"Master Yang, where is Dong Yixin?" Zhu Su, who had been silent all the time, said. Yang Xunwen saw that Zhu Su still had an encouraging face, and his face was even more stagnant: Unexpectedly, the fifth palace east didn't even open his mouth in person.
The first crime was refuted.
Is he deliberately humiliating me by acting like that?
Unfortunately, Zhu Suchu really wanted to encourage the old man. But Yang Xunwen obviously didn't think so. He quickly calmed down at the feeling of being humiliated and made plans in his mind.
The so-called "Five Deadly Sins" actually refer to his impulsive words. If the first sin was refuted by a boy from the Fourth Palace, the following sins need to be considered carefully.
Soon he had an idea and continued:
"The second most sinful crime is: exploiting the people through clever words and seduction."
"When Wudiandong was in Suzhou, he used the name of 're-opening the Silk Road' to exploit grain and grass from the legs of wealthy households in Suzhou."
"Your Majesty, the rich people in Suzhou are not the common people of the Ming Dynasty. Wudiandong is just talking lip service and exploiting other people's property. Will this be ruining the reputation of the Ming Dynasty and undermining the foundation of the Ming Dynasty!"
"The people of Suzhou originally belonged to Zhang Shicheng, and the remnants of Zhang Shicheng still exist in the past, which shows that his desire to destroy the Ming Dynasty is not dead! If the people of Suzhou have lost the hearts of the people of Suzhou because of this incident, the remnants of Zhang Shicheng will resurrect in the land of Su Song. It will definitely not happen.
He is another big enemy of the Ming Dynasty!"
Yang Xunwen talked eloquently, and the more he talked, the smoother his ideas became. What Ming Zai hated the most was the exploitation of the people, corruption and bribery. He had previously punished Hu Weiyong's party, and many of them were imprisoned because of their reputation.
If it turns out that my son is also guilty of that crime, I will probably speak out to protect him again. If not, what will happen to the public?
That crime should have worked, right?
"Fart! Fart!"
Yang Xunwen looked at Lao Zhu and Zhu Di and Zhu Su nervously. Unexpectedly, the father and son did not move very much. Among the civil servants, an angry figure emerged. This person flew up and kicked Yang Xunwen accurately in the waist.
exist.
Yang Xunwen was caught off guard, and with a sound of "Ah", he was kicked to the ground without any formality.
He was just trying to see if there was anyone who was so bold and dared to act disrespectful in front of you, but before he could raise his head, someone was riding on his back, punching him on the back of his head, and sending him flying all over the place.
"Ah? Then... Sir Ru, Sir Ru, please don't move your legs." He ignored the voice of Prince Zhu Biao.
"Where is the censor?"
Following Lao Zhu's low shout, the man on his back was pulled away. Yang Xunwen finally got up, but was surprised to find that the man held by the imperial censor had not been reprimanded earlier.
Ru Taisu, the censor who patrolled the river.
"Ah? Then... Mr. Ru, why?" Yang Xunwen looked in disbelief.
He and Ru Taisu had a long-standing friendship, and they often talked freely about poetry and ancient Ming Dynasty. They were like-minded. Moreover, if Ru Taisu became more serious, he would be of the same lineage.
Even though we had no friendship before, didn’t I, Ru Taisu, misplaced him in the palace before? Shouldn’t we be on the same level as each other? Why did Ru Ming come to pick him up?
"Your Majesty, Yang Xunwen is talking nonsense! When the Fifth Palace East arrived in Suzhou, was the old minister by his side the whole time? How could he be allowed to accuse the Palace East of this person for an unfounded crime?" Ru Taisu, who was captured by the imperial censor on duty, still committed suicide.
Angry and struggling.
Although Yang Xunwen had long known that Ru Taisu had a fiery nature and was a worthy vanguard among civil servants, when the fire burned his head, he could not help but feel worried.
Zhu Su looked on, surprised that Ru Taisu could actually jump out, but he also felt a bit like watching a big show.
I had heard that the civil servants in the middle and late Ming Dynasty were all full of martial virtues, but I didn't expect that in the court of Hongwu Year, we could also see sexy civil servants, and the real person misplaced the scene.
Could it be that this kind of thing is a tradition that has been spread from the East since the Hongwu Dynasty?
"What is the situation? Let me tell you." Lao Zhu gestured to Ru Taisu.
Ru Taisu shook off the quarrelsome censor, glared at Yang Xunwen fiercely, and then said: "Your Majesty, Dong Rong, Wu Diandong asked the merchants to provide food. Not only is it not exploiting, but it is punishing Xiaoxiao and rectifying the source!"
"Your Majesty, I don't know. I arrived in Suzhou in the east of the Five Palaces first. Seeing the flood victims in Suzhou, I used my humble name to collect grain and grass from Suzhou merchants."
"But those merchants did not push back and said that there would be no food left in the disaster years. Bu Nao took out a little and accepted the matter."
"But when Wu Diandong investigated, he found that those merchants had hundreds of thousands of stones of food and grass stored in their homes!"
"What? Hundreds of thousands?" Prince Zhu Biao looked concerned at first, fearing that Ru Taisu would anger Lao Zhu due to his lack of etiquette. But when he heard that number, his eyes widened in shock.
Lao Zhu had already known about this matter. After all, Zhu Su had asked Jin Yiwei to investigate at that time, so his pupils shrank slightly.
"In the land of Susong, only one million stones of grain and grass are collected in one year." Ru Taisu lamented. "Those wealthy merchants and gentry hoard hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and grass without distributing it. Is that why?"
"There is no hoarding in the city, which only harms the people and enriches the private sector!"
"Victims are everywhere. This is a man-made disaster, not a natural disaster! If there were no human beings, how could there be food shortages in Suzhou at that time?" Ru Taisu shouted loudly.
"Wudiandong handed over its grain and grass and gave it to the people. This is an act of great benevolence and righteousness! If I were to follow my old minister, I would like to raise my butcher's knife and kill all these people!"
"If Yang Xunwen's crime is not justified, the blame lies with the many unjust merchants and tycoons! I ask you to thoroughly investigate these people who are causing harm to the country and the people, so as to warn future generations!" Ru Taisu spoke righteously and sternly!
The hall was already silent. Even Yang Xunwen had a look of horror on his face and his face was as red as paper.
Zhu Su stood aside and couldn't help but smile with a smile of relief: Lao Ru, you really have me.
Originally, that guy should have wanted to fabricate some random charges to wrongfully punish me.
Unexpectedly, Lao Ru's words directly caused Yang Xunwen to poke a hornet's nest that he couldn't afford to provoke.
In front of him, Lao Zhu looked at Ru Taisu and Yang Xunwen in Didong, and a smile like watching a play slowly appeared on his face.
"Yang Qing."
Yang Xunwen was covered in cold sweat, and when he suddenly heard the call, he couldn't help but tremble all over. That title was not Mingyue Chaohui's presence, and the emperor mistakenly called him the most polite title.
But at this moment, Yang Xunwen felt even more like he had fallen into an ice cellar than he had just now.
"I'm here."
"Ru Qing asked, does my crime mean that the officials and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are suspected of corruption and harming the country?"
"I think we should continue to investigate the crime I mentioned, right?"
"..." Yang Xunwen trembled all over, but could not make even a single sound.