Chapter 531: The Incident of Robbing People's Women (Part 2)
There were many people watching, and when they heard the news, they immediately started talking about it. Logically speaking, the matter of purchasing eunuchs and their minions doing whatever they want is no longer news. The rich and powerful families in Suzhou Prefecture have already been tortured a lot, and countless news has been circulated for a long time.
But this time it was different. The gang actually robbed women on the street in broad daylight! The nature of this was so bad that it immediately triggered an explosion of anger.
But after hearing the reply from the complaining beauty, the clerk's face immediately darkened, and his mood turned bad again. It's not that there haven't been any lawsuits against eunuchs and their minions recently, on the contrary, there are even quite a few, and the relevant lawsuits are piled on his desk.
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However, the government office can't do it at all! I sent the summons according to the procedures, but they ignored it at all. They sent the government officials to arrest people, not to mention whether any of the government officials dared to go. Even if they went, who would dare to arrest people under the eyes of the imperial eunuchs?
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However, the people who complained may not understand this, and they all yelled at the government officials for sitting back and watching the eunuchs harm the place without doing anything... So the prison clerk was in a bad mood recently, quite bad, and there were a lot of complaints.
If you cannot brush off the paper, it will affect your assessment progress.
He has been through it for eight years. After another year and nine years, he can be inspected. If he is outstanding, he can be transformed into a ninth-grade miscellaneous official.
Who would have known that at this critical moment, a large number of case files would be left on hand and could not be cleared in time, which would be very detrimental to the assessment! An important criterion for the assessment is to look at the processing status of the backlogged case files!
Today he came out to accept the complaint and saw a rare beauty. It was quite pleasing to the eye, but unexpectedly she was sued for purchasing the eunuch's minions!
This suddenly made the little clerk lose interest, and he had no intention of admiring the beauty. He said in a half-hearted tone: "Where is the prince? Bring it to me, and then go back and wait for the official to pass it on!"
The person who did not hesitate to go public to complain was Yuan Fengxiao. Of course, she was instructed by Fang Yingwu to come to the government office to file a complaint as a good friend.
The junior official asked for a memorandum, and should have handed it over, but Mrs. Yuan seemed to cherish her memorandum. She said: "The slave family is not good at writing pleadings. It happened to be near the imperial envoy's mansion, so the slave family asked the imperial envoy master to write the memorandum in his own hand.
.But the imperial envoy is not an official who is close to the people after all. The slave family came here just to submit the memorandum written by the imperial envoy directly to the master of the palace!"
A petition written by the imperial envoy? When the executioner heard the words, he said: "Wait a moment, I will go back and report to the master first!"
Not long after, he came out again and said: "The Lord of the Palace has ordered that the case files be collected. Miss Yuan please come back first!"
Yuan Fengxiao still asked relentlessly: "This matter is so shocking, I want to personally express my grievances to the Lord!"
The prison clerk retorted impatiently: "The master of the palace has so many things to do, how can he have time to see you?"
Mrs. Yuan sneered three times just right, "An official who is close to the people doesn't want to see the slave, so why should we hold a court? Is it because he doesn't dare to make the decision, for fear that he won't be able to step down after meeting the slave, and will lose his official dignity?"
The executioner's face changed drastically, and he shouted sternly: "You little girl, don't talk nonsense here! You don't understand the things in the yamen. Anyway, it's the same way to deal with it. It doesn't matter whether you see the governor or not!"
Then he took the petition, ignored Yuan Fengxiao, turned around and went into the Yamen.
Madam Yuan looked around and said to everyone: "This situation reminds me of a poem by a woman from the previous dynasty: 140,000 people were all disarmed, and not one of them was a man!"
Being ridiculed by a beauty like this made many people present feel a little ashamed. But it is easier said than done. It is easy to follow but difficult to take the lead.
However, Mrs. Yuan only clicked the button and did not continue to use the taunting move. Instead, she burst into tears. She touched her eyes with a handkerchief, and then pitifully asked the surrounding audience for help.
"The slave family came here to be friends, and regardless of their own safety, they came here to sue the eunuchs and their minions. There was almost no room for them in Suzhou Mansion. I had heard for a long time that the imperial envoy was quite upright, so he had no choice but to go to the imperial envoy's mansion to ask for asylum.
Come to think of it, I'm not pretty at all when I come to this slave's house. I'm also a traitor and I'm afraid that something unexpected will happen to me at any time and I'll be kidnapped like my best friend!
I would like to ask all the righteous people here to lend a helping hand to the weak woman and send the slave family to the Imperial Envoy's residence, okay?"
Fang Yingshi was ordered to secretly protect Madam Yuan. He was standing in the crowd at this time. He couldn't help but admired in his heart. She was indeed a former oiran lady. Her command of expressions was simply amazing. Among the people he had met, he was the only one named Qiu Ge.
You can give it a try!
Seeing Mrs. Yuan finish speaking, Fang Yingshi immediately raised his arms and shouted: "We are too weak to eradicate the evil spirits. How can we not protect the little lady with so many people here! The distance between the left and right mansions is not very far.
How difficult it is!”
There was a crowd of people who responded immediately, and finally one or two hundred people gathered around Mrs. Yuan and headed towards the imperial envoy's residence.
This team swaggered through the city on the road, and the place they passed was the bustling place in Changmen. It triggered a new round of onlookers, and the incident gradually spread.
In the end, the team arrived safely and securely outside the gate of the mansion. Madam Yuan walked out from the crowd, blessed everyone, and thanked everyone with tears streaming down her face: "Thank you for your kindness, all the righteous people.
The slave family will never forget it, and there is really no way to repay it."
Everyone seemed to have completed a great task, and after being thanked by the beauty, they dispersed with satisfaction. When they returned to the neighborhood, they had to brag a little bit.
But he said that in the government office, Magistrate Li took a few glances at the petition. Sure enough, it was written by Imperial Envoy Fang himself, and it was also stamped with the imperial envoy's customs seal... which made the petition not look like a petition and could not be posted.
Like a driving sticker.
Magistrate Li commented on this, "It seems that the imperial envoy Fang's life is too leisurely and boring. Otherwise, how could he have nothing to do to check and prevent chaos?"
Or does Imperial Envoy Fang want to seize this matter and force him, Li Tingmei, to confront Eunuch Wang? I can only say that this is too childish!
Whether he had a limited confrontation with the Imperial Envoy Fang before, whether he was caught between the Imperial Envoy and the Imperial Envoy Minister, or whether he finally decided to side with the Imperial Envoy Eunuch, Magistrate Li has always followed one principle, which is to try his best to avoid direct confrontation.
Confrontation is not only out of caution, but also because of psychological shadow.
Therefore, he always carefully provokes Wang Jing and Fang Yingwu to confront each other, and then survives in the cracks. Unless there is a last resort, he avoids standing directly on the front line.
For example, if Fang Yingwu conquers the mountain and gathers a group of people in Gongguan Street, the government will never send officials to clear the place. If Wang Qianhu wants to take action, the government will never send anyone to follow him.
For another example, Wang Qianhu forced the government office to take back the mansion and drove Fang Yingwu to leave. Although he, the prefect, did not dare to refuse, he tried his best to highlight Eunuch Wang in the process and direct Fang Yingwu's anger towards Eunuch Wang.
Years of experience have told Magistrate Li that this is the only way to survive under high pressure. Fang Yingwu wanted to force himself to fight against the imperial eunuchs, but his thinking was too childish!
Then Magistrate Li threw the complaint to the execution room of the government office and casually ordered: "Follow the procedures!"
The commotion Mrs. Yuan made in the government office and on the street would naturally be known to the minions of the purchasing eunuchs. It was difficult not to know about such uproarous news, and it was impossible to hide it from anyone.
In the evening of that day, Wang Jing was having dinner, and Wang Chen sat beside him to eat with him. The father and son chatted while eating, and Wang Chen suggested: "I arrested Yuan Fengxiao this morning and locked him up in a secret room for a whole day."
Ask.
Tomorrow, the fire will be almost done. Can we ventilate the thing there? If he is a compassionate person, he may retreat; if he does not know good and evil, we have our own way to repair him, I don't believe it.
A civil servant like him will not care about his face."
Wang Jing nodded and said: "But, you go and give it a try. It's good if you succeed, but let's not talk about it anymore. In any case, we are just getting a few more insults like being despicable and shameless. There is no other loss."
Wang Chen laughed ferociously. Even if he didn't get any benefits this time, he still wanted to ruin Fang Yingwu's reputation. Wang Chen just didn't like Fang Yingwu!
Wang Jing has a good idea of Wang Chen's thoughts, but it doesn't matter, since it won't ruin his own affairs anyway, and it's common for young people to act a little recklessly.
At this time, the young eunuch responsible for serving Wang Jing stood at the door and reported: "There is news coming from the street outside. The prince must listen to it!"
"What news is so important?" Wang Jing raised his head and asked.
"I heard that Mrs. Yuan from Hangzhou went to the government office to complain. The complaint was about robbing someone on the street this morning!"
Wang Chen couldn't believe it and stood up and exclaimed: "Where does this lady Yuan come from? She is obviously being held in a secret room!"
The little eunuch continued to report: "I don't know why, but I heard from outside that the person who was kidnapped in the street was Yuan Fengxiao's good friend, the beauty Xue Niangzi from Shantang - this is probably not wrong, Yuan Niangzi herself has already
Appeared in front of the public at the government office!"
Wang Chen was dumbfounded, unsteady on his feet, and sat down heavily in the Grand Master's chair. He was stunned for a moment. This time, the wrong person was snatched? Wasn't the person snatched from Fang Yingwu's old "qingren"?
The failure of the plan was certainly heartbreaking, but what Wang Chen was more afraid of was his adoptive father's reaction! He turned his head to look at Wang Jing tremblingly, and stammered: "Godfather, this, this, this is really..."
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He originally wanted to say, "Heaven will kill me, and it is not a crime of war," but he could never say it out.
Wang Jing wiped his mouth and sighed faintly: "I said it was only three times, but it was in vain. Is this the fourth time you have committed something stupid since you faced Fang Yingwu?"
Wang Chen was about to cry but had no tears. He didn't know how to answer, so he could only ask the sky without words.
He really didn't understand why his plans always went wrong in the end when they were so thorough in advance. After careful inspection, there seemed to be no loopholes and almost no possibility of failure!
Could it be that Fang Yingwu, who deserves to be killed with a thousand swords, really has a destiny to protect him and is a nemesis sent by God! His king and ministers will never be convinced! Why is Fang Yingwu the favorite of God! His king and ministers want to defy heaven!