Chapter 421
It was another morning, and the sun had not yet risen. Ye Qing had already gone out early and followed the path that he had been teaching for almost ten years to learn the lessons.
The early morning of early October was already cold, which made him tighten his clothes and also made his pace faster. He wanted to go to the clan school as soon as possible and not be blown by the wind. He didn't expect that when he passed by the familiar small book shop in Benfang, he saw the stack of newspapers placed in a conspicuous place at a glance. This made him turn his steps without hesitation and head straight for: "Old Chen, is the new issue of Zongheng Newspaper here today?"
The owner of the bookstore also had an old acquaintance with him, so he smiled and picked up a copy and handed it over: "Professor Ye is a coincidence. This newspaper was delivered half an hour ago, and it was a Zongheng newspaper." The professor was a respectful title for the gentlemen in the private schools of various officials and schools at this time.
"Then let's get one, it's still the old price?" Ye Qing said as he had taken the newspaper and handed over ten cents of money at the same time, then he continued to turn around and leave.
It has been more than a year since this report appeared. Since the emergence of this lunar and horizontal report, he has read and bought it every issue. Thinking that at the beginning, people gave it for free along the street, and then it turned into three, five, and eight, and now it has reached ten, and the price of newspapers is really rising rapidly.
However, there are still many people in Luoyang City who are willing to save some money to buy two newspapers a month, just the content of the Zongheng newspaper is exciting enough. For many people, the last two editions of the novel are enough to get the price back, not to mention the wonderful local news anecdotes in advance.
Ye Qing was attracted by the anecdotes about the beauty of "Hongxiuzhao" and the poem "If life is just like the first meeting", and then there were novels and interesting stories in the city. After reading it as a habit, even if the Zongheng newspaper became two issues per month, he was willing to save 20 cents from his wallet to buy newspapers, but it was limited to Zongheng newspapers. He could not even look at other newspapers with significantly lower content.
After a busy morning, Ye Qing returned to the main hall where he rested, holding a cup of hot tea, taking out the newspaper, and enjoying his leisure time leisurely.
He had a habit of reading newspapers, always liked to read from behind, and today the same thing is the same. First, read the "Friends of Immortal Couple" that is still serialized. This novel is naturally not as exciting as the previous case of Fengshen and Bao Gong, but the description of the relationship between men and women is still very good. It is quite interesting to watch those immortal cultivators who can fly with swords and turn the world love them to death like mortals. Anyway, when he told this content to his family, she was quite worried about the male and female protagonists.
Before Ye Qing could finish reading the novel this time, other gentlemen came over and said to him: "Look at the front, the first version, that's exciting."
"Well, what's so exciting? Could it be that someone from Guihaiju has made a good argument this time?" Ye Qing asked casually, or turned the newspaper over according to the other party's intentions. He admired this newly appeared column this year. Sometimes he wanted to go to Guihaijuli to debate with others.
As a result, after seeing this, his eyes were completely attracted by the title in the most eye-catching part of the first edition, and all other contents were ignored - "Shocking! Senior officials of the court actually committed numerous crimes!"
Such sensational topics are used by some title parties in later generations. If someone uses them, most people will sneer at them and avoid them directly. However, hundreds of years ago, it was so fresh and so eye-catching that even Ye Qing, who claimed to be aloof, was stunned when he saw the topic and read it quickly, just wanting to know what this article is talking about.
"Now, I have Bian, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Although he is hypocritical on weekdays, he has committed many crimes over the years. It is not an exaggeration to call him a beast. Now I take the right path in the world and the law of this dynasty as my responsibility, so I hereby disclose:
"In the ninth year of Xianlong, Bian had not yet passed the imperial examination and had a wife and children at home. However, because he admired the power of a high-ranking official in the court, he abandoned his wife and son and climbed up a higher score. Therefore, he was able to become the third-place senior high school student and entered the court. When his wife and children found Luoyang, he was instructed by him to obstruct rogues and others, and eventually disappeared. It was not until two years later that someone discovered that the miserable mother and son had already been in the wilderness.
"In the fifteenth year of Xianlong, Bian had just been released from abroad and served as the Ministry of Revenue's Office, but due to his temporary negligence, the accounts of Jiangnan were greatly fallen. At that time, it was his boss, Li Wei, the doctor, who protected him and believed that he was not young enough, so he made such an omission. Unexpectedly, he not only did not feel grateful, but instead took the opportunity to push the crime to Li Wei, causing Li to be demoted from Beijing and eventually died of illness in Lingnan. However, Bian took the opportunity to be promoted and replaced the position of doctor.
"In the 22nd year of Xianlong, Bian's brother committed an incident in his hometown and beat and injured a person's life. Not only did he not think about destroying his relatives for justice, he instead used power to suppress the case, forcing local officials to retrial the case, and cut off his brother Bian Youdao's self-defense and hurt people..."
The crimes of the Bian Shigong were exposed in the newspaper were more than three. Later, he used his power to embezzle other people's land and houses and forced several women into the house. Each matter had a definite time, as well as the identity and even name of the victim, which made Ye Qing stunned, and felt that the content of the newspaper he had read over the past year was far less exciting than the article today.
At the end, the article points out the purpose of publishing this article:
"All these crimes committed by Bian are really shocking, but they can escape with help from others every time. It is really the fault of the Great Yue Department of Justice. Although I am unable to uphold justice for those innocent people who have been violated, I also have a passionate attitude and swear to disclose the various crimes of Bian, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, so that people all over the world will despise it!"
This is really a bold idea. Although this article did not write down the name of the Bian Shidao, anyone knows that it is completely directed at the current Minister of Revenue Bian Xuedao's nose. Moreover, the names of the victims and the names of his younger brother Bian Youdao were also clearly written, which is completely overwhelming.
Looking at the name of the author of this article again, Ye Qing was shocked again - Xiaoyaozi! Isn’t this the “dead eunuch” who wrote a half novel and then disappeared suddenly? Why did he suddenly come out to write such an article that is similar to a declaration of war manifesto?
Chapter completed!