Rule the Ming Dynasty Alone

When Xiao Zhixian saw the person coming, he immediately stood up and saluted and said, "I have met Lord Li!"

Wang Yue frowned slightly when he saw Li Guangming appear.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was no longer Bailihou who really had the say. The local magistrate was after all a top-three Jinshi who had just entered the officialdom or a senior Juren. It was difficult to truly control a county.

Li Guangming was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Jingtai. A few years ago, he became an official as the prefect of Shunde and enjoyed the retirement benefits of a fourth-rank official in the imperial court. Although his official career was not impressive, he had worked hard in the officialdom for thirty years and had built a network of connections.

Now that he has returned to Jingshan County, he has become the leader of the squires in Jingshan County without hesitation. Naturally, he can control Xiao Zhixian who has no back.

Xiao Zhixian looked at Li Guangming's silence and said with a smile: "Master Li, please sit down!" After saying that, he urged the master next to him: "Serve tea, hurry up and serve good tea!"

"My lord, you shouldn't have asked this question just now! Liu Jiamo is a boy born in this county and also my disciple. Although he is not famous now, he has learned etiquette, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness. How could he do such a stupid thing? , it is clear that the traitor has no regard for the king's law!" Li Guangming glanced at Wang Yue and then set the tone for this case.

Wang Yue had investigated the case and naturally did not agree with this statement: "According to Hu Daniu, just after drinking a bowl of tea, the salt on the table had disappeared. At that time, only Liu Jiamo was around to take it. If he left with a bag of salt, who else could have done it but him?"

"Prince, you trusted the wrong person this time!" Li Guangming said with certainty, not taking seriously the man who was banished to Anlu by the imperial court.

Li Guangming saw Wang Yue's stern face and did not answer, so he smiled and said flatteringly: "Master Li, how do you say this?"

"To be honest with you, the prince, that salt shop is my family's property! I personally asked the shopkeeper and learned that the shopkeeper did not see Hu Daniu coming to buy salt that day. Instead, he saw Liu Jiamo going to the teahouse next door after buying salt. What happened next? Liu Jiamo was injured by evil people who robbed him of salt!"

"Haha... If that's the case, then the facts of the case will be clear. Hu Daniu will be convicted by the county tomorrow for robbing salt and injuring someone!" Xiao Zhixian immediately agreed.

Wang Yue took a deep look at Li Guangming, who was confusing right and wrong, and then suppressed his anger and asked: "If Hu Daniu didn't come to Jingshan County to buy salt, why did he come here?"

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Xiao Zhixian discovered that this was indeed the case. The people who came to Jingshan County to eat and sleep outdoors were not just for sightseeing, and Hu Daniu's motive for buying salt seemed very sufficient.

On the contrary, Liu Jiamo's behavior of buying salt is more questionable, not to mention that he bought salt at this time, and it was such a coincidence that he only bought a pound.

Li Guangming took the tea cup brought by the maid, and said with a slight smile: "I'm afraid the prince doesn't know something. There have been many bandits in Jingshan County recently. It's not surprising that the money carried by Hu Daniu was robbed!"

"Your Majesty, this county can testify that there have indeed been bandits in Jingshan recently!" Xiao Zhixian immediately made a statement.

Li Guangming took a sip of tea, and then said more carefully: "Perhaps Hu Daniu was so greedy that he saw Liu Jiamo's frail body and wanted to rob him!"

Wang Yue found that the things in this place were really unreasonable, so he looked at the retired official who was confusing right and wrong in front of him and asked: "Sir Li, what is the truth? I'm afraid you already know it. Do you really want to accuse someone so unjustly?" ?"

"Prince, do you think that the students taught by me can be thieves?" Li Guangming slapped the table and immediately looked at Wang Yuedao tit for tat.

Xiao Zhixian saw the two giant Buddhas looking at each other in the air. Electric sparks seemed to be sparked where the two people's eyes met, and he couldn't help shrinking his head.

Now it is obvious that it is no longer a matter between Hu Daniu and Liu Jiamo, but a struggle between Wang Yue and Li Guangming. The former wants to seek justice for Hu Daniu, while the latter wants to defend his personal reputation. The students he teaches are all moral gentlemen.

The next day, the sky looked gray.

In the Jingshan County Government Hall, Magistrate Xiao, who was wearing a seventh-grade official uniform, was sitting in the hall presiding over the trial, while Li Guangming, who was wearing rich clothes, and Wang Yue, who was wearing civilian clothes, were listening.

Li Guangming held a tea cup in his hand and sat at the master's chair on the left to listen, with a growing smile on his face.

"Your Excellency, I am the shopkeeper of a salt store. I have never seen Hu Daniu buying salt in the store!"

"Wrong, wrong, I went to your store to buy salt, and you gave me ten cents cheaper!"

"My lord, the county magistrate, may have been here before, but there were so many people coming and going in the store that I can't remember it. It's just that Liu Jiamo did come to the villain's shop that day to buy salt. He is a student of our county. Member, I remember it so vividly!"

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"Your Excellency, I am the shopkeeper of the teahouse. At that time, Hu Daniu came into the shop to ask for free tea, but I did not see him carrying any salt packets at that time!"

"Wrong, wrong, you were pointing at the salt bag I was holding and saying that you could tell it was tied by Li Si just by looking at the knot!"

"Lord County Lord, I really have no memory of this. But I saw Liu Jiamo coming in to drink tea with a bag of salt. After drinking the tea, he paid the money and left with the bag of salt. Later, he had a dispute with this foreigner! "

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"Old parents, the student Liu Jiamo is a child born in this county. When he was buying salt that day, he was followed by this man. After drinking tea, he saw him in the store, so he left in a hurry!"

"Wrong, wrong, Mr. Tong Sheng, I didn't follow you. I just heard someone said there was free crude tea, so I went over to ask for tea to quench my thirst!"

"Old parents, the student is a person who reads the saint's books and practices the saint's way. Now he has been so slandered. The student's reputation has been damaged. I hope this unruly person will be severely punished!"

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After Xiaozhi County summoned the witness and client Liu Jiamo to the court, he glanced at Li Guangming, who was sitting next to him, and immediately slapped the tree heavily and pronounced the sentence: "After the county has found out, Liu Jiamo, a boy in this county, bought salt in a teahouse. When leaving, Hu Daniu snatched salt and injured someone. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, he was sentenced to a three-year apprenticeship and was given a special staff of thirty and big boards as a warning. He should withdraw from the prison!"

"What an injustice! The old man really came to Jingshan County to buy salt. What a misunderstanding this time!" Hu Daniu immediately fell down in the tunnel after hearing the verdict.

Wang Yue had been sitting silently and listening. When he saw Hu Daniu being dragged off after the beating, his eyes couldn't help but moisten.

Even in the military, one has to speak clearly about right and wrong, unlike now where right and wrong are confused.

A man who worked hard for a year and exchanged grain for some money went to sleep in the open to buy salt. As a result, the salt he bought was stolen, and now he still has to suffer this injustice.

"Master Xu, prince, your subordinates just asked your servants to prepare a thin banquet, and you are invited to have dinner in the back house?" Xiao Zhixian walked down from the hall, looking very flattering.

Li Guangming was not in a hurry to express his position, but looked at Wang Yue with a victor's attitude.

Compared with Wang Yue's glorious resume, his career is nothing to mention, but he is happiest when he laughs to the end.

Although he was once convicted for participating in party strife, he eventually became the prefect of Shunde. On the other hand, Wang Yue is now relegated to Anlu and has no connections in the government or the opposition.

The crime of writing poetry and resentment was originally far-fetched, but as a result, no one in the civil and military officials of the dynasty spoke up for him, and even now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, he has not been pardoned.

Although his situation is far inferior to that of Wang Yue, when it comes to being an official, he is a hundred times better than Wang Yue.

"No need, we have different opinions and don't work together, so say goodbye!" Wang Yue naturally couldn't sit with such a person, so he stood up and said goodbye immediately.

When Li Guangming saw that Wang Yue was so disrespectful, he snorted coldly and said, "We are both officials in the same court. Is it really worth it to hurt our harmony for a mere commoner?"

"What I am doing is justice!" Wang Yue had his own principles and stated his position immediately.

Xiao Zhixian couldn't help but shrink his head when he saw the friction between the two.

Li Guangming was also not angry in his heart, so he complained for himself: "Justice? If there is really so much justice in this world, why is it that my talents are obviously not weaker than yours, but you were awarded the title of general, and I finally became the general?" Can you get a mere prefect?"

"I care about the court and the people. Are you really not afraid of retribution when you harm the people like this?" Wang Yue naturally did not agree with Li Guangming's logic and asked.

Li Guangming looked at Wang Yue who was angered by him, and said with great disdain: "Retribution? Is it up to you? You are nothing now, how can you be responsible for justice!"

At this time, a cell leader hurried over and reported: "It's not good, Hu... Hu Daniu!"

"What's wrong with Hu Daniu?" Wang Yue couldn't help but asked nervously when he saw the panicked look on the cell leader's face.

The prison head swallowed his saliva, pointed in the direction of the county jail and said, "He...he just didn't want to accept the atonement, so he crashed to death!"

Killed?

Xiao Zhixian was dumbfounded when he heard this result.