Emperor Kangxi: Yuyu Chengxiang

Chapter 42 The Tribute Court was Sealed in the Kangxi Raising the Dragon Case
Mu Zixu and Wu Dan, who were guarding outside, didn't know what had happened, rushed in three steps and two steps, and saw Ming Zhu and other four ministers in the upper study lying on the ground in fear, and several Sura eunuchs and palace maids were lying on the ground and frantically cleaning up. .Kangxi was so furious that his facial features were dislocated, and he trembled all over. When he saw them coming in, he turned around and took off the sword hanging on the wall, and said sharply: "Mu Zixu, take this sword and rush to Nanjing at night, and take these two daring dog officials to the ground. Fa-rectification, take the head and send it to Beijing!" Mu Zixu had no choice but to agree, and asked for an order: "I beg the master to give the name of the official who should be executed, so that the servant can follow the order."

"Long live, rest the wrath of thunder!" Xiong Ci walked a few steps closer to Kangxi, and kowtowed again and again, "This matter needs to be investigated before we deal with it. I think it should be dealt with by the Ministry and punished according to the law!" He knew very well in his heart, Outsiders didn't know that the two main examiners were recommended by Mingzhu.As soon as the head hit the ground, I would never be able to tell the difference. Is this scapegoat easy to carry?
"Look!" Kangxi threw down another copy, "This is not an exam! It's simply bribery and selling officials! After the opening of the Erudite Confucianism, the south is a little more peaceful, no one scolds the street, Zuo Yuxing is so bad for my reputation !"

Xiong Cilu picked up the booklet, wiped the sweat from his head, and when he looked at it, it was a joint post by hundreds of Juren.

"Read!" Kangxi shouted.

"Zha!" Xiong Cilu hurriedly kowtowed, and read carefully:
The subjects of the imperial court were originally designed to recruit real learning and recruit real talents, not a tool for taking bribes for personal gain and catering to the powerful.The Emperor Kuang Sheng emphasized culture and education, and strictly ordered officials to govern. All officials should wash their lungs and intestines in order to respond to the Ming Dynasty.Unexpectedly, the chief examiners Zuo Yuxing, Zhao Taiming, etc. of the Great Master Yingtian wiped out the principles of heaven and totally ignorant of the hearts of the people.The white pot smokes the heart, and the flames are dazzling.Four or five families in the middle hall are among the best; dozens of people in the department are all in the top ranks.Wang Jingzeng and Li Tianbao donated [-] yuan in real money with the help of their ministers; Kumamoto and Jiang Renxi, as relatives of the family, directly donated [-] yuan in money.Shi Yizhi and Pan Weizhen were sold because their fathers were house officials; Han Xiaoji and Zhang Sandi were sold because their fathers lived in the Ministry of Rites, and they were afraid of re-examination...

The more Xiong Cilu read, the more frightened he became.He originally felt that he was clean, but the surname Xiong in the zipbook might be the nephew of some family in the clan.Afterwards, dozens of people were counted, all of them were named, whose joints were connected, and how much money was given, all of them were clear, thanks to the filial pieties who inquired so carefully!Although everyone didn't ask for it directly, among the names they heard, they were quite familiar, and it was hard to guarantee that they would not go out in their own name. to the end:
The court did not treat him lightly, how absurd is the intention of the two monarchs, but don't think that the sky is like thunder, and the eyes are like lightning?Woohoo!We are meticulous in advancing and retreating, life and death are our destiny, please use the sword of Shang Fang to kill the culprit.When the rumors on the road are true and the witnesses are true, why should the chapter of impeachment be heard by all the heavens.Otherwise, Gou Baijian's delay will cause the county's feelings to become fierce.Once there is a righteous man, stand up, or stab the gate of the country, or kill him under the chariot, and if he hears about it, no one will laugh at the scholar-bureaucrats!

At this point, it stopped abruptly, when Xiong Cilu looked at it, there was a large list of people's names below, and the leading one was still that Wu Sidao.He lowered his head and didn't dare to speak. The study was so quiet that he could hear a needle drop.

Mingzhu heard Kangxi say that "everyone has his own account", but because the bribe money has not yet been handed over, she is slightly relieved.When I heard that more than a dozen officials in Xinjiang were exposed in this article, some of them were close friends on weekdays, and they were related to Xu Qian's theory of favor, alluding to their own instructions, and I couldn't help being frightened.

Although Gao Shiqi had nothing to do with the case, but he knew that the former government handled the cases in the imperial court extremely harshly, a large prison was set up, and hundreds of people were killed in one go.

"Xiong Cilu, I think you said 'according to the law'." Kangxi said slowly, "I don't know how to deal with this matter so that it complies with the law?"

Xiong Cilu raised his face and thought for a while, then replied: "The laws of the Qing Dynasty followed the self-evident laws, and should also follow the rules of the previous Ming Dynasty. The chief examiner and the deputy chief examiner in this case were corrupt and corrupt laws. According to the seriousness of the crime, the examiners of the Eighteenth Chamber sentenced to hanging, execution, suspended sentence, or suicide, and the other ministers involved in the case were either killed or exiled, and they should be dealt with according to the circumstances. My lord, I dare not make false assumptions."

Kangxi was stunned when he heard this, saying what abandoned the market, executed by hanging, and committed suicide.Although the levels are different, they are all dead after all.Thinking of killing so many people at once, he hesitated.But these days he read a few copied books, such as Lu Liuliang's "Spring and Autumn Days" and Yan Bo'an's "Sexual Theory". " and so on, "Third Prince Zhu" caught one after another, and it is still heard from time to time.If it is not handled properly, even the existing scholars will be dissatisfied with the court, isn't it the root of disaster?Thinking up to this point, he sneered and said, "I don't have any favors to do them this time, but I want to punish some big men for the world to see!"

"Long live..." Several ministers kowtowed and begged.

Kangxi snorted and walked away, went to the court outside the hall, still couldn't help waving his hands and said angrily: "We must kill some big officials in the frontier!"

Mingzhu sat in the sedan chair sullenly.Back at the mansion, as soon as he got off the sedan chair, the old king of Si Yan came up to meet him, and said with an apologetic smile, "Master is back? Masters Xu Qianxue and Yu Guozhu have already arrived, and they are waiting for you!" Mingzhu lowered her face. Come and ask, "What are they doing here?"

"I don't know." The old Wang looked at Mingzhu's complexion, and replied cautiously, "I just listened to their gossip, Kong Shangren in Shandong edited "The Peach Blossom Fan", and Dashilan's performance was very popular, so the two masters ordered it. Tanghui, said Zhongtang Lord is free and happy these days, and I want to invite him to enjoy the show..."

"Xiao Xian—happy?" Mingzhu sneered, raised her foot and entered the second door with a gloomy face.Seeing the family members yelling and yelling, they are busy setting up a stage on the waterside pavilion, so I endured the anger and stopped to watch.He felt his head buzzing and his lips were trembling, not knowing what to say.Huang Mingyin, the deputy manager of Chacha's mansion, saw him coming from a distance, so he rushed to show his courtesy, and said with a smile, "Master Xiang looks at this table, is it okay?" Go, the beating made Huang Mingyin grind on the spot, half of his face was already purple, and when he looked up in panic, Mingzhu had already strode away.

Yu Guozhu and Xu Qianxue are playing Go and are on the verge of accepting small officials.Yu Guozhu originally won the chess game, but was robbed by Xu Qianxue out of thin air. He couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to regret the game.Seeing Mingzhu approaching, Xu Qianxue got up and said with a smile: "Look at him, this is also a scholar! The host who let the six pieces of chess bet on a game has regretted three steps. Well, I can't afford to provoke him, a miser!" Yu Guogui grinned and said, "Who told you to be the God of Wealth?"

"A play?" Mingzhu snorted and asked coldly, "What play?"

"Good show! The city of Nanjing is a sensation!" Yu Guozhu looked at the chessboard and said enthusiastically, "The writing style and vocabulary of "Peach Blossom Fan" written by the talented Confucian family are very good."

"Pull the dick down!" Ming Zhu's anger, which had been suppressed for a long time, suddenly erupted. She forgot all about the dignity of the prime minister and the demeanor of the minister. It fell on the ground, like a "chess rain", black and white pieces jingled all over the room.

Mingzhu never shows off his power and anger in the officialdom, and is a famous "laughing pearl".It became so ferocious in an instant, not only Xu Qianxue and Yu Guozhu, but also the family members who waited all day were all petrified.Mingzhu scolded: "In less than half a month, you will have to go to Shengjiang Alley to see Wang Shizhen in the prison temple to eat a meal of the dead, and still have some leisure time to play chess and listen to some bird games!"

"Mingxiang!" Seeing that Mingzhu was angry like pig's head fever, Yu Guozhu quickly apologized with a smile, "It's a big deal. It doesn't matter if we destroy the nine races or deserve to be killed, you have to explain it to us!" Mingzhu hehe With a sneer, he said, "I don't know what you guys have been doing in Nanwei! You are so daring! To use your nonsense language of Xu Qianxue's, you've got something to do with the east window!" Gengyao led his troops to seal off the tribute courtyard. He searched house by house, poured soup and rats, and couldn't escape even a single one! This time ten or eight of the frontier officials were not killed, and one or two hundred officials were not deposed! Just now I I kicked your chessboard, and today the emperor even uncovered the dragon case! Just wait and see his mother's show!" After saying that, he sat down on the chair, bent down deeply, and couldn't help rubbing the sparse s hair.

(End of this chapter)