffing and deceiving, come, lock him up, and take him back to the yamen!"

Hearing this, Zhang Yifan was of course unconvinced, and immediately asked: "Dare to ask my lord, who is the one who complained? I want to confront him face to face!"

When the county magistrate heard this, he immediately sneered and said: "You will know it when you get to the Yamen!"

After saying that, a yamen servant immediately shook the chain and went to lock Zhang Yifan.

At this moment, Li Zheng, who had been kneeling over there, boldly said loudly: "Your Excellency, Yifan is not lying. It is indeed someone from Zheng Guogong's residence who came to help. I..."

Having said this, he turned his head and looked outside again, and then said loudly: "There are them as well. Our whole village can prove it!"

Tian Dazhuang, Niu Daddy and others immediately agreed after hearing what Li Zheng said.Although they were afraid of officials, they absolutely did not want Zhang Yifan to be captured by officials.

Because they knew that once Zhang Yifan was arrested and taken to the Yamen, his skin would be shed until he died.

When other villagers saw it, they also agreed.Even if they are really afraid, when there are more people, every word from you or me makes the momentum grow louder.

This scene immediately surprised the county magistrate and others.

The official airs were put on, but these villagers were kneeling honestly, as if they were the same as usual.Why did these villagers have the courage to speak out when it was time to lock up this boy?

As an official, of course I know that this momentum must be suppressed, otherwise once they gain momentum and get excited, it will not be easy to take away Zhang Yifan.

The most important thing is that Li You is watching. If such a small matter cannot be handled well, then the official career will be unpredictable.

With this thought in his mind, the county magistrate immediately shouted: "How brave, are you going to rebel?"

The most direct and effective way to deal with these people is to first label them.With a big hat pressed down, they didn't dare to move.

Sure enough, as soon as he suppressed his label of rebellion, the villagers in Liujia Village immediately did not dare to speak.

"Come on!" Seeing this, the county magistrate sneered, "Zhang Yifan is bewitching the people and trying to force officials to rebel. Let me arrest him!"

With this crime, Zhang Yifan would lose his skin even if he didn't die!

Zhang Yifan finally saw clearly that it was impossible for you to reason with these officials.They are here for the cement and will not give up until they achieve their goal.In this case...

It is impossible for Zhang Yifan to be arrested without a fight, even if Zheng Guogong's mansion goes to the Yamen to catch him afterwards, it may be too late.

If he was pushed into a hurry, he wouldn't care.So, Zhang Yifan stopped kneeling, stood up immediately and shouted loudly: "I see clearly, you are a corrupt official, and together with this person, you are jealous of cement and want to take it for yourself. My cement is far more than 60 taels of silver. It’s enough for you to be skinned and stuffed with grass!”

Upon hearing this, the county magistrate was stunned.

He never expected that a young boy from the countryside would dare to say such a thing.

One of the biggest reasons why people from the county government can do evil when they go to the countryside is that country people are ignorant and easily frightened by people from the county government.

Nowadays, the people of Liujia Village are not easy to be fooled. They are not afraid of him as a county magistrate, and they even say something that is flayed, which immediately makes the county magistrate shudder.

Is he afraid?
Of course he is afraid!

But at this time, especially with Li You watching, of course he couldn't soften up and immediately continued forcefully: "Don't slander anyone. I am an honest official. How can I care about your 60 taels...your cement!"

Now that Zhang Yifan had broken his heart, he would definitely not be cowardly again, and immediately said forcefully: "Okay, then I will go and beat the drum and bring the matter to the emperor. I believe that with the emperor's wisdom and prowess, I don't believe in the emperor." I won’t give you a fair verdict. When the time comes, the emperor will sentence you to skinning your skin and turning it into grass, or whether I cheated and cheated, I will admit it!"

The county magistrate was shocked again when he heard this. He didn't expect that this country boy even knew how to climb and hear drums!Is this... is this a person from the countryside who has never seen the world?

He naturally had a guilty conscience and knew that if this matter was brought before the emperor, the emperor would certainly be able to understand the truth of the matter with his wisdom.

However, it will also be exposed that this person is pretending to be from the Duke of Zheng's palace.

But the key problem is that he is just a troublemaker and has nothing. Even if the bluffing and deception comes out, it is just a board.And there is a real possibility that I will be skinned and used as grass!
Thinking of this, he immediately turned his head to look at Li You. Seeing his unwavering expression, he turned his head and said sternly and threateningly: "Your Majesty has everything going on every day, so you can see him whenever you want? Dengwengu, let alone you Such unruly people can knock you out!"

"What? You want to stop me from beating the Dengwen drum?" Zhang Yifan sneered immediately after hearing this, "Those who stop me will die. This is the emperor's order. You are an official, don't you know?"

As the saying goes, those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. Once Zhang Yifan went out and started making trouble, the county magistrate was really afraid.

If he had arrested Zhang Yifan in the name of cheating from the very beginning, it would have been difficult for Zhang Yifan to fight back.

However, Li You was very greedy for cement and tried to coerce Zhang Yifan into swallowing the cement.In this way, their true purpose of coming to Liujia Village was exposed.

Whether there is such a thing or not, the nature is very different.

Of course, the most important thing is that Zhu Yuanzhang is not soft on corrupt officials at all, and he will steal 60 taels of silver.A drum was even set up to give the people a chance to sue the officials.

Especially in the early days of the Ming Dynasty, there was no provision that required fifty killing sticks to be beaten when beating the Dengwen drum.A censor was also sent to wait there. As long as someone really beats the drum, it must be dealt with.

As one of the county magistrates of Nanjing City, how could this county magistrate not know what the outcome would be if this matter really broke out?

If you want to blame, blame Li You for revealing his purpose too early.Of course, Li You was also aggrieved. He didn't know that this country boy had extraordinary knowledge and courage!

A bit of a miscalculation!
(End of this chapter)