Huang Zicheng squinted his eyes slightly, and paced lightly under the porch.

For a long, long time, he stood softly. In the spring of this year, there has just been a case of Ding Chou's scientific examination, the imperial court has taken 51 scholars, all of them are southerners, the north has raised a lot of people, the door of the Ministry of Rites has almost been smashed, a large number of northern candidates have shouted grievances along the road, and they have petitioned and complained, making the whole Jinling City boiling and rioting, and more than a dozen northern supervision envoys have jointly written to the examiner, accusing the examiner of following personal fraud and favoring the southerners, and the emperor is worried about how to deal with the aftermath of this matter.

The students from the north and the south are quarreling, and in the court, the civil officials from the north and the south are also quarrelling. If there is another fierce conflict between the two major factions of Wenchen and the military generals at this time, will the emperor use thunderous means to deal with it decisively as before, or will he calm things down and make concessions? Recalling the consistent attitude of the current emperor in court politics in recent years, Huang Zicheng smiled confidently......

The Tai students continued to protest with the silent support of the Guozijian's sacrificial wine, eunuchs, and teachings, and the imperial court remained silent about Yang Xu's case. A few days later, several southern envoys began to sue Xu Zengshou, the governor of the Chinese military capital, for abusing national law and wrongly convicting and wrongly convicting him, but the court remained silent. And the northern inspectors are not free, they are busy fighting for the students in their hometowns, criticizing the spring exam, and the examiners cheating.

Similarly, because these high-level officials are strategic, far-sighted, and the people they really want to achieve and the people they want to deal with are not Yang Xu at all, so although this turmoil is getting worse, he, the party, is still safe and sound. But this does not mean that he is not in danger, once this contest is decided, or if both sides take a step back and reach some kind of political agreement, then he will inevitably become a sacrifice for peace or rupture between the two sides.

"The Yang family is the first surname in Moling Town, and Yang Rong is the patriarch of the Yang family, so he is also the grain chief of Moling Town. The grain chief is mainly responsible for the collection and transportation of field grain in the area under his jurisdiction. And the grain chief himself is the biggest local squire, and he is the emperor of the soil in the countryside, and his authority is extremely heavy, so if the grain chief is greedy and wants to go up and down, embezzle money and grain, and escape the grain shortage, it is very easy.

In the past, our Jinyiwei has also investigated crimes in this area, and there are a few experienced officials, which now come in handy. According to them, the main means used by the grain chief to embezzle money and grain were the regimental bureau's creation of registers, fictitious receipts, stealing and selling in warehouses, arbitrarily levying taxes, sprinkling grain shortages, sending grain to the fields, sprinkling and distributing famine, collecting and embezzling money, escaping from servitude, and embezzling and giving relief.

They went to the household department to inspect Yang Rong's customs clearance over the years, and then checked the tax payment slips of various grain households in Jiangning County one by one, and found that Yang Rong had indeed done tricks, and his main means of doing tricks and feet was to buy and collect money falsely. ”

Xia Xun said puzzledly: "Buying and receiving? ”

Xiao Qianyue smiled and said, "That's right! If he were an official, this kind of corrupt tactic would be called ......'selling!'" 'Ahh Hehe, Hongwu's eighteenth year household servant Guo Huan's fraud case of selling public grain, have you heard of it? ”

Of course, I have heard of one of the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty, how could Xia Xun not know? At that time, Guo Heng, the household servant, put half of the autumn grain collected into the warehouse, and the unaccounted half was privately divided with a group of corrupt officials, and was reported by others, which set off a bloody storm in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Xia Xun nodded and said, "Of course I've heard of it, how much is Yang Rong greedy?" Is it enough to sentence? ”

Xiao Qianyue said: "Over the years, Yang Rong has been greedy for no less than 1,800 quintals of grain, and there was an official in Zhejiang who was greedy for 200 quintals of rice, do you know how the emperor sentenced him?" ”

Xia Xun said: "How is it judged?" ”

Xiao Qianyue said gloomily: "The emperor pressed two hundred loads of rice on him, and before the rice was finished, he was suffocated to death, and then, peeled the skin, made a human skin lantern, and hung it at the door of the granary." ”

Xia Xun was clever and had a cold war, this old Zhu was not only jealous and hateful, but also very targeted, quite a bit of Buddhist karma. Are you greedy for rice? Okay, how greedy you are, I will press you as much as I want, and then I will skin you and make a lamp and hang it on the granary to warn future generations.

In fact, Lao Zhu has done a lot of similar things, such as a general who once followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world, presided over the construction of the Tribute Academy after the founding of the country, cut corners when building student dormitories, and embezzled 2,000 banknotes.

Xiao Qianyue smiled and said: "However, what the emperor hates most is the corruption of officials, Yang Rong is a citizen, and he will not use this special punishment." According to my great law, those who collect food and goods, hide them for themselves, and buy them falsely will be put to death and their homes will be confiscated (confiscated family property). Have you seen enough? ”

Xia Xun said with a heavy gaze: "Not enough." Not enough! The mother was forced to death by the greedy words of the clansmen, and the father left his hometown for this; Now that the souls of my parents have been humiliated again, and I ......, if I hadn't been lucky enough to catch up with the Zhongshan Palace, what would have happened now? Since they have torn their faces, I will make them bow their heads completely! ”

Xiao Qianyue raised her big finger and said, "This is what my Jinyi Guard should say!" Haha, don't worry, I have other plans. ”

He squeezed his eyes at Xia Xun, dipped the tea and gestured on the table: "Oh, this is the house of the old Yang Lao of the Yang family, Yang Lao is Yang Rong's brother, and he has always been breathing out of the same nostril." In the imperial court system, officials and ordinary people, it is not allowed to use mountains and heavy eaves roofs to build houses, and it is not allowed to use heavy arches and caisson wells. The houses of the common people are not allowed to use arches and colors. And the inner flower hall of Yang Rong's house has gold paintings, and the bricks and stones have carved patterns, which is the crime of trespassing......"

There is a certain system in the dynasties. Even the Song Dynasty, which had the most relaxed atmosphere, also stipulated that officials below the sixth grade could not build aconitum doors in front of their houses, and the common people's houses were only allowed to enter five deep frames, and only one gate house was allowed, and it was not allowed to use cornices, heavy arches, four paving, caisson wells and colorful decorations. The Ming Dynasty was even more institutionalized. But despite this, it still can't stand the officials and the people intentionally or unintentionally transgressing the rules.

For example, the general Zhou Dexing's mansion exceeded the system, because he was Zhu Yuanzhang's fellow villager and had great military exploits, and Zhu Yuanzhang personally pardoned him, so he was exempted, otherwise his head would not have to fall to the ground. After this happened a few times, people in the officialdom began to pay attention to it, so as not to be taken advantage of by political enemies, but the people are not very particular, and the wealthy people in Jiangnan have more or less exceeded the rules in the decoration of their houses, and the Yang family is naturally no exception.

It's just that you're not afraid of no good things, but you're afraid that there are no good people, it's okay for others to violate the ban, and if you offend someone who shouldn't be offended, then something will happen if you violate the ban.

Xiao Qianyue said: "Here, this is Yang Yi's house, the east and west wings and the inverted seat are two rooms each, and there is no corridor connection between the main house, the two compartments and the inverted seat. Its shape conforms to the regulations of the common people's houses, but the main roof beam has a monochrome outline of the dense brocade group decoration, which exceeds the system. And Yang Yu is Yang Yi's grandson. ”

Xiao Qianyue swiped her finger downward, and said: "This is Yang Wenwu's house, Yang Wenwu is a dilapidated household, three dilapidated houses, and he can't afford to spend that spare money even if he overdues." ......However, there is a blister in his backyard, which is a pool when the family has not yet fallen, and there are two rockeries in it. ”

Xiao Qianyue held her palm like a knife, pulled it down, and said viciously: "The amount is not a gentleman, no poison is not a husband, this trick is enough to cut him all over the door!" ”

Xia Xun shook his head and said: "There is a wrong, there is a debtor, his wife and children are old and young, I don't want to be involved." ”

"Uh......", Xiao Qianyue said: "There is only one person in his family, one person is full, and the whole family is not hungry." ”

Xia Xun glanced at him and sneered: "Then what kind of cow are you bragging?" ”

Xiao Qianyue laughed dryly and said, "I just want to say, I shouldn't let go, I didn't let go of any of them, this time...... Is that enough? ”

"Not enough!"

This time it was Xiao Qianyue's turn to be surprised: "What do you want?" Is it tribal? It's a bit hard......"

Xia Xun said: "If we do this, we can only use the criminal law to defeat them, they are not only them now, there are many clans behind them who sympathize with each other, scholars who have the same hatred and hatred, and officials who think they are presiding over the righteousness, can we fight?" ”

Xiao Qianyue said blankly: "Then what else do you want?" ”

Xia Xun said: "I still want to stink them." Fight down, fight smell. ”

"He's more ruthless than me......" Xiao Qianyue looked at Xia Xun's seemingly harmless face and began to worship: "But this ...... We really haven't done it, and in general, it's enough to kill them, uh......, what do I do? ”

Xia Xun said: "I have asked someone to help, she will do better than you in this matter." How is Yang Chong's injury? ”

"Almost."

"Good!"

Xia Xun slowly stood up, and Xiao Xiao said: "Then, let's start with him!" ”

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Yang Chong's injury is almost better, the skin is only injured, and it is scabbed, as long as the movements are not too violent, he can walk freely in all directions.

In the evening, Yang Chong left Guozijian with square steps, as if he was walking after dinner, strolling under Jilong Mountain for a while, and gradually paced into a small alley, seeing that there was no one left and right, and immediately flashed into the corner door of a house with white walls.

There are few people in this small alley, and the corner doors of large families are usually locked, but at this time the door is only hidden, and it is clear that someone deliberately left the door for him.

In the firewood room, a man and a woman hugged each other tightly.

"Scarlet."

"Brother Chong, how are you? I've been dying in a hurry these days, and I can't go to see you, but I only heard my father mention you a few words......"

"I'm fine, it's not very convenient for me to go anywhere these days, if it weren't for you to let Yun'er deliver notes several times in succession, I wouldn't be able to come over tonight. Why are you so bold that you are not afraid of being known by your father? ”

"People are worried about you, my father went out tonight, so I asked you out. I just want to see you, it really doesn't matter if you're hurt, people are frightened and secretly cry several times......"

Yang Chong kissed her movingly and said: "Scarlet clothes, you are still the best for me, I'm fine, I will be alive and well in two days as usual." Now for my business, there has been a lot of noise in the court, you see, I must pay this debt ten times as much. Originally, he just wanted to cut his fame, but this time, it was difficult for him not to die, hum! ”

"Oh, leave that damn Yang Xu alone, get down and let me see your injuries."

After seeing Yang Chong's injury, the two people who have not seen each other for many days have a human nature, although because Yang Chong has injuries on his body, he can't enjoy himself, but it is inevitable to pick and touch and hug, and the two people are disheveled and their tongues are smacking each other's mouth, and suddenly there is an exclamation from the scarlet close-fitting girl Huanyun'er outside: "Ah! Master! ”

Followed by a crisp slap, with a scream from Xiaoyun, the door was kicked open with a bang, and the Guozi priest Jiu Wu Qi'an broke into the firewood room, and saw the unsightly pair of men and women, so angry that he almost fainted, he pointed at Yang Chong with trembling fingers, and shouted through gritted teeth to the servants who were carrying sticks in the back: "Fight!" Beat this little animal to the old man alive, beat it to death! ”