Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 336 Dare to go against the wind?

At night, in the prison of Liyang County, County Magistrate Li Yang was no longer the same as before. Instead, he was imprisoned in an iron prison with his hair disheveled and wearing prison uniform.

In the past, he never thought that he would be like today.

"Take the prisoner Li Yang."

Suddenly a jailer shouted.

Li Yang was shocked, looking expectantly at the interrogator approaching him, and asked, "Are you going to let me out?"

"Master Li, don't panic, don't be anxious, His Highness just wants to ask you something," the jailer reassured casually.

Li Yang swallowed, but his face was full of panic.

In fact, he himself knew about his affairs. After Yan Shitai was exiled, he was the one who immediately stood up for him.

He also heard about Yan Shitai, and he knew that he was just a small county magistrate, so he was naturally no match for the aristocratic family, and there was no need to be an enemy of the aristocratic family.

Even though the Zhang family is just a wealthy family in Liyang County, with the complicated relationship between Jiangnan families, who knows if the Zhang family has any backers in the court.

It is said that there is a seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister. If the ministers in the court want to punish him, why not just pinch him?

What about Yan Shitai? Even if the children of the Zhang family commit murder in the street, even if there is irrefutable evidence, they will not end up being exiled to Yunnan in the end.

Therefore, Li Yang was very smart. He joined the Zhang family early on and even married a daughter of the Zhang family, even if he was not a legitimate daughter. He finally relied on the connections of the Zhang family.

With the help of the Zhang family, he has been living happily these past few years.

But this is not for nothing. In the past few years, he has often used his position to help the Zhang family. He even deceived and concealed many harmful things.

So after being sent to prison, Li Yang became decadent. He was not Yan Shitai, who was upright and not afraid of the shadow, but he had a guilty conscience.

But no matter how guilty he was, he had to be taken to see Zhu Zhen.

In the lobby of the government office, Zhu Zhen lowered his head and looked at the case file. After his personal and sincere shouting on the street, coupled with Yan Shitai's reputation, the people finally regained their confidence.

In just one afternoon, there were already a lot of files accusing the Zhang family.

But Zhu Ming sighed secretly. Although there was a lot of ironclad evidence, there was still a lot of fire left to kill the entire Zhang family.

So Zhu Chu asked someone to call Li Yang up.

"Li Yang, do you know the crime?" Zhu Ming raised his head, glanced at the magistrate of Liyang, who was no longer a human being, and asked for guilt.

Li Yang trembled all over and knelt on the ground, but he still felt lucky in his heart and shouted: "Your Highness, I am unjust."

Because Zhu Zhen had already revealed his identity as an imperial envoy, it was not a problem to interrogate him as a small county magistrate, so Li Yang just shouted that he was wronged and even said that he did not know what crime he had committed.

Zhu Ming sneered, knocked on the file with his hand and said: "You really don't cry until you see the coffin. Let me tell you this, about the collusion between you and the Zhang family, and the fact that you took bribes and got a lot of benefits. , if the evidence is not conclusive, do you think I will easily touch you, a court official? It's not like you don't know my father's character. What he hates most is corrupt officials. You are dead."

During the Hongwu period, even embezzlement of dozens of taels was a loss of life, and there was no mercy at all.

As the son-in-law of the Zhang family, Li Yang naturally received many benefits when working for the Zhang family.

But in the past, with the protection of aristocratic families, I could still deceive others.

But now, with the accusations from the people, everything has come to light.

After all, the masses are very discerning. Wasn't his purpose of colluding with the Zhang family just to bully the local people?

The court didn't know these things, but the people knew it all too well.

"You are definitely going to die, but there is a difference in how you die. Whether you are going to kill the whole family and wipe out all the nine tribes, or just chop off your head. You should think about it carefully before replying. ," Zhu Zhen glanced at Li Yang with the eyes of a dead person, and then continued to lower his head to study something.

This Liyang County used to be a prefecture and a state, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land. After the Zhang family's problem was completely solved, it was impossible to redistribute land to the people.

So Zhu Chu is planning something.

At this time, it was extremely painful for Li Yang.

He was on the verge of collapse. The huge pressure made his whole body tremble uncontrollably, and he even became incontinent.

It was precisely because of his poor mental endurance that he fell easily. If he had half the character of Yan Shitai, how could he join the Zhang family?

However, if he refuses to join the others, the Zhang family will not allow him to secure the position of county magistrate.

"How are you thinking about it?" Zhu Ming raised his head, and just before Li Yang was about to lose control, he made a voice and asked: "Are you going to bear everything at once? Or are you considering your family, dead Taoist friends, not dead Taoists, and telling the truth? What happened between you and the Zhang family?"

Zhu Ming is very sinister. He knows that if he only relies on the testimony of the common people, even if he can attack the Zhang family, the Zhang family is not stupid. As long as he removes those who commit crimes and commit crimes, he can still abandon his soldiers to save the carriage, and the family will not be full. Copy and cut.

Therefore, after taking the evidence, he was not in a hurry to deal with the Zhang family. Instead, he interrogated Li Yang, and was even suspected of eliciting a confession.

Because once Li Yang comes up with evidence to prove that the Zhang family colluded with court officials, the crime will be serious.

It can even be done to make the Zhang family guilty of rebellion.

What's more, he did have a lot of evidence, and he didn't lie to Li Yang. With Zhu Yuanzhang's character, Li Yang was bound to die no matter what.

Just as Zhu Zhen said, even if it means death, there is still an explanation for how to die.

The simplest and easiest thing is, of course, for him to be beheaded alone.

If he, Li Yang, was really so righteous and wanted to bear all the charges, it would be much easier. Is Ling Chi afraid? What about stripping skin and pretending to be grass? Or implicated the Nine Clans?

choose one?

Li Yang cried on the spot: "Your Highness, please show mercy. I was just confused for a moment, and the Zhang family's ability and power in the local area is beyond what I, a small county magistrate, can contend with. What can I do?"

Zhu Zhen was so angry that he laughed: "Then you are complicit? Good guy, has this become your excuse and reason? Are you still angry and aggrieved? What did your predecessor, Yan Shitai, do? Even today, the people of Liyang still think of Yan Shitai. This is what a good official does. No, this is the mission and responsibility of being an official. I don’t expect all of you to be able to do it. Bao Qingtian, but at least you have to do your job well, right? Are you treating your official position as a business? Are you here to do business? "

Zhu Chu was puzzled. The prefects and counties were all local officials, and they were supposed to benefit the people.

As a result, many people took advantage of this opportunity to make money, which can be said to be "a hundred thousand snowflakes of silver for the three years of Qing Dynasty."

Are you here to do business or to be an official?

These corrupt officials dare to complain before they die. Since you dare to be corrupt, what can you say if you are caught?

Are you still unjust? If you are wronged, what about the people?

Especially the irrefutable evidence that the Zhang family has done many evil things is simply shocking.

To put it bluntly, the persecution suffered by the people of Liyang County is simply more excessive than the people of Xi'an who were harmed by King Zhu Ping of Qin.

Of course, this is not to whitewash the second brother, because they all deserve to die.

"Okay, okay, don't cry. You are already enjoying the blessings. You should be corrupt, you should be bribed, and you should be bribed. What can you be wronged about? Come on, come on, tell me all the things you and the Zhang family have committed in the past few years. This king said, "Zhu Min persuaded me with good words.

Li Yang may also know that he is finished. Thinking about Zhu Ming's words, although he came to Liyang County alone to take office, he also has members of his family in his hometown, so he can't really be implicated in the nine clans, right?

So he gritted his teeth, wiped away his tears, and finally spoke out.

Li Yang's confession is naturally more effective than the confessions of the common people. According to him, he has recorded all the benefits the Zhang family has given him over the years in a book, including the reason for each benefit. recorded.

This is to keep a backup plan in case he is abandoned by the Zhang family as an outcast one day.

It seemed that Li Yang knew what he was doing was wrong from the beginning and had foreseen such a day.

How can you walk along the river without getting your shoes wet?

So he left himself such ironclad evidence of guilt.

Even Zhu Zhen was speechless, as were the soldiers and soldiers in the lobby.

After Wang Fu found the account book from the study room in the backyard, things became even simpler.

This account book alone contains dozens or hundreds of cases recorded in it, all of which are irrefutable evidence that the children of the Zhang family have committed many evil deeds.

Even Zhang Haoling was not a good person. He was already quite old. The year before last, he had robbed a girl on the street. He took away the daughter of a family for one night and only sent her back the next day.

The reputation of this family in Liyang County has long been bad, but the people have been unable to seek help, so they can only swallow it with tears in their stomachs.

Only the common people know what kind of life they live.

"You can push Zhang Jiaping away," Zhu Zhen took the booklet and finally felt at ease.

With Li Yang's confession and this incriminating evidence, the Zhang family can be uprooted and wiped out. As for Li Yang, he is of course unforgivable, not only because he colluded with the Zhang family. In addition to being the last straw that crushed the Zhang family, this incriminating evidence is also the ironclad evidence that crucifies him.

So Zhu Ming didn't hesitate and had Li Yang and his wife Zhang taken to the vegetable market and beheaded.

Although it was already evening, the vegetable market was still crowded with people.

When the heads of Li Yang and his wife fell to the ground, the people burst into cheers.

They hated this dog official to death, and now they finally relieved their hatred, and many people believed even more that Zhu Zhen was really here to make the decision for them.

"Quickly, go to Zhang's house."

Suddenly someone ran over from the other side and shouted: "His Royal Highness Chitose is going to completely eradicate the Zhang family, come and watch the excitement."

'Hula'.

The people suddenly became restless and rushed to Zhang's house.

When they arrived outside the Zhang family's residence, they saw countless elite soldiers pulling people from inside the Zhang family's residence, with every two soldiers escorting one Zhang family member.

Yesterday, those people had just paid their respects to Zhu Chu. Who would have thought that just one day later, they would become prisoners and be lined up in a row outside the courtyard wall of their home.

There are dozens of people, four generations living under the same roof, not one of them left behind.

Zhu Ming also specially asked people to take the Zhang family's genealogy to check it. When he saw the local people coming, he also called some people to conduct screening inquiries. Don't let the Zhang family fool them, for example, let the servants of the government take their place. Die or something.

When it was finally confirmed that it was correct, Zhu Zhen nodded and waved his hand: "Behead."

"Wait a minute, you can't kill us. Even if we break the law, it will be up to the court and His Majesty. You are just a vassal king, how dare you privately sentence us?" That Zhang Haoling was still lucky?

Zhu Chu took out Shang Fang's sword directly: "Shang Fang's sword is here, as if I were here in person."

Everyone was stunned.

Zhang Haoling raised his head, looked at Zhu Qi and the Shang Fang sword in his hand, and murmured: "So you came to my Zhang family?"

He finally came to his senses.

If you really just go to patrol the coast, why bother bringing Shang Fang's sword?

Wouldn't a military order or an imperial edict be enough?

Zhang Haoling's eyes flashed with horror. Is His Majesty going to kill the Jiangnan family?

But before he could speak again, Zhu Xi winked.

Wang Fu took out the sword from his waist and struck out with his sword.

With a scoff, Zhang Haoling's head fell off and he was speechless.

When he was in Yunnan, Zhu Zhen cooperated very well with Wang Fu and others. Sometimes they couldn't let the dying people say too much because they were already dying and had no worries at all.

Following Zhang Haoling's death, other soldiers also raised their swords and dropped them.

In an instant, dozens of heads rolled to the ground, and blood surged like a fountain, quickly dyeing the ground red.

The people were looking forward to it, but when they suddenly saw dozens of people dying all at once, they were frightened by such a scene.

I even felt frightened, as if there was a cold air going straight from the back of my spine to Tianling Gai.

Could it be that the Zhang family’s souls are still alive because of their resentment? There must be no ghosts, right?

After all, it's night now, and doesn't decapitation usually have to wait until noon at three quarters to noon? Or maybe they were all asked by the Queen of Autumn, because autumn is cool and the supervisor has a clear mind and there is no possibility of misjudgment.

So many people were killed this night, what if it was really haunted?

Of course Zhu Chu and the other officers and soldiers in the army are not afraid. Their duty is to go into battle and kill the enemy. What if they are afraid of ghosts?

"The Zhang family deserved their death. They harmed the people in their hometown. When they come, the King of Japan will naturally report to the court and explain the cause and consequences of the matter. You don't need to worry, this matter has nothing to do with you. Not only will you not be implicated, but you will also be involved. Compensation. This king will temporarily release the land of the Zhang family to you so that you can have a bumper harvest this year," Zhu Zhen said loudly.

The people looked at each other and then cheered.

That's hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land. Even if Liyang County has a population of more than 200,000, each person can still get a few acres of land.

This is a considerable benefit.

The Zhang family finally paid a heavy price for what they had done. After the whole family was executed, no fish escaped the net.

But after the Zhang family was destroyed, there were still a lot of things to deal with in the aftermath.

The first step is to inventory the Zhang family's property. If you don't check, you won't know. If you check, you will be shocked.

The Zhang family owns several million taels of gold and silver alone, which is almost as much as the country's annual tax revenue.

Not to mention the granaries accumulated by the Zhang family, which amounted to tens of millions of stones.

Most of them are new grains, not even old grains that are more than five years old.

Even though Liyang County is just one county, it is enough to support the Zhang family.

But what about the people? Not to mention that the people in Liyang County are all in poverty, they can only live a subsistence life. Every household does not have much food storage, and they only work as slaves for the Zhang family every year.

The Zhang family regarded the entire Liyang County as their granary and was able to accumulate such huge wealth.

And the country is completely unaware of such wealth?

No wonder it is said that Jiangnan is the breadbasket of the country. The Manchu Qing Dynasty could feed the whole country just by harvesting Jiangnan.

But in the Ming Dynasty, the Jiangnan family was hiding it.

Zhu Zhen sneered secretly, and directly sent the tallied account books and the overwhelming wealth to a force of several thousand people to escort them to Beijing.

When the news reached the capital, it shocked both the government and the public.

"What? What the hell is this?" Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he flew into a rage when he saw the irrefutable evidence.

"Is this the Jiangnan Family? No wonder Chu'er keeps calling them bullshit. They are really full of benevolence, justice and morality, but full of male thieves and female prostitutes. What kind of family is this?"

Can Zhu Yuanzhang not be angry? He was originally looked down upon by the Jiangnan family. At the same time, he also hated those corrupt officials, cruel officials and the landlords who were unkind to get rich.

Now that he has finally found a chance, will your Jiangnan family be so arrogant to me again? What are you?

In the court hall, all the civil and military officials lowered their heads and remained silent.

Only Xu Da and Tang He looked at each other.

Xu Dayue came out of the crowd and said: "Your Majesty, Jiangnan aristocratic families also have moral models. You have forgotten that you also named the Zheng family the first aristocratic family, and there are also good officials from the Zheng family who have worked conscientiously for the country and the people after becoming officials."

"There are also the Wang family, the Ding family, etc. There are too many Jiangnan aristocratic families, and it is inevitable that there will be black sheep," Tang He also said.

Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang relax a little.

After all, there is only one Zhang family, and it is not time to completely break up with the entire Jiangnan family.

The Zheng family, in particular, was not only set up as a model by Zhu Yuanzhang and made flattering gestures, but also the generations of the Zheng family were indeed very successful.

But as soon as the situation calmed down here, someone among the civil servants over there stood up.

It was Liu Sanwu. He said with an upright face: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the King of Dian was supposed to be inspecting the coastal defense line, so why did he go to Liyang County to investigate the Zhang family? And even if the Zhang family is guilty, the whole family should be escorted to Beijing and sentenced by the imperial court's Criminal Department , But wouldn’t it be suspected that His Highness’s move would be to kill first and report later?”

The civil service group was immediately ready to take action.

Again, the capital city is now in the inner circle of Jiangnan, so among the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, except for the generals, most of the civil servants are from Jiangnan aristocratic families, and they are the children of Jiangnan aristocratic families.

Although Liu Sanwu was not from a Jiangnan family, he just followed his nature and duty and thought he should say these words.

But this gave Jiangnan Family a chance to fight back.

All of a sudden, civil servants filed petitions one after another to impeach Zhu Ming.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he actually dared to go against the wind?

Are you really not afraid of death?

At that moment, Zhu Yuanzhang patted the dragon case and said: "Behead first and then play? I gave him the Shangfang Sword, just to kill first and then play. The imperial envoy of Minger is to inspect the world on behalf of the emperor. What he means is what I mean. He, It’s me.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was dumbfounded.

Zhu Yunwen was shocked and clenched his fists tightly.

(End of this chapter)