() The ignorant people of Xin'an finally saw what it means to have two official words. In less than two hours, the accuser who just now confidently demanded justice and severe punishment of the murderer was already crying and shouting without even saying a few words.
The petition was to be withdrawn. Those who came from the three prefectures of Guangzhou and hid among the people to listen even sighed, no wonder that damn fat man could become the unique general of the Ming Dynasty. Look how awesome he is! Make three halls
The trial has not even resorted to severe punishment, but it can turn an honest and kind-hearted businessman into a heinous rebel in front of everyone. Think about it, who of your own masters has this ability?...
"Don't sue? Are you a very idle general? I came all the way from Luoyang just to listen to your inarticulate complaints?" Zhu Youcong was very angry, and he finally became the second-in-command judge.
, but it turns out that the plaintiff has just withdrawn the lawsuit and gone home. What else can he do if he is left alone? Is it possible that Xiong Wencan is kicked out of the hall and the trial for accepting bribes begins?
"No more, sir, why don't I just stop suing?" How can I continue to sue when I've even taken out the waist cut? It's not that Shivella is timid, but that the three people sitting in the hall are too vicious, and they are too vicious.
Compared with the Xiangshan County Magistrate who occasionally goes to Macau to extort some money, they are simply the incarnation of angels. Hey, where is the Xiangshan County Magistrate who was supposed to be responsible for managing Macau affairs? Why haven't you heard of him doing anything for a long time?
"Of course!" A grown man lay down with runny nose and tears. It would be meaningless to bully him any more. The kind-hearted Zhu Youcong thought about it and decided not to base his happiness on the pain of others.
"Although our Ming Dynasty will not recognize your identity, it is not easy to see you traveling across mountains and rivers to make a living, so I won't argue with you. All the expenses I spent on going south this time are compared to this time.
The legal fees for the trial, a total of five hundred thousand taels of silver, will be dismissed!"...
"I'll give it! I'll give it!" Five hundred thousand taels of silver is a huge amount, enough to keep all businessmen in Macau busy for a month, but compared to his own life, Shivella thinks it's still very cheap. As long as he can escape from this hell, so what?
Terms are negotiable!
"No!" the bandit said, and he was willing to pay the ransom for the robbed meat tickets, but Xiong Wencan, who was the minion, refused. "General, as a relative of the emperor, how can you handle the case so carelessly?
If it spreads, it will not only betray the great trust of the Holy One, but also seriously damage the dignity of our Ming Dynasty, and make the Western Yi think that our Ming Dynasty is a doll that can be teased!"
"What Lord Xiong said is true! Confucius said..." Zhou Fengxiang raised the entire case to a level related to the fate of the country. After quoting scriptures, he almost shouted the slogan of defeating the traitor Zhu Youcong and saving the Ming Dynasty.
"Then what do you mean, we still have to go to trial?" Zhu Youcong was very courageous, but even if he was given a hundred more courages like this, he would not dare to be a traitor, so he had no choice but to say with a grimace.
: "But now they don't sue, how can you ask me to interrogate him?"
"If you don't sue, you still have to go to trial!" Xiong Wencan, who looked upright, stood up, slowly stretched out his finger and said: "They built churches without authorization, and their intentions are hateful. They allowed missionaries to sneak into our territory in the Ming Dynasty. Their behavior is unforgivable, and it is unreasonable to bully you.
His words should be punished, and setting up a fort privately with the intention of treason is even more heinous!"
"That's what you did. You saw that it's not that this general doesn't want to close the case. It's just because of the formality! Hey..." After sighing, Zhu Youcong put on the most pitiful expression and looked at the person next to him with wide eyes to supervise his impartiality.
The righteous man who enforced the law said: "Look, it's almost noon. Do you want me to eat first before continuing?"
During the intermission, there were two eggshells floating in a pot of steaming tofu soup on the big stone table in the back office, and next to it was a plate of yellow and green scrambled eggs with leeks. Three noble people sitting there were staring at each other.
Eye.
"General, didn't you say that you wanted to eat the plaintiff and eat the defendant? This Shivella just got paid five hundred thousand taels as the plaintiff, so you don't plan to continue?" Xiong Wencan was very dissatisfied. It wasn't because the dishes were too simple.
I'm really tired of eating the big fish and meat snatched from Macau these days. Today's meal was deliberately arranged.
Putting down the chopsticks he just mentioned, Zhu Youcong looked up to the sky again and sighed: "How easy it is for you to be the defendant? He just brought it to the door by himself. How can he continue if we can't find an excuse now?"
"No, you still need to make excuses for doing things?" Xiong Wencan suspected that there was something wrong with his ears. He really didn't know that this little fat man would be unable to eat because of this.
"Go away!" Pointing to the new clothes on his body, Zhu Youcong said in a dignified manner: "I am the general of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, I must be reasonable and well-founded in my actions. How can I be as messy as you future diplomats?"
Ah! Xiong Wencan was so angry that he couldn't speak. When did this damn fat man ever tell the truth? Who told me that when dealing with foreign affairs, I have to be shameless and be ready to take what I say as fart?
Do you have to fabricate things to make things look white? Don’t you just want to find someone to take the lead and take the blame for you? I’m not that stupid!
"General, it's actually not difficult to find excuses!" Zhou Fengxiang is still the seventh-grade county magistrate. It is impossible for him to throw dirty water on himself before receiving a new appointment. "Then the Xiangshan County Magistrate will not return the favor.
Is he in jail? It shouldn’t be too difficult to get him to cooperate with the accuser?”
They are both seventh-grade county magistrates. Logically speaking, the one from Xiangshan County has slightly more power than Zhou Fengxiang. How come he somehow ends up in the prison of Xin'an County to hide out? Is this... Xiangshan County?
It is true that Zhou Fengxiang could ask for help from 3,000 navy officers and soldiers who fish and lay nets all day long, but Zhou Fengxiang could directly mobilize three fierce generals, Ma Chengzu, Yu Fengqi, and Sa Zhifu, and he had more than 10,000 well-trained officers and soldiers under his command.
This time, when I had nothing to do to start a mutiny, I took the unlucky guy next door and brought him over for re-education.
"He dares not to cooperate?" Zhu Youcong was unwilling to interfere with government affairs and deal with local officials, but for this person who collected bribes to help the Portuguese evade taxes, causing the 50,000 taels of silver that the court was supposed to receive every year to be reduced to less than a thousand taels.
He really couldn't bear the trouble. "Go and tell that guy. Within half an hour, you can produce an impeccable paper to testify in court. After I ransack the house, I will kill one of his people. Otherwise, I will chop up his whole family and throw them into the sea."
fish!"
"Ascension"
Half an hour was neither long nor very short. Zhu Youcong, who had taken some time to close his eyes and meditate after lunch, appeared in the lobby again looking even more energetic.
"Ahem..." Zhu Youcong, who had put on enough drama, said seriously: "Who is that Shivella? After discussion just now, we all feel that since you are willing to compensate for the losses and withdraw the appeal, there is no reason to continue the trial. You
Let's see how this case is settled? As for the illegal buildings you built privately, I won't worry too much about it. Just demolish it yourself. If you don't have enough manpower, just say hello and I will send someone to help. The wages are easy to say, we are all acquaintances.
Isn’t it?”
"Thank you! Thank you, sir!" Shivera, who was still feeling uneasy just now, was hearing the sounds of nature. You must know that every crime mentioned by the two Ming Dynasty officials before the break was enough to kill your head. Now, although he has been robbed of fifty
It's a million taels, but at least this cute fat guy won't pursue it anymore, right? It's just that we can't demolish the church. It seems that we have to collect more money to bribe him when we go back. If that doesn't work, let the fat guy do it himself!
"But..." Just as Shivella thanked him wordlessly, and the hungry bystanders outside the Yamen were about to leave one after another with disappointment, General Zhenguo, who was sitting in the hall, spoke again. "You bid farewell to others.
Although the case has been settled, as the defendant, you cannot leave. Otherwise, I will have to send someone to escort you when you return to Macau!"
"Being...accused?" Thinking about it that he had not bullied men or dominated women in less than a year since he became governor. In the past few years, when he was a businessman, he had followed the rules, except for bribery and the occasional appearance as a pirate to rob his peers. It was really...
I can't find anything worthy of being charged here.
"Don't doubt it!" Zhu Youcong, who noticed that the audience outside the door was not as large as that in the morning, leaned out half of his body regardless of the fact that his actions would seriously affect the dignity of the royal family, and reminded him in a low and friendly voice: "You are in trouble.
, you are in big trouble this time!"
"Me? Something big?"
"Come on! Bring the accuser!"
"Master Ding?" Looking at the man who answered the door, Shiweila finally understood why he couldn't find out the news from Xiangshan County recently, but why did this county magistrate who stayed in the back office all day counting money suddenly appear?
Here, you are suing yourself?
"Don't talk about adults and villains. Ding Yuan has been captured and imprisoned by this general for his crime. Now he is just an individual prisoner! But before the judgment is made, everyone's status is equal!" In order to let the audience outside the door understand that Daming
What is the difference between ordinary people and foreigners? Zhu Youcong ordered: "Find a chair for Ding Yuan to sit on, and give Shiwela a horse in addition!"
"General, the guilty officer is unjust!" The reason why Ding Yuan agreed to cooperate so quickly was not only the torture he suffered in the prison these days and Zhu Youcong's threats. It was also because Zhou Fengxiang added some information when delivering the message.
.Although no one knows what it is exactly, this unlucky guy would rather feed the fish with his whole family than refuse to cooperate.
Smashing the gavel down hard, Zhu Youcong said angrily: "Why are you howling? Such a large amount of rent is missing. Could it be that I have wronged you?"
"No. The criminal did not embezzle the rent!" With the mentality that he would rather die than give someone a backup, Ding Yuan pointed at the confused Schweira next to him and said: "It's him, they have never paid!
"
"Rent? What rent?" Schwera, who had woken up, quickly shouted: "Sir, we haven't rented anything from your country, so how can we say we owe rent?"
"Never rented it? What's going on in Macau? Don't tell me that it's a colony you occupied, otherwise this general will be forced to send troops to regain the lost territory and execute all invaders with the most cruel means!" Qian always wants to
You can make money, and if Shivella is really not afraid of being bloodbathed throughout the city, Zhu Youcong will definitely not mind doing this.
"It's rented. Sir, we rented it from your country!" If Zhu Youcong had said this three days ago, Silvera would have made some excuses. At most, he would have admitted that Macau was a place they borrowed to stay, but now
There are as many as 10,000 officers and soldiers guarding all the entrances and exits of the city. Inside, there are more than 1,000 menacing black-clothed demons patrolling out of nowhere. No matter how stupid you are, you will not step on that trap.
"It's great since you admit that you rented it!" Zhu Youcong, who put on a smile again, looked particularly cordial. "I also believe that you honest businessmen must have paid the rent. Now please show me the receipt.
Look, you don’t have to sue you for not paying your rent!"
"Evidence?" Shwela was confused at this moment. If they had indeed paid the rent, the Ming court charged five hundred taels of silver for such a large area. It was not worth it to be kicked out of the sea just to save such a small amount of money. But it was not worth it.
There is really no way to find out the evidence. Since Ming Zhengfu set up the border gate at Lotus Stem in the second year of Wanli, they have been sent to Xiangshan County together with bribes in order to evade taxes. Who has seen anyone taking bribes?
For those who issue official state invoices?
"Isn't it true?" Zhu Youcong was disappointed, but he still managed to suggest enthusiastically: "Think about it, think about it. If you really can't come up with it, I can reduce Ding Yuan's guilt according to the law.
, I want you to pay all the rent back!"
"I wonder how much the rent will be paid?" Shivera wouldn't waste time if he could produce the proof. Anyway, he had already been extorted five hundred thousand taels of silver this time and he didn't care to give him such a small amount.
"This..." Although Zhu Youcong really didn't want to hear that number, he had to say it now when people asked him. "Master Xiong, please stop pulling your beard and tell us how much money they owe the Ming Dynasty."
?”
"I obey my order!" Xiong Wencan slowly opened the document on the case and read seriously: "After my official's on-site inspection, the land leased by the Portuguese people covers an area of more than 48,750 acres. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the land is leveled.
Every inch of land is worth half the price of mountains, forests and lakes. In the past hundred years, they owe a total of..."
At least in the Ming Dynasty, no one had boringly counted the weight of a pile of gold covering an area of more than 30 square kilometers and a thickness of ten kilometers. Xiong Wencan certainly didn't know, so he could only follow Zhu Youcong's instructions. But just
Such a severely shrunk number has already confused the eavesdroppers outside the door. So many ten thousand words are more than the legendary mountain call to the emperor. What is the concept?
"Ah?" Schwera now doesn't even have the energy to be stupid. He can't even hear such a huge number, let alone make any excuse. At this time, the poor third governor in Australia only feels like his own internal organs
It's all tied up together.
"Stop, go raise money!" After looking at the unfortunate guy who still didn't respond, Zhu Youcong could only order Jacob Luo, who had been kneeling in the hall and pretending to be stupid, and said: "Take what kind of governor you are back, and in ten days
This general comes to collect rent, if there is one or two gold missing... you will be responsible for the consequences!"
"Withdrawal" Now the plaintiff is in a daze, and the unconscious defendant is being carried down. This case will definitely not be able to continue. Zhou Fengxiang, who has the lowest position, can only shout slogans with regret and hastily end this confusion temporarily.
lawsuit.
"General, if you let them go like this, aren't you afraid that they will default on their debts and run away?" Such a large amount of debt cannot be recovered, but there is also a lot of inventory in Macao. Zhou Fengxiang also hopes to take the opportunity to make some money and transfer it to Xin'an County.
The warehouse is just in case you need it in case of emergencies.
"Why are you panicking? Do you think I sent Jacob Luo over to do that little thing, and then came to the lobby to be in a daze?" After scorning this short-sighted guy, Zhu Youcong continued: "What if I'm done scaring you?
If you don't let him go back, how can you let Jacob Luo find an opportunity to trick him into escaping?"
"Escape? General, do you want to..."
"Don't guess. Zou Weilian's broken ships are just off the coast of Macau. He has already seen them. Except for a few armed merchant ships that can barely be used as targets, the rest are worthless! I can't kill that Shivella ship.
Think about it, can he sit down obediently and chat with me all day long, have a meal, and help trick people?" (To be continued.)