The New Year has just passed, and the streets of the capital have gone from the hustle and bustle of the New Year to another kind of noise, where people are busy for life.
This is a unique trait of Chinese people. We always look forward to unbridled comfort and enjoyment. But we can immediately break free from the longed for happiness and plunge into a difficult life.
Perhaps we understand that only through hardship and bitterness can we find happiness and ease.
In the early morning, the streets of the capital were overcrowded, including Liba returning to the city from the countryside, shop boys wearing new clothes, craftsmen looking around for a living, hawkers setting up stalls, and rich people sitting idle in teahouses. Countless types of people
It forms a vivid scene of the market.
Suddenly, there was a loud sound of a gong, which attracted everyone's attention.
On the long street, a dozen police officers in green soap uniforms passed by beating gongs and shouting.
"Going on a red errand!"
"On a red mission outside the Pi Temple, there were seventy-two criminals. It was decided by the Ministry of Punishments, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate that they should be punished for their crimes!"
"Ah?" The crowd was silent at first, and then suddenly became excited.
Then countless people swarmed out of the city.
Work is work, but watching the fun is just watching the fun, and there is no need to take part in it.
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The Pi Chang Temple is the place where the old man skinned the tantric officer.
Over the past thirty years, too much skin had been pulled out, and there was still enough left to make a leather mattress and a human-skin scarecrow, so they were all hung in an abandoned temple here, under special guard.
That’s why it’s called Pichang Temple.
This place is not only found in the capital, but also by all the chief secretaries in the world, and it is directly opposite the chief secretary's office, in order to frighten Xiao Xiao. Until the old man abdicated, there were only statistics of more than 40,000 tantric officials killed.
People. If we don’t set up leather temples in every province, there will still be no place to put them.
"It's just the Chinese New Year, and the emperor is killing people?"
"Yes, the whole year's plan lies in spring. It would be unlucky to rush to spring!"
"Who says it's not the case? Seeing that there have been no murders in Pichang Temple in the past few years, I'm still thinking about renting out the house that my family is afraid of being vacant? This time, it seems that there is no chance again!"
The area around Pichang Temple was overcrowded. It was a bit more desolate compared to the inner city, but now it was crowded and full of people.
Ordinary people just stood there and craned their necks, chatting in groups and waiting. However, the natives of the capital who had some spare money found a teahouse, brewed a pot of hot tea, and chatted while waiting.
These natives of the capital are so courageous that there is nothing they dare not say. They know better than anyone else the gossip in the court and the scandals of officials.
"Our little emperor is also difficult to get along with, hehe!"
"It will be difficult to be an official in the future!"
"Hey, what's this? Doesn't the tan official deserve to be beheaded? The little emperor even locked up his fifth uncle, these people are nothing!"
"Tsk, tsk, even my fifth uncle can do it!"
"Hey, just watch, the fun is yet to come! If the old emperor abdicates, those princes will be punished sooner or later if they don't keep their tail between their legs!"
The teasing of idle men spread from the first floor to the second floor.
A group of people on the second floor suddenly turned pale, looking inquiringly at the young man sitting surrounded by them.
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Zhu Yunxi was drinking tea. When he heard the words downstairs, he only moved his eyebrows but said nothing.
"Your Majesty, I am going to teach you a lesson..."
He Guangyi, who was sitting on the round stool next to Zhu Yunxi, couldn't sit still, but he was interrupted by Zhu Yunxi as soon as he opened his mouth.
"They didn't say anything wrong?" Zhu Yunxi smiled faintly, "There is no rule in the Ming Dynasty against letting people talk, so just let them go!"
"You are Renhe!" Li Jinglong on the other side quickly said with a funny smile.
"It's not me, Renhe!" Zhu Yunxi smiled again, "You can't control the people's mouths when they are in charge of heaven and earth. Just because what others say doesn't sound nice, why don't they let people speak? If I don't let people speak, it will make me look like the emperor, our Ming Dynasty.
Is it noble?"
"It is a good policy to govern the country if you correct what you have and encourage others if you don't. If you don't allow others to say something because it doesn't sound good, isn't that the same as hiding your ears and stealing the bell?"
"You are wise!" Li Jinglong quickly echoed in a low voice.
Zhu Yunxi slowly took a sip of tea, "It's not that I'm a wise man, but it's a fact. If I only like to listen to what I like, then in the long run there will be no truth in the Ming Dynasty. If what you do is effective, then you people will shut up those who speak.
, the rest is just self-deception!”
"You are far-sighted and I am truly impressed!" Li Jinglong filled Zhu Yunxi with a cup of hot tea.
Suddenly, there was a huge noise downstairs.
"People are guilty!"
With a buzzing sound, countless people on the long street moved, all rushing in one direction.
On the second floor of the tea house, many people suddenly came up and stretched their necks to look outside.
"The prisoner is the prefect of Kaifeng..."
"Warehouse Manager..."
"Salt Transporter..."
"Division of Taxation..."
"Hey, these are all high-ranking officials, at least fifth grade!"
At the window next to him, a man wearing a sapphire blue cotton coat and looking at a somewhat wealthy idle man shouted loudly, "My dear, these are all fat jobs!"
"The one who made the mistake is Fei Que!" Someone next to him sighed, "People die for money and birds die for food. Han Chuang studied hard for more than ten years. I wanted to honor my ancestors, but today I will become a ghost!"
"Brother, I have no idea. It's not just as simple as killing a ghost with a sword. According to the royal laws of the Ming Dynasty, these criminals are not counted as killed, but their property must be confiscated, and their wives and daughters must be merged into the Jiaofang Division as official prostitutes."
"Hey, this official lady has tender skin and tender flesh, hehe!"
"What do you want to eat? Let me tell you, this time, the wives and daughters of the criminals killed in the case of King Zhou were exiled to the army." Someone said loudly, "Your Majesty, the benevolent emperor, has issued an edict. From now on, such criminals will be served as slaves."
Relatives within the family, men are not allowed to take the imperial examination for ten years. Direct relatives, sons, nephews and nephews are never allowed to take the imperial examination, cannot be officials, and can only farm or do business. The wife and daughter are exiled for three thousand miles and are sent to Qiongzhou."
"Our little emperor is still kind. If the old emperor were here, there would be a lot of people. If I don't kill him, he will bleed like a river and I won't be relieved!"
"You are wrong again! It is true that the old emperor's nature is like a raging fire, but who caused this incident? King Zhou is his biological son? No matter how much he hates him, he has to take his son's face into consideration, right? If the old emperor
Your Majesty, maybe this matter can be lifted up high and put down gently!"
"If you say that, why do I feel that our Emperor Yongchang is more ruthless than the old emperor? He doesn't cover up his uncle's affairs, he just accuses him of everything he says, and he piles a lot of charges on him. This will never be undone.
Body?"
"It has to be like this. Didn't you read the notice at the city gate? What did the dignified vassal king do? It's all a money jar! He sold official grain and passed it off as inferior quality, forced the people's families to die for the sake of the fields, smuggled salt and tea...
.Tsk, tsk, giving bloody loan sharks to the people? It’s so unconscionable!”
"Actually, having said that, it has nothing to do with us who we kill. Even if all the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty lose their heads, it won't stop us from having two meals a day, and it won't stop the ordinary people from living frugally. But, it sounds like you are energetic.
no the same."
"What's the difference?"
"At least the world is clean, isn't it? At least the state has laws and regulations? At least the severe punishments give us a place to speak!"
"My last sentence is right. We ordinary people dare not break the law. But if you are angry and have no place to reason, then it would be too damn wronged."
Zhu Yunxi and these onlookers were only a few feet away.
Their words reached Zhu Yunxi's ears in no uncertain terms. The expressions of He Guangyi, Li Jinglong and others kept changing, but Zhu Yunxi's expression remained unchanged.
Bang, a cannon shot.
At the execution ground on Long Street, several prisoners in white clothes had been escorted to a high platform.