Wentang

Chapter 315 Public Trial Assembly 2
The public trial meeting continued until dark and had to be stopped.

Tian Xuechen and others returned to the city to rest, but none of the people was willing to leave. They continued to gather outside the south gate of the city, waiting for the public trial to continue the next day.

Moreover, after it was confirmed that all criminals would be tried, no one continued to throw stones and other things at the places where prisoners were temporarily held.

I am afraid that these people will be smashed to death, that would be too cheap for them.

"Open the granary and cook porridge for the common people. Don't let them go hungry." Upstairs above the city gate, Yue Shan said with a heavy heart.

"Here." Tian Xuechen said in a hoarse voice.After a day of non-stop trial, his voice became hoarse.

As for the opening of warehouses to distribute grain to the people now that does not comply with the court regulations, no one cares about it.

Who cares about this right now, the most important thing is to handle this matter smoothly.Besides, Yue Shan has already spoken and no one can control him.

Yue Shan returned to the county government office only after giving orders to the people to stay overnight.He took out the daytime complaint and flipped through it casually, the more he looked at it, the more ugly his face became.

In the end, he couldn't help cursing angrily: "Human scum, animals... No, they are not even as good as animals. Especially this one named Wang Jingliang, he should be hacked into pieces."

"Murder and set fire, insult people's daughters, disregard people's lives, destroy people everywhere... Is there anything in this world that he dare not do?"

"It really should be killed. I wanted to chop him up several times in court today." Liu Rengui also echoed, and then comforted him: "Don't get mad at yourself, the dean. It's not worth it. Wait for him to be charged with crimes." Just beheaded after trial and it's over."

"It's too cheap to behead him, this kind of person should be executed quickly." Yue Shan said bitterly.

"This...what is Ling Chi execution?" Liu Rengui asked suspiciously.

"Ling Chi, you don't even know..." Yue Shan suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, Liu Rengui didn't know that it was normal for Ling Chi to be executed.It would be a problem if he knew.

Because the penalty of Ling Chi was invented by the Liao Kingdom during the Song Dynasty, and it is still several hundred years away from now.

"Ling Chi is cutting a living person into pieces."

"A living person can be hacked into pieces?" Thinking about the scene, Liu Rengui couldn't help but shudder, looking at Yue Shan with fear in his eyes.

"What are you thinking, I'm just talking and I don't really want to do it." Yue Shan said angrily.

"Yes, yes, why would the dean Zhaixin be kind enough to do this?" Liu Rengui said hastily.

But there was no sincerity in his tone. After all, the dean is not very big, and his wrist is really tough.

Especially for corrupt officials, they will be chopped off if they disagree with each other.It really annoyed him, maybe he really dared to cut him into pieces.

But at this time there was a burst of cheers from outside the city, Yue Shan thought something was wrong at first, but after he asked people to look at it, he found out that it was the free government office that started serving porridge.

"The people's requirements are very low, as long as they can survive. But some people are not even willing to give them this little thing, and they deserve to die." Yue Shan said with emotion.

"In their eyes, the people are just cattle and sheep. How can they care about the lives of the people? Not only them, most officials, aristocratic families, and powerful people think this way." Liu Rengui shook his head and said:
"There are indeed good officials who love the people like their sons, but most of them become officials for their own interests. Some people dare not go too far in consideration of the court's laws, and some are really lawless."

Yue Shan said in a firm tone: "So we must use iron-like discipline to restrain officials. Those who violate the laws of the country should be exempted from killing."

Liu Rengui shook his head and didn't speak. How could Yue Shan fight against the entire bureaucracy by himself, and how much could he kill?

Yue Shan could naturally see what he was thinking.

He knows very well that it is impossible to eradicate corruption, and that corruption with a bottom line is already a matter of great governance.

His goal is to control corruption within a certain range and give the people a chance to breathe, and he already has a comprehensive plan.

But there is no need to tell Liu Rengui about these things for the time being, and he might not understand them.Let's do it slowly, and everyone will naturally understand it when it's done.

At this moment, Zhao Jingze came over and brought a surprising news.

"You said Yu Kexun, governor of Dezhou, sent someone to see me?" Yue Shan asked in surprise.

"Yes, the person is right outside the door, I don't dare to call the shots and come here to ask you for instructions." Zhao Jingze said cautiously.

He didn't dare to offend Yue Shan, and neither did he dare to offend the Governor of Dezhou.At this moment, there were only four words in his mind: I am too difficult.

"Did you tell me what you wanted from me?" Yue Shan asked.

"No, he refused to say, only said that he wanted to see you." Zhao Jingze said.

"Heh... just send someone here at night just to see the dean. The governor of this place takes himself too seriously." Liu Rengui laughed.

"Uh..." Zhao Jingze hurriedly lowered his head, pretending not to hear.

"Dean, this kind of person just rush back." Liu Rengui didn't make things difficult for him, but said to Yue Shan.

"Go out and tell that person, it means that I want to see Yu Kexun tomorrow. Either he will come to Yanci County to meet me, or I will take someone to Dezhou to meet him and let him choose." Yue Shan nodded to Zhao Jingze.

"Ah? This... yes, I'll tell someone to come right away." Zhao Jingze was taken aback, turned around and left.

After he walked away, Liu Rengui said worriedly: "After all, Yu Kexun is the governor of a state. If he doesn't come tomorrow, will the dean really want to take him down as well?"

"Why not? Although the sage only allowed me to beheaded before the fifth rank, did he say that officials above the fifth rank cannot be investigated. As long as the evidence is solid, I dare to fight even the prime minister." Yue Shan said.

"I'm afraid that things will get worse, and there will be changes in the court, which will affect your follow-up plans." Liu Ren said.

"You still haven't grasped the core of the problem, so you have such worries." Yue Shan said:
"What is the core of the problem? Evidence of these people's crimes? Public anger? Neither. The core issue is whether we can successfully produce salt."

"As long as we can expose the salt and open up new sources of income for the imperial court, even if we wash Texas three or five times, no one will say no, and some people will applaud."

"If there is no salt, even if I have done nothing, the marquis will be the end. So that's why I have to wait until the salt fields produce salt before taking major actions."

"So that's the case, Zhengzheng has been taught." Liu Rengui said respectfully.

"Then I'm going to teach you a trick. When you submit a memorial to the court, the first article says that these people embezzled the grain of the county treasury, and the second article says that they intend to prevent us from drying the salt. As for other crimes such as murder and arson. Put it behind these two." Yue Shan said in a low voice.

Liu Rengui's eyes lit up, he gave a thumbs up and said, "Tall, the dean is really tall."

(End of this chapter)