Chapter 275 Wang Qingtian
Of course, Xu Qing would not have suspected that the Ming King who was passing by was Yang Qing who died before him.
Although Yang Qing is indeed missing.
Xu Qing then ran out and took his men to search for it in detail but couldn't find Yang Qing. It was obvious that Yang Qing had escaped or was rescued by the Changsheng Army. In short, he didn't care about it anymore. He immediately put aside this issue and quickly summoned the soldiers from Xiangzhou, and then followed the Changsheng Army to the inner city.
Zhending three city walls.
This city is the foundation of the Chengde Jiedu governor's fight against the emperor.
It is a standard Tang Dynasty vassal town.
That is, the three walls of inner and outer teeth. The local gentry basically lived in the inner city. At this time, they had closed the inner city, but it was not to defend the inner city.
They are trying to escape.
After closing the city gates in three directions, the only south gate that remained open, the great escape of the entire Zhending official and gentry began. This city was not only local gentry, but also a large number of those who were originally outside the city and around the county. They dragged their families and rode their horses and drove donkey carts, crying and cursing all the incompetent emperors, cruel demons, and troublemakers who could curse, and then crowded on the road to escape.
But unfortunately, they are destined to be unable to escape from this city.
Wang Yue has 20,000 infantry and cavalry.
While the infantry entered the city, the cavalry had long spared Zhending City from both sides, and then the fugitive team that escaped from the south gate happened to run into these cavalry...
"Mr. Zhan, why are you doing this?"
Wang Yue looked at Zhan Du who was taken to him and said with a sigh.
The latter is a bachelor of Yankang Palace.
"After this matter, if you want to kill, you will kill me. I cannot eliminate traitors for the country. I am not willing to die. You don't need to pretend."
Zhan Du said very simply.
"I'm very curious. If you say you're going to kill traitors for the country, you're treating me as a traitor, but I really don't understand where the word "traitor" comes from? Wang was appreciated by Tong Taishi, and served the country with wild men in the mountains and forests. He fought bloody battles for several years, recovered the sixteen states of Youyun, defeated the Jurchen invasion, and directly attacked Huanglong to capture his king. He even spread the land in Liaodong for thousands of miles to make the Song Dynasty far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties. Wang asked himself about his peace and prosperity under his rule, and the people were not suffering from hunger and cold, and there was a voice of studying in the countryside. Even though he was widowed and lonely, he would not starve to death in the wilderness. Although he was not a prosperous era, he asked himself about the people under Wang's rule that he was better than all the places in our Song Dynasty.
So, why do you say I am a treacherous minister?”
Wang Yue said.
"Those gentry who were killed by you may have been forgotten by you. They have not enjoyed your good days. There is a sound of reading in the countryside, but one of them reads the books of sages?"
Zhan Du said with a sneer.
"Isn't it because I killed it?
The gentry from Yanshan Prefecture I killed all surrendered to the Jurchens. Wang just eliminated the traitor. Isn’t it the right to kill them? Have those who did not surrender to the Jurchens ever been killed? As for those who were in Hejian and other places before, they were not killed! They encouraged civil unrest, and it was not an exaggeration to kill them according to the laws of the Song Dynasty.
But did I kill them?
I was just raiding my house and exiled. Isn’t this a mercy outside the law?”
Wang Yue said.
"If you want to add a crime, you have no choice but to worry!"
Zhan Du said.
"If you want to add a crime? Then we will do something that is not intended to add a crime. You are the Zhending Mansion. Then let us see if Wang wants to add a crime. Go to the Gulou, put my king's Shangfang sword on it, and pass it down. All the people inside and outside the Zhending City will have grievances. Today, I will take the initiative to heaven and receive the complaints in Gulou and publicly try all the wronged cases.
No matter who it is or what case, as long as there is an injustice, they will come to sue the wrong.
Those who bully men and women, seek to seize land, commit money and kill, corruption and abuse the law, and all the people who are fish and meat can come to sue them. I will not leave if I do not try the unjust case of Zhending Mansion. I will be in my hands and will be executed first and then report it from the second rank below. Even if the prefect Zhan is guilty, I will report it.
All cases will be tried publicly.”
Wang Yue said.
"Hurry, anyone who has any injustice will come to sue you!"
A local officer who turned against him shouted excitedly.
"I have an injustice, please ask the king to take charge!"
"The young man sued the local king and cheated the youngest daughter with a false money contract!"
...
The surroundings were boiling in an instant.
The drama of Master Qingtian is undoubtedly the most popular among the people. Although Master Qingtian lives in legends, it does not prevent the people from fantasizing about having a Master Qingtian every day. Since this is the case, then pretend to be Master Qingtian. Wang Yue then set up a trial court in the Drum Tower in the center of the city, and then received complaints from the people of Zhending Mansion, and everyone could watch it around.
If you have any grievances, go find him.
Shang Fang's sword was standing aside, convicting the law of the Song Dynasty, and those who had committed death were beheaded directly in front of the Drum Tower.
Of course, it is mainly aimed at the gentry.
The people knew very well that this was not necessary for him to deliberately manipulate it. Moreover, the gentry had actually decided to rebel. The local officials continued to organize troops to block his entry into the court after the imperial edicts repeatedly rebuked and demanded the dissolution of the army. This could be considered a rebellion and rebellion. Similarly, the gentry who supported them were also accomplices, and since they were accomplices of their families, of course they wanted to confiscate their homes, so the officials and gentry, including Zhan Du, were already guilty. Since this way, the people did not need to worry. Any grievances in daily life, what bad things did these gentry to them, and the officials had any corruption and abuse of power, all came to Gulou to file a complaint in front of countless soldiers and civilians watching outside.
Then Wang Yue also tried in front of these people.
The conviction was completed.
The exile that should be exiled and opened up the land.
Those who should be killed directly took Shangfang's sword and executed and beheaded.
Drum Tower.
"What are your grievances?"
Wang Yue looked at a woman in rags in front of him, but she looked like a man in her early twenties, and the latter was holding a one or two-year-old child in his arms.
The latter quickly knelt down...
"No need to kneel. You are not allowed to kneel in the court in the future. Move a stool for her!"
Wang Yue said.
The soldier next to him quickly took a stool for the woman. The latter didn't dare to sit. Wang Yue slapped the table very simply. The woman was so scared that she sat down tremblingly. Zhan Du and other officials in shackles were watching silently. They all had to watch. Wang Yue wanted to take off the underwear of the gentry here, so he naturally wanted to let them watch from the side. One of the officials' obvious expression was a bit abnormal. It was probably that he recognized this woman.
"Master Qingtian, my family was originally a concubine of Zhang Ningpu, the local wealthy family. When the master took the slave family, he was nearly 60 years old. After more than a year, his nephew Zhang Zhen spread rumors outside that the master of my family could not give birth, so he found a man from outside to get pregnant so that his family would not be able to get pregnant, so he could not get married, so that his family would not be able to get married, so that his family would not be able to get married, so that his family would not be able to do anything. He kept yelling at the front of the master. The master was old and could not bear it. He was so angry that he was so angry that he was bedridden by the angrily vomiting blood. At that time, the servant had given birth to this son. Zhang Zhen ignored the family's affection and sent his brother to expel his son from the house. Then he took his brother into the master's room and forced the master to succeed him. The master was angry to death that night, and he openly took the master's property with his brother.
The servant went to the county government to complain, and the magistrate made a good friend with Zhang Zhen, accepted his gift, and said that the master's will was inconsistent with the handwriting. Zhang Zhen found another man, saying that the servant just asked him to make the servant pregnant, and the servant had nowhere to complain, so he could only beg for a living every day."
The woman cried.
"Ah, this is what the Book of Sages teaches?"
Wang Yue looked at Zhan Du.
The latter remained silent, and the official next to him looked pale.
"Where is the will?"
Wang Yue said.
"I cried in the ancestral hall, but was taken away by Zhang Zhen tore it apart. Fortunately, the master actually wrote more than one copy."
The woman said.
Then she took out a dozen exactly the same wills...
"Why don't you continue to sue?"
Wang Yue said with a smile.
"When I go back to Master Qingtian, I originally wanted to continue to sue, but Zhang Town followed the prefect to do military affairs and had hundreds of soldiers under my command. It was useless for me to tell him. I didn't want God to open my eyes. Master Qingtian came to preside over justice for my family."
The woman said.
Wang Yue took a dozen wills. The woman and the dead old man were very smart. The latter knew that he could not fight his nephew after he died. In order to prevent it, he simply wrote a bunch of wills. This woman went to the ancestral hall to cry on purpose, just to ask Zhang Zhen to tear up the will. If Zhang Zhen hadn't thought that tearing up the will, everything would have been fine, he would probably not have allowed her, a woman to live until now.
"Shi'an Gong, come and identify the handwriting, come and get a copy of what Zhang Ningpu wrote!"
Wang Yue said.
"No need, I recognize his handwriting."
Zhan Du said slowly.
"Then please!"
Wang Yue said.
"Ministry He, you did a good thing!"
Zhan Du said hatefully as he looked at the official.
The latter was so scared that he rushed forward...
"Donald Shi'an, when this woman complained, the Changsheng Army was already attacking Fucheng. The officials thought that the local tyrants in Zhangzhen were the ones available. Why should one die and one tyrant in the overall situation besides the love for one person to hurt one person!"
He said tremblingly.
"snort!"
Zhan Du snorted coldly, obviously he agreed that what he did was not unreasonable.
"Zhongshan King, this handwriting is Zhang Ningpu himself."
He said.
"Take Zhang Zhen, forget it, there is no need to bring it. I will directly pronounce the sentence. I force my uncle to death and persecut my cousin to persecute my cousin. I have to keep such a person. I'll cut it directly! Take my Shangfang Sword and behead Zhang Zhen for public display!"
Wang Yue said.
Gao Jie next to him immediately carried his Mo Dao and left.
"Shi'an Gong, it seems that the sage books taught may not be more morally noble than those taught by my miscellaneous books. By the way, this behavior seems to be very serious in Confucianism? He is a juren, and he is also proficient in reading sage books. I wonder how this sage books are proficient in how this sage books can do such a shameful thing?"
Wang Yue looked at Zhan Du and said.
"Your Excellency to use a single example to prove that the books of sages are useless, and it seems a bit too arbitrary."
Chapter completed!